Orphaned Heart- Chapter Two

Orphaned Heart

Chapter Two

Written by - CetaBabe

Disclaimer: I do not own Card captor Sakura, Clamp does.

Rating: M for language, minor themes and possibly violence in further chapters

Summary: Sakur a was an orphan, no-one knew of where she lived, bar her best friend Tomoyo. The populars isolate her because it's rare for her to have a genuine smile, who could blame her; after all, her whole family was dead, plus she was always late. But, when a new boy comes to school and finds out Sakura's secret, what will he do? Mock her? Help her? Reject her? Teach her there's more to life? Make her life hell? or Love her?

Last time: As soon as he sat down, Sakura could feel that she was being stared at. A cold stare from the girls in the classroom, and a stare that was new to her, she was only used to Tomoyo giving her that look, but she was facing the board. A mild stare of confusion, worry and caring. And coming from behind her...

The gentle stare soon wore away, unlike the heated glares that were focussed on her throughout the lesson, but Sakura wasn't paying attention nor did she care, she was wrapped in her own thoughts and flashbacks. Luckily for her, the teacher didn't notice and carried on the lesson as normal. Tomoyo, being as observant as she is, she did notice, she sending worried and caring glances over to Sakura and saw the dazed and spaced look on her face as she stared out of the window.

~Flash Back~

"Sakura, sweetie," A woman with kind jade eyes and long dark hair was sitting up on a bed, a 3 year old girl with auburn hair and tear filled emerald eyes sat beside her and a 10 year old boy with dark hair and eyes stood beside them. "Please Sakura, don't cry."

"B-But m-ma-mama," The little girl blubbered, "You're leaving us, I don't want you to go. We'll take care of you" She launched forward and clutched her mother's dress, crying her heart out. The woman stoked her back gentle and gestured for the boy to sit beside them, which he did.

"Sakura," The woman lifted the girls crying face to look at her, "I'm always going to be with you, watching over you, but my time has come, your brother, Touya" she moved her free hand towards the boy and took his hand "and your father, Fujitaka," She looked to the ajar door, "will look after you when I go. Everything will be fine, I promise." She started coughing and wheezing so Touya climbed off the bed and pulled Sakura out of the room, fighting back the tears that formed in his eyes.

"Is she ok?" A man with caring brown eyes and hair to match asked them when they left the room. Touya just looked at him with gaze of sadness and pain. "Nadeshiko," the man said and ran into the room.

Soon after, the man came out, picked up the little girl and held her close. He bent down so that Sakura could stand up and pulled Touya into the hug.

"I'm sorry children," He said, "Her time has ended." He blinked back the tears and felt his shirt go wet, "Sakura, stop crying, I am your father, and I will take care of you." He looked towards the boy, "I'll always be there for the both of you and I'm sure you will be there for your sister as well, Touya." Touya nodded and tried to smile, but a few tears trickled down his face.

"I mustn't cry." He said, "Mother would be upset if we were sad."

"You act very strong, Touya, your sister will need you to be there for her when I am at work." Fujitaka said. "You will won't you?" He asked and Touya nodded. "That's my boy."

~End Flash Back~

A tear trickled down Sakura's face as she remembered, Tomoyo spotted it and sent a worried glance to her. Little did either one of them know, but Syaoran also noticed. She promised everything will be ok. Sakura mused, But even she couldn't stop the cave-in that killed Father, or the teens that killed Touya...

~Flash Back~

"I'm sorry, you two." A detective was in the Kinomoto household, talking to a 7 year old Sakura and 14 year old Touya, "But there was a cave-in at the excavation site, and your father was caught under the rumble" Touya fought back the tears as Sakura stood in disbelief.

"It can't be, Papa knew when to be careful and when to stay away, he told us there was a dodgy cave and that he was going to stay away from it." Sakura cried out.

"But it wasn't that cave" Sakura's eyes widened at the detective's comment, "The explosives were placed incorrectly in the cave next to them and it caused a shock wave that collapsed half the caves. I'm sorry."

"Sorry doesn't bring family back" Sakura screamed as she ran to her room.

About half an hour later, her bedroom door opened and Touya walked in.

"Squirt, you ok?" He said as he sat on the bed beside her. He rubbed her back as she cried into her pillow.

"Mama said everything will be ok, and now Papa's gone, after he said he would always be there for us." She mumbled into her pillow around the sobs.

"You still have me," Touya said and Sakura sat up, "Your big brother who won't let anyone hurt you," He smiled gently, "Come on, Smile." he said and she did, wiping away her tears. "Time to show them that we're not giving up." He said and Sakura nodded. She picked up the suitcase Touya had brought in.

"An orphanage." She said, "How strange will that be?"

~End Flash Back~

He said he'd always be there for us. I guess it wasn't that bad, I mean, I had Touya and friends. Sakura mused, At least I thought I did. Miss Kagu seemed nice when the authorities were around, but she's horrid, Touya protected me from her and now...

~Flash Back~

"Sakura, come down here now."

"Yes Miss Kagu." Sakura called and ran downstairs. "What's happened?" She said after seeing the detectives. "Where's Touya?"

"That's why we're here, Miss Kinomoto." One of the detectives said.

"Call me Sakura, I'm 10 not 35." Sakura replied.

"Ok, Sakura. Your brother was shot by a group of teenagers a few years older than him today." Sakura felt her world collapse around her. "Unfortunately the wound was fatal."

"The youths have been arrested and are awaiting trial." The other detective said. Sakura ran back up the stairs and into her room, ignoring the jests and insults that came her way as she did.

Miss Kagu saw the crying as a weakness and tried to force it out of Sakura, beating her and working her to the bone. With no-one in the orphanage to turn to, Sakura just accepted it and carried on with life.

~End Flash Back~

He always protected me, and the other children. Sakura said to herself, But when he was killed, I was alone. No-one to help me, everyone scorned and rejected me. At least I have Tomoyo now, but we're not allowed to bring friends home. She looked to the sky, Mama, Papa, Touya, I wish you were here.

The bell for lunch rang and Sakura went to the field with Tomoyo. Together they sat under a cherry blossom tree and ate their lunch. Well technically, Sakura didn't eat her own lunch, she didn't have one - they didn't get pocket money and got little food - Luckily Tomoyo always had an extra lunch and let Sakura share.

"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked.

"Nothing, why?" Sakura said quickly.

"You haven't eaten much of your lunch." Tomoyo replied, "Plus, you were spaced out in class."

"Sorry," Sakura said, picking up the lunch, "I was just thinking" She rummaged through her backpack pockets and pulled out the small picture of her family she kept with her, before any of them died. Tomoyo just nodded, understanding. Sakura sighed and put her picture away.

"I thought you were worried about the girls, that's all." Tomoyo said around bites of food. "They said some pretty nasty things and glared at you all lesson."

"I'm used to it." Sakura said as she ate the lunch Tomoyo gave her, "After-all, the rumours have been going since Touya was killed."

"I'm just worried for you sometimes, Sakura," Tomoyo said. "I mean look at this," She pulled Sakura's arm towards her and pushed Sakura's jumper up her arm, revealing a dark red and purple bruise where Miss Kagu grabbed her earlier (A/N Last chapter) "You have to tell someone."

"NO!" Sakura shouted and yanked her arm away, "No-one believes me, I tried telling people, but she acts all kind and caring around the authorities and if we don't act all happy and joyful, she hurts us more. Tomoyo you know this, remember when I came in with that gash across my face" Tomoyo nodded, "That was her when she found out it was me who contacted them, it's not worth the pain." Tomoyo just sighed and looked at Sakura wiping a tear of her cheek.

From a distance, Syaoran stood at the school building. He had finally got away from the populars wanting to get to know him, and he was just watching the pair, mainly Sakura. "There is something strange about that girl; spaces out during class, no lunch of her own, ignores the harsh comments and only hangs out with that dark haired girl. She's hiding something, something painful."