~*~ Author Notes ~*~
Hey everyone! I'm so sorry for the delay. This whole chapter got deleted from my disk somehow and I had to retype it from memory. So Please forgive me for the delay and R&R
Special Thanks: ~*~ KuTiExAzNxAnGeL ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ hana no tenshi ~*~ Asaiku ~*~ cute angel ~*~ SEXY VIXEN ~*~ Liang Reconst ~*~ Kitty Kat ~*~ Li Ying Fa
Thank you for reviewing!!!
Kitty Kat- I sorry about the peeps talking in the middle of the story. I knock it off.
Hana no tenshi- I have no idea of how I get these ideas. I dream them up, and then I write them down, and I'll try to make the chapters longer. I can't promise anything because I'm working really hard at school as well.
~*~ Chapter 4 ~*~
After a long time, Syaoran stopped from his neck-breaking run and I finally got the courage to stop squeezing the life out of him. Some people might not be afraid of people carrying them and running as fast as they possibly can, but I was! I had good reasons to be afraid. One, you never know if they're going to suddenly drop you or when your in a forest thick with trees you don't know if they're going to trip and fall or just flat out run into a tree.
"Are you ok?" Syaoran asked looking down worried at me. Wait worried? Oh yeah, he can't go back to my real mother empty handed.
"Yeah, just a little shook up," I told him. My left leg was no longer numb or movable. That's when I felt my fingers begin to grow numb.
"Syaoran, you look so tired. Here let me take Sakura off your hands and you have a break," Cobra suggested, but I saw this really sly glint shine in his eyes.
"I can manage you sick pervert," Syaoran said walking toward the burnt village.
The smell was overwhelming and made me want to gag. I took one look around and wanted to cry. Burnt bodies littered the ground as well as burned and fallen houses. I saw a dog slowly limping toward us with his tail between his legs whimpering. My mind screamed, 'Get me out of here!' but I didn't want to be seen as a big baby.
"Someone find a safe place to put Sakura so we can look for survivors," I heard Eriol command. Great, somewhere to put me. That just makes me feel helpless and useless, but I didn't say so out loud. I just sighed as someone set me right smack dab in the middle of the village. It's supposedly the safest place at the moment since there's nothing burnt here.
I just lay there looking up at the sky, since I couldn't sit up anymore. Kero was helping the others remove rubble to where houses used to be, so once again I felt kind of alone. Yet this time I wasn't that scared anymore. I think it's because of all I've been through, and I know that I still have to go through a lot more before I reach my mother.
"Hey I think I've found someone!" I heard Melin cry out. Footsteps started running toward wherever Melin was at and rubble and wood could be heard from them moving it.
I sat there praying to God that someone was actually alive in this village. It nearly broke my heart seeing all this death.
"Help me pull her out!" I hear Cobra say, followed by a few grunts and coughing from the survivor.
"Is she alright?" I asked Tomoyo when her face appeared above mine.
"Yes, apparently she had saved herself by hiding into a cellar," Tomoyo explained helping me sit up. Geez, I feel like a baby! "But wouldn't the cellar catch on fire cause of the doors being wooden?" I asked.
"Yeah.but the doors to the cellar was made out of stone so she survived," Tomoyo said shrugging a bit.
I looked over to the girl; the boys and Melin talk to the girl. I don't know what they were talking about cause I was too far away to hear anything.
I turned back to Tomoyo, who was also looking at the group, and was about to ask her something when we heard Syaoran practically yelled 'YES!' loud enough for the world to hear. I could imagine people waking up from sleep or stopping in the middle of work or whatever they were doing to stop and hear YES echo above them. The thought made me laugh.
Then Syaoran came running toward me. "Sakura!" he cried bending down and catching my hands. "Youwon'tbelievethis!" I looked at him confused. He said the words so fast that I didn't even get a syllable. He shook his head and said slower. "You won't believe this!"
"What?" I asked really wanting to know.
"The girl that we found, her name is Boa and she knows all there is to know about poisons and getting rid of them," Syaoran said with excitement evident in his eyes.
"That's great!" I said. "What does she need to get rid of it?" I asked in wonderment.
"I'm not sure, but we're about to find out!" he cried picking me up and half running me over to the poor girl.
"Listen, I know that you've just survived a dangerous fire and all, but is there anyway you can help her," Eriol said pointing at me.
"What's her symptoms?" the girl asked hesitantly. I studied her for a few moments. She seemed really nice as a person. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and was kind of tall. I know that sounds really stupid and all but people with blonde hair or blue eyes are really rare in my home village. So that was really weird and cool at the same time.
"She's slowly paralyzing," Cobra said about to take a step closer but stopped when Syaoran began his death glare.
"Oh, is everything going numb first?" she asked me. I nodded my head. "That's something that happened frequently at this village. I have some herbs down in my cellar that could help you. How much of you has already been affected?" she asked.
It was really weird cause all of a sudden; she wasn't so shy and hesitant. She was.excited that I was poisoned. That really just made me nervous and I was about to protest and say I'd rather be a rotting vegetable, but I know that the gang, maybe not including Melin, wouldn't want that.
"My arms and everything else from the waist down," I told her trying to stay calm. It's really hard though cause she's really, really happy that I'm poisoned.
"I can have that all fixed up, but you may not be able to walk around or anything for a few more days." she told me as if it was a warning.
"That's ok, I can still carry her around, just please get her the medicine she needs," Syaoran pleaded. What is up with him? Why is he acting so. nice? Maybe he slipped further into his emotional state problem he was having earlier. It's really starting to creep me out just as much as Boa was.
"No problem," Boa said heading back into the rubble.
"Syaoran, you think you could be a little more nicer to the girl? She just got rescued from a place that burnt down," Cobra said acting like he was ashamed to be standing with Syaoran.
"You're asking me to be nice? You have a lot of nerve asking that when you can't seem to go five minutes without trying to grab a girl! You should try and be more nicer to a girl," Syaoran spat out.
"You both got a point," Tomoyo said standing in between them.
"Yeah, Tomoyo's right. Cobra, you can't go five minutes without trying to grab someone and if it weren't for me and Syaoran right now, Sakura and Tomoyo would probably have killed you by now.
"Yeah, your such a perv!" Tomoyo said putting her hands on her hips, making her look very aggressive.
"I'm back!" Boa cried scrambling over the top of the rubble with a bag of herbs. Cobra took the herbs from her and Eriol helped her out of the cellar she was still halfway stuck in. Boa thanked them both while taking back the bags from Cobra and headed toward us. I saw Boa stop in her tracks with a surprised look on her face. Then she turned around and smacked Cobra dead in the face while screaming, "Pervert!"
"How do you even know it was me?" Cobra whined. "For all you know it could have been Eriol!" he lied in his defense.
"It couldn't have been! You're the only one behind me!" Boa said running the rest of the way down the rubble. "Is your friend always like that?" Boa asked annoyed when she reached Syaoran and I.
Sadly I shook my head yes. "Don't worry, your not the only victim," I told her as reassuring as possible. Then I replayed that back in my head and I think I just insulted her.
"Oh don't worry about it!" Boa said waving her hands out in front of her. "Can we go somewhere else to prepare the medicine? The stench would ruin the medicine. Plus could we also prepare and give it to her at night?" Boa asked.
"Why does it have to be night?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
"Its better to perform cures for poison at night. Plus it will help her heal faster," Boa said, walking toward the exist.
"Will Sakura make it before nightfall?" Syaoran asked following Boa with the others following behind.
"I hope so," Boa said. Gee that makes me feel so much better! She doesn't think I'll make it through the night. It's a wonder I trust anyone with my life!
Syaoran squeezed me tighter making my breath a little ragged.
We walked until Boa was finally satisfied with a location. By then the moon had grown high into the sky.
It was getting harder and harder for me to talk around this time. Boa told me that after the poison was done with my arms and chest it would work it's way up to my throat and mouth. So it made it look like I wasn't breathing and like I didn't have a pulse. Then she told me after that it would enable me to talk, which it was trying to do now. That way I wouldn't be able to scream or anything. After that was all done, she said the poison would work it's way to my face so that I wouldn't be able to blink. Therefore I become a living zombie, as she puts it.
Syaoran sat under a tree with me still held in his arms, which I was grateful for, because the weather had dropped dramatically. The only thing that didn't make this any better was Syaoran was practically putting me to sleep. He still wouldn't allow me to rest, saying that it was still too dangerous.
So I just lay there half sleep and since Syaoran's dangerous grip hasn't left me and I can't move my head. For all I could tell Boa was hopefully making the medicine I needed, Tomoyo was probably watching her, Eriol and Cobra were probably on watch, and I could hear Melin and Kero arguing about only God knows what.
"The medicines almost done Sakura. How are you?" Tomoyo's gentle voice asked.
"Aye wanst to shleep," I said. My tongue felt like it had swollen up to half the size of my head and my talking had become slurred.
"You can't go to sleep Sakura," Syaoran told me gently squeezing even more making my vision blur and spots appear in my eyes.
"Soan." I muttered hiding my face with my hair and his chest. Another powerful wave of nausea swept over almost making me heave. Although, that would pointless, since it would only go back down my throat, leaving a burning sensation.
"Medicine's done," Boa said sitting beside me, that girl still gives me goosebumps. Syaoran sat me up so that I could get the medicine inside me better. "I hope it's not too late," I heard Boa breath. I don't think that she had intended for me to hear that but I did and that made me think that I would die of starvation.
Boa dipped a spoon she had brought with her into the medicine that she had mixed and was halfway to my mouth and stopped and looked around. I followed her gaze and realized that everyone had gathered up into a circle around us to watch her put the medicine in my mouth. It was really starting to make me nervous I could tell that it was making Boa a little uneasy as well.
Finally Boa gulped visibly and placed the spoon in my mouth with a little help from Syaoran. I was having a little trouble swallowing it so Syaoran slowly laid me down, helping the medicine run down my throat till it's designated place. The medicine strangely tasted like peppermint.
"I put peppermint leaves in with the mix so it wouldn't taste bitter," Boa said. Great, not only does this girl scare me, she's also a mind reader.
"Really?" Tomoyo asked starring admiringly at Tomoyo.
"You'll have to excuse Tomoyo, she's a little nuts about this whole herbal thing," Eriol said pulling Tomoyo away to give Boa some breathing room.
"Yeah.maybe I could teach her a few things." Boa said sweat dropping. "Although, that could be a mistake." I heard her mutter the last part. I probably would have laughed at that last commit but I was too tired to care.
I let out a sigh and looked up at Syaoran pleadingly. "Soan. con I pleash goesh to shleep naow?" I asked through tears of sleep. He looked up at Boa as if to get permission, who thankfully nodded her head yes. He looked back down at me and nodded his head yes and I happily closed my eyes.
Done! Sorry for the delay everyone, please forgive me! Chapter 15 coming up! Just as long as I get 5 reviews!
~* Ghetto Princess
Hey everyone! I'm so sorry for the delay. This whole chapter got deleted from my disk somehow and I had to retype it from memory. So Please forgive me for the delay and R&R
Special Thanks: ~*~ KuTiExAzNxAnGeL ~*~ Danielle Ngo ~*~ hana no tenshi ~*~ Asaiku ~*~ cute angel ~*~ SEXY VIXEN ~*~ Liang Reconst ~*~ Kitty Kat ~*~ Li Ying Fa
Thank you for reviewing!!!
Kitty Kat- I sorry about the peeps talking in the middle of the story. I knock it off.
Hana no tenshi- I have no idea of how I get these ideas. I dream them up, and then I write them down, and I'll try to make the chapters longer. I can't promise anything because I'm working really hard at school as well.
~*~ Chapter 4 ~*~
After a long time, Syaoran stopped from his neck-breaking run and I finally got the courage to stop squeezing the life out of him. Some people might not be afraid of people carrying them and running as fast as they possibly can, but I was! I had good reasons to be afraid. One, you never know if they're going to suddenly drop you or when your in a forest thick with trees you don't know if they're going to trip and fall or just flat out run into a tree.
"Are you ok?" Syaoran asked looking down worried at me. Wait worried? Oh yeah, he can't go back to my real mother empty handed.
"Yeah, just a little shook up," I told him. My left leg was no longer numb or movable. That's when I felt my fingers begin to grow numb.
"Syaoran, you look so tired. Here let me take Sakura off your hands and you have a break," Cobra suggested, but I saw this really sly glint shine in his eyes.
"I can manage you sick pervert," Syaoran said walking toward the burnt village.
The smell was overwhelming and made me want to gag. I took one look around and wanted to cry. Burnt bodies littered the ground as well as burned and fallen houses. I saw a dog slowly limping toward us with his tail between his legs whimpering. My mind screamed, 'Get me out of here!' but I didn't want to be seen as a big baby.
"Someone find a safe place to put Sakura so we can look for survivors," I heard Eriol command. Great, somewhere to put me. That just makes me feel helpless and useless, but I didn't say so out loud. I just sighed as someone set me right smack dab in the middle of the village. It's supposedly the safest place at the moment since there's nothing burnt here.
I just lay there looking up at the sky, since I couldn't sit up anymore. Kero was helping the others remove rubble to where houses used to be, so once again I felt kind of alone. Yet this time I wasn't that scared anymore. I think it's because of all I've been through, and I know that I still have to go through a lot more before I reach my mother.
"Hey I think I've found someone!" I heard Melin cry out. Footsteps started running toward wherever Melin was at and rubble and wood could be heard from them moving it.
I sat there praying to God that someone was actually alive in this village. It nearly broke my heart seeing all this death.
"Help me pull her out!" I hear Cobra say, followed by a few grunts and coughing from the survivor.
"Is she alright?" I asked Tomoyo when her face appeared above mine.
"Yes, apparently she had saved herself by hiding into a cellar," Tomoyo explained helping me sit up. Geez, I feel like a baby! "But wouldn't the cellar catch on fire cause of the doors being wooden?" I asked.
"Yeah.but the doors to the cellar was made out of stone so she survived," Tomoyo said shrugging a bit.
I looked over to the girl; the boys and Melin talk to the girl. I don't know what they were talking about cause I was too far away to hear anything.
I turned back to Tomoyo, who was also looking at the group, and was about to ask her something when we heard Syaoran practically yelled 'YES!' loud enough for the world to hear. I could imagine people waking up from sleep or stopping in the middle of work or whatever they were doing to stop and hear YES echo above them. The thought made me laugh.
Then Syaoran came running toward me. "Sakura!" he cried bending down and catching my hands. "Youwon'tbelievethis!" I looked at him confused. He said the words so fast that I didn't even get a syllable. He shook his head and said slower. "You won't believe this!"
"What?" I asked really wanting to know.
"The girl that we found, her name is Boa and she knows all there is to know about poisons and getting rid of them," Syaoran said with excitement evident in his eyes.
"That's great!" I said. "What does she need to get rid of it?" I asked in wonderment.
"I'm not sure, but we're about to find out!" he cried picking me up and half running me over to the poor girl.
"Listen, I know that you've just survived a dangerous fire and all, but is there anyway you can help her," Eriol said pointing at me.
"What's her symptoms?" the girl asked hesitantly. I studied her for a few moments. She seemed really nice as a person. She had blonde hair, blue eyes, and was kind of tall. I know that sounds really stupid and all but people with blonde hair or blue eyes are really rare in my home village. So that was really weird and cool at the same time.
"She's slowly paralyzing," Cobra said about to take a step closer but stopped when Syaoran began his death glare.
"Oh, is everything going numb first?" she asked me. I nodded my head. "That's something that happened frequently at this village. I have some herbs down in my cellar that could help you. How much of you has already been affected?" she asked.
It was really weird cause all of a sudden; she wasn't so shy and hesitant. She was.excited that I was poisoned. That really just made me nervous and I was about to protest and say I'd rather be a rotting vegetable, but I know that the gang, maybe not including Melin, wouldn't want that.
"My arms and everything else from the waist down," I told her trying to stay calm. It's really hard though cause she's really, really happy that I'm poisoned.
"I can have that all fixed up, but you may not be able to walk around or anything for a few more days." she told me as if it was a warning.
"That's ok, I can still carry her around, just please get her the medicine she needs," Syaoran pleaded. What is up with him? Why is he acting so. nice? Maybe he slipped further into his emotional state problem he was having earlier. It's really starting to creep me out just as much as Boa was.
"No problem," Boa said heading back into the rubble.
"Syaoran, you think you could be a little more nicer to the girl? She just got rescued from a place that burnt down," Cobra said acting like he was ashamed to be standing with Syaoran.
"You're asking me to be nice? You have a lot of nerve asking that when you can't seem to go five minutes without trying to grab a girl! You should try and be more nicer to a girl," Syaoran spat out.
"You both got a point," Tomoyo said standing in between them.
"Yeah, Tomoyo's right. Cobra, you can't go five minutes without trying to grab someone and if it weren't for me and Syaoran right now, Sakura and Tomoyo would probably have killed you by now.
"Yeah, your such a perv!" Tomoyo said putting her hands on her hips, making her look very aggressive.
"I'm back!" Boa cried scrambling over the top of the rubble with a bag of herbs. Cobra took the herbs from her and Eriol helped her out of the cellar she was still halfway stuck in. Boa thanked them both while taking back the bags from Cobra and headed toward us. I saw Boa stop in her tracks with a surprised look on her face. Then she turned around and smacked Cobra dead in the face while screaming, "Pervert!"
"How do you even know it was me?" Cobra whined. "For all you know it could have been Eriol!" he lied in his defense.
"It couldn't have been! You're the only one behind me!" Boa said running the rest of the way down the rubble. "Is your friend always like that?" Boa asked annoyed when she reached Syaoran and I.
Sadly I shook my head yes. "Don't worry, your not the only victim," I told her as reassuring as possible. Then I replayed that back in my head and I think I just insulted her.
"Oh don't worry about it!" Boa said waving her hands out in front of her. "Can we go somewhere else to prepare the medicine? The stench would ruin the medicine. Plus could we also prepare and give it to her at night?" Boa asked.
"Why does it have to be night?" Tomoyo asked curiously.
"Its better to perform cures for poison at night. Plus it will help her heal faster," Boa said, walking toward the exist.
"Will Sakura make it before nightfall?" Syaoran asked following Boa with the others following behind.
"I hope so," Boa said. Gee that makes me feel so much better! She doesn't think I'll make it through the night. It's a wonder I trust anyone with my life!
Syaoran squeezed me tighter making my breath a little ragged.
We walked until Boa was finally satisfied with a location. By then the moon had grown high into the sky.
It was getting harder and harder for me to talk around this time. Boa told me that after the poison was done with my arms and chest it would work it's way up to my throat and mouth. So it made it look like I wasn't breathing and like I didn't have a pulse. Then she told me after that it would enable me to talk, which it was trying to do now. That way I wouldn't be able to scream or anything. After that was all done, she said the poison would work it's way to my face so that I wouldn't be able to blink. Therefore I become a living zombie, as she puts it.
Syaoran sat under a tree with me still held in his arms, which I was grateful for, because the weather had dropped dramatically. The only thing that didn't make this any better was Syaoran was practically putting me to sleep. He still wouldn't allow me to rest, saying that it was still too dangerous.
So I just lay there half sleep and since Syaoran's dangerous grip hasn't left me and I can't move my head. For all I could tell Boa was hopefully making the medicine I needed, Tomoyo was probably watching her, Eriol and Cobra were probably on watch, and I could hear Melin and Kero arguing about only God knows what.
"The medicines almost done Sakura. How are you?" Tomoyo's gentle voice asked.
"Aye wanst to shleep," I said. My tongue felt like it had swollen up to half the size of my head and my talking had become slurred.
"You can't go to sleep Sakura," Syaoran told me gently squeezing even more making my vision blur and spots appear in my eyes.
"Soan." I muttered hiding my face with my hair and his chest. Another powerful wave of nausea swept over almost making me heave. Although, that would pointless, since it would only go back down my throat, leaving a burning sensation.
"Medicine's done," Boa said sitting beside me, that girl still gives me goosebumps. Syaoran sat me up so that I could get the medicine inside me better. "I hope it's not too late," I heard Boa breath. I don't think that she had intended for me to hear that but I did and that made me think that I would die of starvation.
Boa dipped a spoon she had brought with her into the medicine that she had mixed and was halfway to my mouth and stopped and looked around. I followed her gaze and realized that everyone had gathered up into a circle around us to watch her put the medicine in my mouth. It was really starting to make me nervous I could tell that it was making Boa a little uneasy as well.
Finally Boa gulped visibly and placed the spoon in my mouth with a little help from Syaoran. I was having a little trouble swallowing it so Syaoran slowly laid me down, helping the medicine run down my throat till it's designated place. The medicine strangely tasted like peppermint.
"I put peppermint leaves in with the mix so it wouldn't taste bitter," Boa said. Great, not only does this girl scare me, she's also a mind reader.
"Really?" Tomoyo asked starring admiringly at Tomoyo.
"You'll have to excuse Tomoyo, she's a little nuts about this whole herbal thing," Eriol said pulling Tomoyo away to give Boa some breathing room.
"Yeah.maybe I could teach her a few things." Boa said sweat dropping. "Although, that could be a mistake." I heard her mutter the last part. I probably would have laughed at that last commit but I was too tired to care.
I let out a sigh and looked up at Syaoran pleadingly. "Soan. con I pleash goesh to shleep naow?" I asked through tears of sleep. He looked up at Boa as if to get permission, who thankfully nodded her head yes. He looked back down at me and nodded his head yes and I happily closed my eyes.
Done! Sorry for the delay everyone, please forgive me! Chapter 15 coming up! Just as long as I get 5 reviews!
~* Ghetto Princess
