THEIR RELATIONSHIPS...

You already all know *I guess...* all about Sakura Kinomoto and Syaoran Li's relationship in Card Captor Sakura...and even if you don't, there 're today so many websites explaining it that you get lost in them ^^;;

So this special article is dedicated to Sakura, the Clow Princess and both Syaorans in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS FULL OF SPOILERS!!!!!IF YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW, SKIT IT NOW!!!

I organized it in severals 'stages'. This is stage 1 : The archeologist Fujitaka adopted Syaoran, an +- 8 years child he encountered alone in the street, covered with bandages and bruises, half blind and totally memoryless... They've been traveling together a lot and looking for mysterious things, legends, things related with history...etc...and not so much time after he adopted Syaoran, Fujitaka went to Clow Country, attracted by the mysterious ruins in there. He went to the king together with Syaoran, to expose his plans and asking permission to research them and...that's when Sakura and Syaoran first met, in the castle. They grow closer and closer and ended up being great friends in spite of the fact Syaoran was 'weird' at first : he couldn't smile, nor express feelings nor expressions...but being with Sakura changed him a lot...

Now stage 2: Syaoran's father, Fujitaka, dies in the middle of his research and Syaoran decides to continue his work and stays in Clow Country, working in the ruins. Syaoran and Sakura are now +- 15 years old and are officially 'childhood friend' but, of course, they feel a lot more then mere 'friendship' toward each other : Sakura is very clearly in love with him and tries to confess (but is interrupted by Touya...) but promises to herself that she will definitely tells him...as for Syaoran, he shares the same feelings but thinks a commoner like him should not bear this kind of feelings for a princess...

Stage 3 : start of the journey --> Sakura goes to meet Syaoran and bring him food in the ruins and an 'accident' happens : for an unknown reason, her 'wings' got scattered and she herself almost end up kidnapped if Syaoran didn't save her at the last moment; the priest Yukito send them to the witch of the dimensions, Yuuko, who reveals to Syaoran (Sakura has been unconscious for a while now...) that the feathers of her memory were hidden in others worlds and that he had to take them back or else she would die...The price to be given the power to travel through dimension is...his relationship to Sakura, which is his most important person. So this stage consist on them being together but, at the same, being very far away : when she woke up after Syaoran gathered 2 of her feathers, she didn't recognize him and she never will : to put it simply, stage 1 and stage 2 were lost and she will never ever remember those times they spent together ever again...

As Syaoran collect new feathers, Sakura sleeps less and less and acts more and more by herself and as herself too. Since Sakura don't know Syaoran anymore, their relationship starts again from scare one : they go from world to world together with Kurogane, Fye and Mokona and learn to discover each other again. It would be right to say that they kind of fell in love with each other for the second time ^__^ They make new memories.

Stage 4...BREAK DOWN!!!!! It would be good if you could go and read the article 'who are they?' in Syaoran-Shrine group, about the story of the different Syaorans or else you won't have it very clear here since I summarize quite a lot and don't enter in much details ^^;; That said : our lovely Syaoran-kun that have been fighting like hell to retrieve his loved one feathers ended up being...a CLONE created by Fei Wong Reed!! --> geezz...here it goes, , let's 'enter in details' Fei Wong Read (FWR), Clow Reed's relative, has a dream that the witch of the dimension Yuuko qualified as being "something that anyone could wish for but that was totally impossible"...and that Clow Reed already tried before him and failed...we don't know anything else about FWR's dream...In order for his dream to become reality, first of all, FWR kidnapped the real Syaoran, who knew of his plans. Then he made another Syaoran (Clone|Syaoran), whose only priority was to collect the feathers, but didn't know anything about his creator's plans... --->Clone|Syaoran is the clone of Syaoran, Clow Reed's descendant, that FWR created for the purpose of gathering the feathers. In order to retrieve the feathers of the Clow Princess *Sakura*, he would stop at nothing, and eliminate all who interfered.That is how he was created. But...the real Syaoran unexpectedly interfered and copied his own heart into the clone throught his eye: and he made it so that if the eye were to be removed by inserting magic, the clone would fall apart as well. When Syaoran did that, he said this to Clone|Syaoran from across the "mirror" : "before the seal on your right eye dissolve and my heart separate from you, a heart that is not mine but your own might be born in you. I will gamble on that coming true. I will trust that among the people you will live with day by day, your own heart would foster and grow. But,...If the seal should be broken and, despite all the time that had passed, it wasn't enough, and you were without a heart, If you continued to be only a created 'thing' who acted wildly and forcefully, I would eliminate you.[chapter123]" FWR could not create a limitless number of clones and have them carry the same strength as the original. And so, even though the heart of another resided inside him, if the determination to gather the feathers remained, that was all that mattered. So FWR released him like that. He saw the time, he saw the place.The clone came to Clow country,and was sent inevitably down the path that would lead him to the princess who was the key to the power inside the ruins. Everything was decided according to that path... After several years, the real Syaoran went out of his prison and, of course, the seal on the clones Syaoran left eyes got broken and...he turned into a violent and wild beast, not feeling anything no matter how much you would hurt him and gt an expressionless face, he simply acted like he was 'programmed' to and even ATE Fye's eye ( in Fye eyes is concentrated his magic...) to gain more power to look for the feathers...Well... FAR too much details already if you ask me...So, after a huge fighting between the real Syaoran who just arrived and the clone (ex clow Syaoran...), the clone goes away in another dimension (helped by FWR of course) and totally reject Sakura in spite of all her tears and how she desperately reach for him (she seriously looked pitiful)...

I've been waiting for a while for events to happen in the manga involving either Syaoran with Sakura but it's just not happening ^^;;

Only a few things are quite clear : Sakura still care about Clone|Syaoran in spite of everything but, since Acid Tokyo, we never hear her again saying it was her 'most important person' nor anything...

As for our 'new' Syaoran, he SURE cares a LOT about her and repetitively call her 'Sakura' (which is pretty intimate...) but as for now, it doesn't look like it goes as far as him LOVING her either.

Sakura's feelings for Syaoran are..unknown ^^;; but she still cared enough to take his place and got stabbed by Fye in his place (Syaoran was supposed to die stabbed by Fye, Sakura foresaw it in a dream and decided to change that future...). Still, just like Syaoran, even though she cares about him too, it doesn't look like she is in love with him either.

That said, Tsubasa being a shonen, we just can't expect to see romance bursting at every page so it will take a while before we got definite answers about their relationships...