DISCLAIMER: I don't own any CCS characters, they belong to CLAMP.
a/n: SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry for the long wait.
The sun is delicious. Or at least. That's the way Sakura describes it. Delicious. Like a piece of candy you can suck on forever. And a you get a new one ever day. So for her, just for her, I moved the bed so that it faced the sun. She could wake up in the mornings and see the sun. More cherry trees too. I planted them just for her. Just for my Sakura.
Waking up in the mornings before her is my hobby now. Well, not exactally my hobby, but close to it. I like watching her wake up. It's always the same sequence of facial expressions, but I will never tire of it. She opens her eyes with the groggy confused look that she gets when she's tired, or sick. And then she closes them again, but she's not asleep. Her hand searches for me, and then finding my arm or my chest, she latches on, and pulls herself closer with a satisfied look pasted on her face. She'll whisper an endearment then. That's when I wake up before her.
Some days, she'll wake up before I do. I suspect on those days, she barely gets any sleep. She seems sad those days. They don't coincide with the death of any of her mortal family members or any festival days the mortals have for her. They just sort of happen. I don't know how to explain it.
And then there's the two weeks in the spring when the cherries are ripe. We leave the kitchen to her then. She's so happy when she's like that. Her happiness is infectious.
And when she gets callings from the Fates to go somewhere, I can never sleep well.
I dream about the places I've been and the people I've known. I dream about my mother and my sisters. I dream about the father I never knew. I dream and I can't sleep. She comes back smelling of Kiramati, the smokey, cold smell of the temple they dedicated to her. She misses her children. That is the only time I regret being a God. If the two of us were mortal, I'd give her all the children she wanted.
I'm glad I left home all those millenia ago. What would life have been like had I stayed home with Meiling and lived out my life there? And who would have won the jewel sleeping beside me right now?
Who indeed.
