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Namida no densetsu
-The legend of Namida-
By : ^*Kasumi*^
Chapter 5 :
Sakura had finished packing her things and was heading to Eriol and Syaoran's room. She was still a bit upset that Tomoyo didn't want to believe her, because she didn't like to get into arguments with her best friend.'...whatever...if she doesn't want to trust me, then...that's her problem...' when she arrived in front of the door, Eriol was speaking with Tomoyo. The young boy turned to greet Sakura when he saw her.
-"Hey...hello Sakura..."
-"Hello Eriol-kun. May I enter the room?"
-"No...miss Mizuki told us not to disturb Syaoran, he's still sleeping." said Tomoyo a bit harshly, not wanting to look at Sakura. Sakura frowned at this, but opened the door anyway.
-"And I was told that we were to live soon, so someone has to wake Syaoran up. And beside, who's gonna pack his things if he's still sick, Tomoyo-chan?" The purple eyed girl gasped and frowned at Sakura.
WHAM ! Sakura had slammed the door.
-"Is she angry?" asked Eriol.
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Sakura entered the room and sat down on a chair next to Syaoran's bed. The boy was still sleeping. Sakura shook him gently.
-"Hey...Syaoran, wake up..." He moaned a bit and opened his eyes slowly.
-"Sa...kura?" Sakura smiled at him.
-"Yeah, that's me. How do you feel?" Syaoran rubbed his eyes trying to make the room stop spinning.
-".....uhh...f-fine..." Sakura saw that he was still shaky and feverish, but she had to help him get out of bed.
-"....we're going back to Tomoeda in a few hours Syaoran. Do you think you can get up?"
-".....of course." He tried to sit up, only to fall beck in his bed, moaning. Sakura gave him a worried look, then put his arm around her shoulder and her left arm around his waist.
-"Here. Let me help you." Syaoran blushed, and felt dizzy for a second. He closed his eyes tightly, and Sakura turned her head to look at him again.
-"When you'll be back home, make sure you get enough rest and promise me you will seriously take care of you. Okay?" The young boy stared in Sakura's green eyes. 'She's so nice...so kind to me...so...beautiful...'
-"Syaoran-kun? Are you alright?" He stared at her a few more seconds, and smiled, which made Sakura blush. 'He is...smiling?'
-"I'm fine, Sakura." Sakura smiled back, and helped him out of the room. (A/N: Syaoran's still in his clothes from the previous day, remember? So there's no need for him to change back, and in his condition, I don't think he could anyway.)
Sakura closed the door and started to walk again, with Syaoran leaning heavily on her.
-"Sakura?"
-"Yes?"
-"...thank you."
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When Sakura got in the bus, her eyes met Tomoyo's, who was sitting in the seats in the middle. Tomoyo didn't glare at Sakura, nor did anything to show her that she was still angry, and Sakura smiled at her. However, her smile soon faded when she came up to Tomoyo and saw that the seat next to her was already taken.
-"Oh...Sakura-chan...do you mind if Eriol-kun sits next to me?"
The green eyed girl frowned a bit, then smiled fakely.
-"No...of course..." She then started walking again, followed by a swaying Syaoran who gave Eriol and Tomoyo a quick glance before making his way to the seats in the back of the bus, the ones that took up the entire way accross.
Sakura looked at him, helped the young boy to sit down, and then sat next to him.
Syaoran closed his eyes and breathed heavily, because the simple walk to the bus had already drained him. Sakura grabbed a nearby blanked and wrapped it around the shivering boy.
-"Are you going to be okay?" she said, rubbing his back to make him feel better.
-"...yes..." he answered, his cheeks turning red. Sakura smiled.
When she felt that the bus was starting to move, she gave a last look at the chalet, sighed and frowned. 'When I first came here, I thought I was going to enjoy that place...' The bus started to move. '...and now I hate it...' She closed her eyes, and remembered her meetings with the ghost. '...and Tomoyo doesn't want to believe me...' She frowned, with her eyes still closed. '...but I'm sure I saw that ghost...and Syaoran dreamt of her...' She opened her eyes to look at the boy next to her.
'Syaoran...'
Syaoran was looking out of the window, his eyes wide opened, and didn't notice Sakura was looking at him. Sakura leaned closer to him to look outside, but saw nothing. All of a sudden, Syaoran turned his head, as if he wanted to tell something to Sakura.
Their eyes met, and they realised, at the same time, how close they were to each other. Sakura saw him blushing and moved away from him, her cheeks a bit too pink.
-"I was...wondering what it was you were looking at..." she said, her haid bowed. Syaoran widened his eyes, snaping back to reality, and turned his head back to his side.
-"Look...on the path next to the chalet..." Sakura leaned closer again and narrowed her eyes, looking outside. She was looking at the chalet they just left, the woods not too far from it, a little river, the mountains...
-"What am I supposed to see?" Syaoran put his finger on the glass of the window to show to Sakura where she had to look. Sakura eyed the landscape again, to the place Syaoran was showing to her. The bus was moving, not too quickly, but still moving, so it was difficult for her to see clearly.
The chalet, the woods, the path, the river, ...the path.
There, standing between the puddles, was the girl, the ghost from her dreams. She was looking staightly at her and at Syaoran, frowning, and even from where she was, Sakura could tell she had tears coming from her eyes. 'It's...her.' Sakura wanted to scream, to tell Tomoyo to look at her, so she could believe her at last. But for some reason, she couldn't move nor speak.
The girl's white dress was floating with the wind. When the bus started to move faster, she bent her head, and just before Sakura and Syaoran could not see her anymore, she lifted it again, her eyes closed. And screamed. The two teens widened their eyes, and read the words on her lips.
~ H-E-L-P....M-E !! ~
Sakura remained silent as she couldn't see the girl anymore. The bus had definitly left the place where they had spent a few days.
Sakura sat back, her eyes wide in shock.
-"You saw her?" Syaoran asked.
-"Yes." Sakura rested her head on her seat, and closed her eyes.
-"Yes...I saw her." she repeated.
After long minutes of silence, Sakura heard Syaoran sneezing and opened her eyes quickly.
-"Syaoran? Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Her friend was shivering and had his eyes closed. He sneezed a few times more, and opened his watery eyes to look at a worried Sakura.
-"Yes, I'm..*cough* okay." Sakura placed an arm behind his back and pulled him closer to her, rubbing his back again. That made him blush and cough even more.
Hearing the noise from the very back of the bus, miss Mizuki came up to them. When she saw what was going on, she placed a hand on Syaoran's shoulder.
Syaoran calmed down a bit, and rested his head on Sakura's shoulder.
-"Syaoran? Do you need anything?" asked miss Mizuki.
-".............."
-"Syaoran?"
No answer. Sakura became worried when she didn't hear him reply back and turned her head to look at him. She shook him a bit.
-"Syaoran-kun?"
-"Li-san?" Miss Mizuki lifted Syaoran's chin and got up.
-"He fainted. Can you help me lay him down?" Sakura did as she was asked, and sat back to put Syaoran's head on her lap, while miss Mizuki was putting the boy's legs on the seats.
All children from the back of the bus were turned around to see what was going on, and miss Mizuki had to ask them not to speak too loud. She asked for a bottle of water to wet an handkerchief, and put it on Syaoran's burning forehead. Sakura brushed some hair from her friend's face, and patted his cheeks a bit.
-"Syaoran...hey...wake up..."
Eriol and Tomoyo left their seats when they knew what had happened, and went to the back of the bus.
-"Sakura-chan? What happened?" Tomoyo came up to her friend, and put an arm around her shoulders. Sakura looked at her, surprised, because she thought Tomoyo was still mad at her.
-"Tomoyo-chan...Syaoran passed out, he is...really sick..."
Tomoyo sat down next to her friend, and looked at her.
-"You're really worried about him, right?"
Sakura nodded.
-"How come he is so sick? I thought he had only caught a cold !!" Tomoyo patted Sakura's back gently.
-"Hey...don't worry...he'll be fine." Sakura, her head still bowed, saw Syaoran stirring a bit.
-"Syaoran?" She patted his cheeks a bit and he started to open his eyes slowly.
-"...Sa..Sakura?" The young girl smiled at him.
-"Yes..."
He tried to sit up, Eriol and miss Mizuki rushed to his side to help him. Syaoran put a hand on his head and groaned.
-"Ugh...wha-what happened?" Sakura put her left arm behind his back, and allowed him to put his head on her shoulder.
-"You fainted...How do you feel?" Syaoran closed his eyes again and leaned on Sakura.
-"I'm...tired..."
-"Then you should sleep. Rest up, Li-san, you need it." Miss Mizuki said.
Syaoran fell asleep as soon as she said that.
Sakura blushed a bit seeing that Syaoran was sleeping next to her, his head on her shoulder.
Tomoyo smiled at Sakura and went back to her seat, followed by Eriol.
Miss Mizuki sat next to Sakura.
-"You should sleep too, Kinomoto-san." Sakura smiled a bit at her teacher. Then she noticed that miss Mizuki was the only teacher in the bus.
-"Mizuki sensei? Where are mister Terada and Rika?"
-"Oh...mister Terada is staying at the chalet a bit longer, there are still visits to cancel, and formalities, you know...and...Rika-san stayed with him because I think she told me that there was nobody at her home, since they didn't know she'd come back sooner. And beside, I think she doesn't want to leave mister Terada alone." Sakura smiled. 'Rika's such a nice girl...'
Sakura closed her eyes, wishing to sleep, but soon she started thinking of what she had seen while leaving the chalet.
-"Mizuki-sensei?"
-"Yes?"
-"I was wondering...where did you learn the legend of the girl who haunts the mountain?"
-"Well, I don't remember very well..." She put a finger on her head to try to think of it."I think it was a few weeks ago...I went to a library to get information about the place we were going to stay at. And I found a book which was the reedition of an old one that dated back to the Middle Ages. I think that historians had discovered it in the ruins of the village that was burnt, in a house that had been spared from the flames." She took a seat next to Sakura who was listenning attentively.
"...and I think that it was in that book that all the villagers from this time were listed. On the original book were written all dates of births and deaths, and the new edition had add the legend of that girl next to her name. I think that's where I saw the legend and learnt that people were still scared of her ghost nowadays." She stoped and looked at her pupil.
-"Why did you want to know?"
-"...er, because...I wanted to know how you knew it, that's all. Hehe..." Sakura sweatdroped.
-"Do you...remember which library it was?"
-"Yes..."
-"Could you...give me the address?"
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-"SAKURAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! WAKE UP !!!!!!!!" Sakura's eyes snapped opened, and saw the angry eyes of her overprotective brother in front of her own.
-"O-Onii-chan?" She blinked a few times to make her vision clear."What...what are you doing here?"
Touya looked at her, frowning ( ...and fire coming from his eyes :-p) , which made Sakura sweatdrop.
-"Hoe? What?" Then she realized the position she was in. She was still on her seat, her arms wrapped around Syaoran's waist, and they were resting their heads on each other's one.
-"Hoeee...."
Touya's shouting finally made Syaoran wake up.
-"BRAT WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN MY SISTER'S ARMS????????"
Syaoran turned his head to Sakura, realised she was hugging him and...(of course...) blushed.
He sat up quickly and miss Mizuki came up to them, followed by Sakura's father.
-"Otou-san?" Miss Mizuki smiled at Sakura.
-"We're back at Tomoeda, Sakura. We arrived here half an hour ago, but we didn't want to wake you up..." She looked at the two and smiled again. "You fell asleep in each other's arms..."
-"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" --------Touya
Sakura got up and helped Syaoran to get to his feet.
-"Grrrrrr..." Sakura looked at her brother and sweatdroped again. Miss Mizuki looked at her, smiling.
-"You can go now, Sakura. I'll take care of Li-san."
-"But..." Sakura seemed upset, not wanting to leave her friend. Then she sighed and turned to Syaoran.
She looked into his eyes and frowned.
-"Syaoran-kun..."
-"Y-yes?"
-"Promise me you'll take good care of you if I leave."
-"Er...I..I" Sakura put two fingers on his lips.
-"Say it. Say 'I promise.'" Syaoran blushed and Sakura removed her fingers.
-"I promise." Sakura smiled.
-"Good boy."
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The day after
Tomoeda library...
-"Hello...I'm looking for a book about the story of a village which was burnt in the Middle Ages."
-"Er...don't you know at least the title?"
-".......Hoe...the title?" Sakura sweatdroped. "Er...no...but my teacher borrowed it a few days ago..."
-"Okay...so what's your teacher's name?"
.......After loooooooong minutes of searching, Sakura finally found the book she was looking for.
-"Awwww *sigh*...finally." She opened it. There were lots and lots and lots of names.
-"Hoeeeeeeeee..... But...I don't know the girl's name...."
She took a sit and began to read quickly, looking at all girl's names, and reading their story when she thought it could have been the girl of the legend.
Then she found what she was looking for.
" IWAKURA Namida
1417-1434
Daughter of IWAKURA Kenji and KANZAKI Miho.
Accused of witchcraft and burnt. "
Next to this was a small text, that spoke about the legend.
"Friday, on what seemed to be November 17th, 1434.
IWAKURA Kenji's daughter is burnt for witchcraft.... "
'So...her name is Namida.....'
Sakura started to read what was written next...
...To Be Continued...
AWWWWWWWWWWW......O_O I'm not sure if what I just wrote is good, but I know that is a stupid place to end. BUT !! To tell you the truth, I was going to write more...because I don't think this chapter has anything interressting in it...*sigh* and beside, this was starting to become a loooooong chapter. But right now, I'm _tired_...ouch....head hurts..eyes hurt..I think I need to sleep. BUT I DO THINK that next chapter should be up next weekend. AREN'T YOU PROUD OF ME???? (And I swear next one won't be too boring.)
Reader: "...aw...another stupid chapter..."
Author: "Yup."
Reader: "Aren't you tired of this?"
Author: "..............."
Reader:" ??????"
Author: "I SAID NEXT ONE WOULD BE GOOD !!!!"
Reader: "Okay...now, go to sleep."
Author: "Okay."