Chapter 16~

Hey guys, sorry for taking so long!!! It's snowing here!!!! Yay yay yay!!!! o-k-k it's c-c-c-cold!!!

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Syaoran held his arm limply, and saw Hana with a blank stare placed on her face. "S-Syaoran? Where's Chow? He's all right isn't he..he's not hurt or..or anything?" She tried her best not to cry, knowing by the look on Syaoran's face that Chow wasn't OK.

"Hana, I know that you loved Chow very much but," Hana's tears streamed down in buckets as she listened to Syaoran, "But he's..he's gone to a much better place. He..he was the hero here. He gave his life for all of us, and we will never forget it. If you'd like, his spirit is still here. It's over there by that locker."

Hana, with dripping mascara, walked lifelessly over to Chow's body. "Why did you die! I loved you more than the Earth and the sun! You were my only one, and now you've left me!!! I hate you Chow Yung!! I hate you!!" She screamed at his dead body, holding his hand tightly in hers. She kissed his palm quickly and shut his eyes, never letting light in again.

Syaoran stood and watched as the couples reunited. He smiled to himself and looked behind him for a sign of Sakura. It had been a few minutes since Sakura took off and he was getting worried. 'Who was she after anyway?' He pondered, and decided to go looking for her.

He walked slowly towards a partially open door. He smelled something foul and covered his mouth so as not to pass out. He slowly pushed the door open and saw thousands of dead rats lying all over the floor. (How could Sakura not see that???) His face turned a lime green as he became sick. He saw a flash of skin as a secret portal slammed closed.

He ran backwards, going back to get the gang and he found them all making out!!!!!!!!!!!! (*Eeeeeewwwww!!!!* j/k!!) "You guys!!! We have to help Sakura!!" He cried, tears flowing freely down his cheeks. "We have to." He whispered and ran out the main exit, onto the skating rink and out to the parking lot.

He drove around for days and nights, searching widely for her. Not knowing what he was doing he was slowly losing hope. It had been two weeks now and still no sign of Sakura. He sighed heavily as he returned home to a cold and lonely bed.

*Sakura*

A whip landed on a now bloody and torn back. Tears poured down swollen and red cheeks. "Say that you murdered Myao(The dragon Sakura killed)!!! You know you did, and now you will pay for it!!"

Sakura flexed her muscles and braced herself as the whip was brought down on her raw back again. They had been doing this to her for the past two weeks and she was starting to think she'd rather kill herself than go through this torture.

She thought that Syaoran had given up on her and she was going to quit very soon. She cried out even louder as they laid scorpions at her feet that stung her in thousands of different places. She tried to blow them away but it seemed that her lungs could only hold so much air now.

She was punched in the face by a masked woman again and again until she was bleeding from unknown places. "Say that you killed him you worthless girl!!" Sakura grimaced and held her tongue. "Ne-ver!" She spat out and was punched in the face again.

Sakura was thrown in a cold cement room where they gave her only bread and water. She cried herself to sleep at night and only dreamed of Syaoran and being in his warm arms once again. She rolled herself into a ball and sat in a corner, rocking herself to sleep that night.

The next morning, Sakura was dragged out to be punished once again. A burning hot iron was poked into her stomach and throat. She felt the hot metal singe her skin, she forced back tears that were threatening to fall.

"GO ON!! Cry you baby! That won't get your precious boyfriend, Syaoran, back any faster!!" The masked woman screamed at her, kicking her with three inch, very sharp high heels. (I got parta this from 007's new movie Sry) Her faced was pressed to the floor, her nose cracking and blood seeping onto the floor. She was forced to eat small pieces of hot coal and poisonous bugs.

Several guards spat on her, drenching her hair, and mixing the tears and blood. They shut the iron doors once again, leaving her to her own reverie. She looked outside and saw stars shining brilliantly at her, making her spirits heighten just a tad.

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Syaoran punched his bedroom wall for the fifth time and his knuckles were black and blue and bleeding but he kept punching. He put all his anger out on the wall and cried into his aching hands. A soft knock resounded to his ears and he opened the door slightly.

Meiling stood there with a blood stained letter that was written quickly and very sloppily. It read as followed:

Dear, dear Syaoran,

How my heart aches to touch and hold you once again. They are keeping me here in a steel encampment. I am not allowed to say where, but I will say it's in the desert. I still love you I hope you know! I am barely alive and my heart wishes every second to die. I am about willing to let my body just waste away right here. They torture me Oh so badly... scorpions, punches, spitting, hot irons, I can go on for hours!! They make my life a living hell, most opposite of what it was like lying in the bed with you wrapped around me, comforting my soul and spirit... I Love you always little wolf.

Much love, Sakura Cherry Blossom

It was a letter!!! A letter!!! When was it written? Did she really write it?? YES, she is alive but not well!! I need to save her, how? I do not know yet but soon I shall have my Cherry Blossom in my arms once again.... That's when Syaoran made a choice to put his life on the line to save Sakura's. Was it the right choice??

*END!!*

Of COURSE i'm having a sequel!!! Duh!! I know you guys loved the story.... RIGHT???? n/m Well, I'm glad it's done!! I'm starting on the sequel right now, and I assure you it will be action packed and ROMANCE packed!!!! i know U guys r going 2 give me A LOTTA reviews correct?? Tell ur friends 2 read it k??? The sequel's name is... ***Our Hope for the Future has Vanished***