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.Heaven's Gate: Princess.
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Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sakura and the Seal.
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The door opened with a loud bang. Sakura jumped and looked up, panic crossed her feature. She narrowed her eyes as she tried to look at the person standing at the door as the bright light shone behind the person. He grunted as he looked at her and grabbed her by the elbow.
"What are you doing?!" Sakura screamed, panicked.
He answered with a scoff as he dragged her out of her cell. She groaned as she tried to punch off the person. But she had been exhausted and they had fed her nothing other than water and a small piece of hard bread.
"Let go of me!" Sakura shrieked. She kicked off the man's shins and he screamed. His hand let go of her and she hurriedly stood up and ran toward the opposite direction, back toward the cell. She screamed when suddenly a hand grabbed her hair and pulled her down. "No!!!"
"Troublesome little pink rat!" the man grunted. He dragged her but this time he pulled on her hair. She screamed and cried and tears rolled down her eyes at the pain but the man paid no attention to her.
"Why does it have to be so hard, dear Princess?"
The man threw Sakura away and she hit the wall from the impact. She bit her lower lip so she didn't scream in pain. She looked up and saw Hideyoshi Kuno from her blurred teary vision.
"Now, I am starting to wonder about your Keepers and those you protect and love back home," Hideyoshi Kuno sighed. He sat down on his seat and Sakura had just realized that a while back the rough ground had changed into a carpeted wooden floor. As Sakura looked around, she saw that the room was covered by expensive ornaments that her Ministers had.
But of course, Hideyoshi Kuno was one of her Father's Ministers that wanted King's power.
"So," Hideyoshi Kuno looked at her, "how is it going to be? I am really wondering, Princess. How come no one's come to rescue yet?"
"They're not that stupid to fall into your trap, Kuno," Sakura spat.
"Oh," Hideyoshi Kuno looked shocked, "but people do crazy stuffs to save their loved ones. Well, that's what usually happens. But maybe your people, your Keepers, and your Uchiha don't really care about you."
Sakura looked down and shut her eyes tight.
"Well, it really is sad, dear Princess," Hideyoshi Kuno sighed. "If they don't come, then I don't have any use of you anymore. But I would like to see you die slowly and painfully. After being chased off your Kingdom by your Father who think he's so wise and powerful, I would just like to see how he'd react when he sees your rotten corpse…" he frowned and then grinned evilly. "Have your Father not known anything about you being kidnapped? Wow, Sakura-chan, turns out even your own Father cares nothing about you. Maybe secretly they hate you because you are the one who killed your own Mother."
"Shut up!" Sakura screamed. She covered her ears and started sobbing.
"Poor Princess," Hideyoshi Kuno sighed. He turned to the man that dragged her here and snapped his fingers. The man walked toward her and took her by the waist and dragged her away back to her cell.
"Sasuke…" Sakura sobbed. "Help me…"
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"Well," Hideyoshi Kuno opened the door to her cell. She shifted and looked up, too tired as she just woke up and too weak to move from the diet she had to do, "time's up, Princess."
Sakura looked up at him. She was scared, but then… she felt as if she got nothing to lose. Just the disappointment. But she was also proud of her Keepers and her country; even though she did want to be rescued… she was somehow proud they didn't. Maybe because that meant they don't need her anymore… that they can go on by themselves even when their King was off somewhere else…
"I assure you," Hideyoshi Kuno grinned, "it will be as painful as it gets."
Sakura stared at his hands as they went through his drawers. Then, he took out a long white string with Sakura petals decoration stuck on the sides of it.
"What is that?" she asked as her eyes stared fixed on the thing.
"It's a Seal," Hideyoshi Kuno walked toward her and she automatically took steps back.
"Seal?" Sakura frowned.
"Here is how it works," he stretched the Seal and it was now about thirty centimeters long. "Once I stick it on your skin, your skin will automatically absorb it and then only the petals are visible. The string is already making its way toward your heart when the petals disappeared one by one. Then, when the last petal is gone, the string will go around your heart and crush it. Doesn't it sound painful? You'll be feeling the string go all the way to your heart, I don't know how it feels but they assure me it is extremely painful and uncomfortable," he grinned, "and by the way, it is specially made for you. That is why it's Sakura petals, you see."
Sakura stared at the Seal. Horror washed all the color on her face but there was nothing she could do. She was too weak to fight, and nobody would come to rescue her.
"Now, should we have you see the Sakura trees one last time before you go through the extreme torture?" Hideyoshi Kuno smiled.
Sakura looked at him from the Seal. She smiled back forcefully and then nodded.
"Let's go, then," he said. She nodded and walked behind him. She turned her head a little bit and saw the big man who had always drag her from her cell walked behind her.
She smiled with relief and happiness when she saw the blue sky filled with white clouds. Then, she saw the Sakura trees covered the small space of the greenings.
"Enjoying the scenery?" Hideyoshi Kuno asked after a while. Sakura turned to him and nodded. He nodded back at her and took out the Seal. She looked at the Seal and then looked away, she slowly measured how much chakra she had; whether it was enough for her to at least give him and the man one big blow so she would have the time to run. She grinned and nodded to herself knowing it was.
She turned to him and looked at him as he walked nearer. She looked around and saw the big man was standing right behind Hideyoshi Kuno. She held back a smile as she knew one punch would bring both of these guys down.
Hideyoshi Kuno reached out toward her and she hurriedly bent down and grabbed his hand. He gasped and turned to the big man who hurried made a move, he was about to go around Hideyoshi when Sakura hurriedly gathered all of her chakra to her right fist and punched Hideyoshi hard on the stomach. He gasped and got thrown backward and hit the man. Sakura grinned and hurriedly ran toward the forest.
"Troublesome little brat!" he spat as he wheezed and gasped from the punch, turned out her chakra was still not enough that it didn't crush his bones. He turned to the man who stood up with much effort and pointed toward the direction she was running. "Give her a good beating before you bring her back!"
The man nodded and dashed toward her. Sakura looked back and gasped when she saw him got nearer and nearer.
"Dammit!" she cursed. "Still not strong enough!"
The man caught up with her even though she pushed her legs to go faster. He grabbed her by the hair again and was about to hit her body to the ground.
"Not gonna happen!" Sakura yelled. She took out the kunai she had on her kimono sleeve and cut her hair hurriedly. She fell to the ground but she landed quite easily since she wasn't on the impact from the man anymore.
"You've been enough trouble!" the man yelled. He caught her waist and pinned her to the ground, then he started beating her. She screamed and tried to push him away but it was useless. When he felt it was enough, he stopped and carried her back to Hideyoshi Kuno who spat once he saw her.
"That is it!" he yelled. He took out the Seal and walked toward her. "Hold her tight."
Sakura looked at him through blurred, teary vision. She sobbed because of the pain and the feeling of betrayal.
"Sasuke…" she sobbed between the tears and hiccups.
Hideyoshi Kuno walked nearer and nearer with a big grin across his face. Then, suddenly someone threw an explosive kunai right in front of Sakura. They all stared at the kunai for a few seconds.
"Jump away!" Hideyoshi yelled, shocked.
The man jumped away, dragging Sakura with him and they both fell onto the ground when the kunai exploded.
"Ugh!" Hideyoshi coughed. "Who dare…!"
He paused when he saw Naruto stood right in front of him; he stared down at him with cold blue eyes.
"How dare you ruin Sakura's pretty little face!!" he yelled. He punched down and was about to hit Hideyoshi Kuno when the big man suddenly got in the way and he ended up crushing the man's shoulder.
The man screamed and heaved, but he managed to turn to Hideyoshi and told him to run before he fainted on the ground.
"Dude is so weak," Naruto looked at the man, sighing. He turned to Hideyoshi who started running toward Sakura.
"Sakura is going to die!" Hideyoshi screamed. He took out the Seal and ran faster toward her.
The smoke disappeared and he gasped.
Sakura wasn't on the ground like he thought she should be.
She was in the hands of someone he thought he'd never seen again.
Sasuke held Sakura tight, not planning to ever let go.
And she was feeling just right as if nothing had happened, although the pain was clear, but she felt okay…
Because she knew they still cared about her.
Because she knew he still cared about her.
And she closed her eyes,
And she knew nothing could go wrong now.
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It's way better than anything before, right???
Although Sakura is really suffering here… --' hhh, I make her suffer so bad here…
Well, more reviews are appreciated,
Have a great summer guys, my school starts next week on Monday T..T so I might not update for a looong time again.
Eh, sorry I haven't updated for a long time, too before. I'd just moved and it's kinda hard to get to the laptop.
Day-Dreamer Dango.
