Lindsey Anderson
English VI practical
1st period
Drawn To Each Other
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters
Prolog: The Beginning and the Kidnapping
It all began on a planet named Garepole. It was always luscious green and had beautiful flowing rivers and lakes to help the scenery. There were trees as tall as the mountains, though that may be over-exaderatoing, their roots dug deep into Garepole, helping them feed on the water that they need. Very few lands were barren and had no life to them, but that never stopped people from going into the dessert. Lakes and beaches surrounded the lands of Garepole. They were deep enough to hold a thousand foot monster and were shallow enough to let little children roam in the seas, oceans, beaches, and lakes. The people there were kind as the ruler that ruled the land, but one could turn evil quickly and easily take away all the freedom and happiness of the folk of Garepole. The people are very kind and would do anything for their people even if you were a stranger to them. The most sweetest was Princess Sakura of the Kinomoto Kingdom and at the age of sixteen she still didn't have a husband to take over her land, and by her seventeenth birthday she was to marry weather it was for love or not. Though she was straightforward, she would always do as her father and brother said, for they were all she had. Her mother died when she was little of a sickness to her heart. And Her older brother was more demanding in what he wanted. He was the next to the thrown of the kingdom, but didn't know what he wanted. He knew he wanted to protect his sister from anything and anyone he could. Their father was kind, caring, and in no doubt a wonderful leader for his people. It was festable time and she was out in her town telling stories to little kids. She was surrounded by them and had to sit down before they clobbered her to the ground. About this time people from around the world would come and tell stories and folk tales of all sorts, but by far her story was the most interesting to hear. It would be her second time telling it but it was still interesting to hear, even the adults would come to hear her talk about her adventures.
"Kids! Do you want to hear a story?" asked middle-aged women. She had long honey brown hair and her stature was perfect. Curves in the right places and looked about in her early twenties. She was wearing a long emerald dress that shimmered in the light. Her dress brought out her eyes; that showed her happiness and her anger and all the rest of her emotions. Her personality was one that could bring even the evilest of men to their knees. Even when she was fighting monsters, mages, and other humans she let her emotions guide her though. She was not the type to get down in the dumps about something little, but if you look very closely you would see that she would get depressed but would only hide it quick. Though she may have been strong in battle she couldn't do anything against little children.
"Yey! A story! What's it about?" yelled the little kids that surrounded her head to toe. They all looked up to her 5'5" length in body.
"Yeah, what's it 'bout?" said a little girl in a cute voice, staring at her with her bubbly eyes.
Her eyes sparkled with mischief and as she looked up from what she was, distracted by a man that she hadn't seen for a long time. Her heart skipped a beat, as he looked her way. Since she thought she was seeing things she went back to what she was doing and telling her story for the kids.
He thought he might have died when she looked at him with shock in her gorgeous emerald pools. His eyes where a light brown almost gold, they came close to watering up, but he hid it. He looked at her with sorrow and longing. Sorrow because he had to leave her, and longing because he had never wanted a person so bad before. She had always done that to him, though he never knew why, but he figured that is was because he loved her. He jumped into a tree and she went back to what she was doing; telling the kids of their adventures on the way to Nayroon. He never realized how beautiful she looked till just recently, and how her eyes looked suspicious about why she would suddenly see someone only to see them gone. So he just put that behind him and leaned on the trunk of the tree, just listening to her story.
"Well, it's about a princess who was kidnapped from her castle and a knight who rescued her from all sorts of dangers. One time, she actually saved him from being killed from a knife being thrown at his heart," she said with her voice in her story telling way.
"Ooo, thath intherething. Tell uths thome more, Mith Thakura!" yelled a sweet girl around the age of two, with blonde pigtails.
"Yeah, tell us more," chorused the children. All of them looking up at her as she sat.
"Oh, ok. It all begins here in this Kingdom of Kinomoto and goes to the Kingdom of Leayred, city of Nayroon. It will be a long story for you may want to find a comfortable seat to sit in. Almost the entire city knows of my tale but some others lived it. All of my sad times, most exciting, and even smoochy scenes…" she began to tell.
"Ew!" yelled the kids that surrounded her.
Sakura laughed. She thought her group this year was so cute, and thought that she should spend time with them instead of telling the story to them. But decided against it, for she love to tell it. It reminded her of her love so long ago. He had been reported missing two years ago and she had not any idea where he was, and knew for sure that he was alive. She couldn't bring herself to say that he was dead, surely her Syaoran wouldn't do that to her. He was free to live away from her but to die…
No she couldn't, no wouldn't think of a thing. It wasn't possible. He was so strong she didn't think he would die so easily. A tear came to her eyes of the thought, but was brought out of her reverie by an adults voice worried about her.
"Hun. Are you okay?" asked an elderly woman. "You stopped talking, sweetie. You look worried about someone."
She didn't realize that she had stopped talking. "Oh no, I'm ok. Don't worry about me." She had felt some fear in her heart, but she knew she didn't have fear in her heart at that moment. "Well, it begins with a princess that didn't like home at all. She was going to be forced to get married by her father and her evil brother accepted it. She didn't like the thought at all but thought it was necessary to get on the throne to her kingdom," she started again. "But one day, she came across the idea to runaway, the day before a ball for her seventeenth birthday, witch was coming up. Her father called her down in the middle of her thought…"
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"Miss?" asked the maid. She was dressed in a black outfit with a white apron to match. "Miss are you there?"
The girl sighed, "Yes, Anna I am here."
"Your father wants to talk to you, Miss."
"I'll be right down," answered the girl. When she heard the door close she stood from her seat and asked herself, "Why must father call me down everyday and ask me when I will find a suitor? I wish I wasn't here then he wouldn't have to find, a hopeless girl like me, someone to marry," she stated sadly.
"Well for one thing I am glad that you are here. Cause, then if you weren't, then I would go crazy just being me. I find I hard to believe someone as pretty as you could think that way, Sakura," an anonymous voice said at her door.
She twirled around quickly, and only to come face to face with her brother. She did not mean to say that out loud. The surprised look told her brother that she didn't know that she had said that out loud. "Well, I mean it Touya. I hate this. It isn't fair. He just goes around pronouncing that my hand is free and is willing to take anyone in!" she proclaimed instantly. She sat down on her bed defeated, "I just isn't fair…" she cried.
"Oh, it's okay Sakura. I promise. The guy has to go though me first and without my approval they cant have your hand in marriage at all," he said, trying to comfort her. "C-mon. Let's go see what he called you on for this time. You never know it might be something different."
But she knew better than that. She knew that he was going to talk about it till she is married then say, 'See. It isn't all that bad'. Oh yes! He wouldn't let her live it down even for a second. He would always get into her face about it. He may have been very caring about everything, but even he had to get upset about something. And that something was her not marring to someone. Never did it happen with her brother, just with her. If her mother were here everything would be okay, wouldn't it? He would always bring her mother, Nedeshiko, up on the subject, and how she was forced to get married to him.
They began on their journey to the throne room. Her head was held high for she did not want her father worried about her. As they walked you could see tapestries and paintings of their long extended family. All of the colors brightened the halls, that were and ugly grey and black. She looked up to her brother noticing that he stood over her protectively and knew no harm would come to her along the way. A voice knocked her out of her reverie.
"Daughter!" announced the King of Kinomoto. "How is my favorite Cherry Blossom? Has she given me an answer yet?"
Sakura felt disgusted. All of a sudden she didn't feel to good and looked to her brother for help, but he just looked at her and shrugged shaking his head. "No, father. I have not given you an answer and I don't intent to ether. I am not friendly on the subject right now," she announced with anger in her voice. And with that she turned to leave. "Is that all you have to talk about with me?" she asked sadly. "If it is I shall go," she said with her back to her father. And started to walk back to her room.
Fujitaka looked at his son with sad eyes. "Sakura, do you understand that you have to marry? For your kingdom?" he near yelled. He saw her halt by how loud his voice got. He winced mentally, and said, "I'm sorry Sakura. But you need to understand that if I die I need someone to take over-"
"Then have Touya do it! He should be more than capable!" Sakura shrieked. "Why do I have to find a husband to take over OUR land? Touya should do that, it is his responsibility!" she concluded.
"Sakura… Please don't make me yell. Just do as I ask. And all I ask is for you to find a husband."
"I'm through. I will have dinner up in my room tonight Touya."
And with that she stormed away to her room. She started thinking about why he would force her to get married. As she was thinking about it, she kicked a rock ahead of her, tripping on her herd of dress in the process. Her flowing pink dresses surrounded her like a pool of water, and as she got up she said a mouthful of colorful languages. "Ow! That hurt. Remind me to not kick a rock again, cause I'll fall," she whispered to herself. She got up and walked down the hall and turned the corner to her room that was down the hall. Her head hang in a sad expression, and tears came to her eyes as she started thinking about her mother that she never knew. She heard her father and brother talking about her so she knew she was pretty and was kind, but the mothers love was missing and didn't know how to act around other women cause she had lived with two men for her sixteen years that she was alive. All of she knew she learned from other girls that came to visit her brother.
As she rounded the corner to her room she saw movement in the corner of her eye. "Hello?" she called into the room. "Is anyone there?" She squeaked as she felt a knife to the small of her back. She went to turn around, but felt the knife dig deeper into her back. She shuddered when she saw someone's hand cover her mouth before she could scream. They began to bind her hands to her torso, and then her feet came next. Sakura was scared and didn't know what to do, so she tried to bite her attackers hand that covered her mouth, only to get gagged in the process. All that was heard outside her room was the sound of muffled sounds of kicking and screaming.
"It's okay, little girl. We won't hurt you. We were told to bring you to our master, so we are." When he said that Sakura glared hard at him wishing that her brother were here to help her out. He smiled down at her as he picked her up and jumped out the window.
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"She didn't know where she was but knew better than to ask the thieves that carried her. She was scared but that didn't stop her from thinking about all of the ways to get them back," her crowd was quiet waiting for her to continue, and pleased with her response she ended, "Well I'll continue for tomorrow, for I have a lot of action left to describe, and tomorrow our heroine comes across her hero. You will have to find someone else to tell you my tale if you want to know what happens to our heroine."
"No!" groaned the kids. "Keep going. Or we won't sleep tonight," they moaned.
Sakura giggled. She had never heard her crowed so excited to hear her story. She looked at the adults around her and sighed. It was getting late and she had been up since dawn and now it was past dusk. She had stayed up most of the night thinking about how she would tell her story without thinking about him. But it was never going to be because she knew it would always happen till he came back to her for good. She wasn't content unless he was there with her. She looked at her fans and said, "I'm sorry I have to go. I am very tired." She smiled at her crowd and turned to go. She was still laughing even though she was tired, and began to walk back to her home on top of the hill.
Syaoran looked at her with interesting eyes and began to follow her up to the castle. He had always wondered how her adventure with him began, but didn't think that it was that violent. He didn't actually think that they had actually pulled a knife on her, but then again she had said something about it to him along the way but didn't believer her. Now that he had heard her beginning of her story he thought about scaring her just like in her story. He silently laughed to himself. He would scare her then beg and plead for her forgiveness, then kiss her mindlessly. He jumped from the tree and walked behind her, grabbing his dagger from his brown boots, and started to talk in a low voice to scare her, while putting the dagger to the small of her back.
"May I have a word with you, Mi' Lady? I won't take no for an answer."
She went to turn but found the dagger digging deeper into her skin; she stopped when she felt electricity flow through her. She hadn't felt it since he had left her, and now she was feeling it again. This night has been weird from the start, first she felt fear and knew it wasn't from her, and now she feels electricity through her.
'What is going on?' she asked herself mentally.
"Well, if I can't say 'no' then I will have to go with you, huh. Now won't I?" she asked. Sakura was a bit scared, but if it was who she thought it was then she shouldn't be scared at all, now should she.
"Well then. Right this way," he said leading her off the road and in to the bushes to their right. "I have to talk to you about a boy named Syaoran Li." At the name she turn around and came face to face with the name mentioned. She gasped in shock, and had to step back to take a good look at him.
"I didn't want to believe them when they said that you were dead, but was coming to believe it seeing as you never came to see me. You were gone for a year! Where did you go?" she shrieked with shock. "How long did you intend to stay away from me? How long did you intend on haunting my dreams?" she yelled, well aware that guards were coming searching her. When they found her they backed away from what was going on, just listening to their situation.
"Sakura, I was at home in my kingdom and was told not to tell you by my mother and your father, for they wanted to give you a surprise. And I did not intend on being away from you at all but was basically tied down to my bed so I wouldn't go see you," he laughed at what was going to come next. "And I certainly didn't mean to haunt your dreams."
Sakura was in tears at how well he explained the situation. She was certainly surprised. There he was, standing there staring at her, no harm or gashes were in his skin that she could see. He was perfectly fine. Sakura moved to hug him and quietly cried on his tunic, then in a flash she was pounding on his chest, angry at him for being away for a year, and angry at herself for beginning to believe that he was gone. He looked down at her and snickered, hugging her tighter so she could stop pounding on him. He looked at her with sad eyes and then looked up to see that guards' were around listening to them. Syaoran thought it would be safe that they start heading on their way to the castle.
He bent down and picked her up, and hearing protesting words from her, he said, "You don't want me to carry you?" he asked in a startled voice. "That's fine I'll let you down," he made a move to let her down but she wrapped her hands around his neck. "Oh, so now you don't want to get down?" She shook her head. "Wow! Change of moods…"
"Well I can't help it that a ghost comes back to life and carries me. It's not everyday that that happens. I'm kind of in shock, Syaoran."
"Lets get you home," was all he said and began to walk to back to the road to the castle.
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To be continued…
