Sakura couldn't speak for several minutes. Did he seriously just say that? A prince of all people! She didn't even behave!

"Why?" Sakura asked Syaoran after managing to finally find her voice again. People normally didn't get to her like this.

"There's just something about you…" he trailed off in an almost teasing way.

"We barely know each other!" Sakura protested.

"I'm not bothered by that." He smiled. "Besides, I'm sure we'll just get to know each other anyway."

Sakura had a strange feeling that he had known her for a much longer time than she knew. "Ok then…"

She didn't even know why she agreed, but something seemed to be pulling her towards him already. She wasn't sure if she liked that or not, but she was sure that dating a prince couldn't be entirely terrible.

"Great. See you later." Syaoran said just as the bell went, and was about to leave her.

"Right…I don't know if I'll be around later…" Sakura mumbled to herself, remembering how much she despised physics and chemistry. It wasn't that they were boring subjects; it was more that she hated her teacher's guts, and they hated her just as much.

"Why's that?" Syaoran asked with a more serious tone in his voice.

"Ditching physics and chemistry, I'll pick up the work later." Sakura said as she pulled out her phone to text Fai. Syaoran looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"I don't think so." He said, lowering her phone.

She glared at him and he smirked. What the hell was he planning?

…

Sakura indeed had not expected to walk into physics at all within the first four or five weeks of school, or with Syaoran's arm around her. Fortunately for the first couple of weeks their usual teacher had been absent due to family business, but it was his first lesson back and Sakura was not looking forward to the lesson-she had made more of an effort to get away and so Syaoran was keeping her on a tight leash for most of the day to ensure she didn't escape his grasp. Upon entering the room whispers erupted around them as usual; many of the girls were unhappy about their relationship that had now made its way around the school-most of the students were trying to talk Syaoran out of the relationship with Sakura and he just stared at them blankly. Sakura on the other hand had become an expert at ignoring everything around her and just didn't give a shit anymore. They walked over and sat next to Fai, who was making a paper aeroplane.

"Hello, you two…" Fai was concentrating on getting the folds perfect as he greeted them.

"Why are you making paper planes, Fai?" Sakura asked as she sat down. She was feeling really pissed off, and it was showing through her tone of voice.

"Paper planes? Paper planes are amazing. You can throw them at windows and shit." Fai answered, folding one of the wings.

She rolled her eyes and slumped back in her chair. Suddenly Sakura's most hated teacher walked through the door. She glared at him as he dumped his things on the front desk. The class fell silent immediately. Kyle Rondart was not anyone's favourite teacher, and certainly not Sakura's. Their teacher looked over the students, his eyes wondering, until he saw Sakura. Syaoran, not sure of what was about to happen, stayed cautious.

"I see you've actually decided to show up Sakura. Now that should make your parents happy for once."

That was not a smart move. Sakura shot up out of her seat and slammed her hands down on the table. "You shut your fucking mouth!" Sakura shouted at him and stormed out of the room.

Fai knew that this teacher should have kept his mouth shut, however that was not the type of person Kyle was. Syaoran put his hand up and waited to be acknowledged.

"What is it?" Kyle asked him.

Syaoran stood up. "I'm sorry I have to say this, however I do not think that is something that should have been said." Syaoran was calm, however this angered the teacher.

After all, these words were coming from the prince. Fai stood up with Syaoran, a sign of agreement. Slowly, one by one, several more students stood up. Almost the whole class was standing, except for a few girls. Syaoran quietly excused himself and walked out the classroom, looking for Sakura. After half an hour looking around the school, he figured that she'd gone home. His classes went by quickly, and as soon as it reached the end of the school day he headed straight for Sakura's house. He knew where she lived after the incident he had helped her out with at the start of the school year, so he had no trouble finding her house.

Sakura had left the door unlocked, so Syaoran could easily get in. He found Sakura asleep on the couch in the living room, a large room with a flat screen TV. Against the ivory wall to his left was a bookcase with novels and DVDs, a lot of which were anime. Syaoran could see across from the living room was the kitchen with black marble tiles on the floor and a matching bench top. He noticed that there weren't any photos of her family around the walls or even on any of the bookshelves, and even at school she seemed rather lonely. He went and sat down next to Sakura, careful not to wake her, and watched as a tear rolled down her face in her sleep. He wiped it away and went to get up, however felt a warm hand grab his.

"Don't leave me…" Syaoran looked at Sakura's pleading eyes, pleading for him to stay with her.

He sat back down with her, and held her hand. "Your family…Where are they?" Syaoran asked quietly.

A sad smile made its way to Sakura's lips. "They died." She said sadly.

"You don't have anyone…?" Syaoran asked.

"What, you don't count now?" Sakura smiled at him jokingly, but it didn't stay for long. "I guess I had a little bit of help from Yuui while I was growing up, and I've known Fai for a while too." Sakura looked at the ceiling, thoughts running wild.

"In a way…I suppose Yuui is like a second father to me…" Sakura smiled at the thought. She found her head leaning against Syaoran's shoulder and tears running down her face. She hadn't realised how much the day had set her off.

"How…did they die?" Syaoran asked quietly.

Sakura was quiet for a few moments as she searched for the words, wondering how she should tell him. She decided she would just tell him straight-she didn't know how to otherwise.

"They were murdered."

"Murdered? By who?"

Syaoran was shocked to hear this; the country he knew was peaceful, but then there were always going to be people who disagreed with the law. There were always going to be people who pinned hate on one another, and lately more and more incidents were occurring and he didn't like it one bit.

"Do you remember how I told you that I often got in trouble with gangs?" Sakura asked him softly.

"Yes, that's sort of hard to forget." Syaoran wasn't quite sure where this was leading. What did this have to do with her getting in trouble with gangs?

"They were murdered by a gang; however it was the leader that did most of the work. I was forced to watch it all, and I still remember it clearly. Somehow I escaped from them, however whenever I have a run in with a gang, I get beaten." Sakura's voice was angry. "It's like a fear that settles in that I just can't ignore."

"Do you know the name of the gang leader?" Syaoran asked. There was sadness in his eyes that Sakura didn't understand and she felt confused.

"No… However if I saw his face I'd know straight away…I've been looking for years. Yuui told me to stop, but I just can't do that." Sakura's anger turned to sadness once again. It was nice, having someone to talk to about her family, someone new.

"How can you be so sure that it was a gang?" Syaoran asked quietly.

"They all bore a black crest on their arm-I'll never forget it. They each had a black wolf curled around a full moon." Sakura replied. "Yuui told me they were a well known gang affiliated with the underworld associations."

"How old were you…?" He asked reluctantly, unsure if it would upset her.

She gave him another sad smile, "I was seven when my parents died and I was branded with a tattoo and scars that I can never get rid of." She whispered as her hand subconsciously brushed against her right thigh.
She snapped out of her thoughts, and returned to looking up at Syaoran, who was looking back at her. Syaoran's feelings towards Sakura deepened upon listening to her words, and each moment pulled them closer together both physically and mentally. They stared into each other's eyes, and Syaoran leant in to kiss Sakura, who didn't object. She allowed him to deepen the kiss as she wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling herself closer to him as they kissed.
Unfortunately the moment was ruined by the sound of knocking on the front door. They parted and Sakura walked over to the door and opened it to see Fai standing there.

"What do you want?" Sakura asked irritably. Her face was flushed and she felt embarrassed.

"Oh, did I interrupt something?" Fai half joked.

"Hurry up and get inside, twat." Sakura dodged the question. She really hated how Fai showed up at the most annoying times.

"Have you been crying?" Fai asked her a little more seriously once he was inside.

"No, never." Sakura turned away quickly and headed towards the kitchen to make tea, not wanting either of them to see her tear stained face. It was embarrassing and she didn't like it when other people saw her cry because it made people worry, and she didn't like it when people worried about her.

While Sakura made tea, Fai sat in one of the other chairs. "So Fai, got anyone you fancy?" Syaoran asked. Random question out of the blue.

Fai looked at him. "Well, yeah. There is this one girl. She's got captivating deep brown eyes and hair as gold as the sun." Fai's mind wondered.

Syaoran stared at him for a bit. "Name?" a demand, more than a question.

"Chii…" Fai's voice trailed off. Syaoran snorted into a fit of laughter. "What?" Fai glared at Syaoran who couldn't stop laughing.

"I'm sorry, it's just, she hates commoners. Oh, and she's engaged." Syaoran burst into another fit of laughter once he saw Fai's eyes widen in shock. It was almost as if he'd been shot or something.

"Who's engaged?" Sakura asked as she walked in with two cups of tea; one for Fai, and one for Syaoran. She quickly went back to the kitchen to get hers and sat down next to Syaoran.

"Chii, she's a princess." Syaoran answered as he took a sip from his cup.

"Oh, ok then." Sakura didn't have much interest in the topic; she just wanted to know why Fai was at her house.

"So, twat, why are you here? And do you need a straw; you can't drink your tea bent over like that." Sakura spat. Syaoran was still pissing himself laughing.

"Just delivering your homework." Fai said, returning to normal…Whatever that was.

"Wow, you bounce back quickly considering Chii is-" Syaoran started to say, however was cut off by Fai.

"Don't remind me." He complained.

"Thank you." Sakura took her homework from Fai and whacked him over the head with it.

"Cool, you can leave now." Sakura smiled at him.

"Fine, bitch."

"Slut."

"Whore."

Sakura slammed the door in his face as he left, and screamed out her last insult. "DOUCHE." Sakura could hear Syaoran laughing in the living room. She walked over and sat back down next to him, looking over her work that needed to be done.

"Great… Stuff that I really don't want to do, and chemistry really isn't my strong point." Sakura groaned.

"You know, if you showed up to most of your classes you wouldn't get as much homework." Syaoran pointed out the fact clearly to Sakura, who just glared at him. Syaoran smiled sweetly at her and patted her head.

"You shall learn, my dear." Sakura felt like someone's pet dog that was being trained. She shoved his shoulder in retort and got up to go to her room.

"I'm going to change, I'll be back." She told him as she left the room.

Sakura had thoughts of the kiss in her head. They'd only known each other for a short period of time, and they'd already kissed! Something inside her chest felt warm however, and she felt happier than she had been in a long time.
Sakura looked for her favourite dark green dress, and threw it on her bed. She pulled off her clothes and looked at herself in the mirror; She hated her scarred body, a constant reminder of her past. The scars bled whenever she got overstressed or were treated roughly, such as when someone were to press down on one of them hard it would bleed. It certainly wasn't logical, but magic was a huge factor to her scars but unfortunately magic couldn't cure them. It hurt immensely when someone other than her touched them, so she tried her best to cover her scars with dark colours or red. Suddenly, Sakura felt a very gentle hand brush across her scarred back.