Ryo walked into the room to see that Sakura was already asleep, or at least she was pretending to be. Either way, he decided to let her be, there would be plenty of time to talk to her about the locket tomorrow. He undressed and got into bed. He looked over at Sakura as he brushed a strand of hair out of her face and kissed her forehead.

"I love you, Sakura." He whispered as he turned over and fell asleep. Sakura was awake, but pretended to be asleep, although she knew she wasn't fooling him.

He just chose to let her be. She felt guilty that she was keeping this from him, but she didn't want to share it yet. Sleep was a long time in coming for Sakura, but she eventually fell asleep, playing with the silver locket that was still around her neck.

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The Illusionist watched Sakura finally fall asleep through a crystal ball as he let out a little chuckle.

"Sleep, Daughter of Talpa." He said with a smile. "For that is the key to getting you to open the door." Once he was sure Sakura was asleep he placed his hands on the sides of the ball and caused to ball to glow with red magical energy. If anyone had looked in the room they would have been surprised. Gone was the old raggedy looking man. In his place, was a younger man with brown hair, still wearing the eye patch over his left eye that glowed red. His right eye still carefully observing the sleeping form of Sakura, wearing the silver locket that now glowed as well.

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Sakura looked around to find herself in a forest at night. She peered into the darkness, wondering where she was. She heard a girls laugh behind her as she whirled around to see who was there. Sakura looked on as a girl about twelve appeared out of the darkness, carrying a red ball in her small hands. Sakura let out an audible gasp of shock when the moonlight revealed the face of the girl.

"Kanna?"

The little girl looked at Sakura with her silver eyes and smiled.

"It's time to play, Kura!" Kanna announced as she bounced the ball to Sakura. The ball bounced and hit Sakura's knee and rolled back to Kanna. Kanna picked up the ball and looked at Sakura with a sad face.

"I guess your not ready yet." She said simply as she turned and faded back into the forest.

"Kanna!" Sakura cried as the girl disappeared from view. "Kanna! Come back. Kanna!"

Sakura woke with a start as she shot up straight in bed. Ryo, woken by Sakura's cries, touched her arm gently.

"Sakura what is it?" Ryo asked, worried.

"She was here!" Sakura said breathing heavily. "I saw her, but she couldn't be."

"Who Sakura? Who was here?" Ryo asked confused.

"Kanna! I saw her!" Sakura rambled not making sense.

"Who's Kanna?" Ryo asked looking at her puzzled. Sakura turned to look at him as she realized what she had just said.

"Nobody." Sakura lied as she lay back down.

"No you don't!" Ryo admonished as he pulled her back up. "What is going on?"

"I just had a nightmare, Okay!" Sakura said trying to remain calm.

"But who is Kanna?" Ryo asked perplexed.

"Just someone that I used to know, a long time ago." She said quietly as she brought her knees to her chest and rested her chin on her knee.

"And…" Ryo prodded.

"And I just had a bad dream about her." Sakura said indicating that she didn't want to talk about it anymore. Ryo looked at her sadly as he reached out and hugged her toward him. Sakura was grateful for his support, but felt terrible at the way she was treating him. She'd make it up to him, she promised herself as they lay back down and fell back asleep, Ryo hugging Sakura close to him with her resting her head on his chest.