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Special thanks to my beta, Star Muse!!

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Last Chapter:

"Is your hand okay?"

"Yes," replied Sakura. "The wound wasn't that big after all."

He ignored her comment. "Come down here every morning and every night. I'll make sure that there is someone down here to help you with your wound. In the meantime, be careful with it. It should heal pretty soon though."

"Yes, doctor," she said jokingly, smiling.

He looked at her for a second. A small flicker of emotion passed through his eyes and it was gone in a heartbeat. She wasn't able to tell what the emotion was and she was beginning to doubt what she saw. She began to believe that she was just imagining things.

"For the meantime, just go to your room or something. The contest ended and now it's free time. Dinner will be here soon." With that, he walked out of the room.

End of Last Chapter

"Hey, Sakura are you listening to me?" asked Miyu over the sounds of the silverware clattering against the plates and the chatter that filled the air. "Are you okay? You kind of blanked out…"

Sakura smiled. "I was just thinking about the next contest," she admitted.

"Really?" asked Sora. "So was I! I am terrible at fighting!"

"So am I actually," said Miyu.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one," said Hikari after she swallowed her food. They all looked at Sakura.

As much as she didn't want to lie, she couldn't tell them the truth either. It was strange that Touya wouldn't let her fight in the first place. It was even stranger that she still didn't get the reply from her parents. She had never found out anything about Kero and Yue either. However, with all this going on, she thought it would be smart if she did listen to her brother. "I don't think I'll do to well in the contest either…" she said, picking up another piece of her food and chewing it. It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the full truth either. She would try to fail the contest and she wouldn't do well.

The girls moved onto another topic. They still had three hours after lunch before it started. Before they knew it though, their happy chatter ended and so did their meal. Everyone headed out of the large room and found something to occupy their time with.

Sakura had rejected her friends' offers to hang out for the day. She wanted to meet up with her cousins.

Knowing that they were probably in the training room where they had first met, she went there, only to be stopped by a guard at the front door. Sakura asked if she could enter but he firmly shook his head.

"The king and the queen gave strict orders that no contestant was to enter the training rooms today."

Sakura nodded her head. "Um… Is it possible if you could find out for me if Kero and Yue are in there?"

"And what business do you have with them?"

"Nothing really," said Sakura. "I just wanted to talk to them. It's no big deal really."

"Are you Sakura Kinomoto?"

Sakura nodded her head slowly, wondering how he knew her name. "Yes I am… Um…"

Before she could question him, he spoke, answering her questions. "Yue and Kero have asked me to send a small message to you. They said that they were helping with the fighting contest and that they could not see you today."

Sakura smiled slightly. "Thank you for letting me know."

The guard nodded. "You're welcome."

Sakura walked back to her bedroom and numbly unlocked the door, stepping inside and locking it. She suddenly felt exhausted and her body was heavy.

"Must be from all the worrying and the lack of sleep recently…" she thought.

She needed to sit down. Her head was either getting heavier or lighter by the second. It was a weird feeling and she couldn't tell. Slowly, she stumbled her way to the bed and collapsed on it, her stomach laying on the bed and her back facing the ceiling. There, she rested, falling between being awake and half asleep. She couldn't move her body. She tried to will herself to wake, but it didn't work.

Before she knew it, she drifted off into a weird state and a knock was sounded on her door a while later. Barely remembering what happened, she pushed herself up with her arms.

The knock came again. "Sakura, this is Hikari. Are you in there?"

"Yeah, give me a few seconds."

Sakura shook her head but it just made everything worse. There was still a dense heavy fog in her mind and she couldn't think right. "Coming…" She took in a deep breath and tried to compose herself, ignoring her current problems. She opened the door and was met with Hikari. Her hand was raised in a position indicating that she was about to knock again. Behind her stood Sora and Miyu.

"We have 10 minutes until the contest starts. We looked for you everywhere and we finally found you here. Come on, let's hurry," said Sora.

Sakura's eyes widened. Though her brain was still drowsy and yes, feeling very heavy, she still remembered about the contest. Quickly she was going to search for her keys before she noticed that they were still held in her hands. She hadn't let go of them since she drifted off. "You guys go ahead," said Sakura. "I'll meet you guys there okay? I need to check everything and lock the door."

"Alright, we'll meet you there then," said Miyu. Together, her three friends walked away.

It was great that they didn't suspect anything. Sakura had put up a very convincing act and she was thankful they didn't question her about anything. She still felt like she was in a dream though. It was really hazy and she couldn't think right. She slowly locked the door and walked down the hallway.

Her mind was reeling in circles.

"Contest… Family… Treaty… Letter… Contest… Friends… Work… Money… Life… Problem… Fight… Contest… Sleepy…"

All those words were whispered to her. She paused for a second, looking around. Was someone talking to her? Walking on numbly, she didn't know what she was doing or what was going on. What was it about the contest? Something about her family and a treaty… Then there was something about a letter, what was it? Did someone want her to send a letter?

Her head hurt with every thought. Her head pounded with every fact she was trying to figure out.

"Where am I? What am I doing?"

She found her eyelids slowly shutting and reopening. Her eyesight got blurry and she had to stop all her trains of thoughts because it was too painful to think. Both her hands covered her forehead as she took a step sideways. She stumbled here and there, not even knowing that anything was wrong. It was like as if nothing was happening to her, like as if she didn't exist. Her mind… was impossibly blank.

She suddenly felt pressure on both sides of her shoulders, and a few senses came back. In her fuzzy gaze, she saw two men on either side of her. Her mind wasn't working and she didn't know what was going on. Was there anything going on? It was all hazy to her.

Before she knew it, she was thrown into somewhere dark and some where slightly chilly. She struggled to think about what was going on, what she was supposed to do, who she was, and why she felt like nothing. Before she knew it, her brain became even fuzzier and she blacked out again, her head hitting the side wall. She never felt the pain coming to her since all her senses were dimmed.

A beautiful sound of relaxing music filled the air. The piano rang softly, dancing and intertwining with the soft flute, the gentle harp, and the graceful tones of the violin. Each sound gently resonated through the air, bringing the corners of those lips who were listening to a genuine upward lift.

The man sat on the piano, his warm brown eyes filled with peacefulness as his hands gracefully pressed on the keys. The woman gently strummed the harp, smiling in happiness. Her hands elegantly plucked at the right strings. The male teenager that was soon to be a man was feeling serene as his bow gently moved over the strings. His eyes shut for a few seconds, savoring the relaxing sound. The young teen girl, that was playing the flute beautifully, had delight showing in her eyes. She was proud that she and her family were playing such a beautiful tune. She was also delighted to find that she could make the lively flute play softly blending in with such a graceful song.

Her auburn hair was let loose in the soft blowing wind and her emerald eyes glimmered in happiness. The wind soon brought the leaves of the soft sakura petals twirling through the air.

Pain was the first thing that registered on her mind. She groaned painfully as she tried to sit up. For some reason, she found herself lying on a cold cement like floor, unconscious. The side that was lying on the floor brought her pain as she sat up slowly. Her head throbbed, but not as badly as before.

"Wait," she thought as her body went alert. What was going on with her? "Ow, my head… I can't remember anything. Every time I think, my head starts pounding. All I remember is that I found out about the fighting contest. I went to find Yue and Kero but they weren't there, then I went to the room and felt dizzy…"

She realized that was when everything had started. As she recalled the events one after another, her mind started clearing up. It still hurt to think hard though. She remembered the ugly sensations that she went through. Her friends had told her the contest had started…

"The contest!" she thought, tensing up even more. "But it doesn't matter. I would have tried to fail it anyways, it was the fighting contest and Touya..." She stopped her thoughts as her head started pounding again when all the memories of her worries came through her head again.

"Now is not the time. First of all, where am I?" She was surprised that she let her mind run so long, without even letting a thought drift toward the question about where she was.

"My friends left and I locked the door. I walked down the hallway and…" Her head started to hurt painfully, like she was getting a million shots. Immediately, both of her hands were on either side of her head, putting a small amount of pressure on both sides. She whimpered quietly from the pain. It was hard to remember what happened next. She pushed on though. She tried to remember all that happened.

"I… I don't remember anything else. My mind is blank… That's it... My head was blank. I… I… I couldn't think and I felt like I didn't exist. The feeling was all so real, but yet… there was no feeling. I didn't have any of my senses, or they were dimmed to the point where I was barely aware of anything. I was unconscious, yet conscious at the same time."

She remembered the next part a little more clearly. The pain thrashing around in her head had faded a bit. "I felt like there was pressure on both sides of my shoulders, or it was pressure on my arm. I don't know but then I was thrown into somewhere dark and cold… here."

Just then, her attention shifted back to where she was instead of trying to recall what had happened.

"Cold, completely dark, cement like floor… and what else?"

Hesitatingly, she reached out her hands to touch something. She didn't want to do this. What if her hands met with something scary, or slimy, or dirty, or…? But she had to in order to figure something out. She had to figure out where she was. Her hands patted the floor, moving across bit by bit. There was only a wall behind her. Soon, she felt something underneath her hand. She stopped moving her hand and gently picked whatever it was up, feeling it. It was rope like but it was thin rope thing. There were many "rope like strings" around it. What was it? She slowly moved her hand up farther. There was this feeling telling her that it was a mop. Soon enough, her hands met with a pole like thing. She confirmed it. It had to be a mop.

So she was in this completely dark confirmed area with no windows and a mop?

"A closet! Duh! I can't believe I didn't think of that!"

She patted her hand along the wall behind her. She carefully stood up, raising her hand above her head to see if anything was there. She stood up tall, moving her feet around, taking small steps and careful not to trip over anything. She was looking for the door. Pretty soon, she felt something like the texture of wood. It definitely was different than the wall that she had felt. Moving her hand along the door, she searched for something. Finally she found it. It was the doorknob. She would be free.

She twisted it in her hands but found that the doorknob wouldn't move along. Moving it back and forth, she realized that the door was locked from the outside. She… was stuck and trapped.

"Why?"

She was confused. Why did this happen? And why did she feel so… Why did she have the weird feeling a while ago, right before she was thrown in there? Speaking of that, she wondered how long it was since she passed out.

"My body has been fine. I've been a lot healthier, getting more of a decent meal and getting a lot more sleep. I've been treated like royalty, not having to go to work or anything. There wasn't anything wrong with me today. Do I have some kind of weird sickness that suddenly comes at you? What's going on?"

Her head started hurting as she thought of the endless possibilities. She slowly sunk to the floor as if all the energy was taken out of her, leaning against the door for support. She titled her head back, her legs straightened out in front of her and her arms lying tiredly on either side of her. Her head titled to the side, her eyes slowly shutting.

"My mind… Ugh…" She groaned in pain. "It's so heavy, like I've been drugged…"

Her eyes snapped open. That was it. She was drugged. There was no other explanation. She was completely healthy and just suddenly felt all drowsy and stuff. She couldn't believe herself for being so stupid. The pampering experience in the castle must have dimmed her alertness. The drug that was ingested in her must still have a strong effect on her brain since she still felt some of the pain and that she couldn't think clearly. Usually, she would have thought of it right away but it seemed her mind was working slowly at that moment.

But who would drug her? How would they drug her without affecting anyone else? Unless… there was someone else that was also affected besides her. How did she get drugged though? During lunch? Her friends were alright and they were eating the food. They were sitting next to her too. Someone must have sprinkled it in her food or put it in her tea and she was too careless to pay attention to it. How would they have done it though?

A memory suddenly came back to her. She went to use the bathroom and her food was unprotected that time. But her friends were there. Surely they wouldn't let anyone do that to her food unless, that person distracted their attention and they didn't know.

She sighed. There was nothing she could do. She just had to be more alert at night and alert in the morning too.

Her eyes closed as she drifted off for a second. She immediately shook her head, thinking that it was going to shake the sleepiness away. Instead, it gave her another terrible headache that left her whimpering.

She felt so weak. She shouldn't be. Usually she was so strong. Usually she upheld everything. It wasn't supposed to be her that cried. It wasn't supposed to be her that was weak. Her headache was getting worse again and so, she decided to stop yelling at herself and tried to think about other things.

The poison had obviously tampered with her mind and made her clueless and drowsy, for she didn't even think about what she had in her body. Who knew what kind of drug it was? Who knew if it was lethal? She didn't even think about the danger that she might be in. She didn't even try to think of ways getting out of the closet. She didn't even think about if she was still in the castle.

She did think about the dream though. The dream of her past. It was the one that she had right before she woke up in the unknown place. She smiled at the sweet memory and before she knew it, she drifted off again, the sound of the music her family played, ringing in her head, letting her sleep peacefully.

By the time she woke up, her head had cleared a great amount. She could think a bit more clearly now and knew what to do. Her head didn't hurt as much either. She suddenly thought about what happened. Her mind brought her back to lunch as she recalled the taste of the food.

"I thought it was weird. The tea… it was sweet and bitter. I just figured that it was a new kind of tea. And then… around the teacup, there was some white powder on the small plate it was on. I thought it was just some kind of sugar that they accidentally poured in messily. But it probably was the powdered poison that the person dumped in. The person was probably in a hurry… The tea had a weird aftertaste too. Like…"

Her eyes widened. She knew what the poison was. Judging from the white powder, the bitter yet sweet taste, and the aftertaste that it left in her mouth… It had to be it.

The poison was made of different kinds of unique plants that were harmful if they were swallowed just by itself. However, with a different combination, one plant was able to slightly dim the poison of another, leaving it dangerous, but not fatal. It was just supposed to temporarily weaken your body and all your senses while making your mind hazy, leaving you between a conscious state and an unconscious state. You wouldn't know what was happening and your thoughts would be bothering you until they all faded away to nothing. Sooner or later, the poison would knock you out. You were supposed to feel uncomfortable affects like dizziness, drowsiness, lightheadedness, heavy headedness, and other stuff before and after you fainted, which is what Sakura had been through.

Where all this information about poison had come from, she had no clue. She remembered a faint memory of her as a small, small child, reading a book with her mom about plants, herbal medicine, and poison.

But now she figured out what kind of poison it was, she knew that it wasn't dangerous to her health. It was just a temporary poison that would fade completely in 12 hours… Well, depending on the doses given, it could be hours more than that or hours less.

She sighed. Now she had to get out of there by messing with the lock. She had no key and it was so dark so that it was hard to see what kind of lock it was. Her hand slowly moved across the door to the doorknob. She traced her finger down the dent, where the key was supposed to go in.

It was funny, you would think that it locked on the inside but it did the opposite. She hoped that it was a simple lock. If it wasn't… She didn't have the right tools to open a more complicated one.

She moved her hand up to her hair and moved around for the hair pin, careful not to prick herself on the 4 long chopstick needles. They were all inserted so that it looked like a snowflake. If she only had two, they would take in a shape of an "x". She was glad that she put a hair pin in her hair that day. Usually she wouldn't have. However, her bun seemed out of place that morning and so, she had slid a few into her hair, hoping that it would keep her hair in place.

Finally finding one, she gently pressed on the top of her bun as she pulled it out slowly, making sure that it wouldn't mess up anything. It was dark and she really couldn't see. Finally, she had the bobby pin right in front of her. She bent it to straighten it out so that it was in a straight line. She curved the tip in an angle that was somewhere between 45 degrees and 90 degrees.

Trying to get more comfortable, she kneeled, facing the door as she traced her finger over the place where the key was supposed to go into. She found the part where the bobby pin was supposed to go into. Using her other hand to guide the bobby pin into the hole, she struggled for just a few seconds, trying to get it in. After all, it was pitch black and she really couldn't see anything. She slowly jiggled the bobby pin around, applying just the right amount of pressure so that the pins inside the lock would go up. Each time one did, she heard a small click. This was done quickly and she carefully twisted thepin so that the lock would open. The door clicked, indicating that she succeeded. Breathing a sigh of relief, she was glad that it was one of those easier locks that only needed one tool to open it.

She twisted the knob but suddenly she heard two male voices. Instantly she froze, not moving an inch so that she wouldn't alert them of her presence. Bit by bit, she slowly let go of the handle and headed to the corner stealthily so that they couldn't overhear her. She could still hear the conversation taking place.

"I don't even know why she wants to lock that woman up in the closet," said the first man, his voice squeaky.

The second man had a lower tone that vibrated every time he talked. "I don't know either. I mean, she is a noble and that woman is only a peasant. She really probably isn't a threat so..."

"Hey," interrupted the first man. "Didn't you hear?" He stopped walking.

"Hear what?" he asked as he paused his steps too.

"She's a royal from a small country that borders the Li Kingdom. The contest was only meant for the women who are citizens of the kingdom so she had to have one of us sneak in and change the list so she would be accepted."

"The list?" asked the second man cluelessly.

"Yes, the list. In the beginning of the contest they had people with the lists at the entrance, checking off who came. That list had all the names of the ones who were qualified. She had to get someone to add her name on the list since she wasn't on there but..."

"I know what list you are talking about now but wasn't it heavily guarded? I don't think she would have been able to add her name to the list even if she sent someone really sneaky."

"If you would let me finish," said the man with the squeaky tone. "Yeah, it was guarded and so she had to order someone to kidnap a girl who was eligible in the contest. She took her place and that's how she got in."

"No wonder… Wait, didn't she order us to make sure the closet door was still locked?" he asked, just now remembering.

"Yeah..." Their attention went to the door and Sakura took a big intake of air, still too quiet for them to hear. The door was unlocked and they could tell.

Quickly but silently, she laid down onto the floor, pretending that she was still knocked out from the poison. Breathing in deeply and keeping her eyes shut, she tried to relax. Slowly, the doorknob turned and the door opened, letting in a streak of light. It creaked open more and more until the men could get a good view of the walk in storage closet. Sakura could see the bright light though her eyelids.

"Is she still out?" asked the first man.

"Yup, no doubt about it. I thought that the poison would have faded a little bit, enough for her to be awake at least but she still seems pretty knocked out."

"Poison?"

The man looked at him. "You know about her being a royal from a different country but yet you don't know about the poison?"

The man ignored his comment. "Whatever, just tell me what's going on with poison."

"I can't believe you went on this "mission" without knowing that she was poisoned. Otherwise how did you think she was so easily locked in this closet by us?" he asked, his low voice rumbling through the air.

"Hey, you're working for our boss and you didn't know that she was from a different country," he said, defending himself.

"Point taken. Now let's get out of here." Slowly, the door shut again and they walked away, too occupied in an argument to remember to lock the door. Sakura was glad that they forgot that about the fact that it was unlocked in the first place otherwise they would suspect something was up. She lifted her eyelids and got up, seeing no difference between the darkness and her closed eyes. She was glad that she decided to move away from the door when the conversation was taking place because if she didn't, there was a high change she would have been caught.

"SAKURA!!" shouted a voice down the hall. "SAKURA!!"

Sakura blinked. It sounded a lot like her friends. She opened the closet door and say them shouting, not too far away.

Miyu's eyes widened. "Sakura! There you are! Why were you in that closet? Where you there the whole time? What was going on? Why did you skip the contest?" All her friends gathered around her.

Sakura sighed. "Um… I don't know actually. I was really tired. I didn't get much sleep the last few days and my mind wasn't working and it felt all hazy. I opened the closet door thinking that it led to somewhere else. Before I knew it I think I blanked out from the lack of sleep," she lied, hating every single untruthful word coming out of her mouth. She couldn't worry her friends though.

Miyu sighed, placing her hands on Sakura's shoulders. "I'm just glad you're okay. When I didn't see you there, I thought that maybe someone had like…" Her eyebrows crinkled. "I don't know, I mean you got that shoe thrown at you so I was worried that someone else like Midori or Kotone had done something to you and yeah…"

"Can we do anything to let Sakura somehow compete in the contest?" asked Sora hopefully.

Hikari sadly shook her head. "No… The handbook that we got says that there are no excuses for not attending. You will not get a second chance to compete in the contest unless given special permission from one of the royals…" She paused. "I think that is what is says. Maybe we could go tell someone about what happened. Maybe they will give Sakura permission to get another chance to compete."

"Don't worry about it you guys. Besides, it's my fault. I was the one who dozed off so…"

"But that was because of your health. They shouldn't blame you for that," argued Sora. "Sakura," she said softly, "You have been doing so well with the contests so far, I wouldn't be surprised if you were the first choice as the prince's wife. But… you didn't show up to this contest and they'll be unhappy. You'll get a lot of points deducted and you won't be in first place anymore. I don't want that to happen."

"Yeah," said Miyu, letting her hands fall from Sakura's shoulders. "We'll go find the person in charge of this contest and ask them to give you another chance okay?"

Sakura smiled. "I'm really lucky to be able to find you guys and become your friends but there is no need. I'm terrible at fighting. Absolutely horrible. Even if they did give me another chance, it wouldn't matter anyways because I would do so badly." She hated lying to her friends, especially since they had been so nice to her but there was nothing she could do. At least part of it wasn't a lie.

"But…" protested Miyu.

"It's alright. It's my fault for not taking care of myself. Now, let's stop this conversation. What time is it?"

"Dinner started just a few minutes ago," said Hikari.

Sakura's eyes widened. "Don't tell me that you guys were planning to skip dinner looking for me."

"Hey, a great friend is worth skipping a dinner for," said Hikari. "Besides, I wouldn't be able to eat with you missing in the castle."

Sakura smiled. "Thank you so much. I can't believe I found such great friends like you guys. I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am, knowing that you guys are all there for me."

"Group hug!" shouted Sora, as they all wrapped their arms around each other. "What do you say about heading to dinner now that Sakura is safe and sound?"

"I say that's a great idea," said Hikari. "Let's go."

They walked down to the room and saw that most of the women there didn't even show up for dinner because they were too much in "pain" from the small scrapes that were caused from the fingernails and the tiny "bruises" that they had.

"I'm guessing that this is the aftermath of a fighting contest?" asked Sakura. "Was it that violent?"

Miyu snorted and tried to hold back her laughter. "Violent? Only if you call cat fights violent. The only reason why half of them didn't show up was because of a teeny scratch and a patch of red skin. You should have been there to see all of the so called fights. It was pretty interesting."

Sora smiled. "Yeah, I have to say, it was hilarious. Half the time I was trying not to laugh."

Hikari looked at Sakura. "Are you sure you don't want to ask for another chance to enter the fighting contest?"

Sakura smiled. "I'm positive."

"Hey, wait a second," said Sora, glaring at their table as they walked closer to it. "That's Midori and Kotone, what are they doing, sitting at the table?"

Miyu's eyes narrowed. "They better not do anything."

A sigh was heard. "I sure hope not. There is enough going on today," said Hikari.

The four girls sat down at the table as Midori and Kotone looked up. "You guys didn't do so well in today's contest did you? And you… whatever your name is, you didn't even show up? Did you run away?" asked Midori haughtily.

Hikari placed a hand on both Sora and Miyu's shoulders, shaking her head. "Calm down. Let me talk okay?"

Miyu and Sora looked at each other, wondering how Hikari was going to control it. She was usually the quiet one, the elegant one who hated fights.

"I feel sorry for you guys," said Kotone smugly.

"Please keep your pity for yourself. You need it more than we do," said Hikari.

"Hah! I saw you fighting! You were terrible," said Midori, pointing at Hikari.

She just simply spoke calmly. "At least it was better than your performances."

"Excuse me?" asked Kotone. "Well at least I'm pretty."

"You forgot to say the "ugly" after the pretty and you didn't remember to mention the "dumb" part," she added. Sora, Miyu, and Sakura were all surprised. Hikari was trying to insult them. It was completely different from her usual personality.

"Ugly peasants! You know what's funny?" asked Midori.

"Your faces," said Miyu, unable to keep her mouth shut.

"No, your face is. At least we both have makeup, you know what you need to get?" asked Kotone, furious.

"No but, I know that you need to get a life," said Sora, pleased that she was able to say something. Just then, someone came by with a cart full of delicious food. Apparently they had seen the four girls just walk in.

Sakura smiled. At least the arguments would stop for the meantime. The maid set the food on the table and grabbed the teapot to pour tea into their cups. Sakura watched as the steam came from the cup. She picked up her fork and almost began eating.

"Umm…" she said suddenly. The maid looked at her.

"Yes?"

"Are these forks, spoons, and knives that we usually use made of pure silver?"

"Yes, why?"

"Oh, I was just wondering, they seem so… nicely made."

The maid smiled and nodded. "Please enjoy your dinner."

"Thank you."

She looked down at her food and spoke. "Hey, let's all just stop fighting and eat. Aren't we all hungry?"

"One question first," said Miyu, looking at the other two girls. "What are you guys doing sitting at our table?"

"It's not yours. Besides, you should feel honored that we decided to sit by you guys from now on."

"Someone, wake me up from the nightmare," said Sora. "Besides, why are you sitting over here?"

"Because the people we sit with don't know what the word fashion or pretty means. Anyways, we are sitting by you guys. You should be ashamed for questioning our actions," said Midori, raising her nose up into the air. Kotone mocked her.

"Let's eat," said Hikari, making eye contact with both of the snobby girls, shaking her head slightly back and forth, running a hand through her hair.

They looked away and went back to eating their food as Sakura ran the fork in her hands over her food. She stuck in a few places and pulled it back out, satisfied with what she saw. When no one was watching her, she stuck her fork into her tea and pulled it back out. Finally, she began eating.

However, this action did not escape the watching eyes of Syaoran Li. He wasn't staring at her the whole time but he did see her walk in and he was curious about what was going on. "Why did she skip the tournament today? It seems unlike her. Did something happen?" He took another bite of his food. "What is she doing with her fork? Unless…"

Author's Note: Wow, I think that this is one of the longest chapters that I have written so far. I think I'm getting headache now though. My head feels really lightheaded. Like I said, I haven't been getting much sleep. Please review!

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