Yellow Roses
By: Kikyo1027
Toshiro woke up in a daze. He could barely see three feet in front of him. He tried to stand up, but immediately fell flat on his face. He look at his ankle and saw that there was a chain tied to a post. He tried to remember how he got here, wherever here was. The he remembered…
He was a thief.
The door opened. Toshiro heard some mice scuttle by him, frightened by the sound. He looked up in front of him to see two hefty ( and I mean hefty ) guards standing in front of him.
" So, your finally awake, pretty boy?" One of them asked, with a whip in his hand. Toshiro looked at him with his aqua colored eye, refusing to answer.
" He asked you a question!" The other one said delivering a swift kick to Toshiro's ribs. He heard a loud crack, and instantly felt pain. The two guards just laughed.
" Are you going to answer me now, pretty boy?" The guard repeated.
Toshiro didn't even bother to look at him this time. The guard lifted the whip and swung it down straight on Toshiro's back. He didn't even cry out in pain, even though he wanted to. The guard kept doing it. Eventually, Toshiro's vision started to fade in and out. And then pretty soon, it was gone completely.
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" Wake up, pretty boy!"
Whack!
Toshiro looked up, and saw a few more figures standing before him. When his vision finally came back completely, he noticed that it was a man in a woman, both standing in golden kimono's.
" Well, sorry it took us so long to grace you with our presence." The man said. " But my mother always said it was better late than never." He smirked at Toshiro. The guard gave Toshiro another whipping. The crack of the whip made the woman flinch.
" I believe we all know why your in her don't we? Do you know what usually happens to people that steal from the palace?"
Toshiro tried to speak, but his throat was dry. Instead, he coughed up blood on the floor…and received another whipping.
" Well, what usually happens is that the thief is killed. But, since you look like such a hard worker, we're going to make you a servant. Wouldn't you like that?"
Toshiro tried again to speak, but just made a grunting noise. The guard whipped him again, this time sending a strip of skin flying off Toshiro's back. This time he did shout.
" Chen, what have you done?!" The woman ran to Toshiro, with a cloth. Chen just laughed.
" Momo, you shouldn't care so much about weak, they only bring you down."
He motioned for the two guards to join him and walked out of the room. Momo put the cloth on Toshiro's cut, causing him to wince.
" Sorry. He's usually, not this cruel. He's just having a bad day."
Toshiro was going to speak, but then stopped. If he learned anything so far, it was that talking usually did not help in situations like these, and that sometimes silence was the best answer….
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AN-Well, I finally got a chance to update ( sorry I haven't been doing that as much ). The title is called Yellow Roses because in the old days, yellow roses symbolized jealousy. You know what that means….-Kikyo1027 p.s Don't ask me how Momo got the cloth…