=Giving in Love=
mehhh. Updating this thinger soon. I'm going to forget my ideas if I don't write them down now. =]
Well, school ends for me in... 2 weeks about. Can't wait. Doing karaoke and beaching in California's superb beaches. Ah yes. =] Check out the guys and their 6 packs. ahem.
Anywayyyy, let me start the story.
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Amber eyes clashed with Emerald.
I sighed.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked the princess.
Her blank eyes turned to mine.
There was no comprehension in them.
I was tired of this. One moment it seemed she understood everything I said, the next, she was like a dead fish.
"Takeshi." I called.
A man walked through.
"Yes oh mighty captain?" he said humorously.
"Try to get some sense out of her will you?" I asked him in a disappointed voice.
"Sure thing mate." Takeshi replied, taking Sakura's arm gently, "come here honey." He cooed.
She immediately stood up and willingly followed him, which made me scowl.
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=Sakura's POV=
I followed the man who beckoned to me. He seemed nice. Nicer than the man I was with before.
"Come here honey." He cooed.
I willingly obeyed.
I felt a slight anger in the man behind me but I took no heed of it.
"That's my girl." The man, called Takeshi said, continuing to use a baby voice.
As we were about to pass the door that led to the deck, I felt something.
"Something bad." I said aloud, looking intensely at the door.
Takeshi looked at me confused.
"What?"
I walked towards the door. And then I felt myself being pulled back.
"Oh no sweetie." He continued, "That's outside. We want to be inside."
I ignored him and opened the door. The sea looked calm but I felt a strange presence.
Then I felt a presence near me. Very near me.
I dodged.
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=Xiao Lang POV=
"Oh no sweetie. That's outside. We want to be inside." I heard Takeshi say.
I was livid.
That girl obeyed Takeshi's words, but not mine?
Then I hear the door open.
"What the?" I said as I went to the cabin door and saw Sakura walk outside with her face all scrunched up.
Then I felt a strange aura.
I lunged out the door and saw Sakura dodge an invisible force.
I quickly formed a sword in my hand and raised it high.
"DA LEI! [thunder]"
I swung my blade and thunder came crashing down on the invisible force.
I saw Sakura's mouth drop open as my thunder came crashing at her and the force she was dodging.
"SHIT! Sakura!" I yelled, knowing there was nothing I could do.
I saw Takeshi in a blur rush past, scoop Sakura in his arms, and jumped out of the way holding her tightly to him.
A flash of light came across my eyes, and I put my arms across them, shielding myself from its blaze.
Then I lowered my arms and saw Sakura whimpering in Takeshi's arms.
His usual joking face was gone, and in its place was worry.
"Whoa there honey," he said reassuringly, "there's nothing here now see?"
Sakura looked up and around. And her eyes wandered to mine.
And I haven't felt so guilty like now in my life.
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"What were you thinking prince?" Takeshi said with a little anger, "you almost hit her!"
"Do you think I do not know that?" I said with gritted teeth, but I almost said it meekly.
"Do you know she's in her bed right now, trembling under the blankets? Prince Xiao Lang, you're a great soldier, you really are, but sometimes, you don't THINK." Takeshi said.
"I said not to call me that." Was all I could say, and under my breath too.
Eriol, who was sitting across the room, looked at me too.
"Just be careful next time cousin." He said simply.
"Whatever." I muttered as I stormed out of my room.
I walked aimlessly down the corridors of the ship's bunks and soon, found myself in front of a door. I heard a slight crying inside.
Hesitantly, I opened the door.
Inside was a nice bed, nicer than the crew's bunks, and someone was under the blankets, crying like a little kitten.
I walked a softly as I could to the bed.
The person underneath stopped crying and stood stock still.
I slowly peeled the blanket off, and saw Sakura looking at me with frightened eyes.
"Sakura." I said in a soft voice.
Her response was a whimper.
I reached forward, until my hand touched her right cheek.
She flinched and I felt very sorry indeed.
"I'm sorry Sakura." I said, while slowly rubbing her cheek, "I'm sorry."
And that's what I did for 5 minutes. Just said sorry and rubbed her cheek. She looked so helpless, I felt like a brother, needing to protect this little girl. I felt I had to protect her, and I had almost let her down.
Then the most peculiar thing happened.
She reached her hand forward, and started rubbing my left cheek.
Then she smiled, and I knew I was forgiven.
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"I think she had amnesia of some sort." Eriol said during breakfast the next day, "It seems she does not remember people, but she remembers places, and certain things here and there. Her mind trapped in a ten year old self of her. Literally."
"Mmmm." Was all I said as I took another bite out of my toast as I looked at Sakura who was sitting at the other end of the table, trying to bite out of her toast, two eyes, and a lopsided mouth.
"Its good the crew likes her." Takeshi commented.
It was good.
The Chinese hated the Japanese. Japanese royalty was no exception. If Sakura was left alone in the streets of China, she would be knifed within 10 minutes if people knew who she was.
And people WOULD know who she was. Her eyes were emerald and her hair a lighter tone. There was no mistaking who she was.
"There's no telling what will happen once we are back on Chinese soil though." I said, "the crew may like her, but the country doesn't."
"So why did you bring her with us then?" Eriol said with a small grin on his face.
"No reason. I just found her interesting." I said.
Takeshi stood up and went to the window.
"Hey... I see an island!."
I got up and stood next to him.
"Lets stop here." I said.
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We anchored by noon and the crew had already started exploring the island.
Sakura followed Takeshi like a faithful puppy and her blank eyes studied the island. Then she gave a content sigh and started exploring the nearby wood.
"Takeshi. Keep an eye on her. She's as troublesome as 10 five year olds."
"Aye aye sir." Takeshi said grinning.
I put a blanket on the soft sands of the beach, and laid myself upon it. The last thing I remember was seeing a white gull fly into the far horizon. Then I was asleep.
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=Sakura POV=
The men were asleep! I was free to move around.
The captain, Xiao Lang, was always watching over me. It was annoying!
I liked Takeshi better. He was nicer. But he was also watching me.
I looked over to him where I was playing with some grass. He was asleep!
I crawled over to Xiao Lang. His face looked kinder when he was sleeping.
I grabbed the greem bow which tied my long hair up and tied it to his wrist.
Then I ran into the woods gleefully.
I ran zigzagged though the trees, and saw a light ahead of me.
I ran into the light and found myself in an open space in the wood.
There were creatures everywhere! The place was full of green and flowers.
I quickly plucked a few from the ground and danced on the cool dewy grass.
Then, my ears picked up a sound.
A snap of branches.
I tiptoed over to the sound.
An old man stood there admiring the gulls that flew overhead.
He was sitting on a rock, his right hand propped under his chin and his left on this left leg. His clothes were mere rags, but were clean.
I quietly stole next to him.
Then he finally noticed me and turned around.
"HOLY-"he yelled. The pretty birds had heard him and flown away from us, but it didn't seem like he noticed.
His eyes widened.
"How...how did you get here miss?"
I did not answer him.
I sat closer to him and imitated his former stance.
He froze and looked at what I was doing.
And laughed.
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=Xiao Lang POV=
I sat up quickly.
Someone had yelled.
"Who yelled?" I said grumpily.
"No clue." Takeshi said, sitting up while yawning.
"Hey... where's Sakura?" I said, suddenly scared.
Takeshi froze.
"Oh shit." He said as he jumped up and went to the edge of the wood.
"Sakura!" he yelled frantically.
"You fool!" I snapped at him as I ran past him into the wood. I heard footsteps behind me and I knew he was following.
Then I saw a light ahead of me.
'Strange.' I thought as I ran towards it, sure Sakura would have been fascinated by the light.
I ran into the light and found myself in a open space.
Then I looked up at a large rocky boulder and saw Sakura, laughing a chattering like a little girl to an elderly man.
"And then, my brother tried to grab my hand, but I-"Sakura noticed the man looking at something behind her and she slowly turned around.
"Takeshi!" she gurgled as she jumped off the boulder.
"Sakura you idiot!" I said as I ran forward to catch her, but before I could, she daintily landed on the grass and ran right past me and hugged Takeshi.
"Takeshi Takeshi!" she said happily hugging him.
I saw red.
"Young sir, and who might you be?"
I looked up at the elderly man addressing me.
"Prince Xiao Lang." I said simply, forgetting about Sakura.
The man was a sage.
"Come, come with me." He said, starting to walk away.
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"Sakura my dear, can you go pick some wildflowers for me? And make sure to make a pretty bouquet." The elderly man said.
"Ok!" she said, skipping out of the small hut they were in.
Then, his face turned serious.
"Do you know who she is prince?" he said while grabbing tea leaves from a cupboard.
"Princess Sakura." I said quizzing.
"She's not just the princess." He said, now boiling hot water on a fire he had made.
"What do you mean?" Takeshi piped up.
"Of course you Chinese wouldn't know what happened to her. Why she is like that. You see, when she was born, her bones were weak. The doctors were sure she wouldn't survive. And if she did, she would be fragile. Well, she did survive, and true to their word, she was indeed very fragile. A push could seriously bruise her skin, and a shove, could permanently damage her bone structure."
"Of course!" Takeshi said.
I glared at him and silently told him to shut up.
"Well anyway, Queen Nadeshiko, she was quite worried about Sakura's disability, and as much as she didn't want her near anyone so she would get hurt, she knew not letting Sakura play with other children would hurt her more. So she let her play with other children, Always supervising them though, in case things got rough."
The elderly man and made the tea and set it out before us.
"One day, the Queen was called away, and thought she could leave the children alone for a few minutes. But that proved fatal. The play got rough and Sakura had fallen from the tree the children had been climbing. Her right arm bone cracked and so did numerous other places. Queen Nadeshiko was so heartsick of what happened. Sakura had to be strapped onto her bed so that she wouldn't move, so that her bones would crack even more. Finally, King Fujitaka called upon the sorcerers. The magic doers. They melted bronze and iron and remade her right arm bone and whatever had been broken. Then using magic, took out her true bone and replaced it with their new product.
Well, this of course made Sakura stronger, but something happened. When Sakura fell from that tree, she had lost her memory. Her memory of people. She learned to know that Touya, the queen and King were important people to her. But everything else was forgotten to her. She began behaving like a little girl. When Prince Touya went off to fight you people, Sakura had snuck onto the boat and by the time Touya had found her, it was too late to go back. She was stuck with them until the war was over. "
I was silent. So Sakura had an unhappy childhood. Although she couldn't remember it.
"Wait... how do you know all of this?" I asked suspiciously.
The elderly man smiled sadly.
"Because I was one of the sorcerers who made her bone."
"I'm back!" Sakura ran back into the house, her face flushed.
In her hands were beautiful cherry blossoms and carnations.
"That's beautiful Sakura." The man praised.
Sakura then turned to us.
"Isn't it pretty Takeshi?" she chirped. I felt a little anger.
"Yes it is." he agreed.
Then she turned to me.
I only looked at her.
Then she held the flowers out to me.
"These I picked for you."
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WAIiii.
Cant write anymore. =]
Ok, tell me what you think!
Miss Kit Taylor
To my angel EH
mehhh. Updating this thinger soon. I'm going to forget my ideas if I don't write them down now. =]
Well, school ends for me in... 2 weeks about. Can't wait. Doing karaoke and beaching in California's superb beaches. Ah yes. =] Check out the guys and their 6 packs. ahem.
Anywayyyy, let me start the story.
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Amber eyes clashed with Emerald.
I sighed.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked the princess.
Her blank eyes turned to mine.
There was no comprehension in them.
I was tired of this. One moment it seemed she understood everything I said, the next, she was like a dead fish.
"Takeshi." I called.
A man walked through.
"Yes oh mighty captain?" he said humorously.
"Try to get some sense out of her will you?" I asked him in a disappointed voice.
"Sure thing mate." Takeshi replied, taking Sakura's arm gently, "come here honey." He cooed.
She immediately stood up and willingly followed him, which made me scowl.
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=Sakura's POV=
I followed the man who beckoned to me. He seemed nice. Nicer than the man I was with before.
"Come here honey." He cooed.
I willingly obeyed.
I felt a slight anger in the man behind me but I took no heed of it.
"That's my girl." The man, called Takeshi said, continuing to use a baby voice.
As we were about to pass the door that led to the deck, I felt something.
"Something bad." I said aloud, looking intensely at the door.
Takeshi looked at me confused.
"What?"
I walked towards the door. And then I felt myself being pulled back.
"Oh no sweetie." He continued, "That's outside. We want to be inside."
I ignored him and opened the door. The sea looked calm but I felt a strange presence.
Then I felt a presence near me. Very near me.
I dodged.
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=Xiao Lang POV=
"Oh no sweetie. That's outside. We want to be inside." I heard Takeshi say.
I was livid.
That girl obeyed Takeshi's words, but not mine?
Then I hear the door open.
"What the?" I said as I went to the cabin door and saw Sakura walk outside with her face all scrunched up.
Then I felt a strange aura.
I lunged out the door and saw Sakura dodge an invisible force.
I quickly formed a sword in my hand and raised it high.
"DA LEI! [thunder]"
I swung my blade and thunder came crashing down on the invisible force.
I saw Sakura's mouth drop open as my thunder came crashing at her and the force she was dodging.
"SHIT! Sakura!" I yelled, knowing there was nothing I could do.
I saw Takeshi in a blur rush past, scoop Sakura in his arms, and jumped out of the way holding her tightly to him.
A flash of light came across my eyes, and I put my arms across them, shielding myself from its blaze.
Then I lowered my arms and saw Sakura whimpering in Takeshi's arms.
His usual joking face was gone, and in its place was worry.
"Whoa there honey," he said reassuringly, "there's nothing here now see?"
Sakura looked up and around. And her eyes wandered to mine.
And I haven't felt so guilty like now in my life.
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"What were you thinking prince?" Takeshi said with a little anger, "you almost hit her!"
"Do you think I do not know that?" I said with gritted teeth, but I almost said it meekly.
"Do you know she's in her bed right now, trembling under the blankets? Prince Xiao Lang, you're a great soldier, you really are, but sometimes, you don't THINK." Takeshi said.
"I said not to call me that." Was all I could say, and under my breath too.
Eriol, who was sitting across the room, looked at me too.
"Just be careful next time cousin." He said simply.
"Whatever." I muttered as I stormed out of my room.
I walked aimlessly down the corridors of the ship's bunks and soon, found myself in front of a door. I heard a slight crying inside.
Hesitantly, I opened the door.
Inside was a nice bed, nicer than the crew's bunks, and someone was under the blankets, crying like a little kitten.
I walked a softly as I could to the bed.
The person underneath stopped crying and stood stock still.
I slowly peeled the blanket off, and saw Sakura looking at me with frightened eyes.
"Sakura." I said in a soft voice.
Her response was a whimper.
I reached forward, until my hand touched her right cheek.
She flinched and I felt very sorry indeed.
"I'm sorry Sakura." I said, while slowly rubbing her cheek, "I'm sorry."
And that's what I did for 5 minutes. Just said sorry and rubbed her cheek. She looked so helpless, I felt like a brother, needing to protect this little girl. I felt I had to protect her, and I had almost let her down.
Then the most peculiar thing happened.
She reached her hand forward, and started rubbing my left cheek.
Then she smiled, and I knew I was forgiven.
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"I think she had amnesia of some sort." Eriol said during breakfast the next day, "It seems she does not remember people, but she remembers places, and certain things here and there. Her mind trapped in a ten year old self of her. Literally."
"Mmmm." Was all I said as I took another bite out of my toast as I looked at Sakura who was sitting at the other end of the table, trying to bite out of her toast, two eyes, and a lopsided mouth.
"Its good the crew likes her." Takeshi commented.
It was good.
The Chinese hated the Japanese. Japanese royalty was no exception. If Sakura was left alone in the streets of China, she would be knifed within 10 minutes if people knew who she was.
And people WOULD know who she was. Her eyes were emerald and her hair a lighter tone. There was no mistaking who she was.
"There's no telling what will happen once we are back on Chinese soil though." I said, "the crew may like her, but the country doesn't."
"So why did you bring her with us then?" Eriol said with a small grin on his face.
"No reason. I just found her interesting." I said.
Takeshi stood up and went to the window.
"Hey... I see an island!."
I got up and stood next to him.
"Lets stop here." I said.
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We anchored by noon and the crew had already started exploring the island.
Sakura followed Takeshi like a faithful puppy and her blank eyes studied the island. Then she gave a content sigh and started exploring the nearby wood.
"Takeshi. Keep an eye on her. She's as troublesome as 10 five year olds."
"Aye aye sir." Takeshi said grinning.
I put a blanket on the soft sands of the beach, and laid myself upon it. The last thing I remember was seeing a white gull fly into the far horizon. Then I was asleep.
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=Sakura POV=
The men were asleep! I was free to move around.
The captain, Xiao Lang, was always watching over me. It was annoying!
I liked Takeshi better. He was nicer. But he was also watching me.
I looked over to him where I was playing with some grass. He was asleep!
I crawled over to Xiao Lang. His face looked kinder when he was sleeping.
I grabbed the greem bow which tied my long hair up and tied it to his wrist.
Then I ran into the woods gleefully.
I ran zigzagged though the trees, and saw a light ahead of me.
I ran into the light and found myself in an open space in the wood.
There were creatures everywhere! The place was full of green and flowers.
I quickly plucked a few from the ground and danced on the cool dewy grass.
Then, my ears picked up a sound.
A snap of branches.
I tiptoed over to the sound.
An old man stood there admiring the gulls that flew overhead.
He was sitting on a rock, his right hand propped under his chin and his left on this left leg. His clothes were mere rags, but were clean.
I quietly stole next to him.
Then he finally noticed me and turned around.
"HOLY-"he yelled. The pretty birds had heard him and flown away from us, but it didn't seem like he noticed.
His eyes widened.
"How...how did you get here miss?"
I did not answer him.
I sat closer to him and imitated his former stance.
He froze and looked at what I was doing.
And laughed.
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=Xiao Lang POV=
I sat up quickly.
Someone had yelled.
"Who yelled?" I said grumpily.
"No clue." Takeshi said, sitting up while yawning.
"Hey... where's Sakura?" I said, suddenly scared.
Takeshi froze.
"Oh shit." He said as he jumped up and went to the edge of the wood.
"Sakura!" he yelled frantically.
"You fool!" I snapped at him as I ran past him into the wood. I heard footsteps behind me and I knew he was following.
Then I saw a light ahead of me.
'Strange.' I thought as I ran towards it, sure Sakura would have been fascinated by the light.
I ran into the light and found myself in a open space.
Then I looked up at a large rocky boulder and saw Sakura, laughing a chattering like a little girl to an elderly man.
"And then, my brother tried to grab my hand, but I-"Sakura noticed the man looking at something behind her and she slowly turned around.
"Takeshi!" she gurgled as she jumped off the boulder.
"Sakura you idiot!" I said as I ran forward to catch her, but before I could, she daintily landed on the grass and ran right past me and hugged Takeshi.
"Takeshi Takeshi!" she said happily hugging him.
I saw red.
"Young sir, and who might you be?"
I looked up at the elderly man addressing me.
"Prince Xiao Lang." I said simply, forgetting about Sakura.
The man was a sage.
"Come, come with me." He said, starting to walk away.
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"Sakura my dear, can you go pick some wildflowers for me? And make sure to make a pretty bouquet." The elderly man said.
"Ok!" she said, skipping out of the small hut they were in.
Then, his face turned serious.
"Do you know who she is prince?" he said while grabbing tea leaves from a cupboard.
"Princess Sakura." I said quizzing.
"She's not just the princess." He said, now boiling hot water on a fire he had made.
"What do you mean?" Takeshi piped up.
"Of course you Chinese wouldn't know what happened to her. Why she is like that. You see, when she was born, her bones were weak. The doctors were sure she wouldn't survive. And if she did, she would be fragile. Well, she did survive, and true to their word, she was indeed very fragile. A push could seriously bruise her skin, and a shove, could permanently damage her bone structure."
"Of course!" Takeshi said.
I glared at him and silently told him to shut up.
"Well anyway, Queen Nadeshiko, she was quite worried about Sakura's disability, and as much as she didn't want her near anyone so she would get hurt, she knew not letting Sakura play with other children would hurt her more. So she let her play with other children, Always supervising them though, in case things got rough."
The elderly man and made the tea and set it out before us.
"One day, the Queen was called away, and thought she could leave the children alone for a few minutes. But that proved fatal. The play got rough and Sakura had fallen from the tree the children had been climbing. Her right arm bone cracked and so did numerous other places. Queen Nadeshiko was so heartsick of what happened. Sakura had to be strapped onto her bed so that she wouldn't move, so that her bones would crack even more. Finally, King Fujitaka called upon the sorcerers. The magic doers. They melted bronze and iron and remade her right arm bone and whatever had been broken. Then using magic, took out her true bone and replaced it with their new product.
Well, this of course made Sakura stronger, but something happened. When Sakura fell from that tree, she had lost her memory. Her memory of people. She learned to know that Touya, the queen and King were important people to her. But everything else was forgotten to her. She began behaving like a little girl. When Prince Touya went off to fight you people, Sakura had snuck onto the boat and by the time Touya had found her, it was too late to go back. She was stuck with them until the war was over. "
I was silent. So Sakura had an unhappy childhood. Although she couldn't remember it.
"Wait... how do you know all of this?" I asked suspiciously.
The elderly man smiled sadly.
"Because I was one of the sorcerers who made her bone."
"I'm back!" Sakura ran back into the house, her face flushed.
In her hands were beautiful cherry blossoms and carnations.
"That's beautiful Sakura." The man praised.
Sakura then turned to us.
"Isn't it pretty Takeshi?" she chirped. I felt a little anger.
"Yes it is." he agreed.
Then she turned to me.
I only looked at her.
Then she held the flowers out to me.
"These I picked for you."
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WAIiii.
Cant write anymore. =]
Ok, tell me what you think!
Miss Kit Taylor
To my angel EH