Hello there again. My new story. R&R and enjoy!

Title: Wish we never met

Summary: Sakura is a student at the university in Tomoeda, one of the best universities in the world. After being bullied herself, she helps the others. Only she does that on a special way. When a new bully arrives, she has to fight harder for the rest of the school. And she desperately needs the help of Li Syaoran.

Disclaimer: I wouldn't dream of owning CCS! (Well, I do dream of it, but I wouldn't in real life..)

NOTION: Because there are numerous flashbacks and things like that, and we all want to keep in mind how much time has passed, the date and place is set before the next part of the chapter. Remember that, so you don't get confused.

NOTION 2: In this story, Tomoeda is a small city, by car, 6 hours away from Tokyo. It has one of the most important Universities of the world.

Chapter One

Meet the Beginning of the Story

To torment,

Or to be tormented,

It's human nature...

It's both that we have to endure.

May 2019 – Tomoeda, Japan

The wind blew softly through the long grass, moving her light pink summer dress between her legs. Her auburn hair blew in front of her eyes, making her move her slender wrist to put it back behind her ears. A smile appeared on her face as she watched the fields in front of her. A few cows and horses occupied two of the fields, creating a wonderful sight, which reminded her of the middle ages from the movies.

Turning around, an old, small house came in view. It had only one floor, and an old, wobbly chimney rising from the roof. She sighed, looking at it, still smiling. A car drove up their entrance, riding to the little house. She waved as she started to run towards the car.

Coming closer, a man stepped out of the car, walking up to her. He had light brown hair, glasses and a friendly smile. She jumped in his arms, making him swing her around, like he always did when she was younger.

'Ohayo, Sakura-chan!' He greeted her happily, giving her a big hug. His voice was as friendly as his smile looked. It gave her a warm feeling to finally see him again.

'Ohayo, Oto-san!' She greeted him back, looking up to his face, a smile plastered on her cute face. 'How was the excursion?' She asked as she remembered he had been away for six weeks, on a excursion to the desolate grounds of Egypt, with some of his archeology students. She had to ask him during dinner how it all had been. Normal kids probably got souvenirs, if their parents went on a trip to a faraway country, but Sakura knew very well that they hadn't enough money to spent on such trivial things.

'Everything went well, thank you. Does the house please you, a bit?' He asked her, in a curious tone. You could see in his eyes that he was worried about that.

Her eyes twinkled as she looked at it. 'It's old, small, and Touya has to bend before he can walk in. I have to skate for half an hour to the nearest supermarket, if Touya has the car with him, twenty minutes for the nearest bus stop, and I'm traveling one and a half hour to go to school! Not to mention that my friends can't find it, or they are just to lazy to look for it.' She laughed softly, her emerald eyes shining with enthusiasm. 'But for the rest, I love it! The view is magnificent! Have you seen it?' She exclaimed as she turned her father around to look at it. 'That's worth all the trouble.'

This made her father smile. 'If you say so, dear.' He sighed, making his daughter slap him softly on the arm.

'I'm serious, father! It's more than worth it. All I really need now, is a vegetable garden.' She joked, as her father laughed again. They linked their arms, as they entered the house. Smiling she thought about the discussion that led them all the way here, outside of Tomoeda.

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April 2019 – Tomoeda, Japan

'Oto-san! I can pay for the house, there's no need to worry!' Touya exclaimed, trying to convince his father.

Their father, Fujitaka, had just pronounced that they had to leave for a smaller house, because he couldn't afford this one anymore, with Sakura going to university and he himself getting a job in a different school in Tokyo to teach.

'No son, I can't let you pay for this.' Seeing the anger in his sons eyes, he hurried in saying: 'If you really want to help in paying, then pay for Sakura's school if needed. But not for the house. That's my very first responsibility. Besides, you have worked to hard for your money. I know you want to go away for a year, you should save it for that journey.' He explained, getting a look from Touya that showed his mixed feelings about this.

'But...' Touya muttered. 'A smaller house? This one isn't even that big!'

'I don't mind.' Sakura came in between. 'Getting a new house I mean. And don't worry about my school money, I earn something myself, so I can pay at least half of it. And don't forget that I have scholarship as well.' She laughed a bit when the two man looked at her, sweat drops appearing on their foreheads.

Sakura and money wasn't the best combination in the world, because she could hardly comprehend all the costs of living in two houses, working and having two kids without a mother around. Things like insurance, the car, university, mortgage, taxes and other financial 'stuff', that was to much to ask of her.

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May 2019 – Tomoeda, Japan

Inside the house she looked at her father, Kinomoto Fujitaka, a great teacher in archaeology, bending his head to get through the front door. She held back a giggle as she turned towards the kitchen door, so she could start with dinner.

The phone rang, and she heard her father answering it. 'Sakura-chan, it's for you.' He said as he came in the kitchen, giving her the wireless phone. The modern phone really looked out of place in this old house.

'Hello, Sakura here.' She said, as she held the phone with her shoulder, while she continued with chopping vegetables. 'Oh, hi Tomoyo! How are you doing?' She exclaimed happily, hearing her long time friend, whom she hadn't spoken to in ages. 'Good, all fine here too... Yeah, we moved... Haha, it's small but cozy... Yeah, I know... They won't come here! Please tell Eriol that he mustn't whine so much! He has a car, he can drive everyone here in no time... Haha... So how is life on the other side of the world?' She asked as she finished the vegetables and moved over to the rice cooker. Tomoyo told her story and Sakura listened intently, not wanting to miss a word about her precious friends adventures. She laughed now and then, while she gave Touya a glare, who had just arrived and greeted her with his regularly 'Hey, kaijuu...'

A while later, when Touya got impatient, and dinner was ready, she ended the conversation. 'Oh, Tomoyo! I really have to go now! Dinner is ready, and my mean brother is glaring at me for his food... Sure, I'll do that, you to... okay, ja ne!' She pressed the button on the phone as she sat at the table.

'Tomoyo said hi.' She told her father while she stomped her brothers foot, getting another glare from him. During dinner, Sakura wondered off in thoughts, thinking about Tomoyo.

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August 2018 – Tokyo Airport, Japan

Tomoyo hugged Sakura tightly at the airport, before she would go on the gate to her plane. 'Take care, Sakura-chan!' Tomoyo whispered, as Sakura hugged her back. 'Sure I will, Tomoyo-chan! Just have a fantastic year, have fun, call once in a while, and don't forget to mail!' Sakura whispered back as she let her friend go, who will in a few minutes leave for America.

Tomoyo went over to Eriol for the last time, giving him a lingering kiss. 'You have to call me four times as often as you call Sakura-chan, okay?' Eriol asked his girlfriend, as he pulled her back for another last kiss.

Sakura and Eriol waved as Tomoyo went through the gate, disappearing from sight. 'Will she be okay on her own in America?' Eriol asked softly, already concerned.

'Sure.' Sakura answered, grabbing his arm and pulling him with her, while she walked away to the top of the building, where the planes could been seen when they took off. 'She will. Have a little faith in her, okay? Besides... she already knows some people there, and she will only be gone for a little more than a year. Everything will be fine.'

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May 2019 – Tomoeda, Japan

Sakura sighed, recalling her good times with Tomoyo. They mailed often, so she knew everything was going okay, but she still missed her best friend ever. She looked at the food on her plate, remembering she was supposed to eat now, not wander of in thoughts. Besides, she had only twenty minutes left, before she had to go to her part-time job at the supermarket.

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May 2019 – New York, America

Listening to the soft evening breeze, Li Syaoran concentrated while sitting in the lotus position, meditating on the balcony of his dorm. He sat their for more than two hours already, to the irritation of his dorm mate, Jamy.

He thought deeply over the possibility to go to Tomoeda University. This school was known as the best in the world, and studying there, would shorten his school years drastically. That's certainly important for his family, and more important, the family company, because he needs to take over the whole business, when his mother wants to retire.

The plan was, to do all the management trainings in one year. That he could do it, was for sure. He had studied his entire life, and you could say he was pretty intelligent. But seeing as he was about to put four school years into one year, it did mean less training, less meditating and more studying.

But then again, why not give up one year of training and meditating, if he could skip three years of school?

And besides, his best friend studied at the same school. If he was really tired of studying, he could always hang out with him for a while.

Making a decision, he sighed, and as he opened his eyes, he looked directly in the irritated face of Jamy, a classmate that he shared this dorm with, here, in New York.

'So you're going?' Jamy asked, already knowing the answer. He didn't understand why this man needed so much time to figure out that it was the right decision.

Syaoran glared at Jamy, and nodded.

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August 2019 – Tomoeda, Japan

Skating away from the bus, where she just got out, Sakura waved at the bus driver. She already wore her school uniform, ready to go to school. Some people that knew her, greeted or waved, and she smiled back at them. She was going full speed, making people jump when they saw her coming. Not that they needed to, because she was an excellent skater and almost never made any accidents. Almost never...

She dodged her by passers with grace, making some laughing at her, others cursing. If the latter happened she turned around, skating backwards and yelled her excuse back at them. While doing so, she was still dodging the people and obstacles on her way, without seeing them. This only caused more laughter and people yelling 'Watch out!'.

She smiled as she continued on her way. This was her daily routine. She just loved to skate, especially the more dangerous tricks. It made her feel alive, just like dancing and cheerleading did. When the school came in view, Eriol, driving in his car, slowed down besides her. Hiiragizawa Eriol was a good friend of her, since second grade, and the current boyfriend of Tomoyo-chan. Strange, or actually quite crooked, as Eriol was, Sakura just loved the guy, and really valued his friendship.

'I don't think you are going fast enough.' He said dryly, looking at his speedometer, pointing to twenty-four. 'Yesterday, you skated one k/h faster.' She laughed, throwing her schoolbag at him, while she jumped in his car, although he still drove. He cringed. 'Watch out for the leather!' He said, making her laugh even more.

It was well known that Eriol valued material things less than the immaterial things, which somehow resulted in him acting the exact opposite.

In school, they went separate ways, for they had only one class together, and that was English. She searched for Chiharu while she walked to the right classroom. Mihara Chiharu was also a close friend of hers, a while after she had befriended Tomoyo. Chiharu and Sakura were doing the same course: Physiology, or some different, hard to remember variant of this simple name for the course.

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It was lunchtime, and Sakura and Chiharu walked slowly to the entrance, so they could eat outside under the oak-tree that stood there. It was the first day of school this year, and there weren't any lessons yet. Only getting the new school books and all of those boring meetings they had to go to, every beginning of the next year again.

Sakura constantly looked around. She didn't even realize anymore that her eyes where constantly searching for victims of those who liked to bully others. Her eyes fell on a girl with dark brown/red hair and big glasses who was looking around nervously. I haven't seen her here before. She elbowed Chiharu. 'Hey, do you know that girl with the glasses, over there?' She asked silently.

Chiharu looked at the girl and nodded. 'Yes, new here, third grade, transferred from Tokyo, because her parents wanted to live here. They refused her to stay in Tokyo on her own. Her name is Yanagisawa Naoko, if I remember correctly.' Sakura nodded at her long answer. Chiharu was a member at the student council, and she always knew it when there were new students arriving. While they continued walking to the oak, her mind was already thinking of her next plan.

"Her next plan", meant a plan to save those who were being bullied. Since her second year on this school, she vowed to protect them, and help them as much as she could. But kind as she was, she couldn't hurt the so called 'bullies', so she came up with a "plan", to make everything better, for everyone.

After eating with her friends, Sakura went her own way, seeing the same girl with the glasses again. Naoko was it? This time, she stood between two rows of lockers, in the middle of a group of older students who were laughing at her, giving her names and poking her, probably just to agitate the girl. It resulted in the girl being scared, looking from one student to the other, a bit of fear showing on her face. Sakura sighed. Here we go... all over again.

It somehow irritated her that this game always continued, but on the other hand, it was better than not coming in between.

She looked around searching for something that made a lot of noise. Her eyes fell on the dustbins, and she took off the lids. Walking a few rows of lockers back, she easily climbed on one of the lockers. Slowly, so she wouldn't make a sound and the lockers didn't fall, she jumped from one row to another, until she stood above the group. Even more slowly, she bend her knees, and held the two lids down, right behind the ears of the one talking to the frightened girl. Hyji was his name, she remembered, the so called "leader" of the group.

BANG!

Everybody jumped in fear as Sakura jumped down from the lockers, a big, innocent smile present on her face, lids still in hand, and banging them another time in front of Hyji. Turning towards the frightened girl she said brightly: 'Yanagisawa-san, I was looking for you. You still need your tour through the school, right?' Placing one hand on her back, she softly pushed the girl in the right direction, away from the lockers, the other hand still holding the lids.

She placed the lids back on the dustbins as she walked passed them. Behind her she could hear gasps.

'Did she just jump down from one of the lockers?' A girl asked, a horrified giggle stuck in her throat.

'But how did she get up there?' Another replied.

Soon the voices weren't heard anymore, except for a loud 'Watch out!' and deafening crashing sounds. All the other students looked at the direction the sound came from, some looking worried, others were laughing.

Sakura giggled. 'They actually tried to climb it.' She laughed as she could imagine how the lockers crashed down by the weight of the one climbing it. The only reason why she hadn't crashed down, was because of her athletic skills. Then she turned her attention to the girl walking besides her. 'Hi, I'm Kinomoto Sakura.' She introduced herself.

'Yanagisawa Naoko.' The girl replied stiffly, trying to figure out if she was in better or worse hands with this girl.

'Yanagisawa-chan, don't worry! I wont do anything!' Sakura emphasized her words by holding her hands in front of her. 'I'm sorry if I scared you, I didn't mean that to happen. But you see, I really can't stand it if others are getting bullied...' Then her face changed from worried to cheerful. 'But I can help you, if you want! So you'll never get to be bothered by them again!' Sakura stated brightly.

Naoko nodded numbly. Right…

Where have I gotten myself into...!

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Yanagisawa Naoko sat in her room, while she heard her parents downstairs, watching TV. Staring at the stars on her sealing, she was recalling this day, and she had to say, it was more scary then the ghost stories she loved so much. She never ever wanted to be bullied again, although nothing really happened.

That girl, Kinomoto Sakura, had taken Naoko with her and insisted that she would call her Sakura, and not Kinomoto, and after that, she had taken her on a tour to show her the entire school. They had started the conversation with the solution of how to get rid of Hyji and his friends.

It was that talk that bothered her so much. Sakura had asked her for reasons why she had been bothered by Hyji and the others, and Naoko had just looked at her as if she were mad, asking her: 'How should I know?'

At this, Sakura had explained her and the conversation had taken an hour, in which she had missed one class, but seen the entire school twice.

'...You're the only one who really knows. Hyji and his friends only torment others; they can't do anything else, they're used to it, and they have their own reasons. But the reason why they picked out you, is only known by yourself, and can only be changed by yourself...'

And that on her first day here at school. She sighed and looked around in her new room, just painted in dark blue, with glow-in-the-dark-stars on the ceiling. She thought about the reasons she was picked out by Hyji in the first place. And her glasses didn't count, or so said Sakura.

'...Figure out for yourself, and change it. You can see it as your very first assignment on this school!'

She groaned. Sakura-chan, you better be right... You're the first one to give me homework in this school...!

Silently, she wished her parents had allowed her to stay at her old school. But they didn't trust her enough for that, and now she had to go trough the worst years of her life… probably.

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Eriol looked outside the window in the living room, sighing deeply.

'What's the matter?' Nakuru, one if his dorm mates asked. Nakuru was a tall girl, with long brown hair, and a child innocents face. She was for the second time in her last year on the university.

'Nothing... I just miss Tomoyo.' He answered. Eriol had just put the phone down a minute ago, from a call with Tomoyo that took longer than an hour, but he still missed her.

'I wonder when she comes back.' Nakuru said, really wondering that.

'Who knows.' Eriol answered with a sparkle in his eyes, while he adjusted his glasses.

'Who knows what?' A voice, coming from the hall, asked, when seconds later a boy with smiling eyes stood in the door opening, together with an older, tall boy with blond hair.

Nakuru's eyes widened with happiness as she jumped at them, giving them a big hug. 'Hi dorm mates!' She screamed overfilled with joy that Yamazaki and Ted where back from shopping for dinner.

They just patted her back, already used to her spontaneous actions.

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Smiling, Yukito held his plate for Sakura, as she gave him more of her self made dinner. 'You always cook so well.' He complimented. He looked at her beaming face and smiled sweetly back at his "little sister".

It was just two years ago that Sakura had to reject his love, and although that was a hard time for both of them, they did grew closer. Instead of having one, big, mean, brother, she had now also a big smiling brother. And he? He had found himself a little sister. The only family he had, though it wasn't his real family, of course.

His own family had died in a huge accident, when he was just fourteen years old. Since then he had lived on his own, but most of the time, he was with this great family, who took him in, like he was a real family member. So in the end, he didn't mind that Sakura had rejected his love, it felt so much better to have a little sister.

His smile grew as he silently thanked the Kinomoto's for what they had done for him. All he still had to do now, was thank them out loud, someday. But he wanted to make it special.

What to do, what to do...

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Touya sat in his chair in the meeting room, listening to his chief, who stood at the end of the large table, in front of a large computer screen. He himself was one of the divisional heads in this office, quite a high ranking and a well paid job, and therefore he had to be at all these boring meetings.

He listened a bit more carefully when he heard the announcement that the heir to all Li-companies was going to study at the Tomoeda University, so they would see him appearing here more often as well.

Touya had already heard about this cold-hearted person, and he didn't look forward to meet him.

Instead, he looked forward to going home later tonight. Sakura had made dinner, and if he was lucky, Yukito hadn't eaten everything yet when he would arrive back home.

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And for the rest, I just hope you have enjoyed reading this. More is very sure to come!

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