Rewrite
By: Angel Kamiya
Chapter 2

Mirror ran quickly downstairs as breakfast was about to be served that morning. There was a man there cooking and setting up the table. After slowing down, she took a seat and put her backpack on the ground by the chair. As she started eating one of the pancakes, her backpack started moving and she had to lightly nudge it with her foot so that it would stop shaking and possibly get her in trouble.

"Ohayo!" Mirror greeted, looking at the man that was cooking and Sakura's framed picture of her mother.

Sakura's family kept a portrait of Nadeshiko in every room in the house. Looking at the picture of the young woman, Mirror noticed how beautiful she was. Although Sakura had been very young when her mother passed away she always spoke very highly of Nadeshiko. Most of the time Mirror listened as Sakura told her stories of her mother and father being together. Each conversation ended with Sakura looking a little sad, so it had always been up to Mirror to cheer Sakura up. Mirror knew that Sakura really missed her mother.

For a moment Mirror had thought that the cook in the kitchen had looked very much like Clow Reed when his back had been turned to her. Mirror waited for breakfast to be done cooking.

"Good morning," Sakura's father answered, taking the seat across from her. "I thought I heard some crashing sounds coming from your room earlier. What was going on?"

"I just tripped over one of the stuffed animals on the ground. I'm so clumsy!" she laughed, nervously eating one of the pancakes on her plate and seeing that there was an empty plate that was besides her on the table. "Where's Touya?"

"He had to leave earlier this morning. You just missed him," he replied, realizing something odd about her school uniform. "Why are you in that uniform that has a rip on the sleeve? What happened to your other one?"

"Oh... I..." she stuttered, knowing Sakura was wearing the uniform that he had just asked about. "I accidentally gave the wrong uniform to Tomoyo to fix yesterday!"

"Make sure you get it back today."

Eating the rest of the breakfast, she thanked him before leaving the table. Running to the door she began putting on her roller blades when Kero head popped out of her backpack. It almost made her fall back in fright because she hadn't gotten used to how he looked in his false form. The card guardian really did look like a toy. Kero gave her one of his serious looks.

"You did a great job, now you have to get going!" Kero uttered.

Suddenly the two of them heard footsteps approaching them. Mirror quickly tried pushing the card guardian back into the backpack as the sound got louder. Moments later, Mirror managed to barely close her backpack in time just as the man reached her. Fujitaka looked at the door for several moments before returning his attention on her.

"Did you just hear something, Sakura?"

"It must have been your imagination, I'm going!" She announced, opening the front door.

When Mirror saw the falling cherry blossoms she smiled. While moving through the street, she hoped that school wouldn't be too tough. There were many people out that morning. They all had work to do or go to school. Several people greeted her but she couldn't talk too much with them since she didn't know who they were. It was obvious that Sakura had many friends in Tomoeda. Mirror tried her best to appear friendly and not look like this was the first time she was going to school like that.

A few minutes later, after closely following Kero's directions, she finally managed to arrive at Tomoeda High School. There were so many other students there that Mirror had almost been overwhelmed. The girls there wore the same blue and white school uniform she was wearing. Walking into the homeroom, Mirror realized that she had no idea where Sakura's seat was supposed to be at! For several long minutes she waited by the door hoping that the last seat that wasn't taken would be hers, when a pretty girl with long hair walked up to her.

"Sakura-chan, you look great today. Why are you standing up here?"

Mirror smiled when she realized who it was.

"Tomoyo! I'm just a little sleepy can you help me to my seat?" Mirror asked, recognizing Sakura's friend.

It looked like Tomoyo understood that something was wrong but luckily didn't ask any questions. Taking her hand, she led her to the desk.

"Were you able to tell Li-kun your feelings last night?" she whispered, her eyes lighting up. "You should really have let me record that since it would have been so cute!"

"I... I..." she stammered not knowing what to say, just as the door to the homeroom loudly slid open.

The boy slowly strolled forward, appearing preoccupied with something. The instant he passed Mirror he stopped to glare at her. Mirror looked anxiously at him as he looked into her eyes. While they were like that, Mirror got a strange feeling as though the boy knew something was wrong.

"Doesn't Sakura look cute today?" Tomoyo interrupted, making him suddenly snap to attention.

"What? Oh... She looks okay," he stated, sitting down in the desk behind Mirror.

Later on Mirror would check to see if he was still gawking, and much to her distress discovered that he hadn't stopped. Returning her attention to the chalkboard in front of her, she lightly put her head on the desk. Mirror knew that it was going to be a long day.

The rest of the time in class Mirror found her mind wandering back to where Sakura could possibly at. It was like all those other times when she had to leave but now what made things worse was that she didn't know when her friend would be returning. After the bell rang signaling lunch, she managed to find a nice bench to eat at. Ever since Mirror had gotten to school she had seem to do everything wrong. She hadn't gotten the math problems on the board right, she forgot to bring several books, and then even lost her pencil.

Mirror was glad to take a break from the boy sitting behind her since he really seemed to hate her. The fact that Sakura was not there to tell her what to do was making that day even more difficult. Sakura always knew what to say whenever she had a question. After taking out her lunch, Mirror noticed that the sky was already starting to be covered with clouds.

"You're the Mirror card right?"

Mirror looked at the boy that had just taken a seat besides her, suddenly remembering him from earlier in class when he studied her after arriving in the homeroom. The expression on his face made her think that he wasn't going to tell anyone so she felt a little relieved. Turning away, she stared at the ground because she didn't know what to say.

"Yes."

"Have you been in this form for a long time?"

"Since last night... I've been pretending to be Sakura."

It had been hours since she last seen Sakura and the rest of the Clow cards so she was very worried. Looking at him again, she suddenly recognized that he was Syaoran, the boy Sakura always seemed to be speaking about when they talked to each other. It didn't seem like too long ago when she last spoke about him. Syaoran took out a few of his cards that had been in his pocket and held them out for her. Mirror slowly took them and stared at the two cards.

"You must miss your friends."

The Time and Storm cards began glowing for a few seconds while they were in her hands, before returning to normal. Mirror smiled because she felt better knowing that at least two Clow cards were close by. Mirror wanted to thank Syaoran before handing back the cards, but it looked like he already knew what she wanted to say. There was something about him that really made her feel safe.

"We were worried when we couldn't find you after class ended. You shouldn't wander off."

Mirror nodded, realizing that she probably should have stayed with Tomoyo. The girl was someone that Sakura had always told Mirror to follow if she wasn't there. Mirror glazed back at Syaoran, realizing that he might be able to help her. Since Syaoran was someone that helped Sakura catch the cards and was safe to talk to, she took the opportunity to ask him something that had been on her mind ever since she woke up that morning.

"Can you tell me if you found out what happened to Sakura yet?"

"Something's happened?" he asked, concerned.

Out of nowhere a creature suddenly flew into Mirror's arms causing her to fall off the bench that she had been sitting at. There was a loud crashing sound. Keroberos looked seriously at her, appearing as though he was about to explain his plan to look for Sakura, while she was returning to her seat. He flew up into the air until he was mere inches away from her face. Mirror was suddenly terrified that she had done something wrong while in class. Did someone in the classroom figure out that she wasn't really Sakura?

"You did great! No one suspects a thing!" Kero congratulated, causing her to crash onto the ground again in disbelief.

"Mirror won't be able to keep this up all day," Syaoran added, helping the girl back up. "We need to find Kinomoto soon if she is really gone."

Mirror completely agreed with him. The longer Sakura was away the easier it would be for someone to see who she really was. They discussed a few things about what they were going to do, but in the end the bell rang before they could work up any real plans.

While walking back inside, Mirror found herself wishing that Sakura hadn't gone out last night.

Syaoran found himself staring at Mirror for rest of the day in class. It was strange how much she looked like Sakura even though they were two completely different people. He never really looked at Sakura before that day, but now since the girl was really Mirror, for some reason he couldn't help it. Sakura was really beautiful. Syaoran imagined what it would be like to kiss her and suddenly felt his face getting warm.

"Did you know..." Takashi uttered, suddenly appearing in front of Syaoran's desk.

"Wha... What?" Syaoran asked confused, waking up from his daydream.

Takashi Yamazaki's eyes always seemed to be closed. He was always was telling everyone around him all sorts of amazing tales and facts.

"There was once a girl that always stared at another boy in her class. Then one day the boy disappeared after being looked at so much and became a-"

"Lies. Lies. All lies!" Chiharu interrupted, suddenly trying to strangle him.

While the girl pulled Takashi away by the ear, Syaoran began wondering if the story that had just been told to him had been true. What if Sakura had really disappeared because of him? Would she have gone missing if he had accepted to borrow an umbrella from her house and walked her home? When the bell rang, he picked up his backpack and followed Tomoyo and the girl who looked like Sakura out of class, hoping that he could find a way to help.

To be continued...