Chapter 10

"Who? Who are you?" She asked frightened. She couldn't actually see the person, but they felt like they had too much power to be Li. The person had a sheet draped over them like a ghost. Sakura hated ghosts and anything scary. She kept backing away as it came towards her. "Answer me! Who are you?!" She forced herself to yell. She was at the window when she stopped backing up. The person in front of her kept coming. Sakura knew not to turn her back on an enemy but she didn't want to find out what they were going to do to her so she turned and was about to jump out the window when the person grabbed onto her arm. She told herself not to, but she slowly looked down at her arm and saw a skeleton's hand connected to an arm, that went under the sheet. She looked at it for two more seconds and then screamed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sakura lost her balance and fell out of the window. She fell into some bushes near the house and lost consciousness.

"Sakura..." Sakura heard a familiar voice say. "SAKURA!" It was Li's voice! Sakura's eyes shot open. She sat up faster than you could say 'go' and unfortunately, rammed into young Li's head. "Ow!"

"Ow, ow, ow..." Sakura kept repeating. She looked at Li. She was holding her head with both hands. "Sorry Li. I didn't mean to." Sakura said.

"Yeah I know." He said smiling and standing up. She saw him and then his smile slowly faded. "Well, uh, I just came over to make sure you were alright. After all you were lying in the bushes under my bedroom window." Li pointed out.

"Oh yeah! That's right!" Sakura stood up really fast. She looked Li straight in the eyes. "Li..."

Li was afraid of what she was going to say but he answered. "Yes...?"

"You have...." Sakura drew out the sentence to build tension and suspense. Li was listening so hard, he could hear a bird that wasn't even making a sound. "You have, a ghost in your house!" She yelled. Li looked at her, blinked a couple of times, and then busted out laughing. "I'm not lying Li, there was a ghost in your house!" Li's expression turned from a happy mood to a very serious one.

"You are serious, aren't you." Li stated. Sakura looked at him and nodded. He scratched his head and looked at his door. "Well let's go take a look." Li wasn't too thrilled saying that. Li started to walk away and Sakura pulled on his short-sleeved shirt to stop him.

"Li... I have to tell you something before we go in there." Sakura said looking at him. Li turned to face her. "Li, I know it was hard for you to tell me about that other world thing..." Li's eyes widened. He broke away from Sakura's grip.

"Lets just go find that ghost of yours okay?" He said and turned around again. He was walking off and Sakura's eyes started filling up with tears. She ran to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. "Sakura? What are you doing?" Li asked surprised.

Sakura was crying and in between sobs she was talking.

"Li... No matter what, I love you. I'm never, ever going to leave you, Li. You may come from a different planet but," Sakura stopped for a second to let go and look him in the eye. "I come from another planet too. I came from your planet." She finished. A single teardrop rolled down her cheek. She bowed her head so he couldn't see her crying. He lifted her chin up so he could see her face.

"You came from my planet?" He asked. He was confused. Inside the house, they heard a crash. They stopped their love scene and ran inside the house. It was darker outside. The sun was setting. When Li came into the house, the first thing he noticed was that the electricity was out. He always kept a flashlight hidden near the door in case of something like this. He turned the flashlight on and motioned for Sakura to follow him in behind her. They slowly surveyed the house, looking at every shadow and every inch of every wall and space. They went into the kitchen and found a half eaten muffin lying on the table. They looked at each other and knew neither of them saw that when she left.

"Do you think that the ghost ate it?" Sakura asked scared. She was looking every which way to make sure something wouldn't just pop out at her from the walls.

"Do you think that ghosts can eat?" Li asked directly after her question.

"Hmmmm..." Sakura was thinking. "I guess not." She said still scared and in a not so sure kind of way.

Sakura and Li walked all around the downstairs part of the house and didn't see anything. Nothing had been broken, nothing was out of place, except the muffin, and not a trace of a person being there.

"Are you ready to go upstairs?" Li asked Sakura. She slowly nodded and they walked up the stairs quietly. They heard a noise and stopped. They didn't hear another sound so they kept on moving. When they had reached the top, they heard another noise, and another and it sounded like it was coming from Li's room. Sakura really wanted to scream or something, anything but Li covered her mouth so she wouldn't. They walked over to the door with out making a sound. Li put his hand on the door and turned it so slowly, Sakura couldn't even tell he was turning it. Then he stopped for a second, took a deep breath and pushed the door wide open. There was no one in there. He quickly searched the room and the only thing he found strange was that his window was open and the teddy bear Sakura gave him was gone.

"Oh no!" Li looked around to see if he could find his bear. Sakura was confused.

"What's wrong Li? Is something missing?" She asked.

"The bear you gave me, its gone!" He said. He looked under his bed when something came in the doorway and grabbed Sakura. Sakura was taken away and then Li looked back up. "Sakura? Sakura!" He exclaimed. She was gone. He looked all over the room. He ran to the bathroom, she wasn't there he researched the whole house, top to bottom, but he did not find her.

TO BE CONTINUED