FANTASY DREAMS

CHAPTER 10

Syaoran and Meiling arrived at her kingdom. Her father was really upset when he listened what Syaoran was there for, so he told him they were going to have that conversation later, right now they just had to rest. A room was provided to him, it had all the accommodations he needed, so he threw himself on the huge bed and started at the scenery through the window. That place was beautiful, the ocean in front of it, he was giving up a lot of things for Sakura, but she was worth it.

A bird was flying in front of the window, it wasn't hard to recognize one of Eriol's messenger birds. He opened the window and the bird entered the room, it had a little piece of paper attached to it. The message was short, and the words in it shocked and at the same time upset him 'Sakura is leaving, hurry back' Why was she leaving? Obviously his mother had found out and informed her about her family being alive, he had to go back, he had to stop her, but he couldn't leave before he spoke to Meiling's father. He wrote a message back for Eriol it had a time, so that he would use his magic to talk to him at that time. He tied the message back to the bird and sent it away.

Sakura was sitting on a chair in her balcony. It had been so clam since Syaoran had left, no more fights, but at the same time no more time with him, she loved being with him, just laying in the bed was fun with him.
The queen had given her time to decide whether she wanted to leave or not. If Syaoran would have been there the decision would have been much easier. But he wasn't there, sure he left to brake up his engagement but she thought about it, and there was no way the king was going to let him do that. They were really looking forward to this marriage, and they didn't care who they had to go over to accomplish it. So she had no chance, and she wasn't going to stay there, watching him live a married man, she was going to go back to her family who were waiting for her.

Tomoyo knocked on her door and entered quietly, she sat on a chair next to her dear friend and said nothing, until the silence got to heavy and she couldn't take it anymore, she had to say something

"This is stupid Sakura" She stated out of the blue, making her friend look at her with confused eyes

"I thought you supported my decision Tomoyo! I have no future here, we both know Meiling's father won't agree to this, he is going to have to go through with it, and I don't want to be here, looking at the man I love with other woman" She said almost desperate, more trying to convince herself than her friend that her decision was right.

"I know, but you don't know yet, maybe the king will agree, Sakura you can't leave so soon, at least wait for him" Tomoyo was nearly pleading, but Sakura had made her mind, and she also wanted to see her family.

"There's no point Tomoyo" She said softly "The carriage that will take me to the river will come in two days, and from there to the Zaran kingdom… there's no turning back now" She wanted to wait, she really did, but the queen had commanded it, if she decided to leave it was as soon as possible, and she wouldn't let her wait for Syaoran's news, there wasn't enough time.

"I still think this is a mistake" Tomoyo said sadly "But it's your decision, and I respect it, so I'll just try to enjoy the time we have left" She showed Sakura a bright smile "Come on let's go visit Eriol, I'm sure he wants to spend time with you as well" Sakura agree to Tomoyo's idea, so they went to Eriol's, and stayed there the whole day. They were even going to sleep there, but Sakura had to go pack the little belongings she had. She was going to leave most of her things, just the things that meant something to her she was taking, and that narrowed it to some of her sorcery materials, the little dagger she used to train with Syaoran, and some jewels, there was nothing else she needed, or wanted, there were too many memories, and she decided she wasn't going to dwell over Syaoran, she was going to move on, just like it had to happen on the first place, because if her kingdom had never been attacked, she would have never met Syaoran, and she probably had been engaged to some royal guy that wasn't half as charming and interesting as Syaoran, but at least she could count on her memories, she sure was never going to forget him.

Syaoran was sitting on a big office alone, waiting for the king to meet with him, he wanted to finish that as soon as possible, Sakura was leaving and he had to stop her, now that he had her, he didn't want to let her go, she was just too good to be true, there was never going to be a girl like Sakura, and the idea of having to live with Meiling instead of Sakura for the rest of his life was just… depressing, desperation rose over him, he had to do something.
He was walking back and froth on the big office when finally the king entered the office, he didn't say a word, and he didn't look at Syaoran, he just walked over to his desk and sat there, Syaoran doing the same, taking a seat in front of him. The king looked at him, it was obvious that he was upset, and he wanted explanations.

"Syaoran… I understand you are here to break you engagement to my daughter, of course I thought this was a really bad joke at first, but after talking to my devastated daughter I realized you are not joking, you actually want to brake off this engagement that has been planned ever since you two were born!" His tone was heavy and demanding, but Syaoran kept him judgment and stayed silent as the king talked "I was told that you want to marry some other girl instead… some girl from an outside kingdom… a paladin of you kingdom since she got there?"
"She is actually a princess your highness… but she got to our kingdom almost dead, and we noticed she had skills, so she started sword training and studying magic, becoming a very good sorcerer" He had to say good things about Sakura, not that it was difficult, but this king had to agree to this marriage "I didn't mean for this to happen, it just happened, I love her, and I wish to marry her" His tone was clear, and it showed that he had made his mind about the issue.

"I also heard that her family is looking for her, and being a princess she is allowed to leave" He said with a slight smile on his face "And I heard that she agree to leave" The king ad a satisfied look on his face. Syaoran didn't count on the king knowing this fact, this was going to make things harder.

"Of course she decided to leave!" Syaoran said startled "She believes you won't allow my engagement to your daughter to dissolve, so she wants to leave before I return with the bad new, but I still hope that you are going to think differently" That little hope he had made his eyes shine more than usual.

"I'm sorry Syaoran, but I find it hard to believe that is the reason why she is leaving, she was probably just using you to have fun, so I won't agree to your request, this marriage is happening, and you are going to go back to your kingdom to start the wedding preparations, the wedding is in one month, you have many things to plan so I recommend you waste no time"

This isn't happening… that was all that Syaoran would think, it was useless, he had to marry Meiling… Sakura was leaving, it wasn't possible that he had this amount of bad luck, he was the most miserable man on the world.

Sakura was standing on the castle doors, Tomoyo and Eriol had just arrived and she sensed something was wrong. She had just some minutes left before the carriage arrived to pick her up, but she new Eriol had something buried that he wanted to sill out to her.

"What's wrong?" She asked softly looking at Eriol who tried to act as if he didn't know what she meant.
"Syaoran returns tomorrow" She started finally he had decided to finally tell her, it was for the best "He will come to start planning his wedding to Meiling" He didn't want to look at her, but she didn't hurt as much as he thought.

"I knew" she said sighing "It was obvious… tell him I wish he has a good life, and that I'll miss him" She smiled softly. Tomoyo was impressed at Sakura, she still managed to smile even after all that was going on, she was sure most of it was just an act to ease their pain, of course, she had to be happy she was going to see her family again, but she had lived so many things with them.

"We'll tell him" Eriol said smiling. They stayed there, talking until the carriage arrived, she hugged them both and left as fast as she could… he hated saying goodbye.

Syaoran was about to kill himself. Meiling decided to go back with him, it seemed that she had forgotten all that had happened, and now she was back to acting like the corny, sticky girl she had always been. All the way to his kingdom she was talking about the wedding, about her dress, about the flowers, the tables, the guests, the maids of honour… he was about to kill himself. He needed to get there as fast as possible, one of those days Sakura was going to leave, he had no idea which day, he hoped he could get there before she left, he had to talk her out of it, life without her was just… it wasn't life.

"Syaoran" Meiling said when they were about to get to the kingdom "I know you hope that she is still there, but she isn't… she left yesterday" He looked at her, eyes widened "I made sure that she wasn't there when we got there. And I just want you to know that I accept your apologies" He looked at Meiling, even more startled, and also confused.

"What apologies?" He asked seriously, by the look on her face when he asked she got upset, but he couldn't care less.

"Well I know you are sorry for wanting to break up with me, but don't worry, I'll pretend it never happened, I'll pretend this Sakura girls doesn't exist!" She said cheerfully, Syaoran gave her a fake smile and looked at the window annoyed, he was really starting to hate her, and he knew this wasn't the time to hate her, he was about to marry her.
They got to the castle and everything was the same as always. This time the town wasn't there to meet their future king and queen, he knew why this was, most of them had gotten very fond of Sakura, so they were probably just as happy as he was of Meiling being there. He went straight up to his room, leaving Meiling with some servants to help her.

He walked in front of Sakura's room, and stood there for some seconds, the door was open, and the room was empty, none of her things could be seen from there… she was gone.

Sakura was laying on the room that was given to her in the castle. They were going to live in the Zaran kingdom for some time. Seeing her family again made her extremely happy. It was a really emotional meeting, crying involved, lots of hugs, they were really concerned that they would have hurt her in that kingdom, apparently they were not very friendly, but Sakura knew differently, everyone in that kingdom was kind, and nice to her.
Prince Yukito made sure that she was comfortable enough, he was being really nice to her, more than usual. She hadn't seen him in such a long time.
As she laid on her bed she closed her eyes, trying to relax, she had lived though so many emotions on the last few days, but just one thing popped into her mind… Syaoran. Knockings on the door took her out of her day dreaming, her father came inside and sat on the bed looking at her.

"Sakura honey, I have news" He said with a gentle smile "We've been thinking a lot about this and I've decided to arrange a wedding" He stood silent for a second and then carried on "You are going to marry prince Yukito"

AN: hey guys! Did you like it? I hope you did, I'm sorry I ended it there but it's more exiting this way! Don't you think so? Tell me what you thought about this chappie k? As usual the next chapter is almost done, so I'll update pretty soon don't worry!
I thought it was going to take me longer to update this fanfic cause I already started school again, but no… I'm actually writing faster! I think that's because I'd rather do anything else but study!
Well guys see ya'll next time! byeeeeee