Title: Reflections

Day/Theme: July 13/The ones that are never said and never explained

Fandom: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

Pairing: Sakura and the original Syaoran

A/N: I wrote this, so excited with having an idea, and then, as I was catching up (Chapter 142!), the next chapter I should read had this very idea in it.

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I feel like such a plagiarist even if I'm not.

Warnings: Some liberties taken on how much of Syaoran Sakura actually knows.

Summary: It would be so much easier to hate and not care.

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Sometimes, when Sakura watches the Syaoran-who-is-not-Syaoran, she wants to hate (but hate is a strong word and she doesn't want to use it so instead) she dislikes the new Syaoran. Or is it the old one because he is apparently the original?

(Not to her, not her friends. To them he will always be new.)

She wishes he would go away, that she could just ignore him and scare him off. Maybe ditch him in some world and never see him again. It's not in her nature to do that, even though she tries and fails anyways, and it's not his fault.

(Not entirely, at least.)

This Syaoran is different from the other, at some things at least. He isn't as curious about old ruins and past civilizations, instead preferring to stick to the present and the future. He is calmer too, easily accepting things the other would have fought about.

(Sometimes Sakura half-wonders if she doesn't like these differences, because they made it harder to dream.)

The problem is that he has so many similarities. This not-Syaoran with his hair that is just as brown and his limbs that are just as long. He speaks in a voice that is alike and uses words that make her ache with memories. When he grabs her, his hands are also warm and careful, as though she is something precious. Eager eyes, kind expressions, and when he talks to her what she hears echoes her Syaoran.

(And he has a smile just as sad and forlorn; how can two people have that same smile that looks as though they lost something?)

She dislikes (hates and loves) him because she makes her feel her loss even more.

(Sometimes, she wakes up forgets there had been a change.)

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