Ryo looked at Sakura curiously. "What?"
"I think you know." She said. Ryo looked puzzled for a moment before he realized what she was talking about.
"Sakura, you don't have to tell me now if you don't…"
"I do." She interrupted. "I'm sorry I kept what happened between me and Seriyu from you for so long, but I'm ready to tell you about it now." Ryo nodded as Sakura turned to look out the window. She reached behind her neck and unhooked the clasp that held the silver locket around her neck. She let the locket dangle from her fingers as it glinted in the sunlight.
"I guess it all started when I got this locket." She began as she held it in her hands, tracing the design etched on the front with her finger.
"When I was about thirteen my father gave it to me, and told me that I should never lose this necklace no matter what. I didn't understand why he wanted me to take such good care of it, but I did. But one day, I was outside playing with Kero. Somehow I lost the necklace. I didn't realize I lost it until I got home. Once I figured it out I searched for it everywhere I had been that day. I had just about given up when I saw a little girl. I walked up to her to ask her if she had seen it when I noticed she was wearing it.
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"Where did you find that necklace" Sakura demanded of the little girl. The girl looked at the locket and shrugged.
"On the ground. I walked past and saw something glittering and saw this locket. Is it yours?" she asked sweetly.
"Yes, please you must give it back." Sakura said urgently. "My father gave it to me."
The girl nodded as she took the necklace off and gave it to Sakura. Sakura smiled as she put the necklace back on.
"Thank you. By the way, my name's Sakura. What's yours?"
"Kanna" the girl said shyly.
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"That was how I met Kanna." Sakura said smiling in remembrance. "Even though she was three years younger than I was, she soon became my best friend. Probably because there weren't any girls around for me to hang out with. All I had was Anubis and the others. Although they were great to train with, and they were like my brothers, they wouldn't do any of the girl stuff with me, and Kanna would. We used to have so much fun together. And I made time to play with her everyday. She would always meet me by the old tree that was a mile from my father's castle. Eventually father got so tired of me running off everyday that he just let Kanna come over whenever she wanted, provided I got my lessons and training done for the day. Then one day, on Kanna's birthday, I gave her my locket as a gift. She had always told me how pretty she thought it was, so I gave it to her. I knew that if Kanna kept a hold of it, then I would never lose it, because Kanna would never take it off. About a year later is when Seriyu entered the picture. My father told me that Seriyu pretty much had free rein around the castle, and that I was to answer any questions he might have, but to not let him out of my sight when he was there. I later found out that the only reason Seriyu was there was because father wanted Seriyu's fathers help. Seriyu's father was a very powerful sorcerer, and my father wanted his help to defeat you guys. So Seriyu stayed at the castle with us. Me and Kanna disliked him, but I was forced to tolerate him. I remember the day we caught him in the throne room.
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"What are you doing in here?" Sakura demanded to know when she and Kanna walked into the throne room. Seriyu stood up quickly, a guilty look on his face.
"I was looking for you two." Seriyu lied. "And I looked in here when I noticed this door under Talpa's throne. I was about to go look around it when you guys came in."
"Your not allowed in there." Sakura said angrily.
"Yeah, not even Sakura is allowed there." Kanna added.
"Really? Why? What is under there?" Seriyu asked intrigued.
Sakura shrugged, "I don't know. But I'm not going to find out. My father told me never to go there, so I'm staying away from it."
"Well fine then." Seriyu said. "I'll just go by myself." He said smugly as he made a movement toward it.
"It wouldn't do you any good." Kanna spoke up. "Only certain people can open the door. Sakura's dad put a spell on it so that if the wrong person opens the door, they die instantly. So I wouldn't try it if I were you." Kanna advised.
"Who can open it then?" Seriyu demanded to know.
Kanna shrugged as Sakura scowled at his persistence. "We don't know, I do know that you first have to have the key." With that the two girls left the room. Seriyu scowled as he looked at the door again when he saw it; a small indention on the surface of the wood. It looked like two hearts that were joined on the side, about the same size as…Kanna's locket!
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"After that day, all Seriyu talked about was that door." Sakura said continuing with the story. "If I had known better I would have told my father, but I just didn't care all that much, and it cost me dearly. It was about six months later when me, Kanna, and Seriyu were in my room. Dais came in and told me my father needed to speak to me. I left the room, telling Seriyu and Kanna that I would be right back and not to leave my room. When I got back to the room, they weren't there. I looked for them everywhere. Then I thought of it…the throne room. I hurried down there as fast as possible when I stopped at the door. I could hear Kanna and Seriyu talking. I stayed where I was, listening to them.
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"I can't open it Seriyu!" Kanna said indignantly, hands on her hips.
"Yes you can! You have the key, now I demand that you open this door right now!" Seriyu ordered as he advanced on her threateningly.
"No, I don't!" Kanna argued. " I may have the locket, but that will only open this door. I heard Talpa talking about it. There is another door under this one that only he and Sakura can open. And now I'm going to go and tell them that you are trying to get under here! We'll see how Sakura's dad will react about that!"
Seriyu glared at the girl, his eyes blazing with fury.
"My father sent me here to open this door!" he said in a low voice. "And now that I know how to get underneath, I'm not going to let some girl stand in my way and ruin everything!"
Sakura's eye widened at what she heard as she hurried into the room. She stopped and gaped in horror as she saw Kanna's lifeless body fall to the ground, dead. Seriyu looked up in surprise and anger at Sakura, still holding the weapon he used to kill Kanna.
"Seriyu!" Sakura yelled in anger. "I'll make you pay for this!" she threatened as she rushed at him. Seriyu was suddenly engulfed in a cloud of smoke. Sakura stopped, choking on the smoke until it cleared, when she heard his voice float through the room.
"I'll get what is under that throne one day, Sakura. Beware, because once I get it…I'm killing you next!"
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"After that I just kind of…lost track of the necklace. I didn't care, because of what it had done to my friend."
Sakura fought to keep the tears from falling as she remembered Kanna's lifeless body. "She died because I gave her my necklace. If I had just kept it, Seriyu never would have thought that Kanna was the one who could open the door, and she wouldn't be dead." Sakura clenched the locket in her hands a moment before placing it, once again around her neck. "So that's what happened. Seriyu killed my best friend and that's why I hate him so much. That's also why when I have those dreams about her, it affects me so bad. Because I've always felt partially responsible for killing her." Sakura bit her lip to keep from crying as Ryo looked at her, unsure of what to say, so he did was he always did whenever she needed to cry. He reached out and brought Sakura to him, hugging her close to his chest.
"I'm so sorry Ryo." Sakura apologized. Ryo tilted her back to look at her.
"What for?" he questioned.
"For being so selfish lately." She answered. "All I've done recently is sit here moping around and obsessing about this and not telling anybody anything. And when you guys tried to help I just snapped back." Sakura sighed. "I can't believe how I've been acting, and I'm going to fix it." She said decisively. "I'm not going to let this happen again."
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Author's note-okay I finally told why Sakura hates Seriyu so much, and I'm sorry that I dragged it out for so long. Thanks to all of you who stuck around to find out what happened. But now this arises even more questions. What will happen now that Ryo knows, and what about the Illusionist. Will he be able to get Sakura to open the door? And what is under the door? I'll update ASAP and please remember to R&R.