Disclaimer: See Prologue for all that crap.

Other Warnings: This is an extremely short and fast chapter. I expect no reviews for it, because chapter Three will be posted right after this one. If you do bother to review, I will congratulate anyone who can interpret Sakura's dream accurately, cuz everything in it is symbolic. Anyway, let's get this over with.

Chapter Two: The Dream, a.k.a. The Short Chapter That Will Make You Kill Me


While Tenten was having her little adventure, Sakura was snoozing away, and having an extremely bizarre dream…

DREAM SEQUENCE…wOoOoOoOoOo…

It started out normal. Well, normal for Sakura, anyway. She was positioned under her favorite tree, writing a nonsense poem.

Suddenly, she fell backward. The tree she was leaning on had vanished. She got up, rattled. She looked around. There was no one in sight, just an endless sea of white everywhere. She squinted, looking further, and spotted a door. It was plain and wooden, with a small glass window. There was a plaque above it, with the numbers 207…
Running up to it, she opened the door slowly. As it opened, she could hear a whirling sound. When it was wide enough, an invisible force sucked her inside and slammed the door shut.

Sakura landed inside a room, and the door behind her shut and locked itself tight. She looked around and realized the whole room was painted black, floor to ceiling. There were many people in the room, but even though Sakura could see their faces, she could never recognize them again. They were all staring at her.

Sakura backed away and bumped into something. Turning around, she saw it was a one-eyed, masked scarecrow. It was talking to her, but she couldn't make out the words. It was just blurble, blurble, and blurble…

Weirded out, Sakura turned back to look at the other people. Surprisingly, they seemed to be bowing down, the girls to a regular blonde Barbie doll, and the boys to a stuffed animal that looked like a fox. After the people had finished worshipping, the Barbie and the stuffed fox pointed to something at the back of the room. It was a simple, rounded fan. The people turned to the fan and one of them walked over and picked it up. He began to tear up the harmless fan. The others jeered and shouted, seemingly pleased.

"What in the world are you— " puzzled, Sakura finally spoke, but no sound came out of her mouth. Instead, three little cherry blossom petals came floating out. Astonished, Sakura covered her mouth. The petals wafted over to where the fan now lay in tatters on the black floor. They landed on the fan, and in an instant, the rounded fan was restored, but now glowing red around the edges.

Sakura felt a sudden chill, and turned around quickly. A knife was raised above her, coming down swiftly to stab her in the back.

Then, she woke up with a scream.

wOoOoOoOoOo…END DREAM SEQUENCE

"Wow…weird…" she said to herself. She heard her mother calling her for dinner, and made her way to the dining room.

What she didn't know was that aside from the dream, things were only going to get even more bizarre and complicated…


Author Note-ness

None right now. Too busy writing the chapter that will make up for this one.

DON'T REVIEW UNTIL YOU READ CHAPTER THREE! THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT I NEEDED TO GET OFF OF MY CHEST. CHAPTER THREE WILL BE UP VERY VERY VERY SOON.

Preview of Next Chapter

"Otou-san and I think that you two need to go out. I heard from our neighbors that all of the teens in Peaceful Valley go to the mall to hang out. I can drive you there!" Her mother chirped.

Sakura frowned. "The mall? We haven't gone to the mall for fun before…only for clothes."

"You two need to socialize and make some friends before High School starts. Go to the mall, Sakura!" her mother commanded as nicely as she could.

Sakura fumed inwardly. She really didn't want to go anywhere. She wanted to stay in her room, brooding…

Tsune