A/N: Hello again everybody. I had quite a busy week. I moved to the hostel for one thing so no more daily travelling of two hours for me. Yay! ^_^

I was attacked by more bunnies yet again so expect another post-TRC fic involving what you guys loved so much in 'Dead' though Kuro will be alive in this one. That much I can assure you. ;) ;)

Ahem… anyhow, it's my younger sister's birthday this coming Wednesday and I can't decide on what to get her. She's turning seventeen so, any ideas?

Getting back to this chapter, I shall keep you waiting no more. A pressing question is answered for Sakura through her dreams though whether she will remember the answer to it or not, I'll just let you read and find out the answer to that. ;)

Enjoy!

"Kaa-san?" she asked quietly as a woman kissed her on her forehead.

"Yes?" she smiled lovingly. Sakura took in her profile, long, wavy grey-hair, a kind angelic face, and emerald eyes very much like her own.

This was her mother!

Sakura's heart fluttered with joy. She remembered what her mother looked like!

"Kaa-san, why was Tou-san so worried today?"

"Some bad people want to take away the good magicians from our world." The woman, her mother! gently brushed Sakura's hair back from her face.

"But he's going to stop the bad people, right?" she asked, biting her lip, feeling worried for all those good magicians. Like her Nii-san's best friend, Yukito-san.

"Yes, he is." she smiled, quietly reaching over to her side table to switch off the night lamp.

"I know he will," Sakura returned the smile, "Tou-san is very strong and I'm gonna pray for him tomorrow, so there is no way those bad guys will win."

"That's a very good idea, sweetheart." Her mother kissed her again, "but you should go to sleep now."

"Goodnight, Kaa-san," she mumbled sleepily as her mother left the room.

A continuous jolting woke her up. Puzzled, she raised an arm to her eyes, rubbing at them sleepily. Why was her bed jolting up and down? And why was her room moving?

She tried to get up, failing to notice that she was slipping.

"Baka!" A familiar voice yelled at her, but it was somewhat younger, more childish for some reason. A pair of strong arms readjusted her position. "Don't let go of me!" This wasn't her room and she wasn't in her bed. She was on her Nii-san's back, holding onto his broad shoulders as he ran.

"Nii-san, where are we going?" she asked as the boy kept racing down an almost endless staircase. She knew this place, but why were they going there now of all times?

"We're going to the secret place," her Nii-san replied. She frowned in confusion. Hadn't her mother and father told them that the secret place was somewhere they were supposed to go to when something bad happened?

When they reached the bottom of the staircase, the boy removed her from his back and strode towards the far wall. That was where the entrance to the secret place was supposed to be, somewhere in the middle of those ancient runes that marked the entire chamber.

These walls had magic in them. But it was not something dangerous or threatening so she had no need to fear its presence. It felt warm and comforting. Like the presence of her mother and father.

"Nii-san," she asked quietly, knowing not to speak loudly. "Where are Otou-san and Okaa-san?"

The dark-haired boy's whole body froze for a while as an anguished expression passed over his features.

"Don't worry about them," he replied in a somewhat strained voice, "right now we need to get inside."

He drew a knife and made a small cut on his forefinger. Immediately, blood welled up from the wound, which he smeared on a rune near the bottom of the wall. "I'll tell you where they are later."

The scene flickered in her vision and all of a sudden she realized that she was inside a vast chamber, sitting near the edge of a pool of water. The silence that surrounded her felt suffocating, even though she was enjoying the way the light changed patterns underwater as her fingers played with the liquid.

"Nii-san?" In the end, she broke that oppressing silence, "I know I promised to stay quiet, but how much longer are we going to have to stay down here before Otou-san and Okaa-san come and get us?"

She heard the quiet rustling of clothes as the boy she addressed as Nii-san sighed and knelt down next to her. He simply sat there for a while, staring at the water, as though trying to come to terms with something. As though his decision was made, he turned around all of a sudden and wrapped his arms around her small frame, pulling her into a comforting hug.

She liked the feeling of having him hold her like that, like a brother…

Brother…

Nii-san meant brother!

This brown haired boy was her brother!

As this reality dawned on her, everything came freezing to a halt.

Thoughts raced at the rate of a million parsecs per second through her min.

That hunter that she had attacked to save Tomoyo's life… That hunter that she had run from back at Clow… That hunter that she had threatened to kill… He was…

He was…

Sakura, She heard a voice call her name as magic tugged at her being, trying to pry her from the boy's arms. Her brother's arms.

Sakura, the voice repeated insistently, more magic entering her system. She felt the soothing coolness of her counter seal activate.

Nii-san… she felt something wet and warm trail down her cheeks as the scene around her grew smoky and hazy. That word meant brother.

That hunter was her…

Sakura, wake up. Someone called out to her as the curse seal began to relinquish its hold on her body. She felt herself waking.

Slowly, like her surroundings vaporizing and dispersing into the darkness, the memories of all that she had seen in her dream were also pushed to the very back of her mind, forgotten.

"Sakura," the person called again, shaking her arm lightly, "Sakura, wake up."

"Fai?" she blearily opened her eyes and saw the blond pilot's concerned face peering down at her.

"You're awake," he beamed at her, "How are you feeling?"

"What happened?" she asked with a slur as she attempted to sit, but the golden-eyed man pushed her back. "Tomoyo asked me to not let you get out of bed until she sees you."

"What happened?" She repeated her question as she rested her spinning head back on the pillow.

"The curse mark on your shoulder activated," Fai answered in a tone that made it difficult for her to decipher what he might be thinking. Fear gripped her heart. Fai knew about the curse mark. He knew about the- Wait a minute… How did he know it was a curse mark and not just a tattoo?

"How did you-" she began but the pilot cut her off with a slight shake of his head. "Later, I can hear Tomoyo coming." And before she could ask how he knew that the door to her room slid open and the lavender-eyed medic stepped inside.

"You woke up," she smiled at her as she walked up to her. "How are you feeling now?"

"A bit dizzy but I'm okay now." She tried returning Tomoyo's smile, but it came out as a grimace when her shoulder throbbed. Immediately that foreign magic that she had felt in her dream rushed through her system and the counterseal activated.

"I see," the lavender-eyed woman placed a hand at her forehead and nodded, "your temperature is back to normal. That's good." Taking out a small flashlight, she shined it in her eyes before removing it, observing the way Sakura's pupils dilated.

"Hmm…" the medic hummed thoughtfully as she placed her fingers on Sakura's wrist to take her pulse. "Well, I'm not really sure why you had that fit but everything seems to be okay now. If you feel strange or if any of the symptoms recur, let me know immediately, alright?"

After receiving Sakura's nod of confirmation, the medic climbed to her feet and started to leave. "Oh, before I forget, the hunter that we captured requested that he wanted to see you."

The face of a chocolate-haired boy with mischievous ocean-blue eyes and a teasing grin on his lips flashed before her vision and her heart jolted as the word Nii-san rang inside her head. What did that foreign word mean? She felt like she should know that by now but strangely enough, she couldn't recall the meaning.

Sakura shook her head, "I don't want to see him."

Tomoyo nodded in understanding, no doubt thinking that Sakura did not want to confront the man she thought she had almost killed. "Alright," she turned towards the door, placing her palm on the panel to slide it open.

"I better go check on Syaoran again, once I'm done with Touya." She mumbled under her breath, but Sakura caught what she said anyways. However, the jade-eyed girl waited till the medic was gone before looking at the pilot questioningly.

"He's been hiding in the cargo bay since last night after he came to get us." Fai informed her with a shake of his head, "He's not talking at all and we haven't been able to make him leave his hiding place in the last twenty-four hours."

"Oh."

"What made that seal activate?" the pilot inquired.

"I'm not sure," she frowned, trying to remember the events that had led to her passing out. She had been in the viewing bay with Syaoran, eating noodles and talking about… something. And then he had mentioned the sketch she had absentmindedly drawn and she had told him that he could keep it. Then…

She felt her stomach flutter pleasantly as heat rushed to her cheeks as she remembered how sweetly Syaoran had kissed her. And then her shoulder had exploded. Paling, she quickly looked at the right side of her body and found everything completely intact.

So it had just been a feeling. It hadn't been real. She gave a relieved sigh.

"How did you know it was a seal?" she looked at the mage with somewhat mistrusting eyes.

"I'm a mage, even though my magic is not very strong, I can still tell about these sorts of things when they are active." He replied like it was no big deal. "That overlapping seal, it's designed to contain the first mark, isn't it?"

"Yeah," she answered shortly.

"It must have been a very powerful magician who designed it."

"It is," she nodded, "she's the ruler of Infinity."

"You know Yuuko Ichihara?" he asked in bewilderment.

"She's my boss," Sakura answered in a casual tone.

"I see," he grinned in response, "no wonder you're not worried about killing hunters."

"Everything has its advantages." She shrugged.

"They do indeed." He agreed as he climbed to his feet. "Well, I'll let you rest for now. I think I'll go and see how our prisoner is doing. Kurgz hit him pretty hard last night when he wouldn't shut up about being allowed to see you. Tomoyo has not let him enter the holding cell after that." He laughed lightly, "So now it's up to me to find out why they attacked our ship."

And then he left, leaving Sakura alone to contemplate.

Her thoughts drifted back to Syaoran for some reason.

'Thank you' his soft voice rang inside her head and her heart fluttered.

Fai said that the teen had been hiding since last night. But why would he be hiding? Surely he couldn't be… Could he?

Was he blaming himself for what happened to Sakura? It wasn't his fault. Not really. It was the seal. But it had activated right after he had kissed her, so maybe he thought something happened to her because of the kiss.

Abruptly, she sat up in bed. Syaoran was hiding again because he thought he hurt her.

And for some reason, that bothered her. He shouldn't be feeling guilty for what happened. Swinging her legs out of bed, Sakura made her decision. She would go talk to him.

With that thought in mind, she slipped on her shoes and quietly exited her room.

"I want to see Sakura!" she heard the hunter's voice demand as she passed outside his door. "I heard that brain-addled brat calling out for your medic last night. I want to know what happened to her."

"Syaoran is the captain's younger brother. And Miss Sakura is a passenger onboard this ship," she heard Fai answer coolly, "Now you on the other hand are nothing more than a prisoner. Just because you have been treated with kindness so far does not mean that we will continue treating you in the same manner if you talk about him like this."

"But I-" the prisoner started only to be cut off by Tomoyo, "I informed her about your request when she woke up but she does not wish to see you."

"She wouldn't say something like that." The hunter spoke angrily.

"Oh?" that was Fai, "And why wouldn't she? You are not her brother. She is not obligated to see you just because you want to. We can't and we won't force her in here. Besides, you're only a hunter."

Sakura's heart jolted in pain when she heard Fai speak about the hunter not being her brother. That feeling of emptiness returned in full swing but Sakura squashed it down forcefully. She had left her room to look for Syaoran, not listen in on what the hunter had to say. Deciding to finish that task, she stepped away from the door and began making her way towards her destination.

A/N: And yes, I made her forget the answer. There is a reason why that happened but are any of you willing to guess what that might be? How do you think Syaoran will react to her presence? And what of Touya? Will he get to see her? Or will Sakura keep on avoiding him? Lol. You guys might know the answer to that already so here's a different question. How many chapters do you think it will be before I let her find out about him being her brother? Cyber-cookies and a sneak peak at one of my upcoming fics (yes multiple fics. I told you the bunnies have been really active this past week) for the person who gets it right.

That's it for now.

Till next time.

-Nims.