Summary: Sakura's just an ordinary girl that lived in a place where homeless people dwell on the sidewalks. She hates having to take care of children like her little cousin, but after one day, Sakura discovers a bunch of homeless kids in an old warehouse that changed her life and heart.
"Talking"
'Thinking'
A/N: Author's Notes
Last time…
"Onee-san! Give me more noodles!" Asuka wailed thumping his little fists on the table.
Sakura grumbled, grabbing his plate and getting the brat more spaghetti.
'I will, somehow, get out of this shit pit and move elsewhere, though not too far, incase they want me back.' She grinned again as she slopped the noodles on the plate. 'I will soon enough."
A/N: Sorry again for a late update. As you all know, school is an asshole. Anyways, enjoy!
Chapter Two: The Last Straw
By: Ame
Morning had risen once again in the silent house of the Kinomotos. Sakura was laying stomach down on her soft bed, tired eyes reflecting about the accident of her parents and uncle.
Ring! Ring!
"Hello?" Sakura answered, 1 year ago.
"Kinomoto-san? We have some urgent news." A serious voice thudded through the phone. Sakura panicked.
"What? What happened?!" The young graduate gripped the phone with her two shaking hands and started to feel dread rising in her throat, and fearful tears stung her eyes.
"We have 3 people hear in the emergency room. Kinomoto Nadeshiko, Kinomoto Fujitaka and Kinomoto Youshiru. It's been reported that they've been found dead. We need a Kinomoto resident to fill out some papers."
Sakura froze. Nadeshiko and Fujitaka were her parents and Youshiru was her uncle. This couldn't be happening.
"O-of course. I'll be right there." She slammed the phone down and ran down the stairs, almost falling and shoving her shoes on at the door.
"Oi! Sakura! Where are you going!?" her aunt looked freaked out by Sakura's sudden out-going, holding Asuka in her arms.
"Just stay here and wait!" the shaking Cherry Blossom replied, gritting her teeth.
"Wait! Hold on a second. What the hell happened?" her aunt continued, fear settling into her own eyes.
"Fuck this! Just get in the bloody car!" Sakura yelled, rushing out the door.
-Hospital Emergency Room-
Sakura burst through the doors with her aunt trailing after her. They both panicked.
"Nurse! Nurse! Please tell me where the Kinomotos are!" the graduate swallowed the lump forming in her throat as the nurse pointed to one of the pale white doors.
As she walked through, she could see 3 beds. All three people lying on the beds were covered head to toe by a pure white blanket.
"Excuse me but, are you by any chance a relative to these people?" a person who looked like a police officer asked as he walked up to her.
"Yes, yes. I'm the daughter of Nadeshiko and Fujitaka." For some odd reason, Sakura felt like she couldn't breathe any longer.
"Well then, Kinomoto-san. Your parents died on the way here to the Emergency room. Your mother said she wanted to give you this." He held out something wrapped in a small flower-decorated cloth.
Sakura's vision blurred as her shaking hands took the item from the officer's hands.
"Th-thank you…" she whispered, as she heard her aunt scream after seeing the last body of the three beds.
"Oh my god! My husband! My poor husband!" and she burst into tears, clutching Asuka in a tight embrace.
Sakura walked slowly, shocked, to a chair next to the white doors and opened the cloth carefully, with her hands still shaking.
It was a locket. And inside was a picture of her parents on one side, and her baby picture in the other. It was too much to bare. She thunked herself on the chair and started to cry uncontrollably, each sob as loud as her aunt's.
Asuka started to cry as well, since he noticed that his mother wouldn't stop crying and that his father didn't move an inch.
The officer lightly touched Sakura's shoulder and tried to tell her to calm down. "You need to help us fill out some information here." He handed her a clip board with some papers on it. "You can take your time."
The poor Cherry Blossom took the clip board silently from the officer and started to feel as heavy as 100 tons of lead.
'How could this happen to me?' she thought, tears still pouring down her cheeks. 'Why me? Why us?'
Sakura shut her eyes tightly as tears started to gather in her eyes from remembering this painful memory. In her hand, she clutched the pendant that was around her neck since her parents' death.
Everyday she would visit their graves and place fresh cherry blossoms on them, knowing that it was their favorite flower. But since the brat became brattier than ever, she had less and less time to visit her mother and father's grave. That pissed her off badly.
As Sakura got up, she could hear the television on. The volume was up quite loud- once again.
She thumped down the stairs and grabbed the remote from the couch and lowered the volume.
"Hey! I was watching that!" Asuka shouted, grabbing the remote from him.
"It's too loud. You can still hear it with the volume like this." Sakura was growing tired of having to deal with him all the time.
"NO. I. CAN'T!" he thumped his feet and wailed and whined and made any annoying noise he could make.
"THEN YOU'RE DEAF! NOW SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN BEFORE I FUCKING BREAK THIS HOUSE!" she blew up. And it felt good to let some of it out- except for the result of it.
"Sakura Kinomoto! How dare you yell at my Asuka like that!" her aunt came rushing in with her bath robe and sleep still tingling in her eyes.
"I dare because he's he deserves it." Sakura replied firmly, throwing the remote on the couch where Asuka took it once more and highering the volume. Her aunt winced.
"Now, now Asuka dear. Don't turn it up that loud. Mommy is going to get a head ache today!" she tried to sound cheerful but the glare that Asuka gave her obviously meant he wouldn't listen.
"No! This is MY T.V time!" he shouted. His mom chuckled uneasily and replied.
"Alright then dear. You can do that if you like."
Sakura shook her head. Then her aunt glared at her.
"What?! You got a problem with what he likes?!" she boomed at her.
"No. It's just I know you don't like it." Sakura retorted. For some reason, that comment made her aunt explode- like KABOOM explode because of what she said.
"YOU DON'T THINK I LIKE IT?! MY HUSBAND IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID PARENTS TO CAN'T DRIVE PROPERLY! YOU THINK I LIKE THAT?! DO YOU?!" Sakura gritted her teeth.
"You…take…that…back…my parents can drive as well as anyone else can." Her hands became fists.
"Then explain the crash hmm?! TELL ME WHY MY HUSBAND IS DEAD!" her aunt almost lost her voice.
"I CAN'T! JUST SHUT UP ABOUT MY PARENTS BEFORE I LEAVE THIS FUCKING SHITHOLE! IT'S NOT THEIR FUCKING FAULT THAT THEY DIED! JESUS MOTHER FUCKING CHRIST! SHUT UP!" Sakura clamped her hands at her ears and felt tears stinging in her eyes.
"Yes it is your parents' fault. If my husband drove instead, then they'd all be alive right now!" the addict continued to yell and scream rude words like she was still drunk from last night.
"No it's not! From what I remember, it was your fucking husband who drank fucking 8 beers before leaving! I bet he caused the crash, not my parents!" Sakura yelled equally as loud. She knew at this point, she'll just pack up and leave for Tomoyo's house for a while.
"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME! I'LL MAKE SURE TO PUT YOU IN A FOSTER HOME AFTER THIS!" her aunt was at the phone, threatening to pick it up and dial.
Sakura gave up. This was the last straw and her aunt wasted it. She was going to leave this house today. "You know what?" Sakura grinned. "I'll just leave this house today and see how you feel, huh? No more of my cooking, no more supervision, NO MORE FUCKING MONEY FOR YOUR STUPID ALCOHOLIC DRINKS EVERY NIGHT!" and with that, she bolted upstairs to pack her stuff.
That day, Tomoyo came over with her limousine to help carry some of Sakura's stuff. Her aunt watched from the living room with blank eyes which realized what she had done. But she never made any move to stop Sakura.
"Sakura-chan, I'm sorry but my mother has some guest people over and you can't use any of the bedrooms at my house right now. I think maybe Syaoran-kun has an extra space."
Sakura smiled. "It's ok Tomoyo-chan. I think I can live with Syaoran-kun for a while until I can find somewhere."
Tomoyo giggled and nudged her playfully. "You know Syaoran-kun has a huge crush on you right?"
The emerald eyed beauty turned bright red. "Ano, Tomoyo-chan. You don't need to tell me all the time!" Tomoyo giggled again.
"Anyhow let's go. I really need some new house air to breathe."
To Be Continued…
A/N: Well, I've had enough of her aunt so I wanted Sakura to get out of the house faster lol.
-Ame