Disclaimer – I don't own Card Captor Sakura, though Rose and Sapphire and the cook, and the bosses and the maid in the earlier chapters, at least I think there was a maid . . . oh never mind.
Ok, I'm really sorry that I haven't updated this in a very long time but I've be suffering from major writers block and what not, which I'm still not over so I can't promise that the next one will be up any time soon. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this and forgive me for the long wait so I guess there's nothing else to say but on with the fic.
Queen of my Heart – Remembering my Heart's Desire
"Syaoran," Sakura said softly from her position lying in Syaoran's arms.
She had to hold back a sigh from just being in this place of contented bliss. She could hardly believe she had lived without it for so long.
The two had decided to take a walk together in the gardens strengthening the roots that had never left them. Syaoran sat against the tree wrapping his arms tightly around her and pulling her closer to him.
"Hmm," he nodded against her shoulder.
He'd almost forgotten how good it felt to hear his name form on her perfect lips over all these years. It sounded like the sweet song of the swallow in spring filling his senses with a joy he had long since forgotten existed.
"It was just thinking," she began nervously turning her face slightly to face his. She breathed in his scent; it was like a mixture of peonies and cedar wood a scent that she was never able to forget. "Syaoran, where do we go from here?" she asked a little more confident but still hesitant in fear of his response.
She didn't want him to think that she was suddenly one of those clingy girlfriends who had to have their entire relationship planned out from their first kiss to their youngest child's graduation, she just wanted to know.
"Well I was thinking that maybe I would buy you a ring next week and ask you to marry me," he stated casually.
Sakura gasped and pushed herself out of his arms so she could get a better look at his face. All she could see was the sincere look in his eyes that told her he wasn't lying to her.
Syaoran smiled at the shocked look that had formed on her face, but he wasn't finished yet.
"But then I realized," he said very slowly reaching towards his pocket so that Sakura wouldn't notice.
He saw her face drop and tears well in her eyes as she looked away from his face. He hated what he was doing to her, but it was all in a good cause, he couldn't wait to see the look on her face, maybe he should have brought a camera or at least let Madison hide in the tree like she had asked him.
"That I already had one," he finished seriously as he revealed a small velvet box.
Sakura looked up at him her tears of pain now turning to tears of joy as his words began to sink. Her mouth opened slightly as she stared at the box cautiously waiting to see what happened next hoping it wasn't a joke like the first part of his speech had been.
He gently opened the box as he got up on one knee in the traditional manner. It was an elegant white-gold ring with diamonds, rubies and emeralds shaped to form a cheery blossom and a heart either side of the jewel formation. The outside of the band had been engraved with the Li Kingdom symbols and the inside simply stated the obvious 'Syaoran & Sakura, Always & Forever'.
"Will you marry me, my sweet Ying Fa?" he asked her using a pet name that only he alone was allowed to refer to her by.
More tears welled in her eyes and she wrapped her arms around him and sobbed happily into his shoulder.
"Come on Sakura," he told her a hint of teasing in his voice, "the thought of marrying me can't be that bad can it?"
"Of course not," she said looking into his eyes. "It's just I'm," she began trying to figure out exactly how to explain why she was crying when she wasn't even sure herself. "Yes Syaoran, yes I'll marry you."
"Really?" he asked her not quite able to believe it.
Sakura nodded her head eagerly. "I couldn't think of anything I'd rather do," she added.
Syaoran smiled one of his smiles that had only become rarer over their years as he slipped the delicate ring onto her finger.
Sakura watched him as he did so amazed at it's perfect fit and the way that it felt so right and natural on her finger, as if it was always meant to be there. It made her feel more complete than she already was, as if this was just another thing tying them back together like they belonged.
Syaoran caressed her cheek lightly as he tilted her head up to face his own and seal their love with a passionate kiss. He didn't think he could ever get tired of kissing Sakura. Every time it just brought more and more joy to his now perfect existence as he now had her by his side forever.
Syaoran smiled again as he took her in his arms and leaned back on the tree moving back into his previous position with his now fiancée.
Yeah, he knew it was a bit soon, I mean it had only been two weeks since he had found her outside and the whole time he had barely had her to himself for more than a few minutes even if they did seem like forever, but you had to remember that they had lost three years of a life they easily could have been spending together for reasons that still remained unknown to them.
A love like theirs was never meant to die, and that was the one thing that had stopped him from giving up when the first army had returned with no news of her location.
He thought about all the things that had happened in the last three years, the longest years of his life.
Zachary and Chelsea had got married for starters and he and Eriol had both shared the position of best man at the wedding. Eriol and Madison had been going out for about a year and a half now, he figured that Eriol would probably be popping this very same question in the not so distant future. Tori and Ruby were having another baby hopefully, at least from Tori's opinion, a baby boy but if it was a girl they had planned to call her Sakrua to keep her memory alive though it was no longer needed anymore as the one and only Sakura could keep it alive herself. Mei Lin had actually found herself a boyfriend after all these years who had quite surprisingly been accepted by her family even though he wasn't exactly what you would call noble blood.
And the most important of all, at least to him anyway, the fact that he had become king even though his parents had sworn not to give it to him until he was married.
But now he had something that put even the kingship of one of the most powerful kingdoms to shame. He had Sakura back, the only person he could ever love and could never live without.
He couldn't be happier except for if he could get rid of the sinking feeling he got that evil was lurking around the corner, waiting to ruin his perfect happiness once again and that whatever it was, it was the reason for Sakura's disappearance to begin with.
"Tell me what you remember of the day you disappeared," Syaoran said suddenly.
Sakura again turned her head to face her now future husband as she told him of everything that had happened to her over the past three years, especially of the day in the stables.
She had been waiting for him to arrive when she felt a hand wrap a cloth around her mouth. She had tried to scream but when she did everything had started to go cloudy as the drugs had taken their desired effect over her.
By the time she had finished retelling her story it was already getting dark and they knew it was time for them to return to the castle.
Syaoran sighed as he watched the last light fad from the sky. "I suppose it's time we go," he said softly as the sky began to fill with stars. He recognized one particular star as one he wished on years ago for Sakura to come back to him and now that she had he silently thanked it as it gazed down on the couple shinning brightly.
"Just hold me a little longer," she begged breathlessly as she tiredly closed her eyes and curled into his chest.
He looked down at the vulnerable princess, his fiancée in his arms and smiled lovingly as he pushed the stray strands away from her heart shaped face. "Funnily enough, I don't think I could ever let you go," he whispered as he planted a gentle kiss on her forward as she fell asleep in his arms.
It seemed that finally all the excitement and chaos of the past few weeks had taken a toll on her
"I love you," she muttered quietly in her sleep as he picked her up and began to carry her back into the castle.
He smiled and kissed her again. "I love you too, Ying Fa."
Rose screamed as she watched.
She always screamed when she watched them. They were just so putridly . . . cute.
Oh all this lovey-dovey crap that they seemed to enjoy spewing at her was really beginning to get to her. I mean really, at first it was kind of sweet but after awhile it really does get too much.
They were worse than her sister and that silly Avalon fool she had insisted upon marrying and that was truly saying a lot. She had imagined she would never have to see anything more sickening then those two but it seemed Syaoran and Sakura just took the cake.
Yuck, even their names seemed to fit each other ever so perfectly. It was almost as if the two were never meant to be apart. As if they were destined for one another their whole lives.
I suppose everyone thought it was true. It was even part of an ancient prophecy that she herself had tried to ruin, or at least turn things her way.
But of course that didn't work because they were just oh so in love and they would never give up on each other. God, they made her sick.
Oh this was just going to make ruining their lives that much sweeter.
~ to be continued ~
I'm so proud of myself for finally finishing this chapter. I've been trying to write it for about as long as I can remember. Now it's all just the rather simple matter of writing the next chapter.
Wish me good luck, I'm sure a few reviews might help me get into the writing mood a bit more *hint* *hint*.