Title: Hide and seek
Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles
Theme: 18. I'll die searching for it.
Character: Syaoran, mentions of Sakura
A/N: …I'm weak, so I ended up doing a really short one anyways.
Summary: She smiles and laughs and he thinks this is all worth it.
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Finding a feather is like searching for a four-leaf clover. A beautiful idea but hard to do without failing a lot first. It's always out there, somewhere near, but never close enough that it can be found easily or quickly. Instead, it will take a lot of time and effort to find, if it is ever found at all.
Usually, there is at least one feather in each world they visit. That might be because there are so many feathers right now, a flower that scattered into a million petals.
(Syaoran worries about how long it will take for the petals to disappear, appearing only every now and then.)
There are so many pieces and his (their) hands can carry only so much. It's hard, tiring, soul-crushing work. Every piece he adds is a piece that doesn't have him, a piece that brings them closer to that time when he will have to leave her.
(It's funny how life works out. Her brother would be pleased.)
He'll keep doing it, though. He'll keep playing this game of hide-and-seek, keep finding those memories and feelings that were once lost for good.
When Sakura gives him a smile or laughs at a fond memory, he thinks that this is all worth it.
He'd do anything for her to stay like that.