Anything for you
Disclaimer: I do not own CCS. I wish I did though ): The only thing I own is the plot and Nicki! ):
Author's notes:
First things first. I AM VERY SORRY FOR BEING MISSING FOR SO LONG. *kneels and begs for forgiveness*
School has started since 3 weeks ago and I'm already trying hard not to die with the mountain loads of things I need to finish! I have to complete stupid endless tutorials every weekend and I have about 5 major projects due in the next 2 months ):
One thing to be happy is that I'm very glad the reviews kept coming even though I was dying because of school. Makes me smile every time I open my email and see emails from you people ;D I'll reply some of you guys and get on with the story:
Talia: Glad you liked my story! Yes, sadly there's still a bit of errors even though I edited it, I'll try even harder to correct them (: And yayyyyyyy for cliff hangers! :D I hope everybody else loves them like you do (:
Lhaine07: Hi there~ Yes I hope she realized that she's so loved by everyone too! :D But as the saying says, "Blood's thicker than water." My heart goes out for this poor girl! I feel bad for making her this sad though HAHAHA. Good thing Tomoyo and the rest understand ne? ^^
.K: Yes of course who likes sad endings! Don't worry it'll be a happy ending (:
Birdie: THANK YOU. Drama is always loved everywhere, no? ^^ Nicki will disappear this chapter (: (THANK GOD SHE'S GONE.)
For the rest of you, thanks for continue reading (: I shall start the story already :/
Chapter 9:
*recap*
However, as they went up to the restaurant of the hotel, and they saw Sakura with a mysterious man. Syaoran could not believe what he was seeing, while Nicki was just smirking behind him.
Right in front of them was Sakura. And she was kissing that man passionately.
*End of recap*
Syaoran stopped dead in his tracks with Nicki clinging onto his arm and smirking behind his back. He did not know what to react, and he just stood there looking at the scene before his eyes, baffled. Sakura, his Sakura, was kissing another man right before his eyes. The woman before him was the Sakura who had spent the past few days happily with him and answered to his confession. And yet she was kissing another man. The man was groping at Sakura's body as well as the both of them continued kissing passionately.
Nicki acted as though she was shocked and added oil to fire, "Oh gosh! So this is what her 'errands' meant? I didn't know Sakura was such a person! I can't believe she ditched you for a guy like that person she's kissing right now. What a cheap woman…"
Syaoran then snapped back to reality and sent Nicki a death glare. He said nothing more because he knew it would be a waste of effort talking to Nicki. Instead, he shook off his arm from Nicki's grip and walked up to Sakura and the man. He yanked Sakura away from the man's arms that were touching Sakura is ways that does not seem to have a decent intention.
Sakura let out a gasp while Syaoran asked her grimly, trying to control his rage, "What are you doing?"
Sakura was shaken because this was the first time she saw Syaoran so mad before. If glares could kill, she would probably be dead right now. However, she reminded herself why she was doing it, and regained her composure. "All for the sake of seeing her one more time… You can do this Sakura, it'll only hurt a little…"
She hid her pain behind a cold facade and replied Syaoran, "What do you think? Isn't it obvious enough?" After saying that, she wrapped her arms around the other man's arm and placed her head on his shoulder, while the man placed his hand on Sakura's waist, caressing her sides.
"Why?" Syaoran continued asking, as his blood continued to boil.
"There's no reason to it. I just got sick of you and decided to play around a bit. You didn't expect me to really reciprocate your feelings, did you?" Sakura smirked at Syaoran even though deep down inside, her heart felt like it had just been torn into tiny pieces. Tears started to form in her eyes and there was a lump in her throat preventing her from saying anything more. She bit her lip and held onto the man's arm harder, trying to control her emotions and got herself to say, "Well, I guess I should get going already. I'm busy, you see. I can see that you're busy with Miss Jamieson as well. So, I wish the both of you a wonderful evening. Let's go, Kenji-san." And she left with the man beside her called Kenji, leaving behind Syaoran who just had his heart broken by his new found love. As Sakura left, tears just kept flowing as she felt that she was just smashed by a hammer on her chest, but could not do anything but enter a hotel room with Kenji.
Even after Sakura had disappeared from his sight, Syaoran continued standing there, dumbfounded. His mind was blank, and he did not know what to do or say next, and he had totally forgotten about the presence of Nicki. Nicki, on the other hand, was smirking at how the scene unfolded before her and was very proud that things went the way she wanted them to go. She then went over to Syaoran and acted like she was sad how things turned out and tried to act sympathetic towards Syaoran.
"Oh Syaoran… I feel sad for you! I heard you were so happy that Sakura felt the same way towards you… It's going to be ok. Let's have our dinner first, alright? You'll still have to eat something, don't you?" Nicki said and dragged Syaoran along to the restaurant.
When they reached the restaurant, there was no one except the staff, because Nicki got Sakura to book down the whole restaurant for her. The manager guided the both of them to a table that was right beside a window that showed the whole of Tokyo's night view and signaled the staff to play some romantic music and also serve the courses. Throughout the whole meal, only Nicki was talking and eating, while Syaoran was basically just sitting there and staring at his food, occasionally playing with it. He was not listening to anything Nicki was saying at all, and all that was in his mind that moment was just the scene where Sakura was kissing Kenji. That scene kept replaying in his mind as if on repeat, and it made him lose all appetite. By then, the topic Nicki was talking about was how stupid Sakura is and how she always did according to what she told her to do, even if it was very obvious that she hated doing it. All these got on the nerves on Syaoran and when he finally had enough, he decided that he needed some time alone and stood up abruptly, making Nicki look up at him from her seat, stopping whatever she was doing.
"Syaoran! What's wrong?" Nicki asked, concerned.
"I think I should go home already. You can continue eating if you like." Syaoran said as he started to leave his seat.
Seeing this, Nicki left her seat as well and ran towards Syaoran and stopping him from leaving by grabbing his arm. "Why… Why are you still so smitten with that girl! What's so good about her? Why does everyone like her? Don't you get it? She's a slut! She's messing around with you! I'm the one who truly loves you! Why won't you look at me, Syaoran?" Nicki cried while holding onto the sleeve of Syaoran's jacket.
Something snapped inside Syaoran's mind as he finally realized what happened. He was tricked by Nicki! She made Sakura do all this nonsense! All this was just a show put up by Nicki so that he could give up Sakura and love her instead! He turned around and grabbed Nicki by her shoulders and he started to kiss Nicki hungrily like a beast. He also started to take off her jacket forcefully even though Nicki kept resisting and begged for him to stop but he was just too strong for her. He continued ravishing her as Nicki struggled to get out of his grasp and when she finally pushed him away from her, she gave Syaoran one tight slap out of shock.
"Stop it! Why are you doing this?" Nicki cried hysterically as she tried to pull up her jacket to cover herself.
"Isn't this what you wanted? You wanted me, didn't you? So here I am!" Syaoran replied coldly and started to approach Nicki again.
Nicki started to back away from Syaoran as he approached her, "No… This isn't what I wanted! Syaoran! Stop! Please!"
Syaoran was already right before her by then and he pinned Nicki on the wall, with his hands on both sides of Nicki, making her unable to escape. "Then what do you want from me! Why are you doing this to Sakura, everyone and yourself!"
"I did it because I love you! You're the first person that gave me a smile even though I was acting like a spoilt rich brat! You're the only person who had ever smiled at that didn't do it because you wanted daddy to help you in the business!" Nicki sobbed as she buried her face in her hands so that she could hide her face that was dirtied by smudged mascara and lipstick. She continued, "Daddy was never at home. He was always away at some other country doing business and wherever I went, people just approached me because of daddy! The people who did not care about my status scowled at me. Do you have any idea how it feels? So that's why when you smiled at me…"
When Syaoran heard her story and saw the hurt that was apparent in Nicki's eyes, his heart softened. "But Nicki, you'll have to understand that you can't force anybody to love you. You'll have to be sincere in whatever you say or do to people, only then will people learn to treasure you and be with you no matter what happens. This is why all of us love Sakura so much. She treats us as if we're the whole world to her."
Nicki's legs gave in as she lost all strength to even support herself and she dropped onto the floor with a thud. She just sat there as tears continue to fall. She then said softly, "I'm sorry… I was never loved by anyone before so I didn't know how to love another person… I'm really sorry…"
Syaoran squatted down before her and petted her, "Just don't do this ever again. Now tell me, what else have you done to Sakura?"
Nicki suddenly remembered what she ordered Kenji to do and she gasped. Her eyes widened in fear for what she had done without realizing the consequences. She grabbed Syaoran's sleeve once again, but this time not to stop him from going anywhere, but to tell him to rescue Sakura. "Sakura…! Hurry! Go to room 403! She's in danger! Hurry before it's too late!"
Syaoran bolted out of the restaurant immediately after hearing what Nicki told her. He had to save Sakura from whatever dangers she might be facing right now!
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(Back at where Sakura left Syaoran with Kenji)
After they entered the hotel room number 403, Sakura went to the bathroom immediately and cried her eyes out. She stayed that way for the next half an hour. When she finally got tired of crying and left the bathroom, her eyes were red and puffy from all the crying. She went to sit on the king sized bed in the side and sat on it before turning to Kenji and asked him, "Can I go home now? I'm tired… I believe my mission is accomplished already."
Kenji replied with a stoic face, "No, I believe it is not the case. Miss Jamieson had ordered me to guard you in this room until the next morning."
Sakura then sighed, "… Should have known. Alright, I'll stay here until tomorrow. But could you go fetch me a cup of water?"
Kenji went to the kitchen section of the suite and got Sakura a cup of water. However, unknown to Sakura, Kenji had drugged the water with a type of drug that would make any person weak within one minute and stay that way for the next couple of hours. Sakura gulped down the contents of the glass without suspecting anything, but felt her head spin and felt the strength from her limbs being sucked out of her soon after. She fell onto the bed and as she tried to push herself up, Kenji started taking off his shirt as well. Sakura's eyes widened at this and she said, "You drugged me! How could you! I already agreed to staying here the whole night, didn't I!"
By the time she finished her sentence, Kenji had already started to walk towards her with a naked torso and hovered over her on the bed. "I'm sorry but these are orders by Miss Jamieson." After saying that, Kenji started stripping Sakura despite her pleas for him to stop.
"No…! Syaoran! Save me, anyone! No, Stop! Don't touch me! Syaoran! Go away! No-" Kenji kissed Sakura on the lips forcefully, silencing her as he continued to take off Sakura's clothes. She wanted to shove him away but her neither her arms nor her legs had any strength to do so. All she could do was scream for him to stop and tried to avoid his kisses on her.
Meanwhile, Syaoran was running towards the suite Sakura was in and when he reached the door, he found out that it was locked. He banged on the door and when he stopped for a second when he heard faint pleas of help and resistance from Sakura, and he started knocking himself on the door and using hard objects nearby to break the lock in an attempt to break into the suite. When he finally succeeded in doing so, he rushed into the room only to see Kenji leaving wet kisses down Sakura's neck while she writhe in discomfort, and she was screaming Syaoran's name too.
Syaoran ran up to Kenji and gave him a punch, knocking him out in an instant and quickly went to see how Sakura was doing. Sakura was crying out of relief because for a moment, she thought she was done for.
He caressed Sakura's cheek as he asked, "You're alright, right? Nothing happened to you? It's alright, I'm here now…"
Sakura cried even harder when she felt the warmth from Syaoran hand on her face, and it pained Syaoran to see Sakura in such a state, so he just brought her into a hug and comforted her while whispering soothing words to calm her down. When the crying slowed down, Syaoran let go of Sakura and smiled at her, "I'm so glad you're fine. When I heard from Nicki that you might be in danger, my heart practically skipped a beat! Let's get you out of here before that guy wakes up."
Sakura was too tired to reply, so she just nodded her head lightly and allowed Syaoran to carry her out of the room and the hotel since the drug still took effect.
"You can stay over at my house for tonight if you want to. I don't think you'd want to see Nicki back at your house after all this, right?" Syaoran said as he carried Sakura when they entered the lift. However, there was no response from Sakura and when he looked down at her, he found out that she had already fallen into a deep slumber due to exhaustion. As he placed her inside his car, he smiled at her peaceful sleeping face and wiped away the tear streaks she had and smoothed out her messy hair that was messed up when she was assaulted by that Kenji guy.
When Syaoran reached his mansion, he carried Sakura again to his room and tucked her comfortably in his covers. He was actually amused as to how Sakura could still remain asleep even after him placing her inside his car a couple of times. When he was about to leave the room, he gave Sakura a peck on her forehead and wishing her to have a good night's sleep and have dream of good things. However, just as he was about to leave Sakura to sleep peacefully, he felt a tug on his sleeve. He turned around to see Sakura holding onto his sleeve, refusing to let go at all, and whispering in her sleep, "Don't leave me…" He then smiled sadly at Sakura and climbed onto the bed slowly in order not to wake Sakura, and placed Sakura's head on his shoulder and held her hand tightly before drifting to dreamland himself along with Sakura as well.
The next morning, Sakura woke up to the bright sunlight shining on her face, and she felt a comfortable warmth around her as well. As she creaked open one eye, she realized that she was in a room that she did not recognize, and sprung up from the bed immediately. Only then did she realize that Syaoran was beside her the whole night, accompanying her as she slept while holding her hand throughout the whole process. Her heart swelled with love for the man beside her as she saw the sleeping figure beside her and she tightened the grip on Syaoran's hand without realizing it herself. Syaoran opened his eyes as well, because he was woken up by Sakura's sudden movement and the tightened grip on his hand.
"Oh, gosh! I'm sorry! Did I wake you up?" Sakura apologized immediately.
"It's ok. About time we have to wake up anyway. How about you? Feeling alright? Had a good sleep last night?" Syaoran asked while caressing Sakura's hand lovingly.
Sakura nodded and replied with a small smile, "Yeah, it was the best night ever. It's been years since I could sleep without a nightmare about my past… I have regained my strength too. Thank you, Syaoran. And I'm sorry too, about yesterday's events, and also everything else."
Syaoran shook his head in reply and said, "I know you didn't mean it. I know Nicki told you to do all these. So don't worry about that anymore. I think she'll stop whatever she did already." After saying that, he gave Sakura an assuring smile. "Shall we head down for breakfast? I'll drive you back to your mansion after breakfast for you to continue resting for the weekend."
Sakura just nodded her head enthusiastically and allowed Syaoran to guide her down for breakfast after the both of them had freshened up. After breakfast, Syaoran sent Sakura home just as promised, and gave her a warm hug just before she entered the mansion.
"Sakura, I love you, so much I can't even express it with words." Syaoran said softly beside Sakura's ears.
Sakura hugged Syaoran even more tightly after hearing his words and replied, "Me too."
The both of them shared a sweet kiss together and when they finally separated for air, the both of them looked at each other happily while bidding the other goodbye. When Sakura finally could not see Syaoran and his car, only then did she enter the doors of the mansion and went straight to her room for a shower. When she came out of the shower and changed into a new set of clothes, her butler, Gin, knocked on the door.
"Come in, the door's not locked." Sakura replied while drying her hair at the dresser table.
"Miss Sakura, Miss Jamieson has left you a letter and had left to Paris. She has informed me to tell you that she will not be returning for the time being and she gives you her best wishes." Gin said in a respectful manner.
Sakura turned around to face him immediately, "She left? Did she say why? When did she leave?"
"She left with her belongings early this morning and she did not inform me as to her reasons of leaving. I was only instructed by Miss Jamieson to hand this letter to you, Miss Sakura." Gin said as he passed the letter over to Sakura.
Sakura took over the letter and dismissed Gin, while she started to open up the envelop. The letter read:
Dear Sakura,
First, I would like to apologize for whatever I have done to you and the others. I know I have been more than unpleasant during the time I have been here, and I am truly sorry for that. I will return to Paris so that I would not be a bother to you and your friends anymore. I apologize for whatever hurt that I have caused you to suffer.
However, even though I have caused much discomfort to you and your friends, I have prepared one last present for you. Please head over to the hotel we were in yesterday and go to the room where you were in with Kenji last night. You will see the present that I have prepared for you when you reach the place. Thank you for tolerating with me for the past few weeks, I've learnt a lot during my stay thanks to you and your friends. You know, you're very lucky to have friends who love you this much. You should appreciate it.
Well, I guess it's time for me to leave now. Good bye, Sakura Kinomoto. It has been fun in Japan with you.
Best wishes,
Nicki Jamieson
Sakura sighed after reading the letter, because she recalled how many things had happened in this short period of time when Nicki came. She was forced to be mean to the people she loved, confessed her feelings to Syaoran, lied to him, almost got raped and many more. However, when she remembered that Nicki said that there was a present for her, she could not help but wonder what it may be. She could not help but be curious, "I mean, what present could she possibly give me? It's not like she knows what I like anyway." Sakura thought. However, since she was still quite tired from the events that happened last night, she decided that she would go for a nap before going to see what sort of present Nicki had prepared for her. "It could wait, can it? Not like it's anything of grave importance anyway." Sakura shrugged off the thought and went to bed.
A couple of hours later, she woke up feeling refreshed. She changed out of the clothes that she slept in and slipped into a dark blue one piece dress and strapped on a pair of heels and headed out for the hotel. She went to the front office to ask for the master key so she could open the door for the 'gift', and the staff gladly gave it to her since well, the hotel belonged to her.
When she went up to the room 403, the room she was held captive yesterday, she had a feeling that there was someone inside the room, so out of curiosity and courtesy, she knocked on the door. When there was no response for a few seconds, she thought, "I must still be tired after the whole event…" and decided to open the door with the master key card. Just as she was about the slip the card into the slot where the key was supposed to be, there was a click coming from the lock of the door and the door opened, revealing a woman.
Sakura's eyes widened at the sight of the woman, and the woman covered her mouth in shock as well.
The lady that opened the door was none other than Nadeshiko, Sakura's very own mother.
~.~To be continued~.~
Author's notes:
Yes finally another chapter! DONE! :D
Sorry for the long wait again hees. I wonder when I can have the next chapter up again though ): TOO BUSY TO BE EVEN ALIVE! ):
And yes people, CALL FOR CELEBRATION. NICKI IS OUT OF THE PICTURE! :D
I personally felt that this chapter was a bit… weird though. :/ But I feel bad for MIA-ing for the past 3 weeks so here you go (: Hope you all liked it!
I shall sign off now, since I have lots of school stuff to complete… Please keep the reviews coming ok! Please subscribe more as well! OK so see all of you next time~ Ciao~~~~~
Xoxo, Shining Cookies