Episode 10
Meiling’s Point of View
“Meiling, there you are!” Kazushige waved me over to him.
“Hi, Kazushi!” I gave him a kiss on the cheek, and he hugged me tightly.
When he let go, his hand slipped down to mine and we started walking through the streets. We chatted for a while; I could tell we were both having a great time. But he looked troubled.
“Kazushi… what’s wrong? You can tell me.” I prodded.
He looked at me. “Well… we go out together, but it still feels like something’s missing. Like we aren’t ever on a real date, y’know?”
“Well… actually, yeah.” I’d been feeling the same way, deep down.
“Yeah, and… oh!! Hey, you guys!” he flagged down two people, a guy and a girl. They instantly ran over to him.
“Hiya, Yo-Yo!” the guy said, slapping him on the back. “Got yourself another girl, huh?” he laughed. I stifled a giggle. Yo-Yo?
Kazushi squeezed my hand, smiling. “Totally, and this one’s a keeper.” He pressed his lips into my hair. If I were a cat, I'd have purred.
The guy looked at me for a moment, then smiled. “Well, I’d be pretty happy to steal her from you, that’s for sure… a Guardian, right? Meiling Li?”
I nodded, holding up my hand. The glove appeared, which was sheer proof of my being a Guardian.
His grin widened. “Now that’s just cool. I’m Haruhide, but you can call me Haruhi, milady.” He gently took my free hand and kissed it. I blushed, and Haruhide laughed.
Kazushi growled at him. Haruhide held up his hands. “Hey, sorry, it was just a polite greeting. She’s still yours.”
“Yes, she is.” Kazushi patted my head.
“Well… I'm Takako, Haru’s brother. Call me Tako! It’s a pleasure to meet you, Meiling.” The girl finally stepped into the conversation.
“No, no, the pleasure’s all mine,” I told her with a smile. When I looked at both of them, you could tell they were related. They both had chocolate brown hair that blew magnificently in the wind, and sparkling eyes to match… just like Syaoran. His heart…Sakura, take good care of it. I closed the subject out of my mind. “So what’s all this about yo-yos?” I asked, smirking at Kazushi.
“It’s my pet name to them. When we were kids, they didn’t know what to call me, so Haruhi decided on Yo-Yo, short for the Young in Young Lord Kazushige Yoshida, which is a bloody long name if you ask me. It just stayed Yo-Yo ever since.”
“Wow…”
Suddenly, Yo-Yo’s ;) face suddenly lit up. “Hey, I just got the perfect idea for a date! Me and you, Eriol and Tomoyo, and since Sakura and Syaoran aren’t together, they can be paired with these guys for a date!”
“Wow, that would be a big freaking date…” I said quietly.
“Well, whaddya think? You two up for it?”
“Syaoran, huh? He’s really cute…” Takako said, her eyes twinkling at the thought of the heart-throb Guardian.
Meanwhile, Haruhide was winding his arm. “Woot, woot!! That Miss Sakura is smokin’! All you Guardian’s are! Maan, Hiiragazawa’s lucky with his girl, too, then that leaves us with you two! I’ll totally come!”
“Meiling? Are you okay with that?” Kazushi confirmed.
I smiled, my eyes squinting shut. “Yup!”
Sakura’s Point of View
“No.”
“C’mon, Sakura, it’ll be fun! Please?”
“I told you no Meiling. And I mean it! I’ve never even met the guy!”
“But he’s so nice, and he really likes you! If it helps, he looks a lot like Syaoran.”
“W-w-w-what does that have to do with anything? I-I said no, Meiling.”
“Pllleeeeeaaaassssseeee????? For meeeeeeee?” Meiling was now doing the puppy dog face.
“No!!!”
“She’s right, Meiling, it’d be weird.” Syaoran joined into our conversation now. He’d been there all along, just not saying anything.
“Fine, go together if you want! Just come! Kazushi was really looking forward to seeing you guys again, and going out with you on a…. 123… quad-date. But I guess I’ll have to disappoint him… again…” she sighed dramatically and started to the door. “We’ll jut have to settle with Eriol and Tomoyo, but what will I tell Haruhide and Takako?”
I clenched my fists. “Fine, Meiling, we’ll do it. But only if you stop being a drama queen.”
“Me? A drama queen?” she feigned (and you could tell) surprise. “Hohoho, I'd never think of it… thank you so much, you guys! Go get ready!”
“E-eh!? It’s now?!” I exclaimed.
Meiling nodded. “They’re waiting outside!”
“YOU ARE SO !$%$%#% MEILING!!!!” I screamed, but I went upstairs and got ready anyway.
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I laughed. “Haruhi, you really are a nice guy, y’know? I thought it would be weird because I didn’t know you, but it wasn’t!” Haruhi was really funny and charming.
“Well then… won’t you lend me a favour and pass me your hand?” he smiled, and my dream of Syaoran all those weeks ago darted through my brain. He really did look like Syaoran…
I felt the blood pool at my cheeks as I stammered, “Yeah, uh, sure.”
His face lightened and he snatched my hand away from my side into his.
“Syaoran, do you… wanna hold hands?” I heard Takako stutter. I flinched. He hesitated. “Haru and Sakura are…” Takako prodded further.
Syaoran hesitated again. He noticed I was watching him, and his eyes locked with mine. When he noticed my blush, his gaze flipped to my hand, connected to Haruhi’s. he looked away finally. “… well, I-,”
“Great!” Takako jumped onto his arm, wrapping both of hers around it, snuggling nice and close.
“Hey!” I raised my voice. “I thought it was hold hands, not attach to arm!” I felt embarrassed at my defense for Syaoran. But when I looked at him, his eyes sparkled with happiness.
“O-oh, I'm sorry…” she moved her grip down his arm (feeling all his…muscles. -_-) until it rested at his hand. They interlocked, and we kept moving.
“So… you like Syaoran, huh?” Haruhi asked. He didn’t seem hurt or jealous or anything… more amused.
“N-no… why?” I told him, pursing my lips.
“Oh, no reason… hey! Yo-Yo! This is where we turn!” his voice grew to a yell as he addressed Kazushige.
“Okay!” the Young Lord called back.
The group migrated to the left, up a hill to a sheer cliff.
“Er… why are we walking into a death trap about a million feet off the ground?” I asked Haruhi.
He laughed. “Wait until you see it, it’s beautiful. There’s flowers everywhere… cherry blossoms.” He winked at me.
“Ahh, a name pun.” I smiled and stuck my tongue out at him.
He chuckled and squeezed my hand tighter.
When we got to the top, I could see he wasn’t lying. Flowers everywhere, sakura trees, cherry blossom petals falling lightly like a velvety pink snow… I breathed it all in.
“If only they could get this into an air freshener!” Haruhi joked. But it was true.
“You’d never guess this would be on top of a deathly cliff…” I murmured.
“Things aren’t always what they seem…” I heard Syaoran mutter behind me. When I stole a side-glance at him, his eyes were darting around cautiously.
Haruhi led me away from the group. The two of us sat at the base of the tree closest to the edge. But don’t worry; we were a safe distance from falling.
“Well, you’re a man of no lies, Haruhide,” I told him. “This place is beautiful.”
“A man of no lies, hmm? I like it,” he put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me so I was leaning against his own shoulder. Strangely, I didn’t pull away; I was comfortable. His scent was so inviting… I liked it. And him. He turned his head so he could whisper softly into my ear. “Then do you think I'm lying when I say you’re the most beautiful girl in the world…no, even more beautiful? Do you believe me when I tell you that any guy that gets to make you happy for the rest of your life, see your smile everyday… is the luckiest guy in the world?”
I blushed.
“Do you? Do you believe me?” he urged, though his voice was still soft.
“I don’t know…” I looked him in the eye. He smiled back at me.
“You don’t have to answer now,” he whispered.
Suddenly, I jumped up. It wasn’t out of discomfort, it was because I had seen something flying. I moved closer to the edge.
“Hmm? Oh, that? It’s a vinge; a cat with wings. That one’s a fully evolved one. It means wing in Norwegian, it developed in the rainforest…” Haruhi climbed closer to the edge with me.
“It’s wonderful…”
“Sakura, be careful, you’ll fall.” Syaoran called to me.
I looked at the ground-easily a metre away. “Don’t worry, I'm nowhere near the…edge?” suddenly, I was closer to edge; my toes hung off. “W-what? But I was…!”
“Sakura!” Haruhi called.
“A-ah!” a force pushed me; before I knew it, the wind whistled in my ears, ripped across my face.
I had fallen off the cliff.
~A few minutes before the fall~
Syaoran’s Point of View
I grumbled to myself as I watched that creep Haruhi pull Sakura closer to him.
“Syaoran…?” Takako asked. She still clung to my arm; only for a moment on the walk had she just held my hand.
“What?” I snapped.
“…Oh. You like her, don’t you? Sakura.”
“Apsssh. Apppssssh. No. Apsssh. What-what would give you that idea? Apssh.”
“You’re a pathetic lyer.”
“I know.” I sighed.
Then I noticed Sakura moving closer to the edge. “Sakura, be careful, you’ll fall.” I called to her.
“Don’t worry, I’m nowhere near the…edge? What?”
“Sakura!” Haruhi cried.
Then she was falling.
“NO!” I jumped up, throwing Takako off of me. I ran to the edge and dove after her.
“S-Syaoran!!” she gasped. There was sheer terror in her eyes; I'd never seen them so fearful.
“I have you!” I reached out my hand, and she did the same. I grabbed her hand, then pulled her closer to me. “It’s okay.”
We were nearing the ground. “But… who’s gunna catch us?” Sakura whimpered.
“I will.”
I flipped over so that I would hit the ground first. “NO!” Sakura shrieked.
I touched the back of my head. It was warm and sticky; blood. I moaned and ground as I squirmed under the weight on top of me. I looked; it was a girl.
Sakura’s Point of View
I heard Syaoran groaning. I shot up instantly, crying. I kissed his forehead so many times; I left my embarrassment at home. “Oh, Syaoran, thank you so much! I’m so sorry, if something happens to you…” I sobbed into his chest.
He patted my head awkwardly. “Erm… one question.”
“Uhh?”
“Who are you?”
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