Chapter Title: eien
A/N: rather short chapter, but this is NOT THE LAST CHAPTER!!
(his chappie also comes with minimal dialogue)
Had Sakura known that motherhood would be tiring and overbearing, she wouldn't have bothered.
That is a lie. She would have done it five more times, despite the pain.
After for what it seemed like an eternity, Ye Lan and Mei Lin finally went back to Hong Kong. Both Syaoran and Sakura saw them off, and while tensions between mother and daughter-in-law were high, Ye Lan gave her a small smile, which gave Sakura hope that in the future, their relationship would flow easier.
And Syaoran did say that it was that smile that allowed them to get married.
It was a quiet ceremony held at a public park. Syaoran did not have family in Japan, so he had Eriol be best man and invited his coworkers from the force. Sakura had no family left so she asked Tomoyo to be her maid of honor and invited her classmates to attend, along with Yukito (whom she tracked down with Syaoran's help), who cried at seeing her again—and showed Syaoran what it was like to be jealous the moment he caught Yukito give his fiancée a very appraising look.
Wearing a simple white dress that did not cost the couple anything (Tomoyo insisted on not charging a fee), Sakura expressed how complete she was with him, and he smiled and looked like he could cry (which he thankfully didn't, because if he started, then she would shed her own tears and honestly, it would have been embasasing). Then he told her just how much she meant to him, and Sakura felt like he was giving her the sky and the stars and the moon, because that love, that adoration, that patience was endless and she felt honored to receive it but almost undeserving of it. She did nothing to earn it, but he saw more in her. From the beginning, when she was nothing more that doll on screen, he saw something more, and for that, she was honored, and happy, and most of all, in love.
"From here and even after I die, you and the baby will be my life now, and no matter what, my love for you can never falter or fade."
And she kissed him with all the passion she could muster and became Li Sakura.