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Chapter 10
"The Kidnap of Princess Tohru"
Somewhere Outside- Nighttime-
"…Ru-kun…Tohru-kun!" a voice called out Tohru's name. Tohru opened up her eyes and there she was being carried by someone. "Are ya awake?" the voice asked her as Tohru was being carried somewhere. "Huh? WAH?! Where are we going?" she asked the mysterious person.
It was a full moon, and there was a light breeze. Tohru couldn't tell who it was but it wasn't someone she knows! "My! Aren't you a sweetie! I'm taking you to a place far away." The person told her, revealing their face while smiling at her. It was a young man, not to young but looks like he was in his early twenties. He wore a long black coat and his brown hair was long in a ponytail. His red eyes glimmered in the moonlight.
This person was almost the same man in Tohru's dream earlier in the night. "Oh! You're that guy that was in my dreams! Why are you kidnapping me?!" she asked in a frightened tone as she tried her hardest to sound brave. The man in the black coat placed her down as they were already in the designated location.
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Sakura's Dorm-
The once sleeping Sakura opened her eyes as she felt something in her sleep. "Huh? Where's Tohru?" she asked herself as she looked around the dark room. Then she noticed that there was no sign of Tohru Honda anywhere within her presence. "Tohru? Tohru? TOHRU?!" she started to yell out Tohru's name and everyone opened their eyes.
"Where's Tohru?" Sakura asked everyone that was in her reach. "Nnn? What are you taking about?" was the same reply that everyone gave her. The breeze picked up and the curtains flapped around. "Wasn't this closed when we fell asleep?" Kyo asked as he heard the flapping curtains.
"Come and get her, Sakura-chan. She's right here with me. Come alone with Kyoko still within you. We have unfinished business to attend." A voice said in Sakura's mind. "Where are you, dad? AND WHY DID YOU KIDNAP TOHRU-CHAN?!" she yelled at him in her mind.
Everyone ran around the dorm calling Tohru. So far no one was unable to find her. Kyo went to shut the curtain doors but stopped as he found something. He found a yellow ribbon on the window door with a red rose tied to it. On it was a card stating: "I have your princess in my custody. I demand that Sakura and Kyoko come and get her. I know that you are still looking for me, love. You may find me about a good twenty miles radius away from you location. Good luck! XOXO, your worst nightmare"
Kyo looked at it with a disgusted face and handed the rose to Sakura. Sakura read it and she knew where he would be. "If it's a twenty mile radius, then you are at Tokyo Harbor. Fine by me, but don't expect me to go easy on you…Dad." Sakura said in an angry tone. Her whole body was glowing and the wind surrounded her. Everyone got out of the way as they heard Sakura yell out the words "DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!" her hair turned into an orange color and it grew longer. Her eyes turned into a golden color. The wind disappeared and there right in front of them, Sakura looked like another different person again.
She went to her closet and put on her red sweater which had a black and white skull located on the middle of it with jean shorts. She put on black shoes with red laces. Her cat ears and tail popped out of nowhere. She placed her hair in a ponytail and then took the rose and yellow ribbon with her.
"I'll be back. Don't move or touch anything. This place is full of deadly items that are used where I am from." She demanded them in an angry tone. Everyone surrounded her as she jumped out of the window. She landed on the wall and then she kneeled as she was preparing to jump a long distance. With one push, Sakura moved fast in a minute than a lighting bolt touches the ground. Everyone looked out the window as they watched her go. As soon as she was gone, everyone went back to bed for they knew that if they touched anything in here, they were surely going to die.
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Tokyo Harbor- Nighttime-
Tohru tried her best to shake her way out of the rope that was around her wrists. 'Why won't it budge? Come on! Sa-chan and mom are going to fall into the trap that the man in the black coat-kun has waiting for them!' Tohru thought in her mind. The man in the black coat turned his direction from the window sill and put his direction at the young maiden.
"Try as much as you want, princess. Sa-chan and Kyoko-san are not going to be able to get you free from this rope. This rope was designed to cut through almost anything in the land of the dead except for humans that are in the land of the living and you, my dear, are going to hurt yourself more if you try wiggling out of there." He told her as he watched her from a distance. Tohru tried her hardest to get her hands out of it. "It only hurts you more if you try to get away. Besides, you don't want to miss your friend's dance." He said as he smiled at her. His red eyes were glaring at the young girl.
"Why do they treasure you so much? You're just a human girl with nothing special. Explain it to me, child!" he demanded her to answer his question. Tohru glared at him as she was above a pot of ice cold water in the temperature of negative 20 degrees. "I guess it's the feeling of love. Love is what they are most likely to feel about me. But it's not just me, but others too." She replied to his question as she looked down into the ice, cold water.
The man in the black coat looked at her with a query and blank face as he watched her speak. He was no ordinary person. He is very much like a dog but a dog with questions that has never been answered by others but created more questions. "What is this love of which you speak of?" he asked her as he grabbed her by the arms out of the cold ice water's direction. He placed her on the ground still tied to the rope. She looked at him with a questionable look on her face as she tried to study him.
"Well, love is a feeling that you get when you are with a certain person. They make you feel warm, safe, and happy. But there are always different types of love. You can love them as a friend, as a lover, or as a person." She told him as she smiled at his direction. She thought in her head "Maybe he is in love with someone? But is this person whom he really wants to be with?" (Author's note: our poor Tohru! Why must you be kidnapped by Sakura's supposedly "father"? By the way…is he even her father or just some guy that is the grim reaper that has something going on that he doesn't want to admit about?) (Kyo: CAN IT DAMMIT! WE ARE TRYING TO READ THE STORY!) (Author's expression: O.O and TT.TT …Why Kyo-kun?! I had faith in you!!!)
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By Tokyo Harbor-
"Huff…huff…huff...I'm going to rip him into shreds!" Sakura said in an angry tone as she was getting closer to the location. She didn't notice that there were a few booby traps in place…So yup! You guessed right, my lovely readers! She fell right into them! Although it wasn't easy to get away from them, she managed to get out without much harm done. Only the traps were harmed and when I mean harmed, I mean they were ripped into shreds like the size of sawdust.
Tohru looked out the small window that was right next to her. There was something coming for her. She looked harder than before and realized it was Sakura. "Sa-chan! Up here!" Tohru waved as Sakura looked up and saw her. She noticed that it seemed too easy for her to save Tohru.
"Where is he?" she asked herself as she searched for the person she's been dying to find. She looked up to where Tohru was at and shouted "Tohru! Where did the man who kidnapped you go?!" Tohru looked stunned as she was asked that question. "She's talking about the man in the black coat…Are they related or something? Huh? What's that in the moon?" she asked herself.
She looked at the moon for a while as a figure was moving about in the moonlight. Sakura noticed Tohru's direction at the moon and saw the figure. The figure was coming down. And it was heading straight for Sakura. Sakura moved out of the way as the dark figure landed on the ground. The ground shook and Tohru was holding onto something to not get into the crack that was formed underneath her feet on the tile floor.
Oh my god! Is this going to end up into a fight or into some kind of love scene or what? Who knows! Let's just go with the flow with this! Huh? Who is this the man in the black coat and what is his relationship with Sakura? Stay tuned for the next chapter!
-Asuna Sakura