~*~Silence Of The Heart~*~
Chapter Five:
It was dark and cold in the air even though it was completely sunny outside. Sakura was running cross the forest in the burning sunlight as fast as her legs could carry. Leaves slapping her face, the rocky path tearing her shoes and emerald eyes filled with tears.
She have to get away. Go anywhere, anywhere but here.
She had spotted her and the rest of Yumi's henchmen coming right towards her. Her breath came to a halt when she came to a dead end. With Yumi behind her trail, she quickly hid among the trees. Embracing herself for dear life as she watched Yumi looking for her, cursing under her breath.
She can't believe she did it, she ran away from home and now she is finally free from Yumi's control. At first she didn't want to leave home, but when she overheard Yumi's plans for her, she had no other choice.
Her heart pounded incredibly in every second as Yumi's footsteps came closer to her hiding spot. Without knowing, Yumi took out a dagger from right out her long sleeves ready to kill.
Yumi held the dagger high up into the sunlight, ready to plunge it to Sakura's heart. Frighthen, Sakura closed her eyes shut.
'Father!, Mother!, Brother! Anybody!' she screamed to herself. 'Please help me!'
Just as she was about to meet her maker, waiting for the pain to come to her, she heard a clash of metal. When she opened her eyes, she spotted a cloaked young man standing between her and the dagger. He skillfully knocked the dagger out of Yumi's hand with his traditional sword, causing Yumi to be knock out.
Sakura took a closer look at the young man. He was tall, handsome and muscular. However, his structure didn't caught her eye but instead the intense look in his amber eyes that shone with sadness, despair, hatred and loneliness.
Larks was chirping by the window, welcoming her to the morning. Sakura woke up slowly after only a few hours of sleep. Her dream had tormented her. She knew escaping from Yumi will be a hard task for her but was dangerous enough to get herself kill by her own family member, even though it was by a cruel woman like Yumi?
However she couldn't stop thinking about that man, the muscular man with messy chestnut locks who had saved her. Sakura knew that she have never met him before but somehow she felt some sort of connection towards him. Even through her innocent eyes, there a kind of sadness about him, causing her to show a very deep concern for him.
Suddenly a sharp rapping sound came from the door that snapped her from her thoughts.
"Sakura!, it's time to wake up now! We lots of chores to do today!"
"Alright." Sakura replied back as she got off from her bed, getting dressed and ready to do today's daily chores.
Sakura couldn't believe that she would have a strange dream like that. Could have been a omen, telling her not to leave home, could have been her in other life or could have been a sign telling her to watch out for Yumi? And what about that man, what does he have to do with her? Was he the one she suppose to meet, the one she suppose to look for or possibly the one who she suppose to help him?
Sakura shook it off. No, it was just a dream, a silly dream base on her mourning for lost of her family. A dream which is most likely not to happen.
Sakura walked outside from her cabin into the kitchen inside the manor. Ready to make the morning meal where she found Tomoyo and Kaho standing on the working table, talking in a very deep conversation.
"I only meant to say that he should have made arrangements with lord Yukito. It's cruel that Sakura should fall under the will of a woman like Yumi. She think that she the head of the household and everything here belongs to her instead of Sakura. Lord Fujitaka was a great man and so well organized but in this case-"
"Your wrong!" Sakura snapped suddenly, causing Tomoyo to turned around. "My father didn't know that Yumi would keep me away from Lord Yukito. But the he is our master and my rightful guardian now, no matter what Yumi says, he will settle my estate. I have only to reach him."
"And how will you reach him when she will not even let you leave the manor?" Kaho asked heatedly.
"I will find a way." said Sakura with confidence.
"If only you had family somewhere." Tomoyo shook her head, sighing from grief.
"You should know there isn't any. Kaho were there when my father was made general of the Japanese Army. My mother only had a few family left in Nihon from her side and broke contact with her when she married my father. My father had been cared under Clow Reed when his parents die from the war. Only Yukito, Clow Reed's son is the only left from my father's family who can be my guardian."
"Yumi has already makes you toil as if you were a mere low life servant. Soon she will beat you like one as well!"
"I think it's already too late for that."
Sakura was quiet at this as she went towards the kitchen table, grabbing the kitchen knife, a bowl and vegetables along her way.
"If you know a way to reach Lord Yukito, then you must do it quickly. Could you send a messenger?" Tomoyo said gravely.
Sakura sighed as she place her things on the table. "Who, Tomoyo? The servants would gladly do as I ask, but they need permission from Yumi to leave the manor. Lord Yukito lives in Clow Country in China and its more than a day's trip from here. How am I possibly get there?"
"But-"
"Be quiet, Tomoyo!" Kaho snapped. "You are upsetting her. Would you have her travel throughout the country alone? Getting herself kill by thieves and criminals?"
Sakura stared dismally into the distance as she went to work, thinking that her vision for the future could not possibly get any worse.
