By Shirono
Warning: Death ahead. 1 character. Very sad. Proceed at own risk.
PG 13 for graphic suffering. Albiet brief.
Wanna see a picture of Tsukino Ruby and Hino Spinel? Look here:
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Sakuri stared at Ruby.
"I. Love. Nadeshiko!!!!"
With that said, she turned over the table to divert them, and ran out the door.
Unfortunately, two rather tall men were there to intercept her. They grabbd her arms as she squirmed.
"Let me GO! My love will PREVAIL!!! You CANT DO THIIIIIS!!!!!"
"SAKURI!!!" ehoed down the hall.
"NADESHIKO!!! HELP ME!!!" She cried back.
One of the men clamped a hand over her mouth.
"Sakuri! Where are you!?!?!"
~
Ihyou shook her head.
"I can't pick her up! There is so much magic in this house, I dont have a lead at all!"
"SAKURI! Answer me!!!" Nadeshiko yelled.
There was no answer.
~
"Come, " said Ruby, leading the two men and Sakuri to another chamber. Sakuri mumbled and moaned, but could not reply to Nadeshiko as she screamed. Then she had an idea. She clamped down on the man's hand with her teeth.
But nothing happened.
"I'll have you know that I have immaculate pain tolerance. I feel nothing," the man said.
Sakuri cursed.
~
"Split up!" said Li.
They all took seperate routes.
~
Ruby took Sakuri into a new room, and shut the door, and the two men remained outside.
It was a candle-lit room.
Immediately, Sakuri ran to the door and began jostling the handle. It was locked.
"This is your last chance." he said.
"NO!" she cried. "I will always love her! You can kill me, but not my feelings!"
He raised his hand and a force pushed her back. She hit something in the back.
He waved his hands some more, and before she knew it, she was tied, by the neck, and the wrists, and the waist, to a tall gilded beam.
She began to cry.
~
"Sakuri-chan! Sakuri-chan! Answer me!!!"
Now she had no hand covering her mouth.
"NADESHIKK- ung!"
The ribbon around her throught tightened.
"I'm sorry, princess, " said Ruby, covering his fance with the hand that wasn't casting spells.
There was a commotion outside the door.
Nadeshiko was fighting the guards.
She heard Li and Ihyou join her in the struggle.
Then she started to not hear....
...the ribbons around her wrists tightened.
The one around her neck tightened more.
Things became darker.
The door burst open.
"SAKURIIII!!!!"
Ruby turned around and pushed Nadshiko back with one blow.
"For the balance of the clans, she is to sacrifice herself! You won't interfere!" he yelled.
He raised his arm and made a tight fist in the air, staring at Sakuri.
Sakuri screamed, and choked, and....
...she whispered, "Goodbye, Nadesh...."
"Sakuri!!!" Nadeshiko sobbed, running over to her. But it was too late.
"Sakuri...." She held onto her dead girlfriends hand tight, while Ruby began to tell the tale of thier clans.
When he finsihed, Ihyou coldly said "I knew this wouldn't succeed. She put a hand on Nadeshiko's shoulder.
"I'm quite sorry, Nadeshiko."
Nadeshiko continued to sob, and Li walked over, too many tears in his eyes.
He took her free hand.
"Nadeshiko...."
Nadeshiko looked up.
"...at least, she will always love you."
Nadeshiko stood up angrily, finally over the shock enough to make the culprits pay.
but they were gone. The only ones in the house were Nadeshiko, Li, and Ihyou.
Nadeshiko looked down at her hands. They were covered with blood.
"It was......my fault....."
Li nearly screamed. He embraced Nadeshiko tightly, saying over and over "It WASN'T your fault, it WASN'T your fault!"
Nadisko cried some more, into Li's shirt, as Ihyou cut Sakuri's lifeless body from the beam.
"Lets go, " she said.
Ihyou carried Sakuri, and Nadeshiko....was carried , by Li.
Everything happened so fast. So suddenly. So horrifically, Nadeshiko sobbed quitely in her sleep.
Ihyou landed at her door.
Tomoyo answered it, solem and tired.
"Bring her in," she said, as if she had already known what had happened to her daughter.
In fact, she did, and Eriol was found sobbing in front of the fireplace.
"So many mistakes...." he cried....
~
Li-kun knocked on the Li family door (er...Nadeshiko's house). It was late.
Syaoran came to the door.
"N..nadeshiko!" His first glance informed him only that his daughter was covered in blood. He took her in his arms and ran inside, Li close behind.
He layed her on the bed, and Sakura came bounding down the stairs in a nightshirt.
"Nadeshiko!"
"What happened?" said Syaoran.
Nadeshiko opened her eyes slowly. "Dare...."
"There was a sacrifice in the Daidouji clan. Nadeshiko tried to stop it...."
"Sakuri...." Nadeshiko whispered.
"..she wasn't hurt, but...."
"Sakuri!" Nadeshiko yelped, sitting up suddenly, "Where is she!?"
Li took her hand.
"She died, Nadeshiko."
Nadeshiko leaned on her father and sobbed again.
"I ..thought it was just a bad dream......"
Li sat down and sighed, holding his head.
"I'm sorry , Nadeshiko."
Sakura came with a washcloth to rinse the blood off of Nadeshiko's hands.
"Does Eriol know?" Asked Syoran, holding his daughter tightly.
Li nodded.
Sakura then got up and wiped a few smears of blood off of Li's face. Then she leaned down and whispered, "Arigatou, Li-kun, for helping Nadeshiko."
Li nodded again.
"Its okay."
~
Li sat, patiently in home room.
He hadn't met Nadeshiko to come to school. Sakura said that she "hadn't finished crying yet on the inside."
Ihyou was still mourning her sister, and her sister, obviously,
was dead.
Ruby nor Spinel showed up at school.
~
Syaoran sat up in Nadeshiko's room the next night.
He was in such pain, to see her cry. He wanted to make everything better, and wanted to kill himself because he couldn't.
Funny, his father never worried when he cried.
*flashback*
Little Syaoran was sitting on the temple floor, tiny drops of blood pattering on the wood floor. He held his hand. He had cut his finger on the tip of his sword.
He father looked down on him.
"Why are you crying, Syaoran?"
Syaoran thought it was obvious, but held up his finger, anyway.
"My...finger.." he sniffed..."father...can you..."
His father sighed.
"Such a weak little boy." he said, turning on his heel.
"You are already 7, shouldn't you have learned not to cry by now?"
...to be continued.....