~ethereal-moonrain (formerly known as Li-yingfa1)
Chapter 3: Tell me what the rain knows
Tell me what the rain knows
O are these the Tears of Ages
That wash away the Wolf's Way
And leave not a trace of the day?
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Even the rain was speechless. He could no longer feel the rain pouring down on him, nor the freezing wind. "I knew you'd come." She smiled and said to him. "But I'm sorry" he gaze at her amethyst eyes for a moment as if searching for the sun. "I'm not her. And I'm sure who you are waiting for, and I'm certain enough that she wouldn't come."
She extended her ghostly pale hands to him and tried to form a little rainbow underneath the black umbrella. She smiled to him "Tomoyo Daidouji, my name is Tomoyo Daidouji." For a second he pondered about her name but wave it off and extended his hands to her. "My name is Syaoran Li". They shook their hands. Another introductions, this is the second time. But only Tomoyo remember.
"I have to go" he excuses himself and ran away so fast that all she could do was wave goodbye and shouted on him "I'll be waiting here!" he look back a bit for some time but didn't stop. She watched his back as it disappear into the cold clammy hands of rain. "Again"
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Syaoran inhaled deeply and looked at his white ceiling. He wanted to ask anyone what was happening to him. But he knew no one could possibly answer him. His gaze suddenly fell on the old radiophone that had started this. He fingered the dust over it. Then suddenly it beeped the roaring sound was there once again. He pressed the red button almost immediately.
"You didn't came" Funny they both said the same. "But I did! It was raining hard, I've waited." He argued to the receiver, almost smashing it into pieces.
"Liar! I came there and it was not raining. It was a very hot day!" she retorted back to him. Amazing how a seven year old could talk and think like this. Almost like him.
From both side they were confuse. Each wondering about how sincere the other spoke. Pondering if they should believe one another, even they say the opposite of what really happened. "I think I have to go now. My oka-san is calling me." She said in almost a whisper. But he heard her.
He no longer hears the beeping sound and put the phone down once again. He sighed and walks outside.
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She frowns slightly as she went down the stairs. "Sakura dear, would you please bring this cake over Mrs. Daidouji's house?" came a soft voice from the kitchen.
A seven-year-old Sakura came towards her mother quietly and take the large cake from her. "Come back as soon as you have done that okay? No more wandering around." Nadesico reminded opening the door for her daughter. "Yes, Yes"
The night was quiet, but murmuring insects here and there. She stroll pass by the school gate and had finally reached the place. It was a huge house with a fountain in the middle. She pressed the doorbell and rang it twice. She smiled as the door flung open by one of the maids. "Ah—Thank you, this must be the cake Mrs. Daidouji ordered." Sakura just nodded slightly to her and walk away.
She weakly kicked a stone on her way. She was already in front of their school and on her way back home. But she stood there for a moment, simply staring at the wall hearing nothing, feeling nothing. Meekly she places her hands over the wall.
She gasp, mysteriously a hand seems to be touching hers. Closing her eyes from the world as if holding the truth in her palms as she felt the rough wall.
Their worlds a million miles apart. Time, wavering to what it's doing. Asking, pondering—to the things that's happening.
She looked up to the sky facing the faint light of the moon. Her hands trailing on it as she slowly walks. And what she didn't know, what they both don't know, their hands together for once. No one can see but the faint glow of the sky's lamp was showing it. Clearly.
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Had the sun completely go astray into the wide space? Has the moon melted away by the radiating heat of the sun? Where are the stars? Are they completely out of sight? No more little sparkling dots.
A million light years away . . .
Would the rain tell me? Of what has become with the sun, the stars, and the moon? Are they hiding the truth from me or is my sky just blocked?
With a million light years away—
Li Syaoran find himself standing in front of the old school. He put his finger on the wall tracing the cracks it has. Until his whole palm fully connected with it. He shudders it seems as if a hand reach out for his.
He dismissed all of those fleeting thoughts over him and walks slowly his left hand still touching the wall.
What has the world trying to do? Their hands touching – but a million light years away . . .
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"Sakura?" a hurried voice came, he was panting. "Eriol? What are you doing here?" for a second her hand left the wall.
"Thank god! I thought it was your house that is burning! Can't you hear that? Lots of people rushing by to a house caught in fire! I thought it was your house so I came immediately!" a nine-year-old Eriol explained looking at Sakura with such hopeful eyes.
"Fire?" and that is the only time she had taken notice of the world she was in right now. She hurriedly ran towards the direction of the fire.
She arrived there with Eriol running after her. There were too many people but she manages to squeeze herself to the crowd from upstairs a loud cry came. But nobody could come any nearer in fear. There were no firemen yet. And they just watch from there, knowing somebody was trapped inside. From an inch to Sakura is a crying woman probably the owner of the house. "My son! My son is still there!" she cried helplessly.
Sakura heard her and rushed to a water fountain in front of the burning house and splashes water to her body and to the open arms of the fire.
People tried to stop her but she came too quickly for them. Coward humans letting the little girl take action just shook their heads murmuring to themselves "poor girl".
The inside of the house was an inferno. Things being drawn down one by one by the gravity, detaching it selves from wherever they are holding into. She reached upstairs and time stood still again. He sees her. Amber met emerald.
"Let's go now!" she shouted to him holding out her hands to him. Once more their hands entwined—by destiny.
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O tell me what the rain knows. I know there is something beyond this. There is beyond the galaxies away.
He looked up to the sky facing the droplets of water caressing his face. His left hand still there, frozen. For a moment he felt the 'invisible' hands go away. A part of himself being pulled.
--A thousand light years away---
In a split second he felt a cold hand gently rested on his, replacing the warm one. He looked up and met with amethyst eyes once again. Tomoyo was gazing to his eyes, her pale face just a breath away---
---A thousand light years away . . . away . . .
Tell me what the rain knows
O are these the Tears of Ages
That wash away the Wolf's Way
And leave not a trace of the day?
Tell me what the rain knows
O is this the flood of fortune
That pours itself upon me?
O see how I drown in this sea
Hark, hear the howl that eats the moon alive
Your fur is on fire
The smoke turns the whole sky raven black
And the world upon your back will crack
Where will you go
Now you've no home?
Let the rain wash away your last days
~~ the world clashes down, they're a thousand light years away, but their heart --- remains, as one.
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A.N. : **SIGH** Finish it! Oh well I'll try explaining things first since many (if not all) are confuse. Guess its time to bring daylight in your minds!
First, Sakura was born in the year 1977. While Syaoran 1979. That means Sakura is older than Syaoran in 2 years.
(Actually in the REAL Card Captor Sakura, Sakura is REALLY older that Syaoran, see? She is born April 1 while Syaoran July 13. And April comes first. ^__^ this doesn't concern with my fic —just for the information for some who doesn't know hehe)
Second, Sakura and Syaoran officially meet in the year 1984, in which Sakura is seven years old and Syaoran is 5 years old.
Third, in the year 2004 Syaoran is 25 years old, Sakura 27 years old (if she IS ALIVE!) okay I did mention she's dead ne? (maybe)
^*^*^*Now enough with their ages. Let's explain their current situation. The story starts in the year 2004 where in Syaoran came back to his old town, wherein he met Sakura before, back at the year 1984. They are currently communicating through a short wave radiophone. How? I can't tell, it's not yet mention in the story. So to sum it all They are in different time slots, but they had met before. I'm sorry if you still didn't get it. But I'm hoping you guys understand my explanation, not really good at it. Well if you are still confuse with something you're free to ask. Thanks for the reviews!
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~Ethereal-moonrain a.k.a Li-Yingfa1