Revenge is sweet, love is sweeter
By Zilver Wings
Chapter Eight
Sayonara, Sakura
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Summary: She was once the innocent girl, kind and trusting . Yet,
after the incident with her classmate, Li Xiao Lang, she changed. And
now, seeing him again, she seeks revenge.
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"Earth to Sakura-chan!"
Tomoyo shouted and Sakura broke out from her trance.
"Hoe?"
"What is the matter with you? Ever since yesterday, you've become so quiet, did anything happen?"
"No, of course not."
Sakura fidgeted nervously with the hem of her school skirt. Yesterday night's event still played over and over again. She could still picture him, guilty and depressed. Should she forgive him, it seemed like he was really sorry. But could she? After all the years, it still hurt. People always say that time would erase all our pains, but in reality, it didn't.
"Hey guys."
Tomoyo tore her worried gaze from Sakura and looked up to see Syaoran running towards them.
He stopped in front of them. His bangs stuck to his face due to the sweat, his face puffing red, and he was gasping for breath.
"Wow, Li-kun, this is the first time you're so late."
"Hai. I was… thinking of some things."
He turned to look at Sakura, who still had her head down, playing with her skirt.
"Kinomoto?"
"Uh, Tomoyo-chan, I need to go to the classroom to finish my homework, ja ne!"
Before Tomoyo could react, Sakura bursted away from them to the entrance of the school.
Tomoyo and Syaoran looked at each other in confusion. They didn't have any homework.
Syaoran felt his heart sank. During these months, Sakura had eased up on him and they were actually on speaking terms, why was she suddenly avoiding him again?
Just then, a girl approached them, winked at Syaoran and spoke to Tomoyo, who looked apologetic at Syaoran, saying that she needed to go to a choir meeting and left with the girl.
Syaoran slowly made his way to the school when suddenly, something attracted his attention.
He picked the object up and saw that it was a homemade pink purse with a pink circle around a star with wings at the front. (A/N: Just think of Sakura's staff.) Below it was a name sown on it- Sakura Kinomoto.
He shrugged and stuffed it in his pocket, deciding to give it back when he saw her in class.
Unfortunately, every time Syaoran tried to approach Sakura, she always found an excuse to get away from him, which made him very frustrated.
She was so unpredictable, and it was annoying him.
He didn't notice it, but Tomoyo realized that Sakura was becoming wamer to everyone after Syaoran came.
'I hope you'll be the one to change her, Li-kun.'
Ever since the day when the Manimiko incident happened, Manimiko disappeared suddenly. Although Syaoran was very glad about it, Tomoyo was worried.
She knew that Manimiko was one that would do anything to get the things she wanted, and she wouldn't give up until she got it. Somehow, she got a bad feeling about it, but she couldn't say it to Syaoran for she had no proof.
After the school bell rang, indicating that it was the end of another school day, Syaoran tried one last attempt to give the purse back to Sakura.
He turned around and saw her begin to put on her school bag to leave, her expression hurried and nervous.
He quickly fished for her purse just as Sakura walked away.
"Kinomoto, I got your purse!"
Too late, Sakura quickened her pace once she heard him call her, and was out of sight before he could speak another word.
He sighed and began to put the purse back into his pocket when a thought occurred to him. Maybe Sakura's address was in her purse and he could return it back to her before he went home.
He hesitated, but finally flipped it open, and was greeted by shock, making him almost fall off his chair.
In the invisible plastic holder which you usually put your card in, there was a small photo. It was not just any ordinary photo though. It was not complete, you could see that someone had once ripped it, for some pieces were missing, and there was cracks in the places where duct tape stuck the pieces together.
It was the photo of Ying Fa's mother.
It was the photo he had ripped.
It was the photo Sakura owned.
Sakura was Ying Fa.
He smacked his forehead with the purse.
He should have realized it earlier. Ying Fa was Sakura in Chinese. They had the same identical emerald eyes and honey brown hair. And yet, those once bright and happy eyes that he loved so much has dimmed, because of his stupid mistake.
No wonder she looked so shock when she heard his name, and showed hatred and coldness towards him. In fact, he was surprised that she hadn't tried to hurt him. But somehow, he felt something when he encountered Sakura at the beach, and the time he was sick, she was so nice to him, he knew that those feelings weren't fake. Why?
He did found Sakura's address, and with a heavy heart, he slowly made it to the Kinomoto residence.
He rung the doorbell and was relieved when a middle-aged man with twinkling eyes and a warm smile greet him.
"Konnichiwa, Kinomoto-san. I'm Kinomoto's classmate, she forgot something, and I want to return it to her."
Syaoran took out the purse to hand it to Fujitaka, but he didn't take it, instead, his smile widened.
"You went through all the trouble to return it to Sakura? I'm so glad she has such a nice classmate like you. I'll call her and you can hand it to her, she should thank you."
Syaoran frantically waved his head but Fujitaka took no notice as he walked behind the door and shouted.
Shortly after, Sakura came running downstairs and halted when she saw him.
"What are you doing here, Li?" She glared warily at him as she walked slowly towards him.
Syaoran raised up the purse.
"I just came to return this back to you. You dropped it this morning."
Sakura blushed slightly and quickly walked towards him, scolding herself for being so cautious. She thought something was wrong when Syaoran kept approaching her today, but in fact, he only wanted to return her purse. Somehow, he looked different now. He looked stony.
He gave it to her, and she was about to say arigato when suddenly, he spoke to her.
"Sumimasen deshita(I'm sorry), Ying fa."
Sakura didn't move an inch as Syaoran turned around to leave. A sudden gust of wind blew her bangs away from her face to reveal glassy emerald eyes.
'You finally found out.'
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Syaoran slung his shoulder bag on the sofa carelessly and threw himself on the bed after he reached home.
No wonder he had felt all fluttery when every time he met her. His brain didn't recognize her, but his heart did. After all these years, he was still in love with her. He could almost still hear her sweet laughter and kind words that she sent to everyone who was in need of comfort. Why did he have to be so stupid, forcing her to say the words that he wanted her to say. He knew that she didn't feel the same way, but as the child of the richest and most powerful family in Hong Kong, he always got what he wanted, no one every dared to refuse anything he requested, except her.
Suddenly, his cell phone rang throughout the dark room. Syaoran slowly reached for his cell phone on the small desk next to his bed and pressed a button.
"Moshi moshi."
"Xiao Lang," upon hearing his Chinese name in a smooth and calm voice that he knew so well, he quickly sat up and listened attentively.
"I have found you a fiancée who is a Japanese. She is sweet and has a good background. I want you to come back to Hong Kong as soon as possible to get acquainted with her. You are sixteen now, and have been studying in Japan for half a year, the vacation is over. Since you will take over the clan once you reach adulthood, I want you to learn about the clan and try to manage it so you can be responsible and make the clan your ancestors have been working so hard for become even stronger."
This was too sudden for Syaoran. For once in his life, he had actually been happy. The heavy burden on his shoulder was being forgotten. He didn't want to go back to his old life, where people only saw him as the future of the Li clan, and worked him really hard, and never let him do anything other normal kids could do.
He wanted people to be friends with him because he was Li Xiao Lang, but not because he was the future leader of the famous clan and was rich and powerful. He got that in Japan. He was free to be himself and not feel as if he was being criticized by everything he did. He got that in Japan. He had always known that something was missing in his life, and found it in Japan, love.
And yet, when he thought deeper, he realized that he was bringing Sakura nothing but pain. She deserved be happy, and he was certain that her utopia was a world without him.
He made up his mind, ignoring the tug in his heart.
"Mama, I leave Japan tomorrow morning, please send me a jet."
There was a second of silence.
"Xiao Lang, are you sure? I think you should say goodbye to your classmates and let the school know of your transfer. What about the magazine that you've taken after?"
"It's okay, I'll phone the school and tell them that. The magazine can handle without me."
"Very well. The jet will arrive 7:00 am sharp next day, and Wei will be there."
"Joi Gin." (A/N: Goodbye in Cantonese.)
He put the phone aside and sighed. Better start packing up now if he was to catch the jet tomorrow.
'I wonder who my fiancée is? Mama says as if I know her. Well, she seems to be a nice person.'
He walked to the window and stared momentarily at the stars in the endless blanket of black above him.
"Sayonara…Sakura."
He smiled softly as he whispered the name he had been longing to say for so long.
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"Sakura-chan, Li-kun has left Japan to go back to Hong Kong!"
Tomoyo rushed to Sakura the next day at school, grabbing tightly on the newspaper. On the cover page were large big bold letters- Li Xiao Lang, future leader to the Li clan, has gone back to Hong Kong for training.
Sakura's mouth dropped open, but she quickly closed it again as she snatched the newspaper from Tomoyo and turned to the page of the details.
"The future leader of the richest and most powerful family in Hong Kong and possibly China- Li Xiao Lang, has left Japan after his vacation and gone back to Hong Kong for serious training, says the current leader of the Li clan, Li Yelan."
Sakura's eyes skipped through all the details only to stop when she saw the interview.
"We had a short interview with the infamous future leader before he left the airport.
Q: Why are you going back to Hong Kong?
A: Since I am to be the leader of the clan after I reach 18, it would be best if I start to train to become one and make the clan stronger.
Q: Are there any other reasons?
A: I have to meet my fiancée my mother has chosen for me and get acquainted with her.
Q: How was your life in Japan?
A: It was nice, kind of like a long vacation.
Q: Did anything special happen?
A: Well, I met a childhood classmate of mine.
Q: Is your classmate a boy or a girl?
A: A girl.
Q: What are your relationships?
A: I don't really know, but one thing for sure, she despises me.
Our reporters have tried to question him further about the topic, unfortunately, his bodyguards stepped between us and led him away from the airport. But one thing for sure, that childhood classmate of his must have played an important role in his life, for the future leader's eyes showed pain when we asked him the last question. Well, who is this girl? For further details, please watch the interview this evening at 6:00 pm in CDF news."
He has a fiancée?
To be continued---
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Okay, I totally hate myself. I reread the story and there are so many mistakes! Let me clear things up.
First, I said that the name of the magazine was "Teens Life", but somehow, I totally forgot about it and changed it to "Zilver Wings". The correct one is "Teens Life".
Second, I said that Syaoran was going to study in F.4D but later changed it to Grade eight, the correct one is the first one.
Also, I know that a lot of you have been questioning about Sakura's constant change of behavior around Syaoran, and I apologize for causing the confusion, because unbeknown by Sakura, she is also falling for Syaoran, so she is very nice to Syaoran and forgets about the incidents momentarily from time to time. After all, what kind of story is that if Sakura hates Syaoran from the start to the end?
Sorry for updating so infrequently, but I am totally in love with High School Musical!
Thanks for reviewing, please continue!
Miya Miho- I'm trying! I think I did a pretty good job on this chapter. How big can your ego get?
Fallen Latte- Aww. Touché. Other fanfics always make me cry too.
Lil-BabYAnG3L- I haven't stopped. I vowed to myself to finish this story no matter if only one person is reading this or not.
Animefreakkagome- Which song? Is it from High School Musical? Probably not. P
Sakura-chan- which one?
Armageddon Angel- The fact that Syaoran thinks Cherry Blossom looks a lot like Ying Fa probably did it, and really, if you think too logically like I did on the other stories in the past, how many stories will be ever written? About the paragraphs, can you tell me if they look better now? Thank you.
Syaoran-cuuutttie- You call that short? Sigh…
LollipopCHAOS- Wow, we're one of a kind. So far, all the SS fans love ET too!
tiffany husky victoria twee...- thanks a lot!
ccs-sprinkler- Really? That's what I thought! But this chapter is "less lame".
sakura kawii- maybe… yup, that's what I thought too, if Sakura was to break Syaoran's heart by being the girlfriend of another person, I think it's too degrading of her to do that.
And so, the great Vivien leaves and tries to fix another one of her terrible stories, so long.
