Otaku: I'm Baack! It's time for the next chapter!
Elladan: Hello Otaku.
Elrohir: How are you?
Otaku: I'm Fine! Thanks for asking!
Elladan: What's gonna happen in this chapter?
Otaku: Dun know yet.
Elrohir: Oh.
Bakura: BAKAS! Just do the disclaimer!
Otaku: Fine! I own nothing!
Bakura, Elrohir, Elladan: On with the fic!
I changed some things.
"....." is still English or Common
'....'is still thoughts
#...# is still Japanese
italics is Elvish or change of scene or Flashback.
Also whenever Sakura speaks it's gonna be broken or accented English. I'm tried of writing Sakura speak like a baby or something. I don't think that Aragorn knew Arwen until after Celebrian's death, but oh well.
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One Week laterWhen Sakura woke up, it was afternoon and a pretty lady that had long silver hair and a beautiful face walked in and smiled at her. "Hello. I am Celebrian, Elrond's Wife. I'm sorry that I couldn't see you before for I was on my journey back to Rivendell from Lothlorien," said Celebrian.
"Konnichiwa Celebrian-sama! It's okay," chirped Sakura causing Celebrian to smile. "I'm Sakura."
"Well, Sakura, what sort of things do like?" Celebrian questioned.
"I like to read, write, and play," answered Sakura, but at that time she spotted her bag on a chair. "Celebrian-sama? Can you please get my bag?" Celebrian smiled at her and gave her her bag.
"Here you go Little One," said Celebrian. She smiled as she watched Sakura take a book out and frown at it. "What is that?"
"My boring school work," explained Sakura and Celebrian nodded. She looked at the stuff Sakura was suppose to do, but all she was were lines and funny pictures. She wondered how Sakura knew what to do!
"What are you doing?"
"I'm suppose to be practicing my reading and writing, but I finished that so I'm translating some words into English/Common," answered Sakura making Celebrian smile.
"You seem very hard-working," commented Celebrian.
"Hai. 'Kaa-san and 'Tou-san said that they expect me to be good in everything. It gets tiring after a while, but 'Kaa-san and 'Tou-san only want me to live a happy and wealthy life," replied Sakura, not really paying attention to what she was saying. "I miss 'Kaa-san and 'Tou-san." She sighed, but perked up.
"Did you know that Elrond-sama finally said that I could go outside now? I want to play outside. Arwen-sama said that you have a prettiful garden." She giggled at the made up word. "Can you please go with me?" She pulled the puppy eyes on Celebrian and Celebrian agreed.
"But only if you are careful," said Celebrian.
"Hai Celebrian-sama," replied Sakura. She skipped ahead of Celebrian a few times, but had to go back before she got lost. When they reached the garden Sakura skipped and danced around to her own music. She started humming "Kagome" (AN: Kagome is a Japanese game with it's own little tune.) as she danced around. She was still in her Uniform, but it was washed.
"Celebrian-sama! Here you go!" Sakura shouted as she ran up to Celebrian and gave her some flowers. She ran off laughing before the elleth could say anything. Sakura skipped and danced. Then she bumped into an elfing making the said elfling to look up startled. She had golden blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes and looked to be about seven.
"Sugoi," breathed Sakura. "You're so pretty. I'm Sakura, what's your name?"
"I am Merileth Nan. It is a pleasure to meet you," replied the elfling.
"I'm seven. How old are you?"
"I'm 704," answered Merileth.
"Ne, you look so young," said Sakura.
"All elves look young," laughed Merileth.
"Sugoi! You have a pretty laugh like Arwen-sama and Celebrian-sama, Merileth-san," said Sakura. Merileth merely laughed again, but looked at Sakura curiously.
"I've heard of you. You are that child of an unknown Country. What does 'Sugoi,' 'Ne,' '-sama,' and '-san' mean?" Merileth questioned as she slighly tilted her head to the side with curious eyes.
"Saa..Sugoi means awesome or something in that manner. Like 'wow'. Ne means well, or huh depending on the placement, -sama means lord or lady, and –san is the suffix for someone you just met or don't know well. It's a polite term," said Sakura.
"Oh. I see. So I call you Sakura-san?"
"Ne, you would, but I perfer the suffix '-chan' which is for close friends and relatively for girls. For boys it would be '-kun,'" explained Sakura.
"Alright, but if I call you Sakura-chan you must call me Merileth-chan in return," said Merileth, smiling slightly while Celebrian was watching and listening to the whole exchange. The lady of Rivendell smiled slightly.
"Hai! I'll call you Merileth-chan," shouted Sakura hyperly. So they continued to play until it was time for them to return to their homes, or in Sakura's place, the guestroom. She went in holding Celebrian's hand and jumping now and then telling her about her day and the new friend she made.
"That is nice Sakura, but it is time for supper. You have to clean up and go put on a dress," ordered Celebrian subtly, but Sakura picked up on it.
"Okay! I'll go Celebrian-sama!" Sakura chirped and she went skipping to her room. Celebrian sighed and thought 'Poor Girl.' She felt arms go around her waist and smiled as she felt the familiar presence of her husband.
"Hello Melamin. I have not seen you for a while," whispered Elrond into Celebrian's ear. She giggled.
"Yes, I know and I am very sorry for that. I missed you so much Melamin," answered Celebrian. She sighed. "What are we going to do about Sakura?"
Elrond aslo sighed before he answered. "I do not know. Mithrandir and I do not know about this Kyoto, Japan and about her native language. Mithrandir thinks that she was brought here for a reason, but I can not think why someone would bring an injured human child here for." He sighed and led her to their room.
"I pity her. She has lost her family, her world, her friends, her old life, has gotten injured, and has entered a new world. Why does someone so young have to go through this?" Celebrian looked at her husband and sighed (AN: They sigh a lot in this fic, do they not?) while she massaged her husband's shoulders to get him to relax.
"I know, I know. But, let us relax and the solution shall come to us," replied Celebrian. After a moment of silence Celebrian spoke up. "Why don't we adopt her. At least until we can figure some other plan for her."
"That is a great idea Melamin! I'm sure that Aragorn will be delighted to have some human company, even if she is much, much younger then him," agreed Elrond, though in his mind he had many doubts. They got ready for supper that night since Aragorn is coming home and they wanted to welcome him warmly and when they were ready they linked arms and walked gracefully to the Dining Hall. When they got there, they saw that everyone, but a few elves and their children, including Sakura, were not there. After a few minutes everyone was there and everyone and everything looked stunning. (AN: I will not describe it so use your own imaginations.)
When Aragorn came a few minutes later with some of the Dunedan, including Halbarad, the family, besides Sakura who looked like she shrunk in her seat, stood up and welcomed him with open arms. Some of the Dunedan noticed Sakura and gave her curious and some suspicous looks. When the welcoming was done the couple (Elrond and Celebrian) intoduced Sakura.
"Estel. This is Sakura. She is staying here for a while. We found her injured in the forest and healed her," said Elrond. Aragorn nodded and looked at Sakura curiously.
"Konbanwa Estel-sama. I am Sakura. It's nice to meet you," said Sakura doing the traditional Japanese greeting. Aragorn looked confused, but nodded and bowed as Sakura did.
"It is nice to meet you, but what does '-sama' mean?" Aragorn questioned.
"It means Lord or Lady," answered Sakura.
"Oh. But you don't have to call me Lord. You can call me by my original name," said Aragorn a bit surprised.
"Hai, Estel-san," answered Sakura. Aragorn sighed and gave up. This child has manners! She must address someone with a suffix. Really! But he supposed it was okay. Aragorn sat across from Arwen and next to Elladan. Sakura was sitting across from Elrohir and next to Arwen and Celebrian and Elrond were sitting at the head of the table. Everyone else was sitting where ever. The conversations were casual though Aragorn made lovey-dovey eyes which Sakura giggled at and Elladan was talking to Elrohir and Sakura and Lindir, who Sakura made friends with earlier in the week when she snuck out and bumped into him.
When supper was over everyone left the hall to do their own things. Sakura left, after staying to talk to Merileth, to her room and grabbed a book she was suppose to read for homework on the day she got hit. She sighed unhappily as she thought about her family and friends. The sad child decided she was not in the mood for a book and decided to write in her journal. She prefered to write in Japanese so no one would be able to write it. That journal entry was mostly about her day, how things have been going, her theories, and her feelings. She even decided to add her favorite qoute for the day and a poem she recalled her mother reading when she was younger. 'Onii-san, Onee-san. I'm so sorry for missing that special day. I really miss you, 'Kaa-san, 'Tou-san, Anzu-chan, and Kagome-chan. I wish that I never had to leave you guys.' She sighed and got ready for bed. She prayed her daily prayer to Kami-sama (God) and went to sleep.
In Japan with Sakura's family
The family prayed to Kami-sama to take care of their child and since they couldn't bury or cremate (sp?) her body they just decided to do a ceremony of her even if she wasn't there. Tetsuya (Is that right? I forget. --;) and Miaka kept on blaming them selves while everyone else was trying to get over her. Some not so close people did, but the closer people didn't. It took them a year or so to finally think about her without crying so much. #Don't blame yourself Tetsuya. It wasn't anyone's fault.# Miaka said to Tetsuya a week after the ceremony as they were walking to school.
He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. #I know that, but I just can't help but think that if I just picked her up then I could've pulled her out of the way.# Tetsuya exclaimed. #She was only seven Miaka! Seven! She had a brighter future ahead of her, but I guess Life is unfair.# He sighed, but determination was in his eyes. He would get over her death no matter what.
Back at RivendellSakura woke up shaking and sweating. She started to cry for her old life and the pain she knew she was causing her loved ones. 'Why!? Why do they have to care so much?! If they didn't then they wouldn't be sad! WHY?! Why do they have to mourn? Can't I take away some of the pain?' Sakura thought and right when she thought that a faint and almost unnoticable glow over came her and she bent over clutching her chest as she felt a huge amount of pain. 'Is this everyone's pain?' But she also felt small traces of happiness, relief, content, and etc.
To everyone who were greiving or sad near her or people in her thoughts'What is this? I feel a like a weight is lifted off my heart and my heart is lightened. I feel much better.' Many thought. While the additional thoughts were added to those in the other world. They other thoughts were somewhat like this, 'Why don't I feel as much sadness and grief in my heart.....Maybe, just maybe, Sakura is watching over us and taking away our pain, but that is too far-fetched.'
Back with SakuraHer breathing turned erratic and her breath came in short gasps. Her heart clenched in a great pain as more and more pain from her loved ones and people closet to where she was. After 30 minutes or so the pain stopped, but now and then she would feel a twinge of pain here and there. It was safe to say that she didn't sleep all that well that night, but she covered it up perfectly with some acting here, some hyperness there, and some Middle Earth make-up she found in the vanity drawers. The elves around her felt something wrong and out of place with the young human girl who somehow wormed her way into their hearts. There just wasn't something geniune about her hyperness, her cheerfulness and sometimes they caught a twinge of pain in her eyes or a wince here and there. (AN: Remember, she is a seven-year-old genius so she's bound to be smart and mature, but childish at the same time and since she is little girl she is bound to get attached to them and vice versa.)
"What is wrong Little One? You seemed pained," Elrond finally asked in his study he called her to. Elrond felt panic radiate off of her, but it was only for second.
"What do you mean? There is nothing wrong," replied Sakura. Elrond frowned.
"Sakura. If there is something wrong or if you want to talk, there are many people willing to listen," said Elrond. Sakura nodded as she thought in her head, 'Demo, you have already done so much. I can not put another burden on you.'
"Also, Celebrian and I have decided to adopt you. At least until we find you biological family." Sakura looked up astonished, her eyes and expression clearly askeding if he was telling the truth, so he nodded while smiling.
"Thank you! Thank you so much Elrond-sama!" Sakura exclaimed as she jumped up and hugged Elrond.
"You are welcome my dear, but now since we are family, you do not have to call me Elrond-sama. You may call call me Adar. That is Father in Sindarin," said Elrond. Sakura smiled and tightened her hug before she let go and blushed.
"Arigato Gozaimasu, Adar. I will go and tell Arwen-nee-san, Elrohir-Nii-san, Elladan-Nii-san, and Merileth-chan!" Sakura said before she ran out and gave Elrond a hug. When she caught sight of Arwen and Aragorn she ran up to them and hugged them.
"Arwen-nee-san! Estel-Nii-san! Elrond-'Tou-san said he will adopt me!" She shouted before she ran off to find other people to tell. Behind her Aragorn and Arwen exchanged amused glances.
"He finally told her," stated Aragorn and Arwen nodded. She pecked him lightly on the lips and commented, "I've always wanted a little sister."
Meanwhile with Sakura, she had already told Elrohir, Elladan, and Lindir. They were also amused, except Lindir who was just plain surprised. Sakura hugged them all and giggled before she ran off to talk and play with Merileth.
With Elrond and Celebrian"I am worried for her," sighed Celebrian as she came in.
"I am to, but she will not say anything. I sensed pain from her," agreed Elrond. An Elf came in and we will name him Tony (AN: I know that is not an elvish name, but I can't think of an Elvish name right now.).
"Lord Elrond? I did not mean to intrude, but I heard you speaking about Sakura. I have a room next to her and I heard her breathing go erratic and she was tossing and turning in bed," informed Tony.
"Thank you Tony. That is a very important piece of information. You may leave," commanded/thanked Elrond. Tony bowed and left.
"Maybe she is being plagued by dreams about her family and her world," suggested Celebrian as her husband stood up and looked out the window. She went and hugged him from behind and put her head on his shoulder and saw her children, Sakura, Merileth, and Lindir outside together talking or playing with the young children.
"Yes, that maybe so, but we can not do anything if she does not come to us. Let us just hope that what ever is bothering her does not kill her, if it is that serious," said Elrond. Celebrian nodded solemnly and tightened her hold on her husband. She sighed as she stared out the window at everyone playing.
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Otaku: HELLO EVERYONE! I want to thank everyone for reviewing even if it was only a few people. This is only the start after all. Again, if this turns Mary Sue-ish please tell me how to stop it. Thankies.
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