RubyMstar Hi! This is my first attempt at writing a story so please, read it and let me know if its any good. Oh, and I don't own CCS sniff.

Sakura

Sakura sniffed as she threw another pebble into the sea, and started making her way home. She had been there for over an hour, waiting, and he didn't even think to call me until now. 'How could he be so mean! We've spent our birthdays together since we were 3 years old, and now he doesn't have time for me because she wanted to introduce him to her family.'

She realized that she was crying as she felt the wetness on her cheek. She stopped in front of a park and made her way around all the screaming and laughing children to the back where the park stopped and a forest began. She sat under a cherry blossom tree where no one could see her and kept crying. 'I haven't seen him in over 3 weeks, he spends all his time with his stupid girlfriend.' She sat there for a long time just crying over losing her best friend. Her tears were just stopping when a hand appeared in front of her, holding a handkerchief.

"Here," a male voice said, " You look like you need it."

Ryu

Ryu walked through the park with his hands in his pockets smiling as he watched all the children playing and laughing. He picked up the ball that had rolled over to him and gave it back to the child, and winked at the little girl with his sparkling azure eyes. The girl laughed and thanked him before running off to play again.

Ryu continued walking towards the forest at the back of the park where he had found a very interesting place yesterday. He had been coming here for nearly a week now since his cousin was busy with his girlfriend. Ryu had come all the way from Hong Kong to Japan just to celebrate his cousin's birthday but his cousin apparently wanted to spend the time with his girlfriend and her family instead. He wouldn't have minded so much if Syaoran's girlfriend was worth it but Ryu couldn't help feeling that she was giving of the wrong vibes. Syaoran obviously liked her but Ryu couldn't help thinking that Syaoran only saw how beautiful she was. He shook the thoughts from his head though, 'Syaoran is smarter than that,' he told himself 'he wont fall for someone because of how she looks…I hope,'

He started to enter the forest but stopped as he heard someone crying, so he followed the heartbreaking sound. He saw a girl sitting under a cherry blossom tree with her knees drawn up to her chest and her face buried. He pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket and held it out to the girl. "Here," he said, "You look like you need it."

The girl looked up, first at the handkerchief, then traveling slowly up his arm to his face. He was surprised at the startling color of her eyes as she stared at him. He studied her, at first glance she wasn't much to look at but if you looked over that, you would realize that she was very pretty. She looked like she was 16 and had white as snow skin with rosy cheeks and her eyes were big but were set perfectly in her heart shaped face. She was wearing sweat pants and a sweatshirt too big for her.

He realized that he was still staring and was being rude, so he smiled at her again and gestured for her to take the handkerchief. She shook her head though and sniffed again, "Take it," he said, " A pretty girl like you shouldn't be seen with tears on her face."
She smiled at that but shook her head again and said, "Daddy told me to never take things from a stranger." He was surprised at that, and nearly laughed at how much she sounded like his little 5-year-old cousin, but that would have been rude.
Instead he said, " My name is Ryu, what's yours?"

"I'm Sakura."

Ryu grinned, "See? We're not strangers anymore are we? I know who you are and you know who I am. So take it" He tried to hand her the handkerchief again. She just stared at him before smiling brilliantly and took the kerchief. "Why were you crying? You looked really sad."

She just looked down, and didn't answer. He looked at her thoughtfully, and decided that he would show her his special place since it had her namesake, and maybe it would make her feel better. He didn't know why he cared so much but she had such innocence around her that he felt like he had to make her feel better. "Would you like to come with me? I have a special place I want to show you."

She looked at him doubtfully and said "Onii-chan said that he would beat up any guy that I go near. I don't want you to get hurt." He smiled at her innocent words and said, "Don't worry, I'll be fine. I just want to make you feel better." He held out his hand to her, she took it smiling, and let him help her up.

He started to walk into the forest again, but Sakura's grip on his hand tightened "Hoeeeeeeeeeeeee! W-we're g-going in t-there!" she asked her voice trembling, he looked at her in surprise and nodded. "B-But Onii-chan said that the forest is h-haunted!"

Ryu grinned, "You're brother sounds like and interesting fellow, I'd like to meet him. Don't worry, I'll protect you from the ghosts okay?"

"Okay," she said in a small voice, her small hand clutching his even tighter. And together they made their way into the forest.