Chapter 4

Thanks for the reviews you guys! Here's chapter 4!

Sakura got taken to Syaoran's mansion and met Eriol, skipping ahead to the next day anyway.

Mrs. Mizuki hurried in the classroom as she did every morning. She was always late and everyone was used to it by now. Tomoyo was running late as well so right after Mizuki came in so did she. Aisha signaled for Tomoyo to come and have a seat, she glanced around the room and saw Sakura. She began to walk toward her only to be blocked off by Aisha. Aisha grabbed Tomoyo's arm and dragged her to her sit.

"Tomoyo, why were you going to Kinomoto's seat!"

"Two days ago she ran off. Me and Syaoran…"

Aisha cut Tomoyo off with sly grin, "You AND Syaoran? What exactly were you doing with him?"

Tomoyo quit explaining herself and quickly sank in her seat. "W-well…" Before she could go into detail the door opened up to reveal a very late Syaoran. Mizuki walked up to him with her arms cross. "Li I told you not to take advantage of my kindness. I'll let it slide this time since…" She mumbles to herself. "I was late as well. Or we can have Sakura decide what to do with you, eh Sakura?" Mizuki turned to Sakura who was looking at the window, she glanced over at Syaoran who quickly turned away, Sakura once again stared through the window. "Just…let him sit." Mizuki's smile turned to a frown and she turned to Syaoran who wasn't really all that happy either. "…Okay."

Syaoran went to his seat with his face down to the ground; the whole class watched him and Sakura with a sense of awkwardness around them. Tomoyo and Aisha looked across at Syaoran, he had his face down on the desk not staring at anyone, he just seemed to be there. Then they looked at Sakura, she had moved her desk further from his and wasn't making any movement, she just stared out the window as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. Aisha wasn't able to see it from where she was but Tomoyo did, she noticed that every now and then Sakura would glance over at Syaoran and become really sad. Tomoyo held her chest and looked away; she knew something had happened, something that involved them both.

(A/N: Flashback)

"…They're dead…" Syaoran dropped the receiver and Eriol sat up quickly both staring at Sakura with a loss for words.

Sakura turned over and continued. "They're dead…to me anyway." Syaoran went to sit on the chair while Eriol remained on the floor. Both listened intently. "Before I was born, my older brother, Touya was my parents pride and joy. Even though they were financially in debt, they still cared for him. One day my mom went in for a check up and found out, she was pregnant with me and even though this meant more expenses. My mom not once ever thought of aborting me. After I was born of course all the attention went to me, this made my brother very jealous…very." Sakura sat up and curled up in a ball. "When I turned 6 years old the doctors found out something was wrong with her. Apparently, when she had me certain organs inside of her began to function improperly. They were minor things but it had a great affect on my mom, if the doctors had caught it earlier she would have been saved but…"

Sakura began to cry yet continued. "She died on my 7th birthday…I didn't understand what was going on because I still really young. Touya understood though, he was 14 and was close to our mom. He blamed me; he told me every night it was my fault and he'd never let me forget. My dad didn't say it but I knew he blamed me as well…he'd become more distance from me as time passed and it even got to the point where if I came into the room, they'd both stop their conversation and do whatever to ignore me. When I turned 13, my dad had gotten a big job offer and had to move. Touya was excited and so was I, they both told me we'd be moving on the 3rd of May. I stayed over Tomoyo's for the first 3 days of May, dad had told me that he'd pack my stuff. I came home on that day…and everything of my dad's and brother's was gone, my stuff untouched." Sakura glanced over to Syaoran, he was in shock and was looking anywhere to avoid making contact. Sakura looked down into her lap and grinned. "Well Li, I guess you're right. I do have bad home training…happy?"

After Sakura left with Eriol that afternoon to go home, Syaoran couldn't say anything to her. She had every right to go off at him, he couldn't deny it yet all in all something about that kept nagging at him. He wanted to help her some kind of way, he wanted to try and heal her heart yet he felt as if he didn't deserve that role and that only got to him more. He felt a slight tap on his shoulder.

"Hey…" Syaoran turned around and it was Sakura tapping on him. "You're not still mad are you?"

Syaoran opened his mouth to say something but once again, he was at a loss for words. He just shook his head and Sakura smiled. "You have no reason to blame yourself, you didn't know…you may piss me off but I can tell you're a good person…I think." Syaoran let out a grin and turned back around. He was too ashamed to say anything to her, he felt like an ass.

(Lunchtime)

Syaoran went to the school roof during lunchtime, for some reason this was the only place where he felt calm. He took out his lunch and began eating, trying to get his mind off everything. He stared down and saw Sakura sitting by herself watching something; he glanced over to where she was staring and saw Tomoyo. He began to wonder why they never sat together even though they were best friends. The roof door squealed open and it was Aisha coming to Syaoran's secret spot.

"Nice hiding place Li." Aisha walked toward Syaoran while he just continued to stare down. She sat down next to him and began picking at his food.

"Quit eating my food please…"

Aisha paid no attention to him and continued to pick, she stared down to where he was looking. "What are you staring at?"

Syaoran glanced at Aisha and then back down. "Sakura and Tomoyo…"

Aisha stopped eating and gave a sly grin. "Yeah, what about them?"

"Aren't they best friends?"

"No, me and Tomoyo are best friends, Sakura during freshman year got jealous and tried to pick a fight with me."

Syaoran looked at Aisha with suspicion, he knew from Sakura's story that she and Tomoyo had been friends for a while but he just let her continue with her lie, trying to see how far he could get. "Oh really…what's the deal with Tomoyo and Sakura then? They seem like good friends to me."

"No, they're not, Tomoyo is just a really nice person so she takes pity on the low lives like Sakura." Syaoran glared at Aisha, got up, and began walking to the roof door. He didn't want to hear any trash talking of Sakura after what he heard. Aisha quickly ran in front of him and blocked his path.

"Move."

"No, why should I? Did what I say about Sakura make you mad?"

Syaoran tries to move around Aisha but she remained in his way, "I said move."

"I heard you and I asked you a question, it would be wise to answer."

Syaoran stopped trying to get around Aisha but instead walked right up into her face, trying to intimidate her. "And if I don't?"

Aisha remained where she was and didn't flinch for a second. "Then you just won't be getting by anytime soon."

Syaoran could see this wasn't getting him anywhere so he took the opportunity to get back Aisha for saying those things about Sakura. "Yes you made me mad, you don't anything about Sakura and Tomoyo isn't the type of person to care for peoples' status. In my opinion you're the only low life."

"Oh really? What did she feed you some sap story to make you go over to her side? Tch figures." Aisha walked backwards to the door and leaned upon it. Syaoran just stared at Aisha's causal attitude, it made him feel uncomfortable, "She didn't have to feed me anything, I know for a fact she's a good person."

"Yeah yeah yeah, I bet you didn't know that every Friday she gets picked up by some college guy." Aisha slide to the floor and continued. "They always go to Sakura's house and he doesn't come out until morning."

Syaoran picked Aisha up by her shirt and pulled her to his face. "Why the fuck were you spying on Sakura like that!"

Aisha once again didn't flinch. "I didn't someone else saw them. Oh, you think I hate Sakura out of spite? Hell no, Li, I tried being nice to the bitch and she feed everyone in the school some sap story about her fucking parents leaving her." Syaoran let go of Aisha. "How did you…?"

"Oh yeah you didn't know did you? Tomoyo doesn't either which is why she still hangs out with that whore. She told us her brother was jealous of her, she told us her mom dead, and she told us about her dad hating her. I'm sure she told you the same thing which was why this morning you were all in pieces over her right?"

Syaoran backed away from Aisha, his amber eyes showed absolute fiery within them. "Shut the fuck up, you don't know shit!"

"She fed everyone that crap but you know what? We believed her, everyone was nice to her and Tomoyo was included in her little pity fest. I began working in the office and I had to sort through everyone's files, guess what I found out about Kinomoto? Her mother isn't dead, her father didn't leave her, and her brother is paying for her fucking expenses!"

Syaoran was now pissed beyond words he just pushed Aisha aside and furiously opened the door. "I don't have to take anymore of this shit!"

Aisha didn't try following him, she had succeeded in what she meant to do. She took out a sheet a paper and let it fly in the wind she then turned to Syaoran hurrying downstairs and yelled. "If you don't believe me why don't you go check out the office for her records, you'll see."

Syaoran stopped for a second but began moving again, he didn't want to listen to anything Aisha said but it nagged him constantly. He trusted Sakura with all his heart and so he ran to the main office to prove Sakura innocence.

Sakura did her normal routine of watching Tomoyo hang out with her friends. She had nothing better to do during lunch since everyone in school was under Aisha's influence. She laid back, closed her eyes, and the image of Syaoran's face at his home came to her mind. She felt guilty for making him look like that, she didn't want his pity yet she didn't want to be in his debt either so she just told him her biggest secret. It felt like a load was off her shoulders when she did but it also felt like even more was added on, she turned to her side and was hit in the face with some paper. Sakura opened her eyes and noticed her name in bold letters. "What the?"

She sat up and began to read the paper aloud. "First name: Sakura. Last name: Kinomoto. Age: 17. Birthday: April 1st. Height: 5'0. Weight (since last check up): 105.(A/N: not sure if that's accurate but…meh) Parents:

(MIA) and Kinomoto Nadeshiko(decreased). Other family: Brother: Kinomoto Touya(MIA)." Sakura began to recognize the report as something she had to write when she first entered high school that was required and the main office changed it every year to keep up with age, weight, etc. When she was first given this, she had cried in front of Mizuki, who was her supervisor then. When Mizuki read it that was when they had became friends, Sakura had told her the full story about her past but she didn't realize that the loud speaker was on so the whole school heard. She was embarrassed about it especially when the whole student body became nice to her, all except for Aisha. She was jealous of how much attention Sakura had been getting and plotted to get the attention away from her. During that whole week, Tomoyo was sick with pneumonia so she didn't know about anything dealing with her secret, that was Sakura's downfall. Sakura and Aisha one day got into a huge argument during PE and it ended in Sakura bringing Aisha down for good. Aisha wasn't too happy with that so she ran out of the gym and into the office. After that something happened that made some people begin to avoid her but Sakura brushed it off as some of Aisha's followers. Soon those few people became many and those many became everyone except Tomoyo. She didn't know why everyone suddenly became cold to her but it didn't stop Tomoyo from being Sakura's friend but even then Aisha stole that from her as well. Throughout the years, Sakura became more and more distrusting of people to the point she no longer acted like her normal self, now she was a cold, sarcastic bitch. Just what everyone expected out of her.

Sakura snapped out of her memory when she realized she only had 5 minutes of lunch left so she got up and began heading toward the office to return the paper. When she reached the main office, she noticed how dark it was inside so she figured everyone was at lunch. She began to walk toward class until she noticed it was open, without a second thought she walked in and found a bunch of file cabinets opened. She walked in deeper and spotted a shadow in the darkness, it was reading a file. Sakura flipped on the lights and was relieved but confused to see the same messy brown hair that she'd seen for the past 2 days and for some reason seeing him made her smile.

"Li, what are you…" Syaoran looked over his shoulder, his amber eyes met Sakura's green, emeralds and even she knew he was angry. "What's wrong, Li?" He continued to stare at her with the same furious glare. "…Syaoran?"

Syaoran slammed the file cabinet and walked toward Sakura. "You damn, lying bitch!" Syaoran pushed Sakura down and threw a balled up sheet of paper at her. "I'm through with your bullshit." Syaoran stormed out of the office leaving Sakura on the floor staring at where he left. Her body began to shake and her voice trembled. "S-Syaoran?" Sakura sat in the office and cried. She trusted and got hurt, just like before.

And that is that! What did you think about that chapter? Review please and I'd like to thank all that have been reading but I just returned from a 4hour road trip so naming everyone will give me an even bigger headache...sorry. Next chapter up by Monday, promise!