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__* *__ - One person's point of view
*====*====* - another scene happening.
( ) - Author's notes, or at least what I think when that happens.
* - Japanese words, translations will be at the bottom with my goodbye address.
" " - the things they say.
' ' - thoughts.
Last chapter's end..... ````````````````````````````````````````````````````` "Oh my god, Eriol-san, I'm terribly sorry!" Mizuki said, bowing down.
"Don't worry, they're already safe for now. Lucky that I had checked up on them on time or Skaura wouldn't have live another day." He stated, pushing his glasses up. She heaved a sigh of relief before Eriol continued.
"However, they will be in a lot of trouble from now on. The soldiers knew now who she is. I wish my descendants are good hiders or they'll be goners." He said with a bit of bitter laugh. He just hoped they will be, for when time comes, they might be in grave danger.
To be continued.... ~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~*
The pendant Showed Us The Way To Our Hearts
Chapter 10: Amnesia, huh?
By Sakura2649
She looked around at the familiar street near her house. Esmilia. How she missed her hometown! However, one disturbing question perturbed on her mind: Why is she here? She knew that she was with Syaoran and the others when the soldiers found out that.Oh no! She exclaimed in her thought, panicking. Oh my god! They already knew who I am! . She went silent when something got her attention. Her house, around the corner, was suddenly surrounded by at least ten big men. Soldiers! She thought, stretching out her hand. Few minutes later after they got it, they left the house with someone new on the group. She narrowed her eyes to see who it is but unfortunately, she never got a chance.
"Sakura?" Syaoran gently shook her. She blinked her eyes open to reality and looked around.
"Syaoran-kun, what am I?" She asked but completely dismissed it. It was just a dream, she realized and now that she mentioned it, she can't even remember what it was.
"Nan de?" She shook her head and glimpsed around. She was at her room, only Syaoran was there, though she wondered why.
"Sakura, are you even listening to me?" Syaoran stated and she had a better look on him. She frowned. Her healing on his arm hadn't been completed so it left a big scar on his upper arm.
"Your arm hadn't healed." She gave a guilty look and bowed down, slightly ashamed. He sighed and pushed her face up by cupping her chin, giving her a warm look.
"No, don't do that, for God's sake. It's not your fault why I got this scar." She tore their eye contact but Syaoran forced her to look at him again. "I willingly will and always protect you, Sakura. We're destined to fight. It's not avoidable to have this, you know. And it's nothing, really. After you healed it a bit, I couldn't feel its pain anymore." He said, smiling warmly at her. She felt surprised, honored, glad and touched at the same time. Syaoran sure know how to make me feel better!, she thought.
"Thanks for that." She said shyly, returning a sweet smile. A blush crept to his face making Sakura confused.
"Well, anyway, we've got to get out of this town. They already know who we all are,." The girl sat up and pushed a finger to his lips, silencing him.
"Correction: only me. They hadn't known that you're the mighty Li Syaoran of the magical Li clan!" She said proudly, and he smirked smugly.
"I liked that mighty Syaoran you said, it makes me proud." She poked his ribs playfully as he flinched.
"Don't flatter yourself too much." She retorted.
"Anyway, back to the topic, we'll leave this town tomorrow morning. You've been asleep for three days."
"Three days? I slept that long?!" She asked indignantly as the others barged in the door. Tomoyo is the first to squeal and hugged the girl.
"Sakura-chan! I'm glad you're awake at last!" She said, as Sakura gratefully returned the bear hug.
"Me too, though I still can't believe I had slept that long!" She exclaimed, giggling. The others went closer to her to, at least, pat her head, and say concerned words. Her sibling wiped the others aside and hugged his sister tightly, which received a growl from a certain boy.
"What did you do to make yourself hurt! Don't do that again!" He said, as Sakura winced when he touched her arm. She noticed that it still hadn't recovered from that soldier. Her brother gave her apologetic smile as she gave him confused look.
"Did you.?" She questioned but he nodded even if her question wasn't finished.
"They told me." He pointed at Yamazaki as Yukito walked towards to her. Immediately, her gaze went to him as he patted her shoulder.
"I'm glad you're all right, Sakura. You didn't know how concern your brother was." He laughed, making Sakura blush slightly. Every now and then, Syaoran would let out a scowl or growl for some unknown reason. And for no reasons at all, he hated this guy Yukito. Probably, it is because he is close to Sakura, but why is he acting like this, he didn't know.
"Don't worry, Yukito-san. I'm fine, really." She goes hanyaan when she looked at Yukito, blushing.
"Anyway, you still have other visitors." He stated as she stared expectantly at the door way as it revealed one young man and woman she's already familiar with. Gien quickly straightened and gave his brother an intense gaze.
"Eriol-kun! Mizuki-sensei!" She smiled brightly at them.
"I heard that you got an accident, I thought to visit you." Mizuki said.
"Thanks for your concern." She got confused when Mizuki cast an apologetic look at her. She wondered why she did.
"I'm here to see if you're well and to tell you that I'm about to leave toward Dalis, Gien and my home town." He said, smiling fatherly at her.
"Hey, we're also leaving by tomorrow. Want to come with us?" She asked, to Syaoran's surprise, as he groaned lowly. The young man nodded, beaming.
"Where are you going from here?" Touya asked finally.
"No idea." She stated as she looked at her companions.
"But we have to went back to Sun town." Meiling said, making the whole lot look at her. Syaoran gave her a meaningful look, his gaze shifting from Eriol and Mizuki and back to her. She nodded in utter agreement and she silent back.
"Why do we have to go to Sun town?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
"It's their hometown if you can recall." Yamazaki simply said.
"Oh yeah, I also would like to see your mother Syaoran." Meiling sweat dropped and Syaoran chuckled.
"You'll get a little weird with my mom, you know. She is more serious than me." Sakura gave him a dropped face as she processed what he said.
"Dead serious?"
"Dead serious," He confirmed. She couldn't think of anyone getting anymore serious than Syaoran.
"In that case, at least, you're not the only one in the family." She playfully stated, two of the listeners placed knowing grins on their faces as they thought one thing: cute couple.
"And what was that mean?" He leaned closely as his intense stare made Sakura melt. She shrugged her shoulders, leaning backwards, to make him get far enough. She can't let him see the blush on her face. On their backgournd, they could hear laughter from Tomoyo, growl from Meiling, Touya and Gien (who completely forgotten his brother was there!), a Yamazaki telling another lie to a dense Yukito. Obviously, they all have their own worlds.
*====*====*
"A letter from, soldier-in-command, Juishito, sir!" A messenger said. The emperor looked up expectantly at him.
"Well? What does it say?"
"Let me read it to you, sir:
Your majesty, I already found who the pendant owner was and it was a girl. Her name was Kinomoto Sakura. I found her performing in a play in Orkina. She performed magic and all those stuffs to my men and to me. I felt that I needed to inform you as soon as I had found it. Unfortunately, we're still traveling back to the palace." The emperor stood up abruptly from his throne as he clapped his hands.
"Wonderful! At last, we found her! Her name is Kinomoto Sakura, huh? Hmmm. Let's see, capture her family and blackmail her to give us her pendant! Ha! Brilliant idea! For now, find her and follow her everywhere, and try to get the pendant." He laughed hysterically as he felt his powers would increase with the help of the pendant.
*====*====*
"I am not happy!" Meiling let out a frustrated yell, squeezing the sides of her head as if she can break herself in half. They're in the middle of the desert with an unusual heat from the sun.
"I know it's all natural for a desert to this kind of weather but this is not normal! It's like the sun loves us too much that he liked to heat up some more!.Ahhh!" She yelled sarcastically as suddenly, she fell. The others turned to her, surprised that she suddenly disappeared. Yamazaki tried to hold his laugh since once Meiling is out of this; he knew he'd give her chance to break his head off.
"Let me get out of this quick sand! It's absorbing me down." She pleaded as she slowly sank down. Tomoyo giggled and got a glare from Meiling so she shut up. Yamazaki, Eriol and Gien are just stubbornly rooted to the sand, watching them. Syaoran just got his arms on his chest while Sakura darted forward to help Meiling.
"Of all people I thought who will help, it is Kinomoto! Is Kinomoto the only one caring for me?!" She scolded. Though, others, especially the ones who knew Meiling always threaten Sakura, are very surprised. They never thought that would come out from her mouth. Sakura pulled the girl up, who was as big as she was, but she couldn't do anything more than to pull. And that's when it happened, Sakura tried to pull harder and Meiling tried to push herself up, but unfortunately for the two, Sakura fell down in the quick sand as Meiling accidentally pulled Sakura down with her.
"Hoe! Help!" She cried as both of them are now stuck on the sinking ground. Tomoyo stopped giggling and looked at them in concern.
"Hey, anyone wants to help them?" She asked the obvious to the guys. Syaoran and the others sighed and tried to help the two pull themselves up. After few minutes of struggles, the two finally reached relatively firm ground.
"And I thought I would be stuck there forever." Sakura panted, however, Meiling became sulky.
"And what the heck was that? Am I only a burden here or something?! If Sakura hadn't come with me in that sand pool, I would never be saved, am I?" She said enviously, feeling mistreated. Some of them averted their eyes and others grin sheepishly at her. She sighed in utter disbelief, as she was the first to move ahead.
"Ne, Meiling-chan." Yamazaki started as Meiling gazed back at him. He and Gien were the one who helped her up while Eriol and Syaoran helped Sakura. It's only right to be grateful with them. Or not.
"You're heavy, you should go on a diet. It's no wonder Sakura got pulled down with you." He said and immediately, a big red mark printed itself on his cheeks. Fuming Meiling is not someone you should take easy with.
"She's scary." Tomoyo whispered to Sakura who nodded in agreement, too shocked to speak.
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After a day, they rested in a nearby cave as one cooked food. It was another hot day, however, it's a desert so it would be normal.
"Ne, Eriol-kun, How did you know that Gien-kun was here?" Sakura curiously asked Eriol when Gien glimpsed at them. He and Syaoran suddenly became alert when he heard his name.
"I just felt it. You'll know it if you're twins." Eriol glanced at Gien and winked at him, knowing fully well that he was led by his magic.
"I see. But I still can't believe that Gien-kun had a twin brother!" She said exasperatedly. The magician smiled at her that somehow, calmed her spirit. It also made her smile sweetly to him but these actions made Syaoran growl at the blue-eyed boy. 'How dare he to flirt with Sakura!' Syaoran thought. What surprised him thought, as if Eriol had read his thought, turned his head to him and winked.
"And as if you hadn't do it." That statement made Sakura confused and made the amber-eyed boy shocked even more. 'He really knew how to read thoughts', Syaoran glared at him when Eriol smiled warmly at him. Something with the boy disturbed the young master swordsman; one thing for sure is that he can read thoughts.
"What did I do, Eriol-kun?" She brought back his attention to her as he shook his head and he walked off towards Yamazaki to join their conversation.
"What is that all about?" She turned to Syaoran, confused.
"I don't know Sakura, but something peculiar is happening around here. Keep your defenses up, okay?" That made Sakura only more confused. Why do I have to keep my defense up with Eriol-kun?, she thought.
"Ne, Gien-kun." She tried to ask it one more time to make her bewilderment disappear but, to her surprise, Gien walked away towards Yamazaki's group as if he was avoiding her incoming question. She followed him and their conversation made her thoughts vanish.
"You know, about fainting?" The others nodded as Sakura exclaimed 'Hoe?'
"When people first started fainting, others would think they died and bury them alive!" He said with twinkling eyes.
Eriol started to join the chat, " It is so sad really. Sometimes they didn't found out that they weren't dead until weeks after. By then, the people were almost dead." The people gave them awe looks, made Yamazaki and Eriol proud, except for one that is. Meiling laughed dryly as she discovered it was a lie. It's difficult to know it if Eriol is with him but it's a lie nonetheless.
"Laugh now, Meiling, but if that ever happened to you." He warned seriously when something came contact with his head.
"Don't give me that, Yamazaki!" Meiling warned as everyone giggled.
"Ouch! I'm mad at you and that's no lie!" He said, crossing his arms on his chest.
"For once, it's no lie!" She shouted all the same.
"Meanie." Yamazaki muttered under his breath.
"That.was another lie?" Sakura asked when Tomoyo patted her shoulder.
"Yup, Sakura-chan." She said happily, oblivious with her last conversation with Eriol.
*====*====*
After nine insignificant and uneventful days passed by, they reached Wallidos and tried to rest there for a while.
Sakura sighed. "Big comfy bed, here I come!"
"Same here." Tomoyo said weakly.
"Do you know? The richest man in this town got her daughter kidnapped? They said that they were still looking for her. They said she's very precious. They said that she had the pendant of powers and she was the heir." Sakura heard one gossiped to another villager. She looked at them intently when she heard her pendant.
"Come on, by tomorrow, we'll travel to Sun town." Syaoran said. She snapped back to reality as she heard her friends protested.
"What? But we just got in a town where we can relax and you'll tell us that we'll travel again tomorrow?" Meiling protested and others nodded in agreement. He glared at them.
"And just who reminded me that we're needed urgently by mom?" Syaoran retorted and Meiling went silent.
"My decision's final, we'll leave by tomorrow." They went towards their respected rooms (they rented it.) when something struck Sakura's senses. Magic. She looked around and saw that Syaoran wasn't even looking alarmed.
"It means I'm the only one who felt it." She sneaked out of the apartment and broke in a run. She turned to a corner and found a couple of guys hypnotizing a pretty little girl. She had a pretty long maroon hair coming down to her waist, and bright magenta eyes. However, something else made her alert, the pendant on her neck is the same as hers. She's the girl she heard from the gossiper! And by the looks of the situation, they are planning something bad.
"Hey, stop that!" The gang glanced at her and smirked evilly.
"Well, well, well. We got ourselves another babe. It looks like it's our lucky day today." One of them advanced to her as her mind panicked. How can I defeat these guys? She thought when something hit her senses. Martial arts. She dodged his attacks and she leapt to his side and hit his lower back head. It made him unconscious.
"Give that girl back or else, you'll have the same fate as this guy." She boldly pointed at the man lying on the floor. They all flinched back except one, the one who hypnotized the girl.
"Get her." He said to the hypnotized girl as she attacked.
Sakura barely survived to dodge them when the girl had managed to him her stomach. The mistress fell on her weak knees as she coughed. And that's when it happened as she was caught off guard. The girl activated an energy ball on her both palms, chanting. Sakura felt the magic and her head snapped up. Too late, the ball was released from the girl and the energy ball contacted with Sakura, pushing her back to a hard wall. She bumped her head and dropped unconscious. It's a miracle that her mind registered the man's voice calling 'Sakura' before her mind drifted to a sleep.
*====*====*
Tomoyo looked worriedly around for her friend.
"Syaoran, Sakura's missing." She glanced helplessly around as everyone went silent.
"Don't worry so much, Daidouji-san. Kinomoto's here somewhere." Although, her tone was comforting, she, too, glanced around and saw no sign of the girl.
"I'm going to look for her." Syaoran said, hint of fear on his tone made Meiling and Tomoyo shocked.
"We'll come too." Gien and Eriol said. Eriol is also worried for her. He never thought she would go unnoticed by him. They left the building and started to run to opposite directions as Syaoran was going towards Sakura's aura.
"Where the heck did that girl went into?" He said when he detected a strong magic going towards Sakura's aura.
"Shit!" He exclaimed and turned to the corner where Sakura was. He looked in horror. He stared as the energy ball hit Sakura and she was backed to the wall hard. With a thump, she lay unconscious on the ground.
"Sakura!" He glared at the retreating men with the mysterious hypnotized girl as he went to Sakura's side. When he sensed that she was still unconscious, he put her into her arms as Eriol came to her view.
"Oh My God, What happened to her?" He had sensed the energy ball as well and went directly to them. But all of them are too late now.
"She was hit in the wall. She's not in danger." He lied. The combination of a wall and energy ball is not promising to not endanger his 'good friend'. They decided to go back to the inn and treat her wounds.
*====*====*
"She's not waking up!" Tomoyo sobbed to tears as Meiling hugged her for comfort.
"Shhh. She'll wake, Daidouji. She's a strong girl." Meiling spoke as she glimpsed at Sakura's figure on the bed. Her forehead was bandaged around and she was in a hospital dress. All her other fellows are looking at her worriedly except for one.
"It's all my fault." He chanted under his breath as he raked his hand to his uncombed hair. He glanced helplessly to the girl on the hospital bed.
"I should have sensed her going out of the building. I should have protected her. I should have been alert. I should fulfill my duty to her." He listed out his faults as Eriol listened.
He, too, was thinking like that. He thought they be much safer with him keeping an eye even more closely to them. He even couldn't imagine his descendant's fear. For his loved one.
Gien is also having a hard time. He thought she'll be safe with his strong twin with them but no, worst comes to worse. Nothing happened good so far from all their travels.
*====*====*
"Sakura? Are you here?" Her father curiously asked at their empty house. He settled down on the couch as he sighed. Now that he's here, her daughter and son wasn't.
"Kinomoto-san?" Naoko peeked at him from the door. He gazed at her and realized.
"You're Sakura's friend, aren't you? Can you tell me where she went?"
"They went to somewhere out of the town, sir. Tomoyo-chan asked me to look after this house while they're away." She recited.
"I see. So if Tomoyo's with my daughter, I guess I have nothing to worry about." He relaxed back to the couch as Naoko asked if she could go now. He nodded and closed his eyes.
"It's been a long time since I hadn't been here." He let sleep come over him but unfortunately, rumbvles from outside keeps him awake.
"What is that?" He asked to no one in particular and looked down at the incoming soldiers.
"What is it, sir?" He asked from them before they thrust a hand at his lower back head, making him fall limp unconscious.
Another soldier caught him and went out of the house. Terrified looks from their neighbors were seen as like Naoko's. Kidnapping Sakura's father wasn't a good sign. She went directly to her bird, scribbled a warning letter and slipped it to the bird's beak.
"Find my friend, Tomoyo. Give her the letter, okay?" Her bird nipped her finger affectionately, as a yes, and soar up to the sky (Naoko's exceptionally intelligent bird was used as her messenger.).
*====*====*
Three days later, and she managed to open her eyes. Six pair of eyes stared happily at her as she came to her senses.
"You finally opened your eyes." She sat up and a girl hugged her tightly. She looked around as if she was looking for something when the girl broke the hug. She gave her a strange look. Before she could say anything, the others came to her.
"You nearly frighten me to death!" Another girl lay her hand to her shoulder as another two guys patted her head or smile warmly at her. But one, looked at her surprised. He went closer to her as he touched her forehead.
"Why are you not genki today, Sakura?" Syaoran asked but she gave him a surprised strange look.
"Sakura? Is that my name?" She asked which made everyone in the room flinch back.
"What are you talking about, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked, a little frightened with her friend's joke.
"I'm not trying to be rude or anything but who are all of you and where am I?" She asked innocently.
To be continued......
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------------------------ Symbols' meanings
[ ]- its like additional thing which happens that I don't need to emphasis.
---} {--- - Flash backs
__* *__ - One person's point of view
*====*====* - another scene happening.
( ) - Author's notes, or at least what I think when that happens.
* - Japanese words, translations will be at the bottom with my goodbye address.
" " - the things they say.
' ' - thoughts.
Last chapter's end..... ````````````````````````````````````````````````````` "Oh my god, Eriol-san, I'm terribly sorry!" Mizuki said, bowing down.
"Don't worry, they're already safe for now. Lucky that I had checked up on them on time or Skaura wouldn't have live another day." He stated, pushing his glasses up. She heaved a sigh of relief before Eriol continued.
"However, they will be in a lot of trouble from now on. The soldiers knew now who she is. I wish my descendants are good hiders or they'll be goners." He said with a bit of bitter laugh. He just hoped they will be, for when time comes, they might be in grave danger.
To be continued.... ~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~*
The pendant Showed Us The Way To Our Hearts
Chapter 10: Amnesia, huh?
By Sakura2649
She looked around at the familiar street near her house. Esmilia. How she missed her hometown! However, one disturbing question perturbed on her mind: Why is she here? She knew that she was with Syaoran and the others when the soldiers found out that.Oh no! She exclaimed in her thought, panicking. Oh my god! They already knew who I am! . She went silent when something got her attention. Her house, around the corner, was suddenly surrounded by at least ten big men. Soldiers! She thought, stretching out her hand. Few minutes later after they got it, they left the house with someone new on the group. She narrowed her eyes to see who it is but unfortunately, she never got a chance.
"Sakura?" Syaoran gently shook her. She blinked her eyes open to reality and looked around.
"Syaoran-kun, what am I?" She asked but completely dismissed it. It was just a dream, she realized and now that she mentioned it, she can't even remember what it was.
"Nan de?" She shook her head and glimpsed around. She was at her room, only Syaoran was there, though she wondered why.
"Sakura, are you even listening to me?" Syaoran stated and she had a better look on him. She frowned. Her healing on his arm hadn't been completed so it left a big scar on his upper arm.
"Your arm hadn't healed." She gave a guilty look and bowed down, slightly ashamed. He sighed and pushed her face up by cupping her chin, giving her a warm look.
"No, don't do that, for God's sake. It's not your fault why I got this scar." She tore their eye contact but Syaoran forced her to look at him again. "I willingly will and always protect you, Sakura. We're destined to fight. It's not avoidable to have this, you know. And it's nothing, really. After you healed it a bit, I couldn't feel its pain anymore." He said, smiling warmly at her. She felt surprised, honored, glad and touched at the same time. Syaoran sure know how to make me feel better!, she thought.
"Thanks for that." She said shyly, returning a sweet smile. A blush crept to his face making Sakura confused.
"Well, anyway, we've got to get out of this town. They already know who we all are,." The girl sat up and pushed a finger to his lips, silencing him.
"Correction: only me. They hadn't known that you're the mighty Li Syaoran of the magical Li clan!" She said proudly, and he smirked smugly.
"I liked that mighty Syaoran you said, it makes me proud." She poked his ribs playfully as he flinched.
"Don't flatter yourself too much." She retorted.
"Anyway, back to the topic, we'll leave this town tomorrow morning. You've been asleep for three days."
"Three days? I slept that long?!" She asked indignantly as the others barged in the door. Tomoyo is the first to squeal and hugged the girl.
"Sakura-chan! I'm glad you're awake at last!" She said, as Sakura gratefully returned the bear hug.
"Me too, though I still can't believe I had slept that long!" She exclaimed, giggling. The others went closer to her to, at least, pat her head, and say concerned words. Her sibling wiped the others aside and hugged his sister tightly, which received a growl from a certain boy.
"What did you do to make yourself hurt! Don't do that again!" He said, as Sakura winced when he touched her arm. She noticed that it still hadn't recovered from that soldier. Her brother gave her apologetic smile as she gave him confused look.
"Did you.?" She questioned but he nodded even if her question wasn't finished.
"They told me." He pointed at Yamazaki as Yukito walked towards to her. Immediately, her gaze went to him as he patted her shoulder.
"I'm glad you're all right, Sakura. You didn't know how concern your brother was." He laughed, making Sakura blush slightly. Every now and then, Syaoran would let out a scowl or growl for some unknown reason. And for no reasons at all, he hated this guy Yukito. Probably, it is because he is close to Sakura, but why is he acting like this, he didn't know.
"Don't worry, Yukito-san. I'm fine, really." She goes hanyaan when she looked at Yukito, blushing.
"Anyway, you still have other visitors." He stated as she stared expectantly at the door way as it revealed one young man and woman she's already familiar with. Gien quickly straightened and gave his brother an intense gaze.
"Eriol-kun! Mizuki-sensei!" She smiled brightly at them.
"I heard that you got an accident, I thought to visit you." Mizuki said.
"Thanks for your concern." She got confused when Mizuki cast an apologetic look at her. She wondered why she did.
"I'm here to see if you're well and to tell you that I'm about to leave toward Dalis, Gien and my home town." He said, smiling fatherly at her.
"Hey, we're also leaving by tomorrow. Want to come with us?" She asked, to Syaoran's surprise, as he groaned lowly. The young man nodded, beaming.
"Where are you going from here?" Touya asked finally.
"No idea." She stated as she looked at her companions.
"But we have to went back to Sun town." Meiling said, making the whole lot look at her. Syaoran gave her a meaningful look, his gaze shifting from Eriol and Mizuki and back to her. She nodded in utter agreement and she silent back.
"Why do we have to go to Sun town?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
"It's their hometown if you can recall." Yamazaki simply said.
"Oh yeah, I also would like to see your mother Syaoran." Meiling sweat dropped and Syaoran chuckled.
"You'll get a little weird with my mom, you know. She is more serious than me." Sakura gave him a dropped face as she processed what he said.
"Dead serious?"
"Dead serious," He confirmed. She couldn't think of anyone getting anymore serious than Syaoran.
"In that case, at least, you're not the only one in the family." She playfully stated, two of the listeners placed knowing grins on their faces as they thought one thing: cute couple.
"And what was that mean?" He leaned closely as his intense stare made Sakura melt. She shrugged her shoulders, leaning backwards, to make him get far enough. She can't let him see the blush on her face. On their backgournd, they could hear laughter from Tomoyo, growl from Meiling, Touya and Gien (who completely forgotten his brother was there!), a Yamazaki telling another lie to a dense Yukito. Obviously, they all have their own worlds.
*====*====*
"A letter from, soldier-in-command, Juishito, sir!" A messenger said. The emperor looked up expectantly at him.
"Well? What does it say?"
"Let me read it to you, sir:
Your majesty, I already found who the pendant owner was and it was a girl. Her name was Kinomoto Sakura. I found her performing in a play in Orkina. She performed magic and all those stuffs to my men and to me. I felt that I needed to inform you as soon as I had found it. Unfortunately, we're still traveling back to the palace." The emperor stood up abruptly from his throne as he clapped his hands.
"Wonderful! At last, we found her! Her name is Kinomoto Sakura, huh? Hmmm. Let's see, capture her family and blackmail her to give us her pendant! Ha! Brilliant idea! For now, find her and follow her everywhere, and try to get the pendant." He laughed hysterically as he felt his powers would increase with the help of the pendant.
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"I am not happy!" Meiling let out a frustrated yell, squeezing the sides of her head as if she can break herself in half. They're in the middle of the desert with an unusual heat from the sun.
"I know it's all natural for a desert to this kind of weather but this is not normal! It's like the sun loves us too much that he liked to heat up some more!.Ahhh!" She yelled sarcastically as suddenly, she fell. The others turned to her, surprised that she suddenly disappeared. Yamazaki tried to hold his laugh since once Meiling is out of this; he knew he'd give her chance to break his head off.
"Let me get out of this quick sand! It's absorbing me down." She pleaded as she slowly sank down. Tomoyo giggled and got a glare from Meiling so she shut up. Yamazaki, Eriol and Gien are just stubbornly rooted to the sand, watching them. Syaoran just got his arms on his chest while Sakura darted forward to help Meiling.
"Of all people I thought who will help, it is Kinomoto! Is Kinomoto the only one caring for me?!" She scolded. Though, others, especially the ones who knew Meiling always threaten Sakura, are very surprised. They never thought that would come out from her mouth. Sakura pulled the girl up, who was as big as she was, but she couldn't do anything more than to pull. And that's when it happened, Sakura tried to pull harder and Meiling tried to push herself up, but unfortunately for the two, Sakura fell down in the quick sand as Meiling accidentally pulled Sakura down with her.
"Hoe! Help!" She cried as both of them are now stuck on the sinking ground. Tomoyo stopped giggling and looked at them in concern.
"Hey, anyone wants to help them?" She asked the obvious to the guys. Syaoran and the others sighed and tried to help the two pull themselves up. After few minutes of struggles, the two finally reached relatively firm ground.
"And I thought I would be stuck there forever." Sakura panted, however, Meiling became sulky.
"And what the heck was that? Am I only a burden here or something?! If Sakura hadn't come with me in that sand pool, I would never be saved, am I?" She said enviously, feeling mistreated. Some of them averted their eyes and others grin sheepishly at her. She sighed in utter disbelief, as she was the first to move ahead.
"Ne, Meiling-chan." Yamazaki started as Meiling gazed back at him. He and Gien were the one who helped her up while Eriol and Syaoran helped Sakura. It's only right to be grateful with them. Or not.
"You're heavy, you should go on a diet. It's no wonder Sakura got pulled down with you." He said and immediately, a big red mark printed itself on his cheeks. Fuming Meiling is not someone you should take easy with.
"She's scary." Tomoyo whispered to Sakura who nodded in agreement, too shocked to speak.
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After a day, they rested in a nearby cave as one cooked food. It was another hot day, however, it's a desert so it would be normal.
"Ne, Eriol-kun, How did you know that Gien-kun was here?" Sakura curiously asked Eriol when Gien glimpsed at them. He and Syaoran suddenly became alert when he heard his name.
"I just felt it. You'll know it if you're twins." Eriol glanced at Gien and winked at him, knowing fully well that he was led by his magic.
"I see. But I still can't believe that Gien-kun had a twin brother!" She said exasperatedly. The magician smiled at her that somehow, calmed her spirit. It also made her smile sweetly to him but these actions made Syaoran growl at the blue-eyed boy. 'How dare he to flirt with Sakura!' Syaoran thought. What surprised him thought, as if Eriol had read his thought, turned his head to him and winked.
"And as if you hadn't do it." That statement made Sakura confused and made the amber-eyed boy shocked even more. 'He really knew how to read thoughts', Syaoran glared at him when Eriol smiled warmly at him. Something with the boy disturbed the young master swordsman; one thing for sure is that he can read thoughts.
"What did I do, Eriol-kun?" She brought back his attention to her as he shook his head and he walked off towards Yamazaki to join their conversation.
"What is that all about?" She turned to Syaoran, confused.
"I don't know Sakura, but something peculiar is happening around here. Keep your defenses up, okay?" That made Sakura only more confused. Why do I have to keep my defense up with Eriol-kun?, she thought.
"Ne, Gien-kun." She tried to ask it one more time to make her bewilderment disappear but, to her surprise, Gien walked away towards Yamazaki's group as if he was avoiding her incoming question. She followed him and their conversation made her thoughts vanish.
"You know, about fainting?" The others nodded as Sakura exclaimed 'Hoe?'
"When people first started fainting, others would think they died and bury them alive!" He said with twinkling eyes.
Eriol started to join the chat, " It is so sad really. Sometimes they didn't found out that they weren't dead until weeks after. By then, the people were almost dead." The people gave them awe looks, made Yamazaki and Eriol proud, except for one that is. Meiling laughed dryly as she discovered it was a lie. It's difficult to know it if Eriol is with him but it's a lie nonetheless.
"Laugh now, Meiling, but if that ever happened to you." He warned seriously when something came contact with his head.
"Don't give me that, Yamazaki!" Meiling warned as everyone giggled.
"Ouch! I'm mad at you and that's no lie!" He said, crossing his arms on his chest.
"For once, it's no lie!" She shouted all the same.
"Meanie." Yamazaki muttered under his breath.
"That.was another lie?" Sakura asked when Tomoyo patted her shoulder.
"Yup, Sakura-chan." She said happily, oblivious with her last conversation with Eriol.
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After nine insignificant and uneventful days passed by, they reached Wallidos and tried to rest there for a while.
Sakura sighed. "Big comfy bed, here I come!"
"Same here." Tomoyo said weakly.
"Do you know? The richest man in this town got her daughter kidnapped? They said that they were still looking for her. They said she's very precious. They said that she had the pendant of powers and she was the heir." Sakura heard one gossiped to another villager. She looked at them intently when she heard her pendant.
"Come on, by tomorrow, we'll travel to Sun town." Syaoran said. She snapped back to reality as she heard her friends protested.
"What? But we just got in a town where we can relax and you'll tell us that we'll travel again tomorrow?" Meiling protested and others nodded in agreement. He glared at them.
"And just who reminded me that we're needed urgently by mom?" Syaoran retorted and Meiling went silent.
"My decision's final, we'll leave by tomorrow." They went towards their respected rooms (they rented it.) when something struck Sakura's senses. Magic. She looked around and saw that Syaoran wasn't even looking alarmed.
"It means I'm the only one who felt it." She sneaked out of the apartment and broke in a run. She turned to a corner and found a couple of guys hypnotizing a pretty little girl. She had a pretty long maroon hair coming down to her waist, and bright magenta eyes. However, something else made her alert, the pendant on her neck is the same as hers. She's the girl she heard from the gossiper! And by the looks of the situation, they are planning something bad.
"Hey, stop that!" The gang glanced at her and smirked evilly.
"Well, well, well. We got ourselves another babe. It looks like it's our lucky day today." One of them advanced to her as her mind panicked. How can I defeat these guys? She thought when something hit her senses. Martial arts. She dodged his attacks and she leapt to his side and hit his lower back head. It made him unconscious.
"Give that girl back or else, you'll have the same fate as this guy." She boldly pointed at the man lying on the floor. They all flinched back except one, the one who hypnotized the girl.
"Get her." He said to the hypnotized girl as she attacked.
Sakura barely survived to dodge them when the girl had managed to him her stomach. The mistress fell on her weak knees as she coughed. And that's when it happened as she was caught off guard. The girl activated an energy ball on her both palms, chanting. Sakura felt the magic and her head snapped up. Too late, the ball was released from the girl and the energy ball contacted with Sakura, pushing her back to a hard wall. She bumped her head and dropped unconscious. It's a miracle that her mind registered the man's voice calling 'Sakura' before her mind drifted to a sleep.
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Tomoyo looked worriedly around for her friend.
"Syaoran, Sakura's missing." She glanced helplessly around as everyone went silent.
"Don't worry so much, Daidouji-san. Kinomoto's here somewhere." Although, her tone was comforting, she, too, glanced around and saw no sign of the girl.
"I'm going to look for her." Syaoran said, hint of fear on his tone made Meiling and Tomoyo shocked.
"We'll come too." Gien and Eriol said. Eriol is also worried for her. He never thought she would go unnoticed by him. They left the building and started to run to opposite directions as Syaoran was going towards Sakura's aura.
"Where the heck did that girl went into?" He said when he detected a strong magic going towards Sakura's aura.
"Shit!" He exclaimed and turned to the corner where Sakura was. He looked in horror. He stared as the energy ball hit Sakura and she was backed to the wall hard. With a thump, she lay unconscious on the ground.
"Sakura!" He glared at the retreating men with the mysterious hypnotized girl as he went to Sakura's side. When he sensed that she was still unconscious, he put her into her arms as Eriol came to her view.
"Oh My God, What happened to her?" He had sensed the energy ball as well and went directly to them. But all of them are too late now.
"She was hit in the wall. She's not in danger." He lied. The combination of a wall and energy ball is not promising to not endanger his 'good friend'. They decided to go back to the inn and treat her wounds.
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"She's not waking up!" Tomoyo sobbed to tears as Meiling hugged her for comfort.
"Shhh. She'll wake, Daidouji. She's a strong girl." Meiling spoke as she glimpsed at Sakura's figure on the bed. Her forehead was bandaged around and she was in a hospital dress. All her other fellows are looking at her worriedly except for one.
"It's all my fault." He chanted under his breath as he raked his hand to his uncombed hair. He glanced helplessly to the girl on the hospital bed.
"I should have sensed her going out of the building. I should have protected her. I should have been alert. I should fulfill my duty to her." He listed out his faults as Eriol listened.
He, too, was thinking like that. He thought they be much safer with him keeping an eye even more closely to them. He even couldn't imagine his descendant's fear. For his loved one.
Gien is also having a hard time. He thought she'll be safe with his strong twin with them but no, worst comes to worse. Nothing happened good so far from all their travels.
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"Sakura? Are you here?" Her father curiously asked at their empty house. He settled down on the couch as he sighed. Now that he's here, her daughter and son wasn't.
"Kinomoto-san?" Naoko peeked at him from the door. He gazed at her and realized.
"You're Sakura's friend, aren't you? Can you tell me where she went?"
"They went to somewhere out of the town, sir. Tomoyo-chan asked me to look after this house while they're away." She recited.
"I see. So if Tomoyo's with my daughter, I guess I have nothing to worry about." He relaxed back to the couch as Naoko asked if she could go now. He nodded and closed his eyes.
"It's been a long time since I hadn't been here." He let sleep come over him but unfortunately, rumbvles from outside keeps him awake.
"What is that?" He asked to no one in particular and looked down at the incoming soldiers.
"What is it, sir?" He asked from them before they thrust a hand at his lower back head, making him fall limp unconscious.
Another soldier caught him and went out of the house. Terrified looks from their neighbors were seen as like Naoko's. Kidnapping Sakura's father wasn't a good sign. She went directly to her bird, scribbled a warning letter and slipped it to the bird's beak.
"Find my friend, Tomoyo. Give her the letter, okay?" Her bird nipped her finger affectionately, as a yes, and soar up to the sky (Naoko's exceptionally intelligent bird was used as her messenger.).
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Three days later, and she managed to open her eyes. Six pair of eyes stared happily at her as she came to her senses.
"You finally opened your eyes." She sat up and a girl hugged her tightly. She looked around as if she was looking for something when the girl broke the hug. She gave her a strange look. Before she could say anything, the others came to her.
"You nearly frighten me to death!" Another girl lay her hand to her shoulder as another two guys patted her head or smile warmly at her. But one, looked at her surprised. He went closer to her as he touched her forehead.
"Why are you not genki today, Sakura?" Syaoran asked but she gave him a surprised strange look.
"Sakura? Is that my name?" She asked which made everyone in the room flinch back.
"What are you talking about, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked, a little frightened with her friend's joke.
"I'm not trying to be rude or anything but who are all of you and where am I?" She asked innocently.
To be continued......
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