~*~ Author's Notes ~*~

Sorry for the delay everyone. I've been really sick and really busy. I'm so sorry.

Special thanks to: ~*~ Liang ReConst ~*~ Kangasmaster ~*~ hana no tenshi ~*~ KuTiExAnZxAnGeL ~*~ Tomoyo-chan ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ sWeEtAzNaNgEl ~*~ mysticalia ~*~ pinklover ~*~ Li Yin Fa

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Chapter 15

When I woke up my body was tingling and everything was like I left it when I first went to sleep, except everyone was asleep. Groaning I sat up with stiff limbs and no one knows how happy I am to finally move. I guess Syaoran heard my groaning cause the next thing I knew he was leaning in front of me.

"How long have I been asleep?" I asked. "An hour?"

"Try almost a week," Syaoran said giving me this huge grin that could make any girl melt.

"You're kidding me right?" I asked in disbelief.

"Nope," he said still smiling.

"Oh my gosh." I said practically breathless.

That's when my stomach starting yelling at me to feed it, and it wasn't the soft and gentle growl either. It was the extremely loud, sounding like it's up in your ear loud. I felt so embarrassed. I could feel my face reddening and I was praising the Lord silently that I was thankful that it was dark.

Syaoran laughed and got up still laughing. I wanted to cry from sheer embarrassment. He came back and sat a plate of food in front of me. "I should have known that you would be hungry. You haven't eaten for about a week," Syaoran said as I began to dig into the cold food. Yeah, you may think I'm crazy now but when you're hungry, you don't care if your food is hot or cold. All your body wants is food. "So how are you feeling, besides hungry," Syaoran asked me in a teasing a way.

"Stiff," I replied through a mouthful of dry meat. If Kero were here right now, he would probably comment me on how a lady should behave.

"What's all the noise?" Boa asked sitting up rubbing her eyes. She turned and looked toward us. "Sakura! Your awake!" she said happily. "I haven't been able to sleep a wink since you've been sleep," Boa said and I could tell she wasn't lying cause her eyes were red and had hug bags under her eyes.

"Why is that?" I asked.

"Cause Syaoran wouldn't go to sleep until he saw you wake up. I finally got him to go to sleep tonight. Plus I was really worried to," Boa admitted. I don't think that I'm all that scared of her anymore.

"Awww, Syaoran that's so sweet of you," I said. In truth, I really did think that was sweet of him.

He smiled at me and shook his head. "I was just worried, don't take it personally," he said. His words hurt me a little but I decided to push them away and ignore them. The last thing that I wanted to feel pain.

"SAKURA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I heard Kero shout. We turned and saw him lift up in the air and dart over to me, hugging the life out of my arm.

I hugged him back, careful not to squish him. "Hey Kero," I said laughing a little.

"What's going on?" Cobra asked waking up. The others where waking up as well.

"SAKURA'S AWAKE!!!!!!!" Kero shouted.

"Sakura!" I heard Tomoyo shout my name.

"That's me," I said smiling.

"OMG, I thought that you wouldn't ever wake up! I'm so glad you did, I was getting so worried," Tomoyo said hugging me. I hugged her back full force happily.

"Glad that your awake, Sakura," Eriol said patting me on my back.

"Thanks," I told him smiling at him brightly.

"Hey Sakura, I would come and give you a hug but uhh, I'm kind of tied up," Cobra said.

"Syaoran, Boa, and Eriol tied him up t he night you went to sleep cause he tired to make a move," Melin said shrugging.

"Yeah, that pervert thought I was asleep when he did it," Syaoran snorted.

"I wasn't going to do anything bad to her! I was just going to check on her to see how she's doing!" Cobra whined.

"Yeah right," Boa said.

"Really! When are you guys gonna untie me anyway?" Cobra asked struggling a little bit.

"In the morning," Melin said laying back down.

"If I had it my way he wouldn't get untied," Boa said crossing her arms.

"Your too mean," I told Boa grinning from ear to ear.

"So," she said winking back at me, making me laugh.

Syaoran scooted closer to me and pushed me back down. "I'm sure Sakura is still a little tired. Let's all get some well deserved sleep," Syaoran said. I was about to protest but he gave me a warning look.

"Yeah, we need to go hunting in the morning," Eriol said walking back to his pallet with Tomoyo holding his hand. "Good night everyone," Eriol said.

"Goodnight," everyone called out. Soon everyone was back to their pallets and sound asleep, everyone that is except for Syaoran.

"Why?" I asked. I'm not really sure as into why I even asked him that. How does he know what 'why' could be? I'm such an idiot.

"I don't know. Just get some rest ok?" he asked going to his pallet further away from the fire that burned brightly in the center of our makeshift camp.

"Fine," I said shifting on my side and closing my eyes.

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When I woke up, I woke up to Syaoran's voice calling my name and him shaking me. "Sakura, Sakura wake up," he said annoyed.

"What?" I asked wanting to go sleep.

"Will you wake up?" he asked.

"NO!" I said turning over pulling the blankets over my head.

"Sakura." he said almost growling. I felt a hand grab the covers and begin to pull, so I pulled back. What I wasn't expecting was for him to fall on top of my stomach. "What was that for?" he asked looking at me from the position he was in.

"You were going to pull my blanket off!" I complained. I don't know why I even argue about this. I know I'm suppose to get up and help and all, but I'm still tired and I wanna go back to sleepy land!

"Gee Sakura I wonder why!" Syaoran cried.

I tired to get up and since Syaoran wasn't helping much I only got tangled in the blanket. Somewhere in all of the pulling and pushing I somehow got Syaoran tangled up as well. Plus, he wasn't helping any. I'm starting to think that he got us even more tangled on purpose.

By the end of the little fight I was having of getting out of the tangled blanket he rolled over and pinned me down. "Are you finished yet?" he asked laughing.

I gave him a glare but it didn't affect him any. He still just laughed at me. "No, as soon as I get my breath back I'm going to get out of these blankets and get you off me," I told him.

"Oh really? I thought you wanted to stay where you were," Syaoran asked in mock confusion.

"You jerk," I told him trying to push him off me but it was useless. He's just too heavy for me to budge.

"I know," he answered back still smiling.

Here's the really messed up part. I started smiling back! My stupid, idiot self was smiling back. Here's what's even more messed up about it. I couldn't stop myself from smiling either! It's moments like these that I can honestly say that I hate my self.

Then it was like a repeat of what had happened the night after the first demon attacked. We were so close to having our faces touching and then we could hear Boa and Cobra shouting.

Syaoran stood up pulling me up with him. I felt really embarrassed. I mean, we were here, alone.about to kiss.again and then Boa and Cobra just screw it all up. Wait.did I really want that to happen? Did I really, really want him to kiss me? I have issues I need to work out. Shimming the covers off of me I folded them up and listened in on Boa and Cobra's argument.

"You're such a pervert!" I heard Boa shouting.

"I didn't do anything!" Cobra shouted back. After that I heard a crash and saw Boa stepping into the clearing of our camp.

"What was that all about?" I asked.

I don't think Boa heard me, but from what she was muttering about I could kind of guess what was going on.

"That no good for nothing, I swear if it wasn't against my religion I'd kill him in a heartbeat," she muttered stomping past us and dropped the wood that she had gathered onto the ground.

"Let me guess, he made another move," I said mostly to myself.

"Yes he did! That jerk! I can't stand him, how do you put up with him?" she asked crossing her arms.

"Syaoran and Eriol usually beats him up or Tomoyo and I do. He doesn't bother Melin for some reason." I said.

"I've never had to put up with something like that before. Is this some kind of curse?" she asked shaking her head as she sat down.

"If it is, then me and you are sharing it," I told her setting my blanket down. "Where are the others?" I asked.

"Still hunting," Syaoran said. "I would have joined them but your really hard to wake up."

"I didn't want to wake up," I told him walking off.

"Where are you going?" Syaoran asked following me.

"I donno. I have a feeling that something isn't right and I don't want stay here to find out what's going to happen," I told him.

"Wait, you say that you sense something bad is going to happen?" Syaoran asked.

"Yes, where's Kero?" I asked getting a cold chill running up and down my spine.

"Scouting the area," Boa answered running up to us. "What's going on?"

"Sakura thinks that something bad is going to happen," Syaoran said sarcastically.

"Wouldn't Kero come back and say something if there was anything bad about to happen?" Boa asked.

"Yes, but I don't think that Sakura is listening to us," Syaoran said. He made a grab for my arm but I sensed that he would and moved out of the way.

"No, something's wrong. I think Kero's in trouble to." I could feel panic rise in me and broke off into a run. I don't really remember the last time I had a feeling like this, but I know that it's not good.

"Sakura, I think you're over reacting-" his words were cut off. I turned around and looked over at him. He was standing still with his hands on the hilt of his sword and dagger.

"Trouble?" Boa asked taking out her dagger and a short sword.

"I don't know. Sakura's right.something isn't right. The forest is too silent."

"We have to get to the others," I said beginning to walk off again, but I stopped in mid-step. In front of us where skeletons dressed in armor and sword, clubs, etc.in their hands. "Where did they come from?" I asked not remembering seeing them before.

"I have no idea," Syaoran said.

"Well, I don't know about you two, but I say we turn back," Boa said. We turned back but again, we stopped in mid-step. Those skeleton things were surrounding us.

"I don't like the looks of this." I said.







I know, I'm so mean. I delay on writing the 15th chapter and then I put you guys on a cliff hanger, and don't worry, I'm already working on chapter 16. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I got some great ideas for the things coming ahead so stay tuned.

~* Ghetto Princess