A/N: Basically this prompt is obscenly short but it was a challenge from Charmkeeper and I found myself unable to refuse under her heavy peer pressure! -does dramitc poses one after another- lol j/k. The girly just provided me with the prompt. I had to come up with the idea! This one is...erm...different. So please tell me what you think because simply put I'm nervous.

Summary: "...there was one dream in particular that jumped out at her and grabbed her by the arms to shake her into understanding it..."

Warnings: Hmmm...No swearing (this is where the world falls silent for a moment and laughs b/c they all think I'm joking...-.-; You'll see...) Very, very FEW mentions of KuroFai ("She can do dat?! "Say wut?!") and...my strange imagination at work...(my imagination isn't NEARLY as weird as Charmmy's though...Nyu~!)

Prompt 12: Dreams

Often times Sakura dreamt, as most people do.

Sometimes Sakura sees the memories she's collected with her surrogate family.

Fewer times she has the future set out before her in an unclear, foggy way.

But there was one dream in particular that jumped out at her and grabbed her by the arms to shake her into understanding it.

There was no symbolism.

There was no mistaking what it meant.

It was clear as day and when she finally woke up she was shaking, sweating, crying and wishing that perhaps it had been a nightmare. Over and over she saw it.

She saw Fai killing everyone in the final chess match.

She saw him go absolutely mad with guilt and frustration and anger and then end his own life.

Sakura saw the lifeless bodies of every person on her side of the board.

Her voice felt like it was going to crack from the heavy sobs she heaved from her chest. Tightly Sakura clenched the blanket she slept under, hoping that the stress she place on the fabric would help alleviate some of her sorrow.

It was worse than any nightmare, because Sakura knew that it was all too real that it would become real.

…If she didn't do anything about it…

And do something about it she did.

It took all that she had not to tell anyone of her plan.

Because if they knew, surely they would try to stop her.

But because they had no idea of her plan, just of her indifference to them, they couldn't stop her. Even if Sakura had been a selfish being there was no way she would allow her dream to come to pass.

That was exactly why she cradled a sleeping Mokona in her lap while he projected Yuuko's image, a vision of elegance defined.

"So that was your dream?" the woman asked in a smooth Japanese drawl. "Do you wish to change the very course of destiny?"

From the tone in her voice Sakura could already tell that the woman had come up with a plan. This brought a delicate smile to her face. Sakura swallowed a painful ump in her throat and nodded somberly.

"I've grown to love everyone so much," Sakura recounted in a soft whisper. "I can't let our journey end like that."

Sakura chanced a slow glance at Yuuko. The witch was watching her with heavy eyes. Heartbroken eyes. As though she had seen the dream herself, which would not be all too surprising considering her power, and wished for some one to wish it differently.

"Now that you've agreed to this," Yuuko nearly sighed, her composure strangely altered. "You cannot turn away from it."

The princess turned her eyes up, the look on her face the look of a ruler who'd rule beautifully over her citizens one day, "I understand."

That night Sakura dreamt of her traveling companions.

She saw their anguish over her sacrifice.

She saw they way each of them felt the sting of her absence.

And she saw the way it brought them together.

The way Fai saw that he could love Syaoran without feeling like he betrayed the first Syaoran he'd grown to love.

Sakura felt Syaoran pain over her but she also felt his determination skyrocket as a result of his pain. He felt the need to right his crimes and save her, the princess, as it was written in his blood to do so.

Kurogane, well Kurogane got to grab Fai by the arms and put him in his place finally. More than anything Sakura knew, as if it was palpable, that what Kurogane wanted was to be with Fai and to be there for Fai.

As images of her death, the crumbling of Celes and the downfall of a once kind king flashed through her mind Sakura found it morbid that that had been the only night she fell asleep and woke up with a smile on her face in the land of Infinity.

End of Dreams

A/N: So...what did ya think?! Was it good? I hope I captured Sakura right (XD pun! I R FEI WONG!) she has always tempted me to write about her and Syaoran but I've always had issues with her...-shakes fist at her- But now I have and I need to know if this is the right path! Should I write more about Sakura? Should I try Syaoran?! Should I write them -le gasp- together?!?!?! These are questions that must be answered!!!

Preview of Next Chapter: Prompt 13: The Letter- "...I love every sweet, annoying, aggrivatingly beautiful piece of you in spite of myself..."