I'm actually pretty proud of this chapter ^^

Enjoy...Oh I guess I should do this every other chapter so...

Previously:

To be able to say such a thing like that in public, even if it was just the four of them was so unlike the cold exterior he pulled when they first met…seeing Syaoran act in such a way, like his true self with that simple sentence.

"Arigato, Syaoran-kun."

Kera: And now, make with the reading.

Later that Wednesday evening, Sakura sat at the dinner table happily swinging her legs and chewing as if it had been her first meal in years. Her older brother watched her curiously.

"So Sakura-san, your birthday is in one more week, is there anything particular special you'd like to do?" Her Father asked. Sakura smiled brightly towards him.

"B-Betsuni..."

"Sakura-san?"

"…Ano, Otou-san, my friends from Hong Kong came back earlier today."

Touya Kinomoto cringed and joined the conversation.

"You mean the gaki with the blue hair and the other gaki."

"Onii-chan!"

"Now, now calm down you two." Their father smiled. Sakura blushed and sat her fork down.

"Gomena."

"Now, what was this about the Li's?"

"Well…Melin Li invited Tomoyo and me to spend my birthday in Hong Kong."

"No. Way!" Touya exclaimed. Sakura glared at him. Their father could be heard stifling a chuckle.

"Well that sounds fine Sakura-san."

"Honto!?" Sakura yelled excitedly. Her father nodded, while Touya grumbled and took a sip of his drink.

Sakura exclaimed happily and got up to peck her father's cheek.

"Arigato, Arigato!! May I be excused Otou-san?" He nodded and Sakura ran upstairs, almost slipping in her house shoes up the stairs.

As Touya was about to rant, Mr. Kinomoto placed a hand on his son's head and continued to eat. Touya blushed and blew bubbles through the straw connecting to his cola.

Sakura twirled a confused plush toy with icing surrounding his orange mouth in her hands. He was getting more and more dizzy as his Mistress got more and more excited. Finally he'd spun out of her grasp and tumbled into his little dresser drawer room.

"Sakura? Nani desu ka?!"

She giggled, bouncing on her bed and picking up the slightly dusted phone to dial a new favorite number of hers.

"Moshi Moshi, Li residence?"

"Ohayo, Melin-chan!"

"Ah Kinomoto-san! I know who you want to talk too, he's packing right now, hold on."

"A-Ah, matte Melin-chan! If he's busy I don't want to disturb hi-"

"Cherry Blossom? It's alright your not disturbing me."

Sakura blushed, her heart sped up, her smile got wider, and she realized she loved this feeling that he gave her over

the phone.

"Syaoran-kun..."

Syaoran smiled on the other side of the receiver and ducked down under his bed to grab the socks that had rolled underneath it.

"Otou-san agreed to let me go to Hong Kong for my birthday."

On the other end, Syaoran wanted to jump, but he hit his head on the bottom of the bed frame.

"Itai..."

"Daijobu?"

"Hai, I just bumped my head that's all Cherry Blossom."

He could hear a slightly concealed sigh of relief on the other end.

"Yokata."

Syaoran blushed as he rubbed the lump in his messy, chestnut hair. Suddenly the phone beeped.

"Sakura?"

"Oh, gomenasi it's just a call waiting...demo…"

She blushed when she heard Syaoran chuckling.

"Melin and I will be there tomorrow morning at nine o'clock to pick you up."

"T-Tomorrow?"

"Hai, my Mother only booked our stay long enough to get you and collect any misplaced items. That's alright isn't it?"

"H-Hai!"

Sakura blushed, she had nothing packed!

"I-I'm halfway packed already!" The phone beeped again.

"See you tomorrow, Cherry Blossom."

"Hai," Sakura's heart raced again, "have a good-night sleep Syaoran-kun."

"Ah."

Sakura clicked to the other end to receive an earful of Tomoyo Daidouji laughter.

"Ohohoho! I wonder what took so long, Sakura-chan."

"T-Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura blushed.

Tomoyo giggled.

"Did your father say yes?"

"Hai, what about you, Tomoyo-chan, is your Mother-"

"Of course! I'd follow my Sakura-chan to the end of the Earth if given the chance."

Sakura smiled, her eyes softened.

"Tomoyo-chan..."

Her best friend voice grew sly.

"I already have PLENTY of outfits made for you Sakura-chan! Lots of traditional robes made especially for my new video 'Hong Kong Birthday Sakura'!"

Sakura sweat dropped.

"I-I don't know what to say Tomoyo-chan. Arigato."

"Anything for you, Sakura-chan!"

They laughed together over the phone.

"Ah, Oka-san just called me that must mean the paint dried!"

"What paint?"

"Get plenty of sleep Sakura-chan! See you tomorrow, I'll be there with you outfit at eight o'clock sharp! Ja ne."

"W-wait Tomoyo-,"

The phone clicked

"-chan...Hauuu..."

Sakura sighed and sat the phone down on her dressers charger, getting up and going through her closet for her travel bags to clear them out when a knock shook against the door.

"Come in!"

Her father opened the door and smiled.

"You should get some sleep Sakura; you have a busy day tomorrow."

"Hai! Demo, I need to pack up for It." she smiled back.

Sakura blushed happily as her father rubbed her hair.

"I'll do that for you Sakura; you don't want to have bags under your eyes."

She giggled and grabbed her pajamas.

"Arigato Otou-san."

Mr. Kinomoto watched as his cheerful daughter left to change into her sleeping clothes and sighed as he carefully folded his daughter's clothes in her suitcase.

'She'll be fourteen, Darling, marking the days of spring where the cherry blossoms rain over our house, like you always said.'

"Otou-san?" Sakura blinked, she was all prepared in her blue-green pajamas and brushed her teeth.

"Gomen, I guess I was a little lost in thoughts."

"Daijobu?" Sakura asked with worry etching her face. Her father laughed a little.

"I'm fine, get some sleep Sakura, I'll be giving you your birthday present before you go alright."

Sakura smiled and hopped in bed, pulling the covers over the bed before tucking herself in.

"Hai!"

The light clicked off and the door was silently shut, the pitter patter of her father's feet got quieter and somehow lulled Sakura into a pleasant sleep.

Tip tap tip tap tip tap

Sakura ran in a circle, running up the wall, on the ceiling, down the wall, across the floor, up the wall, on the ceiling, down the wall, across the floor.

Why was she running? She didn't know, but she knew she was frightened, she knew that the darkness she ran in wasn't the only thing that scared her; she knew that she felt an unfamiliar feeling of loneliness. Even when she was by herself, Sakura knew she wasn't alone.

But the endless circle, running up the wall, on the ceiling, down the wall, and across the floor of darkness really got to her, consumed her, and creeped her out.

Sakura had no voice, the only sound was that of her own feet. Suddenly as she ran across the floor, the cycle broke and she plummeted down into the darkness, a dry squeak of air was the only thing that erupted from the scream of terror she desperately wanted to release.

Deeper… and deeper, even deeper, deeper.

Deeper!

Sakura awoke with a start, the rising morning blazed into her eyes and natural reflexes caused her arm to fold across them. Without noticing as she got up, her forehead bumped into a Sakura card. Sakura blinked the sleep away to see a fuzzy pink hue emitting from it more clearly.

It was the entire deck of Sakura cards were behind the Void card and before they spread out in a circle to dance around her upper body. Sakura smiled, alone, what a silly thought to cross her mind.

She let her hands form a cup for the cards to rest. She pecked the back of the deck when all the cards rested on them.

"Ariga-"

Sakura folded forward and groaned loudly, loudly enough for Keroberos to awake from his sleep in time to see the Mistress running for her bedroom door, slightly fumbling with the knob before racing out of the room.

"Sakura?" Keroberos flew out and followed her, the Sakura cards following behind him swirling violently with a pulsing pink hue.

Sakura shut the door as quietly as she could in all the pain she felt, locking it, she fell to her knees over the toilet. Not feeling green or queasy, tears fell from the tightly closed eyelids and her figure fell to the side on cold marble, her head only missing the shower carpet by a hair.

She could hear Kero's small padding and calling from behind the door, giving her a headache, the Sakura cards slipped underneath the door one by one and danced around her, glowing.

This did nothing for her happiness, though her headache was certainly getting a go at it. Sakura groaned angrily, a sound so foreign to her, and sat up painfully to swat the cards away before falling back on the floor harshly, as if she was intent on hitting her head, the headache was overwhelming.

Sakura screamed as her legs started to hurt. The cards fell to the floor; she could hear Kero thumping to the floor as footsteps erupted in the house and up to the bathroom.

"Sakura!" Touya Kinomoto and their father yelled, one of them pounding on the door. That made Sakura furious, her head was killing her.

"Mou Yamate!!"

Touya stopped in mid-knock and stood puzzled, Sakura sounded so mad. Fujitaka put a sturdy hand on his son's shoulder.

There was a knock on the front door.

"Stay up here Touya, don't disturb her until I get back."

"H-Hai."

In the bathroom Sakura opened her eyes, they stung with tears looking down she wished to throw up.

'Blood.' She thought.

Sakura had issues with blood. No…no Sakura had more the issues; she just plain didn't care for the sight when it was on her. Blood reminded her of…of…

Dark red blood covered the front and back of her pants, her stomach jumped to her throat and Sakura couldn't help but let out a raspy scream, once again sounding so foreign.

"Sakura-san." She hear her Father's calm voice from the other side of the door.

"Sakura-chan, open the door."

'T-Tomoyo-chan....'

Tomoyo Daidouji stood on the other side of the bathroom door, having Keroberos in her hands caringly.

"Eight o' clock sharp Sakura-chan, just like we said last night." She spoke softly.

The last of Sakura's tears dried and she bit her lip to get enough strength for the rapturous task of unlocking the door, opening it only so Tomoyo could come in.

Once inside, Tomoyo looked around, Keroberos flew out of her hands and down to his Mistress.

"Kero-chan, would you mind picking up the cards." Tomoyo whispered, looking down at her best friend, never leaving her slightly bloodshot emerald eyes for a second.

"Hai."

Tomoyo had brought up a medium sized bag with her and took out a small, square shaped package with a small white sticker holding it together. Sakura yelped as Tomoyo slowly picked her up by the hands and led her into the shower, pulling the curtain to block her view.

"Wash that blood out of your clothes, okay Sakura-chan."

"D-demo…my clothes...''

"Need to be washed too, just push them off into a corner of the shower so they can be cleaned."

"Tomoyo-chan..."

"Now, now Sakura. We don't want to be late do we? I'm staying in here with you. Kero-chan."

"Hai, hai." Kero slumped out of the bathroom with the cards when he saw Touya was no longer there, and into Sakura's room. Great, now he had to fly with the full deck in his grasp. The cards seemed to be a bit weakened now because of Sakura's state.

At the time, Kero chose to remember that the Big Brother knew about the cards, Eriol told him last summer. He'd also taken a walk with Father, but they came back looking so normal Sakura and he couldn't tell if they had talked at all.

What a time to remember all this.

"Arigato...Tomoyo-chan..."

The shower waters turned on with a 'sprit' and Tomoyo sat down on the toilet seat, ready to focus on Sakura's outfit and add some finishing touches.

"Hai hai, daijobu Sakura-chan. I got mine just last month." Tomoyo whispered the last part and opened the door silently when Sakura's father handed her some of Sakura's underwear.

"Arigato."

Tomoyo and Fujitaka smiled to one another before she calmly closed the door again, digging into her bag once more to pull out a bra, hanging it up against the door. Continuing to wait patiently for her best friend to finish and collect herself.

See, that's why I liked writing this chapter. Not to say that I don't enjoy and love each of my chapters equally

Kera: Which is freaky.

BLEE! Anyway, I liked writing about how I think Sakura would react to such situations as this *shrug* If that makes sense.

So go'head and click that little review button ppls, Editor-sama won't let me work unless she gets paid in reviews and you don't won't that to happen. *bunny eyes*