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Last time:

"It's Sakura."

"What?" Syaoran asked.

"She's gone."


Chapter 7: Why? Because I'm me.


"Gone? What do you mean gone?"

Eriol paced back and forth. "I mean gone. Like she's not here." He stopped and turned quickly towards Syaoran. "What did you do?"

"What?" Syaoran asked, a bit confused.

"You did this. I should've known only you would do this!" He yelled when Tomoyo rushed in.

"Eriol! Eriol stop, he doesn't know." She cried, grabbing onto Eriol's arm.

"Know what?" Syaoran asked, a bit concerned.

Eriol sighed and fixed his glasses. "Nothing."

It was quiet for a little bit before Syaoran finally spoke up. "Where IS Sakura?"

Tomoyo looked at Eriol who was still calming down then back at Syaoran. "She left with the rest of the guys to go look in the woods."

Syaoran looked downcast. "Do you know when she's coming back?"

Tomoyo shook her head. "Last time they cam back after three days but that's only cause someone was injured so it's hard to say." She looked sad as she saw Syaoran's reaction and grabbed onto Eriol's arm. "We'll leave you."

Syaoran grabbed the nearest water bottle and threw it against the side of the tent causing it to rattle.

'Why was I stupid? Why didn't I know what Eriol was talking about? Why isn't she here?' He thought miserably. Then he stared out the entrance of the tent into the ocean and smiled remembering how Sakura had said she loved the way the moonlight bounced off the waves.

'Why?'


"Why?" Sakura whined to herself as they set down camp to rest for the night.

They were a good day and a half from the beach with no tent or sleeping bag for anyone. So here Sakura was, collecting twigs and leaves along with Tammy and some other girl whose name Sakura did not know.

Sakura separated herself from the other two for a bit and she told herself if she could still hear them then she wasn't too far away.

She could still hear the two girls chatting away when she came across a pile of twigs, perfect for the fire. That's when she smelled it. It was the familiar ashy smell of a fresh fire.

"No way the boys already started the fire, so what's going on?" She asked herself and kept going forward into a clearing. In the clearing was a pile of woods, still smoking as Sakura neared it.

She reached out to touch it and pulled back quickly when she felt the burning feel of the hot ember on her fingertips. The fire was just put out.

"Five minutes ago at the most." She muttered to herself.

That's when the muddy ground showed something that scared her, fresh shoe prints, three pairs of them. The design didn't look familiar; they weren't shoes from their camp. Her flashlight started flickering.

"This means that there are other people besides us." She thought and a smile came to her faced but it faltered when she started thinking about it.

Why didn't they come to us if they know we're here? How long have they been here? Then Sakura gulped and how have they survived?

Then something snapped behinds her and Sakura freaked. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her. That's when she noticed that she couldn't hear Tammy's voice anymore. A thin strip of smoke was rising from the north and she assumed that's where they were.

Her flashlight flickered off and she ran blindly through the forests wincing as the trees scraped against the tender burn under her long sleeve.

She dropped a few twigs and leaves on the way but sighed in relief when she arrived at the camp where everyone greeted her with a smile.

She smiled back as if nothing had happened just now. There's no need to worry them, she might be wrong anyways, right?

They went to sleep right away, the last time they had slept was the night before they set off so even with the twig and leaf beds that they made, it felt like their beds back home.

That's what Sakura thought anyway. So much had happened since she had left camp. So much had happened since her father's bodyguard dropped her and Tomoyo off at the airport too.

Half way through the night, maybe three or four, Sakura woke up in pain when she turned onto her arm.

Then as she looked down as she saw blood staining her sleeve. The trees must've scraped harder than she thought.

Sakura got up and went over to the dieing fire where her backpack was and took out the disinfectant. After she put it on she left her hand there, she stopped.

Syaoran.

'No, Sakura no! Stop thinking about him.' She thought, angry at herself.

Her ears had become very sensitive to small noises so she stayed quiet and cleared her mind. She listened to the soft snoring of the boys and the repetitive breathing of the girls then she heard a set of uneven breaths. Someone was awake.

Listening closer, Sakura wished she had kept thinking about him. There were two sets of even soft breaths, coming from the girls. Then there were the two pairs of snoring, coming from the boys. Whoever was awake was an extra.

Someone was there with them and by the sound of it, they weren't moving.

Sakura opened her eyes and looked straight ahead trying not to be too obvious. Once she re-bandaged her arm.

Then she lay down and pretended to be asleep but she didn't sleep the rest of the night, she just kept listening to the breathing, ready to spring up whenever she heard any other movement. Whoever it was, fidgeted a bit every now and then and around five or six when the sun began to rise, he or she or it left, mixing into the sounds of the birds and animals.

While there packing up Sakura felt the familiar rumble of the ground beneath them and looked up just as it started to rain. They walked for most of the day and came to a stop in the late afternoon when they came to a cliff where the road forked.

The cliff overlooked what seemed to be a little less than half of the island. The road to the left lead a straight path back to the beach and the right road led to a winding path of a narrow road heading further into the woods.

They all looked at each other before heading to the right. That's when Sakura saw the same shoe prints from last night on the road they were walking on and she confirmed it, they weren't from any of her companions.

'I'll tell them next time we stop.' She promised and kept walking.

The road they were on winded down the mountain and it barely had enough room for them to walk in a straight line.

The rain made it hard to see further than the person in front of them. Then Sakura felt a shiver go through her. That can't be good.

Then the ground started shaking and they flattened them selves to the wall of the cliff as a massive rockslide came tumbling them. It threw them over and they tried hard grab onto something but the rain had loosened the dirt and turned it to mud.

Sakura just felt the fall and her heard hit against something before she blacked out.

When she woke up a gain it was nearing dawn once more. It was hard to get herself up from the sticky mud on the ground. She looked up to see how far down they had fallen and then looked back down.

The rain had stopped but now she was covered from head to toe in mud, twigs, and leaves. No one else was in sight when she heard someone groan in pain.

That's when she saw Tammy sit up from the blanket of mud that she was under, gasping for breath.

"Where is everyone?" She asked and Sakura shrugged.

"I don't know I just woke up and nobody else was here besides you."

Then Tammy's eyes widened. "Sakura, you're bleeding!"

Sakura looked at her weirdly. That's when she reached up to feel the tender spot on her head. When she pulled her hand away she saw it was covered in blood.

"Uh-oh." She muttered. Tammy grabbed her backpack and went over to Sakura and began cleaning the wound.

Sakura winced. "Wow you're good at this."

Tammy smiled. "I learned from the best."

Sakura smiled back. Then she faltered when she felt eyes on her. Four pairs on her and she heard the rustling form behind her.

She reached down to her boot as if she were itching and whispered to Tammy. "On the count of three you duck down alright?"

"What? Why?"

"One."

Tammy put her things away.

"Two."

That's when Sakura heard the familiar sound of an arrow being released.

It was too fast.


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