A/N: Thanks to my kind and faithful readers who still bear with my inconsistent updates and shorter chapters! I seemed to have lost a bulk of my reviewers, and I'm so sad!!! My inspiration was pretty much a gone case but after re-reading the CCS manga and some other good stories I seemed to have recovered slightly. And your continued support and reviews have also fueled my mind, and motivated me to go on even though I really wanted to discontinue this fic. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Please continue to read and review this story, and I'll do my very best to bring you more wonderful and hopefully quicker updates!
Sakura's going to get some bad things happening to her (doesn't she gets that in almost every chappie?) and things are getting heated up. The next chapter, which I have already drafted out, involves angst, magic battling scenes and more excitement. Your reviews will go a long way in helping my hand move faster in getting the next chapter up, so please please please remember to review! Right, hope you had fun reading this chapter!
Chapter 19: Captured
As Sakura fainted and fell towards the carpeted floor, Eriol, who was standing just beside her, caught her in mid-air, arms circling around her petite waist protectively. Clenching his fists, Yue and Yuki felt a stab of jealousy coursing through their veins. Eriol was oblivious to the rare look of anger on the normally peaceful and gentle looking Yuki, as he was so absorbed in making sure Sakura's fine. "Sakura!" Eriol shook her lightly, but she remained unconscious. The explanation that everyone was expecting of Eriol (about the kiss) was forgotten as they were overridden by their deep concern for Sakura.
Finally, after what seemed like eternity to the friends and family of Sakura, she roused and woke up. Seeing Kero-chan had triggered her memory, and now she had recovered all of them. Aghast at how Yue and Yuki have found out about her kiss with Eriol, she buried her face in her hands and started to cry. A steady stream of tears flowed from her eyes to her hands and splattered onto the floor, the drip-drop sound of tears slicing through the shocked silence. "Sakura! Are you all right? Are you in pain?" Kero-chan hovered restlessly, as Sakura just continued sobbing.
"I…..I'm so sorry….." She whispered brokenly, and sank to the floor, huddling into a tight ball. Yuki rushed forward and embraced her briefly, then tried to look into her tear-filled eyes. "Sakura-chan, why are you crying? Please tell me where you are hurt, if you are hurt. I'm so worried about you!"
The gentleness and concern of Yuki only made her feel worse. "Why Yuki? Why are you still so nice to me?" With a hard shove, she pushed Yuki away and ran upstairs to her bedroom, slamming and locking the door behind her desperately. She just couldn't face Yuki and Yue and their kindness, after her unfaithfulness is finally in the light. Even if it was just a kiss, to Sakura, it was as good as committing adultery. No matter how hard she had tried in the past to push this unfaithful act into the back of her mind, it now came pouring back with a vengeance, torturing and filling her with guilt. Kneeling on cold hard floor, she shut her eyes, hoping to escape reality. "I don't deserve you, Yuki, Yue. I don't. I know the truth must have hurt you, and yet you still treat me so gently, so kindly. I really, truly don't deserve you." Like a chant that wouldn't go away, these words repeated itself in Sakura's turmoil-filled mind, causing her to sink even deeper into misery.
"Sakura-chan! Open the door!" Yuki and the rest were banging on the door, shouting for her.
So absorbed in her guilt and misery, Sakura failed to notice anything around her, including the increasingly loud banging on her door. And a soft glowing red light that was growing in the middle of her bedroom. A magical presence that escaped Sakura's notice, but not Yue's, Kero's, Eriol's and Touya's notice. "What is that?" Touya inquired with a frown. "It's coming from Sakura's bedroom!" Yuki transformed into Yue, who used his magic to throw the door open. They were too late. The red light enveloped Sakura and she disappeared right before their eyes. "SAKURA!!!"
In her moment of weakness, someone evil slid in and captured Sakura. Once again, her friends, family, and love have lost her.
In the dark depths of her mind, Sakura knew that something was horribly wrong. Finally taking stock of her surroundings, she found herself in a foreign place. Her forest-green eyes blinked uncertainly, in disbelief, as she was in a room made of clear glass and pure white crystals. "What? Where am I?"
"My love, welcome back home. Don't you remember your own bedroom?" Sakura jumped in fright when a seductive and masculine voice rang out from behind her. Turning around quickly, horror dawned as she recognized the owner of the voice.
He was the man in her dreams. In person, he was even better looking, his handsomeness rivaling that of Yue's ethereal beauty. His silky red hair was loose this time, and swayed to the breeze that seemed to be perpetually moving in the enclosed room. Smoldering liquid gold eyes gazed into Sakura's frightened ones. A sinister smile flickered across his smooth face, and he run a finger across Sakura's pale cheek. "What's wrong? Don't you feel happy to be home, to be with me at last?" He teased cruelly, having a sick sense of satisfaction in her being scared.
Gathering her wits and courage, Sakura protested, "It's NOT my home. Why have you taken me here?" A look of rebellion replaced the fear in her face, and Kuro's smile twisted. The finger that was resting gently on Sakura's face just a moment ago clawed into her soft skin mercilessly, inflicting pain and drawing blood. With relish, Kuro licked Sakura's blood of his finger, as she winced. Sakura had no idea that what's to come was worse, much worse than her innocent mind can imagine.
"You are mine now. And it WILL be your home." Twisting Sakura's arm and dragging her to the large fluffy mattress bed in one corner of the room, Kuro's laugh sent chills down her spine, as fresh tears trickled down. Refusing to submit to her fear and Kuro's violence, Sakura started the familiar chant.
"Key that hides the power of the stars, reveal thy true form to me! This, by the covenant, Sakura commands! Release!"
"Silly Sakura-dear, don't you know you need a key before you can use your magic?"
To her dismay, Sakura found her magic key missing, not in its usual place around her neck. "Where's my key?"
Kuro dangled it in between his fingers idly, but careful to keep it out of her reach. "You mean this toy? How pathetic to rely on such a weak magical artifact. Before, you Suisen, didn't even need anything to use magic! I'm disappointed in you, and I believe you need to be punished!" With a flick of his hand, the key disappeared. He increased the pressure on twisting Sakura's arm, causing her to cry out in pain involuntarily. Her cries only serve to fuel Kuro's excitement and intent to mete out worse pain on her. Taking a chunk of Sakura's honey brown hair, he forced her face closer. Her struggles were futile, and Kuro swiftly closed the gap between them. He ravaged her lips with a bruising kiss. Sakura felt revolted and gasped out, giving Kuro the opportunity to slide his tongue greedily into her mouth, violating her wet depths with gee.
"Bitch!" Kuro drew back in surprise as blood formed at the corner of his mouth. Sakura has bitten his tongue. He backhanded her and she flew across the room, bouncing on the rough walls before falling onto the ground. Pacing quickly to Sakura, Kuro muttered something and Sakura started rising into the air, held up by invisible ropes, but nevertheless, ropes that were tightening their hold on her battered body. Still recovering from lightning that caused her legs to be broken, new wounds were added to her frail form today. And more was to come.
…….TBC……
