Happy Ends are Possible
Author's Notes: I wrote this because I was reading a Sakura/Syaoran
fic where they were getting married. And I just couldn't let that
happen, at least not without my conscience seriously nagging me all
time. ARGH what a nag it is. Ah well, hope you enjoy it.
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Today was the day before, the biggest day of Sakura's life, and Tomoyo
had been busy preparing it all. Today was the day before Sakura's
wedding to Shaolan.
"Sakura-chan here's your dress." Tomoyo said as she handed Sakura the
gorgeous wedding dress. Sakura walked up to Tomoyo and took the dress
and held it up to look at it. Sakura gasped when she saw it.
"Tomoyo-chan this is too beautiful. You really shouldn't spend so much
time on me,"
"It was really no trouble, it was a pleasure to make a wedding dress
for Sakura-chan. Go on and try it on." Tomoyo spoke as she pointed to
Sakura's room. Sakura walked into the room and put the dress on and
walked out, quite embarassed.
"Tomoyo-chan this...this is really too much!" Sakura blushed, this is
probably true, of the dress...for the dress has ribbon and lace
/everywhere/. It was of a very simple design. It was just a
form-fitting gown that came down to just above the floor, the sleeves
came to the centre of her fore arms with lace hanging loosely down to
the tips of her hands. There was a slash across the front of the dress
revealing silver cloth with stars spread across it.
At seeing her friend in the dress Tomoyo was struck speakless.
"Sa-Sakura i-it's....." Tomoyo trailed off lacking words to pronounce
the beauty that is Sakura.
Sakura taking this as a bad thing, blushes, "Is it really /that/ bad
Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura stutters out. If anything Tomoyo looks so shocked
she almost fell over.
"No! Sakura I-I-I just c-couldn't think of anything to say. You're
s-so beautiful that words would just be lacking." Tomoyo sighed. 'Wish
I had told her. It's too late now, she's going to marry Shaolan-kun in
a day.' Sakura looks at her friend funny.
"Tomoyo-chan are you okay? You look spaced out." As Sakura spoke
Tomoyo snaps out of her reverie and realizes she just zoned out.
"Oh my...I'm sorry I didn't realize," Tomoyo glances at her watch, "Oh
dear, Sakura-chan I must be going, it's getting so late." Tomoyo grabs
her jacket and heads out to the front door, Oyasumi nasai
Sakura-chan," Tomoyo called out as she left.
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'Oh I can't believe I am going to do this. I am such a coward, and
after everything that I have done.' Tomoyo is stitting at her desk
glazing out her window, when she comes to a realization, 'I'll just
have to write a letter.' With that Tomoyo pulls out some stationary
and a pen. She quickly begins to compose her letter.
After a while, when Tomoyo finishes, she places her letter in an
envelope and pulls out a candle and some sealing wax. Once the enough
wax is melted Tomoyo drips it on the envelope and presses her seal to
it. Returning her tools to her desk, Tomoyo walks over to her bed and
looks a the sleeping figure there.
Reaching over and shaking the Seal Beast, who has been staying with
Tomoyo because he can't stand 'the kid', has little affect.
"Kero-chan...Kero-chan wake up, please." Tomoyo whispers loud enough
to wake him up.
Cracking open an eye to look at who's shaking him, Kero sees Tomoyo,
"whaddya want," he so bluntly puts it.
"Kero-chan, I have a favor to ask of you." Kero nods his head. "Could
you please give this to Sakura-chan before the wedding? I can't go."
At this Kero becomes fully awake, "Wha? Why not? You prepared
everything and you're not even going to get to see it?"
Tomoyo shakes her head a little sadly, "It's okay, really. I just
really need you to deliver this to Sakura-chan before the wedding.
Will you please do it?"
"Of course!" Kero replies, getting a sly look in his eyes he says,
"But only if you give me some sweets!"
Tomoyo laughs at this and pokes Kero in the stomach, "Kero-chan if you
keep getting me to make you sweets you're going to become fat, and
then you won't be able to fly anymore," at this Kero pouts and makes
gumbling noise. This just makes Tomoyo laugh some more, "Alright
Kero-chan, you win, I'll make you something. I'll have something ready
for you after you deliver it, it'll be on my desk, ok?" Kero nods and
takes the letter from her, "Now Kero-chan I'm relying on you to give
this to her. So please get it to her on time."
"Ya ya sure whatever. I'll get it to her on time, just lemme get some
sleep,k?"
"Oyasumi nasai, Kero-chan. Arigatou." Tomoyo said as she shut out the
light and went to bed also.
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{Dressing room at the Church}
Sakura is pacing around the room waiting for Tomoyo to show up. Her
bridemaids were all there. There's dresses were made by Tomoyo too,
yet less extravegant so as not to out shine Sakura.(Although in
Tomoyo's humble opinion that could never happen.) Sakura looked up at
the window when she heard scratching noises. It was Kero. Looking at
her friends to see if they are looking, which they convineantly
weren't, Sakura gestures towards the bathroom.
Walking into the bathroom Sakura open the window to let Kero in. As
soon as he is in she pounces on him (not literally) and asks him where
Tomoyo is. To this, and to great affect, he pulls out the envelope.
"Tomoyo told me to give this to you. She also wanted me to tell you
she couldn't come."
Sakura grabbed the letter from Kero. On the front was her name written
beautifully, on the back was Tomoyo's seal. A creseant moon with stars
all around. At this Sakura smiles knowing that it really is from her
friend. She breaks the seal and pulls out the pages. The first is
basically just wishing Sakura well for her wedding. The other was more
important.
'Dear Sakura-chan,
Please forgive me, for I am not able to attend your wedding. I
cannot for my own selfish reasons, which will be explained in this
letter.
Sakura-chan I am but a great coward, you see. I've loved you for a
/really/ long time. Although it hasn't been until recently that I've
really noticed exactly how long.
I remember telling you once when we were children, you said you loved
me too. Yet I know you meant it differenetly then I did, and so I told
you that I would tell you when we are older. I have been putting it
off out of fear of what you might do. No, I do not fear you to attack
me, but for you to shun me, or even worse to hate me.
I kept wanted to tell you, but you were so happy with Shaolan I didn't
want to ruin your happiness. All I've ever wanted was your happiness.
So please be happy, no matter what your feelings are on what I'm about
to tell you.
Aishiteru, Sakura-chan. I love you, I am in love with you, and have
been for the longest of times. I hope you can forgive me. I hope will
can still be friends. I also hope you can forgive for being such a
coward for not being able to tell you this in person.
Be happy, you're getting married to the one you love.
Good bye, Sakura-chan
Love always,
Daidouji Tomoyo
P.S. Tell Kero-chan for me that his cake is on my desk. For I won't be
home when he returns.'
After reading the letter, Sakura just sat in silence staring at the
letter. She stayed like that until she heard Naoko's voice telling her
it was time for the ceremony.
Sakura blinked out of her daze and yells,"HAI!" before turning to Kero
and saying, "Kero-chan Tomoyo says that your cake is on her desk for
when you get back. She also says she isn't going to be home when you
get back." Kero tries to ask what was in the letter but Sakura had
folded it out and put it in her dress and had already left the room.
"Are you okay, Sakura-chan? You were in there for a long time,"
Chiharou asks Sakura. Sakura just turns her blank gaze at her and
nods. Chiharou becomes confused at Sakura's look and says, "Tomoyo
hasn't shown up either."
That snapped Sakura out of state, she looks a her friends and
says,"Hai, I know she can't come, something important came up(ya I
know that was a lame thing to say) and she told me she couldn't make
it." The three girls look at Sakura in concern but she just starts to
walk towards the door. At the door she turns to them and says,"Let's
get this started."
{At the Alter}
The priest is mumbling out the usual schpeel. Sakura is anxiously
looking at the rows of people gathered there. Everyone is there,
Yukito, Touya, her father, Meiling, all of the Li family, but the one
person she needed there wasn't.
Sakura gets rather nervous when she suddenly notices that /everyone/
is looking at /her/. She turns back to the priest with a confused look
on her face and utters, "Hoe?" The priest repeats the vows asking her
to say yes or no. Sakura feels trapped as she looks at Shaolan, he
looks so eager for her reply. Sakura then looks out into the people
gathered.
Looking back to Shaolan she prepares herself mentally for what she is
about to say. It must have shown on her face because the look on
Shaolan's face changed. Glancing down at her feet, Sakura speaks,
"Li-san," that alone looked like it was a slap in the face to Shaolan,
"I-I ...please forgive me...but I cannot marry you. I'm really sorry.
There's no way for me to express my sorrow at causing you this grief.
I'm sorry." Sakura then places her mouth close to his ear and whispers
very quietly, "Li-kun, please don't think this was your fault. Please
marry Meiling and love her as much a possible. Or if not her then
someone else, but please be happy. This is good-bye Li-kun. Good-bye
and please be happy."
With that Sakura ran from the chruch before any one could stop her.
Pulling out her Key she called upon her Cards.
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{King Penguin Park}
Tomoyo is slowly swinging back and forth on a swing(where else is
there to go?) idely thinking of Sakura. She wondered if Sakura had
married Shaolan yet. Wondering if Sakura will still be her friend.
Wondering if Kero liked his cake. Well not really wondering about the
last one, as long as it has sugar in it Kero will love it. Wondering
what life will be like without Sakura. But most of all Tomoyo just
thought about how beautiful Sakura is.
Thinking on her beauty made Tomoyo think of more costumes and outfits
she could make for Sakura, but they would never get to be worn and so
she tried to erase them from her mind. She tried to get Sakura off her
mind and think of something else, and she had almost succeeded. That
is until she started to halucinate and see Sakura in her wedding dress
flying through the sky towards her with angelic wings upon her back.
That's about when Sakura noticed Tomoyo on the swing and landed. This
caused Tomoyo to gape because she was also hearing things, she heard
feet landing.
Sakura ran to Tomoyo's side and pulled the letter out from where she
had put it after reading it in the bathroom. She waved it in front of
Tomoyo's face frantically, "Tomoyo is what you said in this true?"
Tomoyo just closed her mouth and continued to stare at Sakura like she
was an angel from above.(Of course, Tomoyo already thought this.)
Touching her friend's shoulder repeats her question. This time Tomoyo
looks down at Sakura's hand on her shoulder, then she looks back up
at Sakura and asks her, "Why aren't you at your wedding?"
Sakura looks at her friend as if she is daft,(which she is a this
point in time but that is of no fault of her own) and says,"I'm not at
my wedding because I told Li-kun that I cannot marry him. Is what you
put in this letter true?"
Tomoyo looks at Sakura once again and at a loss of words,because she
finally realized this was real, nods her head. At this Sakura
brightens visably, and throws herself at her friend, nearly knocked
her from her seat on the swing. Sakura cries out, "AISHITERU
TOMOYO-CHAN! I love you too!" At which point she pulls Tomoyo into a
passionate, soul shattering kiss. Tomoyo was too stunned at first to
do anything, but she quickly returned the kiss with all her tender
burnin' love. This continued on until the both were seriously lacking
in oxygen.
Once she caught her breath, Tomoyo looks at Sakura and asks,"But I
thought you loved Shaolan-kun? Why are you here?"
Relinquishing her hold on Tomoyo, Sakura moves onto the swing beside
Tomoyo and explains, "Oh Tomoyo, I've only been going out with Li-kun
because you kept pushing me together with him, and everyone else kept
trying to do it to him and me, too. I thought I was destined to be
with him from the way everyone was putting us together. I've never
been given the chance to think on my own feelings. When I read your
letter I just thought about what it would be like, living without you
for the rest of my life, or living with him for the rest of my life.
After that the choice was simple. Please forgive me for being so
ignorant?"
Beaming at Sakura, Tomoyo replies, "Sakura-chan how could I /not/
forgive you? I love you. Always and forever. I'm sorry though for
pushing you to be with Li-kun. I just wanted you to be happy, and I
thought he could do it." Tomoyo looks at her shoes.
At this Sakura looks at her love, places her finger under Tomoyo's
chin to raise for her to look at her. Sakura doesn't say anything, she
just pulls Tomoyo into a kiss, hoping that it answers her questions.
Pulling apart, Tomoyo takes Sakura's hand and pulls them up.
"Saku-chan, let's go home."
Sakura looks at their clasped hands and smiles. She then looks back up
to Tomoyo's face and smiles, "With you, I'd go anywhere, Tomo-chan."
And they walked off into the horizon.
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Author's Notes: Eh heh....heh....heh....ya I know dumb ending. That
ain't exactly my fault. Ah hell who and I kidding, it was my fault I
couldn't think of anything thing better. Yeah I know this story is
less then probable. How many people do you know who are going to just
leave their wedding because they got a letter from their best friend
saying that they are in love with them. Hn. Oh well. Hoped you liked
it. Oh for anyone who cares, Shaolan ends up with Naoko, Meiling with
Rika(she'd dumped Terada), and *beams* Kero ends up with a belly ache
because he ate the ENTIRE cake that Tomoyo had made.(It was
hugh.)Sakura was last seen arguing with Kero over her making a
companion for him, and Tomoyo was taping it all... ^.^;;
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