# For Her #
whoo boy... sneaking out at night is the bomb diggity! hahahahaha. SO funny. Im a heavy sleeper, so I left my cell of vibrate and put it in my SHIRT. That way, I could feel it. so at 1 am in the morning, I feel this rumbling and im like holy shit. Hahahaha. Anyway, my friends pick me up, and we were going to TP someone, but then we didn't exactly know where she lived, so we ended up going to a friend's house since his parents weren't home. Came back at 6.
Ok, I shut up now. =]
= Sakura POV =
I laughed and danced around the lawn. I could get out anytime I wanted! This new discovery excited me, since the wife was suppose to be dutiful to her husband, and I was surely committing some kind of sin.
From the grassy lawns, I looked down at the village.
It intrigued me.
I began descending the hill and I entered the village.
People stared at me as I walked around vendors.
Obviously, royalty didn't come down and stroll around dirty streets and they looked at me as if I was insane.
A burly man walked up to me, surely drunk he was.
"Hey miss... get out of here. Your kind isn't welcome." He said thickly, while holding a jug of wine.
"I will walk around as I please." I said defiantly.
The man raised his hand drunkenly. "What did you say?!"
I anticipated his move and was about to block myself as his fist came down when a strong muscled arm grabbed his fist before I could.
I looked at the man.
It was the same one that was laughing at me when I first arrived!
"Are you going to degrade yourself so low that you would hit this woman?" he said huskily.
Two men quickly came over and dragged the raging man away.
They were obviously scared of that man.
Quickly putting my hands down, which were going to block me, I looked at the man with interested eyes.
He spoke in a dignified manner, yet he was dressed in peasant clothes, though they didn't seem as bad as some of the other were wearing. His eyes were piercingly amber and his messy hair was of a dark chocolaty color.
His eyes turned to mine.
"All right your highness?" he asked imploringly.
"Ah... yes, thank you." I said stumbling over my words.
'This man was quite good looking' I though admiringly.
"Shall I escort you back to the castle?" he asked politely.
I laughed.
"Not after I just escaped from that wretched place!" I exclaimed, still chortling.
I swore his mouth gave a slight twitch.
"I wont be going back there. This place is far more interesting." I looked shyly at him, "Well... I don't know my way around here much... do you think you could show me around?"
He stared at me.
"You are... different,..." he mumbled so softly, I almost couldn't hear his words.
And I was sure they weren't meant for my ears.
"Did you say something?" I asked, pretending I had not heard.
"Nothing at all your highness." He said looking at me.
"Please... you can just call me Sakura." I said quickly. I did not like the sound of your highness.
He looked a little startled.
He then grinned.
"You are not like most royalty do you know that miss Sakura?" he mused.
"I know, because I don't want to be." I said seriously.
He only looked and started walking away.
"H-hey! Wait up!" I called, running to his side.
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We arrived at a small farm, which lay next to a house.
"Is this your house?" I inquired.
He nodded.
I strode over to the chicken coop. Royalty weren't suppose to go into villages for visits. I had never seen a chicken coop.
"Never?" the man said, a little surprised as I admitted I had never seen one before.
"Never." I confirmed.
I took the top roof off from the henhouse.
I gave a little shout of surprise as a flurry of yellow chicks came rushing out.
The little chicks gathered around my feet, trying to get warmth from me, all huddling together at my feet.
My face must have showed complete amazement, for the man finally cracked a small grin.
"Those are little chickens. They are cute at first, then they become only good for eating." He explained to me.
"They are so cute!" I said laughing.
The man's face was stoic, but I could see the glint in his eyes suggesting he was laughing slightly behind that stone face.
"Your royal highness!"
I whirled around to see Prince Ryu come striding over with a bit of anger in his face.
"Oh..." I said, frowning a bit. I would have to go back to the castle and become a dainty lady again.
Ryu came over and put his arms protectively around me.
I squirmed in his arms but he didn't seem to notice.
"How dare you kidnap her!" he roared.
"Ryu!" I said while struggling to get out of his arms, "He didn't kidnap me!"
"Did he threaten you to say that?" he said angrily, his eyes still on that man, "What's your name? Speak quickly!"
He seemed unwilling to say it, but eyeing the soldiers that started to surround them, he said, "Yamamoto Yuki."
"Well, Yamamoto, you can be sure I will keep an eye out on you!" and with that, he dragged me along, leaving Yuki to stand there gazing at our retreating backs.
"Ryu!" I hissed," I told you! I was the one who climbed out of the castle! That man was not to blame!"
"Don't worry Sakura." He said reassuringly, as we entered the castle yet again. He had not heard a word I had said. "I will make sure that man wont come near you again. He will be beheaded."
I looked at him in horror and disgust.
"If you dare hurt one hair on his head and you can be sure that I wont marry you!" I exclaimed at him.
He finally looked at me.
"W-what...? You're over reacting Sakura. That man kidnapped you! And you're defending him!"
"Well, Mr. I-think-I-know-it-all, you haven't been listening to one word I said! If I said it wasn't his fault, it wasn't his fault! If you keep this up, I'll really hate you!"
My words hit home.
Ryu was stunned.
I ran out the room to mine, and glowered there for the rest of the day.
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There was a knock on my door.
After I had yelled at Ryu, I had locked myself in my room and refused to come out.
"Miss...it's me."
I quickly ran to the door and unlocked it.
It was Tomoyo.
She was my attendant from my home. She had come with me all the way to this section of Japan, to continue to serve me.
"What happened?" she asked worriedly. "What happened Miss Sakura?"
I glanced at her and all I said was "And I never asked for his... name."
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= Xiao Lang POV =
I stared absentmindedly at the little chicks before me.
It was a day after the incident with the princess and prince. The family of the princess was going to be there that day.
The wedding was tomorrow.
"It has nothing to do with me," I said to a little chick I picked up out of the group. "Nothing at all."
"What has nothing to do with you?"
I jumped literally two feet into the air.
"Your... highness."
"No. I already told you to call me Sakura." Sakura said laughing.
"Alright... Miss Kinomoto." I couldn't do it. I couldn't call her Sakura. If I did, it meant I acknowledged something, and I sure as hell did not.
She frowned a bit, but seemed to give up.
"I'm getting married tomorrow." She suddenly said.
"Yes... I know that." I said a bit coldly.
She stared and started to say something, but seemed to think better of it, and remained silent.
We both were there. I was squatting, with a little chick in my hand. And Miss Kinomoto was standing there staring at it.
"May..." my head snapped up. "May... I know your name?" came the shy question.
I looked at her in surprise.
"Its Yuki. Yamamoto Yuki." I said "Didn't you hear me telling the prince?"
"Yes, yes I did. But I didn't ask for a fake identity." She said smiling "I want to know your real name. What's your real name sir?"
"It's...not for you to know." I said hesitantly. This girl was good.
"But-"Sakura walked forward and slipped in a small mud puddle.
"HOE!" she yelled in surprise and she pitched forward.
I stood up and stretched my arms out.
She fell against me and I felt something in my chest flutter for a second then disappear.
I shrugged it off.
"Are you ok Miss Kinomoto?" I said politely as I hoisted her up.
"Uh...Oh... yes." She said her face flushed.
I held onto her waist and her hands rested on my arms as she tried to focus her eyes.
"Thank you." She said.
But I was so entranced I did not let go.
We stood there holding each other lightly while staring into each other's eyes.
I bent forward and so did she.
Our lips were a few centimeters away, when I heard a shout...
"SAKURA?!?!?!"
I promptly let go of Sakura, and she fell to the ground again with an "oomph"
The man ran over to Sakura and helped her up.
I back up a few steps.
"What do you think you were doing to my little sister?!" the man demanded.
'The royal family' I though as I saw a man and a beautiful woman walk up as well.
"Touya!" Sakura hissed
"He's so cute!" the beautiful woman said as she stared at me.
"Uh... thank you your highness." was all I could say.
"What's your name son?" the man asked, with kind crinkling eyes.
Saying "Li Xiao Lang" threatened to come out, but Wei's reprimand to keep my true identity hidden surfaced.
"Yamamoto Yuki your highness." I said, noticing Sakura's hopeful look disappear.
"Daddy, Yuki's been showing me around the village and he's been very kind to me." Sakura said confidently.
"Is that so?" he said with a twinkle in his eye, "Thank you Mr. Yamamoto, for showing my daughter around."
"It was no problem." I said modestly, "Please, come in. I would be honored to have such guests in my house."
"Of course we will!" Queen Nadeshiko (I learned later this was her name) said.
I had Wei make tea and we all sat down and talked.
The topic soon turned to China and Japan relations.
"You know," the King said, "There is a sort of myth, a legend in China, about who the real King should have been."
My heart skipped a beat.
"Is that so?" I said as uncaringly as I could.
I saw Wei's hands twitch slightly.
"They say the prince was like a hunted boy. Many tried to assassinate them. Led by who the King of China is now, Kaia. One day, they had nearly succeeded, but the King protected his son, and died in his place. The assassins tried to kill the boy yet again, but he was smuggled out of Japan, and the Queen was brought into hiding, by the commoners, who were still loyal to their Queen and now only, prince. The four daughters of the Queen were also put into hiding elsewhere. They say this boy is in somewhere in Japan, ready to take back the throne soon." The King said, "Of course... it might just be a story made up."
"Perhaps." I said vaguely.
"Oh! Look at the time. We must get meeting the groom's family." Queen Nadeshiko said, not very happily.
I tried not to laugh, and the Queen saw. She winked.
"Why don't you come with us?" the King suggested.
My mouth dropped open.
"Absolutely not." Touya suddenly said. It was the first time he started talking since he had entered the house.
"Touya!" Sakura said in a scolding manner, "how impolite!"
"No," he said shaking his head, "you misunderstand. Slightly." He said the last word under his breath, which was only heard by Sakura and myself. She glared at him.
"What would the Royal Family think if we brought a low-life peasant into the vicinity of the castle?" he said reasonably.
I agreed, though I did not agree with the word choice of "low-life". Little did they know who I truly was.
"No matter, come with us." The King said generously.
My heart sped up. I never really had a father in my life. I felt love for the first time.
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= Sakura POV =
We were on the carriage, approaching the castle. My father had convinced Yuki to join us. He sat next to me, and I took a small peek at him.
'Very intriguing." I thought. 'Something about him... makes me feel like I'm in the presence of something great.'
I felt the carriage stop. We were there.
Yuki climbed out and I was about to let myself out, when I saw Yuki's hand outstretched before me. He was offering his hand as support.
"I can do it." I said determinedly. I wasn't weak; I could take care of myself.
All his did was smile slightly and watched as I got myself off the carriage.
We strode, side by side, and entered the castle
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The maids and servants bowed before us.
We had entered the castle.
I was still nervous. What if Prince Ryu exploded at Yuki again?
For some reason, I didn't not think Yuki was that man's true name, but I would not press him to tell me, until he felt like doing so.
"King Fujitaka, Queen Nadeshiko." The Prince stepped forward.
"Prince Ryu." The King and Queen greeted together formally.
"Sakura." He said happily as he turned to me but then his face turned colors as he saw the man beside me.
"W-what... is a commoner doing in the castle!" he said looking outraged, "and this kidnapper at that!" his hands were balled into fists.
King Fujitaka looked mildly surprised at the Prince.
"Is there a problem?" he said with a slightly irritated voice, "this man was very kind to us when we arrived. I invited him in."
Indeed the Prince was outraged.
"This man tried to kidnap your daughter!" he said angrily, pointing accusingly at Yuki.
"Shut your mouth." Touya said angrily. As much as he disliked Yuki, he disliked this man even more.
Why the arguing continued, I felt something.
My eyes scanned the room. Where was this source of magic I felt?!
Then, it came full blast at me.
"DUCK!!!" I yelled and surprisingly everyone listened.
The roof exploded.
Everyone was screaming.
"So... you were here all along, Prince."
There stood a cloaked man with gray smoky eyes. His face showed triumph at his discovery.
I thought he was referring to Prince Ryu, but this man's eyes were on Yuki's.
"Yuki?" I asked timidly.
The cloaked man's eyes snapped to me.
He grinned and said, "So... found yourself a woman eh?"
"Mind your own business." Yuki said with a growl in his throat.
"Kaia's magicians are coming... you are going to finally meet the doom you should have had years ago prince."
"Not if I can help it!" Yuki cried and he ran, at me.
I gasped. What was he doing?!
He came and grabbed me around the waist, and hoisted me in his arms.
"Yuki!" Touya's scared and mad voice came, "What the hell are you doing?!"
Yuki, running with me in his arms, looked back not at my brother, but at my parents.
I looked too, and saw understanding in my father's eyes, and fear in my mother's.
And then I felt air. We had jumped out a window!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" I yelled as we fell.
Yuki stretched his legs out and they caught a tree branch.
He jumped off the branch and ran, and ran, to the dock that faced China.
"Yuki!" I gasped as we neared the shore.
He stopped as we did and looked back.
The cloaked figure magically appeared behind us and was laughing.
"Did you really think you could escape?" he said tauntingly. "The magicians are here." And as he said this, five more people appeared behind him.
I trembled and Yuki must have felt that because he gripped my tighter, reassuring me.
The cloaked figures eyes looked at me.
"Give the girl over." He said demandingly at Yuki.
"No." he said and he took an ofuda out, saying some fast magic words that I couldn't quite catch and lightning came down on where the magicians were standing, except they weren't there anymore. They were pelting magic orbs at us.
"NOO!" I yelled, a tear escaping my eyes.
I felt a warm heat come from my neck.
I looked down.
My grandmother's necklace was glowing!
Ever since I was little, grandma would take care of me. She was a wonderful woman, and before she died, she had given me her necklace, saying, "It might come in handy one day."
The necklace glowered brighter, and suddenly, it consumed Yuki and I. I closed my eyes tightly, but not before seeing the disbelief on the magician's faces.
It felt as if miles were being placed between the magicians and us.
I opened my eyes, and saw Yuki doing the same.
We were in the outskirts of a village, but there was something strange about the village.
A woman walked up to us, and said "Ni men liang ge shi cong na li lai de?"
HUH?!
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whee.... That was boring. Hahahah. Well, ill make it better next chapter! =]
my fingers hurt.
Miss Kit Taylor
To my angel EH
whoo boy... sneaking out at night is the bomb diggity! hahahahaha. SO funny. Im a heavy sleeper, so I left my cell of vibrate and put it in my SHIRT. That way, I could feel it. so at 1 am in the morning, I feel this rumbling and im like holy shit. Hahahaha. Anyway, my friends pick me up, and we were going to TP someone, but then we didn't exactly know where she lived, so we ended up going to a friend's house since his parents weren't home. Came back at 6.
Ok, I shut up now. =]
= Sakura POV =
I laughed and danced around the lawn. I could get out anytime I wanted! This new discovery excited me, since the wife was suppose to be dutiful to her husband, and I was surely committing some kind of sin.
From the grassy lawns, I looked down at the village.
It intrigued me.
I began descending the hill and I entered the village.
People stared at me as I walked around vendors.
Obviously, royalty didn't come down and stroll around dirty streets and they looked at me as if I was insane.
A burly man walked up to me, surely drunk he was.
"Hey miss... get out of here. Your kind isn't welcome." He said thickly, while holding a jug of wine.
"I will walk around as I please." I said defiantly.
The man raised his hand drunkenly. "What did you say?!"
I anticipated his move and was about to block myself as his fist came down when a strong muscled arm grabbed his fist before I could.
I looked at the man.
It was the same one that was laughing at me when I first arrived!
"Are you going to degrade yourself so low that you would hit this woman?" he said huskily.
Two men quickly came over and dragged the raging man away.
They were obviously scared of that man.
Quickly putting my hands down, which were going to block me, I looked at the man with interested eyes.
He spoke in a dignified manner, yet he was dressed in peasant clothes, though they didn't seem as bad as some of the other were wearing. His eyes were piercingly amber and his messy hair was of a dark chocolaty color.
His eyes turned to mine.
"All right your highness?" he asked imploringly.
"Ah... yes, thank you." I said stumbling over my words.
'This man was quite good looking' I though admiringly.
"Shall I escort you back to the castle?" he asked politely.
I laughed.
"Not after I just escaped from that wretched place!" I exclaimed, still chortling.
I swore his mouth gave a slight twitch.
"I wont be going back there. This place is far more interesting." I looked shyly at him, "Well... I don't know my way around here much... do you think you could show me around?"
He stared at me.
"You are... different,..." he mumbled so softly, I almost couldn't hear his words.
And I was sure they weren't meant for my ears.
"Did you say something?" I asked, pretending I had not heard.
"Nothing at all your highness." He said looking at me.
"Please... you can just call me Sakura." I said quickly. I did not like the sound of your highness.
He looked a little startled.
He then grinned.
"You are not like most royalty do you know that miss Sakura?" he mused.
"I know, because I don't want to be." I said seriously.
He only looked and started walking away.
"H-hey! Wait up!" I called, running to his side.
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We arrived at a small farm, which lay next to a house.
"Is this your house?" I inquired.
He nodded.
I strode over to the chicken coop. Royalty weren't suppose to go into villages for visits. I had never seen a chicken coop.
"Never?" the man said, a little surprised as I admitted I had never seen one before.
"Never." I confirmed.
I took the top roof off from the henhouse.
I gave a little shout of surprise as a flurry of yellow chicks came rushing out.
The little chicks gathered around my feet, trying to get warmth from me, all huddling together at my feet.
My face must have showed complete amazement, for the man finally cracked a small grin.
"Those are little chickens. They are cute at first, then they become only good for eating." He explained to me.
"They are so cute!" I said laughing.
The man's face was stoic, but I could see the glint in his eyes suggesting he was laughing slightly behind that stone face.
"Your royal highness!"
I whirled around to see Prince Ryu come striding over with a bit of anger in his face.
"Oh..." I said, frowning a bit. I would have to go back to the castle and become a dainty lady again.
Ryu came over and put his arms protectively around me.
I squirmed in his arms but he didn't seem to notice.
"How dare you kidnap her!" he roared.
"Ryu!" I said while struggling to get out of his arms, "He didn't kidnap me!"
"Did he threaten you to say that?" he said angrily, his eyes still on that man, "What's your name? Speak quickly!"
He seemed unwilling to say it, but eyeing the soldiers that started to surround them, he said, "Yamamoto Yuki."
"Well, Yamamoto, you can be sure I will keep an eye out on you!" and with that, he dragged me along, leaving Yuki to stand there gazing at our retreating backs.
"Ryu!" I hissed," I told you! I was the one who climbed out of the castle! That man was not to blame!"
"Don't worry Sakura." He said reassuringly, as we entered the castle yet again. He had not heard a word I had said. "I will make sure that man wont come near you again. He will be beheaded."
I looked at him in horror and disgust.
"If you dare hurt one hair on his head and you can be sure that I wont marry you!" I exclaimed at him.
He finally looked at me.
"W-what...? You're over reacting Sakura. That man kidnapped you! And you're defending him!"
"Well, Mr. I-think-I-know-it-all, you haven't been listening to one word I said! If I said it wasn't his fault, it wasn't his fault! If you keep this up, I'll really hate you!"
My words hit home.
Ryu was stunned.
I ran out the room to mine, and glowered there for the rest of the day.
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There was a knock on my door.
After I had yelled at Ryu, I had locked myself in my room and refused to come out.
"Miss...it's me."
I quickly ran to the door and unlocked it.
It was Tomoyo.
She was my attendant from my home. She had come with me all the way to this section of Japan, to continue to serve me.
"What happened?" she asked worriedly. "What happened Miss Sakura?"
I glanced at her and all I said was "And I never asked for his... name."
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= Xiao Lang POV =
I stared absentmindedly at the little chicks before me.
It was a day after the incident with the princess and prince. The family of the princess was going to be there that day.
The wedding was tomorrow.
"It has nothing to do with me," I said to a little chick I picked up out of the group. "Nothing at all."
"What has nothing to do with you?"
I jumped literally two feet into the air.
"Your... highness."
"No. I already told you to call me Sakura." Sakura said laughing.
"Alright... Miss Kinomoto." I couldn't do it. I couldn't call her Sakura. If I did, it meant I acknowledged something, and I sure as hell did not.
She frowned a bit, but seemed to give up.
"I'm getting married tomorrow." She suddenly said.
"Yes... I know that." I said a bit coldly.
She stared and started to say something, but seemed to think better of it, and remained silent.
We both were there. I was squatting, with a little chick in my hand. And Miss Kinomoto was standing there staring at it.
"May..." my head snapped up. "May... I know your name?" came the shy question.
I looked at her in surprise.
"Its Yuki. Yamamoto Yuki." I said "Didn't you hear me telling the prince?"
"Yes, yes I did. But I didn't ask for a fake identity." She said smiling "I want to know your real name. What's your real name sir?"
"It's...not for you to know." I said hesitantly. This girl was good.
"But-"Sakura walked forward and slipped in a small mud puddle.
"HOE!" she yelled in surprise and she pitched forward.
I stood up and stretched my arms out.
She fell against me and I felt something in my chest flutter for a second then disappear.
I shrugged it off.
"Are you ok Miss Kinomoto?" I said politely as I hoisted her up.
"Uh...Oh... yes." She said her face flushed.
I held onto her waist and her hands rested on my arms as she tried to focus her eyes.
"Thank you." She said.
But I was so entranced I did not let go.
We stood there holding each other lightly while staring into each other's eyes.
I bent forward and so did she.
Our lips were a few centimeters away, when I heard a shout...
"SAKURA?!?!?!"
I promptly let go of Sakura, and she fell to the ground again with an "oomph"
The man ran over to Sakura and helped her up.
I back up a few steps.
"What do you think you were doing to my little sister?!" the man demanded.
'The royal family' I though as I saw a man and a beautiful woman walk up as well.
"Touya!" Sakura hissed
"He's so cute!" the beautiful woman said as she stared at me.
"Uh... thank you your highness." was all I could say.
"What's your name son?" the man asked, with kind crinkling eyes.
Saying "Li Xiao Lang" threatened to come out, but Wei's reprimand to keep my true identity hidden surfaced.
"Yamamoto Yuki your highness." I said, noticing Sakura's hopeful look disappear.
"Daddy, Yuki's been showing me around the village and he's been very kind to me." Sakura said confidently.
"Is that so?" he said with a twinkle in his eye, "Thank you Mr. Yamamoto, for showing my daughter around."
"It was no problem." I said modestly, "Please, come in. I would be honored to have such guests in my house."
"Of course we will!" Queen Nadeshiko (I learned later this was her name) said.
I had Wei make tea and we all sat down and talked.
The topic soon turned to China and Japan relations.
"You know," the King said, "There is a sort of myth, a legend in China, about who the real King should have been."
My heart skipped a beat.
"Is that so?" I said as uncaringly as I could.
I saw Wei's hands twitch slightly.
"They say the prince was like a hunted boy. Many tried to assassinate them. Led by who the King of China is now, Kaia. One day, they had nearly succeeded, but the King protected his son, and died in his place. The assassins tried to kill the boy yet again, but he was smuggled out of Japan, and the Queen was brought into hiding, by the commoners, who were still loyal to their Queen and now only, prince. The four daughters of the Queen were also put into hiding elsewhere. They say this boy is in somewhere in Japan, ready to take back the throne soon." The King said, "Of course... it might just be a story made up."
"Perhaps." I said vaguely.
"Oh! Look at the time. We must get meeting the groom's family." Queen Nadeshiko said, not very happily.
I tried not to laugh, and the Queen saw. She winked.
"Why don't you come with us?" the King suggested.
My mouth dropped open.
"Absolutely not." Touya suddenly said. It was the first time he started talking since he had entered the house.
"Touya!" Sakura said in a scolding manner, "how impolite!"
"No," he said shaking his head, "you misunderstand. Slightly." He said the last word under his breath, which was only heard by Sakura and myself. She glared at him.
"What would the Royal Family think if we brought a low-life peasant into the vicinity of the castle?" he said reasonably.
I agreed, though I did not agree with the word choice of "low-life". Little did they know who I truly was.
"No matter, come with us." The King said generously.
My heart sped up. I never really had a father in my life. I felt love for the first time.
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= Sakura POV =
We were on the carriage, approaching the castle. My father had convinced Yuki to join us. He sat next to me, and I took a small peek at him.
'Very intriguing." I thought. 'Something about him... makes me feel like I'm in the presence of something great.'
I felt the carriage stop. We were there.
Yuki climbed out and I was about to let myself out, when I saw Yuki's hand outstretched before me. He was offering his hand as support.
"I can do it." I said determinedly. I wasn't weak; I could take care of myself.
All his did was smile slightly and watched as I got myself off the carriage.
We strode, side by side, and entered the castle
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The maids and servants bowed before us.
We had entered the castle.
I was still nervous. What if Prince Ryu exploded at Yuki again?
For some reason, I didn't not think Yuki was that man's true name, but I would not press him to tell me, until he felt like doing so.
"King Fujitaka, Queen Nadeshiko." The Prince stepped forward.
"Prince Ryu." The King and Queen greeted together formally.
"Sakura." He said happily as he turned to me but then his face turned colors as he saw the man beside me.
"W-what... is a commoner doing in the castle!" he said looking outraged, "and this kidnapper at that!" his hands were balled into fists.
King Fujitaka looked mildly surprised at the Prince.
"Is there a problem?" he said with a slightly irritated voice, "this man was very kind to us when we arrived. I invited him in."
Indeed the Prince was outraged.
"This man tried to kidnap your daughter!" he said angrily, pointing accusingly at Yuki.
"Shut your mouth." Touya said angrily. As much as he disliked Yuki, he disliked this man even more.
Why the arguing continued, I felt something.
My eyes scanned the room. Where was this source of magic I felt?!
Then, it came full blast at me.
"DUCK!!!" I yelled and surprisingly everyone listened.
The roof exploded.
Everyone was screaming.
"So... you were here all along, Prince."
There stood a cloaked man with gray smoky eyes. His face showed triumph at his discovery.
I thought he was referring to Prince Ryu, but this man's eyes were on Yuki's.
"Yuki?" I asked timidly.
The cloaked man's eyes snapped to me.
He grinned and said, "So... found yourself a woman eh?"
"Mind your own business." Yuki said with a growl in his throat.
"Kaia's magicians are coming... you are going to finally meet the doom you should have had years ago prince."
"Not if I can help it!" Yuki cried and he ran, at me.
I gasped. What was he doing?!
He came and grabbed me around the waist, and hoisted me in his arms.
"Yuki!" Touya's scared and mad voice came, "What the hell are you doing?!"
Yuki, running with me in his arms, looked back not at my brother, but at my parents.
I looked too, and saw understanding in my father's eyes, and fear in my mother's.
And then I felt air. We had jumped out a window!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" I yelled as we fell.
Yuki stretched his legs out and they caught a tree branch.
He jumped off the branch and ran, and ran, to the dock that faced China.
"Yuki!" I gasped as we neared the shore.
He stopped as we did and looked back.
The cloaked figure magically appeared behind us and was laughing.
"Did you really think you could escape?" he said tauntingly. "The magicians are here." And as he said this, five more people appeared behind him.
I trembled and Yuki must have felt that because he gripped my tighter, reassuring me.
The cloaked figures eyes looked at me.
"Give the girl over." He said demandingly at Yuki.
"No." he said and he took an ofuda out, saying some fast magic words that I couldn't quite catch and lightning came down on where the magicians were standing, except they weren't there anymore. They were pelting magic orbs at us.
"NOO!" I yelled, a tear escaping my eyes.
I felt a warm heat come from my neck.
I looked down.
My grandmother's necklace was glowing!
Ever since I was little, grandma would take care of me. She was a wonderful woman, and before she died, she had given me her necklace, saying, "It might come in handy one day."
The necklace glowered brighter, and suddenly, it consumed Yuki and I. I closed my eyes tightly, but not before seeing the disbelief on the magician's faces.
It felt as if miles were being placed between the magicians and us.
I opened my eyes, and saw Yuki doing the same.
We were in the outskirts of a village, but there was something strange about the village.
A woman walked up to us, and said "Ni men liang ge shi cong na li lai de?"
HUH?!
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whee.... That was boring. Hahahah. Well, ill make it better next chapter! =]
my fingers hurt.
Miss Kit Taylor
To my angel EH