A/N: Well, I guess I've been prolonging the true ending to Wonderful Journey and I haven't had the will to post the epilogue but since it's Christmas…well I guess I have to let this fic go sometime…-sigh- this is it people…. THE LAST CHAPTER TO WONDERFUL JOURNEY!!! Let us take our last breath of air before we finish this fic once and for all! TT.TT Oh I'm going to miss it soooooooooo, so much!!!!!
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Wonderful Journey
By: maixwolfblossom
Disclaimer: Gosh I'll miss saying this for a while… TT.TT "I don't own CCS! CLAMP does!" Ohoho! -breaks down in tears-
--Chappie Nineteen—
--Epilogue—
It was a wonderful day in the big booming city of Hong Kong. It was almost perfect. The sun was still far off into the horizon, not even showing it's full light onto the busy streets of Hong Kong.
Waking up next to the love of his life, all refreshed and ready to go was our dear, dear Syaoran Li… At least he expected to see her there…
Blinded by the morning light, Syaoran gave her a soft peck on the cheek but only came in contact with a pillow.
Syaoran stared at the empty pillow in surprise, 'Now where did she go??' He groaned in mock frustration, aching to see Sakura's face. Syaoran rushed all around the house trying to find her so he could cuddle her senseless. All that heartache really did get to him, after all. Now he'd be too afraid to ever let her go again.
Too exhausted to search any longer, he slumped onto the sofa in surrender, 'Well, at least I got my exercise for the day...'
He almost completely gave up, until suddenly, an odd and zippy idea popped into his mind, "There's only one more place she could be..."
Throwing on his jacket, he hurried out the door, grinning like a fool, "Anything for her…'
SAKURA
Anything For Him
If raindrops could describe the emotions raging within me…
It'd make an ocean
He'll never know how much I care
Or how I wish he were there
Or how my heart skips a beat when he holds me tight at night
Maybe he will someday..
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Sakura sighed, taking in the calm air as she sat at her usual spot in Wolf Park, '…Finally… that someday has come…'
Sakura fingered her ring that lay so gently around her engagement finger. As she looked closely, she noticed the mesmerizing beauty of it; but one thing did go unnoticed from before… There seemed to be some sort of inscription along the edge of the ring.
It read:
"To my Sweetcherry. A symbol of our love… More powerful than all the Clow Cards in the world… From: wolfishxlixgrin"
Sakura smiled as she reminisced about those old times in her childhood. Way back in her card collecting days. He was always there for her no matter what. Through all the stress and all the chaos… he was always there to get her through it all. She knew they were always meant to be. But she never knew her relationship would get this far with Syaoran. 'It's almost like my own fanfiction story…' Sakura thought amusingly.
"Nice ring………Kaijuu(monster)."
Sakura looked up, instantly recognizing that voice, "Onni-chan…" She slowly stood up and stared at him in awe, "Onni-chan………………" She stomped his foot, 'Man it feels so good to do that after so many years…' "I AM NOT A KAIJUU!!!"
"ITAIII(Ouch, ow, etc.)!!!!!"
"…Keh… Serves you right…"
The two looked up, and there, leaning casually against the sakura tree was Syaoran.
(A/N: Do I sense something coming on??? I think I do ;P)
Touya's hazel eyes were automatically fixed upon Syaoran's, all fired-up, "YOU!"
Sakura sweat-dropped, "Onii-chan, if Syaoran-kun and I are to be married, you guys are going to have to learn how to get along. You two are going to be brother-in-laws afterall."
"Ew! Don't refer to this wimpy shrimp of a gaki as my brother-in-law!"
"Whoa, woah! Who's a 'wimpy shrimp of a gaki'???"
"Who do you think I mean???"
Sakura shook her head in amusement, 'They sure do act like brothers.'
"Oi, Sakura-san!"
Sakura looked up and saw her father walking towards her, "Otou-san?!" Sakura ran to her father's arms and gave him a big hug, "Oh otou-san… I missed you so much!"
His weary eyes smiled at Sakura, "I've missed you too. My, you've grown quite a lot. And now… you're finally getting married."
Sakura gave him a bright smile, "Thank you… For everything, father…"
"No need to thank, Sakura-san. It's a father's duty," he chuckled as he gave her a peck on the head.
Sakura giggled as the thought occurred to her, "Never would I have thought that I'd get married before onii-chan." She stuck her tongue out at him.
Touya crossed his arms in hurt pride, "Hmph.. It's only because I'm too cool to commit to one girl."
"So in other words, girls are too scared to approach him," Syaoran scoffed.
A vein popped on Touya's forehead as his glare was averted towards Syaoran, "Why you little…"
--MEANWHILE—
Upon the small lake was a happy little couple rowing slowly across the lake in their swan pedal boat. Built perfectly for two.
Meiling smiled and sighed contently as she laid her head upon Toji's shoulder, "You know… I don't think I've ever met anyone like you, Toji-kun… This is going to be the beginning of a wonderful relationship…"
He smiled back, "I agree."
"And it's funny how we just met yesterday at that bar… But yet… I feel like we're soul mates."
--FLASHBACK—
Meiling sighed as she walked into the bar, '… I'm not having any luck… I just don't see any guy that I find interesting.'
She walked over to the counter and slumped onto one of the barstools, 'I'll just have face it… There is no Mr. Right…'
"What will you be having, m'am?"
"One apple margarita… No ice…"
Meiling looked at her surroundings. It was quite a colorful place. Happy people all over the place. But that was until she caught sight of a blonde-headed man with a gloomy heir to him. He muttered incoherently about something having to do with a 'girl marrying her brother'…1
Or at least that's what Meiling heard. He seemed depressed and down in the dumps… And there was something about him that gave a lonely feeling. Meiling frowned. Even if she didn't know the guy, no one should ever be that depressed in such a happy place. She took her drink with her and decided to approach him.
"Hi there," she smiled brightly.
He looked at Meiling suspiciously, "Hi.." A smile tugged at his lips.
Sakura sweat dropped as she attempted to stop another glaring match from starting, "Now, now you two. There's no need for an argument here--"
But her sentence was cut short as she caught sight of a couple riding a swan pedal boat.
A shocking realization dawned on her, "um… Syaoran-kun? Are they…who I think they are???"
Syaoran turned to look at the lake, and instantly, as he too realized who they were, his eyes grew to the size of saucers, "MEILING?! …MR.--…MR. TOYOKO??"
Running after the swan shaped boat, and leaving Touya behind (who was tying his shoe) they investigated this weird phenomenon.
It took many minutes of rubbing eyes and following the strangely serene loving couple until it hit both Sakura and Syaoran's confused minds that it was indeed Meiling and Mr. Toyoko.
Syaoran and Sakura sat at a near by bench and thought for a while.
Sakura was the first to break the silence, "Since when did Meiling have a taste for egotistic maniacs?"
The amber-eyed man looked up into the sky and opened his mouth as to say something, but ended up closing his mouth again. He looked at Sakura and started to say something, but he stopped himself before he could begin.
This went on for many more minutes until a very red faced, ragged breathed Touya came into the view stomping over the flowers that grew near the lake.
"D-d-don't yo--ou thi-n-nk you for-for-got to wait for someone?" Touya panted, while Sakura beadily looked him over and shook her head.
Instead of explaining his words, Touya collapsed next to Syaoran's feet.
Syaoran tilted his head, looking down, "What's got him beat?"
Sakura shrugged, nonchalantly, "I have no idea…" she scooted closer to her prince charming and snuggled up into his arms, hearing an occasional 'owww' from the unconscious Touya who she accidentally trotted on.
With a mumbled sorry and momentarily forgetting about the strangest sight they had behold, the young couple held on to one another, Sakura curled up against her Little Wolf as his arms held on to her protectively.
They watched the sun rise as it covered the park in it's blanket of warmth, they both looked at each other's eyes and for once in their lives, they felt peace within their hearts.
Syaoran's face hovered against Sakura's as he shared a smile with her and before any of them knew it, their lips met in a sweet kiss, promising them a new day each and every day.
The End…or is it???
Nah…there's more…
A few minutes before…
Tomoyo's anonymous caller was right, her targets were in action at this very park for she had spotted a very distressed Syaoran and Sakura chasing something.
But in her perfect planned mind, she felt something had gone wrong, yet she couldn't put her finger on it.
She turned her gaze to her fiancé and rolled her eyes. Eriol just had to delay their flight just because he forgot his beloved Gameboy. She watched from the corner of her eye as the immature navy-blue haired boy played away on his video game, smiling like a spoiled brat.
She sighed, she had to complete this mission alone.
Trying to drag Eriol with her, Tomoyo found it hard to move him. She heaved him from his spot, but he didn't budge. Instead she left him where he was.
"Argh! Forget you!!!!" Tomoyo's eyes flamed with anger as Eriol looked up from his game and smiled charmingly.
"Did you say something, dear?"
Seeing his smile made her melt, instantly making her head turn side ways. With another grin he resumed playing with his video game.
Tomoyo sighed once again and ran to the location where she had spotted her suspects. Seeing Touya running huffily in the distance, Tomoyo puffed up her cheeks in triumph and started to follow her second cousin, knowing full well that he had senses that would lead her to Sakura and the gaki—I mean Syaoran.
Running as fast as she could, considering she had very poor athletic genes, Tomoyo was jogging at 1 mph after Touya.
After a few seconds, she stopped and caught her breath, at this rate she would never catch Touya since he was a very athletic man since birth.
With all hope lost at ever keeping up with him, Tomoyo sat down for a few minutes to think of a way to find Sakura and Syaoran and initiate the BIGGEST MATCHMAKING PLAN EVER TO SAVE HER BEST FRIEND'S LOVE LIFE AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER ALL THANKS TO HER BEST FRIEND!!!!
Her eyes remained starry, but her hopes a bit tarnished since she seemed to have lost sight of her only guidance to Sakura. Looking around she squinted as her vision came across a shiny object…a BIKE!!! That's it! She knocked over the navy blue haired boy who was playing a game off his blue bike only to realize that the boy was ERIOL!!!!
But the odd thing was…he was still continued to play his GAMEBOY on the ground…®¢??
Picking him up from his position, Tomoyo peddled moving slowly, but steadily yet her speed was still a bit sluggish.
Looking behind, she figured why…Eriol's feet were dragging along the grass in a dainty manner.
Holding her head miserably and stopping the bike, Tomoyo took a rope from the purse and prayed to Kami-sama, "Forgive me for doing this."
With a big breath, she took the thick rope and tied Eriol the end of her bike and placed him with difficultly on a baby stroller.
Once again, she peddled away and sighed happily when she came to the hilltop where she was sure that Touya had come across since there were flower stomping marks on the trail, meaning that Syaoran was near Sakura somewhere.
Tomoyo stopped the bike and looked around to see if she could spot anyone from where she stood and indeed she did…but to her horror she something she least expected…
Syaoran's face came closer and closer and closer to Sakura's while Touya was on the floor, seemingly unconscious.
The birds were singing their love songs, the trees swayed in tune with the wind, and the sun glinted against the glimmering lake.
And when she saw the couple join in a deep kiss, it made Tomoyo sigh in content and put a hand to the side of her face…until she realized something…
"I DIDN'T PLAY ANY PART TO CAUSE THIS HAPPY ENDING!!!!!!!!!"
The love birds strayed away in fright, the trees stopped billowing and the lake turned dark.
Tomoyo's eye twitched in irritation, "And it's all…thanks…to YOU!!!"
She turned around and pointed an accusing finger at Eriol who looked up once more at his dear fiancée.
"What was that my dearest?" Eriol tilted his head in an innocent manner, which made Tomoyo go down on her knees and held her head, breathing erratically until she couldn't take it anymore.
"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Echoing all around the park, Syaoran looked up from his comfortable embrace and lip wrestling with his beloved.
Sakura sleepily opened her eyes and when the sound hit her brain, she shook her head and gave a soft, "Hoe? Doesn't that sound a bit like Tomoyo???"
Syaoran shrugged and kissed Sakura's forehead and looked out to the view, his eyes shining with love and joy as he went into deep thought.
Syaoran POV
Through many trials and challenges I have faced, nothing compares to this…
Through my search to find that someone…I knew from the beginning it would be a hard road ahead…
But never through my days, being your rival, then your friend…and finally the love of your life…would I have expect that I would someday be the one to hold you when you're happy, sad, lonely, or simply cold.
From the beginning I knew I felt a connection with you, although it wasn't there then…it only grew stronger everyday…
And for that I am sorry when I left you and made you who you were then…different from the one I loved in the past and now…but now at the beginning once more I've learned that I can't live without you…
Even if you left me today, I know I'll always find you once more…
And after all the heartache, and all the tears, and even the love gained back at the end… it comes from the heart…and it comes from the soul… But our journey's only just begun, Ying-Fa. This maybe just the end of a little story… But I know that with everyday that passes by, our lives will always be…
A Wonderful Journey…
¤•¨Fin¨•¤
A/N: WOWZEerZ!!!! Enjoy, minna-san??? I know, I know, "IT'S ABOUT TIME!" right? It may not be a wedding but I thought, "Ya know what??? Too many fics end in a wedding." But I wanted to end in a funny yet sweet way instead of overdoing the wedding thing. So tell me one more time for this fic…like???? Or no like??? Review Please and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ….and a happy new year…