Forgotten Friendship, Remembered Love

Disclaimer: quick and simple: I don't own CCS, but this fanfic is mine.

Author's notes: there's no magic in this fanfic if you still don't know… gomen! I forgot to tell you. Again, sorry for any mistakes that I might make… feel free to tell me about it in a review. I won't get mad, promise! And sorry for not being able to update faster!

Legend:

'………' – thinking

"………" – talking

……:– change setting/place

Chapter 2 – Second Time Around

Tomoeda, Japan

All was quiet and peaceful in the Kinomoto household. It was early Tuesday morning and not a sound could be heard. Not a sound, except the cooking of pancakes in the stove, courtesy of Fujitaka Kinomoto. That is until…

"HOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEE!"

A series of crashes and bangs followed after the peace-disturbing shriek.

Moments later, Sakura Kinomoto, age 13, suddenly appeared in the dining room where her older brother Touya was calmly sipping his orange juice.

"Ohayo Sakura-chan!" Fujitaka smiled as he warmly greeted his daughter.

"Ohayo otousan! Ohayo okaasan!" Sakura smiled at her father and at her mother's picture for a moment before rounding up on her brother.

"Oniichan! Why didn't you wake me up? I told you yesterday to wake me up early! You know I promised Tomoyo that I would be early in going to school today since we're the ones assigned to clean the classroom! I didn't get to help Tomoyo last time we were assigned because I was late! Now I only have ten more minutes to go to school!"

"Good morning to you too Kaijuu," Touya said sarcastically.

"How many times do I have to tell you? SAKURA NO KAIJUU!"

Sakura kicked Touya's shin twice; very, very hard. Touya suddenly jumped up like he'd been electrocuted, howling in pain.

"Don't blame me if you didn't wake up early!" Touya said as he sat down, still nursing his poor shin. "I woke you up already, but nooo, you still didn't wake up. You swatted me, telling me to go away! So I did what you asked, I fulfilled both your requests! Aren't you happy?"

"Why you…" Sakura started, but never did get to finish her sentence.

"Here's your breakfast Sakura-chan," Fujitaka said as he placed Sakura's pancakes in front of her. "Eat your breakfast now Sakura-chan, so you'll have energy for the day. Touya, please stop teasing your sister."

"Arigato Otousan!" Sakura cheerfully replied, before stuffing her pancakes in her mouth, chewing them and swallowing them in world record speed. "I'm really sorry, otousan. But I must go now; I'll be late for school."

"Okay then. Drink your juice then you may go. Here are some breath mints for you. Eat it while rollerblading to school." Fujitaka smiled.

"Hai, otousan! Arigato! Ja ne!" Sakura said as raced out of the kitchen to get her rollerblades. Soon after, she went out the house heading towards the Tomoeda Junior High School.

As soon as Sakura went out, Touya breathed a sigh of relief.

"Was that really necessary, Touya?" Fujitaka asked skeptically. "Won't your sister find out before she reaches school? She does have a wrist watch and even if she won't look at it there is still that big clock at school. She might come rushing back home just to get you."

"Don't you worry a bit otousan!" Touya reassured his father. "When I adjusted Sakura's alarm clock, I also adjusted her watch. So even if she does look at it, she won't notice a thing! And I doubt that Sakura would look at the school clock since she would be too busy trying not to be late again. Or so she thinks."

"Plus," Touya added. "Sakura is about as dense and as forgetful as you can get. No offense otousan, but it is true."

"Yes, I know," Fujitaka murmured mysteriously.

'Just look at how she forgot Syaoran, her first best friend along with Tomoyo. It really is too bad, especially since Yelan and her son are coming back here to Japan.' Fujitaka thought. 'But from what Yelan said in her letter, things aren't going quite as well with her son's… memory.'

:Meanwhile with Sakura…:

'Tomoyo is going to be so mad at me! I promised her that I would arrive at school early today! I am going to kill Touya when I get back home later; it's his fault that I'm late!'

These were the words running through Sakura's head as she headed towards school.

"Shoot! Three more minutes and I'm going to be super late! Better hurry up…" Sakura said to herself as she picked up speed and rollerbladed as if her life depended on it.

:Tomoeda Junior High School:

Two new students, both boys, just exited the secretary's office with their class schedules in hand. One had chocolate brown hair while the other had midnight blue.

"Eriol, I told you we were too early. I mean, sure it's a good first impression for the teachers…" the brown haired boy was saying. "But ONE HOUR before the classes start is a little too much, don't you think? And what, pray, are we supposed to do in that one whole HOUR?"

"Here's our classroom. The secretary said that our adviser, Ms. Mizuki, will be with us in a while. I don't think that we can go in yet," Eriol tried to avoid answering his cousins questions as they stood in front of the classroom door.

"Uh-huh, okay, sure. But enough about that, Eriol answer my questions. And don't you even try to avoid answering again," the brown haired boy was starting to get annoyed. You could see it in his fierce amber eyes.

"Okay, okay," Eriol said. "Well, I don't have any special reason actually. I just wanted to come early to avoid the crowd. As for what we can do in the free time we have, I was thinking of finding the music room and playing the piano for a bit."

Syaoran nodded at this, to show that he understood.

"I thought that maybe you could explore the school or something while I go find the music room," Eriol added.

"Oh, all right. I don't have much of a choice anyway. Probably better this way too, at least we won't have to meet too much girls who might possibly have the same reaction as our old schoolmates," Syaoran said.

"Thanks a lot Xiao Lang! I knew I could count on you!" Eriol grinned at his cousin. His cheshire cat grin to be exact. "I knew you'd see it my way."

"Fine! And it's Syaoran, not Xiao Lang. We're in Japan now, not Hong Kong, so call me by my Japanese name, okay?" Syaoran said.

"And stop grinning like that! You know it irritates me!" Syaoran added.

"Whatever you say, my cute little cousin," Eriol said as he smirked.

"Stop that! Do NOT call me your cute little cousin because I'm not!"

"Oh, but you are."

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not!"

They continued this argument of theirs for a couple of minutes, stopping when they heard someone speak to them.

"You must be the transfer students."

Syaoran and Eriol stopped arguing at once and turned to look at the speaker.

"Er, yes, that's us," Syaoran answered, a little embarrassed that they were caught arguing by a teacher.

"I'm guessing you're our adviser, Miss Mizuki? Am I right?" Eriol asked.

The woman smiled mildly. She had long reddish-brown hair and a mysterious but calming smile.

"Yes, that's me. You two came to school quite early. A good first impression, I must say. Oh, and call me Mizuki-sensei. I will be your adviser as well as your teacher in math."

Miss Mizuki opened the classroom doors and gestured for the two to come in.

"As you can see this is our classroom. Feel free to come in."

Syaoran and Eriol entered the classroom after their teacher. They saw the neat tables and chairs. Over-all, the classroom was very neat and tidy.

Miss Mizuki continued to talk to her new students.

"So you two are cousins?" Both boys nodded to her question.

"And which of you two is Mr. Li Syaoran and which is Mr. Eriol Hiiragizawa? I'm sorry, is that right?" Miss Mizuki asked.

"Yes sensei, that's right. I'm Eriol Hiiragizawa and he is my cousin, Li Syaoran," Eriol answered.

"Okay then," Miss Mizuki said. "Do you have any questions you would like to ask?"

"Mizuki-sensei, I was wondering… are we allowed to choose our own seats or would you be the one to choose?" Syaoran asked.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that I'm the one to choose your seats," Miss Mizuki said rather apologetically.

"That is okay Mizuki-sensei, I was just… um… wondering," Syaoran said quickly.

"Well then, the two of you can explore the school a bit if you want. You two will enter the room when I introduce you to the class. Is that understood?"

"Yes Mizuki-sensei," Eriol replied. "Sensei, I was wondering if you could show me where the music room is."

Miss Mizuki smiled at Eriol before answering.

"I see that you're a music lover. I'll show you the music room if you really want. Li-san, would you be coming with us?" She asked kindly.

"No, I'm sorry Mizuki-sensei, I would be fine. I'll just wait here." Syaoran answered politely.

Miss Mizuki smiled at Syaoran and said good bye. She went out the room with Eriol.

Syaoran wandered aimlessly around his new classroom looking at different things.

'I must admit that they've got a nice classroom. Plus there's a nice view from the windows. I wish I would be placed somewhere at the back or near the windows. Wait a second… what's that?'

Syaoran moved towards the chair that caught his attention. The said chair had two hair ribbons tied at it.

'That's quite unusual. These hair ribbons really set this chair apart from all the other chairs. Probably belongs to some girl. I wonder why she did that though.'

"Green…" Syaoran said absentmindedly as he touched the hair ribbons carefully.

Suddenly, he had a flashback of something. A faint flashback…

'That dream again. That's the reason why I was so annoyed that Eriol woke me up early. I was so close to seeing that person's face. All I can remember was a flash of green before waking up. I would've seen more if it weren't for that Eriol…'

Syaoran let go of the hair ribbons and went to the door. He opened it and was about to go out when something, or rather someone, suddenly collided with him.

"Ow… that hurts," Syaoran said as he rubbed his face and other sore areas.

"Hooeee! Gomen nasai! Honto ni gomen nasai! I didn't mean to bump into you like that, honest! Gomen!"

The person that just collided into Syaoran started to apologize non-stop as that person helped Syaoran to his feet.

"I'm really sorry! Please forgive me… I'll try to make it up to you. I wasn't looking where I'm going… Gomen! You see, I'm really late and I was running and…"

Syaoran was still at a daze but managed to catch some of the explanations of the person who collided with him. And that person turned out to be a girl, who was still apologizing and explaining to him.

"Um, miss?" Syaoran tentatively interrupted. "I'm okay and everything, there's nothing to worry about."

The girl had auburn hair almost reaching her chin and rare emerald eyes. She sighed in relief and stopped almost immediately in apologizing.

"Thank goodness. I wasn't looking where I was going and I was running fast because I'm late and–"

"Miss, you're… um… not late," Syaoran interrupted again.

The girl just blinked her eyes at Syaoran and looked blankly at him. Syaoran sighed and continued.

"You've still got at least fifty more minutes until classes start. It's only 7:10 a.m."

"Are you sure? My watch tells me it's already 8:10 a.m. and I haven't advanced it or anything," the girl said.

"I'm sure. Here, you can look at my watch." Syaoran showed her his watch and looked at expression, which was a mixture of realization, joy and anger.

"So… this means I'm not late… right? This isn't a dream?" she asked.

"No, you're not late and you're not dreaming," Syaoran said patiently.

The girl's face broke into a dazzling smile.

"Arigato! Thank you so much! I really thought that I was late!" she said.

"By the way, are you a new student? My name's Kinomoto Sakura, and you are?"

"Um…yeah, I'm new here. I'm Li Syaoran, you can call me Li," Syaoran replied.

"Okay! And I'm really sorry about what had happened Li-san," Sakura said.

"It's nothing, Kinomoto-san. It was nothing serious," Syaoran replied.

"I'm glad. Let's go in now!" Sakura said enthusiastically as she went inside the classroom.

I'm really, really sorry for the slow update! Gomen! Please forgive me! And thanks to my reviewers too! Pls review this one as well, I hope you like this chapter! I'll try to update sooner! Again, sorry for the late update!