Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ An Unfinished Task ❯ Return ( Chapter 3 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Please tell me what you think of this chapter. I'm afraid that my
inspiration for this story is slowly starting to run out it might not be all
that great.

~Starlight Rose

An Unfinished Task: Part 3
By: Starlight Rose
Rated: PG
Email: starlighto_rose@hotmail.com

Disclaimers: I don't own CCS no matter how much I wished I did. It's owned
by a bunch of people with a lot more money than I have.

A.N. Hello everyone. I'm back with the next chapter. I really appreciate
everyone for writing to me or reviewing my story. I really didn't think it
was that good and didn't expect so many people to like it. Well I'm just
finished with my first rounds of exams in college and I'm pretty sure I
bombed but oh well. Nothing I can do about it now, but I can at least write
this story to help me feel better.

Translator's Note:
Domo arigatou- polite way of saying thank-you
Hai-yes/yeah
Demo-but
Iie-no

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Getting out of the taxi, Li Syaoran looked up at the apartment building so
reminiscent of the one that he lived in eight years ago. He was finally back
in Tomoeda and it felt good being back. Picking up his bags he entered the
building and walked to the office. He knocked gently on the door and waited
patiently to be admitted. From inside the office came a muffled voice
saying, "Come in."

Upon entering the office he noticed the clutter of papers sitting on the
desk and looked at the old woman seated behind the desk. Bowing politely he
introduced himself, "Hello, I'm Li Syaoran. I think that you should have an
apartment for me."

"Ah...Li-san, yes I've been waiting for you. My name is Morimoto Ayame. I
believe there has been a change of plans. You will no longer be staying
here. I believe you are going to be staying on campus in a dorm run by my
daughter. If you'd like I'll take you there in a few minutes," the old woman
said smiling at the handsome youth.

"Ah...if it's no trouble to you. Domo arigatou"

"It's no trouble at all. Just wait there a few minutes while I finish
reading over this page. Oh, I almost forgot. Here's a letter that has just
arrived for you this morning." Morimoto informed him fumbling around her
desk looking for the letter before finding it and handing it over to
Syaoran. Syaoran took the letter from her and opened it. He scanned over the
contents and thought, "I really need to do something about jie jie
interfering in my affairs." The letter read:

Dear Xiao Lang,
We talked to mama and she agreed to let us move you to an on campus dorm.
We thought it would be best for you if you lived on campus because it'll be
easier for you to meet people. If you stayed of campus you'd probably just
go to class and then go home to your apartment and you can't meet anyone
like that, which means you can't find Sakura-chan. Oh yeah, we also signed
you up for the university's soccer team and kendo team. Your tryouts are
next week. We wanted to sign you up for certain classes ourselves but mama
said that you were old enough now to decide for yourself what to take. Your
things have already been sent to your dorm. Have fun in Japan and we want to
see you back here in one year with Sakura by your side. Meanwhile you better
write and call to us sometime.
Your family,
Li Fuutie
Li Xiefa
Li Fanren
Li Feimei


Noticing that Syaoran had finished reading his letter the old woman got up
from her seat and asked, "Are you ready to go?"

"Hai." Syaoran answered as he picked up his bags and followed the lady out
of the office. They walked a few blocks before they entered Tomoeda
University's campus grounds and had to walk several more blocks before they
reached the dorm Syaoran was to stay in. Entering the dorm Syaoran saw
several people lounging around on a sofa in the reception area watching TV.
He looked around and thought it looked like a comfortable place, but his
eyes widened as he saw several females leaving from the living quarters and
decided to ask Morimoto-san about it, "Anou...why are there so many girls
coming in and out of this dorm?"

"Oh this is a co-ed dorm. There are many young ladies living here as well as
many young men. Though I'm sure the girls in this dorm will be thrilled to
see that such a handsome young man will be staying with them."

Syaoran blushed bright red at the compliment. No matter how much he tried
and no matter how many years passed he still got embarrassed easily. Of
course the thought of living in a dorm with several girls didn't help him
either. He groaned inwardly as he noticed some of the female occupants of
the room eyeing him appreciatively. This was going to be a long year.

The lady brought him to another office and entering without knocking she
introduced him to her daughter, Morimoto Hikaru, a young woman with short
brown hair and brown eyes. She was rather plain looking but she seemed
really nice he thought to himself.

Expressing her pleasure of having gotten a chance to meet him, the old woman
left as Syaoran thanked her for her help. Morimoto Hikaru smiled at him and
suggested, "How about I take you to your room and introduce you to your
roommate now. I believe your things are in a storage closet right now. We
can move them out later if you'd like."

Nodding his head in agreement as he picked up his bags once again and
followed Hikaru-san down several corridors and arrived at a door that
contained the on the name plate, Li Syaoran and Christian Mauler. Hikaru
knocked on the door and from inside a voice called out in slightly accented
Japanese, "Coming." The door opened revealing a handsome young man that was
about the same age as Syaoran. The young man was a few inches taller than
Syaoran's, 6'2". He had short neatly combed dark brown hair and ice blue
eyes set in a pale face.

"Ah Christian, I'd like you to meet your new roommate, Li Syaoran. Li-kun is
also a foreign exchange student, but he is from China. Li-kun, I'd like you
to meet Christian Mauler. Christian is from Germany. I'm sure the two of you
will get along great. I have some other work to do so I'll leave you two
now." Hikaru said and left.

Christian smiled at Syaoran and extended his hand, "Pleased to meet you. I'm
sure we'll get along fine. By the way you can call me Christian. Would you
mind me calling you Syaoran-kun?"

Syaoran looked suspiciously at the boy's outstretched hand. There was
something about this boy that disturbed him. He was sensing some power
emanating from the boy, but he could not place what the power was. It was
certainly not any power that he was familiar with and that disturbed him
because the power felt dark. He shrugged of his suspicions and thought that
possibly the boy did not know he even held that power. Reaching his hand out
he shook Christian's hand, shrugged, and stated in nonchalantly, "Call me
whatever you want."

Moving to the empty desk he set his bags down and looked around the room. It
was tastefully decorated but in what to most people would have seemed to be
rather gloomy colors. Blacks and dark blues and greens dominated the room.
To Syaoran it was just another room. "Well what do you think?" Christian
asked him.

Syaoran merely shrugged and asked him, "So which areas are mine?"

"Well you can take that bed over there," Christian told him pointing at the
bed sitting on the right side of the room. "In the mornings it lets in a lot
of light and I'm not really a morning person. I hope you don't mind. Oh yeah
your stuff is in the storage areas right? Well let me go help you."

"No thank-you." Syaoran replied icily. They guy may have seemed nice but he
wasn't about to spend more time with him than he had to.

"Oh don't worry. It'll be no trouble at all." Christian told him. Seemingly
oblivious to the intense glare directed his way, he moved towards the door
and started making his way to the storage closet. Once there he looked
around at the things there and stated, "Wow. You must really like books."

"Not really," Syaoran mumbled picking up a box and moving towards his new
room. After Syaoran left the room Christian began looking at the books and
smirked, "So the little wolf likes magic does? How amusing. Too bad he would
never comprehend REAL magic." Picking up another box he left the room.

It took the two only ten minutes to move all the boxes into their room. Once
the boxes were moved into the room, Christian left saying that he had some
business to attend to. Syaoran merely shrugged and felt relieved to be rid
of the boy and began arranging his books on the shelves.

Finally done he laid down on his bed and closed his eyes. In his head he
tried to picture what Sakura would look like now. An image of a beautiful
girl with long brown hair, sparkling green eyes, and a graceful figure
entered his mind. He smiled as he thought about her. He could almost feel
her gentle pink aura reaching out to him and wished that he could see her
right then.

Sitting up he shook his head and thought, "Well I better register for my
classes," and left the room. Picking his way through the corridors he found
himself in the reception area and asked a girl sitting there where the
register's office was. The girl gave him a sickeningly sweet smile and gave
him directions to the place, fluttering her eyelashes and apparently trying
to flirt with him. Syaoran coldly thanked her and left the following the
instructions the girl had given him. Behind him he heard the girl make and
indignant sound as he left. Clearly she had gotten the message that he wasn't
interested. Syaoran smiled wistfully. He realized how cold he acted
towards girls but he had never really been interested in any of them before
he met Sakura and after he met her no girl seemed right. No girl seemed to
capture his attention the way Sakura did so he acted cold towards all of
them except for maybe Meiling. He knew that because of that many of them
speculated about him, whether he was gay or if he already has a girlfriend.
But he didn't care.

Getting to the register's office he entered and registered for several
classes and put himself down for a computer engineering major though as he
ruefully reflected he wouldn't really need it. The head of the Li Clan
really didn't need a job but he supposed that he should know a skill.
Reflecting upon what he skills he might need to run the Li Clan he also
signed up for several management classes.

Having finished registering, he left the office and began walking around the
campus trying to aquatint himself with his new surroundings. Walking around
he noticed a group of people gathered around. Curiosity getting the better
of him he walked up to the group to find out what was going on. Reaching the
group he noticed a familiar boy standing at the center of the group. The boy
was apparently telling some story to the gathered group. Suddenly a girl
with long brown hair put up in a braid walked up to him and yelled,
"Takashi! Stop telling those stories."

"Demo, Chiharu-chan my stories are true really!" the boy replied.

"Hai...hai." the girl said grabbing the boy's collar and dragging him off as
the group looked on amused.

Standing at the back of the now dispersing group, Syaoran smiled. Those two
hadn't changed a bit since he last saw them. He wondered if he could become
friends with them again. He hoped so. He had missed his friends in Tomoeda
especially a certain green-eyed beauty. Sighing softly he continued his
solitary tour of the campus.

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Sakura walked leisurely to her dorm. As she approached her dorm she started
feeling a familiar presence. It felt like Syaoran's aura but she told
herself it wasn't, it couldn't be. She didn't want to get her hopes up for
no reason but her heart would not listen to her mind's prompting and
insisted he was close. Closing her eyes Sakura attempted to try to locate
where his aura was coming from, as she felt it she started walking in the
direction that her instincts pointed her. She was pulled out of her reverie
as she suddenly bumped into someone and dropped her books. "Gomen nasai! I
wasn't watching where I was going." She apologized quickly as she bent down
to retrieve her books. The person bent down also and picked up several books
for her. As she stood up the figure handed the books to her.

"Iie. It was my fault. I'm really sorry. Let me make it up to you." the boy
told her.

"Oh no it was my fault. You really don't need to." Sakura said looking the
boy directly in his ice-blue eyes.

"It's no trouble, since it was my fault. Let me at least take you out for
ice cream or something. It really will be no hardship for me to treat such a
lovely young lady to ice cream. Oh by the way my name is Christian Mauler."
Christian told her as he gently asserted his will upon her.

Sakura blushed at the compliment. She really had originally planned to just
go back to her dorm and study, but finally deciding that a snack would be
nice she assented. "Okay. My name is Kinomoto Sakura."

"Great. Shall we go, Kinomoto-san?" Christian said offering to carry her
books for her.

"Un." Sakura replied as she graciously accepted his offer to help carry her
books and the two walked off to get some ice cream.

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Over a week had passed since Sakura had first felt Syaoran's aura but she
never saw him so she assumed it was merely her imagination. Despite missing
him and wanting to see him badly, she couldn't help but feel happy. She had
made a new friend in the boy she had bumped into earlier. Christian was very
nice and went out of his way to see her sometimes. She wondered why he would
do something like that, but dismissed it as him being a nice person that
just wanted to become friends with her.

Sakura was currently sitting in her Calculus class trying desperately to
understand what the professor was teaching, but failing miserably. Over the
years she had gotten better at math, but still she struggled in the subject.
As the bell to end the class ended the professor began handing out their
last tests. Getting hers back Sakura looked dejectedly at the D on the exam.
She had really tried really hard to study and understand the material, but
it hadn't seemed to help. As she packed up her books and prepared to leave
Professor Shido called her up to his desk. "Kinomoto, I notice that you are
having some trouble with my class. I know you try really hard, but have you
ever considered getting a tutor."

"Hai, but I just don't know where I can find one." Sakura replied with a
sorrowful look.

"Well, I just asked one of my new students from another class to meet me
here today. I think he will be here in a few minutes. He just transferred
here from Hong Kong I think, but he has no friend here, or at least no
friend that I know of. He seems rather lonely but he is excellent at math.
Maybe he could tutor you and in exchange you could introduce him to some
people. You are a rather popular girl."

Sakura's heart beat faster at the mention of Hong Kong. That was where
Syaoran was from she thought. As the professor mentioned about the boy
tutoring her Sakura in exchange for her introducing him to all her friends,
Sakura looked at Professor Shido with a look full of hope, "I'd be happy to
introduce him to people. Do you really think he'll tutor me?"

"Well we'll find out now. Here he is." Professor Shido announced.

Turning around to look at the boy that she hoped would tutor her Sakura's
emerald green eyes widened as the met a pair of amber eyes. "Syaoran-kun..."
Sakura whispered as she stared at the tall handsome boy in front of her in
disbelief.

"Sakura..." the boy whispered just as shocked.