Chapter 8

"What can you tell me, that no one else knows?" Li looked suspicious and nervous. He didn't know what he was about to say, but he knew it wasn't going to be good.

"I know where you really come from." The older Li said. Sakura looked at the younger Li.

"Where I really come from? What are you talking about?! I'm from Hong Kong!"

"That's what you want to believe, but you know that it isn't true. You do know where you really come from." The older Li was about to go on when the younger Li stopped him.

"Shut up! SHUT...UP!!!!" Li yelled. Everyone in the house was still frozen so no one could hear this yelling match between the two.

"Oh, so you remember now do you?" Li said. The younger Li fell to the floor and grabbed his head. He kept shaking his head and looking like he was about to go into shock. Sakura got out of her bed and walked to her Li's side.

"Li... What is he talking about? You are from Hong Kong right?" She asked softly and sweetly. Li uncovered his head and placed his hands on the ground.

"No... He's right." A teardrop landed on the floor of Sakura's room. "I am from, another place...."

"That's okay! Where are you from?" Sakura asked forgivingly.

"A different planet." Sakura's world suddenly stopped and she just watched as Li ran to the window and jumped out in slow motion. She tried to stop him but it was too late. She fell to the ground and fainted.

When Sakura woke, she found herself in a dark cave. She got up off what seemed to be the floor.

"Hello?" There was no echo, just one single voice. "Hello?!" Sakura yelled. She didn't here anything else around her or far away, so she started walking in the direction she felt was best. She tried to find walls first but it was no use. There were no walls to be found. There was just the empty, cold nothingness all around her. She didn't want to be alone. It was too creepy there for her to be alone.

"Can anybody hear me?! Where am I?!" She yelled, hoping someone would hear her. She got her wish.

"I can hear you." A man's voice said from behind. She jumped and before she could turn around, something grabbed her. She tried to get away but it seemed like the nothingness had grabbed her instead of a person or anything else. Something was trying to suffocate her yet again. She couldn't break free of the hold and slowly she sank to the ground. Out of nowhere a strange light came at her. She couldn't do anything about it, she had no more strength. Instead of hitting her, the light hit whatever was holding her and she was released to collapse on the ground. She felt a hand keep hitting her on her cheek and she slowly opened her eyes. In front of her was the older Li.

"Li..." She said.

"Nice to know I didn't come to late." He said with a grin. He picked her up and created a huge ball of light around them. What felt like a second later to Sakura, was actually 30 minutes before they made it back and she woke up in her bed yet again. She held her head, she had a headache.

"Would you like me to get something for you?" Said her brother Toya. She jumped and almost screamed. "Well you don't have to be that surprised squirt." Toya was about to walk out of the room when Sakura asked a question.

"What time is it?" She asked.

"Its 3:30p.m. Why? Are you going to go back to sleep for the rest of the day?"

Sakura barely had enough strength to make a come back. She just lied there and said, "I was just wondering." Toya gave her a weird look and then left her room, closing the door behind him.

"Kid! What have you been doing all day to make you so tired?! Are you sick or some thing?!" Kero said flying out of her drawer.

She smiled. "I'm fine Kero." She sat up and looked at the window. It was shut and locked. She wondered if the older Li had done that. Kero caught her gaze.

"Hey kid... Your not thinking of climbing out that window again are you?"

"Kero, I need to see Eriol."

"He's in England!" He shouted.

"I'll use the fly card!" She said.

"It won't get you there in time to come back and be here before someone notices." Kero had a good point.

"Then I will use the dash card as well." She got up and walked to the window. She didn't like it when it was closed so she opened it a little. She heard Tomoyo's voice as she did so. Sakura looked around and found Tomoyo heading for the house. Sakura ran back into the middle of her room, got dressed and ran down the steps to meet her outside. She wanted to make sure that Tomoyo knew she was supposed to be at her house the other night. Tomoyo reinforced the story and they both went up stairs. They ran into her room and Sakura just started blurting things out. In less than five minutes, Sakura told Tomoyo the whole story of what's been happening. In another minutes she told her what she was going to do about Eriol.

"So basically there's older Li, that only you and Li have met, and you need to stay at my house tonight so you can go ask Eriol about him."

Sakura nodded her head. Kero was floating between them.

"I don't know Sakura. Are you sure that you saw this person? I mean it could have been a dream you've been sleeping so much theses days."

"Kero! I saw him! I can prove it too." Kero and Tomoyo looked at her. "But, Kero, you'll be the only one not able to see him."

"What?!" Kero yelled.

"He told me that if you saw him, you would lose your memory and I'm not letting that happen. Tomoyo will be my witness." Sakura said pointing to Tomoyo.

"That's not fair! I wanna see too!" Kero said rolling in the air, back and forth.

"Sorry Kero." Sakura closed her eyes and whispered his name. "Li."

"There was a swirl of light all around her and it danced around both Tomoyo and Sakura. Kero saw it too.

"Whoa." He said and then he was frozen.

"Kero?" Tomoyo asked.

"Don't worry about him, he's fine."

The lights gathered near Sakura's bed and materialized into the older Li.

"You need me, princess?" He said bowing.

"Whoa." Tomoyo said. She looked at him for a while. "You know, he does look a little like Li."

Sakura looked at him too. She had never seen that, but now that she looked at him closely, he did look a lot like Li. "You're right."

"Okay..." Li said. He looked at Tomoyo and Sakura noticed it.

"Oh! This is my friend-"

"Tomoyo, yes I know." He walked over to her, lifted her hand and kissed it. "Its great to see you here Tomoyo."

"Have we met?" She asked.

"Yes, we have. You should know, you aren't from where you think you are either." He said looking in her eyes.

"Oh yes, I know where I'm from." She said with a smile. "Don't worry about it."

"Tomoyo? Where are you from?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, I'm from a different planet." Tomoyo said happily.

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