Sakura watched as Li ran toward her

Sakura watched as Li ran toward her. When he got to be only a foot away she felt her world go fuzzy and change into a white endless nothingness. She felt herself shake with fear as she looked around her. Everyone was gone. Nothing but her was to be seen all around her. She couldn't stop herself from shaking at the sight of the place.

"Don't be afraid." A deep smooth voice sounded behind her. Sakura looked behind her to see a tall dark handsome man before her. He wore a black trench coat that went down to his ankles. His face was pale and his eyes glowed a slate gray color. His hair was long black and shinny. It came down to his chest in a wavy mass. He looked to be about 22 in age. He had a crooked evil looking smile on his face as he gazed at her. She felt magic power flowing about him in a thick coat.

"Who are you?" she asked half fearing the answer. His crooked smile turned into a full smile at her question. His answer startled her completely.

"My name is of no importance to you I am simply a magician who seeks out power in one world to the next. You are the collector of the powers in this world and so I must put you out of my way. Killing the last two mages was a bit messy so I decided to try a new approach with you. You are a bit younger than I thought you would be, and a different sex too for that matter, so I decided that I would get you out of my way by sending you to the future and collecting the cards for myself while your enjoying your time there. Time is a bother so I really must be going. Have fun mistress of the clow." Sakura felt herself being surrounded by power and screamed out as she felt something like the world collapse from under her. "Now on to other matters." With that done he turned and walked out through the dimensional tunnel back to what had been the girls time.

Sakura opened her eyes to find herself in her bed. She sat up in relief as she looked around her room. Sunlight flooded through the window lighting up the place. She looked around for Kero with her eyes and frowned when she didn't see him. "That was one weird dream," she whispered as she got up out of bed. She noticed that the ceiling was a bit closer than usual. She walked over to her dresser to look for something to wear to find her dresser completely empty. She looked at the empty drawers confused. Before she could do anything she heard her brother approaching her room talking with someone.

"Yeah, it's been hard without seeing her everyday. I know that it's been 7 years since she was here but I still cant get over it. My dad is taking it a lot harder though, that's why I still live here. Well, here you are. You can stay in her room until I'm able to get us an apartment." Sakura looked at the door as it opened to show a young girl and Tori, who looked like he was in his 20's. The girl looked about 18, her hair was long and blonde, it was pulled up in a ponytail. She gasped at the sight of Sakura and hit Tori across the head really hard. With her voice shrieking things at him like "how could you!!" and "sneaking girls around your house behind my back!!" she left with a huff and another smack at her brother. Tori just stared at Sakura in confusion. He opened his mouth to say something and closed it again a few seconds later. Sakura giggled a little at the sight of her brother being hit by that girl. Her giggling brought Tori back to his senses in an instant.

"Who are you!?" He yelled pointing a finger at her. Sakura blinked at him in confusion wondering why he didn't recognize her. She looked down at herself and noticed that her yellow pajamas were a bit tight and that her chest was 3 times bigger than normal. Her eyes widened at the thought that her dream was no dream at all.

"Oh great! My life has gone by who knows how many years and I didn't get to experience them! That jerk guy is so going to pay! Hey Tori, can I borrow a shirt and a pair of your pants. Better throw in a belt too." She held out her hands expectantly while her brother looked at her and fumed.

"You brat! You just mad me lose my girlfriend! You expect me to help some random girl? What are you doing in my house anyways? Get out!" Tori's face was bright red with rage at the innocent looking girl. Her big green eyes sparkled as they put on a puppy dogface. Her hair was auburn and long, reaching down to her lower back. Her yellow pajamas where his sisters and were way to small on this well built beauty. As he looked at her closer he realized she looked a little familiar.

"What do you mean get out of your house! Get out of my room!" Sakura threw a stuffed animal at her brother hitting him squarely in the middle of the face. She heard footsteps behind her brother and a familiar but ragged voice call out to her brother. She forgot all about her rage and ran past her brother to get to the person.

"Tori, who are you talking to? Hmm" Sakura's father looked down at her as she ran up to him and threw her arms around him. The face he couldn't see because it was buried in his shirt. He pushed her back a little and lifted her face so that he could look at it. He gasped out loud when a pair of emerald eyes gazed up at him. "Sakura?" she smiled up at him with concern in her eyes.

"You don't look to good dad. What happened to you?" His face was kind of pale and his physic was frail. He looked somewhat shabby and not at all what he used to.

Tori's mouth dropped open quite a ways when he heard the name of his sister I thought she looked familiar!! "Sakura, where have you been these past 7 years? You just disappeared one day and never came back."

Sakura felt that she couldn't tell the truth and decided to say something else "Umm, some weirdo guy kidnapped me from the park and this morning decided that I was a bother to have around anymore?" she laughed hesitantly hoping they would buy her stupid excuse. Well, there's not much more you can say that would be believably. I mean 7 years is a long time. 7 years? I'm already 17? Wahhhhh!! I missed all those years!! That creep is so going to pay!!

Tori looked at his sister in disbelief and was about to make a comment on that little story when Sakura interrupted him.

"Can I have some clothes now Tori?" She looked at him with a little pleading in her eyes. He just shrugged and went to his room to fetch a set of clothes. Sakura sighed in her relief that he didn't ask anything and gave her dad another hug before going in and taking a shower.

As she washed her hair she realized that it was quite a bit longer than what it used to be. She had to use twice as more shampoo now and take longer to rinse it out. When she got herself all clean she wrapped a towel around herself and went into her bedroom. On her bed was a pair of shorts and a blue t-shirt. She slipped them on and went to a mirror to comb her hair. When she was done combing it she but it up in a ponytail and went out the door to go venture outside to see what changes had been made.

As she walked down the street she noticed that things hadn't changed. The streets were still busy and people walked down the sidewalks in twos and trios talking about things Sakura had no clue about. She decided to go see what had happened to Madison in the days that she was gone. At the moment she was wishing that she could still fit in her rollerblades. When she got to the door she knocked and waited for someone to answer the door. She heard someone walking toward the door and heard the click of the door opening slightly. A beautiful girl with deep blue eyes and long dark hair answered the door with a slight smile on her face. She had a few creases that were around her eyes that shouldn't be there for many years yet. The girl seemed a little bit sad. Sakura smiled at the girl and spoke with a little uncertainty in her voice.

"Is Madison here?"

The girl looked at her for a bit then replied "I'm Madison. Who are you?"

Sakura smiled and felt relief flush over her when she heard that this was Madison and that she still lived here. "Got your camera? I need to go get the clow cards from some crazy hot guy. It'd make a great video I think, sort of like the old days, huh?" Madison's eyes seemed to widen a bit after Sakura's reply.

"Sakura!! Where have you been? You've been missing for so long!!" Sakura hugged her old friend and decided to tell her everything.

"Come out for a walk with me Madison and I will tell you everything." Madison stopped Sakura before she could go back outside.

"Sakura, you into boy clothes now or something?" she asked pointing at Tori's clothes. Sakura blushed and shook her head.

"No, I didn't have anything else. I…" before Sakura could finish her sentence Madison was dragging her into the house and into her room.

"I personally don't think those clothes flatter you at all. You're a woman now and need to dress like one. Madison poked around her closet and snatched something off a coat hanger. It was a long blue dress with white flower imprints on it. Sakura took off her clothes and was about to slip it on when Madison handed her an object that Sakura had never worn before. Put that on Sakura, you need it now. Sakura gazed at the bra and sighed as she took it from Madison and put it on. It felt unfamiliar and annoying to her. When she was done latching it she put the dress on over her head and pulled it down to be the way it was supposed to be. It was sleeveless and came down to her knees in a somewhat full skirt. She swirled around and watched it wrap around her body. Madison smiled as she watched Sakura, her green eyes were sparkling and the same old missed smile came across her lips. A few minutes later Sakura grabbed her friend outside and began they're walk.

Sakura looked over at her friend and decided that she should tell her now. "Well, only a day has passed by for me instead of 7 years." Madison looked over at her with a confused frown on her face. Sakura smiled reassurance (mostly for herself) and continued, "That day at the picnic was the last day I remember before I came here to this time. When I was going to retrieve the ball I was surrounded by a magical prison of some sort. I tried calling out to you guys but no one could here me but Li, he only heard me when I called out his name alone though. When he ran over to me I was taken away from the worlds dimension and brought to a void of nothingness. There a strange guy appeared and clamed to be a magician going from different worlds collecting they're powers. Since the clow cards are the powers of this world he decided to get me out of the way by sending me to the future so he could collect the clow cards." Madison looked at Sakura for a moment with her mouth dropped open.

"So that's why Li said the clow cards vanished!! That guy must have collected them. He said that even his clow cards had disappeared one night. He and Meiling went back to Hong Kong to discuss the matter with their clan leaders." Sakura felt her stomach drop a ways when she heard that the man had all of the clow cards already. She felt her heart ach at the thought that Li wasn't around here anymore. She needed him, she needed him for more reasons than to help her defeat the guy and get the clow cards back.

"I need to get to Hong Kong and get him so that I might have a chance to get the cards back and defeat that creep. He made me miss out on most of my childhood!! He will pay!!" Madison looked a little uncertain and told Sakura their major problem.

"Umm, Sakura? How are you going to get the money to get a plane ticket to Hong Kong?"

Sakura found herself blushing when she posed for the cameras in the latest swimsuit fashion. It barely covered her body and she felt a little bit to exposed in front of so many people. The director told her all the positions he wanted her in and kept telling her to smile. Why couldn't Madison have come up with something else? She thought. Well, modeling is a good way to make money fast. It isn't something she really wanted to get into at the age 10. She may be physically 17, but not mentally.

When she was through modeling the director gave her 5,000 dollars and told her that she was the best model he had ever had. She blushed and was glad to return to her normal clothes.

Madison and her walked down the street to the airport to get their tickets. All the way there Madison had been telling her about the company she wanted to open for her clothes designs and how she would love to have Sakura be her main model. Sakura grimaced at the thought of more modeling.

When they arrived at the airport she and Madison went to the counter and ordered two tickets to get to Hong Kong and went on their way to the waiting plane. When they sat down and got comfortable Sakura drifted off into deep thought. How am I going to defeat this guy if he has all of the clow cards and other world's powers? I can't wait to see Li. Hmm, I wonder if he is cuter now than before. Ugh, bad thought, is he and Meiling married yet? That would really suck big time. Li… can't wait to see him. Even if it has only been two days.