DISCLAIMER: I don't own ccs so don't sue me.
a/n: I'm glad you all enjoyed the last chapter
Touya could only watch as Sakura slowly started to forget their mother. After Nadeshiko had first died, Sakura had been sick for a long time. She cried out for her mother in her sleep and often woke up in the middle of the night and dragged a blanket into Touya's room to spend the night. Gradually though, she grew out of those nightly escapades and stopped crying out for her mother. To Sakura, Nadeshiko was now just a warm memory.
Touya tried for a long time to keep the memories of their mother alive in his sister, but it was difficult. True, he saw Nadeshiko many times standing watch over Sakura in her sleep or while she played. Touya noticed that Sakura seemed to be calmer when their mother's ghost was around, but that didn't mean that she knew their mother was around.
Then Sakura started school. That was when Nadeshiko started visiting less and less. Touya pretended not to care too much about Sakura, but he always managed to be somewhere near where she was. One time Touya was no where near where Sakura was and she came home with dirt all over her. "Neh, Kaijuu," he called out to her one morning.
"Sakura-chan is not a kaijuu!" She kicked him.
"Fine. What ever. What happened at school yesterday?"
"Oh..." she looked down at her toes. "There was a boy. At school. And. He was picking on me. And I ran. And I fell down."
"What?!" Touya nearly screamed, furious that someone had even dared to pick on his sister. Touya brooded through breakfast and then followed Sakura part way to her school. Sakura had a lot of friends at school. That was good. They were all girls. Even better - there would be no need grow grey hair before it was absolutely necessary then. Oh, no. Wrong. There was one boy. But he seemed to be nice enough and he hung around another one of her girl friends more often.
He didn't see the bully that day, but he kept watching until he finally did see the boy. Right as he started picking on Sakura, Touya tapped him on the shoulder. "o-ma-e...." he growled at the boy. The bully turned around only to stare up at at another boy twice his size who was very angry. He ran. He ran away very fast.
Sakura ran to Touya in relief. "Thank's 'ni-chan" she mumbled.
From then on though, Touya kept a close watch on Sakura. He couldn't stand watching her get picked on. Besides, he promised that he would take care of her.
Touya didn't spend all his time watching over his sister though. His closest friend, Yukito Tsukishiro, happened to think that Touya's protectiveness was absolutely hilarious. Yukito was about this skinniest man alive on earth and he still managed to eat twice his wieght. Daily. About the same time he meet Yukito, Touya discovered that he could sense when Sakura was in trouble, but just to be safe, Touya kept an eye on Sakura and her friends.
Then one day, when Sakura was in fourth grade and when he was in tenth, Touya saw a little boy pick on his little sister. But he wasn't verbal abusing her. This little boy actually had his hands on her! Physically fighting her! He jumped the fence separating him from his little sister and picked up the boy by his collar. "What do you think you're doing to my little sister?" he demanded in a menacing tone.
The boy, however, wasn't fazed at all! He jumped out of Touya's hold and started to fight back. "You're one stupid brat," Touya taunted and dodged the little boy's kick. Right as they were starting to get into the fight, Yukito ran over.
"Food! Do any of you want some?"
Touya looked away for a moment from the boy to his sister. She had turned red the moment she saw Yuki. For a while now, Touya had suspected the she had a crush on his friend, but then he looked back at the brat. He was turning ten times redder than Sakura. And the minute Yukito spoke to him, he ran like the wind.
"You should have been the one to stop him from picking on Sakura," Touya told Yuki later.
"Why?" he blinked and bit into his sandwich.
"Did you see the way he ran?"
"Was it unusual?"
Touya looked at Yukito like he was only just now seeing him. "Never mind."
Li Syaoran was the brat's name, he later learned from Sakura. Unfortunately for Touya, as soon as Li Syaoran came into their lives, his performance as Sakura's protector was going steadily down hill. "Why do you hang around that Chinese gaki so much, Sakura?" he interrogated a few months after the initial incedent. Everytime Sakura went out, Touya's e.s.p. told him that his sister was in trouble. And every time he finally found where Sakura was, he's see Tomoyo, and....Li Syaoran the Gaki.
"Oh, you know. School projects. This and that..." she laughed nervously and wandered off under the pretense of finding some pudding.
Come to think of it, since the brat had come, she had been wanting more and more pudding. She closed the door to the fridge and bumped into Touya. "eep!"
"Where are you taking that?" he asked.
"Oh...eh...up to my room."
He nodded. Since he could never get any answers out of his sister, he resorted to watching again. Except what he saw was exactally what he didn't want to see. Over the months, he figured out that his sister had magic, different than his kind, but similar to the brat's. He noticed that Yuki wasn't who he though he was. He observed that Kaho Mizuki, his old girl friend, had magic too. And he saw the pretty pink of Li Syaoran's face whenever Sakura got close. It could have just been a crush, a simple childhood chush, except one day, Sakura came home and ignored him. Even when he called her "kaijuu" and Li Syaoran "gaki."
That was when he knew that Sakura liked her "Syaoran-kun" as much has he liked her. But that wasn't the worst part.
The worst part was when seven years later...
a/n: rotton place to leave off, I know, but I want to write the next part differently (hopefully).