Disclaimer: I don't own the CCS characters or affiliated names, the ladies of CLAMP do. I do however, own everything else.

Words of the Wolf:

-The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Warning: This story isn't 100 percent about skating. It's more about the people. (This needs to be explained to some people)

As I have already stated in my sucky summary, this story is a reinvention of my older version, of about the same name, but quite a few things will be different in this story, and I hope any of my old readers will consider reading the newer (and going to be updated more often) version. And if you have ANY PROBLEMS with the new version, read the commentary at the bottom as to why I've changed things, before you start harrasing me more, and or flames. I will not tolerate them. To all new readers, I hope you enjoy this story, and as always, read and review. Love ya!

Live Life on the Rails

Part 1

Chapter 1

With a quiet sigh, Sakura Kinomoto looked out from under her black baseball cap to the unsuspecting crowd at the international airport in Tomoeda, Japan. She was sitting in the waiting area with her carry on and duffle bag sitting on the ground beside her, as she listened to the music on her iPod, entertaining herself by picking out random people in the crowd and matching a theme song for them.

Checking the clock on the opposing wall, she saw that it was 11:45, and her brother Toya was late. He, mister paranoid by punctuality, was not here. That's Odd. But she didn't worry. She had a feeling it was to help her parents prepare for her homecoming party back into Japan. Her parents had been so excited with her upcoming 18th birthday, and had decided to take her out of the home schooling program in America and bring her back home to Japan, making her finish her senior year of high school in the start of April.

'No, that's not why we're here. Be truthful with yourself.' Her conscience chided her.

Sakura really didn't want to be honest with herself, as she tried to sink further into her oversized green hoodie, and checked, to make sure, her long hair was still in a tight bun hidden in the hood. She was perfectly content with lying to herself about why her family had decided to move back to Japan, though she knew this would only last for a small time. Probably until later that night. Her parents meant well, they really did…but still.

Glancing at the clock again, she noticed it had been another 5 minutes in her musings. She wondered how long she can get away without having a bodyguard or family member watching her. Thus far, it had been a total of 25 minutes since she parted with Yukito at his boarding gate, and she had been sitting here as arranged to be as unassuming as possible. And in these 25 minutes of liberation, she has been thoroughly bored.

Honestly, kids her age liked being alone, but to someone who has been under constant observation her entire life, she liked having her safety net, and someone to talk to. Being around older people all the time has made her weird, she chuckled to herself.

Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she looked up carefully to see a handsome tanned young man of 25, about 6'6" with messy black hair, dressed in blue jeans, a black button up shirt, and black sun glasses. He had an agitated look on his face. Sakura smiled broadly up at her brother. He was probably angry with all the females currently watching him with that look in their eyes. She kept a straight face as she stood up, her brother shouldering her heavy duffle bag, and the pair headed out to the terminal, where Toya's not so inconspicuous car was waiting.

Throwing her duffle bag and carry on into the trunk of his imported burgundy Mustang GT 500, Toya got into the driver's seat with ease. Sakura rolled her eyes, finally taking off her hat to show her face, now safe behind tinted windows. "You just had to pick me up with this? Couldn't you have just bought a new car, maybe something that doesn't scream "rich and can afford taxes, insurance, and imports, please rob us'? Why not rent an economy car, if just for a few hours?"

Toya shrugged his shoulders, and ruffled her chestnut brown hair like the annoying older brother he was. Growling at him as she tried to swat away his hand, Toya grinned teasingly. "What? You expect us to welcome you back to our old home with some dinged up car? I think not. You deserve to arrive in some sort of style, since the limo was out of question, as was an entourage of SUV's."

Sakura punched his muscled arm enough to drive her point, "What part of 'secret' entry into Japan do you not understand, nii-chan? The fact that I didn't take the family plane to land at a public airport? Or maybe when I said a simple car?"

Toya ignored her by turning up the radio with that stupid superior grin on his face. Sakura sighed to herself once again, as she had since her parents told her about the move a month ago. Facing the window, she watched as they entered the large city of Tomoeda, with its sky rises, parks, and its daunting atmosphere with what her new life would become in a matter of time.

The drive back to the mansion of the Kinomoto's took about a half hour, Toya speeding ridiculously through the streets after they left the airport. Entering the 'Nicer' part of the city, they passed a lot of upper class homes, but once it was in view, the Kinomoto's modern style home outshone them all. It wasn't that it was extravagant in the sense of a lot of decoration and expensive objects.

In fact the 2 story home was simple, but on a large plot of land the Kinomoto family had owned since before Meiji era, mass amounts of trees to hiding the grounds, if the 5 feet tall brick wall wasn't enough, with the elegant wrought iron rising 8 feet, and the gates simple with a design of high rise bamboo and leaves. You could see the house a bit in the background, rebuilt in the years since the family had left when Sakura was 7, from its traditional Japanese style, to a Victorian style.

The filled up driveway came into a roundabout with a peach tree in the center of the circular patch of grass, a bench beside it in the shade among the flowers. Getting out of the car, Sakura gazed at the house for the first time in person instead of through a picture. The paint was a soft blue, and the edge color was ivory, from its icing, to the railing, the steps, and the edgings. There were two bay windows facing the front of the home, one a part of the wraparound porch.

It was a very pretty house unlike the apartments she occasionally lived in when she was away from her parents, though she couldn't help but wish the house was still traditional, as she had loved it when she was a kid. Grabbing the carry on, as Toya refused to let her take the old green duffle bag, she went up the steps to the French double doors, which were opened by one of the maids, Etsuko, who had been working for the family for quite some time, and one of Sakura's favorites.

The 44 year old woman smiled brightly at her, welcoming her home, while another maid took the duffle bag from Toya, and Etsuko motioned for someone else to take Sakura's carry on. Walking past with a thank you and a smile, the two Kinomoto children wandered over to a large living room, with lively conversation and laughter.

It was no surprise to see her parents there, but there was also her Aunt Sonomi, who she hadn't seen in some time, and some other family friends and her parent's business partners. Upon entry into the room, everyone took notice of the two, and gave Sakura a hearty welcome of nods, hugs, or a small conversation before moving on. They had long gotten over her unladylike choice of attire, seeing as she made a name for herself because of her sport.

Walking around to find her parents in the throng of people, she saw her dad first, who stood tall and proud to show where Toya got pretty much all his genes from. Her father had dark brown hair swept to the side neatly, lean handsome face, straight nose with his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose like usual, and a kind smile, dressed in his trusty blue office shirt and khaki's. She giggled to herself seeing dirt smudges on his pants, so she knew he had gotten out of a dig just before she came.

Seeing Sakura, her father Fujitaka ditched the conversation with someone, so he could bring her into a tight bear hug. Laughing, Sakura hugged him back just as hard, having not seen him for 2 weeks. Loosening his hold but not letting go, he asked, "Was the trip good?" Sakura smiled, "It was good enough for me. It was fun, driving across country with Yukito for a week. Especially with the whole skunk incident."

Her father laughed, "I'll have to hear about it later then. Go find your mother. She has been waiting to see you!" Sakura let go of her father, and did as she was told. It didn't take her long to find her mother, who always was in a middle of a crowd. Her mother was an ex-model turned into agency and fashion company owner, or at least, that's what she was planning since she retired a year ago.

Her long dark hair was down as usual, and she was dainty and pale, but you could tell there was some strength in her by the way she held herself. She was beautiful, and didn't look like she aged at all, which could be said for her older fraternal twin sister Sonomi, who stood right next to her. Both women were dressed in summer dresses of varying colors, but they were such a pair that Sakura always had admired them.

Sneaking up behind her mother, Sakura put her hands over her mother's eyes and without even saying anything, her mother squealed out, "Sakura!" Turning around abruptly, her mother gathered her into a death hold, and on lookers smiled at the odd familiar interaction. Nadeshiko gushed over her only daughter, who at 5'10" practically towered over the 5'5" mother. Picking at Sakura's clothes, she sighed dramatically as usual,

"I wish you would wear more feminine clothes, dear. You look so much like your beautiful grandmother, and yet you like to look like such a boy." She pulled back some of Sakura bangs to show her face better, cupping her daughter's face in her hands. Sonomi saved Sakura by distracting her sister, "Nadeshiko, isn't it time to get the food, now that Sakura is here?"

Her mother's attention was drawn away, and Sakura squeezed her aunt's hand in a silent thank you. Sonomi smiled broadly at her niece, enveloping her in a light hug, and then taking her by the hand towards the dining room, where the table was set for the 20 odd people. Sitting with her family near the front, the meal was served, and the loud talking of the group was a dull buzz.

It was a simple gathering in her parent's eyes, seeing as this people were trustworthy and would not tell a soul of her arrival into Japan, but Sakura still felt paranoid of this. Yukito and herself had worked out a plan for her to stay in Japan as long as she could before media attention was on her. And even if these people were good people, to which she knew they were, that didn't mean she still wanted them to know.

But she couldn't fight her parent's decision. She just chatted with her parent's or their friends, and sat around while they all talked in the parlor room about random stories and jokes. By 10, the guests were all heading home, and Sonomi left with them, with a promise to see Sakura later on in the week.

Jet lag was a dangerous thing, and as soon as the last person left, she crashed on the couch, as she didn't know where her room was, and was too tired to care. Fujitaka found her not long after that, and with a chuckle, carried her up to her room on the second floor.

Waking up was a painful experience for her, cause it meant she couldn't fall back to sleep. It was a grave problem for her. Sakura sat up in the bed she didn't remember getting into, the heavy down cover sprawled around her. Rubbing away the crumb at the edges of her eyes, she took a better look of her new bedroom.

A muted mix of gold, amber, and brown color that was painted on the walls of her good sized room, and she had oak wood flooring, with some carpets of multi colors and textures spread throughout the room. On the walls, were her many family pictures, posters of bands, and some of her mom's most famous pictures (the band posters were hers. The pictures of her mom were her mom's futile attempt to make Sakura become a model). She had a room with a bay window and red curtains, and there was gold padding and plush pillows of dark red.

There was a simple oak desk for studying, emphasized by the desktop computer, and lamp, and her favorite comfy rolly chair to do the studying, with the desk's set of bookcases on either side. There was even a day bed with black iron framing, and a matching gold padding, and it faced her entertainment system, small plasma TV, and several game stations, with cabinets to hold her mass supply of DVDs and games.

The last piece of furniture in the room was her queen sized bed with a black canopy top, and lush red covers, pillows, and sheets. Getting up, she noticed that her duffle bag and carry on had been left alone, which she accounted to Etsuko's usual intervention. If the other maids knew what she carried in there, and what they were carrying, there was no telling what their reactions would be.

There were three wood doors in her room, and going to the one on her immediate left, she found a small bathroom much to her liking, just as minimal as possible, unlike some apartments she was at. The paint was simple cream, a black and white tiled floor, dark wood cabinet and black top counter and sink, with a moving mirror cabinet, and red towels already freshly set to the side for her use.

Deciding that it would be nice to be clean, since she hadn't showered since the plane ride from New York City, she went about her morning business. Taking a shower to clean her mid back length hair, and get the dirt and sweat off of her beige tan skin, she was relieved to walk out of the shower with a clean feeling.

Wrapping a towel around her usually hidden hour glass body, as well as around her hair, she went back into her room. Opening the door closest to the bathroom, she found a walk in closet, and a chest of drawers. Pulling on clean black boy shorts and sports bra and some socks, she rummaged around to find some baggy boy blue jeans and an oversized black t-shirt with the logo of the sports company Fox.

Leaving the closet to be explored at another time, she went to her carry on bag, digging out her hair brush and smoothing out the hair a bit before pulling it into a ponytail, with her chin length bangs framing her face. Satisfied, she began unloading the duffle bag before one of the maids decides to do it for her.

Unzipping, the first thing you saw was a black skateboard, with blue flames turning into red. Underneath was her equipment, pads, and helmet, and notebooks, books that she had bought while waiting for the plane, and even a small percentage of her manga collection, a couple of her baseball caps, and her laptop in its special carry case.

Normal people didn't travel around with these sorts of things, but Sakura didn't care. Putting the duffel bags contents in their respectful places, she decided to go downstairs to get some late breakfast. Walking past one of the servants, she asked if her parents were still there, only to learn they had left for the day.

Expecting that, she continued her way down the large and simple staircase and found the kitchen with a coffee brown theme, and dark wood and black counters. Etsuko was already there, with another welcoming smile, and indicated Sakura to sit at the four chaired round family table which happened to have another occupant, who was drinking a red bull along with eggs and toast, reading the paper nonchalantly. Sakura sat down next to her older brother, curious.

"What are you doing here, nii-chan?" Toya moved the paper so he could see her. "Well, you didn't think mom and dad were just gonna leave you here all by yourself, did you? Anyways, I didn't have anything planned for today, and I'm taking you out to go get school supplies and what not since you do have school tomorrow, and you've never had to go to a public school before. We need to go get supplies, and I'm not shopping for a picky kaijuu. I'm having you come with me to pick out your own things."

His teasing grin was quickly turned into a grimace as he felt pain in his foot as Sakura stomped down on it under the table. He whispered in pain, "Kaijuu…"

His little sister glared at him, "I'm not a kaijuu! Quit calling me that!!!" Etsuko chuckled as she put a plate of food in front of Sakura, "You two never seem to stop, do you?" Sakura sniffed indignantly, "If Toya would just stop calling me that, there wouldn't be such a problem!" With that, she began chewing down on her food, in bliss at one of her favorite meals that she only got with Etsuko around.

It didn't take long to finish her food, and Toya somehow cleaned his plate by the time she was done, she went upstairs to get her stuff, coming back down the stairs in black converse, brown zip up hoodie, baseball cap, and her hair expertly hidden in the nape of her neck and by the hood. Toya poked fun at his little sister. "You bound your chest again? You look like you are a ripped small fry."

Sakura chose to ignore his many attempts at starting a fight as they headed out the door, Etsuko and several others chuckling at the siblings, and he continued to egg her on as they got into his car, and they headed off to one of Tomoeda's malls.

Snapping a couple times, by the time they got to the mall, and stopped in the parking garage, Toya had quite a few sore spots on his arm and ribs. For a girl, his little sister packed a punch. Then again, she needed to be fit, with her job.

The two would seem like an odd pair, with a tall model-like man, and then a covered up slightly shorter person that could only be described as unisex, and the two walked beside each other like it was nothing. Toya steered straight to a store of random supplies, and he bought her picked out supplies.

He decided to go to a photography store, and Sakura went to sit in a book store, finding a good manga to pass the time with. She put up her hood, and put on her earphones so she didn't have to listen to the stores horrible attempt at music. But as she was reading, she heard some very loud laughter near the front of the store, and she looked up to see a large group of teens her age all dressed up as skaters, and as she got a better view of them, she could tell they were real skaters and not posing as a bunch of them, as their shoes were worn with use and there was smudges on their clothes.

All six of the guys were pretty good looking, but she noticed the 7th person was actually a tomboy, but couldn't get a good look at the girl with her back turned. Finding herself curious, Sakura tried to catch a glance at her without being obvious. She only got a glimpse of her profile, but this girl seemed oddly familiar.

'Weird.' Sakura shook it off, returning to her book. But her eyes wandered back to this group of obviously tight friends, and couldn't help but feel a bit jealous. She had been living in the US for 10 years, going to home school in between training, competitions, and what not. She had no room in her schedule for friends back then, just fellow sportsmen and trainers. So, seeing a group of people her age with so little worries, who just got to enjoy what they did without the same pressures as her…was a bit saddening.

Suddenly, she got a vibration from her cell phone, and picking it up before it began to ring, she answered, "Moshi moshi?"

"Hey, I'm done at the store. Let's go grab some lunch before heading home." Toya spoke without announcing himself. Sakura rolled her eyes,

"Alright, I'm at the book store nearest it. Just wait outside, 'cause I need to buy a couple books." Toya teased,

"More of your mangas?" Sakura scowled, though he couldn't see, "Yeah, so what of it?" Toya replied, "Nothing. See you in a few then."

Sakura stood up from her comfortable seat, and gathered her selection of books, both manga and some fictions she found interesting, and went to the front where the cash register was. But as she did so, she was passing the group of skaters, and finally caught sight of the girl. And was struck once again with the odd sense of familiarity of her features.

Trying to shake it off, she bought the items with little problem, the cashier didn't even register the name on the credit card, which she guessed he wasn't into sports or into the history of Japan, for that matter. She put the card away into her pocket, and took her many shopping bags of school supplies and books, and turned her head for just one last look at the raven haired girl to see if she could guess why she was so familiar.

But it turned out that the girl was looking at her too, because at that moment, emerald eyes met with grayish purple ones. Smiling friendly like usual, Sakura continued on her way out of the store, where Toya was waiting right outside the doorway. But Sakura didn't see the other girl's reaction to the brief time in which they acknowledged one another.

Lunch was simple, grabbing a burger from Duklyon, one of the more famous restaurant's in Japan, and Toya showed her around town, even showing her where his studio was. "Technically I'm still living at home, but I'll be staying there a lot for my work, especially if I have a heavy schedule. But that shouldn't be for another few days, minus an odd job here or there."

As much as she liked to hide it, he knew this pleased his little sister. She didn't get to be with the family for nearly two weeks, which though normal, she didn't get to have quality time with them as much anymore. None of them did, what with everyone busy doing their own things. So, he had cleared his schedule as much as possible so he could spend some time with her.

By the time they got home, it was 2 in the afternoon, and Sakura just went to her room to set aside her new school supplies. Toya was close behind, deciding to lounge on her day bed and bug her.

"So, what was the whole skunk incident?" Sakura snorted, lowering the volume on the TV. "Simple. We were driving through Kentucky to head up to New York, and it was pretty late, so I was letting Yukito drive." Toya threw up his hands, an incredulous look on his face,

"Wait. Stop right there…You let Yue drive? Our Yue? You of all people know how much of a bad idea that is!" Sakura sighed, and shrugged her shoulders.

"Well, it's too late to go back and stop this, now isn't it? Again, I was dead tired, and the caffeine wasn't doing its job, so I told him to let me have 5 hours of sleep. It was just to drive on the interstate highway. I thought he could handle this. He managed fine the first three hours just fine. But he hit a 'bump'. And you know Yukito. He was worried about the poor animal. So, he stops the car, and goes out to check it. Turns out it was just a just a small log. But, inside the log, was a skunk. Let your imagination take over from there."

Toya was biting his lip to stop from bursting out laughing. Sakura added for effect, "And the smell…" Toya just let himself laugh from there, unable to stop himself. Sakura joined in a little, but the two calmed down. Toya wiped his eyes, holding his side as he asked,

"So, he's gotten a little better since we were younger. Geez, I remember when he could barely last 5 minutes behind a wheel before something happened. Dad was horrified to take him out driving." Sakura smiled, but said nothing as she watched the news on the TV. Toya left a little after that, getting a call from one of his clients.

And as soon as he left, that girl at the mall came back to mind to drive Sakura crazy. Why was she so familiar?

A loud, constant beeping echoed through the mansion, waking any possible person that would be stupid to sleep in that late in the morning. Then, with an even louder smash, it became quiet in a matter of seconds besides the slight rustling of cloth that could be distinctly heard if you tried.

"Sakura! No Kaijuu! Get up NOW!"

Toya went pounding up the stairs and the door came bursting upon, pouring light into the large gold bedroom, the curtains pulled tightly so no light could enter the room. And on the queen sized bed had a lump protruding from its surface in the middle, which moved slightly and muffled mumbles of annoyance came from underneath. Toya just walked to the side that was closest to the lump and cupped his hands to his mouth, and gave a moan not unlike a distressed ghost.

Suddenly a squeak came from the lump, and the covers were torn off to show his adorable little sister with frazzled hair and a pair of burning emerald eyes that looked to him as if he had a death wish. Toya smiled annoyingly and taunted,

"You're up yet Kaijuu?"

Sakura just glared at him for a full minute before yelling,

"I AM NOT A KAIJUU!!!!" And with her righteous fury, threw several of her pillows at him, and sadly for Toya, he was not fast enough to get past the rapid fire of objects, as she managed to nail him right in the nose, and another hit like a boulder in his stomach. Jumping out of bed, Sakura went over to his prone form on her floor, and proceeded to kick him out of her room, slamming the door shut behind him.

Calming down, she looked to her computer's screen saver to see the time, and realized she was running a bit late. Running to the walk in closet, she started grabbing whatever was clean. A pair of baggy blue jeans with 4 silver chains attached at the hip, a large DBZ navy shirt, and in a practiced move, brushed her hair with her fingers and swept it into a loose bun while she pulled on a blue hoodie with black Chinese dragons. Grabbing a black baseball cap, and her pair of dubbed 'white and nerdy' rectangle black framed glasses, she checked the mirror.

Not one to really care all that much, she slung her shoulder backpack over her head, and made sure her iPod was in her pocket, she took her skateboard and dashed downstairs to the kitchen.

There was already a plate of eggs, bacon, and a cinnamon bun waiting for her, along with her brother sneering at her while eating his cereal. But Sakura just smirked, as she could see that his nose was still a bit red from the pillow. Inhaling her food, she thanked Etsuko, kissed her brother on the nose, and ran to the front door to put on her sneakers. Toya called out from the kitchen,

"Sakura? Are you skating to school? I was going to give you a ride there."

She put her other shoe on quickly, knowing Toya was probably going to try and tag along, stopping any boy from getting within 10 feet of her with their 'dirty horny toad thoughts'. She grinned and answered as she opened the door,

"Yep! See you later!!!"

The door slammed before he could say anything else. Turning in his seat to look out the window, he saw as she skated down the driveway, exiting the gate, and he could barely see the top of her head past the trees and wall. He sighed a little, but he felt a soft pat on his shoulder. Looking up, he saw the plump and pretty Etsuko with a fond and sweet smile. The older woman had a laugh in her voice,

"She's a big girl, Toya-kun. She can take on the real world." Toya grumbled, "But she's never been to public school." Etsuko shook her head, grabbing Sakura's plate and glass, "Well, let her experience it. She only gets to be a student for one year."

Sakura was enjoying the breeze as she skated down the streets toward the school, it lifted her mood up, with her iPod blaring music, and passing some market vendors opening up in the downtown area.

It was quite a ride to get to her school, being pretty far out of the uptown district, but she hadn't wanted to go to the prissy school with those uniforms, and chose the liberal public school. It actually had high ratings, with a wide range of students, and emphasis on academics and athletics. Maybe that was why her parents and Aunt Sonomi basically advertised the school…

It was a while before the school was in view, and as she skated up to it, she noticed it was extremely modern, 3 stories, and had quite a bit of land and facilities to it for the athletic teams, and she saw some of them were already filled; girls' soccer, lacrosse, tennis, and the swim team was going.

As she drew nearer, she noticed there was a large parking lot, and in the lot, was a large group of skaters, about 20 or so. But as she stopped to get a good look at them, she noticed 7 people specifically. One in particular, the raven haired tomboy from yesterday, who was currently jumping over a bench.

'That's a bit freaky.' Sakura thought, lowering her hood but keeping on her cap. She was in a gray area, trying to decide if she could ask to join them, or just do her own thing, or even just sit off to the side and observe. But the choice was made for her, as the said raven haired girl skated over to her, in khaki cargo pants, black hoodie, and wearing a white baseball cap and glasses. Again, that wave of familiarity crept up, and Sakura could swear she knew this girl.

Stopping in front of Sakura, the girl grinned,

"New here, aren't you?"

Sakura nodded, smiling back at this friendly girl, "I stick out that much, huh?" The other girl laughed, nodding her head,

"Yeah, pretty much. There aren't that many girl skaters around here, so it's easy to tell who's new. Especially when I saw you at the mall yesterday. I'm Tomoyo, by the way, Daidouji Tomoyo. But my friends like to call me Madison, or Maddy for short. What's your name?"

Sakura nearly blanked out. It was impossible…but then again, she looked familiar, it wouldn't be that far out. Seeing Tomoyo's extended hand, she shook it and her smile brightened.

"I'm Sakura. I just moved here from the US after living there for a couple years." Tomoyo blinked, "Serious? You don't sound like it at all. Anyways, want to join us? Could always use more girls." Tomoyo said the last part while wiggling her eyebrows and motioning at the guys. Sakura nodded, getting a good laugh,

"That'd be awesome." The two skated over to a couple guys waiting by a car, and Tomoyo motioned for Sakura to put her backpack by the others. Sakura didn't know what to say or do, as she and Tomoyo waited for the lot to clear up a bit before going out there for their own tricks. Tomoyo asked,

"So, Sakura, would you mind if I called you Ying Fa?" Said person glanced at the raven haired girl, "I have no problem with it…why that though?" Tomoyo shrugged, "Seems to fit. Besides, all of us have nicknames." Neither said anything more on the subject, as they joined the others in skating on the lot, and doing simple tricks here and there.

But, it was starting to become boring for Sakura, so she upped the ante. Jumping up onto the rail of the handicap ramp, she slid down in a complete spin, and rushed forward to jump on a bench, grinding, dropping, and jumping again to slide on the bench, leaping over the large pot of plants next to it, grabbing the board for a bit before landing. Her onlookers were pretty impressed with her stunts, but then she blew them away with a few power slides, and then flying in a spin over the principal's SUV with assist from a ramp, and landing perfectly, skating over to the group and stopping, flipping the board into her hand with a flick of her foot.

She smiled at them as if she had done nothing extraordinary. Tomoyo was the first to recover, excited to be next to such a skater. "How the-"

And then she took a real good look at the girl she named Ying Fa, and did a double take. Whipping out her phone, she checked one of the pictures, and looked back at the girl in front of her, some of the guys giving her the title of 'Empress Ying Fa of the parking lot', complimenting and asking about the moves, and brunette just smiled cheerfully, and shrugged it off.

Finding the picture, Tomoyo about had a heart attack. In front of her, was someone who looked like her idol. The 5 time 1st place winner of International Youth X-games, runner up for 1st place of U.S. National Street Expo, and USA extreme sport team champion in skate boarding, Kinomoto Sakura.

A loud thud brought everyone's attention to Tomoyo, who had fainted on the pavement with an odd look on her face.

Author Commentary:

To all new readers, this story is a redo of the unfinished version of a story under the same name, by myself. I hope you enjoy it.

To any possible old readers who still read my lazy bum writings, I know some of you are disappointed that I've changed things up, and quite a few of you have even emailed me to express complaints about changing things around, or that you liked the old story.

Please let me explain the reasons, as I have in the Attention notice, as to why I am doing this.

1) Horrible grammar and misspelling. Word spell checker is in fact a horrible thing, and I should never have trusted it back then.

2) As many have told me over and over in reviews and emails, the story is confusing. And I agree whole heartedly, because I read and reread the chapters, and I wanted to slap myself with my lacking writing skills (not saying that it's the best now, as I still confuse some readers, but it's gotten a LOT better compared to 6 year ago) as well as these misleading plot lines and random things in the story that could have really been left out.

3) The plot and story line wasn't cutting it for me. It just seemed to have dried out, and I honestly want my readers to enjoy a story, not get bored to death (though, I think I've gotten more boring in chapters, dragging things out more. Dunno, we'll see as it goes on).

4) Also, huge plot holes. MASSIVE. I kid you not.

5) I've had many reviews, one specifically from coworly (used to be a different name), and several flame emails, telling me it was to mary-sue, and not in the slightest realistic. Back when I began writing this, I was a kid, and I just wanted to dream big. I didn't care about the realms of real and fake. But I've grown up since then, and I will say this, I still dream big, but I've tried to make it a little more realistic, without destroying the initial way it was.

6) There was great lack of character development. Especially with the families.

Anyways, I understand if some of you don't want to read this new version, as it is in a way, shanking the other one in the back. And I will admit, that it will be different, because I've begun to learn how to separate characters a bit more. So, I will still try to keep Sakura and Tomoyo kind of the same, but you will see a big difference, I think.

The essence of the original will hopefully still be there.

But I also want to say thanks specifically to some people, because they stuck quite a while, and they in their small way, inspired me to get better.

Moon_Glade, Wolf_Jade, Frosted BlossemZ, BlueMeteorGirl, ccslover4life, Yolie-chan, VcChick, and so many others. All of you are amazing, and I can't help but say Thank you. Especially to coworly, because you made me think about what I was doing. And also, thank you to Atsuko Tenshi, for being my beta, as well as a translator into Portuguese.

Alright, I'm done for now. Read it, Review it, Love it, Later.

Wolf