The sun crept up over the hills the next morning. Everything was calm, nothing seemed out of the ordinary as the wind whipped through the lushful trees.
Inside the travelers house, some non living entity snapped Syaoran out of his sleep. He quickly scrambled out of bed and stood up to face the window. The sun was hardly peeking up from behind the mountains. He figured it must have been around 6 AM. No one would be up at this time.
He started to get a weird feeling in his gut, like something wasn't right. He quickly ran out of the room. "Some thing's wrong..." Mokona woke up when he heard Syaoran run out of the room and he jumped up to him to see what was wrong. "Syaoran!" He shouted from across the hall. The kid didn't answer him, he just headed for the first place he thought of to look; Fai's room.
When he looked into the door, he saw that Fai was still sleeping soundly and Kurogane was still next to him. He then quickly went to Sakura's room, Mokona following him from behind. "Some thing's wrong..."
When he saw that the door to Sakura's room was open, he felt a pit develop in his stomach. "No.." Sakura always left her door shut, and if it was open...
"She's not here!" He hurriedly ran back to Fai's room and grabbed Kurogane by the shoulders, shaking him roughly. "Kurogane-san! Wake up!" The ninja jerked out of his sleep and looked up. "What?" He asked quickly.
"Sakura's gone." Kurogane stood to his feet and looked down at the kid. "Let's go." He knew if Sakura was gone, something happened, and he knew that they had to find her quick before it was too late.
Kurogane, Syaoran, and Mokona ran out the door and into the warming and foggy air that filled up the morning scenery.
It was hard to see because of the white clouds in their faces, but they did their best to look carefully. When they came to the outskirts, Kurogane smelled it. "Blood." He looked behind him by a few trees. "Over there!" He shouted and pointed in that direction. Syaoran ran the way he was directing.
He looked around the bushed and trees until he saw a puddle of red liquid right below his feet. He slowly looked straight and his body went numb when he saw who the blood belong to.
Kurogane, along with Mokona on his shoulder, walked up behind him and saw why he looked so distressed. Kurogane's eyes widened. Mokona gasped,"Sakura!" He shrieked.
The princess was laying on the red, bloody, grassy ground. Her skin was snow white, and her lips were turning a dark blue.
Syaoran fell to his knees beside her. The blood surrounding her body was seeping into Syaoran's pants, but he didn't notice, his mind was still trying to process that Sakura was dead. The girl that he cared about the most is gone. Tears started to brim his eyes. The first thing that came to his mind was that a demon must have done it, and it must have been the one that had her feather.
"It's not fair..." he stated softly, mainly talking to himself. "She did nothing wrong..." Kurogane looked down at Syaoran. The realization finally hit the kids brain that she was gone forever. He snapped at that second. "She's gone! I couldn't protect her! I don't have a reason to live any more! my whole life was dedicated to protecting her, and now she's gone! It's all my fault!" Tears threatened to spill over and cover his face, but he tried to hold them back.
The ninja growled and grabbed Syaoran by the back of his shirt, picked him up, and turned him around. The kid hardly had enough time to look at him before he felt a hand connect with his face. He jerked his head to the side. His eyes widened with surprise and slowly he brought his face to where he was stuck.
He brought his eyes to look at Kurogane, who was glaring him down like evil himself. "Don't tell me..." he started in a low growl, his voice calm, but irritable. "that you care about no one else besides that girl. Sure, I know she was real important to you...But your life is important to!" Syaoran looked up at him with awe.
"I absolutely can't STAND people who just throw their life away like that, even if they lost some one they love! They never understand that some one else would miss then greatly, and that throwing their life away will just bring more pain! You're just like that worthless mage...Carelessly living your life. Except he just does care if he dies, you just live your life for someone else, when you should be living for YOU! He should know that too..."
Syaoran looked down. "But Fai-san...He..." Kurogane jerked his head up with a "tch" sound.
"Are you going to tell me that you honestly have been just pretending to be Fai's friend all this time? You did mean any of it, and you really just don't care about him? Huh? Answer me!"
Syaoran looked back up at Kurogane, everything he said was sinking into him. He thought about Fai for a few seconds.
"I...I care about him, a lot. I care about him almost- or even as much as Sakura!" Kurogane nodded, he understood what he was saying, and he was pleased with his answer.
"Then fight, for him. He's still alive, and he still needs your help. You need to be there to take care of him and the child he's carrying." Syaoran's eyes widened with confusion. "But, the child is YOURS. YOU are the father, so you should be the one who protects them. You two really should be together. I can tell you both have strong feelings for each other."
Kurogane turned around. "That's where you're wrong. I can't be with some one who I don't love. I don't have feelings for him. Besides...He's going to need you when I get back home." He looked down in though. Sure, it's easy for him to say that he doesn't have feelings for Fai, but why did part of him feel that he was lying about that?
Syaoran didn't speak another word. He couldn't really understand Kurogane. "He needs all the help he can get, kid..."
The auburn haired teen nodded. "Then I will stay strong and fight...For him. Even if it will be hard for me to with the princess gone."
Kurogane turned around and nodded. Yuuko suddenly appeared from Mokona's transmission. She looked down at the sight that she saw. Sakura was stiff on the ground, both Syaoran and Mokona had tears in their eyes, and Syaoran's pants were covered in blood.
"You have failed, child. And now your princess is gone." Syaoran spoke quickly and loudly.
"Please! Tell me, is there any way you can bring her back! I'll give you anything!"
Yuuko shook her head. "I cannot bring back the dead, no one can. But...I will tell you that the man that had been watching you has moved her soul somewhere else before she was killed. I'm not entirely sure why...But if you find her soul, you could possibly retract it back into her body and save her."
Syaoran nodded, then looked down. "I will...I will get her soul back...But, that will have to wait until Fai is strong enough to leave this world. I won't go until then." Kurogane looks down at him with a very shocked expression. Guess his little speech was a success. It's called tough love people, don't cry.
"We will negotiate a price for that when the time come. As for now, I will take Sakura's body and keep it from rotting. That will come with a price later on when you find her soul...IF you find her soul." Sakura's body glowed a bright white and retracted into a small ball, flying into Mokona's mouth and disappearing. Yuuko then disappeared herself.
Syaoran turned towards Kurogane. "Should we tell Fai-san about this? I think he should know."
"Fai is in a fragile state right now. He's ill, and this may push him over the edge, making him physically and mentally unstable."
Syaoran nodded. "I agree. Let's just keep it a secret for now."
Kurogane smirked. "Well well, the innocent kid is finally starting to act more like a man. I suppose we will have to lie."
The kid looked. "Yes. But, I swear, I'm going to kill every demon in this world until I find that feather, and avenge Sakura."
"I'm right with you there, kid." The three of them walked back home, hoping that they can come up with a good enough lie to tell Fai.
Whoop, next chapter we figure out what the gender of the kid is! :P