Summary : Sakura, thirteen, pretty and smart meets Syaoran, fourteen, charming and athletic. Love entwines them together, but not for long. A few months later, Sakura was left heart-broken and Syaoran, lying. Three years later, Sakura meets Syaoran again, still broken-hearted. Lying to her? Easy. Mending her heart? Impossible.

Author's Notes : Hey there. I'm back! Heh. Sorry I didn't continue sooner. I was sick for a whole week, schoolwork was flooding and was getting ready for a competition (still am). So, without furthur ado, I welcome you with chapter one:P

Keywords : Normal writing - Narration

Italics - Thoughts

"..." - Talking

'...' - Voices/talking in memories.

Everlasting Love
Written by : SakuraKxSyaoranL

Chapter one

A high-pitched scream was heard through the halls of Seijyu High. Numerous students turned their heads to the source, most followed the scream. What the students saw was a girl covered with blood. Her eyes closed as her body leaned against the wall. Her violet coloured hair cascading down her back. The atmosphere was overwhelmed with sadness as the students stared at the beautiful girl before them.

They all knew her. She was the most popular girl in school; and the prettiest. The only thought that ran through all of their minds were, 'Who did this?'. They continued to stare at the girl, nobody dared to go near her because they were scared; scared that they will be next.

The students looked at her with worried eyes as they continued to do their daily rituals. The school bell rung indicating the starting of classes. Most students quickly walked past the girl that was lying on the floor; but one particular student stayed back. The student examined the cuts on the girl's body and wrists; the cuts were pretty deep. The student furrowed her eyebrows in confusion as she thought, 'Who could've done this?'.

The student; identified as Kinomoto Sakura; ran to the nearest teacher available, and quickly informed him about what had happened. The teacher, Terada-sensei, followed her to the girl and picked her up. Terada informed Sakura that he will be taking the girl to the nurse's office. Sakura nodded in understanding and gratefully thanked the teacher. She smiled and bowed to him before walking to her classroom.

Sakura arrived at her classroom and knocked on the door gently. She heard a muffled, 'Come in'. She slid the door open and walked over to the teacher.

"Osoku natte sumimasen (Sorry I'm late)," Sakura apologized as she bowed to the teacher.

"I was helping a friend and I must've gotten sidetracked," Sakura apologized once more. 'Well, it's not the truth; but it'll work for now,'

"Wakarimasu (I understand)," The teacher, Mizuki-sensei, said as she nodded in understanding. "Please take a seat, Kinomoto-san,"

"Hai (Okay)," Sakura answered. She heard murmurs from the other students as she passed by them, but she didn't care. Let them think what they want to think; she would say. She arrived at her destination and sat down comfortably.

"Now class, please turn to chapter 4 and read the story given," Mizuki said. The class obeyed and started reading together.

Sakura followed the pace of her fellow students and read softly as her mind drifted off to her life. She smiled inwardly.

Sure, her life wasn't perfect, sure, she got dumped in the past and sure, she was labeled as a geek; but none of that mattered to her anymore, all that mattered to her now was to get a good scholarship and get out of Tomoeda quickly. She would forget all the things that happened to her, all the suffering that she went through. All of those memories would be replaced with new ones, but she knew that she couldn't just erase her memories just like that; just how she planned three years ago.

'Three years ago,' Sakura thought bitterly. 'That's when he dumped me,'

Even though she tried to forget her past; she just couldn't run away from it. It was naive of her to think so. 'Naïve, that's what I was; but not anymore'

Her mind drifted off elsewhere as the class ended. A group of students surrounded her as her head was turned the other way. She was thinking about her past and didn't notice them. Suddenly, she felt a slight touch of some one's arm.

"Get out of my way bitch," she heard a guy's voice say as she was shoved aside. She heard a chorus of, 'yeah's, and figured that that were the other students. Sakura hit the wall beside her because of the shove.

'Bastard,' she thought as she grunted inwardly. She winced in pain as she rubbed her sore arm. She sat at her seat and prepared for the next class. She sighed softly as she looked out of the window.

She saw cherry blossom petals floating gently as the wind blew them. She let a small smile grace her face as she adjusted her thick-framed glasses. Although she wanted to take off the glasses and untie her tight bun; she knew she couldn't. She didn't want him to recognize her anymore. She wanted to be invisible to everyone. She couldn't be invisible if she was popular; now could she?

Sakura stared at the cherry blossom petals as they floated by. Soon, she floated off to her own place; a place where her memories lay. She heard a girl laugh as she saw a young twelve-year old girl with a thirteen-year old boy on the ground.

Sakura smiled gently as she saw the scene before her. It was her and Syaoran four years ago. In the scene before her, thirteen-year old Syaoran was tickling twelve-year old Sakura.

'St-stop it Syaoran!' Sakura said as she continued laughing.

'I won't stop unless you do me one favor,' Syaoran replied back as he continued tickling her.

'What ever you say!' she answered in between laughs. That sentence Syaoran from tickling her any further. Syaoran's expression turned serious as he looked at Sakura.

'Kiss me,' He said as he looked into her eyes. Sakura was shocked at first, but relaxed after a bit. She edged closer to Syaoran as she closed her eyes. She gave him a peck on the lips as she pulled away blushing.

Syaoran touched her cheek softly as he stared at her emerald green eyes; he was lost in them. Sakura, too was hypnotized by his amber orbs. Finally, Sakura broke the gaze and was about to stand up; but Syaoran pulled her back down. She looked confusingly at Syaoran.

'This is it. This is the moment where he asked me to be his girlfriend and broke my heart a year later. And to think that I loved him; but I still do,' sixteen-year old Sakura thought as she turned her gaze from chibi Sakura and Syaoran and felt salty tears trailing down her pale cheek.

Before she knew it, she awakened from the scene and she was back in school. She touched her cheek to feel tear stains and her chest tightened. No, not again. Sakura held fear in her eyes as she struggled to breathe. Tears blurred her vision as she got out of her classroom and ran for her life. She ran back to her home to get her medicine; but it was too late. She was lacking oxygen as she ran and that caused her to collapse, yet again. Darkness surrounded her like last time.

Her body was on the cold cement pathway of her house. She almost made it; but she didn't. Soon, a crowd gathered near her body; gasps were heard throughout the crowd. Some of Sakura's neighbors came to see what had caused the crowd, and was shocked and tearful as they saw the sweet Sakura that they all knew; collapsed on the ground. Some of them even had tears in their eyes. Suzuki Chika, Sakura's closest neighbor; called the ambulance and told them what happened; she too had tears in her deep brown eyes.

Minutes passed by, and the ambulance finally came. They took Sakura as they strapped her onto the bed-like thing. (A/N: I don't really know what it's called. It's the thing where the people get strapped to when something happened or something..)

Sakura was still unconscious when the medics took her into the hospital to diagnose her. Numerous doctors tried to wake her up, but all failed to do so. She was lost in her own world, they said. They could not wake her unless she wanted to wake up. Finally, the doctors gave up and Sakura was sent to a room.

Sakura's P.O.V.

'Where.. Where am I?' Sakura asked herself as she looked at her surroundings. There were trees, flowers blooming and the sunlight bright. She noticed that she was in the Tomoeda park. She was surprised to see her family on a mat, happily talking. There was a basket in the middle of them.

'Otou-san? Okaa-san? Onii-chan?(Father? Mother? Older brother?)' Sakura asked aloud as she stared at her family. The Kinomoto family turned to see Sakura in her ten year old form.

'Oh, Sakura-chan. Come and eat with us,' Fujitaka, Sakura's father said as he smiled at his daughter. Sakura's eyes filled with tears as she ran to her father.

'Otou-san! I missed you!' Sakura exclaimed as she hugged him tightly; as if not wanting to let go. Her father chuckled as he lifted Sakura up and twirled her around.

'Sakura-chan, you have only been apart from us for five minutes,' Nadeshiko, Sakura's mother said as she took Sakura from Fujitaka. She caressed Sakura's auburn hair as she gave Sakura a peck on the cheek.

'Five minutes?' Sakura asked herself as she looked at her hands. They were smaller than her sixteen-year old hands. Then, realization hit her; she was ten years old again. She had it the last time she was knocked out cold.

'Aw, the kaiju (monster) is a softy,' Touya, her brother taunted Sakura playfully; causing Sakura to hit him on the shoulder and utter 'meanie' under her breath.

Their parents laughed at their children's behaviors. Nadeshiko took out the food from the picnic basket while Fujitaka set the plastic plates on the mat. Sakura and Toya played with each other as they waited to eat.

Sakura took a deep breath in as she savoured the moment. She was home with her family; she thought as joyful tears filled her eyes. I don't ever want to leave this place.

End of Sakura's P.O.V.

"Please, Sakura. Wake up," A guy's voiced said softly as he touched Sakura's cheek. "I won't leave you again, I promise. Just please, wake up," The guy said as tears formed in his eyes. "Please.."

Author's Note : Well, that's all for now. I hope you liked it:D. Longer than my usual chapters, is all I can say. So, thanks for all the reviews! I really appreciate it. Thanks a bunch. So, who's the unknown guy? It's pretty obvious if I say so myself.. isn't it? Whoever gets it right, gets a free chocolate-chip cookie! XD. Comments are welcome, construtive criticism are needed and flames are accepted. Reviews much appreciated. Bye for now!