Chapter 5

It was early morning and light shown through the window in Li's room. Sakura woke up to the light and just smiled. She stretched out her legs and arms, yawned, and then curled back up in Li's bed. Abruptly she sat up in his bed. She looked around frantically for a clock, or a watch. She looked at Li. He had a watch on but she didn't want to wake him up so she looked down at his wrist without getting on the floor, she was hovering over him trying to see his watch. She could almost see it. It read... "6:45! Oh my gosh! It can't be!" The whole reason she was trying to see the watch without asking Li was so she would have to wake him up. She totally forgot that part.

He jumped awake. Rubbed his eyes and said, "What's going on?" He yawned.

"I'm going to be late getting back home!" She whispered remembering that Meilin was right across the hall.

"What's so bad about that?" Li asked.

"My brother thinks I'm at Tomoyo's house and so does Kero and my brother will ask Tomoyo where I am. She won't know anything about it and so they'll call the police and I'll have to explain where I was and-" Li put a finger to her lips.

"Okay, I get the idea. Hurry and change into you're other clothes and tell me when you're ready to leave." Li shut the door to his room and went down the hall to his bathroom to get changed. Sakura changed like it was another day where she was about to be late for school except for all the screaming and yelling. As soon as she finished tying the last ribbon she had in her hair, Li knocked on the door.

"I'm done," Sakura whispered. "You can come it." Li came through the door in different clothes.

"Are you ready to go?" He asked.

"Yes but you don't have to come with me. I'll be fine. I'll use "fly" all the way there so don't worry."

"What if it ends up being like last night? What if someone sees you?"

"Don't worry about it. Its so early in the morning, if anyone is out there they will just think that they were dreaming. Plus its light out today so I don't think those things will come after me. I fought them off before didn't I?"

Li still looked worried.

"Do you really want my brother to find out that I stayed over here instead of at Tomoyo's?" Sakura said.

Li looked sick. "Definitely not. Be careful, make sure no one sees you, and watch out for bushes."

Sakura giggled. "Okay. I'll see you later." She released her key and used fly. This time the wings appeared on her back and she flew out Li's window. She waved and then she flew over the trees that were near Li's house. Li just starred after her and yelled when there was a knock at his bedroom door. He turned to find Meilin in the doorway.

"So that's what was going on last night huh?" She said with a smirk. An evil one.

Sakura flew through her window, put away the key and cards, changed into her sleeping pajamas, threw the clothes she had on in her closet, placed her phone and teddy bear on her desk, kicked under her covers, rolled them up to a position that was believable and pretended to be asleep just in time. Her father came in to wake her up exactly a second after she got into a believable sleep mode trance.

"Honey, its time to wake up. You have to go see Grandfather remember? Come on honey, wake up."

Sakura rubbed one of her eyes and said, "Okay," with a yawn. "I'm..." She plopped back down on the bed. Her father laughed. "Okay, as long as you get up soon." He closed her door and walked to Toya's room to wake him up, and then he walked down the stairs. She let out a breather. She woke Kero up again.

"Kero, Kero?!" She said. Kero woke up, looked at her, and then plopped back down in his bed. She giggled. "Sorry Kero, that doesn't work on me. Come on Kero, I need to talk to you about something."

Kero reluctantly trudged out of his nice, warm, and cozy bed. He brought the tiny cover with him and said, "So what do you want kid?" He yawned.

"Do you know if there is another guardian that Clow created?"

Kero looked at her, "What was that question for?"

"I'm just wondering, after all we found out that there were more than 52 cards and now there are 53. Do you think he hid anything else from you two?" She asked.

Kero thought about it for a second. "Actually kiddo, you might be right. I'll have to discuss that with Yue. Why do you ask? Did something happen?"

Sakura knew she would sound crazy to him again but she had to tell him, "Sort of. The guy I told you about, from the other night. He saved my life..."

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TO BE CONTINUED