AN: Anyways, before you read this chapter, if you hate blood, tears, and pain, I will just say that you will not like this chapter at all. If you the emotionful type of person that starts crying at the slightest thing, I suggest you have a box of tissues beside you or something. For those who are not that easy to get sad or depressed, then I guess you wouldn't need the tissues. Anways, just read on, and please review after. Arigatou!

Disclaimer: I do not down CCS or any of its characters much to my dismay! They belong to CLAMP.

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Unwinding Destiny
By ~Xiaoling~

Chapter 9:
Of Blood and Pain


Sakura stepped out of her room, afraid of what was happening. She walked down the silent hallway, the clanging of swords had stopped...for now. It was dark, as she felt her way by her hand on the wall.

She peeked around the corner and her eyes widened in horror. "MIKA!!!!" She screamed while running to Mika who's body was sprawled on the cold marble floor. There was blood around her, and Mika's eyes were still wide opened.

Sakura felt for her pulse, but found nothing. "...No....NO! Mika! YOU CAN'T DIE!!!" Sakura started crying while she hugged her maid. She had never really considered Mika as a maid, she always considered Mika as a sort of sister to her. An older sister who was always there for her. But now, she was gone...

"No Mika...wake up.." She choked as she put her hands over Mika's eyes and closed them for her. "...Mika...."

Suddenly, she heard the clanging of swords again and she ran down the hallway furious. *Who is doing this?!* She rounded the corner and noticed that she was in the hallway there her parents room where.

*NO!* She thought furiously. Sakura ran as fast as she could with her slippers. The door to her parents room were wide open and she ran in, almost fainting.

Men in armour were in the room, on there shield and swords was the word 'Li' in chinese. Sakura felt her tears bursting out of her eyes as she saw one soldier slice his sword through her mother's chest. "MOTHER!"

This caused all the soldiers in the room to notice Sakura standing at the doorway.

"Hey men! I think it's the princess!" One men started charging at her.

"YOU EVIL EVIL EVIL PEOPLE!" She screamed furiously. "Firey! Release and dispel!" She summoned the card to appear in her hand and then she released it at the soldier that was running to her.

The others were shocked at what happened. Sakura gasped, she had just killed someone, and she couldn't stand the burden of that. She shook in fright at the dead bodies that surrounded her. "Firey stop!" Firey returned to it's card form.

Sakura ran over to her mother's body. Her head was rolled to one side, and her once ruby red lips were a pale purple. "Mother...mother...you can't leave me now...not yet..." Sakura groaned, pain pounding in her heart and chest. She looked around the room and couldn't find her father. "Father?! Father where are you???!!!!"

Sakura walked around to the other side of the bed, and she wished she hadn't. Sakura screamed the loudest scream she had ever screamed before. She clamped her hands over her eyes, shaking her head furiously. "NONONONONONONONONONNO!" Sakura dropped her hands to her side, her eyes still clamped shut.

She turned away from the room and ran. She didn't want to see her father's dead body. Espeically when his head was not attached. Sakura fell onto the floor when she bumped into someone. She looked up and saw Syaoran.

"SYAORAN!!! SYAORAN!!!" She screamed and basically pounced onto him. "MY MOTHER! MY FATHER! THEY'RE ALL GONE! OH SYAORAN!!!" She cried into his shoulder.

Syaoran gently pushed her away. "S...Sakura...I mean...I guess I shouldn't have the right to call you that..."

"...What...what do you mean?" Sakura said softly, wiping a tear away from her blood shot eyes.

"Let me introduce myself again..." Syaoran said emotionlessly. "Nice to meet you, I am Prince Syaoran Li of the Li Kingdom. Heir to the throne of the Li Kingdom, engaged to Princess Meiling Li."

Sakura felt her head spin, and clamped her hands on her ears. "NO! No...Syaoran...this isn't a time to play games..." Sakura said, even though she had a feeling that this wasn't a game.

"It isn't a game Sakura Kinomoto." Syaoran said, sadness was in his voice.

Sakura fell onto her knees. "WHY?!" Sakura burst into a new set of tears, she could hear footsteps coming from behind her. She turned around quickly and saw a bunch of soldiers walking towards her, their swords drawn.

She looked back at Syaoran, who seemed in no attempt to stop them from killing her. Sakura clenched her fists tightly, "I guess I have mistakened you Syaoran LI!" Sakura pulled out Firey, Windy, Earthy, and Watery all at the same time. "Sakura Cards! Come to my aid!"

All the four spirits started attacking the soldiers. Sakura started running to where her brother's room was located. She hoped, with all her heart, that she was not to late.

She was so confused, how did the Li Kingdom soldiers get into the palace? It couldn't have been that easy, but then, it seemed likley that they could over power the few soldiers they had in the palace.

Sakura felt her stomach go empty again when she saw that her brother's room's door was open. *Oni-chan...* She stepped into the room, and heard a splashing sound.

She looked down, and grimaced. She had stepped in a pool of blood. Her..brother's blood.

"T...Touya...oni...oni-chan...n..no.." Sakura clenched her fists has pain and anger seered through her. She heard the clanking of metal coming into the room, and she looked up.

She saw a soldier standing there.

"The last of the Kinomoto Royal Family," He smirked. "Will be soon joining the rest in hell!"

Sakura gasped as the felt pain emerge in her chest as she saw a flash of metal. She slumped onto the floor, her body silent.


AN: This chapter was EXTREMELY SHORT because I wanted it to be! LoL X.X Anyways, I had a very aching chest when I wrote this chapter, it's so sad! All your family gone, and betrayed by your only love! So sad for Sakura!! Anyways, is Sakura dead?! Stay tooned..