Ok, for the people who wanted me to continue, here it is, chapter 3. I won't make it long, except for a BIG thank you to sakura-chan and kan-chan, which are two wonderful persons and great writers. And to everyone else who read this fic, review it or not.

WAITING FOR AN ANGEL (chapter 3)

A car pulled up in front of a hospital. Four people walked down quickly and went into the building, searching for someone. Until they found it.

"Syaoran" said one of them. The young man looked up and met amethyst eyes. (please tell me if I spell that right!! I don't know which color are Tomoyo's eyes, but I read this in some fic, so don't blame me!)
"Hi" was all he could say. Then he stood up, and Tomoyo hugged him very tight. He hugged her back.
"Are you ok?" she asked. He nodded.
"Hi, man" said another person. Syaoran looked at him. Eriol approached him, and gave him a hug as well. "How is she?"
"Good" he said. He didn't felt like talking too much. After that he received a hug from Sakura's father, Fujitaka, and then, it came the worst.
"If anything wrong happens to her, I'll take it as your fault, gaki" said Touya, without even looking at him. Syaoran nodded again.
"How was the flight?" he asked.
"Good. But very tense, Tomoyo didn't stop crying." said Eriol. Tomoyo glared at him and he smiled. "I was nervous" she replied. And then added: "What happened?"
Syaoran took a deep breath. He sitted down and started to tell what had happened since he came back to the house.

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Syaoran stopped the car and went down with a bag in his hands. Suddenly her realized how weak Sakura's aura was. He got scared and entered the house. Complete silence. He walked to the dining room and left everything in the table. Then he walked to the living room. What he saw was the beggining of his nightmare.

"Sakura, Sakura, wake up" he said, scared. The girl was laying in the couch with her eyes closed. Then he realized something. A dark red liquid that was starting to cover the couch. He touched it. And he freaked out.
Syaoran took the phone and dialed a number.
"Hello, I have an emergency. Yes, my girlfriend, she got shot and she's loosing blood. Ok..." Syaoran couldn't believe that was happening. Only one thought was on his mind: 'Sakura, please hang on'

At the same time, two young girls were standing in a bridge. One of them took something and threw it to the river.

"Nat, you shouldn't have done that. You killed her, Nat!!" screamed one of them.
"Shut up!! I didn't killed her. Just a little shot, she's gonna be ok" said Natalie. Catherine started to walk away.
"I'll wait for you in the car" she said. When she got there, she started to breathe heavily. 'She's crazy, she's crazy. I have to get away from her. How did I get into this?' She was thinking of many things at the same time, it was driving her crazy. She felt guilty. She knew that Nat was capable of doing a lot of other things, but killing? She couldn't bear with keeping that secret. And for the first time, she felt sorry for someone that wasn't her. 'Poor Syaoran' she thought.

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"And do you have any idea of who could have done it?" asked Eriol.
"I do, but I can't prove it. I hope she wakes up soon, so she can tell me" said Syaoran, looking to the floor. Tomoyo stayed looking at him. After all they have went through, the less that she expected to happen was that Sakura was getting a shot. She had went through worst. And to see Syaoran like that, unavailable to do something for her, it hurted her. He was her friend, and Sakura was her best friend, it was a double pain she couldn't take.
They heard a couple of steps. Tomoyo lifted her head and saw three girls, running towards them.

"Syaoran" said Danielle. He stood up and got a hug from her. "We came as fast as we could"
"Hi, boy" said Madison. They hugged. Fran hugged him without saying anything.
"Girls, I want you to meet some people" he said. Tomoyo stood up.
"Hi, I'm Tomoyo Daidouji" she said. Madison smiled.
"She talked a lot about you. It's nice meeting you" said. Tomoyo smiled as well. (I thought it would be funny that her name was Madison Taylor. But it won't, because this characters are based on my three best friends, so...) "I'm Madison Jennings"
"I'm Danielle Barrett" she said. Tomoyo nodded. Danielle gave a hug to Fran, who was crying. "This is Francine Miller". Tomoyo walked over to Fran, and hugged her.
"Don't cry. Sakura is strong, she's been through worst. She's gonna make it" she said. Fran smiled at her.
"Now I know why you get so well with Sakura. You are just like her" she said. Tomoyo smiled.

The introductions were done quickly, and then everyone started to talk about Sakura. The three new girls started to tell to Fujitaka and Touya how Sakura was doing in college and everything else. That's when one of them remembered something.

"Syaoran" said Fran, who was fine now after two cups of coffee. "Do you know who did this?" she asked. All eyes were on Syaoran now. He nodded.
"I'm quite sure it was Natalie" he said. Danielle took her head in her hands.
"That bitch" she said. "I used to be in highschool with her. She's older than us, so I never really talked to her, but there was a lot of stories around about her, and all of them said that she was crazy" she said. There were tears running down her cheeks now. "All the seniors gave advices to the youngers. And most of all were: 'Don't mess with Natalie. She's crazy'. I never believed it until I saw her hitting a girl against the lockers. Natalie was holding her by her hair. Her name was Tammy. Yes, Tammy was dating a guy and Natalie wanted him. That's why she was yelling. I never believed it until I saw her. And I believe she's perfectly capable of killing" she ended. One of her friends was seriously hurted in the hospital because of one crazy girl. Everyone stayed silent for a moment until a doctor came.

"Family from Sakura Kinomoto?" he asked. Fujitaka took one step ahead.
"I'm her father. What's wrong with my daughter?" he said. Touya took him by his shoulders.
"Can you please come to my office?" he said. Everyone nodded and followed him.

When everyone was inside, the doctor spoke:
"First of all, I need you to know she got a shot in the left side. We took the bullet out, so she's fine from that" the doctor said. Fujitaka nodded. "However, she's in a very bad state. Everything is indicating that she got hit several times with something heavy". Syaoran stood up at this. "I wish I didn't had to tell you this, but... she's not gonna make it" said the doctor. Tomoyo started to cry. Eriol hugged her. Fujitaka swallowed and stood up. Touya hugged him. Fran started to cry again, and Danielle hugged her, crying again.

Syaoran sitted down. He couldn't believe. She was gonna die. "His" Sakura was going to die. Madison sit next to him. She was crying silently. He hugged her. The doctor cleared his throat, so everyone turned their attenttion to him.

"I just found out that she's awake and she seems perfectly fine. So, I suggest you go to see her" he said. Then he walked out the door followed by the group.

Touya took Syaoran's arm and drew him apart.
"Don't worry, brat, I'm not gonna hurt you" he said, when he saw that Syaoran gave him a death glare. "I just want you to know that... that... that I'm sorry for everything" he said. Syaoran gave him a strange look.
"Why is that?" he asked.
"I know how much you are suffering for her, so... I thought she would be happy if we stop fighting" he said. "I'm suffering too" he said. Syaoran palmed him on the shoulder. "I'll go to call Yuki. I know he would like to see her" he said.
"I made the arrangements already" said a voice. They turned around and saw Tomoyo. "Just like us, he's taking a plane so he can be here as soon as possible. He's bringing Kero" she added. Touya nodded and went to talk to his dad.

Tomoyo approached Syaoran, who was leaning against the wall.

"Are you ok?" she asked.
"No" he said. "My angel is leaving me" he added. "How am I suppossed to live now?"
Tomoyo started to cry. Syaoran hugged her and closed his eyes. It was hard for him to hold back the tears.
"I always thought that..." started Tomoyo when she broke the hug. "... I thought that we would have get married together... that I would make our wedding dresses... and that our babies would play together... and now I realize I can't picture myself doing that with nobody else" she said. "She's such a good person, she's not suppossed to die" she ended, her voice was breaking. Syaoran couldn't tell her anything. Everything she was saying was true.

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"Come in" said the girl. Three other girls entered the room. " Hi" said Sakura.
"Hi, Sakura" said Madison, standing next to her. They had been entered first, because they were going to tell their boyfriends later. "How do you feel?" she asked.
"Fine, if somebody can feel right after being shot at" she said.
"Who did it, Sakura?" asked Danielle, who was at the other side of the bed with Fran, who was still sobbing.
"It was Natalie" she said, whispering.
"I knew it" said Danielle, crying now. "I hope she burns in hell" she added, full of anger.
"Do't do that, Danielle. That's the way is meant to happen. Now she can have Syaoran..." said Sakura, but Fran interrupted her.
"She deserves to go to hell!!! Look what she did to you!!!" screamed the girl. Danielle hugged her.
"There's no way she's getting Syaoran, because he knows she did it, and from what Eriol told us..." said Madison
"Eriol's here?" said Sakura, very happy suddenly.
"Yes, and so is your brother and your dad. And we met Tomoyo, she's so nice, just as you said" said Madison, smiling. Sakura smiled too. "Also, your brother told us they were waiting for Yukito to come soon. And he's bringing Kero" (BTW, forgot to tell you, the girls know everything about tha cards, because they found them in Sakura's house and... it's a big story, the thing is they know and the boys know too".
"Well, Eriol told us that Syaoran is not staying with his arms crossed" continued Danielle, after calming Fran. "So, I believe he's going to denounce Natalie" added. Sakura nodded.
"Sakura, are you scared?" asked Madison.
"I don't know. I don't know how is to be dead, so... I guess I am" she said. The girls got surprised, but it was better to talk now that she knew.

The girls kept talking and remembering every single thing they did in the few time they knew each other.

"I love you, girls. Even I don't know you for too long, I think you are great friends. I'll miss you" said Sakura, starting to cry. The girls hugged her. After that, they said goodbye. There was some people that wanted to see her.

The girls went out of the bedroom and said goodbye to Syaoran, Tomoyo adn everyone else.

"No matter what time it is, give us a call and we'll be here" said Madison. When they were crossing the door they met a guy with glasses that was heading towards the elevator. He got there just in time.
"Li" he said. Syaoran looked at him. They hugged for awhile.
"Where's the stuffed animal?" said Syaoran. Kero came out from Yukito's bag.
"Hi, brat" he said. He didn't looked cheerful as before. "Where is she?"
"There" he said, pointing at her door. Yukito and Kero entered, and Sakura turned her head. It was three o' clock and the stars were shining bright. She wanted to enjoy it, it would be the last time she could see them.
"Hi, you two!!" she said, happily. Kero flew to her and she hugged him. Yukito took the book with the Sakura cards that Syaoran had given to him.
"Hi, Sakura" said Yukito. She smiled.
"I'm glad you came" she said. "I don't know what to do about the cards"
"What do you mean?" asked Kero.
"I don't know, do I have to seal the book? And what about the new master, I have no idea about this" said Sakura. Yukito closed his eyes and wings appeared from his back. Suddenly Yue was there.
"There has to be some clue about the new master" he said. "Otherwise, it means you will still be the mistress" added.
"We can take care of it later, Yue. Sakura has to rest" said Kero, while Sakura opened the book. The Sakura cards flew around her, shining. Sakura smiled weakly, her strength was dropping by the minute. The cards went back to the book and Sakura closed it. She put it on the table, where Yukito took it.
"Take care of my brother, Yukito. Make sure he's ok. And I take that you'll be living with him, right?" she said, talking to Kero. Kero nodded. He felt sad, even though she was clumpsy and he always had to wake her up when she was younger, he still loved her. He wiped a tear that had left his eyes: it was his first tear. Sakura smiled saddly and hugged him. They left room and not even a second later Touya went in.

"Hi, monster" he said.
"I'm not a monster" she said, very serious. He just smiled.
"Yes, you are. You are my little monster". Sakura was surprised about this change in his brother's attittude.
"Who are you and what did you do to my brother?" she said. He shook his head.
"I'm here to talk to you... Syaoran asked me not to bother you".
"Ok, now I'm totally positive that you are not my brother" she added. He smiled at his sister. No matter how old she was, he would always see her as a little girl. A thought came to his mind.
"When mom died, I said to myself that I was gonna protect you from getting hurt. And look at you" he said. Sakura took his hand. "I failed you. You shouldn't be here in this bed" he said, looking down.
"Don't worry, Touya" she said. "You didn't failed. You did your best, and I know". He looked at her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"Be good, monster" he said, before leaving.
"I'm not a monster!" she said and stuck her tongue out. Her brother just shook his head.

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"There has to be something you can do, Eriol!" said Tomoyo.
"I can't!. You see, she was hurt in a human act. With a human weapon. It has nothing magical" He hugged Tomoyo, she had started to cry again. "You know I would do anything to help her, but I can't" he said.
"There has to be a way" said Syaoran, starting to walk from side to side again. "I'm gonna find a way, I swear!" he said, falling in a chair. "This can't be happening"
"Do you know what's the worst thing about this?" asked Tomoyo. "That we never thought she would fall for something like this. She's always strong"
"The bullet hit in her heart" said Syaoran. Eriol and Tomoyo stayed in silence. They understood this was hard for him. "She's lucky to be alive. Natalie did her job well. She can be proud now" he said, but now he didn't sounded sad. He sounded full of hate. Tomoyo got scared.
"Don't do anything stupid, Syaoran" said Eriol. "You know we are gonna be here. We are staying for a few days".

Sakura's father went out of Sakura's room after talking to her. It was surprising how full of life her daughter was. Still now, that she was in her bed, with tubes in her arms and machines all around her, she still had the same angelic face and that smile that never leave her face.

"How is she?" asked Eriol, when he saw that Fujitaka was there.
"She's amazingly fine" he said, smiling at what she had told him: "Don't think you lost me and my mom; we are just on a journey. We are going to see each other very soon". He came back from his thoughts and spoke again. "Who's going next?"
"I will" said Tomoyo.
"I'll go with you" said Eriol.

They walked together. Eriol opened the door and they saw Sakura playing with her key, that was still hanging around her neck. She looked when she heard the door and there she saw two of the people she most wanted to see that night.

"Sakura" said Tomoyo and ran to hug her friend. Sakura hugged her back, and both started to cry.
"I missed you so much, Tomoyo" said Sakura, cleaning the tears running down her cheeks. "I even missed your costumes and always have to stop you from taping me". Tomoyo laughed.
"Hi, Sakura" said Eriol, and hugged her.
"I still can't believe you took an airplane just to come here" she said.
"Well, Syaoran told us and we thought we had to be here" said Tomoyo, fixing Sakura's hair. "We met your friends. They are really nice".
"They said that from you too" said Sakura, and Tomoyo smiled.
"Did you talk to everyone already?" asked Eriol, when he saw that Sakura's heart beat was getting irregular in some points.
"I have to talk to Syaoran" she said, and took a deep breath. "I want you to make sure he's ok, that he doesn't do anything stupid to Natalie"
"He's telling the police, that's all" said Eriol. "You told to your friends, and you saw her, so I'm sure she's not gonna get away with it"
"She shot me because I refused to break up with Syaoran" said Sakura and Tomoyo tried to make her quiet. "Tomoyo, I want to tell this to somebody. She came saying that she could gave me anything I wanted, that I had to break up with Syaoran so he could go with her... and I didn't wanted to". Sakura started to cry, for the first time since she got the shot.
"Sakura, that was fine" said Eriol. "I'm sure it would have been worst for you if you had to break up with him"
"I know!" said Sakura, still crying. "But I don't know what happened to me, I saw her, with the gun, in front of me, and I didn't move. I couldn't move. And now everyone's suffering because of me. If I just..."
"Sakura!" yelled Tomoyo. Sakura got scared. Tomoyo had never yelled at her. "Stop thinking like that!! We are not suffering. We are fine. Things already happened, we win nothing at thinking what we could have done" she said, hugging her friend, that was crying non stop right now.
"After all we've been through, you must know that we know this is not the end" said Eriol, sitting next to her. "We'll always be together, no matter what. I'm sure of that. And someday, we'll all meet again, right here on Earth, or somewhere else". Sakura smiled at Eriol's advice. He knew what he was talking about.
"Thank you, guys" she said, wiping her tears. "I don't know what I would've done if you weren't here"
"It's ok, this is what friends do. And I'm sorry I yelled you like that" said Tomoyo.
"Don't worry" said Sakura. Suddenly her heartbeat became irregular, and she started to breathe heavily. Tomoyo got really scared, but Eriol calmed her.
"It's not her time yet" he said. He was right. Slowly, Sakura started to breathe normally and her heartbeat became steady.
"I want to.... talk to Syaoran" said. Tomoyo hurried out of the room, followed by Eriol.
"Syaoran, hurry. Sakura wants to talk to you" said Tomoyo. Syaoran stood up.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"She had some sort of... I don't know, but her heartbeat was irregular, and she had trouble breathing. Then she asked for you" said Tomoyo. Syaoran went quickly to her room, entered and closed the door behind him.

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I´m tired!! I've been writing since, like, 3:30 pm and now it's 7:36 exactly, and I don't know if to keep going!! *gets hit by a couple of tomatoes* Ok, ok, I will!

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"Hi, beautiful" he said. She smiled at him and raised her hand, to call him. He sit next to her and took her hand.
"Are you ok?" she asked. He nodded. "Don't lie to me".
"I'm ok, really" he said, again. Sakura glared at him.
"I know you, Syaoran. And you know me too. Tell me, what's wrong?" said Sakura.
"What do you think? Why this had to happen to you? Of all the bad people around, why you?" he said. He was starting to feel the anger, because he couldn't do anything to keep his cherry blossom with him.
"Because you are such a wonderful person, everybody loves you... you know how people is. They are jealous, they can't stand we are happy" she said, passing her hand through his hair.
"Then it should have been me" he said. She shook her head. "I deserve it more than you do. You have nothing to do here" he added, also passing his hand through her hair. "You are an angel that fell to Earth for mistake. But that's good... because you came to me" Sakura smiled.
"According to you then, I'm just going back where I belong" she said. She stared at his face, at his eyes, that every time they looked at her she melted. She started to cry in silence.
"You know I love you, right?" he said.
"Yeah. But I wouldn't mind if you say it again" she said, with a weak smile.
"I don't know what you did. I don't know how, but you changed me into someone better. I am better because of you. You make me better. Everytime I look at you, every time you smile I can hardly believe that you are mine, that you could be with someone that was so evil to you in the first place. You are my life, you know?" he said, with his voice filled with emotion. Sakura could see in his eyes that he meant every word of it.
"Everytime that I saw you, when we were kids, I knew you weren't as cold as you showed yourself. But I never thought that you changed because of me. And that means so much to me. You were always there, everytime I needed someone to hold me, to save me, to help me, you were there. You are perfect to me, and everytime you look at me I can see that you love me. And I'm so glad that you do. And ever since I knew I loved you I couldn't picture myself with anybody else that wasn't you" said Sakura. By now, she was fine, but she was whispering, because it was hard for her to talk. Syaoran had a few tears running down his cheeks.
"I don't know what I'm gonna do without you" he said, crying.
"Don't think I'm leaving. Because a part of me will be always be around you. You will never be alone. If you ever need me, I'm gonna be there. And be sure of one thing: I love you, here or in Africa, now or in a thousand years. I always will."

Syaoran stopped her and gave her a deep and passionate kiss, like trying to keep her with him with that kiss.

"I would give anything to keep you here with me" he said, whispering.
"And I would do anything to stay like this forever. But... you know? I don't regret anything. I'm glad I met you, and don't say you regret what you said to me when we met, because that's all a part of who you are, and I love you just like that" said Sakura, when he started to cry one more time.
"I should have been there. When Natalie went to our place"
"It's not your fault. Nothing's your fault. You have to be strong. For me?" asked Sakura. He nodded. "Don't do anything stupid, little wolf"
"I love you. I always will." he said, one more time.
"I love you too" she said. She took one deep breath. Closed her eyes.

Now, the heart monitor showed one straight line.

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Finallly!!!! Ok, I know you'll hate me for this, and flame me if you want, I don't care, I deserve it, 'cause I'm so evil!!! Hate me all you want, but only one thing: this isn't over yet!! No sir.
Ok, on the next chapter, I'll be presenting a new character. Hey, I just realised something: I'll be putting a few songs of my favorite singer, Michelle Branch, and that's exactly the name of my new character!! I love that name. Well, that's all. Review, pleeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!