Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ For The Night ❯ The Dreaded Brother Part I ( Chapter 3 )

For the Night

By: Byakko of the West

Disclaimer: These are really annoying...and depressing. I! Don't! Own! Anything!!!

Author's Note: Sorry guys but this chapter won't be as long as the others. I was too lazy and had some mild writer's block so it was hard for me to write 2000 words.

Chapter 3

Kinomoto Sakura looked around the vast space of the powerful Li Syaoran's temporary room in the queen's palace. She was waiting for him to return from an errand that he said had to do before they started the morning. She was pretty glad that he was gone for a little while because she needed a little time to think over everything that had happened lately.

She had always dreamed of being swept away by a knight in shining armor but to have it really happen, well, she didn't know what to do. She had nearly slept with him, given herself completely to a stranger, someone she didn't even know, without a second thought. Why she had agreed to Queen Meiling's offer she'll never know. Maybe it was his looks, maybe it was his money and power but in her subconscious mind, she figured it had to be the fact that he had saved her from the man from last night. Or maybe something more...

But the sad part is, she was already missing his touch, his presence. It made her feel safe and needed. His touch was warm and gentle, never rushing her once last night. It felt so good to be so close to a man, something she had never felt before.

"Sakura? Are you still here?" a knock at the door was followed by the voice of her prince.

She stood up and bowed as he entered. "Yes, Syaoran, I'm still here." She answered, smiling as he walked through the door and over to her.

He cupped her chin in his large hand and tilted her face up to his. "Don't bow to me." He ordered gently, his smile gone but she could now see it in his amber-colored eyes.

She nodded, not trusting her own voice to speak her agreement.

He smiled then bent and took her lips with his into a slow, unhurried kiss. When he pulled back, she leaned forward and placed her forehead against his broad chest, inhaling his out-doorsey scent.

"Sakura," he started, gulping nervously. "I, um, have to go back to China the weekend and-" he was stopped by the look in her eyes when she looked up at him. They were teary, looking heart-broken. "Bu-but that's why I wanted to meet you father and mother so I could ask their permission to take you with me." He looked away from her gaze, blushing. "If you'd like...of course..." he trailed off, looking down at his brown leather boots.

She just stared at him for what seemed like forever, her unwavering eyes burning holes through him. Then, as if a light had been turned on in the dark, she smiled at him, showing some of her pearly white teeth.

"Really? You want me to go with you?" she asked, taking a step closer, he body almost pressed up against him.

He nodded at her, smiling softly at her. "It would be my pleasure."

She smirked before pushing him away, turning her back to him. "I bet it would be, ne?" she pulled her dark black shoes onto her feet.

He blinked at her back, shocked at what had happened. "Uh..." he spoke very intelligently.

After strapping them on securely, she walked back over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and he responded instinctively by placing his around her waist. "I'd be happy to go to your home with you." She whispered, all joking aside.

He smiled, not a smirk, not a grin, but a real, happy smile. "I have to get permission from your parents first."

She frowned and looked down, trying to keep her tears in check.

"My...mother passed away when I was three...so you only have to talk to my dad..." she said so quietly that he almost didn't hear her.

But he did and when he registered what she had said, he immediately regretted saying it. "If it helps...my father died when I was a young boy." He said, tightening his arms around her.

She shook her head, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand. She looked up at him and smiled sadly but gratefully. "You didn't know, it's not your fault." She sniffed a little, leaning into his embrace. "Now we have another thing in common." She joked, closing her eyes.

He chuckled lightly, his chest jumping slightly. "So, are you going to take me to your father so I can ask to take the lovely Kinomoto Sakura to china with me?" he asked, smiling.

She raised her head to look at him and he was dismayed to see that she wasn't smiling. "There's something else I should tell you."

He raised an eyebrow at her. "You're not already married, are you?"

She giggled. "No. Something much worse."

His eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. "Children?"

Her features mimicked his. "No!" she came closer, to be able to whisper in his ear secretly. "I have an older brother."

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Author's Notes: I'M SO SORRY!!! T_T I didn't plan on making this chapter so short, it just came out that way! But I can assure you that the next chapter will be longer, that's for sure...but when the next chapter will be up, uh, that's another story.