Hello-lo-lo!--- (in the words of kero ) My name is Drea and this is my first fanfic. I hope you enjoy it! Flames or Compliments or Advice will be heard at DreaDreamy@aol.com. You can also IM me on AOL. Okay? Okay. So here goes. I hope you enjoy! (p.s. in the first part it may not seem like Syaoran is gonna be in this, but he is! OH my gosh he is!)

BACKGROUND INFO:
Sakura is 18. She is gonna go to Hong Kong for College. Okay!

Now. You and I both know I do not own Cardcaptors. (sigh) This, unfortunately, is a stupid story some stupid little girl wrote. Well, now that I'm nice and depressed lets start.

I've Found You
By DreaDreamer

Sakura Kinomoto loved her family. And that's why she had to leave. She couldn't bear to hurt them anymore. Like a few weeks ago:
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Everything had been going great. Sakura had been trying to be happy for her father and brother. She was laughing, but she wasn't truly happy. And she couldn't help it, but she started to cry, to sob. Her father had stopped laughing and her brother had sighed exasperatedly and started to say mean things like: "Why she always had to ruin everything", and, "Why can't you just get over it?"

She ran up the stairs crying. Her father started yelling at Toya, Toya yelled back. Toya left, angrily slamming the front door. Her father had stared at the door. Then sighed and turned back to his room, closing the door quietly.

Sakura was on top of the stairs, her head against the banister, tears silently sliding down her cheek...
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SNAP

She closed her last suitcase and took it downstairs.

She went up one last time to look at her room. Her room for all of her childhood. She sighed and closed the door.
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Downstairs, Tomoyo was talking quietly to Fuji-taka.

They looked up when she walked in. Both smiled at her. She smiled back.

"Are you sure you don't want me to drive you?",asked Fuji-taka.

"Dad, it's gonna be hard enough saying goodbye now. It'd be even harder if you came.", Sakura replied.

"(sigh) Very well.", he said standing up to hug his daughter.

"I love you Daddy", she whispered.

"I love you too. Are you sure you need to leave?", he asked.

She dislodged herself from his arms and looked him in the eyes.
"Dad, this is something I need to do. I love you, but I think I need a change of scenery. It'd be better for both of us. Now, I love you, and tell Toya I said goodbye. Yuki too." She smiled at him.

He smiled back. "okay."

Toya had moved in with Yuki three years ago. They were roommates and went to the same college.

Sakura got into Tomoyo's car, and blew kisses and waved until she could no longer see her father in sight.

Turning back around she realized Tomoyo hadn't said anything the whole time. Tomoyo was just staring at the road, driving.

"Tomoyo?", Sakura asked tentatively.

"Oh Sakura!", Tomoyo wailed letting go of the steering wheel and wrapping her arms around Sakura's neck.

"TOMOYO!", Sakura yelled grabbing onto the wheel while a car beeped at them.

"I'm sorry Sakura", Tomoyo said gaining control, over herself and the car. "It's just I'm gonna miss you so much!"

"Tomoyo. Don't worry. I'm going to be just fine. The school, I heard, is great. One of the best."

"Oh, I just feel like I should be going with you! You're going to be all alone in that big city, and in that big school!"

"Tomoyo! You've been admitted into one of the best schools of fashion design in Japan! How could you think like that? Besides, I'm not going to be alone. I'm going to be with-", Sakura stopped to dig in her pocket for a piece of paper. "Ranzaki Lau", Sakura said in a mocking voice, "He enjoys baseball and physics. Two things I find impossibly boring." Sakura looked up smiling.

Tomoyo smiled at her. "Are you absolutely positive this is the right thing? I mean I'm sure a change of scenery is good, but...to Hong Kong?"

Sakura stopped smiling and looked out the window. "It's a great school." Was all she said.
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At the airport, Sakura had a little party waiting for her. Chiharu, Yamizaki, Rika, and the other friends she had acquired were all there bearing little goodbye gifts.
After what had happened to his master six years ago, Kero could no longer stand to see Sakura always so sorrowful. He had moved to Tomoyo's drawer, but he would visit often daily. Sakura was hurt when Tomoyo said he couldn't be there for he wouldn't be able to keep his teddy bear shape for long without jumping on Sakura. But she just nodded her head, understanding.

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After many tears, and a lot of hugs, Sakura boarded the plane and looked at all of her gifts. Slippers, a robe, comic books. She smiled picking up one of the comic books.

'From Yamizaki, no doubt.', thought Sakura.

The stewardesses had started to go around, passing out breakfast. Sakura cleared her little area and waited when all of a sudden she heard something bump above her head. She looked up, and stared at the ceiling.

Bump. Bump bumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbumpbump

'What the hell?', Sakura thought taking off her seat belt, ignoring the blinking sign telling her not to.
People were starting to stare at her in the aisles whispering, and pointing. She looked up at them and glared.

She opened the compartment with her bags in it and saw a little ball of yellow bouncing around the compartment.

"Eep!", Sakura screamed as she closed the door quickly, seeing the something was flying at her head. She felt it bang against the door and heard a muffled noise that sounded a lot like, "ow". She looked around her. Everything had gone silent, and everyone on the whole plane was staring at her. Sakura laughed nervously.
"The present I got for my nephew is malfunctioning.", she laughed.

Silence. "Oohhh!", the crowd of people said together.

As the noise of the plane came back, Sakura turned back to the compartment and took in a breath. She opened it to see a dazed stuffed animal rubbing its head.

Sakura grabbed it and brought it down hurriedly to her seat.

"Kero! What are you doing you little imbecile?", Sakura whispered furiously to the stuffed animal look-alike.

"Ow. Well, I'll tell you if you let go of me! Okay?", Kero said gasping for air.

"Oh. Sorry.", Sakura let go of him and he fell in her lap gasping.

"Right. Well it's nice to see you. eh heh heh!"

"Kero! Why are you here?"

"Well, first of all, this wasn't all my idea. Tomoyo made me. And it also helped that I too wanted to come with you and see the sights in Honk Kong. Second of all, Tomoyo and I decided I should come because we would be out of our minds with worry if you didn't let one of us come! And since you wouldn't have let me come had I asked you, I had to sneak on! So you see this is all your fault, if you think about it."

"MY FAULT?", Sakura screamed wrapping her hands around the little beasts head.

Kero had suddenly gone lifeless in her hands. She looked over and saw, once again, herself being stared at by the people of the plane. Sakura sighed. 'This is going to be a long trip.', she thought.

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Sakura looked down the hall of the apartment complex. After a long trip, she was happy to be on solid ground again. Kero was asleep in her backpack. After eating all her food, she wasn't surprised. She hadn't really cared, considering she wasn't hungry, and the 'waffles' looked like floppy pieces of cardboard.
She started to walk down the neat and clean hall. The doors were white with silver numbers. The wallpaper was light blue. It was very pretty.

Sakura walked down the hall reading off the numbers till her eyes came to settle on 320. All the way in the back of the hall.

Sakura took a deep breath and held it, and raised her hand to knock.

She choked on the breath she had been holding as someone suddenly opened the door.
Sakura coughed and gasped, bending down.

"Um...are you okay?", someone asked.

"fine.", Sakura said finally getting some breath back in her lungs. "I'm fine. Sorry."

Sakura stood up to only need to bend down again. But she stayed straight and stared at the face in front of her with very wide eyes. The face stared back , a glare was in his eyes. Brown eyes.

"A-are you, um, Ra-,"Sakura stuttered, looking hurriedly for the paper in her pocket.

"Ranzaki Lau?", the guy finished for her. Sakura nodded her head. She couldn't talk again. She just stared at the person.

"Y-yes. Sorry, are you him?", She asked.

"No. Come in.", he said turning away from her and going into the apartment.

"Um. Am I in the right place?", She didn't like the way this person made her feel. She had grown a good strong cover for herself. She never let anyone make her feel so clumsy, or awkward as this guy made her feel.

"Yes. Ran didn't pass the entrance exam", the guy was stirring something in a cup while talking to her, "The people up at the school passed out the housing assignments before students actually took the test, so a lot of changes are being made. Have you already took the test?" He raised his eyes to look at her. "Are you going to come in?"

"Uh, y-yes", Sakura realized she was still standing in the hallway. She blushed and came in closing the door. "Yes to both. I took it in Ja-" Sakura stopped abruptly. The guy was staring at her, still glaring but not as much. He looked more like he was surprised. His eyes looked like they were searching her for something. Sakura suddenly felt very awkward, and uncomfortable.

"I-is something wrong?", Sakura asked a puzzled look on her face. The guy stared at her still. Sakura blushed again under his gaze.

His eyes widened and he asked, "What's your name?"

"What? Oh Sa-sa-sa-", Sakura couldn't seem to get the words out. She looked down. 'My name, my name? What's my name come on!' She thought furiously to herself.

"Sakura Kinomoto..."

"Yes! Yes.", Sakura laughed, "That's my name."

He was reading off a paper on the refrigerator. His head snapped back to her. He stared at her again.
'Man is this guy rude or what?', Sakura thought staring back at him. She tried not to fidget as he stared at her, so she decided to look at the guy's features. Brown hair, brown eyes, he was wearing a gray sweatshirt, and blue jeans. He was standing behind a little breakfast bar in the kitchen. She came back to look at his face. His eyes were very piercing with dark eyebrows. His hair was so messy. But it looked nice on him. It reminded her of...

Sakura took in a breath and shifted uneasily under his gaze. She felt herself getting back some of her power back, and she cleared her throat.

"What's your name?", she asked.

He stared for a moment longer.

"Syaoran Li."

Drea's Notes:

(Well, well, well! Oh my goodness! What has happened to Sakura that made her so sad? Is it really Syaoran? If it is why don't they recognize each other? All these questions and more will be revealed on the next chapter! Hope you enjoyed the first one, now that all the introductions and boring stuff is done, we can get to the real good stuff! Okay, until next chapter! (I hope to have the next chapter up soon and since we have a week off it probably will))
*DreaDreamer