Disclaimer: If I owned CCS Eriol would've ended up with Tomoyo but sadly...I don't.

Chapter One: New Years Eve

Stars sparkled in the night sky that New Years Eve. Almost everyone was at the festival that was being held that night in Tomoeda. There was laughter, singing and dancing all around. Everyone was having a good time.

Well, almost everyone.

In one part of the festival, there was one little girl among a crowd of boys about three or four years older than her. She was no older than three, and as she reached for her teddy bear, the boys kept on holding it out of her reach.

"That's my teddy bear! Give me it!" The little girl continued to jump for it.

One of the boys continued to hold it out of her reach. "Why don't you try and catch it?"

Another one took the teddy and threw it on the ground. He stomped on it and laughed. "There. Now you can go get it."

The little girl snatched up her teddy and frowned. "I'm telling my mommy."

"Your mommy can't do anything," one boy said. "My big brother told me that all she's good for is sleeping around."

"That's not true!"

Another boy joined in. "Everyone thinks she's a slut and they may be right."

"Take it back! Now!" However, they refused to do so and started teasing her again. Her emerald eyes blazed in anger as she picked up a rock and hit one of the boys in their head.

The boy rubbed his head angrily and they all were about to gang up on her. "You're gonna get it now."

The girl took one step back and was about to scream when she felt a hand on her shoulder. The boys stopped moving to look at the person behind her. She looked up to see amber eyes gazing at the group.

"Now will you guys tell me, what were you doing to this little girl?" He glared at all of them and they took a step back.

"We weren't doing anything."

"Doesn't seem like nothing, but I'll tell you what. If I ever see you boys doing something like that to anyone, you'll all be in trouble. Got it?" They nodded rapidly. "Good, now go." Each boy ran in their own direction away from the amber eyed guy.

He shook his head then looked down at the little girl and smiled. The anger in his eyes had disappeared. "You're safe from them for now. Where are your parents? Did you lose them?"

The girl continued to gaze up at him. "You have pretty eyes."

He laughed. "Well, thank you. My name is Syaoran Li. What's your name?"

"Kohana Kinomoto. I want my Auntie Tomoyo."

Syaoran looked at her surprised. "Tomoyo?" Kohana nodded her head. He picked her up. "Alright, let's go and find her." They went looking for her. Minutes later they found her in a panic.

Tomoyo and Eriol were searching frantically. "Kohana, where are you?" Tomoyo asked out loud.

"Auntie Tomoyo!" She called out as soon as she saw her. Kohana jumped out of Syaoran's arms and hugged her.

Tomoyo sighed with relief. "Oh, Kohana, you scared me. Don't go wandering off like that again! Stay with me and Eriol, you got that?" The little girl nodded.

Eriol smiled. "See, we found her and she's okay." He looked up to see a familiar pair of amber eyes gazing at him. Eriol blinked. "Syaoran? Is that you?"

Syaoran smiled. "It's been a while, hasn't it, Eriol?" They shook hands and greeted each other.

"It certainly has been, Syaoran." He stepped back and looked at Tomoyo who held Kohana in her arms. "Tomoyo, this is my cousin Syaoran. He's from Hong Kong. Syaoran, this is my girlfriend, Tomoyo."

Syaoran looked at Tomoyo. "Nice to meet you. Eriol had told me a bit about you.

Tomoyo smiled at him. "Nice to meet you too. Are you the one who brought Kohana back to us?" Syaoran nodded. "Thank you so much! We were asked to watch Kohana for her mother and she wandered off at some point in the crowd."

Syaoran shook his head. "Don't worry about it."

Eriol looked at him curiously. "The question just came to me. Why are you here in Japan? I know you're coming for school here, but why are you here so early?"

He shrugged. "Just decided I wanted to see how you guys were doing here early I guess."

Suddenly the sound of firecrackers filled the air and vibrant colours filled the sky. Eriol looked up in shock. "It's that time already? We'd better find Sakura. We promised to meet her in time for this."

"Who's Sakura?" Syaoran asked.

"She's a good friend of ours. You'll meet her when school starts again." Tomoyo replied. "It was great meeting you. I hope we can become good friends." The couple said their goodbyes and wished him a Happy New Year.

"Bye Syaoran!" Kohana said. Syaoran waved goodbye at the girl and smiled.

As he looked up at the fireworks he thought about his new life in Japan. "I wonder what awaits me here in this New Year."

If only he knew.

A/N: Well, I know many people noticed that I didn't give one of my usual excuses as to why I updated She Will Be Loved so late. This story here is the reason for it. It's been stuck in my head since late last year and I ended up writing not one...not two...but five chapters. (sweat drops) I had to get it out of my head! Plus it's been nagging me to put it on fanfiction. It was like this little psycho voice telling me "Upload me...upload me..." Agh!

So there, I'm uploading all five chapters now just to ease my poor conscience. This it my very first attempt at any kind of drama whatsoever so forgive me if it's not all that good. However the idea was there so it had to come out. Blame the quote that inspired me to do this. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. I'll update the others soon now that this is up. Brittany is practically cheering right now. Yes, Brittany. I know you are so happy about this. You can do your little dance or whatever it is you want to do, okay?