Mood: Genre/Romantic
Rating: K
Purpose: Experimentation
Title: Left in the Rain
Sakura dragged him to a shaded and quiet spot off of the pathway and in between the trees.
They had all been at the temple that day. The whole class had gone. It had been a first time visit for many, but he had already made a point to visit the temple many times. It was too beautiful for him to have missed.
The day had been long and hot, but with evening quickly approaching, it was a little cooler, at least. The sky was covered with grey clouds that threatened rain, but that didn't stop the humidity from wearing everyone down.
Syaoran had had a fun day that day. So much had happened between him and his classmates. He was a little tired, but he didn't want to leave one of his favorite places for home yet. He especially didn't much mind being pulled away by Sakura. She often managed to get him away from his teasing classmates when they became too much for his temper to handle.
"Syaoran," Sakura started.
A raindrop fell on her nose, stopping her speech. It was beginning to sprinkle.
"Do you have an umbrella?" Syaoran asked, searching for his so that they would not get wet in the heavy weather.
"No, Syaoran, there's something important I need to tell you." Sakura said, eagerly.
Syaoran paused in mid-search for his umbrella and met her eyes. They were connected with his, full of hope and fear. He didn't know it, but she had been waiting all day to tell him something deep inside of her heart. It was something that made her happy and sick at the same time, something that helped her sleep and kept her awake on so many different nights. She had worked very hard to get him away to tell him.
"What is it?" Syaoran asked, confused as to why he suddenly felt nervous.
Sakura looked down shyly. "I know that it's probably no secret that I like you."
Syaoran's heart pounded violently in his chest at her words. His eyes widened and he was paralyzed.
Sakura continued to look down as she spoke.
"I just…I do and don't know how I feel about you, and I was just wondering if you felt the same way for me, because I sometimes can't tell."
She looked up into his eyes again, slowly.
"Does any of that make sense?" She asked, wanting confirmation.
Syaoran didn't know what to do or say. His mind had gone blank and his body was not responding. He simply stood in the light rain.
"I-I don't know. I don't know." Was all that Syaoran could manage to stutter out.
"Oh," Sakura mouthed, eyes glancing to the ground and then back up to Syaoran's.
"That's okay," she said, trying to sound normal and not like a nervous wreck. "I don't know either."
Syaoran slowly backed up a few steps. The hope left Sakura's eyes, only leaving fear, fear as to what he might do. He saw her eyes, he couldn't look away from them.
"I just don't know." Syaoran whispered. He wanted to say something else, anything else, but he couldn't think. His mind was blank.
Sakura wanted to move. She tried to step forward and speak, but she was frozen now too. She could only watch as the person she liked walked away, glancing to see if she was following. But Sakura didn't follow, she just stood in the rain, trying to recall what had just happened in front of her and trying not to cry.
He was confused, so he ran away.
Syaoran walked down the path back to the temple gates. He didn't even remember his umbrella in his bag. He just knew that he didn't know what to do, and he hadn't even realized that he was walking away. Why hadn't he told her how he had felt as well?
He didn't mean for that to hurt her.
His mind had gone blank. He had been so nervous. Surely she understood that. She had probably felt the same way, right?
She surprised him, told him a secret he craved yet feared to hear.
But he had been glad at her words. His heart had exploded at her words. So why hadn't he said anything to her? Why hadn't he told her his feelings?
He ran, but what would happen to her?
She was alone and with no umbrella. She would just rejoin the rest of the class, probably.
She would not leave.
But this was Sakura, and she wouldn't want her friends to see her upset. She must be so upset.
Rain was falling down, harder than before.
He couldn't just leave her there alone. He couldn't let her think that he didn't feel the same way as she did. He had to explain to her what had happened.
He spun around and ran back, ran over oceans of puddles.
Syaoran's pants were getting soaked as he didn't even try to jump over all of the puddles that had already formed. He didn't care though, he dashed up the pathway, eager to find Sakura.
Rain was falling like tear drops.
He saw her, she hadn't moved from before.
She had them down her face.
Rain and tears.
Not meant to be neglected, not meant to be hurt.
Syaoran ran up to her, breathing heavily and trying to gather himself so that he could tell her how he felt. She looked at him, her eyes scared and sad, green and red.
Suffering, it was all so fast, it caused suffering.
"Sakura, I'm sorry I left you. I didn't mean to just leave you."
A friend is what he would be?
"I know how you feel,"
No, not that, more than that.
"Because I feel the same way.
He returned the secret.
"I like you too. I thought it was obvious, and I was scared that maybe you knew the whole time and were trying to ignore it."
Sakura stared at Syaoran with wide eyes, her heart speeding up again, pounding violently in her chest.
"So…we like each other?" She asked tentatively.
Syaoran nodded and smiled. "We like each other."
On her face now,
It is only rain.
VOVOVOVO
VictorianPearl: This one-shot was based off of a poem I wrote around 2004-05. Somewhere around there. I couldn't just post the poem, so I added the story to it. The story gives detail to the characters that I had in my mind when I wrote it.
The original poem is all there in the italicized font. I wanted to keep what had inspired me to write the story, and at first I was just going to tack it onto the end, but then I decided I liked it better in between the paragraphs. I feel it gives a little more emotion and insight to Syaoran and Sakura. I hope you all enjoyed it!