Heh. Unexpected is it? Well, I just decided to upload sooner coz' I'm thinking to finish the whole story by next week. For your information, there's another two chapters left so I'm going to end everything as soon as possible. Besides, I'll be going to somewhere else and I'm afraid I couldn't finish this story before school reopens coz' there's no computer in my grandparents house. Okay, let's just get start now. Read well!

Chapter 16

This Is Not the End

At the moment Sakura fell from the cliff, Tomoyo, Shinna and Meiling came just on time to witness the unexpected incident. All eyes were wide opened, jaws were dropped. "SAKURAAA!" Tomoyo screamed, her trembling feet running at Sakura's direction, praying that she could at least grab her finger but her hope was vanished when Shana interfered, stepping forward with a stick that almost looked like a club held tightly in her sweating palms, treating the amethyst eyes girl if she dare to take another step forward. Tomoyo hesitantly stopped. Her eyes focused on the end of the stick Shana was holding. There, she saw, a tint of red blood. "You hit her, didn't you?"

Shana looked at the stick she was holding. There was, a tint of red blood on it, fresh and new - the blood of Sakura whom she struck earlier ago.

"You hit her, didn't you?!" Tomoyo roared with anger, snapping Shana back to the present. Tears started to leap from her amethyst eyes, rolling over her cheeks, flowing endlessly. Still, the little girl's lips were sealed with words. Only the muscles of her arms tightening as she clutched the stick tighter in her hands.

"Shana…" Shinna's weak voice called out her name, walking slowly towards her. Her eyes were also wet with tears.

"Stop right there, sister!" Shana held her weapon forward, giving Shinna no other options but to stop just a few inches behind Tomoyo, uncertain of how to act or what to say.

"Hey, have you all found-" Syaoran swallowed his question back as all the girls dropped their eyes upon him and his two other companions. Sensing the tense situation among them, he stopped his feet beside Meiling. The brightness of her ruby eyes darkened with sorrow as she gazed into his puzzled ambers.

Only Tomoyo didn't move a single inch from her spot, glaring at Shana with an overleaping anger. She couldn't imagine how a silent, innocent-like girl such as Shana could possibly do something like this! A few days ago, they were laughing madly at each other. Everything seemed just perfect!

Eriol felt something was not quite right in there. Shana was gripping a stick in her hand, Shinna looked as if she was going to faint and his Tomoyo, she was…she was not like herself. Somehow, he can feel the anger within her, the sorrow and fear. There was as if a bond connected between them, allowing him to share and feel her feelings. "Tomoyo…"

"She killed Sakura." Her voice croaked with tears. "She damn had killed Sakura!" Letting her anger controlling her, she dipped her nails into her flesh, clutching her fists tighter as she wiped away her tears with a swift wave of her hand. The three guys' eyes widened with shock. None made a move but Kei alone.

"Okay you girls. This is sooo not funny. Come on. Where did you all hide Saku? Hey, Saku! Where ar-"

"God damn it Kei! She killed Sakura! Shana pushed Sakura from the cliff! Can't you understand?!" Meiling emotionally grabbed Kei's shirt, crumpling it with her shaking fingers as she shook him violently. For the first time he saw Meiling's sturdy eyes shed tears. The eyes that revealed a determined woman, didn't drop a single tear when her parents divorced, now was crying for her childhood enemy? He was wordless. His mind was blank. As if seeking comfort and support for himself, he subconsciously wrapped his arms around Meiling and buried her face on his chest, caressing her head as she continuously cried in his protective arms. Tomoyo wept in Eriol's comfort embrace.

Syaoran still couldn't believe what was going on around him. There was no way his sweet Sakura would fall from the cliff, especially pushed by that little Shana. It was ridiculous! Impossible! She promised she'll be going back to Japan with him. They're going to finish their final semester and attend the university together. His Sakura will never break her promise. Never! Slowly, his heavy feet followed his order to move forward. "Shana?"

"Don't come any closer, Li," Shana warned him, pointing her weapon towards him. His eyes widened and there were hurtful beats beating in his heart. Her weapon, the stick she was holding…it was stained with…blood!

"Y-You didn't, right?" He softly asked, his hopeful wet ambers glimmered in the faint crimson sunlight, trying to deny the truth his brain told him. His quivering feet attempting to shorten their distances- his and Shana's.

"Don't come closer!" She almost screamed, moving further backwards to the edge of the cliff.

"Shana, why? You don't understand anything! Why did you hav-"

"Shut up Shinna!" Syaoran roared, clutching his fists. Anger had almost taken over him completely. He was confused, lost…

"No, you shut up!" Shana shouted at him, clenching her teeth. Droplets of tears beginning to fall from her violets. All eyes were upon her.

"If you didn't left my sister, then she wouldn't have tried killing herself!" Pain and sorrow together with anger filled her voice. Syaoran looked at Shinna, his eyes telling her that he was waiting for an explanation from her. Trembling, her fragile feet betrayed her strength, bringing her down on her knees. She cupped her face with her hands, hiding her tears from him.

When he told her that he was breaking up with her, she told him that it was okay and he left her without regrets. But it was not okay. She loved him with all her heart, she filled herself with him, and when he finally left, she realized…she could not live without him.

"Mom, I'm home." A twelve year-old Shana came home from school. Dropping her bag on the sofa, she walked towards her mother who was busy going thru her documents and gave her a light kiss on her cheek, pulling the 35 year-old woman's attention towards her.

"Oh, hi sweetheart." She took off her glasses. Her violet eyes sparkled with delight at the sight of her younger daughter.

"Is sister feeling well already?" The young girl asked.

"I gave her medicine this morning. She's probably still sleeping now."

"Okay. I'll go and see her." Smiling, she ran upstairs and knocked several times on the door without answer. Slowly, she turned the doorknob and entered her sister's bedroom. "Shinna?" Her bed was empty, there was no sign of her except the sound of water flowing in the bathroom.

"There she is," she thought to herself, smiling naughtily. "I'll surprise her," she giggled.

"Boo!" she slammed the door open. Instead of watching the face of a surprise Shinna as she had expected, it was herself who had a terrified expression on her face. Water was flowing from the bathtub, not crystal clear water but mixed with red blood! And there was the unconscious Shinna in there, her wrist had been slashed with a broken piece of mirror!

"Shinna!" She ran towards her. "Mom! Shinna is unconscious! MOM!"

"And then dad brought her to an asylum in Italy where she spent one whole year in there," Shana sobbed.

"Whaat?" Syaoran gasped. "You told me you're transferring, not…" His sentence trailed off. Not asylum!

"Enough of the pretence! I'd never liked you but Shinna just have to love you!" Shana shouted, almost screaming on top of her lungs.

"Okay, okay. Let's just say it's my entire fault, but why did you have to drag Sakura into this mess?! She has nothing to do with this!" Syaoran shouted back. Anger was overwhelming him. His fiery eyes wet with tears, dissatisfaction in them.

"Yes she has! She's only a disturbance between you and Shinna! If she's gone, then you'll go back to Shinna's side. You both will be together again and Shinna would smile naturally, not fake ones!" Shana cried.

"Shana…y-you…" Shinna almost couldn't catch her breath. Everything that happened, was all because of…her?

"Even if you kill me, I'll never love anyone else! Not Shinna, not anyone! You can hurt my body, but you can't take my heart away from Sakura!" he shouted angrily, coming closer towards Shana. Shana realized this and moved further back. "Don't come any closer, or else I-I'll…" she threatened, knowing that only another step back and she'll have the same fate as Sakura.

"You'll what? Hurt me with that small stick?" Syaoran as if challenging her kept closing their distances until a meter away from each other. "Or jump down from the cliff?" he smirked. "Well that's good. We both can accompany Sakura together then."

"Li!" Shinna cried. No matter what her sister had done, she is still her sister.

"I'm warning you!" Shana brought her weapon to the front, her hands shaking with fear. Syaoran looked as if he had lost his mind. With a grab from his hand, he could had reach Shana in that distance. In fact, he could even push her!

"Why? Are you afraid? Then what do you think Sakura felt when you pushed her from here?!

"Shut up! Shut-"

"SHANA!" Shinna screamed when Shana slipped from the cliff, hanging helplessly in the air, clinging onto Syaoran for support. He could have just let her fall, he thought, but he couldn't.

"Shana! Syaoran!" All the rest came to their aid. Both of them had slipped from the cliff. Syaoran was supporting Shana with his arm, his other hand holding on the solid land, gripping through it with his fingers.

"Syaoran, hold on!" Eriol shouted, wanting to pull him up but he shook his head. "Grab Shana first," he said, raising her small body with one hand as Eriol and Shinna pulled her up.

"Syaoran…" Tomoyo almost whispered, clasping her mouth with her hand. Her eyes focused towards something below them. Whatever it was that she saw, it was terrifying her, Syaoran thought. Still hanging at the end of the cliff, he looked below to where Tomoyo's finger was pointing. His orbs widened at the sight of a figure just a few meters below them, lying unconsciously on a solid, flat rock clinging at the side of the cliff.

(a/n: Man, I don't really know how to describe this situation but you see, she didn't fall all the way down from the cliff coz' there's this flat rock supporting her - if you know what I mean)

"SAKURA!"

-End of Chapter 16-

a/n: Sorry but I couldn't reply to your comments. It'll take time for me to type them all one by one and besides, I haven't type my chapters yet. Then, I have to get everything completed by next week coz' I 'm really running out of time and I'm not allowed to use the computer for too long; family's rule. So annoying, huh? So, I'm just hoping that you'll keep on supporting this story and know that I'll be reading all of your comments although I'll be replying none, I suppose. See ya!