A/N: I HATE RETYPING STUFF!! I didn't lyk the previous one that I wrote down so now I had to type it all over again -_-;; oh well…

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Chapter 9: Misunderstanding

            "Wolf??" Sakura repeated, for she could not believe her eyes.

          "SAKURA??" Syaoran said in more shock than Sakura, and rushed from the throne to catch the auburn-haired girl from falling.

          "You know each other??" Queen Yelan questioned, more surprised. Syaoran nodded, simply gazing at Sakura's face. "She's the one that hurt you, is she not, my darling??"

          "What do you mean??" Syaoran asked suspiciously. If one thing was for sure, then that is how sneaky Yelan really is.

          "When you told me that 'Love Hurts', was that her?" Yelan asked slowly. Syaoran looked puzzled, and opened his mouth, "Is that one of those trick questions?"

          "No." Queen Yelan answered almost immediately, looking as innocent as ever.

          "Then yes, she is. The Kinomoto princess that I have fallen in love with," Syaoran muttered. Sakura opened her emerald eyes, and suddenly slapped him.

          "What d'you do that for?!" Syaoran stood up from the slap that Sakura has given him.

          "YOU FUCKING LIAR!" Sakura shouted. Yelan raised her eyebrow. "The princess is supposed to be gracef-"

          "YOU HEAR ME??? HOW MUCH OF A LIAR ARE YOU?!" Sakura yelled in anger and frustration, and took a sword of one of the soldiers, pointing it directly at Syaoran's heart.

          "STOP IT! STOP IT THIS INSTANT!" Yelan shouted worriedly.

          "Stay. Out. Of. My. Fucking. Way." Sakura said angrily. Yelan backed up, looking worried. "Now, Wolf, Who are you, really?" Sakura asked seriously.

          "I am who I will always be. The one who comforted you when you were six, the one who saved you from dying, the one who told you that he loved you—except I just happen to be the prince of a country." Syaoran said truthfully. Sakura dropped the sword to the ground, and jumped behind Syaoran. Putting her hands on Syaoran's neck, she threatened, "Tell me the truth. Tell me why you didn't tell me earlier that you were the prince."

          Syaoran saddened. He turned around, his amber eyes boring into hers. For the first time, Sakura noticed how sorrowful, how sad, how miserable those eyes showed. It was like, as if, he was pulling her into his heart, and wrap her inside for the rest of eternity.

          "I, I didn't tell you because I, I really, really, really love you." Syaoran whispered gently. At the sound of her son's confession, Yelan shrieked and her yell disturbed the whole throne room. As she rushed toward the exit, she looked back at the couple, and softly whipped her tears from her cheeks.

          "And what? You're afraid that once I know that you're my worst enemy, I'll reject you?" Sakura asked suspiciously, her eyes flickering.

          "You have already rejected me."

          "So, you made me think that if you're acting as a 'knight', or whatever that is you're trying to be-"

          "I'm trying to be myself, but your stupid head won't notice it—"

          "Don't interrupt when I am talking, bully," Sakura said angrily. "As I was saying, you made me think that if you're acting as a 'knight', I might have accepted you, right?"

          "AS I WAS SAYING, YOU HAVE ALREADY REJECTED ME." Syaoran repeated.

          "So by chance, you kept lying to me—"

          "Yes. I have. I figured you'd know some day." Syaoran said in misery. "Anyway, I doubt it that you will stay here any longer,"

          "And what does that mean?" Sakura raised her eyebrow. Please don't say I'm going to be put in jail or executed!! Please don't say that I'm going to be put in jail or executed! Please don't say-

          "Well, I must escort you back to your land." Syaoran smiled bitterly.

          Thank you.

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          "Wait a minute… So you're saying that I'm going to go back to where I am from in the first place? Across the Great Lake that we both share?" Sakura asked.

          "It's what you wanted, isn't it?" Syaoran asked again.

          "Well, ye-yeah," Sakura stuttered. She raised her head to look into those amber eyes again. Somehow, she didn't want to leave them, she didn't want to leave those beautiful, piercing eyes behind. She loved them so much, that she wanted to stay with them forever and ever and ever—

          "What??" Sakura said in disgust. "I would never do that!"

          "What? So you don't want to go back to your country??" Syaoran asked, his eyes almost jumping from misery to happiness.

          "Uh no. What I meant was that I would never want to stay here for the rest of my life." Sakura said dully. Syaoran changed immediately from happiness to misery again, his eyes switching between the two channels.

          "When will I go back?" Sakura asked.

          "In five days."

          Five days?? That's a full weekday of staying here with my worst enemy!! Sakura thought bitterly. Syaoran had gone to talk to a bunch of beautiful girls all with silky blonde hair and watery blue eyes that shined like night stars in the sky.

          "So, you went on an adventure and you fought a big, ferocious bear?" One of the Barbie dolls said.

          "Yes, and I myself alone was defeating it," Syaoran smiled, exaggerating.

          Get. The. Hell. Away. From. Him. Sakura thought murderously to the Barbie girls.

          Jealous, my friend?? A little voice rang inside her heart.

          Sakura looked shocked.

She was so not jealous!!

A/N: OK, I hope that's satisfying. The other chap was waaaaay bad!

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The reason I have been updating so late is that my phone line has no dial tone anymore (I dunno why), and my parents had to disconnect it + use a cell phone, so I couldn't get online anyhow. That's why the only time I can update is Saturday or Sunday. And luckily if I ever get my phone fixed -_-;;

To Kikakai:

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