Trick of a Card
Flashback
Japan 16 months previous.
"What's wrong Syaoran-Kun?" Sakura asked softly.
"Nothing"
"Come on you know you can tell me anything"
"I don't want to, you Baka girl, why wont you just leave me alone for once"
Hurt flooded through Sakuras face.
"What do you mean?" she asked him her voice was full of sorrow
"Your always there I can never get a minute alone! You, Meiling-San and Daidouji" He snapped at her his eyebrows furrowing. He clutched the note in his hand tighter and looked at the floor.
"I.I didn't know you felt that way. Well I guess I'll go then." Sakura said. A single tear was forming in the corner of her eye.
"Yes that would be a brilliant idea, oh and guess what it looks like it's the first one you made on your own, just leave me alone or do I have to go back to Hong Kong to get some quiet time?"
"That was cruel," Sakura said to him trying to sound brave but clearly breaking from within, "I was only asking because I care about you."
"Well I don't care about you Baka now go away!"
The tear that had formed on one corner of her eye was now beginning to slowly roll down her cheek, and more were forming in her eyes. She turned quickly and stalked toward the door.
"Oh Sakura no I didn't mean-" Syaoran said suddenly realising what he had said and standing up.
"You know what!?" Sakura said turning round and facing him her expression was full of contempt "I hope you do go back to Hong Kong! And I don't care about you either not one bit!"
Her voice was bitter and hit a place in his soul no other girl would have at this point. Her face was flooded with tears and a look so harsh that if looks could kill he would have died on the spot. She stalked out of the room without saying another word. Syaoran stood rooted to the spot. In all his frustration he had hurt the person he cared about most. The note fell to the floor and Syaoran walked from the room. The ink letters all smudged but only one sentence was readable.
It's Time you came home Son,
End of Flashback
* * * * *
Syaoran Shot straight up from sitting position to find himself hitting his chest against chloes arm and his nose millimetres away from the seat in front.
"Thanks" Syaoran said to her weakly.
"Sorry" Chloe said plainly
"I said Thank you" Syaoran told her turning to face her and leaning back into his seat.
"I know what you said" Chloe told him and turned to face him putting her arm back down to her cards. "It sorry that you need to say"
"Pardon?"
"Sorry." Chloe said to him "Its what you want to say to her. And with my help it will be the first word you say to her or god help me Li Syaoran you'll find yourself impaled on your own sword" All Syaoran could do to this was blink. He wasn't about to pick a fight with her she was worse than Meiling when you got her angry. He'd rather take his chances with a stampede of elephants.
"Bad Dream?" Chloe asked him
"How'd you guess?"
"Syaoran-Kun you shot out of your seat even a stuffed animal could guess that" Stuffed animal. Syaoran glared remembering the guardian beast of the seal Cerberos how he always used to call him a stuffed animal.
"Better than Baka" Chloe said turning a card over
"Stop it do I have no privacy?" Syaoran snapped at her
"No. and anyway I don't have to refer to my cards to know how you think we've been friends for ten years." Chloe pointed out. Syaoran started to glare at Chloe and if looks could have killed she should have been dead. "Acting childish over little things is what got you into this mess."
"I know" Syaoran said as if accepting defeat, but reluctantly. Chloe turned her whole attention to him.
"Look I'm not sure I know how much she means to you but I know she means a lot and I want to help you, I do, but I can only show you the door, you have to walk through it."
"Don't start with that riddley psycho crap again" Syaoran said a tinge of annoyance on the edge of his voice.
"Fine if you don't like her that much don't take my advice but I won't pity you if she uses one of those Clow cards against you."
"She won't she's not like that"
"Ah yes but emotions drive people Syaoran-Kun" She told him a look of adult seriousness on her face that he recognised from somewhere. "And if the emotion is powerful enough. it can drive people to do things they wouldn't normally do. Otherwise you wouldn't be on this plane. Your feelings for her are so strong its driving you to go back." Syaoran looked at her in shock. He'd never thought of it like that before. Chloe picked up a card and he knew that this conversation was over.
Syaoran stared out of the window at the passing landmarks and gatherings of water. She was right. She was always right. God he hated that. Little miss know it all. But she had helped him out over the last year and a half. She had taught him a lot. Especially about emotions and in his case how it would be OK to show them. But he did appreciate it. Now he'd be able to show Sakura how sorry he was and they'd make up and he'd tell her how he loved her and couldn't stop thinking about her.
But there was the problem of Sakuras' new boyfriend. And the fact Syaoran was now living in Hong Kong permanently. Although he supposed he could move in with Wei again. That was where they were staying for the duration of this 'short' trip. All he had to do was not be rude to Sakura when he saw her again, which was going to be a huge task.
* * * * *
Everything is fine, Syaoran told himself biting his lip, she won't kill me when I see her again it'll be fine.
"But what if her boyfriends there?" Syaoran said desperately
"you know I can be very err. distracting" Meiling said holding out a small leather purse, which Syaoran glared at as though it was a bomb.
"No. I will not have you using that stuff again Meiling-Chan." Chloe said. "You know what happened last time. although it was quite funny" The two girls chuckled.
"Yeah for you." Syaoran said in annoyance "what about me? People thought I was werid."
"You are weird Li-Kun" Meiling told him they just knew it for a change. Both girls started to laugh at him again. Meiling put the purse away while Chloe shuffled her cards and placed them into her pocket.
"And you'll come with me right so there won't be that nervous silence thing and so she wont kill me."
"Li-Kun I was joking about that on the plane"
"But emotions drive people if fact mines now driving me back to Hong Kong."
"Oh don't be such a baby. Yes we're coming with you." Chloe said rolling her eyes while Meiling shook her head.
"Boys" the girls said in unison and started to walk into the High School. Syaoran trailing behind them. As they reached the yard on the other side if the building they spotted Tomoyo, Sakura and some other people whom they knew and started to walk over.
"Daidouji-San" Meiling shouted making the group spin to face them.
"Meiling-Chan what are you doing here! it's so good to see you!" the group gathered round and that's when Syaoran spotted her. As beautiful as ever. Her new uniform suited her slim figure with its perfect curves. But then his attention turned to the boy standing next to her. He was tall with blue- black hair quite long and tied back into a small tail at the nape of his neck. Wearing those ever annoying glasses and smiling straight at him, Syaoran only glare back.
"Hiiragizawa" he muttered
"Eriol-Kun!" Chloes voice came and Syaorans jaw dropped as he stared at her walking up and giving Eriol a hug, "How have you been? I didn't know you we're in Japan."
"Really? That's surprising. Although I didn't know you lived in Hong Kong now."
Syaoran grabbed Chloes arm and dragged her way from the group
"You. you. you know him" he said in shock sounding slightly disgusted.
"Umm-hmm"
"Umm-hmm! Umm-hmm! That's all you can do!" Syaoran said his voice raising. Suddenly there was a sharp pain on his head "Ow! what'd you do that for?"
"You've lost focus already. Talk to her" she told him pushing him back in the direction of Sakura and with one final push said "and be nice"
Syaoran tripped and landed on his knees by a pair of slender feet. He slowly looked up to come face to face with.
"Kinomoto!" he almost shouted quite shocked, and his face turned the colour of a beetroot.
"Li-kun" Sakura said calmly her now very short hair whipping around in the wind. There was a cold edge to her tone.
"Your hair!"
"What about it?"
"Its short."
"You don't like it?" she asked in a tone that sounded a touch disappointed.
"No." Syaoran said and Chloe started to glare at him from behind Eriol and Meiling.
"Oh" said Sakura looking slightly disappointed.
"I love it" Syaorans voice came quietly a weak smile crossing his face for an instant. Sakura smiled at him. warm and friendly and some of the fears that were eating away at him ebbed away. "Its been a long time how have you been?"
"Good" Sakura said "and you?"
"OK." Syaoran said the blush intensifying.
"That's good." Sakura said smiling again and it was almost as if summer had come in the middle of November everything seamed to warm up. "I have to get back to class now"
"Oh OK" Syaoran said. Sakura began to walk away. A frown crossed his face.
"A group of us are hanging out tonight!" Sakura shouted back "you should come"
"We'll be there!" Meiling shouted back before Syaoran could say anything. And then Sakura shot another one of her beautiful smiles his way. And a larger smile crossed Syaorans face.
"Wouldn't miss it" Syaoran muttered as Sakura walked away.
* * * * *
Eriol smiled as she walked into the room, her golden brown hair glinting in the sunlight and emerald green eyes sparkling.
"I see you managed to get here"
"Yes. We did and didn't have too much trouble"
"How did you manage to achieve that then?"
"The little card trick you showed me of course" she replied without a smile. Pretend to be stuck get out the book and change a few whiles he's not looking. Not that he would know what each card meant." "And what did you tell him?"
"She had a boyfriend"
"Drastic measures. I would have never thought you would have told such lies with your feelings for him" Eriol told her looking her in the eyes but she looked at the floor.
"How are you really?" He asked her and a weak smile crossed her face.
"OK he really love her but doesn't notice whats right under his nose" Chloe told him.
"So why did you bring him here?" Eriol asked her an inquisitive look on his face.
"Because I'd rather he be with the one he loves"
* * * *
Flashback
Japan 16 months previous.
"What's wrong Syaoran-Kun?" Sakura asked softly.
"Nothing"
"Come on you know you can tell me anything"
"I don't want to, you Baka girl, why wont you just leave me alone for once"
Hurt flooded through Sakuras face.
"What do you mean?" she asked him her voice was full of sorrow
"Your always there I can never get a minute alone! You, Meiling-San and Daidouji" He snapped at her his eyebrows furrowing. He clutched the note in his hand tighter and looked at the floor.
"I.I didn't know you felt that way. Well I guess I'll go then." Sakura said. A single tear was forming in the corner of her eye.
"Yes that would be a brilliant idea, oh and guess what it looks like it's the first one you made on your own, just leave me alone or do I have to go back to Hong Kong to get some quiet time?"
"That was cruel," Sakura said to him trying to sound brave but clearly breaking from within, "I was only asking because I care about you."
"Well I don't care about you Baka now go away!"
The tear that had formed on one corner of her eye was now beginning to slowly roll down her cheek, and more were forming in her eyes. She turned quickly and stalked toward the door.
"Oh Sakura no I didn't mean-" Syaoran said suddenly realising what he had said and standing up.
"You know what!?" Sakura said turning round and facing him her expression was full of contempt "I hope you do go back to Hong Kong! And I don't care about you either not one bit!"
Her voice was bitter and hit a place in his soul no other girl would have at this point. Her face was flooded with tears and a look so harsh that if looks could kill he would have died on the spot. She stalked out of the room without saying another word. Syaoran stood rooted to the spot. In all his frustration he had hurt the person he cared about most. The note fell to the floor and Syaoran walked from the room. The ink letters all smudged but only one sentence was readable.
It's Time you came home Son,
End of Flashback
* * * * *
Syaoran Shot straight up from sitting position to find himself hitting his chest against chloes arm and his nose millimetres away from the seat in front.
"Thanks" Syaoran said to her weakly.
"Sorry" Chloe said plainly
"I said Thank you" Syaoran told her turning to face her and leaning back into his seat.
"I know what you said" Chloe told him and turned to face him putting her arm back down to her cards. "It sorry that you need to say"
"Pardon?"
"Sorry." Chloe said to him "Its what you want to say to her. And with my help it will be the first word you say to her or god help me Li Syaoran you'll find yourself impaled on your own sword" All Syaoran could do to this was blink. He wasn't about to pick a fight with her she was worse than Meiling when you got her angry. He'd rather take his chances with a stampede of elephants.
"Bad Dream?" Chloe asked him
"How'd you guess?"
"Syaoran-Kun you shot out of your seat even a stuffed animal could guess that" Stuffed animal. Syaoran glared remembering the guardian beast of the seal Cerberos how he always used to call him a stuffed animal.
"Better than Baka" Chloe said turning a card over
"Stop it do I have no privacy?" Syaoran snapped at her
"No. and anyway I don't have to refer to my cards to know how you think we've been friends for ten years." Chloe pointed out. Syaoran started to glare at Chloe and if looks could have killed she should have been dead. "Acting childish over little things is what got you into this mess."
"I know" Syaoran said as if accepting defeat, but reluctantly. Chloe turned her whole attention to him.
"Look I'm not sure I know how much she means to you but I know she means a lot and I want to help you, I do, but I can only show you the door, you have to walk through it."
"Don't start with that riddley psycho crap again" Syaoran said a tinge of annoyance on the edge of his voice.
"Fine if you don't like her that much don't take my advice but I won't pity you if she uses one of those Clow cards against you."
"She won't she's not like that"
"Ah yes but emotions drive people Syaoran-Kun" She told him a look of adult seriousness on her face that he recognised from somewhere. "And if the emotion is powerful enough. it can drive people to do things they wouldn't normally do. Otherwise you wouldn't be on this plane. Your feelings for her are so strong its driving you to go back." Syaoran looked at her in shock. He'd never thought of it like that before. Chloe picked up a card and he knew that this conversation was over.
Syaoran stared out of the window at the passing landmarks and gatherings of water. She was right. She was always right. God he hated that. Little miss know it all. But she had helped him out over the last year and a half. She had taught him a lot. Especially about emotions and in his case how it would be OK to show them. But he did appreciate it. Now he'd be able to show Sakura how sorry he was and they'd make up and he'd tell her how he loved her and couldn't stop thinking about her.
But there was the problem of Sakuras' new boyfriend. And the fact Syaoran was now living in Hong Kong permanently. Although he supposed he could move in with Wei again. That was where they were staying for the duration of this 'short' trip. All he had to do was not be rude to Sakura when he saw her again, which was going to be a huge task.
* * * * *
Everything is fine, Syaoran told himself biting his lip, she won't kill me when I see her again it'll be fine.
"But what if her boyfriends there?" Syaoran said desperately
"you know I can be very err. distracting" Meiling said holding out a small leather purse, which Syaoran glared at as though it was a bomb.
"No. I will not have you using that stuff again Meiling-Chan." Chloe said. "You know what happened last time. although it was quite funny" The two girls chuckled.
"Yeah for you." Syaoran said in annoyance "what about me? People thought I was werid."
"You are weird Li-Kun" Meiling told him they just knew it for a change. Both girls started to laugh at him again. Meiling put the purse away while Chloe shuffled her cards and placed them into her pocket.
"And you'll come with me right so there won't be that nervous silence thing and so she wont kill me."
"Li-Kun I was joking about that on the plane"
"But emotions drive people if fact mines now driving me back to Hong Kong."
"Oh don't be such a baby. Yes we're coming with you." Chloe said rolling her eyes while Meiling shook her head.
"Boys" the girls said in unison and started to walk into the High School. Syaoran trailing behind them. As they reached the yard on the other side if the building they spotted Tomoyo, Sakura and some other people whom they knew and started to walk over.
"Daidouji-San" Meiling shouted making the group spin to face them.
"Meiling-Chan what are you doing here! it's so good to see you!" the group gathered round and that's when Syaoran spotted her. As beautiful as ever. Her new uniform suited her slim figure with its perfect curves. But then his attention turned to the boy standing next to her. He was tall with blue- black hair quite long and tied back into a small tail at the nape of his neck. Wearing those ever annoying glasses and smiling straight at him, Syaoran only glare back.
"Hiiragizawa" he muttered
"Eriol-Kun!" Chloes voice came and Syaorans jaw dropped as he stared at her walking up and giving Eriol a hug, "How have you been? I didn't know you we're in Japan."
"Really? That's surprising. Although I didn't know you lived in Hong Kong now."
Syaoran grabbed Chloes arm and dragged her way from the group
"You. you. you know him" he said in shock sounding slightly disgusted.
"Umm-hmm"
"Umm-hmm! Umm-hmm! That's all you can do!" Syaoran said his voice raising. Suddenly there was a sharp pain on his head "Ow! what'd you do that for?"
"You've lost focus already. Talk to her" she told him pushing him back in the direction of Sakura and with one final push said "and be nice"
Syaoran tripped and landed on his knees by a pair of slender feet. He slowly looked up to come face to face with.
"Kinomoto!" he almost shouted quite shocked, and his face turned the colour of a beetroot.
"Li-kun" Sakura said calmly her now very short hair whipping around in the wind. There was a cold edge to her tone.
"Your hair!"
"What about it?"
"Its short."
"You don't like it?" she asked in a tone that sounded a touch disappointed.
"No." Syaoran said and Chloe started to glare at him from behind Eriol and Meiling.
"Oh" said Sakura looking slightly disappointed.
"I love it" Syaorans voice came quietly a weak smile crossing his face for an instant. Sakura smiled at him. warm and friendly and some of the fears that were eating away at him ebbed away. "Its been a long time how have you been?"
"Good" Sakura said "and you?"
"OK." Syaoran said the blush intensifying.
"That's good." Sakura said smiling again and it was almost as if summer had come in the middle of November everything seamed to warm up. "I have to get back to class now"
"Oh OK" Syaoran said. Sakura began to walk away. A frown crossed his face.
"A group of us are hanging out tonight!" Sakura shouted back "you should come"
"We'll be there!" Meiling shouted back before Syaoran could say anything. And then Sakura shot another one of her beautiful smiles his way. And a larger smile crossed Syaorans face.
"Wouldn't miss it" Syaoran muttered as Sakura walked away.
* * * * *
Eriol smiled as she walked into the room, her golden brown hair glinting in the sunlight and emerald green eyes sparkling.
"I see you managed to get here"
"Yes. We did and didn't have too much trouble"
"How did you manage to achieve that then?"
"The little card trick you showed me of course" she replied without a smile. Pretend to be stuck get out the book and change a few whiles he's not looking. Not that he would know what each card meant." "And what did you tell him?"
"She had a boyfriend"
"Drastic measures. I would have never thought you would have told such lies with your feelings for him" Eriol told her looking her in the eyes but she looked at the floor.
"How are you really?" He asked her and a weak smile crossed her face.
"OK he really love her but doesn't notice whats right under his nose" Chloe told him.
"So why did you bring him here?" Eriol asked her an inquisitive look on his face.
"Because I'd rather he be with the one he loves"
* * * *