A fanfic by Kawaii Sakura-chan
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Chapter Nine: Twists and Turns
"Hey, we'll meet you guys back at the school," said Syaoran.
"Oh," said Jones winking at him, "I understand, good luck."
"Umm…yeah," said Syaoran.
"Bye!" said Sakura.
Sakura waved to her departing friends.
"I love you," said Syaoran.
"I love you too," said Sakura.
"I've never felt this way about anybody before," said Syaoran.
"Me either," said Sakura.
"It killed me inside when you started crying on the Ferris Wheel," said Syaoran.
"It hurt me too," said Sakura.
"I just, I wanna hold you and never let you go," said Syaoran holding Sakura.
"And I wanna be in your arms forever and I never wanna leave them," said Sakura.
"Come on let's go home," said Syaoran.
"Alright," said Sakura.
They walked down the streets lighted with green streetlights. They walked together with Syaoran always keeping his arm around Sakura. Then they took a shortcut through a small alley.
"We'll be together forever," said Sakura happily.
"Of course," said Syaoran.
"Change of plans," said a voice.
Then they both were hit over the head with a blunt object and they fell to the ground unconscious.
The two people took them and they ran into the shadows.
"Hey," said Jones to Carl who he had just phoned, "Have you seen Syaoran?"
"No, but you are the second person to phone me. Tomoyo just phoned seeing if I knew where Sakura was. Neither one of them are here," said Carl, "I'm kinda worried."
"Oh, hehe, Syaoran said he'd meet us back here. I think he had something special planned for him and Sakura. They might be getting it on right now," said Jones.
"Oh Carl, bloody hell man, that's, no, don't go there. You know Syaoran, and you sorta know Sakura. They wouldn't do that, just, uh, don't go there," said Carl.
"Fine, fine," said Jones.
"Anyways, if they're gone tomorrow, we call the headmistress," said Carl.
"Fine," said Jones.
"Well I gotta go now, but I'll talk to you later," said Carl.
"Alright then, Night," said Jones.
"Night," said Carl.
"Aww, my head," said Sakura sitting up. She tried to move but something kept her to the ground.
"Sakura, is that you?" asked Syaoran.
"Yeah, what are these?" asked Sakura.
The room was pitch black. They couldn't see each other or even their own hands in front of their faces.
"Those would be chains," said Syaoran.
"Chains? What? How did we get here?" asked Sakura.
"I don't know," said Syaoran.
"I do," said a voice.
"WHO ARE YOU?" yelled Sakura.
"Who else would I be?" said the voice.
"I knew it, it had to be you," said Sakura.
"And we all know that only you are evil enough to pull something like this off," said Syaoran.
"Yes, the one, the only," said the voice and with that all the lights turned on, "Whitney."
"Doesn't surprise us a bit," said Syaoran.
"Well, I've decided to keep you both hostage till, well, you take me back," said Whitney.
"Never," said Syaoran, "I moved on."
"Yeah," said Sakura.
"He was mine first Kinomoto and you stole him from me," said Whitney.
"You left!" said Sakura.
"Still, he was mine first and I want him back," said Whitney.
"You said you didn't want me back," said Syaoran.
"I changed my mind," said Whitney.
"Please, just let us go," said Sakura.
"No, not until Syaoran here agrees to be my boyfriend again," said Whitney.
"That'll never happen," said Sakura.
"Why not?" asked Whitney.
"Because he loves me," said Sakura.
"And he just may love you enough to agree to be my boyfriend again," said Whitney.
"What do you mean by that?" said Syaoran.
"You shall soon see, sometime when you least expect it," said Whitney closing the door behind her.
"We gotta get out of here," said Sakura.
"I'm trying," said Syaoran, "these shackles are tight and my head is spinning."
"Syaoran, I'm scared," said Sakura.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine. I used to know Whitney. She's not a heartless maniac. She's a little crazy, but-"
"A little crazy?" said Sakura, "You call this a little crazy?!?"
"Well, I'd say this is overly crazy, but still. This won't last for long. This is all just a scheme of hers that will fall through.
"Are you so sure of that?" said Whitney entering.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure of that," said Syaoran.
"Why don't we find out?" said Whitney, "Marshall!"
"Yes?" said Marshall walking into the room.
"Unlock Sakura and bring her with me," said Whitney pushing a button. A big TV came down.
"You can watch her here," said Whitney.
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?!" yelled Syaoran.
"You'll see," said Whitney.
"LET ME GO!" said Sakura as Marshall carried her off.
"Bye, bye," said Whitney.
"WAIT!" he yelled.
Then Whitney closed the door. He turned and kept his eyes fixated on the sign.
"This is where I have my fun," said Whitney over an intercom.
The screen turned on.
Sakura was alone in a room. She was trapped. She couldn't get out, she was feeling around the room for something to get her out. Then all of the sudden water started to enter the room from tubes in the walls.
"SYAORAN!" yelled Sakura.
"SAKURA," he yelled trying to run, but the chains kept him on the ground.
"Now just look Syaoran," said Whitney over the intercom, "This is what you have done to your precious Sakura. She's going to drown and it's all your fault."
"Sakura," said Syaoran, "No."
Sakura ran around the room. The water was rising quickly. Soon the water was at her knees. Then it came up to her shoulders. Finally it was over her head and she was wading. Soon her head was only about five centimetres from the roof. Then he saw only her head gasping for air. Then he saw the room completely filled. Sakura was panicking swimming around the room trying to find someplace to breathe.
"MAKE IT STOP!" yelled Syaoran.
"Fine," said Whitney over the intercom.
Then the TV turned off.
"WHITNEY, LEAVE HER ALONE! DON'T PUNISH HER!" yelled Syaoran.
"Oh keep quiet will you," said Whitney over the intercom. Then the TV turned on again.
All the water had been drained out and Sakura was on the floor of the room gasping for air. She was spitting out water and breathing heavily.
"Sakura," said Syaoran, "Your safe."
He sighed in relief.
"Not for long," said Whitney's voice.
"What?!" said Syaoran, "PLEASE NO MORE!"
"Be my boyfriend," said Sakura.
Sakura sat in the room. She could hear everything. She could hear Syaoran and Whitney talking, but they couldn't hear her. Not anymore anyways.
"No Syaoran," said Sakura, "I'll be fine. DON'T SAY YES!"
Syaoran stared at the screen. He saw Sakura mouth the words 'DON'T SAY YES!'
"No, no," said Syaoran.
"Fine," said Whitney, "Anyways, a lil torture never killed anyone. Wait, yes it did."
Syaoran turned his head back from the intercom the TV. Sakura had just stood up. She was a bit wobbly and she was leaning against the wall for support. She looked relieved and happy that she was alive. Then a look of dismay came on her face. There was a door opening in the room. In came Marshall and Whitney. Whitney pushed Sakura against the wall and Marshall put her arms in restraints to keep her there flat against the wall. Except the restraints were high enough so that she could not quite touch the floor and could only if she stood on her toes which was very tiring and painful when she got tired.
"Lookie what I got," said Whitney in the room, "A whip! How convenient. Marshall would you like the honours?"
"No, you can do it," said Marshall.
"Fine, more fun for me," said Whitney.
"Wait," said Syaoran.
"What is it?" said Whitney impatiently.
"Just leave her alone, it's I who you should be punishing. This isn't Sakura's fault. I dragged her in to this," said Syaoran.
"Excuses, excuses. I listen to them later," said Whitney.
"Please, just a small break. Let me see her please. I have to talk to her," said Syaoran.
"Fine, fine," said Whitney, "Marshall, take her off and put her back in her chains."
"Alright," said Marshall.
Sakura fell into his arms since she was very tired from being nearly drowned and from keeping herself up. Marshall took her and put her back in the cell, shackled her back up and left.
"Sakura are you okay?" said Syaoran going as far as he could.
"I'm fine, don't give up. You can't be her boyfriend. I love you and I know that you will never love her," said Sakura.
"But if I don't she might hurt you more," said Syaoran.
"I can take it. I'm pretty strong. I've been through harder things," said Sakura remembering capturing all the cards.
"Still, I don't want you hurt. You could have died when she filled that room with water," said Syaoran.
"I don't care. It would hurt me more to see you with her when I know that you could have been mine had I just waited," said Sakura.
"Sakura, you are the strongest person I have ever met, and for that I love you so much," said Syaoran, "but this is all my fault. If I hadn't dragged you into that purse store that day-"
Sakura giggled, "That was hilarious."
"I know, but if I hadn't, all of this wouldn't have started. I would never of fallen in love with you and you wouldn't have ever fallen in love with me and you'd still be happy. You had a guy back home that you loved didn't you?" said Syaoran.
"Yeah, but if I hadn't met you I wouldn't have met the guy I know I'm supposed to be with forever," said Sakura.
"We're teenagers still Sakura. Anybody could be the one for that we share our lives with forever," said Syaoran.
"Are you saying that we weren't meant for each other?" said Sakura.
"No I'm saying that if I had done that, that day you would be safe in another country and not in the middle of my ex girlfriend craziness. If I hadn't done that I wouldn't have to worry that Whitney might do something awful to you," said Syaoran.
"You don't think Whitney would really hurt me do you?" said Sakura.
"I think she would," said Marshall unshackling Sakura and picking her up.
"Where are you taking her?" asked Marshall.
"Whitney had some unfinished business," said Marshall.
Syaoran looked at the horrid screen that once again flickered on.
"I'm finishing what I should of done before," said Whitney.
She pushed Sakura hard against wall and did the shackles up herself. Then she started to crack the whip towards Sakura.
She cracked the whip at Sakura's legs, which were bare because Sakura had been wearing shorts. Sakura winced at the pain. Whitney cracked it next and her arms and then her back. She kept on hitting Sakura with the whip. Harder and harder every time. Syaoran could hear Sakura's wails of pain and he saw her blood stained shirt and her bloody legs.
"WHITNEY," yelled Syaoran, "JUST STOP PUNISHING HER!"
"SYAORAN!," yelled Sakura, "NEVER SAY YES, NEVER EVER. I'LL BE FINE, JUST NEVER SAY YES."
"SAKURA, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE," yelled Syaoran.
"Do you agree then?" said Whitney stopping.
"I agree," said Syaoran sadly.
"YES!" yelled Whitney she through a bucket of salt water on Sakura and ran out. Marshall undid the restraints and she fell to the floor in pain.
Sakura wailed out in pain at the presense of salt in her wounds.
"Syaoran, no," said Sakura tears flowing through her eyes.
"Sakura, I'm sorry," said Syaoran, "But I can't see you suffer anymore."
"You said you loved me," said Sakura.
"I do," said Syaoran, "that's why I'm doing this."
Syaoran kept his eyes on the screen. Both Whitney and Marshall had left. Then they walked into the door.
"Welcome to the climax, the young heroine dies," said Whitney.
"What?!" said Syaoran looking back at the screen. White gas started to come into the room, "But you said, if I agreed then---."
"Hey, I never said, I wouldn't kill her. This is going to be so enjoyable," said Whitney.
"SAKURA!" yelled Syaoran he yanked at the chains. They started to cut his wrists and they bled.
"Hey, hey," said Whitney, "I don't want damaged goods."
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" yelled Syaoran.
"NO," yelled Whitney.
"I DON'T AGREE THEN," yelled Syaoran, "I WON'T BE YOUR BOYFRIEND."
"Fine, fine," said Whitney, "and it was just getting good too."
The gas in the room started to clear and Sakura lay on the ground motionless.
"Sakura," said Syaoran.
Then he saw Marshall walk into the room. He picked her up and left the room.
"Where are you taking her?" asked Syaoran.
"Oh don't worry," said Whitney.
"JUST TELL ME!" yelled Syaoran, and then he quieted down and looked at the ground, "I could've been your boyfriend."
"Right, that's true, isn't it," said Whitney, "We're bringing her."
Syaoran gave a week smile =She didn't notice=
Marshall opened the door and he dropped Sakura on the floor. He put the chains back on her and stood beside Whitney.
"Sakura," said Syaoran trying to go over to her, but he got about half a meter.
"Hey, she'll be fine. She's just sleeping. I was toying with you about the dying part. Though who knows, she may die, from bleeding to death," said Whitney.
"Please," said Syaoran, "Can I hold her? Just once more."
"Fine," said Whitney. She pushed a button and his chains had more slack.
He walked over Sakura, "Please Sakura wake up." He held her in his arms. She still stayed asleep. He shook a bit and her eye fluttered. She slowly opened her eyes.
"Syaoran," she said, "How could you?"
"I didn't wanna watch you suffer anymore," said Syaoran.
"I'm fine," she said trying to move, but the whip wounds hurt too much. She winced in pain. She was trying to keep back the tears of pain, but it did no good.
"You're not," said Syaoran tears in his eyes. He moved his hands and looked and them. They were covered in blood, Sakura's blood.
"Syaoran, please, don't go with her," said Sakura, "I need you."
"I won't be her boyfriend. I'll stay with you," said Syaoran.
"But you agreed," said Whitney.
"No I said, I don't agree and I wouldn't be your boyfriend. I didn't say that if you let Sakura go, I would go back to being your boyfriend. And even after that, I said I could've been your boyfriend," said Syaoran.
"DAMMIT!" yelled Whitney, "Marshall take her away."
"YOU STAY AWAY FROM HER!" yelled Syaoran.
"Who's gonna stop me?" said Marshall.
"Leave us alone, she could die if she doesn't get medical attention," said Syaoran.
"I don't care," said Marshall, "I have my orders."
"Marshall," said Sakura weakly, "Why do you follow Whitney's orders? She doesn't even treat you very nicely and you have more sense than she does."
"I-I-I," said Marshall.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," said Sakura, "she's paying you or you love her."
"Why do you say that?" asked Marshall.
"Because," said Sakura, "Why else would you do that for someone who never even gives you a second glace."
"I'm not paying him," said Whitney, "besides he's my friend. That's what friend do, they help each other out."
"Friend help each other out and shouldn't encourage them to do evil. A harmless prank against someone else, but nothing like this," said Sakura.
"Shut up," said Marshall, "I don't wanna hear this."
"I can't believe you noticed that," said Syaoran to Sakura, "I would never of known."
"Marshall? Is she saying what's true?" said Whitney, "You don't love me, do you?"
"Does it matter?" said Marshall.
"Oh no," said Whitney.
"What," said Marshall.
"Never mind now," said Whitney, "Just get Sakura. Dispose of her."
"No," said Marshall.
"What?" said Whitney.
"I won't do it," said Marshall.
"Why ever not?!" said Whitney in a very ticked off tone.
"Because, I'm your friend," said Marshall, "and this is wrong."
"But it will be so. If you don't do this," said Whitney, "You will die."
"You won't kill me," said Marshall.
"Why are you so sure?" said Whitney.
"Because I know you don't have the guts to do it and I know you have some feelings for me. I remember the way you looked after I kissed you," said Marshall.
"So what? So I had a dazed look on my face. What does it matter? Most people would have some kind of expression after being kissed," said Whitney.
"You aren't fooling anybody Whitney, especially me. I know you love me but it wouldn't work out because we're just too different. I hear your thoughts sometimes remember? I know it's not in you to kill me," said Marshall.
"Really?" said Whitney, "Looks like I'll prove you wrong."
She whipped out a gun and shot it at him twice and it shot him in the shoulder and in the stomach. Marshall grabbed his wounds. He looked at Whitney in amazement and fell against the wall.
"How could you?" he whispered.
"Marshall!" yelled Syaoran. He didn't like him much but still, the guy didn't deserve to get shot. He got up to go over to Marshall and Whitney shot him and it went in his right arm.
Syaoran yelled in agony.
Whitney dropped the gun and cupped her hands over her mouth. She backed up and slunk down against the wall and held her knees.
"What have I done?" she said.
Syaoran pulled Sakura gently on the ground.
"Give me the keys," said Syaoran cautiously as he slowly walked over to Whitney.
Whitney was in no state to do anything. All she did was hold her knees and shiver and breath quickly and unsteadily. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the keys. She was about the give the keys to Syaoran when she grabbed them back quickly and held them.
"No," she said.
"Please Whitney, just give them to me and I'll go get help," said Syaoran.
Whitney looked back over at Marshall. She saw his blood pouring out from him.
"He's, He's gonna die," said Whitney.
"Not if you let us go, we can get someone here, and he'll live," said Syaoran.
Whitney slowly took the keys and shakily gave them to Syaoran. Syaoran took them and went over to Sakura and undid the chains and then he unlocked his own chains. He went over and he ripped off a piece of his shirt and picked up the gun. He put Sakura over his shoulder and went out the door. Then he put Sakura down and locked and closed the door.
"Come on, we need to go get help," said Syaoran.
"Syaoran," said Sakura trying to walk and then she fainted.
"Sakura," said Syaoran. He picked her up and started to walk quickly down the halls. The place was like a labyrinth. Finally he found a door and opened it. It led to the outside. They were outside a library. He looked around and found a telephone booth. He dialled 911.
"Hello. What is your emergency?" asked the operator.
"I've been shot and there's another guy who's been shot and my girlfriend, she's been whipped and almost drowned," said Syaoran.
"Where are you?" asked the operator.
"In front of a library," said Syaoran.
"Alright, we'll be there soon," said the operator, "stay calm."
"I will, thanks, bye," said Syaoran.
"Syaoran," said Sakura weakly.
"Yes Sakura?" said Syaoran.
"I don't think I'm going to make it," said Sakura.
"No, Sakura, think positively. You'll make it. We'll all make it and we'll live our lives together and we'll never be apart," said Syaoran.
"It hurts, I feel myself dying Syaoran, I don't know how much longer I can hold on," said Sakura.
"No," said Syaoran.
"I'm trying Syaoran," said Sakura.
"You gotta, for me, for our love," said Syaoran.
Back with Whitney and Marshall
"Marshall, I'm so sorry," said Whitney, "I don't know what came over me."
"It's fine. I really did love you," said Marshall.
"I'm so sorry," said Whitney, "I love you too."
"Just remember when I'm gone that I did all of this not because I was just your friend, but because I love you," said Marshall, "Bye."
"Bye," said Whitney crying.
*RINGING OF THE AMBULANCE*
"Where is the young girl and the guy who was shot?" said the paramedic.
"He's in here," said Syaoran giving one of the paramedics Sakura. The pain in his arm was throbbing, but he knew he had to save Marshall and save Whitney, from herself.
They ran through the halls, Syaoran took them straight to them. He opened the door with the keys. They paramedics looked at him funny but said nothing.
"There they are," said Syaoran.
Whitney was still shaking as she sat beside and Marshall was bleeding more than every before.
"Marshall," said Syaoran, "the paramedics are here, you're gonna be fine. Someone get Whitney and don't let her near any sharp or blunt objects."
They put Marshall on a stretcher and one guy grabbed Whitney and took her out too. They ran through the halls making a few mistakes once again but finally reached outside again. The loaded Sakura, Marshall, Whitney and Syaoran into the ambulance and took off.
"Sakura, hold on," said Syaoran.
"I think I'll be fine now," said Sakura.
"I'm here for you," said Syaoran.
"I love you," said Sakura.
"I love you too," said Syaoran.
"You love me," said Whitney.
"No, Whitney, I don't love you," said Syaoran.
"You're my boyfriend," said Whitney.
"No, I'm not," said Syaoran.
"Die Syaoran Li," said Whitney.
"How did all this happen?" said the paramedic.
"Whitney," said Syaoran, "She shot me and Marshall and tortured Sakura."
"This girl over here?" said the paramedic.
"Yeah," said Syaoran.
"Why?" asked the paramedic.
"Only she knows. We can guess, but only she truly knows," said Syaoran.
"He was mine first," said Whitney.
"Alright, we're here," said the paramedics, "You, the other guy and the young lady both need to go to emergency and someone needs to take this little lady to the psychiatric ward."
"I'm not going anywhere," said Whitney.
"Yes you are," said the paramedic, "John you take her down there."
"Alright," said John turning to Whitney, "you are coming with me."
"Where's Marshall?" said Whitney.
"He's going into intensive care," said the paramedic.
"I'm going with him," said Whitney.
"I'm sorry, but you can't," said the paramedic, "under the circumstances we can't let you near him."
"I'm going with him," said Whitney.
"You're going with us," said the paramedic.
"Gunshot Whitney. Marshall, gunshot, pain," said Syaoran.
Then Whitney went back to being in her state where she really didn't know the world around her.
"Go with the guy," said Syaoran.
Whitney nodded and walked off.
So they took Sakura and Marshall into emergency first. Both of them had lost consciousness. Then they took Syaoran. The bullet was still in his arm and he was starting to feel the excruciating pain of it. Not to say the pain he endured before was painful, because it was.
"Ok sir, we are going to have to take this out right away. So would you like us to give you something to put you to sleep? Or something to just numb the pain," asked the doctor.
"Put me to sleep," said Syaoran.
"Alright then," said the doctor and he put a mask over his face. Syaoran inhaled the gas in the mask and within minutes he was asleep.
When he awoke, his arm was bandaged up and he was lying in a hospital bed. Sakura was on the other side of him asleep in another and Marshall was nowhere to be seen. He pushed the button beside his bed. A few minutes later a nurse came to his side.
"Yes?" said the nurse.
"Do you know where a guy named Marshall is? He came in the same time we did," said Syaoran.
"Marshall," said the nurse thoughtfully, "OH RIGHT! Yeah, he's in intensive care."
"Why?" asked Syaoran.
"Well, he was bleeding for a long time and since Whitney wasn't very far away from him and he had two shots fired at him, both hitting him hard. And one went into his abdominal area and it hit one of his necessary organs. So he may not making it," said the nurse.
"Oh no," said Syaoran.
"He's in an induced coma right now," said the nurse, "though it hasn't been good, the chances of him dying are great."
"Can I go see him?" asked Syaoran.
"You need to stay in bed, your arm still has a deep wound in it and you lost a lot of blood while carrying the young girl out and leading the paramedics to the other people," said the nurse.
"Fine," said Syaoran.
"We'll keep you updated," said the nurse.
"Thanks," said Syaoran.
"This girl over here. She's make it," said the nurse, "just so you know."
"Thanks," said Syaoran.
Then the nurse exited. Syaoran looked over at the bed next to him. Sakura was laying there silently. She seemed so peaceful and content.
=So beautiful= thought Syaoran starting to blush without realizing it.
"Thinking about Sakura?" said Tomoyo walking into the room.
"Uh," said Syaoran.
"The redness in you cheeks tells everything," said Tomoyo.
"Yeah, I suppose it does," said Syaoran, "Did you just get here?"
"No, I've been here for a long time, I just went to get something to drink," said Tomoyo.
"I see," said Syaoran.
"You were unconscious for 6 hours and Sakura is still unconscious," said Tomoyo.
"I wish she would wake up. I want to talk to her," said Syaoran.
"She should wake up soon. Though she did lose a lot of blood. What happened?" asked Tomoyo.
"Well let's see. I want a little time to talk alone with Sakura so I told Jones and the guys that we'd be back soon. So then we were talking and then we headed home. We decided to go down a little alley. Which wasn't smart to begin with but anyways, we got knocked out. Then when we woke up we were in a pitch-black room. I woke up first and then Sakura. We were in chains like animals, that's when Whitney came in and she took Sakura away and then she tortured Sakura and after that she was going to torture her again. Unless, I agreed to be her boyfriend. Well Sakura told me not to, that's she'd be fine, but I couldn't take watching her anymore. So I agreed then Whitney came to the room where I was. Anyways, I had watched everything from a big TV screen. Anyways I saw all this gas surround her. So I told Whitney that I wouldn't be her boyfriend if she let Sakura die. Anyways, to make a long story a bit shorter she brought Sakura back and we had this sorta argument and then Marshall and Whitney had an argument and Whitney shot Marshall and shot me as I went to see if he was okay," said Syaoran.
"I see, well, that's is something you'd see in a daytime drama," said Tomoyo.
"Isn't it?" said Syaoran.
"You're really worried about Sakura. You're afraid that she'll die and you won't be able to share the perfect life that you imagined for the two of you," said Tomoyo.
"Can you tell all that from my face too?" said Syaoran.
"No, it's just an intuition I have. We're going to be good friends and only with good friends can I tell so much," said Tomoyo.
"Good friends. We'll need to be here for Sakura. She looks so helpless laying there. It just makes me wonder if she'll be okay," said Syaoran.
"Don't go there," said Tomoyo, "She'll be fine. She's pretty strong. She's been through more than you know."
"I know she's strong, but still, I worry," said Syaoran.
"Don't she'll be fine as I said before," said Tomoyo, "I just came from talking to the doctor. The doctor says that in within a week the whip lash marks will be healed enough for her to go. Then within a few more weeks the scabs will go away and nothing should scar."
"You should be a doctor," said Syaoran.
"Why?" asked Tomoyo.
"Because just like a doctor. I believe you when you say it," said Syaoran.
"That's because I believe it myself," said Tomoyo, "If I didn't, it wouldn't sound believable."
"Syaoran," mumbled Sakura.
"Yes Sakura," said Syaoran jumping out of bed.
"Where am I?" asked Sakura.
"The hospital, don't you remember?" said Syaoran.
"Oh right, Whitney," said Sakura, "Ooh, everything in my body hurts."
"She whipped you pretty hard and a lot of times," said Syaoran.
"I hope she pays for what she did," said Sakura.
"Don't worry, she will. She'll go from the psychiatric ward here to an asylum and she may never come out," said Syaoran.
"Good," said Sakura, "a place where she won't be able to hurt anybody else."
"You should get some rest," said Syaoran.
"I'm fine, but you need some rest. You were shot in the arm and still you carried me through Whitney's Labyrinth," said Sakura.
"Make you a deal, I rest, you rest," said Syaoran.
"Agreed," said Sakura.
"Well I'll talk to you two later," said Tomoyo.
"Bye Tomoyo!" they both said.
The week that Sakura was in hospital went by quickly and the second week went by equally as fast and Sakura was her old self with almost no signs of the whole ordeal. The only thing that was left to remind her was a small x shaped whip mark where the whip marks had crossed on her ankle. The investigation into the whole ordeal went quickly as there was not much to tell. They were interviewed and there was no court matter as they found that Whitney was completely insane and she was sent straight to an asylum.
"Nice to see you as your old self," said Tomoyo as she sat on a nice grassy hill on the Hallowell estate till in her school uniform for it was a bright sunny Friday afternoon and they were given the afternoon off.
"Yes, I'm glad to be back to my normal self. I am also glad that my socks cover the scar," said Sakura.
"Whitney was criminally insane. Well just plain insane. What she did to Marshall was horrible. He is lucky that he died. May he rest in peace in a place far from Whitney," said Tomoyo.
"He wasn't all bad, he tried to stop her in the end. But unfortunately that was what killed him. He really did her, despite that fact she was crazy and I think she was just so crazy that she loved him and still killed him. She didn't like to be wrong, so she had to prove him wrong," said Sakura.
"True, all too true," said Syaoran walking up.
"I feel sorry for his parents. They looked so sad at the funeral. It's a good thing they don't now the whole truth," said Sakura.
Sakura looked up at the sky. "Happy Birthday Mom," said Sakura.
"Happy Birthday Auntie," said Tomoyo looking up as well.
"Huh?" said Syaoran.
"My mother died a long time ago. Tomoyo and me are cousins, I don't know if I ever mentioned that. Anyways, every since I was little Tomoyo, and me we look up at the sky where my mother is. Dad said she lives in a world surrounding by clouds and stars. I know she means heaven. So on her birthday we look to the sky and wish her a happy birthday. I know she hears me," said Sakura.
"Happy Birthday Sakura's mom," said Syaoran looking up at the sky.
"Thanks Syaoran," said Sakura.
"Your welcome," said Syaoran.
"I wish I could see her again. I was only 3 when she died," said Sakura.
"I'm so sorry to hear that," said Syaoran.
"It's alright, I talk to her all the time. So I never really have miss her," said Sakura.
"Let's go do something," said Syaoran.
"Something as in what?" said Eriol who had just joined them.
"How about swimming in the pool?" said Sakura.
"I think we should do something outside since it's such a nice day," said Tomoyo.
"Such as?" said Sakura.
"Horseback riding," said Tomoyo.
"I forgot about that," said Sakura, "What do you guys think?"
"Sure, sounds good to me, Eriol?" said Syaoran.
"Yeah, good," said Eriol.
"Then it's settled," said Sakura.
So the four of them ran off towards the stables to go for a ride.
Author's Note: Finally I see an end to this chapter. Funny how life can just twist and turn. Then again I sorta took this chapter from being down to earth, to being crazy. But you can tell me your opinion on this chapter in a review. Here's hoping for a new chapter soon!
Kawaii Sakura-chan
