This is my second fanfic for CCS. Hope you enjoy! R+R!

Disclaimer: CCS does not belong to me. CLAMP owns it.

More Than Siblings

By kawaiisakura

"What?! Another sister? Are you all crazy? Don't we already have too many daughters and sisters in this house as it is?" You could almost see the smoke coming from Syaoran's ears. At age 7, he was already known as the 'bad-tempered karate kid'.

"Oh but she'll be sooo cute! Wouldn't you like it if there were a little sister who looks up to you? Oh come on, loosen up!" Fanren, in Syaoran's opinion, was the most spoiled of all four of his older sisters, if any of them was spoiled at all.

The next day in the afternoon…

Syaoran was in his front yard, when a car drove up and a little girl jumped out of it. 'I can sense something…an aura of some sort.' Syaoran thought as he looked up expectedly at the car.

He stood up in quickly, and went to greet the person that he knew was his new sister.

"Are you Kinomoto?" Syaoran kept his face expressionless.

"Um..yes, who are you?" the girl looked somewhat scared of him.

"My name's Li Syaoran, call me Li. I'm your big brother now." With that, he turned around and headed towards the mansion without another word.

Sakura followed silently, kind of afraid of what her new life would be like.

Inside the mansion, Siefa, Syaoran's sister, introduced Sakura to all of the rooms in the mansion, all spacious and just way too big.

They decided to give her the room next to Syaoran's so that if she ever got scared at night she wouldn't have to worry about getting lost in the mansion trying to find her new mom's room.

She finally settled down and looked around her new room, huge and elegantly decorated like all of the other rooms.

The furniture in her room looked as though they were for older children than her, and she couldn't help but explore the large room a little more.

She fell asleep in the giant bed before her mom had a chance to call her to dinner.

It was like a roller coaster ride to her, the road was bumpy and curved in a lot of places.

Then the ride suddenly stopped with a loud bang on something, surprising the little girl.

There was a flash of red light, and everything went dark.

Sakura heard someone say, "This girl is now an orphan, where's the nearest orphanage?"

She saw herself struggling to go to her parents, but the nurses held her back.

Then two bright shining amber eyes appeared from the darkness in the corner of the hospital room.

"Let. Her. Go." A familiar voice whispered in a low yet firm voice.

Sakura woke up with a strange feeling from the dream. 'It's that dream again.. But this time, how come there are those two eyes? I feel like, they're familiar somehow, but…'

Her thoughts were interrupted by her mom's call for her to go downstairs for breakfast.

She got off from her bed, and headed towards the bathroom to change.

At breakfast, Sakura realized the true power of the Li family. About a hundred maids could be seen busying around to serve their morning meal.

After breakfast, she decided to explore the place a bit. She stepped out of the double front doors that led to the yard and the lawn, which spread as far as you could see from the porch. That was only on the left side of it. She turned her head right, and saw two narrow lines of rocks leading up to a wooden door.

'I wonder where this leads to…' she thought curiously, as she felt a strange aura around the place.

She gently pushed the door open…

Inside was the most beautiful place she had ever been to or even dreamed about.

"It's a garden…I wonder who it belongs to though..." Sakura started to explore the whole place, and it was so big that it seemed like a person couldn't see the end of it.

Syaoran sighed. He hated all of the training, but since he was the only heir to be the Li clan leader, he was required to be the best at karate from a very young age. It was because of this that he told some of his servants to plant a garden only for him, filled with every kind of flower there is, common or rare. He would sit on one of the swings for hours in the afternoons, just relaxing.

'Training is finally over for today, I guess I can go there now…' He thought happily as he wiped some sweat off of his forehead.

He followed the same path down the lines of pebble rocks to his garden.

He found the door opened and hurried in to see who was in here.

Syaoran's eyes widened when he saw a distant figure sitting on the same swing he always sits in.

Sakura felt like she was in dreamland or something. Everything was so beautiful and almost imaginary. The rows of cherry blossom trees blossomed in the current spring season. The tulips and roses were neatly planted along either side of the path around the garden. She had found a swing that was tied to a big tree, and decided to take a break on it.

"You..you're Sakura!" Syaoran exclaimed as he came closer to the girl.

Sakura was so surprised that she fell off the swing completely. Syaoran seeing this went to catch her, and when he did, he sighed in relief that his little sister did not get hurt. 'Not that I care about her, I just don't want to be responsible if she gets hurt..' he reminded himself.

Sakura was relieved when she saw that it was Syaoran who had yelled. "What are you doing here Li? Is this your garden?"

Syaoran quickly put her down and said in a serious voice, "This is my garden, and NO ONE is supposed to intrude." He glared at Sakura as he said that.

"Oh…I'm sorry, I was just exploring the place and I felt some kind of aura from here…it's like magic almost…" Sakura mumbled. She saw Syaoran eyeing her suspiciously at what she was talking about. "Oh! Uh…it's nothing...never mind. I'll leave now, and I won't come back anymore if you don't want me to." Sakura started to walk away.

Syaoran grabbed Sakura by her arm. "Wait! Did you say something about magic?" He seemed kind of nervous talking about magic.

"Yeah…I know this sounds weird, but, does your family happen to know magic of some kind?" Sakura raised one of her eyebrows as if even she doubted in what she was talking about.

Syaoran gasped when he heard her say that, "Actually, yes. My family's been known to have powerful magic, but how did you know?"

"My mother at the orphanage told me that, before my mom died…" Sakura looked sadly at the ground. "…She told the orphanage to give me to a family with magic so that I can improve my growing powers.."

"Powers!? You mean, you have magical powers too? But how? I thought…my family was the only ones that ever had any magic."

"Well do you know Clow Reed?" she asked, biting her lip nervously.

"Clow Reed. He's the most powerful magician there ever was! Are you related to him?"

Sakura went on to tell him about how his father was half the reincarnation of Clow Reed, so she had inherited some magical powers too. Syaoran just stared at her the whole time, absorbing this new bit of facts. She told him that her parents told the doctors before they died to make sure Sakura gets adopted to a family with powerful magic. Which was the Li family.

Syaoran still wanted to know more about her, even though he was even too surprised at himself to be so welcoming of her. But he reminded himself it was just because of her magic.

A few weeks past, and the two became like best friends, almost inseparable.

"Aww…isn't that wonderful? Our brother's first friend! And look how nicely they get along!" Feimei was watching the two siblings laughing happily under one of the cherry blossom trees in Syaoran's garden after training, as usual.

They had started to do almost everything together; from training to playing.

Their mother looked at them, glad that his son had finally made a friend. She turned around and saw the Elder members of the Li clan enter the room. She signaled for Feimei to leave, because they had a meeting.

"Yelan, you know that the entire reason for Sakura's adoption was because of Mr. Li's incapability to make friends. By bringing someone close to his age into the family, we were hoping that he would be able to pass this." The Elder leader said.

"Yes, I know, and it's working quite well I see…" Syoaran's mother replied.

"As planned, as soon as they have gone into their teen years, we will let Sakura choose whether she wants to stay as part of this family or not." Yelan nods.

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Ok..I know this first chapter, or should I say, Prologue, isn't really interesting..since it's introducing everything about what happened before the fanfic. But then, that's why it's called a prologue. Oh, I'm really blabbering a lot here..so, just please review and I'll get the next chapter up if there are at least 5 reviews…I want to make sure there are actually some people reading this. :)

Preview for the next chapter:

It's eleven years later…and Syaoran's 18 and Sakura's 17.

Sakura has to decide on whether to leave her family of eleven years.

"More Than Siblings"…does that give you a clue to what will happen next??