Hey, Marigold Sunlight here, and this fic is rather different. You see, I wanted to see if I'm good at the Romance/Drama genre and decided to have a dramatic plot to the fic. Uh, when I first thought of the plot, it sounded a bit weird. (I thought of it quite a while ago!) But later I thought 'Hey, why not try it?' and so I made this fic.
Here's some background information. Sakura's parents and Touya died in a car crash when she was four. She was the only survivor, and was sent to an orphanage. Yelan Li found her a year later and adopted her. (In this fic, Yelan only has Shaoran as a child.) so Sakura and Shaoran are siblings. (legally, not biologically... just to get it straightened out.) Again, I'll say: They are only related LEGALLY, not BIOLOGICALLY. Heh, I'm only saying this because sometimes people will forget, because I will just call them brother and sister on the fic... so, just so you won't be confused or grossed out, they are not related biologically.
Okay, now that I got that over with, let me go into more important matters. Don't worry, I will finish this fic, even when I DO go on extreme writer's block... I'll just suspend it until I have an idea, and then I'll continue it. Now, on this chapter it might seem like I'm hurrying things up, but I'm not really... that's how it's supposed to go.
Love Unexpected will be a pretty good fic if people like it. Now, I really need support from mygreat reviewers, okay guys? Tell me if this fic is good or not, and you'll make me happy and keep me encouraged. Well, I'll stop talking now and let you enjoy the fic!
Disclaimer: Y'all can go through my room, my house, and even my head, but not a penny you will find... so how the heck would I own my most favorite anime of all time?
Thirteen year old Sakura woke with the bright sunlight and smiled after her vision focused once again. With a yawn she rubbed her eyes sleepily and scratched her head, touching her brown curly hair. She blinked twice at the large window in front of her and untangled herself off the covers, revealing her in a white camisole and light pink shorts, showing her long fair legs. As she felt the cold breeze of the misty morning she felt herself shiver. Looking toward the other side of the room, she saw a sleeping figure on another bed.
"Hey Shaoran!" she yelled loudly, causing the person to jolt up "It's cold today, so we gotta cover up!"
The boy who she was talking to rubbed his dark brown eyes and yawned. He scratched his brown-haired head, blinked toward Sakura, and untangled himself from bed as well, unintentionally mimicking her actions. He walked next to Sakura and let himself fall on her bed.
"Oh yeah, tell me that!" he said, a hint of sarcasm on his voice "I'm not the girl here. For your information, I don't mind covering up." He smiled.
Sakura frowned at Shaoran and hit him playfully on the shoulder, but it only made contact with his white t-shirt. She sat next to him and for a minute or two they watched the cold winds lightly shake the now orange and brown leaves of tall, proud trees. Sakura smiled; it felt so good to have a family again. She forgot how nice having a parent and a sibling was.
In those two minutes she thought of her past. Her real parents dying in a car crash along with her older brother. Her being the only survivor, stuck at an orphanage at the age of four, and the Li family finding her at the age of five. Though she missed her family, she felt that her real family was protecting her in heaven, while her adoptive family protected her in the world.
"Ready to go to school?" Shaoran, her adoptive brother, asked her softly.
"Yeah." she replied "Uh, could I change in the room today?"
Shaoran shrugged. "Sure," he said, standing up "I'll just change in the bathroom."
When he had left, Sakura closed the window and started to undress. She didn't refer to him as an adoptive brother, but as a biological one. At least, that was how it seemed like. She wouldn't know what to do if Shaoran didn't exist.
She looked in the mirror and adjusted her simple uniform: A white short-sleeved shirt, a black schoolgirl skirt, and ankle-strap shoes with thin white socks. She brushed her long hair of honey and kept a ponytail band on her left wrist in case she wanted to tie her hair off her face.
"You ready yet?" she heard Shaoran say from behind the door "The school bus is in thirty minutes."
"Yeah." she said, grabbing both her backpack and his, slumping each on her shouders.
When she opened the door she looked at Shaoran's uniform. It was a white short-sleeved shirt, black shorts, and black boots. He tugged on the collar of his shirt and took his backpack from Sakura's shoulder, making a lot of extra weight to lift off her right shoulder.
"Sorry 'bout that. I got a lot of books on my bag. Should've told ya." he said apologetically, briefly giving Sakura's shoulder a comfortable squeeze.
"That's okay!" she said, smiling brightly, making him smile as well.
Her smile was bright and energetic; she made anyone smile with her magnetic, mega-watt grin. Shaoran loved her smile. He patted her shoulder and came down the stairs, Sakura following. Their mother Yelan greeted them and they started to eat. Though they were extremely rich, they liked to live simply.
Shaoran finished his meal first and said "I'm going. The school bus will be here anytime now."
Sakura's eyes widened as he left the house. "Wait for me!" she called out to him.
As Sakura left Yelan shook her head with a smile. Those two were never without the other. Sometimes it was rather strange, but in general it was sweet. Sakura could change Shaoran's mind in a flash, as it happened on the day they moved into the house.
---Flashback---
A ten year old Sakura had a pouting face as she complained "Shaoran! Why do you want a room to yourself?"
Ten year old Shaoran crossed his arms over his chest and said "Because I just do... why would it matter?"
"Because I want to stay in the same room as you... I don't want to feel alone." Sakura replied.
Shaoran looked at her eyes for a bit. "Why would you feel alone? I'll be in the room next to you..." he questioned her softly.
"What if I lose you like I lost my brother Touya?" she asked. She was still innocent and felt dependent to others.
He looked at her softly and said "You won't lose me... again, I'm in the room next to you."
Still, Sakura would not listen to that and continued to complain, her short curly hair bouncing as she shook her head. "No, Touya told me once that he wouldn't leave me, and he did."
Shaoran thought for a bit and sighed in defeat. "Fine," he said, giving her a hug "I'll stay in the same room with you."
Happily she hugged him back and said "I just want to make sure. When I do, you can move to your own room, okay?"
"Okay, as long as you're happy." Shaoran said with a smile.
---End of Flashback---
It's been three years, and Sakura seemed to know that Shaoran would not leave her, but they were so used to having the other in the room that they decided to keep it that way. Yelan always had this strange feeling that, though they were treated as brother and sister, when they grew a bit more they'd have some kind of feeling toward the other. Of course, she always shook it off.
Meanwhile, the Li siblings were waiting at the bus stop. Sakura hummed softly while Shaoran jammed his hands onto his pockets and leaned forward and backward. Sakura saw him doing that and a puzzled look appeared on her face.
"Why do you always do that when you're waiting?" she asked him.
"Because I have nothing to do." he replied.
"Well, you always do that same thing. Ya know, you could do something else..." she continued to question.
"Okay, I don't know why. Blame my reflexes." he sighed in frustration.
"But I can't blame your reflexes; they're yours." Sakura said with a smile; she loved to annoy him at times.
"I don't know; I'm just fidgety, okay?" Shaoran replied, aggravated.
"Oh, I know." she told him with a satsfied grin. She hugged him and said "I just like annoying you!"
He sighed and said "You sure do a good job at it." He smiled; she was going to scream at any minute.
She glared and slapped him slightly on the back of the head. "Hey!" she yelled.
Shaoran laughed at his sister's actions and said "I'm kidding!"
The bus stopped in front of them and the door opened with a screech. They went inside and saw their friends Tomoyo Daidouji and Eriol Hiiragizawa. Tomoyo had long curly hair and bright eyes of deep purple, while Eriol had navy blue hair and cobalt blue eyes behind his glasses. Sakura and Shaoran both smiled, sat on the seat in front of them, and turned to them.
"Hey Sakura! Hey Shaoran!" Tomoyo greeted them.
"Hey, what up?" Eriol asked.
"Hi!" Sakura answered, while Shaoran looked at Eriol and said "Nothin' much, you?"
"Same old, same old." Eriol sighed "But anyway, did you get the History homework? Number nine was hard."
Sakura groaned. "Mr. I-know-everything here," she pointed at her brother, who stuck his tongue out at her "finished it in no time, while I took a long time..."
"And he didn't even help you?" Tomoyo said with a mock-shocked voice "And you call yourself a nice adoptive brother!" she playfully scolded Shaoran, who now stuck his tongue out at her.
Tomoyo and Eriol knew that Sakura and Shaoran weren't biologically related; that Sakura was adopted. They wanted to tell them. Sakura now looked at the window and sighed heavily. Shaoran looked at her and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"What's wrong, Sakura?" he asked her with concern.
"Nothing... it's just that, imagine if someone in my family didn't die, and that someday they'd find me and ask me to go back with them? I'd be happy because it's my family, but I'd be sad because I'd leave Mother and I'd leave you..." she sighed sadly.
"Shh... don't think like that. If you do find someone from your family, you could still visit us." Shaoran reassured her.
"I know, but it wouldn't be the same..." Sakura replied. She smiled again and said "Ah well, I'm not going to think about it; it's too sad."
Tomoyo smiled and said "Don't worry. Knowing your bro here, he won't be stay quiet until you visit them every week."
"Yeah." Sakura said, ruffling Shaoran's hair, who smiled at her action "He is like that: Stubborn and hard-headed!"
Before anyone could say anything the bus stopped, and everyone left the bus hurriedly. As Sakura reached the school she smiled and thought about the class they had on first period.
---Cooking---
"Hey class!" A stunning brunette gretted with a soft smile on her lips.
Her smile turned into a grin as her class gretted her back. Her name was Kaho Mitzuki, who had long honey brown hair and the same brown in her eyes. She wore a white blouse, a cream-colored skirt, and black shoes.
"You can move to your groups now. Today we're baking a cake." she told the class, as they went to their groups of four.
Sakura was with her brother and her best friends the whole class, which made her happy. She wrapped a white apron around her waist and hung it over her neck. She picked up the cookbook, while Shaoran, Tomoyo, and Eriol looked over her shoulder.
"So," she said, flipping some pages "What should we make?"
"Chocolate." Shaoran said, a wide grin plastered onto his face.
"Vanilla." Tomoyo suggested hopefully.
"Carrot." Eriol said happily, while his friends looked at him weird. "What?" he asked confusedly to them.
"I don't like carrot, so I guess a marble cake?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah!" they all said, and so each went to do something for the cake.
Soon, a delighting aroma filled their noses as they looked at their finished cake. Ms. Mitzuki passed over to them and gave them a smile, while she cut a small piece. After she ate it, a satisfied smile ran over her lips.
"Yum! It's good!" She told them, then she left to another group.
The four friends smiled at each other proudly, then each rested on the chairs. Sakura sighed happily, Tomoyo braided a strand of her hair, Eriol cleaned his glasses boredly, and Shaoran fidgeted with his fingers.
---Home---
"Hey." Sakura said as she sat next to Shaoran, who was watching TV.
"Hey." he answered back as he flipped through the channels.
Sakura knew he wasn't happy. The reason she didn't know, but she could feel that something was wrong, and she knew he would not tell her. Sighing, she turned to the TV and tried to focus on the channel. She watched the two people in the movie fighting.
She watched the woman with adimiration; her fighting skills were great. Her long blond hair flew gracefully as she did a spin kick and hit the man in the stomach. That's what Sakura wanted to be: A beautiful, yet independent woman.
"She's beautiful, ne?" she asked Shaoran softly.
"Yeah. She can kick butt too." he replied simply.
Sakura nodded, but then she said again "What's wrong?"
"Nothing... actually, I can't tell you yet." he said sadly.
Sakura looked at him and gasped. He was crying. Softly, but he was crying. She had never seen Shaoran cry before, and it made her heart tighten. She hugged him comfortly and nodded, her head on his shoulder.
"It's okay... I don't know what it is, but you'll get through it." she told him.
He nodded and pulled back. 'If only you weren't always right; if only you didn't say that your family would find you.' he thought.
Oh... what have I done to the Li siblings? Well, I guess you'll have to find out how Sakura finds out about the... surprise. Will she be happy? Will she be sad? And how will she cope with it? Find out!
Marigold Sunlight signing out, and back on the fanfiction business with more experience than ever!