AN: Kekeke, yeah everyone thought I was evil :P I usually don't like being evil, but heh, like I said before, it was way to tempting!! Well probably a couple more chapters and this fic will be over T_T Then I can focus my attention on my other fic :) Well me shall stop blabbing now.

Disclaimer: Maybe if I had enuf money I would buy CLAMP and own the characters and everything, but so far, in my case, I dun have enuf money so I own nothing :P Pooey X.X


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A Promise Meant to be Broken
Chapter Eleven: Face Reality
1st CCS fic by Fizzalicious Cherri





The two turned bright red as they both fell silent.

The sentence "I think I love you" rung in the air, in both of their minds, and it felt like it had just slipped out off the tip of their tongues.

Sakura gripped her arms tightly as she forced her eyes to lock straight onto Syaoran's. "So I guess...we feel the same way..."

"....Hai..." Syaoran scratched his head, feeling really embarrassed but happy that he had been able to say it out.

Sakura giggled as she loosened up. "Well...so what does this mean?"

"...I...I don't know..." Syaoran stumbled on his words.

She took his hand, and smiled softly at Syaoran. "When I was with Kyojin, I never had this feeling...I guess it wasn't really love...maybe it was a moment of blindness or something..." She said slowly as a look of sadness rushed across her features. "I've been hurt alot...Shaoran..."

"I know Sakura, I know," Syaoran brought her into his arms and held her tightly in his embrace.

"I don't think I can bare to be hurt anymore...I don't know what would happen," Sakura confessed. "I've tried to stay strong all these years, but I know I won't be able to keep it up much longer."

Syaoran stayed quiet, listening to Sakura spill out her thoughts.

"But...I'm willing to risk this. I'm willing to put all my feelings and all my love into you Shaoran..." Sakura confessed and buried her face into his shoulder. "I don't know what the outcome will be, no one knows the future anyways, but...I love you."

His heart seemed to slow, nearly stopped as everything seemed to pause. No wind, no birds chirping, just him, and her, in each other's arms.

Warm, secure...love.



Tomoyo squealed loudly that made the whole hallway plug their ears. "KAWAIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

After Sakura had told Tomoyo her story about how she confessed to Syaoran, Tomoyo had been rambling on about the 'kawainess' envovled and how she was going to make a wedding dress for Sakura.

"Tomoyo-chan!! You're thinking way to ahead!!" Sakura felt embarrassed.

Tomoyo shook her head, "Ohohohoho Sakura-chan! That you are wrong! The future comes before we know it!"

"Tomoyo's right," Eriol chuckled. "And haven't you thought about making your own wedding dress?"

Tomoyo turned pink, "Eriol!!"

Sakura giggled at the two, but then Eriol stopped joking around and pointed out, "But what about my cute little descendant's girlfriend?"

Tomoyo and Sakura's eyes widened. "Hoe!!" Sakura cried. "XingMei! I forgot about her!!"

"Oh dears..." Tomoyo looked worried. "But Li-kun loves you right? So it doesn't matter."

"Of course it matters!" Sakura groaned. "I wonder if Syaoran told XingMei yet..."

Tomoyo squeezed her friend's shoulder. "It'll be ok Sakura-chan..."

"Demo..I think I should talk to XingMei..." Sakura said.

Eriol shifted his glasses around. "What is there to say?"

"Well...I don't know...but..." Sakura frowned. "I feel kind of...bad..."

"Iie, don't say that Sakura," Tomoyo said reassuringly. "It's not like you're stealing Li-kun. Li-kun loves you back, and you love him, it's fate!"

"And XingMei can't really do anything about it," Eriol added. "What is meant to be yours is yours."

Tomoyo nodded, "And what is not is not. No matter how much you long and fight for it, in the end it won't be yours if it wasn't meant to be yours."

Sakura sweatdropped, "You two seemed to have been practicing this speech or something!!"

Tomoyo just giggled.



"XingMei, I'm sorry." Syaoran thought out loud as he walked down the hallway, alone.

He hadn't wanted to join Sakura yet, he wanted some...silent time. How am I going to tell XingMei? She was right afterall...I was just...denying it before...but the cards...my mother, she won't allow it....I'll be breaking the clan's rule...

"Xiaolang."

He lifted his head and saw XingMei walking towards him, she hadn't come home last night. "XingMei..."

She approached him slowly and stared straight at him but was silent. Syaoran sighed, he had so many things in his mind right now it was giving him a headache. "XingMei.." He began. "I...I love someone else."

She smirked. Which wasn't what Syaoran thought her reaction would be, and then she laughed, a bitter laugh. "See Li Syaoran, I was right wasn't I? I was right all along, are you able to admit defeat?"

Syaoran rasied an eyebrow. XingMei sounded so cold...yet he understood why she was acting this way. "XingMei...please..."

"Ha, I was right." XingMei repeated. "So now you can go run around with Kinomoto in the lovely fields of green, while I'm left here to sulk and cry over my boyfriend dumping me!" She threw her arms up in the air and blew her bangs out of her eyes. "What a perfect way to spend my day!"

Syaoran scowled, "XingMei! You're making it more complicated than it has to be."

"Oh am I? Am I?!" XingMei yelled.

He was glad this hallway was empty. Everyone was in their classes already, except for him and her, who were screaming in the hallways. "Yes, yes you are."

XingMei crossed her arms, holding her tears back. "Do you know how much I love you Syaoran? How damn much I care about you? How I'm always thinking about your feelings, if you're happy or sad..." She faded away. "But how about you? Have you ever cared about me? Cared if I was sad? Happy?" XingMei's voice trembled. "No."

"No!" Syaoran shouted. "I have cared about you, I told you yesterday! I care about you like a sister, a cousin, like..."

"Like Meiling?" XingMei snapped. "Yeah, now I know how Meiling felt. How many hearts are you going to break Li Syaoran? Until you're satisfied? And that Kinomoto, she's sure interesting. She's the cause of both Meiling and my heartbreak! She won your heart from both of us."

Syaoran rubbed his forehead. "XingMei...calm down...its not like I'm going to...leave you here and just forget about you!!"

"Of course you would! You'll just...forget all about me, and you're going to say 'Let's just be friends'. Crap like that!" XingMei shot back.

He frowned, "Whatever XingMei. No matter what you're going to say, it's not possible between us. We're not meant to be. If we were, we naturally would be together. But we're not."

XingMei opened her mouth to say something but Syaoran turned his back. Turned his back to her.



Sakura had noticed that Syaoran missed physics class. She looked in the crowd for him as she sat down at a table with Tomoyo, Eriol, and Kimi.

She couldn't see him so she got up. "I'm going to go look for Syaoran, ok?"

"Ok," The group chimed.

Tomoyo and Eriol were busy chatting which left Kimi there. She glanced at them and raised her hand over Sakura's bowl of soup to drop a worm in it. Just as she was about to, Tomoyo screamed.

"Ewwwww!!!"

Kimi halted and turned blue. "Shit." She mumbled under her breath.

"Kimi! What are you doing?!" Tomoyo hollered.

Eriol stared at the girl. She's not acting right...

Kimi was lost for words. "I...uh...I..." And she quickly left the table.

"Hey!!!" Tomoyo shouted just as Sakura came back into the room.

"Why are you screaming so loud Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura blinked.

Eriol looked amused. "That Kimi girl tried to drop a worm in your soup."

"What? Kimi?" Sakura raised her eyebrows.

Tomoyo nodded furiously. "That girl is evil I tell you. Looks can be deceiving..."

Sakura sat down slowly. "But Kimi's so nice...she helped me from so much embarrassment! Remember the chalkboard inncedent I told you about?"

"Hmmm..." Eriol stuck his fork into a tomato. "She could have done that to earn your trust."

"Possibly she's on Aki's side," Tomoyo pointed out.

Sakura frowned, "That's so weird..."

"Aki sure has alot of people..." Tomoyo frowned. "I hate how everyone thinks she's the good one!! She's the one who's pure evil!! You're the angel!!"

Sakura sweatdropped, "Not exactly 'angel' Tomoyo-chan."

"Well, the good one," Tomoyo changed. "Hmpth."

"The fire on the skirt, it was the Firey wasn't it?" Eriol smirked.

Sakura nodded proudly. "Yep."

"Good one," Eriol praised. "Couldn't have done any better."

"You know, at the rate of this, and how many people support Aki, she has a pretty big chance to be prom queen this year," Tomoyo said frustratingly. "That is not good! That is like a witch taking the throne!!"

Eriol laughed and Tomoyo just stared at him. "What? I'm saying the truth!"

"True," Eriol agreed.

"Then we've got to do something!" Tomoyo groaned. "We can't can't can't let Aki be queen! That's disgracing the whole world!"

"I agree."

The three looked up and saw a girl with short round purple hair. "Hi..." She said with a shaky voice, she looked really shy and scared to talk to them.

Sakura blinked at her.

"I'm just a girl in this school, and I seriously hate Aki....and I have some proof that she's a big bitch..." The girl said shakily and reached into her bag and pulled out something. "Here, take these." The girl dropped a bunch of photos on the table. "I don't have the guts to post these around the school, but I think you guys are daring enough. Best of luck Kinomoto, I'm voting for you!" And she left in a hurry.

Sakura blinked and looked at the photos. "Whoa!!" She cried as she flipped through them all.

Tomoyo's eyes widened, "Now everyone can know how messed up Aki is!!"

Sakura looked at the girl's disappearing figure. "Thank god that girl got these photos!!"

"I wonder how," Eriol pointed out.

"Doesn't matter, as long as we've got them!" Sakura grinned and jumped out of the table to stick the photos on the school bulatin board. Big pay back time...



"Holy shit!!" A guy yelled in amusement.

A couple girls were gasping and shaking their heads in disgust. "I never knew Aki wore underwear with little hearts on it!"

"And when she's doing it too!" Someone added and the crowd burst into hysteric giggles and laughter.

Aki stared at everyone when she entered the school because alot of people were whistling and winking and laughing at her. "Hey Aki," A tall guy came up to her.

"Hey what?" She stared at him weird.

"Wanna get in my bed? I'm sure it's way more comfortable than all the other ones you've been in," The boy smirked and burst out laughing as he joined his friends.

Aki looked at him, "What do you mean?!" She screamed as she pushed her way towards the front of the crowd and saw the photos. "Hey what?!" She cried out in alarm as she saw the photos of her making out with a couple guys, and her approaching Kyojin.

"So you were the one to approach Toitsu-kun eh?" A girl beside her snorted. "Ha, and I thought it was Kyojin who asked you out. Slut!!"

"Slut!!"

"Whore!!"

The crowd chanted and Aki screamed and ran.

Sakura was laughing so hard. "This has to be the best day of my life! Really!!"

A bunch of people went by Sakura and apologized for their rude bahavior. "It's ok," Sakura replied to all of them.

Tomoyo beamed at Sakura, "I'm so glad you cleaned your reputation."

"Yeah..." Sakura wasn't really listening though because she hadn't seen Syaoran since the time they confessed. Where did he go...?

"Kinomoto Sakura, get over here right now." She heard a familiar voice command in a demanding voice.

Sakura looked around until she caught the fiery orange eyes of XingMei. "XingMei?" She walked up to her. "Is something the matter?"

XingMei scowled and took her hand to pull her away from all the people. "Where are we going?!"

"Somewhere private," XingMei lead her into an empty classroom and closed the door. "Ok Kinomoto, stay away from Syaoran."

"Nani?!" Sakura cried.

"It's for your own good," XingMei continued. "You'll just break your own heart if you're going to be Li Syaoran's girlfriend."

Sakura stared at her, confused. "What are you talking about?"

XingMei smirked, "You don't want to know."

She was getting more confused by the second. "XingMei...tell me! You're making no sense to me!!"

"Are you sure you want to know?" XingMei blinked at her innocently.

"....I guess so...if it has to do with Syaoran and me," Sakura answered.

XingMei chuckled, "Then it was your choice, not my fault if you start crying."

"....Ok..."

XingMei hopped onto a desk and crossed her legs. "Well, it must've been a surprise when Syaoran and me showed up here neh?"

"True..."

"Well, you must've been wondering why we came here." XingMei stared at Sakura who nodded. "Well, we had a very good reason, we had a mission basically."

Sakura raised an eyebrow. "A mission?"

XingMei nodded, "A mission, and you're in it big time." She smiled at Sakura's confused expression. "Hoe?"

"The reason we came to Tomoeda, Japan was to get the clow cards from you, Kinomoto Sakura." XingMei declared. "So hand them over to me! Or you'll just have to hand them over to Syaoran, which is even more painful."

"..What?! This isn't true!!" Sakura yelled.

XingMei shrugged, "Sorry girl, but the truth is the truth. Syaoran's probably just getting close to you so he can get the cards more easily. Smart isn't he?" She hopped off the desk and stood infront of Sakura. "Give them to me, I'm saving you from alot of pain."

Sakura's eyes went watery as she pushed pass XingMei and out the door.




AN: That was so mean of XingMei neh? To tell Sakura it...but Sakura has to know sooner or later...oh no, what will Syaoran do?? :S:S This is bad, very bad....well! Please R+R and thanks~!