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LOL! Thanks-and yes, I'll try to add a part where she kicks Malfoy's @$$! LOL!

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Thankyou! *bows* But who said Syaoran isn't in the last chappy? *winks* If you read it very carefully you can see a part where he *is* in it!

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THANKYOU! hehehe...but sorry to dissapoint you but...*points somewhere near the beginning of this chapter.*

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Yes,yes,yes. I know, I really did stop to soon didn't I? sniff...but about Syaoran being in Slytherin...*raises eyebrow*

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LOL! Yeah, ya really think I would put Sakura in Slytherin? Although, somebody won't be happy...*looks at iii_sis&Nightwings*

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Hey, I wrote more pretty darn soon didnt I? LOL!

Kawaiitenshisakura

LOL! Don't worry, you'll like this chappy if you dont want Sakura to be in Slytherin!

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All: Once again, thank you so much for all of this! You don't know how much I love all of you now!!!^_________^

Okay, for those of you who *liked* the idea of Sakura being in Slytherin, I'm very sorry, but you'll be *very* dissapointed in the events that take place in this once again very rushed chappie. Not short but rushed. SORRY! Oh, and btw, again for those who liked the idea of Sakura being in Slytherin...you are also very wierd. LOL!

Oh, and btw, if you see

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Fang of an Immortal



Chapter Two



Gryffindor



Syaoran sighed as, one by one, the students filed into the Great Hall. He took his usual place at the end of the table, and, as usual, all the other Gryffyndors sat as far away from him as possible. He wasn't even listening when Dumbledoor announced the arrival of some transfer students. He was listening, however, when McGonagall said Eriol's name.

Syaoran leaned forward in his seat, listening, hoping, and praying. He almost gagged when he heard that Eriol would do well in Slytherin.

But, Eriol was put in Gryffindor in the end, and that was that.



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"Gryffindor!"

One of the tables exploded in cheers when the hat called out the name.

Eriol stood up, placing the hat back on the stool, and smiled sweetly. He walked over to the table, but ignored people's pleas and invitations to sit next to him. Halfway down the table a boy with bright red hair stood up.

"Hey, I'm Ron Weasly and I'm supposed to show you around so..." he motioned to the empty seat beside him.

Eriol smiled at him but didn't stop. Istead he kept on walking.

"Where is he goin-" Ron stopped an gulped. "LOOK!"

The whole table watched in shock as he walked right to the end of the table-where a grinning Li sat.

Wait-Li? Smiling?!?!?!

To everyone's amazement Li stood up and spoke to the boy, who now had a smirk on his face.

"Took you long enough." Li said as they clasped each other's right hand.

"Hey, long time no see!"

The whole table just sat there in disbelief.

The two sat down and started talking as if they've known each other for years.



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"Daidouji, Tomoyo!"

"Hey it's Tomoyo!" Eriol said.

Syaoran didn't budge.

"Hey, didja hear me? I said Tomoyo's here!"

"Huh? Oh that's nice."

"Hey what's wrong? You keep spacing out!"

"Oh, It's nothing."

Eriol then just left him alone, to watch the rest of the sorting.

But Syaoran was lying. There *was* something wrong.

He kept on sensing this...aura. It was a blood red aura and it seemed familiar..but...he had never sensed it before. He couldn't have.

He didn't get it.

But then-

"Kinomoto, Sakura, Master of the Clow!"

Syaoran looked, eyes wide.

That blood-red aura-it belonged to Sakura!

Leaning forward, Syaoran hung onto the hat's every word.

Finally: "SLYTHERIN!

Syaoran almost fell out of his chair.

"No..." he whispered in disbelief as Slytherin erupted in cheers. But the cheers slowly ceased as the Hat started to chuckle, that chuckle turning into a roaring laugh. When he was finally able to stop he spoke up, the hint of laughter still in his voice.

"Is that what you really think? My, you are a funny little thing, little Sakura! You are a funny little thing."

He started laughing again and then tried to calm down.

"Hmm...Little One, do you know that I am an immortal? But of course you do, you have The Silver within you. I hope Dumbedoor will let you visit me often. I'd like to see you again, Little One. Very well. If that's what you think, then I will grant your wish. You are special, Little One and I want to help you. So therefor..." He paused. "You are in...GRYFFINDOR!"

Nasty words could be heard from the Slytherin table and cheers could be heard from the Gryffindor table. Sakura took of the hat, stood up, placing in gently on the stool, and spun around. She ran over to the Gryffindor table and straight into Tomoyo's arms.

They hugged fiercly and Tomoyo practically dragged Sakura by the hand to find seats.

That's when Sakura saw Syaoran. She stopped dead as he returned her stare, her eyes growing wide.

Harry noticed this and stood up. It seemed to him that Li and Sakura had known each other before and he guessed that Li had done something to hurt the pretty girl with eyes that matched his.

"Um," He didn't know what to say, but he had to get their attention. Tomoyo and Sakura looked at him.

"Uh...I'm...um...I'm Harry Potter and I'm supposed to show Sakura around and-"

"And I'm Hermione Granger, and I'm supposed to show you around, Tomoyo. Would you like to sit with us?" She motioned to the empty seats across from them.

"Thank you very much." Tomoyo said sitting down.

Sakura hesitated, looking once again at Syaoran, then sat down.

'That look she gave him,' thought Harry, 'It was almost a look of...longing...' He shook off the thought. 'No...the way she stared at him earlier...she had looked almost afraid...'

"Why did you call us by our first names?" Tomoyo asked, cutting into Harry's thoughts.

"Why wouldn't we?" Ron spoke up.

"Well...in Japan..." Tomoyo faltered.

"In Japan we only call each other by our first names if we're really good friends or if we're related." Sakura said.

"Well, can't we be friends?" Harry asked.

The two girls seemed surprised, then they smiled.

"I would like that." Sakura said with a smile that could melt even the coldest of hearts. And sure enough, Harry, Ron, and Hermione melted.

Suddenly Sakura turned to the red head besider her.

"Is there something wrong?"

The girl almost fell out of her seat and shook her head.

"N-N-N-no! Why w-w-would ther b-be?"

"It just seems like you've been looking at me for a while."

The girl blushed and Ron started scolding her.

"Ginny! It's not polite to stare!"

"Do you know her?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, she's my sister."

"Ginny..." Sakura whispered.

"Huh?"

Sakura turned to face Ginny.

"Ginny. That stands for Virginia, right?"

The girl nodded, looking down.

"Wow! That's a beautiful name!"

Ginny looked up.

"Y-y-y-you have a p-p-pretty name t-too." She stammered.

"Pretty! It's more than pretty!" Tomoyo said with sparkly eyes. "Sakura means 'cherry blossom' in Japanese! And how she got it is such a cool story too!"

"Huh?" Hermione asked.

"Can I tell her?!?!?!?! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAASE?" Tomoyo's eyes were really sparkly and Sakura sweat dropped.

"S-sure!"

"YAY!" Tomoyo clapped and Sakura fell out of her seat.

"A-are you okay?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, I'm okay." Sakura said climbing back up into her seat.

"Can I start now?" Tomoyo asked pleadingly.

"Go ahead."

And so Tomoyo started.



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"My mother and Sakura's mother were cousin's. My mother hated Sakura's father because he married Nadeshiko (Sakura's mother) when she was only sixteen. She was his student. So they would come every day to school holding hands and my mother would pick on Kinomoto-san. Nadeshiko would come over smiling not knowing what was going on.

"Now, Nadeshiko was a model, even at her age, and almost always had sakura (cherry blossoms) in the picture. She loved sakuras and, even as a child, vowed that she would name a little girl "Sakura" someday. Well, that day came about seven years after she'd had a little boy named Toya."



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Tomoyo smiled and Hermione turned to Sakura.

"Your mother must love you very much since you were that special girl she dreamed about."

"I'm sure she does." Sakura said with a sad smile.

"I'd like to meet her some day. Especailly if she was a model."

"Maybe you will someday. I know I can't wait to see her again."

"Home sick already?"

Sakura shook her head.

"I don't get to see her at home anyway."

"Why? Did she go somewhere?"

Sakura nodded.

"Where is she?" It was Harry who spoke this time.

Sakura smiled saddly and pointed up. Hermione covered her mouth with her hands.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!"

Sakura shook her head.

"She died when I was three, so I don't remember her that much myself. But Dad and Toya, my brother, talk about her so much it's like she's still there. Plus my Dad puts up a new picture of her almost everyday."

They fell silent for awhile, and didn't even notice that the sorting was over (they didn't even listen!) until food appeared on their plates.

As they ate, Sakura and Tomoyo joked. Sakura eventually turned to Ginny and started talking to her.

"I like you a lot." Sakura said to Ginny halfway through the feast. "Can we be friends?" Sakura held out her right hand and Ginny shook it right away. That's when Nearly Headless Nick came about.

"I just had to come and see the Master of the Clow!" he said cheerfully.

Sakura looked up and screamed. Everryone in the Hall stared at her as she clung to Tomoyo, still sdreaming her head off and now crying. Tomoyo looked up at him and spoke up.

"I'm sorry, but Sakura is afraid of ghosts. If you don't leave now she'll probably throw herself into hysterics. I'm really sorry."

"She hasn't already?"

Tomoyo shook her head.

"Well, I'll leave for every one's sake now, but she better get used to me or we'll have to go through this everyday."

"Thankyou."

He left and Tomoyo finally got Sakura to stop crying. Everyone was still staring at her.

"Bloody Hell!" Ron said. "The great Master of the Clow-afraid of *ghosts*?!?!"

Sakura sniffed.

"Your alot different than I thought you'd be." Harry said a few minutes later.

Sakura looked up and managed a smile. "If you think that's wierd..." She hesitated and then pulled up the sleeve of her robe to expose her whole arm and her shoulder.

The other's gasped.

Winding up her arm starting above the elbow was a tattoo of a snake-no-a *basilisk* with a pheonix perched on its head. On her shoulder there was a tattoo of a unicorn.

Ginny stared.

Hermione said. "Oh..."

Harry gaped.

"That's wicked awsome!" said Ron.

Sakura smiled. "I was born with it."

They stared at her.

"But some people ran tests on it, and the tests show that they were burned in, like a real tattoo."

"How is that possible?" Hermione asked.

Sakura shrugged.

Syaoran, who saw and heard the whole thing, knew Sakura hadn't been born with it. But she couldn't be lying-not *his* Sakura. Could she?

Another pair of eyes had watched Sakura through the feast.

"She *is* rather amusing," Malfoy grinned as plans poured into his mind.

But one other peculiar event happened that night, that wasn't noticed by anyone until a few days later. No first years were placed in Gryffindor that year. It was almost as if...the Sorting Hat wanted Sakura to be comfortable, with out a buch of firsties mobbing her.



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"Man, I'm beat." Sakura said to Tomoyo as they made their way up to the girl's dormitory. When they got to the top of the stairs, there was a long hallway. Dumbledoor had announced that because of the donations that had been made the year before they were able to afford to give each student their own room.

"Seeya in the morning." Tomoyo said as she went into the first door they came to that had her name on it.

"Goodnight." Sakura said sleepily as she looked for her room.

On each door a name was written with green, pink, or black fire.

"Here it is!" Sakura said aloud as she entered her room. But as she crossed the threshold, she did a double-take. Unlike the other doors, her name was written in silver.




WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Hehehehe...I liked how this Chappie turned out. ^^ The beginning was alittle slow but after that it got a little better, don't you think? Anywho-dont expect the next chappie till next weekend. I dont have enough time on the weekdays to post chappies. *sniff* Wow, this one turned out long. ^^ Well tell me what you think! I'll see you in the reviews! ^_~




-$tephanie Lynn F. aka $hark




PS: ACK! I just reread it..and I dont think it turned out that good or long after all. -_-;;; Oh well...*runs off to play Final Fantasy X*