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"So, what do we win boss?"

Sai looked over to the store owner. He seemed kind of pissed off.

"It's three out of five right? We got four there"

Shadow noticed her blushing. "Is there something wrong?" Shadow asked her reacting to her blushing. He was on the verdge of blushing too.

"That's a shocker" Replied Shadow, "Your cute." He complimated. Altough he wansnt trying to send her the wrong message.

"True, true." The owner said, looking in deep thought at the rings. Drat drat DRAT! That wasn't supposed to happen! Well, she did play fairly; I see no tricks that they could've pulled. Perhaps I should've measured the rings as well as the sticks there. Although, that hasn't happened before in all the years I've been working here... he thought. After a few moments, his game-owner face reappeared. "Well, I must say, that is quite pelicular. However, your friend is right; we'll count that as four. Let's see.." There were three rows of prizes; small, medium, and large. It was 3 rings for a small prize, 4 for a medium one, and 5 for a large one.

"Now, my fair lady, you can pick any of the ones from this medium row here." Sakura scanned the animals curiously. As she did, the mananger looked at her strangely for a moment. Strange, I've never seen her here in town before. The only thing I can think of is she comes from that so-called Reject school. I've heard many rumors about that place. They both look rather odd...After a moment, Sakura saw a cute little panda bear, a pretty bow tied around it's neck. "I'll take the panda bear, please." she replied. The manager stopped his thoughts, and granted her request, handing her one of the cute pandas. "Thank you!" she replied joyfully, giving the prize a hug. "And of course, thank you Sai!" she also replied with a grin in his direction. As much as she wanted to give Sai a hug, she could feel the store owner's stare.

Alli nodded. "Yeah, we'll get something to eat. But Ladon here is on a strictly vegetarian diet... not sure why though..." She picked up an extremely annoyed Ladon, and placed him on her shoulder. "Where do you wanna go?"

After about two hours of constant prize winning, and ride...riding. Sai and Sakura went for a dinner. It had been a wonderful night for Sai, although, he had not been that dizzy for a long time, even when flying around the world.

Sai had arranged for dinner in a restaurant that was sponsoring this carnival, it was literally attached like a backyard.

"And now for the romantic part of the evening."

Sai walked into the restaurant, ten waiters and waitresses were waiting at the door for them to arrive. The manager walked up to Sai.

"Ahh, Yes, We've been expecting you."

The restaurant manager guided Sai and Sakura over to the back of the restaurant. Except they went outside and passed the balcony.

"I thought I asked for the balcony."

Sai whispered to the manager.

"Nonsense, I have something even better."

There had been a floating table arranged in the middle of the restaurant's 'Crystal lake', it was lit by many lights in the middle and was secluded from the rest of the restaurant. You could see the look on the faces of the other women in the restaurant. Oh, how romantic, I want that, ran through their heads. The 'Crystal Lake' was elevated and you could see the the entire city lights which made it look like 'Crystals' surrounded you while you ate.

"I didn't expect anything this extravagant."

"As I said before, anything for Sai!"

The waiter seated Sai and Sakura at the table, in the middle of the table, a single bellflower sat upside down. The waiter lit a candle that was cleverly placed inside it.

"close your eyes," shadow said, as he put his hand on her shoulder. Darkness surrounded them and when it cleared they were in a corner of the same resteraunt Sai was in, but in a different part. He led her to an open seat, sat her down and said, "ok open them"

Sakura had had an absolute blast at the carnival. She couldn't remember having so much fun all at once like that for a long time.

Sakura wasn't sure what to think at first upon entering the restruant. She thought mabye there was some sort of "date special" at first, but it was obivous that once getting into the actual seating area that maybe there was more to Sai than meets the eye. She could hear the whispered conversation and feel the stares of the obviously jealous women as they proceded to some sort of special seating area. Sakura had to agree that it was quite a romantic setup; the seclusion and the "crystal lights" was quite pretty. Plus, the same fear of getting visions would literally be "doused" (sp?) with this setup, although she knew he wasn't thinking this, since he knew almost nothing about it (well, except that fire=bad, but nothing of brain-wracking knowledge).

She was hoping that during dinner, she could learn more about him, mabye some interesting stuff about his life. He had obviously made an impression on the people that wasn't connected to wealth; mabye he had helped them somehow.