MIRAGE

Author– Janna18

Syaoran Li X Sakura Kinomoto

Rating - T

Disclaimer: I do not under any circumstance own the cast of Card Captor Sakura. Sole property rights go to Clamp. Go talk to my lawyers if there is a problem ;P
I own only the plot and the new characters introduced during the course of the story.

Summary :

For Sakura, life was just wonderful. That is until something disrupted the balance of her carefully constructed life, changing her direction completely, forcing her to face hard, cold, unforgiving reality. Will she survive the cruelties that fate and ill-luck throw at her mercilessly? Read and find out.

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CHAPTER 1

Trringgg……

The sound of the alarm ringing tore through my ears, jolting me awake from my beauty sleep.

I lazily stretched my sore, rigid muscles, stifling a yawn as I reached over to my side table and stopped the alarm none too gently.

I tried rubbing the sleep off my eyes as I pushed the covers of my bed away and walked over to my curtained window and pulled the shades up, letting light into the room.

"Its about damn time you got up" drawled a voice from my desk drawers.

I gave a condescending look towards it and tsked, "Language Kero, language" I shook my head and continued, "Good morning to you too, sunshine. Ever chirpy, aren't we?"

A yellow furry ball attacked me as I barely caught hold of its tail and all but screamed into my ear, "Look whose talking. The pot calling the kettle black. And YES I'm chirpy and its completely your fault!"

To my raised eye brows he answered, "It's the cake you made for me yesterday.", as a way of explanation.

"But that is next to impossible because I made double extra sure that your piece was devoid of sugar.."

"Now THAT is impossible because I had eight pieces of cake!"

I sweat dropped at his craze for everything sweet, which left him in an almost constant high, driving me nuts.

I looked at the clock and decided that I better get ready.

I sighed as I made my bed and did my morning duties.

A new school year was about to begin and nearly the entire town was buzzing with excitement.

It was going to be a long year. At least I had friends and family behind me, and is all mattered to me.

I got myself ready to face the various happiness, sorrow, disappointments and difficulties that was sure to pass across me sometime during the year.

I can't wait to face the challenges.

I rushed from the bathroom, and tied my still wet hair into a sloppy knot.

I wore my socks and shoes, grabbed my school bag, whispered a bye to Kero and hurried down the stairs, nodding a 'Good morning' to every maid I crossed.

I entered the kitchen and smiled at the cook, as she bowed low and smiled back at me.

I heard foot steps behind me and turned to see my beloved onii-san about a yard away.

"Morning. Looks like the kaijuu has finally woken up, huh?" he said while sipping his morning coffee.

I smiled at this every morning ritual. He would call me a monster and I would smile innocently, go over to him, stomp his foot and call him a baka.

And today was no different.

I rolled my eyes at his antics, accepted the waffle and gulped down milk the cook offered, walked over to my dear brother, stomped hard on his right foot, screaming, "Onii-san NO BAKA"

The cook barely suppressed her chuckle as Touya Kinomoto's brow twitched as he tried to prevent himself from howling in pain, listening to me snicker as I saw through his weak pretences.

"Where is Otou-san, onii?" , I asked, changing the topic.

"He is probably at the test site. They had called him over early last night", came his candid reply.

I sighed. Dad was always working. Continuously. Twenty four slash seven. Work is all he thinks about. Work. Work. Work.

All the time.

"Syaoran is accompanying you to school and back" he said breaking through my reverie. As if he knew I was worried about dad, which he probably did know, he smiled at me warily.

I nodded at him absently.

"And…. Yukito is coming over for dinner" Touya drawled and smirked.

I groaned. When I was eight, I had this huge monster crush on my brothers' best friend Yukito Tsukishiro.

And I made a mistake of confessing to him. He being the nice guy he is, let me down easy. It was quite embarrassing to face him again, but I steeled my resolve and started to see him as another brother of mine. It was quite easy to forget the whole incident.

But Touya came to know about because you see, no one keeps anything from Touya. He found out. He however, never let it die, teasing me in every opportunity, and never failed to drive me up the wall.

I rolled my eyes at his persistant jokes and I wa about to retort when a maid came and bowed, "Master Li has arrived and is waiting in the gardens. "

I thanked and dismissed the maid, bid adieu to my onii, who was muttering about being saved by the bell, grabbed my back pack, donned my roller blades and helmet and rushed out to meet Syaoran Li – my best friend.

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