Snow White

AN: I do not own Card Captor Sakura or Snow White

Chapter 8

Ruby eyes shone with delight as the last of the story's words slipped from red painted lips. She had missed telling stories of such as grand scale and what a better story to tell than the one of the girl she told stories to when she was but a child. The woman grinned at the entranced faces of the three teenagers all hanging on to her every word.

"Come on Aunty Meiling! You can't just stop there. What happened to the body guard and the pirate?" She grinned at the seventeen year old girl. Her wild earthy hair was pulled back in a thick pony tail and her, one green and one brown, eyes shone with curiosity.

"Yes, Aunty Meiling… What happened to Snow White and the noble man?"

"More importantly, did they save Snow White's father?" Her grin grew as she watched the twins urge her to tell them more. Their blue eyes were fixed on her aging face and their long black hair neat and well kept.

The boy and girl twin looked quite the contrast to their wild pirate friend. While their clothes, manners and skin spoke of nobility their friend's careless wild hair, casual clothing and browned skin spoke of adventures and life out on the sea. "Aunty! Could you stop with the grinning and get to the telling?"

"Hold your horses there, Nadesiko. I'm just contemplating on the best way to finish it."

"Torture us endlessly with suspense is more like it." The noble girl huffed and folded her arms in confirmation of her feelings. Her eyes travelled across the room and landed on her male look a-like counterpart. "Oh Eriol, where has father and mother gone off to?"

"What do I look like Salome? Their caretaker?"

"I was merely asking a question! There is no need for you to bite my head off."

"Shut it you guys! I want to hear how this story ends." Nadesiko glared at her friends and turned her gaze back up at the story teller. Meiling smiled as she pushed her greying black hair behind her multi-jewelled ear.

"Very well. I will tell you how the story ends, although, the ending is not quite finished yet. The story is still being told as we speak." She smiled at the teenager's thrilled faces. "Snow White did manage to save her father, but they lost all their earthly possessions in the fire. She had watched both in sadness and happiness as the flames consumed her home. The young lord was with her and he promised her father, the duke, and Snow White that he would take care of them.

"He took them to his noble home close to the ocean where the warm breeze plays with the clouds all year through and there he married the young lady and welcomed her father into his home. They were blessed with twins and although the lady did not repeat the wish her mother had once made, she was blessed with a beautiful baby girl and a strong handsome young man." She grinned at the twins as they turned to one another and stared in astonishment.

"You are the girl, sister."

"And you are the boy, brother."

"But that means…!" They both exclaimed together.

"Yes, my lady and lord. Snow White is your mother, the lady Hiiragizawa, and the young noble man your father, the lord Hiiragizawa. He had fallen in love with her when he had first seen her on the captain's quest to find the body guard."

"Yeah, that's very romantic and all, but what the hell happened to the body guard and what is this damned promise they made to each other?"

"Nadesiko, you know I only permit that tone of voice when we are doing business. You shall speak properly and with respect when you address you aunty Meiling."

"Yeah, mamma." The girl sighed and rolled her eyes at her parents as they entered the room. Her father grinned at her while her mother carried a scowl; she was not pleased with her daughter's behaviour.

"Now love, you know very well you used and still use that tone when ever you are…"

"Shut it, will you! I know bloody well perfectly how I speak. I do not need you to tell me that."

"Mamma, pappa… please!" Nadesiko yelled above her mother's ranting. "I want to hear what happens to the body guard and the pirate."

"Body guard?" Her mother questioned and raised a brow at Meiling as she sat herself down behind her daughter, her husband followed suite.

"Yes, my dear cousin. Please do tell what happened to the pirate and the so called body guard."

"You know the story better than anyone Xiao-lang, but I shall finish my tale." Meiling smiled and turned her attention back to the teenagers. "The body guard was injured, but that is too expected after a battle with a witch. She soon recovered, however, and the pirate took her with him as he had promised." She let her ruby gaze rest on the aging captain's handsome face.

"The promise they had made to each other was quite the surprise, not just because of the age at which they made it to one another, but also the rather fascinating situation they found themselves in. It is not everyday a pirate will promise her hand in marriage to another pirate."

"That's the big promise?" Nadesiko looked slightly disgusted at the revelation. "How melodramatic."

"Melodramatic she says." Her mother snorted.

"Now, now love…"

"Melodramatic, maybe… Maybe there is some truth in your words, young one. But how many of your comrades do you know who are willing to promise themselves to one person only? Not many by your expression, and that is what makes this part of the tale so exciting."

"Okay, okay…" Nadesiko threw her hands up in surrender. "So what was the 'non-melodramatic' promise exactly? There must have been more to it that you're telling."

"Yes love, it was quite the foolish promise actually." She turned to her father as he mused in silence for a moment. "But love can make you do funny things. Just like gold drives the lust of life for many of the men you have come to know, love drives others."

"Now this really is starting to become melodramatic." Her mother rolled her eyes in a very similar fashion as her daughter. "Give the girl the facts for crying out loud."

"Hush up love. You've never been one to give patience to these sorts of things." He smiled at his annoyed wife and turned his attention back to his attentive daughter. He studied her unique eyes for a brief moment before sighing. "I promised your mother that if I was unable to find someone else to capture my heart, that I would track her down, to the ends of the earth if necessary, and make her my wife."

"But!" Sakura interrupted loudly.

"But, I would have to be faithful to her in the eyes of God as her mother, your grandmother, taught her. No compromise, not even on pirate's island where all rules of the conventional world are thrown out of the door."

"Quite the promise for a ten and fifteen year old." Meiling smiled down at her younger cousin and his unimpressed wife.

"Yes, well… I was trying to get rid of you. In the end I got stuck with you for the rest of my life." Sakura huffed slightly in a mocking way and ignored Syaoran's cocky grin.

"WAIT! Hold up people! Are you telling me that my mother was one, a body guard, two, was nearly killed by a witch and three, married a pirate?"

"Yeah. I didn't sit around on my butt all day doing nothing you know. I was quite active at your age."

"I would not have permitted any other behaviour." Tomoyo smiled as she sat herself down on a chair close to her children and next to her seated husband. "I was quite the trouble maker and your mother fought most of my fights for me." She laughed at Sakura's appalled expression. "Very well Sakura, you fought all of my fights for me. It was quite entertaining actually."

"For you yes. I was the one who had to deal with half drunken idiots that could hardly throw a punch and if they did they'd miss on purpose, because they cannot hit girls."

"Yes, the fight I saw you in was very entertaining love. I liked seeing you all frustrated and annoyed."

"EWE! Could we please not go into your funny fantasies about mamma and focus on the so called story here please? So you found mamma, helped her in her time of need and then literally swept her off her feet to the ocean where you…"

"Well love, we got married a year before Tomoyo and Eriol and had you while plundering all along the way. We went to Eriol's wedding and…"

"You're father kept his promise and remained faithful till this day. And it better stay that way." Sakura threatened the grinning captain.

"Yeah, okay… So grandfather Hiiragizawa was saved and is currently sitting in his large brown chair reading one of his fairy novels and you guys are all here. So what happened to the wolf you saw mamma? Or are you going to tell me that it was in fact Kero that followed pappa from the ship?"

"It's good old Kero that came to the rescue, love. He followed me back then as he follows you now."

"So it is true that he has magic." Nadesiko smiled at the large animal curled up in a corner of the room sleeping as the adults and their children talked amongst each other. "He is unable to age and will stay with his chosen family until he chooses to leave?"

"Yes love."

"I'm confused, pappa. Why would you through all of that trouble for mamma? And mamma for Aunty Tomoyo?"

"Love, love. It's all about love."

"And wishes?"

"And wishes, dear. Rumour has it that the part of the brave and loyal body guard is not being told in the popular version of Snow White on the main lands. The last hope and wish of the Lady Daidouji's wish is not being told and conveniently forgotten. However, it is said that if a mother should wish for a baby girl she should only whisper the wish of the Lady Daidouji and she will be blessed with both a girl child and her protector."

My God grant me this wish, my wish for a baby girl. A baby girl with skin as pale the white-white snow, hair as black as the raven's wing and lips as red as the red-red rose, as red as blood. And a golden angel with the ocean's strength to guard her along the way.

AN: Hey guys. This is the last chapter of Snow White by Tella (That's me if you didn't know.) I made it a little more light hearted and added a slight twist to the ending. You never would have thought that it was Meiling telling Sakura's daughter about her mother's adventure, now would you?

Some will like it, other's will love it and then some of you might send me flames for putting this ending in. Either way, I like it and although I feel as confused as Nadesiko at the moment, I hope you like it too. It's a glimpse of what happened afterwards, but there is still some left for the imagination.

Thank you so much for all your great reviews and support. I know you've been cursing me for my late updates the past couple of months and I thank you for you patience. Maybe I'll see you in one of my other stories.

Love

Tella

PS. Happy Birthday to Me? is another one I'm currently working on. It's a romance (which so by the way, is extremely difficult to write) and one of my best stories yet. If you want more Sakura-swearing and sometimes very emotional situations, this is the one to read.