A/N: Well how did you guys like that last chapter? Hopefully you loved it, I forgot I even had it done (I came back to my fanfictions and saw that I had a chapter done and never posted it up... oops) I am really feeling miserable (sick AGAIN of course) but I'm writing this anyways because this story is becoming more and more fun to write. Which is good for me AND you guys because if I enjoy writing it, you guys will get more updates... yay! Anyways, here's the latest chapter, don't forget to R&R!
Disclaimer: Again, I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor do I own: Li Syaoran, Sakura Kinomoto, Tomoyo Daidouji, Eriol Hiragizawa, Fujitaka Kinomoto, Sakura's mother (whose name in Japanese I can't recall lol), and of course any other family members of the above that are mentioned in the show/manga.
Secrets can be Deadly
By: EilayAdnayVolieay
Chapter Four: Anything but Ordinary
"What do you mean, what am I doing? I'm... look out!" Syaoran pushed Sakura out of the way as the door flew open and water gushed out. 'Water... but why is it water...?' Sakura thought to herself. The door shut, and the water stopped pouring out. It was then that Sakura realized that Syaoran was still on top of her. She squirmed out, and groaned as she realized she must be completely soaked— but there was no water whatsoever...
"Wha.. Where's the water! Sy— Li, a big wave of water just flew out of that room and I'm completely dry... and... so are you!" Sakura exclaimed. Syaoran stood up and offered his hand to help her up, but suddenly remembering that this was the agent she wanted to be removed from KSA, she simply got up on her own.
"I know... I'm not sure exactly why, but that happens to me now whenever I try to open the door. I don't even manage to see nothing anymore, just get soaked... or so I believed originally... with water. Then, like you, I realize that I'm not wet... or even damp. I don't know what it is, and I always thought... Kin— Sakura, you're the only person other then me that can hear this. No one else, not even my mother, or the Elders of my Clan, or my cousin Meiling, can hear it... the Elders believed I was going crazy... they thought... they probably want me dead, maybe that's why they wanted me to stay in China after my people there, like you, discovered that... that I could do things... others couldn't. I... I'll tell you everything I know, but... not by this room. Whatever is in there, I just... don't trust it. If you can hear that sobbing, you'll hear a lot worse soon once we get past this hallway— " No sooner had the words been out of Syaoran's mouth did Sakura hear the loud wailing... the screams, as if the person the screams were coming from was being tortured and tortured beyond reason, beyond human... it was the most terrifying thing that she had ever heard in her life, including the screams of the men she watched be killed before her eyes... sometimes women... and even children. How anything could be worse then that, she did not know. All she knew was it felt more wrong... felt more evil.
Finally, Syaoran stopped and opened a door. Inside... it was more bright, felt more... welcome. Sakura was relieved to leave all of the depressing emotions behind. She wasn't at all sorry, and sat down on a chair in the room. Syaoran sat on the couch by the fireplace, and sighed.
"You already know my name... Syaoran Li. Well, my father was the Leader of the Li Clan... the Clan that is in control of Hong Kong and large parts of China. My father was murdered... and a woman cannot be the leader of the Li Clan. Can a woman have a say in what the leader does? Yes... but a woman cannot actually be the leader. So, my mother was out of the question... my four sisters were out too... that left me. So, I'm the heir of the Li-Clan, the future leader. One day, I'll be forced to marry some stuck-up snooty girl, pretend I care for her, and do my business. What you experienced earlier while you were crying over Hiragizawa, was merely... well... I'm not sure what it is. My mother has never let the elder's know about all of it, other then the obvious reason of why I left Japan— the elder's, of course, being the 'elders' that choose the heir for the Li-Clan, they guide you all through your leadership... well, only my mother ever knew everything I can do. I don't know what it is... not yet, anyways. I guess... well, I guess that finding out what's wrong with me is more important then any mission, but yet I use it sometimes to help me... only in life-threatening situations, anyways. If I have a gun pointed at me and have 0.5 seconds to decide what to do, I'll just transport myself behind whoever was pointing a gun at me and... well, the rest you can imagine. The only thing is... Sakura, whatever I have... you have something like it... somehow, we have something the same. NO ONE other then me has ever heard that crying... it haunts me, follows me wherever I go. I don't know who it is, or what they want... I just know that they won't leave me alone. You may not be able to transport yourself like I can, but... there must be something. I want you to know that if I have a choice of solving the mystery of me, my whole life, and that sobbing woman, I will choose it over anything." Syaoran stressed. Sakura nodded, understanding what he meant.
"And now, Kinomoto," Syaoran replied, reverting back to addressing by surname, "Its your turn to tell me why you seem to want to know about what that man is hiding about your family... its not just curiosity, is it?" Syaoran asked. Sakura shook her head.
"No, Li, its not just curiosity. I think I know what he's hiding about my family... well, not exactly... just... I think I know what its about. You probably heard that my mother disappeared during a mission when I was really little. In fact, its... well, I think that it's the same school that we're going undercover at. And now that man said that he wants Eriol to keep him updated on the progress we make at his school... well, I think he's afraid that we'll find out about my mother. I know to you this probably seems trivial, and you probably don't understand why this man would care... but there's something about this that's just... missing... and I don't know what's going on... well, when I was little, I never knew my parents were spies. I never knew that KSA existed... at all. At that time, I was told that my mother was missing... I was told she was going to a school far away for a story. Later, when I was a little older, my father told me that she went to a school undercover, and that they didn't believe she was dead. The case was closed... she was considered dead. It was just a few years ago that I learned of KSA and finally got to be an agent here. At first, my father didn't want me to be an agent... I remind him so much of my mother, that's what my brother Touya says... and he didn't want to lose her twice. Touya finally convinced him to let me work there, and my dad wanted me to just start at the top... I didn't want that, though. I saw how all these people at KSA worked so hard to get where they were, and I decided I would do what they did. When I first started there, I went snooping around their 'Case Closed' files... my father never knew then, and to this day, unless he kept it to himself, he still doesn't know that I know everything about my mother's case that there is to know. For years, even up to today, I've been researching it, conferencing with retired agents who were involved. Of course, some won't talk... but some do, and it helps me. I have my own file, hidden in a secret place in my room, with all the information typed up, photo copies of the original files, even a little pouch on it with small tapes from when I talked to the retired agents. She disappeared, Li, and nobody even up to today knows why. Its happening again... at the school that we're going to! It's the same one, I know for sure now... the 'story' in the file went like this. My mother, the great agent of her time, was selected to go to this school to find out why the students that went there were quickly disappearing without a trace. She went there... she found out more then she should have, way too much... she was going to report to my father... and... a-and... I don't know where it went from there. She just... was gone. My dad sent out every agent, the best of the best and even the worst of the worst, EVERYONE, out to that school... but no one ever found even a clue to why she was gone. My father... well, he always is touchy when I bring up the subject, and said that he closed the case because he knew that there was no hope... but in the file, it mentioned how he struggled and fought, and had refused to allow them to close the case, even after it was all said and done. He was thrown in jail for a week— I had been told he was on a business trip— until he finally reluctantly agreed to close it. I've picked up from where I left off... and like you, Li, if I have a choice between solving that mystery against even saving my own life, I'll choose the mystery." Sakura got up to leave, but Syaoran grabbed her arm.
"Kinomoto, I'm sorry about what happened to your mother... before you leave, we have to come to an agreement. No matter what, neither of us will get in the others way of solving the main mission we're focussed on... even if it seems trivial, and even at the most important time of the mission your father's got us on... deal?" Syaoran asked. Sakura nodded, and left. She felt bad, for a moment, for her father... But if I solve this, he'll forgive me. And I have a feeling solving mom's mystery and the one dad has me on will all happen at once. They must be connected... Sakura thought to herself.
That night, Sakura was fairly quiet at dinner. Her father wasn't home, but her brother Touya was. Touya told her about how it was going in his department— he was in charge of the missions involving gang members, for starters... and he did a lot of the actual tests on the evidence for fingerprints, some unknown substance found on murder victims... that sort of thing.
"Remember Connie Marshall, that girl who was accused of being a murderer? She was called by all her friends a 'good girl' who wouldn't do anything like that... all the evidence pointed to her, even eye witnesses told us it was her. But it wasn't... the whole department was baffled, but it turns out that when she was younger, her parents, who are scientists, by the way, practised all these experiments... and cloned her. They said that they had been positive that they destroyed the clone, but it turns out they didn't. The parents are in jail, for practising in experiments years ago that the government had forbade them to— thought it was too dangerous, apparently. Of course, before we had proof, we thought this was one final attempt at saving their daughter from life in jail... turned out, they were telling the truth. They begged us to give them a chance to prove it, and we did. It explained the DNA match— it was an exact replica of Connie— and it explained the eye-witnesses. They had seen someone with the exact looks of Connie... it just wasn't her. The parents are looking at just five years in jail... the government, apparently, hasn't received word of it... yet, anyways. What happens from here... we don't know. Of course, you aren't supposed to keep information like this to yourself... but I guess we'll see how that works out. And your day? I heard you finally got your first partner... when are you and your partner supposed to leave, anyways? Oh, and who is she?" Touya added, eating peacefully. Sakura choked on her curry... Oh great, she thought, Touya thinks that my partner is a girl... he is so going to freak when he hears that my partner is the Li Syaoran, supposed legendary martial artist and spy from Hong Kong.
"Oh, uh, Touya... I think that there's something you should know. My partner, well... my partner isn't exactly a girl..." Sakura didn't know how to break it to her brother, she just knew that she had to tell him before he found out some other way. She knew that what she just said sounded a little wrong, but before she had a chance to explain what she had meant, Touya interrupted her.
"Oh, so she used to be a guy? Well, that's a little creepy but that's alright... we live in a modern world, that sort of thing is common now, and— "
"TOUYA! MY PARTNER IS NOT A GIRL, MY PARTNER IS NOT A TRANSSEXUAL, MY PARTNER IS A GUY!" Sakura shouted. The table fell silent. Touya, as expected, started shouting about how men all had their own hidden agenda and that already he didn't trust him. When he asked who it was, Sakura gulped. She really didn't want to tell him.
"Um... Li... Syaoran..." Sakura barely whispered.
"WHAT?"
A/N: Did you guys like that? I know it wasn't worth the wait, but hey, if you liked it, I think I can handle that : ) Please remember to review so that I know if you liked it or hated it. The only flames that are welcome are the ones that are telling me how I can improve this story, otherwise keep it to yourself. Thanks!
