Chapter 2: Syaoran
A/N: HEY IT'S ME…sorry if the last chapters confused you. This one will help a bit.
Sakura was running in a dark hallway. There were no lights, no stars, nothing. It was just like an abyss of darkness. Sakura ran and ran and ran. There was no sound. The only sound heard was of her shoes hitting the floor and of her uniform swishing. Even though she could not see what was in front of her, she still ran. Suddenly, she heard a voice. A very familiar voice. It was soft, and sweet and soothing.
"Sakura…"
It was coming from behind her. Quickly, Sakura turned around and saw…
"Tomoyo! Tomoyo-chan! You-You came back!" Sakura shouted.
Sakura ran towards her and hugged her. She shut her eyes tight. She didn't want to the memory of Tomoyo to leave her mind. But, it seemed that the tighter she held on to Tomoyo, the faster it seemed that Tomoyo was slipping away from her grasps. Sakura looked up to see Tomoyo smiling.
" Sakura. You're always the same"
"No! Don't go Tomoyo-chan! You're my best friend! You can't-" yelled Sakura.
Before Sakura could finish her sentence, Tomoyo had disappeared in the shadows. Sakura knelt down to the floor and cried. She then suddenly felt warm arms wrapping around her. She then heard a tone of which she has never heard for two years.
"Sakura…Don't cry…"
"E-ERIOL!"
Her heart lept at the sight of him. She couldn't help herself of caressing him back.
"E-Excuse…me?" said a voice.
Sakura opened her eyes to see a familiar brown haired boy with auburn eyes and a soft face. It seemed that she was hugging him as she had hugged Eriol in her dream.
"YOU? You're the boy from the cemetery!" Sakura said.
Sakura was in a room, neatly cleaned. She was wearing her some baggy pajamas and her uniform were on a chair. They looked quite dirty.
"I-I'm sorry to of woken you up." He said, changing the subject.
Sakura quickly let go of her hug. She sat straight up with a blush on her face.
"N-NO…I should be apologizing…I-"
Sakura was interrupted by a group of girls who screamed "SAKURA!"
Sakura arched her head to the sound. She saw Naoko, Rika, and Chiharu. All three of them came to her all at once. They embraced her with all their strength.
"I'm so happy that you're alive." Exclaimed Chiharu "I was sick to death worrying where you went."
"You better believe her Sakura," Rika added "all she could say was 'where could my Sakura be' all day"
Sakura just sat there gasping for air.
"Sakura…this is Syaoran Li. He saved you twice. What a coincidence!" Naoko said.
Sakura looked at her savior. "Y-you're S-Syaoran. A nurse said that you were the one who helped me when I collapsed at the park."
"Yeah…I did." Syaoran replied.
"Well, even though we worried sick about you, you should get some rest. The doctors said that you where highly fatigued." Said Chiharu.
She led Naoko and Rika out of the room.
"They really were worried about you." Syaoran said kindly "especially your friend Chiharu. You know, you were asleep for a week."
After that remark, complete silence entered the room.
"May I ask you something…um Syaoran-kun…how…did…they, my friends, found out that I was sick and was at the hospital and how did I get here after…well…you know after the incident at the cemetery? All I remember is that I was running from you." Sakura asked.
"Well," Syaoran said, "before you collapsed, I was with my father. You see he was telling me something about being a man and, since my family is…rich…, he told me the requirements for setting my family's clan, as you can say it, in the right direction. All of a sudden, a man came out of no where and grabbed my father by the hands. He whispered something into my father's ears and then stabbed him. After that, I assured my father that I was going to get help and ran to you. You then collapsed on me. Thank goodness your cell phone rang. I picked it up and found out it was a friend of yours. I don't believe it was any of the friends that came to see you today. I asked her to call an ambulance. I guess she called your other friends because when the ambulance finally reached the hospital, your friend Chiharu came running towards you and crying her heart out. I asked her if she was the one who called your cell phone. She looked at me as if she had no idea of what I was talking about."
"What about when we were at the cemetery?" asked Sakura.
"Well, you were running away from me after I heard you sing," explained Syaoran, "and then suddenly, you fell. I ran up to you and found that you were having a high fever. Luckily, your friend Chiharu gave me her phone number in case I see you moving about when you shouldn't. She told me that you over exert yourself too much. Anyway, I called her and told her to meet me at my house. And…well……here we are."
During the whole time, Sakura was looking straight at Syaoran's face, mainly his eyes. She could see that he was experiencing deep pain even though he didn't look like it.
"Your father. Did he? Did he…die?" Sakura said.
"Yes"
When Syaoran answered her, he said it in a quick tone, as if he didn't want to talk about it anymore. Syaoran walked slowly to the door without commenting. As he reaches the door and turns the door knob, Sakura said in a low voice:
"It's my fault. For, your father's death."
Syaoran decided to return to his idea of opening the door. Before he completely left, he uttered:
"It was only half."
Kooing. The door shut to an awkward silence in the room. When Syaoran said "it was only half", Sakura's eyes widen in horror. Tears fell from her eyes.
"I'm sorry."
