Meetings 4
I hope you liked the last chapter by the way VOTE!!!! Who is it gonna be for sakura? Li or duo? Tell me soon or I'll pick and tell you the truth, well I'm going for Duo but it's up to you. So vote and tell me.

Chapter 4
Sakura slept fitfully in her bed, out of her body a translucent shimmery shadow of herself floated away from her sleeping form. It walked down the hall, opening a door it approached a slumbering figure.

Li stirred in his sleep, some inner sixth sense blasted through him as he felt something in his room. Sitting up in the bed he came face to face with Sakura. Taking a second glance Li gasped, his hand shot through the translucent ghost of Sakura. It leapt off of his bed, Li choked for breath as his body was lifted up by some invisible hand, Li's hands hung limply by his sides. He was losing strength fast.
"Give me my soul." Sakura's ghost said in a robot monotone voice.
Li struggled for air...

Sakura sat straight up in her bed, jumping out of her bed she hurried towards Li's room. Opening the door she took in the strange sight.
There was Li hanging by his throat by some invisible force and there was, herself?

The ghost of Sakura turned, Sakura's eyes glowed a light blue color, Li's body began to glow with a light blue light also.
Sakura shook her head, "No! Clow KEY!"
Turning the key into a staff she glared at herself, "I will not allow you to take it from him! FIRE CARD"
The fire card flew towards the misty form of Sakura, blasting through her, it disappeared. The fire card returned to it's card, Sakura threw the staff down and ran up to Li's gasping form.
Li leaned heavily against Sakura's body, looking up a desperate need filled him. Holding her face in his hands he gave Sakura a rough kiss on the lips. Sakura was immobile for the few seconds it lasted, looking at Li's face in the shadows her breath caught in her chest.

Tears slipped down her face, covering her face with her hands she curled up.
Li's hand went across her back, "Shhh" He whispered quietly into her ear.
"Li I didn't mean to!"
Li looked up, Duo stood in his boxers and an night shirt on, watching the scene from the door.
His face was stony, but his eyes were sad but at the same time impassive.

"Sakura why can't you just take your soul! You need it, and it's become obvious that you want it back."
"No, that wasn't me! Li, you won't be able to live without it!!!"
Li smiled wryly, "I'll still be able to breath."
"But you won't have a soul...nobody can live a life like that."
Li's hand glowed a light blue color, Sakura sighed before she fell into a deep sleep.
Li covered her in his sheets, clambering out of the bed he glanced at Duo nodding towards the hallway.
Closing the door shut he leaned against it, waiting expectantly.

Duo could feel his insides burning up, finally he exploded.
"What the hell do you think your doing kissing her!"
Li sighed covering his face in his hands for a minute before he looked at Duo, "I'm sorry Duo."
"That's it! Damnit Li! I thought you would be the only one who could keep their hands off of her."
Li's face heated at the remark, "Look who's talking! Duo, all of us lo"
"What? What were you going to say? No, not all of us love her, we may care for her but that's it! But I love her."
"You bastard, who are you to say that the others much less me love or don't love her!"
A sharp tongue turned heads, "If both of you bastards don't shut the fuck up I'm going to have a hissy fit."
Duo and Li turned to see Usagi leaning against the frame of her doorway. Striding towards the pair she opened the door and peeked in.
"Did you sleep with her?"
Li shook his head, "Yea but he kissed her!" Duo protested against his innocence.

"So did Trowa and Wufei, why weren't you as upset? Just because we have higher security on her now doesn't mean that it changes the views on things."
Duo crossed his arms over his chest glaring at Li, Usagi grabbed Duo by the sleeve and hushed his lips with a kiss. Looking up she narrowed her eyes.
"I don't see Li exploding."
Duo shrugged his shoulders, "This is different."
Usagi smacked him upside the head, "No, it's not. You need to forgive Li for his...needs."
Duo bit his tongue hard, annoyance coming onto his features.
"I have needs too."
"We know" a soft voice called.
Duo stared, Sakura yawned and giggled playfully shoving Li aside.
"Unfortunately Li doesn't know how to put proper sleeping spells on people so I was able to hear everything that's been going on. Duo, Usagi's right. There's no difference, I'm not sputtering with anger. You need to control your pride."
Duo leaned against the wall closing his eyes he shook his head and walked down the hall. Sakura sighed, she glanced at Usagi smiled slightly, "He'll be fine... I hope anyway. I better get my rest so I'll be seeing you two in the morning."

The forest had exploded with life from the caressing rays of the sun. As Sakura stepped further into the forest she could feel the soft moss underneath. Heading towards a distant brook.

Usagi said she should go there for some relaxation, with all the guys ready to explode at each other. She would come later in the day to meet her there.

Sitting down on the rough, and gnarly root of the titan-like oak tree that had taken berth next to the giggling stream. The rays of the sun slanted through various holes in the canopy of the forest.

Sakura sighed in pleasure letting her backpack go slack from her shoulders. Looking at her surroundings she focused on a small rosebush growing on the other side of the river.
It was a mix of ever so light black tipped petals with a dark rouge, making the roses ever more appealing to smell and pluck.

Wading through the stream she bent and gently plucked a rose from it's highly guarded branch. She took in the wonderful soft scent, a shadow cast itself over Sakura. Looking up she did a double take at the being in front of her. It was a man (an: about their age and size) with silvery white hair that matched his smooth milky white skin. Wearing a quiet red blouse with sharp looking khaki pants. His eyes most have cause some stares in his years when he was a babe, they might have startled though, though fair he was, his eyes were a piercing but lulling (at the same time) burning red color.

Sakura glanced down at the rose she held in her hands, lifting it up to his eyes in silent wonder at the exactness matching colors. The man took the rose gently from her hand, "For me? We've hardly been introduced too."
Sakura blushed admirably, "No, I was just admiring..." she couldn't go on, the same red eyes trapped her mind in their infiniteness. Beauty was far too small a word to describe them, it was more of a compromising word for his eyes.

A flicker of fire danced in his eyes as he leaned closer towards Sakura.
Sakura closed her eyes, she was in a world of roses, that was all she could smell and see.
She tilted her head up, unawaringly as his hand pressed against the small of her back.


Usagi laughed at Quatre's small joke, Heero grunted, Trowa's eyebrow shot up inquisitively.
Usagi gently placed the white rose in the middle of the mass of red ones. Picking up the purple vase that contained them she inhaled their perfume deeply. Suddenly she felt her mind tingle unpleasantly, all of a sudden the roses seemed to wilt and die in the vase, the white rose was the only single one living. Looking at it she sighed in a small silent gusto of relief as she saw the familiar face of Pegasus the winged horse guardian of the Elysion fields. Then it wilted.

Quatre felt the surge of grouped power, turning he heard the vase shatter into hundreds of pieces onto the patio deck. Usagi's eyes were wide, she looked at her hands unbelieving.
Heero was at her side in a second, Wufei appeared out of the shadows to stand nearby looking out into the forest worriedly.
"USAGI USAGI! WHAT'S WRONG!" Heero cried into he ear shaking her, trying to make her regain her senses.

Quatre bit his lip, grabbing his stomach at the scene, suddenly he vomited, Trowa looked at Quatre strangely.
"Quatre?"
Whispering an incantation blue light seared their eyes as they saw with a magicians eyes.

Heero felt his canine teeth coming out of their hiding places, he transformed into his werewolf self uncontrolled by himself though. He could hardly control his frenzied werewolf mind as he bayed uncontrollably.
"quatre!" Heero snarled in the middle of his baying.
Quatre clenched his hand into a fist, Heero detransformed into a human. He looked up at Trowa whose eyes were riveted on Usagi. Glancing down he felt his stomach lurch, his insides churned, he turned away from the sight in time to vomit over the side of the patio.

Wufei's eyes were wide, there Usagi was kneeling on her knees, a pool of blood surrounded her, she herself was covered in blood up to the waist. In her hand she held a heart of some animal, still beating. Just at the fringes of the pool of blood (thanks to quatre's magic) they could make out the body of a white horse with wings, a hole had been made in it's chest, but you couldn't see any other part of the body since Quatre's magic was only so strong.
Usagi's sat staring at the heart in her hand, before she opened her mouth and screamed.

Sakura's body sunk into the chilling warmth of the arms that now wrapped themselves around her body. He whispered something into her ear but it was indistinguishable her head felt too heavy and fuzzy to make anything out.

Milky pink lips smiled caressing the girls lips in another kiss to ensure her sleep.
The ruby-eyed stranger disappeared into thin air with Sakura in his arms...

Suddenly Quatre sunk to the floor as the scene before them vanished into air. Heero wiped his mouth onto his sleeve still coughing violently. Wufei who seemed to be the only one who was able to keep his stomach moved smoothly over towards the edge of the balcony.
"I'm going to go and get Sakura, why don't you tell Li that his sweetheart is here."
Trowa's silent green eyes observed the flaming red Porsche streak down the estate road towards there house. Taking a second harder glance he could just distinguish Meilin's face.

Wufei's hand brushed the petals of the fallen rose on the ground. Taking a second glance at the light footprints he moved slowly back into the shadows.

Usagi tossed in her sleep...
"Usagi...Usagi I must come to help you...before it's too late. Narion my brother has come. His heart may seem kind and warm but his heart is of ice...Silver Empress give me permission to leave my duty here to save your world. My brother...he must not touch the lips of the one."
Usagi opened her eyes, sitting up she watched as the Imperium Silver Crystal appeared in front of her.
"I grant Helios, guardian of dreams, permission to pass."
A cold white light began to form in the middle of the room, like the birth of a star almost. Soon it formed into a large white circle there was a ripping noise as the circle split in half. Helios stepped out of the rapidly diminishing ball of light.

Usagi clambered out of the bed and hugged Helios.
"What troubles bring you here?"
"Many...I am the guardian of all dreams, dimensional barriers or not I have all the golden dreams of the beings in each dimension come to me...But one troubles me..."
Usagi hushed his lips by gently putting her fingers against his lips.
"What news of my daughter?"
"She has died...the kingdom waits for you."
Usagi shook her head, "It is a shame...have that many centuries really occurred already? I heard of dimension tears that would threaten my kingdom if this world was not helped. It was Pluto that first told me of it, "Every time another world dies in a dimension next to ours we have a tear...that will soon open wide it's wound, and destroy us. That is why I have come here to end the evil plague, named Volgon. He is the only threat in this neighboring universe that could cause a gap, or tear in the dimensional barriers and cause mass destruction...Ultimately the end of all dimensions as dimension after dimension is torn by it's neighbor. I have heard that there is a sealer, to heal the wound but she is already sealing one universe, it takes millenias to fix them... So until then I cannot go home. Though my power is lesser here by hundreds of degrees I am here and have the power to help nonetheless."
Helios nodded his head slowly, his golden horn glimmered in the twilight.

"Beautiful one, I have come with news of my brother, Narion."

"Isn't that supposed to be good news guardian?"

"Yes...but this plague, Volgon, has tied my brother to his evil powers. As you know he was the guardian of dreams also, nightmares to be more exact. Dreams that concerned greed, anger, revenge... That sort, making it even easier for Volgon to bring him under his shadow, he has an unbreakable tie with Volgon now.

"What worry is he? We have to worry about Volgon, master of this evil."

"No...I am afraid both are what you must worry for. Narion is in a lust for something that I cannot describe he is just as strong as Volgon is, with an added twist of being able to control fluxes in dreams such as nightmares, he was able to change peoples thoughts for the hopeful better in his region of my dominion."

Usagi sighed, her face creasing in worry, "Helios, matters like these shouldn't be discussed at night, in the morning we should talk about your news."
Helios nodded, Usagi opened the door, "Here let me show you to your room."
Helios took a quick glance at the open patio window before walking out the door.

Sakura was half asleep as she sipped an unknown liquid that was in a cup laid before her. Something was blocking her brain from making the final connection to consciousness.
Red eyes watched the silent figure lustily, there was a glow coming from within it's eyes.

Sakura blinked, everything around her swirled before turning black.

The pilots stood around the newcomer sullenly, they had heard the dreaded news.

"So, when do we leave?" Quatre asked solemnly.
"Now, if you'd like, the sooner the better, his power of the mind is great as he is able to change some peoples very dreams..." Helios answered absentmindedly.
Trowa closed his eyes and sighed, "Some job we've been doing protecting Sakura."
Duo snorted, "What's that supposed to mean? We had no idea the enemy would be this strong."
Heero glared at the Duo, his eyes glowed yellow (an effect of being a werewolf, caused mostly by sudden anger :) ) A faint yellow misty dust came slowly out of his eyes and floated upwards.
"Duo you half brained bastard! We should have been more prepared, no matter how strong the enemy is! Dimwit! Now we have to go all the way across the dream world and get her! And do you know the FUCK WHY! IT'S BECAUSE YOU HAD TO HAVE A FUCKIN' CRUSH ON HER! PERMITTING YOU FROM GETTING YOUR JOB DONE RIGHT!!!!! WHEN SAKURA WENT INTO THE WOODS TODAY YOU WERE TOO DAMN IDJITTY TO GO AND ASK USAGI WHERE THE FUCK SAKURA WAS BECAUSE YOU WERE ANGRY AT HER!"
The misty yellow light poured from his eyes, suddenly there was a noise that sounded like a sword being drawn from its sheath as his claws shot out.
Grabbing Duo around the neck and pinning him to the wall he transformed fully.

Duo found his lungs heaving for air that couldn't force it's way under the great pressure applied to his throat.
"Bastard, it's your fault we're in this position, what's that??"
Heero let his claws relax around Duo's throat enough so that he could gasp out what he was saying.

Duo burned inside at the remarks, "Oh yeah Heero! Mr. Perfect! Where the fuck were you!"
Heero smirked, "I was following Sakura! Damnit you fool! If you had the common knowledge you would have gulped down your damned pride and come follow Sakura, there was a shield up of some sort blocking me from going any closer to the area, but it was weak. Even with your weakling wizard powers you could have gotten it down! But no! Duo, duo the bastard was sitting on his ass watching T.V."
"Why didn't you tell us earlier!" Duo spat venomously.
Heero pinned Duo back down, and hissed between his canines into Duo's ear, "Because when sakura left this dimension I saw yet another one open for that horned freak over there."
Wufei slammed into Heero, sending him flying and crashing into the far wall. Heero picked himself up, fully transformed and angry he was a dangerous foe.
"Heero! Now isn't the time to lose your temper and argue about some petty complaint! We must look forwards into the future, of our plans for what we must do."
Heero hissed, before turning back into a human boy, Duo was on his knees gasping for air, gently massaging his neck.

Helios pointed to an open portal in the air, "Now we must go."

HIYA people! I just wanted to say sorry for taking such a long time to get this out..and about the misty eye thingy with Heero, well I was watching Spawn (no I'm not a fan) last night and they did that misty eye thingy so I thought that was pretty cool...if you don't know what the hell I'm talking about sorry 'bout that too. Well ttyl and oh, tell me, which guy do you think sakura should go with?????