Legend of the Flower
Warnings: Dark Themes, Violence, Sexual Themes
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Sakura and Aisukao and any original characters to come….But I want to own Zuko, damn it someone let me own Zuko.
Author's Note: NEW CHAPTER! NEW CHAPTER EVERYONE! My friend came up with a ship name….Zukura. Well anyways I hope you all like this chapter, thank you all so much for reading and don't forget to review! I need to know what you think! It helps me right!
Summary: The petals from the cherry blossoms fluttered from the trees slowly, the beauty making the garden seem almost peaceful. But the sound of the girl's cries diminished any feel of peacefulness, and fire lord Ozai made sure to make an example of it. "This is what happens to traitors!" He called out reaching down and gripped the young girl by her arm as she cried out to her mother, who lay lifeless, smoke rising from her burnt corpse. "This woman has been conspiring with the Southern Water Tribe, and she has received her punishment." The little girl buried her face into the man's robes, and he knelt down beside her, tilting her chin up to look at him. "Tell me Sakura, what should we do with you?" He murmurs brushing a tear from her tanned cheek, the little girl swallowing down a sob as she looked at the man who just murdered her mother.
Sakura walked beside the Rhino as they entered the tiny village, the moon was high in the sky, and snores were heard outside the houses in the village.
"Prince Zuko do we really need to disturb these people?" Sakura whispered gripping his arm when he climbed off the rhino, and he jerked away.
"Don't question me Sakura; I need to talk the leader to figure out where the Avatar is." He whispers back angrily, staring her in the eyes before she nods and took a step back motioning for him to do what he needed. Zuko hears the sound of footsteps coming from one of the village house, and he goes to the front door just as it opens, the man inside eyes going wide.
"Having trouble sleeping?" Sakura grimaces when Zuko strikes the man making him fall back through the door, and she looks over at Iroh as Zuko disappeared inside, the sounds of furniture being broken, and the man's shouts heard clearly, villagers peeking out of their houses once they heard the commotion.
Sakura gritted her teeth, and barged into the room shooting a flame of fire at Zuko before he could strike the man, startling him.
"Zuko leave him alone," She says walking over and pushed him back, turning to the man, "I'm so very sorry about him." She says kneeling down in front of him, pointing her finger up when she knew Zuko was about to speak, "He's got a temper is all, he's really not all that bad." She says with a weak smile, frowning as she notices the cut on the man's head.
"I don't want any trouble; please just get out of my village, take whatever you want." The man begged and Sakura frowned, standing up.
"Zuko go outside," She says angrily turning to him, raising an eyebrow when he glared, "Please Prince Zuko, if you want to find the Avatar, listen to me." Zuko stood there a minute, staring over at Sakura before letting out a breath and stomped out of the room leaving Sakura alone with the scared man.
"Again, I'm very sorry about him." Sakura said and turned to the man holding her hand out to him, "I promise I won't hurt you, I have a much better control of myself." She gave the man a smile, waving her hand a little gripping his tightly when he took it, and pulled him to his feet.
"What do you want?" The man asked and Sakura smiled, reaching into her pocket and pulled out a small pouch.
"I want the Avatar," She said and opened the bag, dumping the contents of it on the bed, the man's eyes widening, "I think that will be enough to cover all the damage done to your home, and I can get more to help with your village." Sakura watched as the man turned back to her shaking his head.
"I won't help you capture the Avatar," He says looking down at the ground and Sakura frowned glancing out the window, seeing Zuko standing beside the Rhino, Iroh talking his ear off about something.
"My brother and sister are with the Avatar," Sakura starts making the man look back up to him, "They're really my cousins, but that's beside the point, I need to find them…I'm, I don't want to capture the Avatar." She whispers to him, not wanting Zuko to hear, "I need to find them, and the only way I can do that is if you tell me where they went." The man stared at the girl along time, not sure if he could believe her or not, but she did seem to resemble the siblings that traveled with the Avatar, and she seemed so genuine.
"The Avatar is our only hope for peace," He says and Sakura nods, "He…They went to Crescent Island." Crescent Island, she'd heard stories of it. It was Avatar Ruko's home, and if she guessed right the Avatar was going to use the Winter Solstice to contact him. Sakura smiled and takes the man's hand, placing another bundle of money in it.
"Thank you so much for your help sir, and again I'm sorry about Prince Zuko, he's a hothead." Sakura gives him a parting smile before she turns on her heel and left his home, Aisukao running over to her as Zuko turns to her, Iroh ceasing his talking.
"Crescent Island," She says pointing back to where the ship was, "Aang is going to contact Avatar Ruko, and if he does that there's no telling what will happen." Sakura smiles, proud of herself and heads off towards the woods again, stopping when Zuko gripped her arm and pulled her back.
"Don't ever do that again," He growls and Sakura narrows her eyes at him and turns her arm, gripping his wrist and twisted his arm back making him wince.
"Don't touch me right now Zuko," She growls back pushing him away from her, "I can't believe you could treat an innocent person like that!" She snaps, "You're an egotistical cruel jerk." She says with a head shake glaring over at him, holding her hand up when he went to talk, shutting him up instantly then shoved passed him, storming into the forest, Aisukao prancing off after her.
"Who does she think she is?" Zuko shouted, looking up at his uncle, "What are you smiling about? You think that was funny?" Zuko asked angrily and Iroh shrugs.
"I think she's a woman who cares about you, and you've made her very, very angry." He says then pulls the reigns of the Rhino, making it turn around and start of in the direction Sakura went. Zuko glares at his uncles departing figure, before he stomped off after him.
Sakura stormed back onto the ship, ignoring the friendly gestures from the crew members. She was to angry to talk to anyone at this point and she went straight towards her room, slamming the large metal door closed behind her and locked it, grimacing when a loud knocking came only a few seconds later.
"Sakura is busy at the moment, try again later." She said jumping onto her bed and kicked her shoes off, pulling Aisukao into her side.
"Open the door," Zuko shouted from the other side resting his hands against it, waiting for Sakura to do as he said.
"Make me," She grumbles back sitting up in her bed, biting her lip when she heard Zuko kick the door.
"Sakura this isn't a game, defying me is a bad idea." He says slamming his fist against the door, and Sakura laughed rolling her eyes as she lay back in the bed.
"Right, you may be a prince and all Zuko but I've never been scared of you, not as kids, and not now, so go away!" Zuko lets out a frustrated shout and hit the door again before storming back down the hall towards the command room, finding Iroh sipping tea, clothed now.
"I'm starting to think it was a bad idea letting her out of her cell," Zuko grumbled shaking his head, "She doesn't listen to a word I say, she's disrespectful, and infuriating." Zuko let out another frustrated groan, shaking his head as Iroh continued to sip his tea.
"Perhaps she's gotten to you," Iroh suggests with a shrug making Zuko look at him confused.
"Gotten to me? What's that supposed to mean?" Zuko demanded and Iroh sighs shaking his head as he sets his cup down.
"Calm down Prince Zuko, you are causing yourself to much stress, sit down, have a nice calming cup of tea and plan the capture of the Avatar." Zuko sighs as Iroh pours him a cup of tea, "If you remember when you were only a young boy, Sakura drove you mad then as well." Iroh says pushing the tea towards Zuko.
"Yes…But I didn't have much on the line then." Zuko says staring down at the tea not touching it, "Sakura wants me to help her get her banishment revoked, but the only way I do that is if she proves that she isn't a traitor."
Iroh bods, bringing his tea back to his lips. He knew Sakura well enough as a child and he knew that the girl in the guest room wasn't the same as before, but neither was Zuko. They had both been through so much at such young ages…If only they'd realize that they were in the same boat, then they would be able to get along, or at least he hoped.
"Why don't you go try to talk to Sakura, without shouting at her." Iroh says setting his tea back down, "It's been known that women respond much better when they're not being threatened." Zuko glares taking a breath to try and calm himself before he nods.
"Right, no shouting." He mumbles to himself and turns on his heel heading back towards Sakura's room. He can hear the sound of Aisukao's playful growls and he stops outside the door, knocking gently this time.
"Who's it?" Sakura calls out looking up from where she sat on the floor, tossing Aisukao the Kyoshi doll.
"It's Zuko," Sakura groans crossing her arms over her chest, "I'd like to talk to you." Sakura bites her lip before standing, and walked to the door.
"What do you want to talk about?" She asked through the door, staring down at Aisukao as she chewed on the doll.
"About what happened at that village," He says, sounding like he was trying not to yell. Sakura sighs and leans against the door, not opening it.
"There's nothing to talk about Zuko," She says shaking her head, "You attacked and hurt an innocent man." Zuko nods leaning his head against the door.
"I wasn't going to injure him to badly, just enough so he'd tell me where the Avatar was." Sakura chuckled letting out an irritated sigh.
"Listen to yourself Zuko," She says stepping away from the door and opened it, looking him in the face, "You've changed." Sakura said shaking her head and Zuko glared.
"I haven't changed," He said stepping into her room, making her back up some, "I've grown up, my father banished me from my home, he made it where I have to be reminded of my banishment every time I look in the mirror!" He spat gripping her wrists, and Sakura swallowed.
"He did the same to me Zuko," She says biting her lip, "But you don't see me hurting innocent people because of it do you? Not physically at least." The last bit was said under her breath, and she reached up, letting her fingers brush against the skin underneath his scar, not daring to touch it. "Why'd he do it? What did you say that was so disrespectful?" Zuko looked down at the floor, not helping himself when he leaned into her touch some.
"They were going to send new recruits to fight the earth kingdoms strongest battalion, I…I told the general not to." Sakura nods dropping her hand.
"So your father did this to you, because you wanted to save innocent people huh?" Sakura gave Zuko a small shrug when he looked up at her, "Don't let him change you Zuko…You know who you are, deep down." Sakura sighs and pats his chest, "Now get out, I'm tired." She says and Zuko swallows, nodding to himself before he left her room, glancing back over his shoulder as she closed her door.
xXxXx
Zuko stood on the deck beside Iroh, they'd been following the Avatar and now they were right on top of him, the Avatar's bison only a few meters ahead of them in the air, flying quickly in the direction of Fire Nation waters.
Zuko glanced behind him at the sound of light footsteps, Sakura rushing over to him, the wind blowing her curls around her heart shaped face, the look on her face something he couldn't read.
"What the hell do you think you're doing Zuko?" She snapped, pushing the hair from her face looking up into the clouds, spotting Appa ducking in and out of cover.
"I'm going to capture the Avatar, that's what I'm doing." Zuko snapped back pointing up at the sky, "I'm not letting him get away this time!"
"That's what you said last time you idiot!" Sakura shouted pushing his chest lightly, making him glare at her. "If I get caught on your ship the Fire Lord will have me killed!" Zuko's lips tightened into a firm line, and he turned glancing back up at the clouds.
"Sailing into Fire Nation waters...of all the foolish things you've done in your sixteen years, Prince Zuko, this is the most foolish!" Sakura looked over at Iroh, nodding in agreement with him as Zuko sighed shaking his head, looking out towards the water, bringing the spy glass to his eye.
"I have no choice, Uncle."
"Have you completely forgotten that the Fire Lord banished you?" Iroh shouts angrily, "What if you're caught? What if Sakura's caught? You are putting your lives in danger prince Zuko!" Iroh truly sounded afraid for their safety and Sakura bites her lip, tasting blood in her mouth.
"I'm chasing the Avatar! My father will understand why I am returning home!" Zuko shouts turning to look at his uncle, Sakura laughing darkly as she shook her head.
"You give him to much credit; my brother is not the understanding type!" Iroh says looking down when Aisukao tugged at his robes. Zuko looks back through the telescope and Sakura's eyes widen when the bison comes into view, Zuko spotting him too.
"There they are. Helmsman! Full steam ahead!" Zuko shouts walking towards the catapults making Sakura's heart drop.
"You can't shoot them down! My family is on that bison Zuko!" She shouts gripping his arm and he jerked away, taking her arm and pulled her close.
"You are on my ship Sakura! I am the only family you have at the moment!" He shouts back glancing up at the bison, "Prepare the catapults!" Sakura can feel the anger bubbling up inside her, but she could lose her cover, she needed to keep his trust. She swallows and watches as the men load the catapults up with large tar covered balls that smelt horrendous.
"Uh, really Prince Zuko, couldn't you shoot them down with something more fragrant?" Iroh fanned himself, trying to get rid of the smell and Sakura pulled on the sleeve of her robes, doing her best to not attack Zuko when he lit the stinking ball, setting it aflame.
"On my mark!" He shouts holding his hand up before pointing, "Fire!" Sakura turns her head, not wanting to see if the ball of fire struck down the Avatar, but when she heard no shouts of joy from Zuko, she looked up, smiling a little when she noticed the bison dodged the fireball.
"Prince Zuko," One of the guards shouted and Zuko looked towards him, seeing him pointing towards the north, their eyes following his finger. Sakura's eyes widened at the sight, and she let out a whine, Iroh's hand going to her shoulder.
"A blockade," Zuko sounded more angry than frightened, and Sakura leaned down, picking Aisukao up and held her to her chest.
"Technically you are still in Earth Kingdom waters. Turn back now and they cannot arrest you!" Iroh says calmly and Zuko shook his head, Sakura biting her lip again looking up at the bison as it continued to fly north.
"They're not turning around!" Zuko shouts and Sakura groans shaking her head, of course Katara and Sokka would stick with the Avatar through this, neither of them are the type to give up.
"Please Prince Zuko! If the Fire Nation captures you, there's nothing I can do! There's nothing I will be able to do to keep Sakura's life from being taken! Do not follow the Avatar." Iroh begs, and Sakura takes a step back.
"I'm sorry Uncle," Zuko says with a lowered head, then looks up thrusting his hand forward, "Run the blockade!" Sakura watches in horror as the ships in the blockade begin firing, a few of the fireballs slamming against the bison, others landing on the ship, causing a huge wave of water to rush over the edges, Aisukao jumping from her arms, bending the water away from touching Sakura.
"That's a girl," Sakura grins seeing Iroh looking at the cub amazed. Sakura glances up in the sky, seeing Sokka fall from the bison's saddle and her heart stopped.
"No!" She screams watching as Sokka began to plummet towards the water with nothing to do but stand helplessly in horror. The bison flies down, going underneath him and Katara reaches out, gripping her brother's hand pulling him back into the saddle and Sakura lets out a sigh in relief, glancing behind her at the sound of an explosion.
"Prince Zuko! The engines are damaged! We need to stop and make repairs!" Sakura looks over at the engineer covered in ashes then over at Zuko.
"Do not stop this ship," Sakura let out a frustrated groan, walking over to stand beside Zuko, Aisukao following after her.
"What is it you plan to do when those ships block us off? Say we were just kidding and turn around?" Sakura says mockingly turning to Zuko with a hand on her hip.
"They won't block us; we're going right through them." Zuko doesn't turn to her, watching as they grew closer to the blockade, and Sakura narrows her eyes, turning back to watch as well.
"We're on a collision course!" Iroh shouts from behind Zuko, and Zuko shakes his head clutching his hands into fists.
"We can make it!" He sounds confident, and Sakura desperately wished she could have such confidence, but she turned her head, not wanting to watch when they hit the ships. Sakura hears the sound of engines shutting off and she looks forward, seeing that blockade ships had turned off their engines, making room for Zuko's ship to pass.
"Uh oh," She breathed when she notices Zhao standing on the ship closest, he and Zuko both glaring at each other as they passed his ship.
"Well…That was interesting." Sakura said with a nod, letting out the breath she'd been holding in, Zuko and Iroh turning to look at her.
"He didn't stop us," Zuko said, sound confused, turning to the front of the ship, gripping the railings. "What's he up to, Uncle? Why didn't Commander Zhao arrest me?" Zuko asked angrily, his knuckles turning white.
"Because he wants to follow you. He knows you'll lead him to the prize you're both after: the Avatar." Sakura runs a hand through her hair, shaking her head, of course, now they were playing follow the leader with Commander Zhao.
"If Zhao wants to follow a trail of smoke; then that's exactly what I'll let him do." Zuko turned looking over at Sakura, "Go get dressed, you are coming with me." Sakura groans, making Zuko give her a look before she sighs again, turning away from him.
"Whatever take the known traitor to a place full of Fire Lord Lovers, just great." She grumbles storming off towards her bedroom.
xXxXx
Sakura stood beside Zuko pulling at her tight leather armor, glancing up at Iroh as the ship they stood on began to lower.
"Uncle, keep heading north, Zhao will follow the smoke trail while we use it as cover." Zuko said glancing over at Sakura as she let out a frustrated groan ripping her leather gloves off and threw them to the ground before looking back up at Iroh.
"Keep Aisukao out of trouble yeah? She likes to bother the cook for scraps of meat and bones." Sakura says with a smile, Iroh running his fingers through the polar tiger's fur.
Sakura sighs watching as Iroh waved them off, the ship becoming smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared from sight. "So all great and powerful Prince Zuko," Sakura says turning to him as he steered the ship in the direction of Crescent Island. "What's your plan of attack? Sneak in, throw a sack over the Avatar and run out?" She puts her hands on her hips watching as Zuko let out a sigh, most likely rolling his eyes at her childish behavior.
"You being angry at me isn't going to help our situation Sakura," He says and Sakura shrugs walking over to stand beside him.
"No, but it sure helps me feel better, since I'm probably going to be killed once Zhao figures out where we are." She says Zuko looking over at her.
"He won't kill you," He starts turning back to steering the ship, "If anything he'll just make you his personal servant." Sakura glares and lets out a groan, walking away from him and to the side of the ship, holding on to the railings. Sokka and Katara were in the with the Avatar, she knew that she had to help Zuko capture him, but she wasn't sure how she was going to go about that without betraying her family…if they didn't already hate her for what happened at Kyoshi Island at least.
"Sakura, ready the anchor." Zuko called out and Sakura looked up seeing that the island was only a few feet ahead, she nods and walks over to the lever that dropped the lever, using all her strength to push it down, listening to the sound of the chains running along the ship side followed by the sound of the anchor hitting the water, then stopping as it reached the sea floor. Sakura walked over to the edge of the ship, and jumped off, the water going up to her mid-calf, Zuko dropping down beside her, the water barely above his ankles.
"Okay, time to do this…Just one thing Zuko," Sakura said gripping his wrist before he could walk ahead, "Don't hurt Sokka or Katara…Please." Zuko stares at her, his expression softening a little before he nods.
"Okay," He says quietly pulling from her hold and heads up the stairs leading up to the temple. Sakura was glad she did all those daily exercises with Iroh, because there were a lot of stairs. Sakura stood beside Zuko once they reached the top of the stairs, following him into the temple.
"Shouldn't there be fire sages?" Sakura asks, looking around the empty temple and Zuko nods walking down the hall.
"They're probably trying to stop the Avatar, come on." Zuko says and runs down the hall and Sakura groans when they found more stairs.
"Why? Why is there a need for this many stairs?" She grumbles following after Zuko, stopping when he held his hand out to her, holding his finger up as he slowly walked up the stairs.
"Aang! Now's your chance!" Sakura heard someone yell, and she tip toed up the stairs, watching as Zuko stepped out from behind one of the columns the Avatar in his arms.
"The Avatar's coming with me!" Zuko says smugly, and Sakura takes a step forward, wanting to help Katara and Sokka when the fire sages took a hold of them, pulling them over to one of the columns chaining them up, "Close the doors, quickly!" Zuko shouts walking back towards the stairs and Sakura bit her lip, her eyes finally meeting Sokka's.
"Sakura! Don't just stand there! Help Aang!" Sokka shouted at her, and she frowned looking down at the ground, she heard Zuko shout and she turned looking over to see Aang free, and shooting a blast of air at Zuko, making him fall down the stairs. Sakura glances over at him, not making a move to stop him as he runs passed her, heading towards Katara.
"Go!" Katara shouts jerking her head towards the door the fire sages were starting to close, and he doged a fire ball thrown his way, using one of the sages to launch himself through the crack right before they closed it, a flash of white light visible through the cracks.
Sakura glances back towards the stairs as Zuko runs up, pushing passed her to get to where the sages were, yelling angrily, "Who let him get passed!" He shouts, and the sages turn looking at Sakura and she held her hands up.
"I couldn't get a hold of him, he's to fast." She says innocently, Zuko looking at her before turning back to the sages.
"Open the doors now," He growls while Sakura walks over to where Sokka and Katara were chained up, listening as Zuko and the fire sages tried to open the door.
"Why are you helping him?" Katara whispers and Sakura bites her bottom lip, glancing back over at Zuko as he and the fire sages fired another blast of fire into the lock.
"It's hard to explain," She whispers back, "But I won't let him hurt you, I swear it." Sakura frowns glancing over at Sokka who was refusing to look at her. "Sokka, I'm not the bad guy." She whispers sadly, and he turns to look at her glaring.
"Then help us get free!" He yells, catching Zuko's attention. Sakura stares at him, seeing the hurt look in his eyes behind his angry expression. She shakes her head talking a step back.
"I can't, I'm sorry." Sakura turns away from him, and watches as Zuko tries to open the door one last time, yelling out in anger when it didn't work.
"Why isn't it working, it's sealed shut!" Zuko turns to one of the sages angrily, and he cowers away some, scared of the young prince.
"It must have been the light. Avatar Roku doesn't want us inside." Sakura closed her eyes when Zuko let out another angry growl this time throwing fire into the mix.
"Calm down Zuko," She says with an eye roll crossing her arms over her chest, "The Avatar has to come out eventually, and then you can grab him, head off back to your dad and restore your honor." She says mockingly, Zuko turning to look at her, glaring some.
"This isn't a joke Sakura!" He shouts and she shrugs taking a step backwards.
"Whatever, I'm going to go look around, leave Sokka and Katara alone." She says giving him a warning glance before she turned on her heel, and walked out of the room into one of the many halls. She glanced around, looking at all the paintings and statues that lined the hall, most of them were of the fire lord, a few of Avatar Roku.
She had needed to get out of that room, she could feel Sokka's glares, and she wasn't able to take it. She hated thinking that he thought she was a traitor, she was closest to Sokka, and now he hated her. Sakura sighs stopping at a window, glancing out of it, her eyes widening when she saw large shipz docked only a few feet away from Zuko's.
"Zhao," She breaths and turns running back in the direction she came, "Zuko! Zuko! Commander Zhao is-" She stopped when she spotted him standing beside a chained up Zuko and he smirked.
"Get the girl, bring her to me." He says pointing over to her Sakura glaring at him, watching as his guards walked towards her.
"I've learned a few tricks since last time I saw you Zhao," She says with a smirk and spins around, creating a tunnel of fire around her before she moved her arms, the blue flames circling around them before she threw her punches at the soldiers, sending them flying back. She flipped out of the way of one of Zhao's men as they tried to grab her, turning and kicked him in the chest making him fall onto his back. As she reached Zuko, going to undo his chains she let out a scream, Zuko, Sokka, and Katara all shouting her name as her vision blurred and turned red.
"Stupid girl," Zhao said with a shake of his head lowering his hand, smirking at the sound of Zuko's shouts.
"I will kill you for that!" He yelled, jerking at his restraints, his eyes going down to Sakura, seeing the bright red burn on her blistered back, the black leather of her armor scorched and burnt away.
"Men, I cannot believe you let yourselves get taken down by a girl, a girl who's been stuck in the South Pole for the last four years at that." Zhao said shaking his head, watching as the soldiers picked themselves up off the ground, and made their way over to the door.
"When this door opens, unleash all your firepower!" Zhao shouts, turning and got into his stance. Zuko groaned looked down at Sakura as she let out a gasp, followed by a pained moan, her fingers twitching as she tried to get up.
"No, Sakura don't move," Zuko looked over at the girl Sakura always called Katara, tears were falling down her tanned cheeks, "Just stay there, Aang will get us out of here." Zuko glared over at Katara and jerked at his chains again, shouting in frustration when he could get himself free.
Zuko's attention turned to the door Zhao's men stood by as a white light begun to shine through, smoke coming from the cracks, the door slowly opening the white light turning blue, to bright for him to look at and he turned his gaze, squeezing his eyes shut.
"Ready," Zhao called out, the light fading and Zuko looked back seeing a pair of bright glowing eyes.
"No! Aang!" Katara shouted, Sokka pulling at his restraints as Zhao's men got ready to attack.
"Fire!" Zhao shouted, he and his men throwing their fists out, streams of fire coming from their punches, engulfing the glowing eyes in large flames, that begun to form a circle around the Avatar, drawing the fire towards him, before throwing it out, the chains around Zuko's wrists turning to ashes and he fell to his knees beside Sakura, scooping her up in his arms, making her cry out in pain.
Zuko glanced back at the figure of Avatar Roku as he fought Zhao's men before he took of down the stairs, clutching Sakura to his chest.
Zuko could feel the adrenaline pumping through his veins as he rushed to the ship, trying his best not to hurt Sakura any more than she already was. He reached his ship, and raised Sakura up, carefully pushing her over the edge of the ship, hearing her let out another cry as she landed on the ship floor, then pulled himself up, kneeling beside her.
"Sakura," He says taking her face in his hands, wiping away the tears that fell from her eyes, watching as she winced from the burn on her back, "Sakura you're okay, I'm going to get you out of here okay? Just don't go to sleep." He says and stands quickly, running over to the steering wheel of the ship, turning the engine back on. He glanced over when he heard the sound of the chains being pulled up and saw Sakura leaning against the lever, her face covered in black soot.
"You forgot to raise the anchor stupid," She said weakly, wincing again as she tried to stand up straight before sinking back down, passing out.
