AN: This fic is set after all the Clow Cards have been caught and changed to Sakura Cards. Syaoran has left for 6 yrs, and everyone is in their last year of high school as 18 yr olds. This fic is basically on romance, betrayel, pain, stuff like that ^^ So have fun reading and R+R~!

.::-*--Fizzalicious Cherri--*-::.

Disclaimer: Maybe if I had enuf money I would buy CLAMP and own the characters and everything, but so far, in my case, I dun have enuf money so I own nothing :P Pooey X.X

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A Promise Meant to be Broken
Chapter 1: The Past is the Past
1st CCS fic by Fizzalicious Cherri

"You have to come back ok? I'll wait for you, I promise." A twelve year old girl said firmly in the airport, her auburn hair tied in two half pigtails and a teddy bear gripped tightly in one hand.

A boy, the same age as her with unruly brown her and deep amber eyes nodded with confidence. "I'll come back, I promise."

The two stared at each other long and hard, both holding a promise...a promise meant to be broken?

Time: 6 years later
Destination: Tomoeda, Japan

The large gym-like room was dark and smoky, filled with disco lights spinning around and around in vibrant colors. Loud music was being played but no one seemed to care how loud it was, for everyone was having the time of their lives.

Teens from juniors to seniors were dancing on the floor, some tossing glow sticks around the room, some having private quiet conversations in the corner, and some just plain partying.

"I love Tomoeda Dances!!" A girl exclaimed loudly so her friend could hear over the music.

"Same here! It's like...way out!"

"Sakky, where's your lover boy?" A girl with her hair pulled up in a high ponytail asked.

A girl with long straight auburn hair twirled a glow stick into the air like a baton and shrugged, "Kyojin's probably late like usual."

"No I'm not Sakura."

Sakura felt a pair of arms go around her waist and the familiar smell of her boyfriend Kyojin. "Well to me that's called late." She stuck her tongue out playfully and spun out of his arms.

"Hey we'll leave you two alone," The girl with the ponytail, Aki, said teasingly.

Sakura flipped her hair over her shoulder, "Fine~!"

A slow song came up and Sakura and Kyojin started slow dancing, followed by other couples too. Sakura felt safe and secure in her boyfriend's arms, but for a weird reason she felt something nagging at her...

"I promise." Her twelve year old voice kept on repeating in her head. Sakura stiffened and gripped onto Kyojin harder. Why can't I forget about it all...it was a whole 6 years ago...

"Sakura honey? You ok?"

"Mm hmm..everything's fine," Sakura replied.

Kyojin smiled, "Then that's good."

Destination: Hong Kong, China

"Here are your plane tickets Master Li."

"Thank you. So I will be leaving with XingMei in three days correct?"

An elderly man nodded, "Yes. Your luggage and Miss. XingMei's is all packed."

"I don't see why mother still wants me to go back to that place."

"Of course, to try and get what the Li family should have."

A boy with messy brown hair sighed and nodded, "Yeah, the cards. But it's not that easy.."

"Espeically when the mistress is who she is..."

"...What do you mean Wei?" The boy grunted.

Wei chuckled, "Nevermind Master Li, nevermind."

When he was left in his room alone, he dropped onto his green sheeted bed and stared up at the ceiling thoughtfully.

"I promise."

His deep amber eyes clamped shut, trying to shut out the scene playing in his mind. But with no luck, it continued to repeat. "I promise.."

"I can't promise." He said out loud. "Can't can't can't!!" He slammed his fist onto the night table next to his bed and sat up.

"The past is the past," He mumbled as he ran one hand in his messy tangled hair.

Destination: Tomoeda, Japan

"SAAAAAAKUURAAAAAAAAA!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!"

The girl in bed groaned and pushed her pillow into her ears. "SHUSH!!" She screamed.

"YOU ARE SOOO LATE KIDDO!!" A yellow flying bear with a lion's tail exclaimed.

"SHHHHHHHH!!!!! Don't be so loud!!" Sakura sat up quickly. "Otou-san and onii-chan will hear you!!"

"Gomen neh Sakura-chan, but you weren't waking."

Sakura groaned again and rubbed her eyes to glance at the clock. "Bah, class started already."

"That's my point!!!"

"Oh well Kero, I'm always late anyways," Sakura stood up and went to her vanity desk.

Kero frowned, "Demo (but)..you use to not miss a minute of class at least."

"Use to, the past is the past," Sakura said in a muffled voice for she had a hair clip in her mouth while her other hand brushed out her very long auburn hair. "Besides, there's nothing interesting about biology right in the morning."

Kero sighed and floated towards his drawer. What changed Sakura? She's so... Kero let out a small sigh and closed the drawer.

Sakura heard the drawer shut and she dropped her brush softly on her desk and turned to look at it. A sad look crossed her eyes, and she sighed. I'm sorry Kero...I'm just not...the same Sakura anymore...

She opened her closet and looked through her clothing. She was extremely glad that the high school she went to had no uniform. Sakura had enough of uniforms in elementary and she hadn't wanted to live through another five years of wearing the same peice of clothing.

Finally after several minutes she picked out a one strap light blue tank top and a pair of very flarey jeans. She had also gotten her ears peirced by her friend Meena two years ago.

"Bye people," Sakura said toneless as she walked out of the house.

Touya shifted his gaze towards his father and saw his sad expression. "Don't worry dad, the kaijuu's (monster) just growing up..."

"I guess so..." Fujitaka sighed while placing his fork down.

"Into a bigger kaijuu..." Touya finished his sentence and grunted.

"Miss. Kinomoto, you are late again." Mrs. Idai greeted her as she stepped into biology class.

The guys blew whistles, and some girls stared at her enviously while others just smiled. "Well, what can I say? It's my job."

The class chuckled and without another word Sakura took her seat.

Mrs. Idai just rolled her eyes and went back to writing things on the chalkboard while the students copied it off.

Sakura started fiddling with her pencil. "Aren't you going to start copying the notes off the board?" The girl beside her with amethyst eyes said.

"No," Sakura replied, looking at the girl for one second. She reminds me of Tomoyo...I wonder how Tomoyo's doing in England..

The girl shrugged, and Sakura felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned back and a girl quickly handed her a rolled up ball of paper.

Sakura unwrapped it under her desk and read the words written in pink highlighter. "You can copy my notes after." She turned around to see who offered it, and she saw that all the guys raised their hands when the teacher wasn't looking.

She shrugged and turned back in her seat. School was pretty easy, at least in her case. Only problem for her was final exams.

It was a plain and obvious fact that Miss. Popular of Shiaranami High was Sakura Kinomoto, in a guy's perspective, and in a girl's perspective. And Mr. King on campus was none other than Kyojin Toitsu. The two made the perfect couple in everyone's point of view.

Good looks, bad marks, good social status, and they've got everything. Except for the grades. Basically all girls wanted to be Sakura, and vise versa with the guys.

And since they were all in Gr.12, everyone already knew for a fact that prom king and queen was obviously going to be the school's top Mr. and Miss's Popularity.

"Do you know how lame it was in biology today?" Sakura said with a flick of her hand.

"Tell us about it," Aki chuckled.

Sakura took out the crinkled note and her other friend, Yuki, read it out loud. "You can copy my notes after."

"Who was nice enough to offer that?" Meena questioned.

Aki chuckled even more, "Obviously~!"

"All the guys in the class!!" Yuki and Aki said together.

Sakura laughed and shook her head, "Smart."

"Any dumb kid would know," Hikari said with a snort.

The group of them walked into the cafeteria and bumped into another set of girls. Let's call this group the anti-Sakura group.

"Oh, if it isn't Kinomoto, the school's queen," A girl with frizzy red hair said in distain.

"Let us bow down upon your presence!!" Another girl with jet black hair said exaggeratingly.

One girl stepped up with a glass of orange juice. "I've had enough of you strutting your little butt down the school's hallways." She leaned closer and Sakura could smell her breathe. "You know you were NEVER popular if it wasn't for Kyojin-kun. He made you popular, if it wasn't for him, your nothing but one of those geeks out there."

Sakura could feel heat rising in her cheeks just as the girl splashed the glass of orange juice at her. That set her off and smack came her hand onto the girl's face.

"Oh my god!!" The other girl screamed as she hit the floor.

Aki stepped up and shoved the girl with jet black hair. "Get lost you three. You're unwanted in the whole school campus, stop trying to mess up Sakura."

"It's not going to work," Meena added with innocent eyes.

"You guys are just jealous that Sakura's popular and you three are nothing compared to her," Hikari said plainly.

Sakura smiled, she was glad she had friends standing up for her, but for some reason she felt bad. But she shouldn't, it was the other girl who had started it all.

The girl with frizzy red hair helped the girl on the floor up and the three quickly left.

The cafeteria broke up into applause, and Sakura quickly walked out of the cafeteria wanting to clean off the orange juice on her tank top.

"Do orange stains wash out?" Sakura questioned.

"I'm not sure," Yuki shrugged. "Try bleeching it."

Sakura sighed, being popular was great...but...I don't want people hating me...

AN: Ok Sakura's basically not that innocent little girl she was 6 yrs ago. But she's not all that BAD as she is sometimes written as in other fics, not that it's bad, it's pretty cool ^^. I decided to make her slightly better where she has some sort of nice caring feelings too...just it's hidden beneath her. Well, give you a hint what's going to happen in the next chapter. Syaoran is coming to town~! And look! Who's that girl beside him?? Stay tooned to find out ^______^ R+R, arigatou. And there might be um...some language in this fic later on, hense the rating.

Luv .::-*--Fizzalicious Cherri--*-::.