Chapter 3 - Do I know you??

There was a funeral for Ms. Li about a week afterwards. Sakura, Tomoyo and their families were there. Anyone who knew Ms. Li was there which in fact filled quite a large part of the cemetery. Ai was traumatized but still attended with her grandfather. She was wearing a black dress and her mom's favorite necklace wrapped around twice in her little neck. Ms. Li was given a special ceremony and funeral. Her resting place was in a beautiful garden with all her favorite flowers, plants and trees. The whole palace was sad of the princess's unfair death and almost everyone felt sorry for Ai, her beautiful and only daughter, the poor child that lost her trusting ability because of one man, that was sentenced to life in a miserable prison separated from everything and everyone. The little girl with mommy's eyes that were sad and full of tears and her little red lips that refused to move besides from eating. A horrible week that was, the funeral was long and sad, everyone cried. People left after about a day, when it was clear, Sakura, Tomoyo, Toya, Yukito, Ai and her grandfather came there, Sakura and the others were a little far away to let Ai and her grandfather alone. "This is horrible" Sakura said sadly, Yukito hugged her while Toya and Tomoyo looked at Ai laying down next to the Peonies, crying sadly, her grandfather just looking and maybe even praying. The day was gone, and the night was dark, not even the stars shined that lonely night.

Syaoran felt wounded during that time and spent most of his time in his secret room. Meirin was somewhat worried but didn't ask him what was wrong, she knew him too well, he would get mad and close his heart completely. She was still planning how to make her future weeding with Syaoran, even when he still didn't notice her nor wanted to marry. He was mostly alone if not at training with his instructors or father. She even got Mr. Li to get fond of her, to make the wedding part easier. But Zhao had plans of his own, he knew Meirin liked her brother but he wanted her as his wife and he would go to the extremes to get what he wants. Syaoran wasn't at peace and wanted to return to his mother's kingdom to see what had happened, he knew he wouldn't get any answers from his dad

Syaoran made plans to return, with or without his father's consent. So one day after about 3 years that had passed after his feeling so sad for no reason, he approached his father's library and office, the place where he had meetings with the other leaders. He was in his chair writing something, he looked at Syaoran come in and he made the notebook he had disappear on thin air. "What is it?" he asked almost coldly, "Father,....I want to go back" Syoaran said strongly. "Where?" his father asked even when he knew the answer, "to mother's castle" Syaoran responded, Syaoran knew that he had guessed that by the strange expression he made. "I'll let you go there,..." he started saying then he looked at Syaoran and continued, "...if, you do me a favor and take Zhao and Meilin with you". Syaoran wanted to refuse the offer but it was a once in a life time chance, once you say no to the Li leader, the offer never comes back. "Alright" Syaoran said, disappointed in a way, "so, what's the favor?" Syaoran asked, "there is a strange magical force coming from there and it's getting stronger, in fact it's almost at your level, so I want you to take it's magic and bring it here, dead or alive" he said and looked at him straight in the eyes, but looked away when Syaoran's eyes reminded him of his dead wife Yelan. Syaoran nodded and went out the door, he told his brother and they all packed up for the journey.

Meirin found out from Zhao where they were going and she could come if she wanted. So she did accept the invitation and packed her things. They were all going on horses, they had food for a day, enough to get there and not even eat, but just in case. Zhao looked pround, as if he was something special, which almost everyone thought he was. Zhao was at the lead, he knew all the ways to their mother's castle, they all were on the best black horses from their kingdom and were ready to face anything in their way. During all the way Meirin was flirting, but still Syaoran didn't even pay attention, all he could think of was seeing his mother and that girl in the pink dress. Zhao on the other hand was paying attention to Meirin, but she wasn't after him.

They got to the town faster than they had expected and they looked for a place to stay for the night, they found a nice place called Fortune Hall. The cost wasn't very high and it was good quality, they all got separate rooms next to each other. "A power at Syao's level" Zhao told himself, Meilin heard of course. "So this is all about, killing someone? Huh?" Meirin told Zhao licking her lips making it easier for him to tell her everything. And as usual Zhao fell for her tricks and told her everything. Syaoran was tired and he went to relax in the hot spring in the men's bathhouse, the warm water relaxed him, his thoughts floated in his head, making him think clearly. Then the door opened, he didn't pay attention, then there was a water splash and he looked to see who it was, he had to wait a while until the person came out of the water. That person appeared right next to him and it was no other than Meirin. "Hi" she said smiling, "what are you doing here?" Syaoran asked calmly, "I thought you might want some company" she said sweetly in a way and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I don't want company" Syaoran said and got her off him, and slowly and calmly half swam half walked away. He looked at her once more when he was at the door, she was looking at him attentively looking beautiful and tempting, then just walked out and closed the door. Then he changed into his green pants and green shirt, he put on his black shoes, placed his dark green almost black cape on and his sword on the back. Then he just took his key and went out to the village.

The village was small and nice, everyone was friendly and everyone helped each other. He looked around hopeful to find that girl in the pick dress. "Como on guys, we're gonna be late" Syaoran heard a girl scream at three of her friends. "We're coming, where are we meeting Sakura?" another of the girls, the one that had glasses said. "The usual place, the parlor" the first girl with braids said. "Did you know that the parlor was made over a cemetery?, yes it's true" the guy said, "shut up, all you say it's lies Yamazaki!!" screamed the girl with braids at the boy. Syaoran was a little curious so he followed behind them without them noticing him. "So, what are we doing for Ai's 4th birthday??" the last girl said, "I don't know, Tomoyo is planning it" said the girl with glasses while the other girl kept screaming at the boy. "Let's just hope that Yamazaki here doesn't scare her" the girl with braids said and the three girls laughed after looking at the boy. "Tomorrow is such a sad day though" said the last girl who talked in a shy way, "we know Rika, but Ai will want to go to the cemetery, poor her" said the girl in glasses. "If I ever see one of those stupid brother's or her so called father, Ohh I swear I'll...." the girl in braids was saying, she looked very mad and her hands wanted to grip someone's neck.

"Hey there" Sakura screamed from the parlor, she was eating ice cream with little Ai. "Hi" Yukito managed to say while he ate his ice cream. They all said "hi" and laughed happily, "happiness" was Syaoran's first thought, then he looked at the girl that was already sited with the little girl. "It..it..it looks like her...." Syaoran said to himself trying not to look too much at her, she's beautiful, "they said Sakura..yes.. Sakura" Syaoran said to himself. He examined how much she had changed from his first glimpse at her, for one her hair was long and she had grown taller with a nice figure. But he started walking back when he saw a man running with a weapon in his hand and a bag, people were shouting "thief", and he was coming Syaoran's way. "Get OUT of MY Way" the man running was screaming at Syaoran, which Syaoran did not approve off and stood right in his way. The man was getting closer and was ready to hit Syaoran with his gun, he got closer and closer. Everyone had their eyes on Syaoran and the man running, then they met and the man that had been running fell unconscious to the ground. "Ohh..oww." people murmured, Syaoran simply took the gun from the man and placed the bag the man had in the floor. Then he tried to walk away but people were saying "thank you" and "that was amazing" and other things which were annoying him. But when Sakura approached him and said "thank you, that was nice of you to stop that man" Syaoran felt very hot and even blushed, "no problem" Syaoran managed to say and she walked over to the table with the others. He watched as Sakura was walking slowly or in slow motion, then he came to see the little girl better, it surprised him to see that she looked like him, Ai was staring at Syaoran, she could feel something strange about Syaoran.

Unfortunately Meirin had also seen everything and knowing Syaoran, she knew immediately that he liked her. "I'll, I'll" Meirin started saying but stopped and looked at Sakura with hate in her eyes. Sakura turned to were Meirin was, having a strange feeling but Meirin was already gone. "Ok guys, I'll see you tomorrow" Sakura was saying to the group, she was holding Ai's hand and they started walking away. "Can we go to the park?" Ai asked Sakura when they were walking home. "Umm, sure, it's still early" Sakura said smiling, so they walked to the park and saw someone on one of the swings. Ai ran to the swings t and sat right next to Syaoran with some difficulty. "Hi" Ai said to him which was something remarkable, since she didn't trust or talked to any guy besides her grandpa, Toya and Yuki. "Umm..hi" Syaoran said looking at the little girl who had the exact same hair and eye color as him. "Are you going to kill someone?" Ai asked unexpectedly, "...what??" Syaoran asked surprised, Sakura then got there and said "Hi" to Syaoran and made him blush once more. "Were, you just talking to her??" Sakura ashed Syaoran, "yes" Syaoran said making courage to talk to the girl he wanted to meet for 4 years. "Wow, that very good" Sakura said exited, "huh" Syaoran uttered confused, "Ohh, it's just that she doesn't talk to guys, not since..." Sakura started saying but trailed off. "Since my mommy died" Ai finished Sakura's sentence and didn't seem to affect her at all. "Ai, are you feeling Ok?" Sakura asked Ai worried, "just fine" Ai said swinging back and forth. "How old are you?" Syaoran asked Ai, "4" Ai responded, "have I seen you before?" Sakura asked Syaoran, "umm..at the parlor" Syaoran said, "no I mean from somewhere else, your face looks familiar" Sakura said examining him which made Syaoran a little nervous.

"I know why.." Ai said and went to play in the other games, "hooeee" Sakura said very confused, "Sakura" Syaoran said, "your name is Sakura, right?", "umm, yes, what's your name?" Sakura said, "Syaoran" Zhao screamed at that moment. "What??" Syaoran asked annoyed, "you know what" Zhao said mad until he saw the pretty girl next to him. He approached them smiling, "and who might you be Miss?" he asked, "ummm, Sakura" she said a little nervous, his black eyes looked cold and scary as well. "I want to go now, I don't like the crowd" Ai told Sakura and held her hand. "Ok" Sakura said to Ai, "we have to go now, bye, nice to meet you" she said and looked at Syaoran. They walked away, Ai looked at the two guys before getting into a carriage to go home. "Pretty girl, cherry blossom" Zhao said looking at the carriage, "what do you want" Syaoran said standing up, "ohh, nice memories here, hehe, we have a job to do you know" Zhao said looking at Syaoran in the eyes. Syaoran didn't say anything, "we should see if...Sakura...is the one we are looking for, I sensed a great power coming from her, the weird thing is, that little girl looks just like you..hehehe...funny huh.." Zhao said, "get Sakura" Zhao ordered Syaoran and left. Syaoran was getting scared, if she really was the powerful magicial they were looking for, they would have to....kill her...

To be continued.....

Long time since I remembered this story, good thing I remembered, now I can continue it, the review of dstrbd child was what made me remember, thank you.... I hope you all liked this chapter, what did you think...plz review..