Escapee Wolf
A/N: I know she gets captured a lot. But this is the last time. Anyway, it just hit me that it's almost the end of July so I have to finish this. And then I also got writer's block so yah. Please read and review!
Chapter 4: Final Breakout
Light poured through from the entrance as Sakura groaned as she was kicked forcefully. "Ow! I'm up! I'm up! Sheesh, can't give a girl a break can you?" She sat up and began scratching her hair. Squinting from the light she looked left and right to find the thing that kicked her. "Whoever you are, I can't see you. Move more in please." The man crouched down and stuck his face right in front of her.
"See me now?" he said staring. Sakura began backing slowly into a wall. "It seems that your wolf friend isn't here. Isn't it a pleasant surprise to see me?" He smirked and touched her chin. She could feel her blood boiling as he moved his face closer. Flinching visibly, she whispered, "How did you find me?"
Gently his finger traced her neck and he smiled sweetly, "One of my men saw your wolf crawling out of this cave. He was limping, did we do something?" She glared at his sarcasm. His finger moved down and cupped her chin to look at her face closely. "You shouldn't do that. You're face would stay in that expression. You don't want to mar your pretty face do you?"
He liked pretty girls who were shy and willing. But the ones he liked most were the feisty ones, the ones that had fire in their eyes. He loved breaking them so when they came crawling back for forgiveness he could laugh in her face. The pain etched across their face when he burned each and everyone after he was finished with them. How he loved it.
He flipped out his blade and ran the flat side along his tongue. The blade slowly cut into the muscle as he pulled the tip away drawing blood. Reminding himself of the one he had in his grasp, he examined her and licking his lips he leaned down to kiss her. Sensing this she jerked her face out of his grip and the kiss ended up on the cheek. He laughed and just grabbed her arm.
"You're a sadistic man aren't you?" She snarled as he jerked her to the opening of the cave.
Near Wolf Territory
She's not going to be dead, all she is, is going to be pissed that I left her in a tiny cave. I mean who wants to smell a girl who hasn't showered in a week. He grunted a bit as he walked on. The chocolate-brown wolf had some patches of fur missing from his left hind leg and was sporting a broken leg. He walked a limp walk stopping every so often to check behind him. Sighing, Syaoran began walking faster.
He began walking across the meadow when saw a girl with black pigtails streaming after her running at full speed. "Syaoran! You're back!" She practically tackled him and hugged his neck. "We all thought you died!" She said affectionately as she scratched behind his ears.
"Yah well I'm not dead am I? I'd be pretty pathetic if I let myself be killed by anything other than one of my kind." He muttered giving her a half-hearted glare before pushing her away. He turned his tail on her and began his crippled walk. "Hey come back!"
Reaching his village, he was immediately the center of attention as always. It made him feel happy that no one had forgotten him and had called out search parties to try and find him, but at the same time, he was equally annoyed how he always was the center of attention. He was bombarded with questions that he didn't really care about, and with a flick of his tail, he turned around and began walking towards the village healer's hut.
The healer was the only one that wasn't even part wolf. She was human and had traveled to get away from the polluted cities. She was old as she was wise was a horrible gossip. At any kind of rumor, she would jump on it eagerly and soon spread it within seconds of hearing the story. He remembered his father saying something that old wrinkly women had no lives and do nothing but gossip 24/7.
"So you were kidnapped by poachers? Oh my. Well, I heard that somewhere around the human/wolf boarders a couple of men kidnapped this girl. It's lucky that you got released. Makes me wish I was young again. Sigh…"
He looked up sharply. "Did you say kidnapped? What did this girl look like?" He said gripping her shoulders. "Oh well, I don't know. I overheard someone saying it was this green-eyed girl, brunette I think, had a nice figure and short cropped hair. These little pieces of hair…"
She said gesturing about what the girl looked like doing an hourglass figure. Then the healer's hands flew all over the place occasionally whacking the lamp's cover. "And then they said she was this high and had clothes that looked like they've never been washed…"
His eyes widened and he started to run. "Wait son! You're still injured! No running! And you forgot your medicine!" cried the old lady shaking her fist at his idiotic three-legged running. "The things I do for the village…" she sighed. Then she hobbled over to grab the medicine powder on the table to go after him.
I swear, that girl is going to be the death of me! Damn, I knew I shouldn't have left her in that cave. Once I get my hands on her, she is going down. He thought. He didn't know why he just ran. His body had a mind of its own. Once he heard the description obaa-san said he immediately knew it was her. Who else had hair that looked like that? The girl had the weirdest style he had even seen.
He didn't know why he was going back to "rescue" her. She was clumsy, loud, annoying, and stupid all at the same time. And the thing that bothered him the most was that he didn't even know her name.
Somewhere in Syaoran's dust
"Wait you baka saru (monkey)." The old healer stopped and rested her hands on her knees. She gulped in deep breaths as she pushed her white hair out of her eyes. Then she stood up and leaned back enough to crack her back. She rubbed her back and lifted a hand to block out the sun. Sighing, she turned back to the direction of her hut and started mumbling. "The things I do. I really wish I was young now. I'm getting too old for this. Good exercise though."
He began sniffing the trees around the cave and looking around for clues that might give away the place the poachers took her. Catching sight of what he thought was part of her clothes, he gently pushed the cloth over only to reveal a skunk with a scared expression. He wrinkled his nose and turned slightly. "Bleh! You are one stinky skunk!"
The furry little animal's eyes flashed in anger at the insult and quickly lifted its hind leg. Syaoran began backing up. "Hey! Oh come on! No please! Don't spray me!" Then it sprayed. "Ah! Stinky liquid stuff!" He pawed at his face in an attempt to wipe off the sprayed liquid. It just started laughing at him a bit.
He stopped pawing and glared. Shoving his right paw in front of the skunk's face, he growled, "If you're not going to help me, by telling me how to get this awful smell out, at least help me in finding a person." Then he grabbed the skunk by the neck with both his front paws and slammed it against a tree. "Now tell me what you know and you won't end up being a skinned, medium rare steak that I'm going to eat for dinner. Because you know, I like my meat to bleed a little." Then he ginned a toothy grin and it just squeaked.
Syaoran now in human form was dragging a half dead skunk on a piece of bark shaped as a leash to the direction of the said dungeon. He jerked the leash a bit. "This it?" It nodded its head terrified. Giving it one last look, he pressed his face against opening of Sakura's cell and tried to peer inside. "Hey, anyone down there." He whispered as softly as possible.
Inside Sakura tried to move towards the little air hole despite her restrictions. "Yah. Are you that stupid wolf?" she hissed out. She was still angry that he practically ditched her in a cave. While she was being kidnapped and groped by this ugly man, he was free and happy. "Shut up. It's you own fault for being captured!" He growled back.
"Says the ditcher!" She said pulling roughly on the chains. She wanted to punch him so badly. He was the one who left her to be kidnapped right after waking up even after she saved him. Right now she hated everything in this tiny cell from the chains that connected to the wall to the stale molded bread they gave her as her dinner. Stale bread, especially one that was molded, is not food! She'd rather starve to death than eat something that could potentially make her die. That's what they wanted anyway. They would get a hefty price for just her head. It didn't matter if she was dead. They got better paid if she was alive though because they could torture her.
His eyes grew into slits. "Look you ungrateful bitch! I'm trying to get you out, so shut up and be submissive!"
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Then the guard slid open the eye slot, peered in, and banged on the door. "Shut up in there! I don't allow prisoners to talk to themselves! But since you're such a pretty girl I'll let you off this time!"
Outside Syaoran snapped his head towards the skunk and told it to start opening the bars. It eeped and hurried towards the bar to try and peel of the bars. "Got a skunk to do your dirty work?" Sakura sneered. Despite the fact that his blood began to boil, he ignored the comment. He transformed back into his wolf form and stood next to it. Then he bit one of the bars and began tugging. Finally they successfully ripped the bars out and he whispered, "Can you crawl out?"
"Of course not!" she hissed back, "I'm chained stupid! Bad guys don't let their captives be unchained! I asked them why they chained me and they said it was rule number 17 or something. It's so stupid. They even have a hand book on being evil." Syaoran, who found this hilarious, snorted and returned to human form. He then threatened the skunk into picking the locks.
Two hours had passed since he first arrived and finally Sakura was halfway through the tight opening. He gave one last pull and she was out. "Thanks my knight in shining armor. How do you always end up with clothes after becoming magically "human"?" She said sarcastically doing the quotation fingers.
"It's a clan secret."
"Do you have a plan after this?"
He puffed out his chest. "Of course I do…" Haha… not. Then he looked away embarrassed and gestured for the skunk and Sakura to follow.
"You know, you smell." She whispered plugging her nose as they snuck out quietly. "Yah I know." He glared at the skunk who looked away innocently.
"Sir! I don't know how she escaped! She was chained to the wall!" the guard said cowering. "I don't care! Find her!" Mitch roared.
