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Cold Heart
Summary: Sakura the o' so unmistakable cheerful girl begins to work in the Li Mansion, things seem to be going well, that is until she gets assigned the East Wing. Syaoran is cold grouchy and just plain rude, who wouldn't be considering he has had a strange illness since he was 7, but all that is going to change much to his dislike when a certain high spirited emerald eyed girl happens to come his way. Set during the 1900's (Just Add a Little to The Whole mystery of the Mansion and the attire)
Chapter 1: Default Chapter
"Where is my mother!?" A young boy no older than 7 asked. He had a pair of amazing amber eyes, and chestnut hair that hanged messily in his face.
"Now young master we have gone over this many times already your mother is a very important person and she can't stay home and treat her ill son forever" said a lady. She had black hair that was tightly pulled back in a bun, she had very pale skin, she was slender and tall, she wore a very old fashion pale blue colored dress.
"Sick? ..."Syaoranquestioned "I'm NOT sick… I feel fine!" he exclaimed, and he did there was nothing physically wrong with him as far as he knew.
"Oh little one" the lady began, but not in kind tone as onewould expect when referring to someone as 'little one' "But you are I myself have come from faraway just to treat you" she finished by placing her long boney hand over his head.
"B-But I'm not …" before he could even finish he had grown incredibly tired and had lost his will to stand on his own.
"But You Are You Are" the lady kept repeating over and over
--9 Years Later In A Poor Looking House--
"Ohayou!" a green eyed girl greeted as she entered the kitchen to find an older looking man making breakfast.
"Ohayou" the man responded in his usual calm tone
"Oniisan are you going to come with me today?" Sakura asked
"Iie, I have work in town with Yuki" he looked at her a bit and noticed her uneasiness "But if there's anything you find to be wrong in that house I want you to forget about the job and just come back home, ok?"
"Hoe?... Hai!" Sakura said 'Oniisan even though he acts mean I know he cares deeply, ever since dad went with Okasan he has taken care of me …er even more I mean' Toya looks at her awkwardly since she had been staring at him with sparkly eyes "oh nothing I –I just ..Jaja nothing" she laughs nervously
"Weird kaiju" he merely snorts out
"Ahhhh Onii-chan!!" Sakura responds by stepping in his shoe, and so their every day bickering began.
--In the Li Mansion--
"You will clean the house spotless and I mean SPOTLESS! I will give you your rooms each day and I expect you to be done with them by the end of the day and report to me… understood" a lady instructed Sakura along with a few others.
"H-Hai" Sakura responded rather afraid of the strict women, with that the lady left and soon after every one else but two girl, Sakura and a purple haired girl. Sakura held on to the paper and tried to figure out which rooms she had gotten on the map (A/N Yes The Mansion Is That Big) "Er … Its impossible" she sighs.
The other girl came close and took the piece of paper from Sakura "Here …. You got the kitchen, dining room and the storage room" she smiles at her.
"Arigato" Sakura responded a bit embarrassed
"Don't mention is Sakura-chan" Tomoyo responded
"I don't know what I'd do without you, and thanks again for getting me this job" Sakura said fixing her dress which was one of those old brown maid ones with the apron in the front, no doubt one of Tomoyo's designs "But I'm still a bit nervous, HEY! I have an idea why don't we work on our rooms together that way we'll be done much quicker… plus this place looks kind of creepy"
Tomoyo giggles "You don't know the half of it" and so he two girls went off to finish their chores.
--A Few Days Later--
"Tomoyo-chan" Sakura called
"You sure cut it close Sakura-chan"
"Hoe! I know I just have trouble waking up" Sakura explained
"Well that's ok let me see what you got today" Tomoyo graved her paper and looked a bit uneasy "you got the … the east wing"
"Ok got it!" she looks at her friend "What's the matter Tomoyo-chan is there something wrong"
"Well it's just that" she stops and thinks a bit "that place its … its er creepy"
"Creepy?" Sakura goes blue with fright "HOE! Y-You Mean...Li-Like a-a g-g--gh" she stutters on
"Ghost?" Tomoyo helps her out
"Hoe!!" Sakura graves on to her mumbling something about wanting to live "We can't go Tomoyo-chan!"
Tomoyo giggles "Sakura-chan there is no such thing as ghost or at least not in here so please don't worry and go right on ahead before they fire you and we never get to see each other again" she said with those calm eyes of hers
"oh alright but-.. hoe? You're not coming with me today?" Sakura asked
Tomoyo sighs "oh I'm afraid not I have been assigned to bake today, you see they found my cakes to be quite good" she smiles "I'll save you a piece if you'd like" Sakura nodes "Very well then I suggest we get to work Ja ne Sakura-chan I'll see you during lunch"
"H-Hai" Sakura watches her friend leave 'But I still don't want to go'
--East Wing--
Sakura finally arrives to the East Wing of the mansion, it was isolated from the rest of the house and now she knew why, it was a dark, cold, and lonely place
"Hoe how do I get myself into places like this" she stops in front of a door "I guess I'll start here" she carefully opens the door and inside was far worse than the rest of that place "It's so dark" she begins to clean until she reaches a book shelf "Amazing look at all this books" she instinctively graves one and opens it, but not long passes before someone graves her wrist and swings her around, she screams and finds herself face to face with a boy "W-Who are you? Y-Your N-not a-a-a… GHOST are you? " she manages to get out.
"I'm Li Syaoran! But the better question is who are You!?" the boy releases her and pierces her down with his amber eyes if she wasn't so terrified she would notice the beauty in his eyes but then again that's a big 'if'.
"Li?... Gomen!" she apologizes knowing who he was now "My name is Kinomoto, Kinomoto Sakura"
Syaoran grumbles something "Oh I don't care what I meant to say was what are you doing in MY room or better yet what are you doing in MY house at all?" he questions her with his cold arrogant tone.
Speechless she holds up her duster and look down "Um – Akane-san hired me to clean for the summer and-" she stops when she see Syaoran begin to hold his head "Are you ok?"
Syaoran steps back holding his head hoping to ease the pain that was slowly taking over his body, he reaches the couch, Sakuraruns over and tries to help "DON"T! Don't touch me! Don't you dare touch me with your filthy hands! Just leave me alone, leave, leave like everyone else!" he screamed at Sakura
expecting her to turn tail and run, but when he looks up he sees her still standing there with something in her eyes an emotion that no one had ever looked upon him with.
"Gomennasai" she wipes her hands in her apron looks up at him and smiles "I guess that my hands do get a little dirty from all the cleaning, I'll be around this wing if you need anything please don't hesitate to ask" Sakura exits the room.
Syaoran is left speechless, he hadn't even noticed the pain had stopped something about that girl was different 'What's her problem I yelled at her and she still wanted to help… baka! She'll soon learn her lesson and leave like the rest'
As soon as Sakura left the room the tears she had been holding back began to pour 'This is horrible Li-kun he's so sad living in a place like this' she look at the depressing surroundings 'I wounded if his heart is lonely and cold like this I have to do something but… what can I do'
--During Lunch Out In the Garden--
"Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo waved at her friend and gestured her to come sit by her, Sakura runs to her and takes out her lunch "So Sakura-chan how was it? Your ok right?"
"Hai… but" she stops and remembers his cold eyes staring at her motioning her to leave 'Just leave me alone, leave, leave like everyone else!' Sakura remembers his words and they echo in her mind "I met Li Syaoran" her eyes begin to glisten
"Sakura-chan…" Tomoyo knew how cold Syaoran could be.
"He is such an unhappy person Tomoyo-chan I saw it I his eyes they hold so much pain I –I just want to take it all away" she sobbed
"He is unhappy, his mother is never here so Akane-san takes care of him, ever since he was 7 he has had some kind of illness that no one can explain but… but you know something when I arrived 6 years ago we would see him more often he refused to believe he was sick and I think there is some truth to it, but then Akane-san would settle him down and little by little we all saw less of him until it got to the point where one rarely sees him at all."
"How terrible and his father died when he was but a baby right?" Tomoyonodded "I can't imagine someone living in such agony, but aside from that he needs to see the goodness in people and everything around him"
"His heart became dark and now he is himself a lonely and sad person be careful with him Sakura-chan" Tomoyo warned her friend for her own good Syaoran's words could sting
"I don't know Tomoyo-chan I think that all he needs is some kindness and if no one around here will give it then I'll just have to" Sakura said
'Sakura-chan … she is so kindhearted, I know she'll melt through Li-san's cold heart.' Tomoyo though as she saw her friend begin to act cheerful like grown use to see her.
Tomoyo had been separated from her mother when she was 10, she never saw her mother again and the Li's (or rather Akane) took her in, in exchange for her work. Not long after Tomoyo met Sakura and believed it to be fate and a blessing for them to meet.
Sakura's mother like in the series had died when she was young, her father had only resently died 2 years ago, but according to Toya both him and their mother looked very happy together. Though they sometimes worry about their children and their economic problems, but Toya takes care of it mostly with Sakura helping in any way she can.
AN – Sorry I'm lazy and I don't want to write in detail about their past but I do want you guys to know how they got there I hope you're all not too disappointed.
Well anyways that's It for Chapter 1 Please Read and Review Tell me if you liked it.