Author's Notes: This is the reposted version of "Sanguine Clouds"

Short sweet and sad story with three or four parts… this is the prologue. I already have the first part written so I won't wait long to post it. Please leave some comments when you click the review button… thanks!

Spoilers: Contains major The Sealed Card (The Enchanted Card) 2nd CCS movie spoilers and some manga/anime spoilers.

Disclaimer and claimer: I claim the plot, and that's all that I claim. Everything else belongs to great authors: Clamp.

Sanguine Clouds

Prologue

It was a cloudless day in Tomoeda, Japan. The sun shone brightly, the air was fresher than ever, it was even filled with scents of cherry blossoms blooming in the spring. It was April 19th, exactly eighteen days after a certain girl's birthday, and that young girl was already 15. She had silky brown hair, pink lips, rosy cheeks when she blushed and the most beautiful of all, her unique emerald eyes. It was a bright but sometimes a dark emerald, the color of her eyes changed with her moods. Sometimes it shone, twinkled and showed her happiness but sometime it reflected her sad mind, the emerald grew darker. This girl's name was Sakura Kimonoto, the Mistress of the Clow Cards.

Sakura has been lying on her bed for about an hour now, staring blankly at the pale yellow painted ceiling. Her eyes were wet, but no tears glided down her flushed cheeks. Once again she had been thinking about a certain boy with hazel eyes and brown hair, Syaoran Li. For three years now she didn't see him, and she never had the time to tell him anything before the Void card took his feelings. O, how she hated being the Card Mistress, it was a nice title, but a nice title came with great responsibilities, which included loosing someone's feelings. Not anyone's feelings, Syaoran Li's feelings for her, his secret crush… until he told her several years ago after transforming the Light and Dark cards.

She still remembered that day clearly, it has been clear as water in her mind…

Before that day, she never imagined what love felt like; she felt nothing but friendship towards her classmates. The only she loved were her family, especially her father and mother… as for her brother, she still loved him, just in a less opened way because he always teased Sakura. But after Syaoran's confessions, Sakura felt different for the first time, she felt a pain in her heart.

Wasn't love supposed to me feel good? she once asked herself.

That was only part true, she discovered. She knew that she felt bad from that day on because Syaoran had to leave Tomoeda and she couldn't bear it because of her newly developed feelings for him. Only him.

Then she talked to Chiharu to make sure about what she felt… she wasn't sure if it was love or not, or just the pain of a best friend leaving her. Sakura discovered that it was true love… And what Chiharu told her was true. "Love is pain, yet pain is not love," Chiharu had said. "I feel pain because Yamazaki teases around me. He talks to other girls so much that I sometime get jealous. But then I realized that feeling pain is not love. If I love him, I must feel love and happiness inside of me seeing that he is happy. I don't know about you, Sakura, but I do feel that way… everyone's love is different. You may love someone a little, or more than I love Yamazaki…."

"O, Chiharu you are right…," Sakura mumbled to herself, while sighing as she pulled her blankets over her head. "Love sure is pain, but I still have to feel happy because I have someone to love, yet it doesn't make feel better because he is still in Hong Kong. O, Syaoran… why can't you come back?"

As she quietly sobbed under her covers, she hid in her own little world and images started sliding in her mind, it was just like she watched a slideshow. Pictures of Syaoran appeared; sometimes she was in these pictures, laughing, smiling, giggling, and just being happy. Somehow the memories of the past brought a sly smile to Sakura, as she felt asleep.

Time is passing…

Sunlight shone through the heroine's window as morning announced its arrival with birds chirping. Though Sakura wasn't awake yet, she was sleeping on her stomach, her pillow was over her head, and her hair awfully messy and her cherry blossom patterned blankets were in a very bad state. Sakura had a nightmare.

Dring!

As the alarm clock ran, Sakura jumped from her bed, rubbed her red eyes and slapped the alarm clock to shut it. She yawned lazily and once again rubbed her eyes, she then stretched like a cat and ran her fingers through her hair.

Bad hair day, I better fix this, she thought as she got up and got dressed in her school uniforms.

She grabbed a brush from her drawer and stood in front of her bathroom mirror and smiled to see her white teeth. After taking a minute to fix her hair, she brushed her teeth and prepared herself for breakfast. Her hair hasn't changed much, it has grown a little past her shoulders but she realized that fixing her hair every morning would be tiring so preferred to not have long hair like her friend Tomoyo does. Her body was slim and athletic, her skin wasn't the whitest of all but very fair. Her eyes were still the same emerald but a less energetic one, she was beautiful, sweet, energetic and a very original girl, but that didn't make her the most popular girl. Yet again, she realized that she was late so she sprinted down the stairs and almost tripped.

"Beware of Miss Godzilla! Here comes the monster…" a tall black hair guy said with a mocking voice. Then he realized that his little sister wasn't replying him so he frowned and asked: "Are you OK?"

"Toya… I'm not in a good mood," Sakura replied as she suddenly giggled and stomped on his foot.

Sakura's brother, Toya, bit on his tongue and then let out an "ouch" as he continued eating his pancakes mumbling a "that monster" to himself. As Toya turned and looked at Sakura, she was gone and her plate was empty.

"See you, little pig!" he shouted to his sister.

She went outside the house and waved goodbye to her father while shouting her brother's name in anger, she unlocked her bicycle and started riding it with her hands trembling in rage. Since last year, she had decided to switch to a bicycle for transportation to school and she loved having it, except when her brother bothers her. The soft breeze was blown to her face as she stepped on the peddles of the bicycle and begun her short journey to school. She past Yukito's house quickly and waved at it even though she wasn't sure that he was even there. She thought about the past and chuckled, she couldn't believe that she used to like Yukito. But it is also true that Yukito attracted Sakura because of the creature inside of him, Yue.

As Sakura was lost in her thoughts, she didn't realize that she was already in front of the school. Someone's hand appeared in front of her face…

"Woe!"

Sakura turned her attention to the hand and started scratching her head when she realized that it was only Tomoyo's hand waving at her.

"Lost on the moon again?" Tomoyo asked.

"I guess… sorry. Let's go, school's starting soon," Sakura replied.

"True, let's go! Besides, it is September the first anyway. I hope that we'll get new students."

Sakura nodded in response and followed her best friend to their first class, art.

Author's Notes: Even though you didn't like it, I would appreciate it if you would leave some criticisms/flames. Thanks.