Sakura and Syaoran's Love
Syaoran returns to Japan during Sakura's senior year of high school to fulfill his promise to return. He never told her how he felt before he left and the second movie didn't happen. Yukito and the entire Kinomoto family know about Sakura as the card mistress.
Please, please, please read and review. This is my first fan-fiction, though, so please be nice. Thank you!!
Disclaimer: I do not and never will own Card Captor Sakura in any way. All credit goes to the awesome anime group Clamp.
Chapter 1: A Return and a Departure
"Sakura………."
"Hey Sakura………."
"SAKURA!!!!!!"
"Hoe!?!" Sakura screamed, rising suddenly in bed.
"You're late." Kero stated. "When are you going to learn to be on time?"
"Late for what?"
"What do you think?"
"Uh…Oh no…it's the first day after the Christmas Holidays….I'm late!!! Why didn't you wake me up sooner Kero-chan?" Sakura cried as she flung off her blankets accidentally flinging the small yellow creature against the wall.
"Gomen ne Kero-chan. You were in the way." Sakura watched as her guardian slid slowly down the wall. "Daijoubu?"
"Itai…" Kero mumbled.
"Well, okay then. See you after school!"
"Are you finally awake kaijuu?" Touya asked as Sakura ran down the stairs.
"I am NOT a kaijuu!!" Sakura claimed, glaring at her older brother. She wondered if he would ever stop calling her that.
"Ohayou Sakura-chan." Her father called out as she headed out the door. "Aren't you going to eat some breakfast?"
"I can't. I'm already too late. I really have to hurry. Ittekimasu!"
She was excited to be going back to school and seeing all her friends. And she was looking forward to graduating too in only a few more months. She was kind of nervous about the upcoming college entrance exams though. She and Tomoyo were both trying to study hard so they could get into the same college. They were planning on becoming roommates. But Sakura was having serious problems with her math. She had always been horrible at it. Syaoran was good at math. I bet he could help me if we were here. Before he left to go back to Hong Kong he said he would come back. But it's been a long time. He's probably forgotten. I should have told him back then how I felt. He probably would have laughed at me though. She was suddenly broken from her thoughts as she passed a corner and crashed into someone and fell back hard.
"Hey! Watch it. You could have…Sakura!"
"Gomenasai!" Sakura interrupted, trying to get up.
"Sakura…" The person said offering a hand to help her get up.
She finally looked up as she recognized the voice. "Syaoran?"
*syaoran* I can't believe I was seeing her again – after all these years. She had certainly grown up. Now she was even more beautiful than before. Whoa…I'm not supposed to be thinking like that. I'm blushing…why do I always blush when she looks at me with those beautiful eyes. Stop thinking like that syaoran….
*sakura* It's him. He's finally come back. And then I go run right into him. He must think I'm clumsy. I'm just glad he's back. He finally kept his promise. Even if he doesn't feel anything toward me, at least he's back. And he's certainly grown…very nice…
***Ring*** The school bell woke both from their thoughts.
"Oh great, now I'm late on my first day back." Syaoran grumbled.
"I really am sorry." Sakura said looking down. Now he's going to hate me for sure.
"Whatever…You're hurt." He said looking down at her hand.
"Huh?" Sakura said, then looked down at her hand. It was bleeding. She hadn't even felt it. "Oh, it's nothing. It's okay."
"No…you should go get it treated by the nurse. I'll go with you." He said, starting to walk toward the school.
"No really…it's okay. You don't have to go. You'll be even later for class." Sakura argued. But he kept walking telling her not to worry about it.
Ten minutes later, Sakura with a small bandage on her right hand, walked with Syaoran down the hall toward their class.
"I'm really glad that you were put in our class. Everyone's there. It'll be just like old times maybe." Sakura said, smiling up at Syaoran who started to blush again.
*syaoran* I kind of don't want things to be exactly like old times. I kind of want to be closer to her…what am I saying? I don't like her like that. She's the reason why I had to go back to Hong Kong to do even more training. Even though my family accepted that she had become the card mistress, they still were a little disappointed. It's all because of her…
"Syaoran?"
"Huh? Oh…uh…what were you saying?" Syaoran asked blushing again as she looked up at him confused.
"I was wondering if you knew how long you would be staying this time," Sakura said.
"I don't really know. I guess it all depends on some stuff." He answered.
"Depends on what?"
"Uh….just some things," he said blushing again.
"Oh. Well, this is our class." Sakura stated, opening the door.
As they walked in, squeals of excitement could be heard from Tomoyo and many others as they saw Syaoran.
"Hello Li-kun. It's nice to see you again." Terada sensei said as Sakura sat down and Syaoran made his was up to the front of the class. "For those of you who didn't know him when he was here quite a few years ago, this is Li Syaoran, our new transfer student from Hong Kong. Please make him feel welcome once again. Li-kun, you may sit in the empty desk behind Kinomoto Sakura."
*sakura* This is just like it was before. Yokatta.
*syaoran* I get to sit behind her again. I always loved sitting behind her. I would always just look at the back of her head…her soft hair…and I could always tell when she was having problems with her work. I felt better being close to her…like I could help her more that way...
"Over the holidays, the other teachers and I organized some school trips for the seniors," Terada sensei explained. "We've set up a variety of different trips so that everyone could choose which one they wanted to go on based on their own interests. There are going to be 10 different trips offered. I will pass out the information for each. There will be limits to how many can go on each trip so it will be first come first serve. Sign-up sheets will be posted in the hall. All of the trips will be coming up in the next couple of weeks so the deadline to sign up will be the end of this week."
The rest of the morning went pretty quickly for everyone. By lunch, they were all excited about what had happened so far – Syaoran coming back, the school trips, and Kaho Mitsuki, a teacher they had had in the 4th grade who had been seriously involved in the Clow Cards, also returned.
"Today is just a wonderful day." Tomoyo claimed as she filmed everyone (Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Chiharu, Yamazaki, Rika, and Naoko) eating lunch with her video camera that seemed to be glued to her eye. "When exactly did you get back Syaoran? And why didn't you tell us?"
"I just got back a few days ago. I didn't even know I was going to be able to come until right before I left so I really didn't have time to tell you or anything."
"I kind of thought you might have forgotten us since you didn't write these past seven years," Sakura said quietly.
"Too much happened here for me to forget," Syaoran stated blushing again and looking down. "When I went back to Hong Kong, I had to go through more training. I wasn't allowed to contact anyone outside my family. They didn't want me to get distracted or anything."
*sakura* So that's why we didn't hear from him. I thought he just wanted to start a new life or something in Hong Kong. I guess maybe he did like it here in Japan. I wonder if he missed me at all.
"Well anyway, enough about Li, let's decide where we all want to go for the school trip." Eriol said.
"It would be fun if all of us could go on the same one," Chiharu said.
"Well, I'm kind of interested in the Hokkaido trip," Rika said. "I'd love to see the beautiful ice sculptures at the snow festival."
"Oh, I've read about them. They say some of the snow structures are big enough to walk through. That would be so cool." Naoko claimed.
"Did you know that the snow festival began in 1950 by a group of high school students that built six statues out of snow?" Yamazaki said.
"Sugoi! They were only high school students?" Sakura exclaimed.
"Don't believe him Sakura." Chiharu stated. "He never tells the truth, remember?"
"But I'm telling the truth this time. Really! You've got to believe me!" Yamazaki pleaded.
Everyone sweatdrops.
"Well, I would love to see the snow monkeys. They are so kawaii!!!" Sakura said.
"I should be able to get a lot of good footage there too," Tomoyo added.
"Then it's fine with me too." Eriol said looking at Tomoyo. "What about you Li? Where do you want to go?"
"Wherever everyone wants is fine." Syaoran stated.
"Well then, it's decided. We'll all sign up for the Hokkaido trip." Chiharu said excitedly. "I can't wait."
"Me either." Rika added. "And we'll have nice chaperones since Terada sensei and Mitsuki sensei have signed up to lead the trip. It'll be fun!"
***2 weeks later***
"Is everyone ready to go?" Mitsuki sensei asked after making sure everyone in the group had arrived.
"Hai!"
"Then everyone get in the van. It will be quite crowded with 10 of us, but I think we can make it. It's not that far to the airport." Terada sensei said.
With that, Rika, Naoko, Chiharu sitting on Yamazaki's lap, and Eriol sat in the back seat of the van, and Tomoyo, Sakura, and Syaoran climbed into the middle seats with Mitsuki sensei and Terada sensei in the front 2.
"Hey Li, I bet you are glad to be able to sit by Sakura, right?" Eriol asked with an obviously fake innocent grin on his face.
Syaoran just glared at him while Sakura 'sweatdropped.'
*sakura* I feel kind of nervous with him so close, but I feel happy at the same time. I bet he can't wait until we get to the airport though. He doesn't seem too happy where he is. I wish I could just tell him how I feel.
*syaoran* I wish Eriol would shut up. I am glad that I get to be by her though. It feels right somehow. I wish I knew how she felt about me.
*tomoyo* Ooh…it seems Eriol will be a good partner in trying to get those two together.
I know they like each other a lot. Just looking at them is enough to know. Even now, both of them are blushing every time they look at each other, especially Li-kun. Hehe...Eriol better help me.
"Hey Sakura, is Kero-chan staying at home?" Tomoyo whispered.
"No way. He forced me to bring him. He's sleeping in my bag." Sakura opened her bag a little to give Tomoyo a peek at the snoring creature. "He's a lot better when he's sleeping – not so loud," Sakura said giggling.
"I heard that," Kero grumbled opening his eyes.
"Hoe!?! I didn't mean…."
"When are you going to let me out of this bag, Sakura?"
"We haven't even gotten to the airport. I think it'll be about 3 more hours before we check in to our hotel in Sapporo."
"But I'm hungry."
"I have some snacks with me that I can share with you," Tomoyo offered.
"Ooh……I love you Tomoyo. You're much nicer than Sakura…"
"Hey! That's it. I was going to buy you a special snack once we got to our hotel but not anymore." Sakura said.
"I didn't really mean it. I'm sorry." Kero said with his eyes wide open looking as if he was about to cry. "Please………….I'll be really good……"
"If you behave and stay in the bag, then okay."
"Ah…Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll be good." He then took a snack from Tomoyo, and Sakura closed the flap.
"So you did bring that stuffed animal with you?" Syaoran asked.
"Yeah…"
"I am NOT a stuffed animal," Kero said angrily, sticking his head back out of the bag. "Why did YOU have to come back anyway? I thought you were gone for good. You should have stayed in Hong Kong."
"Kero, be quiet!" Sakura said looking to make sure no one else had seen him. Mitsuki sensei was looking back at her and smiling. Sakura sweatdropped.
"Shut up stuffed animal," Syaoran replied glaring at the little creature.
"You two can't fight here," Sakura said, stuffing Kero back into her bag before he flew out at Syaoran.
This was going to be a long trip.
End of chapter 1
Sorry it's kind of a boring beginning but it does get better. For those of you who need it, here are some translations.
Hoe: A popular saying of Sakura to express surprise
Gomen-ne: Sorry
Gomennasai: I'm sorry (more polite than gomen-ne)
Daijoubu: Are you okay?
Kaijuu: monster
Ohayou: Good morning
Ittekimasu: I'm leaving
Hai: yes
Kawaii: cute
Sensei: teacher
Yokatta: I'm glad or thank goodness.
Sugoi: Wow; awesome
