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Love and Lightening Never Strike Twice: Part I

By: CCSRonin

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"This holiday sucks!" was all Syaoran could say as he walked through the park near his apartment in Tomoeda. It was Valentines Day and all of the couples were out and about enjoying the beautiful day with their chosen partners.

"All except me," thought Syaoran, "But then I don't even have a girlfriend, or even know a girl who's a friend I could call." Syaoran sighed and continued his trudging through the park.

As he walked along the winding cement path, he watched all of the young happy couples in the park. Some were making out, others were holding hands and walking as he was, some were just sitting in the park staring into each others eyes as if the rest of the world didn't exist.

"All of this mushiness reminds me of Tomoyo and Eriol," Syaoran laughed slightly at the remembered sight of his two best friends making out in supposedly inconspicuous places but somehow he was always able to find them.

"I bet their enjoying Valentines Day." Syaoran sighed for what had to be the thousandth time that day.

But he did bring this upon himself and he knew it. Allowing the only girl that he ever had any feelings for slip right through his hands, and for what had to be the stupidest reason in the history of love. Syaoran thought back to the time when he last saw his first and only girlfriend Sakura Kinomoto.

--- Flash Back ---

"I really think that this is for the best Syaoran-kun," Sakura said as she looked sorrowfully into his eyes trying to get any idea of what he was feeling. But Syaoran was, like always, hiding his emotions behind a mask of indifference. Hard eyes that would scare away most girls didn't deter Sakura; she had known him to long to let that stop her from finding out what he was really feeling.

"And she usually does find out," thought Syaoran, "but not this time," cause what he was feeling was not that this was "for the best" but that this was really not good for either of them, and especially not for him.

However Syaoran knew why Sakura was telling him this, and somewhere in his heart he knew that this was probably for the best, but right now his heart just wasn't listening to reason.

"Sakura are you sure ……" But he was cut off by Sakura holding up her hand signaling for him to stop.

"Syaoran you know our relationship won't work the way things currently are. You're going back to Hong Kong to attend college there, and I'm going to college in America because of the track scholarship that major university is giving me. We'll be thousands of miles apart with only telephones and letters to keep us in touch."

"That didn't stop us before" Syaoran mumbled under his breath so Sakura couldn't hear him.

Syaoran thought back briefly to when he was forced to go back to China for several years on his Mother's request and how he and Sakura had pinky promised to wait forever for each other. Syaoran just sighed. He knew that that had been when they were young and naïve, when they thought that forever truly meant forever. Now it just didn't work that way.

"I'll do what ever you want Sakura, what ever makes you happy." was all that Syaoran said and he meant it. Sakura looked at him with gratitude and gave him a quick hug that Syaoran just couldn't return.

"Thank you Syaoran" Sakura whispered, "w... well I had better get back and finish packing, I leave in only three days for the states, I… I hope I can see you again before then." Sakura looked at him with questioning eyes hoping that he will say yes and come see her before she leaves.

"I'll try Sakura" was all Syaoran said before giving her a quick kiss goodbye on the cheek and walking away.

Syaoran just couldn't bring himself to see her again, and Sakura got on the plane three days later wondering why Syaoran didn't at least come see her off at the airport.

----End Flashback----

Syaoran wanted to bang his head against a tree for not stopping Sakura from breaking up with him, or at least not seeing her off at the airport. "How can I call myself her friend when I couldn't at least swallow my pride and see her off at the airport?"

But Syaoran knew that pride was only half the reason why he hadn't seen her off, the other half was because if he had seen her off he might not have let her get on the plane and leave his life for good.

"Dammit! I don't know what the right decision was anymore!" Syaoran shouted angrily, temporarily forgetting where he was.

Quickly remembering that he was in a park surrounded by couples he franticly looked around to see if anyone had heard his pathetic cry, but strangely there was no one around at all.

Syaoran began to wonder where everyone had gone when the first drops of rain splattered against his forehead. He finally took notice of the sky which, unknown to him, during his daydreaming had become extremely dark and cloudy, a definite sign of rain.

"Great as if this day couldn't get any worse" Syaoran growled as he started to sprint in the direction of his apartment.

Before he could get out of the park, the rain started to come down even harder drenching Syaoran to the bone and making it hard for him to see where he was going.

"If I don't find some place dry soon I'll catch a cold and have to skip work." Syaoran quickly began to scan the park for anyplace that would keep some of the rain off him, at least until it slacked off enough for him to get back to his apartment.

He soon spotted an outcropping of trees that would hopefully block most of the rain. He quickly took shelter under their branches watching the skies for a break in the torrent. Seeing no break in the near future, he sighed and leaned against the trunk of the nearest tree to wait out the storm.

A few seconds later he saw a brief flash of light followed by the distant sound of thunder. "Great Syaoran, what was that old saying about standing under a tree in a lightening storm." Syaoran sighed again for the millionth time that day and cursed his rotten luck.

He was just about to risk the rain again when he heard the sound of feet running along the path coming from the direction of his apartment. The figure was nearly to Syaoran's hiding spot when the person slipped in a puddle of water and began to fall on his face. Syaoran rushed to rescue the falling person when he heard a somewhat familiar "Pheeeeeee" escape from the figure.

Syaoran some how managed to grasp the figure's wrist before "she" as Syaoran deduced from the size and shape of the person, fell to the ground.

He gasped when he was suddenly staring into a pair of beautiful and familiar emerald green eyes.

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I hope you enjoyed part one of this two-part one shot. Yeah I know it doesn't really make sense, but one of my friends suggested I do it this way so I did.

Please let me know what you think: Praise or Flames accepted. This is my first fanfic and I want to know how I rate.

Part II will be posted soon its pretty much finished.