DISCLAIMER: I don't own any CCS characters, they belong to CLAMP.

I don't think I mentioned this before, but italics mean thoughts, unless i'm trying to emphasize something when a person's talking...you get the picture.

Letters

"I know I told Syaoran that I wouldn't leave for a few days yet, but..."

Sakura sat at her desk. She had out some paper and a pen. She wanted to write notes to her friends, explaining why she had to leave, but she just wasn't sure where to start. "I'll start with Syaoran's, I think his will be the easiest." she thought.

Syaoran-

Thank you for being such a good friend to me. Don't forget our promise. I'll come back when I'm good and ready. Tell Kaiba I left because I can't take him anymore. He'll probably throw a temper tantrum, but you and Eriol should be able to calm him. One day, I hope he'll be rational and realize I'm not the one for him. As the goddess of Love, you'd think I know, I just don't understand why he doesn't listen. Even Kaho thinks I'm right! Don't forget.

Sakura

"Well, that was easy. Writing to Eriol and Kaho will be harder though. Maybe I should write the two of them one letter...yes, I think I'll do that."

Eriol and Kaho-

Don't worry. This isn't a suicide note. I couldn't kill myself even if I wanted to, because except for Kaiba, I'm too in love with life right now. Please don't worry about me. I'll be safe. Syaoran has taught me many types of martial arts; I can defend myself.

I'm gone now, but I'll be back soon. I just needed to get away. I don't think I've ever heard of any god or goddess running away, so I'll be the first. Don't waste your energy trying to find me. Just trust me when I say I know what I'm doing.

Even though I'm doing this to run away from Kaiba, I still want to be his friend, as long as he's being sensible, I'm just uncomfortable with the way he treats me and how he shows his feelings.

I know, right about now, the two of you are thinking that this is rash behavior. I assure you, I have thought long and hard about my decision to take a "vacation." I want the two of you to go on with your lives. I'll be back in a few years. What's a few years to an immortal right? I promise I'll be back.

Have you known me to ever break a promise?

Sakura

That wasn't so hard either. I don't think I'll leave a note for Kaiba.

Humming to herself, she looked at her reflection in the mirror. She wondered how any would recognize her if she went as she was. "Too many," she thought, answering her own question. Sakura looked at her short hair. She did keep her hair in a rather unusual form - short with two longer strands framing her face. That would have to change. She willed her hair to grow longer, stopping it when it reached just below her shoulder blades.

Sakura couldn't bear to change anything else, or she wouldn't be able to look herself in the mirror without startling herself. Trying to think what else she would need, she remembered clothes. She threw open her closet, rummaging around for something that didn't look too costly, but something that didn't look too shabby either, a humble dress. She found five dresses that fit what she was looking for.

Then, packing those away in her trunk, she realized that she would have to keep practiing if she wanted to be good at defending herself, so she brought some of the clothes she wore when she practiced as well as her weapons in another trunk.

Sakura took one last look around her room, her eyes landing on her brush. A relic from her childhood. She packed that away in her trunk as well. She got ready to open a portal to the mortal world, when she changed her mind.

She was going to leave a note for Kaiba.

On a piece of paper, she scrawled Kaiba's name and wrote, "From one god to another, Sakura is not the one for you." She signed it "Goddess of Love"

Sakura went out to the stables and got a horse. She Tran located her trunks into a semi-ornate cart she found and hitched the horse to it. Keeping a firm grip on the horse's reins, she opened a portal, took one last look at the world around her, and left.

a/n: Short, I know. I might get 4 up later today too.