Hey guys!

This is my revised version of the first story. I hope to have this one updated more quickly, but being as it is, I'm still in school. And unlike my friends, I have to study and actually work to get good grades. So I won't be doing this very much unless I'm done with my homework. Don't complain if I don't update as soon as you want. Thanks!

Disclaimer: I don't own CCS. Easy as that.

The Bells - Part One

Chapter One: The Meeting

"Sakura! I'm leaving! You better get your lazy butt out of bed this instant!" Hikaru's dead-shot voice echoed around the empty house. Sakura sat up sleepily in bed and rubbed her eyes.

She leaped out of bed and walked down the large spiral staircase. School would start in about an hour and a half. She popped some toast into the toaster and trudged back up to her room.

Sakura pulled her school uniform out of her dresser; a baby blue blouse and a pleated navy blue skirt. Her tall blue socks and shiny black shoes were situated next to her book bad next to her door. She grabbed her book bag and navy blue jacket and walked down the stairs to set them by the front door, along with her shoes.

She grabbed the toast and brushed quickly through her hair with her fingers. She put the long auburn tresses up into a messy ponytail and headed out the door. She got to the bus stop just as the dirty school transport was pulling up.

"Thank you," she said as she got on. She took a seat close to the back of the bus and got out her book. The bus made a lurch as it started up again. Usually it took about 30 minutes to get to the school. St. Amelia's Academy was one of the most expensive private schools in Japan. She looked out the window at the big bell tower that resided in the middle of the campus. It was the tallest thing around for miles in the tiny town of Tomeda.

The bus stopped and the kids piled off. Sakura slowly put away her book and rose out of her seat. She walked off the bus and headed to her locker. She felt someone's arms encircle her waist.

"Please remove your arms from me, Akito," she said in the most polite voice she could muster.

"Why can't I touch my future wife?" he said teasingly. Sakura was not in the mood.

"Because your fiancé does not want your dirty hands all over her body! Pardon me," Sakura spat back angrily as she slammed her locker closed. She pushed him out of her way and stormed off to her classroom. He was stunned for a second but soon decided to deal with her later.

Sakura walked into her homeroom class and took her seat in the back by the window. She opened her book and started to read again when she heard a commotion outside. She stood up quickly to see what was going on. She saw four kids she had never seen before. She could tell that they didn't go to this school because their clothing was not the school uniform and they were fighting with one of the other people that went to Amelia's.

She watched the four people with interest. Her eyes were drawn to two of the new figures. The sunlight played off their hair perfectly to show off their beautiful but strange highlights.

They were her age, maybe older, each with long raven-black hair. One girl had purple highlights in her hair. Her amethyst eyes watched the fight with pleasure. The other girl looked tougher. Her fiery red highlights aligned perfectly with her dark crimson eyes.

Sakura followed the line of sight of the girl with the purple eyes to a boy with midnight blue hair and matching, stunning blue eyes. He was handsome, but couldn't be more than 19. A boy from Amelia's named Hitoshi was yelling at the blue-haired boy, and he was yelling back with added comments from the on looking girls.

Finally her eyes were caught by the last strange guest. The boy's hair fell in unruly chocolate layers around his face. His dark eyes watched his friend with an unknown emotion. There was an atmosphere of mystery around him that she had never seen around anybody else before. Soon he stood up, immediately followed the girls.

"Eriol, shut your mouth before flies can come and nest in them," he commanded forcefully. Eriol obeyed automatically but Hitoshi was still going.

"You can't threaten me, Hiiragizawa!" he was calling at their retreating backs.

"Come on, Tomoyo. This guy's not worth any more time," Eriol told the girl with the purple highlights. Sakura's eyes met hers as she was turned my Eriol's strong arms. She smiled friendly and allowed herself to be led away.

The brown haired boy led them towards the gate of the school. The last girl took one last glance at Sakura and mouthed, "Meet me at the gate."

Suddenly Hitoshi launched himself at the blue haired guest, named Eriol. Eriol turned around suddenly and pushed Tomoyo out of the way before Hitoshi reached him. Punch after punch ensued on the school campus below her.

Sakura put her book into her bag, slung it over her shoulder, and hurried through the packed halls. She finally made it to the front gate, breathless. Eriol was still fighting Hitoshi and the other three had turned to watch close to the gate. She ran up to the girl that told her to come down and meet them. The girl brushed her slightly. She turned and smiled at Sakura, and then pointed to Sakura's book bag. She mouthed, "In your bag," to Sakura but to everyone else it looked like "I'm sorry." Sakura squinted at the boy named Eriol as he continued beating Hitoshi.

Finally Hitoshi broke and fell to the ground. Eriol brushed off his jacket and ran a hand along his jaw where Hitoshi had landed a punch. Then he grabbed Tomoyo's arm and they all continued their walk out the front gate.

Sakura shook her head as she walked back to her classroom. What was that? Who were they? Her fingers slipped into her book bag and she felt a little piece of paper in her palm. She stopped in the middle of the hallway, pulled it out, and read it.

Hello, my name is Meiling Li. I belong to the Li and Wolf clans along with my friends. I was watching you; you looked sad. There is a phone in your bag as well. It will ring at 5 o'clock this evening. I will talk to you more then. Meiling

Sakura folded up the paper and stuffed it back into her book bag. She felt the phone as she put the paper into one of the pockets of the bag.

She reached her classroom again and sat down. About a minute later, the professor strolled in. He took role and then began his lecture about art in the impressionistic era.

In about 30 minutes nearly half of the class was sound asleep. A few others were writing notes to each other or dozing. It almost seemed as if the teacher himself was bored. Sakura was staring dazedly out of the window. The note from Meiling still lingered largely in her mind.

The rest of the day went by fairly quickly, with no homework assignments for any classes. Sakura wasn't the most popular girl in school but she wasn't a loner either. She was kind of on the happy medium; except for that she wasn't happy. She had three really close friends for her whole life: Chiharu, Naoko, and Rika. They were all cheerleaders together. Sakura also had a fiancé, Akito Himitsu. Her step mother, Hikaru, had arranged it, and he had accepted graciously. Sakura totally objected but was never heard; Hikaru only wanted the money that would come out of the marriage. So Sakura had to deal with it; and she was good at it.

At the end of the school day, Sakura rode the bus home again. She said thank you as she got off and started to walk up her long driveway. She looked at the clock when she walked in; 4:34 pm. In another half hour she would finally get the phone call. She was nervous and excited all at the same time.

She sat down and opened her book again. The minutes slowly ticked by on the old grandfather clock. The bell started to ring. "One… Two… Three… Four… Five!" Sakura counted along with the chiming bells. Then the phone started to ring. She dug it out of her book bag and clicked the button entitled 'Talk'.

"Hello?" she said shakily. She was shivering from head to toe with anticipation.

"Hey, this is Meiling. The girl you saw today at your school. What's your name?" the girl on the other end said. She had a powerful voice full of leadership. Sakura felt some-what calmed by her.

"My name is Sakura," she answered. She heard some other voices on the other end of the live. There was some laughing and then Meiling came back on.

"Do you want to come to a party tonight?" Meiling asked.

"Yes! Anything to get out of here is fine by me!" Sakura said quickly. Meiling laughed and gave her all of the information she needed.

"So we'll be by your house in about 5 minutes, ok? Oh and don't work about clothes to wear; we'll bring some for you," Meiling instructed.

"Sure," said Sakura as they both hung up. She wrote a vague note to Hikaru and slipped into some baggy pants and a tight white tank top. She always knew that costume from the play would come in handy. She left her hair up in the ponytail and slipped the cell phone into her pocket. Then she went to wait outside after grabbing some money.

A black Porsche pulled up in front of her gate. "Come on girl!" she heard Meiling call from inside. She walked a little faster and slid into the car. Two other girls were with Meiling and one was Tomoyo.

"Hey Sakura, ready to have some fun?" the unfamiliar girl said with a large grin. She had crystal blue eyes and navy blue highlights in her layered shoulder-length brown hair. Sakura smiled back softly.

"Hey Sakura, meet Sana," Meiling said as she motioned towards the new girl while driving. "And you have already seen Tomoyo," Meiling introduced.

"Dang, Sakura, you really know what to wear; just change your shirt," Tomoyo said as she handed Sakura a dark green top. Sakura changed quickly. The shirt stopped about 3 inches above her low pant line, and it had a slash right below her neck that was outlined by little gems.

"The gems are emerald, to bring out your eyes," Meiling commented. "Well at least that's what Tomoyo said," she added with a blush. They pulled up to an abandoned department store and Meiling stopped the car. They all jumped out and they walked up to the doorway. Meiling handed Sakura a card that she would use to get inside. A burly man stood next tot the closed doorway.

"No little girls allowed," he said in a gruff voice as he pointed to the sign that said '18 and up'. The girls pulled out their cards, and he started to inspect them carefully.

"You know, we don't have all day here!" Meiling said getting annoyed. She pushed past the door guard and busted through the door. She and the others ran out into the crowd of people.

"Hold it right there!" he shouted as they made their way through the crowd. Meiling led them up the VIP ramp with the door guard following them. A couple of men guarding the ramp blocked the door guard from coming up. He put up a good fight to get up but they wouldn't let him through. Finally he went back to him post shouting curse words. Meiling laughed and led them farther into the VIP area.

Meiling led them to the very back table where 3 men were seated. "Hey Mr. Grumpy!" Meiling squealed as she tousled a man's hair. Sakura looked at him closer to see that it was the brown haired boy from that morning. Tomoyo went and sat in the man's lap that she learned to be Eriol, the blue haired boy from that morning. Sana left to go somewhere else and Meiling stood next to Sakura. "Futoji, please meet Sakura. I found her this morning," she stated firmly.

"This morning? Weren't you at St. Amelia's this morning?" he questioned. Meiling nodded. "Well then, welcome."

"Thank you sir," Sakura said shakily.

"Ok, time to meet the gang," Meiling smiled as she introduced people. "This old fart here is Futoji Li," she smiled and winked at him. "Then we have Tomoyo Daidouji and her boyfriend, Eriol Hiiragizawa. And Mr. Grumpy here is Syaoran Li," she finished up as she patted the brown haired boy on the head. Syaoran looked up at her and then back down at the table.

"Welcome Sakura," Eriol said kindly.

"Thank you, Hiiragizawa-kun," she responded politely.

"Please, call me Eriol," he smiled. Sakura smiled back as Meiling dragged her away.

"Come on girl! Let's go dance!" Meiling shouted over the music. The girls waded out onto the dance floor and started dancing. Soon guys were swarming all around and Sakura had to fight her way to stay close to Meiling.

But it was no use. The crowd of people kept puller her away until she bumped into someone on accident.

"Well what do we have here?" a seductive male voice said from above her. She turned around and looked up to see a man about four years older than her with longish white-blonde hair looking down at her. Sakura smiled sweetly and tried to turn away but he caught her arm.

"Come on," he said. "Let me buy you a drink."

"Sure, why not?" Sakura agreed as she threw all caution to the wind. He smiled and ordered two beers. He led her to a booth across the floor from Meiling and the VIP ramp.

"So what's your name, sweetheart?" he asked trying to start a conversation.

"Cherri," she answered shortly. He smiled again as she took a sip of her drink. She looked out across the dance floor and tried to spot Meiling but she kept losing focus.

"Hey, I'm going to find my friend," she said as she stood up. She felt his fingers close around her small wrist but she couldn't get away from him. She was too weak to fight.

But suddenly, his hand gripped tighter as he began to fall. Sakura lost her balance as well and was pulled down on top of him.

"What the hell was that for, bastard?" the man holding Sakura's wrist yelled as he wiped his lip where a fist had just hit him. A taller man stood above them. He had messy chocolate hair that hung in front of his eyes. Sakura recognized him instantly.

"Li-kun!" she cried, but then suddenly wished she hadn't. A gun was instantly pulled and aimed at her head by the blonde and Syaoran aimed a gun at him.

"Put down your gun and I'll let her go," the blonde bargained. Syaoran glared at him harshly and slowly started to lower his weapon.

Suddenly there was a shot and Sakura stumbled forward and then Syaoran fired his gun as well. His bullet hit the blonde square in the back as he was running away. He fell to the floor with a thud. Syaoran caught Sakura in his arms and looked at her back where she had been hit. The bastard had pushed her forward and aimed at Syaoran but she had stumbled into the line of fire.

"Syaoran! I heard a gunshot, and… Oh My God!" Meiling yelled as she saw Sakura's bloody body. "I'll go get the car, bring her out front!" she said frantically as she dashed off towards the door.

"Are you ok?" Syaoran said roughly. Sakura winced as she looked up into his face which was void of emotion.

"It hurts a little," she giggled slightly as she attempted to stand on her own. She faltered for a second and Syaoran caught her. He whisked her up into his arms effortlessly.

"The faster we get you help the faster you'll be better again," he said coolly. Meiling had already pulled up the car with Tomoyo in the front seat. Syaoran lifted Sakura into the car and sat in the back with her. She was stretched out across the seats with her head in his lap.

"Thanks, Li-kun," she said drowsily. Syaoran opened his mouth to reply but then realized that she had already closed her eyes in sleep. He put his hand on her head softly and stared out the window.

Unbeknownst to him the two girls in the front seat shared a secret smile.

When Meiling stopped the car they had arrived at what looked like a massive boarding-school. Syaoran carried her inside and down a long bright hallway and into a completely white room.

"Hey Doc! Little help here!" Syaoran said. A little man walked out in a white apron and a mask. He stood over Sakura when he saw Syaoran staring down at her.

"You're going to have to leave, Syaoran," the old doctor smiled. Syaoran broke out of his trance quickly.

"Oh, right. Sorry," Syaoran said taking one last look at Sakura. 'Get better.'