~*~ Author's Notes *~

Hey everyone! Well, I haven't much to talk about so lets skip to the special thanks.

Special Thanks-lilcutemunchkin ~*~ KuTiExAzNxAnGeL ~*~ Ai no Senchi ~*~ Monique ~*~ Anonymous ~*~ blueangelbaby ~*~ Kaylie-chan ~*~ Liang ReConst ~*~ sWeEtAzNaNgEl ~*~ Crystalline ~*~ Anonymous ~*~ hana no tenchi ~*~ Danielle Ngo

Blueangelbaby- your ideas are so not stupid! I really love the part where Sakura is chanting stuff in her sleep, I might weave that in my story, but the question is.where?

Danielle Ngo- I have never received a review like your before but it made me even more hyper than I was before. Thank you!



Ghetto Princess- OMG!!!! 13 new reviews!! I honestly want to cry. After I read them I ran around the house laughing and screaming 40 reviews! My grandma thinks I'm crazy now, but hey I'm happy.

Tina- I don't know about your grandmas but we points to the rest of my so called friends have always thought you were crazy. I mean Ghetto Princess called my house after she had her rampage of happiness and had a whole new rampage of happiness on the phone! I so wanted to kill her.

Binyaile- yeah, but we're saving that for her birthday. So if you see that someone by the name of Ghetto Princess being killed on April the 6th you know that the author of this fic has been killed by yours truly her friends.

Chapter 10

"Sakura are you ok?" Cobra asked me taking a step toward me, but a growl from Syaoran had Cobra stopping dead in his tracks.

"I-I don't know." I said holding my head. Eriol took shaky steps towards me and put his hands underneath my armpits to lift me up. (Amber- eeewww I would never touch anyone's armpits. It's disgusting! Binyaile- me either). "What happened?"

"You were dancing and singing to some weird song. We thought you were possessed or something. I even thought that you were going to dance your self into the fire, but you didn't. You kept circling it like you knew it was there." Tomoyo said shaking her head a little.

I struggled to my feet with the help of Eriol and looked around. Only Syaoran and Melin looked calm, everyone else, however, was still in a little shock. Another wave of nausea swept over me making me want to throw up and I fell back into Eriol's arms holding my pounding head.

Syaoran walked over to me and picked me up bridal style. Normally I would probably blush or something from this action but right now I feel too sick to even be embarrassed about anything.

Syaoran carried me back to my pallet and laid me down. "I still want to talk to you Sakura," he told me as he fluffed up my makeshift pillow and spread my blanket over me. "But for now, I want you to rest."

"I don't wan-"

He placed a finger over my mouth and made shushing noises. "Rest. I'll be here to watch over you. I promise," he said winking at me. Sometimes I don't know weather I want to call him a jerk or a sweetheart. Right now he's acting like the Syaoran I had gotten used to when we first met.

I sighed and smiled up at him and closed my eyes. I felt calmer knowing that he would be there to watch over me sleep. Weird huh?

When I woke up everyone was sleeping and the moon was high above our heads. I looked over to my right and saw Syaoran not too far from me leaning up against a tree sleeping uncomfortably

I smiled a little at he sight of him just sitting there. I stood up letting the covers fall off me and stretched my stiff arms. Unlike the last time when I woke up I felt like nothing had happened to me.

"I see your ready to talk," Syaoran said with Kero sitting not too far from him sitting in the air with his arms out and a vain popping up from his forehead.

I sighed remembering that we had to have a little talk. I yawned a little and carefully stepped out of my blanket to make sure I didn't trip and fall and make a fool out of my self.

"Kero.what have you gone and gotten us into now?" I asked Kero as I down.

"I didn't start anything!" Kero cried flying to my sleeve and pulling on it in a pleading way. "I was sound asleep under the boulder the brat was on and the all of a sudden I'm being picked up from my innocent slumber," Kero said pointing an accusing finger at Syaoran.

I looked over at Syaoran who was staring back and forth at me and Kero. "Well?" I asked Syaoran questioningly.

"When I woke up I saw you sleeping up against the boulder and I picked you up and began to hear someone else snore. So I sat you down and looked everywhere and then my hearing lead me to under the boulder and that's where I saw your so called guardian." Syaoran crossed his arms and leaned forward a little before falling back up against the tree. "Not only would I like to talk to you about Kero, but I would also like to talk to you about the dancing and the singing you were doing earlier," Syaoran said closing his eyes.

"So which do we talk about?" I asked.

"Your guardian of course," he said simply.

"What about him?" I asked.

"Why do you have a guardian. Especially one that can't protect you," Syaoran said glaring at Kero who glared back evilly.

"I don't know why Kero became my guardian. All I know is that my father had given him to me as a guardian that is to protect me from danger. He's been with me every since I lived with my other mother." I took the hairpins that I had in my hair to keep it into a makeshift bun out and let my hair fall all around me. I found the little section near my bangs that always remained short and began to twirl it around my first two fingers. It was a nervous habit that I had picked up from somewhere.

"Kero, is it?" he asked. Kero looked over at Syaoran and nodded his head. "How did you and Sakura come to be?" Syaoran asked.

"I don't know. I just woke up one day and there she was! All I knew was that I was suppose to be her guardian, a gift from her father, whom I've never seen before in my entire life," Kero added.

"I see." Syaoran said looking at me again.

I sighed and looked down at my hair as I played with it. I could still feel Syaoran's gaze on me and it made me blush. I lowered my head down further so that my hair would fall in front of me and cover my reddening face.

I heard Syaoran snort with amusement and I glanced up at him. He was still starring at me with this grin on his face that made me blush even more. Mentally I thanked God that it was dark out so he couldn't see me blush.

"You know, you blush a lot," Syaoran said. My face became redder when he mentioned it. So much for thanking God.

"Hey I thought this conversation was about me!" Kero said getting annoyed.

"The subject changed.stuffed animal," Syaoran said smirking to Kero.

Kero's face turned scarlet and fumed with anger. "So you mean that you've had me worried that you would try and kill me for no reason?" Kero asked through clenched teeth.

"Looks like it," Syaoran said looking back at me. Kero growled and flew high up in the air.

"Hey Kero, where are you going?" I asked him, careful not to wake the others.

"Away from that brat," Kero said. "I promise to be back before dawn," Kero said before taking off through the trees.

"Syaoran, why did you have to go and get him all mad for?" I asked Syaoran putting my hands on my hips. I tired to sound super aggressive and I tried to put on a look to go with it, but Syaoran didn't buy it. Nope, not one itsy bitsy bit. Instead he was laughing at me. That jerk was laughing at me! This only made me angrier with him.

"You know, you look kind of cute when your mad," Syaoran said wiping a tear from his eye.

I gasped and I felt my mouth drop open. Did he just say I looked cute when I'm mad? No I must have heard wrong. "What?" I asked him barely above a whisper.

Suddenly Syaoran stopped laughing and began looking extremely nervous. "I- uh, I said that you.um.I didn't mean to make him mad," Syaoran finally spit out.

"No you didn't," I argued with him. In all honesty I knew what Syaoran had said before but I just wanted to make sure my mind wasn't playing tricks on me, but hearing him stutter like that told me that he was lying. Hey I finally figured out how he's lying to me! I finally know something more about him than him just being in an emotional state!

"Of course I did," Syaoran said uncrossing his arms to put his hands behind his head.

"You are such a horrible liar!" I cried out, pushing him in his stomach. Gee.was we really that close together?

Syaoran jumped from the sudden contacted and glared at me with this really playful look evident in his eyes. "My turn." That was all he said before he attacked me by tickling my sides. I gave him this look of what-are-you- doing? When he realized that I wasn't ticklish he stopped.

I looked at him and he looked kind of embarrassed. Then this huge smile spread across my face and I remembered how Syaoran jumped up when I pushed him in the stomach.

"Well, now you've had your turn so now, it's mine," I said attacking him.

I saw tears form in his eyes and he bit his lip to hold in his laughter. It was funny how he squirmed under my hands to try and get away from me but it was impossible. I had him up against the tree and I was sitting on his legs for just in case.

Syaoran finally squirmed and wiggled around until he was lying flat on the ground with me still on top of this legs. I'm not even going to ask how that happened. Then he grabbed my hands and lifted them away from his stomach. So I did what came like an instinct to me, I leaned down to put pressure on my hands but it was useless. Then I just have one good hard push on my hands and unexpectedly Syaoran's hands gave in and I fell right on top of his chest.

My cheeks were a flame and I could feel it but from the little light that the moon was giving I could see Syaoran blushing to. I wanted to lift my self off him as fast as I possibly could but I couldn't move, yet some how I saw his face coming closer, and closer and.

"Hey there!"

I cried out in alarm and jumped to my feet along with Syaoran. I looked down and saw Cobra standing up grinning sheepishly at me. I looked over at Syaoran who had his fists clenched and mouth as tight as a bear trap.

"Cobra, it's you.What are you doing up so late?" I asked when I had finally slowed my heartbeat back to it's normal pace.

"Well, I heard noises and it woke me up," Cobra said. "Then I saw you two up so I thought I would come and talk with ya!" Cobra said, careful not to make anymore noises than necessary.

"Yeah right, I bet you were going to wake up in the middle of the night so you could grab her you sick perv," Syaoran said walking to his pallet. "Now both of you get back to sleep." Then he gave me this look that said we'll- finish-tomorrow, which I nodded to before going back to my pallet. Cobra stood there and looked like a confused idiot before he to went back to his.

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The sun was just rising when we set out toward Harvest Village. Melin's leg, like I predicted, healed just fine and now she can walk on it. She says it's a little stiff still so I'm going to have her keep putting the herb medicine that I gave her on her leg until it feels like it used to. Kero came back like he said he would give everyone a shock but they soon got over it.

Melin still says she hates my guts but I think we're getting along better than what we were. She's really not all that bad, when you get past all the anger that she shows toward people.

Tomoyo and I had become really good friends, which is really great considering that I've never had a female friend before. She's really interested in the whole herb thing, which is another really great thing to me because everyone back at my home village wants nothing to do with herbs unless it comes to making tea or beer with them.

"Hey Tomoyo, what's Harvest Village like?" I asked her as we picked wildflowers along the way

"I really don't know, I've never been there before," Tomoyo said.

"Really? Then why are we headed there if you never been there?" I asked confused. It didn't make any sense to me to go somewhere that you've never been to, it's really dangerous.

"Hey Eriol have any of you guys ever been to Harvest Village?" I asked.

"Nope." Came the reply from everyone else.

"Then why are we going there?" I asked getting paranoid.

"Because we heard that they good supply of weapons and herbs that I'm sure that you would want to check out," Syaoran said.

"Yeah, I guess your right." I said sighing. I still didn't like the idea of going a place that no one in your group really knew about, but hey, they had herbs.

We must have walked at least a half a day and lucky for me we haven't ran into anymore demons so far and I'm so not complaining about it. Anyway, this whole day has been a little weird now that everyone has met Kero.

It was really weird how they accepted him so quickly, but I guess that after all the crazy stuff that they've gone through on their search for me that nothing really scares them that much.

(Ghetto Princess- let's skip to the part when they get to Harvest Village.)

Finally after a non-stop walk to Harvest Village we finally reached its gates. I was about to walk inside but then Syaoran stopped me.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"We shouldn't just rush into this place. We don't know anything about this place and we must be careful," he said looking out into the crowded streets before us. Oh now he gets paranoid about this place, although I don't see anything wrong about it. The people here looked so happy that it was almost like a fairytale, but then again looks can be deceiving.

"Alright," I said a little reluctant.

"Yeah, I don't think that we should split up either," Eriol said taking Tomoyo's hand. I smiled at the sight.

"Right, where's Kero?" I asked looking around.

"I think he said something about food," Tomoyo said looking toward the food- mart.

"Oh." I said starring out at the food-mart.

"Hey Sakura, we're going to go look in the weapon store and see what they got, you guys can do whatever," Syaoran said waving his hands in the air. "Oh, and Cobra, you stay with me so I can keep an eye on you and we'll all meet here when shadows begin to grow behind us," he added giving Cobra a really hard glare.

(Ghetto Princess- yeah I know that last sentence sounds really confusing but bare with me. Not everyone can read the time by looking at the sun.)

Cobra sighed and began to walk over to the guys but not before hitting both Tomoyo and me on our rears. We both shouted at the same time and then hit him upside the head. He instantly fell to the ground with a groan. Then as if on que Syaoran and Eriol both kicked him in the stomach.

Tomoyo and I ignored Cobra's loud moans and headed toward the herbal shop. Melin didn't go with us, instead she when with the boys to find new weapons. I think it was just to get away from us in all honestly.

"Sakura, after we get done, do you think we can go and look for fabric. I really want to make a new dress for you meet your mother and the people of your kingdom."

"Sure, but I really don't see why we have to make a new dress when I'm perfectly fine with the one I'm wearing," I said looking down at my gown that Syaoran had given me before the encounter with the demon. It was now really raggedy at the bottom but other than that it was in perfect condition.

Tomoyo just gave me this really weird look and then shook her head as if she was shaking a bad thought. "Sure.Sakura. I think you'll look great in pink." she said trying to change the subject.

"If you say so," I tell her. I've never been too fond of pink, but I want to try and make a good expression to my mother and the people of the kingdom.

Anyway, the herbal shop was a huge downer to me. NONE of the herbs there were fresh. The were all dead and more stinky than usual.

So after not buying any of the spoiled herbs we went straight to the fabric market (Binyaile- you have to excuse Ghetto. She has no idea what she's talking about because she's slow Ghetto Princess- throws frying pan at Binyaile who barely dodges.)

Tomoyo went completely crazy! I don't think I've ever seen anyone so.excited about making anything. It made me wonder if every girl was like this, I hope not but then again Melin didn't act like this.

Time seemed to fly by so after Tomoyo bought a bag to place the things we bought, we had to run back to where Syaoran had told us to meet.

When we were halfway there I could see the boys and Melin already back and waiting impatiently for us.

"I wonder how long they've been waiting," I said aloud.

Tomoyo shook her head as we ran toward them. "Hopefully not too long. They are so impatient, especially Syaoran."

"Great just my luck to run into someone more impatient than my 'fake' mother as Syaoran puts it," I told Tomoyo as we slowed down into a walk.

"Oh look, they finally arrived," Melin smirked.

I just gave Melin a look before sighing and turning my attention to the boys.who had their arms crossed and gave us these give-us-an-explanation- look.

"Sorry, I got a little carried away at the fabric market," Tomoyo said in a gasping voice.

"That's a believable story," Eriol said looking down at the bag Tomoyo held around her head and shoulder.

"Yeah whatever let's go find an affordable inn," Syaoran said walking away from us. I sighed mentally. Why did it hurt so much when he acted so cold to me? I bit my lip hard so that I could focus on something different. That's when I noticed that Cobra wasn't with the group.

"Where's Cobra?" I asked looking around.

"Who cares," Tomoyo said waving his name off.

"Nice to know that you care," Cobra said from behind us. Tomoyo and I jumped and turned around to see him standing like a centimeter away from us. "Now that my feelings are hurt for life I don't think two girls deserve to know the wonderful news that I have."

"What you found someone else to harass?" Syaoran asked walking back.

"No! I found us a free inn!" Cobra said crossing his arms.

"Where?" Syaoran asked.

"Right there," Cobra said pointing to a broke down inn.

"Sorry, but I've got us into the most expensive inn for free," Syaoran said pointing to his left. Funny how I didn't recognized the building before. I mean, it's huge! "Come on lets go," he said pulling me away from trance.

"How--?" I asked when we followed him in.

"That's my little secret," Syaoran said winking at me.

No sooner than we get inside me and the girls literately ran toward the hot spring they had to bath. The only embarrassing part was that the men and the women had to share the same hot spring to bath but there was this huge wall to separate the sections. That's the only good thing.

The boys weren't too far and didn't really fancy having to bath so close to us, but I think that from the lack of bathing that we, the girls, could careless at the moment. It was really amazing that me and Melin got along but I think it was only because she was grateful to bath to.

As we bathed I could hear the boys on the other side of the wall yelling about something to Cobra.

"Cobra, I said stay where you was!" I could hear Eriol shout.

"Come on, just one little peek. I'm sure the girls wouldn't mind!" Cobra whined.

"Hey girls," I whispered to them. They stopped in the middle of their water fight and swam over to me.

"What is it Sakura?" they asked me. I pointed to the wall which amazingly we were able to climb and looked over the wall to see Syaoran practically straining Cobra.

"You guys know you want to peek on the girls as much I do, probably even more than I do!" Cobra complained.

"No we don't," Syaoran said.

"Why not?" Melin asked breaking our cover. Syaoran was doing a really great impression of a fish that had me and Tomoyo in a fit a giggles.

"Why don't we just hurry up and get out of here and take a nice long walk. The night air can be good for us," Eriol suggested. Tomoyo was nodding her head in agreement as she tried to quiet her giggling.

"I thought the night air was bad for you," I said stopped laughing.

"That's just an old wives tell," Syaoran said still holding on to Cobra who was still somewhat trying to make his way toward the wall that separate us.

"If you say so," I let go of the edge of the wall and fall back into the water with the girls following my lead. I heard Cobra give a groan of disappointment that set me and Tomoyo and another fit of giggling as we made our wall out of the spring. Melin, however, strayed behind us and avoided us when we were getting dressed.





A walk at night? In a strange place that NON of them have ever been to? Now, I love this group just as much as anybody else but I have to say THEY'RE COMPLETE MORANS FOR EVEN WANTING TO WALK IN A STRANGE PLACE ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT! Now that I've spoke my mind, I wanna get to the thing that really matters to me. How you guys thought I should write this story. And while reading the reviews I've got the impression that you guys want to keep it the way it is so I am! Thank you guys for caring I-I'm going to cry some more! *Runs off to cry*

~* Ghetto Princess