Hey everyone! It's me Sita, again. I would like to thank all of those people who supported me and sent me encouraging notes and all. But I'm very sorry that I have to say that I will be stopping this story. I just decided to post this part up because it has been sitting on my computer for a while. Once again, I thank all of you that has been so supportive, and who knows, you might be seeing me very soon AGAIN. Maybe I'll start the fic 'To Catch a Falling Star' because I actually have that all organized and ready to go. Or if something jumps into my mind to add to thei story I'll keep going.

Please send me an email or review, if it's an email I'll definitely reply, and I'll try my best with reviews.

Next chapter will be all my thank yous probably... I don't know. Or maybe it'll be the next chapter of Meant to Be. Who knows? Well, for now, I hope you enjoy the chapter and don't forget to review.

Disclaimer: *sigh* Possibly my last disclaimer... or maybe not the last. Anyways, depressing as it is, I do not own Card Captor Sakura and its characters, CLAMP does. But we'll see about that when I win the jackpot!!! MWAHAHAHAHA

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Syaoran entered room number 104 {MN: YES!!! That's Sakura's birthday!!! Get it? 1/04 !!! yayness! Neways... } The room was very... white? Yet, it seemed so depressing in that room. He wasn't sure that it was depressing because it was so dark? Or that everything seemed so plain. Or maybe because Sakura was still lying unconscious on the hospital bed.

Her hair spread under her head, like a silky auburn blanket. Her plain porcelain face was dangerously pale. And most of all, her eyelids were shut, preventing Syaoran from seeing her window to her soul. Those sparkling emerald pools were just not there for him to see. Sakura's slim body was visible under the hospital sheets... the only way that anyone could tell that she was alive was with the small rising and falling of her chest from each breath she took.

Syaoran felt immense levels of guilt. He felt that it was his fault that she was in her current state. All the reasons and words that he had pushed to the back of his mind had come flooding back.

Okay, Syaoran may seem to be hmm... cold and arrogant. But that's all on the outside. He never had purposely hurt anyone before. In fact, that was why he had never really told Meilin to break off the engagement.

Right now, a side of him appeared... that was even foreign to himself. It was frightening. He felt really depressed. And he really wanted Sakura to wake up. In fact... he wanted to do something that he never thought he would do. Apologise.

But then again... that little voice tried to tell him that Sakura wouldn't care if he apologized because he HAD gone a little too far. So what was the point of apologizing if they were going to change their view of you if you did.

Slowly as time passed, Syaoran had let tiredness take over him, and fell asleep in the chair.

*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ in Syaoran's dream *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^

{MN: Sorry if this gets confusing... I'll try my best}

"Mother!!! I don't want to marry!!! It's not right to force people into a marriage!!!" yelled an eighteen-year-old chestnut haired boy.

"You have no choice. You will be engaged to Meilin in a week. You are the right age to get married. It was your choice anyway" replied a stern and confident woman

"I WAS SIX!!! I never knew that marriage meant that I would be with her for the rest of my life!"

"DON'T raise your voice at me Xiao Lang. It's either Meilin or someone else that I choose. This conversation has ended"

next part of Syaoran's dream

"Meilin! Get lost! Please. Can you just let me have some space. Just go away!!!" said an exasperated Syaoran

"B-b-but I want to keep you company. I want to be with you Xiao Lang" replied a teary ruby eyed Meilin

"JUST GO!!!!! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!" roared Syaoran, losing his cool

And Meilin stomped off, letting her long black hair fly wildly behind her.

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And after Meilin ran off, a young lady approached Syaoran. Once Syaoran saw her, he wondered what on earth she was doing in his house in HIS part of the garden. The way her blonde hair swished from side to side as she catwalked up to him with a fake sugary smile plastered on her face.

"Hey Syaoran. How are you? Why are you here by yourself? I'll keep you company," she flirted

"Call me Li, only family and close friends call me Syaoran and go away. I just told Meilin to go away and now You come along. I think I'd ACTUALLy rather Meilin if I had to choose. But, I don't. So You can go and leave me in peace" said Syaoran in an icy tone

"Awww... Syaoran baby, you know you don't mean that. You know you want me just as much as I want you. Now, why don't you give me a friendlier welcome and we can go on from there... you never know, we might go further than you expect," she whispered to him in his ear, getting as close as possible and talking in a seductive voice.

Syaoran looked disgusted by what she meant. He stood up and said, "I am not intending to go ANYHERE with you and I don't think I ever will. So, get lost Ichibera, if your family wasn't tied with me I think I might have been tempted to throw you out."

Ryo stood up and stomped her foot on the ground, "Syaoran! I know you want me. Why don't you just give in?!? Stop playing hard to get. Look, I guess we'll have to do it my way to soften you up," she said and she got closer to him and pulled him down with amazing force and forced her lips upon his.

{MN: Ryo was trained in Wing Chun with she was young (A style of martial art) so she knew how to protect herself. *COUGH**COUGH* So that's why she could pull Syaoran down}

Syaoran, being disgusted by her sudden move pushed her back immediately, making her stumble and grasp onto his shirt to keep herself up.

But before Syaoran could say anything.

He heard a shriek.

A very familiar shriek.

He turned around to see Meilin, standing there tears rimmed at her eyes, but were forbidden to fall. And next to her stood Yelen. His mother and so called fiancée had just seen another girl kiss him and that girl was currently holding onto his shirt possessively.

"Meilin, I think you should leave to your room," ordered Yelen.

But Meilin couldn't hear her because she had leaped onto Ryo, tackling her down.

"ARRGGHHHH" screamed Ryo,

"YOU BITCH!!! YOU KISSED MY FIANCÈ!!! HOW DARE YOU LAY YOUR DIRTY HANDS ON MY COUSIN!!!" screeched Meilin.

"GET OFF ME YOU CRAZY WOMAN!" yelled Ryo who was currently being tackled under Meilin.

"Meilin. Get off now," said Syaoran, pulling her around the waist off of Ryo, "You're hurting yourself and Ichibera. Calm down Meilin. You're making a fool of yourself"

Meilin struggled off of Syaoran.

"I'm not hurting myself OR Ichibera as much as YOU just hurt me! Why did you lie to me? Why did you tell me to go and let Ichibera stay? If you hate me THAT much then why didn't you say? You shouldn't have let my hopes soar that high! If you really hate me that much then break off the engagement! You're even protecting her now... Syaoran... you never protected me" said Meilin her voice and head both lowering as her speech went on.

"I don't hate you Meilin. I never have and never will. And I don't like Ichibera. In fact, currently, if I do hate someone, it would be her. I told her to leave but she wouldn't. She launched herself on me. Meilin..." said Syaoran in his rare soft voice, "I'm sorry, stop crying please. I don't like seeing my cousin cry" he added, wiping the tears off her face.

"Yeah Syaoran... that's what I'll always be to you. Your cousin. Never anything more than a cousin or a friend," she whispered and she turned her heels and walked off.

"I'm sorry but you're right Meilin," whispered Syaoran to himself.

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Syaoran slowly woke up to see that he was sitting in an uncomfortable chair next to a hospital bed in a very white room. It took him a moment or two to actually register why he was there.

'Oh, Kinomoto...'

She still wasn't awake. Then his dream registered in his mind again. However, it wasn't exactly a dream. It was a series of flashbacks. The events that finally lead him to leave Hong Kong and fly to live in Japan.

The events that ... lead to his escape.

It was because of that, Meilin had finally decided to postpone the wedding until when she fully understood what she wanted to do.

Syaoran sat there and waited. He waited for Sakura to awakn. Time passed and his eyes were still planted on Sakura and his posture had not changed in that uncomfortable white plastic chir. Hours had come and gone and slowly, the anaesthetic had worn off and Sakura showed the slightest sign of consciousness.

Syaoran watched as Sakura's eyelids fluttered open slowly to reveal her deep emerald eyes.

"Kinomoto..." said Syaoran gruffly

"mmm... water... I'm thirsty", she croaked back

Syaoran hurried over and got her a cup of water and gently lifted her up as she drank it.

"What are you doing here Li? Or more importantly... what am I doing here?!? Where's everyone?" she said frantically after drinking the water.

"I'm here because I was waiting for you to wake up. You're here because you had an overdose of alcohol and had a concussion. You just woke up after falling unconscious. And you had your stomach pumped. Everyone else had to go home because they all have to go to work today," he said quietly

"Why did you stay? You can go now. Thank you for informing me everything li- san" replied Sakura in an icy whisper

"I'll go after I say what I need to. And I hope you listen carefully because I'll only be saying it once" he said

"What?"

"I'm sorry" he whispered as he got up and walked to look out the window

"I'm sure I just heard wrong... but did I just hear almighty Li apologise?"

"I don't admit I'm wrong often but today I do. I'm sorry Kinomoto (MN: he said it again anyway!!!) what I did was wrong. But you don't have any idea how hard it was for me, you didn't know my side of the story either. . You just started your accusations. I'll just clear this out, I have absolutely nothing to do with Ichibera Ryo... nothing at all. Never have, never will," with that, he turned around from the window and left Sakura there dumfounded.

But at the door, he added, "I booked this to be a private room for you. You can use ll the facilities and press the red button if you need any help. And... I've got one of my guardsd outside you door... in case... just call him Jay, shout out to him if anything happens" and he turned to leave.

"Why?" asked Sakura, surprised and her tilted cutely.

"Why what?" replied Syaoran, hand on the door knob.

"Why all this?"

"Because I don't like to be in debt of people. And... I might have to admit that I owe you something. I should not have slapped. No matter what happens I've been taught to land a hand on any female and yesterday I did. So, I have taken it to be my responsibility to let you get the best treatment... I had a feeling that I would have been a small part of the reason that you drank so much as well. The guard is here because Sukiteka Hatoshi's stalking you," he said. With each word, Sakura could hear that he meant what he was saying. Then the words finally processed in her mind.

"WHAT?!?!?!??! SUKITEKA HATOSHI IS STALKING ME?!?"

"Yes, And he never gives up until he gets what he wants and in this case, it's you"

...silence...

"Well... I... I think I better get going. Everyone'll be back by tonight sometime. If all goes well, you should be able to leave tonight some time or tomorrow morning. Get some rest, and if you're hungry, give Jay a shout. He'll be out later to get you some magazines and stuff. I'll probably be back with Eriol later." Syaoran said

"Thanks... Li..." said Sakura gratefully

"I should have. Bye"

Sakura stayed in her bed, perplexed by Syaoran's sudden change of attitude.

'Boy... he sure does have his share of mood swings'

She thought about him and his actions a lot, until finally, she fell into a dreamless sleep.

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"Sakura"

mumble

"Sakura. Get up!"

"Mmm... hold on onii-chan... 5 more minutes"

"Saakuuuuuraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! Get up! You're going to be late for school, Terada-sensei will not be happy!!!!!"

"HOE?!??!" cried Sakura and she jumped out of bed, then sat back down after being hit with a wave of dizziness. She looked around the room, scrunched up her face in thought. "Mou... Tomoyo-chan, Chiharu-chan. You're so mean. I was asleep."

"Yes, I think we noticed that," said the girls through giggling, "still works after so many years. Sakura, Terada-sensei would our sensei in primary school."

Sakura pouted

"Well, anyways Sakura, how are you feeling? You had Tomoyo and I so scared last night. It's way past noon, so I thought it's time for you to wake up for something to eat. The nurse said you're fine to eat," said Chiharu

"Oh yeah, Touya-san called. He's trying to get back here as soon as he can. A little overreacted we guess. But he's been caught up at work," said Tomoyo

"Thanks. Another great thing that I can look forward to," said Sakura sarcastically

"Well we've gotta get going. Got work, we're in our lunch break. By the way... did Li do or say anything to you after we left, we were really worried. But he insisted that he stayed until you came about," asked Tomoyo curiously

"Yeah, because if he did, I would personally kill him for you, and this would not be just a little bang on the head," said Chiharu firmly.

"Nah, he was fine. In fact, he apologized. I think I should as well. I did overreact a little when he was with Ichibera," said Sakura softly

"Wow..." said Chiharu

there was a silence... then....

"KAWAII!!!!!! OHOHOHOHO!!! KAWAII! I never thought about it. Sakura-chan and Li-kun... perfect match... how kawaii? *squeal*" screeched Tomoyo, with stars in her eyes making all of people in a 100m radius wince and Sakura and Chiharu sweatdrop.

"Tomoyo, don't let your imagination run too wild. He only apologized. You make it sound like he proposed."

"Actually Sakura, I have to agree with Tomoyo a little. You can never see Li Syaoran apologize to anyone, and he did to you, so there has to be some chemistry behind that. But we'll leave you to think that one out. I think we should go before we get into trouble and before Tomoyo starts designing your wedding dress" said Chiharu

"Pfft... there's no need for that, I did THAT ages ago. I should start thinking about what camera I should use on the night though...." Said Tomoyo dreamily.

Chiharu fell over anime-style.

"Bye Sakura!!! See you later" she said while pulling Tomoyo out of the place.

'*sigh* my friends, always the same' Sakura thought to herself with a smile on her face.

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*BANG**BANG*

"LET ME IN! I WANT TO SEE HER!!!"

"Sorry sir, I'm on specific orders here. Please leave immediately before I make you,"

"Well, with human rights, I demand you to let me in"

"Well, with a black belt in karate, I demand you leave at once!"

"You wouldn't dare!"

"Try me"

"Hmm? What's going on?" said a sleepy Sakura, opening her door to find Jay and... urghh... Sukiteka Hatoshi.

"Oh! Sorry Kinomoto-san, I didn't know that I woke you up, can I help you with anything?" asked Jay

"Nah, I'm fine Jay, thanks for asking," said Sakura, totally ignoring Hatoshi. And she turned around about to close the door.

"WAIT! Sakura!!!"

"It's Kinomoto-san for you Sukiteka. Please leave now. Or I may have to ask Jay to escort you" said Sakura tiredly

"You wouldn't do such a thing, you're too soft"

"Try me"

Slam

Sukiteka stared at the closed door.

'Sakura's just playing hard to get, I know she wants me. And if she doesn't I'll make her want me back."