Dasukikiss : I'm back with our beloved character, Syaoran Li! * stretches hand out to the person beside me *

Syaoran : Hey. *expressionless face *

Dasukikiss : Can't you be more active in this ? It is your story after all. * glares at him and sighs*

Syaoran : Fine, fine. * looking away *

Dasukikiss : On with the story then. Okay, it's still in Syaoran's POV. And he was about fourteen years old I guess, more or less.

Side story 2 : Syaoran's Reencounter

I stuffed the last bit of clothing into my suitcase and sighed. I plopped onto the wooden floorboard and thought. After five years of staying in this beachside villa, I made new friends faster than ever, two siblings that annoyed me constantly. But I never did forget about the caramel haired girl who was my first love. I would love to see her smile again. I wonder how her life went after I left Tokyo? Was she happy? These questions haunted my mind every night.

Suddenly, my phone buzzed. Picking it up, I noticed it was a text sent by Asami. I sit up with the phone in my hands staring at her name that showed on the screen. I frowned. Asami was one of the siblings I met and became best friends. She was pretty as she grew up and a lot of guys adore her. But, she confessed to me two years ago and I was confused about how to reply since my heart belonged to another. Then, I told her I would go out with her if she didn't mind me loving another. And she smiled and accepted. We've been together for two years now. I don't mind her being my girlfriend and I treat her well.

Just a day before, I made her cry because I'm leaving for Tokyo soon to study high school there. It wasn't my choice, but in order to become the perfect heir I need to. Leaving this quaint little town made me sad. The people that I have known during my time here were dear to me and Asami….she mattered the most since I was supposed to protect her. I shook my head and read her text.

'When are you leaving? Can I send you off?'

I hesitated to reply since I know that if she sends me off she would be hurt and cry. And I couldn't see her cry even though I love Sakura the most all this time. Sometimes it made me feel guilty to be her boyfriend since the person I really love was…. I decided to ignore her text and grab the last of my luggage. Then, I left for Tokyo.

I stepped along the school hallways as people stare at me. The girls fawn over me like candy like all the other girls I met. The guys stare at me like I'm a threat. I sighed and all this commotion doesn't benefit me at all. I get lesser friends than usual and more love letters hidden in the folds of my bag. Today is officially the first day in Tomoeda High School. It is one of the public middle schools that has excellent results in academic. I was supposed to meet the teacher in the hallways but he wasn't there so I decided to go to my classroom by myself.

The sign for class '2-A' was soon noticed by me as I turned into another corridor. Pushing the door without hesitation, I found the students seated in their places chatting happily. All of them seem to stop their chatter as they noticed an intruder in their class. Suddenly, a small pat was felt on my shoulder and I turned to see. It was the teacher that was supposed to wait for me and he wore the goofiest grin ever.

"Ara…. You're Li-kun, right?" the teacher said with a smile. I nodded and proceeded into the classroom ignoring the gazes on me. The teacher trotted in smiling and introduced me to his students. I looked down at my loafers and sighed. Another hyperactive teacher, I guess.

"Li-kun? May you please write your name on the board and make a short introduction about yourself to the others?" he suddenly patted my shoulder and said. My head shot up with an annoying frown. I forget that I still have to introduce myself. Turning to the board, I wrote down my name and went back to face the others. They looked at me like I was an alien from outer space. I sighed, this is getting tougher than I thought.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Syaoran Li from Hong Kong. Please take care of me." I said briefly to quickly get this over with. Being the center of attention really bugs me. My eyes quickly scan through the students and they suddenly stopped on a familiar mop of auburn hair. My hands clenched tightly on the handle of my book bag. My eyes widen in shock and my heart throbbed.

Her hair was the exact shade of tea brown that I used to like, her complexion was fair like porcelain, her lips rosier than before and those eyes that haunted my memories. Her two emerald green eyes appeared in my view. Time stopped because I realized we met again.

"Well then, Li-kun. You may sit in the back seat behind Kinomoto-kun." The words that continued were tuned out of my mind as I continued to stare at her. She reached her hand up to wave at me and I walked slowly to the seat behind her. As I passed by her, the faint scent of cherry blossoms could be smelt and my heart beat fast. I couldn't believe that I'm going to sit behind her for the next few years. She flashed me her smile that melted to my core. I tried not to blush like I usually do as I looked straight ahead to my seat.

Plopping down onto the chair, the next few periods passed by with a daze as I stared into her figure in front of me with a secret happy smile. That was one of the happy moments in my life.

After homeroom, she suddenly turned to face me with a smile. I was trying to decipher the schedule that the goofy teacher gave me just now. Her soft call of my name made my goosebumps rose. I looked up facing her emerald orbs that I like so much.

"Li-kun, may I show you the way to the science lab?" her voice rang through my ears. I couldn't react fast enough to her question and dazed. My mind stopped the moment her sweet voice was heard. She was being polite to me and that made me a bit weird. Didn't she used to call me ' Syaoran-kun'? I frowned in my heart.

"Science lab?" I muttered. She nodded and pointed down to the lesson schedule which showed the next period was science. I then snapped out of my daze and nodded. She stood up picking up her books and waited for me. I stood up and gather what I had as I noticed she was talking to another girl, a dark haired one. They both had smiles hung on their faces like I wasn't there. I frowned at them and grunted softly. Why couldn't she smile like that to me like she used to? I began to regret meeting her again because if I didn't my heart wouldn't hurt like a thousand pieces of glass cutting through.

The whole day, I was down in the dumps even though I expect myself to be happy to have reunited with her. She instead treated me like any other friend or classmate, that didn't matter but what hurts the most was her smile that used to flash at me only. Walking home, I looked down at the pebbles that seem to annoy me. Actually everything annoys me now 'cause of my feelings. I kicked hard on one bigger pebble and watched it fly away to hit into a wall. The wall started to form marks because of my pebble kicking. Before going to bed that night, I decided that I would stay a distance from her and become normal classmates. Although it hurt my heart to do so, but I just had to before further damage occurred.

Today was one of the small tests the school gives when they think their students are getting lazy. And I just had participated in a martial arts competition so I absolutely had no time to study at all. Staying up until late night was even worse but I still did it. Now I have an ear splitting headache and a sore throat. I grunted along my way to school trying not to doze off.

As I reached the classroom, all the other classmates were busy cramming the last bit of information into their minds hoping they could pass the exam. I walked slowly to my seat where I could finally rest and maybe take a short nap before the exam starts. As my head ready to slump on my hands, a soft thud could be heard. Something was placed on my table and I took a small peek at it.

It was so familiar, something from the depth of my happy memories. I perked up to look at it but my eyes caught on the person who was seated in front of me with a smile. I stared at her confused at her sudden action but she kept on smiling.

"Have this. It may keep you active for the exam." She said through her smile. I froze couldn't speak. She looked at my face and gave me an apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry it's strawberry milk candy. But it's the only candy I have and you seem like you need sugar. I guess boys don't like this candy right?" she continued disappointed that I didn't take her candy. A frown took place of her smile and my heart throbbed.

"No. I like it, thanks." I quickly said before she grabbed the candy. Her head shot up and a smile replaced the frown. I smiled softly at her and grabbed the candy with my hand. The candy sprouted hope in my heart.

"Thank goodness. I also like this candy. I don't know why but I just do." She mumbled softly. Her words shocked me, did she really forget about me? The question that haunts me began to sound in my mind. Her words echoed in my heart as my fist clenched tight on the candy. But I noticed a pair of worried eyes fell on us. I took a small glance at her friend and she quickly turned her into her books. Seems like she knew something.

After school dismissed, I walked out the gates alone glancing at the students chattering to their friends on their way back. Looking at their smiles, I can't help but wonder how Sousuke and Asami were doing. Did Asami cry when I left without saying goodbye? Was Sousuke disappointed? Truth be told, I really missed them a lot. My mind wandered off to the place where we had our happy memories together. Fortunately, there's another thing that made me a little happy today was that Sakura still loved our sweet. Saying the word 'our' was quite…. I don't know…sad? It's not like she remembered me. I sighed.

"Li-kun?" a voice suddenly spoke from beside me. I looked at the person and realized it was a familiar dark haired beauty. She smiled at me softly.

"Daidouji-san." I muttered her name. She nodded back.

"Can I talk to you for a moment?" she asked and I followed her to a nearby park. We both sat on a bench while our view was filled with children playing around. I waited for her to speak.

"Li-kun, I presume you know Sakura when she was a child right?" she said and I replied with a nod. There was a feeling that she knew something she wasn't telling me.

"Actually, I heard about you from her when we were childhood friends. She talked about you almost every day. I didn't know you in particularly but I sort of recognized you when you first introduced yourself." She said and I stared at the children. My gaze softened on two kids, a boy and a girl who was slightly younger chasing around.

"You must have recognized Sakura when you first saw her. She was your first crush wasn't she?" she continued and her words made me jumped in shock when she mentioned my first crush. I looked at her smiling at me and I shuddered. Just how much does she know?

"Yes. I guess you knew a lot, Daidouji-san." I replied calming down my shock. She then giggled softly.

"I know everything about Sakura, that way I could protect her." she answered me.

"But… I'm here is to warn you to never bring up anything involving her past." She paused for a second and mumbled. My eyes widen on her request. Her eyes had a sad feeling to it and I knew she wasn't joking. She probably had a reason as to why she said that.

"I guess I should explain. After a few months when you left, Sakura's mother was diagnosed with a serious illness that caused her to soon pass away. Sakura cried a lot and fainted unknowingly on her funeral. When she woke up, the doctor said she had a short term amnesia which made her forget everyone except her dad and brother. It was also identified as post trauma stress due to her mother's death. Well, it took her sometime to remember me. So I don't want her to experience that ever again." she explained. I was speechless at her explanation. I mentally kicked myself for leaving her when she needed me the most. But I was a child back then, what could I even do?

"Will she ever remember me again?" after accepting the truth behind her not recognizing me, I asked softly. My heart throbbed for Sakura's memories to come back, for her to remember me and now… I found out there's a possibility she couldn't. I clenched my fist tightly letting out the frustration that I've never known.

"I am not sure. But the doctor says she might remember as time grows. For now….please just let her live happily." Tomoyo said hands clutching tightly on the handle of her bag, her amethyst eyes watered. I nodded in response. Tears filled my eyes but I refuse to let them go. How did Sakura endure all this pain and suffering while I was not there beside her? Did she see the light after her mother died? Or was she swallowed in darkness?

After our small conversation, we parted ways as Tomoyo's chauffeur came to pick her up. I continued my way home mind filled with questions and a heart filled with sorrow. But I did make one thing clear is that…I would definitely let Sakura live her life happily for now….

Looking out the window where the raindrops keeps trickling down, I thought to myself. Half a year has already gone by and spring is just about to end. I have kept my distance from Sakura to an extent, we are friends but no more than that. Although I don't like it, but at least I could see her smile again. I smiled to myself. Seeing this kind of rainy day, it makes me remember the day we first met when I thought that she was just another annoying little girl but it turns out ….

"Okay then… class is dismissed." The teacher said and I could hear the other students' happy voices filled the air. I stood up slowly taking a glance at the person in front of me. Her hair has grown longer the past few months and today she tied it back into a braid with a red ribbon at its tip. Taking in her every caramel coloured hair, I took a deep breath. A faint scent of cherry blossoms filled my nostrils, the scent that I have grown accustomed to. Her figure has been so familiar that I could find her anywhere.

"Li-kun? Are you going home?" suddenly she turned and asked. I smiled at her and nodded. She smiled back. Every day, we shared a small conversation on homework or lessons. It was unsatisfying but that is what I cherished nowadays.

"Then, see you!" she said happily as she and Tomoyo waltzed out of the classroom. I proceeded to my friends that I've made during the past few months. Yamazaki was chattering away with Eriol as they both put away their books. They both smiled at me as I walked to them.

"Syaoran! Did you know that elephants have different ears? It was proven that…." Yamazaki turned to me to continue his chatter about elephants. It was quite annoying at first but I soon got used to it.

"Hey, Eriol. Wanna go get some lunch?" I asked the dark haired boy who was grinning at us. His grin turned into a frown as he shook his head.

"Oh, sorry, Syaoran. I have a student council meeting." He replied apologetically. I nodded, I guess that what makes student council a nuisance. Then it's just me and chatterbox. I turned to Yamazaki to ask but I could see he was dragged away by her red head girlfriend. Before I know it, I was the only person in the classroom. I grunted feeling annoyed, what kind of friends are they anyway?

With my hands in my pockets and my bag strapped on my shoulder, I walked down the hallway to go home. The falling rain, I noticed, never once ceased instead it grew heavier. I frowned as my forehead crumpled; I forgot to bring my umbrella. I guess I have to get wet today.

Students started their way back slowly one by one, only I stood by the porch to wait and see if the rain was in my favour today. Rainy days are quite troublesome. And I wouldn't want Wei to nag me about my health. I sighed for the thousandth time.

"Need an umbrella?" a small voice sounded behind me, I turned to look at its owner. Red colour slowly crept up my cheeks as I backed away a bit. She stared at me with her emerald eyes that I was bewitched with.

"Here, have mine. I could just share with Tomoyo." She said without waiting for my response. She pushed a pink coloured umbrella into my hands. It had flower patterns on it. I shook my head this time to refuse her umbrella. I couldn't take her umbrella moreover it's too girly.

"It's okay, Kinomoto-san. I could just walk home without an umbrella." I said to her. She frowned at me, I never realized that the way she frowns is cute.

"It's not okay. Take it. It's bad if you caught a cold, Li-kun. My mom always says it's nice to play in the rain but it's worse to catch a cold." She continued with an annoyed face. My heart stopped as her sentence ended. Her words…. I smiled at her. She never did change even if she did forget about me.

"And besides, a hardworking person like you shouldn't get sick. Hardworking people are really awesome!" she said with a grin. My face unknowingly reddened and my hand reached for her umbrella unconsciously. Hearing her words, my heart warmed with her kindness once again just like seven years ago.

As she saw I accepted her umbrella, she smiled to me for the last time and went on her way to Tomoyo's side. Then I used the umbrella to walk home although it was quite girly for me. My mind was too happy to care for these small details. My heart leapt for joy that day. Because she finally gave me hope that she did not change and that was the most important than remembering me. I swear I was smiling the whole way home.

- Present day—

I yawned and lay down onto the wooden floor, piles of stuff surrounded me. After the wedding, we're moving into the Li mansion whereas mother decided to move to the villa by seaside. I sit up and rubbed my face to free myself from drowsiness. Looking around, half of the stuff where packed into boxes. All that's left were stuff left by the young me. I walked over to the cupboard and bring out the last dusty box.

Opening it up, I smiled at the stuff. Inside contained pictures back from I was very much younger when dad was alive, medals that I won when I competed in martial arts, a few worn out storybooks and something that made me grin. There laid my precious memory, an umbrella no bigger than my arm's length patterned in white polka dots. I smoothed it and gaze over it, deep in thought. I could never forget…..

"Eh? Whose umbrella was this?" a voice suddenly sounded from behind me. I jumped dropping the umbrella into the box. I quickly turned around to find myself facing a brown haired beauty. I glared at her angrily while she gave me an apologetic smile for scaring me.

"Where have you been?" I asked her with my hands on my hips. Looking down, I could capture her beautiful emerald eyes staring right back at me.

"You look like you've done something shady there. Are you sure you didn't abduct a person while I was gone?" she replied back defending herself while her eyes peered over to try have a look inside the box. I slapped my forehead and smirked.

"The only person I'm going to abduct is you." I said as my arms trapped her into a warm embrace. She giggled at my action as I kissed the crown of her head. A faint smell of cheery blossoms could be smelt from her. I gripped her tightly trying not to let go. I just love her that much.

"I was just going to the convenience store. I bought some snacks and tape." She muttered into my chest. Her small feminine hands gripped on my shirt as she also snuggled into the embrace.

"So you were slacking off?" I asked to piss her off. I love the way her eyes lit on fire as I anger her with my comments. She immediately backed off as I expected since I let her free of my arms. She stood in front of me with her hands on her hips this time eyes glaring right into mine.

"No… but you, you were definitely slacking off with your distant thinking." She smirked back at me after her comment. You know she's just so cute when she thinks she won the argument. I nodded with my arms in the air like surrender. I turned back to myself while chuckling.

"So you haven't answered my question yet. Whose umbrella is that?" she asked once again trotting to my side. I smiled and picked up the umbrella. It definitely looked smaller than before. Well, its owner grew up too.

"Mine, of course. Well, someone gave it to me." I answered her and I could see her smile. I don't know why but it must be something good. She nodded.

"Your first love's? I guess." She answered like she knew everything. I turned to her wide eyed. She then smirked knowing that she guessed it right. She took the umbrella from my hands and touched it with feather light touches. She looked at it as if it were her treasure. For one moment, I thought she remembered us.

"You know, I could see it in your eyes and besides you told me her story anyway." She said sweetly, her words felt like sweet honey. I smiled at her.

"Well, she is important in my heart." I answered her, trying to stop myself from saying the words 'even now she still is, the person here in front of me.' I tucked a loose strand of brown hair behind her ear as she smiled embarrassed cheeks blushing red.

"Come; let's have a break, Syaoran. Maybe later we'll continue." She said with a grin this time. Her hand intertwined with mine as she pulled me out of the room. I chuckled at the sight of her doing that. She used quite an amount of force to pull me and tumbled a bit on the way. In the end, I gave in and followed her out of the room. She grabbed the bag of snacks she just bought and we both sat on the couch face to face. I placed my arm hanging out of the couch as she threw everything out of the bag.

Packets of potato chips, strips of beef jerky and salted seaweed, two cups of pudding, a few bars of chocolate were scattered on the couch. I stared at her smiling, she looked like a child as she searched for the goodies she wanted to eat. But my eyes widen at the sight of a familiar kind of sweet being dropped out of the bag. I picked it up to take a closer look, it's polka dotted pink wrapper was definitely recognizable.

"Oh, Syaoran! You like that kind of sweet?" she gasped when she saw me fawning over a strawberry milk sweet. I gave a brief glare to warn her not to laugh. She smiled as her hand reached into the bag and pulled out a fist of that candy.

"Here, I bought a lot of those. You know, it kind of triggered my memory when I saw that in the store. I used to love these." She said smiling and then she also picked up one of the sweets with her small hands. She looked at it with her emerald orbs using the softest gaze I ever seen.

"Me too." I mumbled. Opening it wrapper, I popped the sweet into my mouth. Its sweet flavor melted in my taste buds. Soon it was just the size of a small pea.

"Syaoran, do you remember that I gave you this sweet during middle school?" she asked popping her own sweet into her mouth.

"Yea, why?" I asked looking at her playing with the sweet inside her mouth. She smiled at me and shook her head.

"No, I just remembered it that's all. This sweet was given to me by my first love." She continued picking up the sweets in the palm of her hands. They fitted perfectly in her palm not one fell out. My eyes widen upon her words but then soften. She remembered, huh? I wonder…. Tomoyo did mention she would remember bit by bit as she grew. But even if she didn't, it didn't matter since she's at my side now and forever. Unconsciously, my mouth curved into a smile.

"What are you thinking, Syaoran?" she asked with her head slightly tilt. Her eyes widen with confusion and curiosity. I caressed her cheek with my calloused hand.

"About how much I love you." I uttered softly to her, her face grew redder like a ripe tomato. I chuckled at her look and leaned in towards her. Our lips met in a kiss as her eyes closed. Her arms snaked around my waist to have a snuggle. Our kiss deepened until our lungs hurt. We parted and she looked dazed from the kiss. I smirked and licked my lips.

"Tastes like strawberry milk." I said with a smug grin as she too grinned and giggled. Here, in front of me was definitely the prettiest woman I have ever met and she was my most precious thing in the whole world. And nothing would ever change that.

Dasukikiss : Isn't that great?! The story has come to an end. And you can go back to being lovey dovey with Sakura.

Syaoran : Shut up. If you weren't the author, I would've strangled you sooner.

Dasukikiss : Aww.. You're so mean, Syaoran. Go on, have a kiss with her. *Nudging my elbow to him*

Syaoran: You annoying woman! * eyes lit on fire and has a killing aura*

Sakura: Who's annoying? * suddenly pops up *

Dasukikiss : Nothing, now take Syaoran away. * showing a shooing gesture* Okay, thank you all for supporting me through this fanfic. Hope to see you guys in my next one. Arigatou and we'll meet again.