Sakura glances at her watch. "Hoe! Its so late! I'm sorry Kaze, I gotta go!" Sakura says quickly restraping her skates. "Late? It can't be past noon. Stay awhile longer." Kaze says as he grips at the grass. "I'm sorry, I can't. I told my dad I was going to Madison's house for a while. He's definitely awake now, and he called Madison's." Sakura panics slightly while Kaze sat staring at her dumbfounded. "Uh, don't you think Madison has enough sense to cover for you? I'm sure shes done it before, what with loose Clow Cards running around." Kaze states as Sakura tries to get up. She nearly stumbles, but Kaze catchs her arm and pulls her up with him. Sakura blushes. His grip is so strong, but gentle. "But, if... Her mom or..." Is the best of words Sakura can string together with Kaze holding her.
Kaze is tempted to caress Sakura, maybe kiss her, even more. With all the restraint he can muster, he can't hold back. Just before Sakura begins to notice what he is doing, or about to do, his temptation stops. For a thought occurs, a deliciously evil thought. "I understand. But even with your skates It'll take another half hour at least to get back." Kaze says his voice stern. "I know, but I have to try!" Sakura says as she seems ready to go. Kaze begins to smile. "Wouldn't flying be faster?" Kaze suggests. "Hey thats a grea-" But before Sakura can finish, she feels the wind on her face. Her feet leave the ground but she has yet to release her staff, let alone the Fly card. She looks down and sees the passing houses as they go by. "I'm flying. But how?" Sakura thinks to herself. "You don't just have to look down. Look up." Kaze says to her. Shes in his arms, cradled. She looks up to see the most beautiful pare of wings she has ever seen. They have a hawks coloration. "You... You have wings! What are you?" Sakura says in marvel. "Why Sakura, I can't spoil everything just yet."
As they close in on her house. Kaze flys to the tree by Sakura's window. "This your room?" He asks. "Yeah, but they know I'm out. I goto the front door." Sakura says as Kaze sits her on the tree. "Alright then, good luck!" Kaze says as she jumps down. "Thanks Kaze. See you." Sakura whispers before she enters. Kaze can hear her call out that she's home. He takes a moment to peak in her room. "She sure has alot of stuffies. Strange... Almost looks as if one's staring at me." Kaze ponders as he takes his leave. Kero is unamused.
"Good night dad!" Sakura calls as she heads into her bedroom. Her dad has an early lecture he has to get to, so Sakura said she'd go to her room to read, as not to wake him up. Her dad hadn't called Madison to check on her, she was greatly relieved. She sighs. "So Kero, how was your day?" Kero is tapping away at his controler, he seems rather unintrested in it for a change. "Fine, just fine." He says randomly tapping the game buttons. He is so detached from it, he doesn't even notice that he's playing better then he ever has before. "So how was Madison?" Kero asks after a few moments. "Hoe?" Sakura resonds, completely oblivious to the earlier events of the day. "How would I know?" Sakura says, condemning herself. "Oh, I'm surprized you'd say that,-" Kero says as he pauses his game. "Seeing how she's who you were suppost to be visiting." Sakura remembers, but far to late to cover her tracks. "But instead you go gallavanting off with that kid! He's dangerous!" Sakura turns to him, arms furled. "Thats what you said about Eriol! And Suppi! How do you know this is any different!" Sakura shouts trying to control her volume. She fails miserably, but the rest of her family has gotten use to her doing that. Kero crosses his arms and flouts to Sakura's eye level. Kero takes a deep breath, preparing himself for what he must ask. "D-did you... Did you sleep with him?" Kero finally musters. "What?" Sakura gasps quietly. "Have you slept with him?" Kero repeats becoming more and more agitated. "How, dare you. How dare you accuse me of that!" Sakura screams at Kero as loud as she possible could. She raises her hand and slaps him as hard as she could sending him flying into her closet with a loud thump. She bolts out of her sobbing dashing downstairs. Her father burst out his room. "Sakura! Whats wrong!" He calls to her, but she doesn't hear him and runs outside, not bothering even to put on shoes. She runs as fast as she can, not caring how far she was going, or where she was going, or how bad her bare feet feel on the pavement. She just wants to get away, away from her life, away from Kero, away from all this stress. She finally colapses to the ground, crying into the dirt, completly exausted. She lies their for so long she loses consciousness, either crying or exaustion.
Sakura wakes up in a daze. She has no recolection of the events after she ran out of her house. She feels warm, comfortable, when she hears someone begin to speak. "Yeah, Mr. Kinomoto? Uh huh, um, I have Sakura here. Yeah. She's asleep. I found 'er on the ground near Penguin park unconscious. She's okay, aside a cold, scuffed knees, and red feet. Yeah, s'what happens when you take a barefoot stroll at one A.M. Since ten? C'plains why she was so cold. Might as well leave her 'ere, exposture to the cold could just make her sicker. Asleep? If she knows how to cause trouble while she's asleep she'd better teach me! Don' worry 'bout it. See ya in the morning."
Sakura sits up and rubs her eyes. Shes begining to recall the earlier events. Suddenly it hits her. Shes in someones house, a place shes never been before, in someones bed, not clothed. Sakura panics. As someone approchs the bedroom she pulls up on the sheets. As the doornob turns she she reachs for the first thing she can grab and hurrles it at the door as it opens.
Kamaki, holding a bedtray, stands in the doorway, completely in dismay. The object thrown in question was his very own sword. Lucky for him it mearly grazed his ear. "I see what ur dad was trying to tell me." Kamaki says as he swerves around the sword. He sits next to her and places th tray on his lap. He'd have put it on Sakura's if she wasn't completly huddled in the corner of the bed. "Oh my god! Kamaki! I'm so sorry! Why am I here- and where the hell are my clothes!"
"Bessside you." Kamaki says becoming a tad anxious. "Oh. Well why aren't I in them!" Sakura yelps regaining a touch more awareness with each moment. "Ah! Much better question. They were dirty as bloody hell, torn soggy and peiling off you. Silk PJ's aren't built for late night jogging." Kamaki explained. "So, you didn't undress me?" Sakura says unclenching a touch. "If anything I tried to keep your clothes on! Thankfully they made it to my living room, and not outside." Sakura relaxed. He wasn't a lying. "Uh, I didn't look." Kamaki says blushing. It's a lie, and Sakura knows it, power or not. But she quickly disregards it when she realizes that this is the first time shes seen Kamaki embarrassed. She blushes too. "How'd I get here?" Sakura asks quietly. Kamaki explains to her how he found her passed out by the park. Sakura remembers everything of the afternoons events. "Oh Kamaki..." She says quietly. "I know you Sakura, what happened? You'd never do something like this unless-." Kamaki gets cut off by Sakura leaping at him. She holds him and begins to cry. Kamaki is torn between being simpathitic and embarassed, what with being hugged by a naked Sakura. Eventully, he manages to hold her. Sakura doesn't care about that though. She just needs to be held.
After an awkward night, Sakura wakes up at about eleven. She grogily gets up to find a change of clothes beside her. They seem a bit big, but given the choice of remaining nude, or putting on her thrashed silk pajamas. She dresses and heads outside the room. Theres a short hallway with white carpeting, same as the bedroom. It leads to two other rooms, a small door heading outside to a porch. A staircase right on her left heading down to the main entrance and leading left to a living room, and right to a study. She walks down the stairs towards the smell of pancakes. At the bottom of the stairs she marvels at the stacks upon stacks of random, everything it seems like, piled in the study. It leads to a swinging door, same with the living room. She takes the low road through the living room still sporting the white carpet, paint, and funiture minus the television being black. She pushs the door open and walks into what seems like thirty years earlier. The kitchen splits into the dining room. The floor is a red brick pattern, with tacky yellow wallpaper with little orange flowers. The dining table and chairs are made of a lovely wood, funished nicely so that they shine. "Um, did I just walk into the past?" Sakura says staring at Kamaki. He's mixing something at the sink. "Tell no one. My contractor quit just as 'e finished the living room. Leaving the study and kitchen back in the seventys." Sakura laughs nervously a little. She sits down at the table. "Hungry?" Kamaki asks, Sakura nods. "Hope pancakes are okay." Kamaki says as he pours some batter into a pan. "Yeah, that'd be great!" Sakura notices theat theres something missing to the room. "Uh, wheres the stove?" Kamaki grins. "Why, your speaking to it." Kamaki says as he raises his hand. "Hoe?" Sakura gets up to have a better look. There is a space between the counter and the fridge covered by a thick layer of metal. "Force of death and destruction, burn!" Kamaki shouts as a stream of fire blazes out of his hand. He tosses out a perfect pancake onto a plate. Sakura muses. "Must save loads on gas."
After breakfast, Sakura tells Kamaki about what happened, Kaze, Kero, everything. "He's right you know, he's dangerous." Kamaki says. "How do you even know?" Sakura says. "Because I've seen what he could do. He can't control his anger. And when he gets angry, nothing can stop him." Sakura can't believe a word that Kamaki says, though she lets on that she does. Kamaki can tell though, but is strangely quiet for the rest of the morning.
Sakura's dad came to pick her up around eleven. He questions her about the night before, having no idea what so ever why she is upset. After an atempted and failed "Jedi Mind Trick" from Kamaki, Sakura tells him that it's a personal matter, and that she'll tell him when she's ready. He seems somewhat satisfied, thought suspicious of Kamaki, who seems strangely vacant. "Are you okay?" Sakura asks Kamaki as they ready to leave. "Yea..." He lack-lusterly replies. "You sure?" Sakura edges closer, a bit longingly, but not enough for her dad to take much attention. "I'm fine. Go. See you at school tomorrow."
Sakura leaves with her dad feeling as though she was missing something. She sits in the passenger side seat nest to her dad when she remembers. "On no! Your lecture! Dad I'm so sorry!" Sakura cries out. "Don't worry about it. Your safety means more to me than any lecture. It wasn't that important any way, my students will survive." Sakura sighs. "Still, thats not the point. If it weren't for Kama-." She stops short. "So... Was it because of him that you took off last night?" Her dad asks. "No! Yes, sort of, but not really..." Sakura goes on trying to think of a way around giving up the little yellow living toy in her room. "Well, you see. This friend thought I was spending to much time with Kamaki see. And when I was coming back from seeing Madison, I ran into him. So we talked a bit and this friend caught me with him, no big deal right?" Her dad nods in agreement, completely oblivious to the fact that most of that was a complete fabrication. "But then when I got home, this friend accused me of lying when I told them I was going to see Madison, then... Then accused me of sleeping with him." Sakura's dad jerks a bit, causing the car to make a slight wobble, just barely noticible. "What! Who could accuse you of that! That doesn't matter, their wrong for saying that, ture or not... Not, right?" He adds in softly. "No dad, of course not." Sakura repies harshly. "Sorry, sorry. Just when you hear something that sounds unbelievable, you still need to be sure, right?" He asks being quite reassured, yet still a bit nervous. "Yeah dad." Sakura answers beginning to break out into tears. Her father pulls their car off to the side, where he holds her. She starts crying into his sholder as he tries reassuring her. They sit there for some time before returning home.
As they get home Sakura heads strait upstairs to her room. Tori tries to teel her off, but their dad intervenes. She heads up stairs as her dad begins to explain what happened. As Sakura gets to her bedroom door, she braces herself. She doesn't know how to react to Kero anymore. She contemplates having him stay elsewhere for a while. Finally, she desides that the best thing she can do is talk to him first. Maybe find a common ground or something. She opens the door, expecting a greeting of some sort. But instead she finds an empty room. "Did he leave? Maybe he feels the same way I do. Maybe we're-." Her thoughts get cut off. She was too preoccupied before, but now that she was in the room she could feel something amise. Kamaki. His aura was all around her room. Alot of her things were in dismay, things knocked on the floor, ripped, slashed, even some of her stuffed animals had been torn or cut. It was like a fight had happened in her room. "No." Sakura's eyes widen as she examines a long stain on her bed covers, leading up the wall. Blood.
Alex Kun: And this is where I leave it. Quite a long chapter indeed. Will I leave a spoiler? Hell no. Am I a bastard? Hell yes. Will this get resolved? I don't know. Will I get flamed? I'm expecting it. Do your worst gentle readers. For after this chapter, I deserve it. :evil: