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The sixth chapter...Please enjoy, read, and review! Special thanks to Stelok, Aloysia-Sakura-fan, and KoKoRo SaBiShIi for their reviews...
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"Am I look strange?" asked Edelweiss as she looked at the mirror carefully, examining her appearance in that wedding gown.
"A bit," answered Suiren, "you look thinner and that's not good since you're tall."
Edelweiss took a deep breath. "This is the tenth gown for today," she said, almost gave up.
"Don't give up! There are still many shops and boutiques left!" said Suiren, inspiring her best friend.
Sakura gazed at Maria and smiled amusedly. "Suiren is right," she said, "we still have plenty of time to visit another shops and boutiques before they come to pick us up."
"Y...yes," answered the extremely tired Edelweiss.
1928
It was February tenth, 1928.
Since it was only half past four in the morning, the harbor was still quiet. No one was seen there, except the ticket seller and three blonde foreigners.
"Three tickets for Simonoseki, please," said one of the foreigners.
"Pardon?" asked the ticket seller.
"Three tickets for Simonoseki," repeated another foreigner.
"Oh! Sorry," said the ticket seller, as he took three tickets for Simonoseki and gave them to the foreigners. "Your accent was a bit strange, so I couldn't understand what you'd said," he added.
"We came from France," answered the third foreigner, the only woman in the whole group of three.
"Sou desu ka...bon voyage, then," replied the ticket seller, as he looked at the clock and realized that it was the departure time of the boat to Simonoseki.
"Let's go to the nearest town and find something to eat, Maria...I'm hungry..."
The blonde stopped and looked at her best friend with a great annoyance."Kanna! We must be quick! We must reach Aomori by February twentieth," she said, half-whispering.
"But, it's still February fifteenth...we still have five more days to walk..."
Maria gazed into Kanna's eyes with her green eyes, which seemed to be colder than usual. "You realize where are we now, Kanna?" asked her.
Kanna shook her head.
"Listen, Kanna. The nearest town, no, city, from here is Sendai. You don't want to be recognized, do you?"
"Of course no!" cried Kanna.
"Then, let's continue walking," said Maria as she started to walk again.
"Raise our daughter well..."
She shivered as she heard that sentence. Her closed eyes opened, first slightly, than got wider and wider.
Her husband was standing exactly in front of her, under a blossoming cherry tree.
"K...Kazuma?" asked her, almost couldn't believed who she'd just seen.
He didn't greet her back, or even smiled to her. "Where is Sakura?" he asked with a harsh voice.
She startled and jumped back, as she started to feel guilty. "She...she...she..."
"...is missing. Right?"
"L...let...let...me...explain..."
"You have nothing to explain, since my daughter is dead."
"Dead?"
"Follow me," said him as he turned back and walked away.
She followed him, and, finally, they stopped in front of a coffin covered with white cloth.
"Look who's inside," said him.
She pulled the cloth and screamed.
It was her daughter. Her only daughter.
"See?" he asked her coldly. "Sakura is dead. You killed her, Wakana. You did kill Sakura."
Everything got dark, and, suddenly, she found herself sitting on a bed, with drops of sweat and tears on her face.
"Did I kill her?" asked her to herself.
Both of them shivered as they stopped in front of the cemetary's gate.
"Are you sure that this is the place?" asked Kanna with a low frightened voice.
"I'm sorry to say this, Kanna, but, this is the place," answered Maria with a very low voice, lower than Kanna's.
Kanna's purple eyes got wider and wider in a great terror. "W...Will you accompany me, Maria?" asked her.
Maria gave Kanna a meaningfull gaze. "Well, friend," she answered, "I'm so sorry, but, I must go immediately. I must catch the ferry to Hakodate."
"B...but..."
Maria pushed Kanna through the opened gate. "Good luck!" said her, as she turned back and walked quickly, immediately left the cemetary.
"Hey! Maria! Maria!"
"I'll see you later in Tokyo!"
"Yoneda-shihainin!"
Yoneda stood up and walked quickly towards his door. "What's up, Kaede?" asked him.
"They...they...they found Kanna!"
"They found Kanna? Was she with the others?"
"Sorry, but, she was found alone."
"Where, Kaede?"
"In...in...in..."
"In what?"
"In a cemetary near Aomori!"
Kanna was totally fainted when she was found. She had not awaken yet when Yoneda and Kaede arrived at Aomori. They brought her back to Tokyo soon.
Yoneda was too tired, so, it was Kaede's duty to accompany Kanna to Tokyo General Hospital. She came back without the red-haired. "Kanna needs further medications," she reported, "she's got too many injuries, and some of them are getting infected."
Yoneda drank more liquor. "You can go," he said to Kaede.
Sakura took a deep breath as she stood up and gazed at the stars from the window of her cabin.
Since she was the only woman of the group, she'd got no roommate, and she was all alone.
"Am I wrong?" she questioned herself.
No one answered.
"See, Sakura? Even yourself don't know the answer," she said confusedly.
She walked back to her bed and laid down there. "But," she said again, "my love for him is a true love...and, I know...true love will never end..."
Her lips formed an innocent smile as she fell asleep.
To Be Continued...
Author's Notes :
I don't think if this chapter is good enough...But, please read it and give me some reviews...The next chapters will follow soon...