Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ An Unfinished Task ❯ Obstacles ( Chapter 6 )

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An Unfinished Task: Part 6
By: Starlight Rose
Rated: PG
Email: starlighto_rose@hotmail.com

Disclaimer: I wish I owned CCS but alas I don't own it. It's
owned by CLAMP, Kodansha, Nelvana, and maybe a few other
companies that I don't know of.

A.N. Gomen, minna-san for taking so long to come out with such a short
chapter, but I've unfortunately been really busy lately with school work and
last weekend was also AWA so I couldn't work on this then either. I had
originally intended for this chapter to be longer, but I guess it's better
to get out a short chapter than nothing at all ne? Though AWA was really fun
and I saw this guy with an awesome Sakura costume on. ::sighs:: If only I
can get that good of a costume for next year. BTW for those of you that have
not read the previous chapters they can be found at
http://fanfiction.net/master.cfm?action=Directory-AuthorProfile& UserID=18865

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Sakura sat staring idly out of her window and sighed. Syaoran had been back
for over two months now and thanks to him her calculus grade had improved
greatly, but unfortunately her courage hadn't. Sadly she realized the more
time she spent with him the deeper she fell in love with him. At first she
refrained from telling him because she was worried that maybe if she did
tell him that she might just be harboring old feelings for him. Syaoran had
changed in eight years and so had she so how could she be certain that she
really did still love him? But as she started being around him more she
realized that despite how much they had changed her feelings for him had
remained the same, but how could she be sure that he still loved her? Sakura
was scared. She didn't want him to reject her when she confessed her
feelings for him and so she kept quiet.

She wanted to tell him and she wanted him to hold her and kiss her like she
had seen other couples do. She remembered when they had accidentally kissed
and the feeling still thrilled her. Sakura was hopelessly in love, but she
just didn't have the courage to tell him. Tomoyo-chan had realized that
Sakura still loved Syaoran immediately. Once she had returned from her date
with Soujiro-kun, she had asked Sakura about Syaoran. For months now Tomoyo
had gently encouraged Sakura trying to get her to confess her feelings for
Syaoran, but every time Sakura had tried, she lost her courage. "No more of
this," she told herself firmly. Tomorrow I'll tell him. Tomorrow Sakura was
meeting Syaoran in his room for him to tutor her and Sakura was determined
to tell him then.

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Sakura sat in Syaoran's room biting her lip in frustration. 'Why can't I
just come out and tell him?' she asked herself. She was supposed to be doing
her calculus homework, but she couldn't concentrate on her work. The numbers
jumbled up in her mind and the more she tried the more hopeless it became.
Her mind was too occupied with confessing her feelings to Syaoran. She cast
a surreptitious glance towards him and accidentally caught his eyes. Her
cheeks flushed as she turned quickly away hoping that he hadn't caught her
looking at him.

Syaoran sighed warily as he turned to Sakura and asked her, "Is something
wrong?" Sakura had seemed unusually preoccupied the entire tutoring session
and Syaoran wanted to know what was bothering her. He hoped it was nothing
serious. He hated seeing her beautiful face so anxious. It had been over two
months since he had been back and he still had not gotten up the nerve to
tell her his feelings. It was beginning to frustrate him and to make
matter's worse Sakura was becoming closer friends with that guy. He was
afraid. He didn't want to lose Sakura to that jerk, but he was also scared
of rejection. The jerk was certainly clever and was moving purposely slow,
but Syaoran knew that it would only be a matter of time before Christian
asked her out and if she said yes, then he knew all his hopes would be
dashed. 'I have to tell her,' he decided, 'Just not today.'

"It's nothing." Sakura replied. Glancing sadly at him.

Syaoran caught her sad look and asked her once again, "What's wrong? You can
tell, or don't you trust me?"

"Iie...it's not that. I do trust you. It's just I don't know how to say it."
Sakura replied sadly.

"Say what?" Syaoran asked a confused expression on his face.

'Come on you can do it Sakura!' Sakura told herself silently as she took a
deep breath, "I..."

"Syaoran! Hey can you help me with some math homework?" Christian yelled as
he threw open the door to see a madly blushing Sakura, "Oh Sakura-san
you're here too? I'm sorry am I interrupting anything?"

"Ah...no. Syaoran-kun was just giving me my weekly tutoring session." Sakura
replied as she sighed. She was so close. If only Christian-kun hadn't walked
in, then she would have had the chance to tell Syaoran, but since
Christian-kun was here now she couldn't anymore. Turning back to her
homework she said, "We're almost done. Just let me finish working on this
problem and we'll be done."

"Oh you don't need to leave. You're welcome to come over whenever you want
to. Your lovely presence makes this room much brighter, ne Syaoran?"
Christian suggested as he cast a challenging glance towards Syaoran. Syaoran
merely glared back at him.

"It's okay. I'm done now. Ne, Syaoran-kun is this right?"

Syaoran turned around to face her and looked over her shoulder at her work.
He nodded his head as he wondered what had been bothering her. She was just
about to tell him when that jerk walked in. Syaoran was really beginning to
hate his roommate. Not only was the guy trying to hit on Sakura every chance
he got, but he was also doing it right in front of Syaoran too.

"Well, I'll get going now. Tomoyo-chan's probably waiting for me to go make
dinner." Sakura said as she packed up her books and left.

Syaoran sat at his desk watching her leave and cursed Christian for his
timing. He didn't know what was bothering Sakura, but it had to have been
important to upset her so much. He glared as Christian turned to him and
asked, "How about my math problem?"

"Do it yourself." Syaoran said through gritted teeth as he picked up is
homework and stomped out of the room. He needed to take a walk. Things were
not going well between he and Sakura. He only had a year to confess his
feelings to her and get her to agree to marry him and he had already wasted
two months doing nothing. He wished that he had the nerve to tell her how he
felt about her before it was too late. If he let her go to that jerk then he
would never forgive himself. "I'll tell her tomorrow," he told himself.

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A week passed and neither Sakura nor Syaoran managed to get a chance to
revel their feelings for each other. Every time they tried someone or
something interrupted them. If they were in Syaoran's room, Christian had a
habit of barging in at exactly the wrong moment and if they were in Sakura's
room Kero-chan had an annoying habit of interrupting them. Other than during
their study sessions there was really never any time that they were alone
together. It seems almost as if someone was purposely trying to keep the
apart.

Sakura sat at her window starring out at the stars and sighed. She was
frustrated. Every time she had managed to work up her nerve to tell Syaoran
something happened. She was starting to get worried that if she didn't act
soon, he would start going out with someone else and she would have lost her
chance. She saw how all the girls would flock around him or follow him
around after practice. She knew it was only a matter of time before he began
paying attention to one of them. They were all so pretty and popular, she
knew she couldn't compare to them. She had noticed some of the hostile
glares that some of the girls had sent her because she was friends with
Syaoran. "If only they could understand," she thought. "Being his friend is
not enough anymore. I want him to hold me and love me as more than a friend.
I want to be the most important person to him as he is to me."

Sakura heard the door to her room open and turned around to smile at
Tomoyo-chan as she entered the room. Tomoyo smiled sadly back at her friend.
She could see that Sakura was worried. She had tried helping set up
situations where Sakura and Syaoran could confess their feelings for one
another, but nothing worked. She knew that both of them were getting
frustrated and things couldn't go on the way they were much longer. Suddenly
an idea came to her, she just prayed that Soujiro-kun would not be upset,
but she was sure that he would be fine with it. He had even commented once
about how good Sakura and Syaoran seemed for one another. Rummaging around
in her purse she pulled out two tickets to a concert. "Sakura-chan, how
would you like to go to a concert?"

"Hoe?"

"My mother gave me these two tickets for a concert, but unfortunately
Soujiro-kun and I can't make it. Soujiro was going to go visit his
grandparents that day and I promised to go with him. I would hate to see
these go to waste. Would you like to have them?"

"Hoe? But I wouldn't have anyone to go with. Why don't you try giving it to
Chiharu-chan and Yamazaki-kun?" Sakura answered sadly.

"Couldn't you invite Syaoran-kun?" Tomoyo suggested and then walking over to
Sakura whispered in her ear, "I'm sure he'd love to go with you and it'll be
a good chance for you to tell him how you feel."

Sakura blushed and then looked at Tomoyo hopefully finally understanding
what her friend was suggesting. Throwing her arms thankfully around Tomoyo
she cried out, "Arigatou Tomoyo-chan! I'll go ask him now!"

As Sakura rushed out of their room Tomoyo smiled and whispered under her
breath, "Good luck, Sakura-chan."

Sakura's bare feet pounded down the hallway as she rushed to Syaoran's room.
Getting there she paused a few moments to catch her breath before knocking
on the door.

When Syaoran opened the door he found a breathless Sakura standing at in the
hallway. "What's wrong?"

"Tomoyo just gave me two tickets to a concert next Friday and I was
wondering if you would like to go with me? If you're busy, I'll understand.
I'll just give the tickets to Chiharu-chan." Sakura said in one breath while
praying, "Please say yes. Please say yes."

"I'll go." Syaoran said calmly though inside he was exuberant. "She invited
me to go to a concert with her. Maybe I'll have a chance to tell her after
the concert." He thought.

"Honto? Yatta!" Sakura shouted as she threw her arms impulsively around
Syaoran causing Syaoran's face to redden suddenly. "Ah...gomen." Sakura said
blushing as she released him.

"It's okay." Syaoran told her.

"So next Friday, ne?"

"Un. I have soccer practice until 6 so I'll meet you at the tree that we
usually have lunch at 6:30."

"Okay. Um...I guess I'll go tell Tomoyo the good news then. Ja ne,
Syaoran-kun." Sakura said happily turning around to leave.

Syaoran closed the door after Sakura left and turned around to see Christian
standing behind him, "So Sakura-san has asked you to go to a concert with
her huh?"

"None of your business." Syaoran answered coldly.

"Whatever. Just remember even though she may seem to like you better, I'm
not going to give up." Christian announced.

Syaoran glared back at him before, Christian left the room. As Christian
left he smirked confidently as he thought, "I never give up little wolf. She
will be mine even if you hold her heart."