The Rich and Poor

Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura characters!

AN: La de da.. Yes, after one year, I'm updating! I know, it's shocking haha.

Meeting the Li's

Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol continued to run through the halls, past other students and out the doors. They then fled like a flock of birds across campus and abruptly stopped in front of a cherry blossom tree where a bold teenager stood there defiantly.

"Tsk tsk. You guys are 13 minutes 20 seconds and 48 milliseconds late." Syaoran glared at Tomoyo and Eriol before turning off his stop watch.

"Well it wasn't our fault Mr. I've-got-a-stick-up-my-ass-all-the-time! We were showing Sakura around the school!" Tomoyo glared forcefully at Syaoran.

Syaoran, now noticing Sakura's presence, averted his gaze to the small girl standing behind Tomoyo fearfully. Eriol was also hiding behind Tomoyo. When Syaoran was mad, no one could stop him.Syaoran walked slowly up to Sakura and stared her in the eye. Sakura, having had much experience at glaring with her brother Touya, squinted her eyes and clenched her teeth. After five straight minutes of intense glaring, Syaoran broke the staring and held out his hand.

"Syaoran Li." he greeted. Sakura shook his hand.

"Sakura Kinomoto." Sakura said smiling.

While this quiet exchange was happening Eriol and Tomoyo were standing by the side lines, their eyes bulging and their mouths hanging wide open in complete, utter astonishment.

"Did you see that," Eriol whispered. "Li just shook her hand, just like that!"

Tomoyo nodded her head a few times enthusiastically. "Amazing, he didn't yell or scream or anything!" she murmered still having her eyes glued to the scene.

BRING BRING

"AHH IT'S TIME FOR CLASS!" Sakura screeched, running off to her homeroom leaving a fine trail of dust and dirt behind her.

Tomoyo, Eriol and Syaoran stared at her retreating figure.

And then facefault.

Sakura's Homeroom

Sakura's new private school was huge, and therefor due to it's large population, she was seperated from hew newly found friends. As Sakura cautiously entered her classroom, every student's head turned to stare at the newcomer.

"Looks like easy prey." a few girls muttered staring menacingly at Sakura.

"She looks gross." a few guys said turning their gazes to look at the popular girls instead.

Sakura brushed off these comments and headed towards the first seat she saw. Suddenly a girl stood up, walked over to Sakura and blocked her way.

"Sorry, this seat's occupied." the girl said, emphasizing the last word. Sakura shrugged and walked to the desk right beside it.

"Nu-uh, this seat's occupied as well." the girl laughed. A few other students began to snicker and laugh at Sakura. Sakura looked helplessly around the classroom. She wasn't used to being picked on, usually Sakura got along very well with her classmates.

"Hmm, let's see," the girl who had blocked Sakura's way began circling around her.

"Tattered uniform, disgusting hair, hand-me-down bookbag.." the girl mused, holding up Sakura's bookbag up for everyone to laugh at.

"Why, you must be from the poor part of town. I wonder why they keep allowing such gross students like you at our school. Unless... why of course! You must be on scholarship. So you're a nerd too! Ahaha!" the girl continued to laugh, along with the whole class now. Sakura looked down at her shoes ashamed. Fortunately, the professor walked in at that moment.

"Meiling Li, sit down!" the teacher ordered at the girl who had been bullying Sakura. Meiling rolled her eyes. As she walked past Sakura, she deliberately pushed her shoulder forcefully against Sakura's.

"You got lucky this time. But next time, I won't let such filth get away unharmed. Consider this your warning bitch. Go back to skid row or something, you're not wanted here." Meiling whispered cruelly into Sakura's ear. Sakura shuddered.

'This, is so not good.' Sakura thought worriedly.

Lunchtime

Sakura was standing beside the sink in the washroom trying to wash to gum out of her hair.

All during class, Meiling and her cronies has done everything to get Sakura in trouble. They threw paper airplanes at her, got scissors and tried to cut her hair, put gum in her hair, throw her notebooks on the floor. Even though Sakura was an A student, she still had much, much difficulty with all the distractions. And to make matters worse, when the sensei questioned who was making all the noise, all of Sakura's classmates blamed it on Sakura. Now Sakura had a weeks detention after school copying pages out of a dictionary and scrubbing the washrooms clean.

Sakura almost cried in frustration. It was completely Meiling's fault that she was in all this trouble, and it was only her first day! Sakura began regretting what would be in store for her tomorrow.

Realizing that water doesn't help get gum out of hair, Sakura reached into her schoolbag and pulled out a pair of scissors. After thoroughly examining them in the light, she held the scissors close to her hair and c-

"SAKURA WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING!" Tomoyo had suddenly burst into the washroom, panting and staring at the scissors in her hands.

"YOU WEREN'T CUTTING YOURSELF WERE YOU?OH MY GOSH!" Tomoyo shrieked. Sakura stared skeptically at her friend before showing Tomoyo her hair.

"Gum. Meiling Li. My hair. Be a genious and please, enlighten me Tomoyo-chan." Sakura said sarcastically still holding the scissors in her hands. Tomoyo gasped.

"You mean to say that, that bitch put gum in your hair? Damn Sakura, I'm surprised she didn't jump you! You got off easy considering..." Tomoyo trailed off her mind lost in her thoughts. Sakura glared murderously at Tomoyo. Tomoyo glanced at Sakura and sweatdropped.

"Oh yes.. your hair.. I can fix that in a jiffy." Tomoyo began pulling out strange looking bottles from her bag. Sakura backed away into the wall holding her hair horrified.

"Oh my gosh." Sakura thought staring at the strange concotions.