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Author's Note!
Sorry it took so long everyone, but I was grounded (ha ha) and I won't be updating for another week because I have drama camp until Friday and I work until Sunday. So sorry!

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Chapter Nine: Anger and Love

It didn't take Sakura and Syaoran long to get back to the pixie city. The whole walk there neither of them had spoken a word.
Neither of them wanted to.

I kissed her…I liked it. I…love her. Syaoran thought, staring at the ground blankly. I am so dead.

He stole a glace at Sakura, who was walking beside him at some distance. Her hair was still a bit wet from the water and was curling slightly.

With a strangled sigh, Syaoran turned back to where he was walking, his almond eyes angry.

The city came into view. Syaoran could no longer hear the screams or sound of battle, only the angry chattering of pixies.

"Something's wrong." Sakura said, almost to herself. "People sound angry"

"No duh." Syaoran couldn't help but retort.

She shot him a glare, but picked up her speed. "Come on Syaoran"

Syaoran smirked. At least she's using my real name now.

The city was, indeed, in a frenzy. The streets were filled with pixies, yelling and bickering at each other. Some were crying for the loss of loved ones and some were silent, but most were in an outrage.

As soon as Syaoran and Sakura arrived, Syaoran knew that it was a mistake to come back so soon.

"There she is!" A pixie shouted, his finger pointed in Sakura's direction. "It's her fault the goblins attacked! They only wanted her!"

Shit. Syaoran thought. They're putting the blame on Sakura!

Syaoran turned to look at the fairy girl; her face was set in a shocked expression, her emerald eyes wide, her body frozen in place.

The crowds had started to move angrily towards Sakura, but Syaoran stepped in front of her as if on instinct.

"Don't protect her!" The same pixie shouted, his brow furrowed in rage. "If the goblins want her, I say we give her to them!"

"Yeah!" Another pixie shouted from somewhere in the crowd. "Or at least get rid of her!"

The crowds buzzed in agreement, continuing to advance on the two.

"Leave her alone." Syaoran said acidly, his hand on the hilt of his sword. "By order of the Prince this girl is not to be touched"

The man who had initially spoken up grumbled something under his breath, his fists clenching tightly at his sides. Syaoran knew what he was thinking; if only he didn't have to listen to the prince.

But then a voice rang out above the murmurs of the crowd, a familiar voice.

Queen Yelan.

"My dear Syaoran." She said from one of the bridges just over the crowds of pixies. "You make a very good point. But…I do believe that my say will end this"

Syaoran heard Sakura's breath catch in her throat from behind him, if only she hadn't back talked Yelan the first day she'd been in the city.

"She's my responsibility." Syaoran said quickly. "So it's my decision"

Yelan smiled down at Syaoran. "My, you are a clever boy aren't you? Well as true as that statement is Syaoran, these are my people and I say what they may do"

Syaoran gaped at her, his mother, in shock. "W-What?"

"You heard me." Yelan said, her attention turning to the people. "You may do what you want with her. I'm tired of having her in my kingdom"

Sakura gasped from behind Syaoran as the pixies cheered and moved towards her.

Syaoran felt her grip his arm and spin him around. Her emerald eyes fierce, she made a demand. "Let me go!"

He stared blankly at her. "What?"

"Say that I'm free." Sakura said, her voice filled with panic. A pixie lashed out and grabbed her arm, tearing her hands free from Syaoran. She shouted over the crowd. "Let me go!"

Syaoran was being pushed away from Sakura then, the crowds surrounding the fairy girl, shouting things like "Tear her wings off!" "Kill her!" or "Burn the witch!"

"Syaoran please!" Sakura cried, Syaoran becoming further and further away. "Set me free!"

Syaoran nodded. It had to be done if she were to be saved. "I set-"

His words were cut off when a pixie accidentally slammed into him, sending him crashing to the ground in the mob.

"Syaoran!" He heard Sakura shout.

"Sakura!" Syaoran gasped, trying to get to his feet. He was only hit down again. "I command you to stop this! All of you!"

"We're listening to the Queen now." A pixie sneered at him.

No! Syaoran thought frantically, hearing Sakura's screaming and pleading to be let go over the crowd. Sakura! They'll kill her!

He got quickly to his feet and tried to push through the crowd, shoving people to the side with all his might, only to be pushed back by another. "Sakura!"

"Let me go!" He heard Sakura shriek. "Stop it please!"

He couldn't see her anymore.

Suddenly someone had gotten a grip of Syaoran's arm and pulled him from the crowd.

"Meilin!" Syaoran gasped. "Help Sakura! We have to get her out of there"

The ruby-eyed pixie shook her head. "No"

Syaoran gaped at her. "What?"

"No Syaoran." Meilin said. "They won't disobey Yelan. And…neither will I"

"But I'm your cousin! Your friend!" Syaoran said harshly.

"Right!" Meilin laughed bitterly. "And that's all you'll ever be, right? I don't have to help Sakura, Syaoran. And I won't. I wouldn't mind seeing that bitch dead"

Syaoran couldn't believe it. Meilin, the only person other than Yukito that he'd ever been able to trust…refused to help him.

"Fine." He said acidly, snatching his arm grip her grip. "I'll help her myself"

Meilin frowned. "You can't help her Syaoran, there's no way you'll be able to get through those crowds." She gripped his arm again. "And I won't let you disobey my queen."

XxXxX

Zachary sat silently on the stone floor, his back against the wall, his fingers tracing the wooden bars of the cell lightly.

"What are you thinking?" Rika asked. She, too, was sitting against the wall, her brown eyes looking over Zachary curiously.

He smiled faintly at her. "I think…Sakura's okay"

Rika smiled. "I…hope she is"

He laughed. "That's a change in tune"

"Well…" Rika sighed. "From what you've told me about her, over the past two weeks, I can't help but think that she might be a good person"

"She is." Zachary said. He'd found, over the past few days, that his thoughts about Sakura had grown less and less, and his thoughts about the pixie girl, Rika, had grown steadily. Her brown eyes filled his mind almost constantly, and when Zachary thought of Sakura, he no longer got the butterflies in his stomach.

But when he thought of Rika…

The fairy sighed and turned to look at Rika. "Do you mind it here?"

Rika shrugged. "If everyone is like you, then I guess I wouldn't. But…I would like to get out of this cell"

"I'd like you to, too." Zachary smiled. "I'd show you the city, let you meet my friends and family"

"Family?"

He nodded, a faint blush crossing his cheeks. "Yeah, why not?"

Rika smiled, her hand crossing the bar and entangling with his. "You know…Zachary? I like you…a lot. Over the past two weeks I've seen that someone…who I would have thought otherwise…can be really nice"

Zachary grinned and gripped her hand tightly. "I feel the same way"

Rika's smile faded slightly. "But…we wouldn't be accepted, in either cities"

Zachary laughed faintly. "True. But you know what?"

"What?"

"I really don't care"

Then he leaned forward, and kissed her between the bars.

Okay! I bit of a shorter chapter there. What will happen to Sakura? Syaoran? Zachary and Rika? Review to find out!
And yes, the plot will thicken as this story goes on.
Yeah, there's more! Haha...sorry, it was patheticly short...