Hey! I'm back here with chapter 2 of Everlasting Story. Enjoy! Oh and thankies sooooooo much to Pink Cherry Blossom who was the first one to review!!!! Whee! I'm so happy!

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Everlasting Story









Chapter 2. Preparations and Good-bye



Sakura looked at her room. She had hardly packed anything for the trip. Just one change of clothing and a photo album to remind her of home in case she got lonely. She placed her things in her bag and sighed. She would really miss this house. Where she grew up in, where she played, where she did everything! Now she would be leaving to a totally different world. Syaoran and Eriol would have a magic "transporter" so the walk to their palace would only take a day or two. She still couldn't believe she was going to a palace. It seemed.. weird. Nothing like her plain yet cozy house. With a shrug, she took one last look at her pink room and left, closing the door behind her.

"Finally!" Syaoran exclaimed as Sakura walked down the stairs. "I thought you were going to run away!"

Sakura stuck her tongue out at him and said, "Well, you would have to miss being away from your home for a long time so you should spend as much time in it as you can!"

"I've been away from my home for five years now."

"Wha-"

"Oh, never mind that, Sakura!" Eriol interrupted. "So, I've been thinking. do you want to spend a family day or something? We really don't have to rush."

"Considering, it might be the last chance with y- Ow!" Syaoran exclaimed. Eriol had nudged him sharply on the ribs. "So why don't we just stay here while you go with your family?"

"Oh really?!" Sakura said, excitedly. "Well, didn't he just say? Ow!" Syaoran said as Eriol elbowed him again.

Sakura ignored him. "Oh thank you!" she said to Eriol.



"Why do we have to all go shopping anyways?" Touya complained, holding bags and bags of items. "I mean, it's not like Sakura's going to be gone forever. it's just a field trip."

"Oh, Touya, don't say things that you don't know for certain of," Fujitaka said with a wink to Sakura.

"Oh yeah, so Sakura's going to a different world with these weird people and the world's gonna come to total destruction," Touya said sarcastically.

Sakura gaped.

"Oh, maybe. it just might be." said Fujitaka.

Touya rolled his eyes and was about to reply when Sakura shouted, "Oh look at those jeans Touya!" she said pointing to the window of a store. "I think they're perfect for you! Let's go in and you can try it out!" Sakura dragged Touya into the store with Fujitaka laughing behind.



At the end of the day, they were loaded with shopping bags. They were mainly for Touya and Fujitaka since Sakura had caught them admiring clothing and accessories, and insisted she bought them for them.

"Wow, what a tiring day!" Sakura exclaimed yawning and stretching out her arms.

"Well you'll need a lot of sleep for tomorrow, Sakura." Fujitaka said.

Sakura nodded and began taking all the items in the shopping bags out. Soon, the floor was crowded of shoes, pants, sweaters, t-shirts, hats, new pencils, new erasers, a printer and other clothing and stationery.

Touya sighed. "My arms are so sore from carrying all those heavy bags!" he complained stomping to his room.

Fujitaka walked over to Sakura. "Sakura I want you to have this."

Sakura looked up and gasped. Her father was holding out a beautiful pink necklace with a cherry blossom crossed with a glowing green sword in the centre of a sky-blue crescent moon. "Y-you want me to have that?!" Sakura asked as if the necklace was too much precious for her. Fujitaka nodded. "Your mom gave it to me and told me to give it to you when the time was right. She said something about a secret to it."

Sakura tore her gaze away from the necklace as if she was blinded by the beauty and turned to her father. "What? What secret?" Fujitaka shrugged. Then he added sadly, "Those were her last words to me before she." Sakura nodded and hugged her dad. "I can figure it out myself." She said.

She thanked her dad and went off to bed. (a/n: Hey! What happened to dinner!)



The boy is standing on the hill again. This time, he has two other people with him but Sakura can't make out who they are. They face each other and their mouths start moving as if having a group huddle. They start running down the hill and see a.Suddenly there's a blinding flash of light as everything goes on again and explosions start to explode into the silent air.(a/n: These dreams are getting weirder. I'll try to put some more action into them.)

Sakura woke up again but this time she didn't sit up. She was very used to these dreams and had finally gotten used to them. As, Sakura slowly looked up to see her clock; she saw a dark figure towering over her. She tried to scream but no sound came out. The person but a hand on her mouth and turned on her lamp. Sakura's head shot back into the pillow at the blinding light and when she thought she was ready lifted her head up and saw Syaoran standing by her bed.

"You!" Sakura exclaimed, angrily. "What are you doing here?"

"Mr. Kinomoto asked me to since he thought the basement was to cold," he paused and then added with a smirk. "And the living room was too easy for your big macho Oni-chan to see!"

Sakura sighed exhaustedly and sank back into her soft mix of blankets and plushies.

"Hey your paradise is over get out of bed!" Syaoran ordered.

"But it's so early!" Sakura whined.

Syaoran glared dangerously.

Grumbling, Sakura got out of bed and stalked off to the washroom. She took a shower and brushed her teeth. When she was done she saw Syaoran waiting by her bathroom door. "You'll have to refill the toilet roll, refill the shampoo bottle, change the soap and - oh I'll be washing the laundry!" With an evil laugh Sakura grabbed her little bag and slammed the door behind her as she left her room. Syaoran groaned.



When Sakura, Syaoran, and Eriol were all ready, Sakura suddenly said, "Wait!"

Everyone started.

"I didn't get to say a proper good-bye to my friends!"

Syaoran sighed and was about to say something when Eriol stepped in front of Syaoran and said, "Will a telephone do?"

Sakura shook her head. "I want it to be proper!"

This time Eriol sighed. "Fine, but make it quick."

Sakura nodded happily. "Hai!"



"Hello, Tomoyo! Can you meet me at the park? It's very important."

"Sure Sakura! After all, I have nothing to do."

"See ya then!"

"Ja."

"Hey, Chiharu! Meet me at the park right now. I have to tell you something very important"

"Um. I guess I can make it."

"Great! Well ja!"

"Bye, Sakura."

"Hi Naoko!

"Hey Sakura. Lemme guess, park meeting?"

"Yup. Lemme guess, Chiharu?"

"Yup. Well I'm going now. Ja!"

"Ohayo Rika-chan!"

"Hi Sakura. What's up?"

"Gotta tell you something. See you at the park k?"

"Kay!"



"Hey guys thanks for coming!" Sakura said as her friends arrived in the park, at the same time.

"No prob, I have something to tell all too anyways." Tomoyo answered.

Rika, Naoko, and Chiharu all looked at Sakura and Tomoyo waiting for them to say something.

"So?"

"Tomoyo go first!"

"No, I think Sakura should."

"Ok I'll go first." Sakura said. She walked over and hugged all of them one by one. When she was done, they were staring at her with surprised looks on their faces.

"I know we're friends and all but is that the important thing?" Chiharu asked.

"Yes."

"Ano."

"I won't see you guys in a long time," Sakura quickly explained. "So, I thought we'd all have one special moment to say good-bye."

"Really?!" Tomoyo asked.

Sakura nodded.

"That's the exact same thing I wanted to say!"

"You're going away too Tomoyo?" Naoko asked.

Tomoyo nodded.

"I see." Naoko said.

"Well."

With a cry, Sakura ran over to all of them and engulfed them in a group bear hug. "Oh, I'll miss you guys soo so very much!" Sakura said between sobs.

"Sakura! What do you mean?" Rika asked worried. "You're coming back right?"

Tomoyo glanced at Sakura. 'I wonder.' she thought. "Sakura, where are you going?"

This seemed to surprise Sakura and she didn't reply.

"Sakura?"

"It's ok we won't ask then," Tomoyo said.

"Tomoyo where are you going?" Rika asked.

"Ano. To visit my. Relatives." Tomoyo answered with a strange glint in her eyes. (a/n: For those of you who knows what's going on, is it a bit obvious?)

They nodded.

Then Sakura broke apart from the hug and said, "Well, I gotta go now. Syanora." She hugged them each one more time and without looking back, ran from the penguin park as fast as she could.



When Sakura got back, Syaoran and Eriol were waiting impatiently by the door. It was almost 7:30, and they were supposed to leave at 7. "Finally!" Syaoran shouted tossing Sakura her little bag and tromping down the porch steps with Eriol right behind him. Sakura caught the bag and quickly ran to the two boys who were hurrying down the street.

"Hopefully, we'll make it in time."

"Where are we going?"

"To the park." Eriol replied.

"But I was just at the park!"

"That's nice."

"Humph!"

When they reached the park, they shoved Sakura underneath the penguin slide and huddled in beside her.

"Now, let's all hold hands."

Syaoran grimaced. "You make us sound like little kids." He shook his sleeve off his wrist and revealed a bracelet. It had a pattern of black and white pearls. (a/n: Yup! The kind that Kyou wears from Fruits Basket!) Then he grabbed hold of Sakura's hand and Eriol's.

They all held hands with Syaoran's bracelet showing and Syaoran said the word, "Destination; Akihabara."



Well! How was that? Next chapter! Destination Akihabara! Hehe... Akihabara won't be like the Akihabara in Digi Charat people! It'll be more like a little fairy tale place. So I hoped you liked this chapy!

-Ryuuen Star*-