Yes, yes I know I haven't updated in a long while and I'm soooo sorry! My computer stop working and I lost nearly every thing I've written in the past two years... including this story. But to make up for it I give you the six and seventh chapter. Hope you like them both, oh and before I forget, chapter six is in Li's point of view... R&R

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"The Sweet Water"

{Yes I know funny name, but it will soon come in to play, just wait and see}

Disclaimers: Don't own the char. But the story is mine!

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Chapter Seven: Hiding II

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Class was long over and the night was silent with the air fresh and crisp. It was the type of night Eli enjoyed spending outside in the luxurious gardens. He sighed as thoughts of his newly developed crush filled his head. She was like no other being on this earth; she was a goddess with a crown of auburn hair and two green gems as eyes. Sakura, there was just something about her, something he couldn't put his finger on, but it was there. In her sad smile and shadowy depths of her eyes, it was there. He could tell when she walked in any room or outside that other thought the same when they gazed upon her. She was different, carrying that sorrowful smile that some how took all the pain, the suffering, the misery all away.

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'What is it about her,' he thought before he felt eyes staring at him from the back of his head. Slowly he turned around and let his eyes search for whom ever gaze at him. Soon his gaze fell upon that of two orb of green, looking though him, into him. They were the same orbs he had been thinking about only moments before. She stood there with poise and such grace that not even he could compare. Sakura with glass un-blinked eyes, that looked somewhat hollow, showing him that she was in deep thought. Eli couldn't help but smile at the innocent way she looked standing there, haft in the shade. The smile seen to break the spell she was under because she drew back into reality, blinking with wide round eyes as a small blush tinted her cheeks. He gave her a nod in understanding and she return a dazzling smile that quickly turn into a sad one then disappeared in the shadows.

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Sighing once more, he set his gaze at the lovely lake before him. Within the two days Sakura had been here, not one person that he knew of, has yet to hear her speak. She was a mystery; no one knew anything about her. At least not yet...

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Madison sat in one of the many studies in the institution, she was bored out of her mind. All her friends were either studying in their rooms or in the game room having fun. Yawning she let her mind drift to the new girl and wondered how come she was in her class. Of course like everyone, she was use to newbie's coming in to her classes, but now she was at the point were no newbie could go unless they were far advance. 'Maybe she comes from some magical family and has done some training already?' she thought.

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Deep in thought Madison didn't hear when someone entered the study and sat next to her. "Madison?" Eli asked, looking at her spaced out eyes. She jumped and glared at him when he started to laugh.

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"What do you want?" she asked still glaring at him. Eli gave her a charming smile making her blush a rose color.

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"Nothing I'm just bored, how 'bout you?" .

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"You read my mind," she agreed. Eli looked at her confused and shook his head making his glasses slip down him nose.

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"No I didn't..." he started before Madison burst out laughing. "What so funny?!?" He gave her a glare but couldn't hold it long with her beautiful giggles filling his ears. He sighed, he could never be mad at her for long, not only was she his friend, but his best friend.

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"It didn't mean it like that Eli! I would have known if you read my mind," she said giving him a smile now that she could breathe again. "Hey, have you talk to the new girl... Sakura yet?"

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"No... Every time I try to she just disappears before I can get a word out." Once again Madison found herself in a fit of giggles, turning her face red from lack of air.

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"You're lying!! What? The charming Eli, who can talk his way in and out of things, can't even utter a word to the newbie?" Madison said to annoy him.

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"No... It's not that," he said in a more serious tone, "Don't you get the feeling that, I don't know, like she different?" She looked at him her eyes somewhat wide that had been the same thing she had been thinking not but five minutes ago. She nodded and glanced at the door. . . . . "You know," she said in a hush whisper, "you're telepathic... You can read her mind and see what's up." Eli shook his head, it was against the rules to use powers outside of class. He would get trouble if anyone found out. "Oh come on... no ones going to find out!" . . . . "I can't..." Eli said before she whispered something in his ear making him blush. "Find... but promise me that you'll never tell anyone about that!"

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In the early morning of the next day, both Eli and Madison sat quietly in their desks trying to act like the innocent little angels that they would never be. Most of the students in the class knew that they were up to something, even Li watched them closely. What were they planning? Eli was know to be a cause of mayhem and Madison was know for coming up with the best evil plans; them two together was not a good idea. Like everybody, Sakura knew something was not right. She kept feeling tension in the room and could feel the evil intentions that came off both Madison and Eli. She was like a frighten bunny with wide eyes darting across the room and ears perked up, listening for small noises, but in her case she looked for the change in the air.

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Sitting strait up, she paid little or no attention to what the teacher said in the front of the class. The teacher, Mr. Miller didn't show the slightest idea that he knew what was going on in his own classroom. Most teachers didn't, very few had enough magic to scents anything, that was the main reason that they were teachers and not part of the 'shadow'. 'Do you think anyone knows exactly what we're up to,' Eli thought.

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'No, but they know that we are up to something, they just don't know what... Do you think she knows what you're going to do to her,' thought Madison as she had a mental talk with Eli, so no one could hear. 'Ready?' Eli nodded his head and glanced at a glaring Li before he looked at Sakura.

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Eli gave a small smirk before he closed his eyes and took a breath. Within seconds the smirk turn to a found as he felt waves of pain hit him in a rush. His head felt as if it would explode before something warm trickled down his forehead. When Madison saw this she gave a loud scream, Eli was bleeding from his forehead. Everyone started panicking when Eli fell off his chair as body started jerking up and down as if he was having a seizure. Though all this, Sakura sat there on her chair trembling, her eyes were filled with tears.

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She was helpless...

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So, love it, hate it? Tell me in a tasteful manner by R&R.... It give me my muse, I mean don't you want me to keep writing? Oh yeah, hopefully I'll be able to update my other stories, soon but I can make any promises...

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