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Chapter 16: Revealed
"WHAT'S THIS!" a womanly voice thundered in a green bedroom. … A teenage boy got up from his bed and adjusted his eyes to the light. It looks like he just woke up.
"Mother?" he asked in the sudden noise.
"XIAO LANG! WHAT IS THIS!" she shouted while handing the newspaper to her son. … Syaoran can see clearly now. He saw his face in a picture printed on the paper. He looks like he was strangling two persons.
Then he read, "Li Causes Scandal During Ball" … "Mother!" he cried out, "it wasn't my fault! The guy here in this picture was strangling Sakura!" he half lied.
His mother shook her head in disbelief then said, "a picture says a thousand words… Whatever really happened…it can't be accurately repaired." After that, she turned her back on him leaving him with the newspaper as she starts to walk out of his green bedroom.
"But Mama!" he called out to her attempted to chase his mother. … His mum just raised her hand motioning him to be silent. "You have partially lost your dignity there…and lucky for you, you also lost your fiancé."
He got bewildered and just let his mother leave his bedroom. 'Now what?' he asked himself.
That noon, Syaoran was eating his lunch all by himself in his house. No one was there to dine with him, not even his sisters or cousins. It was a boring lunchtime when a tall lady stepped up to him. Syaoran is a 17-year-old guy and this woman near him now looks older than him but obviously shorter. (men's height, sweat drops)
"Xiao Lang…" the girl said.
Syaoran finished eating then stood in front his sister, "Fuutie.."
"It must have been hard to have a scandal…" she simply muttered.
Syaoran walked out of his sister's front then said, "you guys can't be possibly troubled about that…" he was a bit far away from her now then continued speaking, "the only thing that would matter is that we have the same surname."
"Fuutie was just concerned about you, ya know..!" another girl with a different female voice walked in.
He smirked, "and what's that gotta do with you, Shiefa?" he looked at his sister. … She kinda got annoyed with his rude response.
Fuutie and Shiefa were about to follow Syaoran when another girl stopped them. She shook her head motioning them not to bother Syaoran any more. "But Fanren!" Shiefa exclaimed.
Fanren watched Syaoran leave the scene, "No Shiefa, I think he feels bad about it already…considering that Mother bolted in his room this morning… And I think there's something else troubling his mind…" she stated.
"She's right!" Feimei walked in. "Look here!" she showed them the newspaper. "Look at Xiao Lang here!" she pointed him in the picture. "He wouldn't just barge in a scene without a reason!"
"That's right!" Fanren agreed. "Looks like he was out of control because of something… I may not be sure what this means… but I think it has to do something with this girl…" she pointed Sakura who was trying to stop Syaoran.
"Kinomoto?" Fuutie said.
"…Probably…" Fanren responded.
………………………………………………… Where Syaoran is
Syaoran was sitting on the bench in his garden. It was the same bench he was sitting on when Sakura called out to him. It was the last scene he had with her before she returned to Japan. "Haah…" he sighed and looked at the gate. He could imagine her standing there waiting for him to approach her. He recalled his last vision of her. "Why is Kioku crying?" he repeated her words. 'Was Kioku crying the other day? I dunno… I never bothered…"
He just sat there. After a couple of minutes, a girl walked in. "Hey brother!" Fuutie called out to him. "Did you say hi to Touya for me?"
Syaoran got surprised and raised his eyebrow. "Touya?"
"Yeah! Touya!" she ejaculated.
"Why on earth do you know that guy?" he asked his sister.
She sighed in sarcasm. "Duh! We used to talk a lot when he was hanging out here before!"
"Touya? Hanged out here?" he was definitely confused.
"Yep! But… it was a long time ago though…" she looked at the sky then sat next to him, "I wonder if he still remembers me…"
Syaoran looked at his sister indifferently, "I didn't like him…"
She smirked at his statement then handed him a photo. … "It's Touya!" Syaoran blurted as soon as he took hold of the picture.
"Yeah! It was the last photo we took before he returned to Japan! And look!" she pointed something behind Touya, "you were also there! You were also taken in the picture!"
"Yeah… looks like I'm here too… …in the background."
"I think you were about seven that time… Hehehe! You were already seven and still loved to play in the sandbox! Hahaha! You were always there with your playmate!"
A/N: Sounds like Love Hina, eh?
"Yeah Fuutie…" he stated, "I know THAT!" he looked at her then asked, "how come I don't remember Touya?"
"I just… I just didn't want him to meet you…" she replied.
"How come?"
"Because…he was overprotective of his sister… You wouldn't want him killing you just because you were playing a lot with his very childish sister."
"Sister? …His sister? You mean… Sakura?" he was surprised.
"Hahahaha! No dummy! It was Kioku!" she exclaimed.
Syaoran's eyebrows formed a negative angle, "so… You knew all along that Sakura was really my childhood friend!"
"Fanren knew too! …But we just kept silent… You know… Don't wanna oppose Mama…" she explained.
Then all came clear to him like a finally-finished-exasperating-jigsaw-puzzle. "Why didn't you tell me sooner!" he exclaimed at his sister.
"I told you! I don't wanna oppose Mama!" she answered.
"…Mama tricked me?"
"No! She didn't mean that!" Fuutie waved her hands trying to shrug the thought off her brother.
"She has her own reasons…" Fanren butt in.
"But she didn't have to lie to me! Did she?" Syoaran turned to Fanren.
"Don't worry Xiao…" Fanren talked to him in a serious tone, "it's all over now… Kioku called it off…"
"She did? How come I didn't know that!" Syaoran was heating up.
"You don't?" Fuutie spoke up.
"I think Mama really has her own reasons… Don't judge her right away…" Fanren stated.
"I'm not judging her… So… That's why Sakura asked me why Kioku was crying… Did Kioku called it off the other day?" Syoaran asked his sisters.
"Yeah… I guess…" Fanren said.
Syaoran's temper suddenly loosened, "so that's why Mama told me a while ago that I just lost a fiancé..!"
"That's probably it!" Fuutie spoke as she takes her hand on his shoulder.
"You like her, don't you?" Fanren asked Syaoran.
"Who? Kioku?" he snapped.
"No… her!" she took Touya and Fuutie's photo from Syaoran's hands then showed him the other girl in the background.
You guessed it! She has auburn hair and green emerald eyes.
Syaoran eyed closely the other girl in the background who was obviously playing with him in the sandbox. He blushed a lot finding out that it was Sakura. "Who told you that? Of course not!" he denied.
"Oh boy! I had to take away Touya after the photo was taken! Hahaha! It was so crazy! Trying hard not to make him see you playing with his sister!" Fuutie blurted.
"You don't, huh?" Fanren teased him.
"Of course not! She was just my client!" he bellowed then walked out of the garden.
When he had finally disappeared in the garden, the two girls giggled for Syaoran was so obvious.
…………………………………………………
After finding out everything, he had been trying to live life as normally as possible. Trying not to charge his mother about all the lies.
.-. Leave it well enough alone .-.
.-. And don't remember .-.
"Meilin! Stop bothering me!" he exasperatedly said when his cousin came disturbing him in his afternoon TV.
"I just wanted to ask the scoop on what happened in the ball!" she excitedly exclaimed.
"It's none of your business…" he muttered.
"Oh? I just took a vacation for 6 months and you're rude to me now?"
"I'm always like this!"
"Yeah… To me!" she blurted then walked out.
"Haaaaaah… Girls… Why were they ever invented…" he whispered under his breath. 'But… I do miss her… Sakura I mean…'
……………………………………………… After 1 month
"Hey! Xiao Lang!" Meilin busted in his bedroom.
Syaoran shot up from his chair then faced her, "don't do that again! Respect my privacy, will you!"
She rolled her eyes then tremendously laughed. Syaroan rolled his eyes. "Kinomoto!" she shouted.
He looked at her with indifferent eyes, "…and?"
"Kinomoto… Marry…" she mentioned only two words.
"What? Can you please make sense!" Syaoran bellowed acting to be irritated but he was really desperate for information.
The two went down the stairs then went to the living room and found Fanren and Feimei there. "I can't tell him exactly what you told me a while ago…" Meilin stated.
"What is it?" Syaoran looked at his older sisters.
"Kinomoto… Marry…" Feimei uttered.
His eyebrows made a negative angle. "…Fanren?" he turned to his other sister that he hoped would make sense.
It was a matter of minutes when Fanren had finished explaining. "All those words," Syaoran started, "only meaning to tell me that Kinomoto's getting married…"
"Yeah! Worried, huh?" Feimei teased.
"Worried over my client?" he responded trying to act calm.
"Yeah right..!" Meilin added.
Syaoran rolled his eyes then exited the scene. He went to his bedroom. It was already nighttime and he didn't bother to turn on the lights. He just went straight to his window. He shoved the curtain to the side then the image of the moon was revealed. Then he thought,
'I'm going to Japan.'
END
Author's Notes
Ok! I know it was lame! I know! I know!
Waaaaaaaah!
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Tammi