Forgotten Cherry Blossom
Chapter 10: Secrets mixed with blood
"I can't fall in love." The words echoed through the dark room. A woman watched a sad figure in her elaborate mirror. The image was clear and bright, giving a slight silver light to fill the darkness. In the mirror's image, the figure slipped out of a stone building and into the cold air.
Emerald eyes lit up when they saw something. "What is it that you see my young Cherry Blossom?" A pleasant female voice filled the dark room while haunting dark blue eyes watched the figure. The darkness was once again broken by the voice, but she was laughing this time. "A cherry blossom tree for a Cherry Blossom. Young Sakura be merry in these days. You have suffered much and some troubles still lay ahead, but in these days of rest take joys in simple things. Like you've done since a child…"
Sakura let her fingers gently glide over the bark and stopped at an engraving. Her eyes narrowed at the marks and her fingers once again learned to know the tree. In the bark an image of a sword resting on a cherry blossom was carved out. Above and under it two words in elaborate letters where marked into the tree: Forgotten Sakura.
"Forgotten Sakura." She whispered. "Forgotten Cherry Blossom. What does that mean?"
"It means, my dear, that there are some things in the world that's a mystery to many. Especially to you." Yelan smiled at her. The white coat the elegant woman had on made her seem more mysterious than normal. "A lot have been kept form you over the years, and because it has been kept from you it saved your life, but it can also destroy you."
"I do not understand madam."
"Do you know the reason as to why you were captured?"
"Yes, the crazy man kept yelling something about a Forgotten Cherry Blossom. I had no idea what he was talking about and I still don't know. And I know this much, I'm part of it. For what normal person can't fall in love?"
"Yes dear you are part of it. You are more part of it than you could have ever known."
"What is it?"
"It's not my place to tell."
Sakura snapped and started to yell at Yelan. "Don't give me that! No one will tell me! I'm cursed because of it! I've been captured and tortured because of it! My life is a lie because of it! I don't know who I am any more." Her voice broke through the cold air, Syaoran watched from behind a tree. His mother looked calm and understanding while Sakura yelled on. "People get hurt because of me. My family, my friends and your son will probably also get hurt because of me. I'm a death magnet. Do you know how many people's blood I have on my hands?" She breathed hard. "And I'm not talking of those who died during the attack. Do you know how many people I have killed?" Syaoran felt a sharp pain in his chest. "I killed them! I can never have my freedom back. I'm forever bound to those I have slain." Yelan held the shaking girl close to her.
"How many?"
"In three years, one hundred men. One hundred souls haunt me every night in my dreams. And I can feel there are more yet to come. The killings, my sins are not over." Tears stained her cold face, threatening to forever cling to her pretty face. Threatening to forever brand her for what she has done. "Will I ever be forgiven?"
"If you truly regret that what you have done. Let's go inside, then you can tell me everything."
"Syaoran watched his mother lead Sakura into the warmth and comfort of the castle. His head pounded with the words he had just heard. "Do you know many people I have killed?"
"No, she couldn't have."
"My life is a lie because of it! I don't know who I am any more."
Am I part of the lie? Who are you Sakura? Who are you? Why is there so much more to you I do not know? All I want is your company. All that I want is the lovely girl from the wedding, the outspoken girl I saved, the happy girl taking pleasure in something as silly as snow.
" My family, my friends and your son will probably also get hurt because of me."
The stupid man you are Syaoran Li. The one time you loose your heart to a girl, it's doomed to be broken in pieces. I don't understand! What is the secret that is Sakura? What is hidden behind those emerald eyes that haunt me so? "Forgotten Cherry Blossom." She keeps saying that. I have to find out. I have to know.
AN: Deadly beauty... I like it when you get more than you've bargained for. That's what usually happens to people when they first meet me. ^^;