In the depths of my love
Chapter 1: The day I met you
By: Suko



It was a cold, rainy, grey day, the day that I met her. The most special and important thing to have ever happened to me. I ran out of my new apartment I share with Wei, and sat on the stone hard steps. I wept, and wept. There were more 'tears' on my cheek because it was raining, but I could only taste the bitter ones, the real ones.

A car whizzed by. Few cars were out on the street, and fewer people, because it looked like a storm was coming. That's why I was slightly surprised to see a little girl, just a little bit younger than me, walking past, holding a bright pink umbrella. I notice her, but just as she nearly passed the gate, she stopped. And turned to look straight at me. I tried to wipe my tears away, but she saw them. She walked, in a way with pride, right up to me. She sat down, next to me. She peered up at me with her big, emerald-green eyes. I noticed the way her auburn brown hair bounced as she moved. Finally, she spoke.

"Why are you crying?" I said nothing.

"Answer me. Onegai?" she said. I still said nothing. She frowned, but simply smiled quickly.

"My name's Kinomoto Sakura. But you can just call me Sakura-chan. I'm six, even though I look five. What's your name?" Sakura asked. Sakura. That was a pretty name. Ying Fa. Cherry blossoms. I sighed heavily.

"My name is Xiaoling." I replied, in my gruff voice. Sakura only stared at me.

"What's xiaoling?" she asked curiously. I wondered what she meant, but then I realized that I was in Japan now. Not China.

"Oh, I'm not from here. Xiaoling is chinese for 'little wolf'." I told her. She stared up at the dark sky.

"Xiao... little... Ling... wolf... Syao... Syaoran? Syaoran! Your Japanese name is Syaoran!" she exclaimed. Syaoran? Sure, that sounded nice enough, I suppose.

"...Why were you crying just now? Is there something the matter?" I sighed. Sakura seemed like one of those kind of people who wouldn't give up until they got what they wanted.

"My mother sent me to Japan... Away from my home, Hong Kong. Away from all of my friends. Here, I have no one to talk too, no one to play with, and no one to be my friend, and I'm just soo lonely!" I tried my hardest not to cry again. Mother sent me here to capture some useless Clow Cards, but I wasn't going to tell Sakura about that bit. She mustn't know about magic. I don't even know why Mother sent me, because I'm only ten! Why not one of the sisters? They have so much time one their hands!

Sakura leaned on my soggy shoulder. By now, we were both soaking wet from the rain. She gazed up at the again, with those big, bright eyes and smiled.

"Oh, that's awfully sad... But that's okay, because I'll be your friend... From now on. 'K?" She put her hand on top of mine and I blushed.

"Really? You'd be my friend?" I asked.

"Really. I promise, as long as you need a friend, I'll be there..." she said. "Now let's go inside, onegai? It's freezing cold, with these wet clothes!" I led her inside my apartment. I came out with no one, but I'm going inside with a friend, I thought, happily.

"Syao-kun, I'm glad that we're friends!" she said, cheerfully. I nodded.

"Hai!" I gave her my first smile ever in Japan. My new home.



{End of Chapter 1} So, do you like it?=^^= I know, the first chapter is really short, but-
Kero: It was... well, I fell asleep, but um... do I get pudding?
Suko: ...how did he get in here... Did someone forget to lock the door again?@.@
Kero: ...pudding... must... get... pudding... must... get... pudding... pudding... so... yummy...
Suko: Just in case you haven't noticed and are wondering, this chapter is in Syaoran's POV. The rest of the fict isn't going to be (Normal POV), because this is just like... a prologue, I suppose. Of how Syaoran became friends with Sakura-chan^.-
Kero: I'LL KILL THAT CHINESE BAKA IF HE EVEN THINKS OF GETTING CLOSE TO MY MISTRESS!!!
Suko: *sweatdrops* You don't like Syaoran?!
Kero: NO!
Suko: ...but he's so cute;_;
Kero: Yea, yea, yea... Enough with the chit chat, where's my pudding?
Suko: *ignores Kero and continues* ...But why is Sakura only six? (Syaoran is nine) Please review, because if I get enough, I'll continue, and you'll find out why^_______^ If no one really liked it, then I'm just going to delete it. Review!
Kero: PUDDING! SUKO, ONEGAI? PUDDING?
Suko: *sighs* somebody give him pudding before I go crazy!
Suko: Thanks for reading! Arigatou! And please don't forget to review!
Kero: ...pudding...!