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Lothlorien
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Sakura glanced behind her as she and Celebrian walked to Galadriel and Celeborn's talon, saw and heard nothing. She shook it off and deemed it on her nerves, but her gut was telling her that something was amiss. Oh well. I doubt it is anything…well, dangerous.Sakura thought as they got closer and closer to the talon and soon, they were climbing the steps. When they reached the door, they were greeted with the sight of Galadriel and Celeborn holding hands and glowing. The couple nodded at their daughter and Sakura before leading them to a garden with beautiful, glowing flowers with wonderful, soft fragrances and there was The Mirror. Galadriel got a pitcher of water and carefully, slowly, and delicately poured the water into the basin, though it needed no more, and the water merely rippled, but did not over flow. Sakura watched in open mouth awe and the elves smiles at her amazement.
In the shadows, the possessed Haldir watched and smiled fondly at the picture in front of him, while the real him, deep inside his mind, scoffed and scorned Sakura. Now, when Sakura looked in the mirror, she saw images of Imladris, her family, Lothlorien, and her friends looking sad, but then it flashed to the places and people in her dreams looking happy and ecstatic. Suddenly, Sakura fell back, eyes dull and open in surprise, into the arms of a startled and worried Celebrian. Galadriel and Celeborn looked on sadly, but knowingly at the scene of Celebrian frantically trying to wake her Sakura up while the possessed Haldir looked on with apologetic relief. Even if you are happy here Sakura, you must go back to Earth…I am sorry, but Elrond had not been able to convince Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn to intervene. Haldir thought, but the real Haldir, deep in his mind, started to cheer at the thought about Sakura leaving.
Possessed Haldir stepped back and melded into the shadows. When he arrived back at Haldir's talon, he left the body slumped on the couch and went to guide Sakura back to Earth. Slowly, Haldir woke up and looked around in confusion before shrugging and going back to sleep, his eyes open this time.
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With Sakura…
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A groan comes from a transparent crumbled form floating in the middle of an endless void when a shining white figure appeared next to the waking form. As the form stands up, it is revealed to be Sakura. "Na-nani? Ne, What's going on?" She asked the figure in front of her, a panicked look slowly blossoming on her face and the figure smiled serenely.
"Do not worry. You will be home soon enough. Just follow me," he answered, his lilting and serene voice calming Sakura. She looked at him with a smile and grabbed the outstretched hand before they disappeared in a flash. A moment later, Sakura awoke in a futon, dressed in a pretty emerald green dress outlined in soft lavender.
"Eh…where am I?" She asked herself, startled to find out that it came out in Japanese. (Everything will be in Japanese unless said otherwise.) She looked around and saw a small room with a burgundy dresser, two windows on the wall to her left, a couple of pictures hanging around, and a small burgundy desk in a small little corner. Curious about where she was, she stood up and looked at the picture, only to stumble back and fall when she saw that it was a family portrait with herself and people in dreams in it. Looking around the light blue room, she noticed that she felt a sense of safety and warmness that she usually only felt at Imladris. Hearing some footsteps come towards the room, she scrambled to the futon and pretended to act like she had just woken up.
The woman, Kikyou, came in and when she saw Sakura was awake, she turned and started screaming, "She's awake! She's awake! Hurry!" She stepped up to Sakura, who shrunk back and said, "Konbanwa, Saku-chan! How are you?" Sakura looked up at the woman startled, recalling the time when she came here before.
"Ne…Aren't you the woman from before? The one who said she was Okaa-sama?" Sakura questioned with a curious tilt of her head, but her eyes held suspicion for the woman in front of her. Kikyou looked startled at the question, but then she grew sad and hurt. Immediately, Sakura felt guilt and wanted to comfort her, but she didn't know why.
"Ano…Daijobu desu ka?" Sakura asked and the woman looked up, her eyes filled with tears unwilling to fall. The woman blinked her tears away.
"Nani?" Sakura sighed in a slight aggravation before she repeated her question.
"Daijobu desu ka?"
"Oh…Hai! Gomen ne for making you worry, Saku-chan," answered Kikyou and Sakura nodded, albeit a bit uncomfortably.
"Ano…gomen ne, demo, could you please not call me Saku-chan?" Sakura asked Kikyou, who blinked a bit, but nodded. Sakura heard footsteps and looked past Kikyou at the door.
"Someone is coming," she warned and Kikyou blinked again.
"Honto ne? I don't hear…" she trailed off and her eyes widened. "Ah…I hear them now, demo, how did you hear them from such a distance.
"Eh…I don't know," the young girl confessed and Kikyou sweat dropped at the answer before the door flew open and the people from her dream all scrambled into the now cramped room.
"Eh…Konnichiwa?" Sakura waved hesitantly, wondering why the heck they looked so happy.
"Imouto!" Three of the four people shouted and Sakura winced when she heard the word. Why are they calling me Imouto? They are not Elladan-Nii-san, Elrohir-Nii-san, OR Estel-Nii-san OR Arwen-nee-chan! Sakura thought to herself and she looked at them nervously before one girl and two boys were hugging her to death.
"A-ano…ne, who are you?" She asked and the three drew away with hurt expressions, but she knew who was who from her dreams and flashbacks. "Eh…I recognize them." She pointed at Aoi and "Otou-san" who smiled happily, but their faces fell when she said, "They were the ones who claimed to be Otou-sama and my Onii-san." Koran stepped forward with a slightly sad look.
"Ne, Imouto-chan, this is a joke right? Hahahaha! This is a funny joke, demo, you can stop now," she joked weakly and Sakura looked at her weirdly.
"Ne, Koran-chan, Daijobu desu ka?" Sakura asked hesitantly, not realizing she had said the girl's name. Koran's face lit up with joy, her blue eyes were dancing and her black hair was up in a ponytail. The vision was beautiful and when Sakura realized what she thought she shook her head. Demo, Arwen-nee-san is much more prettier. She thought furiously.
"Hai! You remembered my name," she shouted joyously.
"Nani? What are you talking about?" Sakura questioned and Koran's face fell a teeny bit.
"You called me Koran-chan! You remember my name, even if you ARE suppose to call me Onee-san," replied Koran happily.
"No. Arwen-nee-san is my Onee-san!" Sakura retorted furiously with a small shake of her head. The family stared at her strangely.
"Who's Arwen?" The man, Aki, questioned and Sakura stared at him long and hard before she answered.
"She's my onee-san, demo, not my real one. Elrohir-nii-san and Elladan-nii-san found me and took care of me before they decided to adopt me, so now they are my family, even if Celebrian-Kaa-sama and I were going to Galadriel-baa-sama, to find my real parents," came to simple reply, stunning the family.
"Demo, we are your TRUE family," shouted Aishi, speaking up for the first time. Sakura looked at him in familiarity.
"Hey…I think I saw you somewhere before," said Sakura thoughtfully, trying to sort through her memories when everything came flooding back to her. Overwhelmed, Sakura fell back with glazed eyes and when they cleared, Sakura smiled up at her family, who were crowded around her in worry.
"Daijobu?" Kikyou asked and Sakura smiled tiredly.
"Daijobu…Kaa-san," whispered Sakura before she fell back asleep and snoring, leaving the family with sweatdrops, face faults, and joy.
"Hai, she sure is Sakura. Only she would do that, muttered Aishi as he left, the others following, one by one.
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Lothlorien
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Celebrian silently sobbed, clutching Sakura to her as her silver tears dripped onto Sakura's face. "M-mother! What is wrong with Sakura?" She cried out in her musical voice tinged with sorrow and worry as she looked up at her parents who looked down at her sadly.
"I am very sorry, daughter, but we must do this for her own good. She was sent back to her own world with all her memories from her past life, but the memories from here will be wiped," replied Celeborn with a sad ring to his flowing voice and Celebrian looked up with horror.
"NO! Please! Mother! Tell me that that is not true!" Celebrian shouted as she held on to her daughter. She knew she was going to loose Sakura one day, but she didn't think it would've been so soon. "PLEASE!" Celebrian's voice rang throughout the Wood and the elves paused in their merry-making to look in the direction of Galadriel's garden containing the mirror. Galadriel and Celeborn looked down at their daughter with sorrow and apology, but Celebrian stood up with Sakura in her arms and walked back to their talon. The elves back at the pavilion froze when they saw a vague form resembling Celebrian walk out with what looked like the human child in her arms. They looked at each other in worry as their Lord and Lady walked out with sorrowful faces and knew that the human must have died somehow.
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Haldir's talon
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Haldir shout up from the couch when he heard Celebrian's shouts and dashed to the garden only to see Celebrian leaving with Sakura in her arms, eyes still open and dull, and a sad aura was wrapped around them. He looked at his Lady and Lord and knew something terrible had happened to Sakura and he guessed it was death, after all, humans are not immortal so what else could it be. He felt saddened and horrified when he saw her eyes, they were like his parents' eyes when they died.
"She did not die Haldir," came Celeborn's voice and Haldir's head shot up. If she wasn't dead, then what's wrong with her? He thought.
"Her spirit has merely returned to her world and she will continue to live there until it is safe to come back. She will get her memories back from her time there and will forget that Middle Earth had ever existed," answered Galadriel to Haldir's thought and Haldir stood still in shock. Galadriel chuckled at his expression, but she quickly turned impassive at Celebrian's cry. They rushed to Celebrian's talon and saw the last of Sakura's body slowly vanish. Celebrian looked at her mother and threw herself at her parents.
"What happened!" She cried out in Common as her parents comforted her.
"Her body has been pulled to join Sakura's spirit for she did not have a body. Her spirit has merely been materialized for the short time her body has been gone. Now her spirit will not have to go through that strain," replied Celeborn and Celebrian nodded. She wiped her eyes and walked back into the talon, not looking back once, but once she was inside she wearily glided to her room and fell on the bed asleep.
TBC…
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Review Responses:
IwishChan: Oh, I am terribly sorry of you are confused. I thought I had made it clear…gomen nasai! Um, well, I guess it's revealed where in this chapter! Yay! That's great! Yea…I think that I'll do a section for Vanima in the next chapter…Hm…lol. It is possible…maybe I should do a fic about that… Nope, there is no such thing as too much InuYasha…
Rythmic: That's so nice! …Sakura says "Arigato Gozaimasu!" Okays! Lol! Yes, she is cute, isn't she? Thank you! You are too kind! Lol. I hope you enjoy the rest of the story! …Thanks! Lol…well, here it is! Lol.
Arami: Thank you so much! Yea…I figured it was so I changed it. Plus, it was hard to tell where the right place to put the stutters were. Lol. So far, no one does…I'm going to try and get deeper into her in the next chapters. Lol. Yep! That wasn't intended, but when I re-read it, I found that she is dark! It was a shock to me. Lol. It was fun to write about that! Well, she won't be able to play pranks on him, but she will be able to on some other people! He won't hurt her, as you can see know. Well, she is there because her Guardian Angel, who I might introduce later, sent her there before she could die. He's taking her away for her safety, but he might not take her back. Oops… Oh well… Bye!
Crecy: Yep! Yea, but she might not go back. There will be a poll on that. Okay, I'll try to update faster.
Wow! That's a lot…Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and will enjoy future one. Thank you for reviewing my story! I appreciate it! Also, should I introduce Saku-chan's guardian angel and should I take her back to ME? I probably should…