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Chapter Nine: The Memories
"Sakura!" a voice called from down the hall. The green eyed girl turned immediately to see her friends, Meiling and Tomoyo, walking quickly to catch up with her. Sakura stopped to let them catch up before she continued walking again.
"Hey guys," Sakura said when they had started walking together.
"Did you get away from that weird guy this morning?" Tomoyo asked worriedly. Sakura's eyes widened. She had completely forgotten about him!
"Uh, well, kind of," she said thoughtfully. They gave her a skeptical look as if to say 'Kind of?' Sakura laughed nervously but they continued staring. "Um, will you excuse me for a minute?" Sakura asked as she faced Chiharu, Naoko, and Rika. They nodded and told her they'd save them each a seat in the cafeteria.
Once they walked off Sakura turned back to Tomoyo and Meiling. "He only talked to me. He followed me into one of the classrooms. He asked me who the fuck I was not to remember him. Then he said he still loved me and left. I don't know what he was talking about. Do you?" she finished. The girls shook their heads and shrugged.
"Maybe it was some psycho freak," Meiling muttered, but none of them believed it. Something was wrong. They turned to walk back towards the cafeteria.
Suddenly a boy walked in front of them. Tomoyo smiled and a blush crept onto her cheeks. "Hey, Eriol," she said. Sakura and Meiling turned to her in surprise. She smiled sheepishly as Eriol tucked his arm around her waist. "Guys, this is my boyfriend, Eriol. I met him this summer when I was out one time. Eriol, these are my best friends, Sakura and Meiling," she introduced. Meiling smiled and shook his hand, but Sakura frowned. Something was strange about him. She felt like she had known him before.
She shook his hand gracefully. "Nice to meet you, Sakura," he said as he smiled. Sakura gasped to herself. A picture of him floated into her mind. It was darker, and lights were flashing, but Sakura instantly recognized Eriol with Tomoyo sitting on his lap. They looked a little younger. Right about how old Tomoyo looked the moment they could remember back to!
"Have I met you somewhere before?" Her own voice startled the picture out of her mind and she looked at Eriol again. He smiled a little but she was sure she was the only one who saw it.
"Probably not," he said, but the smile didn't leave his face. Sakura frowned, and shrugged. 'I guess not then,' she thought as Meiling congratulated the two. "How about you three lovely ladies accompany my friends and me to lunch today?" Eriol offered. Tomoyo and Meiling agreed immediately and they started to leave. Sakura stared after them skeptically.
"Come on Sakura," Meiling called. She caught up quickly and they all walked through the double doors together. They walked out to the parking lot and Sakura gasped. Five motorcycles were there and four had riders on them. Tomoyo hopped on behind Eriol who had climbed on the empty one. Meiling got on behind one boy with flaming red hair who was holding out a helmet to her.
Sakura looked at the last biker without an occupied seat for a passenger. He had blonde hair that hung around his face, but that wasn't what bothered her. Two amber eyes peered out at her from under the golden locks. She missed the look Eriol was giving to her and the calls from Meiling and Tomoyo to get on the bike. She was entranced by his gaze. It was the man from that morning.
She got on cautiously and took the helmet he held out to her. She knew that he could feel her discomfort and that she knew who he was. She hooked her arms around his waist and her mind was bombarded by a picture. 'Is this a memory?'
"You might want to hold on tight…" he said.
"…you go pretty fast," she finished. She felt him tense up and his hard stomach muscles clenched against her locked hands.
"Eriol, you go ahead with Tenji and the girls. I have to show Sakura something," the man said. It was Sakura's turn to tense up. Either, Tomoyo and Meiling didn't hear it, or they weren't paying attention, but there was no way this man should have known Sakura's name. Eriol gave him a warning look, but he shrugged it off.
The bikes took off. Eriol and Tenji went in one direction and the other three went in another. Sakura looked around suspiciously when the three started weaving around in the traffic. Another image popped into her head as he sped up.
She had slid to the front of the bike and he had swung around her. She hadn't been old enough to drive but that hadn't seemed to matter when the two bikers on either side of them had pulled out guns…
She jolted out of what she thought was a flashback and started breathing heavily as she clenched her arms tighter around his waist. He motioned with his hand and the other two bikers broke off and went down a side street. The man kept going until they arrived at a park not too far away. Then he pulled off the road and parked.
When the bike stopped Sakura jumped off immediately. "What do you want with me?" she cried as she collapsed onto a bench. The man walked up beside her and sat down.
"I'm sorry, Sakura. I never meant to hurt you. I didn't know you didn't remember anything," he said. She perked up a little. He had known her from before she forgot. He could help her remember her past!
"Who are you?" she asked as she sat up enough to look at him. He bit his lip. 'This must be hard for him. If the person he loved didn't remember him,' she thought.
"My name is Syaoran Li. I knew you for about five days. For about two of those days you were in and out of consciousness from a gunshot wound. But somehow you made me love you, and then it broke my heart," he said as he stroked her face. Tears had sprung up into her eyes. She had hurt him so much!
"I'm so sorry, Syaoran!" she cried and she flung her arms around him. He buried his head in her neck as he hugged her back.
"I love you, Sakura Kinomoto. And I'll make you love me," he whispered in her ear. She hugged him tighter to herself. For some reason, she really wanted him to make his promise come true. She wanted to be with him, forever. Did her feelings never really fade?
"I want to love you too," she whispered back.
Suddenly the ground began to shake. "Not another one…"