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Chapter 7 – From Hate to Love'It's been a week and three days since Syaoran left to go fight in the war and Sakura is becoming more like Tomoyo everyday,' Queen Yelan said as she looked out the window and into the garden at the both of them.
"You wanted to see me ma'am?" said a voice from behind her.
"Philip, I would like for you to go to the Kinomoto kingdom and see how things are over there. Last I heard, the war was somewhere in that area," Queen Yelan said as she looked at him.
"Yes your Majesty," Philip said as he bowed and left.
"I fear a great evil is coming our way after the Kinomoto kingdom falls. Unfortunately, its coming after a cherry blossom," Queen Yelan said as tears fell down her cheeks.
~*~ A Month and One Week Later ~*~
"Tomoyo, do you think they are going to be alright over there?" Sakura asked, starring at a cherry blossom petal.
"I hope so, Sakura. I don't really want to think about what might happen though if they never came back to us," Tomoyo said as she hugged herself and starred at some roses.
'Syaoran, he must still be mad at me still from what happened on my birthday. I can't believe that I said those things to him and he left without me apologizing. I feel like a horrible person!' Sakura thought as she tilted her head up and saw a rustle in the tree branches.
"Tomoyo, do you hear that?" Sakura asked, still starring up there.
"Hmm, yes. What is it?" Tomoyo said as she also looked up.
Out of nowhere, they were on the ground with something dark covering them up. They tried to flip it over, but it was just to strong and just to big.
"Hmm, which one did he say that he wanted? Oh yeah, the little auburn haired one," said the thing that was on top of them.
"Get off!" they both said at the same time, but only let some of his weight on Tomoyo and left the rest on Sakura.
"You must be Princess Tomoyo of the Daidouji kingdom. I'll tell Prince Eriol that I saw you. Till then, bye!" said the creature as he stood up with Sakura in his arms and just jumped back up into the tree and vanished.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo said as she fell to her knees, crying that she lost another loved one.
"Philip, you don't need to stay here anymore. You have a family to get back to in my kingdom that is probably worried about you. You should leave," Eriol said as he looked at him.
"Prince Syaoran and Prince Eriol, I will be of help in any way that I can," Philip said as he bowed and left.
"Poor Philip. I feel his pain for his sister," Eriol said as he walked towards the table and starred at the forms in front of him.
"Philip is a good man, Eriol. He's stubborn and won't leave until everything is over knowing him," Syaoran said as he started to make his way to Eriol.
"Lately it seems as if their forces are pulling back for some strange reason…what can it be? Syaoran, do you think…Syaoran!" Eriol said as he turned to see his cousin on the ground and not moving.
"What?!" Queen Yelan said as she slammed her hands down on the table.
"Princess Sakura was abducted yesterday," said a servant.
"Why wasn't I warned of this yesterday when it happened?" Queen Yelan said as she calmed herself down a bit.
"Well, we tried looking for you and thought that we might be able to catch the abductor since Princess Tomoyo said that he was more than likely on foot," replied the servant, starring at the floor.
"Send word of this to the Kinomoto kingdom immediately, Susan. They must know right away and come back here in earnest. I fear that we are going to be next soon," Queen Yelan said as she looked at her.
Susan bowed and left without a word as she ran out of the room to the messenger.
'Syaoran, please forgive me my son. I've failed you and our kingdom. Please, just protect Sakura from them,' Queen Yelan thought as she put her head in her arms and cried once again.
~*~ Two Weeks Later ~*~
"Hmm, where am I?" Sakura said as she looked at her surroundings.
"You are in my castle, princess," said a voice from beside her.
"Who are you and…who am I?" Sakura said as she sat up from the bed she was laying down on.
"I'm Prince Yang from the Ying kingdom and you are betrothed to me, Princess Ying Fa," Yang said as he walked slowly towards her.
"Is that who I truly am?" Sakura asked, not really believing him, but she had no other choice to.
"Princess, you are my fiancée and I do not lie to my loved ones. You see; you were taken away from us from the people of the Kinomoto and Li kingdoms. You must have lost your memory while there, because we rescued you and brought you back here to where you belong," Yang said as he sat down on the bed.
"I see," Sakura said as she looked up at him and smiled.
"Now, for doing what they have done to you, the crime is severe punishment and the only way to do that is by war," Yang said as he brought her closer and kissed her.
'Finally, you're all mine, princess.'
"Get out!" Syaoran yelled as he threw a chair at the door that was now closing.
"Calm down, cousin. I'm sure we'll find her unharmed soon," Eriol said as he looked up at him and frowned.
'I've never seen him like this before. Only once and that was when someone dishonored his father. But with her, this is totally different. At least Tomoyo wasn't harmed, but still…' Eriol thought as he frowned again and looked out the window and into the garden.
Ever since the kidnapping, everyone thought it safe if the royals were put up with guards to protect them in case the thing should come back.
"Not even Tomoyo is happy," Eriol said as he leaned against the window.
"I should have known this was going to happen! The dreams were warning me and all I did was ignore them! Now look at what happened!" Syaoran said as he threw another chair at a wall.
"Keep it up cousin and there will be no more chairs for none of us to sit on," Eriol said as he tried to lighten the mood of the situation.
"Thanks for trying to help, but its not going to work this time," Syaoran said as he walked out and slammed the door.
"Syaoran, you and Sakura are meant to be together and there isn't anything that can change that," Eriol said as he looked back out at Tomoyo.
"Eriol…" Tomoyo said as she sighed.
"Yes my dear," Eriol said as he came up behind her and gave her a hug.
"Any word of her yet?" Tomoyo asked, hoping he would say 'yes'.
"Unfortunately, no, not yet anyways. But I do have a feeling that we are missing something or someone. We have sent letters to everyone in the country and they say that they know nothing about this and we have every right to believe them," Eriol said as he sat down behind her.
"Maybe it was one of her suitors?" Tomoyo said as she leaned against him.
"Suitors? What do mean, Tomoyo?" Eriol asked as he got interested in what she was going to say.
"Well, she had many suitors, but she turned all of them down because of reasons only she knows. There was one though that she said that really disturbed her though," Tomoyo said as she sat up and let her mind think.
"Tomoyo, do you remember his name?" Eriol said as he looked at with earnest.
"I think it was…something with a 'Y' in the front," Tomoyo said as she looked up at him with hope.
"Yasha, Yamashi, Yukito, Yalen, Yang, Yenn…"
"Wait! What was the name you said before Yenn?" Tomoyo asked, knowing that it sounded familiar to her.
"Yang," Eriol said as he repeated his name.
"That's it! It's him! He's the one that is behind all of this! He has to be!" Tomoyo said as she got up with a smile on her face.
"Are you sure? Tomoyo, he's one of the Li and Hiiragazawa's allies. He's never done anything that would disrupt us all into a war, especially our kingdoms," Eriol said as he took Tomoyo's hand in his.
"No! It's true! He is the one that created this war and took Sakura away from us! If you don't believe me, ask Touya who her last suitor was! Sakura had a bad feeling about him and she is never wrong when she gets one of those!" Tomoyo said, yelling at the top of her lungs to get her point across.
"Okay then, Tomoyo. We'll both go tell Syaoran together and get ready to attack the Ying kingdom," Eriol said as he hugged her close.
"Yang, when do we go to another battle? I'm getting bored just being here," Sakura said as she lay down lazily in her throne chair.
"I'm thinking about having one in next month against them so we can restock on our supplies again," Yang said as he walked over to her and kneeled in front of her.
"But why wait?" Sakura said as she put her face a few inches from him.
"Because, we have time to ourselves," Yang said as he grabbed her and kissed her fiercely.
'Hmm…I love it when he kisses me like this, but why do I remember the touch of someone else's kisses. Syao,' Sakura thought forgetting about everything else around her except her love, which was Yang, and a chocolate hair amber-eyed man.
Well, that's it for now! Please keep reviewing and let me know what you think so far! Hope I'm not going to fast! Take care! Till next time! -Bluepiper