"Your magic will wear you out until you die...and I thought I would have the pleasure of killing you," he smirked. "We better go...don't want to be here when the cops get here," he ordered. He and his gang cleared out, leaving Sakura to die.

Sakura laid on the bed, breathing hard...all the painful memories torturing her. It was as if she was still being raped or still being whipped or still having her heart shatter again into a million pieces. All the visions of Hakai kissing her blended in with the pain of being whipped and raped. Just let me die...she begged silently to herself. Then as if her wish was being granted, she saw herself in a bright world. There was a long winding path...there was no more pain...she began to walk down it.

Just then Syaoran had rushed in the room after following the blue beam. He saw a pink dome surrounding something...that could only come from the Shield Card! Then he noticed that it was flickering. Oh no...Sakura...forgive me... He rushed up to the pink dome, and to his horror he found a Sakura lying half-dead on the blood-soaked bed. Her bra and ripped underwear laid on the floor next to the bed. Her clothes lay in shreds, and blood was oozing all over her body... God what have I done...

Syaoran released his sword, and began slicing at the shield. It flickered every time he struck it, this meant that she was getting weaker by the second. Then it completely disappeared as a faded Sakura Card fluttered to the ground. He immediately cut the chains that bound her, and dropped next to her crying. In Sakura's mind, she had just reached the end of the path. Before her stood an angel, standing in between two doors.

"Welcome, Sakura. You have entered the realm of the dead," the angel spoke, its voice sounding like tiny little bells. "You can choose whether to live or to pass on."

Sakura smiled peacefully because she already knew she wanted to pass on... "No more pain..." she sighed in relief.

"Yes, when you pass on there will be no more pain. Nothing will harm you anymore... But. If you were to awaken, here is what is happening," the angel said as she waved to the door on her left. Immediately Sakura saw Syaoran crying next to where her body was. She winced as she saw just how terrible her body looked with all the cuts, just looking at it made her hurt.

He hurt me...I don't want to go back. I just want the pain to stop...she thought to herself, remembering how he kissed Hakai. She began to walk towards the door on the angel's right, so she could pass on... Then she saw something that shocked her, Syaoran had a sword in his hand.

"Sakura...I'm not going to leave you again..." he cried, raising the sword to kill himself.

"I'm going to go back..." she spoke softly to the angel, who just smiled and nodded.

"You choose wisely, I will drop by and give you a present the next you dream."

She ran through the door with her eyes closed, preparing herself for the impact of pain. Her eyes fluttered open, as she raised her hand to touch Syaoran's arm. "Don't kill yourself," she begged in a soft voice.

"Sakura!" he cried, dropping his sword. He hugged her softly letting the tears drip down his face, "I thought you left me! But you came back!"

Sakura pushed him away, "The angel showed me that you were going to kill yourself. So I came back to stop you because nobody should take their own life."

"Sakura, please forgive me! Forgive me for everything!" he sobbed.

Sakura drew all her strength to push herself up. Every movement made her wince... Why did I come back to save one life...why did I come back to all the pain? She faced him, "No..."

He looked at her with wet eyes that filled with water. But as he looked into hers...he noticed a pool of sadness and pain...

"You hurt me...you promised you wouldn't" she choked out as she tried to stand. Her legs gave way, and she collapsed but Syaoran caught her. Tears fell down her face stinging her wounds, and pushed his hand away. "I don't need you...leave me alone..."

"Sakura...please...let me at least help you..." he begged.

"No! Stay away from me. Go back to Hakai, don't break my heart and hers!" she snapped. She stopped to catch her breath...I should have chosen to die...

Syaoran tried again, "Sakura! Please!" He held out the necklace the old Sakura had used to transform the Cards. "Do you remember this?"

Before she could look at it, the intensity of her pain made her pass out again. Syaoran scooped her up into his arms, "Sakura...I am so so sorry..." He noticed a book lying next to the bed, it looked just like a miniature version of the Sakura Book...he opened the clasp to find the Sakura Cards. He flipped through them to find the Illusion Card. He tapped it with the key, "Illusion...release."

Illusion came out, and took the shape of himself. "You aren't my Mistress. What do you want?"

Syaoran looked down at Sakura, "No...you're right. But this is."

Illusion frowned when it saw her, "She changed...but she is still my Mistress..."

"She's not going to make it if you don't help me. Can you make her look as if she were in perfect condition so nobody will be suspicious while I carry her down to my apartment?"

Illusion frowned again, "She doesn't trust you...and if she doesn't I don't either."

His heart snapped when he heard that. Well...I did break my promise...I did hurt her even though I didn't mean to... "Please..."

Illusion glared at him, then turned back into its original form and wrapped itself around the Sakura that laid in his arms. Indeed, it looked as if Sakura was only asleep. Now there was only one more thing to take care of. He found the Fly Card. "Fly...release."

As if the Card already understood, a pink light swirled around Syaoran. Wings sprouted out from his back. Smiling weakly, he flew out of the empty building. This was an abandoned area...only gangs roamed the streets around here. He flew until more people began appearing on the streets; he landed out of sight so he wouldn't spend any more of Sakura's magic. Arigato he thanked the Fly Card silently. He walked quickly towards his apartment, the walk lasted only about five minutes. Once he arrived in his apartment, he noticed that nobody was there. He gently laid Sakura down on his bed. Syaoran kneeled down next to her and began to pray.