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storypaint ([personal profile] storypaint) wrote2009-01-07 10:48 pm

To Other Worlds (Syaoran gen)

Title: To Other Worlds
Crossover: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Length: 322 words
Prompt: Young CCS!Syaoran and Tsubasa!Sakura for [livejournal.com profile] evercool
Pairing: Syaoran and Sakura gen
Other: Jossed by TRC.
Excerpt: "Oh, I'm terribly sorry, are you all right?" the woman said. Her eyes were soft and green and Syaoran blushed down to the roots of his hair. Quickly he clambered to his feet and then offered her a hand. She took it without condescending, despite the fact that she was much older and taller than he was.

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, are you all right?" the woman said. Her eyes were soft and green and Syaoran blushed down to the roots of his hair. Quickly he clambered to his feet and then offered her a hand. She took it without condescending, despite the fact that she was much older and taller than he was.

He couldn't stop staring at her; her dress was antiquated, almost Victorian in appearance, and she was incredibly beautiful, but that wasn't why. She looked... familiar. She looked like someone he knew, or was going to know. If he'd been a little older, maybe he'd have recognized the heavy feeling-- hitsuzen, Yuuko had called it, calls, would call it, there weren't proper tenses.

"I'm fine," he mumbled, managing to ask then if she was all right. She nodded, looking confused and thoughtful. She was staring at him too, and after a moment her features brightened into the most beautiful smile Syaoran had ever seen.

"I'm looking for someone," she said, then clarified, "actually, three someones, four if you count Mokona... Have you seen a tall blonde man, or a ninja-looking dark-haired man, or... a boy who looks an awful lot like you, only older? I have lost my friends, you see. Their names are Fai-san, Kurogane-san, and Syaoran."

Syaoran's eyes widened and he took a step back without realizing. All of the hairs were standing up on the back of his head and he felt quite disconcerted.

"Are you sure you're all right?" the girl asked worriedly. "My name is Sakura, by the way. You haven't seen them?"

Syaoran shook his head. She looked around herself like she was seeing the world for the first time. There was a moment of awkward silence.

"You need to talk to my mother," he said after a moment, turning to lead her to his home. Without thinking, she laced her fingers in his, and the warmth sustained him all the way back to Li Manor.