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Chapter 1: Syaoran's return

"Syaoran's returning! Syaoran's returning!" Sakura was bouncing off the walls when she heard the awesome news of Syaoran's return. She could not hold it in anymore. "Touya! Get off the phone! I need to call Tomoyo and Meilin and tell them that Syaoran's coming home!"

Meilin returned from Hong Kong just the other week and now her fiancée, as she likes to call him, is coming back too. Syaoran left Japan after Sakura made her own deck of cards from the magical deck of cards called the Clow Cards. The special deck of cards was made by Clow Reed himself.

Touya just looked at her and kept talking, Sakura guessed, to Yukito. "Touya!! Get off!" Touya just kept right on talking. Annoyed, Sakura yanked the phone right out of Touya's hands. "Hi Yuki. My brother needs to get off the phone so I can call my friends. I'm sorry. I won't talk long." She almost hung up the phone when she figured that she should tell Yukito the awesome news, so she put the phone back up to her ear. "Yuki! Did you hear? Syaoran's coming home! BYE!" She hung up and dialed Tomoyo's number leaving Yukito on the other line.

He had an anime sweatdrop on the back of his head. "Okay. So the news is true. Syaoran is returning."

Now, back to Sakura and Tomoyo.

"Hello?"

"Hi Tomoyo! It's me! Did you hear? Did you hear? Syaoran's coming home! Syaoran's coming home on Monday!!"

"Sakura, I can hear you just fine. You don't need to yell. Okay, now tell me again what's going on? A little calmer this time, okay?"

"Syaoran's coming home on Monday!" Sakura was a little calmer that time but it was hard to be calm when one of her best friends were returning home. And it's Syaoran at that. There was no way she could be 'calmer' when Syaoran was coming home!

Just then, Sakura remembered the black bear Syaoran had given her at the airport before he left. She had carried it with her everywhere when he left, the she put it on her shelf about a month later. Now she was dashing to her room to swipe it off of her shelf and carry it around with her until Syaoran's return. "Kero! Did you hear? Syaoran's coming home on Monday!" Sakura burst out when she entered her room.

"Sakura? Today is Monday." Sakura grabbed her bear and turned toward Kero, glaring.

"Not this Monday! Next Monday!"

"Sakura! Did you finish your homework yet?" called her dad.

Oh no! I still have to study for my spelling and math tests. And practice for my music test, thought Sakura.

"Sakura? Are you there?"

"Um...Yes Dad, I'm here. My homework's not quite done yet! Working on it!" Meilin's gonna be so ticked when she finds out I didn't tell her first.


I groaned as I slowly opened my eyes. I quickly shut them because the sudden flood of fluorescent lighting made my eyes sting and my head throb.

I couldn't remember what happened...Where was I? Was I dreaming?

No. I couldn't be. I don't remember dreams ever hurting so much.

I put a hand to my throbbing head which didn't help.

"Doctor, I think she's waking up," came a voice from the side of my bed.

"How do you feel honey?" she asked in a kind motherly way.

I groaned in response.

"Do you remember what happened?" she asked in that same loving caring tone of voice.

I shook my head, which didn't help at all, in fact it made my head hurt even worse. I groaned and the nurse handed me what I thought was an aspirin or something like that. It's hard to tell when your head's pounding so hard that you can't even see straight.

She helped me sit up, sip some warm chamomile tea, and swallow the pill. "I'll be in to check on you soon, sweetie." She smiled. "I'll be back in soon to check on you. If you ever need help with something press this button." She pointed it out to me but my eyelids were so heavy I couldn't keep them open.


"I can't believe you didn't tell me first!" yelled Meilin, drumming her finger on her desk. "You should have told me before you told Tomoyo! And anyway, I am Syaoran's fiancée!"

Sakura gasped in disgust. "He's not your fiancée, you prat! He doesn't even like you like that!" Sakura smacked Meilin across the face. Just as retaliation, Meilin smacked Sakura twice as hard.

"Hn." They both turned away from each other and walked toward their desks, which were at opposite sides of the room.

She should be happy I told her at all! The idiotic prat. I wouldn't have told her at all if she and Syaoran hadn't captured the Twin Card.

That seemed to be all Meilin could talk about. Syaoran this, Syaoran that.

Sakura calmed down a bit to think. Wow, she must really miss him. He'd gone back to Hong Kong to live with his parents again. I miss him a lot, too.


I opened my eyes for the second time to see fluorescent lights shining down on me and once again the nurse was right there.

"Now how are you feeling, honey?" she asked sweetly.

I smiled a bit. "Better. My head doesn't hurt that much now. The pounding's gone down to a hardly noticeable throb." I gave a peace sign. Something suddenly struck me like a rock to the head. "My family! How are they? My mom and dad? And Akukei?

At the mention of my family, the nurse started wringing her hands and avoiding my eyes.

I looked down at the blankets on my hospital bed, tears starting to fill my eyes. I was hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

"They're…" She gulped. "Dead."

I broke down and started crying and sobbing. The next thing I knew, the nurse was giving me a hug.

I cried and no matter how many times I tried to stop, I couldn't. It felt like I had been crying for hours.

The nurse gently stroked my head and rubbed my back, trying to calm me down.

I sobbed and choked. "I—I don't w-want t-to be a-alone," I stuttered out. I looked up at the nurse. "And we were supposed to go to Japan too." I calmed down a bit. "Mom had enrolled me and my sister in school, but…" I trailed off.

"It's okay," she cooed. "I have a friend who lives in Japan and I'm sure she would let you live in one of her houses."


That day seemed to take an eternity to end and those were the periods before lunch. Sakura still had her math, spelling, and music tests ahead of her.


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Sakura Kat 007