I do not own Tsubasa or any of their wonderful characters, although Sammy Featherstone is my own creation.

Hooray for Chapter 2! This is my first FanFiction so I would greatly appreaciate reviews telling me what to improve upon within newer chapters and what I did well on. Thanks ^-^

~Featherstone

Chapter 2

There is nothing but darkness around me. I can't even tell if I am there, or just a floating spirit with thoughts and no physical form. Did I die? If I did, I don't mind. A part of me is actually thrilled, the peacefulness and calmness of the darkness is inviting. I could float around for years letting my mind wonder, free to think what I feel with no noise to disrupt a chain of interlinked thoughts.

'I wonder…'

I looked around searching for the source of the voice. It resonated all around and I couldn't find who had spoken. I tried to speak but the sound from my mouth, if it was there, didn't travel anywhere. There was a possibility that I was in a vacuum, no air particles for the sound waves to move. Maybe I was still dreaming and this was just another section of the nightmare, lingering on to try and snatch my sanity away from me.

'Do you seek to become invisible?'

The voice had become fixed in front of me, but due to the empty void I could see nothing. I desperately searched to find something.

'No… that can't be it… You seek something else…'

A figure slowly came into form, drifting towards me, glowing ominously. I squinted and bought my hand up to my eyes protecting myself from the sudden change of light level. So I did have a body there after all.

'You seek something entirely opposite of that… You want acceptance.'

After adjusting to the light I focused on the figure. It had a human appearance and I was surprised when I saw who it resembled. It resembled me, only it possessed a more translucent form.

'I have certain skills acquired to this image according to your desires. Do you wish for your desires to be realised?'

What desires? I don't wish to be accepted, far from that. I would have been happy to stay here and accept that I was dead. Now I can't help but feel that I have finally gone insane and the incident with the boy just caused me to go over the edge.

'Well?'

The figure was now right next to me glowing causing my hairs to rise over my body. I knew that I couldn't speak so how was I supposed to give out an answer? I don't even know if I have any desires I want be realised. I would be happy to get out of here now, away from anything remotely human, to be free to go back to being able to think calmly.

'It's decided then…'

xXx

'You, wake up!'

My eyes snapped open and I awaited a second command, although one never came. There was however a loud bang and I cringed expecting something to hit me.

'WHAT WAS THAT?'

I heard three different voices yell at the same time before a man started yelling by himself.

'I didn't feel an enemy! Who did that?'

I really didn't care and I wanted this guy to shut up. I had a headache and his voice was bouncing off the walls.

'Bastard! You threw that, didn't you?'

Doesn't he know how to control his volume? Shut up! Before I lost it another man started talking. He was a lot more controlled than the other one.

'It had to come from above. You were in a corner. If he threw anything, it wouldn't hit you there.'

'What? It was my Kudan, what else?'

I shifted and pushed the sheet which was covering me away before sitting up.

'Excuse me, but what's a Kudan?'

They all turned their heads to look at me and I lowered my head, not realising that I would involuntarily draw attention to myself.

xXx

'Puu! She's awake!'

A white bunny creature just jumped into my vision and invaded my personal space… And it was talking. I didn't know what to make of it and cringed back causing a wave of gasps to be fired in my direction. I know I normally come across as a complete and utter weirdo but I at least hoped that they would retain their manners and would show their dislike of me in private.

'Hyuu! She disappeared!'

I looked towards the blonde man who had just made the comment and glared at him. Was he an idiot? Either he didn't notice my dislike to him, or he didn't care, as he made no acknowledgement of my action.

'Way to state the obvious idiot.'

The man in the red and black clothing was looking around the room searching for something like his life depended on it.

'Be on guard, we don't even know what her intentions are yet.'

They all started looking around the room and I sat there confused, what were they on? I went to bury my face back in my hands to get away from the insanity for a moment when I noticed something wrong. I couldn't see my hands. Come to think of it, my whole body is missing… This is way too much to handle in one day, or dream, or whatever the hell it is!

'Um…'

They all turn their heads back to where I am sitting, trying to pinpoint the source of the noise.

'Did you just hear that?'

'Yup, she must be in here still!'

'Mokona knows she is still in here!'

I stood up and checked myself again. I was defiantly not visible, but I was there as I could still feel my face with my hands. I didn't get this.

'What?'

'Oh! It must be your Kudan!'

A man with a puppet in his hand stuck his hand in the air and everyone casted their gazes upon him instead.

'Although, I have never heard of a Kudan turning someone invisible before…'

I sat back down and leaned against the wall. I was feeling dizzy and sick and that was just because of the madness of everything, never mind the blood loss. Not being able to see yourself is unnerving and I willed whatever was making me invisible to stop. Within a blink of an eye I was visible again.

'Sammy came back!'

'And now the white pork bun is spouting the obvious as well!'

'Everyone has a Kudan attached. Here is how it is written in Kanji.'

He started to write something in symbols and I couldn't read it. I don't even know what Kanji is. The figure which had appeared to me before, what did it say to me?

'I have certain skills acquired to this image according to your desires… Do you seek to become invisible?'

Could it be that the thing I had seen before was my Kudan? That must be it. Although becoming invisible… How is that supposed to help me?

xXx

'…and where would Sammy like to stay?'

I looked up and the woman called Arashi was talking to me and I snapped out of my thoughts. Everyone else was moving out of the room apart from the girl and the boy sitting on the floor across from me. To be truthful I had stopped listening after the man wrote on the board. I tilted my head slowly and she asked me again, only I caught the conversation this time. She pointed as she spoke to indicate who she was talking about.

'Well Fai and Kurogane are sharing a room together and Syaoran and Sakura are in here. Which room would you like to be in?'

I now knew what everyone was called, but I didn't really care. I wanted to get out of here and work out what was going on.

'We have another room which you can use.'

I nodded and I picked up the sheet following her out past the others in the doorway. At least if I was by myself I would have time to think in a quiet environment.

'Here is where you will be staying, if you need anything we will be down the hallway.'

I nodded again and then shut the door behind me. I could finally relax now that I wasn't subjected to peoples gaze. I caught something when I shut the door and pulled at what was trapped to release it. Where I cut my wrist was now surrounded by a bandage neatly tied up with a knot. I shuddered at the thought of any of them touching me, even if it was just to put a bandage on.

The corner of the room next to the window looked inviting and I sat there, looking out into the world outside. A busy world was still awake, sign posts and boards glaring in the distance, inviting people to spend their money at different establishments. Where the hell am I?