Where You Are – Part 3
A/N – Thank you for all of the wonderful reviews! I love you all so much! My thanks go out to Cutie Blossom, Silver Dragon, Bad Kitty Arlia, Sakura-Blossom16, Lady Pluto, Chaos-chan, Star of Silence, Kawaii-ness, Time Warp, Mei-Hua, Ann, Jethos Brimstone, SakuraBlossoms, Purple_tomoyo, Neko Megami, Daidouji Sama, Silver Sorceress, Chibiwolf, Akira-chan, Usagi, and Lilyanne for reviewing either chapter 1 or two. Thank you, your comments meant so much to me! And, just so you know, the end of the last chapter wasn't meant to be a spoiler, it was meant to keep all of my S+S fans in tact. Alright? Alright. On to the fic!
A/N 2 – Oh, and there is a really sweet Sakura and Tomoyo friendship part in this fic. Hope you like it!
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Sakura looked over at her ecstatic friend. Sakura was inside feeling sad because she didn't win the contest, but she put those feelings aside, telling herself that her best friend, who Sakura knew from the beginning was a better singer than herself, was more important at the moment. She sighed silently before taking her friend in a hug. "Good job, Tomoyo-san!" she encouraged. Tomoyo was too overworked about her first place that she didn't bother to notice the slight signs of sadness seeping from her best friend's words. Sakura released her friend and Tomoyo left for the stage. Sakura was happy that Tomoyo hadn't noticed that she was sad. 'Look at her,' Sakura thought. 'She looks so happy. For all of the things that Tomoyo-san has done for me, I can't ruin this moment for her.' Sakura smiled at her friend. 'Tomoyo-san, this time it's your turn to shine.' And with those words, Sakura buried her sadness and put on a happy face for her cousin. 'And I'm not going to ruin it.
About an hour later, after Tomoyo was clear on all of the rules, she left the auditorium. Sakura was waiting for her in her car. Tomoyo opened the car door and got in the passenger's seat. "Thanks for waiting for me, Sakura-chan." "No problem, Tomoyo-san." Now that Tomoyo's keen eyes weren't fogged over by the spotlight, she could tell her friend was hiding back something. She just had to do a little more prying to find out what. "Sakura-chan?" she asked after Sakura had pulled out of the parking lot and onto the main highway. "Yeah?" Tomoyo knew it. There was definitely something wrong. The only thing she could think of to get Sakura to open up a bit was to talk about something. "You want to go over the contest things with me?" Sakura smiled a fake smile. "Sure." They went over it, which was the same thing that Syaoran did, and by the time they were finished, Sakura was at Tomoyo's mansion. "Here you go, Tomoyo-san. I'll phone you later?" Tomoyo smiled. "Sure. And you have to come with me to Beijing. I can bring along one person, and I thought you would like to." "Sure." Sakura tried to sound excited as best she could, but she wasn't the best actress without a script. "I'll be there. You can count on me, Tomoyo-san." And with that, the two said their goodbyes and parted for the night.
Once Tomoyo got into her house, she headed straight for her computer. The pamphlet said that to find out who you would be singing with, you could access their site and find it. "Hmm…" Tomoyo wondered out loud. She clicked the mouse a few times, browsing around, looking for the information that she needed. Her eyes searched the screen, reading line after line. "Come on… where is it?" By this time, she was getting frusterated. "Ah!" she said, clicking on a link that said 'Hong Kong Contest Winner'. "Alright then… who do we have here?" Her eyes stopped at a name. Li Syaoran. "Oh. My. God."
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Syaoran lay on his bed, thinking about the upcoming contest. The contest was tomorrow. And he wasn't exactly feeling up to singing with someone he didn't know. 'Gosh.. how I wish that it was Sakura…' he thought. 'But what are the chances of that? I mean, Japan has a huge population! I'd be lucky to get someone who's even from the same 300 km radius!!' He sighed and mentally kicked himself. 'You idiot, you've gotta stop thinking about her!' He rested an arm on his forehead and closed his eyes. 'Might as well get a little shut eye. After all, I don't exactly want to fall asleep in the middle of performing.' And with those last thoughts guiding him, he fell into a blissful sleep, re-enacting what it would be like if Sakura won the contest.
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Tomoyo sat in the air plane seat. Sakura was sitting right beside her. The weeks leading up to the big performance flew by quickly, and during that time, Tomoyo had decided to do something to get Sakura and Syaoran together. 'They will get together, I swear it. Somehow, no matter how long it takes, I'll put them together.' Sakura eyed her friend strangely. The smile she wore on her face at the moment was uncanningly like Eriol's at the moment. 'What are you planning, Tomoyo-san?'
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Syaoran was waiting in the dressing room. He had heard that the singer he was dueting with was an extremely talented singer, but he didn't have any more information other than that. He sighed. Suddenly, his head bolted up, and he stood up from his previous crouching position. He thought he just felt Sakura's presence nearby. 'Nah… That girl is on my mind so much that I probably imagined it. There's no way she could be in Hong Kong.' So, without giving it another thought, he finished in the room and headed out into the hallway, expecting one of his sisters to strike at any second.
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Sakura yawned. Even though it had been hours since she had gotten off of the plane, and that she only traveled for 5 ½ hours, she was still tired. Then. The door to the beige room she was waiting in opened. There, standing in the doorway, was an extremely pale, even for herself, Tomoyo. "Oh my, Tomoyo-san! Are you alright?" Sakura questioned, running up to her friend's side. Tomoyo put an arm around her friend's shoulder. "Oh, Sakura-chan," she said in fake pain. "I'm so sick, and I have to perform in 15 minutes. I don't think I can do it." She moaned in pain, and Sakura was buying the whole act. "Tomoyo-san, you have to sing! I saw you when your name was announced, you were so happy! C'mon, Tomoyo-san. Do this, please!" Sakura placed her hands on her friend's shoulders. Tomoyo shook her head 'no'. "Sakura-chan," she began, looking her in the eye. "I… I want you to take my place." "Oh, Tomoyo-san, I couldn't." Tomoyo gave her a look that said 'drop it'. Sakura sighed and said "Fine, I'll do it." Sakura smiled a truthful smile, and Tomoyo smiled, too. Not just for Sakura getting the chance to sing, but for who she was going to sing with.
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Sakura, dressed in a pink, lacy dress, walked out on stage. The other person she was supposed to be dueting with was going to come out of the opposing door. Sakura smiled. 'I wonder who the other person could be…' Then, a tall young man with chestnut brown hair and deep, intense honey-brown eyes emerged from the shadows of backstage. Sakura gasped. 'It… it looks like… is that Syaoran?' "Syaoran?" she asked. "Sakura?"
Okay, done this chapter! But, it wasn't very good, was it…? Don't worry, lotsa S+S in the next chappy. Please, review, and flame and/or criticize all you like. And I promise, I'll get the 'rest' of the fic in the next chapter…….. I hope! Thanks for reading!
~Nadeshiko~
P.S – Here's some late reviewers: Sapphire-chan, rini124, and Kawaii Kinomoto Sakura. Thank you! Your reviews were greatly appreciated!