It was a hot day in the Sahara desert. The sun was shining brightly today. Everything looked dry and dead. From afar you could see steam coming up from the desert sand. In the center of the Sahara desert where pyramid's unseen for many centauries by human kind. That is, until today.
Three miles away from the pyramids were the Kinomoto's looking to find something new (or should I say old). Unknown of what was ahead of them. They where on a Jeep that had no roof on, so it was pretty hot for them, even though they where getting a breeze from the speed they where going, it was still hot.
A twenty one year old Sakura was at the back of the Jeep standing up on the lookout. She had on jean shorts and a pink spaghetti strap shirt that had a cherry on it, white sandals and a gold pendant that had green diamonds on it. A now twenty eight year old Touya was beside his father, looking bored as ever. He had studied archeology just like his father, so now he's his fathers assistant for the time being.
Fujitaka, was happy with his carrier and his kids. They had turned out as great people. But the thing he hated about his job was, that he had lost his wife , and Sakura's memories were gone, he blamed himself all for it, but with the help of Sakura and Touya, he was able to go on. He didn't know what he would of done without them.
Nadeshiko had died one year and a half after they started their journey. It was a really… painful death….
Flash back
It was a hot day in one of Mexico's desert, Chihuahuan. In the southern part of Chihuahuan where people excavating a new discovery. They had found treasures, like potter, jewelry and even people's bone's. There where about a hundred people working on the excavation. Everything was done by had, no machinery, for caution that something fragile would be broken. People where drenched with sweat and dirtied with the sand.
"Sakura, sweet heart, be careful, you don't want to fall!" Nadeshiko yelled from afar. She had a soft yellow sun hat on a white t-shirt, jeans and yellow sandals that matched with the hat. She was standing far way from the big hole the people had made. She was helping clean up the found treasure's, right now she had a necklace that was gold and had red rubies engraved on it.
" I'll be careful mom!" a five year old Sakura yelled. She was looking down at the man working. She had a white cap on white shorts and red sandals and shirt. She like traveling to different parts of the world, but she did miss Syaoran. She hasn't heard from him since she last saw him at the air port. Then she went down to where her dad was. He had dust all over his face." Dad, you look funny." She said starting to laugh.
Fukitaka laughed at his daughter's comment. " I guess I do" He smiled at her. " Would you go get your mother for me please Sakura?" He asked her. She nodded and went off to look for her mother. She climbed her way up to the top. When she got there she took off the dirt off her hand's.
Sakura ran to where her mother was. " Mom, dad need's you down there" Suddenly a little breeze came by and Sakura's cap flew off her head. " My hat! I'll get it!" Nadeshiko laughed at her daughter, she reminded her so much of herself when she was little. " I got it!" Sakura said pinking up the hat, and then tripped when she got up.
Nadeshiko laughed softly, 'just like me when I was little, clumsy and cheerful' Nadeshiko thought. " Are you alright Sakura?" Nadeshiko asked going to Sakura and helping her up.
" Yeah mom, I'm alright" She said smiling up at Nadeshiko.
" Alright then, go see what Touya is doing, he should be somewhere close to the car. I'm going to see what your father wants" She said getting up and going down the wide hole.
" Ok mom," She went to the car and started searching for Touya, "where could he be….?" She went around the car and looked around it once more but she couldn't find him. " TOUYA WHERE ARE YOU?" she yelled. Then someone tapped her in the shoulder.
"I'm right here monster you don't have to yell!" He said looking annoyed. Then he got the same answer he always got.
"Sakura no monster!" Then she stomped on his foot. And was about to leave when the earth started shaking.
" Sakura grab onto me!" he said grabbing Sakura, but he lost his balance and fell on the floor.
" Touya, mom and dad are down there we have to go get them!" She said trying to get away.
" Its too dangerous! We cant go down there!" He said, holding her down .
" MOM, DAD!" She cried. She grabbed onto Touya and started crying harder.
Then the earth started to open near the car. The car was half way down the opening when it started to get on fire.
" SAKURA RUN!" Touya yelled, he carried Sakura and started running away from the car, but it was too late, the car exploded. The impact was so strong that it sent Sakura and Touya flying into the air. Next thing they knew, everything went black.
Nadeshiko and Fukitaka
Nadeshiko had climbed down the wide hole. When she got down she went to look for her husband.
"Fujitaka, I'm here, what was it that you wanted to tell me?" She asked, then looked at her husband. His face was all dirtied. She started giggling, and took out a handkerchief out of her pocket, and tried to clean his face.
" I must say I look like a clown with my face dirtied, because Sakura did the same thing" He said laughing.
" A very handsome one I must say" She said laughing " Sakura said you needed me, so here I am." Nadeshiko informed.
" Well we discovered a tunnel down here, it must have been covered by several sand storms. The door's are made of rock and some of the man are trying to brake it open. If we actually discover something grand, imagine, Fujitaka Kinomoto, archeologist has made a huge discovery in the Chihuahuan desert not only did he find pottery jewelry and bones, but an underground cave too." He smiled at his wife happily and she gave him a tight hug.
"Even if you don't find anything, I'll still be proud of you and love you." She said in a loving way, she was about to give him a kiss, when one of the work men called him over.
" Sir, we were able to open the stone door's, would you do us the honor? The man said smiling at Fujitaka.
" Gladly, would you like to come with me Nadeshiko?" He asked his beloved.
" It'll be an honor." She said grabbing onto his arm. Before they went in they took flashlights because of the darkness in be tunnel. They went down the rock stairs and walked a few yard's into the tunnel. " This is amassing, how people back then could make these things with their bare hands." She said in aw.
"Yes it is isn't it." He said still with his smile on. Suddenly the earth started shaking. The wall's where cracking and some parts of the ceiling was coming up, making dust come up and making it hard to see.
" Earth quake!" Nadeshiko yelled.
" We have to get out of here as soon as possible" He said grabbing her by the hand and starting to run toward the exit. They had been walking for about two minutes or more so they where deep in the cave. Fujitaka grabbed Nadeshiko by the waist and started running faster. Then she tripped. "Nadeshiko!" he yelled in a desperate way. He tried to look took for her but there was too much dust in the way.
" Help! Please, someone help meee!" Nadeshiko yelled in despair. Fujitaka suddenly saw a figure under some rock's. Then the roof started collapsing more. "Aahhhh" Nadeshiko yelled.
" I'm coming Nadeshiko! I'm coming!" He finally got to her and started to take off some rock's off of her. Nadeshiko was now all dirtied with scratches and scrapes all over her body, she was also bleeding badly on the side of her stomach. She had her eyes half closed, she was tying to stay conscious.
The earth had stopped shaking by now, but everything was still unstable. When Fujitaka finished taking the rocks off of Nadeshiko, he carried her and started his journey to the exit. Then he paused, the entrance had been blocked by sand and rocks. He laid Nadeshiko down and started to dig his way out. Fifteen of digging and he saw some light.
"Someone help us!" He screamed. Four second's later two men that were semi hurt came rushing to help. They dug up a hole big enough for then to crawl out. Fujitaka carried Nadeshiko bridal stile out of the underground cave, she had fallen unconscious. 'Hold on Nadeshiko please, hold on' the thought. When he got out everything was a disaster… the hole that they had dug up had almost disappeared. Few people where helping other's and trying to help the survivors. Then suddenly he saw a fire near ……where he's car was…..where Touya was. That's when it hit him.
He started running toward where he saw the smoke with Nadeshiko still in his arm's. When he was close enough he saw two figure's laying on the ground unconsciously.
" Touya, Sakura!" he said putting down Nadeshiko on the ground and running toward Touya. He was slightly burned with a few scratches and was still breathing. Fujitaka started shaking Touya " Wake up Touya wake up!" A few second's later Touya opened his eyes.
" What happened?" He asked rubbing his head. He had a mild head ache. He looked at his surroundings and saw that everything was a wreck. Then he remembered an earth quake and then an explosion. Then he remembered :"Sakura!" he said running to her.
Sakura's small body was facing the ground. She was scratched all over and was bleeding on the side of the head.
" Dad Sakura's hurt!" Touya yelled. He carried her over to where his dad had gone to. " Where's mo-" He gasped. He suddenly saw that his father has holding. In his arm's was Nadeshiko unconscious…
Fujitaka looked at Sakura she was- like her mother- unconscious. 'this is all my fault' he thought as some tears where coming out. Touya's voice was in the back ground but he couldn't hear anything ' all my fault' he thought over and over again….
End of flashback
That was sixteen year's ago. Sakura had no memories of her early childhood or her mother. She saw picture's of her and was told that she acted much like her. Her father was devastated when he saw Nadeshiko die in his arm's. He didn't talk to anyone for two month's. He had gone delusional. But he got better with the help of Touya and Sakura, that is when she got better.
Nadeshiko had died thirty minutes after the earth quake had been over. By the time the hospital emergency helicopter's had come by. It was too late.
As they went deeper into the Sahara desert, it kept getting hotter. It was a day like this that everything had happened.
Sakura suddenly spotted something trough her telescope. "Dad, there's something ahead, I think I'm mistaken but, I think I see ……pyramids…" At the sound of this Fujitaka hit the brakes making Sakura fall on the back seat of the jeep. " Dad be careful!" she said rubbing her rear end.
"Sorry sweat heart, are you alright?" He asked in worried.
"Yeah I'm ok da-" Sakura was about to say, but was rudely interrupted by Touya.
"Give me that kaijuu!" Touya shouted, and snatched the telescope from her hand and stood up on the car's seat." Nop, you weren't hallucinating kaijuu." He said all calmly while Sakura was fuming on the background.
"Now, now, calm down Sakura…." Fujitaka said trying to get Sakura to let some heat down.
" Only because you asked me to dad, but Touya…..this isn't over" She said glaring, giving him chill's on his back……Sakura looked really, really scary when she was mad.
"……..The pyramid is just about a mile away at three o clock." He said staring at Sakura from the corner of his eyes…. He knew when she wanted revenge……he had a feeling that she knew that he was the one who had eaten her Sunday last week, and he knew that he had just triggered her trickery, who knew how Sakura was going to get back at him…..last time she did something to get back at him, he ended up in a clown suit in the middle of the mall…….long story…….
They headed toward the pyramid's as soon as they got settled in the car. Fifteen minutes later they got to the pyramid in peace.
" Dad, you where rite about your hunch. You're amazing!" She said leaning over the front seat and giving him a hug by the neck. Touya was beside them sweat drooping.
" Thank you sweetie" Fujitaka said giving her a hug.
"Well, are we just going to sit here and not call the men to help us out!" Touya screamed, getting annoyed.
"Slow down your horses, we need to celebrate for dad's huge discovery! Hurray!" Sakura cheered throwing her hands in the air.
" And you say you're mature ……who would guess you're twenty one?" He said looking out the window with his elbow on the car door and his chin on his hand looking bored.
" Excuse me! Who's the one who's always bugging me and saying really mean thing's to me!" She said while hitting him on the head with the telescope, and giving him a huge bump on the head.
Touya was about to say something when Fujitaka coughed to get their attention.
"We are civilized people here, and you two should be get along by now…. Touya go telephone the people to come immediately, Sakura come with me." He said hading Touya the cell phone, and getting out of the car while Sakura jumped out from the back of the jeep.
" Why do I have to make the call!" He said wining, with an annoyed face.
"Oh, put a sock on it Touya." Sakura said blowing a kiss to him and going with her father to investigate the surrounding's of the pyramid's and see if it had a door, so they could get in.
3 day's later
Three day's had passed since the wonderful discovery. There where about fifty people working and looking around. There was even a few photographers and a news's cast. Some of the workers had already started the interrogation around.
"Wow, dad, this is so cool, you're going to be famous-er!" Sakura said jumping up and down in excitement. Fujitaka laughed at her improper use of language.
Right when Sakura said that the lady from the news cast came over, with a guy that had a camera over his shoulders.
" Hello, I do believe you're Mr. Kinomoto, am I correct?" The news cast lady asked. Fujitaka nodded. "I'm Clare Shine from World Wide news Mr. Kinomoto, may I ask you some questions?" The lady asked once more.
"Gladly" said Fujitaka, he looked sad for some reason. Sakura stared at him for a while, while he was answering some question's for the news cast lady. Then she remembered, this was one of he's biggest discovery's, the second one to be precise. Now she understood why her father looked sad. She knew that he missed her mother-Nadeshiko-terribly. And this only made it worst.
' I have to do something to cheer him u-' She thought, but her thoughts got interrupted when she was a girl that stood out like a flower in the middle of the water. She was standing a far away from the pyramid, like she wanted to catch every edge of it. She had a sun hat that was a soft lilac color, white tank top, camouflage baggie Capri's that had different shades of lilac, and white sandals. She has a dark purple hair. She looked like sophisticated, rich kind of girl. Then she noticed something, She had a camera around her neck, a bag, had a sketch pad and pencil on her hand drawing what was before her.
Sakura impulsively started walking toward the mysterious woman. She looked to be about her age Sakura guessed. When she was about four yard's away from her she just stared at her shocked! She couldn't believe her eyes! It was…it was….
"May I help you?" Asked the girl in front of her… Sakura just opened he mouth to say something but nothing would come out.
'Come on Sakura say it! Say it! Hi I'm Sakura Kinomoto daughter of Fujitaka Kinomoto….Can I have you're autograph! I'm you're biggest fan!…….no….that'll sound stupid…..sigh. " Uuh I……I ……I'm …….UuUuh" Sakura was stuck on her words, she was so nervous! ' Great Sakura now you blew it!' she mentally scowled. Then, the girl in front of her put her sketched pad in her bag and walked toward Sakura until she was one yard away from her.
" Hello, I'm Tomoyo Daidouji, who might you be?" Tomoyo said putting her hand toward Sakura so she would shake it.
A/N Finally I got my 2nd chapter up! Hurray for me! Though I'm not really happy that I only got one review…….people be honest AM I THAT BAD OF A WRITER! Please tell me so I can quit. It makes me really sad that no one review's….
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