Summer Sunset

Card Captor Sakura

twinklestarsixteen

Chapter 2

flight

Ring! Ring! Ring!

The phone rang incessantly. After a couple more rings Touya finally answered it.

"Hello, Kinomoto residence." Touya answered.

"Uhmm. Hello, is Mr. Touya Kinomoto there?" replied the woman in the other line.

"Speaking." Touya replied. He got a bit curious. Who was this woman anyway? So he finally asked the woman on the other line. "Who is this?"

"This is Li Yelan, the president of the Li Corporation in Hong Kong. I am not sure if you're aware, but your father closed a deal with our company 5 months ago. And well we're really saddened by what happened and we want to know if you, since you're the heir of the Kinomoto Company, if you're still up for the deal." Yelan asked.

"Ah, yes. My father mentioned that before. Yes, we will still push through." Touya answered.

"Well, great! I and my family, together with some corporate officials are going there next week for another business deal, so I think it would be great if we'd meet up. Well, if that is okay with you?" Yelan replied. Happiness was apparent in her voice.

"I think that would be great? What date will you arrive? It would be great pleasure for us to accompany you, or al least have someone to fetch you in the airport." Touya offered.

With that, Yelan started to tell him the details of their flight. Then they finally ended the phone call.

"Hey Sakura, wait up!" Tomoyo called out as she made her way through the crowd.

It was the last day of school in Tomoeda High School, and as usual everybody was really excited for their plans that summer. Most of the students even discussed their planned trips to different beaches.

Sadly though, Sakura wasn't one of them. She's been like that since the death of her father. Nobody can really blame her anyway. It was hard to lose a parent.

"Hi Tomoyo!" Sakura smiled.

"What are your plans for summer?" she asked cheerfully. "Are you still going to that cheerleading camp, you were talking about before?"

"I don't think so. Maybe I'll just spend my vacation in our beach house." Sakura replied.

"Why is that? I thought you were really excited about that camp? Tomoyo asked her worriedly.

"Well there's been a lot of changes." She finally replied. "And besides I've been quite exhausted with all that has happened these past few months so I think it would be a great chance for me to rest during the summer vacation."

"Well if that's what you want." She smiles at Sakura. "Hey, are you going to continue your piano lessons? My teacher will be available since I'm flying off to Paris for the summer. Why don't you take this chance?"

"I think that would be great." Sakura smiles at Tomoyo.

"Well, it's good that you still want to pursue that. I really think you're a natural at playing the piano." She gazes adoringly at Sakura.

"Thank You." Sakura grins.

"You're always welcome." She hugs Sakura. "Hey, send me pictures of you while I'm on vacation, okay? I'd be delighted to hear from you."

"I think you should be the one to send me postcards since you're going to some place." She answers.

"Well let's just keep each other updated okay?" She smiles at Sakura

"Hey, my driver is there already. I have to go. Take care, okay? I'll miss you a ton. See you next school year. Bye." She waves off at Tomoyo.

"You too, okay! Take care!" Tomoyo shouts out and waves goodbye.

"I really hope she'll be okay." Tomoyo whispered as she made her way to her car.

She took one last look at her best friend then finally asked the driver to go. It was hard for her not to be there when her best friend needed her badly.

Syaoran sat at his seat uncomfortably. He looked at the window longingly. How he wished he was back their in Hong Kong, playing soccer and training karate, instead of sitting here in his seat. His mother had insisted him to come with them in this trip. And he already ran out of excuses so nonetheless he had no choice.

He gazed around in his seat. It wasn't his first time to travel, and so he was already familiar with all the people he'll see. There in the end of the First Class Section sat a man holding a cell phone. He was dressed really well and was speaking in different languages.

He is probably a CEO in one of the big companies back in Hong Kong. He thought to himself.

Then he snuck another look around. Everybody in the First Class Section was dressed to impress, a sure sign that they were all part of one group in society. And that was the high class.

Syaoran closed his eyes. Finally trying to get some sleep, but just as he was about to doze off, a hand touches his shoulder.

Instinctively, he opens his eyes quickly. He was about to grab the hand when he hears a voice.

"Relax. It's just me." The woman smiles at him.

"Good thing, you spoke fast. I was about to throw you. Why did you even insist on me joining you on this trip? You know I don't like traveling." He replies sharply, tearing off his gaze. He was really bored and just the fact that he's been sitting for about an hour was killing him.

"Well, I just think it'd be good for you to socialize. That would be extremely important especially because you're the heir of our company." The woman answers back, a smile still apparent in her beautiful face.

"Oh, God! Please stop with the you're-the-next-heir speech of yours. I'm already sick of hearing it every single day. You've been bugging me a lot lately you know." He replies rolling his eyes.

"Well, you better get used to it." She chuckles heartily. "You'll keep hearing it anyway. And besides I want you to meet a new friend."

"A new friend? I don't need another one mother. You know that I've got tons of them. Tsukushi, Kenjii, Yamazaki and a lot more." He says exaggeratedly.

"Well I think she'll be a great friend to you." She smiles adoringly.

"She? What? It's a girl! I thought you said you'd lay off after that incident with that Hikaru? Why do you keep on insisting for me to go and be friends with these people? Are you seriously trying to ruin my entire life?" He gapes at his mother.

"Well, this girl's different. And I want you to be friends with her. She's been going through a hard time and I think you'd be a great help to her." She looks at him straight in the eye.

"No, I don't want to. I don't need another friend! I've had enough of your ideas!" He shouted. His voice was so loud that everybody in the first class section looked at him.

"Don't be immature. You will I do as I say." Yelan's voice pounds through the air. She was obviously upset.

"I'm not going to. Deal with that!" He replies.

"You will do as I say, Syaoran. Understood? Now I don't want any trouble with you. I'm warning you, if you don't do this you will be in serious trouble." His mother looks back sternly at him as she settles down in her seat. She was obviously pissed off by his action.

"Fine!" he says bitterly. He tears of his gaze from his mother and looks at the window instead. He too was upset by all of this, but he has no choice.

After about an hour, they finally land in Japan International Airport.

"Good morning! Welcome to Japan National Airport!" the voice prompt says repeatedly.

"Oh great! I'm now officially in hell."

end of chapter two

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