CHAPTER TEN: Secrets of the Past, Suspicions of the Present

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hello, everyone! Sorry for the late update. And sorry I wasn't able to continue this during my term-break… I think I was too pre-occupied then with playing FF7, watching TV, eating and making a new layout for my site… ; Anyway, here's the next chapter and I hope you guys like it…

Thanks to those who reviewed!

o – The Dark Empress of Eternity

o – Sakura Mei Yunalesca

o – xKawaiixIndox

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o – lil-amber-lisa

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Card Captor Sakura…

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LAST CHAPTER:

"You see honey, I've kinda changed my appearance while you were being observed by the doctors. Don't you like the new me?" Tina asked. 'Oh my gawd… I cannot believe he is falling for this stupid trick!' she thought, laughing evilly inside her.

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Sakura just sat there like it was going to be the end of the world or something. She didn't bother to think about her health as she knew that she is capable of getting sick in times like this since she hasn't been eating much. "I… I guess things aren't just meant to be… It's like destiny is against us being together… But I'm glad that you came back, Syaoran-kun…" Sakura told herself.

Just then, Tomoyo and Eriol came passing by the park. They saw someone seated at the swing, without an umbrella, nor anyone else for that matter. "Eriol-kun…I think she needs help…" Tomoyo told Eriol. She didn't know who that person was but she was sure that it was a girl.

"Iie… I think she needs to be alone…" Eriol replied, knowing of course who the person is. "Even though it is hard to let some things go, she needs to learn that. And even though it is tough for us not to help her, we need to leave her alone, Tomoyo-chan."

Confused at what her boyfriend just told her, she asked, "Nani…? What are you talking about, Eriol-kun?"

But she didn't get the answer that she wanted. He just smiled at her and then started to walk. For Tomoyo, she was still very concerned for that girl that she just saw. Wanting that girl under a shelter as soon as possible, Tomoyo left Eriol walking and went to the girl.

Of course, Tomoyo was shocked to see her there. She didn't expect her to be out, especially on a day like this. "Sa-Sakura-chan….?"

Sakura looked up with an expressionless face. Indeed she was pale and is about to collapse. And after a few minutes of staring at Tomoyo, she did just that. "Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo yelled as Sakura collapsed on her shoulders.

Eriol came running towards Tomoyo just as he saw Sakura faint and heard Tomoyo yell. He was just at the entrance of the park, staring at the two. Just as Eriol arrived, he placed the palm of his right hand on Sakura's forehead. "Eriol-kun… do something! What has happened to her!" Tomoyo asked, panicking. She had also started to cry.

"We need to take her somewhere warm." Eriol said. He then started to shift Sakura into a position where he can carry her. "Ikuso, Tomoyo…"

"H-hai…" Tomoyo said as she held the umbrella for both her and Eriol and Sakura as well. Then they started to walk slowly even though it was raining. They did have an umbrella big enough for the three of them. "Demo, what has happened to Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked again, still with tears falling from her eyes.

Thinking about this, Eriol replied, "I too don't know, Tomoyo-chan… For now, I think she needs some rest. And be far away from him."

"From who, Eriol…?"

He sighed and closed his eyes. It's as if it's going to kill him if he said this. But he had to. He then opened his eyes and said, "Syaoran-kun…"

Tomoyo, of course, was again shocked. "Nani? Why can't she see Syaoran-kun?"

"It has given her enough shock that Syaoran was leaving. More was added when she knew about my cousin's secret."

"Secret?"

He once again sighed and continued. "Syaoran-kun had a secret that only I and he know about. Tomoyo-chan, it's been years. Both of them know that. Demo, Syaoran-kun's love for Sakura had never faded. Since he returned to Hong Kong, he's been keeping this little notebook where he writes everything he feels about Sakura."

flashback

Syaoran was all alone in his room. Everyone was so busy downstairs that he didn't want to bother anyone nor did he want anyone to bother him. He had been so busy with training that he wanted to sleep.

Even though he truly wanted to sleep, his mind was so full of thoughts. Just then, he remembered what his father told him before he died.

ANOTHER FLASHBACK (an older one)

"Xiao-lang… My only son…" Syaoran's father said as he smiled. Four-year-old Syaoran was there, sitting beside his father who was lying down, weakening every minute. Yelan and all of Syaoran's other sisters were also there, standing on the other side of the bed.

"Otou-san… daijoubu ka?" Even though he is still a child, Syaoran could feel that his father wasn't feeling well. (A/N: uh… let's just pretend that they are using Japanese there too… ;)

His father smiled at him. Then he said, "Syaoran, being my one and only son and successor of the Clan, I want to remember this. I know you won't understand it now. But if you will remember this, someday you will understand it. Never let anything get in your way. If ever there is something that can't leave your mind, write it down or tell it to that person."

Syaoran stared at him as if he understood. But indeed, he sipped all the information in.

"One day you will experience leaving the person that you love. There's no one in this world that hasn't experienced that. I would like you to keep going. Don't forget about that person but keep going." Just then, his father started to cough. A few minutes later, he had his last remaining strength just to say goodbye to his family.

About what his father said, Syaoran nodded. Then, just before he knew it, his father had gone. He had left them, without him knowing what had happened.

end of "ANOTHER FLASHBACK"

Syaoran then scrambled through his things and grabbed one of the notebooks that his father gave to him days before he died. He said that he should use it only to write his personal feelings. He had given him separate notebooks for each different feeling. This was a small notebook that had a cherry blossom and a peony cover. "Was this just a coincidence or is this really fate or did Otou-san knew that I was going to fall for a girl named Sakura…" he asked himself. With that thought, he had that written down at the notebook for his family concerns.

A few days later, while Syaoran was in training, Eriol walked in his room. He was only supposed to be getting a ballpen but then he saw this notebook that had arose his curiosity for it looked special. He scanned through the notebook and read a few parts. "Hhheeeeee…? Syaoran-kun likes someone?"

Just then, Syaoran entered the room. "What are you doing?" he asked with his usual cold voice.

Eriol, knowing that he really wasn't supposed to be snooping around other people's stuff, hastily closed the notebook and placed it back at the desk and said, "I… I was just looking for a ballpen. I was going to write something for… Uh… for a friend…" At that time, Eriol and Tomoyo already knew each other and were seeing occasionally while she was at Hong Kong.

"Yeah right… Like I'd buy that… Why were you looking at my notebook…" Syaoran asked again.

Guilty, Eriol said, "Ok, ok… you caught me… I was really looking for a ballpen then I saw this notebook. It somehow arose my curiosity and, hey… I'm only human. As they say, "curiosity kills the cat". So I opened it. Ne Syaoran, who is this Sakura?"

Hearing the name, even though he has written it down a lot of times, still brings him shock and he still has the inclination to blush. "It's none of your business, Eriol…" He said then he walked towards his desk and grabbed the notebook.

"Is she someone that you left in Japan? Cause I know someone who can help you find her…" he said it like it was a bribe… Well, it is… A bribe just to know who that Sakura person is.

Syaoran, even though there seems to be joy in his heart that he can finally contact Sakura through someone else, didn't say anything. Eriol, being his snoopy self, roamed around his room and searched for some stuff. That was when he saw a picture on his cousin's night table which he never noticed before, a picture of him and a girl with emerald eyes and hazelnut hair under a cherry blossom tree with Syaoran's arms around the girl and the girl's head leaning on Syaoran's shoulders. He noticed that, without a doubt, his cousin was smiling. He knew that he never smiles. Well, rarely he does, but not usually in front of others. But here, he was smiling.

"Ne Syaoran, could this be her?" Eriol asked his spaced out cousin who was staring at the ground.

At that statement, Syaoran looked at him and saw that he was holding their picture. He sighed with defeat knowing that he won't win against his cousin's senses. "Hai… That is Sakura…"

Eriol once again looked at the picture and said, "And so, what happened?"

"What do you mean what happened? Mom called and had me sent here. That's what happened. After that, I have no idea what happened to her since I wasn't allowed to send letters to anyone. You know the rules, Eriol. I just don't know how you do it." Syaoran explained then got the picture from Eriol and sat down at his bed staring that the picture.

It was the first time that Eriol saw Syaoran this emotional. In fact, it is only the time that he was even emotional about things. "Syaoran…"

"Everything was going along fine… Why did she even have to arrange my departure from that country…" he said as tears were starting to form. Then, he noticed what he was doing. He suddenly wiped out his tears and stood up. "It doesn't matter now. Things are definitely going to be different from now on." Then he left leaving both the picture and the notebook on the bed.

Eriol stared at Syaoran while he left the room. Since Syaoran's heart grew cold after his father's death, he had never seen him cry nor did he ever see him smile. This was one proof that no doubt, his cousin had fell in love with this girl.

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"I don't get it… Where's the secret there?" Tomoyo asked.

"The secret there is that, he has never cried after his father died. I was the only one who saw that. And I was the only one who realized that he had a deep relationship with Sakura. Since then, we grew closer. Even though I continuously kept on teasing him until he breaks my neck, I am the only cousin that he had ever been that close to. Setting Meilin aside, I can say that I am the only one who knows how he feels being a guy too." Eriol explained.

Tomoyo stared at her cousin. She, too, is the only one who knows how she feels. Well, Touya and her father do to, but not to the extent of what Tomoyo understands when it comes to her feelings since she is a girl. "Eriol, let's get her home."

"Hai…" Eriol said. He then walked, with Tomoyo beside her and carrying Sakura, back to Tomoyo's house to keep Sakura warm before bringing her home just to face a livid Touya.

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Syaoran stared at the so-called "Sakura" beside him. "I don't like it. I like your emerald eyes better." He said then he turned around.

Just after turning around, Tina looked like she saw something horrible. Then she started to get mad. But then, one thing struck her. 'Contact Lens…' she told herself. "Alrighty then…." She said again with a happy tone on her voice. "I'll just go get my contact's a home, alright?" Then she left the hospital for the mall only to look for emerald colored contact lenses.

But, as she was looking for one, she suddenly remembered the girl that was supposed the visit Syaoran that day. She remembered that she had emerald eyes. 'Could she be… Sakura?' she thought.

After an hour and a half, she finally saw a pair of emerald colored contact lenses. Immediately, she bought them and ran back to the hospital where she knew Syaoran was waiting. When she got there, she saw that the hospital was suddenly crowded. 'The hell…! It just took me an hour and a half to get these and I return here and see a pack of people…' she thought.

Losing her patience, she screamed again, "OUT OF THE WAY!"

The people beside her looked at her. It was obvious that she didn't care. The others are still making there way somewhere. Of course, she didn't know.

o- inside Syaoran's Room –o

Yukito was there. He got a call from the nurse that he talked to the night that Syaoran was taken to the hospital and said that Syaoran had awaken. "Syaoran-kun, are you alright?" he asked Syaoran.

Syaoran just looked at him. He stared at him for a few minutes. Then he said, "Do I know you?"

Yukito, expecting this from him, wasn't taken a back. But, he was worried about Sakura. What if he didn't recognize Sakura by the time she comes here? 'Wait, where is Sakura?' he thought. Then, he decided to ask just in case she had talked to him. "Did Sakura come by?"

"Huh? Sakura? Oh yeah. She said she'd run back home and get her contact's at home… Do you know her?" Syaoran said.

At that comment, Yukito was surprised. Sakura didn't have any contacts nor did she have any problem in the eyes. Why the need for contact lenses? "Syaoran-kun, are you sure that Sakura got her contacts at home? Cause if I remember correctly, she doesn't wear any. Nor does she have any problem in the eyes."

Syaoran once again looked at him and said, "I don't know. That's what she told me. Who are you anyway and why do you know my so-called 'fiancé'"?

"Fiancé!" Yukito, obviously, was again shocked. "Since when did she become your fiancé?" he asked.

"I don't know. She just came barging in the door then she told me that she's my fiancé." He explained. "Would you care to tell me who you are and how do you know me and Sakura?" he asked nicely.

"Oh… Sorry… Tsukishiro Yukito des… I am your personal assistant and you are the President of the Ronar Company, one of the biggest companies both here and in Hong Kong. This Sakura that you are telling me about is not the Sakura that I know so I can't help you with that. Did she happen to mention her surname?"

"Surname?" he asked. "Guess not… She just told me that she's Sakura and that she's my fiancé." He explained again.

o- back to Tina -o

"What's the problem with you people?" she yelled just as she got her way inside the room. Then she saw Yukito sitting at the chair beside Syaoran's bed. "Who are you?" she asked, not in a polite manner.

"I guess you must me the "Sakura" that Mr. Li here is talking about." He said saying the name 'Sakura' with air quotes.

"And your problem being?" she asked, still not in a polite manner.

Yukito, knowing that he won't win in this debate alone, stood up and said, "Syaoran-kun, I'll be going now. I'll have Sakura here as soon as I can find her."

Really looking confused as he really doesn't know what's going on, Syaoran said, "But she's already here…"

"Oh, right… I'll be back as soon as I can contact your friends about this."

"There's no need. He doesn't have any friends here." Tina said as she started to move forward towards Syaoran.

"And you know that because? I know that you just got here "Sakura" because you heard that Syaoran got into an accident." Yukito said still putting the name Sakura in air quotes. "I better get going. I'll see you later, Syaoran-kun."

Tina then glared at Yukito as she knows that he will truly ruin her plans. "What did he mean, Sakura?"

Forgetting that her name that was registered to Syaoran was "Sakura", she didn't bother to answer. She just continued to glare and stand. That was when Syaoran got suspicious even though it happened only once. Upon seeing Yukito when he entered the room, he felt like he could trust him and take his word. Now he is doing what he felt, taking Yukito's suspicions as true.

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know that it's kinda weird having a lot of different notebooks for each different feeling… but hey, this is my fanfic and I can write what ever I think of, right? ; And yeah… I know that Yukito was somehow not him self in this chapter… ; gomen-ne…

Anyway, once again, I hope you guys liked this chapter… Thanks again and please don't forget to R&R… Thanks in advance!