AN- First I would like to say thank you all for reviewing my last chapter. I worked really hard on that chapter. Also along with this information I would like to thank the two people who told me the correct verse to the song I had in that one chapter. I'm sorry I goofed ~.~ thank you for correcting me. ^-^
-Also you've might have been wondering why I've used Syaoran's Japanese name and not Eli's and Madison's well the reason is: Eli and Madison sound more British then Eriol and Tomoyo since this story is taking place in England.
-If you have any more questions please e-mail me at CassieGranger@aol.com or simply IM me at CassieGranger. I'm on 24/7 and would be happy to talk to you. ^-^ Or you could just ask in a review, but I would much like to talk to you in an IM if possible.
Dedication- I would like to thank these people:
Pichachu (for being a great friend.)
Appypie- (for also being a great friend to me and sending me your drawing's and your story).
Kawaii-Sakura ( for being a great friend and helping me with my stories)
Eva Maverx- (she's been my friend ever since I was little, she is new to writing stories on ffnet, but please go check out her story when she makes it come out)
Sukera or Sukki- (Even though you live far away you'll always be my friend/sister hehe)
MonMon- I love you to bits, thank you for being there for me.
Disclaimer- I don't own CCS but I wish I did. That would be awesome, if I did I would have all my favorite CCS fanfictions turned into a movie ^-^. Of course I don't own the famous children's novel "The Secret Garden" if I did I would have had Dickon tell Mary he loved her heehehehe.
Ok enough chit chat from me you want the next chapter and here it is sit back and relax and let's travel to Misselthwaite.
The Secret Garden
Chapter Eight: Trying To Keep a Secret
Rating: G
Later from that day with Syaoran, Sakura bid him farewell and left the garden. The sun was setting in the distance and the setting colors started to rise over the moor hills. The rays hit ground making it shine with pleasure, spring was just around the corner and Sakura couldn't wait. As she walked up the dirt path she wondered what the garden would look like once all the flowers bloomed.
She pictured walls of ivory and roses everywhere you looked. Meadows of lilies and violets. The smell of baby's breath in the air (It's a flower people). The little stream that ran from the garden sparkling in morning sun, the robin and it's newborns twittering in their nest made of twigs and horse hair. A smile formed on her lips she couldn't wait to spend all of her afternoons in the garden, but then her smile fell.
It feels like I'm stealing the garden from my uncle, and even my aunt, but nobody wanted it, it was UN-wanted she sighed Maybe when I finally talk to my uncle, maybe I can ask for it, but then the secret would be out! she pondered for a bit.
She was so deep in thought she didn't notice that she was already at the entrance to the manor. She walked in and slowly took off her coat, and hanged it on the pegs, she proceeded with her cotton hat. Sakura was about to go up into her room when she remembered:
Eli!
She sprinted up the stairs into her room, and took the way through her little door. She quietly sneaked into his room where he was waiting.
When he saw her his face lit up.
"Sakura!" he wheeled over to her. "Where, were you? I waited all day"
Sakura smiled at him.
"Sorry Eli, I was outside playing and didn't notice the time".
Eli smiled at her.
"Well I'm glad you remembered to come and see me, now let's play".
**Some time later**
Sakura was putting on a puppet show for Eli. The marionettes all wore happy faces, and beautiful silk dresses of very expensive imported fabrics. It looked to be all the way from china or Japan. Sakura loved to run her hand along the silky fabric and rub it against her face. As for the jade eyed thirteen year old girl moving the puppets she was beginning to feel uncomfortable.
Her hands were wrapped around the wood things that moved the strings as she moved a puppet.
"Aw! It's stuffy in here" She said in a different voice then her own as she moved a puppet "I'll simply faint if I don't get some fresh air!"
Eli laughed as he watched the puppets dance in a little wooden stage painted beautifully. An auburn head popped up from behind the small puppet stage.
"Well" she looked around and spotted some bolted up shudders. She got up and made her way over to them "At least we can open some windows" she tugged on the bolts.
Eli's eyes widened in horror.
"No! get away from there!" Eli cried "They are nailed shut because my lungs can't take the spores in the air!"
Sakura looked at him questionably.
"Spores?, what do you mean spores?" she had no clue what the sapphire eyed boy was talking about.
"Spores that are carried in the wind" he played with a velvet blanket that was wrapped around his legs "My lungs can't stand take the spores they're unhealthy, the wind carries them and when you breathe them in they stick to your lungs" he said reinsurely.
Sakura still looked skeptic at him.
Wind unhealthy? she asked herself But it's because of the wind on the moor that made me healthy and unsickly looking in the first place!, how could the wind be unhealthy she just couldn't find a way to prove Eli's theory.
Especially because the air of the moor was so clean and fresh anyway.
"Well" she said as she paced the room and twirled with a bit of her hair.
"Before I came here to the moors I was so scrawny looking, and yellow even my hair was scrawny, but when I got into the wind of the moors my hair got fuller and even I got fatter and better looking".
A look of disgust went over his face.
"Hair is dead!"
She twirled around and looked at him.
"If hair is dead, then why does it continue to grow after you die?!"
Eli wheeled over close to his bed and said.
"Well my hair is dead, just like everything about me, I'm going to die soon and I'll get a hump on my back just like my father"
Sakura's nose scrunched up.
"I hate the way you talk about dying"
Eli shrugged.
"Everybody thinks I will die"
Sakura crossed her arms.
"If everybody thought that about me, I wouldn't listen to them".
Eli wheeled over to his nightstand where stood his medicine and glasses cleaners. He reached into the drawer, and took out a cloth face mask. It looked like the ones that doctors would use when they would operate on sick patience.
He set it on his lap and wheeled over to where Sakura was standing and handed it to her.
"Here put this on" he half said and demanded "Everyone has to wear them, Medlocks orders"
Sakura snatched the cloth and held it to her face, it felt like a feather was itching at her nose and face. She tried to tie it but couldn't stand it and threw it at him.
"I can't stand it" she stamped her foot "It makes my face itch, and I didn't give you any germs last night did I?"
Eli glared at her, his face turned stern.
"Put on the mask!" he demanded in a stern voice.
Sakura glared at him.
"Stop talking to me as if you were a Rajah!" she shot back "With emeralds and rubies stuck all over you!"
A picture flashed before her eyes of a boy being carried by an elephant he wore a gold cloth that was made of peer silk and he had every kind of jewel imaginable on him. She stamped her foot and made her way to the door.
"Were are you going?!" demanded Eli.
Sakura wheeled around and glared at him.
"Back outside to be with Syaoran! It's a lot better out there with him then it is here with you!"
Eli wheeled up to her.
"Sya-oran?!" he sneered "What is so speacial about him?" he asked getting jealous.
"He tames animals like the animals charmers did in India, and he knows everything there is to know about gardens!" she said getting mad, she hated the way Eli talked about Syaoran like he was better then him or something.
"You can't! I'll have them drag you back in! and plus it's getting to dark to go outside" he sneered at her.
She glared at him he's right she thought. it is getting to late to go back outside.
"Is that so Rajah!" she stomped over to a velvet chair in the corner. Plopped down on it and crossed her arms. "Then I shall sit here and grit my teeth, and even not look at you or talk to you".
Eli glared at her she is so stubborn! he thought. Then he remembered something she said last night.
**Flash Back**
"But I thought she died in her garden?" Sakura had said.
**End of Flash back**
Getting curious Eli decided to ask.
"Does he know anything about my mothers garden?"
Sakura wasn't expecting that her eyes widened in disbelief.
"What?" she asked pretending not to have noticed him.
How does he know about the garden?! she asked herself getting nervous.
"You told me my mother had a garden" he said looking at her. He could see she was getting nervous because she was fittling with the lace on her dress.
Did I? she asked herself I can't remember if I did?, think fast Sakura you can't tell Eli yet.
"How would Syaoran know about it?" she said trying her hardest to protect her secret. "And besides it's locked anyway know body is allowed in"
"I'll make them open it" he said stated half demanded as if the people were right there in front of him now.
Sakura's eyes went wide.
"No! Don't!" She cried "If you make them open it, it wouldn't be a secret garden anymore, you don't want that do you?" she pleaded.
Eli looked at her unsurly, her jade eyes were filled with worry.
"Maybe you don't know how to keep a secret" she went on.
Eli was about to answer to her, when they heard voices coming from up the stairs. They belonged to Mrs. Medlock and Madison.
"Medlock!" Eli whispered to her urgently.
Sakura's eyes went wide she stood up and looked around the big room for a place to hide, she spotted the bed and ran over to it and literally doved underneath it and hid. Mrs. Medlock and Madison descended down the stairs into Eli's room. The walked over to were he was sitting in his chair. Mrs. Medlock walked over to a chair where a person would lay, and laid down her medical bag which was filled with all Eli's medicines.
A man walked in and took Eli in his arms, and lifted him up into the chair thing and then left. Mrs. Medlock lifted up his pants to were she could give him his treatment for his legs. Eli blushed because Madison saw his scrawny legs. Madison got the machine ready handed the shockers to an impatient Mrs. Medlock.
Medlock put the shockers to Eli's legs as Madison pumped the machine.
"You father returns today" came Medlocks voice from behind the face mask.
Eli shook his head.
"He will not want to see me"
Medlock looked down at him.
"Perhaps he will".
While Medlock was talking to Eli; Madison noticed a foot sticking out from under the bed.
Miss Sakura?! she thought.
Madison used her foot to tap Sakura's foot, and real quick Sakura slid her leg back under the bed. Madison didn't notice that while she was looking she slowly, but surely pumped the machine slower.
"Madison?!" said an impatient Mrs. Medlock "The Machine! Wake up girl!"
Madison came back to reality and pumped at normal speed again.
"Oh no!" said a worried Mrs. Medlock "I forgot the my herbs"
"I'll go get them for you ma'am" offered Madison.
"No thank you, last time you got to much of one herb, I'll be right back" with that Mrs. Medlock went up the stairs and disappeared.
Madison made sure Mrs. Medlock was out of sight before she stooped down by the bed, and helped Sakura out from underneath the bed.
"What are you doing down there Miss Sakura?!" she exclaimed "And without your mask! If Mrs. Medlock finds out." she paused "The world is coming to an end!"
Eli added hurriedly.
"She'd never let you come back here!"
"yes!" pleaded Madison.
"Please go!" they both urged her.
Sakura nodded not wanting to get in trouble again, and ran up the stairs and through the tapestry. As she was climbing the stairs back up to her room she heard big doors open, being curious she decided to lean over the rail and see what the commotion was about.
She heard people yelling.
"The Lord Ship has arrived!" said one voice.
"Everyone get into you post!" said another.
Sakura saw at least five big white dogs coming up the stairs they were snarling and barking at all the servants. Two of them started to fight right on the stairs. Sakura had never seen a dog before was kind of scared of them at first. She decided not to stick around anymore and made her way to her room. I wonder if he'll want to see me tomorrow? she wondered to herself as she continued up the gloomy stairs of the manor.
So Sakura's uncle had arrived at last! Maybe she would finally get to meet her uncle.
AN- Did you like it? Huh? Huh? HUH? Sorry for the long wait ^-^'' you know with ffnet having problems and all. But I got here at last. Not much S&S in this chapter, but I have a very strong feeling you'll be yelling Kawaii next chapter ^-^. See ya next chapter!
- If you got a question e-mail me or IM me at CassieGranger or simply ask in your review. Please Review and if you feel like flaming me *snif* ok just do it nicely cuz I take those seriously.
Bye for now! ^.~ Kittyangel
-Also you've might have been wondering why I've used Syaoran's Japanese name and not Eli's and Madison's well the reason is: Eli and Madison sound more British then Eriol and Tomoyo since this story is taking place in England.
-If you have any more questions please e-mail me at CassieGranger@aol.com or simply IM me at CassieGranger. I'm on 24/7 and would be happy to talk to you. ^-^ Or you could just ask in a review, but I would much like to talk to you in an IM if possible.
Dedication- I would like to thank these people:
Pichachu (for being a great friend.)
Appypie- (for also being a great friend to me and sending me your drawing's and your story).
Kawaii-Sakura ( for being a great friend and helping me with my stories)
Eva Maverx- (she's been my friend ever since I was little, she is new to writing stories on ffnet, but please go check out her story when she makes it come out)
Sukera or Sukki- (Even though you live far away you'll always be my friend/sister hehe)
MonMon- I love you to bits, thank you for being there for me.
Disclaimer- I don't own CCS but I wish I did. That would be awesome, if I did I would have all my favorite CCS fanfictions turned into a movie ^-^. Of course I don't own the famous children's novel "The Secret Garden" if I did I would have had Dickon tell Mary he loved her heehehehe.
Ok enough chit chat from me you want the next chapter and here it is sit back and relax and let's travel to Misselthwaite.
The Secret Garden
Chapter Eight: Trying To Keep a Secret
Rating: G
Later from that day with Syaoran, Sakura bid him farewell and left the garden. The sun was setting in the distance and the setting colors started to rise over the moor hills. The rays hit ground making it shine with pleasure, spring was just around the corner and Sakura couldn't wait. As she walked up the dirt path she wondered what the garden would look like once all the flowers bloomed.
She pictured walls of ivory and roses everywhere you looked. Meadows of lilies and violets. The smell of baby's breath in the air (It's a flower people). The little stream that ran from the garden sparkling in morning sun, the robin and it's newborns twittering in their nest made of twigs and horse hair. A smile formed on her lips she couldn't wait to spend all of her afternoons in the garden, but then her smile fell.
It feels like I'm stealing the garden from my uncle, and even my aunt, but nobody wanted it, it was UN-wanted she sighed Maybe when I finally talk to my uncle, maybe I can ask for it, but then the secret would be out! she pondered for a bit.
She was so deep in thought she didn't notice that she was already at the entrance to the manor. She walked in and slowly took off her coat, and hanged it on the pegs, she proceeded with her cotton hat. Sakura was about to go up into her room when she remembered:
Eli!
She sprinted up the stairs into her room, and took the way through her little door. She quietly sneaked into his room where he was waiting.
When he saw her his face lit up.
"Sakura!" he wheeled over to her. "Where, were you? I waited all day"
Sakura smiled at him.
"Sorry Eli, I was outside playing and didn't notice the time".
Eli smiled at her.
"Well I'm glad you remembered to come and see me, now let's play".
**Some time later**
Sakura was putting on a puppet show for Eli. The marionettes all wore happy faces, and beautiful silk dresses of very expensive imported fabrics. It looked to be all the way from china or Japan. Sakura loved to run her hand along the silky fabric and rub it against her face. As for the jade eyed thirteen year old girl moving the puppets she was beginning to feel uncomfortable.
Her hands were wrapped around the wood things that moved the strings as she moved a puppet.
"Aw! It's stuffy in here" She said in a different voice then her own as she moved a puppet "I'll simply faint if I don't get some fresh air!"
Eli laughed as he watched the puppets dance in a little wooden stage painted beautifully. An auburn head popped up from behind the small puppet stage.
"Well" she looked around and spotted some bolted up shudders. She got up and made her way over to them "At least we can open some windows" she tugged on the bolts.
Eli's eyes widened in horror.
"No! get away from there!" Eli cried "They are nailed shut because my lungs can't take the spores in the air!"
Sakura looked at him questionably.
"Spores?, what do you mean spores?" she had no clue what the sapphire eyed boy was talking about.
"Spores that are carried in the wind" he played with a velvet blanket that was wrapped around his legs "My lungs can't stand take the spores they're unhealthy, the wind carries them and when you breathe them in they stick to your lungs" he said reinsurely.
Sakura still looked skeptic at him.
Wind unhealthy? she asked herself But it's because of the wind on the moor that made me healthy and unsickly looking in the first place!, how could the wind be unhealthy she just couldn't find a way to prove Eli's theory.
Especially because the air of the moor was so clean and fresh anyway.
"Well" she said as she paced the room and twirled with a bit of her hair.
"Before I came here to the moors I was so scrawny looking, and yellow even my hair was scrawny, but when I got into the wind of the moors my hair got fuller and even I got fatter and better looking".
A look of disgust went over his face.
"Hair is dead!"
She twirled around and looked at him.
"If hair is dead, then why does it continue to grow after you die?!"
Eli wheeled over close to his bed and said.
"Well my hair is dead, just like everything about me, I'm going to die soon and I'll get a hump on my back just like my father"
Sakura's nose scrunched up.
"I hate the way you talk about dying"
Eli shrugged.
"Everybody thinks I will die"
Sakura crossed her arms.
"If everybody thought that about me, I wouldn't listen to them".
Eli wheeled over to his nightstand where stood his medicine and glasses cleaners. He reached into the drawer, and took out a cloth face mask. It looked like the ones that doctors would use when they would operate on sick patience.
He set it on his lap and wheeled over to where Sakura was standing and handed it to her.
"Here put this on" he half said and demanded "Everyone has to wear them, Medlocks orders"
Sakura snatched the cloth and held it to her face, it felt like a feather was itching at her nose and face. She tried to tie it but couldn't stand it and threw it at him.
"I can't stand it" she stamped her foot "It makes my face itch, and I didn't give you any germs last night did I?"
Eli glared at her, his face turned stern.
"Put on the mask!" he demanded in a stern voice.
Sakura glared at him.
"Stop talking to me as if you were a Rajah!" she shot back "With emeralds and rubies stuck all over you!"
A picture flashed before her eyes of a boy being carried by an elephant he wore a gold cloth that was made of peer silk and he had every kind of jewel imaginable on him. She stamped her foot and made her way to the door.
"Were are you going?!" demanded Eli.
Sakura wheeled around and glared at him.
"Back outside to be with Syaoran! It's a lot better out there with him then it is here with you!"
Eli wheeled up to her.
"Sya-oran?!" he sneered "What is so speacial about him?" he asked getting jealous.
"He tames animals like the animals charmers did in India, and he knows everything there is to know about gardens!" she said getting mad, she hated the way Eli talked about Syaoran like he was better then him or something.
"You can't! I'll have them drag you back in! and plus it's getting to dark to go outside" he sneered at her.
She glared at him he's right she thought. it is getting to late to go back outside.
"Is that so Rajah!" she stomped over to a velvet chair in the corner. Plopped down on it and crossed her arms. "Then I shall sit here and grit my teeth, and even not look at you or talk to you".
Eli glared at her she is so stubborn! he thought. Then he remembered something she said last night.
**Flash Back**
"But I thought she died in her garden?" Sakura had said.
**End of Flash back**
Getting curious Eli decided to ask.
"Does he know anything about my mothers garden?"
Sakura wasn't expecting that her eyes widened in disbelief.
"What?" she asked pretending not to have noticed him.
How does he know about the garden?! she asked herself getting nervous.
"You told me my mother had a garden" he said looking at her. He could see she was getting nervous because she was fittling with the lace on her dress.
Did I? she asked herself I can't remember if I did?, think fast Sakura you can't tell Eli yet.
"How would Syaoran know about it?" she said trying her hardest to protect her secret. "And besides it's locked anyway know body is allowed in"
"I'll make them open it" he said stated half demanded as if the people were right there in front of him now.
Sakura's eyes went wide.
"No! Don't!" She cried "If you make them open it, it wouldn't be a secret garden anymore, you don't want that do you?" she pleaded.
Eli looked at her unsurly, her jade eyes were filled with worry.
"Maybe you don't know how to keep a secret" she went on.
Eli was about to answer to her, when they heard voices coming from up the stairs. They belonged to Mrs. Medlock and Madison.
"Medlock!" Eli whispered to her urgently.
Sakura's eyes went wide she stood up and looked around the big room for a place to hide, she spotted the bed and ran over to it and literally doved underneath it and hid. Mrs. Medlock and Madison descended down the stairs into Eli's room. The walked over to were he was sitting in his chair. Mrs. Medlock walked over to a chair where a person would lay, and laid down her medical bag which was filled with all Eli's medicines.
A man walked in and took Eli in his arms, and lifted him up into the chair thing and then left. Mrs. Medlock lifted up his pants to were she could give him his treatment for his legs. Eli blushed because Madison saw his scrawny legs. Madison got the machine ready handed the shockers to an impatient Mrs. Medlock.
Medlock put the shockers to Eli's legs as Madison pumped the machine.
"You father returns today" came Medlocks voice from behind the face mask.
Eli shook his head.
"He will not want to see me"
Medlock looked down at him.
"Perhaps he will".
While Medlock was talking to Eli; Madison noticed a foot sticking out from under the bed.
Miss Sakura?! she thought.
Madison used her foot to tap Sakura's foot, and real quick Sakura slid her leg back under the bed. Madison didn't notice that while she was looking she slowly, but surely pumped the machine slower.
"Madison?!" said an impatient Mrs. Medlock "The Machine! Wake up girl!"
Madison came back to reality and pumped at normal speed again.
"Oh no!" said a worried Mrs. Medlock "I forgot the my herbs"
"I'll go get them for you ma'am" offered Madison.
"No thank you, last time you got to much of one herb, I'll be right back" with that Mrs. Medlock went up the stairs and disappeared.
Madison made sure Mrs. Medlock was out of sight before she stooped down by the bed, and helped Sakura out from underneath the bed.
"What are you doing down there Miss Sakura?!" she exclaimed "And without your mask! If Mrs. Medlock finds out." she paused "The world is coming to an end!"
Eli added hurriedly.
"She'd never let you come back here!"
"yes!" pleaded Madison.
"Please go!" they both urged her.
Sakura nodded not wanting to get in trouble again, and ran up the stairs and through the tapestry. As she was climbing the stairs back up to her room she heard big doors open, being curious she decided to lean over the rail and see what the commotion was about.
She heard people yelling.
"The Lord Ship has arrived!" said one voice.
"Everyone get into you post!" said another.
Sakura saw at least five big white dogs coming up the stairs they were snarling and barking at all the servants. Two of them started to fight right on the stairs. Sakura had never seen a dog before was kind of scared of them at first. She decided not to stick around anymore and made her way to her room. I wonder if he'll want to see me tomorrow? she wondered to herself as she continued up the gloomy stairs of the manor.
So Sakura's uncle had arrived at last! Maybe she would finally get to meet her uncle.
AN- Did you like it? Huh? Huh? HUH? Sorry for the long wait ^-^'' you know with ffnet having problems and all. But I got here at last. Not much S&S in this chapter, but I have a very strong feeling you'll be yelling Kawaii next chapter ^-^. See ya next chapter!
- If you got a question e-mail me or IM me at CassieGranger or simply ask in your review. Please Review and if you feel like flaming me *snif* ok just do it nicely cuz I take those seriously.
Bye for now! ^.~ Kittyangel