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Chapter 4 – Meeting the Gang and a bad dream

Syaoran and Sakura stepped out of the room and Sakura was amazed when she saw the huge table next to the sofa in the living-room filled with different food and a big group of hungry-looking teenagers obviously waiting for the two. She spotted the girl who had welcomed her yesterday and they took the two empty seats on her left side. Sakura was shifting nervously on her chair, meeting so many new people, but Syaoran's soft voice and his hand on hers calmed her down. He started introducing them. "Like you already know, this is Sakura", he turned to his left starting to call them name by name. "This is Eriol", Sakura smiled at the nice-looking teen, "next to him is Chiharu."

The girl with the braids winked. "Next in line is Takashi", the boy smiled. "Followed by Naoko and Rika." The two brunettes gave her a friendly look. Tomoyo was next and took Sakura's hand while saying "and I'm Tomoyo as you know. It's really nice to have you here." She turned to face the group and gave the signal to start eating. Sakura felt relieved and joined the conversation during breakfast shyly. The more they talked, the more she opend up and she laughed when Chiharu and Takashi started a little quarrel and even noticed the looks Eriol and Tomoyo were exchanging, keeping in mind to ask her later if they were together.

They were talking about the need to go to the city to grab something to eat as well as to see what was going on, since they always wanted to be informed about the current situation.

Tomoyo said that she was going to stay cleaning up and Sakura offered her to help since she wasn't fond of going to the city and being caught by the royal guards.

While the group prepared to go out, Sakura started to clean the dishes and Tomoyo in the mean time brought the trash outside. Syaoran used the moment when everyone was out of sight for taking Sakura in a warm embrace, sneeking up from behind. She froze in her tracks, but relaxed a second later letting him turn her around so she was facing him. He pressed a kiss to her forehand telling her that he would be back as soon as possible. Her eyes soften and she blushed. "Syaoran, you do so much for me and I think I haven't even thanked you yet. I'm sorry and thank you. Even though saying it only once isn't nearly enough. I wished I could do something in return and not only be a burden -" she was cut off by his finger gently placed on her lips. "Sakura," he started, "you don't have to do anything besides being with me. The way you make me feel is reward enough. Maybe you could tell me a little bit about you when I'm back", he asked carefully.

She was already red like a tomato when he told her his feelings, but at the thought of her problems her eyes turned sad. She knew he had the right to know who she was, so she took a moment before nodding. "I will." she answered. He gave her the most amazing smile, ready to kiss her goodbye when they heard a cough behind them. Syaoran turned around dragging Sakura with him and they saw the whole gang waiting for Syaoran to leave with them and Tomoyo standing at the table grinning. They both blushed and Sakura quickly freed herself from his grip moving to stand next to Tomoyo. Syaoran and the others left and suddenly silence filled the room.

"Since everything is down, would you join me for a tea?" Tomoyo asked. "I'd like that." Sakura loved tea.

When they were seated on the huge sofa drinking their tea and talking, Tomoyo suddenly looked really serious. "Sakura I just want to thank you." Sakura nearly spilled her tea, not expecting this kind of statement. "Thank me?"

"Yes! I don't know what you did or how you and Syaoran got so close, but it's really nice to see the prince of thieves for once being happy and carefree and not constantly struggling to keep us alive and hidden." Now Sakura not only spit out the tea she just had sipped, but she was pale in an instant. "Prince of thi-i-ieves?" She stuttered in a high pitched voice.

"Oh you didn't know?" Tomoyo looked worried seeing her reaction. "Have you heard bad things about him or why are you so pale?"

In fact Sakura had heard a lot about him, since the royal guards were constantly chasing him, but all she knew was that he stole money, jewellery and sometimes food but had never killed or seriously hurt someone and that he was never keeping the goods, but giving them to the poor people. Knowing that Syaoran was the thief everything started to make sense, for him being so thoughtful and caring. She couldn't help but smile. Nevertheless she would have to think about telling him his secret again, now that she knew more.

Tomoyo noticed the smile and was relieved. "No I didn't know", Sakura told her keeping her eyes fixed on her hands, "but it's fine since he does it to help the people."

Tomoyo nodded and got up saying she wanted to take a little nap, before the others would return advising Sakura to do the same since being in a big group is always exhausting. They both left for their rooms (Sakura using Syaoran's of course).

She changed into only wearing a big shirt she took from Syaoran's wardrobe and some panties and crawled under the blanket noticing that she was still tired of the events of the last days.

While she drifted to sleep she thought about how a princess and the prince of thief could ever be together causing her to taking this thought into her dream.

In her dream she was running away again, seeing the castle fade and while she was running she saw that Syaoran was standing a few meters away under a big tree waiting for her with open arms. She wanted to hug him, but before she could reach him out of nowhere royal guards where standing next to him hitting him unconscious. She wanted to scream, to tell them to stop but she couldn't make a sound. Before she was with him the scene changed and they were in the marketplace with her family standing in front of her preventing her to rescue Syaoran who was dragged to the guillotine. The blade dashed down and she woke up screaming his name.