Chapter 1

Sakura said her apologies when she bumped into people, she was going faster then what was deemed necessary for a normal person. But, Sakura could hear that something was following her. It was panting softly. She braved looking back when she turned a corner, and saw a lion. Of course, the humans around her were unaware of it, and just kept walking by it while it silently went out of their way. The golden lion was shining slightly and she knew it wasn't a normal fae. She immediately turned back around as soon as she noticed that she might have been staring, and sped up going home. This time not even caring what she bumped into. Sakura breathed a sigh of relief as her eyes landed on the small house that she lived in, and hurried through the front door. Glancing out the window a few minutes later, she found the lion sitting on her front lawn gazing right back at her.

"Good morning Dad!" a cheerful voice rang through the kitchen as Sakura quickly took her place at the table. On it was a ravishing arrangement of eggs, sausages and toasted bread, topped off with cinnamon and paired with orange juice. She delightfully squealed as she looked upon her favorite breakfast.

"Morning Sakura," her dad said from the kitchen, preparing his own breakfast, "How was playing pool with Tomoyo yesterday?"

"It was really fun! She brought along a bunch of guys that I didn't know, but ya'know, thats the normal Tomoyo!" She paused to chew thoughtfully the eggs she put in her mouth, "This is really good! Thank you Dad!"

Her dad smiled at her as he finished making himself the coffee, and glanced at the time, "School?" He casually asked.

Sakura's fork clattered to the plate in surprise as she glanced at the time, "Oops! Sorry Dad, I'll have to cut this short," She was halfway out the door, when she remembered "Bye Dad!" His response was muffled as the door slammed behind her. Sakura breathed a bit and let out a bright smile, this is going to be a great day!

Last night came rushing back as she looked in front of her. Not only was the lion still there, but he had a companion. The girl was tanned with long black hair, and looked like she was wearing a long forgotten oriental battle outfit. Her stance was weird, her arms crossed and feet shoulder width apart. Like she hates me. Sakura feigned ignorance as she walked on to school, although going faster then what was really necessary; she could still hear them behind her.

"She doesn't seem special. Like a normal airhead to me," the female said. Sakura tensed but kept walking.

The lion replied, "Mei Ling, it is Master Li's wishes, you know that a mortal can not be unchosen. Her destiny is sealed."

Sakura stumbled out of surprise, What? She caught herself then and bent down to tie her shoes, buying some time to compose herself.

"Hah! Can't even walk on the ground without falling." Mei Ling scoffed, "I don't want to watch this pathetic human anymore Kero. I'm going." the warrior girl ran off in front of Sakura, and turned down a corner out of sight.

Kero sighed, "Heh, that girl needs to learn some patience." he laughed quietly to himself, and then placed himself in front the school Sakura attended. He stretched out lazily and lied down, he was going to be here a while.

"SAKURRAAA" Sakura was momentarily caught of guard as she heard her best friends voice yell at her, "Hi Tomoyo." she answered calmly, bracing herself as she saw that Tomoyo's face was quite red.

"What are you wearing?!" Tomoyo finally burst out. Sakura cocked her head to the side in a questioning gaze and looked down at her self. True she didn't have enough time to really dress herself up to Tomoyo's standards, but a white loose fitting t -shirt with jeans, isn't really that bad is it? Sakura decided to play it safe, "Umm, didn't have much time to get ready this morning. Sorry Tomoyo, you'll have to make do with this today," she laughed nervously as she said it, seeing Tomoyo give her a glare.

"Honestly, I don't know why I'm your best friend. I don't even want to be seen with you today." Tomoyo huffed this out as she turned around, with her arms crossed.

Sakura waited a few seconds before pouncing on her friends back with a hug, "We're best friends, cause you love me anyways!" Sakura joyfully exclaimed, "I promise I'll wear something you made me tomorrow, okay?"she made her famous puppy pout and, Tomoyo was broken.

"Fine, fine," she said after mock consideration, "but it's a skirt, or nothing tomorrow. Got it?" Sakura simply laughed and nodded, then continued to drag her friend to their first class as the recently rung bell was still ringing in her ears.

The first few classes went as fast as a breeze, and soon Sakura found herself at lunch sitting with Tomoyo and some of their friends.

"Hey, you know theres going to be new guy at school tomrrow," Tomoyo mentioned after taking a bite out of her sandwich.

"Oh?" replied one of their friends, Yamazaki, " Yeah! I heard he was some famous person, but has a really cold and bad personality."

"Yamazaki! Stop making things up! Don't make him have a bad reputation when his first day hasn't started yet!" Tomoyo cried out, trying to defend this new guy.

Sakura just laughed, "Tomoyo calm down, you haven't met him either." Tomoyo stayed quiet for a little bit, but then crossed her arms and said, "Whatever, I'm sure he's a nice guy."

Sakura patted Tomoyo's shoulder, "That's right, and if he turns out to be a huge, egotistical, cold jerk, we all expect you to befriend him because 'you're sure he's a nice guy.'" she answered her with a smile. The group laughed while Tomoyo reddened a bit more.

"Guys! Stop it," when Tomoyo glanced around and the others were still giggling behind their hands she added, "Fine, I will be friends with him. No matter his personality!" she said angrily. Sakura saw that their joke was taken a little to seriously and stopped laughing at once, "I'm sorry, we didn't mean it. You don't have to."

The blue haired teen relaxed a little at Sakura's words and said, "No it's alright, anyways, theres nothing wrong with making new friends!"

At that exclamation the bell decided to ring, and everyone quickly packed up their lunches to head to their next class.

Sakura was running late after school, her dad expected her home sooner than this, but she got caught up in cleaning duty. "Shoot, shoot. Dad's leaving tomorrow, this is my last time to see him." She mumbled to herself while running home. The teen was in such a hurry she didn't notice anything around her. Not even the lion and his two companions.

At last, Sakura managed to get herself home, but she stumbled to a surprising sight. When she opened the door she found her father leaning over what seemed to be a picture frame. She decided to leave her father alone and quickly went to her room. I'll say good bye later. Sakura decided to start on her homework.

"SAKURA! DINNER!" the call rang through the air after a while. Sakura looked up from her math problem (the one she was trying to work on for the past 30 minutes) and breathed a sigh of relief at having a valid excuse to leave it be. She ran downstairs and had dinner with her father, spaghetti, and they talked about their days and so on. Sakura noticed that he had a look of sorrow on his face, but she didn't call upon it. After they were done, and cleaned up, her father left upstairs at an early bedtime to get ready for tomorrow.

Sakura felt a wave of curiosity run through her and walked to the couch where her dad was looking at the picture frame, surely, thats what caused his sorrow at dinner today. She didn't see anything immediately but noticed a corner of a silver picture peeking out from the bottom of the couch. Sakura picked it up and looked at it; on it was a younger version of her father, her mother, and between them was a little boy with black tufts of hair who looked surprisingly like her parents. I had a brother? Was the only thought that ran through her head.