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Shattered Blossoms





"Class, next Tuesday we will be going to our annual Ski Trip for the year!" Mr. Tazaimaki gave the class a big toothy grin. "I know this might sound childish, but here are the permission slips that are needed to be signed by your parents. Bring it back by this Thursday!"

He passed around the yellow sheet of paper to everyone. Sakura gripped her's tightly when she read the empty blank space for your parent's signature. She felt a whole new pain hit her, until Meiling's loud voice shook her out of it.

"Aiya!! I don't know how to ski!!!" Meiling pratically screamed, and she blushed in embarrassment when the whole class turned to look at her. "You see, China doesn't get snow that often!"

Syaoran shrugged at Meiling. "I don't know how to ski either. I'm not freaking out like you Meiling."

Meiling pouted, "Whatever XiaoLang!"

Sakura turned to face them. "...I don't think I can go."

"Why not Sakura?!" Tomoyo looked startled. "I thought you loved skiing!"

"..Yeah. I love skiing. But..." She pointed to the parent's signature spot again. "I don't have any parents..."

Sakura turned away again, and walked over to Mr. Tazaimaki. "Excuse me sensai (teacher)."

"Yes Miss. Kinomoto?"

"I don't have any parents to sign this permission slip."

The class fell silent.

Mr. Tazaimaki looked sadly at Sakura. "Don't worry about that. Don't you have an older brother?"

She nodded and returned to her seat.

Syaoran frowned to himself. *The Sakura I knew was very cheerful...and jumpy... not like this...*

Soon the day was over, and Sakura silently left the room without a glance at her worried friends. But then she quickly stopped and ran over to Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo, onegai (please)! Walk home with me?" Sakura tugged at her friend's arm as if she was a little girl begging for ice cream.

Tomoyo nodded and glanced over at Meiling and Syaoran with a 'I'll take care of this' look. "Ok Sakura-chan let's go."

Sakura sighed in relief. She defenaitely did not want to talk home by herself. She never ever wanted to again.

When they neared the yellow house, Sakura waved good-bye to her friend, squinting through the rain. "Sayonara Tomoyo-chan."

"Sayonara Sakura! See you tomorrow!"

Sakura opened the door to her house and saw Touya sitting in the living room with the T.V. on, even though he was looking at the clock.

"I'm home oni-chan."

Touya jumped up since he hadn't notice his little sister there. "Squirt! Thank god you're home!"

"....W..why?"

"Oh, nothing really... just that it's 3:15 and I thought something might have happened."

Sakura's eyes turned into little dots. *That's pretty early for me.*

"Well, I need to go now."

"Which job is it now?" Sakura asked with interest. It was always fun to know where Touya was going.

"Um..It's the little nursery place near Penguin Park." Touya sweatdropped. "You'll be ok right Squirt?"

Sakura nodded and went up her to her room where a sleeping Kero was. She was careful to be quiet as she took out her assignments, and her yellow permission slip floated onto the carpeted floor.

She crouched down and picked it up. *I'll have to ask Touya to sign it when he gets back...*

Touya frowned as the light turned red. He stopped his car and waited for the green light, and finally it changed. He drove down a couple streets where kids were still walking through the rain to go home.

Touya looked at his wrist watch and gasped. *I'm late!! I'm turning into the squirt...* He chuckled to himself and drove a bit faster.

He was almost at the end of the street when he saw a flash of white turn the corner.

In memory of Touya Kinomoto
Shall he rest in peace
With his mother
And father
Under the cherry blossom trees

Sakura starred blankly at the tombstone beisde her parents. She had read the thing a billion times already, but she didn't want it to be true. She looked at the empty grass beside her brother's grave.

*My spot...* She thought. *I want to join you mother, father,...brother. There's no point in living is there?*

She felt the light pressure of the Clow Key around her neck. Sakura yanked it off chain it was hanging on, and placed it near her wrist, pointing the sharpest point of the key at it.

A image flashed into Sakura's mind.

In memory of Sakura Kinomoto
The angel of cherry blossoms
The angel to her loved ones
Shall she rest in peace
With love and hope

Sakura shook her head and cleared the image out of her mind. *No! I mustn't do such a stupid act! Mother and father, and even Touya would never want me to kill myself...* Sakura dropped the Clow Key onto the wet grass, the rain still pelting down.

She started crying, tears rolling down her cheeks like rain drops. Sakura hugged her knees tightly and cried into her arms.

"...S..sakura."

Sakura turned around quickly. That voice was familiar. "Mother!!!!"

She saw her mother smile at her, her long wavy hair swaying along in the wind. Then the wind picked up, and Sakura saw her father appear beside her mother.

"Dad!!!!!!!" She jumped up from her sitting position, and saw Touya appear beside her mom.

"Ssakura!!! Why?"

Sakura looked at her brother with confusion. "Why? Why what oni-chan?"

"Why didn't you stop me from going to the nursery Sakura?! You let me go..." Touya's voice came cold and unwavering. "You could have prevented my death."

Sakura stepped back as her eyes watered again. "...I..I'm sorry Touya...I didn't know! I didn't know that...that you would be in a car crash...I didn't know..." She stammered, feeling a sharp feeling of pain in her heart.

Her brother glared at her. "Excuses..."

Nadesiko nodded, "My dear Sakura.... I love you so...but my death was because of your birth Sakura... I could have lived...if I didn't give birth to you!"

Sakura fell onto her knees, and squeezed her eyes shut. "No!!! Stop it! I don't want to hear anymore! This is all an illusion!"

"Sakura! Daijobu?!!!"

Sakura clung at her hair. "No! Stop! I'm sorry alright!!!?"

Syaoran ran up to Sakura who was rolled up into a ball. He shoke her shoulder gently. "Sakura?"

Sakura jumped at the voice and shrunk back, her eyes red and big. "I'm sorry Touya...mom...dad..."

Syaoran frowned, "Sakura! It's me! Syaoran!"

"Syaoran?" She stopped crying, and was quiet for a few seconds.

*...W..what's wrong with her?* Syaoran looked worridly at Sakura.

"Syaoran!!!" Sakura jumped into his arms. "Syaoran! Syaoran! Oh my god, Syaoran!"

Syaoran fell back a few steps at the impact, but quickly regained his compusure. He looked down at the crying Sakura, and noticed another grave beisde her parents.

*Oh no...Touya...?!* Syaoran wanted to cry himself. To cry for Sakura, and the pain she always had to suffer.

After a few minutes, Syaoran didn't hear the crying sounds Sakura was making. He glanced down at her and noticed that she seemed asleep, or fainted. He carefully carried her on his back towards Tomoyo's mansion.

"Ahhh!! What happened to her Li-Kun?!" Tomoyo quickly led the way to her room.

"I'm not sure if she's sleepy or if she fainted. But she was crying...for a while and all of a sudden she was quiet." Syaoran explained as he put Sakura down onto Tomoyo's bed. "She kept on mumbling about her parents and Touya...not to mention...Touya...he..." He closed his eyes not wanting to look at Tomoyo's reaction. "He passed away."

Tomoyo yelped in surprise, then her eyes grew round and watery. "Touya? He's gone?! Oh Sakura-chan! Gomen...gomen..." She patted her sleeping friend on the shoulder. "She must feel horrible Syaoran...what can we do?"

Syaoran frowned. It worried him to look at Sakura like this. He just wasn't use to this new Sakura who always walked around with a sad face.

Finally, after an hour or so, Sakura's eyes fluttered open and she noticed this room was strangely familiar, but it wasn't her own. *Hoe? I think this is...Tomoyo's room?* She starred at the ceiling and noticed that Tomoyo was asleep on her desk, and Syaoran was asleep on the couch in a sitting position.

She sat up on the bed as her memories came back to her. She sobbed quietly, not wanting to wake her friends. Then she noticed something was missing from her neck, her Clow Key.

*Oh no...it's at the cemitary...* She reluctantly crept out of the mansion and ran towards the cemitary.

She looked around and saw a glitter of pink on the grass. She crouched down and picked up the Clow Key, but she felt another surge of pain as she saw the tomb stones of her family.

She grasped her key tightly when an idea struck her.

*I don't care what happens...as long as the pain is gone...* Sakura closed her eyes. "Key of Clow! Power of magic, power of light! Surrender the wand, the force ignite! Release..."

"...Erase card..." She flung the card into the air. "Erase my memory, of pain and grief and everything! Release and..."

"NO SAKURA!!!"

"Dispel!" Sakura cried, even though she was positive she heard someone scream her name.

"Sakura!!! Sakura!!!"

Sakura groaned and sat up. "...Where am I?"

"You're at my house Sakura!" Tomoyo cried, and looked over to Syaoran who stood beside her.

"What? Who's Sakura?"

"No...it's all my fault...I didn't stop her in time!" Syoaoran slammed his fist on one of Tomoyo's table tops.

"No Li-kun, don't blame yourself...what happened?" Tomoyo asked.

Syaoran turned to look at Sakura who had a blank look on her face. "...She used the Erase Card and erased her memory..."

"Oh no! Sakura-chan! Why did you?!" Tomoyo cried and hugged her friend tightly in tears.

Sakura jumped up at the sudden hug and scrambled away. "Whao you people are weird! What erase card? Memory? You guys are confusing!"

Tomoyo looked at Syaoran urgently with a *what are we going to do* look. "Syaoran! What are we going to do?!"

"We'll have to help her remember everything..." Syaoran kept his eyes on the floor, hoping that no tears would escape his eyes.

"Should we tell Kero about this?"

Syaoran nodded, "We have to tell Kero."

"What is a kero? Or is Kero a person?" Sakura looked confused. "How come I can't remember anything?!" Sakura started crying and Tomoyo gave her friend a hug and she accepted.

"Don't worry Sakura-chan...we'll help you. Your name is Sakura Kinomoto, and mine is Tomoyo Daidouji," Tomoyo reached her hand out in gesture of hand shake.

Sakura shook it and pointed to Syaoran. "Who's that guy?"

Syaoran felt his heart ache. *She doesn't remember me...* "I'm Syaoran Li, and I'm from China."

"Oh! And Meiling! I'll go call her over..." Tomoyo reached for her phone.

"Hello?"

"Hi Meiling! This is Tomoyo and bad news! So you better get to my house right now Meiling-chan!" Tomoyo mumbled into the phone.

"What?! What happened? Is it XiaoLang?! Or Sakura?!" Meiling's voice came screaming over the other end.

"It's Sakura...she used the erase card to erase her memory..."

"Oh no! I'll be right over!"

Tomoyo heard Meiling hang up so she did so to. "Meiling will be right over."

"Who's Meiling?" Sakura asked.

"Um, she's another one of your friends. She is also Syaoran's cousin," Tomoyo explained.

Sakura nodded, "So you are all my friends? Right?"

"Right." Tomoyo looked over to Syaoran. He hadn't said a word in a while.

He simply nodded right when the door opened and Meiling came running in. "I'm here! Where's Sakura?!" She asked, turning around to spot her friend.

"Um..over here," Sakura called and watched as Meiling turned to her.

"Do you remember me?" The red eyed girl asked.

Sakura scartched her head. "I'm sorry...no I don't...but I assume that you're Meiling. Right?"

Meiling smiled, "Right!" And turned to look at Tomoyo. "At least she knows me name."

"Yeah, but I called you over because we need your help. To return Sakura's memory," Tomoyo said.

Meiling nodded sadly and turned to her cousin who was frowning deeply. "Syaoran? Earth to Syaoran?"

"Hm?" He looked up, his eyebrows still scrunched together.

"You seemed...I dunno...unfocued XiaoLang," Meiling commented.

"I was just thinking," Syaoran shrugged.

Sakura then looked around the room. "This is Tomoyo's house right?"

"Yeah..."

"Where's my house? And my family?" Sakura asked, and recieved very sad looking faces staring back at her.

AN: Eep! Sakura has lost her memory!!! Thanks for reading and please R+R, I really appreicate it!! Now, coming up in the next chapter or the next next chapter:

~Will Sakura ever get her memory fully restored?
~How will Tomoyo, Syaoran, and Meiling reply to Sakura's question?

Stay tooned and you'll know ;)

Yours Truly ~XiaoLing~