Disclaimer: No, I dun own CCS... ......... Tho, I would like to own the cards!

A/N: okay, this is my 5th CCS story, third to be posted. The two others that were posted, one i took off and the other is still there, hanging, suspended in the space of Fanfiction.net, unreviewed. Hopefully this one will be better off than the rest... Thank you!

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As the rain came down on the window. Syaoran looked out to watch the Sakura Trees be drenched in the rain poured down, creating giant puddles. He sighed thinking of his beloved Sakura who was no longer with him. He looked back to this room, and his eyes lingered on the phone he still has from the Card Capturing days. He grinned and strolled over to it. Picking it up, he dialed Sakura's number, forgetting she was no longer there.

"Hello?" A voice that was non-reconizeable answered the phone. Syaoran widened his eyes and took in a deep breath. "Hello?"

"Uh... S-sory... wrong number..." He quickly hung up the phone and place it in a draw and strung his hand through his hair. His eyes closed, sighing, he flopped onto his bed. Tears formed under his closed eyelids and he quickly brushed them away.

He was still not over the fact that Sakura Kinomoto had lost her memory in a car crash. The only family she remembered were in Canada. No one else survived the car crash, her magical aura, along with her powers and memories of her friends and people she knew. Her memories of the Cards, being the Sakura Card Mistress, of Syaoran, gone. In sixty seconds flat.

He opened his eyes and they lingered around his room again, but this time they landed on the Sakura cards and the key beside them. He turned his head away to his window to look out at the trees. Yes, even though it was a year since She was gone, it still hurt, and he missed holding Sakura in his arms.

The seventeen-year-old boy's mind lingered away from Sakura for a split second directing itself on school that would start in just two days. Then it lingered back to remember it would become another year without Sakura.

A Cherry for a Blossom

Chapter 01

A new year of school always meant more homework piling up every year, every day. Syaoran walked into the High School, to pick up his new time table. People were buzzing around, chatting and meeting up with friends. Syaoran did neither. There was no use.

Entering his new homeroom, some faces he recognized from last year, greeted him. He walked towards his usual seat in the back near the window. But before he could walk down that row, he noticed a crowd was around the desk in front of his.

He passed by the group of people and sat down in his chair. He didn't bother trying to look through the crowd to see who it was, and looked out the window. When his curiosity got to him he finally wanted to know who that person was, and how did they get so popular (mostly with the boys) so fast!

He tried to look through the small gaps between the people in front of him who were chatting with this new person. But he could only get a glimpse of shiny cherry brown hair and the usual female school uniform. He sighed again in defeat, and propped his head on his hand, elbow on the desk.

The bell for class to start rang, and all the students quickly went to their respective seats. Syaoran finally got a glimpse of the girl in front of him. She had slightly tanned skin, and hazel eyes that shone full of life. Her shiny beautiful long cherry brown hair framed her face.

His thoughts of Sakura vanished form his mind and were directed to this girl in front of him. His jaw slightly dropped and eyes locked onto the girl's face.

The teacher entered the room and all the remaining murmurs and small chatter stopped.

"Good morning class, my name is Kimoto-sensei"

"Good morning Kimoto-sensei!" the class replied, Syaoran mumbling the words, snapping out of his thoughts.

"I bid you all a 'Welcome back to school' and i hope to give less detentions this year..." Her eyes lingered around the room and landed on some few students. The class giggled, "Today I will be handing out the agendas and the notices for home, along with the rules, that will also be read out so they to be drilled into your head." The class groaned except for a certain cherry brunette in front of Syaoran.

"First, I'll call out the attendance. Blackcurrent, Cherry"

"Here!" The girl in front of Syaoran said casually. Syaoran blinked

'Hmmmm... her name is Cherry... nice. Beautiful name to go with such pretty hair... but--'

"Li, Syaoran" The teacher called out, having continued down the long list of names.

"H-hai!" He called out coming out of his train of thought.

When the attendance was over, papers and agendas were handed out down the rows. When Cherry turned around to hand Syaoran the items, she blushed realizing that Syaoran looked straight into her eyes when she did. She smiled and handed him the items. He smiled back and took the items from her hands and placed them on his desk.

"I'm Syaoran, you're not from here are you?"

"I'm Cherry, I was born here actually, but moved at a young age to Canada" She said in Japanese fluently. Syaoran was surprised and replied in the same language.

"Really... Nice to meet you Cherry. What brings you to Japan from Canada?"

"Li-san, Blackcurrent-san? Care to tell the class what you are discussing?" Cherry blushed slightly and turned to face her desk looking at the polished wood.

"I was welcoming her her to our school Kimoto-sensei. I'm sorry if we disturbed your class." Syaoran said, bowing apologetically to the class and teacher.

"You may sit. Now I would like to..." The teacher started to talk about the rules and all the boring stuff Syaoran and the rest of the class knew. So, the boy drowned her out and looked out the window for support of the trees and birds.

Syaoran heard a small 'tack' of paper land on his desk. He looked at the small table and noticed a new paper on it. It was folded in a rectangular shape. He grabbed the paper and quickly hid it under his desk and unfolded it. He leaned back in his chair and looked under his desk to read the note. He smiled

"Syaoran,

I've been here for a while and got to know little of the area where I live. Meet me at the Sakura Road after school. Cherry"

The Cherry brunette glanced back at Syaoran and he smiled nodding his head.

When the bell for school to end, Syaoran was off to the Sakura Road, after a small stop to his locker.

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Hey! Did ja like it? Hmmm? I didn't want to be really short or really long, so ya... I cut it there and hopefully the next chapter will take up more of my Word Processing class than any other thing... Don't expect one soon though, look in my bio for details... (hint: its at the bottom)