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"Are you okay? Are you hurt? What happened?" Syaoran asked with a mix of curiosity and worry, "I'm fine, just had a nightmare, sorry for waking you." I said, trying to sound as calm as I could but actually my heart was pounding in my chest with fear. "Oh… okay." he said as he left my room.
Why did I get so scared? She seems so familiar but I don't think I've met a version of her before... Syaoran stood in the hallway staring at the door to her bedroom, so deep in thought that he didn't even notice the tears falling down his cheeks.
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It was pitch black, nothing there except a strange glowing tree. I stared at it for a while, strangely calm considering I was in the middle of nowhere and last time weird stuff happened to me in dreams I died. "It's called a sakura tree." I turned to see who was talking. It was a girl about the same age as Syaoran, her hair was the same pale brown as the bark of the tree and most of it was chin-length except for two little strands on opposite sides of her face. Her eyes where an emerald green, and she wore a white and gold dress that was adorned with gold coins. "Who are you?" I asked, though I had a pretty good idea who she was from Syaoran's descriptions. "I am Sakura, who are you?" It seemed like an easy question, but I couldn't answer… I didn't know who I was. She seemed to notice my long pause, gave me a sad smile, and said "Then you're just like me." Then she started to turn into flower pedals. "Let's just hope it's the only thing we have in common." she said as she turned to walk away, or at least it looked like she was walking. Her feet where already made out of pedals which were being blown away by some wind that had just appeared out of nowhere. "Wait! What do you mean?!" I tried to grab her hand to stop her but I got a handful of pedals instead.
"Good bye."
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I woke up with the sun shining through my window, birds chirping happily, and I swear… I smelled bacon cooking. Was it all just a dream? I got out of bed and went to the kitchen, hoping to find mom trying to microwave one of those frozen breakfast trays while dad fussed about something in the newspaper. Instead, I found Fai making breakfast. Okay... wasn't a dream.
"Good morning… Syaoran-kun and Kuro-Rin are still sleeping." He winked and added "So be very quiet. Did you sleep well?"
He must not have heard me last night. "Yeah, um… Fai?"
"Yes?" he replied. "Did Sakura have any powers or anything?" I asked him. It was hard to tell, but he seemed to be a little less chatty than yesterday.
He thought for a moment. "I think she's being trained as a Dreamseer."
"What's a Dreamseer?" I asked.
"It's someone who can see the future in dreams and can even go into another Dreamseer's dream."
I thought maybe I should tell him about my dream, but I suddenly forgot what it was about and why I was going to tell Fai about it.
"Mokona-chan." Suddenly Mokona popped up right behind me and I screamed… the thing scared me half to death.
"Yes, Fai-san?" the marshbunny cheerfully replied.
"Could you please wake up Kuro-rin and Syaoran-kun? I don't want to be hit again."
"But, Fai-san! Kuro-rin said next time Mokona woke him up he'd skin Mokona!" whined Mokona. Fai laughed as he said "Kuro-rin was probably just kidding!"
From what I've seen I highly doubt that. Kurogane seemed to always be in a bad mood.
"Okay...Mokona believes you..." the little rabbit mumbled as it hopped into Syaoran's and then Kurogane's room.
Syaoran didn't complain much, just mumbled something about wishing Mokona had a snooze button. Waking Kurogane, on the other hand involved a lot of swearing and Mokona hopped out of the room as fast as it could and into Fai's arms. "F-Fai-san!" It cried, shaking with fear.
What did it do to get him so mad? "What exactly did you do to him?" I asked, my curiosity getting the better of me. "Mokona did exactly what Mokona was told to!" the bunny-mallow whined.
"And what exactly was that?"
"Well... Fai-San said to whisper sweet nothings in Kuro-Meanie's ear and wake him up with a big kiss so Kuro-Chi will start to like Mokona!" Mokona explained. Seriously? I gave a suspicious look at Fai, who was trying his best not to laugh. "Maybe you should try something else next time." "Like what?" Mokona asked. "Maybe you should try making a really annoying sound until he wakes up or something." I said. "Like this?" Mokona asked and then started making a very high-pitch whine. "Yeah, that's definitely annoying enough." I said. "I'd better go get Kuro-Chi and Syaoran-kun. Breakfast is starting to get cold." Fai said and left. Should I really trust these people? Their story should be impossible... traveling dimensions, other worlds... but for some reason I know it isn't.
Breakfast was amazing. I hadn't had a real breakfast in years and Fai was a great cook. I was starting to think that letting them stay was a good idea after all.
After breakfast we all went to look for the feather. I had suggested the garden because I couldn't get anything to grow until about three years ago, but now it was like a miniature jungle. From what I had heard from Syaoran, the garden should have been very hard to get through. I was expecting the ivy to come to life and attack us, or swarms of bees, or something. Instead, we got a nice walk. Not saying that being safe was bad or anything, I was just a bit… disappointed. I spotted a strange, glowing, light blue flower and tried to pull it out of the ground. Suddenly I started to fall. Somehow I landed on my feet and a sharp pain went through me. But I wasn't paying attention to that, I was too busy looking around. I had found a series of large tunnels, far too large for anything harmless to make.