Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura is by no rights, mine.
"You owe me an explanation I believe." Syaoran said loudly, the silence around them echoing.
Over the Border: Chapter Three
"What…do you want to know?" Sakura whispered, her voice piercing through the stillness.
Syaoran's sharp amber eyes narrowed, and he began pacing around Sakura, "You didn't refuse my proposal just because of 'love'. I can tell, Kinomoto-san. I'm not the little boy seven years ago who would believe in silly jokes anymore. In your eyes, I can tell something else is holding you back. And it isn't love."
He had it just right.
Syaoran was on the borderline of discovering the truth, and Sakura was about to draw up a wall of defense, to ward him off.
She opened her mouth to make up a silly explanation, when Syaoran cut her off.
"No. I don't want to hear any rubbish. I haven't forgotten about our 'infantry' promise, Kinomoto-san. I just didn't expect our meeting…after seven years, to be so abrupt, with me proposing in such circumstances."
Sakura almost smirked.
This wasn't the boy that was just whining about his 'fiancée'.
No. This was a grown up man, who was facing his destiny. Where did the teenage clown disappear? Sakura thought he was just around the corner, two minutes ago.
Until she heard the second part of Syaoran's confession.
He didn't expect their meeting to be so abrupt.
"I'm not who I was, Kinomoto-san. No matter how much you loved Li Xiao-Lang…he'll never be the same."
"Stop."
Syaoran watched quietly as Sakura took a deep breathe in, and looked into his eyes with such intense frustration and desperation, that he weakened. What did she want from him? Children do not necessarily stay as children. Gradually, their ways of thinking mature, and Syaoran had turned into what he was today.
Was it wrong, that he had changed?
He watched as Sakura's face, filled with hope transform into a mask filled with disgust and disappointment. He watched as she turned on her heel, prepared to leave him. Isolate him.
"Being an officer has no meaning to me." Syaoran said, breaking the deadly silence.
He could hear each of Sakura's steps as her sharp heel touched the ground.
And then he heard a slap, and his cheek aching.
The next thing he knew, he saw Sakura's face in front of his. Her eyes were filled with rage, anger and despair as she yelled, "Do not, I repeat, do NOT repeat your sentence just then, Prince and Officer Li Syaoran."
Syaoran stared right back into Sakura's eyes, "And I still believe, Princess Sakura, that you yet to give me your explanation – the truth, as to why you disapproved of my proposal."
And then Sakura's next few words hurt.
"I will not marry without love."
Syaoran ran his fingers through his messy hair, and he protested, "Is that the only reason you can come up with? Love? Is that honestly the only thing that's holding you back?"
Sakura hesitated.
"Yes."
Syaoran smirked, "Very well. You have asked for it, Kinomoto-san."
Sakura looked strangely at Syaoran, such a big personality change. Was the clown, the whining teenage boy just a mask Syaoran puts on to entertain and to amuse his elders? Or is it a mask to hide his true personality?
But then Sakura was snapped out of her daydream as Syaoran declared, "You will fall in love with me. There is no choice." Sakura shivered as she saw the gleam in his eyes.
Syaoran then continued, "You will be mine, Kinomoto." He grinned, "And it so happens tomorrow is white day. How very timely.
He winked at Sakura. You're gonna fall in love with me. Big time.
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And all this was witnessed by Fujitaka-sama, who was not indeed impressed by the plan, but was amazed by Li Syaoran's undying determination to achieve his goal.
"…That will ultimately be his weakness." Fujitaka smiled mysteriously, as he poured himself a cup of tea.
…Flashback - Fujitaka, eight years old…
"Ohayo, Mine-san. Do you perhaps, by any chance, know where mother is?" Fujitaka said to the maid. Mine smiled, and she pulled Fujitaka's coat out of the closet.
The maid helped Fujitaka dress, and she replied, "Not yet. You're going to wander the castle until you do find mistress-sama, ne?"
Fujitaka grinned secretively, as he ran off through the hallway.
He past through the royal kitchens, where the chiefs were whisking away their latest recipes of desserts and main courses and wandered beyond the gardens, where he saw the servants and gardeners weeding and planting new exotic species.
And finally, he arrived at the door of his mother's room.
Grinning from ear to ear, he opened the door, but stopped when he saw blood.
"Okaa-sama?" Fujitaka thought slowly, as he opened the door slightly so he could see through.
Blood…blood everywhere.
What had happened to his mother? Why was there blood scattered over the floor…?
Fujitaka peered through the gap.
And then he dropped to his knees, his eyes widening at the sight.
In the corner of the room, was his mother, panic stricken with a mad look in her eyes. Okaa-san!
And then, under her, was his father, Kinomoto Akito.
Akito's eyes were bloodshot, and in his chest, were several deep cuts of a knife that was stabbed in, and taken out back again to be cruelly hurled inwards.
He. Was. Dead.
And there, on top of him, was Nadeshiko, laughing madly, and thrusting the knife back into Akito. Again and again.
This wasn't his mother.
It simply wasn't his mother.
Fujitaka screamed, and Nadeshiko's eyes reverted to the direction he was in, and her eyes fell upon her beloved son.
"…Fujitaka?"
Nadeshiko attempted to scramble up, to explain to her son, that the situation wasn't what it looked like.
But to Fujitaka, she was a monster.
She had killed his father.
Nadeshiko gave a desperate scream, and lurched for her son, only to find his frightened eyes. And then he ran.
…End flashback…
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End of chapter Three
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A/N: There's a little of Fujitaka's past for us all to ponder about. What is the curse then:P:P no idea as of yet! (LIES LIES LIES)
This story's maximum amount of chapters is…ten I'm guessing. Syaoran's conquest is going to be…rather…let's say, long. But I'm not going to extend that out on the number of chapters, rather on the chapter length itself.
And the curse will also be slowly revealed (evil smirk).
TY TO JANA for editing!
E/N: Um…I had to change a couple of things that Isabella wrote. She even wrote 'u' instead of 'you'. Overall, the mistakes that were in the story I corrected or seemingly corrected. XD And Isabella, quit waving to me, it's creepy!