Summary: After five years of Sakura and Syaoran being split up, unspeakable circumstances have required them to reunite. How will Sakura Kinomoto, now a player be able to stand seeing the man who deceived her as an innocent and naïve young girl? Will Syaoran be able to win back the only woman he's thought about for the past five years? Can the ex-best friend's love rekindle? Although Sakura said she wasted her last breath, she needs to learn sometimes, you've simply just got to breathe.

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Just Breathe
By: SweetBabyGurl
Chapter 10: It's Your Fault

It was well past midnight as Sakura lay in Syaoran's arms as she stared up at the sterile white ceiling. She couldn't go to sleep, no matter how hard she tried. So much had happened that day, with Yelan's passing to Tomoyo in a coma state. Sakura's fists curled up at the thought of someone just hurting her best friend and cousin, and not even stopping to see what had been done. Weren't they the least bit guilty that they had injured an innocent person?! Didn't they feel compassion for the her cousin who had been injured. But no, they just left without a word. They didn't even stop the car for crying out loud! Sakura felt a tear make its way down her face, but she squeeze her eyes shut quickly to stop the flow of them all, but this only encouraged it, for another tear made its way down her cheek, followed by another, which was followed by another and another. She really needed some time to herself, and need to think about everything that had happened. Not wanting to wake up Syaoran, she slowly removed herself from her lover's firm grasp and tiptoed outside. She cautiously looked around and seeing no one, she collapsed into a nearby chair, burying her head in her hands. It was then that she felt her cell phone vibrate from inside her pocket. Surprised, she pulled it out from inside her jeans and noticed she had a total of 20 missed calls, and quietly opened up the phone, curious as to who would be calling her at this hour.

"Hello?" She whispered into the phone hesitantly, scared if she spoke in her normal tone she would wake up the patients of the hospital.

"Well it's about time," said an eerily familiar voice on the other side of the phone.

"Who is this?" Sakura asked at once trying hard to recognize the voice.

"Aww, I'm hurt dear Sakura-chan. How can you not recognize my voice?" She heard him ask in a babyish voice. She let out an exasperated sigh as she replied to him in a dull voice, her eyes narrowed with irritation.

"What is it now Daniel? I really don't have time to deal with you and your childish games right now," she told him impatiently.

"Now, it wouldn't have any regard to how your dear friend is in a coma now would it?" She heard his voice tinkle with amusement as he said those words. Her eyes immediately widened in shock, feeling the bile rise in her throat.

"How did you — Daniel, if I find out that you are any way involved with this, then I swear I'll," Sakura hissed but stopped dead in her tracks when she heard someone whisper in her ear.

"You'll do what?" The same voice whispered to her, dripping with malice. Sakura whipped around, her eyes wide with fear. Something was wrong... he was never like this before.

"G-get away from Daniel," Sakura stuttered as she put some distance between herself and him while she backed away, not realizing she was slowly backing herself into a corner.

"Why? Why Sakura? I just wanted to be with you. And you dumped me as if I was yesterday's news! But you know what happened to your friend? That's what's going to happen to you... except you won't survive. If I can't have you, no one can," he said to her in a dangerously low voice as he smirked at her while closing in on his ex-girlfriend, immediately covering her mouth one hand so that her screams would be muffled. He then slowly placed his other hand around her neck and began to softly squeeze, adding more pressure as the seconds went by.

"Get away from her!" Syaoran screamed the moment he saw what Daniel had been doing to Sakura. From the frame of the door where he once stood, he easily jump kicked the unsuspecting Daniel in the side of his body and caught the heavily breathing Sakura in his arms. "What the hell do you think you're doing psycho!" Syaoran's deep voice boomed, catching the attention of one of the nurses who decided not to interfere and call the police who were in the building next to the hospital instead.

"Ask her!" Daniel spat pointing to Sakura.

"He-he was that one that hit Tomoyo with the car Syaoran! He attacked her to get to me and make me suffer!" Sakura sobbed. All the color instantly drained from Syaoran's face when he heard the statement, and the anger towards him grew two times than the original hatred he felt for the man.

"You bastard!" They heard an angry voice call from behind Daniel as Daniel was tackled to the ground, only to find Eriol on top of him, punching him repeatedly in the face. Syaoran decided not to do anything, only hiding Sakura's head in his chest so she wouldn't see the blood oozing from her nose and mouth, for Syaoran knew he would do the same if he ever did that to Sakura. Hell! He wanted to do that right now but had to make sure Sakura was alright first. Just when they thought no one would be able to stop him, the police came rushing in, as they pried Eriol and his fists off of Daniel and put Daniel under arrest for double attempt murder. Once the police were completely gone, leaving only Sakura, Eriol and Syaoran, Eriol turned to Sakura his jaw set tightly.

"This is your fault Sakura. If Tomoyo dies, her blood, is on your hands," Eriol told her, his voice cracking before he staggered away the tears blinding his vision. Guilt buried itself deep inside Sakura's heart for she felt what he said was true. Yanking herself from Syaoran's arms and ignoring his calls, she ran out of the hospital, wanting to be alone because that's the way it should be. If she wasn't alone, she would only end up hurting the ones around her, the ones she cared about.

Syaoran stood where he was as he watched his love flee, knowing she had been hurt by Eriol's words. And although he wanted to do nothing more than comfort her and tell her what he said had indeed been a lie, he wouldn't. Over the years, he learned that when something like this, something bad, had happened Sakura wanted to be alone... at least for a little while. Because if she were to be alone and dwell on those thoughts for too long, those very thoughts would be stuck in her mind and she would think for them to be true. But just because Syaoran couldn't go and comfort his cherry blossom didn't mean he would give his friend a piece of his mind.

"Hiiragizawa," Syaoran growled as he marched over to him, ready to grab him by the collar and knock some sense into him. He was sitting in the chair next to Tomoyo's bed where she peacefully lay.

"I'm sorry," Eriol told him in a hushed tone immediately and Syaoran felt his eyes soften. "I just needed to blame someone other than myself."

"Hiiragizawa, no one is to blame except that freak. And Tomoyo's a lot stronger than she seems. You're not giving her enough credit. She's gonna be perfectly fine man," Syaoran told him, clapping him on the back with a reassuring smile.

"But it's so scary. I don't wanna lose her. She's my life," Eriol whispered softly to his friend with a sigh as he ran a hand through his navy coloured hair.

"And you won't. She'll make it through," Syaoran assured him with a smile once more.

"E-Eriol?" The two heard a weak voice call from beside them.

"Tomoyo!" Eriol immediately cried and launched himself on her, wrapping her in a tight hug. "Thank God you're alright! I don't know what I would do if I lost you," he whispered to her as he caressed her cheek, a bright smile on his face.

"Alright you two, I'm going to go and find Sakura. She's probably had enough time to think about things on her own. You really worried us you know Tomoyo and rest assured, we're glad to have you back," Syaoran told the two with a smile. "Eriol, don't forget to tell the doctor she woke up too. By the way you two, don't do anything naughty while I'm gone alright?" He teased with a smirk of satisfaction when he saw the two usually pale faces of his friends redden. Chuckling to himself, he walked out the door and out of the hospital, only to find Sakura sitting on the roof of the car the two had driven there, a thoughtful look on her face.

"Sakura?" Syaoran asked, in a way she knew he asking if it was alright that he stayed with her. She merely nodded as he took a seat beside her. The two sat together in silence by themselves for a few moments before Sakura decided to break it.

"Is it really my fault that she's in a coma Syaoran?" Sakura asked softly, laying her head on his strong shoulder. He immediately wrapped his arms around her pulling her closer to him.

"No, of course not baby. Eriol was just upset. No one blames you, me, Eriol or anyone else for that matter except Daniel; who's the only person who should even be thought of blaming," he whispered comfortingly in her as she nodded. "By the way," he said once more, as he paused to smirk, "she's awake."

"Are you serious?!" Sakura exclaimed as she looked up to see his face, her own depressed face immediately gone. When she saw him smile, her grin broadened and she jumped off the car, racing into the hospital. Laughing, Syaoran ran in after her.

It had been two and a half weeks since Tomoyo had woken up and much had happened in that small amount of time. Tomoyo was released the next morning after her awakening, and by the fifth day, Yelan's funeral had been put through. It was a respectful funeral, as all of the Li family, which was quite a lot, had managed to come and pay their respects to the previous Li mistress. Two days after the funeral and the Li sisters had returned to their respectful homes teary-eyed, but promised they would soon see the four once again. Since there was so much extra room in the Li mansion, Sakura and Syaoran had convinced Eriol and Tomoyo to stay with them for a while until everything had been settled down considering all of the excitement the friends had been through recently. Since Tomoyo and Sakura were living in the same place again, Tomoyo insisted that she should begin to work on the two's wedding dresses seeing how the two were to be married in a months time. The four had agreed they would have a double wedding, although Tomoyo was quite reluctant at first, seeing how she wouldn't get to videotape her "ultimately kawaii and kerei Sakura-chan in the ultimately kawaii and kerei wedding dress". In the end though, Sakura had promised to get her doubles of the wedding, and that she would set up cameras from every angle. When they all saw how upset Tomoyo had gotten when she couldn't video tape, everyone broke out into laughter while Tomoyo pouted before she too broke out into the hearty laughter and they continued planning for the wedding.

Who said there could never be a happy ending, again?

Finished

Readers: Hey there everyone! Yes, it's finished and I'm so sorry that it's taken me forever to get this one up. I just got my computer reformatted and my friend had to install Microsoft office again but put it on hold for some time because of both our busy schedules. But, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I'm not sure if I'll be doing an epilogue for this one. Probably not to tell you the truth :P By the way, sorry if this one seems kind of rushed, but I really didn't expect for this fic to be over with this chapter. But... I'm glad so many of you enjoyed this fiction hopefully as well as the chapter, and look out because a new fic is coming the moment I finish off my other fic Unforgiven so check it out if you haven't already alright! This is SweetBabyGurl signing off.

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