"SAKURA-CHAN!" that was my best friend tomoyo she's the only one who calls me by that name. "Sakura-chan you're late! What happened? Are you alright?"
"…" I nodded confirming that nothing serious had happened, I wasn't going to tell her about the short cut she would go ballistic!
"Good now come one homeroom's almost over and I heard we are getting a few new students!" she sounded excited but I could care less even new people hate me for just being quiet.
"They just don't know you sakura-chan. besides I have a feeling these people will be different so don't lose hope ok?"
I nodded and smiled tomoyo can sort of read my mind its kind of creepy for some people but for us it's great even if I don't use my own voice in my mind. We arrived at the door of homeroom and entered.
"Daudouji! Kinomoto! Your late!" I looked down I could feel all eyes on tomoyo and me.
"Yes I know we are late we have our reasons." The teacher glared at tomoyo then at me.
"Do you have anything to say miss kinomoto?" I shook my head indicating I didn't I never did so why did he ask! He's lucky I don't talk! "Very well take your sets but I will see both of you after class." We took our seats tomoyo sat beside me even though that was not her assigned seat; she had a way of getting what she wanted it was scary even for me. The seats around us where empty, no matter who came they wouldn't sit by us, the teacher wouldn't assign seats to anyone near us. I don't really mind no one talks to me anyways only tomoyo. "Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was saying that we have three new student today. Please come in" Wait I've seen those two before I cant ever forget those amber eyes but the blue haired boy I only over looked where was that…THE SHORTCUT! Not good, not good. Tomoyo looked at me her expression showed worry, I smiled fackily to let her think I was fine but she knew better.
"Hello my name is Hiragizawa Eriol pleased to meet you." The girls stared at him with dreamy looks kind of creepy if you ask me but it looked like it didn't faze him.
"My name is Li Melin" whispers were heard all over the class. The Li's were the richest but I mean richest people in all of Asia! It was rumored that the children were not the nicest people in the world but that wasn't the only reason they were famous but no one else knows the other reason but tomoyo and me.
"You don't need to know my name." that was the amber-eyed cutie…wait CUTIE!! Where the heck did that come from? The girl glared at him.
"Forgive my knuckle head of a cousin, he hasn't had the best day, his name is Li Syaoran." He frowned apparently he did not want to be here. Something was very weird about him for one he was surrounded by green things that looked like flames and I couldn't get my eyes off of him. He looked around the room and every time he looked one direction the girls would scream then he set his eyes on me…those eyes they seem so warm and caring…. our eyes connected it was like the world had stopped only me and him it felt well familiar…he smiled and winked at me. I felt my face heat up and quickly looked out the window, I heard him chuckle…. stupid kid. The teacher gave them there assigned sets but the girl asked if they could choose their own seats. He said it was alright. To tomoyo's surprise and me they sat around us. Li melin sat behind me, Hiragizawa-san sat in front of tomoyo and Li-kun sat in front of me. Everyone stared at them even the teacher but the bell rang soon indicating 1st period nobody moved since there first class was here but we had a 10 minute break so they started chatting. But sadly when that happens the teacher goes away and the students make a crowd.
"Hey idiot what's up?" that was Kirk he makes the stupidest comment and nick names what I'm really worried about is kagura she hates me to the bone and I don't know why.
"Kirk dear please leave the nick names to me." He mumbled something. "What's this? The new kids are sitting by miss mute? I advise you to stay away from her, her silence must be contagious."
"I highly doubt her silence is contagious and I can sit wherever I want to thank you very much," that was Li Melin she had a very ano…angry face.
""Whatever." She came closer to me and took my locate right off my neck.
"HEY! Give that back!" shouted tomoyo
"Why should I? Its mine now unless mute over here has something to say about it?" she looked at me challengly but of course I didn't say anything. "I thought so." She snapped it open almost breaking the star shaped locate in two. That locate is all I have left of my family the only little thing I could save from the fire. By now I was standing up.
"Ugh! There's an ugly picture in here!" she took the picture out and waved it in my face. "What do you think I should do with it mute?"
"Kagura! Leave her alone!"
"Oh! I have an idea!" she took a lighter out and held the picture above it.
"Hey wait!"
"What do you want?!"
"Why are you doing this? I doubt what she did was that bad to treat her like this!" Li melin said trying to make kagura back off! Apparently that did not work.
"Melin dear you don't know why but you'll know soon." And with a click of the lighter my favorite and only picture of my family went up in flames, the crowd started to laugh but I couldn't hear anyone I felt dead the only thing I could save of my family gone. My eyes started to burn and tears ran down my cheek like rain pouring down on the street it wouldn't stop, my pupil was disappearing and reappearing it became bigger then smaller I lost all senses. Then I could see, hear, feel; breath and I saw my picture crumpled in a heap of smoke. I grabbed my locate from kagura put it to my heart and ran out the classroom.
"Well that was fun maybe now I can stay awake in class." Kagura sighed sitting down; tomoyo was about to say something when melin started to shout.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM!"
"Dear please calm down it was harmless fun, I saw you and the other boys eyeing her wasn't it fun looking at her going crazy?!"
"THAT WASENT FUNNY!!"
"Yes it was you'll learn to think my way." Tomoyo was about to leave when kagura caught her "Excuse me but you weren't about to leave here?"
"Yes I was, and I'm going to look for my friend"
"We'll go with you!" melin said pulling at syaoran and eriol.
"Yes we'll go." Replied eriol standing up.
"I'll be right there" syaoran walked over to where the burned picture was picked it up and ran after them.
"SAKURA-CHAN!"
"Kinomoto-san!"
"Did you find her yet?" syaoran asked casually walking outside.
"No" tomoyo had a gloomy face but melin tried to comfort her by putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry we'll find her." She said in a very soft tone.
"Arigato"
"No problem."
"Can I ask you something?"
"Sure"
"Why are you helping me look for sakura-chan."
"For the record I never agreed to look, melin dragged me here." Melin glared at her cousin but he didn't seem to mind.
"I want to help out because what the girl did was pretty bad." Continued eriol.
"Same as eriol"
"Well I have a question for you," pointed syaoran at eriol
"Yes?"
"What's the big deal with kinomoto, its just a picture! She can get another one any time." Tomoyo went gloomy all over again, she turned her back to him.
"No she cant… she cant get another picture, that was the only one left, her mom and dad where murdered when she was only 6, and they burned her house down, the only reason she has that locate with the picture in it is because, her mother gave it to her when she was 4 and since then she never took it off," a long silence set in making syaoran regret he ever asked. "Lets keep looking I think I know where sakura is," she raced off to the very spot sakura was crying her heart out."
"Nice going bone-head!" melin hit him on the head.
"Leave him alone Mei, is the restoration done?"
"Like hell its not! This thing could take days maybe even weeks, even with my level of magic!"
"Which is pretty low," joked melin but syaoran took it personal.
"At least I have magic," he retorted.
"Shut-up!' syaoran chuckled, melin and eriol where very surprised syaoran never laughed even less chuckle.
"You seem happy today my-cute-little-descendant."
"Maybe because he thinks kinomoto-san is a very pretty girl." Melin chimed; syaoran felt a slight blush on his face but didn't say a word. "I saw that little wink you gave to her too!" he turned beat read, he was hoping no one saw that but her, actually he didn't know why he did that.
"We should keep searching." He said melin and eriol agreed and started to search again. When they almost stopped they heard a cry, a very faint and distant cry.
"It came from that direction." Melin pointed behind the school.
"Let's see if it really, kinomoto-san." They ran behind the school to find a lake? And a single cherry blossom tree and it seemed that some one was under it.
"I never knew this school had a lake," melin said
"It doesn't" eriol replaid grimly
"Actually it does!" tomoyo had just popped out of nowhere scareing the living daylights out of melin.
"DON'T DO THAT!" she screamed at her tomoyo laughed 'Sakura-chan used to be like that.'
"Gomenasi! I just couldn't help myself," she put on one of her fake but very convincing smiled, everyone bought it except of course eriol.
'You miss her don't you' he said telepathically surprised tomoyo turned around to face him, he only smiled and nodded, they kept on going towards sakura.
'Miss who?'
'Kinomoto-san, I mean the real sakura-san'
'I always have since that day,' there telepathic conversation ended after those last few words said by tomoyo, 'I wonder what made kinomoto-san loss all hope.
'He has no idea'