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Sorry this took so long! 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 to the people who have added this story to my favourites and I am grateful for the review which ccsakura21 posted. Thanks for reading ^-^

~Featherstone

Chapter 3

'Hyuu! Wakey wakey Sammy!'

I opened my eyes slowly to find the idiot blonde in front of my face, probably one of the worst things that I have had to wake up to. Don't any of them know anything about personal space at all? I felt extremely uncomfortable with having someone so near me and tried to back away, only to end up hitting my head on the wall.

'You are so clumsy; here let me help you up!'

I glared at him, who the hell does he think he is? I'm not clumsy, sure I wasn't the best in sport due to my lack of communication but I was certainly not clumsy. What does he expect me to do with his hand? Grab on to it so he can help me up and claim the benefits of a 'good deed'? I just sat there and couldn't glare at him any more, it just made me even more irritated and distressed, so I put my head down so I could look at my hands instead.

'Hey, are you feeling ok?'

I saw a hand reach towards my forehead and kicked out with my leg. Fai jumped back surprised, I imagine.

'Stay away from me. Got it?'

'Sure.'

He smiled and then walked out the room, shutting the door behind him.

xXx

'You guys won't get anything done sitting in your rooms. You have to start your search for Sakura's feather someplace! So get out into the neighbourhood and see.'

After getting changed I walked out of the apartments to find them all grouped together at the bottom of the steps. The sun tickled my face and I sighed, yesterday I punched a kid and ended up here. Someone must really hate me, come to think of it I imagine most people in my world have some sort of grudge against me, I have rejected many people including my family.

'Okaaay!'

Fai and Mokona cheered overenthusiastically causing me to cringe. They remind me of the girls at college, holding a fake facade and mindlessly agreeing to anything and everything that a boy would say.

'Oh no! It's about time for my lesson to start! If you walk around I think you will start to figure out what this Kudan talk is about.'

Walking around a city. I can't do it. All those people looking at you, the potential to be touched and the deafening sound of talking.

'Now Syaoran, take this money. There's enough for lunch in there, so the four of you should take your time and make friends.'

I mentally glared at him; he was giving money to a kid to make friends. Why did he accept it in the first place? We are staying at lodging for free which is suspicious enough and then they begin to get all 'friendly' giving out money. You get nothing for free, especially money.

xXx

Walking through the streets of the Hanshin Republic is torture. I can't stand being so close to people who I don't know and I can't even stand close to people I know. I was the same with my family. They tried to take me out to a theme park to 'cheer me up' and I went as fast as I could back to the car. I just can't do it.

'It sure is a bustling place!'

Fai was enjoying it, how is beyond me.

'Yeah! People are all over the place!'

Mokona was almost like his sidekick, agreeing with pretty much everything he said. Syaoran piped up, seeming surprised at the arrangement of the area.

'Small buildings are bunched up next to the huge ones!'

'Have you ever seen anything like this in your world Syaoran?'

'No Fai.'

'Kuro-tan, how about you?'

'Never! And why do you have to call me by weirder and weirder names?'

'How about Sammy?'

I was surprised he was talking to me after this morning. I thought he would have got the message.

'You don't talk very much do you?'

It's because I would be wasting my breath on people like you. A group of girls started to walk past laughing and giggling. It annoyed me but they started pointing as well, I couldn't take anymore. I had to get out of here. I turned around and started to hurry back the way we had come, only for a man, a really stupid one I must add, running across the walkway to collide with me. I froze when I felt a hand catch mine, human contact is something I can't handle. I bought a fist around to connect with whoever touched me only for it to be caught.

'Your reflexes are fast but your aim is terrible.'

Kurogane was standing in front of me now and I tried to struggle against his grip.

'Get. Off. Me.'

He narrowed his eyes at me and the grunted.

'Whatever.'

He released his grip and I pulled my arms back towards myself. The man who I had knocked over was slowly getting up. People had crowded round like they were watching stage show, looking at me and the two men wondering what had happened. I really, really needed to get out of here.

'Let's go then…'

I looked around to see where the voice came from only to find the image of myself standing a few meters away from me.

'Hey, where did she go? She shouldn't be lost out here Kuro-chi'

'Would you shut it? And let her go, she looks like she's pissed off about something.'

I looked down and realised I was invisible again, that must mean that my Kudan can make me invisible when I want to be.

'That's right… if you want to call me a Kudan…'

Turning round I saw an opening in the walkway and ran as fast as I could to find a place which had no noise and no people. Which was pretty difficult, considering that on every public space with any form of grass was packed like the city centre. I decided to try and find a way back to the apartments but with all the running around I had no idea where I was. Everywhere looked the same and because I couldn't read the signs I didn't know how to get back where I started. I'm lost in a city that might as well be in another world, I don't have a phone to contact anyone and even if I did it wouldn't have any numbers on it and the only people I would recognise I currently hate. Oh and did I mention that there are people everywhere.

'Over there…?'

I turned around to see my Kudan pointing to an alleyway and at the back of it I could see it leading onto another street, although it appeared that no one else was there. I started walking towards it, ecstatic to find somewhere which was unpopulated and didn't have the constant sheet of noise covering you. I felt apprehensive about walking through the alleyway, it reminded me of a horror movie where something would jump out at you when you were walking through. I shook my head and reminded myself that I was invisible, nothing could find me. My steps echoed down the gap and I tried to step a bit slower; I may be invisible but I still make noise as I walk. I came out of the other side and smiled. There were no people and a little patch of grass with a tree was sitting between two blocks of flats. It may not be a forest, but it's the best damn piece of grass that I have ever seen. I Ran over to the grass and then sat down to lean against the tree. The sun was filtering through the trees leaves before leaping onto my skin and dancing around. I sighed and shut my eyes, I still don't know how to get back but I can think up a plan while I'm here.

xXx

'Hey boss, look what we found!'

'Yeah there is a girl over there; she must be really strong or really stupid!'

I tensed and opened my eyes slightly. I must have fallen asleep. The men can't be talking about me though, I'm invisible right? Wrong. I looked at my hands and I was completely visible again, this must be bad. I slowly turned my head around to face the men and quickly turned back again. There must be ten to twenty people standing there. They were all dressed in the same outfits and some of them had what I assumed to be Kudan floating by them.

'Who the hell let her in this area?'

'We didn't see her!'

'Idiots.'

While they were arguing amongst themselves I took the opportunity to escape. I stood up and started running away from the men, although I couldn't come back the way I had come, they were standing in front of the alleyway.

'Hey, don't let her get away! She is probably a spy for another gang!'

I kept running and tried to work out a way to get out of the area. Turning invisible would really help me right now, but however much I asked for it my form stayed solid. My Kudan didn't seem to show up either; I thought they were supposed to help you. I suck at running; there was never a point to do P.E. I was studying and getting grades for a job which would be useful to me. I didn't need fitness for that. I can't run any more… To be honest, I don't think I should have run in the first place. It was a stupid thing to do. It will have just made things worse between me and this gang. I slowed down and then stopped to turn around putting my hands in the air as a sign of giving up.

'What gang are you from?'

'I really don't know what you are talking about, I am sure that this is all a misunderstanding-'

'Stop lying!'

I sighed and looked around. The rest of the gang had caught up and had me surrounded on all sides like a group of vultures, lurking and waiting for the opportunity to get a free meal. Or in their case a burst of praise from their leader I would imagine. Their leader had placed himself inside the circle with me and was only a few meters away. I didn't have many options, even if I did turn invisible again how would I get out of the ring of people? I guess I should use my most powerful weapon… my voice.

'I'm sorry, but I have only come into this area recently and I do not know what regulations you have in place.'

'How do we know you are not lying? You managed to get into this area easily enough!'

Did they really have to shout?

'I'm sorry but I don't know how to convince you that I am not part of another gang. If you would just let me get on your way I will not come back here again.'

He walked up to me and looked like he was about to start yelling, before he shrugged and made a gesture for the men to move.

'They wouldn't even let a puny woman like you join a gang anyway. Get out of here.'

I wondered if I was supposed to be angered by the comment, to physically start a fight or to do something to start one. For all of them to have followed me they must have been bored. I rejected the idea of starting any form of violence and just ended the confrontation.

'Thank you.'

I turned around and walked between the two men who had made a gap for me, cringing when one of their shoulders brushed against mine.

'We don't want to see you round here again, got it!'

I made a silent nod and then carried on walking. Only when I was sure that I was out of their eyesight did I start running again.