Summer Sunset
Card Captor Sakura
twinklestarsixteen
The Summary:
A few their father's death, Sakura and Touya receives a phone call from the president of the Li corporation. Her father had closed a deal with them a few months ago. And so its president is going to Japan to discuss the joint project, but she isn't going alone her son, the heir of the prestigious corporation is also going. SxS pairing.
Chapter 1
Silence
Silence was thick through the air. Yet suddenly a piercing sound slices through the silence that bellows it. A piercing scream of a girl was making its way. At first it was faint but it grew louder and louder.
"Please! Help me! Help my father!" the girl kept on repeating, each time it grew louder, but nobody seemed to hear it.
The next few minutes though another sound pierced through the now recurring silence. It was the sound of shoes clattering. Then the door suddenly burst open and nurses and doctors came flooding in.
One of them lowered his mask and said "He is in a critical condition, and there is a little chance that he'll survive, but don't worry, we will do our best."
At this the girl started to sob heartily. "No. Please do everything you can. Don't lose him. Please." She cried in between sobs. "Please."
Just then a boy takes the girl's arm. He takes the girl to wait outside. "Don't worry. He'll be fine. I'm sure father will not leave us." He assures the girl.
At this the girl sobs harder. "I'm scared. What will happen to us if he does? What will happen to the company? I don't want to lose him." She cries.
"Don't worry. I'm right here. We'll get through this." He replies to his little sister.
Suddenly one of the doctors comes out of the room.
"Are you the relatives of Mr. Kinomoto?" he asks.
"Yes, we're his children." The boy answers back. Fear was obvious in his tone.
"I'm sorry to inform you that he passed away. We tried to revive him but he didn't come back. We're very sorry." He said as he shook his head.
At this tears start to flow freely from the girl's eyes. This was just too much to take. She was still young she was only 16 years old. And still had so much ahead of her, but with this, she couldn't very well comprehend on how she was going to cope. The mere fact of that her father died was much of a burden, but she still had to face reality. She and her brother were left with all the fame and fortune, but it wasn't easy. Without her father, how were they going to run the company? This was all too much.
With a single tear dripping from her eye, she lost her consciousness.
"You're finally awake, Sakura." Touya smiles gently at her sister. He ruffles her hair. "You had me worrying. I thought I was also going to lose you...like Father."
Memories flashed back to Sakura, her father had died. She wasn't dreaming. He was gone. And she knew in her heart that he wasn't going to come back. He's gone.
"Sorry." That was all she said to her brother.
It has been a week since her father passed away. And today was the day of his cremation.
Silently, she got up and dressed. She remembered her father saying one last thing to her before he succumbed to death.
"When I die, have my body cremated. After that I want you to scatter my ashes in the sea, like what we did to your mother."
She wore a black silk dress, the last gift of her father to her. After the cremation, she and her brother Touya went to their beach house. They stayed only to eat lunch then proceeded to the boat. They went to deeper part of the sea and scattered their father's ashes.
"Are you okay?" Touya asked Sakura trying to smile.
"I'm fine." She answered him. "Just fine."
After that they went back to their beach house to rest. They were both tired of fending off the paparazzis trying to get their interviews about the death of their father.
As Sakura sat on her bed, she gazed meaningfully at the picture of her family. It was taken last summer when they took a vacation here.
"Dad, I miss you already." She whispers as tears fall.
The last conversation she had with her dad still in perfect condition had been 5 months ago, but she remembers it vividly like it had only occurred a few hours ago.
She was sitting in her bed trying to read a book when her father came in.
"Hey. Spare a minute for me will you?" her father smiled cheerfully
"I think I have more than that, especially if it's with the president of the Kinomoto Company." Sakura replies cheerfully. "What is it Dad?"
"Well, nothing special. I just thought it would be nice if we go on vacation in our beach house. Me and you and Touya all together. It's been ages since we did that." He smiles.
"Sure thing Dad! I miss that too." Sakura replies. Her eyes were twinkling, a sure sign of pure happiness.
"Hey, Sakura, why don't you drop by my office later. I've got a surprise for you" Fujitaka smiled as he turned to close the door.
That was the last conversation she had with him. It would've been great if that trip happened but it didn't because that night was the night when Fujitaka had a heart attack.
She remembers every single detail, every pang of pain that crushed her heart every time she saw her father lying helpless in his hospital bed.
It was hard just seeing him their.
She had no choice though, it was her duty. He was her father, and she was his daughter.
Days pass but Sakura still couldn't fully accept the fact that her father had left them. She had been pretending to her brother that she was alright but she knew that her brother had strong senses. He knew when she was lying and had been watching her closely.
"Hey, do you want to go walking? I think its good exercise." Touya teased.
"I'm not feeling well. You should go. It would be good for you." Sakura urged.
"Well I'm not going if you're not going. I'm staying right here." He answered
"Touya, you know what, you can sometimes be a pain in the ass." Sakura smiled meaningfully at her brother.
"Well it's the first time I heard that for weeks. Hey why don't you go and walk with me. You need the exercise anyway. I think you're getting quite fat." Touya laughed. "I think you've been eating too much."
"What! I'm not getting fat! I think you should get your eyes checked! Or maybe you should go to a psychologist, I think you're hallucinating!" Sakura fumed
"Honestly, you're getting fat." Touya snorted. He looked at Sakura and saw that she was already mad so he sprinted out of the house as fast he could. There was no hell of a way that he was going to get caught by his sister.
"You are so going to get it now!" Sakura ran after her brother.
Behind the teasing though, Touya really did care for her welfare. And this was his only way of showing.
The only thing that Touya didn't know was that Sakura was still sad about her father's death. She just didn't want him to worry more about her. And every night she cried until she couldn't cry anymore. All the guilt and sadness had taken its toll on her.
She was a pretender.
And everyday she would wear a mask of a happy, cheerful girl.
Nobody knew how much hurt she held inside her heart and nobody had enough guts in them to penetrate through her hard mask.
She had grown used to the fact that she was pretending. Inside her, was a girl desperately crying out for help, yet outside she is happy and cheerful. One thing she assumed was that nobody would find out. Well she was proven wrong, by a boy with the name, Li Syaoran.
End of Chapter One
TwinkleStarSixteen (TSS)
TSS: Hey, you guys! Hope you like the first chapter of Summer Sunset. Well this is my first fanfic so I really really hope that you'll like it. This story is about having trust and faith towards other people. And well this more like my life story except for the fact that I still have both my parents. Well anyway, hope you like it. And please give me reviews if you want the next chapter ayt?
