Yes, yes. I know that I haven't up dated in a long while, but I do have my
reasons. Anyway here is the next chapter. Sakura and Li don't meet yet, but
in about two more chapters they will.
What happen last time~
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****"Water... ," she said as she held the bottle, "It's spring water... That's what she meant!" Sakura gave a small giggle that showed her innocents of a child and her green pools brighten with happiness. 'We can escape though the underwater caves! They won't be able to stop us because of the water!' Her reality would be shattered and she would know what a normal life would be like. A small smile highlighted her face as she filled her mind with the thought of having a normal life.
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Atonement: something done to make up for sin, injury, or loss.
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****'The sky was a translucent dark gray and look as if it would soon rain. The silvery lake not to far ahead looked murky and angry as the storm winds blew against its water. The wind itself was like ice, giving her chills as it engulfed her and swallowing everything else. She felt dizzy, faint, and ill with her stomach churning as she sat on the blood covered ground. "I love you..." ' "NO," Sakura whimpered as her whole body jerked up, waking her out of her nightmarish dream, breathing the cool stale air. There was no lunar moon tonight; the only light in her room came from the stars that doted the blacken inky night sky. The only sound that could be heard was the hushed silences of the lonely midnight. Sakura slowly pushed her covers away and felt the icy air rap around her sleep-warm skin. Her toes curled when they touched the soft rough mats. Suddenly, she heard a rattling sound outside her door. She stood there mute, who would be up this late at night? Better yet, why would they be at her door?
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"Sakura..." she heard someone's hushed voice. Sakura bit her lip not knowing what to do. It wouldn't be wise of her to let whoever was calling her, in. She slowly made her way to the door, being careful not to make a sound. "Sakura... Open the door..." she heard the voice again, but more clearer now. Whoever this person was they were definitely female.
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"Who is it?" she asked cautiously.
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"Oh... Come we haven't much time," came the reply. Sakura opened the door just a crack and gazed in the fiery green orbs of her mother. The woman was white as a sheet from the bitter cold outside and her lips seem a purplish blue. She wore a black hooded robe like the "Shadow". Sakura was about to say something when her mother threw her a robe similar to her's. "Here put this on." Sakura looked at her confused, but did as she was told anyways. There was something in her mother's eyes that told her not to ask questions.
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She sigh, the robe seem to swallow her up and was too long for her. She kept tripping on it as they silently walked out of the building and into the fresh morning air. It was still very dark out but the dawn was a approaching, making it brighter as moments went by.
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****The Council of The Rajah were seated at their first board meeting of the day. They sat all together around a rather large redwood table that stood on a black marble floor in one of their many enormous conferences rooms, wearing business like suits and frowns on their young faces. "Now, first order of business, how are we doing with my favorite clan?" asked Mr. Han as he leaned back on his chair, the small spark in his eyes gave a hint that he didn't really like meetings.
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"Well sir, Shang has finally picked his future heir for the Showron (Li) Corporation and industry. His name is Li (Syaoran) and is Shang's eldest grandson," said a woman with feathery brown hair and turquoise eyes. All eyes were upon her in an instant, some of the members stated to shift in their chair, tapping their pencils angrily and biting their lower lip. The Showrons' (Lis') were very powerful and if what she said was true; then their plan to take over was a no go.
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"We could kill him, the grandson I mean, send it as a message to the old man," replied one of the less important members of the council.
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"We can't do that!! If we do that then the whole clan would be after us!" Mr. Han nodded in agreement when the same women who spoke before, replied.
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"Jade's right... You can't simply kill the boy, although, we can play the 'Finders Keepers' game. We find him, take him, and if they try anything, will tell them that we'll kill him. They wouldn't dare risk his live, and while we have him, we can train him to obey us." he told them in a bored tone, "Anyway... How are my fledglings doing?" Jade gave him a haft smile; nobody really knew why he had such a fascination with Sakura. Although she was in the top in her class, Sakura hardly used any magic; she didn't even have a strong aura. Then again, the reason might be that she was the daughter of that slut Nadeskiko. Jade glared at the oak table, the mere thought of the women made her angry.
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"Both Michael and Sakura should be testing later on today." said a man with bushy hair and dull brown eyes.
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"Good... anything else?" Mr. Han asked and looked around the room.
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"Well sir, there is one thing... It's been bothering me... yesterday I saw Nadeskiko with Sakura, I don't know what they where talking about, but I do know that she gave her daughter a bottle of something," said a man with hollow eyes and a ebony robe that hid his features. The man was the head of the "Shadow" and had been the one who abducted both Sakura and her mother. Mr. Han's eyes immediately fell on him.
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"What!!! How come you tell me this now!?!" suddenly there came a knock at the door and a shadowy figure appeared.
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"Sir I hate to bother you, but we recently found the guards that were guarding the mistress Nadeskiko, unconsciousness and stripped from their robes."
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"Well don't just stand there!! Find her, look everywhere and make sure Sakura is still in her room!" He yelled
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****"Ano.... Mom?" Sakura asked after what seem like hours of running, "where are we going?" Nadeskiko slowed down her pace a little, when the sight of where she was going came in to view, the 'Garden of Eden'.
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"Sakura, we must hurry, don't you feel them?"
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"Feel what? I don't feel anything." Sakura asked confused. Her mother looked at her with a shocked expression on her face.
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"Oh Sakura... You can't feel them? Open up your mind's eye. One day I won't be her to protect you, so listen to me. You will feel it, their black hearts, and see them in you dreams. Run before the "Shadow", finds you! But if you ignore your hearts warnings, it will be too late. Do you hear me?" Sakura looked at her mother strangely; her mother was talking crazy, that or something horrible might happen.
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****Mr. Han stared angrily at Sakura's unmade bed as he stood in her overly large room. The room he had given to Sakura was to help keep a closes watch on her. Now she was some where in the grounds of the large Intuition, gone. That woman took her, his little girl. 'What the hell is she thinking?' he thought and sighed, he had to think. Where would she go; better yet where would Sakura go? He had every one looking out for them, he was so afraid that Nadeskiko had some how found away to escape. If that happen he didn't know what he would do; Sakura was too valuable to his plans.
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"Sir? We found them, both Nadeskiko and Sakura are on their way to the 'Garden of Eden' by the lake." Said a man with bushy hair and dull brown eyes. A smile can upon Mr. Han's face, he should've of known. 'You can't take her away from me, Nadeskiko, she's mine and no one else'.
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****The sky was a translucent dark gray and look as if it would soon rain, but that didn't worry Sakura, she loved the rain, there was something magical about it. "Sakura," her mother said her voice low, "don't make a sound." The silvery lake not to far ahead looked murky and angry as the storm winds blew against its water. The wind itself was like ice, giving her chills as it engulfed her and swallowing everything else. Besides the hallowing of the wind there was silence; no birds chirping, no sound of animals scampering about, nothing, thing were too quite. 'Something wrong, the garden is far to still... They're here...' she thought and turn to looked at her daughter.
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Sakura's face went pale and her eyes lost their luster as she started to breath deeply. She started to tremble all over, this dreadful place seem too familiar. Her dreams, this place, the sky, the wind, She remembered, they were all the same. 'Doushite...' she thought and closed her eyes. Bits and pieces of the dream she had, started to flash in her mind, quickly giving her sharp pains in the front of her head. 'Doushite? Why is this happening?' she thought.
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Crouching in the bushes the "Shadow" surrounded them with Mr. Han by their side. They all watched like predators watching their prey. Jade narrowed her eyes when she saw Nadeskiko. Jealousy, pure jealousy was what she had for the woman with long smooth legs, soft skin, long flowing black hair and beautiful green eyes. The woman her husband desired and lusted for, isn't that why she was still breathing? Wasn't he supposed to end the last of the Avalon's? And that damn child of her's! He was so obsessed with them, he no longer saw her and THEIR son!! She hated both woman and child with such a strong passion that consumed her and ate away her flesh. 'I'll make sure that both you and your daughter will pay for what you took for me!' came her thought as she watched her husband, Mr. Han, walk toward them.
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Mr. Han smirked as he watched the horrid expression on Sakura and Nadeskiko's face. "Oh what's this? Aren't you glad to see me my two beloveds?" Nadeskiko glared at him, but didn't say a thing and pushed Sakura in back of her. "What's wrong," he said, his voice low and teasing. Jade stood right behind her husband, her turquoise eyes showed a hateful fire.
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Sakura felt the fierce wind picked up, lashing its anger on them. Her mother tensed up like a lioness protecting her young, willing and ready to kill. Her eyes showed a green fire that devoured the sight she took in. Mr. Han tried to come closer, but was met with Nadeskiko's flaming aura, a light green one. That startled him, but he quickly recovered from shock. "Nadeskiko..." he warned and pushed thought the force. But her mother didn't give up and released all her strength in her aura, showing them her true power. The power she kept hidden till now. She forced it all in to the palm of her hand making a white sphere. "I will always love you Sakura," she said softly to her before she threw it toward her enemies.
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The sky lit up with its beautiful bright light blinding everything, but Sakura saw it a split second before it happen. It was the horrid thing that haunted her dreams, making her wake up screaming. She opened her mouth to scream, but her voice sounded so far away, a whisper. She felt dizzy, faint, and ill with her stomach churning as she clasped on to the ground. The bright light disappeared and the sky turned back in to a translucent dark gray. It looked like it would soon rain as she sat on the blood- covered ground. "I love you..." her mother's voice echoed in her ears.
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Sakura looked down, her mother's body laid limp on the ground, crimson blood oozed from her. Beside her a pool of it stared to form. Sakura closed her eyes and rapped her thin fingers around the necklace she wore. Everyone just stood there, no one knew what happen they all thought that they were going to die. Everyone that is, but a woman with turquoise eyes that gleamed an eerie light and a wicked smile on her face.
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Sakura screamed. "No," she moaned, "Please... mom, please don't leave me here!" Her body started to tremble all over. She opened her eyes and looked at her mother's lifeless ones. Tears sled down her cheeks and fell on the ground; mixing with her mother's blood. "I wish I wasn't here, I don't want to be here anymore." she said and started to breathe deeply. Suddenly her eyes became glossy and clouded over as she started to glow a rose color and float off the ground as visible pink wind engulf her.
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Mr. Han watched knowing something big was about to happen to the girl. He had seen this all before and quickly ordered the "Shadow" to bring her to him. Jade's look at the girl in front of her, 'Now you have to go too...'
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For Sakura, she neither saw nor heard what was going on all around her. She could only hear a soft humming, a lullaby her Nadeskiko used to sing to her. "Your wish is granted," a soft voice whispered in her ear as the blinding pink light burst in to an even brighter white light. The light got brighter and brighter; making Sakura and everybody else shield their eyes.
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When the brilliant light completely subsided and all was quite, Sakura found herself in the middle of the woods, alone.
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****Well? Did you like it, tell me by reviewing.. I know this is short, but it the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!!
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What happen last time~
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****"Water... ," she said as she held the bottle, "It's spring water... That's what she meant!" Sakura gave a small giggle that showed her innocents of a child and her green pools brighten with happiness. 'We can escape though the underwater caves! They won't be able to stop us because of the water!' Her reality would be shattered and she would know what a normal life would be like. A small smile highlighted her face as she filled her mind with the thought of having a normal life.
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One she might never have....
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Atonement: something done to make up for sin, injury, or loss.
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****'The sky was a translucent dark gray and look as if it would soon rain. The silvery lake not to far ahead looked murky and angry as the storm winds blew against its water. The wind itself was like ice, giving her chills as it engulfed her and swallowing everything else. She felt dizzy, faint, and ill with her stomach churning as she sat on the blood covered ground. "I love you..." ' "NO," Sakura whimpered as her whole body jerked up, waking her out of her nightmarish dream, breathing the cool stale air. There was no lunar moon tonight; the only light in her room came from the stars that doted the blacken inky night sky. The only sound that could be heard was the hushed silences of the lonely midnight. Sakura slowly pushed her covers away and felt the icy air rap around her sleep-warm skin. Her toes curled when they touched the soft rough mats. Suddenly, she heard a rattling sound outside her door. She stood there mute, who would be up this late at night? Better yet, why would they be at her door?
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"Sakura..." she heard someone's hushed voice. Sakura bit her lip not knowing what to do. It wouldn't be wise of her to let whoever was calling her, in. She slowly made her way to the door, being careful not to make a sound. "Sakura... Open the door..." she heard the voice again, but more clearer now. Whoever this person was they were definitely female.
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"Who is it?" she asked cautiously.
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"Oh... Come we haven't much time," came the reply. Sakura opened the door just a crack and gazed in the fiery green orbs of her mother. The woman was white as a sheet from the bitter cold outside and her lips seem a purplish blue. She wore a black hooded robe like the "Shadow". Sakura was about to say something when her mother threw her a robe similar to her's. "Here put this on." Sakura looked at her confused, but did as she was told anyways. There was something in her mother's eyes that told her not to ask questions.
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She sigh, the robe seem to swallow her up and was too long for her. She kept tripping on it as they silently walked out of the building and into the fresh morning air. It was still very dark out but the dawn was a approaching, making it brighter as moments went by.
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****The Council of The Rajah were seated at their first board meeting of the day. They sat all together around a rather large redwood table that stood on a black marble floor in one of their many enormous conferences rooms, wearing business like suits and frowns on their young faces. "Now, first order of business, how are we doing with my favorite clan?" asked Mr. Han as he leaned back on his chair, the small spark in his eyes gave a hint that he didn't really like meetings.
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"Well sir, Shang has finally picked his future heir for the Showron (Li) Corporation and industry. His name is Li (Syaoran) and is Shang's eldest grandson," said a woman with feathery brown hair and turquoise eyes. All eyes were upon her in an instant, some of the members stated to shift in their chair, tapping their pencils angrily and biting their lower lip. The Showrons' (Lis') were very powerful and if what she said was true; then their plan to take over was a no go.
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"We could kill him, the grandson I mean, send it as a message to the old man," replied one of the less important members of the council.
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"We can't do that!! If we do that then the whole clan would be after us!" Mr. Han nodded in agreement when the same women who spoke before, replied.
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"Jade's right... You can't simply kill the boy, although, we can play the 'Finders Keepers' game. We find him, take him, and if they try anything, will tell them that we'll kill him. They wouldn't dare risk his live, and while we have him, we can train him to obey us." he told them in a bored tone, "Anyway... How are my fledglings doing?" Jade gave him a haft smile; nobody really knew why he had such a fascination with Sakura. Although she was in the top in her class, Sakura hardly used any magic; she didn't even have a strong aura. Then again, the reason might be that she was the daughter of that slut Nadeskiko. Jade glared at the oak table, the mere thought of the women made her angry.
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"Both Michael and Sakura should be testing later on today." said a man with bushy hair and dull brown eyes.
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"Good... anything else?" Mr. Han asked and looked around the room.
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"Well sir, there is one thing... It's been bothering me... yesterday I saw Nadeskiko with Sakura, I don't know what they where talking about, but I do know that she gave her daughter a bottle of something," said a man with hollow eyes and a ebony robe that hid his features. The man was the head of the "Shadow" and had been the one who abducted both Sakura and her mother. Mr. Han's eyes immediately fell on him.
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"What!!! How come you tell me this now!?!" suddenly there came a knock at the door and a shadowy figure appeared.
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"Sir I hate to bother you, but we recently found the guards that were guarding the mistress Nadeskiko, unconsciousness and stripped from their robes."
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"Well don't just stand there!! Find her, look everywhere and make sure Sakura is still in her room!" He yelled
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****"Ano.... Mom?" Sakura asked after what seem like hours of running, "where are we going?" Nadeskiko slowed down her pace a little, when the sight of where she was going came in to view, the 'Garden of Eden'.
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"Sakura, we must hurry, don't you feel them?"
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"Feel what? I don't feel anything." Sakura asked confused. Her mother looked at her with a shocked expression on her face.
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"Oh Sakura... You can't feel them? Open up your mind's eye. One day I won't be her to protect you, so listen to me. You will feel it, their black hearts, and see them in you dreams. Run before the "Shadow", finds you! But if you ignore your hearts warnings, it will be too late. Do you hear me?" Sakura looked at her mother strangely; her mother was talking crazy, that or something horrible might happen.
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****Mr. Han stared angrily at Sakura's unmade bed as he stood in her overly large room. The room he had given to Sakura was to help keep a closes watch on her. Now she was some where in the grounds of the large Intuition, gone. That woman took her, his little girl. 'What the hell is she thinking?' he thought and sighed, he had to think. Where would she go; better yet where would Sakura go? He had every one looking out for them, he was so afraid that Nadeskiko had some how found away to escape. If that happen he didn't know what he would do; Sakura was too valuable to his plans.
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"Sir? We found them, both Nadeskiko and Sakura are on their way to the 'Garden of Eden' by the lake." Said a man with bushy hair and dull brown eyes. A smile can upon Mr. Han's face, he should've of known. 'You can't take her away from me, Nadeskiko, she's mine and no one else'.
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****The sky was a translucent dark gray and look as if it would soon rain, but that didn't worry Sakura, she loved the rain, there was something magical about it. "Sakura," her mother said her voice low, "don't make a sound." The silvery lake not to far ahead looked murky and angry as the storm winds blew against its water. The wind itself was like ice, giving her chills as it engulfed her and swallowing everything else. Besides the hallowing of the wind there was silence; no birds chirping, no sound of animals scampering about, nothing, thing were too quite. 'Something wrong, the garden is far to still... They're here...' she thought and turn to looked at her daughter.
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Sakura's face went pale and her eyes lost their luster as she started to breath deeply. She started to tremble all over, this dreadful place seem too familiar. Her dreams, this place, the sky, the wind, She remembered, they were all the same. 'Doushite...' she thought and closed her eyes. Bits and pieces of the dream she had, started to flash in her mind, quickly giving her sharp pains in the front of her head. 'Doushite? Why is this happening?' she thought.
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Crouching in the bushes the "Shadow" surrounded them with Mr. Han by their side. They all watched like predators watching their prey. Jade narrowed her eyes when she saw Nadeskiko. Jealousy, pure jealousy was what she had for the woman with long smooth legs, soft skin, long flowing black hair and beautiful green eyes. The woman her husband desired and lusted for, isn't that why she was still breathing? Wasn't he supposed to end the last of the Avalon's? And that damn child of her's! He was so obsessed with them, he no longer saw her and THEIR son!! She hated both woman and child with such a strong passion that consumed her and ate away her flesh. 'I'll make sure that both you and your daughter will pay for what you took for me!' came her thought as she watched her husband, Mr. Han, walk toward them.
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Mr. Han smirked as he watched the horrid expression on Sakura and Nadeskiko's face. "Oh what's this? Aren't you glad to see me my two beloveds?" Nadeskiko glared at him, but didn't say a thing and pushed Sakura in back of her. "What's wrong," he said, his voice low and teasing. Jade stood right behind her husband, her turquoise eyes showed a hateful fire.
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Sakura felt the fierce wind picked up, lashing its anger on them. Her mother tensed up like a lioness protecting her young, willing and ready to kill. Her eyes showed a green fire that devoured the sight she took in. Mr. Han tried to come closer, but was met with Nadeskiko's flaming aura, a light green one. That startled him, but he quickly recovered from shock. "Nadeskiko..." he warned and pushed thought the force. But her mother didn't give up and released all her strength in her aura, showing them her true power. The power she kept hidden till now. She forced it all in to the palm of her hand making a white sphere. "I will always love you Sakura," she said softly to her before she threw it toward her enemies.
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The sky lit up with its beautiful bright light blinding everything, but Sakura saw it a split second before it happen. It was the horrid thing that haunted her dreams, making her wake up screaming. She opened her mouth to scream, but her voice sounded so far away, a whisper. She felt dizzy, faint, and ill with her stomach churning as she clasped on to the ground. The bright light disappeared and the sky turned back in to a translucent dark gray. It looked like it would soon rain as she sat on the blood- covered ground. "I love you..." her mother's voice echoed in her ears.
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Sakura looked down, her mother's body laid limp on the ground, crimson blood oozed from her. Beside her a pool of it stared to form. Sakura closed her eyes and rapped her thin fingers around the necklace she wore. Everyone just stood there, no one knew what happen they all thought that they were going to die. Everyone that is, but a woman with turquoise eyes that gleamed an eerie light and a wicked smile on her face.
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Sakura screamed. "No," she moaned, "Please... mom, please don't leave me here!" Her body started to tremble all over. She opened her eyes and looked at her mother's lifeless ones. Tears sled down her cheeks and fell on the ground; mixing with her mother's blood. "I wish I wasn't here, I don't want to be here anymore." she said and started to breathe deeply. Suddenly her eyes became glossy and clouded over as she started to glow a rose color and float off the ground as visible pink wind engulf her.
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Mr. Han watched knowing something big was about to happen to the girl. He had seen this all before and quickly ordered the "Shadow" to bring her to him. Jade's look at the girl in front of her, 'Now you have to go too...'
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For Sakura, she neither saw nor heard what was going on all around her. She could only hear a soft humming, a lullaby her Nadeskiko used to sing to her. "Your wish is granted," a soft voice whispered in her ear as the blinding pink light burst in to an even brighter white light. The light got brighter and brighter; making Sakura and everybody else shield their eyes.
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When the brilliant light completely subsided and all was quite, Sakura found herself in the middle of the woods, alone.
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****Well? Did you like it, tell me by reviewing.. I know this is short, but it the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!!
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