8 YEARS LATER...
"Sakura?" called Nadeshiko. "Sakura, where are you?"
"I'm here at the balcony, mom!" a voice replied.
"There you are!" Nadeshiko panted as she stood beside Sakura at the balcony.
She looked at her little girl and noticed that her daughter is staring at their landscape and the town below.
Her gaze then shifted to her daughter's profile and saw that from a very pretty baby, Sakura had grown beautifully, inside and out. With shoulder length brown hair, deep-green eyes, and a flawless white skin, her angelic features matched with her sweet disposition and her very long patience with the things around her.
"Can I go down there, mom?" asked Sakura pointing to the town below.
"I'm sorry, Sakura, but no, you can't," Nadeshiko sighed. "It's too dangerous for you. There might be bad people waiting to strike at you or worse."
"Who are those bad people, mom? Why do they want to harm me?"
Nadeshiko sighed. "Those people that came from the Dwar Nation disguised themselves in order to get you.
"I think it's time for you to know the whole truth now, Sakura. It's the best that I can do."
Sakura didn't replied and instead, she just waited patiently for her mother to continue.
"You see that mark you have on your shoulder?"
"This, mom?" Sakura asked as she pulled down her right sleeve to take a good look at the mark that her mother is talking about.
"I'll tell you the whole truth about," Nadeshiko sighed again. "So please listen carefully.
"Remember the story I usually told you about the Seyon stone, the "key" and the "slayer", darling?"
"Yes, mother," Sakura answered earnestly.
"Well, the-the-the "key" is you, my child."
"So it means, I hold the "key" the can unlock the power of the Seyon stone, mother?" Sakura asked her mother as she looked again at the mark on her shoulder. "Is it this one, mom? Is this mark the key?"
Nadeshiko sighed for the third time. "It's only a sign, Sakura. You are the whole "key"." She hugged her daughter tightly and said, "If I would have known that you will be sacrificed for the stone, I wouldn't have wished for you to be the "key", my child."
"Mother?" she whispered calmly. "I will be sacrificed? So it means I'll have to die and leave you and dad?"
"Yes, Sakura," her mother sobbed. "How I wished you are not the "key". How I wished that you don't have to bear the responsibility of the stone. How I wished that you'll just live your life like a normal person would. How I wished-"
"Hush, mom," Sakura interrupted gently. "Just think of it as a blessing for the people of Zie. I will not just die for nothing."
"Well," a voice sounded from the balcony door. "My beloved "key" is here."
"Oh! Hello, Fujitaka," Nadeshiko greeted her husband.
"Hello, father."
"Hello, Nadeshiko, Sakura," Fujitaka's eyes twinkled and he smiled, then he turned to Nadeshiko. "Did you tell her about the revenge, Nadeshiko?"
"Not yet, Fujitaka," Nadeshiko replied nervously. "I-"
"What?!" Fujitaka's face suddenly turned grim. "You still haven't told her? What a nuisance! If you don't want to tell her, then I will."
"Dad," Sakura said calmly. "Please don't strain yourself like that, and, what is this about the revenge?"
"This revenge is the payback of the Zies to the Dwars!" Fujitaka cleared his throat apologetically and started. "Sakura, when you get the stone from the Dwar, you'll wish, or I should say, use its power immediately destroy the Dwar nation and to let the Zie nation rule the world of Sentinel forever!
"Not also that, Sakura," he continued. "Don't just wish to just destroy them. I want them to suffer every bit of their lives until they die. Do you understand, my child?"
"But father…"
"No more buts, Sakura, please?" Fujitaka said ever so gently. "Come on now, Nadeshiko. Let us let Sakura take her rest so that she would not exhaust her powers much."
Sakura watched her father and mother left. As soon as the closed the door of her room, she sighed dejectedly.
'What should I do? I don't want to have revenge. I don't want to cause anymore sufferings,' she thought.
She sighed again as she gaze outside to the valley. She was about to turn around and go back to her room when she spotted someone walking at the top of the hill.
'Weird,' she thought. 'That hill is our property and no one from town should come up there.'
She was about to sigh for the third time when she spotted that that someone has a companion.
"Well!" she said aloud. "I don't have anything to do today. I guess I'll walk out there to where they are."
Sakura went to the door and slowly opened it and peeked towards the hall on both her sides. Seeing that no one id around, she boost up her courage and walked outside.
Sorry for the long wait...I don't have any usb to transfer my files to the net that's why I needed to wait for my sis to come so that i can borrow hers...anyway...hope u'll enjoy my story...please read and review...lots of thankies...n___n