... ahaha, that's one of the things I added later to pad it a little because it felt she was flipping from dead scared to RARR too fast. Will try to reword things.

As for the sleeping kids, yeeeeeah I should have mentioned something about that but i didn't find anywhere to slip it in. Will try again today. Good suggestion about tying it with her protective thoughts. Hmmm.

thank you for the help, and i'm glad you like what Sakura's doing. ^^