A/N The sentences in italics are dreams.

Thank you all so much for reviewing and those of you who suggested names! I only picked one for Meilin's boyfriend's name but I am going to use all the names suggested for something else in the future! Thank you! You guys rock!

Sakura ran as fast as her legs could carry her. A few times she almost tripped on her own feet and fell but got up and continued running for her life again. She could hear the swishing sounds made by Syaoran's sword. This was getting her no where, she could run forever but she wouldn't lose him.

Her hand flew to her neck for the key but it wasn't there. She started panicking even more. She made a turn and another. She could no longer hear Syaoran's running feet behind her. She stopped and hid around the corner. She listened for any noise but not even the natural sounds of the night could be heard.

Then the sharp end of the sword cut through the grass wall of the maze and pierced her arm. She screamed and began to run again. She kept looking back to see if he was catching up on her. He was no longer in sight but she was sure he was still following her. She couldn't stop screaming. She knew it would help him track her down but she just couldn't stop.

Her vision started to blur and she couldn't concentrate on where she was running and she ran into something- or more exactly, someone.

She looked up and there was Syaoran again. She screamed her heart out and tried to run the other way again but he caught her hand. "Where are you going?" He asked.

"Away from you!" she kicked his knee and ran again. "Help!"

"I am here to help you! Why are you running away!" Syaoran yelled as he ran after her.

Sakura wouldn't listen to him. She just kept running until she came to a dead end in the maze. She turned and saw that he was blocking the only exit. She couldn't take it anymore. She fell on her knees and started whimpering. "Please don't kill me."

Syaoran just stood there shocked. It was then that Sakura noticed his clothes where different. Earlier when he was chasing her he was wearing all black and now he was wearing green sweats and no shirt. He didn't even have his sword with him anymore.

Syaoran raised a brow as her eyes scanned him. She blushed and looked away.

Wait! She blushed? He was trying to kill her and she was blushing! The little voice in her head was screaming, 'What is wrong with you!'

Then she heard flapping of wings. Keroberos and Yue flew down to them. Sakura ran up to Keroberos and hugged him. "Are you ok? We heard your screaming."

Sakura shook her head and cried.

She climbed on his back and they got out of the maze.

When she got out she ran to Tomoyo who was waiting for them. She hugged her and cried.

"Sakura, why did you do this?" Eriol asked her.

Sakura looked at him confused. "What do you mean me?"

Eriol pointed at the maze. "That's your Maze Card. Why would you trap yourself in the Maze Card?"

Sakura shook her head. "No, I didn't do this. And that can't be Maze! I don't even have my Key with me! I don't know how I got there-" For a split second she looked back at the maze and she saw Syaoran dressed in black, with the sword in hand, grinning maliciously at her. Then her gaze flew to the other Syaoran standing in next to Kero and everything blacked out.

O o O o O

Sakura woke up to the worried faces of her friends. She remembered seeing two Syaorans and she immediately sat up and ran towards the window of the living room, where she had been lain down on the couch. "Where is he?" she asked shocked.

"Who, dear?" Yelan asked her. Fear still visible in her eyes.

"There - there was two of them! He tried to kill me and then didn't try to kill me and he changed his clothes and wasn't wearing black and I thought I was gonna die and I didn't have my necklace and I need to find it-" Meilin grabbed her by the shoulders and stopped her from pacing.

"Don't make me slap you..." She warned. "Start from the beginning. How did you get lost in the middle of your own maze?"

"That's what I'm trying to tell you, I didn't create the maze! I don't know how I ended up there I just remember waking up and standing in the middle of the maze. And then Syaoran was there and he attacked me with the sword and tried to kill me!"

"No, I didn't!" Syaoran protested. Sakura's gaze flew to the direction of his voice and she saw that he had been standing in the corner of the room still in his sweats and no top, arms crossed at his chest. "I was at the gym with my trainer until I heard your screaming."

"He's right Sakura, it couldn't have been Syaoran you saw in the maze," Eriol explained. Once Sakura looked at him she saw he had a weary look on his face and even a bit of fear in his eyes. Before she could even ask what was wrong he answered. "I have some more bad news. We can't find your key or any of your cards. Somehow amongst all the confusion even maze disappeared right from under our noses."

Sakura's legs gave away under her and she was about to go collapse but Yue caught her and placed her back on the couch. Kero flew up to her face. "We'll find them Sakura. No one else can wield the cards except you so, they can't have any use for them."

That still didn't cheer up Sakura. She didn't even seem to be listening anymore. "I failed," she whispered. "I'm not worthy." Tears formed in her eyes. "I shouldn't be the card mistress."

Eriol kneeled in front of her. "Sakura, don't be ridiculous. You're the only one destined for the cards. Even Clow Reed himself thought you were worthy."

"But I lost them. I lost the cards and the key. Syaoran wouldn't have done that." She burried her face in her hands.

Syaoran gasped, surprised at what she had said.

Eriol shook his head and placed both hands on her shoulders. "Sakura listen to me. Whoever is doing all of this to you is expecting this reaction. Don't let them control you, Sakura. This person is playing with your thoughts, making you think Syaoran wants to kill you and that you aren't worthy of the cards. Do you understand me?"

Sakura nodded her head 'yes' but continued sobbing.

Eriol shook his head and got up. Tomoyo sat next to her and hugged her. Sakura turned and buried her face in her friend's shirt crying her heart out. "Why me!"

"I don't know, sweetie." Tomoyo caressed her back comfortingly.

"I'm not losing my mind. Someone really was trying to kill me! Look!" She looked down at her arm where the cut had been from the sword but it was gone. She gasped.

"It's ok I healed your cut, Sakura." Eriol calmed her down. "But maybe I should send you back to Japan. I don't want you to get hurt."

"If somebody wants to hurt her so bad then it won't matter where she is," Tomoyo explained.

Yelan looked at Eriol with a fear stricken face. "Eriol? What if this is part of the pro-" She stopped herself before she said more.

Eriol looked at Tomoyo and remembered what she had said about letting fate take its course. "If it is then I think she should stay."

Yelan gasped. Sakura looked at them in confusion. "Wha-"

"You told me it wasn't about them!" Meilin yelled at Eriol. "You- you lied to me?"

Yelan looked at her in shock. "How did you know?"

Sakura, Syaoran, and the Li sisters were all staring at them. "Know what?" They all said at the same time.

"Nothing." Eriol turned to the window and looked out at the starless sky. "Whoever's doing all of this must be watching our every move. Sakura, come with me." He strolled out of the room with a stern face.

Sakura looked at the others and then ran after him.

OoOoO

"I'm going to put you into a light slumber and then I'm going to recall one of the dreams from your subconscious. In the dream world I want you to look around and try to find some clue as to who this person is." Eriol was sitting across her in the circle of candles.

They were in a dark room that was lit only by the candles and the smell of incense was filling the room. "I don't know how." Sakura played with her fingers nervously.

"Yes you do. Just concentrate on the person sending you the dream not the dream itself." Eriol looked at her.

"How do you know she's sending me the dreams?" Sakura looked at suspiciously. "And what is it that you and the others know that you won't tell me?"

"You'll find out when the time is right. Until then I can't tell you anything now please Sakura cooperate with me?"

Sakura nodded and prepared herself.

"Now I don't want you to try and fight the person or have any contact with them at all. Just try to find some clue as to who it is ok?" Eriol put a hand up to her forehead and muttered something under his breath. Sakura's eyes fluttered and her head fell back and hit a pillow that was waiting for her there.

She opened her eyes and she was back in the garden with her lookalike and Syaoran. This time she concentrated on her surrounding. She looked around trying to sense anything then she spotted it. A ripple in the air like a portal, behind one of the trees.

She walked towards it and she could sense a very powerful aura coming from it. It was stronger than anything she had ever felt and it caused her immense fear. She wanted to turn and run but couldn't. She wanted to find out who was behind it all. She stopped at the portal scared to death. She stretched her hand and watched it disappear in the portal. She gasped and pulled it back. She couldn't do it. She couldn't do it. "Yes! Yes you can!" said a very familiar and soothing voice.

Sakura gasped and turned around but saw nothing. Her heart started racing. Who had said that? That voice was so familiar but she just couldn't place it.

Somehow that voice had put confidence back into her spirit. She turned back to the portal and jumped through it. As soon as she felt herself get pulled in, another force started pushing her out.

She flew out of a dark mirror placed in the middle of a pentagram on the floor of a very musky room. She looked at the mirror and saw the dream world she had just been kicked out of. She looked down at her hands and noticed that they were transparent. "Great the one thing I'm terrified of, is the one thing I turn into."

She heard a gasp and turned around. A strikingly beautiful woman who couldn't have been more than 20 years old was standing in front of her in a flowing, white gown. She had a glowing, golden sun on her forehead. "How did you get here?"

"A better question would be, what do you want with me?" Sakura pretended to be braver than she felt at the moment.

The woman's face hardened. "I want nothing to do with you! I just want what I deserve and you happen to be standing in the way of me getting it." She smirked and a glowing orb appeared on her hand.

Sakura gasped. This couldn't be good. She had a feeling that even though she was like a ghost at the moment, it would still hurt if she got hit by the orb, or even worse, she could die!

But before she had a chance to react the woman sent the orb flying towards her. Sakura stared in shock as it came towards her and at the last second she was pulled out of there by a bright light.

OoOoO

Everyone besides Eriol was gathered outside the room the ritual was being taken place in. They were all fidgety and nervous. They could feel very powerful auras in the room. Even those with out the ability to sense auras could feel the tension and magic in the air.

"Something's wrong I can feel it," Syaoran said. He seemed to be the only one who wasn't going crazy by pacing up and down the narrow corridor.

"What?" Meilin asked, her face pale.

"I sense only one aura in that room and that's Eriol's."

Kero and Yue looked at each other nervously. Yelan slapped Syaoran's arm. "Don't say such things. You scare us!"

"Sakura!" Eriol's voice came from the room. It sounded panicked so they all rushed into the room and found Eriol by Sakura's side trying to revive her.

"What happened?" everyone asked.

"I - I don't know!"

OoOoO

Sakura opened her eyes and was surrounded by undefinable beauty. "Where am I?" she asked no one in particular.

"In Heaven," said the same calm voice from earlier.

Sakura's body froze. She sound came from behind her but she hesitated to turn around and face the person for now she knew who's voice that was.

She didn't want to think about the fact that the person had just said she was in heaven and that probably meant she was dead. She just wanted to turn around fall into the arms of the person behind her.

She turned her head and saw the graceful presence of her mother. Her eyes misted and ran to hug her. "Mom!" Her knees failed her and she fell still holding on to her mother. She cried her heart out to her.

"It's all right Sakura. It'll all be fine."

Then she dared to ask the dreaded question. "Am I dead?"

Her mother laughed. "No sweet heart, you're not."

"Then why am I here?" She looked up at her mother's eyes.

"You weren't suppose to be there Sakura, no one is. If you had stayed there for one second longer you could've been killed. So I pulled your soul out of there." She brushed the tear soaked strands of her out of Sakura's face. "You have grown into a beautiful young lady Sakura, capable of doing such great things."

"Thank you, Mom."

"Soon you'll be all grown up and you'll fall in love and -"

But before she could continue Sakura felt everything around her become fuzzy and a pulling sensation tugged on her spirit."What's happening?"

"It's time for you to wake up." Her mother hugged her tightly and kissed her forehead.

"But I don't want to leave you!" She clasped onto her with all her strength but the pulling sensation was becoming even more powerful.

"Sakura I am your guardian angel, I'm always by your side. All you have to do is look for me with your heart." She looked at her with an almost pained smile. "I couldn't bear to see you get hurt."

"I'm all right and I'll be even more careful from now on." She whispered as she felt herself being pulled away from her mother into a portal.

Her mother laughed. "I'm afraid there's nothing you can do to protect yourself from this kind of pain, Sakura."

"What do you mean?" She felt herself become a spirit again and rush back into the portal but just before she left, she heard her mother whisper something to her.

"Fate has a heart-breaking destiny set out for you my dear."

She opened her mouth to question what she had meant but she felt herself drown completely in the bright light and then wake up in her bed at the Li mansion. She looked around and saw Eriol and Tomoyo and Yelan by her side. Everyone else was huddled by the door. She laughed at the sight of them all toppled on each other trying to see inside the room.

"Are you all right?" Tomoyo asked with tears running down her face. "You were talking about your mom."

"Get off em I can't breath!" Meilin mumbled from the doorway and suddenly they all lost their balance and fell on the floor. Sakura noticed that Syaoran was standing behind them leaning against the wall looking right at her. She remembered how she had continuously accused him of trying to kill her and looked away, feeling guilty.

Yelan glared at them. "Didn't I tell you to stay outside the room?"

"It's all right," Sakura said. "And I wasn't talking about my mom. I was talking to her."

Tomoyo gasped. "How is that possible? She's - she's..."

"She's my guardian angel," Sakura finished for her. "She saved me from the glowing orb thing."

"Orb?" everyone wondered out loud at the same time.

"I saw the person who was sending me the dreams. She said I was in her way."

"Who was she?" Kero flew in from the window with Yue.

"I don't know. But she was.. So beautiful... almost like an angel, but far from it!"

"What about your mom, what did she say?" Meilin asked her.

"My mother said that I was going to get hurt and there was no way to stop this kind of pain. Then she told me..." She frowned and tried to remember what her mother had said. "That Fate has heart-breaking plans for me."

Five sets of eyes flew to Eriol. Meilin, Tomoyo, Yelan, Yue, and Kero all awaited some sort of answer from him. Sakura even looked at him with expectant eyes. "Do you know what she meant by that?"

Eriol looked out into the dark night. "It's a deadly risk to even try to mess with Fate."

An awkward silence filled the room.

Tomoyo decided to break it. "We have some good news." Sakura looked at her. "Eriol put a blocking spell on on you. Now no one can try to mess with your mind no matter where you are."

"Thank you," Sakura whispered to Eriol.

Eriol didn't seem to have heard her.

Kero sat down next to her pillow. "We haven't found your key or cards yet but we will."

"Yes, we will." The little chat with her mother had restored some courage in her and she had a feeling that no matter what this new challenge was she could conquer it.

OoOoO

It was the day after and things had somewhat calmed down.

Sakura was walking down the corridor all by herself. She stopped at a door and looked inside for a second before knocking on the open door.

Syaoran who was sitting on the couch, staring outside, didn't answer the knock.

"S - Syaoran?" Sakura asked in a low voice.

Her voice snapped him back to reality and he turned to face her. He raised a brow at her. "Aren't you afraid I'll try to kill you?"

Sakura looked down, guilty. "That's why I wanted to talk to you. I'm really, truly sorry about accusing you of those things. Please try to understand that I was being played. Someone wanted me to think those things! I'm really sorry! Please forgive me." Tears threatened to fall from her eyes.

He looked her straight in the eyes for a minute and then said, "I understand."

Sakura stared at him. "You do?"

"Yeah, it's not your fault somebody was messing with your thoughts." he shrugged. "There was nothing you could do."

Anger started to boil inside her. "And you could, if it were you?"

"Yes." He smirked at her. "I'm mentally too strong for anyone to try and control."

Sakura's eyes narrowed. "And what am I? Weak?"

He raised his hands in defense. "Hey, you said it, not me!"

"Oh- Oh you are just- just-"

He got up and walked up to her, arms crossed across his chest, grinning. "Just what?"

Sakura glared at him. "You are so unbelievably arrogant!" She turned and walked out of the room.

Syaoran sighed in frustration. He's done it again! Why couldn't he be in the same room as her for longer than a second and not argue with her? What was it that made him so desperate to want to see that fire in her eyes?

OoOoO

Sakura walked down the corridor still fuming over her argument with Syaoran when she noticed Meilin peaking over the corner at something. She walked up to her and tapped her shoulder. Meilin turned around and put her index finger over her lips, motioning for her to be quiet then she pointed to the thing she was looking at.

Sakura peaked at the corner and saw Eriol and Tomoyo. Tomoyo was giggling at something Eriol had said. "He's telling the closet story again." Meilin whispered in her ear, giggling.

"Great." Sakura mumbled. "I'm never going to live this down!"

They seem to have noticed them and walked over to them. "What's up guys?" Tomoyo asked.

Sakura sank into the ground, embarrassed.

Meilin grinned mischievously. "I wanted to ask you the same thing."

Tomoyo blushed and Eriol smiled. "I'm going to leave you girls alone." He glanced at Tomoyo before walking away.

Meilin squealed. "So?"

"So what?" Tomoyo asked, still blushing.

Meilin rolled her eyes. "So what's going on between you two?"

"Uh.. Nothing?" Tomoyo looked to her best friend for help but Sakura was huddled against the wall smiling at her.

"Oh don't look at me! I can't help the things that go on in that crazy person's mind! She actually thinks that I have this secret attraction to her cousin that I can't seem to find because it's hidden deep in the darkness of my mind!" Sakura started laughing.

At that Tomoyo and Meilin looked at each other and smiled. "I wonder where she got that idea!" Tomoyo said.

Meilin smirked. "The same place I got the idea of you and Eriol!"

Tomoyo blushed and looked to Sakura. "You're right. She's crazy! Let's go!" She grabbed her hand and led her down the corridor.

"Oh come on!" Meilin giggled and followed them.

"Oh Meilin!" came the oh-so-sweet voice of Feimei from downstairs. "Could you come down here a sec?"

Meilin and Tomoyo and Sakura went downstairs.

"What's up Feimei?" Meilin asked, eyeing her suspiciously. "You seem way too upbeat."

"Oh that's only because I'm excited that Sakura and Tomoyo will soon be meeting your lover boy!" Feimei smirked.

Meilin opened her mouth to ask what she had meant by that but was interrupted by a male voice from behind them. "Hi, Meilin."

All three turned around and came face to face with a handsome boy with brown hair and blue eyes. "Ryu!" Meilin exclaimed and ran to hug him.

Meilin pulled Ryu towards the girls. "Ryu I would like you to meet our guests, Sakura and Tomoyo. This is Ryu Tao... our neighbor."

Sakura and Tomoyo smiled and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you," he said politely

"Neighbor huh?" Both asked at the same time. It was time for them to embarrass her about her love life.

Meilin saw where this was going and spoke up. "So Ryu what bring you here?"

"Actually, I came to invite you all to a play." He smiled showing off his pearly, white teeth. "My brother, Len, is back in town and he got invited to this big play premier tomorrow night and he asked me to invite you lovely ladies."

"That sounds great!" Feimei exclaimed. "Is your brother going to be there?"

Ryu chuckled. "Yes."

"Ok then I'm definitely going!" Feimei ran up the stairs.

"I think she may have a thing for my brother," Ryu joked causing everyone to laugh.

"Well, if you'll excuse us, we have to go find the perfect outfit for tomorrow!" Tomoyo and Sakura giggled running up the stairs to their rooms.

"So..." Meilin turned to Ryu with a playful smile.

"So... what?" he grinned.

Meilin tilted her head to the side and gave him the puppy dog eyes. Ryu laughed and pulled her to him by the bottom of her shirt, and gently kissed her on the lips.

"Aww!" Came multiple squeals from the stairs.

Meilin turned and a red fire flashed dangerously in her eyes, causing their on-lookers to scramble.

Ryu chuckled and held her close.

WARNING MUSICAL CHAPTER AHEAD! lol ok not in the next chapter but in the near future chapters, i want to write a chapter where they all get sucked into a musical! Tell me what you think ok!

Thanks to those of you who suggested Ryu for Meilin's boyfriend's name! Kaoru4, Chikichiki, Lady Akina.

Thanks to everyone else who reviewed also but I'm really sorry that I don't have time to thank all of you personally!