Chapter twenty-two: A union of another kind.
(Ok another addition here to an inspiration from 'Pride and Prejudice' and again from 'Sailor Moon' and 'Phantom of the Opera'. As you can see I read a verity of books ()
Touya and Ruby's wedding had gone very well and now it was time for the guardian uniting ceremony, which unsurprisingly was to be led by Eriol.
Yue stood and looked at himself in the mirror, he couldn't believe he was wearing this uniform, he had never thought that he would need it but Clow being a fortune teller had probably seen this coming as he done with so many other events that had occurred during his time with Sakura.
This uniform was very formal and not something he would ever be able to wear in his normal everyday job as a Guardian. The uniform consisted of a smart renaissance styled suit, a white jacket, a silver and lilac waistcoat, the design on which was a lilac silk background with embroidered silver stars and moons, his cravat was white with a moon shaped cravat pin holding it in place. The pantaloons were white and very tight revealing Yue's long, toned legs, of which he was very aware, this affect was continued by the white socks and shoes Yue wore. Yue had to admit it had taken him time to get used to wearing shoes after always having his toes free. Round his waist there was a lilac cummerbund making his waist look even thinner. It had also taken Yue some time to get his cufflinks right, they were silver moons with a diamond star set in them.
Yue's hair was styled in a special way that Eriol had done for him, the side parts of Yue's hair had been put into braids and then tied at the bottom with silver ribbons, Eriol had then taken these two braids and tied them up behind Yue's head exactly in the middle, with silver ribbons, and had left his warrior braid hanging free, into which Yue had taken the time to braid his best ribbons and as always one of Sakura's (which Tomoyo had got for him). On his head was perched a white top hat with a lilac and silver ribbon round it.
Yue wore a silver pocket watch that had his winged moon symbol engraved on it in his waistcoat pocket. Round his neck there hung the pendant Sakura had given Yue, on Yue's right forefinger there was a silver ring with the same winged moon symbol engraved into it and lastly Yue's braid had hanging from it the same symbol in silver and it was repeated on the band that was holding the hair in place; once again the symbol was made of silver. Yukito looked at Yue from the back of the mind and smiled.
'You look good in that.'
Yue smiled gently at Yukito 'I hope that everyone else will share your view on my costume. It seems a little too much and rather strange to me.'
Yukito guffawed and then smiled at Yue, shaking his head in confusion. Yue shrugged and looked back at himself in the mirror. Then Yukito piped up with
'But you hope that Sakura-chan likes it most of all, hmm, Yue.?' Yue flushed and nodded.
'I'm sure they will all like it, and I think Sakura-chan will like it especially.'
'Good.'
As if on cue, Sakura came into the tent where Yue had changed, her eyes went wide at the sight of Yue in this uniform. She couldn't believe the sight that stood before her: he normally looked good in his guardian uniform, but this made him look refined and spectacularly handsome.
Yue turned around to see Sakura standing looking at him, she was wearing the dress that Ruby had given her, as it looked breathtaking on her. Sakura looked Yue up and down intently and once again she flushed with pleasure.
"Yue-chan, you look wonderful!"
Yue blushed slightly, and then looked into Sakura's eyes "Not as wonderful as the lady I see before me. Sakura-chan, you look like a fairy-tale princess."
It was now Sakura's turn to blush, and then she noticed that Yue wore no flower on his jacket lapel unlike Touya and Eriol. Sakura pointed to the empty lapel. "Yue-chan, why don't you have a flower or flowers to where like the others do?"
Yue looked down at his chest, then at Sakura, looking very confused.
"I've never had one given to me."
Sakura walked over to Yue: she gently stroked his hair, then looked into Yue's eyes which were to her amazement filled with sadness.
"Clow-sama never had time to design me one. You see he liked to plan his corsages with the utmost care."
Sakura nodded in understanding, she drew out one of the Sakura cards, and released her wand. Sakura smiled at Yue then chanted her ritual words finishing with "Flower card, realise and bestow on me moonflowers, a red rose, a white rose and cherry blossom." The card did as Sakura bade it. Once it was done, Sakura made up a beautiful corsage from them, the roses at the back with eight moonflowers in front of them, then a cloud of cherry blossom in front of the moonflowers.
Once Sakura had finished making up Yue's corsage, she looked up from her work and smiled at Yue, to own the truth a very stunned Yue.
"Well, here is a corsage for you. Now all I need is something to pin it to your lapel."
Yue was looking at Sakura, his eyes wide. He then put his hand into the breast pocket of his jacket. He brought out a silver moon brooch with four gold stars set into it, and presented it to Sakura.
"Will this do?"
Sakura took the pin and inspected it. "It looks like it will. Let's try it, shall we?"
All Yue could do was nod his reply. Sakura took the pin out of Yue's long slender hand and gently pinned the flowers to his lapel. She stepped back from Yue and inspected him.
"Well, if I do say so myself, Yue-chan, you look very handsome today especially with the flowers I've added. Why don't you take a look for yourself?"
Sakura gestured to the mirror as she spoke. Yue turned away from Sakrua and looked into the mirror, for the first time ever Yue smiled at himself. He turned back round and stepped up to Sakura. He took her hand, sweeping off his hat. Yue kissed Sakura's hand, once he had done so he flicked his eyes up at Sakura. Her eyes were wide and vulnerable. He smiled at her openly this time and then stood.
"I thank you Lady for giving me the flowers, this will be forever my corsage."
Sakura blushed a very light pink
"Thank you for the compliment on the flowers I have given to you, I hope that you will always like them this much."
Yues smile grew a little
"I think I will."
Keroberos then trotted into the tent and looked at the two of them.
"Are you two ready now? As we are ready to begin."
Sakura jumped slightly, she then looked up at Keroberos and smiled. "Yes, Kero-chan, we are."
Yue turned to face Keroberos, who noticed Yue's corsage. He looked at it, then Sakura. Keroberos smiled knowingly and quietly left. Yue looked at Sakura.
"Shall we go then, my Lady?"
Sakura looked at Yue, stunned, then she smiled widely.
"Yes, let's go, my Moon Warrior."
Yue held his right arm out to Sakura, she looked at Yue in surprise, and then put her arm through his. He was full of surprises today and Sakura was wondering two things: how may more surprises had he up his sleeves, and where he had learnt to do all of these things, because it couldn't all be from Clow Reed, or was it? Quietly they walked out of the tent, both smiling gently at each other in perfect satisfaction.
The guardian uniting ceremony went flawlessly. Eriol had set up the reception marquee in the back garden of his home. After the ceremony itself the guests proceeded there. By the time they all arrived at the reception it was sunset. Sakura and Yue were the first to get there. Soon after they arrived, a strange event happened: Keroberos roared in frustration, and he turned and pinned Spinal Sun down, with her back on the floor.
"Yield to me and be my mate from now until the end of time."
Spinal Sun struggled with Keroberos for quite some time before she realised mentally that it was no good fighting with him: for one thing he was way too strong physically for her to beat, and he was very determined, she realised with a delighted shock, to have her as his forever. Yet she knew it was tradition for the lady not to give in straight away so she tried to push Keroberos off and called out,
"No!"
The two fought some more, then Keroberos growled out,
"Yes, you're mine."
She tried to topple Keroberos, but he pinned her down with more persistence and a growl.
"Yield?"
"I yield."
"Then you will be my mate and love and wife from this day forward until the end of time?"
"Yes."
Eriol and Yue looked at them smiling, as Keroberos let Spinal Sun up and she sat up and they then snuggled up together by the marquee's entrance. Sakura looked at them, confused.
"What was that about?"
Eriol looked at her. "I think Keroberos had had enough of waiting around for the right time to propose to Spinal Sun, so he just did, in the bestial guardian way."
"Oh...ok."
Yue smiled. "It is a little odd, isn't it?"
Keroberos padded over to them and turned his golden gaze on Yue. "At least I proposed to the woman I love, unlike someone else here." Keroberos then turned his gaze on Sakura. "Do you mind me wedding, Sakura-chan?"
"No, of course not." Sakura looked at Yue. "What did he mean by at least he proposed to the lady he loved?"
"It's nothing."
Yue walked away and stood against a tree with a dark look on his face, muttering to himself. Sakura shrugged and went off to talk to Tomoyo, leaving Yue alone with his thoughts.
As it grew darker Sakura prevented Eriol from using the electric lights he had installed. Instead she drew out another Sakura card and for the second time that day chanted her ritual, ending this time with "Glow Card, release and light this place as you did the first time I met you." Glow emerged, making small orbs of light spread over the garden, which make it look very romantic. Eriol turned to Sakura, his eyes filled with puzzlement.
"Why did you do that, Sakura-chan?"
Sakura smiled at Eriol.
"The first time I ever met this card it gave me my best and first romantic experience ever. It was with Glow around me that I almost told Yukito-san how I felt about him. So I wanted to use it to hopefully give Onii-chan and Ruby-chan their most romantic time together, especially on their first night together as a couple."
Eriol smiled back at Sakura.
"So this card is very special to you?"
"Yes. I always hoped to find my true love when I next used it, but I guess it wasn't meant to be, don't you think Eriol-kun?"
Sakura sighed and looked down at the floor. Eriol shot a glance in Yue's direction, Yue was stood frozen to the spot from what Sakura had just been saying.
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, Sakura-chan, you never know, your own masked Prince Charming could show up at the party."
Yue shot Eriol a grateful glance and then quietly left.
Sakura laughed. "Magical things like that never happen to me."
Eriol smiled at her and tilted her head up.
"I wouldn't give up hope of it happening to you, Sakura-chan. Don't forget the play is coming true, however, that doesn't mean Yue will be him."
"I know it might not be him."
"Good, as long as you know that. Oh, did you hear that Mitsuki-sensei is getting married?"
Sakura looked at him shocked "No, who to?"
"A Mr Shiratori. He is a lecturer at the university, apparently he is very nice, the two have gone away to one of the islands-I can't remember which- to meet his parents, isn't that good news?"
"Yes, it is," Sakura agreed enthusiastically.
Eriol walked away, smiling. Sakura walked over to the bar and got herself a lemonade. She sat down at a table and sipped her drink.
Suddenly the crowd parted in front of Sakura. A black shadow fell over her, slowly Sakura looked up. Her eyes went wide at the sight before her.
A man stood above her, he was tall, at least six foot. Wrapped round his face was a silver domino mask, his face seemed otherwise finely featured, his eyes were pale blue and almond shaped with fine eyebrows. His hair, what Sakura could see of it, was white and grey. He wore a silver suit with a white shirt, which had a ruffled front, a collar that stood up round his neck and shirt cuffs. The shirt was done up with a crisscrossing pattern of white rope all the way down to his silver cummerbund: this revealed very well defined muscles. He wore a silver top hat with a white ribbon round it. He had a white rose pined to his lapel. He held out a long thin hand to Sakura-
"May I have this dance?"
Sakura took his hand with a polite nod, which was when she noticed he was wearing the scent of cherry blossom. He swirled her onto the floor to the strains of a tango. Sakura's eyes went wide, no one in her dance classes had ever been able to match her for steps in this dance. This man, however, didn't just match her, he out did her every move, the rest of the dancers left the floor to watch them dance.
Touya went to go on the floor and pull that man away from Sakura, but Eriol prevented him from doing so by standing in front of him and shaking his head.
Touya turned and looked at Eriol who winked at Touya and mouthed 'It's Yue.' Touya nodded and smiled at the dancing couple: he had to admit they were very good out there, both pushing each other that little bit further in their dance.
They finished: his arm round her back, the other held above him straight, palm open, the first three fingers closed slightly but getting straighter, the fourth finger as straight as was his thumb. Sakura was looking up into his eyes as he was leant over her, she had her arms thrown back behind her. She brought her arms up round his neck slowly, she kissed this stranger who had just walked into her life and literally swept her off her feet. The man responded to the kiss and at the same time helped her to stand taking hold of her shoulders as he did so.
The crowd round them started to cheer: he leant forward and whispered to Sakura, "I love you, Sakura-chan."
Before she could reply they were engulfed by the massive congratulatory crowd, through which he slipped away from her, but before he had totally got away from Sakura, she managed to reach out and snatch off the flower that he was wearing on his lapel, to keep for herself.
When the crowd was eventually gone, Sakura looked around to find Yue, standing looking at her from under a nearby tree. 'So he was here the whole entire time, watching us, well it would serve him right if I did fall for someone else,' she thought. Then something silver shining in Yue's pocket caught her attention. Yue noticed it at the same time and poked it down. Sakura thinned her eyes: 'Or was he?' Sakura had to admit as she thought back to the dance the man's presence had felt familiar and the kiss had too.
Sakura looked at Yue, her eyes narrow, was that the only way he could find to tell her how he felt about her? Sakura hoped not, she held the flower from the man's lapel close to her, and then looked down at it. It seemed to glow. She looked closer: it was made of a pure white light. Sakura's eyes went wide, her gut instinct was that it was moonlight, which meant the flower would never die, but she had to show it to Eriol just to be sure.
(Ok another addition here to an inspiration from 'Pride and Prejudice' and again from 'Sailor Moon' and 'Phantom of the Opera'. As you can see I read a verity of books ()
Touya and Ruby's wedding had gone very well and now it was time for the guardian uniting ceremony, which unsurprisingly was to be led by Eriol.
Yue stood and looked at himself in the mirror, he couldn't believe he was wearing this uniform, he had never thought that he would need it but Clow being a fortune teller had probably seen this coming as he done with so many other events that had occurred during his time with Sakura.
This uniform was very formal and not something he would ever be able to wear in his normal everyday job as a Guardian. The uniform consisted of a smart renaissance styled suit, a white jacket, a silver and lilac waistcoat, the design on which was a lilac silk background with embroidered silver stars and moons, his cravat was white with a moon shaped cravat pin holding it in place. The pantaloons were white and very tight revealing Yue's long, toned legs, of which he was very aware, this affect was continued by the white socks and shoes Yue wore. Yue had to admit it had taken him time to get used to wearing shoes after always having his toes free. Round his waist there was a lilac cummerbund making his waist look even thinner. It had also taken Yue some time to get his cufflinks right, they were silver moons with a diamond star set in them.
Yue's hair was styled in a special way that Eriol had done for him, the side parts of Yue's hair had been put into braids and then tied at the bottom with silver ribbons, Eriol had then taken these two braids and tied them up behind Yue's head exactly in the middle, with silver ribbons, and had left his warrior braid hanging free, into which Yue had taken the time to braid his best ribbons and as always one of Sakura's (which Tomoyo had got for him). On his head was perched a white top hat with a lilac and silver ribbon round it.
Yue wore a silver pocket watch that had his winged moon symbol engraved on it in his waistcoat pocket. Round his neck there hung the pendant Sakura had given Yue, on Yue's right forefinger there was a silver ring with the same winged moon symbol engraved into it and lastly Yue's braid had hanging from it the same symbol in silver and it was repeated on the band that was holding the hair in place; once again the symbol was made of silver. Yukito looked at Yue from the back of the mind and smiled.
'You look good in that.'
Yue smiled gently at Yukito 'I hope that everyone else will share your view on my costume. It seems a little too much and rather strange to me.'
Yukito guffawed and then smiled at Yue, shaking his head in confusion. Yue shrugged and looked back at himself in the mirror. Then Yukito piped up with
'But you hope that Sakura-chan likes it most of all, hmm, Yue.?' Yue flushed and nodded.
'I'm sure they will all like it, and I think Sakura-chan will like it especially.'
'Good.'
As if on cue, Sakura came into the tent where Yue had changed, her eyes went wide at the sight of Yue in this uniform. She couldn't believe the sight that stood before her: he normally looked good in his guardian uniform, but this made him look refined and spectacularly handsome.
Yue turned around to see Sakura standing looking at him, she was wearing the dress that Ruby had given her, as it looked breathtaking on her. Sakura looked Yue up and down intently and once again she flushed with pleasure.
"Yue-chan, you look wonderful!"
Yue blushed slightly, and then looked into Sakura's eyes "Not as wonderful as the lady I see before me. Sakura-chan, you look like a fairy-tale princess."
It was now Sakura's turn to blush, and then she noticed that Yue wore no flower on his jacket lapel unlike Touya and Eriol. Sakura pointed to the empty lapel. "Yue-chan, why don't you have a flower or flowers to where like the others do?"
Yue looked down at his chest, then at Sakura, looking very confused.
"I've never had one given to me."
Sakura walked over to Yue: she gently stroked his hair, then looked into Yue's eyes which were to her amazement filled with sadness.
"Clow-sama never had time to design me one. You see he liked to plan his corsages with the utmost care."
Sakura nodded in understanding, she drew out one of the Sakura cards, and released her wand. Sakura smiled at Yue then chanted her ritual words finishing with "Flower card, realise and bestow on me moonflowers, a red rose, a white rose and cherry blossom." The card did as Sakura bade it. Once it was done, Sakura made up a beautiful corsage from them, the roses at the back with eight moonflowers in front of them, then a cloud of cherry blossom in front of the moonflowers.
Once Sakura had finished making up Yue's corsage, she looked up from her work and smiled at Yue, to own the truth a very stunned Yue.
"Well, here is a corsage for you. Now all I need is something to pin it to your lapel."
Yue was looking at Sakura, his eyes wide. He then put his hand into the breast pocket of his jacket. He brought out a silver moon brooch with four gold stars set into it, and presented it to Sakura.
"Will this do?"
Sakura took the pin and inspected it. "It looks like it will. Let's try it, shall we?"
All Yue could do was nod his reply. Sakura took the pin out of Yue's long slender hand and gently pinned the flowers to his lapel. She stepped back from Yue and inspected him.
"Well, if I do say so myself, Yue-chan, you look very handsome today especially with the flowers I've added. Why don't you take a look for yourself?"
Sakura gestured to the mirror as she spoke. Yue turned away from Sakrua and looked into the mirror, for the first time ever Yue smiled at himself. He turned back round and stepped up to Sakura. He took her hand, sweeping off his hat. Yue kissed Sakura's hand, once he had done so he flicked his eyes up at Sakura. Her eyes were wide and vulnerable. He smiled at her openly this time and then stood.
"I thank you Lady for giving me the flowers, this will be forever my corsage."
Sakura blushed a very light pink
"Thank you for the compliment on the flowers I have given to you, I hope that you will always like them this much."
Yues smile grew a little
"I think I will."
Keroberos then trotted into the tent and looked at the two of them.
"Are you two ready now? As we are ready to begin."
Sakura jumped slightly, she then looked up at Keroberos and smiled. "Yes, Kero-chan, we are."
Yue turned to face Keroberos, who noticed Yue's corsage. He looked at it, then Sakura. Keroberos smiled knowingly and quietly left. Yue looked at Sakura.
"Shall we go then, my Lady?"
Sakura looked at Yue, stunned, then she smiled widely.
"Yes, let's go, my Moon Warrior."
Yue held his right arm out to Sakura, she looked at Yue in surprise, and then put her arm through his. He was full of surprises today and Sakura was wondering two things: how may more surprises had he up his sleeves, and where he had learnt to do all of these things, because it couldn't all be from Clow Reed, or was it? Quietly they walked out of the tent, both smiling gently at each other in perfect satisfaction.
The guardian uniting ceremony went flawlessly. Eriol had set up the reception marquee in the back garden of his home. After the ceremony itself the guests proceeded there. By the time they all arrived at the reception it was sunset. Sakura and Yue were the first to get there. Soon after they arrived, a strange event happened: Keroberos roared in frustration, and he turned and pinned Spinal Sun down, with her back on the floor.
"Yield to me and be my mate from now until the end of time."
Spinal Sun struggled with Keroberos for quite some time before she realised mentally that it was no good fighting with him: for one thing he was way too strong physically for her to beat, and he was very determined, she realised with a delighted shock, to have her as his forever. Yet she knew it was tradition for the lady not to give in straight away so she tried to push Keroberos off and called out,
"No!"
The two fought some more, then Keroberos growled out,
"Yes, you're mine."
She tried to topple Keroberos, but he pinned her down with more persistence and a growl.
"Yield?"
"I yield."
"Then you will be my mate and love and wife from this day forward until the end of time?"
"Yes."
Eriol and Yue looked at them smiling, as Keroberos let Spinal Sun up and she sat up and they then snuggled up together by the marquee's entrance. Sakura looked at them, confused.
"What was that about?"
Eriol looked at her. "I think Keroberos had had enough of waiting around for the right time to propose to Spinal Sun, so he just did, in the bestial guardian way."
"Oh...ok."
Yue smiled. "It is a little odd, isn't it?"
Keroberos padded over to them and turned his golden gaze on Yue. "At least I proposed to the woman I love, unlike someone else here." Keroberos then turned his gaze on Sakura. "Do you mind me wedding, Sakura-chan?"
"No, of course not." Sakura looked at Yue. "What did he mean by at least he proposed to the lady he loved?"
"It's nothing."
Yue walked away and stood against a tree with a dark look on his face, muttering to himself. Sakura shrugged and went off to talk to Tomoyo, leaving Yue alone with his thoughts.
As it grew darker Sakura prevented Eriol from using the electric lights he had installed. Instead she drew out another Sakura card and for the second time that day chanted her ritual, ending this time with "Glow Card, release and light this place as you did the first time I met you." Glow emerged, making small orbs of light spread over the garden, which make it look very romantic. Eriol turned to Sakura, his eyes filled with puzzlement.
"Why did you do that, Sakura-chan?"
Sakura smiled at Eriol.
"The first time I ever met this card it gave me my best and first romantic experience ever. It was with Glow around me that I almost told Yukito-san how I felt about him. So I wanted to use it to hopefully give Onii-chan and Ruby-chan their most romantic time together, especially on their first night together as a couple."
Eriol smiled back at Sakura.
"So this card is very special to you?"
"Yes. I always hoped to find my true love when I next used it, but I guess it wasn't meant to be, don't you think Eriol-kun?"
Sakura sighed and looked down at the floor. Eriol shot a glance in Yue's direction, Yue was stood frozen to the spot from what Sakura had just been saying.
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, Sakura-chan, you never know, your own masked Prince Charming could show up at the party."
Yue shot Eriol a grateful glance and then quietly left.
Sakura laughed. "Magical things like that never happen to me."
Eriol smiled at her and tilted her head up.
"I wouldn't give up hope of it happening to you, Sakura-chan. Don't forget the play is coming true, however, that doesn't mean Yue will be him."
"I know it might not be him."
"Good, as long as you know that. Oh, did you hear that Mitsuki-sensei is getting married?"
Sakura looked at him shocked "No, who to?"
"A Mr Shiratori. He is a lecturer at the university, apparently he is very nice, the two have gone away to one of the islands-I can't remember which- to meet his parents, isn't that good news?"
"Yes, it is," Sakura agreed enthusiastically.
Eriol walked away, smiling. Sakura walked over to the bar and got herself a lemonade. She sat down at a table and sipped her drink.
Suddenly the crowd parted in front of Sakura. A black shadow fell over her, slowly Sakura looked up. Her eyes went wide at the sight before her.
A man stood above her, he was tall, at least six foot. Wrapped round his face was a silver domino mask, his face seemed otherwise finely featured, his eyes were pale blue and almond shaped with fine eyebrows. His hair, what Sakura could see of it, was white and grey. He wore a silver suit with a white shirt, which had a ruffled front, a collar that stood up round his neck and shirt cuffs. The shirt was done up with a crisscrossing pattern of white rope all the way down to his silver cummerbund: this revealed very well defined muscles. He wore a silver top hat with a white ribbon round it. He had a white rose pined to his lapel. He held out a long thin hand to Sakura-
"May I have this dance?"
Sakura took his hand with a polite nod, which was when she noticed he was wearing the scent of cherry blossom. He swirled her onto the floor to the strains of a tango. Sakura's eyes went wide, no one in her dance classes had ever been able to match her for steps in this dance. This man, however, didn't just match her, he out did her every move, the rest of the dancers left the floor to watch them dance.
Touya went to go on the floor and pull that man away from Sakura, but Eriol prevented him from doing so by standing in front of him and shaking his head.
Touya turned and looked at Eriol who winked at Touya and mouthed 'It's Yue.' Touya nodded and smiled at the dancing couple: he had to admit they were very good out there, both pushing each other that little bit further in their dance.
They finished: his arm round her back, the other held above him straight, palm open, the first three fingers closed slightly but getting straighter, the fourth finger as straight as was his thumb. Sakura was looking up into his eyes as he was leant over her, she had her arms thrown back behind her. She brought her arms up round his neck slowly, she kissed this stranger who had just walked into her life and literally swept her off her feet. The man responded to the kiss and at the same time helped her to stand taking hold of her shoulders as he did so.
The crowd round them started to cheer: he leant forward and whispered to Sakura, "I love you, Sakura-chan."
Before she could reply they were engulfed by the massive congratulatory crowd, through which he slipped away from her, but before he had totally got away from Sakura, she managed to reach out and snatch off the flower that he was wearing on his lapel, to keep for herself.
When the crowd was eventually gone, Sakura looked around to find Yue, standing looking at her from under a nearby tree. 'So he was here the whole entire time, watching us, well it would serve him right if I did fall for someone else,' she thought. Then something silver shining in Yue's pocket caught her attention. Yue noticed it at the same time and poked it down. Sakura thinned her eyes: 'Or was he?' Sakura had to admit as she thought back to the dance the man's presence had felt familiar and the kiss had too.
Sakura looked at Yue, her eyes narrow, was that the only way he could find to tell her how he felt about her? Sakura hoped not, she held the flower from the man's lapel close to her, and then looked down at it. It seemed to glow. She looked closer: it was made of a pure white light. Sakura's eyes went wide, her gut instinct was that it was moonlight, which meant the flower would never die, but she had to show it to Eriol just to be sure.