Free To Be Me

Chapter: 12 The Dream & The Dreamer (Couldn't Really Think of A Title)

By: BabyWolfGurl

A/N: HEY! Lookie! Im updating again. . . I hope you like this chapter. . . thanxs to all of u wonderful people who reviewed and are sticking with the story. Ive decided not 2 update the other stories until I finish this so ill be trying to update sooner. . . I have a lot of stuff 2 do toward the end of the month and im hurrying 2 finish b4 then. . .lol. . . but Ill prob still write b/c you guys r the best! Lol! Well enough talking . . . on w/ the story. . .lol . . and please review. . . later . . .

Disclaimer: I don't own CCS but the story is mine so there!

Summery: She didn't fit in w/ the other angels. He didn't fit in w/ the other demons. Can they fit in w/ each other on Earth? But theres a problem. What if they NEVER get the chance?

~* Story *~

Tokyo ~*~*~

~Sakura~

"Mei Lin! Tomoyo!" Sakura yelled from where she was sitting in the middle of what looked to be a soccer stadium. "RUN! GET OUT OF HERE!" she yelled frantically. She was still tied up but she tried to get up anyway just to fall over.

Mei Lin and Tomoyo both had their guns out and were looking around tentatively as they walked down to the field.

Suddenly Sakura noticed Chase and Dillon creeping down the steps behind them. "GUYS! Behind you!" But they obvious didn't hear her. Chase and Dillon were right behind them when Mei Lin finally took a quick glance over her shoulder.

Time seemed to slow down as she spun around and Tomoyo followed suit. Dillon and Chase both had their guns raised already and before Mei Lin could fire the first shot Dillon opened fire, hitting Tomoyo in the chest. At the same instant and Mei Lin fell to the ground.

"NO!" Sakura screamed watching her friends fall. It was then that she jerked out of her sleep covered in sweat and breathing fast. 'It was just a dream. It was just a dream. It was just a dream!' She kept telling herself that what she saw really didn't happen. She was still in the dark room and tied up.

The door opened and there stood Chase wearing nothing but a pair of boxer shorts and socks. "What the hell!" he hissed.

She simply glared at him.

"Aw." Said Ashley as she walked up behind Chase. "Did the poor little girl have a bad dream?" she asked with a smirk.

Sakura turned her head so they couldn't see her face.

"Try to keep it down would ya?" Chase said angrily. "Some people are trying to sleep." And then he slammed the door.

'I have to get out of here.' She thought to herself. That's when she heard the voice in her mind.

'Sakura!' said the voice. It sounded familiar but she couldn't put her finger on who it was.

'Hello?' she answered back. 'Who is this?'

'Oh you can hear me!' the voice said happily. 'Good. It's Kero.'

'Kero! OMG its so good to hear from someone.' She said desperate to get out of where ever she was.

'Sakura. Can you tell me where you are?' he asked probing her mind for anything that would lead to where she was.

'No.' she said helplessly. 'I'm in a dark room with a door and no windows.' A tear rolled down her cheek. 'And Dillon, Chase, and . . .'

'Ashley are the ones who took you.' Kero finished for her.

'Yea.' She said looking down even though he couldn't see her. 'What's going to happen to me?' she asked.

'I . . .' he paused. 'I don't know.' He answered. Shaking his head. At the moment no one knew what was going to happen.

'Kero will you do me a favor?' Sakura asked suddenly.

'Sure. What will it be?' He asked hoping it was something he could do.

'Can you keep Mei Lin from trying to find me.' She swallowed and closed her eyes. 'Tell them not to look for me. That I'm fine.'

'Why don't you want them to look for you?' he asked already knowing the reason. He had seen her dream and could tell that had shook her to the core.

'Because if anything happened to them because of me.' She couldn't finish. 'I just don't want to see them get hurt!' she stated. 'Promise?'

'Promise.' Kero said shaking his head. How he was going to keep Mei Lin and Tomoyo away he didn't know but he'd try.

'Thanxs.' She said but all of a sudden there was like a force shielding the connection. 'Kero?' no answer. 'KERO!' she screamed in her mind but there was still nothing.

'Sorry princess but there will be no communicating with the guardian.' Dillon's voice echoed in her mind.

'Go to hell Dillon!' Sakura snapped.

'Some one has a temper.' He said, she could just imagine him smirking. 'And been there, nice place. Before this is over I'm sure ill see you there.' And with that she was alone again.

'That asshole!' She thought angrily. 'I will get out of here!' She said determinedly as she tried to think of a way to escape.

~Eriol~

"Kero?" Eriol asked knocking on the guest room door. "Hello?" He had thought that Kero had left but he had heard something on his way out the door and decided to check it out.

The door suddenly swung open and there stood Kero. "What?" He asked trying to hide the smile on his face. Seeing Eriol's expression when he opened the door had been too much.

"I was heading over Tomoyo and Mei Lin's place. You coming?" He asked eyeing Kero as he walked over to the living room and got down on all fours and began looking under all the couches. "Um. . . What are you doing?"

"Found it!" Kero said getting up holding an envelope. He looked at Eriol. "Remember this?" He asked turning it over.

"Yea," Eriol walked over to get a closer look. "But didn't have Sakura's name on it?"

"It still does." Kero said showing Eriol the right side. "See?" he asked grinning.

"Yes smart-ass." Eriol said grabbing the envelope. "Do we open it?" HE asked looking at it in his hands.

"I don't know." Kero shrugged. "Let's take it with us and open it at Tomoyo's."

"Ok," Eriol said handing it back to Kero who put it in his jacket pocket. "Let's go."

"Lead on oh great one!" Kero said sarcastically. And they both walked out the door.

~Tomoyo~

"Home Sweet Home." Tomoyo said smiling as she walked into their high- rise apartment. They didn't have any more trouble on the way back and she was glad.

"Nice place." Ally said looking around. "I like it!"

"Thanxs!" Mei Lin said walking toward the kitchen. "Anyone want something to drink?"

"What do you have?" asked Syaoran. 'Wonder where Sakura is?' he thought to himself.

"Um. . . I know we have coke, sprite, orange juice, and of course water." Mei Lin yelled from the kitchen.

"Just bring a few cokes and sprites!" Called Tomoyo. "Is that ok?" She asked and everyone agreed. "Why don't we all have a seat." She suggested as she walked into the living area followed by the others.

"Here you go." Mei Lin said setting down a tray full of cokes and sprites and glasses that only had ice in them. "Grab what you want she said sitting down beside Tomoyo.

"So. . ." Tomoyo said trying to start conversation. "How was the flight?" She asked looking at the guests.

"It was alright." Chris answered politely.

"Alright!?!?" Ally squeaked. "It was so long! Not to mention extremely boring!" Everyone laughed and the tension was starting to melt away.

"Try having to sit next to him!" Syaoran jokingly shot a look at Kaleb. "AND he talks in his sleep!" Syaoran added grinning.

"Well sitting next to you wasn't what I'd call a pleasant experience!" Kaleb shot back. "Complaining the whole way!" Everyone was laughing again and the tension was completely gone.

"May you be so kind as to tell me where the restroom is?" Kaleb asked looking at Tomoyo and Mei Lin who were laughing at a joke Chris had just told them.

"Down the hall," Mei Lin said but couldn't finish.

"Second door on the right." Tomoyo said smiling. About thirty seconds later the doorbell rang and Mei Lin got up to get it.

"Hey!" she said when she opened the door to reveal Eriol and Kero. "Come on in." She said as she made her was back to the living area where instead of sitting by Tomoyo she grabbed a beanbag chair from the corner.

"Thanxs," Tomoyo said as Eriol sat down beside her.

"No problem." Mei Lin said grinning. "Oh Kero I'd like for you to meet Chris, Ally, Syaoran, and Kaleb but he's in the bathroom." She introduced and he smiled back. "Everyone this is Kero."

"You're Syaoran?" Kero asked eyeing the guy on one of the couches.

"Yep," HE said looking right back at him. 'I wonder who this guy is?' He asked himself.

Tomoyo and Mei Lin glanced at each other. Silently asking if it was ok to talk about Sakura. They gave each other a reassuring smile and Tomoyo pulled on Eriol's arm to get his attention. "We need to tell them about Sakura." Se whispered so he was the only one who could hear.

Just then Kaleb walked in and stopped looking at Kero who had also stopped what he was doing and stood up defensively. They were glaring at each other and looked ready to attack each other at any second.

"What's going on?" Eriol said standing up between Kero and Kaleb. Syaoran did the same. They looked back in forth but neither said a word.

"I take it you're the guardian?" Kaleb said relaxing. He held out his hand, "I'm Kaleb. Syaoran's friend." Kero looked at him another second before relaxing himself and they met half way and shook hands.

"Kero." He said. "You know about Sakura I take it?" Kero asked when they had all sat down again. Everyone else was just looking between Kero and Kaleb wondering what had just happened.

"Yes, there are still traces of her aura here but she is not." He looked around. "I'm sorry."

"We'll get her back." Kero said determinedly.

"Ok what's going on?" Ally asked being the first one to speak up.

"I take it you already know about Kaleb and Syaoran?" Kero asked looking at Chris and Ally. When they both nodded their heads he continued. "Well, as you also know about Sakura being an angel." He paused and they nodded again. "Well I'm an angel guardian. I help the angels that are on earth in some terms. Understand?" He asked.

"Yea, I think." Chris said thinking it over.

"So you protect the angels on earth. Right?" Ally asked.

"Yea you could put it that way." Kero answered, glad he wouldn't have explain further.

"So why didn't you stop Sakura from being taken?" Syaoran asked with a tint of anger in his voice.

"You see, she's a little different." Kero said looking at Syaoran.

"How?" He snapped.

"Hey don't blame him!" Mei Lin said jumping up and glaring at Syaoran.

"No it's ok." Kero said glancing at Mei Lin, then looking back at Syaoran. "Well she's not a pure angel. And like you she was banished to earth." He paused to see the recognition in Syaoran's eyes. "She's opposite you in a way. You know what I'm talking about?" Syaoran nodded and he continued. "Well feeling cast out she began to act out."

"Why was she cast out?" Ally asked taking in everything Kero was saying.

"Well she looked different. Like her eye's were that bright green." She nodded. "And her wings had black tips on the bottom while everyone else's were pure white."

"How cruel." Mei Lin said. "Just because she looked different." She shook her head.

"You do the same thing here." Kaleb said looking at her.

"What do you mean?" Ally asked.

"Well can you tell me people here don't form opinions of people based on the way they look. Or even how much money they have or what kind of car they drive?" he asked looking from Ally to Chris to Eriol to Tomoyo to Mei Lin. When no one answered he shook his head. "Everyone does it even if you don't realize it." And everyone just nodded.

"OW!" Kero said jumping slightly from where he was sitting. He pulled out the envelope that was in his pocket.

"What happed?" Eriol asked looking at Kero.

"I don't know." Kero said holding the envelope. "It burned me." He said looking puzzled.

"You got an envelope too?" Kaleb said walking over to look at it. He turned over his shoulder to Syaoran. " Get yours out and bring it here!"

"This?" Syaoran asked as he pulled out his own envelope looking at it. "What about it?"

"Hey that's the same one those people through at us the other night!" Mei Lin said remembering it.

"Yea it is." Eriol said looking at it. "Have you opened yours?" He asked looking at Syaoran.

"No not yet." Syaoran said shaking his head. "Have you opened that one?" He asked looking at the one in Kero's hands.

"No." Kero said. "I felt an evil aura radiating from it and it has Sakura's name on it." HE shook his head. " I didn't know what would happen.

"Well I say we open it." Chris suggested from behind them.

"Yea," agreed Ally. She looked at Mei Lin and Tomoyo who both shook their heads in agreement. "See, it's unanimous."

"OK," Kero said but I want everyone to back up a bit." He said standing up. Everyone took a few steps back or sat back down where they were. "Here we go." He held up the envelope and tried to open it. He pulled it and it started to glow red and started to burn. "OW!" Kero yelped holding his hand. As it dropped to the ground to began to disintegrate. All that was left was a pill of ash.

"Wow." Ally said staring at it in awe.

"That hurt like a . . ." Kero started but was cut off by Tomoyo.

"Why doesn't Syaoran open his." She asked looking sternly at Kero.

"Go ahead." Kero sneered still holding his hand.

Syaoran looked down at the envelope in his hands. "Ok." He slowly began to open his and nothing happened. He looked around when he had completely ripped it open. When no one said anything he looked back at the opened envelope and pulled out a folded piece of paper. He opened it and looked at the blank piece of paper.

He was about to look up when he felt a powerful serge of power and before he knew it he was pulled into the paper and landed in what looked like a large soccer stadium.

"What the hell?" He said out loud as he stood up and dusted himself off. He looked around at the empty stadium.

"Welcome." A voice said from behind him. He whipped around to see Dillon standing a few yards away.

"Where is Sakura?" Syaoran demanded. And Dillon smirked.

"Aw, I'm hurt." HE cocked his head. "Not even a hello?"

"Fuck you!" Syaoran snapped glaring at the man before him.

"No, I won't." Dillon smirked. "But I believe you did her." HE turned to look at a figure walking across the field. Syaoran followed his gaze and couldn't believe what he saw.

"Ashley!" Syaoran said disbelievingly. She smiled and walked over to Dillon, wrapping her arms around him neck.

"Nice to see you again Syaoran." She smiled again. "But I think you wanted to see her more." She snapped her fingers and winked as tied up Sakura dropped out of nowhere onto the field just a few feet away.

~End of Chapter~

A/N: Did you like that chapter? Lol. . . sorry 4 leaving it there. . . but I had 2. . . lol. . . but besides that I know the chap was kinda boring but its getting better promise! . . . well ill try to update real soon. . . please review and let me know what u thought about it. . . later

~BabyWolfGurl