A/N: Gah! I'm so sorry. I really can't help myself. The bunnies keep on attacking me! T_T and they won't go away! *wails*

So I have decided to put up the three new bunnies that have been bothering me for quite some time now and leave it up to you guys to decide which fic I ought to continue first.

I'm gonna be putting up a poll on my profile so please vote for the fic you like best. The third fic will be up shortly after this one.

Chapter 1

The Crash

Naoko was chattering happily on the seat to my right while I merely gazed out of the window. I could see the clouds below us, like the fluffy was of cotton that the appeared to be. And way down below them, the world appeared to be an endless patchwork of brown, green and gold. It was a beautiful summer day and the sun was shining brightly.

My life, my friends… Everything seemed so perfect to me at that time. I closed my eyes with a contented sigh.

In just a couple of hours we would have crossed the ocean and I'd be in an entirely new country. I was quite excited but plane rides always made me drowsy, so I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

A sudden lurch and Naoko's alarmed scream woke me up.

"What's happening?" I asked in a scared voice, noticing how the plane would dip before gaining altitude once again. Before she could answer however, I heard a loud explosion. All I could see outside my window were the golden, orange flames, licking the glass barrier that separated me and everyone else inside from the blazing inferno outside.

The air-hostess requested everyone to fasten their seat belts as we were experiencing some difficulties.

Some difficulties? Didn't they know of the fire outside? Or were they just saying difficulties to calm the passengers?

Before I could muse any further or fasten the belt for that matter, I was thrown in the seat in front of me as the plane plummeted. A burning sensation enveloped my body. I tried to scream but I found that I couldn't breathe. There was no air. Only thick acrid smoke that burned my lungs and watered my eyes.

My world faded to darkness before I could feel anything else.

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"Ooohh…" every inch of my body hurt, it felt like someone was driving hundreds and hundreds of microscopic needles inside my body at the same time while simultaneously trying to pull me apart piece by tiny piece.

I pushed myself into a sitting position on shaky arms, looking around me in a daze, not really registering anything as I try to remember what had happened. At first, I can't remember anything but then, with the force of a thousand tons of brick falling on me, it hits me.

The plane, the explosion, the fire and finally the crash.

My grogginess faded away as I looked around me with wide eyes. I was in a green pasture of some sort. I looked down at myself and frowned when I notice I didn't have a single scrape on me. I felt my face, I was pretty sure I had gotten the blast full in the face but I could feel nothing but smooth, unblemished and uninjured skin beneath my fingers.

"What the hell?" I murmured as I climbed to my feet, stumbling a little as I tried to regain my balance. "Am I… dead?" I looked around trying to decide why, if that were the case, I was not in heaven? Or hell for that matter?

Just where was I?

For you see, this place that I was in, was nothing like the descriptions of heaven or hell that I had read about in books. There were no grand golden gates that led to heaven. No unearthly glow to illuminate the place. And there were no blazing fires or burning pits of lava either.

This place looked very much like earth.

Wait a second.

Had I gotten stranded here after I died? Oh no! Was I a ghost? What if no one would ever be able to see me? What if I ended up following my family for the rest of their lives because they couldn't hear me and I couldn't move on because I didn't know why I was here in the first place?

What if…

Get a grip of yourself Sakura, I scolded myself at my stupidity, ghosts can't feel anything.

Yet I could feel the warmth of the sun, the gentleness of the wind caressing my face. I couldn't be dead and still be able to feel all that.

So that must mean I was still alive. Yeah. That's right. I was still alive.

I mean, I could still feel. Right?

Or maybe I was just getting paranoid.

Before I could contemplate any further, I heard the sound of approaching hooves in the distance.

Wait a second, did I just say hooves?

I whirled around and I could see the billowing cloud of dust moving in my direction. As they got nearer, I could even hear the neigh of those horses. Just where the hell was I?

Horses! There were horses in this place. Actual horses! Oh god, had I maybe travelled to the past?

Um, no… Wait a second. There were horses in my time as well.

Hmm… I think I hit my head pretty hard back on the plane.

I was talking complete nonsense.

And I think I was hearing it too.

Because these strangely dressed guys who had pulled up a couple of feet away from me were all speaking in gibberish. Literally. I couldn't understand a single word of what they were saying.

They were all pointing in my direction, gesturing with their hands, permanent scowls stuck on their features; did someone use super glue on their faces when they were kids?

A guy who resembled Touya but was a few years older than him, dismounted his horse and walked over to me, his blue eyes narrowed in dislike.

"I can't understand a word of what you just said." I told him once he was done talking.

His frown deepened as he looked at me with something akin to confusion.

He repeated his words, more slowly this time. But just because he was speaking slowly did not mean that I could learn whatever language he was speaking.

"Sorry but I can't understand you." I shook my head backing away a couple of feet other … soldiers I suppose would be the most accurate term to describe them, started forming a circle around me.

"Look, I don't mean you guys any harm, so I'll be on my way now, okay?" I tried moving past one of the men but his arm quickly shot out, grabbing my wrist. He painfully twisted it behind my back before catching hold of my other arm and bringing it to the same position.

I felt something cool and metallic encircle my arms.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?" I shrieked the minute I realized what was happening.

The men seemed to ignore me for most part except for when I tried to kick the Touya-lookalike.

The soldier who still had a hold on my arms twisted at a very awkward angle making me cry out in pain.

The Touya -lookalike raised his hand and the man holding me loosened his grip. He gave some sort of order in that strange gibberish and I felt something sharp prick my skin. A cold sensation flooded out from that point into my veins and the edges of my vision darkened. No hands reached out to catch me as I collapsed on the grass and passed out.