Y5603

Disclaimer: I don't own CCS or any of the characters. All rightfully belong to the workers of CLAMP

Summary: Sakura now depends her life upon the cyber world. After losing her entire family to the virus attacks upon Japan, she is now cold and distant from others. She spends her life working in the cyber world but despises all the people around her. Now everything is impossible to fix and change for it's now...year...5603...SS and ET and MOC

'...' Thoughts

"..." Out loud

(A/N:...) My thoughts

Flashbacks and End of Flashbacks

AnimeObsessionFantasy  Thanks for the review for the last chapter! Well...it'll be explained in maybe this chapter or next chapter!

heheangel kisses Well for the question you asked about when I wrote "they have awakened the very existence we all fear...the danger and hell...of the...virus..." You'll just have to keep reading to find out! :P I'll b updating! Heh...the pillars...I added in for the fun of it and! Sakura is the most powerful magician!!! :P

Kireiryuu Hi again! Thanks for another review! I was sorta bored so I put in something that might, err...let's say... 'liven things up a bit'! I'll keep working on it!

Nosie Thanks for the review! I'm glad you liked it! Well as for your question...read AnimeObsessionFantasy's review! You both asked the same question! Plus you answered the question concerning the elders by yourself already! Hope this chapter'll do!

Cyberneko (for chapter 4) Thanks for the review Neko! I would write a humor fic like you told me but im not good at humor! Gomen! Thanks for the compliment though!

HIIIIIIIIII Thanks! I noticed after you told me that my descriptions were 'incredibly' long!  glad you liked the ending of the last chapter! You don't really have to draw a picture whenever you find a part!!! It's not my fault you like drawing what I write!!! TTTT...I'll keep working! Trust me!

Rinka-chan Hey! You are right, I missed your reviews!!! :'( I'm glad your com isn't acting 'weird' anymore!!! Glad you found last chapter funny!!!

I'm sorry if last chapter was a bit confusing when Sakura seemed to dislike Yelan and the elders! All will be explained soon enough! I'm glad most of you ppl liked the part about the pillars! I must admit! I added those in for fun and to light up the story a bit! It'd get boring if all Sakura did was cry and be emotionless so far! Well...if you're confused about why the pillars are in the story...just read my next few chapters! It should be there somewhere!

Chapter 9: Why

A room, darkened to the sheer blackness of absolutely nothing, two were in the room, one leaning upon the wall looking with utterly no feeling towards the other as the other sat upon a grand finely made chair staring at the other. Eyes concentrated as both looked at each other almost as if seeing through the darkness of the lightless room.

Fed up with the silence that rung in the heavy mutual feeling in the room she stood straight, back off the wall as she turned to face the elderly woman in the chair that stared at her with seriousness clear in her sapphire eyes.

"What do you want Li?" Venom seemed to drip off the last word of her sentence, the anger fully hinted within the surname that came from her mouth. She could not hold back a glare from her pale face as her emerald orbs stared angrily towards the elderly Li woman.

"A mere talk with you." A smooth female voice replied sliding through the darkness as if on ice. Silence came after the reply as the two stared at each other with the dominant emotion coursing through their bodies at this time.

"If it is a mere talk...where is your ceaseless useless chatter to me? You are the one who had asked...no...ORDERED your son to come and fetch me to chat with you and the 'elders' of your clan. So speak before I leave this worthless place and never return." She spoke loudly, her voice ringing and hanging within the room and darkness.

Silence was heard again as the younger seeming female stood there calmly yet emerald eyes and facial features which usually are impassive seethed with anger. Visibly older looking female sat in her chair staring indifferently at the younger one as her sentence rung in the air and her mind as she stared at the girl.

"Do you know of the reasons as to why we have called you here to speak?" Her voice rung in the darkness as both looked upon each other.

"How can I if I never knew fully of your intentions? I already know of you wanting me to join your pathetic excuse of a leading clan. My answer is already a No, I will be of no other clan either than my own." Came the angered reply of her question. Although she could not see the younger's face she already knew of the emotions of which must display upon her facial features...anger.

"True as how we wished you were to come aid our clan with your technological knowledge...yet...there is more to that."

"Tell that to someone who cares and doesn't know already." Emerald eyes glared at the aura before her, hinting off to where the woman sat. "What are your other intentions with me? Speak."

"The intentions of which the elders and I hold for you are those you most have already answered on your own. We wished you to join our clan and save us and the world from a fall due to the virus that has come from your own age of time...still...you have already answered 'no'. I will not ask you to join us any further yet be sure to let this come to your knowledge...the persistency of the clan elders fails none, they will constantly be hindering your thoughts with their questions already though...proven futile. They will stop at nothing until they have gained what they wish for...in other words...you."

"Any other intentions I should know of Li?" Came a cold angered question directed towards her.

An exhausted sigh was heard throughout the darkness coming from the older woman's mouth. "We still...need you to train Xiao Lang into a warrior fit for the fight of the disease as well as the destruction of this virus." Yelan replied with calmness surrounding her voice.

"In some of your own words Li, be sure to let this come to your knowledge...that I will not do so." Replied the girl.

"What?! But we need you to do so! You have beaten our best warrior...my son...in a matter of minutes! It proves that he needs more training and we wish of you to be his trainer!" Calmness shattered now, Yelan's almost frantic tone came into the darkness.

Hearing this from the visibly older woman made her smirk a cold smirk as she stared at the Li before her with hatred. "You know...this is why I hate people such as you Lis. You treat your own offsprings as meaningless tools and objects that will come to your aid when you need it. It proves you are a pathetic use of a clan who says they are one of the best clans with magic in your veins. Li...be sure for yourself to know that I will not do your bidding nor will I listen to your pleas. I will not help one who treats their own child as a meaningless tool and object. That is what makes you Lis...distasteful and pathetic. A useless clan is what you are..." Venom dripped from her tone as superiority sounded through. Calmness once again in her tone as a barely emotionless façade sealed over her face.

"It is my time to leave seeing as how you, Li, are angered. I will not face your patheticness of which you call your wrath. I will take my leave now Li. I shall let you know though...the virus cannot be defeated by a mere warrior who has trained in both magic and physical arts, the virus can never be defeated if the place of its origin cannot defeat it either. I will do this task alone as I have sworn it to both myself and my clan, your son nor his relatives will be of any use to me nor yourselves. Be sure to know that as a fact before you go pleading another." With that said the girl walked of towards the sliding door, automatically sliding open, hazy blue light filled the room, highlighting the shocked expression upon the Li that sat in her chair within the room filled with books.

Back turned towards her, she watched as the girl left and the doors slid closed, darkness once again within the room as it replaced the disturbance earlier. Her face shattered its shocked expression and turned down in guilt and self hatred.

"Yelan." An elderly voice rung out from behind her.

"Elders..." She spoke acknowledging their presences as she sat upon her chair looking defeated at her own lap where her hands lay limp.

"You have failed to bring the girl into our clan and let her shatter your composure. You are now a pathetic and worthless use in our clan as how she had stated before. You are resigned from the task you were given as now your son...will take your place as the Li clan head from this point on. Go and leave our presences while you wallow in self pity."

Standing up slowly from her position, head bowed down she bowed once towards the elders that stood in the darkness before her, she turned herself to leave as her head hung down in defeat as her long ebony black hair fell limply to her sides.

"Please call your son towards us tomorrow evening." The elders spoke to her before she left the room and entered the hazy blue hallway outside.

"Yes elders." With that, she bowed once more and left the room and entered the lit hallway as she faintly noticed the sliding doors slide shut behind her.

Within the dark room where the lady had just left, the elders looked at each other within the darkness.

"Now...the pathetic Li Yelan has fallen from her place as the head...we will assign Xiao Lang into the next head of the clan. If he too fails his task, who shall be the one next to take his place?" One elder asked the other four beside him.

"He will not fail. If he does...he will be disowned and killed by the virus soon enough. He will make that Cherry Ice girl into one of our pawns and take her as his wife. We will use her skills to take down this virus and make this clan a more better one than before..." One said as he stood in the center of the five, the elders on both sides shook their heads in agreement as their laughter rung out into the darkness of the room.

Xiao Lang and co.

Sitting upon an elevated platform that was placed in the center of the dim room, Syaoran sat thinking about what might be exchanged between the two girls that had left earlier to chat in his mother's study. He had a feeling...something would go wrong, yet he couldn't place the point of his thoughts to it.

One boy leaned against the wooden wall that boarded the whole room on each of it's sides, weapons hung of traditional old Chinese weapons all upon the wall parallel to him. Glancing at the next heir of the Li clan who sat upon the elevated platform used as a sparring ground for the Li clan, he was most likely pondering his own thoughts currently. Leaning against the wall with her back against it beside him upon the also wooden ground sat the girl with long dark hair falling in waves to her waist. She sat across from the also thinking Chinese girl with her raven hair in two odangos.

None shattered the silence that rung between them in the dim sparring room they sat within, each pondering upon their thoughts that hung within their minds. Thoughts of all mainly sat upon the two women who were now talking over particular matters within a study not too far away from their location.

A knock resounded upon the metal door that was locked a little ways away from Eriol onto his right side, everyone's thoughts shattered as they all looked at each other, their attention then facing the door that was being knocked on loudly from the outside. A distinct voice could be heard outside, both commanding yet feminine. Only two voices could sound like that...those would be the two that were chatting...could it be that they have finished?

"Move aside Hikaru." Emotionless and cold with the commanding tone, this verified whose voice and whom it belonged to was outside.

"Okay..." A reluctant voice of the android was heard. A surge of magical aura flared up slightly as the door's female voice rung out into the air of both outside and inside.

"Door unlocked." As the door slid open, the people within were shown the sight of the young looking emotionless girl standing there with a single pink card within her grasp. A blonde blue eyed android stood to her right behind her, halfway in sight as he stood halfway facing the door looking at the people within. To her left side behind her stood the Altachian alien whom was her friend.

Slight shuffle of cloth told the ones within the room that the girl had put away her card and was walking into the room as the click of her black leather heels were heard against the floor, echoing louder as only silence was left.

Her footsteps dulled and deepened in tone as she stepped upon the plank floor-boarded ground beneath her feet. Emerald eyes took in turn the sight and eyes of each person within, her eyes then landing upon the chestnut haired male sitting upon what looked like a sparring platform. Her eyes then began to roam and scan around the wooden room filled with ancient traditional Chinese weaponry. Off to the far left wall a single framed picture hung, a young looking man stood smiling.

"Clow Reed?" She asked arching one of her delicate eyebrows. She eyed the group of four before her looking for any answers as to why his picture was placed in this room of the entire mansion.

"You know who he is?" Meilin asked surprisingly.

"Of course I know who Clow Reed is...I own the cards and changed them all to my own, and here you are asking me if I know who he is?" She asked with a slight frown to her face as she looked incredulously at the four, her attention mainly fixed upon the raven-haired girl with crimson eyes that was the shade of blood itself.

"No...I mean...you've seen him before? He died many centuries ago..." Meilin answered.

"I have chatted and have been face to face with him many of times while I was capturing the cards. I met with him once when I had passed the final test held by Yue, moon guardian of the cards, to become to the new mistress of the cards." She replied to the girl. Her eyes yet again then began to scan over the room that she stood within. As nothing else within the room interested her she reverted her emerald eyes back to the group that sat before her scattered amongst the room.

"So why exactly are you sitting doing nothing when your okaa-san and your elders require you to train more, Xiao Lang?" She asked out loud, the question reaching the ears of the chestnut haired boy, breaking him from his thoughts.

"I'm required to train more? I didn't know that." Syaoran replied simply as he stared at the auburn haired girl.

"I was told of this from my chat with your okaa-san. They have asked me to train you." She replied emotionlessly as she stared at him without any hint of emotions.

"WHAT?! WHY?!?" Syaoran exclaimed loudly as he stood up from his seated position to glare at the girl who told him the news. He fumed angrily as he thought over the idea of him being trained by this emotionless technological brat that could only rely upon the help of the cards in battle.

"No need to worry or get in a huff Xiao Lang. I have replied no. I see no point in training one such as you even if you are the Li clan head." She answered cocking her head slightly to the right as she stared at him with her usual look.

"Li clan HEAD?!?!?" The four relatives cried out in surprise or shock as they looked at the girl as if she was an intruder to their domain.

"Yes. Your mother has been resigned from her position by those you call elders. She is now under you and the same level as you three. You, Xiao Lang, are now the Li clan head. You will be forced to train harder so that you can succeed over me as how those pathetic elders hope." She replied nonchalantly as she merely took few steps into the room towards the four before stopping to face them directly as the two behind her simply stood at the door, watching the turn of events with curious eyes.

"What...how...why..." Many questions jumbled out from the now Li clan head's mouth as he stared at his hands in defeat. He lifted his hung over head to glare fully with his intense amber eyes at the young girl who stood staring nonchalantly at him. "You...it is your fault. Why the screw did you have to talk with my mother? You were the one who forced my mother to resign! Why the screw did you have to be the card mistress? You beat me in battle and now I'm forced to surpass you? Screw this! All this began when YOU came!! It's YOUR FAULT!!" Syaoran screamed at the girl.

She stared at him as if he was another being, her eyes changed from her usual unemotional look to let out a dark glare, a glare she had used upon the raven-haired Li clan female. "You say it is my fault...Xiao Lang. You brought this upon yourself. You were the one to bring me here and insist that I do, you were the one who made me talk with your okaa-san, I being card mistress has nothing to do with this! IF I beat you in battle it means you are only weak compared to me, you aren't even forced to surpass me, you are assuming Xiao Lang! You pathetic fool! Can you not see it is YOURSELF at fault here?!" She spat out coldly as she stared at the chestnut haired boy.

Syaoran sat in utter shock as he came to the realization of her actions and his. The usually unemotional girl was correct...he was the one at fault at this point. His amber eyes fell to look at his coarse hands as he stared at them as if he had done everything that caused him such pain.

The room instantly fell silent as everyone wallowed into their own thoughts. No being shattered the deep heavy silence that hung within the ill lit room they were within, few glanced at each other from time to time as few simply stared at themselves.

The silent clicking of her heels were heard as she walked through the dark hallway, her long ebony black hair hanging out sprawled amongst her hunched form. Her usual face changed to one of solemn as her face changed to a pale tone. She knew she was heading towards the sparring room of which she had built essentially for her son to tell him of the news. As she stopped right at the door, she heard the argument within the room between her son and the girl...Cherry.

"You...it is your fault. Why the screw did you have to talk with my mother? You were the one who forced my mother to resign! Why the screw did you have to be the card mistress? You beat me in battle and now I'm forced to surpass you? Screw this! All this began when YOU came!! It's YOUR FAULT!!" She heard her son scream.

Silence rung for a while as soon the voice of the girl came out into the silence of both room and hallway, "You say it is my fault...Xiao Lang. You brought this upon yourself. You were the one to bring me here and insist that I do, you were the one who made me talk with your okaa-san, I being card mistress has nothing to do with this! IF I beat you in battle it means you are only weak compared to me, you aren't even forced to surpass me, you are assuming Xiao Lang! You pathetic fool! Can you not see it is YOURSELF at fault here?!" Yelan instantly recognized the tone...the tone of which the girl had used upon her during their chat...yet less harsh...

'The young girl is correct at that point...despite the point that she is yelling at my own son...' The ebony haired female thought as she leaned against the door with a slight thud. Her head hung in shame as her hair framed her face, obscuring the view to her sapphire eyes. The voice of the computer rung out, her sapphire eyes widened in horror at her mistake.

"Door opening." Came the mechanical voice of the computer.

'Oh, no!' Yelan thought as she looked frantically right to left as she immediately straightened herself. The door, which she had leaned on a few seconds before, began to slide open slowly. Revealing the group within to stare at her straight form, all but the young auburn haired girl who simply stared forward.

"What are you doing here Li? Intruding upon our conversation?" The audible voice of the girl came as the cold harsh tone rung out into the silence, which draped the group.

"Uh...I-I was merely here to t-tell Xiao Lang of the n-news..." Yelan stuttered out towards the girl.

Silence once again prevailed but was shattered as the girl's voice once again rung out.

"You heard our conversation, didn't you?" She asked slowly turning her head to view the visibly older woman from the corner of her eyes.

"Uhm..." Yelan began, yet her mind was blank of an excuse. She could not answer the question of which the girl had asked of her.

"Did you or not? Do you lack the intelligence of which to answer such a simplistic question as that Li?" Came the harsh question as cold emerald eyes stared through her sapphire eyes.

She stared at the ebony haired woman at the corner of her emerald eyes, her auburn hair flipping over her shoulder as she stared at her. No reply came from the woman as her eyes hardened more. "Answer me. Now." She ordered coldly.

"W-well...I-I happened to c-come at the p-point of when X-Xiao Lang spoke..." Yelan stuttered out towards the girl.

"Hn." Came her reply as she turned her gaze once again to fix upon the chestnut haired boy that sat frozen staring at her and his mother. "Is there a problem Xiao Lang?" She asked as her head lifted up slightly for her to stare at him at the bottom of her eyes.

"No..." He answered. He stared at the auburn haired girl. 'Who was she to use sarcasm upon his mother?' He began to become infuriated, his aura flaring out into the room, catching the attention of a few in the room whom could detect it...yet it didn't faze the girl.

"What is the point of becoming angry? You know you lack the strength to beat me. I see it is a waste of energy as it is pointless. If you have the time to be infuriated with me...why don't you train?" She stated out to the boy.

The statement shocked Syaoran as he looked at Cherry Ice. "All I know is I want to beat the crap out of you Cherry." Syaoran stated with a deadly tone. His anger once again raising as he suddenly realized he had been mocked by the girl.

"If you want to, why don't you become stronger than me to?" With that statement said she turned around, her auburn hair and maroon cape fluttered out as she walked towards the door.

"Move Li. You are blocking the door." She said towards the woman.

She noticed the woman didn't move as she growled underneath her breath. "Move...or I'll use the fight card on you." She threatened towards the frozen woman.

Yet again the woman didn't move, she began to get fed up with the woman. She placed her hand upon her shoulder with a firm grip and pushed her out of the way with such force, the ebony haired woman slammed into the opposing wall. She walked out of the room, her cloak and hair fluttering behind her as she walked off, disappearing into the darkness of the ill lit hallway of the mansion.

As he watched the girl walk away, questions arose into Syaoran's mind...many questions he now noticed and began to ponder about. 'What happened to him? When did he start acting so cold to someone like her? A better question...' He thought.

She walked down the hallway, anger rising in her...a single question rose in her mind as she came to see something different about her. Something both of them noticed...

"Why..."

She stopped to stand in the hallway as darkness surrounded her...

"Am I..."

He sat as still as possible as he whispered out the single question...

"Acting...this way?"

They both spoke out in a single low whisper as the darkness enveloped both as they each stayed stock still as many things brew in their minds. Completely different ideas as to why yet...all upon the same lines...yet...none could prove as a sufficient answer...

"Why?"