Disclaimer: I don't own CCS, Clamp does. But I do own this story.

Pairings: Syaoran x Sakura, Eriol x Tomoyo

The official ending is here!

And to answer your comments about the lack of prolonged drama in their reunion in the previous chapter: I know, I know... *cries* When I wrote the previous chapters weeks ago, I was actually well aware of how the drama was building up and when the time came for them to resolve it kinda went poof. Am I making sense? What I'm trying to say is, I know the sudden(?) and quick reconciliation between Syaoran and Sakura was, well... sudden and quick. I know it was hardly satisfying considering the dramatic build-up that led to that point. BUT! I couldn't drag it out too much unless I planned on making the story obnoxiously long. Which I don't and so didn't. It took all that I had to even just finish this story.

I deliberated as I wrote the previous chapter if it was alright (realistically) if they made up that way and my brain told me it's okay to make it so. Thus, the snappy ending and reconciliation. Well, they are married and are adults... it's hardly okay for a married woman to suddenly run away without a word (and without a proper divorce or even a proper goodbye for that matter) for too long.

Therefore, sudden breakup = sudden makeup. That's what I thought and decided anyway. Or maybe I'm just rationalizing to make my writing viable.

ANYWAY... I can't do much about it now unless I plan on rewriting the chapters. So... Onward!

Epilogue

"Happiness"

"Hand it to Eriol to have a big wedding. He was acting more like a gushing bride than Tomoyo."

Sakura couldn't help but laugh at this for it was true.

They talked and laughed and kissed in the car while the driver carried on with taking them… wherever he was taking them.

"Syaoran? Are we perhaps lost?" Sakura inquired as she took a peek out the window. This was her first time in this place so she had no clue where they were supposed to be or where they were at that moment for that matter.

Syaoran looked out the window on his side and saw a couple of familiar landmarks he had only seen in person once before. They weren't lost. If anything, they were nearing their destination.

"We're almost there," he told Sakura who nodded mutely as she continued gazing out the window at the beautiful scenery.

It was probably around ten minutes or so later, after the passengers inside the car felt the vehicle climb the inclination of a hill that the driver finally spoke again.

"We have arrived," he announced in a heavy English accent. A few seconds later, the car slowed down to a stop.

Sakura stepped out and immediately, the cool breeze of England's countryside hit her face. The air was very clean and pleasant to breathe in compared to the air of the busy city of Tokyo.

"This is wonderful!" she exclaimed as she looked into the horizon.

They were atop a hill. It wasn't exactly steep but the incline was obvious since it gave them a beautiful view of green grass, the random placement of trees, and fields of flowers in the far distance.

"How in the world did Eriol and Tomoyo find this place? Shouldn't the newlyweds be here instead of us?" she asked Syaoran as he too had exited the car to stand next to her.

"Right about now, I imagine they'd be on a plane on their way to Venice," he guessed. "Eriol did grow up in this country. I doubt he'd want to spend his honeymoon anywhere near here."

Sakura giggled. He was probably right.

"Besides, Eriol didn't arrange for all this. I did," Syaoran added with a grin at his wife who now had a surprised look on her face. "Follow me."

She did as he said and let him lead her with a hand on the small of her back towards the quaint but gorgeous two-story cottage behind them which was surrounded by a garden full of bushes and various flower and these were all fenced in by a low and manicured hedge. It looked like something that came straight out of a children's fairytale book.

A wrought iron gate stood between them which Syaoran pushed open for her.

"This is…" Sakura voice trailed away. She was about to take a step forward onto the property but the stone which provided as the path that led towards the front doors of the cottage from where they stood had a very distinct feature that immediately caught Sakura's attention. "Syaoran, this is…!"

But Syaoran remained silent.

Sakura bent down to make sure of what she was looking at. "To my precious daughter," she read and her voice sounded ready to crack. Her hand immediately flew over her mouth.

The stone after that, and the one after that, all held words, familiar words which she thought she would never get to see and read for herself from its source. The words, which should have lost its clarity over the years as the changes in climate and weather should've worn out the surface of the stones, stood out quite obviously after having some kind of ink or liquid metal written into the grooves.

It was clear to her that they've been properly maintained over the years by its owners as the property was passed down from person to person, family to family.

To this day, Sakura never found out how her father got this house but one thing was clear, he had gotten this for her, his one and only and most precious daughter.

"Go ahead," Syaoran urged with a light push for her to continue on.

Sakura took slow and careful steps as she read the words written by a man many years ago for his daughter and felt its meaning weigh in on her own heart as she thought of her own father.

"Forever and always," she read out the final words on the final stone before landing on the front porch now with a smile on her face.

The door of the cottage was unlocked and when she pushed it open, it revealed an entryway which- from where she stood -immediately revealed a very clean, comfortably warm, and fully furnished living room through an opening to her left. Everything was designed and decorated in an old English style which made it look even more magical in Sakura's opinion.

Sakura was about to check the other rooms further down the hall to see if they were just as beautiful as this one when a lacquer jewelry box on a corner table right by the entrance caught her attention. It looked out of place from everything in there. For one thing, the designs on the outside had intricate cherry blossoms prints on it. It looked, quite obviously, Japan made. Was it from Syaoran?

It was clear that people had come here beforehand to clean and tidy up so he probably put that there as a welcoming gift for her.

Without hesitation, she went ahead and opened it. There was no jewelry inside. Only a small scroll of paper rolled up and tied with a simple string of straw.

She opened it.

The words inside were written in a very tidy- and very familiar -scrawl.

To my precious daughter,

By the time you read this, I will have been gone from this world

First, I would like to tell you of how happy I am for having you as a daughter

I couldn't have been more proud and more grateful to be blessed with your existence

The struggle you went through growing up was something I wish I could have avoided

But that experience had made you who you are today

That is something I will never regret.

You have grown into such a strong and beautiful woman with the kindest and gentlest of hearts

No happiness could rival what I feel just from knowing this.

Also, as a father, no words can express my joy of knowing that you have married a man that you love

Even if I am not there to see you grow with your new family,

Know that I am still very glad for you and couldn't possibly ask for more

I will confess, that I had my doubts that day when you first told me about "Li Xiao Lang"

But I thought that there had to be a chance, no matter how slight, that this could be it

That he could be the one to bring you the love and happiness that you wanted and so deserved.

So I gave you a little push and I put all my faith and hope into it

If what I had done has only caused you trouble, I would have to apologize

If what I had done helped you in any way, then I must rescind that apology

But if you're reading this now, it means that you have indeed married him

And with that, you also have my deepest and heartfelt congratulations

I am contented and hope that you are as well.

Now all that is left is for you to look forward to your future

A future which is hopefully full of many more great things

A future with your husband, your children, your new family

With them, I sincerely hope you will have eternal love and happiness in the years to come.

These will be my final words for you…

I love you, my dearest Sakura.

You were, are, and always will be my most precious treasure.

– Fujitaka Kinomoto –

Sakura wiped the tears from her face as she read and reread her father's message for her. She thought she could've continued reading it for hours if it weren't for the sudden appearance of an excited canine that was barking happily as it bounded inside the premises and was now jumping around her legs.

"Oi, Lan, calm down already," Syaoran scolded as he too entered through the front door looking exasperated.

The dog only barked even more excitedly before running into the next room and disappearing from sight.

"Hnnng…"

"Ah," Syaoran reacted apologetically as he adjusted the bundle currently resting in his arms.

The appearance of her husband, their child, and their family's pet seemed to heighten Sakura's emotional feelings at that moment.

She looked ready to cry again and Syaoran could hardly miss it as he looked at her and then to what she was holding in her hands.

"I see you found it," he said with a smile.

"Where did this come from? Had this always been here?"

Syaoran shook his head. "I got that from Mr. Hashimoto," he supplied, referring to Fujitaka's old lawyer.

"But… he never told me that my dad left anything else."

"It's because your father left it for me."

"You?"

"That time you left almost two years ago now. I went to see Mr. Hashimoto and Mr. Morita before I arranged to lure you out through Lydia," he admitted rather ruefully. "After Toyama told me everything she knew about you and your father, I knew I had to do something about it. But you were hard to keep track of since you moved around too much so I had to lure you out with Lydia's help. True, her family did intend to buy this place when they found out about it. They had contacted Eriol, asking him if the 'Li, Sakura' from Japan who was putting the place they intend to buy for sale was in any way related to my family. Our families are quite close and they knew I had married a woman named Sakura but they could hardly be sure of the actual identity at the time."

"So this house…?" she trailed away, still unsure of what he was trying to say.

Syaoran nodded. "I arranged to buy this place in place of the Greysons. I intended to just call the entire thing off but the agency who arranged for the transfer seemed to have made an effort in hopes for a sale so I let it push through."

"So, this place is still ours," Sakura said with a relieved but happy smile. All this time she had thought that this place was lost from her completely.

"Not exactly," he said though still smiling. "It's technically… hers." And he slightly rose up the little girl who was still dozing in his arms. "Considering the history of this place, I figured it was only right. As much as I wanted to give it back to my wonderful wife, as a father myself, it felt only natural to transfer ownership rights to my precious daughter instead."

Sakura's smile was wide and so genuinely proud at that moment that Syaoran couldn't help but grin widely back.

"You are, indeed, going to be a wonderful father," she said as she walked over to his side to plant a kiss on his cheek.

"Aren't I already?" he chuckled.

Sakura simply giggled in response to that before her thoughts went back to the actual topic in hand. He hadn't actually answered her question about her father's message to her.

"But Syaoran, that still doesn't explain this."

"Ah, yes. Like I said, I went to see Mr. Hashimoto and Mr. Morita. It was mainly to ask them questions about you. I still hadn't figured out how to find you at that time and since they were the only people I knew who knew you and your family personally, I went and asked their opinion on where you could be and whether they had any ideas as to where you might go."

"But they didn't know. No one did."

Syaoran nodded again. "But it was at that time when Mr. Hashimoto gave me that box," he said with a nod at the object itself. "He wasn't sure whether or not he should give it to me at the time since he got wind that there was trouble going on between us but it was apparently instructions from your father that he give it to me once we married. I had planned on giving it to you earlier on but I couldn't. What with you just getting back with me then getting pregnant right after along with the adjustments we had to make before and after Mei Lien was born, and the many months it took for Tomoyo and Eriol to plan their too big of a wedding… it was hard to find the right time. When Eriol told me the finality of his plans and that his wedding will take place in England, I thought the right time had finally presented itself and that is now, right here in the house your father originally got for you, with you and me in it, together with our own daughter, and of course Lan."

This was indeed a perfect time to bring something like this up. However, why did her father have the message he wrote for her, given to Syaoran?

Syaoran seemed to understand exactly what she was thinking though.

"There were two scrolls in that box. One of it was addressed to me."

"Oh? What did he say to you?"

"I'm not saying," he said with a grin.

Sakura pouted at this.

"I'll let you read mine if you let me read yours," she offered and jutted her brows up and down suggestively.

Syaoran couldn't help but laugh.

His voice was loud though and it effectively woke the child in his arms though and she almost immediately started wriggling restlessly.

"You woke her up," Sakura scolded although none too seriously as she quickly took the toddler into her arms.

Mei Lien looked like she was ready to cry from having been woken up but Sakura immediately closed in her face onto her daughter's and made cooing sounds to which the little girl immediately started giggling.

"What do you say, Mei Lien? Do you wanna take a tour around the house with me?"

She started babbling incoherent words at this which Sakura took as a "yes" before she reentered the hallway and into another room which looked like a sitting room.

"This place has one master bedroom, two smaller bedrooms, a study room with a library, and two bathrooms upstairs," Syaoran informed as he followed them. "Downstairs has the the living room, sitting room, an office, dining room, kitchen, and pantry."

Sakura did a couple of turns around the sitting room before making her way into another room which led to the dining area.

"This place is quite huge. From the outside it didn't seem like it," she observed in awe at everything her eyes landed on. It was all very old English.

"It took a while to fully refurbish. There were a couple of things that needed fixing and replacing the first time I was here."

Her brows rose at this statement. "When did you ever come to England? You never told me."

"Last year when I went to see Fuutie at our Paris branch," Syaoran answered smoothly. "After my business trip, I decided to drop by on my way back to see things for myself."

"I see, well everything looks great n-" she cut off as a car's honking sounded from the outside.

The pair looked out the window to see a third car roll up behind the one the family of three had taken coming there and the one where their bodyguards, Mei Lien's nanny, and Lan had rode in with their luggage.

"That would be the rest of our things," Syaoran said before kissing Sakura and Mei Lien on their foreheads. "Go ahead and look around while I take care of things outside."

Sakura followed him out the dining area but went on to the second floor instead.

"You're going to love this place too Mei Lien, I do already and I haven't seen every corner of it yet. I can't wait to take you back here when you're older," she told her daughter in a soft voice as she slowly walked down the corridor after reaching the second floor landing and checking every room she passed. "Oh."

The last door at the end of the hallway led to the master bedroom. Everything in there was just like the entire house, styled in an old English fashion. This included two intricately designed frames what were currently hanging side by side on the wall across the large bed.

The one on the right was empty of anything. The one on the left framed a letter with her father's handwriting.

It was much shorter than his message to Sakura but its contents were just as wonderful that she couldn't help but smile.

To Li Xiao Lang, my son-in-law,

Though I won't get the chance to personally meet you

I couldn't help but still be grateful to you for being in my daughter's life.

Please take care of her as I have done so over the years

Cherish her and love her as the man whom she had given herself to would

I have faith that you could and would

You are, after all, the man she had chosen

Just because of that, in you I have my confidence.

Also, for being there for her when I am not,

You have my sincerest and utmost gratitude.

Being in the company of the woman you love and the family you will make with her

To be wrapped in happiness filled with love and contentment

It is your turn to experience that.

I would have wished to have been able to entrust my daughter to you on your wedding day

But I couldn't

To see the look on your face as I pass onto you my greatest and most precious treasure

But I couldn't

This is why I will, instead, just say this to you now…

You have my blessing

I leave the rest to you.

– Fujitaka Kinomoto –

"Oh, you already found it."

Sakura turned just as Syaoran entered the room looking sheepish. He was holding on the scroll she had read and replaced into the jewelry box earlier.

"You want to hang it up here?" she asked, pointing at the empty frame.

"If you don't mind."

"Not at all," she said with a smile.

It will be a constant reminder for them of what they went through and it can also make a good story to tell their children was what Sakura thought and it was probably what Syaoran had in mind as well when he decided to put it up there.

Everything started from a tiny lie which had grown to what was Syaoran and Sakura's tale of love.

This was proof that nothing ever starts or continues on smoothly but just because of that, it doesn't mean that all hope of anything good is lost.

It hadn't been an easy journey to get where they are now.

But their feelings persevered and allowed them to hold strong through the consequences of the mistakes they made.

It was proven by Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo, Eriol, and even Fujitaka, that no one is perfect.

We all can't help but have slip-ups in our thoughts, our judgments, and our actions.

But it's fine.

They also proved that there are good sides to come regardless.

After all, people had lived on for years through trial and error.

It's normal for things to go wrong once in a while as long as you learn from it afterwards.

It may not be possible to undo the wrong that was done, but it is possible to fix them in one way or another.

Don't just ignore them or forget them.

Live life by…

…accepting faults.

…understanding errors.

…Mending Mistakes.

With that, even you can attain happiness.

- THE END -

Author's Note:

And... Finito!

Now I can leave FFN without any worries! Gahhh!

Don't get me wrong, I'm still writing and will continue to write. I'm just happy and relieved that I finally finished yet another story.

With that said, I hope you enjoyed Mending Mistakes. It has been a long (and questionable) journey but we somehow finally came to the end.

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Now- as I always say -Ja ne!

Raeny

P.S. - At the moment, I'm trying my hand at Cell Phone Novels (heard of it? It's all the rage in Japan apparently) and though the website/host(?) site I chose is an English one (and not as popular as I would have liked), I still uploaded a story there. Just to test it out. It's an entirely new writing experience for me.

It's nothing major, and definitely not much to talk about (at the moment) but if you guys are free and bored out of your mind, please check it out! It's a new (and I mean very new, I just uploaded it today actually) and original story titled "When Snowdrops Bloom..." which can be found at TextNovel. A direct link to the story is in my profile!

P.P.S. - About my last and only ongoing story left, Key to Happiness... I'm not too sure if I'll be continuing that first or uploading an entirely new story. I'm really not feeling that story at the moment and I already have other CCS stories that I'm currently in the middle of writing and loving more. But if I do (somehow) decide to continue that, I'll probably rewrite and re-upload the current chapters while there are only four up at present. I'll see. For now, I really can't make any promises with regards to that story. It's still labeled as being on hiatusindefinitely. So to those of you asking me to continue it next... Sorry guys! Dx