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Reporters, journalists, and video cameras dominated the hotel entrance as Yue discreetly parked in the shadow with the red Odyssey, thinking he had avoided the curious and annoying people.
Didn't work.
"Syaoran-kun! Syaoran-kun!"
"Ah! Meiling-sama!"
"Eriol-san!"
"What do you have to say about this?"
"Did your fight with Kinomoto-san have anything to do with the incident concerning Daidouji-chan?"
"Will Tomoyo's injuries affect her voi—"
"OH. MY. GOSH. JUST SHUT THE HECK UP!" Meiling grabbed the closet reporter by his collar. "IF I HEAR 'Tomoyo-chan' OR 'Daidouji' OUT OF YOUR STINKING MOUTHS AGAIN, I WILL PUNCH YOU IN YOUR GUTS UNTIL YOU THROW THEM UP!!"
Tomoyo faced Sakura completely, getting comfortable. The secret she was about to tell was something that should stay in that room.
She felt that Sakura would do something about it, as long as it concerned family. Meiling, Eriol, nor she had yet gotten through Syaoran's barrier.
She hoped Sakura could.
"Do you know about Syaoran's mom? Or his dad?"
Sakura shook her head.
Tomoyo sighed, feeling that same heaviness again from when she heard that piano playing. "Okay. They were also part of Soar Records."
Sakura nodded slowly, pulling up the blankets. It's getting cold in here…
Tomoyo looked up at the ceiling. "Back then, things were different. In Soar, it used to be that no one who worked in the agency was allowed to get together. It went against the contract that each person signed to work there. Soar was really famous."
Sakura furrowed her brows. What would this have to do with me?
"In time," Tomoyo gulped, "Yelan, Syaoran's mom, met Li Xueyou. They both worked for the modeling section and one of Yelan's friends, Nadeshiko, wanted to play…matchmaker."
Nadeshiko? Syaoran asked me about her…
The lead singer nervously chuckled. "It was a little fling. Then it…changed. Nadeshiko realized her mistake, and tried to reverse it."
"Wait, who's Nadeshi—"
Tomoyo shushed her. "Don't! I won't have the nerve to talk to you about this later on, so just listen, okay?"
Sakura glanced her way. Is she scared?
Beads of sweat climbed down Tomoyo's neck. "I don't know why they made that rule about not being able to date other people in the agency, but Yelan and Xue disobeyed it. They secretly started to go out, and the head of the agency started to have their suspicions.
"Nadeshiko was a young model back then, and she was one of the most famous models ever. Because it was her fault that the two met, she decided to…defend them." Tomoyo was pale.
I don't think she's supposed to be telling me this… "Doesn't that mean Nadeshiko-san stood up against the whole company!?" Sakura incredulously cried out, pulling aside her covers to see Tomoyo better.
"Hai…she only had a few on her side."
"What did the media know?"
"Nothing."
A deafening silence filled the room. Neither Tomoyo nor Sakura could stand it. Sakura had this deep feeling in her chest. Cautiously, she asked, "What happened to Nadeshiko-san?"
Tomoyo glanced down. "Nadeshiko ran away after she won. It was rumored around Soar that she eloped with a professor of a nearby college."
The deep feeling remained. Goose bumps went up and down her arms. Sakura pulled up her covers again to warm her. "Is Soar in…Tokyo?"
"Yes…"
Sakura felt her heart race. "Did the professor come from Tokyo University?!"
Tomoyo widened her eyes, then paused. "I'm not sure."
"Oh." The beeping of Sakura's machine slowed down.
"Anyway," she gulped, the excitement from a few seconds ago passing, "what does his parents have anything to do with my family?"
Tomoyo calmly tried to think. It's to put a family back together…get a grip!
"Tomoyo?"
"You can't say anything until I finish explaining, promise?"
Sakura slowly agreed, "Okay…"
Tomoyo closed her eyes. "Yelan and Xue had five children. Syaoran was the only boy and the youngest. When he was somewhere around eight, he started playing guitar. Yelan was the one who came up with the idea to enroll him into an entertainment agency."
Sakura turned towards the ceiling.
"The entertainment agency made him work hard, since they recognized his parents. Ironically, he was assigned for Soar. That was when he stopped."
The auburn-haired girl closed her eyes too. "Stopped what?"
Sakura heard Tomoyo falter. "Talking to his mom and dad."
"Sakura's not going to be able to play on the piano anytime soon," Eriol said, letting himself fall on his bed in his room.
Syaoran scoffed.
"I don't think we'll be able to go anywhere else either, because of Tomoyo's leg and Syaoran's rib," Meiling said. She was sitting on a chair by a desk, gazing off. Her elbow was propped on the table and her hand held her chin.
Then, she giggled.
Eriol frowned. "What are you laughing about?"
Syaoran was also confused at his cousin's sudden outburst.
She snorted in reply. "Actually, I was just thinking about something."
Their attentions were tuned to her.
"I wonder who'll be hurt next," she joked with a grin.
Syaoran rolled his eyes and got back to tuning his E.Guitar. He just didn't understand Meiling sometimes.
His guitar was black and red, with a lighting bolt going through the bridge. He was sitting down on his bed, turning the knobs this way and that, plucking at the strings. If he stood up and placed the strap around him, the guitar's heavy weight would hurt his broken rib.
Meiling let out a breath. "We can't even hold a concert here. That would break tradition."
"Great." Syaoran's voice dripped with sarcasm and bitterness.
"Ugh, Syaoran, what is wrong with you? Don't you know how serious all this is?"
"No."
"Butthead," Meiling muttered. She then thought about everything that had happened so far.
The coincidental meeting with Sakura…Syaoran hurting his rib…being enrolled in Sakura's school…Syaoran's nose…
Meiling softly laughed at that one.
Her wild shopping day with Sakura and Tomoyo…the chase with the cops…August 21st…the retarded newspaper…
Speaking of which, Meiling needs to punch the writer of that article.
Syaoran's argument with Sakura, and now, the library incident.
Someone was bound to be tired after all of this.
Then, Meiling's eyes flew open.
Why were all of these things connected to Sakura?
Tomoyo continued with her story. "He became ashamed of his parents and argued with them."
"Ashamed? What does he have to be ashamed of?!"
"Syaoran was extremely loyal to Soar during the next two years. When he found out his parents were fired by them, he…" Tomoyo trailed off.
"He loves Soar that much?!" Sakura cried out, aghast. "This is his family!"
Tomoyo didn't say anything.
"And he still…ugh!" Sakura threw her covers off for the last time and forced her feet over the side of the bed. That boy…is such a girl!
"What are you about to do?" Tomoyo slowly asked, sitting up from her bed. "What about your ankle?"
"It's only sprained, and I don't care! He needs to talk to his parents! What sort of an idiot is he?!" Sakura hopped on her good foot. "If he isn't going to talk to them, then I'll force him to!"
"Sakura…"
"By the way…" Sakura said, turning to look at the girl sitting on the bed. Sakura was halfway to the door. "Why did you shout?"
Tomoyo thought about the music Sakura played. Her eyes darkened. "My mom. That's all."
Sakura exasperatedly sighed. "You too?!"
The lead singer glanced down. "I'm fine. Mine isn't that important."
"She's family!" Sakura was so close to strangling her. "Your mom is still your parent!"
She noticed that Tomoyo didn't want to listen, and instead skipped to the door. Family is still family…
"Where are you going?" Tomoyo asked.
Sakura smirked. "Going to hurt that punk."
A ring tone knocked everyone in the room out of their thoughts. Eriol felt his cell vibrating.
"Hello?" he whispered.
"Eriol-kun? May I speak to Syaoran, please?"
"Who is this?"
"JUST GIVE ME SYAORAN!"
Eriol fumbled with the phone, surprised by the caller's outburst. "For you?" He motioned Syaoran.
He took it. "Hello?"
"Hi! I was just wondering about something…"Syaoran's face made a confused expression. "Who am I talking to?"
"Would you like to go to dinner with me?""She's gone berserk." Ruby made a circling motion with her index finger on the side of her head. "Truly has gone berserk."
"Tomoyo or Sakura?"
"Both!"
"Ruby, calm down," Yue sighed, turning off the screen that supervised a certain hospital room...
She gasped, "But the greatest secret of Soar was just told to a person who's been hurting our band!"
"Might as well get her in, then."
Ruby did not just hear what her husband just said. "Excuse me, but, um, WHAT?!"
Yue shrugged. "If she knows, then it would be critical that she becomes one of Soar's."
Ruby crossed her arms and turned her back on him. "You're berserk, too, aren't you?"
"Ruby," he huskily said, wrapping his arms around her waist from the back. "Please, let's just go to sleep." She always liked it when he came from behind.
"No," she pouted.
His lips grazed right below her right ear. "Come on."
"Yue," she growled. It tickles…
Yue lusciously kissed the side of her neck. "Everyone's asleep…"
"Get off my neck Yue."
He chuckled. "No."
"Shoo."
"No."
Ruby huffed. That stupid seducing trick of his…
"Eh…pardon?"
Sakura scowled, about to shout at him. " Would. You. Like. To. Go. To. Dinner. With. Me?""Sa…Sakura?"
"No, it's Santa Claus."
"What?"
"Of course it's me!" And he thought she was slow. Sakura impatiently waited for his response.
None came.
Suddenly, she remembered why he wouldn't talk to her.
They practically hurt each other emotionally just some days ago.
Oh, well. Family was more important than pride. She'd start ignoring him if he contacted his parents.
When he starts contacting his parents.
"So, will you?" Sakura feigned to be cheerful just so he could talk to her.
"I…I don't…""If you say no, I'll hurt your rib," she threatened.
For a girl that had been alone most of her life, she sure sounded like she knew how to torture somebody.
"Kinomoto…"She got tired of his indecisive self. "WILL YOU PLEASE JUST SAY YES!?"
"You know what I like about her?" Tomoyo said quietly to the person on the other line. Sakura could have just asked for her cell phone, but instead, she walked out to the public phone in the hallway. "What?"
Tomoyo unconscientiously smiled. "At how she can stand even when everyone else hates her."
"You mean us?!"She gaped into her phone. "We don't hate her! I don't."
"Well, duh. Her school, then?""Yes."
"Oh…""Ne, Meiling, I'm pretty sure now."
"Of what?"
"Her parents."
"About Nadeshiko?""Yes."
"And?!"Tomoyo almost laughed at her manager's excitement. "I told you, I'm sure."
"And?!"
"I just said it…"
"No you didn't."
"I dropped a hint."
"…"
Tomoyo shook her head. "Keep thinking."
It took Meiling thirty seconds.
"OH MY GOSH!"
I know I was going to say something important, but I forgot. Anyway, if you're confused with the ending, hah.
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