I appreciate the reviews. I'll try to improve as much as I can, but if it isn't so wonderful, I'm sorry once again. My vocabulary isn't actually.. that big. :DP.S. Sorry if I haven't mentioned their "present" age clearly in the last chapter. They are curently in the 4th grade and are about 9 to 10 years old. They will be growing: ).


Replay: Chapter 1: First step to love
Sakura began laughing. "It's alright Tomoyo, I'm not going to hurt you. Heh heh.." Syaoran laughed. Sakura faced him and it was his turn to freak out.

"AHEM!... Hello Syaoran." At that, he knew what was going to happen so he began running.

Sakura chased him around and around as Tomoyo video taped them. Tomoyo smiled.

"For sure, they will be together!" Tomoyo jumped happily while trying to follow where they have went.

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Chapter 2: A Spreading Rumor

Sakura was at home as she cooked dinner for her family and her guest, Tomoyo. The aroma was kind of smoky.

" HOOOOEEEE! GET THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER!" Tomoyo ran to the supply closet and grabbed the fire extinguisher. Poor Sakura was coughing and yelling as she turned off the stove with the sizzling/burnt fried noodles and trying to put off the fire that had reached onto the kitchen towel. Unfortunantely, the fire traveled around. "TOMOYO! SPRAY IT!" Off went Tomoyo spraying as if her life depended on it. Her eyes were shut as the foam sprayed everywhere, even on Sakura and herself.

"Eerrmm... it's out.." Sakura wiped the white foam off her eyes and stared at the noodles.

"What are we going to eat now. That was what I had planned to cook for us and dad, and... Touya..." Touya ran through the front door and went to Sakura and Tomoyo.

"What did you do? Are youtwo alright?" Touya poked the noodles in disgust, ( oO ).

"I WAS cooking those noodles you are poking. It just... well, I guess the towel lit on fire and .. well, I don't know, caused the food to burn?" She smiled weakly and looked ashamed after a while.

"You sure are a little kaiju aren't you. Using your fire breath to burn th - ouch!" Sakura got irritated in the "kaiju" part and took a pan. She hit him on the head and cleaned up the mess with Tomoyo's help. Touya began rubbing his head as he looked in thefreezer for any replacement dinner. "We have some hambow left in here. I'll just cook it, don't worry" Sakura sighed as she patted him on the back.

"Good luck on it then, me and Tomoyo are going up to my room now. Bye! You might want to do something with that bump on your head" Tomoyo giggled as they ran up the stairs to Sakura's room. Touya felt around on his head and figured out the pan did leave a big bump.

"Oh wonderful..."

-Sakura's Room-

"So Sakura, what are you planning to where for picture day tomorrow at school?" Tomoyo asked as she brushed her hair lightly with Sakura's cute pink hair brush.

"I'm not sure. It's really awesome how they will let us wear anything for picture day this year. But... Mh... my dad told me there was a trunk in the attic where my mother put the clothes she could keep after she modeled them in. He told me that mother alwayssaid, 'If we have a darling daughter, I wouldlove her to wear these, a gift from me to her.' And they are very beautiful."

"Are you thinking of wearing them?"

"I'm not quite sure. I surely have to ask dad if I can of course. It would be great to wear something mother has though." Tomoyo nodded back to Sakura and smiled. When Fujitaka came home, Sakura asked him if she could see the clothes mother had in the trunk. He smiled and allowed Sakura to venture through them. And the clothes were beautiful!

-Syaoran's home-

Syaoran looked through his closet to see if he had anything special he would like to wear at picture day. When he found something, Meiling threw herself onto him and hugged her "deadly hug" to him.

"Syaoran! Do you like this outfit? I picked it especially for you for picture day tomorrow." She winked at him as she got up and modeled her clothes. She was wearing ablack skirt that went to her knees and a red, sleeve-less, turtle neck that had the stitching of peony flowers in an outlined yellow. Her hair was actually down instead of in pig tails. It laid smoothly over her shoulder. Syaoran just looked at her.

"Eh, It's ok." Meiling frowned and left as she muttered to herself.

"He will love me, I know he will!" She talked under her breath as she walked to Wei and asked him if she looked alright. Syaoran sighed and looked at the clothes he so far picked out. He held up a sleeveless, green shirt that reached down to the middle of his theigh and blue jeans. He smiled at himself in the mirror and neatly folded the clothes in the drawer next to his bed.

-Next day at school-

Sakura was already up and ready in her picture day clothes. She wore apink spaghetti strip dress with a darker pink and white mid sleeve shirt underneath and a white mini-skirt (same size as her uniform skirt) with a pink a 2-inch thick stripe running down the skirt at the sides. She pulled her hair up in her pig tails.

"Dad! I'm leaving for school now! No need to make me lunch though, bye!" Sakura waved at her dad but he stopped her.

"Sweety, I want you to eat lunch so I packed it anyways. Have a good picture day." Sakura happily recieved the lunch and kissed her father lightly on the cheek and she left, roller blading to school. She passed the same path shehas fallen on Syaoran. The memory of the whole discussion made her blush and think about him. As she day dreamed (for some bazaar reason) Syaoran once again crashed into her.

"Oh not again. I'm sorry sir, i didn't mean to - Hi Syaoran! Funny how this happens here again." Sakura brushed herself off and stood up as Syaoran stood up along side her. He looked at her and saw what she wore. He thought it was beautiful! Sakura thought Syaoran looked better in this outfit than his uniform and she laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"It's just, hahaha, me. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude by laughing" Syaoran looked down at himself and thought he picked out a nice outfit and he didn't want to give the reason why he did so (I hope you know it already though!). Sakura roller bladed again, at Syaoran's speed. He noticed this so he walked faster because he did not want Sakura to have to move that slow. They past the old fashion homes and reached the school campass. As they both reached the playground, a voice was screaming after them.

"SYAORAN! WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME? I WAS JUST FINISHING BREAKFAST!" Meiling was running behind them and she immediatly stopped as they both turned around to face her. "What are you doing with Sakura? You usually walk with me!" She shook him and glared at Sakura.

"Um, hello Meiling. How are you doing today?" Sakura smiled nervously as Meiling continued to glare at her.

"Please Meiling, me and Sakura are friends. You can be her friend too."

"All I want is you" Meiling thought to herself. She then noticed how close the two were and she got ridiculously angry. "Syaoran! I thought you were suppose to be with me! You two aren't just friends, how dare you Syaoran! Auntie said we were suppose to be married!" Syaoran sighed as Sakura sighed too. Meiling has been bringing this up for a long time.

"No Meiling, I mean, uh, it's not, we are just friends Meiling! Don't take it so seriously!" Meiling looked hurt so she ran away, covering her eyes. Sakura lightly turned red and took off her roller blades and replaced them with her shoes. She said bye to Syaoran and walked to the locker room to put her roller blades away. Tomoyo was already at her locker. She said good morning and admired her clothes.

"Your mother is really a person who has a good taste in clothes." Tomoyo laughed a little after her sentence and Sakura smiled.

"You are the Great Designer though. Remember, you said you wanted to grow up to become a fashion designer."

"A fashion designer for the Incredible Sakura of course! You can become a model, following your mother in her footsteps.

"Mother would love that, but, we are only 9 years old. Everything will come naturally." Sakura and Tomoyo smiled to eachother and walked to class. They took their seats and Sakura felt something on the back of her neck. She turned around and found Meiling glaring at her once again. Meiling smiled at her and she turned around and whispered something to Jureia. Jureia looked shocked and Meiling whispered something again.

"Really, I'm not kidding. Sakura did get those clothes from me. She begged me to give her something because she doesn't know anything. Everything she gets is from me and if she denies it, don't believe her. She always was mean to me and ordered me around. She also use to hit me. Not to be hurtful or anything but, she has been talking bad things about everyone, even you Jureia. And one more thing,the most deepest secret of her's was.. well... it was that she still has this you know, embarrassing accidents on the bed or even at school still. It sometimes is even on purpose." Jureia looked unsure but later on nodded her head slowly in "unsureness". "Tell everyone. It's better to let everyone know that Sakura has been lieing to them all. Or I will just tell everyone." Meiling turned around and smiled in satisfication.

"Ok class! We are now going to go to the gym to take our pictures. Make two lines starting. Chiharu to Lasoko are in line 1, and Sakura to Rika are in line 2. Ok, single file lines now everyone" Everyone gathered in their lines and followed Terada-sensei to the gym. As everyone walked past the playground and into the gym, Sakura heard her name from behind. She once again saw Meiling whispering to someone and that person whispering to someone else in a nervous way. Sakura became suspiscious and asked Tomoyo what was going on.

"Taloi told me that she heard it from Takdol who heard it from Meiling that you beg to Meiling for all of your clothes and that you also get your clothes from the... garbage can... And the most horrible one.. well... that you have these embarrassing accidents everywhere, school and home. And she also said you do it on purpose, too. And much more but, I don't want to hurt you." Tomoyo frowned as she said this to Sakura. She was about to cry.

"But, that isn't true.. you know it isn't, don't you? Do you think they will all believe her?" Sakura sniffed every 2 words (poor Sakura).

"I hope not, and besides, if people do, you shouldn't care. What they say or think isn't important. Don't worry, i'll go talk to Meiling." Tomoyo hugged Sakura and went to search for Meiling. She spotted her and went towards her.

"Meiling, all of this nonscence has to stop. You know all of those things you are telling everyone are not true! I know so because she is my best friend Igo shopping with her sometimes. And she buysher clothes from themall or else the clothes she has is from her mother! And all that other stuffarejust yourlies!"

"That is not true your self.What I said is true! I... know itis truebecause I saw her! And um... it... she does do it!"

"STOP IT! Stop lieing to everyone! Why are you doing this in the first place though?" Meiling stayed quiet and lowered her head. Her mind was on Syaoran at that moment. But, as Tomoyo waited for a responce, Syaoran was listening closely to their little "conversation". He immediately knew that Meiling was lieing and knew the reason why for her doings. He had to straighten everything out. So, he walked over to Meiling and Tomoyo and dragged Meiling away.

"Meiling, what you are doing is wrong!" Meiling looked up.

"I'm not doing anything wrong but telling everyone the truth about Sakura!"

"Yes you are and you are not telling everyone the truth. You are telling them LIES! Sakura has done nothing to harm you, so I ask you what Tomoyo has, why are you doing this? I want to know from your mouth!" Once again, Meiling became silent and lowered her head. "Talk to me, Meiling, it will do no good to be silent!"

"Leave me alone. It's none like you care about her!You should only care about me and ONLY me!" Meiling pushed away and ran. Terada-sensei gathered everyone up and lined them up for pictures. Everyone was laughing at Sakura and began whispering about her. Sakura was about to cry but held her head up high and thought what Tomoyo said. By the time it was Sakura's turn, a few tears had struck her cheeks. The person taking the picture saw this and asked what is wrong.

"I'm.. ok, please don't mind me" Sakura tried holding back her tears and smiled weakly. Tomoyo saw this and she sat near the the photo taker as she already took her picture. She smiled at Sakura and that made her smile a bit more. The person taking the picture smiled and took the picture of Sakura.

"That was a good picture young lady. Don't let anything get you down. Ok, next please!" He smiled at Sakura as the next person came up to take the picture.

"Sakura, don't worry, everything will be fine. This rumor will be gone before you know it!"

"Yeah, I hope so Tomoyo, I hope so..." Syaoran saw Sakura and Tomoyo. He felt bad of what was happening. He went over to Sakura and asked if she was alright.

"I'm fine Syaoran. Thank you though." Sakura smiled at Syaoran and he looked concerned.

Syaoran thought to himself. "I will have Meiling clean up this mess, don't worry Sakura."


Looks like I did have enough time to make another short chapter! Poor Sakura. And btw, Sakura and Syaoran have a slightly different reaction to one another than the series. So don't be shocked or anything. Thanks! And the reason why this is in PG13 is mostly because the later on chappies will have some.. well things. I'm not sure yet though.