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Stars
By: Kinomoto Touya
Author's Notes: Well, this is it. My final installment for my first Card Captor Sakura fan fiction, Stars. It took me a while because I was really, really thinking of what ending will I place in here. Thank you so much for those people who spent an amount of time reading this. This is dedicated for all of you. Oh yeah, I got excerpts from the song, 'In the Perfect World', OST of Lion King II: Simba's Pride. XD

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"Love suffers long and kind; Love does not envy;
Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
Does not behave rudely; does not seek its own,
Is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity,
But rejoices in truth; bears all things, believes all things,
Hopes all things, endures all things; Love never fails."

---Saint Paul's letter to the Corinthians

Stars
Epilogue: In the Perfect World

"I still can't believe that this is happening!" Sakura shouted just outside the emergency room. "I am just inside a nightmare. Yeah, just a nightmare, right Tomoyo?"

"Um...right, Sakura," Tomoyo replied, not knowing what to say. "Just calm down. Take a seat, will you?"

Sakura sank down to one of the hospital chairs and buried her face on her sweaty palms. "This is my fault, Tomoyo-chan! This is all my fault. Everything is just too wrong..."

"Do not blame yourself, my friend." Tomoyo placed her arm over Sakura's shoulder. "This like this really happen. Plus, Syaoran is a strong kind of person. He can...he can make through this."

Hikaru then appeared, his face were very emotionless.

"Hikaru-chan!" Tomoyo called. Sakura rose up, hearing his name. "What happened to...to..."

"There is still no results," Hikaru replied. "But the doctor gave me a hint that we won't be able to hear good news. He is barely alive with a bunch of broken bones and even his cranium---"

"Stop! Stop it!" Tomoyo shouted to her 'brother'. "Please..." she wearily continued. "Just you stop it...can't you see, Sakura-chan? This is...this is more than she can handle."

"I know," he answered back still with no trace of emotions. "But that is the truth Tomo-chan. I know it is hard for her to accept, but this is the way the truth is. And truth always comes out, eventually...it won't be always nice, and you know it."

"REI!" Tomoyo gasped. "Please. Could you please...shut your mouth!"

"I get it but I still do not understand it," he walked away. "Excuse me but I have to do my project in Theatre Arts. Sorry..."

"I get it too, but neither I understand anything of it," Tomoyo thought sadly, while looking at her best friend standing, all alone and still in the state of shock. "But what can I do? I know how hard the accident has broke up. I know secretly, that Syaoran might die. But how about Sakura? How can I make her, understand this thing. She'll be..."

Sakura then laughed, but tears still flowed down from her eyes. "I-I am stupid , Tomoyo. I have almost every power in the world. I-I can command the water, I am over fire. But...I can't do anything to save Syaoran now. Really...I can't do anything. Can flowers from the Flower Card be able to save him? Can the Loop Card be able to be any help? Can the Mirror Card do something? No...right? I feel..."

"Don't say those things!" Tomoyo snapped. "He'll be fine without the use of any Sakura Card! He will me through this!"

The doctor, Kiritani Hiro, then came out of the Emergency Room. His perfectly ironed and white suit are now tainted with red, smelly blood.

"So how is he, Kiritani-sensei?" Sakura faced the doctor helplessly. "How is he?"

Doctor Kiritani raised his eyeglasses on his thin temple.

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In a perfect world
One we've never known
We would never need
To face the world alone

I want nothing but to be happy. I want to be with my family, my friends and of course, the one I love the most. I love my father, my annoying brother, by best friends and of course, Syaoran that is why no matter how hard it is I try to survive and try to be happy because of them.

A tap on the shoulder is barely felt nowadays. But the moment her hand touches my shoulder, I know that no one else I can run to but her.

"Sakura-chan?" her pale face trembled. These were the very, very few times I saw her eternally smiling face worried. "Are you, alright?"

"Tomoyo," I tearfully look upon her face, smiling. "Thank you...Pain also exist not for me anymore because pain had broken my heart into a million pieces. I no longer have my heart anymore."


They can have the world
We'll create our own
I may not be brave or strong or smart
But somewhere in my secret heart

Tomoyo sat beside me. But she didn't say anything nor do anything. I just felt her arm over my quivering shoulders.

"Let her be it, Daidoji-chan!" a voice split the eternal, lonely silence. "I'll talk to her if you can't!"

"Meilin..." we look upon her.

Meilin smirked, but loneliness were also painted in her eyes. "Care to chat?"


I know, love will find a way
Anywhere I go, I'm home
If you are there beside me

Meilin sat on my left and paused. Finally, she said,

"You do not need to be strong always," she blurted firmly. "You do not need to appear strong always! You are a girl! You can cry now! We could, understand you! Because I---you...you are lucky that he had loved you for the last moment of your life!"

Tears flowed down her eyes.

Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way

"He's not dead!" I shouted. "He is not dead! He is just sleeping! The doctor, he must have made a mistake!"

"You---I..." Meilin hesitated.

"Sakura-chan," Tomoyo stood up, then helplessly fell down the seats again. Her hand clutches her chest tightly. "Sakura-chan...Saku..."

I was so afraid
Now I realize
Love is never wrong
And so it never dies

"I am so sorry..." I uttered, breathing heavily. "Never, never had happen something this difficult in my life. I-I just do not know how to accept this. He is all I ever had in my heart," tears rolled again in my eyes. "But you are right, Meilin, he did love me until the end, and I couldn't thank God more for giving me him, as my one true love. Even if He had taken him, I am very grateful that even for a short period of time I shared a lot of moments with him, and forever, I'll treasure it in my heart."

I clenched my chest tightly, and smiled. What a difference.


There's a perfect world
Shining in your eyes
And if only they could feel it too
The happiness I feel with you

Meilin smiled and held my hand tightly. "Syaoran must be very happy to have you. You are too worthy of him."

"Thank you, Meilin," I nodded. "And for me, he hadn't gone a long, long way from me. Because I believe that true love never have a happy ending that is because true love, it never ends..."

~*~

"It is way to corny," a voice annoying said. I do not know if it is my imagination but the voice way to real.

"CUT!"

The background music turned off.

I quickly dry my tears and laughed wholeheartedly. That is what exactly, Tomoyo and Meilin did. I never knew I could survive that long.

"Hahaha...I admire the way you let those tears out, Sakura!" Meilin smiled, tossing a bottle of distilled water into my hands.

I caught the bottle, "Thanks, Meilin!" I giggled. "But I must admit, it was hard!"

"Hah, girls, thanks for helping me with my Theatre Arts project!" Hikaru bowed upon us, smiling. "We are so near to perfect, and we'll just finish some parts later after that I'll film it tomorrow and my problem is solved. I was really worried with that subject."

"Aha!" Meilin exclaimed. "Is that the reason why you are so cold with us these days? Because you are just worried with a simple subject?"

"Partly," Hikaru smiled. "But it is because I do not know you yet."

"But why did you use my name to be the victim? Plus the lines were a little corny!" I heard wheels wheeling from the door. And I saw him there, still bruised all throughout his body, but he looks a whole lot healthier now than from the last time I saw him in the hospital. I think, it will take just a little time for him to be fully recovered.

"Syaoran!" I lose my self and quickly run to him and embraced him tightly. I really, really missed him.

"Sakura, I am okay now, but..." he gently said. "But...could you please go a little light on me for a while? I still feel a whole lot of hell."

I jumped back, "Sorry!"

From our window, shooting stars rained upon the sky. The stars twinkled the brightest that night.

"Oh, things would be better now, don't you think?" Tomoyo smiled, glancing at Hikaru.

I couldn't agree more.

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Author's Notes: It turned out to be happy :D. I was about to kill Syaoran on this chapter, but then my mind plays weirdly. Hehe...thank you for reading this last installment of my story! Finally, please review/flame! It would be the best birthday gift for me :D (my birthday is on 0508, shameless plug :D). ---050504

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