A Cloned Protector
Character(s): SyaoranxSakura
Rating: PG-13
Warnings/Spoilers: Yes but if you don't know you won't catch them or the point of this fic....
Disclaimer: TRC is not mine~
Summary: Sakura has a request and Syaoran's willing to fulfill it. But after he gives Sakura what she wants Syaoran realizes that it isn't real. Fluffy night scene in Clow with a blind confession to future devotion ♥


Syaoran reached off to the side and Sakura tried to see what he was doing but he put his back to her. She didn’t like that at all and started poking and tickling him which lead into a sort of tumbling act that had them both off the blanket and covered in sand.

Before she could smoosh him anymore Syaoran quickly ripped out a page of his book and handed it over with a shy smile “T-there!”

Sakura laughed and turned positively red. Syaoran turned just as red as she hid her face in the page and said a bunch of things he couldn’t understand “Y-you’re so silly!” was all he caught in between the giggling. He felt slightly humiliated when he heard her say that, but Syaoran supposed his silly-ness wasn’t a bad thing like he first assumed because Sakura held the page affectionately to her heart as they remained on their backs and gazed up to the sky.

“…I-it’s not the same” he muttered anxiously “B-but…it’s the best I can give you, Princess”

After a brief look in his direction Sakura made up her mind and quickly snuggled her way up into his side and harassed his chest with more giggles. He could feel her warm cheek on his neck and swallowed hard from the intimate reaction but didn’t dare move. She kept whispering “I love it! I love it! I love it!” in his shirt though and he couldn't resist smiling softly as she held up “her” star with flushed pride.
It was a rather ridiculous thing, but Syaoran found that those were the kinds of things he loved best when it came to Sakura and him. Just moments before Sakura had looked up to the sky and said “I think I want a star”

“A star?”

“Aa!” She sat up onto her knees and took his hand with a grin “Would you get one for me, Syaoran?”

He laughed “….Why would you want a star?”

“Because they’re amazing! Not only that they're the best protectors in the world"

"They are?"

"Yes! They’re always watching out for everyone” she pointed out eagerly “and they’re always there for you when they should be!”

Syaoran thought a moment before shaking his head “You wouldn’t want one of those”

She pouted “I wouldn‘t? Why not?”

“They’re always so far away. You don‘t even like it when I‘m away for two days….”

“Oh, I know but--” she laughed and reached her free hand out to the sky “I really want one!”

"If--" He hesitated “...if you really want one I can give you a star that you can keep with you always…”

Her eyes widened “You can?!”

And so Syaoran did what he assumed was probably an all together “nerdy” thing and gave her a picture of a star. If she knew that he had cringed as he was tearing the page out of the Astrology book (one that wasn’t even his…!) then she would have thought he was more “silly” and less “amazing” so he just kept that little over-anxiety to himself and enjoyed her happiness.

For a long time the two of them looked onto the picture of her already deformed "star” as she held it above them. A replica of a notable star, he mused. But Sakura probably didn’t know it. When she lowered it back to her chest that sudden realization made Syaoran frown.

“It’s a clone…”

Sakura’s eyes fell back up to him “Eh?”

“It’s only a copy, Princess” he explained with a blush “I-it’s really just a copy of one of the stars that already exists….The one you have is not real because there’s already one like it out there...and it's not yours” He frowned embarrassedly at his failure “S-sorry”

“I-I like the clone better then!” she exclaimed with a bright smile

He grew more miserable "But it's not real so--"

“I don’t care if mine isn't the real one--It’s special and something that’s just for me!” She hugged the picture tight again with a blush
“…l-like you said the real one is much, much too far away and--and I’m sure the real one is nice but--this one will be beside me always and protect me whenever I need it! I love this one and this one only!”

It was strange but watching Sakura smile and kiss every inch of her lifeless star just then made him feel really happy and warm. When she snuggled back up into his side that warmth spread and although Syaoran felt his cheeks burn in protest, he settled himself comfortably against Sakura's body.

It was while she was sleeping, clutching her star the whole time, that Syaoran absently looked up beyond her pretty blush for the first time and wondered where the real one was out there and if it was watching Sakura and the clone. He laughed the thought off as sleepiness quickly though and pulled his precious person closer before joining her in a peaceful sleep.