If I can't have her.. no one will.
By Wubber
Chapter 2 - Fell in love while you were sleepin'
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS ;;
A/N: Thank you for the kind reviews!
"Sakura?" No reply. Terada-sensei looked up from the register and moved his head from left to right searching for the brown haired girl. He frowned after spotting her empty seat. "Kinomoto-san? Is she late again?"
His gaze rested on Tomoyo Daidouji whose head was leant on her folded arms. She shook her head with wide eyes. "Gomen.. ah, she said she wasn't feeling too well this morning," said the black haired girl quietly.
"Arigato Daidouji-san." He continued to call off names from the list.
Tomoyo turned to Syaoran who sat a few seats to her right. His arms were also folded tightly, and his head was turned towards the window so she couldn't catch his expression, she was pretty sure it'd be a glare or frown though. When he'd woke up the previous night it had been almost impossible to restrain him as he tried to break free to go search for Sakura. Meiling and herself had managed to convince him that going out with no clue where to go would be hopeless. She was starting to regret stopping him though.. who knows? Maybe he could have found Sakura!
"Daniel?" Just as with Sakura, no reply. "Anyone seen him?"
Everyone shook their heads or called out, "No."
Syaoran suddenly perked up and his head bolted to Tomoyo's direction, his gaze met hers. They were both thinking the same thing: 'This is suspic-'
"Sorry I'm late!" Daniel called as he jogged into the room and over to his seat. Catching his breath he sat down. For a second he stared at the seat in front of him, then turned to Tomoyo and whispered, "Hey! Where's Sakura!"
Tomoyo looked down and shrugged gently.
THUMP
All eyes turned to Syaoran whose head had been thumped down hard on the desk in front of him.
'Great,' He thought, 'Just when I thought we had a suspect to who this new guy might be who took Sakura..' He brought his fist down on the desk.
"Uh.. Li-san, maybe you wanna go outside and calm down a little?" Terada-sensei suggested, sweatdropping and rubbing his head.
"Hai." 'I'm gonna find her.'
Tomoyo knew what he was thinking as he had got up from his seat grinning like a maniac. 'Gotta do this,' she squinted and punched her desk hard with all her might. Her hand went numb. "OW!" 'But I HAVE to go with him!'
"Umm.." BIG sweatdrop "You too Daidouji-san.."
"Arigato!" She smiled, blinked a few times, then growled to make it sound like she was angry! "Grrr.."
Meiling narrowed her eyes at the two as they exited through the door, Syaoran glaring at Tomoyo slightly. 'Not without me..' She jumped up and grabbed her bag, "I need the loo!" She declared and ran out after them.
Everyone in the class stared at the door with blank faces ('')..
Daniel, however, grinned.
The lady leaned down closer to the sleeping girl who had been carefully laid down on a rock platform which didn't look particularly comfortable at all. She manoevered her head around to take in all of the young girl's face, and lowered her hand to touch it. Smooth skin, cute little pointy nose, long eyelashes and perfectly shaped eyebrows. And soft, but defined lips parted slightly to breathe in her slumber. Her hair fell down beside her face, only a small part of fringe touched her forehead.
"Cute," The woman finished her analysis. "But she's not dead." She turned to a figure enveloped by shadows. "Why isn't she dead?" A tone of sweetness but also annoyance loomed in her question.
"Thought she was," He answered simply. "But," He continued, "When I got her out of the park, I realised she wasn't."
"So why didn't you kill her then? She's unconcious; an easy task, no?"
"Of course," he replied irritably, "But I couldn't bring myself to do it."
"Pathetic.."
He emerged from the shadows and walked over to stand at the tall lady's side. His bright green eyes fell on the peacefully sleeping girl and he heaved a sigh. "She looks so.. sweet.. innocent, just lying there- one hand up at her cheek. :sigh: It's seems wrong to kill her while she sleeps.. infact, I'm starting to think it'd be wrong to kill her at all.."
The woman grunted hoarsely. Even though there was only a faint light, it was easy to see this was no delicate creature like the one who slept silently down from her. She heavily threw her two hands to her hips. "I don't believe what I'm hearing!"
"Mother. I know I came here for a different reason.. but.. I could still get what I want if I were to, well-"
"Ohhh no," She sighed and slapped her head, knowing what was coming.
"-marry her."
"Killing her would be easier!" His mother protested, stomping her feet and sounding much like a 6 year old.
"I know! But I think I love her.."
"Gah! Whatever, go on then! You'd better get her powers too though!" With that she stormed over to a dark passageway and stomped away heavily, her angry mutters echoing.
He almost giggled in anticipation as he leant over Sakura and whispered a quiet spell in her ear. And as her body glowed and consciousness was about to return to the girl, he turned to look at his surroundings. He whispered another spell.
Mouldy, grimy, dirty, dark and gloomy were a few words to describe this underground dwelling, well as you'd expect from somewhere that had never been touched by the light of day. Moss, the only plant that could possibly survive here, covered the walls as a fungi, where a few hazy lanterns hung, creating many fierce-looking shadows from jagged rocks scattered across the walls and the damp ground.
However, this was not what Sakura saw as she came too and blinked a couple of times to shake off the dizzy and sleepy feeling from her eyes. Groggily, she sat up and rubbed them. She had been lying on the plush red carpet that ran down the middle of a large ballroom; walls lined with gold carvings and glorious, colourful tapestries.
She stood up and suddenly noticed the room was filled with couples swaying and dancing to beautiful music originating from a harp in the corner of this massive room.. Then she noticed her reflection in a window to her right. She was clad in a large, pink ballgown which would have put Tomoyo's designs to shame. Her hair was tied in two little buns at the side of her head, with a few strands falling down to frame her face.
"Darling!"
"Hoe?"
A man with sleeked black hair and brilliant green eyes glided towards her and took her hand gently. He knelt before her and planted a soft kiss on her fingers.
"I was worried you wouldn't show up!" He chuckled and his bright Emerald eyes lit up.
A strange feeling took over her.. her lips slowly, but surely were straining to smile.. she let them. Giggling lightly, she pulled him to his feet. "Not show up? You know I wouldn't do that.." 'Why'd I just say that!'
"Of course," He still held her hand and began to pull her past the crowds of couples. As they passed, various women and men turned and bowed or smiled.
'What on earth is going on?' Thought Sakura as this man gently pulled her over to a spot amongst some quietly dancing couples. 'But.. this feels so right, and this man- I feel like I've known him forever, like I really like him or something.'
"Shall we?" He grinned. His eyes seemed to sparkle directly into hers.
"Hai," She nodded and allowed him to place one hand around her waist. The other took her free hand.
He began to sway her slowly with the music and Sakura found herself unconsciously resting her head on his chest.
"Darling," He started, "I have an important question for you."
"Hmm?"
Not taking his hands away from her he lead her gently up to a spot which was raised higher and slightly overlooking the rest of the room. As he waved his hands for attention, the music halted and the men and women stopped dancing and turned their full attention to Sakura and this man.
"Sakura, my dear.." He knelt down on one knee and looked up into her eyes, his own boaring into them. He produced a small navy blue box from his pocket and flipped it open, holding it out to her. Inside was a beautiful diamond ring tinted green from the brilliance of his bright eyes. Sakura gasped and pretended to fan her face.
"Will you marry me?"
"No.."
He was just about to scream, "My spell didn't work!" when..
..Sakura cried, "Of course I will! Silly!" tapping his nose lightly with her finger.
He grinned widely and slipped the ring onto her finger, then grabbed her into his arms as their audience cheered. He suddenly produced a shiny gold document from his inside-jacket-pocket and pushed her away from him. "Sign this."
"Anything for you," She smiled warmly. But a frown then creased her face. "I-I don't have a pen.."
"No worries!" He exclaimed a little too eagerly, "Use your magic!"
Chuckling, she raised a hand to her chest, "Oh silly me!"
He laughed nervously.
Pointing her finger at the luxurious paper which was now floating in the air before her, she shut her eyes and pictured an S appearing on it. She opened her eyes, and surely enough there was her S. She giggled and shut her eyes again. S..A..K..U..R..A. "Done."
"YES!" Cried the black haired man, snatching it out of the air and hugging it to his chest. He brought it up to his eyes and scanned it briefly before declaring, "You're mine now, Syaoran!"
She blinked.
As did the boy. "Uh Sakura.. you wrote Syaoran.."
"I did?" She frowned. "That name sounds very familiar.."
"It does?"
"Syaoran.. Sya-or-an.. ugh!" Clutching her head she fell to the ground, a sharp headache now thundering in her mind. All around her she faintly heard gasps from the crowd of people who had been dancing earlier. 'Syaoran, who is that! Why did I sign his name and not mine? Syaoran... Huh?' Her mind flashed an image of a glaring boy, brown hair and intense amber eyes. He was glaring because of a certain black haired girl cluthing onto his arm. 'Syaoran.. and.. I recognize her! Meiling! I wonder where they are? And Tomoyo and Kero-chan?'
The boy had ran to her side and wrapped his arms around her. "Sakura! Are you ok?"
Everything gold and luxurious around her seemed to melt away, as did the previously dancing couples, the platform where she had been standing with the boy, her flowing ballgown and even the diamond ring.. it all melted away into a shadow-filled, moody cave. Two cold arms were wrapped around her shoulders as she held her head, kneeling on the damp floor in her cat battle costume.
"Where am I!" She yelled and tried to break free. "Where's Syaoran?" The arms suddenly yanked her to her feet and her bright green eyes met with cool green eyes.
"Strongest love spell didn't work," The owner almost spat.
"What? WAIT! It's you! Let me go!"
"First tell me, who's Syaoran?"
"My-my friend!" She pushed against him strongly.
"Ah. Sakura, marry me!" Cried the black haired boy, trying to pull her towards him while she screamed in protest.
"Never! You tried to hurt me and my friends! And I don't even know your name!"
"It's Romeo," He cried into her face, then immediately grinned as she paused and raised an eyebrow.
"Fine then.. Romeo," Ducking down unexpectedly, she slid out of his icy grip and ran quickly towards the black opening. Suddenly she couldn't move any muscle from her chin-down, it felt as if she was invisibly tied up.
His footsteps sounded towards her. She watched helplessly as he walked in front of her and grinned. "I'm very powerful Sakura. As are you- of course. We could rule the world together-"
She rolled her eyes at the usual "bad guy" kinda speech she'd always seen on movies.
"-our children-"
She went wide eyed at the mention of "their children".
"will rule the universe with their magical abilities. We're destined to be together, Sakura-chan. We even have the same colour eyes! Whaddya say!"
"No.. you're witty, charming and a great dancer. But you're cold-hearted, I'd never even think about considering to marry you."
His face screwed up, "Ok! Two things you should know about me, one, I'm not a very patient or tolerant guy and two; I always get what I want.. always. Even if we have to be together after death Sakura.. then so be it." His eyes flashed dangerously and the grin that only a madman could hold spread over his face.
Sakura gulped. Her invisible binds suddenly disappeared, as she regained the movement of her legs and began backing out towards the black tunnel again. 'This guy's nuts,' She thought frightfully.
"Sakura," She suddenly lost mobility again, "You and your little friends'd better watch out. I'm coming after you all, one by one. Starting with this 'Syaoran'"
"I-I.."
"Go to them, go on!"
Sakura ran into the blackness. It was so black, darker than charcoal. She couldn't see anything, not even herself, but she kept running and running. Her foot caught under something and she flew forwards onto her face, knocking her head in the process. She blacked out..
"Um.." Sweatdropped Tomoyo as she looked at the building that Syaoran had led them to in the desperate search for Sakura. Herself, Syaoran and Meiling stood gazing up at a 100-story giant of a building.
"I can sense her!" Cried the frantic boy as he jogged towards the entrance, the just-as frantic girls chasing behind him.
Syaoran ran up to the desk where a young lady receptionist stood, smiling. "How can I help you?"
"Uh how do I get up there?" He pointed upwards.
"There's an elevator down those stairs and to the right, but you need a keycard. Are you required to be here?" She asked while pushing her square glasses further up on her nose.
Meiling hopped beside Syaoran, followed by Tomoyo who rested her elbows on the desk.
"Uh.. yes, we're here to repair the uh.. watercoolers!"
"Oh.. I see, hold for one minute please." She turned and picked up a phone and whispered to someone on the other line.
Meanwhile the 3 turned to each other.
"Why on EARTH would she be at the top of a building like this Syaoran, honestly?"
"How am I supposed to know? But I do know that I can sense her and it's coming from up there!"
Tomoyo kept quiet.
"Sorry," The lady turned to them and smiled falsely, "Watercooler repairers aren't due for another 3 hours. Secuirity please escort them out!"
"Great.." Meiling rubbed her backside which she had landed on when the secuirity men had chucked them out, literally.
Syaoran was currently trying to scale the side of the building, but he had only managed to get up a few inches.
"Now what do we do?" Meiling sighed.
"Ohohohoho," Giggled Tomoyo, lifting something from her pocket. It was small and credit-card shaped.
"The key card!" Syaoran exclaimed and hopped down to her.
"Yup."
"How did you get that!" Asked the awed Syaoran and Meiling in unison.
"Ohoho.. I took it from the secuirty guard while he was carrying me!"
"You're a genius, Tomoyo-chan!" Cried Meiling with wide eyes. Tomoyo giggled in response.
"Don't get too excited, we still have those (Pointing to the guards) guys to get past."
Several punches, kicks and slices later, the three were in the elevator on the way to the top-most floor of the building. The elevator "pinged!" as it reached the destination and the doors slide open, and the three filed out. They were on the very top of the tower, outside, overlooking the whole of whatever town it was they were in (Syaoran had taken them on a bus and a train to get here).
"I'm scared!" Screeched Meiling after taking a peek over the side. She jumped onto Syaoran's back and clung to him.
"Get OFF!" He screeched back and began jumping around trying to shake her from him. Tomoyo looked around. She spotted a boot-clad foot sticking out from behind a concrete block and ran over to see what was behind. Her big blue/purple eyes were met with the sight of her best friend sprawled out on the hard ground, seemingly unconscious. "SAKURA-CHAN!" She squealed and slid down beside her, cupping the brown haired girl's head in her hands.
She noticed that Sakura had a large gash on the side of her head which looked very serious, due to the amount of dried blood that covered the girl's hair and her face. "Oh my.. oh my.." Tears formed in her eyes.
Syaoran and Meiling's heads appeared around the concrete block and both of their eyes grew wide as they beheld the same sight that Tomoyo had.
"SAKURA!" Cried Syaoran as he jumped to her side, almost roughly throwing Tomoyo off and pulling her into his own arms. Tomoyo burst out crying and Meiling moved to comfort her.
"Is she breathing?" Meiling asked anxiously.
Syaoran touched her neck gently and nodded through tears of his own. "H-hai.. she is.." He closed his eyes.
Meanwhile! Deep down in the darkness below the surface.. sat a handsome man cross legged surrounded by hundreds of candles -with his eyes shut- as he concentrated on finding a certain person's aura. His hands were clasped together in front of his chest, as he began to shout..
"And as the little wolf sees his love struggling for each breath with her gentle lungs, he will become grief-stricken, devastated and his mind will become clouded by guilt as he watches her pain! He will drop, down towards the Earth and the end of his despair will come with a sickening thud!"
His eyes opened, two brilliant green orbs. He grinned.
"Kinda corny hun," Croaked his mother as she clapped sarcastically from behind him.
"It'll do the job."
Syaoran's eyes popped open as a familiar feeling suddenly poured itself through him. Guilt. He looked down at the beautiful girl in his arms and watched as she breathed hoarsely and difficultly in her unwilling slumber. Her eyes weren't shut how they would be normally if she was asleep, they were squinted as if she had been in great pain before falling unconscious, and his eyes fell to her fists which were clenched into ugly balls. 'Why must you suffer so much?' He asked himself mentally, 'And all because of me, because I can't protect you. I'm nothing to you, all I do is stand back and watch as you push yourself so hard and get into this condition.. I can't stand it anymore..'
He laid her softly on to the cold ground and raised himself to his feet and headed to the edge of the roof. Tomoyo and Meiling looked at him puzzled.
He turned his head back to Sakura. "You'll be better without me." Turning back to the ground so many feet below him, he closed his eyes and stepped over.
"SYAORAN!" Meiling screamed and ran to grab him. But it was too late, he had already jumped and as Meiling and Tomoyo reached the side to look over, he was plummeting towards the hard ground below him.
"Told ya," Said the green eyed boy to his mother, who grunted.
The "corny" comment was actually my opinion, just had the mother say it ;; Thank you again for the nice reviews, I was gonna discontinue this but they changed my mind! So I left it on a cliff hanger huh? Mwahahahaha! What will happen to Syaoran-kun! What was Sakura doing on top of the building in the first place anyways! Why did Daniel grin when they all walked outta the classroom!
Find out in the next chapter! Please R+R!
P.S. Meiling's really nice in this story eh? o.0