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Shattered Blossoms






Sakura looked around the area while looking at her hand just to make sure she was still in the right area. *Hmm...where is it?*

She turned around a corner and saw a yellow house. She felt something... *It feels...like home...* She walked to the front door and checked the door number. It matched her address, she smiled to herself. *Hmm..How do I get in? I should have my own set of keys to my own house somewhere...*

Sakura dug her hands into her right pocket. Nothing there. Then she reached into her left pocket and felt cold metal. She raised a key out of the pocket and stuck it into the door. It turned.

"Yay..." She opened the door. The lights were off, so she looked for them and flicked them on.

"Hello?" She called, but no one answered her. "Hello??? Anyone home?!" She walked into a room which should be the kitchen. No one was there, and the house was dead silent.

She walked up the stairs. "Hello? It's me Sakura?" She pushed open a door and entered a room that was really messy with clothes and books scattered around. *I hope this isn't my room!* She stepped out and pushed open another door and stepped in.

The room was pink and had a bed over at the corner and a desk against the right side of the wall. A couple stuff animals and books sat around. She looked around the room, and saw one of the books on the desk. It had her name on it. She reached for it and read the title.

*My diary?! I keep a diary?!* She flipped open the book and the first page seemed to be very messy writing. She read the date and noticed this entry was seven years ago.

Dear Diary,
I am so sad! Syaoran Li has left me, and he is now probably in Hong Kong China!!! I hate this so much, but he must... He must train to become the leader of the Li-clan! I wished he didn't have to go! I feel something more than friendship between us, but now he has to leave! Oh why!!?? The only thing I have left of him is Syaoran Bear. A bear he gave me... I have photos of him with me, but I feel that this bear is more important than the rest. I miss him already! But he promised that he would return...he HAS to return...

A Sad Sakura =(

Sakura flipped another page. She gasped at the date. This time the writing was neater and the date was only a week ago...

Dear Diary,
I know keeping a diary is a very childish thing to do, since I am 17. But I need somewhere to write down the emotions that are running through me right now! I can't keep it all in me anymore... I can't even face Tomoyo or Kero! Father died today, which leaves me parentless...I feel so alone... so utterly alone!!!!!! I can't stand this anymore and it's just hurting so much I want to cry and never stop! I love me dad so much I can't take this!!!! ArGh!!!

Sakura stopped reading and felt an aching pain in her stomach. *Father...mother...dead?* She swallowed hard and noticed that this entry stopped right there. She slowly turned to the next page.

Deerr Diayr,
The wolrd is being so UNFAIR! One-chaan is daed! NONONONONONONONONONNO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Whoa...I made so many spelling mistakes! And...I had a brother?!* Sakura held her breath as she guessed what the words 'daed' meant. *...He's gone to....my whole family....gone...I'm all alone....* She noticed that the next couple of pages were ripped up. She starred at the page again when a memory flashed quickly into her mind.

"Good morning oni-chan..." Sakura dragged herself into the room and sat down. Then she noticed the over flowing orange juice that Touya was pouring. "Oni-chan?"

"Hm? Oh, the orange juice... I'll clean it up..." Touya grabbed a bunch of tissues and soaked the juice all up with them. "Um..Sakura..I have something to tell you..."

Sakura noticed the hint of pain from her brother's voice. "...Is it bad?"

Touya's back remained facing Sakura. He nodded, and Sakura frowned. "It's...dad isn't it?" Sakura pushed her chair back and stood up. "He's not here for breakfast...where is he?!"

Touya turned to look at his little sister's face. No, she wasn't that little anymore, she was 17. "He's...he's somewhere that there's no pain Sakura." Touya found it hard to breathe just looking at his sister's face.

"No...NOO!" Sakura screamed. "WHERE IS HE?!"

Sakura reached into her mind, but she couldn't think of any more. She noticed that she was crying, and after a few minutes, she was crying really hard. *Even though I don't remember them perfectly...They're still my family...* She wiped a couple tears away when she saw a picture frame sitting beside her alarm clock.

She picked it up and starred at the picture. She noticed that she was in the picture, holding a cone of ice cream, and a older boy stood behind her holding balloons. Beside him was an older man, who smiled back at her.

*...I know them...I can feel it! That boy...is...is...oni-chan....who is...* Sakura frowned in fustration. *ARGH, what is his name?!*

Touya...

*Touya? Touya oni-chan...* She repeated, and it came out easily, like she had said it her whole life. *...and the man must be dad! But where's mother??*

She looked back at the diary and accidentally flipped to the very middle of the book. There was actually an entry there. *Odd...*

Dear Diary,
What am I going to do...? How will I tell dad? And Touya?! I don't know...I just don't know! All I know is that...this is horrible...I will never ever walk home from school alone again...never...ever...never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate my life! It's messed up...everything...is messed up.....I lost my mother just when I was three...and I just had to open the stupid Clow Book and suffer the pain of being a cardcaptor!!!! And then this boy named Syaoran appears and the only sentence he can say properly is 'YOUR PATHETIC'!!!! ERGHASD:FJSKAFas;fkj! But now...when I look back at these things...what happened today seems by far worst...

Sakura scratched her head. *What happened....?* Then a bit of something flashed through her brain.

Sakura frowned as she stepped out of her high school. It was raining, and Tomoyo had skipped the afternoon classes since she had a dentist appointment. Now she was skating home on her rollar blades through the blinding rain, wishing she had brought an umbrella. Then out of the side she felt a rough tug at her arm and she gave a yelp.

"Ahh!" Sakura automatically reached up for the Clow Key but someone grabbed her hand.

"Hey little girl..." She heard a husky voice laugh.

She grimaced at the smell of beer. "LET ME GO!!!"

Sakura frowned to herself. *...........................................Oh.........my............................god...............*

"Sakura? Hey Sakura!?" Tomoyo ran around her house looking for her friend when she bumped into one of the many maids in the house.

"Miss, what are you looking for?"

"Oh, it's who you mean. I'm looking for Sakura-chan. Did you happen to see her?" Tomoyo asked urgently.

The maid shook her head sadly. "No, I'm sorry."

"That's alright..." Tomoyo dashed to her room. *Maybe she's here!*

She looked around the room. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary except that her address book was open to the pages 'S'.

"AHHHHH!!!!!" She dashed out of her room, and then back into her room. *No! I gotta phone Li-kun!*

Tomoyo dialed the number and waited impaitently. *COME ON!!! PICK UP THE PHONE!!!!!!!!*

"Hello? This is Meiling Li speaking?"

"MEILING!!! MEET ME AT SAKURA'S HOUSE RIGHT AWAY! WITH LI-KUN NOW NOW AND NOW!!! FAST!!!" Tomoyo hung up and grabbed her jacket and dashed out of her room, bumping into a maid who was holding a plate of expensive china cups.

"Come on XiaoLang! We gotta get going!" Meiling yanked her cousin out of his room.

He looked at her with a fustrated look. "What?!"

"IT'S SAKURA-CHAN! SO WE GOTTA GET GOING!"

Syaoran jumped up at the mention of Sakura and quickly dashed out of the apartment builing. Meiling ran after him.

"Hey!! Deng wo (wait for me)!!" She called.

Tomoyo arrived at Sakura's house just as Syaoran and Meiling turned the corner and they all bumped at Sakura's front door.

"~pant~ Are...~pant~ we late?" Meiling leaned against the fence for support. "Man XiaoLang ~pant~, you rau to ~pant~ fast!"

"You're not late. I just got here!"

Syaoran nodded, "Why are we here?"

"Cause look at this!" Tomoyo reached into her pocket and took out her mini sized address book, with it opened to the 'S' pages.

"Er..so?" Meiling seemed confused. "It just says... Sakura Kinomoto...her phone number...and address....fax number..."

"That's my point! I think Sakura came back here!" Tomoyo cried.

Kero came flying out of Tomoyo's bag since he had been over at Tomoyo's house last night after she called. "What?!"

"I'm scared that she'll find out about...her father and brother and all that..." Tomoyo frowned and knocked on the door. No one answered it.

Syaoran walked up to the door, and felt that Sakura's aura had touched the door knob. "She was here..." He stated and turned the knob. The door wasn't locked to their amazement, and they stepped into the room.

The lights were on, well, most of them were on.

"Sakura?! It's Meiling!! And XiaoLang and Tomoyo-chan!!! Hello???" Meiling called while walking into the living room.

Syaoran walked into the dining room. "Sakura???"

Tomoyo decided to go up stairs and walked into Sakura's room. "Sakkkkuuuraaa????" She looked around.

The bed was untouched, and everything seemed the same as last time she came into the room. She noticed that a picture frame was faced upside down on the carpeted floor.

She crouched down and picked it up. It was a picture of Sakura's father and brother and Sakura. *Oh dear...did she know?* She placed the picture back onto it's place beside the alarm clock, and caught the sight of a book.

*...My diary...* It read in small gold handwriting. Tomoyo knew that diaries were private to the people who wrote in them, but she had to look.

She looked at the first page. *...Wow..this was like 7 years ago!* She flipped onto the next. *....Wow! This is like 7 years after!* She started reading the page and frowned. *Oh...no...*

"Tomoyo did you find Sakura?!* Meiling came running up the stairs with Syaoran right behind.

Tomoyo was stilled reading the page about the death of Sakura's father. She started sobbing a bit, and turned to look at Meiling and Syaoran.

"No, I didn't see Sakura anywhere...but I found this..." She showed the covered. "Her diary..."

Meiling looked over at the book, and Syaoran did to.

Syaoran blushed furiously when he noticed the first page was all about him. Then when they read the next page, their faces fell. Then they turned onto the next page, and they all frowned even deeper.

"I sense Sakura's aura...she's opened this book already..." Syaoran mumbled. *My cherry blossom...be ok...please...*

They dropped the diary, not reading the entry in the middle of the book.

"We gotta find Sakura!" Meiling cried.

"Maybe she's at my house..." Tomoyo guessed, but she knew she wouldn't be for some reason.

Syaoran frowned and looked out the window, a determined look on his face. *I'll find you Sakura...*

Three weeks later

"MeiHua?"

A girl with pink streaks in her hair looked up from a magazine she was reading. "Hm?"

"You have to hurry! Get this outfit on real fast ok?" A girl around the age of 17 laid out a pair of clothes on a nearby chair.

"Hai!" The girl with pink streaks got up and went into a changing room.

"I'll have the make up people waiting outside for you right when you come out of that changing room!" The girl added.

"Matte (wait)!"

The girl stopped in her tracks. "Nani (what)?"

"Wo de xie zi zai na li (Where are my shoes) YuChing?" Meihua asked.

"Oh! The shoes will be right outside. But hurry! The snapshots are going to be taken in FIVE MINTUES!" YuChing left the room.

MeiHua quickly changed into her outfit which consisted of a baby blue mini skirt with little star beads dangling around it. And a white tank top with blue stars near the corner. *What's with the stars?* She stepped out from the change room and was crowded around my a couple of people doing her make up for her.

YuChing came running into her room, her green eyes urgent. "Hurry! Ok, that's enough make up!" She pulled MeiHua out of the change room and onto the platform where a photographer was taking photos.

"Ni hao! (hi)" MeiHua greeted to the photographer.

"Ni hao. (hi) Wo de ming zi si SuZhong (My name is SuZhong)."

MeiHua smiled, "Wo de ming zi si MeiHua."

After a couple minutes the pictures were over. MeiHua sighed in relief since she didn't really like this outfit. It was to tight for her liking.

"Great job MeiHua!" YuChing smiled at her, her green eyes beaming at her.

MeiHua's brown eyes sparkled. "Thanks!"

YuChing looked at her clipboard, her black hair tumbling around her. "Hm... out next tour place is going to be at Hong Kong... that shouldn't take long at all. Since we're in XangHai right now."

"Ok!"



AN: Yeah ~.^ Chapter 4 is finally done! Now remember these two characters MeiHua and YuChing. Cause you're gonna see them around for a while ;) Hey, we never know if one of these characters you've already met in the previous chapters *wink wink* Now, coming up next or in the future:

~Will Tomoyo, Syaoran, and Meiling find Sakura?
~What will happen when MeiHua and YuChing goes to Hong Kong?

All hopefully in the next chapter!

Yours truly and happily ~XiaoLing~