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AU: thank you all for you wonderful support! Sorry for the very late update. hehe. I was really busy.(or lazy. -_-*), neways! Heres the fourth chap. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! XD for ur reviews and support (again ^^;).
Threads of Destiny
Chapter 4:
By: Wish
Syaoran woke to the smell of cherry blossoms, and a soft breath on his chest. His arms were wrapped around a petite figure with auburn hair and a slight frown on her face. Syaoran gently unwrapped his arms from Sakura and quickly got dressed.
Syaoran sighed softly, as he thought,
'another day at court. I never have fun anymore.' he glanced at Sakura's sleeping figure and smirked,
'maybe the fun is just about to begin.' Taking one last look at the auburn- haired beauty, he left the room.
Sakura gently stirred from her puzzling dream. Her body suddenly felt like it was missing something. She felt herself slightly shiver at the wind that blew through the open window. The oncoming winter was going to be a cold one.
Sakura's dream had been strange. She had dreamed about Aki at first, but as she had tried to touch his cheek, the Aki had turned into someone else. She could only remember that the person had burning amber eyes. (hehe. like that wasn't obvious enough. ^^;)
Suddenly snapping out of her trance, Sakura got dressed and was somewhat happy to find that the emperor was no where in sight. She put on a plain mint green robe and put her long auburn hair into a braid with a few wisps of hair falling loose around her face.
Sakura then happily skipped to the main kitchen of the palace and smiled as she saw Tomoyo-Chan there already.
"Ohayo Tomoyo-chan!"
"Ohayo Sakura! How was yesterday?" Tomoyo asked.
"um. er. it was okay.I guess." Sakura said as a pink blush stained her creamy skin.
A mischeivious smile appeared on Tomoyo's lips.
"You guys didn't do anything did you?"
Sakura turned a few shades redder as she shook her head fervently.
"Of course not!!! All we did was sleep on the same bed together! And I was as far away from him as possible!"
Tomoyo laughed at Sakura's awkward position, and soon Sakura joined in as they continued their daily work.
Meilin POV
"Where the HELL was he last night?!" Meilin thought out loud. The door to her very spacious room opened as one of the servants kneeled in front of her.
"Where was the emperor last night?!" Meilin asked the servant girl in a loud voice.
The girl trembled in trepidation at Lady Meilin's angry voice and remained stunned in her position to say anything.
"WELL!?!!!"
Finally the girl snapped out of her frozen state and replied in a weak and trembling voice,
"t-t-the emperor was uh in h-h-his room last night." A dull smack landed across the girl's face, a red handprint was imprinted on her face.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT I ALREADY KNOW! WHAT WAS HE DOING DAMMIT!?"
the girl held back tears from the stinging pain and managed to reply,
"h-h-h-he was with one of his new servants."
Meilin's eyes narrowed as her anger reached a peak at the thought that some worthless slut was with her Syaoran last night. Meilin had prepared the best of wines and food for them. She had waited for Syaoran the whole night for him to show up, but he hadn't.
Oh what she wanted to do to the wrench that had slept with him. A cruel smile was present on her face. It wasn't as if she had never gotten rid of her other rivals before.
Turning to the girl on the ground Meilin said,
"Suiren (the girl's name), bring me that girl to me right now. And by the way, what was her name again?"
"Her name was Sakura Kinomoto. I'll get her right away." Suiren said this as she hurried out the room to summon the girl.
Sakura was washing the dirty dishes when a girl had come to get her. The girl had short black hair, and large, brown, almond-shaped eyes.
"Sakura Kinomoto?" she asked.
"Hai? Is there something you need?" Sakura asked as she gave a smile to the girl.
"Um. Lady Meilin wants to see you." The girl replied.
"See me?" Sakura asked bewildered. "But, I'm new here!"
"Yes, she wanted to see you for just a few minutes."
Sakura quickly wiped her fingers on a cloth, and followed the girl to see Lady Meilin.
Sakura finally reached the door of entrance of Lady Meilin's place.
"This is her palace, Lady Meilin will be waiting for you inside." Suiren said quietly.
Sakura gave a small smile as she stepped into the room. At the end of the room there was a little space where it contained the Lady's bed. Walls of red silk cascaded around the bed, and Sakura could only see a silhouette of the person in on the bed. Sakura kneeled down near the bed and said,
"Lady Meilin, you requested me?"
A sugar coated voice replied,
"Yes, I did, I heard your one of the emperor's new favorites." Sakura shifted uncomfortably. Although Lady Meilin's voice sounded sweet, the edge of malice in it did not escape Sakura.
"Lady Meilin, your too kind! Everyone knows that the emperor's favorite is you. Even I, a new comer would know that."
A small smile appeared on Meilin's lips, a little relieved from what the girl had said.
"Then what do you feel about the Emperor?" Sakura felt the tension mount again. This Lady Meilin seemed VERY protective of the emperor, and Sakura was not stupid to see why.
"the emperor is only a stranger to me. I don't know him nearly as well as you, and I don't think he really pays attention to me either." Sakura answered calmly and truthfully.
The silhouette behind the silk curtains seemed to have relieved a great amount of tension, as she feigned a yawn.
"I'm tired now, please leave me to have my rest." Sakura eagerly got up from her kneeling position and took a small bow as she left the room.
** outside**
Sakura let out a sigh of relief as she cheerfully stretched. Her legs were sore from kneeling for so long and her eyes squinted, trying to adjust to the bright light.
Suddenly a strong arm grabbed her by the waist and a hand clamped over her mouth. Her eyes snapped shut as she tried to let out a scream. But the hand covered the noise. Her body tried to struggle against the other but it was no use. She felt her back press against a wall as she slowly opened her eyes.
It was a small dark secluded area. The only light that was provided was through a large crack. The stone walls surrounded Sakura. Her eyes slowly adjusted to the light as she saw only the shadow of a person.
She felt another urge to scream, but before she could, the figure started,
"Sakura, it's me." The voice sounded familiar. Slowly, Sakura saw his blond hair and blue eyes. Her eyes widened.
"Aki!!!" Sakura's eyes brimmed with tears, as she felt his arms wrap around her.
"Sakura, I missed you so much. Come and escape with me!" their lips met passionately, but for some reason, Sakura felt the kiss didn't seem as good as she thought it would feel. She didn't feel the spark like she did the times she dreamed about their kisses.
Sakura quickly dismissed the thought and said softly,
"Aki.you know I can't."
Aki stood silent.
"Then maybe I was wrong to come here." His cold voice pierced through the silence.
"Aki please! Its for your own safety!" Sakura pleaded.
"No, you just think that the palace is better than the poor life that I can offer. I thought you loved me."
Sakura winced at his tone of voice.
"You know that's not true!" Sakura replied, beginning to think this was some sort of cruel nightmare.
Aki stood silent for another few moments looking down at Sakura with his frozen blue eyes, before turning without warning and jumping over the tall roof, leaving Sakura alone.
Sakura felt her heart ache painfully as tears flowed out of her eyes with no control.
** Emperor's study**
' The hell with the officials! The hell with the damn Mongols! And the hell with this life!' Syaoran thought as he wore a heavy scowl on his face.
He was stressed obviously. There was no doubt about it. The Mongols had refuses his hand of truce, which would be a big problem, because it was any moment before they started attacking his country.
Syaoran had always loved his country, in fact, there was nothing else he loved more, or learned to love more. While people in his life come and go, his country had always stood by his side. He never surrendered any part of his heart to any person, only to his country. In truth, his country was really just a reflection of himself and his own blood and flesh. Syaoran had learned that you can never depend on other people, only use them, and depend on your self.
'I need a stress reliever.' Syaoran thought as he smirked, as he got up and walked towards, Meilin's room.
Just as he stepped out of his room, he saw Sakura walking past the outer doorway of his palace. Rethinking what he had planned, he hurried up his pace to catch up with her instead.
"Kinomoto! Slow down, dammit." Syaoran said, halting Sakura's hasty steps.
The auburn haired girl, instantly stopped and stared at the ground, trying to hide her shed tears. She heard Syaoran's steps finally in front of her, as she felt her heart beating rapidly, partly because of nervousness, and partly from something else she couldn't define.
"Still shy I see." Syaoran's voice was amused with a layer of taunting. (that was such bad grammer. -.- plz ignore). "Won't you sometimes just look up and show your beautiful face?"
Sakura blushed slightly, but refused to look up. It was so embarrassing to show her tears!
"Your majesty, is there anything I can do for you?" Sakura managed to say.
'She doesn't understand anything does she?" Syaoran thought as he smirked.
Syaoran gently lifted Sakura's face so that it faced his tall figure. Sakura felt a shock through her body at his touch, and had a great urge to run away and hide somewhere.
Syaoran was very surprised to see that Sakura had tears in her emerald colored eyes, and that her eyes were slightly swollen. Even despite that, she was still the most beautiful girl he had seen. A soft pink blush was on her face, and the tears in her eyes seemed to make her eyes look more beautiful than ever.
"Why are you crying?" Syaoran asked, his voice was not gentle, but it lacked the coldness it usually contained.
Sakura felt her heart beat faster and faster, as her lip quivered slightly.
"R-r-really, it's nothing." She managed to say as she felt a stab of guilt, lying to the emperor.
"Oh really?" Syaoran said as he raised an eyebrow in doubt. Sakura remained silent, not knowing what to say. For some reason, she always felt nervous when she was around him, but dismissed it as just another unknown power of the Emperor of China.
Silently, Syaoran took out a soft handkerchief.
"Here you'll need this to dry out your eyes. It's such a waste of God's blessings when you waste your beauty on crying."
Sakura blushed as she gratefully took the handkerchief and dried her eyes. She could not help a smile, which was not missed by Syaoran, who in return smiled as well.
'Did he just smile?' Sakura stared at Syaoran in disbelief.
"You know it's rude to stare." Syaoran said as his very small smile turned into a smirk.
Embarrassed, Sakura quickly handed the handkerchief back, but the emperor replied,
"no need, just keep it. We should be heading back."
Sakura nodded as she followed Syaoran back to the main hall, as the pair walked in comfortable silence.
AN: Sooooooooo how'd you guys like it? I tried to make this chap pretty long cause I felt pretty bad for not updating. uh. in like half a year. +_+ *cough. sorry!!! . anyways. tell me what you guys think! Really reviews mean a lot to an author! Its really a lot of motivation. I think I'm gonna upload my next chap by the end of this week cause I'm going on vacation and plus I have new inspiration! ^o^ yayyy! Hehehe. whats gonna happen? Since I haven't updated in so long. I dunno how well this fits with all the other chaps lol. Review!!!!! XD
AU: thank you all for you wonderful support! Sorry for the very late update. hehe. I was really busy.(or lazy. -_-*), neways! Heres the fourth chap. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! XD for ur reviews and support (again ^^;).
Threads of Destiny
Chapter 4:
By: Wish
Syaoran woke to the smell of cherry blossoms, and a soft breath on his chest. His arms were wrapped around a petite figure with auburn hair and a slight frown on her face. Syaoran gently unwrapped his arms from Sakura and quickly got dressed.
Syaoran sighed softly, as he thought,
'another day at court. I never have fun anymore.' he glanced at Sakura's sleeping figure and smirked,
'maybe the fun is just about to begin.' Taking one last look at the auburn- haired beauty, he left the room.
Sakura gently stirred from her puzzling dream. Her body suddenly felt like it was missing something. She felt herself slightly shiver at the wind that blew through the open window. The oncoming winter was going to be a cold one.
Sakura's dream had been strange. She had dreamed about Aki at first, but as she had tried to touch his cheek, the Aki had turned into someone else. She could only remember that the person had burning amber eyes. (hehe. like that wasn't obvious enough. ^^;)
Suddenly snapping out of her trance, Sakura got dressed and was somewhat happy to find that the emperor was no where in sight. She put on a plain mint green robe and put her long auburn hair into a braid with a few wisps of hair falling loose around her face.
Sakura then happily skipped to the main kitchen of the palace and smiled as she saw Tomoyo-Chan there already.
"Ohayo Tomoyo-chan!"
"Ohayo Sakura! How was yesterday?" Tomoyo asked.
"um. er. it was okay.I guess." Sakura said as a pink blush stained her creamy skin.
A mischeivious smile appeared on Tomoyo's lips.
"You guys didn't do anything did you?"
Sakura turned a few shades redder as she shook her head fervently.
"Of course not!!! All we did was sleep on the same bed together! And I was as far away from him as possible!"
Tomoyo laughed at Sakura's awkward position, and soon Sakura joined in as they continued their daily work.
Meilin POV
"Where the HELL was he last night?!" Meilin thought out loud. The door to her very spacious room opened as one of the servants kneeled in front of her.
"Where was the emperor last night?!" Meilin asked the servant girl in a loud voice.
The girl trembled in trepidation at Lady Meilin's angry voice and remained stunned in her position to say anything.
"WELL!?!!!"
Finally the girl snapped out of her frozen state and replied in a weak and trembling voice,
"t-t-the emperor was uh in h-h-his room last night." A dull smack landed across the girl's face, a red handprint was imprinted on her face.
"DON'T TELL ME WHAT I ALREADY KNOW! WHAT WAS HE DOING DAMMIT!?"
the girl held back tears from the stinging pain and managed to reply,
"h-h-h-he was with one of his new servants."
Meilin's eyes narrowed as her anger reached a peak at the thought that some worthless slut was with her Syaoran last night. Meilin had prepared the best of wines and food for them. She had waited for Syaoran the whole night for him to show up, but he hadn't.
Oh what she wanted to do to the wrench that had slept with him. A cruel smile was present on her face. It wasn't as if she had never gotten rid of her other rivals before.
Turning to the girl on the ground Meilin said,
"Suiren (the girl's name), bring me that girl to me right now. And by the way, what was her name again?"
"Her name was Sakura Kinomoto. I'll get her right away." Suiren said this as she hurried out the room to summon the girl.
Sakura was washing the dirty dishes when a girl had come to get her. The girl had short black hair, and large, brown, almond-shaped eyes.
"Sakura Kinomoto?" she asked.
"Hai? Is there something you need?" Sakura asked as she gave a smile to the girl.
"Um. Lady Meilin wants to see you." The girl replied.
"See me?" Sakura asked bewildered. "But, I'm new here!"
"Yes, she wanted to see you for just a few minutes."
Sakura quickly wiped her fingers on a cloth, and followed the girl to see Lady Meilin.
Sakura finally reached the door of entrance of Lady Meilin's place.
"This is her palace, Lady Meilin will be waiting for you inside." Suiren said quietly.
Sakura gave a small smile as she stepped into the room. At the end of the room there was a little space where it contained the Lady's bed. Walls of red silk cascaded around the bed, and Sakura could only see a silhouette of the person in on the bed. Sakura kneeled down near the bed and said,
"Lady Meilin, you requested me?"
A sugar coated voice replied,
"Yes, I did, I heard your one of the emperor's new favorites." Sakura shifted uncomfortably. Although Lady Meilin's voice sounded sweet, the edge of malice in it did not escape Sakura.
"Lady Meilin, your too kind! Everyone knows that the emperor's favorite is you. Even I, a new comer would know that."
A small smile appeared on Meilin's lips, a little relieved from what the girl had said.
"Then what do you feel about the Emperor?" Sakura felt the tension mount again. This Lady Meilin seemed VERY protective of the emperor, and Sakura was not stupid to see why.
"the emperor is only a stranger to me. I don't know him nearly as well as you, and I don't think he really pays attention to me either." Sakura answered calmly and truthfully.
The silhouette behind the silk curtains seemed to have relieved a great amount of tension, as she feigned a yawn.
"I'm tired now, please leave me to have my rest." Sakura eagerly got up from her kneeling position and took a small bow as she left the room.
** outside**
Sakura let out a sigh of relief as she cheerfully stretched. Her legs were sore from kneeling for so long and her eyes squinted, trying to adjust to the bright light.
Suddenly a strong arm grabbed her by the waist and a hand clamped over her mouth. Her eyes snapped shut as she tried to let out a scream. But the hand covered the noise. Her body tried to struggle against the other but it was no use. She felt her back press against a wall as she slowly opened her eyes.
It was a small dark secluded area. The only light that was provided was through a large crack. The stone walls surrounded Sakura. Her eyes slowly adjusted to the light as she saw only the shadow of a person.
She felt another urge to scream, but before she could, the figure started,
"Sakura, it's me." The voice sounded familiar. Slowly, Sakura saw his blond hair and blue eyes. Her eyes widened.
"Aki!!!" Sakura's eyes brimmed with tears, as she felt his arms wrap around her.
"Sakura, I missed you so much. Come and escape with me!" their lips met passionately, but for some reason, Sakura felt the kiss didn't seem as good as she thought it would feel. She didn't feel the spark like she did the times she dreamed about their kisses.
Sakura quickly dismissed the thought and said softly,
"Aki.you know I can't."
Aki stood silent.
"Then maybe I was wrong to come here." His cold voice pierced through the silence.
"Aki please! Its for your own safety!" Sakura pleaded.
"No, you just think that the palace is better than the poor life that I can offer. I thought you loved me."
Sakura winced at his tone of voice.
"You know that's not true!" Sakura replied, beginning to think this was some sort of cruel nightmare.
Aki stood silent for another few moments looking down at Sakura with his frozen blue eyes, before turning without warning and jumping over the tall roof, leaving Sakura alone.
Sakura felt her heart ache painfully as tears flowed out of her eyes with no control.
** Emperor's study**
' The hell with the officials! The hell with the damn Mongols! And the hell with this life!' Syaoran thought as he wore a heavy scowl on his face.
He was stressed obviously. There was no doubt about it. The Mongols had refuses his hand of truce, which would be a big problem, because it was any moment before they started attacking his country.
Syaoran had always loved his country, in fact, there was nothing else he loved more, or learned to love more. While people in his life come and go, his country had always stood by his side. He never surrendered any part of his heart to any person, only to his country. In truth, his country was really just a reflection of himself and his own blood and flesh. Syaoran had learned that you can never depend on other people, only use them, and depend on your self.
'I need a stress reliever.' Syaoran thought as he smirked, as he got up and walked towards, Meilin's room.
Just as he stepped out of his room, he saw Sakura walking past the outer doorway of his palace. Rethinking what he had planned, he hurried up his pace to catch up with her instead.
"Kinomoto! Slow down, dammit." Syaoran said, halting Sakura's hasty steps.
The auburn haired girl, instantly stopped and stared at the ground, trying to hide her shed tears. She heard Syaoran's steps finally in front of her, as she felt her heart beating rapidly, partly because of nervousness, and partly from something else she couldn't define.
"Still shy I see." Syaoran's voice was amused with a layer of taunting. (that was such bad grammer. -.- plz ignore). "Won't you sometimes just look up and show your beautiful face?"
Sakura blushed slightly, but refused to look up. It was so embarrassing to show her tears!
"Your majesty, is there anything I can do for you?" Sakura managed to say.
'She doesn't understand anything does she?" Syaoran thought as he smirked.
Syaoran gently lifted Sakura's face so that it faced his tall figure. Sakura felt a shock through her body at his touch, and had a great urge to run away and hide somewhere.
Syaoran was very surprised to see that Sakura had tears in her emerald colored eyes, and that her eyes were slightly swollen. Even despite that, she was still the most beautiful girl he had seen. A soft pink blush was on her face, and the tears in her eyes seemed to make her eyes look more beautiful than ever.
"Why are you crying?" Syaoran asked, his voice was not gentle, but it lacked the coldness it usually contained.
Sakura felt her heart beat faster and faster, as her lip quivered slightly.
"R-r-really, it's nothing." She managed to say as she felt a stab of guilt, lying to the emperor.
"Oh really?" Syaoran said as he raised an eyebrow in doubt. Sakura remained silent, not knowing what to say. For some reason, she always felt nervous when she was around him, but dismissed it as just another unknown power of the Emperor of China.
Silently, Syaoran took out a soft handkerchief.
"Here you'll need this to dry out your eyes. It's such a waste of God's blessings when you waste your beauty on crying."
Sakura blushed as she gratefully took the handkerchief and dried her eyes. She could not help a smile, which was not missed by Syaoran, who in return smiled as well.
'Did he just smile?' Sakura stared at Syaoran in disbelief.
"You know it's rude to stare." Syaoran said as his very small smile turned into a smirk.
Embarrassed, Sakura quickly handed the handkerchief back, but the emperor replied,
"no need, just keep it. We should be heading back."
Sakura nodded as she followed Syaoran back to the main hall, as the pair walked in comfortable silence.
AN: Sooooooooo how'd you guys like it? I tried to make this chap pretty long cause I felt pretty bad for not updating. uh. in like half a year. +_+ *cough. sorry!!! . anyways. tell me what you guys think! Really reviews mean a lot to an author! Its really a lot of motivation. I think I'm gonna upload my next chap by the end of this week cause I'm going on vacation and plus I have new inspiration! ^o^ yayyy! Hehehe. whats gonna happen? Since I haven't updated in so long. I dunno how well this fits with all the other chaps lol. Review!!!!! XD
