Summary: Sakura is married to her high school sweetheart. She has a wonderful marriage and a great family. Then an accident occurs. She and her brother were just meeting up at her brother's house when a murderer broke in and killed her brother. Sakura also holds another painful secret from that day. Then her relationships with the ones she loves most starts to deteriorate. And when she's alone and pregnant, an old friend pops up.

Chapter 1 The life of Sakura Kinomoto

"Eriol! Eriol!! ERIOL!"

I was getting restless with my husband. He needed to wake up so he can get to work and I can go meet my brother.

"Hmmm...what?"

"Finally! You're awake. Come on, get up and get ready for work. You're going to be late. And I have to go meet my brother soon. You know how he gets when people are late."

"Ughh. Fine."

This was a daily routine. Except the part where I go meet my brother. I'm actually a photographer and today was my dad off. But it doesn't bother me that Eriol isn't a morning person. Heck, I'm no morning person either, but if it means getting ready for my brother, then I'll stay up the whole night if I have to. Anyway, Eriol is my high school sweetheart. We met at the end of our junior year during the sports festival and got married about 4 months ago. Back then he was new so I introduced him to Tomoyo and Syaoran. All four of us were inseparable. But we lost touch soon after high school since Tomoyo went to Paris to pursue her fashion career and Syaoran went back to Hong Kong to help out with the family business.

As soon as Eriol got ready and went off to work I got in to my car and drove off to meet Touya, my brother, at his new house he had just moved into. He just got back from New York for 6 years and found a cozy little house just outside the city.

I soon arrived at his house within 30 minutes.

Touya was waiting for me outside waving at me and giving me the goofiest grin. My brother hadn't changed one bit. I didn't realize how much I really missed him until I saw his face.

"TOUYAA!" I got out of the car, ran up to him and gave him a big hug.

"Hey kaijuu. Don't kill me. I've missed you too but you don't see me killing you."

"You can't say that to me. You didn't even come to my wedding. Speaking of which, where's my wedding present hm?" I gave him a pouty face.

"Sorry. You know I had an important meeting that day. And I'll buy a nice present later. Whatever you want. Come on. Let's forget about that and go inside. You said you were going to help me unpack."

"Well maybe I don't want to help you anymore."

"Come on kaijuu."

"I'm NOT-"

"I know. You're not a kaijuu. But you are to me. Let's go inside." He put me in a headlock and dragged me in. Typical Touya.

As soon as I stepped in a saw boxes everywhere that need to opened and put away. There were at least close to fifty boxes. The house was pretty nice though. It had a nice homey modern feel to it. I walked into the kitchen where everything looked almost new.

"Hey Touya. Bring all the kitchen boxes in here. I'll put everything away here."

"Alright." He brought in a couple boxes.

I pulled out some nice plates that had looked like they had never been used before.

"Why did you get these if you never used them?"

"Oh. Those? Dad got those for me before I went to New York. He worried that if I didn't have plates and stuff that I wouldn't feed myself. How is he?"

"He's good but you still haven't gone to see dad? You've been here for almost a week. You should go tonight. I was thinking of going with Eriol and you can see him too."

"Sounds good. Oh by the way, how's work going for you?"

"Work is fun. I actually opened up an exhibit a couple weeks ago. And I also got a call from a fashion magazine asking me to become one of their photographers. So it's going pretty good."

"Wow. One day you'll be a big shot photographer."

"That's the dream."

About an hour later I was done putting away all the utensils, silverware, and cooking utensils. I walked into the living room to see my brother moving the furniture around. I also saw his new 50 inch flat screen television.

"Is the cable set up on this?"

"Yeah. Cable guy came this morning."

"Mind if I turn it on to the news station?"

"Go ahead. Look at my baby sister paying attention to the news."

"Hey! I am a very news alert person."

"Haha. Whatever. Turn it on already. I want to see what's up in Japan these days."

I turned the T.V. onto the news station.

"In today's news, there is a murderer on the loose. He is suspected to be around the age of late twenties to early thirties. He has been breaking into homes and murdering anybody inside, raping woman and children, and stealing valuables. Please be aware and keep all doors and windows locked."

"Wow. Would you imagine if that happe-"

CRASH.

Touya jumped up. "What was that?"

"I don't know. I think it came from the kitchen." I was pretty startled after what I just heard from the news.

Apparently, Touya was startled from what he heard from the news too because he picked up an old bat from his baseball days before tiptoeing into the kitchen. I slowly followed after him. Afraid of what we would be face to face with within a few moments.

We were at the door of the kitchen. We spotted a broken window and a softball on the floor. A breath of relief came out unknowingly. The kids who threw it ran up to the window and apologized.

"Sorry. I'm not too good at this."

Oh gosh. I hoped Touya wouldn't scream at the kids. Please don't scream at the kids.

"Hey kid, just be careful next time alright? I'm letting you off easy this time. If this happens again I'm not letting you get away with it this easy."

"Thanks mister. And sorry about your window."

"What happened to your temperamental days Touya?"

"Oh. Well I've been trying to tone it down a little. Heh."

"Wow. I guess people can change."

"Yeah. Anyway that scared the crap out of me. Stupid news channel making me all paranoid."

We walked back into the living room. I wanted to put away some of the things away upstairs so I carried a box upstairs and started putting some of Touya's clothes into his closet.

"AGHHHHH!"

I ran downstairs faster than I had ever before. There was a man standing above my brother. My brother was covered in blood. Blood? Oh gosh. A knife in his chest. The man looked me in the eyes. I glanced back at him and even though our eyes met only for a second it felt like an eternity. I could hear my brother breathing heavily. Then I remembered what the news station had said. Late twenties to early thirties. Murderer. Rapist.

"RUN SAKURA."

I thought about running. But if I ran what would happen to Touya? Nuh uh. I couldn't leave Touya like this. No matter what happened to me.

The man ran up to me and grabbed me by the arms. He then pushed me on the floor. I started crying. I felt nauseous and scared. I couldn't even comprehend what was about to happen until he started unbuttoning my pants. I started screaming and kicking him off of me. He was too strong. I could hear my brother crying too. I don't think it was because he was in pain. But because he knew what was about to happen. This man was going to rape me right in front of my brother. While he was raping me, I thought I was about to go unconscious. But then I remembered my phone in the back pocket of my jeans. Where had he thrown my jeans to? It was right next to me. I grabbed my pants and slyly took my phone out. I don't even remember how I did it. It all happened so fast. I just dialed 911 and started screaming my address. He slapped me and broke my phone. Then five minutes later I heard sirens ringing.

The man was so startled from the sirens; he just got up and ran off. I was sobbing by now and quickly put my underwear and pants on. I went to check on my brother. When had he stopped crying? When had he become so pale? When had he lost so much blood?

Police and men with a stretcher walked in. They checked for my brother's pulse. He was already gone. It was too late. And it was my fault.