In A Good Mood
"You've been smiling quite a lot today, Sakura-chan!" Fai commented as he began to bake more sweets for their café in Oto. He rolled the dough for the new batch of yummy cookies out and cut them into little cat head shaped figures and popped them in the oven.
Sakura watched in mild entertainment until Fai's question finally reached her wandering mind.
"Hmm? I have? Oh, I must just be in a good mood." She laughed a bit and smiled widely at Fai.
"Well, that's certainly good! What brought on this good mood?" Fai smirked his usual smirk and walked across the kitchen to start up a few pots of coffee.
Putting her head down on the counter, Sakura closed her eyes and thought for a moment.
"I guess about the new memory we found..."
"Hmm? Did you remember anything that stood out from the rest of the memories?" Fai asked, leaning into the counter towards Sakura, listening intently.
She thought again about the question. Closing her eyes, she searched through the memories she had regained in the short time they had all been together.
"There's…this one memory…" she began, not bothering to open her eyes. "My father, King Clow, is taking me to meet somebody. There's only one person there, but it…it feels like there should be somebody else…he should be standing there, right next to the man in the picture…" Her eyes began to water a bit at the memory, so she finally opened her eyes and smiled at Fai, whose smirk had faded from his face.
"…No one's there, but I'm so intrigued and curious about someone… Sometimes, when I'm really lonely, I like to imagine that my father is introducing me to Syaoran." She giggled slightly and wiped away the tears in her eyes, never noticing Fai's lips tighten ever so slightly at the mention of her fantasy.
He reached over and patted Sakura's hands, smiling once again. "Don't worry, Sakura-chan, we'll recover all of your memories, even if it means jumping into a crater of boiling lava!"
They both laughed at this, and Sakura, feeling a little better, leaned over and planted a little kiss on Fai's cheek. "Thanks, Fai-san…"
Fai pulled away from the counter and went back to making sweets for the café.
"Ne, Sakura-chan, Syaoran-kun and Kuro-tan should be back soon from sword training, why don't you go make something warm for them to drink, okay?"
Sakura brightened a bit at the mention of Syaoran returning soon and jumped up.
"Okay!"
Fai smiled as he watched Sakura rush behind the counter to begin making what he assumed was hot chocolate.
Sakura poured water into the kettle and set it onto the stove. She climbed onto the counter and pulled out the container of hot chocolate mix, all the while thinking of nothing but Syaoran.