Author's Note: I do not own any of the characters in this story or
Cardcaptor Sakura; CLAMP owns all of that, not me. The only characters that
I own in this story are Alice Hoay, Jonathon and Taryn Hoay, Sakura's
friend Zach and the main lullaby is also mine. Oh, and Nadeshiko is still
alive and Eriol and Syaoran have lived in Tomoeda all of their lives.
"." talking '.' thinking * * change of perspective.
Like A Shooting Star
Chapter 7
Sakura stayed in hospital for a few days after the accident until she was cleared to leave. She hadn't been badly hurt in the crash, she had had concussion and her arm was broken, but otherwise she was fine. She was glad to get out of the hospital as she was really bored. None of her friends knew she was in hospital as she wanted to surprise them when she went to school. They had always told her how much she looked like their old friend Sakura and now she knew that she actually was their old friend, she wanted to surprise them.
"Are you ready to go Sakura?" Nadeshiko asked her as she came into the room, "your doctor said that you can leave now."
"Yep, lets go! I hate this place," Sakura replied, getting off the bed that she had been sitting on and almost racing out of the door. Even though she hadn't really seen them properly since she was three, Sakura still felt at home with the Kinomotos. At first she believed that it would be really hard for her to fit in with them, but she now felt as if she had finally returned home, which she had done. Taryn and Jonathon had both died in the car accident, but Sakura didn't really feel sad. She knew that they would be happy because they would be back with their real daughter, and she was happy because then Alice wouldn't be alone anymore.
"Yeah, I hate hospitals too," Nadeshiko laughed as she followed her daughter out of the room. They both left the hospital as quickly as they possibly could and got into the car to drive home. It was 4 in the afternoon so both her father and her brother had been unable to come and pick her up as they were both at work.
"Mum, do you think that people will believe me when I tell them that I'm really their old friend Sakura?" she asked her mother when they were halfway home, "I mean, it is pretty unbelievable if you ask me."
"Just tell them something that they know only Sakura and themselves know. Then they'll believe you if they didn't before," that was the only advice that Nadeshiko could give her daughter as she knew that most of her friends would probably believe her if she just told them what had happened. Nadeshiko remembered the little boy who had always played with Sakura and knew that Sakura would have to try everything to get him to believe her, "Always try to convince the person who is the least likely to believe you first so then everyone will know that what you say is the truth."
"I'll try mother, but I still don't know how I'm going to do it," Sakura was really worried about it. What if nobody believed her? The rest of the trip home was spent in a conversation about school with her mother, but Sakura still couldn't stop worrying. She worried about it all night and then he finally just decided that if they didn't believe her, it was their own fault.
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As Syaoran got ready for school he knew that something important was going to happen today.
'Stop thinking like that Syaoran! The other day you thought that something really bad was going to happen and it didn't, did it? A good thing happened, that Alice girl got sick so you didn't have to see her for a few days. So stop thinking about what is going to happen and start going to school or you're going to be late,' his thoughts almost shouted at him. He sighed and made his way to school, getting there 10 minutes early so he could get his books and organize himself.
"Hey Syaoran!" Eriol called to him as he walked to his locker, "Are you okay? You look a bit angry at something." Syaoran just glared at him. That didn't seem to phase Eriol's good spirits though. He just smiled back at Syaoran and laughed at the irritated look on his friend's face.
"I just have one of those feelings again Eriol," Syaoran answered coldly, trying to make Eriol get the hint and leave him alone, "something important is going to happen today."
"Maybe it is. I heard that Alice is coming back to school today, maybe that's what is so important. I don't know why you're so rude to her, she does nothing wrong," Eriol had finished taking books out of his locker so he waited for Syaoran before walking to class with him, "After all, if she's not here you get angry at yourself, and that's not good. Maybe you should just accept the fact that she looks like Sakura Kinomoto did, but she's not the same person. It's not her fault that you hate her because she looks like someone else. You just have to get over it and like her for the nice person she is."
"Stop giving me advice Eriol! I can hate her for whatever reason I want and I don't need you to tell me what I can and can't do!" Syaoran was really annoyed at what Eriol had said and it showed in his voice, "And don't mention Sakura's name ever again, okay?"
They walked the rest of the way in silence and sat the desks that they usually sat in; desks that were far away from Sakura's usual seat. They sat in silence until the teacher came in. Sakura ducked in through the door a moment later. She had further to go from the Kinomoto house to get to school, and she wasn't used to the extra distance. It hadn't helped that she had a broken arm because that meant that it was harder for her to dress and that she couldn't run. Syaoran watched her come into the classroom and sit in a desk next to Tomoyo before he turned back to the teacher, who was calling the roll.
"Alice Hoay?" the teacher was down to Sakura on the roll. Sakura got up and gave the teacher a note, probably explaining why she had been absent, Syaoran supposed. The teacher read the note quickly and looked surprised, "Okay, you can sit down now Sakura," the teacher said and the last word didn't fully register into Syaoran's brain for a moment. When he realized what the teacher had called Sakura, he thought that he had heard it wrong.
'She couldn't have said Sakura. It's just that I have been thinking about Sakura because of what Eriol said and so I had Sakura on the brain. She must have said Alice,' he managed to convince himself that he had been imagining things and went back to doing the work that the teacher had set for them.
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After the first class, Sakura felt really nervous. Now was the time that she had to tell Tomoyo and the rest of her friends the truth. She and Tomoyo were at their lockers when Tomoyo asked Sakura something that had been bothering her.
"Alice, in the class just then, didn't the teacher call you Sakura?" she asked and she almost dropped the remaining books in her arms at Sakura's answer.
"Yep, that's because it's my name. I found out the other day that I was actually the Sakura Kinomoto that you guys had told me that I looked like. On the way to the orthodontist I was in a car crash at the same spot as the one that I was in when I was three. Touya happened to be there because he had wanted to go there as it was the anniversary of the day that I had disappeared. He opened my locket and found that it was the one that he had given his little sister on her third birthday," Sakura had turned to her friend to say this and she noticed that Tomoyo looked a bit shocked, "Anyway, something weird happened and I got my memories back from when I was three. I remember being friends with all of you guys and I was even best friends with Syaoran, of all people."
"Sakura? I can't believe it! Tell me something that only she and I would know. I do believe you, I just want to make sure it is you," Tomoyo added hastily as she saw a flash of hurt in Sakura's eyes.
"Okay, when we were three you told me that you were going to marry Eriol no matter what. You already had it planned out. Rika, Naoko, Chiharu and I were going to be your bridesmaids and we were going to have cute little pink dresses and you were going to have a long white wedding dress," Sakura whispered this to Tomoyo as it was pretty embarrassing for Tomoyo if she said it out loud. Tomoyo just stared at her for a second before she smiled.
"You are Sakura! You were the only one that I told that to, so you must be her! I can't believe it! After all these years you finally find out who you really are and are back with all of your childhood friends! All except for Syaoran of course. If he hears this he won't believe you unless you tell him something that he only told you. Of course, I believed you before but I just had to know if you could remember that. Oh, it's so good to know that you didn't die all that time ago. Are you living with your real family now?" Tomoyo was really hyped up about it and she was really happy now.
"Yeah, I'm living with them now. I couldn't live with the Hoays anyway because they died in the accident. They actually did have a daughter called Alice, but she died on the same day that they rescued me from the river. Now I just have to get everyone else to believe me and everything will be really good!" Sakura finished putting her books back and then she and Tomoyo headed to the area where they usually met all of their friends. Sakura's little announcement stunned a few of her friends, but they all believed her. Syaoran and Eriol were nowhere to be found, but Sakura was certain that Syaoran would be the only problem out of the two of them. Eriol would believe her in two seconds, Sakura was sure, but it might take years to persuade Syaoran that she was Sakura. By the end of recess everyone except for Eriol and Syaoran knew and believed who she really was. Tomoyo promised to tell Eriol in their next class while Sakura knew that she was going to have to think hard to manage to even get near Syaoran. Luckily though, in her next class her teacher made them work in pairs that the teacher chose. Since all of the teachers knew Sakura's real name now, she assigned Sakura and Syaoran together. They were only assigned their groups at the end of the class, so the teacher let them talk in their pairs for the last 5 minutes of the class.
"Hey Syaoran!" Sakura said to him cheerfully, sitting down in the seat next to him, "how are you?"
"Why did the teacher call you Sakura?" Syaoran demanded coldly. He still didn't know whether he should have believed his ears when he heard that he was going to be working with Sakura Kinomoto. He didn't know whether it was his imagination again or if it was real.
"Because that's my name. When I was three I was in a car accident. I floated down the river to the next town and the Hoays rescued me from the water. I had amnesia and they had just lost their daughter Alice, so they called me Alice and took me as a replacement daughter as we looked so much alike. The other day I was in a car accident at the same place as the one when I was three. Touya rescued me from the car and he noticed this locket. It doesn't come off due to some magic that Touya put on it. He opened it and found that it was the same locket he had given me for my third birthday. Then something strange happened while I was unconscious and I got all of my memories back. Please believe me, I am Sakura Kinomoto," Sakura almost begged him to believe her as she knew that he was still hurting from when he had believed that Sakura Kinomoto had died.
"You can't be Sakura, she died. And she didn't have a locket. I don't believe you," Syaoran replied coldly after she had finished her story.
"I remember that the day before my third birthday I told you that I would come over to see you the next day after I had visited my grandfather. We had been playing in the sand pit and you had stopped my sandcastle from falling over. Your sister Xiefa and Touya were watching us and I promised that I would show you all of my presents that I got for my birthday. You never saw my locket because I disappeared before I could show you my presents," Sakura looked up to see tears forming in Syaoran's eyes. The bell rang that signaled the end of the period and Syaoran gathered his books.
"I believe you," he whispered before he almost ran out of the room and disappeared.
End Of Chapter 7
I was going to finish the story this chapter, but then I realized that I wanted to end it here as it seems to be a good spot to stop it. If you have any questions about what is going on in this story, please just put them into your review or e-mail me at bob_in_a_box@hotmail.com Please review as if I don't get any more reviews I won't update this story until after I go back to school, which might mean that it won't be for ages as I will get homework and yeah. So if you want me to finish the story before then, please review!!!!!!!!!
"." talking '.' thinking * * change of perspective.
Like A Shooting Star
Chapter 7
Sakura stayed in hospital for a few days after the accident until she was cleared to leave. She hadn't been badly hurt in the crash, she had had concussion and her arm was broken, but otherwise she was fine. She was glad to get out of the hospital as she was really bored. None of her friends knew she was in hospital as she wanted to surprise them when she went to school. They had always told her how much she looked like their old friend Sakura and now she knew that she actually was their old friend, she wanted to surprise them.
"Are you ready to go Sakura?" Nadeshiko asked her as she came into the room, "your doctor said that you can leave now."
"Yep, lets go! I hate this place," Sakura replied, getting off the bed that she had been sitting on and almost racing out of the door. Even though she hadn't really seen them properly since she was three, Sakura still felt at home with the Kinomotos. At first she believed that it would be really hard for her to fit in with them, but she now felt as if she had finally returned home, which she had done. Taryn and Jonathon had both died in the car accident, but Sakura didn't really feel sad. She knew that they would be happy because they would be back with their real daughter, and she was happy because then Alice wouldn't be alone anymore.
"Yeah, I hate hospitals too," Nadeshiko laughed as she followed her daughter out of the room. They both left the hospital as quickly as they possibly could and got into the car to drive home. It was 4 in the afternoon so both her father and her brother had been unable to come and pick her up as they were both at work.
"Mum, do you think that people will believe me when I tell them that I'm really their old friend Sakura?" she asked her mother when they were halfway home, "I mean, it is pretty unbelievable if you ask me."
"Just tell them something that they know only Sakura and themselves know. Then they'll believe you if they didn't before," that was the only advice that Nadeshiko could give her daughter as she knew that most of her friends would probably believe her if she just told them what had happened. Nadeshiko remembered the little boy who had always played with Sakura and knew that Sakura would have to try everything to get him to believe her, "Always try to convince the person who is the least likely to believe you first so then everyone will know that what you say is the truth."
"I'll try mother, but I still don't know how I'm going to do it," Sakura was really worried about it. What if nobody believed her? The rest of the trip home was spent in a conversation about school with her mother, but Sakura still couldn't stop worrying. She worried about it all night and then he finally just decided that if they didn't believe her, it was their own fault.
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As Syaoran got ready for school he knew that something important was going to happen today.
'Stop thinking like that Syaoran! The other day you thought that something really bad was going to happen and it didn't, did it? A good thing happened, that Alice girl got sick so you didn't have to see her for a few days. So stop thinking about what is going to happen and start going to school or you're going to be late,' his thoughts almost shouted at him. He sighed and made his way to school, getting there 10 minutes early so he could get his books and organize himself.
"Hey Syaoran!" Eriol called to him as he walked to his locker, "Are you okay? You look a bit angry at something." Syaoran just glared at him. That didn't seem to phase Eriol's good spirits though. He just smiled back at Syaoran and laughed at the irritated look on his friend's face.
"I just have one of those feelings again Eriol," Syaoran answered coldly, trying to make Eriol get the hint and leave him alone, "something important is going to happen today."
"Maybe it is. I heard that Alice is coming back to school today, maybe that's what is so important. I don't know why you're so rude to her, she does nothing wrong," Eriol had finished taking books out of his locker so he waited for Syaoran before walking to class with him, "After all, if she's not here you get angry at yourself, and that's not good. Maybe you should just accept the fact that she looks like Sakura Kinomoto did, but she's not the same person. It's not her fault that you hate her because she looks like someone else. You just have to get over it and like her for the nice person she is."
"Stop giving me advice Eriol! I can hate her for whatever reason I want and I don't need you to tell me what I can and can't do!" Syaoran was really annoyed at what Eriol had said and it showed in his voice, "And don't mention Sakura's name ever again, okay?"
They walked the rest of the way in silence and sat the desks that they usually sat in; desks that were far away from Sakura's usual seat. They sat in silence until the teacher came in. Sakura ducked in through the door a moment later. She had further to go from the Kinomoto house to get to school, and she wasn't used to the extra distance. It hadn't helped that she had a broken arm because that meant that it was harder for her to dress and that she couldn't run. Syaoran watched her come into the classroom and sit in a desk next to Tomoyo before he turned back to the teacher, who was calling the roll.
"Alice Hoay?" the teacher was down to Sakura on the roll. Sakura got up and gave the teacher a note, probably explaining why she had been absent, Syaoran supposed. The teacher read the note quickly and looked surprised, "Okay, you can sit down now Sakura," the teacher said and the last word didn't fully register into Syaoran's brain for a moment. When he realized what the teacher had called Sakura, he thought that he had heard it wrong.
'She couldn't have said Sakura. It's just that I have been thinking about Sakura because of what Eriol said and so I had Sakura on the brain. She must have said Alice,' he managed to convince himself that he had been imagining things and went back to doing the work that the teacher had set for them.
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After the first class, Sakura felt really nervous. Now was the time that she had to tell Tomoyo and the rest of her friends the truth. She and Tomoyo were at their lockers when Tomoyo asked Sakura something that had been bothering her.
"Alice, in the class just then, didn't the teacher call you Sakura?" she asked and she almost dropped the remaining books in her arms at Sakura's answer.
"Yep, that's because it's my name. I found out the other day that I was actually the Sakura Kinomoto that you guys had told me that I looked like. On the way to the orthodontist I was in a car crash at the same spot as the one that I was in when I was three. Touya happened to be there because he had wanted to go there as it was the anniversary of the day that I had disappeared. He opened my locket and found that it was the one that he had given his little sister on her third birthday," Sakura had turned to her friend to say this and she noticed that Tomoyo looked a bit shocked, "Anyway, something weird happened and I got my memories back from when I was three. I remember being friends with all of you guys and I was even best friends with Syaoran, of all people."
"Sakura? I can't believe it! Tell me something that only she and I would know. I do believe you, I just want to make sure it is you," Tomoyo added hastily as she saw a flash of hurt in Sakura's eyes.
"Okay, when we were three you told me that you were going to marry Eriol no matter what. You already had it planned out. Rika, Naoko, Chiharu and I were going to be your bridesmaids and we were going to have cute little pink dresses and you were going to have a long white wedding dress," Sakura whispered this to Tomoyo as it was pretty embarrassing for Tomoyo if she said it out loud. Tomoyo just stared at her for a second before she smiled.
"You are Sakura! You were the only one that I told that to, so you must be her! I can't believe it! After all these years you finally find out who you really are and are back with all of your childhood friends! All except for Syaoran of course. If he hears this he won't believe you unless you tell him something that he only told you. Of course, I believed you before but I just had to know if you could remember that. Oh, it's so good to know that you didn't die all that time ago. Are you living with your real family now?" Tomoyo was really hyped up about it and she was really happy now.
"Yeah, I'm living with them now. I couldn't live with the Hoays anyway because they died in the accident. They actually did have a daughter called Alice, but she died on the same day that they rescued me from the river. Now I just have to get everyone else to believe me and everything will be really good!" Sakura finished putting her books back and then she and Tomoyo headed to the area where they usually met all of their friends. Sakura's little announcement stunned a few of her friends, but they all believed her. Syaoran and Eriol were nowhere to be found, but Sakura was certain that Syaoran would be the only problem out of the two of them. Eriol would believe her in two seconds, Sakura was sure, but it might take years to persuade Syaoran that she was Sakura. By the end of recess everyone except for Eriol and Syaoran knew and believed who she really was. Tomoyo promised to tell Eriol in their next class while Sakura knew that she was going to have to think hard to manage to even get near Syaoran. Luckily though, in her next class her teacher made them work in pairs that the teacher chose. Since all of the teachers knew Sakura's real name now, she assigned Sakura and Syaoran together. They were only assigned their groups at the end of the class, so the teacher let them talk in their pairs for the last 5 minutes of the class.
"Hey Syaoran!" Sakura said to him cheerfully, sitting down in the seat next to him, "how are you?"
"Why did the teacher call you Sakura?" Syaoran demanded coldly. He still didn't know whether he should have believed his ears when he heard that he was going to be working with Sakura Kinomoto. He didn't know whether it was his imagination again or if it was real.
"Because that's my name. When I was three I was in a car accident. I floated down the river to the next town and the Hoays rescued me from the water. I had amnesia and they had just lost their daughter Alice, so they called me Alice and took me as a replacement daughter as we looked so much alike. The other day I was in a car accident at the same place as the one when I was three. Touya rescued me from the car and he noticed this locket. It doesn't come off due to some magic that Touya put on it. He opened it and found that it was the same locket he had given me for my third birthday. Then something strange happened while I was unconscious and I got all of my memories back. Please believe me, I am Sakura Kinomoto," Sakura almost begged him to believe her as she knew that he was still hurting from when he had believed that Sakura Kinomoto had died.
"You can't be Sakura, she died. And she didn't have a locket. I don't believe you," Syaoran replied coldly after she had finished her story.
"I remember that the day before my third birthday I told you that I would come over to see you the next day after I had visited my grandfather. We had been playing in the sand pit and you had stopped my sandcastle from falling over. Your sister Xiefa and Touya were watching us and I promised that I would show you all of my presents that I got for my birthday. You never saw my locket because I disappeared before I could show you my presents," Sakura looked up to see tears forming in Syaoran's eyes. The bell rang that signaled the end of the period and Syaoran gathered his books.
"I believe you," he whispered before he almost ran out of the room and disappeared.
End Of Chapter 7
I was going to finish the story this chapter, but then I realized that I wanted to end it here as it seems to be a good spot to stop it. If you have any questions about what is going on in this story, please just put them into your review or e-mail me at bob_in_a_box@hotmail.com Please review as if I don't get any more reviews I won't update this story until after I go back to school, which might mean that it won't be for ages as I will get homework and yeah. So if you want me to finish the story before then, please review!!!!!!!!!