"Sakura!!!" Touya stood at the base of the stairs, tapping his foot impatiently. "You've got five minutes to get down here or I'm not waiting for you anymore!!"

"Wait, I'm coming, I'm coming!!!" Sakura bolted down the stairs, practically jumping over Touya on her way down. She ran over to the kitchen table and grabbed a slice of bread, shoving it into her mouth as she ran back to the stairs to put on her rollerblades.

"Do you have your lunch, Sakura?" Fujitaka asked, not looking up from his newspaper.

"Yeff, Oto-ffan." Sakura gulped down the remainder of her toast and skated over to her father. "Sorry. Yes, Oto-san, I have my lunch."

"Good. Have a good day at school, you two!"

"Bye, Oto-san," Touya said as he strolled out the door and straddled his bike.

"Have a good day," Sakura added, blowing her dad a kiss as she skated out the door. She shut the door behind her and skated alongside Touya. "Hey, where's Yukito-san?"

"He's really sick," Touya answered. "Why so interested, huh?"

Sakura blushed furiously. She knew that Yukito was sick because he hadn't fully recovered from his whole ordeal with the Possession Card, from being put under a powerful magical spell, and having all his magic drained out of him as Yue. "I'm... just... concerned about his well-being, that's all."

"Right. Anyway, I'm gonna go see him after school today and I know you'll wanna come along, so try not to be late coming out of school today." They came to the fork in the road where Sakura's school was, and Touya waved behind him as he rode away down one fork of the road. Sakura skated down the other path just in time to catch up with Tomoyo, who greeted her with a warm smile.

"You're on time for once," Tomoyo joked.

Sakura reddened slightly, remembering the time she was late for school because her brother and Yukito wouldn't slow down for her. That was when Kari was still around, still under the spell of the Possession Card. Sakura hadn't talked to Kari ever since she left for Kyoto two months earlier. She wasn't mad or anything, she was just going to wait until Kari was able to forgive herself for what she'd done. "Not funny. Hey, did you hear about what happened last night?"

"Yeah, I heard there was a fire in the forest really late, around the same time that the thunderstorm started. It's so strange though. When the firefighters came there wasn't any trace of a fire, no smoke, nothing burned or anything. They think it was some kind of prank call, but how could it have been a prank call if so many people saw it?"

"Maybe the rain washed everything away and put the fire out," Sakura suggested.

"Maybe." Tomoyo opened the classroom door and slung her bag over the chair. "You know what, though? Part of the school burned down."

"Hoee?!" Sakura's eyes were wide in shock. "Are you serious?"

"Totally. The library burned down last night. It might have been because of the fire in the forest, but the police think it's a completely different incident." Tomoyo giggled. "Wow, this is so great, we've got a real detective story on our hands, a real mystery right here in Tomoeda."

"You've got a real sense of compassion there, Daidouji Tomoyo."

Tomoyo shrieked and turned around to see Syaoran glowering behind her. "Hey, don't do that! You scared me."

"Yeah. Anyway, this is a lot more serious than you think it is. It's not just the library that was destroyed, it was that entire part of the school."

"Hoee!! Syaoran, you'd better not be kidding."

"I'm incapable of kidding. They're relocating us today, they have to fix up that area of the school. All the little kids from grade four and below are going to the daycare on Endo Street. The grade fives, sixes, and sevens are going to Taiho Elementary - that's down the street from the daycare - and we're going to Seijo High."

Sakura groaned. "Oh geez, this means I'll have to spend the rest of the school year walking down the same halls as my brother."

"Trust me, Sakura, I'm not looking forward to that either."

After three days going to Seijo High, Sakura still couldn't find her way around. She was late for class every single time because she couldn't remember where her classroom was. And with a school that had four floors and numerous stretches of winding hallways, it wasn't that hard. She was on her way to her science class when someone yelled at her from down the hall.

"Sakura!!"

Sakura turned around and began to blush. Yukito was walking towards her with a friendly smile on his face, a smile that made Sakura want to melt. "Hey, I heard what happened at your school."

"Yeah." Giggling should be outlawed, Sakura thought angrily as she listened to Tomoyo and Mihara Chiharu laughing a few feet away. "Glad to see you're feeling better."

"Thanks, Sakura. Anyway, if that Syaoran Li kid decides to pick on you anymore, To-ya and I are gonna be just a few steps away. Think of it, Sakura; your own personal bodyguards, just like Tomoyo-san."

Yukito grinned, and Sakura couldn't help but grin back. "Thanks a lot, Yukito."

"No problem. Hey, I packed a little extra for lunch today, so you and your friends can have lunch on me today. How's that?"

Tomoyo and Chiharu were seized in fits of laughter. "Sure, that would be great," Sakura answered. "They won't mind."

"Great." Yukito gave Sakura a hug. "See you at lunch!!"

Sakura waved at Yukito and then glared at Tomoyo and Chiharu. "You guys are so embarrassing," she said.

"At least you're happy," Chiharu said, still laughing. "You get to spend six hours a day in the same building with your loverboy. What more could a girl want?"

Sakura fumed, then stopped abruptly as she noticed Touya at his locker talking comfortingly with a girl she'd never met before. Sakura was accustomed to knowing all of Touya's girlfriends. "Guys, check it out. Who's that girl my brother's talking to?"

Tomoyo squinted in Touya's direction. "I don't know. I think I've seen her a couple of times, like at the library, but she looked a lot different then."

Chiharu looked over at Touya. "I think she lives on my street. Yeah, she lives across the street from me. Her name's Harada Maeko, she's a friend of my sister's."

Sakura took a closer look at the girl. She was tall, almost as tall as Touya, with long, wavy, somewhat disheveled, ebony-black hair and piercing dark eyes behind wire-framed glasses. She looked poised and intelligent, a future executive in a big company. "It's weird though," Chiharu continued. "Maeko-san's hair was perfectly straight before. And she's so shy, she'd never have the courage to just go up to a guy and talk to them, she said so herself. I didn't even know she liked Touya-san."

"A guy like Touya is probably swimming in girls," Tomoyo commented. "And maybe Maeko-san decided she might as well change if she would ever get a chance at him."

"Yeah, but overnight?" Chiharu looked totally puzzled. "It's still weird."

"Oh well, it's summer. A time of change. We get a new school, Maeko-san gets a new look for Touya. Everything changes."

"I'm in love," Touya announced upon walking into the house.

Sakura sputtered into her miso. "Hoee?! You're what?!"

"In love," Touya answered, leaning in close to give Sakura a hug. "And it feels incredible."

"Who's the unlucky victim?" Sakura muttered.

"What was that?"

"Um... who's the lucky girl?"

"Harada Maeko." Touya twirled around the dining room as if he were dancing on air. "The most beautiful girl in Tomoeda. No, wait, in all Japan. Wait... the most beautiful girl in the world. Sakura, what do you want for your birthday?"

"My birthday was two months ago." My goodness, he's finally flipped! Sakura thought.

"Trifles, trifles. A stuffed toy, you say? Consider it done." With that, Touya practically skipped back out the front door. Sakura stared after him with a very confused look on her face.

"What's eating him?" Kero asked, floating down the stairs.

"Nothing. He's in love. Only he's never been this way before, not even when he was going out with Mizuko-sensei four years ago. This is definitely weird."

"Tell me about it. Love makes humans act really funny. Who's that girl he was talking about? Harada Maeko? Pretty name."

"Yeah. She's a friend of Chiharu-san's sister, used to be super-shy but changed overnight into a total guy-magnet."

"Really? Do humans do that normally?"

Sakura shook her head and laughed at Kero. "Yeah, when they really, really want to."

Sakura was busy doing her homework on the computer when the phone rang. "Hello, Kinomoto residence?"

"Hello, could I please speak to To-ya?"

To-ya? Sakura thought, thoroughly puzzled. Only Yukito called Touya that, and that was definitely not Yukito on the phone. That was a girl. "I'm sorry, he can't come to the phone right now. Could I take a message?"

"Oh, but could I please speak to him? It's really very important."

"I'm sorry, but he's in the shower -"

"Listen to me, you little brat." The girl's tone changed all of a sudden, from soft and sweet to harsh and bitter. "You're going to let me talk to my To-ya now. I don't care what kind of flimsy excuse you have. Give him the phone right now and let me talk to him!"

"Sakura, what' going on?" Touya walked out of the bathroom, drying his hair with a fluffy white towel.

"Some girl wants to talk to you." Sakura handed him the phone angrily.

"Girl?" Touya asked puzzledly. "Hello? Oh, Maeko!" Touya trailed out of the room, significantly happier than he had been earlier. "Hey, you actually called me. I didn't think you would - I mean, I'm surprised. Pleasantly surprised..."

Sakura was surprised. That was Maeko? "Is Oniichan totally blind or something?" she said to herself. A few minutes later Touya came back in, fully dressed and hauling his windbreaker over his shoulders. "Tell Oto-san I'll be back later," he said to Sakura.

"Where are you going?"

"Out." Touya put the phone back and gave Sakura a quick hug. "Don't ask questions. I'll be back soon."

"Is it Maeko?" Sakura asked as Touya made his way up the stairs.

Touya stopped, looked up, and Sakura noted the flush on his cheeks. "She really wants to see me," he said, as if that was a good enough explanation. He waved at Sakura and went out the door, leaving Sakura completely confused. He never went out this late at night, and he never snuck out of the house for anything, not even for a girl. Not even for Kaho-sensei, and Touya was about as in love with Kaho-sensei as anyone could ever be. Maybe it's a Clow Card, Sakura could already hear Tomoyo saying. She shrugged, highly doubting it. Clow Cards didn't make people act this way... at least normally they didn't.