Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptors or any of the names from that show...but Scott is MINE!!, OK?
S.M.K Fighters
Chapter 7Sakura and Scott...
When Scott had dragged Sakura around the corner of the building down a side ally he stopped and let them both take a breath. Both of them were quiet for a little while, till Scott started laughing.
"Sorry about that Sakura! HahahaI've wanted to do that for years.... Are you all right?"
Sakura was staring at the ground. She didn't really want to be kissed by Scott...and especially not with an audience! She knew now that she only wanted Li. He was the one that had melted her cold heart and made her the way she is now...She only wanted Scott as a friend. But how could she tell him-
"Sakura?" Scott cut her off.
"...Scott...I...I..."Sakura trailed off. She couldn't tell him. She didn't want to break his heart...
"I'm sorry, I should have just hugged you or something else..." Scott picked up his bag again and started to walk away.
"Wait!" Sakura said "Where are you going?"
Scott didn't stop walking. "Back to the gym. Don't worry!" he turned around and smiled sweetly, as if nothing had ever happened, "I won't leave you again...I promise." He turned back and kept walking.
"...Scott..." Sakura waited for a second, till Scott had gone around the corner, and slowly followed him back to the gym. She didn't want to go back inside to all those other people, or to Tori. But she didn't want to go home either. She wanted Li more than anything.
Sakura stopped just as she turned the corner and stared at the ground, till her phone started ringing from her back pocket. It was Madison.
"Hey Sakura!" Madison cried happily. "I want to go home now, so could you bring my van back to me at the hospital?"
"Sure," Sakura quickly answered and hung up the phone.
Sakura looked up to see that Scott had gone inside the gym doors. She spotted her van and ran to it, jumped inside the driver's seat and drove out of the parking lot, forgetting all about her bag in her locker...
Sakura driving...
Sakura's head was full of thoughts. They flew through her mind as she drove towards the hospital.
When she got there Madison was already waiting out the front for her. Sakura got out the van and went around the other side to let Madison drive. But Madison hadn't moved. She stood there for a while just looking at Sakura.
Sakura rubbed the back of her head. "So... How's Li then? Feeling better is he?"
Madison quickly shook her head and replied, "Oh! Yeah, he's much better now. The doctor's going to let him go home tomorrow, but he has to have crutches still..."
Madison walked around the other side of the car and got in with Sakura.
"So...should I drive you home then?" Madison asked
Sakura shut her door and thought for a second. "Maybe, I mean - could I go to you house first?"
"Sure!" Madison replied happily.
A little bit later on...
"You know Sakura," Madison said "You've changed lately."
"Really?" Sakura yawned, "How?"
"Well, I think it was just a little bit after you rescued me in the sewers, with Li..."
They sat quietly together for a while.
"Sakura," Madison said, still staring at the road, "do you... I mean, if I wasn't...no if I didn't-" Madison struggled to get the words out right. She sighed and looked at Sakura.
"I just wanted-" Madison looked at Sakura's face...she was sound asleep!
"Oh...right." Madison continued to drive to her house.
'If I wasn't here, would you go out with Li?' Madison thought in her head.
'I know you like him more than a friend...'
In front of Madison's house...
Madison got out the car, went around the other side to Sakura's door and shook her awake. At first Sakura only stirred, then opened one of her eyes.
"Hey there, sleepy head!" Madison whispered, "Were at my ' inside?"
"I'm coming." Sakura yawned, stepping out the car. Madison put Sakura's arm around her shoulder as they walked in the door together.
Madison had a large house, even though it was only her and her mum living there together with her maids and butlers.
They walked together till they were in Madison's bedroom.
"Would you like to go back to sleep for a while?" Madison asked Sakura as she pointed to her bed.
"Um...you wouldn't mind?" Sakura questioned. She realised it would be rude, but it's not very comfy sleeping in a car, and she was still very tired as she eyed the queen-sized bed.
"Go ahead, I might just take a nap too," Madison stretched her arms in the air with a yawn. "Whenever I'm at my friend's sleepovers like last night we never get to sleep 'cause we're so buisy talking all night!" Madison laughed as she took off her shoes and gestured to Sakura for her to do the same. Sakura took off her locket necklace and put it next to Madison's bed, on a table, so it wouldn't accidentally choke her in the night. Then Madison pulled back the bed covers and she and Sakura got in and fell asleep almost as soon as their heads hit the pillow...
Madison's dream...
It was just Madison and Li sitting on a bench in a park together, gazing at the clouds. Madison was leaning gently against Li's shoulder, and he was leaning on her head.
Madison sighed and sat up, looking at Li's face. Li turned to look at her as well, and smiled.
"How much do you love me, Li? and you have to tell me the truth."
Li laughed. "What do you mean, love you?"
Madison, was shocked, then thought it was a joke. She laughed too, "Are you serious?" but looking at Li's puzzled face said it all.
"...but, then who do you love?"
"Sakura, of course!"
Madison's heart skipped a beat, "you...but Sakura-"
Just then, out of the fog that had seemed to slowly creep around them, came none other than,
"Sakura!" Li said as he got up from the seat, leaving behind the puzzled Madison. Li ran up to Sakura and picked her up by her hips and started to wiz her around in the air. Sakura gave a shriek of delight and laughed till Li put her down, then they started to kiss.
Madison stared at them for a while...'what happened?' her mind echoed. 'did he really not love me? After all this time?' Madison stood up from her seat and started to walk away from the scene. 'But he was kissing me like that just a few days ago! How did it happen?' Then suddenly Madison felt very angry and upset at the same time. She quickly turned around, back to the couple who were no-longer kissing, but had their arms wrapped around each other...like a real couple!
Madison suddenly ran at Li, tears brimming her eyes, but he didn't even see her. And when Madison swung a punch at his nose, her hand, in fact, her whole body went straight through him.
Madison's eyes widened as she started to fall, towards the ground...
She screamed...
Out of Madison's dream...
Madison woke up on the floor screaming. Her right arm ached as that was the first thing she landed on. She wiped away the cold sweat that was running down her face and coughed as she inhaled...
But the air smelt very different to what it normally would...
Like SMOKE!!
Madison quickly got up off the floor and looked around the room, but the smoke instantly stung her eyes, and they started to water. All she could hear was the roar of fire around her.
"Sakura?" Madison said and started to cough again, but her voice had come out too quietly, even she could only just hear her own voice. She squinted her eyes, trying to look around the room, she could see the figure of her bed.
'Wait a second,' her mind thought, 'what do you want her for? She did steal Li from you, right?'
Madison hit her hands hard on the sides of her head, "Shut up!" she coughed again, "She might be in trouble!"
'I bet she's just standing outside, with Li, listening to you call out to them...laughing to them selves!'
Madison shook her head. "NO! She wouldn't DO that to me!"
'...Would she?'
Madison ignored her thoughts and squinted her eyes, attempting to see better through the grey fog.
"Sakura?" Madison called and coughed loudly.
Taking a deep breath she called "if you can hear me just say something, or make some kind of noise...ANYTHING!"
Madison listened hard, but had to sit down on the ground again, the air clogging her throat. She coughed hoarsely and gave it one last try, "Saku-ra!" With that she fainted and fell onto the floor...
In a hospital...
A body lay on an operating table, doctors all around. A loud beeping noise had filled the room. A doctor put metal pads onto the body's chest and the body jumped for a second...the beeping continued, going faster. They shocked the body again, nothing changed...until the beeping became one long, never faltering beep, filling the room, echoing off the walls. One of the doctors shocked the body again...still no change.
Another doctor looked at his watch, "Patient died...sigh 12:23 precisely-"
"No damn it!" one of the others cried, "it can't be-"
"Stop it Chelsea!" the first doctor yelled. He walked over to the beeping machine and pulled the plug, "She's in a better place now..."
Chelsea ran out the room in tears, the other doctors stood still with there heads bowed down saying a silent prayer...
Flashback...
"Sakura? Sakura where are you?" Scott coughed as he inhaled the smoke. He pulled a hankerchief out of his pocket and put it across his mouth and nose, then walked into the room. The smoke stung at his eyes and made them water, but he brushed away the tears and squinted his eyes, trying to see through the smoke...he saw a body on the floor.
"SAKURA!?" he yelled under his hankerchief, "hold on." He quickly went forward and turned the body around, to see the face...of Madison, not Sakura. But she was in trouble all the same. He looked around the room, and not seeing anything else, slung Madison over his shoulder and started go out the room, hurriedly, so he could get back and find Sakura.
When he got outside and dropped the body gently onto the grass he rushed back inside the building. He looked back into the room he was just in and went right to the back of the room, looking under and through things, but finding nothing...till he looked at Madison's bed-side table. There he found Sakura's locket, the one with the picture of her mother inside it on one side, blank on the other.
He stared at it for a second, then put it in his pocket. He coughed roughly, and fell down onto his hands and knees, coughing, dropping the hankerchief. He picked it up, but there was a hand underneath it, the arm coming from under a curtain.
"Sakura!?" He called again, hoping it was really her this time. He pulled on the arm, till it was out from behind the curtain.
He was right this time.
"Oh, thank god!" he cried, his voice muffled by the hankerchief.
Suddenly the house creaked, and he heard something crash on the floor above him, the house was caving in...he had to get them out of there fast!
He grabbed Sakura's wrist again, to notice something. The bottom of her pants was on fire!
He grabbed his hankerchief and started to whip at it, trying to put out the flame. When it was out, he looked at Sakura's leg, it was red and blistered. The flame had been there a while.
He looked again at Sakura's face to see it was pale...even under all this heat...
Quickly he grabbed Sakura's wrist and tried to find a pulse...nothing.
He felt her neck, trying to find the pulse there.
It was weak, but he found it. Wasting no time he slung her over his shoulder and raced back outside. When he laid her on the ground he quickly pulled out his phone and dialed 911 for an ambulance...but his phone was dead!
He stared at the phone in his hand, dropped it and knelt down next to Madison. He touched her neck and found a pulse, weak like Sakura's, but there none the less.
He went back to Sakura to see if there was a pulse in her neck...
Nothing.
His heart skipped a beat.
He put his head onto her chest to listen to her heart...
Nothing.
"no..." he mumbled, "no no NO!" he cried. He thudded the ground with his fist...then started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He put his hands together and pumped Sakura's chest 10 times, then put his mouth around hers and blew. Then put his ear above her mouth...still not breathing.
He did this again...and again, with no showing improvement
"This can't be happening..." he said, "I'm too late!"
He put his hands to his face and sobbed. He heard Madison's house creaking...then made a decision...
He didn't want to live anymore.
He got up, with the tears still running down his face and walked over to Madison's house. He went in the door and walked back into Madison's house, into her room and laid down on the floor.
Outside fire trucks parked outside the still blazing house...
Just as the house suddenly collapsed...
Viking-Ulf: well sniff sorry I had to write that...I'M SORRY!!! is that more action-packed SS lover?! Hope your not crying...cause I am! Oh sniff and guess who's just passed away, other than Scott...the one in the hospital, review with your answer...I have to get off this page...too sad!!
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