Black Roses
Tragedy/ Romance/ Angst
Rated M
Chapter 21: Vulnerability
Okay, for some odd reason, Sakura is pregnant and not with Syaoran's kid, for obvious reasons. What will happen now!?!
Disclaimer: I do not own Card Captor Sakura or any of its characters.
There is Use of Alcohol, Brief Language and Violence in this Fiction.
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The doctor informed hesitantly to Syaoran, "Well… Ms. Kinomoto is… well… She is going to have a child, sir."
Syaoran stared at the doctor for a moment, trying to understand what the doctor had told him. After an acute moment of silence, Syaoran's eyebrows furrowed and he glared at the doctor, "You freakin' LIAR!"
Syaoran angrily grabbed the calm doctor's collar and pushed him towards the wall, banging him back.
"I'm sorry but she is."
Syaoran let the doctor go, his eyes wide in shock and terror. Slowly, in shock, he left the clinic, his feet becoming heavy and strange. He let his body fall into the car seat, staying in a loose position for a certain while before starting the car. He didn't know what to think, how to react, how to take in all that he was told of.
'No… she couldn't! But if she was mistreated or raped, she would've told me. She always told me. She did it consciously… but why?' Syaoran's mind raced.
He drove the car in a slow speed but since the house was not too far away, he reached quite quickly. He parked his car and got out of the car, opening the door to the house to find Sakura sitting on the sofa and watching TV.
She turned as she heard the door click and gazed at Syaoran for a word, a sign, anything. Syaoran, on the other hand, kept his eyes on her. His eyes were emotionless and solemn.
"What did he say?" Sakura asked, getting up from the sofa.
Syaoran's eyes narrowed in anger at how she had the guts to look at him the eye while talking after what she had done. He moved towards her and held her arms furiously.
"Who was it!?"" He growled in her face.
"Who was who?" Sakura asked, confused and wincing at the pain which shot through her arm.
"Don't hide it Sakura, who the hell was it!?" Syaoran jerked her arm hard.
"Syaoran, you are hurting me! And I have no idea what you are talking about!" Sakura said, closing her eyes and yelling back at him.
Syaoran threw her forcefully on the sofa before looking at her one last time, "The fuck you don't know what I'm talking about. I… I cant believe I let a person like you get to me in the end!"
"S-Syaoran…"
"You're pregnant Sakura, hell you are fucking pregnant! And what's more, I don't even want to know who the hell the father is anymore because I have no intention of beating him up. You did it on full purpose!" Syaoran spat at her before turning around and stomping towards the doors.
Sakura's eyes widened in shock and fear and Syaoran moved away towards the door. Her mouth fell open and she could feel hot tears dwell her eyes.
"No, No! Syaoran please wait, let me explain-" Sakura whimpered, running towards Syaoran and holding onto his hand only to make him angrier.
Syaoran jerked his own arm away from her and snarled, "Don't you ever show me your face again Sakura! Just don't!"
And with that, Syaoran banged the door and left. Sakura lie there on the floor for a while out of helplessness until she scrambled up to her feet and ran outside only to find that the car had gone.
Tears fell down Sakura's eyes as she looked at Syaoran's car move away out of the horizon. Then she turned around, wiping away her tears and ran like crazy to the clinic.
"Please tell me it isn't true…" Sakura hampered.
"I'm sorry Ms. Kinomoto but it is…"
"B-But how…?" Sakura asked.
"I… I think you should know this better." But before the doctor completed his sentence, Sakura was on the ground unconscious.
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Syaoran pressed his foot hard on the brakes as the red signal came into view. As he stopped the car, he smashed his palm on the steering wheel before bringing up the same hand to his eyes and rubbing them in distress.
'Why Sakura? Why did you do it?' His mind raced as he saw the light turn green and he drove further off towards his house.
The sun was setting and the clouds were roaming about in the sky. Syaoran looked up at the sky as he drove finding the whole road empty.
"WHY!?!?!" Syaoran screamed out loud.
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I didn't know of what to think. Or rather, I didn't exactly know how to think straight. I had put all my faith, all m trust in the first girl I had ever known to have touched me, emotionally and physically, yet she went around with another guy.
And what was worse was that she didn't only cheat on me on a small scale, she had got herself pregnant. I just didn't know how to react to such news. I had never thought that Sakura was that sort of a person. I just…
I parked the car in front of the door and got out. I opened the main doors to the house to find Hoshi still on the sofa. I angrily banged the door behind me.
"What happened Syaoran, you looked a bit…" Mother said, holding a file in her hand and a pen in the other hand, coming down from the stairs.
I looked towards her and gave her a look of 'please-don't-bother-me-right-now' and went up to my room only to find her grabbing my arm and pulling me back until I was facing her.
"Tell me… what's wrong Syaoran. I'm your mother, so please don't disregard me." Yelan said in a soft tone.
I looked into her eyes and I saw something there that I had never seen before. Concern, the concern shown only for me.
"Mother…" I said, looking into her eyes and letting down my guard.
I had enough of keeping everything bundles up. And right then, I needed a mother's consoling or something like that. So I grabbed her hand and pulled into the nearest room when Hoshi could not hear us.
I closed the door and my mother stood patiently in front of me, waiting for me to begin. But I just didn't know how to approach the topic.
"Syaoran… I can tell this has something to do with Kinomoto…" Yelan said, looking out into the open yard from the window.
I looked at her in utter astonishment. 'How does she know all that?'
"Mother… I… she…" I stopped for a moment, stumbling upon my own words. "Sakura…"
"She's cheating on you, isn't she?" Yelan asked, looking at Syaoran skeptically.
Syaoran looked at his mother and decided to go with her statement instead of going into 'unnecessary' details. He just nodded and peered out of the window into the scorching sun as it disappeared behind the horizon.
"Syaoran… I know it is difficult but there are only a few chances when the first person you meet is your last. Don't hang up on such a detail and… take your time to understand the circumstances." Yelan said, looking at her son from over her shoulder and leaving the room with Syaoran all by himself.
'You don't know who Sakura is to me…' Syaoran thought to himself as he kept his stare out his window.
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"You are okay now so you may leave. You just had a little shock which lead you to faint." The doctor said before leaving the room with Sakura sitting alone on the bed.
'I-I… I'm pregnant…' She thought, placing her hand on top of her stomach. 'C-Could it be Sora…?'
Tears started dripping down her eyes and her head started to go all dizzy again. Fear struck her and her hands started shaking. She slowly got off her bed and decided that it was best to just go home for now. But how would she make it home with her wobbly legs?
"Nee-chan, are you okay?" Kouji asked worriedly, opening the door as he heard it being knocked.
Sakura didn't reply, just let the tears fall down her eyes and went straight up to her room on her incredibly slow speed. Her feet became heavy and her eyelids droopy. She saw everything fall apart in front of her eyes in a flash. Everything was over.
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"Yes well… we'll se to that. For now, please just try to get them to come to Japan, it will be nice to have some girls around this place for the next few days." Yelan said in the phone, holding another one of those business files in her hands.
"Who are you calling?" Hoshi asked Yelan as he checked a few of his own office files.
"I need to have Syaoran make a quick decision of marriage so it will be good if there were a few options around him to chose from." Yelan said.
"What about the Kinomoto girl?" Hoshi smirked.
"She is no longer…" Yelan sighed, looking up towards Syaoran's room where he had locked himself up all through the last two days.
"Don't push the boy too much. Let him recover from this blow before forcing another on him…" Hoshi said, taking off his reading glasses and looking towards Yelan.
"I suppose but the elders say that I should make the best of this situation and gather him to a Chinese girl." Yelan informed Hoshi.
She herself wasn't thrilled about the whole issue either as she didn't want to force her son into marriage at such a young age but she had to put the clan first. She needed to provide a future heir to the throne before her own death and so, the sooner the better as the tradition went.
Hoshi just shook his head in disagreement and went back to wearing his glasses and checking the files.
'I'm sorry Syaoran…' Yelan thought.
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I know… the shortest chapter I've written so far but I kind of am having writer's block right now so please forgive me and let me think of what to write further in the story. Although the next chapter wont be too long either but hopefully the chapter after that will be longer than the previous ones.
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Sneak Preview:
"Mother, what are all these people doing here?"
"Try to open up a bit instead of rotting away in your own room for once!"
Mina Uchiha.