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A Ten Pedaled Flower

Chapter 3 - I'll Always Love You

-8:00 pm-

Syaoran entered the small hospital and went up to the front desk.

"Can I help you?" the nurse asked.

"Yes, I'm here for Kinomoto, Sakura." he said.

"Oh yes Miss Sakura, she's in room 13 down that hall." She said, pointing to her left.

"Thank you." He said then went that direction.

He reached Sakura's door and slowly opened it, seeing Sakura laying in bed, asleep. He went in and closed the door behind him. He walked up to the bed and sat on the chair. Tears rolled out of his eyes. He looked over to her hand and saw it hanging down on the side of the bed. He gently lifted her hand, and placed it against his face.

"Sakura.I'm sorry. You need to forget about me, and move on. I'll be marrying Kiara, so meet someone else who can take care of you. I'm not someone who can take care of you, I'm not someone who can do anything for you. *scoff* I'm not exactly the guy you knew before, huh? Well, I better get going. Get well soon, alright?" he said, then got up.

He turned around but stopped before taking a step. He turned back around and leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. Then he went out of the room. Sakura was still in deep sleep, a single tear drop rolled out of her eye.

*~*~*~*~*~*

Syaoran arrived to his apartment and went up to his floor. He went up to his door and slid his key in and turned it, but it appeared that it was already unlocked. He sighed, knowing that Kiara was inside and went in, seeing Kiara sitting on the couch in a white silk robe and a towel wrapped around her head.

"What are you doing here?" He said, hanging his keys on the key hanger.

"Can't I be at my own fiancé's apartment?" she replied.

"Yeah whatever." He said, as he went into his bedroom's bathroom and showered.

After a while he came out in a black t-shirt and gray sweat pants. He saw Kiara sitting at the kitchen table, with five bottles of beer sitting on the table.

"Let's drink tonight." She said, pouring some into a glass.

He sat down and drank the cup she poured in.

After drinking all five bottles, Syaoran was completely drunk.

"Come on honey, there's no more left. Let's go to bed now." She said.

He got up and walked into his bedroom with her. He plopped onto his bed and sat against the head wall of the bed. Kiara stood by the bed, as Syaoran watched her. Kiara slowly took the towel off her head and shook her hair in place.

"What are you doing?" he asked, trying to gain consciousness, his eye sight very blurry and fuzzy.

"Making sure you're mine."

She then slowly untied the robe belt and slid the belt out through the hooks and threw it onto Syaoran. She slowly pulled her robe onto the edge of her shoulders, and it slid off her body, revealing herself naked. Syaoran didn't say anything, but slowly close and open his eyes from sleepiness. Kiara crawled onto the bed and on top of Syaoran, and slid his shirt off, revealing his perfectly toned muscles on his chest, stomach and arms. She crawled down to his pants and pulled it off, along with his boxers.

She smiled from seeing his excited member was up.

"Sakura." he mumbled with a slight moan.

Kiara's smile turned. She was a bit angry, but kept going on anyway.

(Don't even count this part as a lemon. so I didn't finish it.. sorry.)

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*~*Next Day*~*

-10:00 am- Sakura slowly opened her eyes. She looked around for Syaoran, who she heard talking to her in her sleep.

"Oh good, you're awake, it's unusual for someone to wake up so late." The doctor said, coming in.

"What happened to me?" she asked.

"You were found in your bedroom sleeping, and you were very sick so your friends brought you here."

"Oh. Why am I sick?"

"Well we examined you and the data aren't good. Your body's become weak so you will tend to faint. Do you sometimes feel little sharp pains in your chest?"

"Yeah, very little though, the past few weeks it started to do that and was kind of hard for me to breath regularly at those moments."

"Well, you're ready to go home, so you can change into your clothes and then come meet me in my office, it's right across from your room, I'll tell you more about your condition." He said, then left, with a negative tone. She got up and changed out of the hospital clothes and into her old pajamas she was wearing the other day.

She went across the hallway and into the doctor's office.

"Please have a seat." He said.

She closed the door and sat down. The doctor sighed, his face expression wasn't good.

"Is.there something wrong with me?"

He sighed once again.

"Your sharp pains in your chest have gotten deeper and will tend to strike your chest more often and more heavily. Exactly when have this pain started to occur?"

"I think maybe a few weeks ago." She answered, counting her fingers.

"I'm afraid.that you have heart cancer."

She widened her eyes.

"He-heart cancer??"

"Yes, I'm afraid so."

"What are you talking about?! I can't have heart cancer.it's so hard to believe.there must be a mistake, I can't have heart cancer, I was fine just two weeks ago."

"I'm sorry Miss Kinomoto. There's no mistake. Now, we do have operations that you can take to try and remove the cancer in your heart. It's a very difficult occupation for us doctors, when we have to work on people's hearts, but we're willing to try. But your decision on taking the operation, we're giving you a deadline until next month, no more than that or the operation will be even harder and more of a chance for the cancer to not be removed."

Sakura scoffed, then tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Alright, I'll take surgery."

*~*

Sakura came out of the doctor's office and then went back into her room, after she made a phone call to Tomoyo to pick her up.

She sat on her bed and stared out the window.

"Heart cancer." she whispered.

After a while, her friends all came in and greeted.

"You're looking well. How ya feelin?" Yamazaki said.

"I'm feeling good. I just wanna get out of here." she said.

"Yeah me too, I hate hospitals, gives me the chills." Naoko said.

"Here, it's cold out so I brought you an extra jacket I had in my car." Jecht said, handing her a black coat.

"Thanks." She said, then put it on and zipped it up.

"Come on, you ready to leave?" Tomoyo asked.

Sakura nodded.

They went out of the building and Sakura didn't have any socks or shoes. Yamazaki picked Sakura up and carried her quickly to his car that was parked right in front of the hospital with Eriol's and Tidus's car parked behind.

Chiharu opened the back door and got in the back seat with Sakura as Yamazaki went to the driver's seat. Eriol and Tomoyo and Meiling and Jecht got into Eriol's car, and Naoko, Tidus, and Rita and Terada got into Tidus's car.

As Yamazaki drove off, the other two cars followed, all going towards Sakura's apartment.

*~*

They soon arrived to Sakura's apartment building and Yamazaki once again carried Sakura in, and all got into the elevator and went up.

They reached the floor and went into Sakura's unlocked apartment.

"Home sweet home." Terada said.

"Yeah. Real sweet." Sakura said, as she was put down.

They went into the living room and Sakura pressed the remote button to start the fire in the fireplace and all sat on the couches. Sakura went into the closet and got out a few blankets and all shared each blanket in the couch.

"I need to go Christmas shopping." Meiling said.

"Me too, I haven't gone yet." Naoko said.

"We should go later." Meiling suggested.

"Yeah. Has everyone else already gone shopping?"

They nodded. Meiling and Naoko sulked, with a sweat-drop on the back of their heads.

"Sakura, when did you get the time to do it?" Tomoyo asked.

"I've been here the past 2 weeks now, I think I had time to do it." She said, laughing.

As everyone talked and laughed, Sakura gazed into the fire.

'Your body has become weak and will tend to faint. Your chest pain has gotten deeper and will occur more often and heavily. You have heart cancer.'

Those words have been ringing in her head, then more tears formed in her eyes.

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-5:00 pm-

"You were drunk and you raped me last night."

Kiara's words rang in Syaoran's head.

"Did I really? What happened?! Argh!" he was aggravated and punched his apartment wall. He then stood out by the big window. Kiara came out and wrapped her arms around him from behind. He stood there, not paying attention.

*~*A Few Days Later*~*

-3:00 pm- Sakura was home alone and hasn't eaten anything at all that day, which made her weak body ache.

She got up from her bed and went into her closet and got out an outfit. She chose a yellow long sleeve shirt and a pair of dark flared jeans and a black leather overcoat that went down to her knees. She brushed her teeth and washed her face. She went out of her bathroom and brushed her silky straight, long brown hair then did her make up. She put on brown boots and got her purse, then headed out her door.

She got into her car and drove off towards Syaoran's apartment.

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"I'm going to go to daddy for a bit, I'll be back later." Kiara said, then went out of Syaoran's door.

Syaoran sighed and sat on his couch, leaning his head back.

After a while of dozing, the doorbell rang. He got up and went to open the door. He looked to see and was Sakura.

"Syaoran." she said softly.

"What do you want?" he said coldly.

Those words gave her a tiny strike in the chest.

"I just wanted to see you.can I come in?"

He silently sighed and widened the door to let her pass. As she walked in, he smelled her familiar scent again that he's always loved.

"I missed you." She said, stopping at the center of the room.

He closed the door and walked in and sat on the couch.

"Sakura, I have a fiancé."

"I know you do. I was able to tell from the other night."

"Well you don't miss a thing."

"I do miss you, though."

He looked over to her.

"Can't we go back to the way things were? I wanna go back."

"No. I have a fiancé now. And I don't intend on leaving her, for you. My feelings for you changed. There are no feelings left for you." He said coldly.

Tears rolled down her cheeks.

"You don't mean that."

"I do."

Sakura stumbled back, but didn't fall, not wanting to show him. He looked at her with wide eyes.

'Why did she stumble back?' he asked himself.

"Um.I better go.see you later." She said, then headed for the door.

"No.there is no 'see you later.' Don't ever come back here." He said, stopping her from opening the door.

She closed her eyes from those words, wishing she never heard them, and then opened the door and went out. Once the door closed, Syaoran jolted up and cried, regretting those words.

Sakura was outside, slowly heading for her car, while Syaoran watched her from above through his window. She got in the car and drove off.

Syaoran walked back against the wall and laid his head back on the wall. He clenched his fists, angry at himself.

"I'll always love you Sakura." he whispered.

Then the door opened and came in Kiara.

"I'm back." She said as she walked in, but stopped and put a weird look on her face.

"Syaoran.what's that smell?" she asked.

Syaoran quickly turned his head to her with a surprised look.

"H-how should I know?!"

Kiara gave him a look with one eyebrow raised and a sly smile.

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Sakura drove to Tomoyo's mansion and rang the doorbell.

"Coming!" she called out from the other side.

"Oh hey Sakura, come in." she said, opening the door all the way.

Sakura didn't even smile, she still looked spaced out and went in.

"Hey Sakura." Eriol said, coming into the hallway.

Sakura looked at him and then fainted, falling down his way, once Tomoyo closed the door.

"Sakura!" He cried, as he caught her from falling to the floor.

"Sakura!" Tomoyo cried, kneeling down to her and trying to wake her up by shaking her.

Eriol carried her into the living room and laid her on the couch and put a blanket over her.

"Eriol, what's wrong with her?!"

Eriol closed his eyes, concentrating. He searched into her interrupted life force and found her aura was very faint and weak. He shot his eyes open when he found it out.

"What is it?" she asked.

Eriol looked at her with wide eyes.

"She..she has..."

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Tomoyo sat on the other couch, her face hidden in her palms.

"She has heart cancer. I searched deep into her soul and mind, and there are many different pieces of reasons that I couldn't read, but most of them come to Syaoran."

Eriol's words wouldn't go away from Tomoyo's mind. She laid her eyes on Sakura while tears streamed down.

*~*~*~*~*~*

Eriol was at Yamazaki's house where Chiharu and everyone else was at. He told them the news and the girls were all crying by now.

"She can't have heart cancer! How can she?!" Naoko cried.

Eriol didn't say anything, not able to tell them how he even found out.

"Oh Sakura!" Chiharu cried, then sobbed. Yamazaki held her in his arms.

"It's all because of Syaoran!!" Meiling stated. Eriol gave her a surprised look.

"Now that you mention it, if it wasn't for Syaoran, Sakura wouldn't be so miserable and had her heart broken!" Rita said.

"You know it's not like Syaoran has a choice, if he chooses the path to Sakura, then both he, and Sakura will be killed. You heard Syaoran's story." Eriol said.

Chiharu was still sobbing.

"What the hell is God doing right now?! Why is he going to throw Sakura's life away like that?!" Chiharu cried.

"Sakura won't die. I promise, she won't die." Eriol said softly.

-8:00 pm-

Sakura opened her eyes and looked over to see everyone there.

"She's awake." Tidus stated.

"Sakura you feeling ok?" Tomoyo asked, while everyone turned their attention to her.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said faintly. Sakura sat up on the couch and raised the blanket up to her chest.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Chiharu asked, crying.

Sakura looked at them with a surprised look. Then looked at Eriol, who gave her a look telling her that he searched inside her.

"So you found out, huh?" she said, smiling.

"This isn't the time to be smiling!" Meiling cried.

"Sorry guys. I really am."

"Don't be sorry, it's all Syaoran's fault!" Naoko said.

"No it's not his fault. Getting sick is no one's fault."

"Promise us one thing.you have to promise you won't die." Tomoyo said.

"I won't die guys. I'm going to take surgery."

"Surgery don't always work!" Terada said.

"Promise us Sakura!" Tomoyo said again.

Sakura sighed with a smile.

"I promise I won't die." She said, putting her right hand on her heart and left hand raised up.

*~*Week Later*~*

December 20th, Tuesday

-12:00 pm-

The weather was very cold now, and it has snowed the past few days, and most parts outside were all frozen.

Sakura was at home and getting ready for the day. She wore a white long sleeve shirt that had purple designs of flowers on it with a pair of light colored flared jeans and a pair of black high heel boots and big hoop earrings, and wore a black sweatshirt over. She was planning on to go visit Toya. Then the doorbell rang. She went out of her bedroom and opened the front door.

"Package for Miss Sakura Kinomoto." The delivery guy said.

"Oh, thanks." She said, receiving a small box from him.

"Please sign here." he said, handing her a pen and clipboard. She signed her name and then he left.

She closed the door and took it into her bedroom. She sat on her bed and checked to see who it's from.

"Oh it's from dad." She said, and then opened the box.

It revealed a shiny silver necklace with a crystal cherry blossom flower pendant hanging off it. The flower was lightly pink colored, and the stems were light green. The crystals were clear, able to see through it. It also had a folded piece of paper inside. She unfolded it and read it.

Dear Sakura,
I hope you enjoy the necklace. It used to be your mother's. I got it for her Christmas present, years ago, before you were even born. After she passed away after giving birth to you, I kept the crystal hidden along with all her belongings in the attic. I was cleaning the attic out the other day, and found your mother's belongings. It was your mother's most precious possession, now it's yours. Your mother was a very strong woman. I hope you will always wear it and keep it locked up in your heart, so that your mother will be a part of you forever and keep you strong. There are ten pedals on the flower. Each pedal represents precious symbols. Courage, Wisdom, Respect, Kindness, Caring, Friendship, Mind, Strength, Spirit, and Love. I'm giving this to you, because those ten symbols, represents you and your friends. Those ten symbols represented your mother as well. You're just the same. Keep those ten symbols in your heart. I'm sorry I won't be there with you for Christmas, but I hope that crystal cherry blossom necklace will make it up to you. There's been a change of plans. I have to stay here for a few more months, because of business. So I probably will be there in early April. I'm sorry Sakura. And I love you. Stay well.

Love,
Dad

Sakura's tear drops dropped onto the piece of paper, smearing the ink. She put the letter down and gently embraced the fragile necklace up to her chest.

"Mother.if you're up there.please, give me another chance at life. I can't die now. I promised my friends. I can't leave them again.and I can't leave Syaoran again either."

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