Here I am writing another chapter. I was writing awhile ago, but I'm kinda slow today and I erased everything I had written!! Oh, well... I want to say that I'm sorry I didn't let the earth have gravity... again!!! I always seem to do that in my fics, I don't know why... And if you wanna flame me for what I did, do it, I deserve it... I'll leave you with the story now.
WAITING FOR AN ANGEL (chapter 4).
Tomoyo started to cry and sob, and she didn't stop in the whole night. Eriol hugged her really tight, and he couldn't help the tears that were running down his cheeks. Fujitaka looked extremely weak and Touya was hugging him, it was obvious that he was crying for his little sister. Yukito and Kero were silent in a chair.
Syaoran walked away a little and dialed a number.
"Madison, it's me... Just come over, ok?" he said, and hanged up. He had left the room a moment ago, after Sakura closed her beautiful green eyes he had stayed there, caressing her peaceful face, talking to her, telling her everything he had forgot to say. And now he felt nothing.
Everyone stayed in silence for a few minutes, until the doctor called Fujitaka to make him fill some papers. Yukito and Touya went with him, and left Kero alone in the cold chair. Suddenly he started to cry silently, but the boys heard him. Eriol motioned Syaoran to go to him, he couldn't since he had Tomoyo. Syaoran walked to him and in the moment he sit next to him, Kero started to cry in his shoulder. Syaoran closed his eyes, trying to fight the tears that were coming. They stayed like that until footsteps were heard and three girls came running down the hall.
Syaoran left Kero with Eriol, and turned around, only to be hugged by Madison. She wasn't crying, but you could see that she was in pain.
"We'll make her pay, Syaoran... I'll help you, she's gonna regret it" she said when she broke the hug. Syaoran nodded in silence.
"That's if she makes it when I'm done with her" said Fran, before breaking down for the fifth time that night. Danielle hugged her and some silent tears started to fall.
"I'm going to the police tomorrow, who's coming with me?" he asked in such a cold voice that the girls got scared, they didn't knew this side of him.
"I'll go, and I think Tomoyo will too if she's strong enough" said Eriol.
"She told us what happened, so I think we are going too, we can help" said Madison, the stronger of the three girls.
"Good. I'll see you tomorrow" said Syaoran. He hugged Madison one more time, and left. Everyone stayed looking at him. Madison walked over to Kero and hugged him. He didn't even bothered to ask her anything, she already knew so there was no point.
"Do you think he's ok?" asked Danielle, whispering.
"I don't know. I hope he doesn't do anything stupid in his state" said Eriol. Tomoyo looked up, and cleaned away her tears.
"Eriol, can you hand me your cellphone, please?" she asked. Eriol gave it to her. "I'll call everyone to make sure they are here tomorrow" she said when he gave her a questioning look.
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Syaoran left the hospital and walked. He didn't knew where he was going, he just wanted to feel something, that's why he didn't bothered about zipping his jacket, even though it was cold. He kept walking, not looking up, and when he did he found himself in a small park, that had a fountain in the middle and sat there, remembering all of their times together, her smile, her laugh, her eyes.
"Don't think I'm leaving. Because a part of me will be always be around you. You will never be alone. If you ever need me, I'm gonna be there. And be sure of one thing: I love you, here or in Africa, now or in a thousand years. I always will."
Syaoran remembered her words and a pain stabbed him in the heart. He started to cry.
"Where are you now? Now that I need you to be here to comfort me, where are you?" he whispered. "Don't you see that I don't want to live if you are not with me? Life is worthless without you, I need you, dammit!!" he screamed. First he felt nothing, later he felt pain and now he felt anger. Because he couldn't protect her, because he had let her go, becuase someone had taken her away from him.
Somewhere...
"Do you think he'll make it?"
"I don't know, I hope so..."
"Otherwise we would have to break the rules"
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A car pulled up in front of a big hotel. A couple of people walked off and runned inside.
"Excuse me, I need to talk to Tomoyo Daidouji, please"
"She's in room 476, third floor"
"Thank you"
The group walked to the elevator, when they reached the third floor they went to Tomoyo's room and knocked. They heard some noise and the door opened, revealing Eriol who was still in the clothes from the day before.
"Hi, guys" he said, and a guy stepped forward and gave him a hug. "No lies this time, Yamasaki?" he asked, and Yamasaki just smiled.
"It's not good time for jokes, Eriol" he said. Eriol caught site of four girls before him and hugged Naoko who was in front of him. Tomoyo appeared in the door and a girl with black hair and crimson eyes walked to her and hugged her, as both of them started to cry.
"She's gone, Meilin, she's gone" said Tomoyo, while Meilin stroked her hair, crying as well. "I'm gonna miss her so much, so much" said.
"It's ok, Tomoyo. We are gonna miss her too, but you need to be strong, ok? She wouldn't like you to be like this" said Meilin, trying to stay calm for her friend, but deep down her heart was shattered too. She had not only lose a friend, she was also like that because she could imagine how her dear cousin would be, and that would break her heart again.
"I don't think I can" said Tomoyo, when Meilin broke the hug to look at her. After that she let go and a girl with pigtails went to her and hugged her.
"Everything's going to be ok, Tomoyo" she said. "She'll make sure it will".
After Chiharu left, Rika went and gave her a hug too. Chiharu went to Yamasaki's arms, who looked really sad, totally opposite of how he usually was. Eriol was hugging Meilin now. In some point, everyone stayed quiet, not even a sob could be heard. Tomoyo, who was really cold, felt extremely warmer all of sudden, as if someone had put a blanket around her.
"Do you know that when an entire room stays in silence is because an angel just passed by?" said Yamasaki. Everyone looked at him. "It's not a lie, I swear, I heard it somewhere" he said, and they believed him, because he wasn't smiling, in fact, even his eyes looked sad.
"I think that's true" whispered Tomoyo.
"Eriol, do you know where Syaoran is? I need to see him" said Meilin.
"I'll take you" he answered. Meilin nodded. He walked to get his jacket and went to Tomoyo, and gave her a sweet kiss on the lips. "I'll be back soon. You stay with her, please" he said to the others, who nodded. He walked out of the room with Meilin, before she left she gave Tomoyo a hug.
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Syaoran woke up feeling horrible. He got up and found himself in their room. A room filled with memories. It weren't a lot, because they had been living there for a few weeks, but still he could feel her presence in the room, he could see her there. New memories started to play in his mind, it was driving him crazy. How could he recover from her death when he couldn't stop seeing her everywhere?. Suddenly he felt a knock on the door. He went down stairs and when he opened the door he met sad crimson eyes that belonged to her cousin.
"Syaoran" she said and hugged him. Syaoran hugged her back and all the tears that he had tried to hold since he came back home... to their home, they all came running down his face and he couldn't stop. Meilin closed the door and led him to the couch, and she hugged him and let him cry all his pain for losing his love.
"I've been without her for less than 12 hours, and look at me" he said, when he was better. "I can't survive without her, I can't breath without her, I need her" he said, and he looked like he was going to break down one more time. Meilin placed her hands in his neck and forced him to look at her.
"Syaoran, look at me. You can do this, ok, we are gonna be here with you. It's hard for all of us, and specially for you, but... you can do it. Take one step at the time. It's ok if you wanna cry now, cry all you want, but don't give up, Syaoran. Don't give up". She hugged him one more time, but this time he was in silence. He looked terrible, it was true, but he had shed too many tears. It would take only a couple of hours before he started to cry again.
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Syaoran stood there watching as everyone was leaving their flowers. There were a few teachers that gave her class there. Madison, Fran and Danielle were there, and even though Fran was more recovered, she was still crying. Madison allowed to shed a few tears this time, of course in the arms of her boyfriend. Nakuru had travelled too from England, she didn't knew Sakura a lot, but she admired her. Kaho Mizuki appeared too, it was the first time any of them saw her worried about something. She was crying too. Syaoran had stayed in silence while he was greeting his friends, and everyone knew that he was trying to stay strong in front of everyone.
Tomoyo looked the worst. Her eyes were red and puffy, and she wouldn't talk to anyone, not even Eriol. Every time she opened her mouth was only to start crying again. When it was her turn to leave flowers, she went and left cherry blossoms, and in the moment she had she fell to the ground and started to cry. Eriol took her in his arms and left.
When everything was over, Fujitaka approached Syaoran. Touya couldn't even talk, he felt miserable.
"I want to thank you for taking care and making my daughter happy, Li" said Fujitaka. Syaoran nodded. "We are leaving to Japan right now, so I want to thank you in my name and Touya's".
"Don't worry. All I did was love her" was Syaoran's reply. They shook hands and he left. Syaoran stayed there and sat down next to Sakura's grave.
"I can't get used to this, you know?... How can it be that you were next to me yesterday and now you are here, in a cementery" he said. He touched the letters that formed her name. "Why did you leave, honey, why? You know that you mean the world to me and still you left me alone... I miss you so much" he said, and his voice broke. But he managed to control himself and not to cry. He stayed there for some time, talking to her until Eriol went to him.
"Syaoran, let's go" he said, tapping him in the shoulder.
"Go away, Eriol. I want to be here with her" he answered.
"Syaoran, you've been here for an hour or something. You need to rest. Come on" he said. Syaoran got up and followed him to the car.
"How's Tomoyo?" he asked, when Eriol started to drive.
"She's better. She's at the house with Meilin, she's going back in a couple of days" said Eriol. "When are you going to the police?".
"Tomorrow. I'm gonna make sure that she gets in jail and never comes out" answered Syaoran.
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Fran got out of her car and walked towards the building, but someone called her and she stopped. She turned around and saw that her friends were sitted under a cherry blossom tree. Immediately she felt sad, remembering her friend. She walked to them and sitted down.
"I felt so bad when I saw the tree" she said. Danielle took her hand in support.
"That's why we picked it. This tree that will symbolize our short but great friendship" she said, and Fran smiled. "She's with us in every moment, I know she is".
"I just hope that Syaoran gets better" said Madison. And it was true. He had went to the police three days before, and it had taken awhile to make everything work out, because since it was an homicide they needed a lot of proofs against Natalie. But they had them, Sakura had tell them what had happened, and they could prove that she was at their place that evening. It had been four days since that terrible night, but they had hoped that Syaoran would heal little by little. Specially because his friends were there too, but he didn't showed any signs. He wasn't going to his classes anymore, all he did was going to the cementery, or go to the police. Sometimes he would spent hours walking in parks or lakes. There were days he wasn't even eating.
"So, here you are" said a voice. The three girls stood up and saw a very unfriendly face. Fran was about to throw at her and start to hit her, but Danielle holded her. "I thought the other bitch would be here with you too" said Natalie. She had no idea that Sakura was dead.
"Not thanks to you" said Madison. "But not even that is gonna make Syaoran go to you, he knows everything" she said, and Natalie played dumb and didn't reacted.
"Everything about what? Oh, please tell me, did he dump her? Because she doesn't deserve to be with him, no wait, she doesn't even deserve to have anyone to love her..."
That was enough, and Fran got away from Danielle's grip and went to Natalie, who just smiled thinking she coudln't hurt her, since she was a bit skinny. Little did she knew that Fran was a black belt and that she practiced kickboxing, and she started by punching her in the nose.
"Oh my nose!!" yelled Natalie, but Fran just smirked and punched her again.
"This is for Sakura! And this is for Syaoran!" she yelled before punching her in the stomach again. Natalie was in pain, she felt horrible, but came to a halt when she saw Syaoran walking towards them, even though he was far from them. At the same time Madison and Danielle took Fran by her arms and pulled her away from Natalie.
"Fran, stop this! Sakura wouldn't want you to do this!" said Danielle, and at the mention of her name Fran started to cry.
"I know, but it's not fear she didn't wanted this bitch to get hurt when she killed her!! She ruined Syaoran's life and she took Sakura away from the love of her life!". Natalie smiled when she heard this, but Madison saw her and she couldn't help but to get mad.
"You murderer!!!" screamed and punched Natalie one more time, making her fall to the ground. "You know what Fran, you are right, let's kill this... thing with our own hands. If it's not for Sakura, then for Syaoran" she said, but Syaoran holded her. At the same time he was glaring fiercely at Natalie. The girls felt sorry for Natalie, his look was so cold that they wouldn't have like to have it on them. But she deserved it, so they just smirked. Natalie gulped, because she saw in his face pure hate. Towards her.
"That won't be necessary" said Syaoran. "I would kill you with my own hands, but I won't do it. Sakura told me not to". Natalie sighed in relief. "But I'm gonna make you pay for what you took away from me". Natalie got up and walked towards Syaoran, with a sad face.
"What happened? Maybe I can help you to get better..." she started running her finger down his chest, but he slapped her hand away, and she stepped back in fear. "What's wrong with you? I'm only trying to help you" she replied.
"What's wrong? Are you going to deny that you shot Sakura? That you took away the most important thing in my life? ANSWER ME!!!" He yelled. By that time, they had already an audience that was watching how this girl was getting what she deserved. They moved a little when a few police officers came walking.
"I just wanted to be with you..." she answered, and suddenly her two wrists were grabbed and she found herself with cuffs and being dragged through the campus towards a police car.
"You are under arrest for the homicide of Sakura Kinomoto..." said the officer that was taking her. Fran fell to the floor and Danielle hugged her.
"I have never seen you like that before" said Madison to her. "I'm so proud of you" she said, hugging her too. They knew each other from highschool.
"At least we could get our hands on her before she went to jail" said Danielle looking at Syaoran, he was just standing there.
"But that's not gonna make my angel to come back" he whispered and walked away. The girls watched him go away very worried.
"I'm worried about him" said Fran. She felt so much better now that she had made her part in avenging Sakura's death. "Do you think he'll make it?"
"When I went to see him yesterday, I talked to Tomoyo for a moment" said Madison. "She told me everything about them, all their stories, she showed me some tapes she made about them..." her eyes were filled with tears. "And I think it's gonna be very hard. He treated her so bad when they first met, and when he started to like her he became so overprotective towards her. He would have take the bullet for her if he had been there, Tomoyo's sure about it" she said. "And I'm sure about it too".
"I don't think he'll recover" said Danielle. "I feel so bad to say that, but after what you told us... what Meilin told us after the funeral... he won't make it without her".
"What did Meilin told you?" asked Fran. They had met the Chinese girl at the funeral, and Meilin had liked them because she knew that Sakura picked her friends well. And that's the reason why the three California girls liked Meilin too.
"She told us that Syaoran almost left his family for her. He had been requested to go back to Hong Kong and take care of his duties as the Li clan leader" said Danielle. "They had almost forced him, but he said he wouldn't come back unless he had Sakura with him. Finally they got to an agreement, but if they had made him choose between his family or Sakura..."
"He would have pick her" finished Fran. "I hope he doesn't do anything crazy".
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Syaoran stood there, watching the city below him. After he had went to the police to make sure that Natalie wouldn't come out that evening, he had wondered around town and suddenly he found himself in the front of that building. It was a little bit apart from the rest of the city, so he felt that this was what he had been waiting for. He entered, went to the elevator and stepped out on the last floor. On the roof.
He looked to the sky. What had she done to deserve to die?. Besides of taking away the life of someone as beautiful as she was, they had ripped away his life too. He was like an empty body now. He had no reason to live. That's why he was there. To get rid of his suffering once and for all.
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Ok, I know you think I'm evil, and you are gonna hate me even more for this. And I want to say that I'm very sorry..
But I'm not that evil to leave you with a cliffhanger!!!
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Somewhere...
"I told you, this was too much for him"
"I thought he was strong, but now I realize that his emotional strenght is so much weaker than the physical"
"What are we gonna do then? We'll have to break the rules"
"I'm sure they'll understand. Let's do it now"
Back to Syaoran...
Syaoran looked down one more time. He wasn't scared. He knew that his suffering would go away. And he would get to be with Sakura again. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath. He was getting ready to jump, but then he heard something that sounded like music to his ears...
"Hey, what are you doing?"
He opened his eyes. It looked so much like Sakura's voice, but... it couldn't be, right? However, it was a beautiful voice. For a moment he forgot what he was going to do. But then he remembered.
"Are you going to jump?" asked again the voice.
"I'm trying to" he said. "Would you please go, I'm trying to do something here" he added.
"I won't let you jump" he heard.
"What?" said Syaoran, not believing his ears.
"Just like you heard, I won't let you jump. What's so wrong in your life that you need to throw yourself off?"
"I don't have a life. My life left when she left. I'm empty on the inside. I have nothing to live for" he said, trying to concentrate and jump, but this person was as stubborn as him and wasn't giving up.
"What do you mean you have nothing? Don't you have friends, family?"
"I don't need them.... she's everything I need right now" he said. He was wondering when he would have the chance to finally go and meet with his cherry blossom.
"Don't you think they need you too?". Syaoran stood there, dead in his tracks, he couldn't even breath. He hadn't even thought about it. And it was true... Meilin would be devastated if he died... Tomoyo would have to face the lost of two of her best friends... of course Eriol would feel terrible too. He felt horrible because Sakura had left him, but...
(Flashback)
"I should have been there. When Natalie went to our place" said Syaoran.
"It's not your fault. Nothing's your fault. You have to be strong. For me?" asked Sakura. He nodded. "Don't do anything stupid, little wolf"
(End flashback)
He had failed her. He had promised her something and he failed her. Twice. He had promised himself that he would protect her, but she had died. And now he had broken that promise. he was doing something completely stupid. How could he be so selfish?. He had dissapointed her totally.
Syaoran walked away from the edge slowly. When he was away enough he fell to the floor. He felt someone's steps rush over to him and when he felt someone's arms around him he broke down. He started to cry in the shoulder of that woman that had saved him.
"It's ok, it's ok, everything's ok" she said. They stayed like that for a while, after that, the girl helped him to get up and together they walked down, went to the elevator and walked off the building. He had went to the building walking, so he didn't knew how he would be able to walk to his house, but he got surprised when the girl led him to a green jeep. "Come in, I'll take you home" she said, with a smile. He got in and she started to drive towards his place.
During their way home, he got a better look at the girl. He surprised himself when he was thinking how beautiful she was. He smacked himself mentally, how could he think something like that when his girlfriend had died a few days ago and he had almost killed himself? However, he still thought that she was really pretty. She had auburn hair, it went down until the middle of her back. When the sun hit on her hair, it looked golden, but it looked totally natural. Syaoran had the chance to look at her eyes before she put her blue shades on. She had amber eyes. He thought that he couldn't compare them to Sakura's emerald eyes, but he thought they were... captivating. She had a beautiful face too. She was a bit skinny, but still she had curves in all the right places. Syaoran saw all this while she was driving, but he didn't realized that they were in his street. She had parked in front of an apartment's building. His house was other two houses away from the building and he didn't remembered telling her where he lived.
"Hey, how did you...?" he started, but she was faster.
"Don't ask. Some things can work out better without questions" she said, getting off her jeep and taking her blue backpack. She started to walk towards the building, he got off the jeep too and walked to where she was heading.
"Wait, can I at least know your name?" he asked her. She turned around and put her shades on her head.
"I'm Michelle" she said, as simple as that, and with a smile walked inside the building. Syaoran stayed there. He walked to his house and in the moment he got in he was greeted by a frenetic Tomoyo who hugged him really tight.
"Oh my God, thank God you are here. Do you know how worried you had us?" she said. They were in the hall, and when she said that, he saw Eriol, Fran, Madison, Danielle and Meilin walking in, and sighing in relief.
"Don't do that to me ever again, you hear me?" said Meilin hugging him. "I don't want you to do anything stupid". Syaoran finally realized that he had reasons to live. Even though Sakura was not with him, he was still there and he had to keep living, and try to move on. She had asked him to. But he was sure of one thing: even though he was still living and he wouldn't try anything stupid like killing himself again, he promised himself to not love another woman that wasn't Sakura for the rest of his life.
Or that's what he thought.
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Hey, I'm done!! Now this is the real end. I hoped you liked it. If you feel like flaming me, do it, I don't care. I'm under the effects of the fact of not having someone to spent Valentine's Day with me, so... I'm depressive, yeah. And also the fact that classes begin March 4th or 5th... don't remember yet. It's so close!!. Another long year of study!!. I thank God because I'm out next year.
Anyways, remember to review, please please.... pwetty pwease.... remember that reviews equals to a lot of good mood in me and that equals to longer chapters and at the end the chapters come faster. Like when I did my first story. Every day a new chapter!! So, remember to REVIEW!! It doesn't take that much of your time, right?
WAITING FOR AN ANGEL (chapter 4).
Tomoyo started to cry and sob, and she didn't stop in the whole night. Eriol hugged her really tight, and he couldn't help the tears that were running down his cheeks. Fujitaka looked extremely weak and Touya was hugging him, it was obvious that he was crying for his little sister. Yukito and Kero were silent in a chair.
Syaoran walked away a little and dialed a number.
"Madison, it's me... Just come over, ok?" he said, and hanged up. He had left the room a moment ago, after Sakura closed her beautiful green eyes he had stayed there, caressing her peaceful face, talking to her, telling her everything he had forgot to say. And now he felt nothing.
Everyone stayed in silence for a few minutes, until the doctor called Fujitaka to make him fill some papers. Yukito and Touya went with him, and left Kero alone in the cold chair. Suddenly he started to cry silently, but the boys heard him. Eriol motioned Syaoran to go to him, he couldn't since he had Tomoyo. Syaoran walked to him and in the moment he sit next to him, Kero started to cry in his shoulder. Syaoran closed his eyes, trying to fight the tears that were coming. They stayed like that until footsteps were heard and three girls came running down the hall.
Syaoran left Kero with Eriol, and turned around, only to be hugged by Madison. She wasn't crying, but you could see that she was in pain.
"We'll make her pay, Syaoran... I'll help you, she's gonna regret it" she said when she broke the hug. Syaoran nodded in silence.
"That's if she makes it when I'm done with her" said Fran, before breaking down for the fifth time that night. Danielle hugged her and some silent tears started to fall.
"I'm going to the police tomorrow, who's coming with me?" he asked in such a cold voice that the girls got scared, they didn't knew this side of him.
"I'll go, and I think Tomoyo will too if she's strong enough" said Eriol.
"She told us what happened, so I think we are going too, we can help" said Madison, the stronger of the three girls.
"Good. I'll see you tomorrow" said Syaoran. He hugged Madison one more time, and left. Everyone stayed looking at him. Madison walked over to Kero and hugged him. He didn't even bothered to ask her anything, she already knew so there was no point.
"Do you think he's ok?" asked Danielle, whispering.
"I don't know. I hope he doesn't do anything stupid in his state" said Eriol. Tomoyo looked up, and cleaned away her tears.
"Eriol, can you hand me your cellphone, please?" she asked. Eriol gave it to her. "I'll call everyone to make sure they are here tomorrow" she said when he gave her a questioning look.
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Syaoran left the hospital and walked. He didn't knew where he was going, he just wanted to feel something, that's why he didn't bothered about zipping his jacket, even though it was cold. He kept walking, not looking up, and when he did he found himself in a small park, that had a fountain in the middle and sat there, remembering all of their times together, her smile, her laugh, her eyes.
"Don't think I'm leaving. Because a part of me will be always be around you. You will never be alone. If you ever need me, I'm gonna be there. And be sure of one thing: I love you, here or in Africa, now or in a thousand years. I always will."
Syaoran remembered her words and a pain stabbed him in the heart. He started to cry.
"Where are you now? Now that I need you to be here to comfort me, where are you?" he whispered. "Don't you see that I don't want to live if you are not with me? Life is worthless without you, I need you, dammit!!" he screamed. First he felt nothing, later he felt pain and now he felt anger. Because he couldn't protect her, because he had let her go, becuase someone had taken her away from him.
Somewhere...
"Do you think he'll make it?"
"I don't know, I hope so..."
"Otherwise we would have to break the rules"
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A car pulled up in front of a big hotel. A couple of people walked off and runned inside.
"Excuse me, I need to talk to Tomoyo Daidouji, please"
"She's in room 476, third floor"
"Thank you"
The group walked to the elevator, when they reached the third floor they went to Tomoyo's room and knocked. They heard some noise and the door opened, revealing Eriol who was still in the clothes from the day before.
"Hi, guys" he said, and a guy stepped forward and gave him a hug. "No lies this time, Yamasaki?" he asked, and Yamasaki just smiled.
"It's not good time for jokes, Eriol" he said. Eriol caught site of four girls before him and hugged Naoko who was in front of him. Tomoyo appeared in the door and a girl with black hair and crimson eyes walked to her and hugged her, as both of them started to cry.
"She's gone, Meilin, she's gone" said Tomoyo, while Meilin stroked her hair, crying as well. "I'm gonna miss her so much, so much" said.
"It's ok, Tomoyo. We are gonna miss her too, but you need to be strong, ok? She wouldn't like you to be like this" said Meilin, trying to stay calm for her friend, but deep down her heart was shattered too. She had not only lose a friend, she was also like that because she could imagine how her dear cousin would be, and that would break her heart again.
"I don't think I can" said Tomoyo, when Meilin broke the hug to look at her. After that she let go and a girl with pigtails went to her and hugged her.
"Everything's going to be ok, Tomoyo" she said. "She'll make sure it will".
After Chiharu left, Rika went and gave her a hug too. Chiharu went to Yamasaki's arms, who looked really sad, totally opposite of how he usually was. Eriol was hugging Meilin now. In some point, everyone stayed quiet, not even a sob could be heard. Tomoyo, who was really cold, felt extremely warmer all of sudden, as if someone had put a blanket around her.
"Do you know that when an entire room stays in silence is because an angel just passed by?" said Yamasaki. Everyone looked at him. "It's not a lie, I swear, I heard it somewhere" he said, and they believed him, because he wasn't smiling, in fact, even his eyes looked sad.
"I think that's true" whispered Tomoyo.
"Eriol, do you know where Syaoran is? I need to see him" said Meilin.
"I'll take you" he answered. Meilin nodded. He walked to get his jacket and went to Tomoyo, and gave her a sweet kiss on the lips. "I'll be back soon. You stay with her, please" he said to the others, who nodded. He walked out of the room with Meilin, before she left she gave Tomoyo a hug.
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Syaoran woke up feeling horrible. He got up and found himself in their room. A room filled with memories. It weren't a lot, because they had been living there for a few weeks, but still he could feel her presence in the room, he could see her there. New memories started to play in his mind, it was driving him crazy. How could he recover from her death when he couldn't stop seeing her everywhere?. Suddenly he felt a knock on the door. He went down stairs and when he opened the door he met sad crimson eyes that belonged to her cousin.
"Syaoran" she said and hugged him. Syaoran hugged her back and all the tears that he had tried to hold since he came back home... to their home, they all came running down his face and he couldn't stop. Meilin closed the door and led him to the couch, and she hugged him and let him cry all his pain for losing his love.
"I've been without her for less than 12 hours, and look at me" he said, when he was better. "I can't survive without her, I can't breath without her, I need her" he said, and he looked like he was going to break down one more time. Meilin placed her hands in his neck and forced him to look at her.
"Syaoran, look at me. You can do this, ok, we are gonna be here with you. It's hard for all of us, and specially for you, but... you can do it. Take one step at the time. It's ok if you wanna cry now, cry all you want, but don't give up, Syaoran. Don't give up". She hugged him one more time, but this time he was in silence. He looked terrible, it was true, but he had shed too many tears. It would take only a couple of hours before he started to cry again.
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Syaoran stood there watching as everyone was leaving their flowers. There were a few teachers that gave her class there. Madison, Fran and Danielle were there, and even though Fran was more recovered, she was still crying. Madison allowed to shed a few tears this time, of course in the arms of her boyfriend. Nakuru had travelled too from England, she didn't knew Sakura a lot, but she admired her. Kaho Mizuki appeared too, it was the first time any of them saw her worried about something. She was crying too. Syaoran had stayed in silence while he was greeting his friends, and everyone knew that he was trying to stay strong in front of everyone.
Tomoyo looked the worst. Her eyes were red and puffy, and she wouldn't talk to anyone, not even Eriol. Every time she opened her mouth was only to start crying again. When it was her turn to leave flowers, she went and left cherry blossoms, and in the moment she had she fell to the ground and started to cry. Eriol took her in his arms and left.
When everything was over, Fujitaka approached Syaoran. Touya couldn't even talk, he felt miserable.
"I want to thank you for taking care and making my daughter happy, Li" said Fujitaka. Syaoran nodded. "We are leaving to Japan right now, so I want to thank you in my name and Touya's".
"Don't worry. All I did was love her" was Syaoran's reply. They shook hands and he left. Syaoran stayed there and sat down next to Sakura's grave.
"I can't get used to this, you know?... How can it be that you were next to me yesterday and now you are here, in a cementery" he said. He touched the letters that formed her name. "Why did you leave, honey, why? You know that you mean the world to me and still you left me alone... I miss you so much" he said, and his voice broke. But he managed to control himself and not to cry. He stayed there for some time, talking to her until Eriol went to him.
"Syaoran, let's go" he said, tapping him in the shoulder.
"Go away, Eriol. I want to be here with her" he answered.
"Syaoran, you've been here for an hour or something. You need to rest. Come on" he said. Syaoran got up and followed him to the car.
"How's Tomoyo?" he asked, when Eriol started to drive.
"She's better. She's at the house with Meilin, she's going back in a couple of days" said Eriol. "When are you going to the police?".
"Tomorrow. I'm gonna make sure that she gets in jail and never comes out" answered Syaoran.
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Fran got out of her car and walked towards the building, but someone called her and she stopped. She turned around and saw that her friends were sitted under a cherry blossom tree. Immediately she felt sad, remembering her friend. She walked to them and sitted down.
"I felt so bad when I saw the tree" she said. Danielle took her hand in support.
"That's why we picked it. This tree that will symbolize our short but great friendship" she said, and Fran smiled. "She's with us in every moment, I know she is".
"I just hope that Syaoran gets better" said Madison. And it was true. He had went to the police three days before, and it had taken awhile to make everything work out, because since it was an homicide they needed a lot of proofs against Natalie. But they had them, Sakura had tell them what had happened, and they could prove that she was at their place that evening. It had been four days since that terrible night, but they had hoped that Syaoran would heal little by little. Specially because his friends were there too, but he didn't showed any signs. He wasn't going to his classes anymore, all he did was going to the cementery, or go to the police. Sometimes he would spent hours walking in parks or lakes. There were days he wasn't even eating.
"So, here you are" said a voice. The three girls stood up and saw a very unfriendly face. Fran was about to throw at her and start to hit her, but Danielle holded her. "I thought the other bitch would be here with you too" said Natalie. She had no idea that Sakura was dead.
"Not thanks to you" said Madison. "But not even that is gonna make Syaoran go to you, he knows everything" she said, and Natalie played dumb and didn't reacted.
"Everything about what? Oh, please tell me, did he dump her? Because she doesn't deserve to be with him, no wait, she doesn't even deserve to have anyone to love her..."
That was enough, and Fran got away from Danielle's grip and went to Natalie, who just smiled thinking she coudln't hurt her, since she was a bit skinny. Little did she knew that Fran was a black belt and that she practiced kickboxing, and she started by punching her in the nose.
"Oh my nose!!" yelled Natalie, but Fran just smirked and punched her again.
"This is for Sakura! And this is for Syaoran!" she yelled before punching her in the stomach again. Natalie was in pain, she felt horrible, but came to a halt when she saw Syaoran walking towards them, even though he was far from them. At the same time Madison and Danielle took Fran by her arms and pulled her away from Natalie.
"Fran, stop this! Sakura wouldn't want you to do this!" said Danielle, and at the mention of her name Fran started to cry.
"I know, but it's not fear she didn't wanted this bitch to get hurt when she killed her!! She ruined Syaoran's life and she took Sakura away from the love of her life!". Natalie smiled when she heard this, but Madison saw her and she couldn't help but to get mad.
"You murderer!!!" screamed and punched Natalie one more time, making her fall to the ground. "You know what Fran, you are right, let's kill this... thing with our own hands. If it's not for Sakura, then for Syaoran" she said, but Syaoran holded her. At the same time he was glaring fiercely at Natalie. The girls felt sorry for Natalie, his look was so cold that they wouldn't have like to have it on them. But she deserved it, so they just smirked. Natalie gulped, because she saw in his face pure hate. Towards her.
"That won't be necessary" said Syaoran. "I would kill you with my own hands, but I won't do it. Sakura told me not to". Natalie sighed in relief. "But I'm gonna make you pay for what you took away from me". Natalie got up and walked towards Syaoran, with a sad face.
"What happened? Maybe I can help you to get better..." she started running her finger down his chest, but he slapped her hand away, and she stepped back in fear. "What's wrong with you? I'm only trying to help you" she replied.
"What's wrong? Are you going to deny that you shot Sakura? That you took away the most important thing in my life? ANSWER ME!!!" He yelled. By that time, they had already an audience that was watching how this girl was getting what she deserved. They moved a little when a few police officers came walking.
"I just wanted to be with you..." she answered, and suddenly her two wrists were grabbed and she found herself with cuffs and being dragged through the campus towards a police car.
"You are under arrest for the homicide of Sakura Kinomoto..." said the officer that was taking her. Fran fell to the floor and Danielle hugged her.
"I have never seen you like that before" said Madison to her. "I'm so proud of you" she said, hugging her too. They knew each other from highschool.
"At least we could get our hands on her before she went to jail" said Danielle looking at Syaoran, he was just standing there.
"But that's not gonna make my angel to come back" he whispered and walked away. The girls watched him go away very worried.
"I'm worried about him" said Fran. She felt so much better now that she had made her part in avenging Sakura's death. "Do you think he'll make it?"
"When I went to see him yesterday, I talked to Tomoyo for a moment" said Madison. "She told me everything about them, all their stories, she showed me some tapes she made about them..." her eyes were filled with tears. "And I think it's gonna be very hard. He treated her so bad when they first met, and when he started to like her he became so overprotective towards her. He would have take the bullet for her if he had been there, Tomoyo's sure about it" she said. "And I'm sure about it too".
"I don't think he'll recover" said Danielle. "I feel so bad to say that, but after what you told us... what Meilin told us after the funeral... he won't make it without her".
"What did Meilin told you?" asked Fran. They had met the Chinese girl at the funeral, and Meilin had liked them because she knew that Sakura picked her friends well. And that's the reason why the three California girls liked Meilin too.
"She told us that Syaoran almost left his family for her. He had been requested to go back to Hong Kong and take care of his duties as the Li clan leader" said Danielle. "They had almost forced him, but he said he wouldn't come back unless he had Sakura with him. Finally they got to an agreement, but if they had made him choose between his family or Sakura..."
"He would have pick her" finished Fran. "I hope he doesn't do anything crazy".
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Syaoran stood there, watching the city below him. After he had went to the police to make sure that Natalie wouldn't come out that evening, he had wondered around town and suddenly he found himself in the front of that building. It was a little bit apart from the rest of the city, so he felt that this was what he had been waiting for. He entered, went to the elevator and stepped out on the last floor. On the roof.
He looked to the sky. What had she done to deserve to die?. Besides of taking away the life of someone as beautiful as she was, they had ripped away his life too. He was like an empty body now. He had no reason to live. That's why he was there. To get rid of his suffering once and for all.
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Ok, I know you think I'm evil, and you are gonna hate me even more for this. And I want to say that I'm very sorry..
But I'm not that evil to leave you with a cliffhanger!!!
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Somewhere...
"I told you, this was too much for him"
"I thought he was strong, but now I realize that his emotional strenght is so much weaker than the physical"
"What are we gonna do then? We'll have to break the rules"
"I'm sure they'll understand. Let's do it now"
Back to Syaoran...
Syaoran looked down one more time. He wasn't scared. He knew that his suffering would go away. And he would get to be with Sakura again. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath. He was getting ready to jump, but then he heard something that sounded like music to his ears...
"Hey, what are you doing?"
He opened his eyes. It looked so much like Sakura's voice, but... it couldn't be, right? However, it was a beautiful voice. For a moment he forgot what he was going to do. But then he remembered.
"Are you going to jump?" asked again the voice.
"I'm trying to" he said. "Would you please go, I'm trying to do something here" he added.
"I won't let you jump" he heard.
"What?" said Syaoran, not believing his ears.
"Just like you heard, I won't let you jump. What's so wrong in your life that you need to throw yourself off?"
"I don't have a life. My life left when she left. I'm empty on the inside. I have nothing to live for" he said, trying to concentrate and jump, but this person was as stubborn as him and wasn't giving up.
"What do you mean you have nothing? Don't you have friends, family?"
"I don't need them.... she's everything I need right now" he said. He was wondering when he would have the chance to finally go and meet with his cherry blossom.
"Don't you think they need you too?". Syaoran stood there, dead in his tracks, he couldn't even breath. He hadn't even thought about it. And it was true... Meilin would be devastated if he died... Tomoyo would have to face the lost of two of her best friends... of course Eriol would feel terrible too. He felt horrible because Sakura had left him, but...
(Flashback)
"I should have been there. When Natalie went to our place" said Syaoran.
"It's not your fault. Nothing's your fault. You have to be strong. For me?" asked Sakura. He nodded. "Don't do anything stupid, little wolf"
(End flashback)
He had failed her. He had promised her something and he failed her. Twice. He had promised himself that he would protect her, but she had died. And now he had broken that promise. he was doing something completely stupid. How could he be so selfish?. He had dissapointed her totally.
Syaoran walked away from the edge slowly. When he was away enough he fell to the floor. He felt someone's steps rush over to him and when he felt someone's arms around him he broke down. He started to cry in the shoulder of that woman that had saved him.
"It's ok, it's ok, everything's ok" she said. They stayed like that for a while, after that, the girl helped him to get up and together they walked down, went to the elevator and walked off the building. He had went to the building walking, so he didn't knew how he would be able to walk to his house, but he got surprised when the girl led him to a green jeep. "Come in, I'll take you home" she said, with a smile. He got in and she started to drive towards his place.
During their way home, he got a better look at the girl. He surprised himself when he was thinking how beautiful she was. He smacked himself mentally, how could he think something like that when his girlfriend had died a few days ago and he had almost killed himself? However, he still thought that she was really pretty. She had auburn hair, it went down until the middle of her back. When the sun hit on her hair, it looked golden, but it looked totally natural. Syaoran had the chance to look at her eyes before she put her blue shades on. She had amber eyes. He thought that he couldn't compare them to Sakura's emerald eyes, but he thought they were... captivating. She had a beautiful face too. She was a bit skinny, but still she had curves in all the right places. Syaoran saw all this while she was driving, but he didn't realized that they were in his street. She had parked in front of an apartment's building. His house was other two houses away from the building and he didn't remembered telling her where he lived.
"Hey, how did you...?" he started, but she was faster.
"Don't ask. Some things can work out better without questions" she said, getting off her jeep and taking her blue backpack. She started to walk towards the building, he got off the jeep too and walked to where she was heading.
"Wait, can I at least know your name?" he asked her. She turned around and put her shades on her head.
"I'm Michelle" she said, as simple as that, and with a smile walked inside the building. Syaoran stayed there. He walked to his house and in the moment he got in he was greeted by a frenetic Tomoyo who hugged him really tight.
"Oh my God, thank God you are here. Do you know how worried you had us?" she said. They were in the hall, and when she said that, he saw Eriol, Fran, Madison, Danielle and Meilin walking in, and sighing in relief.
"Don't do that to me ever again, you hear me?" said Meilin hugging him. "I don't want you to do anything stupid". Syaoran finally realized that he had reasons to live. Even though Sakura was not with him, he was still there and he had to keep living, and try to move on. She had asked him to. But he was sure of one thing: even though he was still living and he wouldn't try anything stupid like killing himself again, he promised himself to not love another woman that wasn't Sakura for the rest of his life.
Or that's what he thought.
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Hey, I'm done!! Now this is the real end. I hoped you liked it. If you feel like flaming me, do it, I don't care. I'm under the effects of the fact of not having someone to spent Valentine's Day with me, so... I'm depressive, yeah. And also the fact that classes begin March 4th or 5th... don't remember yet. It's so close!!. Another long year of study!!. I thank God because I'm out next year.
Anyways, remember to review, please please.... pwetty pwease.... remember that reviews equals to a lot of good mood in me and that equals to longer chapters and at the end the chapters come faster. Like when I did my first story. Every day a new chapter!! So, remember to REVIEW!! It doesn't take that much of your time, right?
