Guardian Angel
Chapter 4: Missin & Back Again?!
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A/N: This plot is adapted from a movie that I have watched…
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(……)Author's Note
---5 months later, 25 Dec'06---
"Riiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnng!! Riiiiiiiinnnnnnnnng!!" A cellphone rang in the middle of the night breaking the dead silent…
"-Yawn- Hello? Syaoran speaking. Sakura? Yes? Y did u call in the middle of the night?" Syaoran asked sleepily.
"Oh I see u have fallen asleep… Well I cannot sleep so I decided to call and remind u that tml we are goin to Tomoyo-chan and Eriol-kun's wedding so u have to fetch me at 3pm from Tomoyo's hse ne? So do not be late, ok?"
"Hai, hai, Sakura… Can I go back to sleep now?" An impatient Syaoran replied.
"-Giggles- Ok you may go back to sleep now. Good night Syaoran. Ja ne?" Sakura said giggling.
"Ja…" was all Syaoran said before heading back to his peaceful slumber. All the shopping he did with Sakura that day was sure tiring.
---the next day… (At Tomoyo's place)---
"Omg, Sakura-chan! What if someone stopped our wedding? What if he says he doesn't want to be married with me anymore? What if I say something wrong? What if… What if…"
"Don't worry Tomoyo-chan.Everything is fine. Stop youe blabbering and let me comb your hair. SighThis will be the last time I will be combing ur hair for u in ur single status."
The 2 friends continued talking abt their past times together when they were still single with many boys wooing them. But that had stopped since the camp where they met Eriol and Syaoran. They had been faithful to the boys and vice versa. And just 3 months after Eriol and Tomoyo had dated Eriol had proposed to Tomoyo and now they were getting married. Today was the day that Daidouji Tomoyo had become Hiiragizawa Tomoyo and it was her happiest day of her life. Sakura envied Tomoyo of marrying her true love but she knew that Syaoran was still too shy to propose to her yet. But she thought that if they really loved each other, there is no need for a wedding. Sakura was contented that Syaoran had made her feel full of love everyday and that was already enough for her.
"By the way, where is Syaoran? Shouldn't he be here to fetch you by now?" Tomyo asked.
"I have no idea. But we do said that if one of us could not make it then we will go by ourselves. He's already late so I will take a taxi and meet him there." Sakura said worriedly.
Syaoran was never late. He was always early saying that he cannot allow the person he love most to wait for him. Sakura wondered if anything bad had happened to him but dismissed the thought thinking that maybe something cropped up with his family.
---Meanwhile... (At Syaoran's)---
Syaoran had just finished his bathe and was wearing a black tuxedo with a green shirt inside. (Eek! So ugly!) He straightened his tie, take 1 last look at himself in the mirror, tried to comb his messy hair for 1 last time(But still failed to do so) before heading out for his jeep to fetch Sakura. His was about to step out of his house when his house phone rang.
"Mushi, mushi, Syaoran desu. Okaa-san? Y are u crying? Dad? I thought he's in Thailand? What??!! Im going to meet you at the airport right now. Wait for me there and we will go together." Syaoran said as he reached out for his jeep and he immediately phoned Sakura. (But hey, do u honestly think dat Im gonna let him reach her? No way!!) But alas, hu would noe dat Sakura's handphone's battery is dead. He shrugged and thought he will call Sakura after he reached his destination.
---Later…---
Sakura was getting worried about Syaoran now…The wedding was already over but he had never showed up in any part of it. She went home only to realise dat her phone battery was dead and thus she quickly replaced and a new while charging the dead 1. (Geez, I made it as tough the battery is alive dun u think so?) Her phone immediately bacame alive, lol, and she realise that she has a voicemail message. She listened. It was Syaoran's voice.
Mushi mushi? Syaoran desu Sakura. I called to inform u that my dad in Thailand has met with some accident and my mum and i had rushed to see him so dat means that I cnt make it to the wedding already. Pls send my best regards to Eriol and Tomoyo for me. I hope u will understand and I will always love you. Beep.
The message has ended and Sakura heaved a sigh of relief thinkin dat she had worried over Syaoran for nothing. Instead, she refreshened herself and sat on the couch to watch the 10 O'clock news.
----Below is the newsreporter's speech… -----
"Good night ladies and gentlemen. I'm Nicole Lim, here to bring u the latest news through the 10 O'clock news. It seems that a Tsunami had strucked Thailand in almost all the parts after the gigantic earthquake that had occurred. Due to the holidays, there seems that many tourists had visited Thailand and most of them came from Singapore. Many bodies had been found but police said that there is more to be found. What all we can help out by is to pray for the others and ur loved ones' safety. And now, I'll tell u the details of what happened that caused the tidal waves… Blah blah blah, blabs, blab, blab…"
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\End of the newsreporter's speech… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
'Oh no… I wonder if Syaoran and his mum are gonna be okay… Syaoran had said that he had went to see his father in Thialand and the Tsunami had strucked most of Thailand. I have a bad feeling abt this…' was what Sakura thought of before falling asleep while the television was still on…
3 months later
"Hoeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! Im late for my interview!!" Sakura quickly dressed herself up and looked again in the mirror onto her. In the mirror, behind and faraway from her was a brown lodge desk and on the desk was a picture of a couple. It was a picture of her and Syaoran together and it was taken during 1 of their dates. She turned around and smiled to the boy in the picture and said
"Ohayo, Syaoran," (I was wondering: Geez, who would talk to a picture?)
It has been 3 months since Syaoran's disappearance after the Tsunami incident and there were still no news until now. Everybody had thought that they would probably dead and pitied Syaoran and his family for dying in a foreign country. But whom they had showed the most sympathy for was Sakura. The girl had not been herself ever since Syaoran's disappearance. At the first week she looks as though she had lost 10kg of weight and her face was extremely pale. Slowly, she seemed to have gotten over it but was still sad. She had put on a cheery face in front everybody but everyone knows what was beneath the cheery face. It was full of sadness and disappointment. A month later after the incident, she had graduated from high school and had decided to work from now on. And today, Sakura was going to an interview at a well known company known as the Hiiragizawa Co. Her friend's husband, Eriol is the current CEO and has decided to let her take the job as a secretary of a certain boss in a certain department but she still will need to pass the interview. And now, she is officially going to be late if she not manages to take the bus that will arrive in 2 minutes. She had already planned the whole thing. She would let herself get ready for 10 minutes and she would get there and have a cup of coffee before the interview. But alas she had slept for 5 minutes more and now she was so gonna be late. She quickly wore the necklace that Syaoran had given her and made her way to the bus stop and phew, she barely made it to the bus…
The Hiiragizawa Company is a renown their hotels as they can be found worls-wide. The main building is in Japan it is a big building consisting of 30 storeys. Sakura has decided to be the secretary of the F&B manager and also help out in the department. Finally, she reached her stop which is in front of the Hiiragizawa Co. (Geez, I find it very difficult to keep sayin Hiiragizawa Company. So from now on I will just call it HC ok?) Beside HC was a shopping centre and it contains almost every shop. Sakura had decided to buy a coffee from Starbucks but her nervousness had changed her mind. Now, after alighting the bus, she has been scurrying and rushing towards the company if she does not want to be late.
Suddenly, out of the blue, a lady with garnet eyes and jet black hair a few feet front of Sakura spilled the cup of coffee she was holding.Sakura, of course, saw what happened and realised that she had happened to be wearing a white blouse and the coffee spill was coming towards her. She quickly used her left hand to protect her eyes from the supposed to be hot coffee from injuring her eyes not caring what will happen to her blouse even though she knew if that there will going to be a stain on her new white blouse and her boss was not going to be liking it very much. But when she had shut her eyes with her hand blocking the view, she did not realise that out from behind a fake tree next to her, a hand shot out and the hand had protected her from the spill of coffee. Sakura waited for a while, waiting for the outcome from the spill of coffee, but it did no came. She slowly opened one eye, to realise the girl on the ground lying face towards the ground, the coffee splattered on the ground a few inches away from herself. The garnet eyed girl quickly rised up patted her dress and bowed.
"Gomenasai, I did not see where I was going and tripped. Daijoubu?"
"It's ok. I'm alright anyway. Pls excuse me as im late for my interview." Sakura bowed back and left.
'Hmm… I wonder what happen… Shouldn't the coffeebe spilled onto me instead of onto the ground?' Sakura wondered when she was in the lift…
-/\-/\-/\--/\-/\-/\-after the interview…-/\-/\-/\--/\-/\-/\-
"Thank you very much, Kinomoto-san, went do you think you can start your work?" asked man with with black hair and eyes that looked very small.
"I think I can start work tomorrow if you like, Takashi-san. And pls, call me Sakura will do." Replied Sakura.
"Ok. You will be helping Meilin-san tomorrow. Be sure to be punctual though, she does not people being late. Especially on their first day. And you can call me Yamazaki too."
"Thank you for telling me. I should be on my way already. Good bye. Hope to see you tomorrow." Sakura said and bowed and walked out of the conference room where the interview was held.
Outside was a navy hair man grinning at her.
"So… How's your interview, Sakura-chan?" Navy hair asked.
"It went well, and I got the job. Thanks for asking though, Eriol-kun. How's Tomoyo-chan?"
"She's fine. Though she still remind me sometimes about how she misses making costumes for you."
"Oh I see… How are Makiyo and Harry?" Sakura asked sweat-dropping, thinking about how her friends would make her weird costumes all the time when they were younger. Makiyo and Harry are Eriol and Tomoyo's children and they are twins. They had decided to name the girl in Japanese and the boy in English name since Tomoyo came form Japan and Eriol came from England.
"They are fine. Since Tomoyo dear cannot make costumes for you, she had been making for them. By the way, have you found a house already? You know that Uncle Tom is coming back to his house and you would not want to live with him you know."
"I know. That's why later in the afternoon I'm going to look at one house." Uncle Tom was Eriol's uncle for his mother's side and Sakura has been living in his house ever since her family had all passed away and Uncle Tom was going to be away in Australia for a very very very long time. But now Uncle Tom is coming back and no lady would want to stay with him at night because he is very, (How should I put it?), somehow, we can say that he is a lecher. That is why Sakura is trying to find a new home to move into before he comes back a week later.
"Ok. Do come and visit our house sometimes, Tomoyo is very lonelywithout a friend to talk to. Ja ne!"
"Ja!!" with that, Sakura left straight out of the building.
!#$--Later in the afternoon…--$#!
"Kinomoto-san, from what you've told me just now, this is the perfect place for you. It has a bus stop in front of your house and a shopping centre for your groceries too. And this is very cheap too if you buy it from me since it belongs to my friend's and I can help you get a discount. Do you want it?"
"Yes please, Tahara-san, and make it a quick arrangement please, I would like to move in NOW." Sakura said emphasizing 'now'.
"Yes, yes, right away ma'am. Please pay by cheque an amount of $100000 and you can start moving in already." Tahara said.
Sakura quickly signed a cheque of hundred thousand yen to the propert agent. Tahara smiled and said that she can move in now anytime she wants and the house is hers. He then said that he had some more business to do and thus he had to go. Sakura thanked him as he left. After Tahara had left, Sakura went back to Uncle Tom's house and packed up her thins which alll summed up to 3 large laguage and she had her cousin helped her move her furnitures to her new home. Everything was arranged in Sakura's new home and she had decided to do some groceries before exploring her new home. She went to buy ALMOST everything in the grocery store and headed back home. She was about to unlocked the door to her new house when she thought she heard the television sound. She found it weird as she knew she hadn't on the television since she had just moved in and wondered if it was a burgler. She was scared and quickly took out a bunch of spring onion sticks ready to attack when she opened the door. She opened the door only to find a familiar certain massy chestnut hair with amber eyes boy sitting on her couch watching the world cup…
"Syaoran?!"
Heehee… A cliffhanger… If you guys didn't review, I will consider putting more in the next parts. Beware… Thanks for your review minna-san!! Love all you guys out there and merry early christmas!!