Fake Authenticity

Chibi-Cookies

Hey, sorry it took so long for me to update. Thank you all so much for the reviews! I am so happy that you like my story so much. Anyway here's the next chapter. P.S. In case you didn't notice her fathers name is not Fujitaka –wink, wink- Oh, and I guess some of the characters are OOC a little…

Full Summary: She was a cold and unreadable girl with a hard past, a fearful mother and an abusive father. When death seems the only way out, she meets a derelict that hides behind his tough exterior and his fixation on drugs. Will they help each other heal, or will he be the final cause of her downfall? Add a dash of Beauty and the Beast and a hint of Cinderella and you've got yourself a fairy tale. But will there be a 'happily ever after' at the end of their story?

Disclaimer: I do not in any way, shape, or form own CCS…Although I can still keep wishing. Heh.

Thoughts

Please Read This: Some of the pairings may seem a bit…odd, but that's not the way it's going to turn out. I lurv all of the original pairings and will keep it that way cough Tomoyo and Eriol cough So don't be distressed :

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-Normal POV-

A girl limped down the hallway, trying to conceal the sharp pain that was shooting up her leg. She appeared to be almost drowning in the fabric of her clothes, which hung limply from her figure.

She stumbled over to a raven-haired girl with a grim expression playing on her fair features. "Um…hey Tomoyo." Sakura mumbled out through her cut lip.

"What the hell happened to you?" Tomoyo seethed out. "You don't expect me to actually believe you fall out of a tree every other week do you?" Sakura flinched back at her remark, squeezing her hands around the tough fabric of her oversized shirt until her knuckles turned a glossy shade of white with a thin purple blotch ruining the perfect ness of the former color, like paint on a new canvas.

"No…um, I…I fell down the stairs this time." Sakura looked down at the gray tiled floor, tracing her foot across the cracks in the linoleum.

Tomoyo sniffed before saying gently, "Sakura, you can trust me…you know I won't tell anybody."

She shook her head, causing her auburn hair to lightly fly around her head before settling back on her shoulders in a disheveled manner, Sakura then brushed her long locks back past her ears in reflex.

There was a sharp ring throughout the hallways, and people shuffled past them grabbing flyaway papers before filing into their classrooms for class.

"Well…I'll see you at lunch then, okay?" Tomoyo said to Sakura while pulling a last minuet book out of her locker, "and if anything happens, tell me, I'll be on them faster than a bee to honey."

Sakura giggled quietly, ignoring the pain in her side, before turning away from Tomoyo and limping down the hallway to her own class.

By the time she made it to her first period class, it was already five minuets passed the bell. She debated whether or not to go in; she had a perfect excuse to just walk right into the nurse's office. But she doubted the nurse would believe her falling down the stairs story.

So, taking a shaky breath she opened the door a crack and peered in. She felt the rough wood bump against her skin as she looked out into the classroom, the teacher was currently preaching to the class about some war back when.

She creaked open the door further and the teacher snapped around, annoyed at the disturbance. When he saw that it was one of her students he ushered urgently with his hand before saying aloud to the class, "glad you decided to join us Kinomoto." Which received a few polite laughs from the front row of students.

She stepped fully inside, letting her hair fall in front of her face as to cover up the bruises that remained there. She hobbled over to the back of the room as quickly as she could; keeping her eyes averted from her classmates stares.

She hastily jammed her books by her desk before sitting down. "What happened to you? When you first came in I thought you were road kill…" A screeching chorus of giggles came from behind the girl who commented about her appearance. She didn't know who it was, just one of the 'populars' that try to make her life more miserable than it already was.

She looked down at her desk, trying not to make eye contact. Doing so made her hair creep down the edges of the desk in a lolling manner. Sakura heard small whispers going on around her, and she tried to not take notice.

Suddenly there was a sharp tug that snapped her head to the right in a swift motion. "Are you ignoring me road kill?" Several snickers filled the classroom as the girl continued to torment her.

The sound of a bell reverberated around the room, indicating that it was lunch, but Sakura continued to look down with a blank stare in her eyes, "Look up road kill, don't you know it's impolite not to look at a person when they're talking to you?" More snickers came from behind the girl, but Sakura remained staring at the engraved initials on the wooden desk.

"I said, look up!" At this the girl tugged harshly at her hair, bring her to face the people snickering around her. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to hide all the pain that was rising to her chest.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" a voice snapped out at the crowd, "leave her alone why don't you?" Her voice echoed through the empty room, Sakura looked up briefly seeing that the teacher and the rest of the class were gone.

The girl with a fistful of Sakura's hair released it, sending it in wispy waves back onto the desk, "Tomoyo…nice to see you here."

"Stop tormenting her like this! Do you get enjoyment out of seeing other people suffer?" Tomoyo spluttered out in an angry fashion.

The girl started walking towards the door she then stopped briefly turning around and looking Tomoyo right in the eyes, "No…I only do it to the people who don't deserve kindness in their lives." Before walking out into the hallway.

"What the hell does she mean by that?" Tomoyo mumbled out. She looked over her shoulder to see Sakura leaning pitifully against the desktop in a slouched manner.

"Hey…" Tomoyo said lightly rubbing Sakura in the small of her back, tracing an intricate pattern of loops and bows around her shirt. "You okay?" The girl looked up with glassy eyes and a baffled expression.

"I'm sorry." She whispered out, croaking slightly, "I'm sorry you had to trouble yourself with me like this Tomoyo."

"Oh…Sakura." Small pools of tears were forming around in Tomoyo's eyes; a single tear fell down her cheek, leaving a small iridescent trail. "You don't deserve this."

There was a scratching against the floor as the chair was pushed back from the desk that broke the underlying silence of the room. "It's alright Tomoyo…if they weren't tormenting me, it would just be another girl."

With that Sakura slowly got up and made her way across the room, before she left she turned around and gave her a small smile.

Tomoyo looked after her in silence before saying softly, "Your not strong enough to handle this Sakura…nobody is."

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"Come on Syaoran…that all you got?" A man with hair such a pure shade of black that it almost appeared to shine blue said to the gruff boy standing in front of him.

Syaoran growled slightly, "Shut up Eriol…I'm gonna kill you." He spat back venomously.

"Let's see you try then." A slight smirk crept across his face, making his glasses glint back the sunlight, which found its way to him.

Before he got a chance to charge a loud sound resounded in both the fighters' ears. "Baby! Baby, where are you?"

Eriol gave a slight smirk, as Syaoran simply looked down, with an almost hurt look on his face.

They could hear the clicking of heels approaching them, which resounded throughout the hallway. "I guess we'll have to pick up our fight another time Syaoran, it seems somebody has come to visit." He let out a slight smirk as he saw the dark haired boy grimace with fury.

Suddenly a girl appeared at the entry of the hallway, her long black hair swished playfully over hear shoulders as she let out a squeal of delight, "There you are baby!"

She clicked to the two boys throwing her arms around the closest, "Oh baby, I was looking all over for you, what are you doing?" She glanced up quickly and there was a flash moment of red eyes meeting blue.

Syaoran dragged himself up from his leaning position on one of the lockers and shoved past Eriol as he moodily walked away.

"Now Meiling, me and your fiancé were just having a fight, it seems you may have upset him though." Eriol let out another small smirk before the ruby-eyed girl moved closer to him.

"Now why in the world would I marry scum like that?" She giggled playfully before kissing him.

Syaoran stood by the entryway, holding back his emotions; he had heard what Meiling had said.

Slamming his fist against the locker he walked away glaring hard at anybody who dared look at him.

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"So Meiling, what were you doing, you seem to be in high spirits." She giggled softly at his comment, staring at him with her dark red eyes.

"I was playing with Sakura." The corners of her mouth lifted while Eriol looked at her in admiration.

He smiled a bit before saying, "Meiling you treat her as if she's your doll." They both laughed at the comment before walking down the hall, hand in hand.

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Sakura was walking along the hallway, wasting her time until lunch was over. She traced her hand against the cool metal of the lockers, letting the steady motion calm her from the previous instigation.

She seemed to be lost in thought and apparently didn't notice that a very angry person was walking towards her, slamming his fist into lockers on his way.

As she was walking forward something crashed into her side, making her cry out in pain before falling to the ground in a small huddled heap.

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He was in such a blind rage that he wasn't really looking to where he was going, and suddenly something bumped against his side. He heard a sharp cry ring through his ears before the person toppled to the ground.

I didn't think I bumped into them that hard, did I?

"Watch where you're going, why don't you?" He mumbled out, seemingly angry. When he didn't receive an answer he looked down where his eyes met a small pile of clothes lying at his feet.

"What the hell?" He crouched down to examine the mass further when suddenly it moved. He gave it a questioning stare before reaching down and grabbing hold of the fabric. The material felt rough in his hands and it almost made him want to flinch back.

Then he noticed something, the fabric he was holding had some weight to it, fumbling around for a while he discovered an arm was hidden inside.

Looking closer he saw that a long veil of hair was swept haphazardly over someone's face. Brushing it aside he furrowed his brow at what he saw. It was the girl from before…and she was seemingly unconscious.

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Okay everybody, I am done with chapter two. I know it isn't as great as chapter one but I'm rushed right now since I am going on vacation soon and I have to get ready to go, besides the fact that I'm beta-editing somebody's stories and have to make graphics for someone who ordered a picture. Aah, I'm way to over worked for someone who's on summer vacation. Feh.

Okay, so if you're confused right now, this is what's happening: So far we know that Sakura is being beaten by her father and bullied by Meiling. Tomoyo is worried about her being worried and thinks she is hiding something from her.

Meiling is Syaoran's fiancé but she is going out with Eriol, making Syaoran infuriated because he likes her but she doesn't like him (that's why him and Eriol were fighting earlier.) Then he bumps into Sakura making her fall unconscious because of the injury in her side, the way Syaoran bumped into it made it hurt more and fall unconscious due to the pain. Hope that answers the questions.

Heh, anyway please leave your reviews, they helped me write this chapter, and with your lovely support I will write another…after I update my other two, -grumbles to side-

Thanks.