Hey guys! Sorry for the short last chapter I just didn't want to reveal too much!

So Enjoy~

Disclaimer: sigh ccs and fire tripper isn't mine…

*PS* please go back to chapter 1 because I changed some things and you'll understand the story ok?*

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Chapter 2: The Meeting

Sakura woke up slowly and had a pounding, irritating headache. She was trying to remember what just happened.

'Oh, the gas explosion,' she thought.

She clutched her head in pain, and slowly opened her eyes to look around her environment. She gasped at all the dead bodies around her. Burnt flags were everywhere, and men in armor were lifeless around her.

"What happened?" Sakura wondered.

She saw one man next her lying done next her. She crawled near him and poked his head and no movement. She poked him again,

"Um, excuse me, sir?" just then she realized he wasn't moving because he was dead.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Sakura screeched, and scooted away from the lifeless corpse. She looked around some more and saw arrows extruding out of their chests, blood was everywhere.

"Why? There was an explosion, but these people,….these people died from something else!" Sakura inquired. "Where am I?"

Sakura heard footsteps behind her and she turned around, and saw three ugly looking men, who had lust in their eyes.

"A girl!" the first one said.

"She's pretty," the second one said. They started walking towards her, and Sakura did the first thing that popped in her mind, run for your life! Sakura stumbled up andsprinted anywhere that was away from those men. She was running faster than them at first, but one of the men caught up with her, and she was about to get caught but, she turned another way and ran and hopped over dead bodies and rocks. Just when she thought she lost them she tripped over a dead body and fell on the ground. The three men sprang after her and one of them grabbed her leg while one grabbed her arm. They started to lift her skirt, when she struggling as hard she could; she pushed a man face away with her hand.

"Somebody help me!" Sakura screeched, the man who was holding her arm, slapped her hard on the face, Sakura stopped yelling. But all of a sudden a sword went through the man's chest, and some blood went on her shirt. She started to freeze, The man holding the sword slit the second man's throat, and then stabbed the third man through the neck. He turned to look at her and slowly took his sword out. His sword was covered with blood, he had amber eyes, and messy auburn hair, and he was wearing some armor that had bell attached to one of its straps, his clothes underneath. He put his sword back in its sheath and smirked at her. Sakura just stared at him and was shaking with fear. He bent down and roughly grabbed her wrist, Sakura stared at him and began to scream.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Sakura screamed. The crows nesting in the trees began to fly away because her scream was so loud. The amber-eyesd boy confused, just stared at her while she was struggling to get out his grasp.

"Stop!" Sakura screamed. She put a hand on his face and roughly started to push him away.

"Don't kill me!" Sakura yelled, he grabbed both of her wrist and said,

"What's wrong with you? I just saved you!" He yelled. She didn't listen and just began to scream and struggle more.

"Danmmit!" he growled and roughly threw her on the ground.

"Hey! Xiao Lang!" his friends said as they walked over. The others began to check around the area and one his friends came over to Sakura.

Who's that?" a man called Eriol said. He was looking her over, while Sakura stared at him in terror, he crouched down to her level, and to get a better look at her. Sakura saw that he had midnight blue eyes, and sapphire eyes. (A.N: I didn't think they would have glasses back then so I didn't add them, kay?) He looked down at her school uniform and said,

"What a strange kimono," he said while lifting her skirt. Sakura flushed and slapped him hard on the cheek. Realizing she just slapped him, he said

"You bitch!" he growled as he grabbed his sheath of his sword, and Sakura crouched on the ground and screamed.

"Stop it!" Xiao Lang yelled. Eriol obeyed and just glared at Sakura.

"Xiao Lang, these are Akauma's men!" one man called Takashi inquired.

"Yeah?" Xiao Lang said.

"Do you think they'll come for revenge?" Takashi wondered.

"Listen, stupid! Weaklings starve around here," Xiao Lang said.

"Hey, Xiao Lang, there's a cart over there," one of the men named Jin said, as he pointed to the cart.

"Great, it'll help us carry the salvage," Xiao Lang said.

"Okay," Jin said as he began to pick arrows and swords to bring back to the village. Xiao Lang looked at Sakura, as she said nothing this entire time.

"Are you just going to sit there? Come on," Xiao Lang roughly said, as he grasped her wrist and roughly pulled her up.

"Hey, Xiao Lang," Takashi began.

"You're taking her along?" Jin asked.

"Sure, I found her didn't I?" Xiao Lang said, as he pulled Sakura closer to his chest, Sakura wasn't sure to be relieved or terrified, but she was a little embarrassed to be this close to him.

As dusk began to come, the three men were pushing the cart back to the village, while Xiao Lang and Sakura sat on top of the cart leaning on barrels of rice.

"This is great! Look at all this rice!" Takashi said while he was pulling the cart in the front.

"Yeah, they must have raided another village," Xiao Lang said.

"Those bastards! Our lives mean nothing to them," Xiao Lang growled. Sakura was crawled up, while leaning on the rice and asked,

"Where am I," Sakura quietly asked.

"Huh?" Xiao Lang said.

"Where am I?" Sakura said more loudly.

"On a wagon," Xiao Lang said like it was the dumbest question on earth. Sakura sighed and looked away from him,

"What time is this," Sakura softly said.

"Don't be stupid! It's obviously dusk," Xiao Lang said, as he pointed to the sky.

"Be serious!" Sakura yelled, as she turned her head to him.

"I am!" Xiao Lang said confused.

"Let me off. I have to get back," Sakura said as she was starting to get off. The wagon get caught on a rock and jumped forward, Sakura lost her balance and began to fall. Xiao Lang caught her wrist and brought her close to his chest and said.

"Be careful, you idiot!" Xiao Lang yelled. The men pushed harder and get over the rock, and began to push the cart again. He had an arm around her and was tightly holding her to him. Sakura was blushing but, she saw the bell tied to one of his straps of is armor.

"A bell…," Sakura thought, as she was getting closer to the village..

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