The Color of a New Start

Prologue: The Color of Sadness

By Amy

Disclaimer: Yep! As always, they belong to CLAMP, not me. I'm using them for my own joy and entertainment. Er... yours too.

Author's Note: Hi! Another sappy fanfics. People from my school, beware (I'm sick at home right now, so you people are at school during... uh... 3rd period right now. Let's see, Sherry should be in Adanto's class right now... Ivy in Science I believe, Angela... I don't know, I only got one class with her... and the other 8th grader who knows where my fanfics ARE is Edwin... I regret ever telling him... he should be in Lang. Arts right now...

Okay I'm over that right now. Anyways, You people from my school should be scared. I don't really seem like the sappy sort do I? Oh well. I think I'll have a few references to this story from my "New Generation".

Time frame: This happens after Syaoran leaves for Hong Kong, and he never came back. This story goes along pretty much with the manga. I've only read the last few pages of the 12th volume, and the 2, 3, and 5th mangas. The rest I know comes from the dubbed anime and what I find on the internet, so if my story starts sounding something like the dubbed version, e-mail me and flame at me for all you want. Okay... I've been holding this story off WAY too long.

A girl around age 13 with sparkling emerald eyes and gold-tinted brown hair that came down to her shoulder looked out her classroom window. Teachers in the United States were so boring. Even her, Sakura Kinomoto, had passed the math class with an A. And it was an Honor class, too.

She had moved to Southern California from Japan just a month ago. Her father quit his job at the university. Coming to United States, he began looking for jobs, since he wanted to start a new life.

He found a job, he translated English books into Japanese since he comes from Japan. It was a good way to start a life.

Touya came with them, of course.

Although Sakura agreed to come to the US, she feels that she shouldn't have, because now that she's IN the US, she feels even farther from "him" than ever...

Flashback..

On the phone...

"What?" his anxious voice had yelled when she told him she was moving, "Going to the US? My mom would NEVER let me come visit you..."

End Flashback...

She sighed with emphasis. He was right... they would see each other so much less often than when she was in Japan...

"Earth to Sakura... Earth to Sakura..." her new friend, Iris Chang poked her and giggled.

Sakura turned her gaze from the window, she saw someone very unexpected.

"Hoeeeeee!" all the students in the class looked at her, confused, what did "Hoe" mean anyway? "Touyawhatareyoudoinghere?"

"Are you okay?" a boy named Matt Chang, who was Iris' brother, and who seemed to like Sakura a lot, asked her gently.

Touya did not look right, his hair was quite messy and he looked like he came in a hurry, "Sakura, you're coming home with me now."

"Hoe (what?)?" Sakura replied confused all over again.

"I have the principal's permission!" He waved a yellow piece of paper right in her face.

"Hoe (whatevers)..."

"Sakura," Sakura looked at him in the driver's seat of the car, surprised to find that he was crying, "Otou-san died in a car accident..."

Continued in Chapter 2: "The Color of Renewed Joy."

That wasn't long enough... Oh well. Don't flame at me for killing of our beloved reincarnation of Clow Reed...

The color of sadness is a sad grayish-black, but, this website version doesn't let me do that to the background. Sorry...