Reflection

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my Lien, Sakura, and the plot.

A/N: I love Mulan, so this is based on Mulan's scene with this song. Yes, I'm fully aware Mulan was Chinese, but this is a Japanese family. (Well, duh. Japan IS the main character's father.)

A young teenaged girl walked back to her house dejectedly, leading her horse. This girl was Sakura Honda, daughter of Kiku and Lien Honda. She looked up, her mother's shining violet eyes meeting the dull brown ones she has inherited from her father. The girl hid behind her horse, almost feeling her mother's face fall. The girl sighed, putting her horse in his stable. Sakura wandered into the garden, spotting her reflection in a puddle.

"Look at me, I will never pass for a perfect bride," She sang to herself, throwing a stone into the water to break the reflection, then spotted her parents talking.

"Or a perfect daughter. Can it be...I'm not meant to play this part?" She half-sighed, walking around, looking down at all the reflecting pools of water.

"Now I see, that if I were truly to be myself," Sakura looked up, briefly catching her her parents' eyes before they walked inside. "I would break my family's heart." Her eyes returned to the ground, staring into a puddle.

"Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know?" She sang to herself. The girl let her blue and black hair out of its bun, continuing to walk.

"Somehow, I can not hide who I am, though I've tried." It was all true to her. She was a naturally rebellious, boyish, crazy, silly girl, yet here she was, pretending to be a perfectly well-mannered lady, painted up and dressed like no more than a doll.

"When will my reflection show who I am inside?" She questioned, wiping at her face before looking down at the puddle.

Half what she was. Half what her parents wanted her to be.

"When will me reflection show..." She asked softly, wiping away the rest of her makeup as tears began to fall.

"...who I am...inside?"

This right here...is very short. CURSE YOU, TINY ATTENTION SPAN! BTW...

We just met,

And this is crazy,

But I worked hard,

So review me maybe?