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Chapter 8 – From Hate to Love'It is already going to be a at least three weeks and we still can't find her! I swear if anyone even goes near her, I'll…'
"Syaoran, may we have a word with you?" Eriol asked as he and Tomoyo waited by the door.
"What is it Eriol?" Syaoran asked as he took a deep breathe to try to calm him down.
"We have right to believe that…Yang is the one that took away Sakura from here," Eriol said as he walked up to him, seriousness in his eyes.
"Syaoran, he was one of Sakura's suitors and…after he left, she had told us that she had a bad feeling about him. When she says things like that, she' s never really wrong. It has to be him though because every time that he was around her, she would fear him," Tomoyo said as she just stood there at her spot, sobbing.
At the sight of her crying, Eriol started to walk towards her, but stopped when Syaoran put a hand on his shoulder. Instead, Syaoran walked over to her and hugged her. Tomoyo was shocked that he had just hugged her since she has never even seen him hug Sakura.
"Thank you Tomoyo for staying here and putting up with all of this. I feel your pain, but I promise I will not rest until Sakura is back here," Syaoran said as he gave her a kiss on her forehead and turned to look at Eriol.
"We'll wait until Yang attacks again. It's been close to at least week and we haven't heard a word from him. Stock up on supplies, we'll be leaving at the beginning of next month," Syaoran said as he looked at them both and walked out of the room.
"Eriol, do you think everything will be alright?" Tomoyo asked as she was brought out of her daze.
"Don't worry now, Tomoyo. We still have our best troops left here and at the Kinomoto kingdom. We'll ask for them to return so we can leave as promised," Eriol said as he brought her closer and kissed.
'Eriol, I've missed you so much,' Tomoyo said as she put her arms around his neck.
'Tomoyo, I've missed your warmth and now I will never leave you again,' Eriol thought as he pulled her closer.
"Are you sure about this Syaoran? The Ying kingdom would not do such a thing," Queen Yelan said as she sat in her throne room.
"Yes mother, I know. But he has been acting strangely while we were over there. He wouldn't let us go into some corridors and rooms were often locked," Syaoran said as he stood in front of his mother.
"I still don't know Syaoran. They have shown no aggression towards us our its other allies," Queen Yelan said as she looked at her son.
She saw how his eyes were furious and yet warn out. By listening to him, she knew that she needed to let him go with his troops. She sighed and looked back up at him with sorrowful eyes.
"Promise me that you will bring her back? This kingdom misses her smile," Queen Yelan said as Syaoran came up to her and hugged her, giving her a kiss on her cheek.
"Thank you mother," Syaoran said as he ran out.
Queen Yelan was shocked as this has been the first time that he was hugged her and kissed her since his father died, fifteen years ago.
"Yama, go look for Ying Fa and bring her," Yang said as Yama bowed and walked out.
'I have a bad feeling about something, but I can't seem to put my finger on it. Syaoran and Eriol would never suspect me since I have never done nothing wrong to them…except now,' Yang thought as he walked over to the window.
He saw Sakura sitting underneath a cherry blossom tree when he saw Yama come up to her and told her that Yang wanted to see her. She got up quickly and ran inside the palace.
'So beautiful.'
"You wanted to see me, Yang," Sakura said as she walked up to him and put her arms around him.
"Yes, we will be leaving in two weeks to the Li kingdom," Yang said as he looked down at her.
"Finally! I thought we were never going to leave this place. Besides, I want to get out to you know and I've improved on my sword skills and fighting skills," Sakura said as she kissed him.
When they parted, Yang said that he needed to go check on the supplies that was coming in and told her that he would see her later. She in turn went back outside and sat underneath the cherry blossom tree again.
'Why is it that every time we kiss or something, amber eyes and chocolate brown hair come to my mind and I can't seem to get rid of them. I seem to remember something about him, but I just can't figure it out! I think his name was Syao or something like that,' Sakura thought as she looked up at the tree.
~*~ One Week Later ~*~
"Are we ready to leave yet, Eriol?" Syaoran thought as he looked at his cousin.
"Yes, seems like it," Eriol said as he gave him a smile.
"I'm coming too!" Tomoyo said as she ran out of the palace.
"Tomoyo, I told you that you couldn't leave with us! I don't want for you to get hurt wile we fight one another," Eriol said as he ran up to her.
"No! I have a bad feeling about something and I'm not going to go back anywhere except over there with you!" Tomoyo said as she looked up at him.
"Tomoyo…"
Tomoyo in turn brought his face down to hers and kissed him passionately, making him moan.
"Now, do I get to go?" Tomoyo asked starring at his face innocently.
"…Yes," Eriol said as he just stood there, in a daze.
"Thank you," Tomoyo said as she gave him a quick kiss and got on one of the horses.
"Eriol, your helpless," Syaoran said as he smacked his back to wake him of his daze.
"For your information, cousin, you will be like that too when Sakura is back with us," Eriol said as he smirked at him and left to get on his horse.
'Sakura,' Syaoran thought as he walked up to his horse and got on, marching forward towards the Ying kingdom to get her back.
~*~ Five Days Later ~*~
"Prince Syaoran, we saw someone in the gardens a while ago. We think that it might be her," said a guard as he kneeled to him.
"Where?" Syaoran asked as he followed him out, motioning for the others to follow him.
"Ying Fa, why do you like this garden so much?" Yang asked as he saw her sitting in her spot.
"I like this place. It makes me calm and happy somehow just sitting here," Sakura said as she looked around her, but stopped at a certain bush that had moved.
Yang noticed it too and pulled out his sword as he walked towards it. Sakura did the same as she called out for her sword and walked beside him.
When they reached it, they both stabbed their swords in, but hey couldn't get their swords back.
"Syaoran! Eriol! Come out now!" Yang yelled as he jerked his sword, but it didn't budge.
Sakura on the other hand was having the same kind of problems as Yang, but since she still her hands on it, the sword pulled her forward and into the bush.
"Hoe!"
"Ying Fa!" Yang yelled as he tried to get a hold of her, but missed and fell. "Guards! We are under attack!"
"Well?" Syaoran asked as he walked up to a tent.
"She is still the same, sir. Even Princess Tomoyo tried talking to her, but she just punched her and of course, they fought," the guard said as he looked at him.
"Very well, see to it that no one sees her but Eriol, Tomoyo, or myself. Got that," Syaoran said as he walked away from the tent.
'It's already been about a week already and we are slowly losing troops. I should have killed Yang when we were there! No one was there to protect him and Sakura was already back with us. Stupid!' Syaoran thought as he saw the sun come up.
"Another day, another battle," Syaoran thought as he saw the Ying kingdom start to charge once again at his troops.
"Any word on them yet, Philip?" Queen Yelan asked as she saw Philip enter the gates.
"No. We are losing horribly to them, but we do have Princess Sakura back with us though. She seems to not remember anything that happened except when she was the Ying kingdom," Philip said as he looked at her.
"I feared this would happen! I can't believe that the Ying kingdom would do this to us. Send a letter to the Fesym kingdom asking them to send us their troops," Queen Yelan said as she closed her eyes.
"But Queen Yelan, they will kill all of them if we allow them to go! We can't do that to the Ying kingdom!" Philip said as he bowed quickly to her and apologized for his actions.
"It's alright, Philip. I feel the same way that you do, but our troops are not doing to so well and their troops will stop this…even if they do murder them all," Queen Yelan said as Philip bowed and walked away.
"Please forgive me, everyone," Queen Yelan said as she dropped to her knees and cried.
~*~ One Month Later ~*~
"Prince Syaoran! Prince Syaoran!" said a voice that woke up half the campsite.
"What is it, Philip? Is everything well at our kingdom?" Syaoran asked as he ran out of his tent and towards him.
"We must leave this place now!" Philip said as he tried to catch his breath.
"Why? We haven't finished here and…"
"Your mother has sent a letter to…Fesym and has asked for their troops to come here in place for you! If we do not leave right now…"
"Quickly run to every tent and tell them my orders and for them to leave as soon as they can. Do not let them wait for me or anyone else!" Syaoran said as he ran back to his tent and gathered his things and in the process, yelling over at the tent next to him, which was Eriol and Tomoyo's tent.
When Syaoran was done, he went over to the tent that held Sakura and told the guard to leave and get ready. He walked inside and saw her legs tied to the post as well as one of her arms. She was asleep and was saying a name that he had really missed when he left her.
"Syao," Sakura said as she opened her eyes and found a pair of amber ones starring at her.
"Who are you?!" Sakura said as she got up and got into fighting stance.
"I'm the one that brought you here. Do you even know who this, Syao, person is?" Syaoran asked her, seeing as how she had somehow forgotten everything about them.
"…No," Sakura said, but he knew that she was lying.
"What would you do if I told you that I'm Prince Syaoran from the Li kingdom and you are Princess Sakura from the Kinomoto kingdom?" Syaoran asked as walked over to her.
"Don't you dare come near me! I'll punch you like I did with whatever her name is," Sakura said as she swung out at him.
He blocked and waited for her next attack. Instead, he decided to take a shot out at her and in doing so, she blocked it to and returned with one of her punches.
They did this for a while until Syaoran realized that they needed to be going and fast.
"Whats wrong, running out of ideas?" Sakura asked as she punched him again, but he caught her fist and held it.
"No, you?" Syaoran asked as he caught her other fist and brought her in to kiss her.
"What are you…"
The kiss was a chaste one and when he pulled away, she followed and brought them to another kiss.
"Are we interrupting anything?" Eriol asked as he saw what as happening.
"No. Lets get going. Are you going to come freely our are we going to have to tie you up again?" Syaoran asked her as she still had her eyes closed.
"Sakura?" Syaoran asked again as he saw that she wasn't moving.
"Maybe she is trying to remember us and everything that has been happening?" Tomoyo said as she looked at her friend, hoping that was what was going on.
"We don't have time for this, we need to get going now!" Syaoran said as he gently picked her up in his arms and walked quickly out of the tent and towards his horse.
When he got on, he put Sakura in front of him and looked one last time around the site. Everything was still standing the way that it was and since it was still dark, the Ying Kingdom would still think that we were here.
'Please forgive us,' Syaoran thought as he rode to catch up with Eriol and Tomoyo.
"Time to start another battle. This time, I feel that we are going to win and I will have my Cherry Blossom back with me!" Yang said as he saw that his troops were beginning to wake up.
He looked over at the site where the others were suppose to be, but saw that no one had come out yet. He thought that they were still there, sleeping.
'This is going to be to easy,' Yang said as he led his troops forward, for the last and final time.
~*~ One Year Later ~*~
"I now pronounce you both husband and wife. You may kiss the bride," said the Priest as the couples kissed.
When they pulled back, everyone applauded and cried as they were finally able to get together and enjoy peace at last.
"Congratulations to you all," said Queen Yelan as she walked up beside King Fujitaka and Prince Touya.
"Thank you," they both said as they bowed and turned to leave.
"I'm glad that they were finally able to get together after all this time," King Fujitaka said as he looked at his daughter and Syaoran.
"Syaoran isn't that bad when you get to know him I guess," Touya said as he looked at his broken arm in a cast.
"Yes, they are both perfect for each other, both couples," Queen Yelan said as she looked at them and smiled.
"So, still mad at me for what happened?" Sakura asked as she danced her first dance as Sakura Kinomoto-Li.
"No, besides, I'll get you back for what you did," Syaoran said as he pulled her closer.
"But it was an accident, Syaoran. You just happened to be under the window when I threw out the water from cleaning our room," Sakura said as she giggled at how he looked at her when she did that.
"Oh, I know that Sakura. Just like it was your accident that…"
"Syaoran, that was your fault to you know," Sakura said as she smiled up at him.
"You do know that it has been a year since…"
"I know Syaoran, but why did we have to do that to them for?" Sakura asked as she buried her head in his chest.
"It was either that or die trying to get you back. My mother thought that it would be best if we did that, but we did try and if you would like, we can go over there later on," Syaoran said as he held her close.
"I know, but they didn't deserve that. I'm so sorry that all of this happened because of me," Sakura said as she silently started to sob.
"Sakura, this is our wedding night and I should have known better than to bring something like that up tonight. It wasn't your fault and you need to stop blaming yourself for what happened. Its in the past now and you can't do nothing about it. My father told me that before he died and I've said it to myself countless of times and it has helped me get through," Syaoran said as she picked her head up and wiped her tears away.
"Alright. From now on, I'll start anew," Sakura said as Syaoran kissed her while they were dancing.
"Do you think that it's finally over now, Eriol?" Tomoyo asked as she danced with her husband.
"I hope it is and it should be, Tomoyo. No body should have to live with what we are going to live with," Eriol said as he danced with his wife.
"I hope so. It was starting to tear us apart when one of us was gone," Tomoyo said as she looked up at him and smiled.
"I know for a fact that Syaoran and I hope that it never happens again," Eriol said as he brought her closer to him.
"You wouldn't believe how dazed out Sakura and I were when you guys were out somewhere," Tomoyo said as she giggled in remembrance.
"Well, everything is in the past now and like Syaoran says, you can't do nothing about it," Eriol says as he kisses Tomoyo and hopes that nothing tears them apart.
Syaoran and Sakura went to the garden to take a walk so they could get away from the ball for a while. They went to their spot and sat down, looking up at the stars.
"Do you ever regret doing the things that we did to each other?" Sakura asked, starring up at the sky.
"…Sometimes I do, but I'm glad that things are back to the way they are and the way on how they are suppose to be," Syaoran said as he hugged her.
"I love you Syao," Sakura said as she smiled innocently at him.
"I love you too, princess," Syaoran said as he kissed her under the stars.
~*~ Fini ~*~
Okay, I'm really, really, really sowy for rushing this story and everything for those of you that think I am. I tried to slow it down, but since I type at night, I'm kind of drained and can't really think of anything to write down. Sowy everyone! But thank you for reviewing and reading my story. If you can, give me some ideas for another story. I have some right now, but I'm not sure! I'll make sure that I do the rest of the stories, slowly! J Thank you everyone! Take care! -Bluepiper