A/N- Hey hey hoo hoo! How are ya? Good I hope! Here's chapter 9! Hope ya like it! I don't really have much to say… Only thank you times a million! Bye!!
Disclaimer- Oops… I haven't been doing disclaimers that much…And I really DO find it pointless… because if I owned CCS then I'd be drawing or something for the fans to read… so I don't hehe.
Thank yous… I must not forget the thank yous…
Chibi Kawaii Tomoyo-chan- Hiya hiya! After I put this on ff.net I'm gonna say hi to ya right away to say… "Guess what? I got another chapter… yay!" And my other chapters will come sooner or later… lol, me and my laziness…
Pinkuser-Thanks! Yay! You're still reading my ficcy **dances** Hopefully I won't have such long vacations in the future!
Jix- Lol, I love the e-mail addy! Must take a long time to type! I want a Jade monkey^-^. I'm glad ya like my fic!
Sam- Ahhh! Dying to know!! I hope that this was soon enough… don't be dead! **winks** I'll start the next chapter right away!
Angel- Lookie! You're on my thankyous! Just like I said you'd be! Yay! Here's more fanfic for your site! Lol, nothing much else for me to say because I'm talking to you online right now **sweatdrops** dun worry! I'll put Flowers next!
Cindy Chen- I'm going! Yay! Heh, I just looked at my guestbook today and I thought to myself, 'I better write before everyone gets mad at me!' Thanks for signing the guestbook again!! Yayish!
KayKay- Hiya!!! Thanks! Such a compliment about my story… hope ya like the chapter!!
kuririn103- You're not rude^-^ I'm hoping you meant this story cause that is what I'll thank ya for! If not, thanks anywayz! I'm continuing… who-hoo!
Helen and Vic- Hiya Helen and Vic~! I'm glad you enjoyed my chapter! I'm sooooo happy that you keep on reviewing! That's so cool! Yay~! More obsessed CCS fans!! Nice ta meet ya Vic!
Camille- I actually put the fic on my site a while ago, but forgot to put it on ff.net... so sorry! I'll do it right away next time!
Now to the story… thanks to all reviewers. And yet again, if I forgot you just e-mail me and say something like, "How dare you forget me?! You evil evil person! I'm sooooo heartbroken!" ^-~ hehe… maybe not like that… but ya know… I better stop talking… must be getting annoying to hear me talk!
No More Sorrow-Chapter 9
Syaoran walked, a blissful smile on his face. School had ended about an hour ago and he had decided to walk Sakura home. At first he was hesitant because Touya would be home, and he liked to avoid conversations when it came to Sakura's overprotective brother. During the whole walk home, Sakura and Syaoran stood quietly side by side in a peaceful silence. There was no awkwardness, just a sweet, silent understanding.
But a few minutes before Sakura was at her house, she stopped and looked at Syaoran with a deep curiosity in her mind. "Syaoran-kun… why did you say that you didn't love anyone? And what is it of magic that you fought a couple of days ago? A beast?"
Syaoran stopped and gazed at Sakura, a tormented soul being projected through his face. He answered quietly, "I was afraid of rejection and I thought that perhaps, you wouldn't love me. My mind was playing tricks on me, giving me nightmares of what could happen if I told you I loved you. But I'm sure that they are just silly dreams… after all, you feel the same way! And the beast? I'm researching on it. Seeing what I've found already, it seems that the beast must have been made or controlled by some other force. I doubt that it is much of a threat, probably some little mishap of a magician for away and somehow affecting us now…"
Sakura nodded and replied, "So that is why Meilin-chan said you were having nightmares…"
"She told you that? That loudmouth! What else has she told you?" Syaoran said incredulously.
Laughing, Sakura said, "Don't worry about it! Back to the beast… how could someone's magic from somewhere else, presumably far away, affect us?"
"It happens. Like I said, it's probably nothing. I'll look up more on it and tell you about it tomorrow," Syaoran responded, a confident look in his fierce brown eyes.
Sakura smiled. "Ok," she said. Now satisfied with the answers that Syaoran had given her, they continued to walk in yet again, peaceful silence.
Sakura's house was empty when she returned home. She thanked Syaoran, gave one of her dazzling smiles that made Syaoran's heart melt, and walked inside to spend the rest of her waking hours of the day.
For a couple of seconds, Syaoran stared up Kinomoto residence for no particular reason. Then he continued on his walk, to the apartment where he and Meilin were currently living in.
Because he was so caught up in the day, Syaoran never noticed when a teenage boy his age pop up next to him. Syaoran jumped as the boy, whom he recognized to be Tai Sowjing, rushed to his side. At first glance Syaoran had taken an immediate disliking to this boy, and now he was glaring at him.
Sowjing seemingly took no notice of Syaoran's annoyed disposition and said, "Konnichiwa! You're Li, right?"
Syaoran looked into the boy's innocent looking blue eyes and replied, "Hai." Then he walked faster, as if to tell the boy that he didn't want to talk.
Sowjing didn't acknowledge the dismissed manner that Syaoran gave him and said, "Well, it's nice to meet you Li. I'm Tai, Sowjing!"
"I heard," Syaoran replied curtly.
Sowjing nodded and said hesitantly, "Well, I hope that we can be good friends Li! You seem like such a nice guy!"
Syaoran stopped walking abruptly and turned to Sowjing asking, "What makes me seem like 'such a nice guy?'"
"Um… well… Sakura told me that you were a great person. And I just moved here so I'd like to make some friends."
Syaoran didn't accept the answer. "Just because Sakura told you I was great, you accept that?"
Sowjing nodded, but didn't add anything. He was stunned at the rudeness that this boy was showing. He looked into Syaoran's brown eyes, which seemed to be studying him. Then finally he said, "I'm sorry to bother you… I just wanted to say hi."
Nodding, Syaoran and said quietly, "Hello…"
Sowjing smiled politely. For a few seconds they stood in an awkward silence, not knowing what to say to each other. Finally Syaoran said, "Um... this is my apartment. Nice to meet you Tai."
Sowjing then realized that they were standing in front of a nice apartment, and looking at a little distance away he saw Meilin watching the two of them intently at the apartments doorstep. They caught each others eyes for a few seconds before Sowjing looked away. "Nice to meet you too. I guess I better leave you be then," he said. Then Sowjing continued walking down the sidewalk, to no place in particular.
Syaoran watched Sowjing's fleeting back and then turned to walk inside the apartment. There he found Meilin staring at him in curiosity. He sighed then asked her, "What is it now?"
Meilin shook her head then replied, "Why were you so rude to that boy? What has he done to you? I saw that conversation. He was trying to be nice! Geez!"
"Something is off about him. He likes Sakura! And and…" Syaoran tried to add more to his comment other then that instinct prevented him from liking the new boy, but he didn't know what to say.
Laughing, Meilin added, "You're jealous of him! You think that maybe Sakura would like him!"
Syaoran glared at his cousin and replied, "No… that's not it!"
But Meilin continued to laugh and said to Syaoran, "That must be it! There is no reason for you not to like him!"
The chestnut hair boy sighed and moves his way passed the laughing Meilin and into the apartment. All the while he was thinking, 'I'm not jealous! There IS something off about him! Sakura doesn't like him the way I love her… she's just being polite and wanting to be his friend!'
Now assured, Syaoran went to his room and started his homework.
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Sowjing found himself behind a tree, as he had eavesdropped on Meilin's and Syaoran's conversation. After they weren't looking, he had returned to listen to what they said. Sowjing sighed and thought, 'Dang it! I have to pretend to be nice to this Syaoran kid?!? The way he talked to me! I was about to explode and yell at him right there! I saw him talking with Sakura, but I was to far away to listen… I wonder what they said? Sakura, sweet innocent girl, she doesn't know what she is getting into by talking to this boy… this boy with a magic past. But eavesdropping on Syaoran's life, that is the only lead I have… I don't know how else I can get to the Cardmistress. Surely, if I watch this boy all the time he will contact the most powerful girl in time! I will just have to eavesdrop! It's all for the good of my family!'
Then Sowjing's mind wandered to his family. He fell asleep, his dreams being a flashback of this life…
~*~*~*~*~*~
The blue-eyed boy was a little toddler, around the age of 3. Currently he was in the living room of the house he lived in with a wooden toy car in his hand. It was a little past Christmas and his father had made him the toy car as a present. After an endless amount of time, the little boy got bored of rolling the car across the floor and ran into the kitchen, the car in his right hand. There his mother was washing the dishes.
Rushing up to his mom, he pulled at his mother's apron and said in his kiddish voice, "Mommy mommy! I'm bored!"
His mom looked down at the boy and smiled. Then she replied, "Then play with your toy's Sowjing."
Sowjing shook his head vigorously and whined, "But I did that already! Now I need something else to do!"
"There's always something to do, always something to ease your mind… you just have to find it," his mom replied, back to concentrating on washing the china.
Sowjing looked at his mom cluelessly and replied, "Ummm…ok. If you say so…"
In defeat, little Sowjing left his mom. But he didn't want to return to playing with his toy, it didn't satisfy his mood. So he decided to walk around the house and find something to do. First he passed by his big sister's room. She was talking on the phone to some of her friends about some 'cute guy' at school. Sowjing shrugged and continued his search to find something to do.
At the end of the hall there was a staircase descending to the den where his father worked. 'I know! I'll go say hi to father! And maybe he can play with my car with me! That would be much more fun then if I was playing by myself…'
Sowjing walked halfway down the stairs. There he saw his father talking to a shadowed stranger. 'I don't remember anyone ringing the door bell to visit father…' Sowjing thought. Sowjing decided to investigate the matter further. He sat on one of the stairs and watched his father and the other man talk at the other side of the room. His father's back was turned towards Sowjing and the other man was still hiding in the shadows, so Sowjing couldn't see who the stranger was. Then he heard part of the conversation…
"You owe me your service!" the mysterious man bellowed.
Sowjing's father replied calmly, "I don't owe you anything. Now get out of my house!"
The other man seemed even more angered by this and he again yelled, "Get out of your house, or what? I have powers beyond what you can imagine! You have a rather big debt to pay me…"
And then the man stepped out of the shadow. Sowjing gasped at the looks of the man. The man was about 6 feet tall, and he had flowing sandy blond hair. His eyes were a deep gold, who's irises never seemed to begin nor end. The golden eyes held knowledge and power that made the man have a dark aura. But what had startled Sowjing the most was a long scar running down the man's face. It ran diagonally, starting a little above his eyebrows and running across his nose, down to the middle of his left cheek.
Hearing the boy's startled response on the staircase, his eyes flashed towards the boy, making the blood run cold throughout Sowjing's body.
Sowjing's dad turned around and stared at his boy, his eyes widening. Then the mysterious man pointed his index finger at Sowjing and said coldly, "I want him, the boy."
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sowjing woke up, sweat pouring down his face. He was sitting up, behind the same tree where he had spied on Syaoran and Meilin. His past was reeling in on him and he felt scared, yet sorrowful. 'Best not to think of old memories of 12 years ago…' Sowjing thought. But now he was restless and could not sleep. For the rest of the night Sowjing stared at the starless sky, at the void of black in front of his eyes.
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A/N- Soooooooo, how was it? Yeah yeah, it's little cryptic about the dream… but the dream what continue to unravel in the rest of the chapters. And are Syaoran's dreams phony? Just nightmares that everyone gets out of nervousness? Mwahahaha, I hold that power! **winks** I thought it was about time that Sowjing's past started to be revealed. Thank you to everyone reading this and to the reviewers! Makes me happy happy happy! Well, till we meet again! Byeeeeeeee!!
Disclaimer- Oops… I haven't been doing disclaimers that much…And I really DO find it pointless… because if I owned CCS then I'd be drawing or something for the fans to read… so I don't hehe.
Thank yous… I must not forget the thank yous…
Chibi Kawaii Tomoyo-chan- Hiya hiya! After I put this on ff.net I'm gonna say hi to ya right away to say… "Guess what? I got another chapter… yay!" And my other chapters will come sooner or later… lol, me and my laziness…
Pinkuser-Thanks! Yay! You're still reading my ficcy **dances** Hopefully I won't have such long vacations in the future!
Jix- Lol, I love the e-mail addy! Must take a long time to type! I want a Jade monkey^-^. I'm glad ya like my fic!
Sam- Ahhh! Dying to know!! I hope that this was soon enough… don't be dead! **winks** I'll start the next chapter right away!
Angel- Lookie! You're on my thankyous! Just like I said you'd be! Yay! Here's more fanfic for your site! Lol, nothing much else for me to say because I'm talking to you online right now **sweatdrops** dun worry! I'll put Flowers next!
Cindy Chen- I'm going! Yay! Heh, I just looked at my guestbook today and I thought to myself, 'I better write before everyone gets mad at me!' Thanks for signing the guestbook again!! Yayish!
KayKay- Hiya!!! Thanks! Such a compliment about my story… hope ya like the chapter!!
kuririn103- You're not rude^-^ I'm hoping you meant this story cause that is what I'll thank ya for! If not, thanks anywayz! I'm continuing… who-hoo!
Helen and Vic- Hiya Helen and Vic~! I'm glad you enjoyed my chapter! I'm sooooo happy that you keep on reviewing! That's so cool! Yay~! More obsessed CCS fans!! Nice ta meet ya Vic!
Camille- I actually put the fic on my site a while ago, but forgot to put it on ff.net... so sorry! I'll do it right away next time!
Now to the story… thanks to all reviewers. And yet again, if I forgot you just e-mail me and say something like, "How dare you forget me?! You evil evil person! I'm sooooo heartbroken!" ^-~ hehe… maybe not like that… but ya know… I better stop talking… must be getting annoying to hear me talk!
No More Sorrow-Chapter 9
Syaoran walked, a blissful smile on his face. School had ended about an hour ago and he had decided to walk Sakura home. At first he was hesitant because Touya would be home, and he liked to avoid conversations when it came to Sakura's overprotective brother. During the whole walk home, Sakura and Syaoran stood quietly side by side in a peaceful silence. There was no awkwardness, just a sweet, silent understanding.
But a few minutes before Sakura was at her house, she stopped and looked at Syaoran with a deep curiosity in her mind. "Syaoran-kun… why did you say that you didn't love anyone? And what is it of magic that you fought a couple of days ago? A beast?"
Syaoran stopped and gazed at Sakura, a tormented soul being projected through his face. He answered quietly, "I was afraid of rejection and I thought that perhaps, you wouldn't love me. My mind was playing tricks on me, giving me nightmares of what could happen if I told you I loved you. But I'm sure that they are just silly dreams… after all, you feel the same way! And the beast? I'm researching on it. Seeing what I've found already, it seems that the beast must have been made or controlled by some other force. I doubt that it is much of a threat, probably some little mishap of a magician for away and somehow affecting us now…"
Sakura nodded and replied, "So that is why Meilin-chan said you were having nightmares…"
"She told you that? That loudmouth! What else has she told you?" Syaoran said incredulously.
Laughing, Sakura said, "Don't worry about it! Back to the beast… how could someone's magic from somewhere else, presumably far away, affect us?"
"It happens. Like I said, it's probably nothing. I'll look up more on it and tell you about it tomorrow," Syaoran responded, a confident look in his fierce brown eyes.
Sakura smiled. "Ok," she said. Now satisfied with the answers that Syaoran had given her, they continued to walk in yet again, peaceful silence.
Sakura's house was empty when she returned home. She thanked Syaoran, gave one of her dazzling smiles that made Syaoran's heart melt, and walked inside to spend the rest of her waking hours of the day.
For a couple of seconds, Syaoran stared up Kinomoto residence for no particular reason. Then he continued on his walk, to the apartment where he and Meilin were currently living in.
Because he was so caught up in the day, Syaoran never noticed when a teenage boy his age pop up next to him. Syaoran jumped as the boy, whom he recognized to be Tai Sowjing, rushed to his side. At first glance Syaoran had taken an immediate disliking to this boy, and now he was glaring at him.
Sowjing seemingly took no notice of Syaoran's annoyed disposition and said, "Konnichiwa! You're Li, right?"
Syaoran looked into the boy's innocent looking blue eyes and replied, "Hai." Then he walked faster, as if to tell the boy that he didn't want to talk.
Sowjing didn't acknowledge the dismissed manner that Syaoran gave him and said, "Well, it's nice to meet you Li. I'm Tai, Sowjing!"
"I heard," Syaoran replied curtly.
Sowjing nodded and said hesitantly, "Well, I hope that we can be good friends Li! You seem like such a nice guy!"
Syaoran stopped walking abruptly and turned to Sowjing asking, "What makes me seem like 'such a nice guy?'"
"Um… well… Sakura told me that you were a great person. And I just moved here so I'd like to make some friends."
Syaoran didn't accept the answer. "Just because Sakura told you I was great, you accept that?"
Sowjing nodded, but didn't add anything. He was stunned at the rudeness that this boy was showing. He looked into Syaoran's brown eyes, which seemed to be studying him. Then finally he said, "I'm sorry to bother you… I just wanted to say hi."
Nodding, Syaoran and said quietly, "Hello…"
Sowjing smiled politely. For a few seconds they stood in an awkward silence, not knowing what to say to each other. Finally Syaoran said, "Um... this is my apartment. Nice to meet you Tai."
Sowjing then realized that they were standing in front of a nice apartment, and looking at a little distance away he saw Meilin watching the two of them intently at the apartments doorstep. They caught each others eyes for a few seconds before Sowjing looked away. "Nice to meet you too. I guess I better leave you be then," he said. Then Sowjing continued walking down the sidewalk, to no place in particular.
Syaoran watched Sowjing's fleeting back and then turned to walk inside the apartment. There he found Meilin staring at him in curiosity. He sighed then asked her, "What is it now?"
Meilin shook her head then replied, "Why were you so rude to that boy? What has he done to you? I saw that conversation. He was trying to be nice! Geez!"
"Something is off about him. He likes Sakura! And and…" Syaoran tried to add more to his comment other then that instinct prevented him from liking the new boy, but he didn't know what to say.
Laughing, Meilin added, "You're jealous of him! You think that maybe Sakura would like him!"
Syaoran glared at his cousin and replied, "No… that's not it!"
But Meilin continued to laugh and said to Syaoran, "That must be it! There is no reason for you not to like him!"
The chestnut hair boy sighed and moves his way passed the laughing Meilin and into the apartment. All the while he was thinking, 'I'm not jealous! There IS something off about him! Sakura doesn't like him the way I love her… she's just being polite and wanting to be his friend!'
Now assured, Syaoran went to his room and started his homework.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sowjing found himself behind a tree, as he had eavesdropped on Meilin's and Syaoran's conversation. After they weren't looking, he had returned to listen to what they said. Sowjing sighed and thought, 'Dang it! I have to pretend to be nice to this Syaoran kid?!? The way he talked to me! I was about to explode and yell at him right there! I saw him talking with Sakura, but I was to far away to listen… I wonder what they said? Sakura, sweet innocent girl, she doesn't know what she is getting into by talking to this boy… this boy with a magic past. But eavesdropping on Syaoran's life, that is the only lead I have… I don't know how else I can get to the Cardmistress. Surely, if I watch this boy all the time he will contact the most powerful girl in time! I will just have to eavesdrop! It's all for the good of my family!'
Then Sowjing's mind wandered to his family. He fell asleep, his dreams being a flashback of this life…
~*~*~*~*~*~
The blue-eyed boy was a little toddler, around the age of 3. Currently he was in the living room of the house he lived in with a wooden toy car in his hand. It was a little past Christmas and his father had made him the toy car as a present. After an endless amount of time, the little boy got bored of rolling the car across the floor and ran into the kitchen, the car in his right hand. There his mother was washing the dishes.
Rushing up to his mom, he pulled at his mother's apron and said in his kiddish voice, "Mommy mommy! I'm bored!"
His mom looked down at the boy and smiled. Then she replied, "Then play with your toy's Sowjing."
Sowjing shook his head vigorously and whined, "But I did that already! Now I need something else to do!"
"There's always something to do, always something to ease your mind… you just have to find it," his mom replied, back to concentrating on washing the china.
Sowjing looked at his mom cluelessly and replied, "Ummm…ok. If you say so…"
In defeat, little Sowjing left his mom. But he didn't want to return to playing with his toy, it didn't satisfy his mood. So he decided to walk around the house and find something to do. First he passed by his big sister's room. She was talking on the phone to some of her friends about some 'cute guy' at school. Sowjing shrugged and continued his search to find something to do.
At the end of the hall there was a staircase descending to the den where his father worked. 'I know! I'll go say hi to father! And maybe he can play with my car with me! That would be much more fun then if I was playing by myself…'
Sowjing walked halfway down the stairs. There he saw his father talking to a shadowed stranger. 'I don't remember anyone ringing the door bell to visit father…' Sowjing thought. Sowjing decided to investigate the matter further. He sat on one of the stairs and watched his father and the other man talk at the other side of the room. His father's back was turned towards Sowjing and the other man was still hiding in the shadows, so Sowjing couldn't see who the stranger was. Then he heard part of the conversation…
"You owe me your service!" the mysterious man bellowed.
Sowjing's father replied calmly, "I don't owe you anything. Now get out of my house!"
The other man seemed even more angered by this and he again yelled, "Get out of your house, or what? I have powers beyond what you can imagine! You have a rather big debt to pay me…"
And then the man stepped out of the shadow. Sowjing gasped at the looks of the man. The man was about 6 feet tall, and he had flowing sandy blond hair. His eyes were a deep gold, who's irises never seemed to begin nor end. The golden eyes held knowledge and power that made the man have a dark aura. But what had startled Sowjing the most was a long scar running down the man's face. It ran diagonally, starting a little above his eyebrows and running across his nose, down to the middle of his left cheek.
Hearing the boy's startled response on the staircase, his eyes flashed towards the boy, making the blood run cold throughout Sowjing's body.
Sowjing's dad turned around and stared at his boy, his eyes widening. Then the mysterious man pointed his index finger at Sowjing and said coldly, "I want him, the boy."
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sowjing woke up, sweat pouring down his face. He was sitting up, behind the same tree where he had spied on Syaoran and Meilin. His past was reeling in on him and he felt scared, yet sorrowful. 'Best not to think of old memories of 12 years ago…' Sowjing thought. But now he was restless and could not sleep. For the rest of the night Sowjing stared at the starless sky, at the void of black in front of his eyes.
~*~*~*~*~*~
A/N- Soooooooo, how was it? Yeah yeah, it's little cryptic about the dream… but the dream what continue to unravel in the rest of the chapters. And are Syaoran's dreams phony? Just nightmares that everyone gets out of nervousness? Mwahahaha, I hold that power! **winks** I thought it was about time that Sowjing's past started to be revealed. Thank you to everyone reading this and to the reviewers! Makes me happy happy happy! Well, till we meet again! Byeeeeeeee!!