Titanic Romance

Summary: Set in 1912. Sakura and Syaoran meet on the R.M.S. Titanic. Will sparks fly, or is it not to be? Will it end SS? Or will fate cut their lives short?

Disclaimer: I don't own CCS or the Titanic (If I did, I would be Bruce Ismay, and yeah, I wouldn't want that. . .) or anyone who was on it, End of story. If I did, I would be a millionaire, and I won't be writing fan fictions.

A nice long chappie for those who have reviewed this fic since it started!

Oh, and information was taken from the official Titanic web site

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"Do you remember what I said about the lifeboats? About half of the people on this ship can be saved." Sakura nodded grimly, and took Syaoran's hand as he walked up. "You have an hour, two at the most, until Titanic fully goes under."

"For certain?" Sakura, even though she knew that Titanic would sink, didn't think the ship would sink that soon.

"For certain. Some of the lower decks are already filling with water. The Titanic is going to sink head first. I'm sorry, my dear Sakura." Mr. Andrews sighed. "Get yourself to a life boat as soon as you can, don't wait." He looked to Syaoran, than back to Sakura. "Good luck. . ."

Sakura let go of Syaoran's hand, and hugged Mr. Andrews. "And to you. I'm sorry, sir." She pulled back, and again took Syaoran's hand. Syaoran nodded at him, and Mr. Andrews nodded at both of them before he left.

"Everyone, please make your way to the boat decks!" A high ranking Officer yelled over the crowd. Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other, and started heading for the boats. As they walked passed the Grand Staircase, Sakura noted how it was slightly tilted.

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"Lifeboats? What do you mean lifeboats?" a woman sarcastically asked the officer. Most of the first class, and second class passengers were standing on the boat deck, but not all on the same side of the ship. They were on the port side of the ship; the opposite side of the ship that the iceberg hit. They watched, more in curiosity than in fear, as the crewman peeled the tarps off the lifeboats and prepared them for launching.

"Woman and children first, please!" The officer, also named Murdoch, called out towards the crowd.

The crowd of passengers warily eyed the boat, and then looked down at the cold black water about less then sixty feet below. Most of the passengers thought the ship was far safer then the small lifeboats. No one stepped forward.

"How come no one is getting into the lifeboats?" Sakura whispered to Syaoran who was standing beside her. Her parents were on the other side of her.

He shook his head. "No one wants to believe that we are sinking. They think that the ship is safer than the lifeboats." He blinked, and looked over towards the stern. Jazz music filled the air. It seemed that the band had been ordered to play. He ran his hand through his already messy hair making it seem even more unruly.

"Syaoran, look." Sakura pointed out into the water. There, rowing farther away from the ship, were three lifeboats. "Why are they half empty? I thought that the crew had to make sure that they were full."

"I don't know why they aren't full, Sakura." He looked over at her. "Speaking of that," he placed one of his hands on her back. "You should get on a boat while you have the chance. In time, everyone would want to get on a boat."

"No," Sakura turned to look straight at him. "I'm not going without you."

"Sakura, you have too." Syaoran took hold of her small hands. "I won't be able to get a boat until later." His amber eyes looked straight into her emerald ones. "Sakura, I want to make sure you make it. If I see you get on one, I know you'll make it." He begged her.

"Yes Sakura dear, let's get you on the boat." Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko, told her. Sakura turned to look at her. To her surprise, Molly Brown was standing beside her. Before Sakura could answer, she heard an explosion. Everyone looked up, just in time to see a white firework explode. "I hope they are not too crowded."

Sakura stared at her like she wanted to slap some common sense into her mother. "Oh mother, do you know that half the people on this ship are not going to make it? There are not enough boats; half the people on the ship are going to die." Her mother stared at her, unbelievingly, and then looked up to Syaoran who nodded.

"Come darling." Her mother turned to Sakura's father Fujitaka; she looked as if sudden understood something, and then gave him a kiss. He smiled at her and helped her into the lifeboat, and passed her, her lifejacket. He then helped Molly into the boat. "Come on darling, get into the boat." Fujitaka held his hand out to Sakura.

"No, I'm not going." Sakura shook her head. She took a step back from them.

"Sakura!" Touya turned to her. "Get on the boat!"

"Sakura, please get into the boat." Syaoran asked in desperation. Sakura looked at all of them square in the eyes.

"No! I'm not going without Syaoran!" Then she looked straight at her mother. "Good Bye Mother." She turned, and ran away from them, and unnoticed by her, she dropped her lifejacket that she was holding.

"Sakura!" Syaoran turned and ran after her. Touya took off after them. Neither of them thought of picking up the fallen lifejacket.

"Lower Away!" Officer Murdoch called. The boat slowly lurched, and headed downward at 1:20 a.m. This was the fourth boat launched from the port side, and ninth out of the whole ship. Lifeboat number ten, with a capacity of sixty – five, left with only sixteen or eighteen people.

"Wait! Sakura!" Her father yelled after them. He watched her for a second, before turning back to watch his wife being lowered down the side of the Titanic. She looked up at him in fear and worry. He wondered if this would be the last time he would ever see her. He turned away when the boat touched the water. It took far less time to reach the water then he thought it would. "Oh. . . My. . . God. . ." He turned too looked towards the bow. Water was starting to come onto the deck. The bow was slowly sinking into the North Atlantic.

"Mr. Murdoch, why are the life boats only being launched half full?" Mr. Andrews yelled at the officer. He looked ready to explode.

Fujitaka took this as an invitation to leave.

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"Sakura!" Syaoran caught up with her as she slowed down. She was just at the bottom of the grand staircase. She panted slightly as she noted how the deck seemed tilted. "What in the world do you think you are doing?"

Sakura turned to him with tears glistening in her eyes. "Syaoran, I'm not going without you." A tear drop escaped one of her eyes. "When I told you that I'm getting off the ship with you, I meant it." Syaoran pulled her into his arms, and she wept onto his shoulder. "Syaoran, I don't want to lose you."

"And I don't want to lose you, Sakura." He ran his fingers through her long hair.

"Please don't make me go." She wrapped her arms around his neck, and continued to cry.

Syaoran sighed. "Alright, don't worry." He pulled back to make Sakura look at him. "We'll find away through this, together." He gently wiped Sakura's tears away with a feather light touch. She gripped his wrist trying to reassure him and herself.

"Sakura!" The couple turned to look as her brother, Touya, ran down to them. "Sakura, are you completely nuts? You are going to get on a lifeboat!"

"Excuse me?" Sakura turned to him, suddenly angry. "You have no control over my life, Touya. I'm staying with Syaoran, and that's final!"

"Sakura, you're risking your life for someone you just met a couple of days ago!" Touya yelled back at her. People who were walking, or running, past them gave them strange looks.

Sakura's father rushed up to them at that moment, before Sakura could answer. He gave each of them a look, a long one towards Touya, before he said anything. "Let's get onto the deck before we won't be able to." All three of them nodded, and followed the elder Kinomoto. Syaoran took a hold of Sakura's hand.

"Uh, is it just me, or does it feel like we're walking uphill?" Sakura questioned as they were indeed walking against the slant. All of a sudden the lights went out, then back on. "Oh my god. . ." Sakura paled. She gripped Syaoran's hand tightly, and pulled him towards her.

"We don't have a lot of time. The stern is being pulled upwards as the bow is going under." Syaoran looked at the other three as they made it out onto the deck. They were about in the middle of the ship. A quick glance down the side of the ship told them that all the life boats were gone. "We have to stay on the ship as long as possible."

"Yeah, and lets get of lifejackets on." Fujitaka suggested. He then noticed that Sakura did not have one. "Sakura, where is your lifejacket?"

"Uh. . ." Sakura thought for a moment. "I. . . dropped it. . . back when mother was getting into the lifeboat.

"You what?" Touya asked. Before anyone could react, he gave his sister his lifejacket. "Have mine."

"Touya, you need this!" Sakura tried handing it back.

"No, you need it more, and I'm not taking no for an answer." Touya slipped it over Sakura's head. She quickly tied it up, and gave her brother a hug.

"Thank – you, Touya." She smiled at him. But the ship gave a sickening lurch, and that wiped the smile of her face.

"Holy Hell." Touya looked down at the bow. The other three looked as well. Water completely covered the deck, and it was coming, at an alarmingly fast rate, higher and higher on deck the ship. It looked like the officers deck was just starting to go under.

"We have to move!"

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"Now there's something you don't see everyday." Molly Brown stared up at the ship. The stern was now being pulled out of the water and was slowly being pulled higher and higher from the weight of the bow. All three of the Titanic's huge propellers were completely visible, and were slowly being raised towards the dark night sky.

Sakura's mother sat there staring at the ship in fear, mixed with a lot of worry. 'Oh, Fujitaka. . . Touya. . . Sakura. . . Please be safe' she thought desperately.

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Syaoran had a strong grip of Sakura's hand, as they rushed up towards the stern of the ship. The deck was getting steeper and steeper as time wore on. "Come on Sakura, Come on. . ." He was basically pulling her up to the railing of the ship.

Finally they reached the railing. Syaoran placed Sakura in front of him, and he wrapped his arms around her and held onto the railing. Fujitaka climbed over the railing and held it from the other side, while Touya held it the same way Syaoran was holding it. Sakura also gripping the railing, turned around slightly and gripped Syaoran's lifejacket, and pulled him closer to her.

Syaoran looked down at her, and smiled slightly. "Syaoran? I'm scared." She whispered to him. She bit her lip.

He smiled at her again, and kissed her on the forehead. "It's alright to be scared. I am too." All four of them stared down the ship in surprise as people screamed and started falling and sliding down the whole ship, unable to stand anymore. The deck had gotten that steep.

"Oh, shit!" Sakura, Syaoran and Sakura's father looked at the voice in surprise. The man was losing his grip.

"Touya!" Fujitaka rushed over some of the railing to his son and tried to grab his hand. But, to no prevail.

"TOUYA!" Sakura screamed and watched as her beloved brother lose his grip and start sliding down the length of the ship. She tried to escape Syaoran's grip, to go after her brother. He wouldn't let her go. Touya hit a pole and flipped over it, and fell straight down into the water, very, very far below. They could barely see him when he hit the water.

"Oh, god. . . Touya. . ." Fujitaka bit his lip, and closed his eyes tightly.

"Touya. . ." Sakura cried his name out. Her eyes were also closed tightly.

"Sakura," Syaoran whispered to her. "I'm sorry." Tears sprang to her emerald eyes, and she buried her face into Syaoran's shoulder. He let her cry for a couple of minutes.

"Sakura," she looked up to the voice. Syaoran let go of the railing with one hand, and reached into his jacket. He pulled, what looked like a necklace, over his head. "Sakura, this is a whistle. Remember I bought one a couple of days ago, at the gift shop?" Sakura nodded. He placed the whistle over her head. "If we get separated, blow this, and I'll come and find you. OK?"

More of her tears escaped from her beautiful eyes, and she nodded. Sakura pulled Syaoran back towards her. And he took another hold of the railing, with his arm wrapped around Sakura's waist. "Let's just hope I won't have to use it."

He smiled slightly at her, when the lights flickered, came back on, and then finally went completely out. Screams and groans erupted from the people still on the ship. From the people in the lifeboats, they could see that the ship was almost entirely vertical.

Syaoran turned slightly at a sudden sickening loud crack. Sakura looked downwards on the ship, as did her father and Syaoran. They saw that a crack was appearing between where the third and fourth funnels once stood tall. The four huge funnels had all collapsed already. A couple of seconds later, another loud crack rang through the night, followed by another and then BAM! C - R - R - A – A - CCCKKK!!!!!!

Screams of terror rang out into the clear night. Sakura and Syaoran had to grip onto the railing even more tightly, when all of a sudden, the ship plunged downwards towards the water. Sakura cringed thinking of the people the ship would surely crush, and hoping that Touya was not one of them. She held her breath the whole way downwards. The couple blinked and Sakura screamed, "DADDY!" as they watched Sakura's father lose his grip, when the ship was completely level, and he tumbled into the water. He yelled the whole way down.

"Sakura, WE HAVE TO MOVE!" Syaoran quickly flipped himself onto the opposite side of the railing, as Sakura was about to burst into tears again. He won't bring himself to think about anyone except Sakura. Her well being was all that mattered right now.

The ship, after floating level for a moment, started to move upwards at an alarmingly fast rate. "Sakura, take my hand and I'll pull you over." She raised her hand to his, and he pulled her over the railing.

"Syaoran what's happening?" Sakura asked as she stared wide – eyed down towards the water. The ship was now sitting perfectly vertical on the water.

"I don't know, I don't know." They held each other's hand as tightly as they dared. The ship was completely still, and people were having an extremely hard time hanging on to something. The couple looked around in fear, as the Titanic started its final plunge into the North Atlantic Ocean.

"Alright, the ship is going to pull us down. As soon as you touch the water, kick for the surface." Syaoran looked over to Sakura, before looking back to the water. "Take a deep breath, when I say." Sakura nodded. "Ready?" The water was only about ten feet away now. "NOW!"

Both Sakura and Syaoran took a deep breath, and braced themselves for the freezing water. As soon as they touched the water, the great ship started to pull them downwards. They both started kicking for the surface, but the force of the pull from the great former liner pulled their strong grip they had on each other's hands apart. They were both pulled downwards, in different directions. Syaoran went of towards the right, while Sakura was pulled towards the left.

Syaoran kicked as hard as he could and he finally broke the surface. Gasping for the much needed air, he looked around. "SAKURA?" he yelled but people all around him were yelling different names. "SAKURA?!"

He turned around in surprise when he heard a shrill of a whistle. He started swimming towards the sound. "Come on. . . blow it again!" he whispered to himself. As if answering his prayers, another whistle sound filled the air. He swam as fast as her could wearing a lifejacket. The next time he heard the whistle, it was next to him. "Sakura!"

"Syaoran!" She was deathly pale.

"Come on try!" He begged her. She looked like she was about to give up.

"I'm so cold." She shivered, and her lips were turning a dark shade of blue.

Syaoran blinked when he saw a wave, filled with debris. It was probably made from the suction the Titanic made. He moved himself in front of Sakura, and acted as a human shield. Something hit him in the back of the head, and he felt a blinding pain shoot through his body.

"LIFE BOAT!" Sakura yelled. Syaoran turned and saw an upside down lifeboat floating a couple of yards away.

"Help us!" He pushed Sakura towards the boat, and saw her be pulled up. He reached up to the boat, and felt himself be pulled up.

Felt nothing else.

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Well that's it for the sinking part of the fic.

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