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Chapter 4: Revelations

Sakura's Room...

Tears dropped one by one from a pair of emerald eyes onto a fluffy pink pillow bordered by lace.

"How can they marry? I love Syaoran. I can't bear to see him marry my sister," Sakura wept and wept.

Suddenly the wooden door to her room opened. Tomoyo stepped inside and saw her best friend crying in a mound of pillows.

"Sakura! What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked concerned.

"NoNoNothing Tomoyo. Why are you asking me that?" Sakura stuttered.

"You're crying Sakura,"

"No I'm not,"

"Stop lying to me. Just tell me I'm your best friend. Is it something between the marriage of Meiling and Syaoran?"

At the sound of his name Sakura bolted from her bed and out the door. She ran down the spiral staircase and through many hallways until she got to the garden. She sprinted across the lush grass and right towards the cherry blossom tree where she finally broke down again.

Just then an amber eyed young man wandered around the gardens of the Kinomoto castle until he got to a certain sakura tree where he saw a young woman crouched. He approached the young maiden and he noticed that she was crying.

"What's wrong?" he asked the girl.

She slowly turned around and gasped when she say the familiar face she dreamed of every night.

"Syaoran! What brings you here? You should be celebrating your betrothal." Sakura's voice quivered dangerously, 'I can't let him see me like this. I must get away.'

She stood up and started to run away but then a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist and turned her around until she was facing him. She immediately dropped her gaze.

"Sakura why are you crying?" Syaoran looked hurt.

"I'm not so let me go," Sakura stubbornly replied although tears were threatening to spill.

"You've always been a bad liar so just tell me why you're crying," Syaoran was shaking her furiously.

"It's nothing."

"No it isn't you were crying your eyes out."

"I'm fine now."

"No you aren't. I can see it in your eyes."

"It's none of your business."

"Of course it's my business...dammit I love you!" Syaoran suddenly burst out.

At these words Sakura burst into tears again.

"Syaoran you can't love me. You're going to marry Meiling soon. You can't love me. It'll break her heart," Sakura tried be strong.

"Sakura do you love me?" Syaoran ignored her.

"You can't love me do you hear? You can't! You love Meiling. You're getting married to her," Sakura retorted.

"Sakura just answer the question," Syaoran yelled getting frustrated.

She cringed at his sudden change and started running back to her room. He quickly realized his mistake and took off after her. Finally he caught her wrist and pulled her into his embrace. She pounded against his chest but he simply held her tighter against him. Eventually she just gave up and let his warm body envelop hers.

"Syaoran why are you doing this?" she barely whispered.

"Because I love you. I've loved you ever since the first time I saw you when I was 7 and I've never stopped loving you all these years. I rejected all the marriage proposals and when I heard that the Kinomoto princess was kidnapped I immediately thought that it was so you I went to rescue you. Then I found out that the princess that was kidnapped was your half-sister Meiling. I don't want to marry her. The only person I want to marry is you, Sakura," Syaoran confessed tenderly.

"I love you too Syaoran. I fell in love with you when I first saw you. I've never stopped loving you either. I dream of you every night and honestly when I hear that you and Meiling were to marry I broke down. I'm so scared Syaoran. What'll happen to us? You have to marry Meiling. It was the promise and she loves you," Sakura spoke up.

"Don't worry Sakura. I'll find away for us to get married. I won't marry Meiling. I promise you I'll always be with you," Syaoran vowed.

"Pinky swear?" Sakura giggled.

"Pinky swear," Syaoran chuckled at how childish Sakura still was.

Meanwhile...at the top of a tower overlooking the garden...

"How dare she. I'm the one who's getting married to Syaoran and look at her running in his arms and all. She's always got what she's wanted. It's always Sakura this...Sakura that...why can't you be more like your sister Sakura...Just because I am the daughter of Fujitaka Kinimoto and a women he was forced to marry doesn't mean I'm dumber or uglier than Sakura is. Why does she get all the attention and she's always the angel in everyone's minds while I'm always the devil. Well this time it's not going to happen. This time I'll make her suffer. Just wait and see Syaoran will be mine and she'll never get him," Meiling swore.

She left the window and started towards her room to get ready for the grand ball in celebration to the betrothal of her and Syaoran.

From Sakura's room...

"Oh my I never knew she was so in love with the Li prince. Oh my poor Sakura what'll happen to you," Tomoyo sighed, "You can't love him. You'll just get hurt. You know your sister Meiling'll do everything she can to marry him."

"Who are you talking to sweetest Tomoyo," came a deep voice from the doorway.

"Oh there you are Eriol. It seems like Sakura's going to have a big problem you see she's in love with the Li prince," Tomoyo told her husband.

"She's in love with my dear cousin?" Eriol asked.

"Syaoran Li's your cousin?"

"Yup! He sure is."

"How come you never told me that?"

"Well I didn't think it was important now is it," Eriol replied with planting a kiss on Tomoyo's lips.

Throne Room...

"Father, are you sure that Meiling should marry Syaoran?" Touya asked.

"Of course I'm sure. At first I thought that Sakura and Syaoran would marry but now I guess Meiling and Syaoran will marry. Well at least one of my beautiful daughters will marry Yelan's boy," Fujitaka thought.

"So are they getting married here or will they have to go back to the Li Kingdom to get married?"

"I suppose I throw a big betrothal party and they could sail back to the Li Kingdom and have the ceremony there."

"Well at least one of my sisters is finally getting married. I wonder when Sakura will finally get married."

"Soon she'll fall in love. She's at that age. And when that happens, no one can stop her from getting married."

They both laughed wholeheartedly, father and son. Little did they know that the young princess had already fallen in a game of forbidden passion.

I'm sorry I took so long to update. Well hope this chapter was ok. Till next time

-CherryJava