Dragonia: you know I have had an awful couple of months so I am sorry that
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"Sakura, can you tell me what happened?" Her eyes lifted and looked at him directly in his eyes and there was a mix of many emotions.
"Mist said 'Sakura this will hurt a lot and there is nothing I can do to help the process, for after this I will no longer be there, it will be you but I will be a part of you one in the same.' I know now what she meant." Syaoran shook his head.
"And that is?" Sakura looked at him her eyes filling with tears.
"Mist is nothing more then who I am the part of me that I thought had died that night when my mother died." Syaoran stood listening 'Sakura and Mist were the same one in the same. Same mind, body, and soul, was it really possible?' "Of course it's possible... and now I am reading minds great no wonder Mist was going crazy."
Chapter 11
China and a Surprise
Sakura slept peacefully her body spent physically and emotionally, even spiritually. Syaoran stood at the balcony the storm raged on and he watched as the thunder became less and less and as the storm ebbed he turned to look at Sakura. She wasn't in the least the same person she was when he first came here. She was still cold to most people, was even harsh in her punishment to those who defied her. Yet this night would change it all, how he wasn't sure. Everyone would figure out that Mist and the corporate leader Sakura were one in the same. He wondered how many police investigations that would effect. Would the court buy the split personality? He imagined they might, but than again they might not it was hard to tell. Walking to the outer door he pulled himself through quickly pulling on a pair of pants and a shirt.
The building was completely empty the corporate leaders beneath Sakura might have all been hard but they still cared about their employees as did Sakura. That's why he knew she wouldn't be angry that they had left early. He had hoped to find someone that knew where he could get some food. He returned to Sakura's office to find that Meiling was already there. In her hands she grasped a wine glass and swirled her last sip of red wine in the glass. He looked at her quizzically the anger played on his face. He knew that she knew it would happen, or rather he knew that she had known what was going to and what already had happened.
"If you knew it was going to happen would you still have done it?" The question broke the silence and Meiling swallowed her last sip without looking at him for the answer, she didn't need one for the result would have been the same.
"You know it still would have happened because it was her choice, not mine." Meiling nodded at Syaoran's answer.
"I am glad to see that you have accepted that she is who she is." Syaoran looked directly at Meiling catching her eyes his fury was more than evident in his eyes.
"Meiling," his words were harsh and without remorse. "I would not have her any other way. I love her for all she is and everything she has yet to be, I would die before seeing her changed in any way unless she wanted it." Meiling stepped forward and pulled out a dagger, she passed it to him carefully to avoid the edges.
"It is good to hear that, this dagger is special you will never know its full strength. When the times come you will know what to do... I am sorry for what its worth. For what has passed and what is to come." Meiling walked out of the room without answering the unspoken question in his eyes. Syaoran looked around and found the sheath for the small wavy dagger. He pushed the dagger in the sheath and placed it on the desk and returned to the bedroom to check on Sakura.
Sakura was still sleeping off the emotional drag. Syaoran looked around and found that it was later than he though in a few hours they would be leaving for his home. He pulled out a suitcase and started to pack.
Hours later
Sakura woke to find herself alone in her corporate bedroom. She vaguely remembered the night before but pushed the thoughts from her mind. She wanted to see the damage first hand. Pulling herself from her bed she walked over to the full length mirror and what she saw did not surprise her in the least. She was standing there her skin paler than the day before, and a tattoo like design along her body the vine ran along her arms and her legs and her stomach along with her neck and some of her face. It did not look too bad, but the tail bothered her. It was hidden now and Sakura was happy with that. For she knew there were things that she had... or rather other appendages that Mist had never touched on fearing that the change would come prematurely. Sakura didn't worry about that though, for now it was final and the change would not hinder her in the least. She would not let it. Sakura turned and dressed in short skirt and a nice dress shirt. The shirt covered up most of her natural tattoo, and her face did not look that pale the skirt did not cover the tattoo but it seemed that the skirt and the top complemented the whole tattoo.
Sakura closed her eyes and took a deep breath, steadying herself for the crowd that she knew would be waiting. By now everyone was wondering what was going on and why they were getting married. So many questions to answer, she felt the warmth of his arms and the breath that caressed the skin of her neck.
"Sakura Kinomoto no matter what you look like I will always and forever love you... my black cherry blossom." Sakura smiled and turned in his arms, she was glad that he felt this way but then again she knew this he had whispered the same thing all night until she had fallen into a peaceful dreamless sleep.
"I know Syaoran and thank you, but I am ready to face the crowd now." He nodded and pulled her from the room. Tomoyo and Eriol were the first to great them, both were shock by her appearance but not a stunned shocked.
"You know it figures that it would happen this way." Sakura smiled slightly and this really did shock Eriol he hadn't got a smile out of his friend since childhood, at least not a smile like that. "I haven't seen one of those on you for a while." Tomoyo smiled turning to her love.
"Believe me love its not you that makes her smile." Eriol looked horrified and Syaoran laughed.
"Come we should get you two moving your plane leaves within the hour." Sakura nodded and walked forward only to be grabbed by the wrist and pulled back into a loving embrace.
"You ready for this." Sakura nodded receiving a kiss from Syaoran. Sakura and Syaoran joined their friends just outside the doorway and continued to the lobby. Sakura could see the cameras and the reporters before they even reached the door.
Sakura stood tall and placed a mask on her face and Syaoran stopped noticing the sudden change.
"Sakura please don't." Sakura's face changed into that of confusion and Syaoran let go of a breath.
"Don't what?" Sakura was unaware that when she made a mask in this new form it cut him out as well, and he was scared of that.
"When you did that... you might have cut the world out but... you cut me out too." Sakura shook her head and paused letting her face go slack. Then nodded her head and hugged him than kissed his cheek.
"For you than I will not mask myself... I hope you realize that I can't hide anything then." Syaoran smiled, and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"Sakura there is nothing to hide anymore they will know everything and this is the beginning of the end of the war." Sakura nodded and took a deep breath placing her hand in Syaoran as he entwined their fingers. The two walked to the doors that were held open by guards Tomoyo and Eriol were already in the limo waiting for them, they slipped easily by the reporters as in they weren't interested in the couple. Sakura and Syaoran left the building there was a lot of yelling and flashing of cameras along with the rushing sound of traffic.
"Please Ladies and Gentlemen." Sakura's voice rang out in a sweet tone, though it belied her fury. The silence they gave her was immediate for all wanted the words from her mouth. And the small fact that she was both smiling sweetly and had a kind tone something that had never happened in front of the press. "I am sure that you all know my fiancé Li Syaoran. We are leaving to meet his family."
"Miss Kinomoto what about your companies, many people are worried they will lose their jobs?" Sakura looked at Syaoran and raised her brow asking the same question with her eyes.
"I believe that we have yet to discuss that but no one should worry about losing their job unless they screw up big time... and that goes for both of our companies." Sakura nodded conforming Syaoran's small speech.
"What about the wedding where will it be held?" Sakura and Syaoran smiled answering together with the same phrase.
"It will be a private matter." The reporters were stunned the way that the couple answered totally in sink.
"Miss Kinomoto, may we ask what happened to you?" Sakura froze slightly recomposing herself she took a deep breath.
"It is complicated, but let's just say that you all will have a very long story to post in your newspapers." Sakura smiled and Syaoran pulled her arm around him and led her to the limo.
"One more question for the happy couple." They turned to face the crowd there in the front was a woman with long brown hair her eyes were shaded by her bangs. "What do you plan to do when your family shows up?" Sakura's face fell hard and her eyes started to water. Sakura climbed into the limo without a word and Syaoran turned to the crowd.
"We will of course welcome her brother with open arms." Syaoran climbed in behind Sakura and pulled her into his embrace.
Sakura just sat there and allowed to be held, her heart broke. Her family wasn't... didn't exist. Sakura cried lightly onto Syaoran, his shirt was now wet with her tears.
"Sakura... come on now if he does come we will deal with it then not now." Sakura nodded clearing her eyes of the tears and pulling herself together.
"Sakura are you okay?" Tomoyo came and sat next to her, this was the first time that Tomoyo had seen any real emotion from Sakura for a long time. Sakura nodded.
"Yes, Tomoyo I am fine." Sakura turned to Eriol, and took a deep breath. "Eriol you will no longer have a problem from Mist... only from me." Eriol nodded it was harder for him to accept it but it was better this way he knew it. Sakura had been split for far too long, he had noticed the change in her. From the beginning when she came she wasn't what he remembered but then again it seemed as if much of his past was erased from his memory. With that he wasn't really surprised for Mist didn't want anything bad coming up in Sakura's past and in such had made everything or rather almost everything of her past be forgotten from almost everyone.
Sakura did not say a word all the way to the airport. She looked out into space and would not start a conversation she was stuck in a rut of memories as they headed down the road. Her father's death, her mother's murder, the funerals, and her brother's betrayal, how it all led her to this point. Where she led a company in dresses and dancing and she was marrying a cop that... that really loved her and was to be a leader in his own cooperation very soon.
The limo came to a halt and Sakura looked up to see Tomoyo and Eriol getting out of the limo. Sakura followed them out without looking back or looking where she was going, Syaoran followed her out steadying her at the same time. Before them was the airport but to the side was a privet jet to which they would take to China and to the Li family.
"SAKURA! Wait please!" Sakura did not turn to face the voice, or the man that it belonged to. Another voice soon followed that she would listen to though.
"Sakura please I know you want to leave but we need to talk!" Sakura turned to face Meiling, Yukito, and her ever betrayal brother Touya. Sakura was about to turn back around but the look on her brother's face made her stop. His fear of losing her even more was written plainly on his face.
"Meiling, Yukito I can talk to you but... Touya I can not." Sakura paused and allowed them to close the distance.
"Sakura, please don't go." Sakura stepped back into Syaoran's arms.
"Why shouldn't I?" Touya froze trying to think fast.
"Touya I am coming back. I can not deal with you right now... you and all of..." Sakura turned back to Syaoran he was holding her easily but the tension in his chest and arms proved to show that he was angry. Sakura smiled and suddenly it was all okay, suddenly she was Mist both Mist and Sakura. It took this long for Sakura to realize that all her life she had been split between innocence and pain, anger and happiness, fear and courage, and hate and love. She had split herself because at the time she couldn't deal with the pain, but now... it was different she could and she would. For now she was who she was always meant to be, a leader and a fighter. Sakura turned back around there wasn't a mask on her face. She showed her anger and her fear but it was controlled and she frowned. "Touya when I return we all of us will talk. But not until then."
"Sakura... I am sorry for everything... after what happened I received help and now I am not better... but I know now what I did wrong and I know that will never change what I did and I am not by no means asking for an apology I am just looking to make up for what I have done... I want to walk you down the isle... I want to be the one to give you away." Sakura looked at him she saw no lies, Touya she had to admit was very good at lying but Mist was always able to detect that and now so she was also able to, but she found no such things in his head only sincere need of wanting to be in her life. Finally Sakura went against her better judgment and walked over to Touya closing the space easily, he looked fearful for a moment fearful that she might hit him but instead she placed her hand lightly on his face.
"My brother... it feels odd to call you that for you were never there for me... not when father died... not when mother was murdered... not even when my friends died... but you are here now. I don't know why and I don't know if I want to know why, I am Mist and Mist has always been me. I will always have anger towards what you have done, but I hold no fear of you, not now not ever. I know deep down even long ago you loved me like none of them could, and wanted the best for me in your own twisted way. So against it all I will let you, I even want you to in some small way. Let this be the beginning of our family once again." Sakura turned and joined the others walking towards the plane but stopped only a few seconds afterward. "And Touya if you do anything to hurt my future I will kill you." Touya froze he took her words as a joke and answered back.
"Is that a threat or a promise?" Sakura turned her anger present but an eerie smile graced her lips a smile that scared Touya even from so far away.
"Why dead brother, it is neither, it is inevitable that is if you screw up. If you don't it will be one step closer to you being in my life... that is what you want isn't it." Touya simply nodded he wasn't surprised so much as scared, Sakura never believed in promises. Or anything forsworn at least from what he remembered she wouldn't make them, yet if you made them to her. That was something unforgivable, if you broke a promise to Sakura/Mist Kinomoto your fate was something worse than death.
Sakura turned with her group once again and started for the door of the plane. The group didn't walk far before Meiling was beside them walking backward, she was wearing a pair of jeans that were faded and her top slanted so that she had one sleeve.
"So Sakura you are really going to go through with this charade?" Meiling had a gleam in her eye and Sakura knew that she was up to something so again she stopped her group and turned to Meiling.
"Meiling is there a reason that you are holding us up?" Meiling smiled and shook her head no. Sakura sighed knowing that she was waiting for an answer. "What charade?" Meiling laughed heartily.
"You know it was nice and all that you said the two of you were going to get married but come on now. You are whole again and you don't need this loser to finish your quest." Sakura whirled to face Meiling directly her eyes on fire and her voice colder than any of her friends ever remembered hearing. Her very body seemed to emanate the mist that Mist had been named for.
"Bitch." The words came out in a forced whisper as Sakura slapped Meiling across the face. "I expected this from everyone else but never from you my best friend, my role model my... clan leader. This as we both have told you is no 'charade' and if you must know I am not whole without him. I don't care what anyone says... He did not quiver in fear when I turned he did not leave he stayed by my side all night telling me that it was okay to be me, that no matter what I was he would love me for who I was." Sakura's voice was harsh and cold riveting with the anger that rushed through her veins. "As far as you need to know what we have is real and for all I care you can... go... to... hell." Sakura paused looking for the right words before she finished her sentence, spiting each word as if it was just as vile as poison. Sakura turned and headed toward the plane not looking back or saying anything until she was about to enter. Sakura looked inside and saw all the furnishing, everything was perfect. She tilted her head and looked down seeing the outside and her friends looking at her.
"Yukito, I want you to be there too. I don't know why but I want all three of you there... but Meiling, Touya I will never stand for what you just did... if either of you try to stop this... I will not hesitate to throw you both in jail or kill you. That I can do. Yukito before I go... know that when you are ready I will tell you what you need to fight, and to save what happened to you from ever happening to anyone ever again." Everyone looked at Yukito no one knew what Sakura was talking about except Yukito and Sakura herself. Yukito nodded his face was pale and his eyes dulled. Sakura turned and walked into the plane disappearing into the shadows.
Syaoran nodded to Eriol and Tomoyo, they followed Sakura onto the plane. He turned to Meiling looking at her and taking her in for the first time. He saw the surprise on her face but even worse he saw a tear that streaked down her face. A face that was still red from where Sakura had slapped her, for the first time Syaoran realized how young Meiling must be. When he first saw her she looked much older but right now she appeared to be a little lost, the words hurt her.
"You deserved it you know." Meiling turned to him and she nodded, she was older than Sakura only by a few years though. There was much history between the two but he could not place where it might have been.
"She saved me... or rather Mist did I learned a lot that night from Mist. She told me all of it because I was in her debt forever. She saved me from something worse than hell, and kept me safe long after it was over." Meiling sighed, "I heard that Tomoyo was the one that made the announcement and I just thought that... well I knew if I confronted her that she might back off. I never expected." Meiling turned to face him the fury gone from her eyes. There was no fire, no brilliance, nothing filled her eyes it was pain and sadness on the edge of a chasm. "I never realized that she returned those feelings... I never realized that you were really the one to make her whole again and keep it that way... Please tell her that I am sorry and that I will be there with bells on." Syaoran nodded and walked onto the plane. He sat down next to Sakura at the back of the plane. Tomoyo and Eriol had slipped into the bathroom for a moment. Syaoran was sure that it would be much longer than a moment though.
"Sakura, Meiling says she's sorry and she will be there with bells on." Sakura simply nodded as Tomoyo came out laughing with Eriol behind her. Tomoyo walked over to Sakura.
"Are you sure I can't go with you guys?" Syaoran shook his head and Sakura spoke.
"No Japan needs both of you." Tomoyo laughed and looked at Sakura.
"No you mean your company needs me, Japan needs you." Tomoyo turned and left the plane pulling Eriol with her.
"Those two, do they ever get tired of doing that I wonder." Sakura looked up at him, a wicked gleam in her eye. She pulled the seat belt on as the plane started to move. Syaoran soon followed her. As the plane started to move Sakura laid her hand on Syaoran's thigh. He looked over at her, not expecting much he sat there thinking on other things. Sakura's hand moved up further to his crotch and massaged his area. Syaoran was thinking about his family when he was suddenly interrupted by Sakura's hand moving up further he didn't have a fast enough reaction to stop her. He bit his lip trying to stop the moan that was going to rip through his throat. He was vaguely aware of what Sakura was doing. Sakura moved so that she could whisper into his ear.
"Moan I know you want to." Sakura smiled as Syaoran finally let out the moan. Sakura pulled away suddenly as if she had been burned and Syaoran felt the loss more than ever before. Syaoran moved his hand on her thigh moving the thin skirt out of the way so that he could touch her skin directly. He heard more than felt the sharp intake of breath beside him. Sakura tried to move but the seat belt was a hindrance, Sakura could not stop him for she had started the game. Syaoran moved quickly up as she had done to him, but instead of massaging her he moved the layer of panties aside and pressed against her core. Sakura bit back a moan and Syaoran smiled she was always harder to make moan. He was comparatively weak in that area but he loved torturing her. He pressed harder and than pushed a finger into her. Her moan was louder than his was, the plane evened out and Syaoran unbuckled his seat belt quietly not making a noise. He slipped out of his seat and straddled Sakura. When she finally opened her eyes she found him above her.
"Sakura you started this game." Sakura nodded and he pulled her hands above her not allowing her to unbuckle herself. Syaoran locked her seatbelt so that it wouldn't give when she moved forward. Syaoran moved his fingers and pushed another one inside of her. Her moan was cut off when he kissed her. She was stuck totally at his mercy she couldn't move he had her wrists in his left hand and his right hand almost in her. His knees kept her legs together and his feet were keeping her legs down. Syaoran pulled away from her and she still couldn't move.
Syaoran moved her legs apart and pulled them up so that her legs were separated almost till it hurt. Syaoran pushed her up slightly so that she was sitting on his lap. Syaoran was now sitting Indian style and somehow he had gotten his pants undone. Sakura was looking at him he still had her wrists in his left hand. And his right hand was now lying on her back. Sakura smiled at him the gleam gone from her eyes.
"Sakura I want you to say it." Sakura looked at him.
"Say what?"
"I want you to say that you want me." Sakura smiled that was easy.
"I want you." Syaoran smiled, he kissed her lightly pulling away and making her follow until the seatbelt stopped her. It crossed over her shoulders and again right under her breasts. It gave way so that you could move up if you were taller. Sakura wanted to reach down and remove the hindrance but apparently Syaoran didn't want it removed. Sakura wrapped her legs around Syaoran and felt him move so that he was beneath her. She felt him he wanted her. Syaoran didn't think about her underwear or in other words didn't see that they would make a problem.
"Sakura I don't know why you wear these, they only become an annoyance when you where skirts." Syaoran pulled out a knife from his pocket.
"Syaoran I don't have any more up here." Syaoran smiled and looked at her.
"Then I guess you will just have to be careful who is looking up your skirt." Sakura's eyes went wide as Syaoran cut the underwear off of her instead of taking them off. He threw them to the other side of the plane. Syaoran looked up at her and pulled himself closer to her.
"Syaoran sometimes you can be such a..." Sakura was silenced by both Syaoran's mouth on hers and his entrance into her. Sakura moaned and Syaoran took control of her mouth taking in all of her taste. Sakura couldn't breathe and tried to pull away. He let her go but barely letting her rest her forehead on his. He slowly moved his hips and pulled her closer.
"Syaoran is there anyone... anyone else on the plane." Syaoran looked at her and smiled kissing her again and leaving her breathless.
"The pilot but he knows to leave us alone." Sakura was about to speak but Syaoran didn't let her taking her mouth as his once again and finally releasing the seatbelt and pausing only to push the seatbelt off. He pulled her to the floor of the plane and continued to make love to her.
Meanwhile
"I am sorry mistress but there is not that can be done from here." The woman raised her hand and waved it in the air dismissing the young man from her sight. As the man left the woman smiled it wasn't the worst thing to be evil it had its ups and its downs. One of the ups was that she could have any man she wanted and right now she had her eyes on one person in particular.
"Guards!" Her voice echoed out over the small house. Two men entered, these two were the best she had and they could get anyone she wanted. "I want Touya Kinomoto here..." when the men didn't move she continued. "I want him NOW not two weeks from now." The guards looked at each other and headed towards the door. "And I want him ALIVE and UNHARMED!" The guards cringed at that, their mistress liked to inflict her own punishment but only if it was truly deserved... then again she believed everyone deserved punishment. The mistress waited patiently she didn't have to wait long, for the men returned within ten minutes with Touya. Touya looked around like a lost dog not sure where to go or what to do.
"Hello again Touya... how is Sakura?" Touya froze fear penetrating every part of his body.
"She's fine... leave her alone. She didn't do anything to you." the woman stood up and walked over to him placing her hand on his cheek.
"No you are right she didn't... yet." Touya looked away.
"Touya come now is that any way to treat your mistress." Touya pulled away from her.
"You are not my master any more." The woman laughed, "Touya you are so very naïve I don't think you get it. You have always been mine and always will be mine." Touya shook his head violently.
"No not anymore. Sakura is coming for you and I will not be here when she comes." The woman slapped Touya and sent him flying. The power that coursed through her veins was apparent in this small movement.
"Stupid boy!" She spat the words at him as he laid on the floor in front of her. "It matters not what your sister does I am a demon and she can not compare to my power." The woman waved her hands to the guards and they left. She walked over to Touya where he was sprawled across the floor. "Come now, Touya I will give you all that you have ever wanted." Touya weakly shook his head. "Fine I will take all I want from you." The woman pulled him to his feet and pushed him to the wall. Her hands came to end in claws not fingertips, she rubbed her hands over his chest and smiled evilly as she looked into his eyes his fear flooded him and he stopped resisting her as he had done all those years ago.
China
Sakura looked out the window the city wasn't much different from her own. Except here in this city the Li family ruled instead of Sakura Kinomoto. She wondered if it would make a difference that she was also a heroine. Sakura waited patiently for Syaoran to get the rest of the baggage. Sometimes he was a real gentlemen, Sakura smiled thinking of all of the things that they had discussed on the drive to the company earlier yesterday. Her wrist was grasped lightly and Sakura smiled remembering what happened not so long ago. Sakura let his arms snake around her waist.
"No reporters not yet but if we don't leave there will be." Sakura nodded and they walked to the limo together. The sights weren't that much different from Japan they had cities and airports, even forests. The only thing that China had that Japan didn't was her love's family, something she wanted to have. Sakura followed Syaoran into the limo not a word passing between them. Sakura was looking out the window when a cell phone rang. It happened to be Syaoran's so Sakura watched the scenery that passed by, not really listening to his conversation.
"Hello," Syaoran nodded even though he knew the other person couldn't see the gesture. "Really," he nodded again and took out a piece of paper and wrote something done. "Yes, I got it... thank you... you too." Sakura looked over at him and he locked eyes with her. "Apparently, my family is really excited that you are coming and have planned a dinner and something else." Sakura simply nodded looking back out the window.
"Syaoran... there is something I should tell you before..." Syaoran's phone rang again and he looked apologetically at her and she simply nodded saying it was okay.
"Hello," his face paled. "Mother... yes... she's right here..." Syaoran looked at Sakura holding his hand over the mouth piece.
"She wants to talk to you." Sakura nodded and took the phone.
"Hello?"
"Miss Kinomoto," Sakura flinched at the coldness in the voice the way it played her name as if it was a piece of meat for a moment Sakura wondered if this woman was teasing her for it sounded remarkably how she referred to many of her employees. "I hope that you have had a good flight I wouldn't want my daughter to be, to be tired. I hope my son is being a gentleman." Sakura shifted like she was under the woman's gaze.
"Perfect, madam." She heard some shuffling in the background and some shushing.
"Please Kinomoto call me Yelan." Sakura shifted again.
"Only if you call me Sakura." Sakura finally had some semblance of comfort and said, "When someone says Kinomoto I automatically think that I am in trouble then I want to yell at them for calling me that." Yelan smiled on the other end she was truthful but Yelan covered up her smile by answering her.
"Yes well I don't think that you need to do either but it would be nice to see some of that commanding air of yours when you get here, Sakura." Sakura nodded her resolve returning.
"Yes, Yelan."
"Now please put my ambiguous son back on the line." Sakura handed the phone back to Syaoran and looked out the window they were now coming up to a gate but they did not stop, the gate opened ahead of them and they just entered without pausing.
"Sakura," she turned to find him watching her and he had hung up the phone. "There was something you were going to tell me?" Sakura shook her head and remembered what she was going to tell him only to be interrupted by the car stopping and the door opening. "Don't worry they can wait." Sakura shook her head again and left the car Syaoran soon following.
"No it would be better if I told you later love." Sakura walked up the stairs with Syaoran's arm around her waist he held her tightly almost as if he was afraid that she would run away. Sakura took his other hand and squeezed it and he returned it. Sakura stepped up and the doors opened and they continued through. The mansion was very much what she had expected, a chandelier, a stair case leading to the upper levels an open living room to the right and a door to the left more than likely leading to the huge dinning room. They were standing in a room that on the off days could be used as a ball room even though for size she knew it was a small greeting room. Sakura looked around not in the least surprised people who were rich or had been rich before their parents were even thought of normally inherited such defined places. Sakura waited until Syaoran started to move, but before he could get a few feet there were four shrieks that made ears want to run. They came from the upper levels and Sakura stepped back as Syaoran stepped forward protecting her from his sisters.
"Xiao Lang... it is good to have you home." Screeched the first one, taking his check between two fingers, Syaoran batted her hand away.
"Come now sisters he is growing up." The second one stood a little off to the side making comments her stomach enlarged slightly.
"Yes that's why he is so cute!" The third decided to add something of her own.
"Xiao Lang I missed you." The last one was much bigger her pregnancy very noticeable as she tackled Syaoran in a hug so fierce he almost fell to the ground.
"Sister's please I need to breathe." His sisters let go of him and they all turned to Sakura, as a group they gasped her appearance wasn't what they had expected. Sakura had changed from what she had been wearing before. Her top came together shorter on one side than on the other. It revealed much more of her tattoo than her first shirt the skirt was longer than the first but was also cut so that both the top and the skirt slanted in the same direction. Sakura did not look angry or even upset she seemed almost satisfied at the look the sisters had, a look that was closer to surprise and fear than happiness.
"Sisters I would like you to meet my fiancé Sakura Kinomoto. Sakura I would like you to meet my sisters. Fuutie, Shiefa, Fanren, and Feimei," each in turn nodded to her Fuutie was only 2 months pregnant ready to get married to the father, and Fanren was 8 months pregnant and married.
"It is nice to meet all six of you." The girls looked at each other counting and realized she meant the babies too. The girls laughed and smiled though they still looked apprehensive about Sakura.
"If you don't mind me asking Sakura you do not look as you did... when I saw you last." Sakura smiled and nodded looking away for a moment before finally answering. The girls nodded with the oldest sister's question.
"Before you only saw half of who I was now who you see before you is..." Sakura turned and looked at the girls for impression. "Me, the real me whole and sane." The girls nodded for more than one understand what she meant. It was not that she was getting married that would make her whole it was finding another piece of who she was while she was doing it.
"Xiao Lang..." A woman had descended the stairs and was now at the bottom facing them the sisters parted giving the woman a clear view of both Syaoran and Sakura. "Sakura..." Yelan paused as she looked over Sakura but continued over as if there had been nothing different about Sakura from a normal person. Yelan closed the distance between her and her son easily with the grace that was natural born and the authority that came with working and ordering people through the worst of times. She placed her long fingers onto her son's shoulders, kissing him on the forehead she spoke clearly but not loudly allowing the echo to carry her voice and make it be heard. "It is good to have you home, son." Syaoran simply nodded hugging his mother in a simple embrace that was mostly for show. Sakura felt the tension increase as Yelan looked her over, Sakura could tell the gaze was critical and Sakura having dealt with people of the like stood straight and raised her head to meet the gaze. Yelan after a moment smiled.
"Yelan." Yelan nodded and motioned for Sakura to come forward.
"I see that you do not look as I have seen you before when did you acquire this little alteration." Sakura looked straight into the woman's eyes and did not back down.
"I think it is best if I say that I acquired it a long time ago it is only started to become more apparent recently." The sisters looked at her skeptically but Yelan simply nodded motioning for them to follow as she walked to the stairs. The sisters backed off going into the open living room. It was time for the elders to meet the happy couple. Sakura watched the hallways that they passed to her it appeared as they were going in circles. Apparently this place was much bigger then it appeared. Yelan led them further and deeper beyond the bed rooms and the normal areas of the house. Yelan glanced over her shoulder her son was glancing nervously over his shoulder at Sakura. She wasn't taking notice though she was too involved with her surroundings to notice even if she knew what to look for.
Yelan thought about everything for a moment. Her son at first had appeared to be much worse for the ware. Yet now he appeared different, she observed him carefully he appeared slightly jittery as if his skin was crawling. She gathered it might be, he of course had never liked the elders. Sometimes Yelan wondered if that was the real reason he left not just because they told him to get married. He was back now, with a woman who appeared to be much more then the elaborate body art and the commanding demeanor. Yelan paused at a door and turned to face the couple. Syaoran snaked his hand into Sakura's and gave it a light squeeze Sakura returned with her own squeeze. Yelan smiled inwardly and spoke softly.
"Stay here until you are called." Yelan paused and turned specifically to Sakura, "Answer the truth, do not lie, and do not look down. Match their fury with your own that is how you will find a place in this family." Sakura nodded her fury already willing and waiting to be pushed over. Yelan entered the dark room there was no sound that came from it and Syaoran and Sakura stood side by side waiting.
"I think my mother likes you." Sakura glanced at Syaoran.
"Really how?" Syaoran glanced back at her.
"She warned you what to expect she has never ever done that." Syaoran grinned and then straightened his face as the door opened. Sakura quickly followed keeping a straight face and followed Syaoran's lead as he entered when the person behind the door motioned them within.
The room was darker then Sakura thought it could have been. Before them was a tiny area of light that revealed five people sitting around a half circle table, it appeared that a woman was standing off to the side. Sakura gathered that it was Yelan for she was the correct height. Syaoran was not stupid the way that the room he knew had been set up to impress Sakura he also knew that this set up would not in any way impress her.
There were two men and three women that occupied the table. The men appeared to be much older then they actually were the first a thin man was dressed in a deep red and his hair was white which was unusual in itself for a Chinese. The second appeared to look the age he really was, by and by it was much older then he really wanted to be he was wearing a deep blue. He was bigger then he should have been but it was not without adaptability, he could lift much of which many people his age could not have even moved at their best years. The first woman was much younger then an elder should be, her dress was a deep yellow and her face seemed to be whiter because of it. The second woman slightly older did not smile or move much at all appearing dead in a deep purple dress. The last woman sat in the center, she was much older then all of them. Her dress a deeper green then Sakura's eyes, but her eyes were a red deep and furious she sat emotionless except for her eyes. Sakura stood before them and did not move she had removed her hand from Syaoran's before they entered.
"Leaders of the Li clan I would like to present to you my fiancée Lady Sakura Kinomoto." Some of the elders spoke among themselves but the center one raised her eyebrow to his words.
"Lady... what makes this... charlatan a lady and what gives her the right to stand before us in such an unwavering state." Syaoran did not allow the fury to show in his face but it was more than obvious in his eyes.
"Lady... the term Lady is defined as one who has come from a royal family and has royal blood. If I am a lord and I come from a company leader and a clan. Then she must be the equivalent for she is a daughter of the Kinomoto line. Both strength in mind and body, and an immeasurable amount of power spiritual, I have accepted her and I hope you all can except her too." The woman stood and walked around the table to stand before Sakura, she placed a cold hand on Sakura's face.
"You mean to say that if we do not accept her you will leave and marry her anyway." She turned to Syaoran and frowned. "You know we do not like this, she is weak. She has been defiled. I mean look at her body those tattoos have made her a disgrace to not only Japan but to her family too." Syaoran was angry but when the woman mentioned Sakura's family he looked over at her through the corner of his eye and saw that she was not afraid or even amused she was emotionless, or so he thought.
"Elder... I have been respectful and silent while you have attacked and tried to embarrass me. It is clear to me why I have come, to get an approval of this family. But from what I have seen it is easy to understand why Syaoran has left. He wants to return that's why he wants you to accept me... not that I can understand why. I have walked this place and seen the way you treat each other. These tattoos which you think are a disgrace are in fact a piece of who I am, I can not remove them for they have not been placed on me in a conventional way only a magical way. As for being defiled... well if that's what I get for loving your son then so be it. Besides even if I was in Japan my family would not be disgraced for there is no Kinomoto clan anymore... or ever again." Sakura turned her head up and took a deep breath before continuing. "I do not need your approval or your permission, nor do I really want it... but Syaoran my love does and for him I will ask for it." The five looked at her curiously.
The youngest female broke the silence first. "She speaks the truth... but how much of the truth is actually spoken." The elder woman shook her head and walked back to her seat, she did not look up again.
"I believe that we need to discuss this a little more... we have made a decision under false pretenses." Syaoran turned to leave.
"Please sleep well we will give you our answer in the morning." Sakura turned but paused as she had done earlier on the plane she looked over her shoulder.
"Home... what I used to call home... I would give anything to have a family once again... I do not see how you can look at each other thus. As if... as if you do not care for one another, my life has been hard and sad. Yet you sit here around a table decided if I am appropriate person to help lead a clan... I did not choose to fall in love with Syaoran, nor did I choose to have a family that would leave me all alone. The only person that is left in my family is my brother a murderous man. Even now I wish to see him for he is still my brother and I still love him... for all it is worth, if I didn't marry Syaoran... I wouldn't marry at all... ever." Sakura walked away with Syaoran by her side leaving the elders to speak amongst themselves on where to go from here.
Later
Syaoran led Sakura down the hall it wasn't that long until Sakura was completely lost, and it was getting very late. Sakura had met some more people most of them had been people who knew the family and were friends. None of them cared for the fact that Syaoran was marrying outside of the family. Sakura had tried to impress them but failing at that each time her anger overrunning her senses and finally she yelled that she was through with wasting her time. She ended up throwing one of the younger men that had place a hand on her thigh out a window. Syaoran of course would have done it if she hadn't.
"Sakura here we are your room is linked to mine." Sakura came out of her thoughts and just stared at him until she finally heard what he said and nodded. Sakura opened the door and walked inside, her mind faltered and she moved to the bed using it to support her. Syaoran was curious Sakura had left the door open and stumbled to the bed hanging onto the bed post and barely standing. Syaoran walked in and closed the door, he walked to her and pulled her into an embrace her legs gave out and Syaoran held her tightly.
"Syaoran... before when we were in the car and I wanted to tell you something I want to tell you that now..." Sakura yawned and Syaoran shook his head.
"Sakura you should go to bed we can talk in the morning." Syaoran lifted her and laid her on the bed.
"Syaoran... this is important I want to tell you that I think I might be..." Sakura drifted off before she could tell him the rest and Syaoran shook his head thinking it was something simple and left the room.
Morning
Syaoran had been up all night, he did not favor sleep last night. Coming to train here in this room was his only option. He was not sure how long he had been there but as he continued to punch through the air his eyes closed thinking on the last couple days. Normally he would not have let something like this continue. The wedding he didn't know why but for some reason, he wanted to live with Sakura more then he wanted to move back home. Syaoran's punch contented with a solid body, opening his eyes he found that Sakura was there ready to spar with him. Syaoran arched an eyebrow, and looked at her but had no time to comment as her fist was heading toward his face. Ducking he avoided her punch but not her foot as she kicked his feet out form under him.
She sat on him finishing the fight, she of course liked the view she had seen when she first entered. Syaoran had taken his shirt off some time ago, leaving him in black silk pants specifically designed for fighting and practicing. Sakura sat there looking at him his chest was glistened with sweat. Helping him to his feet she then attacked him leaving no chance for him to counter. Again she kicked his feet out from under him but this time Syaoran grabbed her and pulled her atop him. Once they had fallen he rolled her underneath him.
"Are you quite finished?" Sakura simply nodded breathing a little hard. "If I hadn't been so tired I would have been able to show you some more moves." Sakura simply nodded her face changed and her eyes watered. Syaoran rose to his feet and pulled her up. "Sakura what's wrong?" Sakura shook her head. "Sakura, honey, what's wrong?" Sakura looked at him and nodded to the benches. Sakura sat down and for the first time Syaoran noticed that she hadn't spoken a word. Then it fit something was really wrong and the fight was to help her figure out a solution. "Sakura... is there a reason that you are not speaking." Sakura looked at him oddly then finally spoke.
"No... we are supposed to go the meeting in a few minutes... but before we do I want to tell you something I didn't get to tell you last night. I think I am changing again..." Syaoran knelt before her.
"How? I thought that you were finished with it." Sakura looked at her hands and lifted them for him to see. There on her hand was a small design nothing larger then a quarter but there was a small teardrop.
"I am still changing I never really stopped... I am not sure what this means... I want. No I need to talk to Meiling. I know she knows what is going on." Syaoran nodded pulling out his phone it would be a little weird but he dialed the company's number.
"Good morning Kinomoto Dance Corporation, Shie speaking how may I help you?" Syaoran growled at dialing the wrong connection.
"Yes you can connect me with Tomoyo and you can make it fast." Shie shook on the other side she recognized the voice it had come three or four times and each time it sounded annoyed or angry this time it sounded anxious so she hurried the person had never been mean. No where near what she knew was possible.
"Right away sir just a second." True to her word s few seconds later, much faster then she had done before Syaoran was connected and the phone rang three times.
"Hello, Kinomoto office how may I help you?" Tomoyo's voice was cheery and she bubbled with life, despite himself Syaoran grinned.
"Yes, Tomoyo it's me I need to know do you know where Meiling is at this moment." Tomoyo sighed.
"Yes she is right here we were talking about you guys." Syaoran heard Meiling in the back round.
"Okay which one is Syaoran or Sakura?" Tomoyo answered "Syaoran."
"Put Meiling on the phone it's important and Sakura needs to talk to her." Syaoran turned and handed the phone to Sakura without waiting for a reply. Sakura relayed her thoughts to Meiling. On the other end Meiling shook her head sadly, and then sighed her mind already working miles ahead.
"Sakura, Mist never told me of this... she never thought to tell me for she thought she would be able to tell you. Yet from what you have told me it appears that you are preparing for the battle at hand. I can not tell you what you might change to, how much you will turn or if you will ever be the same. All I know is that the change will be over a long period of time a few weeks maybe a month. I'm not sure but maybe there are some answers in your very memory, since you and Mist are one in the same the answers are there in your head Sakura all you have to do is look." The line started to go and crackling Meiling said something but the line went dead. Sakura handed the phone back to Syaoran.
"I believe that your family is going to be in for a surprise." Syaoran looked at her and shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Sakura stood and looked at him.
"I mean there will be a change a battle and a very big ending. That is the surprise."
Dragonia: I hope you like this I don't know really where to go from here... this one is longer then the others there was a lot that I wanted to fit in this one... there was a lot more that I wanted to fit into this one but it will just have to wait till next time.
Preview-
The sky was rolling and everything was going wrong, nothing happened as was planned. There before them all was a stone, a stone that hadn't even been thought of the day before, it is sad how a happy day had fallen like this. It can only be imagined what would happen now.
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"Sakura, can you tell me what happened?" Her eyes lifted and looked at him directly in his eyes and there was a mix of many emotions.
"Mist said 'Sakura this will hurt a lot and there is nothing I can do to help the process, for after this I will no longer be there, it will be you but I will be a part of you one in the same.' I know now what she meant." Syaoran shook his head.
"And that is?" Sakura looked at him her eyes filling with tears.
"Mist is nothing more then who I am the part of me that I thought had died that night when my mother died." Syaoran stood listening 'Sakura and Mist were the same one in the same. Same mind, body, and soul, was it really possible?' "Of course it's possible... and now I am reading minds great no wonder Mist was going crazy."
Chapter 11
China and a Surprise
Sakura slept peacefully her body spent physically and emotionally, even spiritually. Syaoran stood at the balcony the storm raged on and he watched as the thunder became less and less and as the storm ebbed he turned to look at Sakura. She wasn't in the least the same person she was when he first came here. She was still cold to most people, was even harsh in her punishment to those who defied her. Yet this night would change it all, how he wasn't sure. Everyone would figure out that Mist and the corporate leader Sakura were one in the same. He wondered how many police investigations that would effect. Would the court buy the split personality? He imagined they might, but than again they might not it was hard to tell. Walking to the outer door he pulled himself through quickly pulling on a pair of pants and a shirt.
The building was completely empty the corporate leaders beneath Sakura might have all been hard but they still cared about their employees as did Sakura. That's why he knew she wouldn't be angry that they had left early. He had hoped to find someone that knew where he could get some food. He returned to Sakura's office to find that Meiling was already there. In her hands she grasped a wine glass and swirled her last sip of red wine in the glass. He looked at her quizzically the anger played on his face. He knew that she knew it would happen, or rather he knew that she had known what was going to and what already had happened.
"If you knew it was going to happen would you still have done it?" The question broke the silence and Meiling swallowed her last sip without looking at him for the answer, she didn't need one for the result would have been the same.
"You know it still would have happened because it was her choice, not mine." Meiling nodded at Syaoran's answer.
"I am glad to see that you have accepted that she is who she is." Syaoran looked directly at Meiling catching her eyes his fury was more than evident in his eyes.
"Meiling," his words were harsh and without remorse. "I would not have her any other way. I love her for all she is and everything she has yet to be, I would die before seeing her changed in any way unless she wanted it." Meiling stepped forward and pulled out a dagger, she passed it to him carefully to avoid the edges.
"It is good to hear that, this dagger is special you will never know its full strength. When the times come you will know what to do... I am sorry for what its worth. For what has passed and what is to come." Meiling walked out of the room without answering the unspoken question in his eyes. Syaoran looked around and found the sheath for the small wavy dagger. He pushed the dagger in the sheath and placed it on the desk and returned to the bedroom to check on Sakura.
Sakura was still sleeping off the emotional drag. Syaoran looked around and found that it was later than he though in a few hours they would be leaving for his home. He pulled out a suitcase and started to pack.
Hours later
Sakura woke to find herself alone in her corporate bedroom. She vaguely remembered the night before but pushed the thoughts from her mind. She wanted to see the damage first hand. Pulling herself from her bed she walked over to the full length mirror and what she saw did not surprise her in the least. She was standing there her skin paler than the day before, and a tattoo like design along her body the vine ran along her arms and her legs and her stomach along with her neck and some of her face. It did not look too bad, but the tail bothered her. It was hidden now and Sakura was happy with that. For she knew there were things that she had... or rather other appendages that Mist had never touched on fearing that the change would come prematurely. Sakura didn't worry about that though, for now it was final and the change would not hinder her in the least. She would not let it. Sakura turned and dressed in short skirt and a nice dress shirt. The shirt covered up most of her natural tattoo, and her face did not look that pale the skirt did not cover the tattoo but it seemed that the skirt and the top complemented the whole tattoo.
Sakura closed her eyes and took a deep breath, steadying herself for the crowd that she knew would be waiting. By now everyone was wondering what was going on and why they were getting married. So many questions to answer, she felt the warmth of his arms and the breath that caressed the skin of her neck.
"Sakura Kinomoto no matter what you look like I will always and forever love you... my black cherry blossom." Sakura smiled and turned in his arms, she was glad that he felt this way but then again she knew this he had whispered the same thing all night until she had fallen into a peaceful dreamless sleep.
"I know Syaoran and thank you, but I am ready to face the crowd now." He nodded and pulled her from the room. Tomoyo and Eriol were the first to great them, both were shock by her appearance but not a stunned shocked.
"You know it figures that it would happen this way." Sakura smiled slightly and this really did shock Eriol he hadn't got a smile out of his friend since childhood, at least not a smile like that. "I haven't seen one of those on you for a while." Tomoyo smiled turning to her love.
"Believe me love its not you that makes her smile." Eriol looked horrified and Syaoran laughed.
"Come we should get you two moving your plane leaves within the hour." Sakura nodded and walked forward only to be grabbed by the wrist and pulled back into a loving embrace.
"You ready for this." Sakura nodded receiving a kiss from Syaoran. Sakura and Syaoran joined their friends just outside the doorway and continued to the lobby. Sakura could see the cameras and the reporters before they even reached the door.
Sakura stood tall and placed a mask on her face and Syaoran stopped noticing the sudden change.
"Sakura please don't." Sakura's face changed into that of confusion and Syaoran let go of a breath.
"Don't what?" Sakura was unaware that when she made a mask in this new form it cut him out as well, and he was scared of that.
"When you did that... you might have cut the world out but... you cut me out too." Sakura shook her head and paused letting her face go slack. Then nodded her head and hugged him than kissed his cheek.
"For you than I will not mask myself... I hope you realize that I can't hide anything then." Syaoran smiled, and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"Sakura there is nothing to hide anymore they will know everything and this is the beginning of the end of the war." Sakura nodded and took a deep breath placing her hand in Syaoran as he entwined their fingers. The two walked to the doors that were held open by guards Tomoyo and Eriol were already in the limo waiting for them, they slipped easily by the reporters as in they weren't interested in the couple. Sakura and Syaoran left the building there was a lot of yelling and flashing of cameras along with the rushing sound of traffic.
"Please Ladies and Gentlemen." Sakura's voice rang out in a sweet tone, though it belied her fury. The silence they gave her was immediate for all wanted the words from her mouth. And the small fact that she was both smiling sweetly and had a kind tone something that had never happened in front of the press. "I am sure that you all know my fiancé Li Syaoran. We are leaving to meet his family."
"Miss Kinomoto what about your companies, many people are worried they will lose their jobs?" Sakura looked at Syaoran and raised her brow asking the same question with her eyes.
"I believe that we have yet to discuss that but no one should worry about losing their job unless they screw up big time... and that goes for both of our companies." Sakura nodded conforming Syaoran's small speech.
"What about the wedding where will it be held?" Sakura and Syaoran smiled answering together with the same phrase.
"It will be a private matter." The reporters were stunned the way that the couple answered totally in sink.
"Miss Kinomoto, may we ask what happened to you?" Sakura froze slightly recomposing herself she took a deep breath.
"It is complicated, but let's just say that you all will have a very long story to post in your newspapers." Sakura smiled and Syaoran pulled her arm around him and led her to the limo.
"One more question for the happy couple." They turned to face the crowd there in the front was a woman with long brown hair her eyes were shaded by her bangs. "What do you plan to do when your family shows up?" Sakura's face fell hard and her eyes started to water. Sakura climbed into the limo without a word and Syaoran turned to the crowd.
"We will of course welcome her brother with open arms." Syaoran climbed in behind Sakura and pulled her into his embrace.
Sakura just sat there and allowed to be held, her heart broke. Her family wasn't... didn't exist. Sakura cried lightly onto Syaoran, his shirt was now wet with her tears.
"Sakura... come on now if he does come we will deal with it then not now." Sakura nodded clearing her eyes of the tears and pulling herself together.
"Sakura are you okay?" Tomoyo came and sat next to her, this was the first time that Tomoyo had seen any real emotion from Sakura for a long time. Sakura nodded.
"Yes, Tomoyo I am fine." Sakura turned to Eriol, and took a deep breath. "Eriol you will no longer have a problem from Mist... only from me." Eriol nodded it was harder for him to accept it but it was better this way he knew it. Sakura had been split for far too long, he had noticed the change in her. From the beginning when she came she wasn't what he remembered but then again it seemed as if much of his past was erased from his memory. With that he wasn't really surprised for Mist didn't want anything bad coming up in Sakura's past and in such had made everything or rather almost everything of her past be forgotten from almost everyone.
Sakura did not say a word all the way to the airport. She looked out into space and would not start a conversation she was stuck in a rut of memories as they headed down the road. Her father's death, her mother's murder, the funerals, and her brother's betrayal, how it all led her to this point. Where she led a company in dresses and dancing and she was marrying a cop that... that really loved her and was to be a leader in his own cooperation very soon.
The limo came to a halt and Sakura looked up to see Tomoyo and Eriol getting out of the limo. Sakura followed them out without looking back or looking where she was going, Syaoran followed her out steadying her at the same time. Before them was the airport but to the side was a privet jet to which they would take to China and to the Li family.
"SAKURA! Wait please!" Sakura did not turn to face the voice, or the man that it belonged to. Another voice soon followed that she would listen to though.
"Sakura please I know you want to leave but we need to talk!" Sakura turned to face Meiling, Yukito, and her ever betrayal brother Touya. Sakura was about to turn back around but the look on her brother's face made her stop. His fear of losing her even more was written plainly on his face.
"Meiling, Yukito I can talk to you but... Touya I can not." Sakura paused and allowed them to close the distance.
"Sakura, please don't go." Sakura stepped back into Syaoran's arms.
"Why shouldn't I?" Touya froze trying to think fast.
"Touya I am coming back. I can not deal with you right now... you and all of..." Sakura turned back to Syaoran he was holding her easily but the tension in his chest and arms proved to show that he was angry. Sakura smiled and suddenly it was all okay, suddenly she was Mist both Mist and Sakura. It took this long for Sakura to realize that all her life she had been split between innocence and pain, anger and happiness, fear and courage, and hate and love. She had split herself because at the time she couldn't deal with the pain, but now... it was different she could and she would. For now she was who she was always meant to be, a leader and a fighter. Sakura turned back around there wasn't a mask on her face. She showed her anger and her fear but it was controlled and she frowned. "Touya when I return we all of us will talk. But not until then."
"Sakura... I am sorry for everything... after what happened I received help and now I am not better... but I know now what I did wrong and I know that will never change what I did and I am not by no means asking for an apology I am just looking to make up for what I have done... I want to walk you down the isle... I want to be the one to give you away." Sakura looked at him she saw no lies, Touya she had to admit was very good at lying but Mist was always able to detect that and now so she was also able to, but she found no such things in his head only sincere need of wanting to be in her life. Finally Sakura went against her better judgment and walked over to Touya closing the space easily, he looked fearful for a moment fearful that she might hit him but instead she placed her hand lightly on his face.
"My brother... it feels odd to call you that for you were never there for me... not when father died... not when mother was murdered... not even when my friends died... but you are here now. I don't know why and I don't know if I want to know why, I am Mist and Mist has always been me. I will always have anger towards what you have done, but I hold no fear of you, not now not ever. I know deep down even long ago you loved me like none of them could, and wanted the best for me in your own twisted way. So against it all I will let you, I even want you to in some small way. Let this be the beginning of our family once again." Sakura turned and joined the others walking towards the plane but stopped only a few seconds afterward. "And Touya if you do anything to hurt my future I will kill you." Touya froze he took her words as a joke and answered back.
"Is that a threat or a promise?" Sakura turned her anger present but an eerie smile graced her lips a smile that scared Touya even from so far away.
"Why dead brother, it is neither, it is inevitable that is if you screw up. If you don't it will be one step closer to you being in my life... that is what you want isn't it." Touya simply nodded he wasn't surprised so much as scared, Sakura never believed in promises. Or anything forsworn at least from what he remembered she wouldn't make them, yet if you made them to her. That was something unforgivable, if you broke a promise to Sakura/Mist Kinomoto your fate was something worse than death.
Sakura turned with her group once again and started for the door of the plane. The group didn't walk far before Meiling was beside them walking backward, she was wearing a pair of jeans that were faded and her top slanted so that she had one sleeve.
"So Sakura you are really going to go through with this charade?" Meiling had a gleam in her eye and Sakura knew that she was up to something so again she stopped her group and turned to Meiling.
"Meiling is there a reason that you are holding us up?" Meiling smiled and shook her head no. Sakura sighed knowing that she was waiting for an answer. "What charade?" Meiling laughed heartily.
"You know it was nice and all that you said the two of you were going to get married but come on now. You are whole again and you don't need this loser to finish your quest." Sakura whirled to face Meiling directly her eyes on fire and her voice colder than any of her friends ever remembered hearing. Her very body seemed to emanate the mist that Mist had been named for.
"Bitch." The words came out in a forced whisper as Sakura slapped Meiling across the face. "I expected this from everyone else but never from you my best friend, my role model my... clan leader. This as we both have told you is no 'charade' and if you must know I am not whole without him. I don't care what anyone says... He did not quiver in fear when I turned he did not leave he stayed by my side all night telling me that it was okay to be me, that no matter what I was he would love me for who I was." Sakura's voice was harsh and cold riveting with the anger that rushed through her veins. "As far as you need to know what we have is real and for all I care you can... go... to... hell." Sakura paused looking for the right words before she finished her sentence, spiting each word as if it was just as vile as poison. Sakura turned and headed toward the plane not looking back or saying anything until she was about to enter. Sakura looked inside and saw all the furnishing, everything was perfect. She tilted her head and looked down seeing the outside and her friends looking at her.
"Yukito, I want you to be there too. I don't know why but I want all three of you there... but Meiling, Touya I will never stand for what you just did... if either of you try to stop this... I will not hesitate to throw you both in jail or kill you. That I can do. Yukito before I go... know that when you are ready I will tell you what you need to fight, and to save what happened to you from ever happening to anyone ever again." Everyone looked at Yukito no one knew what Sakura was talking about except Yukito and Sakura herself. Yukito nodded his face was pale and his eyes dulled. Sakura turned and walked into the plane disappearing into the shadows.
Syaoran nodded to Eriol and Tomoyo, they followed Sakura onto the plane. He turned to Meiling looking at her and taking her in for the first time. He saw the surprise on her face but even worse he saw a tear that streaked down her face. A face that was still red from where Sakura had slapped her, for the first time Syaoran realized how young Meiling must be. When he first saw her she looked much older but right now she appeared to be a little lost, the words hurt her.
"You deserved it you know." Meiling turned to him and she nodded, she was older than Sakura only by a few years though. There was much history between the two but he could not place where it might have been.
"She saved me... or rather Mist did I learned a lot that night from Mist. She told me all of it because I was in her debt forever. She saved me from something worse than hell, and kept me safe long after it was over." Meiling sighed, "I heard that Tomoyo was the one that made the announcement and I just thought that... well I knew if I confronted her that she might back off. I never expected." Meiling turned to face him the fury gone from her eyes. There was no fire, no brilliance, nothing filled her eyes it was pain and sadness on the edge of a chasm. "I never realized that she returned those feelings... I never realized that you were really the one to make her whole again and keep it that way... Please tell her that I am sorry and that I will be there with bells on." Syaoran nodded and walked onto the plane. He sat down next to Sakura at the back of the plane. Tomoyo and Eriol had slipped into the bathroom for a moment. Syaoran was sure that it would be much longer than a moment though.
"Sakura, Meiling says she's sorry and she will be there with bells on." Sakura simply nodded as Tomoyo came out laughing with Eriol behind her. Tomoyo walked over to Sakura.
"Are you sure I can't go with you guys?" Syaoran shook his head and Sakura spoke.
"No Japan needs both of you." Tomoyo laughed and looked at Sakura.
"No you mean your company needs me, Japan needs you." Tomoyo turned and left the plane pulling Eriol with her.
"Those two, do they ever get tired of doing that I wonder." Sakura looked up at him, a wicked gleam in her eye. She pulled the seat belt on as the plane started to move. Syaoran soon followed her. As the plane started to move Sakura laid her hand on Syaoran's thigh. He looked over at her, not expecting much he sat there thinking on other things. Sakura's hand moved up further to his crotch and massaged his area. Syaoran was thinking about his family when he was suddenly interrupted by Sakura's hand moving up further he didn't have a fast enough reaction to stop her. He bit his lip trying to stop the moan that was going to rip through his throat. He was vaguely aware of what Sakura was doing. Sakura moved so that she could whisper into his ear.
"Moan I know you want to." Sakura smiled as Syaoran finally let out the moan. Sakura pulled away suddenly as if she had been burned and Syaoran felt the loss more than ever before. Syaoran moved his hand on her thigh moving the thin skirt out of the way so that he could touch her skin directly. He heard more than felt the sharp intake of breath beside him. Sakura tried to move but the seat belt was a hindrance, Sakura could not stop him for she had started the game. Syaoran moved quickly up as she had done to him, but instead of massaging her he moved the layer of panties aside and pressed against her core. Sakura bit back a moan and Syaoran smiled she was always harder to make moan. He was comparatively weak in that area but he loved torturing her. He pressed harder and than pushed a finger into her. Her moan was louder than his was, the plane evened out and Syaoran unbuckled his seat belt quietly not making a noise. He slipped out of his seat and straddled Sakura. When she finally opened her eyes she found him above her.
"Sakura you started this game." Sakura nodded and he pulled her hands above her not allowing her to unbuckle herself. Syaoran locked her seatbelt so that it wouldn't give when she moved forward. Syaoran moved his fingers and pushed another one inside of her. Her moan was cut off when he kissed her. She was stuck totally at his mercy she couldn't move he had her wrists in his left hand and his right hand almost in her. His knees kept her legs together and his feet were keeping her legs down. Syaoran pulled away from her and she still couldn't move.
Syaoran moved her legs apart and pulled them up so that her legs were separated almost till it hurt. Syaoran pushed her up slightly so that she was sitting on his lap. Syaoran was now sitting Indian style and somehow he had gotten his pants undone. Sakura was looking at him he still had her wrists in his left hand. And his right hand was now lying on her back. Sakura smiled at him the gleam gone from her eyes.
"Sakura I want you to say it." Sakura looked at him.
"Say what?"
"I want you to say that you want me." Sakura smiled that was easy.
"I want you." Syaoran smiled, he kissed her lightly pulling away and making her follow until the seatbelt stopped her. It crossed over her shoulders and again right under her breasts. It gave way so that you could move up if you were taller. Sakura wanted to reach down and remove the hindrance but apparently Syaoran didn't want it removed. Sakura wrapped her legs around Syaoran and felt him move so that he was beneath her. She felt him he wanted her. Syaoran didn't think about her underwear or in other words didn't see that they would make a problem.
"Sakura I don't know why you wear these, they only become an annoyance when you where skirts." Syaoran pulled out a knife from his pocket.
"Syaoran I don't have any more up here." Syaoran smiled and looked at her.
"Then I guess you will just have to be careful who is looking up your skirt." Sakura's eyes went wide as Syaoran cut the underwear off of her instead of taking them off. He threw them to the other side of the plane. Syaoran looked up at her and pulled himself closer to her.
"Syaoran sometimes you can be such a..." Sakura was silenced by both Syaoran's mouth on hers and his entrance into her. Sakura moaned and Syaoran took control of her mouth taking in all of her taste. Sakura couldn't breathe and tried to pull away. He let her go but barely letting her rest her forehead on his. He slowly moved his hips and pulled her closer.
"Syaoran is there anyone... anyone else on the plane." Syaoran looked at her and smiled kissing her again and leaving her breathless.
"The pilot but he knows to leave us alone." Sakura was about to speak but Syaoran didn't let her taking her mouth as his once again and finally releasing the seatbelt and pausing only to push the seatbelt off. He pulled her to the floor of the plane and continued to make love to her.
Meanwhile
"I am sorry mistress but there is not that can be done from here." The woman raised her hand and waved it in the air dismissing the young man from her sight. As the man left the woman smiled it wasn't the worst thing to be evil it had its ups and its downs. One of the ups was that she could have any man she wanted and right now she had her eyes on one person in particular.
"Guards!" Her voice echoed out over the small house. Two men entered, these two were the best she had and they could get anyone she wanted. "I want Touya Kinomoto here..." when the men didn't move she continued. "I want him NOW not two weeks from now." The guards looked at each other and headed towards the door. "And I want him ALIVE and UNHARMED!" The guards cringed at that, their mistress liked to inflict her own punishment but only if it was truly deserved... then again she believed everyone deserved punishment. The mistress waited patiently she didn't have to wait long, for the men returned within ten minutes with Touya. Touya looked around like a lost dog not sure where to go or what to do.
"Hello again Touya... how is Sakura?" Touya froze fear penetrating every part of his body.
"She's fine... leave her alone. She didn't do anything to you." the woman stood up and walked over to him placing her hand on his cheek.
"No you are right she didn't... yet." Touya looked away.
"Touya come now is that any way to treat your mistress." Touya pulled away from her.
"You are not my master any more." The woman laughed, "Touya you are so very naïve I don't think you get it. You have always been mine and always will be mine." Touya shook his head violently.
"No not anymore. Sakura is coming for you and I will not be here when she comes." The woman slapped Touya and sent him flying. The power that coursed through her veins was apparent in this small movement.
"Stupid boy!" She spat the words at him as he laid on the floor in front of her. "It matters not what your sister does I am a demon and she can not compare to my power." The woman waved her hands to the guards and they left. She walked over to Touya where he was sprawled across the floor. "Come now, Touya I will give you all that you have ever wanted." Touya weakly shook his head. "Fine I will take all I want from you." The woman pulled him to his feet and pushed him to the wall. Her hands came to end in claws not fingertips, she rubbed her hands over his chest and smiled evilly as she looked into his eyes his fear flooded him and he stopped resisting her as he had done all those years ago.
China
Sakura looked out the window the city wasn't much different from her own. Except here in this city the Li family ruled instead of Sakura Kinomoto. She wondered if it would make a difference that she was also a heroine. Sakura waited patiently for Syaoran to get the rest of the baggage. Sometimes he was a real gentlemen, Sakura smiled thinking of all of the things that they had discussed on the drive to the company earlier yesterday. Her wrist was grasped lightly and Sakura smiled remembering what happened not so long ago. Sakura let his arms snake around her waist.
"No reporters not yet but if we don't leave there will be." Sakura nodded and they walked to the limo together. The sights weren't that much different from Japan they had cities and airports, even forests. The only thing that China had that Japan didn't was her love's family, something she wanted to have. Sakura followed Syaoran into the limo not a word passing between them. Sakura was looking out the window when a cell phone rang. It happened to be Syaoran's so Sakura watched the scenery that passed by, not really listening to his conversation.
"Hello," Syaoran nodded even though he knew the other person couldn't see the gesture. "Really," he nodded again and took out a piece of paper and wrote something done. "Yes, I got it... thank you... you too." Sakura looked over at him and he locked eyes with her. "Apparently, my family is really excited that you are coming and have planned a dinner and something else." Sakura simply nodded looking back out the window.
"Syaoran... there is something I should tell you before..." Syaoran's phone rang again and he looked apologetically at her and she simply nodded saying it was okay.
"Hello," his face paled. "Mother... yes... she's right here..." Syaoran looked at Sakura holding his hand over the mouth piece.
"She wants to talk to you." Sakura nodded and took the phone.
"Hello?"
"Miss Kinomoto," Sakura flinched at the coldness in the voice the way it played her name as if it was a piece of meat for a moment Sakura wondered if this woman was teasing her for it sounded remarkably how she referred to many of her employees. "I hope that you have had a good flight I wouldn't want my daughter to be, to be tired. I hope my son is being a gentleman." Sakura shifted like she was under the woman's gaze.
"Perfect, madam." She heard some shuffling in the background and some shushing.
"Please Kinomoto call me Yelan." Sakura shifted again.
"Only if you call me Sakura." Sakura finally had some semblance of comfort and said, "When someone says Kinomoto I automatically think that I am in trouble then I want to yell at them for calling me that." Yelan smiled on the other end she was truthful but Yelan covered up her smile by answering her.
"Yes well I don't think that you need to do either but it would be nice to see some of that commanding air of yours when you get here, Sakura." Sakura nodded her resolve returning.
"Yes, Yelan."
"Now please put my ambiguous son back on the line." Sakura handed the phone back to Syaoran and looked out the window they were now coming up to a gate but they did not stop, the gate opened ahead of them and they just entered without pausing.
"Sakura," she turned to find him watching her and he had hung up the phone. "There was something you were going to tell me?" Sakura shook her head and remembered what she was going to tell him only to be interrupted by the car stopping and the door opening. "Don't worry they can wait." Sakura shook her head again and left the car Syaoran soon following.
"No it would be better if I told you later love." Sakura walked up the stairs with Syaoran's arm around her waist he held her tightly almost as if he was afraid that she would run away. Sakura took his other hand and squeezed it and he returned it. Sakura stepped up and the doors opened and they continued through. The mansion was very much what she had expected, a chandelier, a stair case leading to the upper levels an open living room to the right and a door to the left more than likely leading to the huge dinning room. They were standing in a room that on the off days could be used as a ball room even though for size she knew it was a small greeting room. Sakura looked around not in the least surprised people who were rich or had been rich before their parents were even thought of normally inherited such defined places. Sakura waited until Syaoran started to move, but before he could get a few feet there were four shrieks that made ears want to run. They came from the upper levels and Sakura stepped back as Syaoran stepped forward protecting her from his sisters.
"Xiao Lang... it is good to have you home." Screeched the first one, taking his check between two fingers, Syaoran batted her hand away.
"Come now sisters he is growing up." The second one stood a little off to the side making comments her stomach enlarged slightly.
"Yes that's why he is so cute!" The third decided to add something of her own.
"Xiao Lang I missed you." The last one was much bigger her pregnancy very noticeable as she tackled Syaoran in a hug so fierce he almost fell to the ground.
"Sister's please I need to breathe." His sisters let go of him and they all turned to Sakura, as a group they gasped her appearance wasn't what they had expected. Sakura had changed from what she had been wearing before. Her top came together shorter on one side than on the other. It revealed much more of her tattoo than her first shirt the skirt was longer than the first but was also cut so that both the top and the skirt slanted in the same direction. Sakura did not look angry or even upset she seemed almost satisfied at the look the sisters had, a look that was closer to surprise and fear than happiness.
"Sisters I would like you to meet my fiancé Sakura Kinomoto. Sakura I would like you to meet my sisters. Fuutie, Shiefa, Fanren, and Feimei," each in turn nodded to her Fuutie was only 2 months pregnant ready to get married to the father, and Fanren was 8 months pregnant and married.
"It is nice to meet all six of you." The girls looked at each other counting and realized she meant the babies too. The girls laughed and smiled though they still looked apprehensive about Sakura.
"If you don't mind me asking Sakura you do not look as you did... when I saw you last." Sakura smiled and nodded looking away for a moment before finally answering. The girls nodded with the oldest sister's question.
"Before you only saw half of who I was now who you see before you is..." Sakura turned and looked at the girls for impression. "Me, the real me whole and sane." The girls nodded for more than one understand what she meant. It was not that she was getting married that would make her whole it was finding another piece of who she was while she was doing it.
"Xiao Lang..." A woman had descended the stairs and was now at the bottom facing them the sisters parted giving the woman a clear view of both Syaoran and Sakura. "Sakura..." Yelan paused as she looked over Sakura but continued over as if there had been nothing different about Sakura from a normal person. Yelan closed the distance between her and her son easily with the grace that was natural born and the authority that came with working and ordering people through the worst of times. She placed her long fingers onto her son's shoulders, kissing him on the forehead she spoke clearly but not loudly allowing the echo to carry her voice and make it be heard. "It is good to have you home, son." Syaoran simply nodded hugging his mother in a simple embrace that was mostly for show. Sakura felt the tension increase as Yelan looked her over, Sakura could tell the gaze was critical and Sakura having dealt with people of the like stood straight and raised her head to meet the gaze. Yelan after a moment smiled.
"Yelan." Yelan nodded and motioned for Sakura to come forward.
"I see that you do not look as I have seen you before when did you acquire this little alteration." Sakura looked straight into the woman's eyes and did not back down.
"I think it is best if I say that I acquired it a long time ago it is only started to become more apparent recently." The sisters looked at her skeptically but Yelan simply nodded motioning for them to follow as she walked to the stairs. The sisters backed off going into the open living room. It was time for the elders to meet the happy couple. Sakura watched the hallways that they passed to her it appeared as they were going in circles. Apparently this place was much bigger then it appeared. Yelan led them further and deeper beyond the bed rooms and the normal areas of the house. Yelan glanced over her shoulder her son was glancing nervously over his shoulder at Sakura. She wasn't taking notice though she was too involved with her surroundings to notice even if she knew what to look for.
Yelan thought about everything for a moment. Her son at first had appeared to be much worse for the ware. Yet now he appeared different, she observed him carefully he appeared slightly jittery as if his skin was crawling. She gathered it might be, he of course had never liked the elders. Sometimes Yelan wondered if that was the real reason he left not just because they told him to get married. He was back now, with a woman who appeared to be much more then the elaborate body art and the commanding demeanor. Yelan paused at a door and turned to face the couple. Syaoran snaked his hand into Sakura's and gave it a light squeeze Sakura returned with her own squeeze. Yelan smiled inwardly and spoke softly.
"Stay here until you are called." Yelan paused and turned specifically to Sakura, "Answer the truth, do not lie, and do not look down. Match their fury with your own that is how you will find a place in this family." Sakura nodded her fury already willing and waiting to be pushed over. Yelan entered the dark room there was no sound that came from it and Syaoran and Sakura stood side by side waiting.
"I think my mother likes you." Sakura glanced at Syaoran.
"Really how?" Syaoran glanced back at her.
"She warned you what to expect she has never ever done that." Syaoran grinned and then straightened his face as the door opened. Sakura quickly followed keeping a straight face and followed Syaoran's lead as he entered when the person behind the door motioned them within.
The room was darker then Sakura thought it could have been. Before them was a tiny area of light that revealed five people sitting around a half circle table, it appeared that a woman was standing off to the side. Sakura gathered that it was Yelan for she was the correct height. Syaoran was not stupid the way that the room he knew had been set up to impress Sakura he also knew that this set up would not in any way impress her.
There were two men and three women that occupied the table. The men appeared to be much older then they actually were the first a thin man was dressed in a deep red and his hair was white which was unusual in itself for a Chinese. The second appeared to look the age he really was, by and by it was much older then he really wanted to be he was wearing a deep blue. He was bigger then he should have been but it was not without adaptability, he could lift much of which many people his age could not have even moved at their best years. The first woman was much younger then an elder should be, her dress was a deep yellow and her face seemed to be whiter because of it. The second woman slightly older did not smile or move much at all appearing dead in a deep purple dress. The last woman sat in the center, she was much older then all of them. Her dress a deeper green then Sakura's eyes, but her eyes were a red deep and furious she sat emotionless except for her eyes. Sakura stood before them and did not move she had removed her hand from Syaoran's before they entered.
"Leaders of the Li clan I would like to present to you my fiancée Lady Sakura Kinomoto." Some of the elders spoke among themselves but the center one raised her eyebrow to his words.
"Lady... what makes this... charlatan a lady and what gives her the right to stand before us in such an unwavering state." Syaoran did not allow the fury to show in his face but it was more than obvious in his eyes.
"Lady... the term Lady is defined as one who has come from a royal family and has royal blood. If I am a lord and I come from a company leader and a clan. Then she must be the equivalent for she is a daughter of the Kinomoto line. Both strength in mind and body, and an immeasurable amount of power spiritual, I have accepted her and I hope you all can except her too." The woman stood and walked around the table to stand before Sakura, she placed a cold hand on Sakura's face.
"You mean to say that if we do not accept her you will leave and marry her anyway." She turned to Syaoran and frowned. "You know we do not like this, she is weak. She has been defiled. I mean look at her body those tattoos have made her a disgrace to not only Japan but to her family too." Syaoran was angry but when the woman mentioned Sakura's family he looked over at her through the corner of his eye and saw that she was not afraid or even amused she was emotionless, or so he thought.
"Elder... I have been respectful and silent while you have attacked and tried to embarrass me. It is clear to me why I have come, to get an approval of this family. But from what I have seen it is easy to understand why Syaoran has left. He wants to return that's why he wants you to accept me... not that I can understand why. I have walked this place and seen the way you treat each other. These tattoos which you think are a disgrace are in fact a piece of who I am, I can not remove them for they have not been placed on me in a conventional way only a magical way. As for being defiled... well if that's what I get for loving your son then so be it. Besides even if I was in Japan my family would not be disgraced for there is no Kinomoto clan anymore... or ever again." Sakura turned her head up and took a deep breath before continuing. "I do not need your approval or your permission, nor do I really want it... but Syaoran my love does and for him I will ask for it." The five looked at her curiously.
The youngest female broke the silence first. "She speaks the truth... but how much of the truth is actually spoken." The elder woman shook her head and walked back to her seat, she did not look up again.
"I believe that we need to discuss this a little more... we have made a decision under false pretenses." Syaoran turned to leave.
"Please sleep well we will give you our answer in the morning." Sakura turned but paused as she had done earlier on the plane she looked over her shoulder.
"Home... what I used to call home... I would give anything to have a family once again... I do not see how you can look at each other thus. As if... as if you do not care for one another, my life has been hard and sad. Yet you sit here around a table decided if I am appropriate person to help lead a clan... I did not choose to fall in love with Syaoran, nor did I choose to have a family that would leave me all alone. The only person that is left in my family is my brother a murderous man. Even now I wish to see him for he is still my brother and I still love him... for all it is worth, if I didn't marry Syaoran... I wouldn't marry at all... ever." Sakura walked away with Syaoran by her side leaving the elders to speak amongst themselves on where to go from here.
Later
Syaoran led Sakura down the hall it wasn't that long until Sakura was completely lost, and it was getting very late. Sakura had met some more people most of them had been people who knew the family and were friends. None of them cared for the fact that Syaoran was marrying outside of the family. Sakura had tried to impress them but failing at that each time her anger overrunning her senses and finally she yelled that she was through with wasting her time. She ended up throwing one of the younger men that had place a hand on her thigh out a window. Syaoran of course would have done it if she hadn't.
"Sakura here we are your room is linked to mine." Sakura came out of her thoughts and just stared at him until she finally heard what he said and nodded. Sakura opened the door and walked inside, her mind faltered and she moved to the bed using it to support her. Syaoran was curious Sakura had left the door open and stumbled to the bed hanging onto the bed post and barely standing. Syaoran walked in and closed the door, he walked to her and pulled her into an embrace her legs gave out and Syaoran held her tightly.
"Syaoran... before when we were in the car and I wanted to tell you something I want to tell you that now..." Sakura yawned and Syaoran shook his head.
"Sakura you should go to bed we can talk in the morning." Syaoran lifted her and laid her on the bed.
"Syaoran... this is important I want to tell you that I think I might be..." Sakura drifted off before she could tell him the rest and Syaoran shook his head thinking it was something simple and left the room.
Morning
Syaoran had been up all night, he did not favor sleep last night. Coming to train here in this room was his only option. He was not sure how long he had been there but as he continued to punch through the air his eyes closed thinking on the last couple days. Normally he would not have let something like this continue. The wedding he didn't know why but for some reason, he wanted to live with Sakura more then he wanted to move back home. Syaoran's punch contented with a solid body, opening his eyes he found that Sakura was there ready to spar with him. Syaoran arched an eyebrow, and looked at her but had no time to comment as her fist was heading toward his face. Ducking he avoided her punch but not her foot as she kicked his feet out form under him.
She sat on him finishing the fight, she of course liked the view she had seen when she first entered. Syaoran had taken his shirt off some time ago, leaving him in black silk pants specifically designed for fighting and practicing. Sakura sat there looking at him his chest was glistened with sweat. Helping him to his feet she then attacked him leaving no chance for him to counter. Again she kicked his feet out from under him but this time Syaoran grabbed her and pulled her atop him. Once they had fallen he rolled her underneath him.
"Are you quite finished?" Sakura simply nodded breathing a little hard. "If I hadn't been so tired I would have been able to show you some more moves." Sakura simply nodded her face changed and her eyes watered. Syaoran rose to his feet and pulled her up. "Sakura what's wrong?" Sakura shook her head. "Sakura, honey, what's wrong?" Sakura looked at him and nodded to the benches. Sakura sat down and for the first time Syaoran noticed that she hadn't spoken a word. Then it fit something was really wrong and the fight was to help her figure out a solution. "Sakura... is there a reason that you are not speaking." Sakura looked at him oddly then finally spoke.
"No... we are supposed to go the meeting in a few minutes... but before we do I want to tell you something I didn't get to tell you last night. I think I am changing again..." Syaoran knelt before her.
"How? I thought that you were finished with it." Sakura looked at her hands and lifted them for him to see. There on her hand was a small design nothing larger then a quarter but there was a small teardrop.
"I am still changing I never really stopped... I am not sure what this means... I want. No I need to talk to Meiling. I know she knows what is going on." Syaoran nodded pulling out his phone it would be a little weird but he dialed the company's number.
"Good morning Kinomoto Dance Corporation, Shie speaking how may I help you?" Syaoran growled at dialing the wrong connection.
"Yes you can connect me with Tomoyo and you can make it fast." Shie shook on the other side she recognized the voice it had come three or four times and each time it sounded annoyed or angry this time it sounded anxious so she hurried the person had never been mean. No where near what she knew was possible.
"Right away sir just a second." True to her word s few seconds later, much faster then she had done before Syaoran was connected and the phone rang three times.
"Hello, Kinomoto office how may I help you?" Tomoyo's voice was cheery and she bubbled with life, despite himself Syaoran grinned.
"Yes, Tomoyo it's me I need to know do you know where Meiling is at this moment." Tomoyo sighed.
"Yes she is right here we were talking about you guys." Syaoran heard Meiling in the back round.
"Okay which one is Syaoran or Sakura?" Tomoyo answered "Syaoran."
"Put Meiling on the phone it's important and Sakura needs to talk to her." Syaoran turned and handed the phone to Sakura without waiting for a reply. Sakura relayed her thoughts to Meiling. On the other end Meiling shook her head sadly, and then sighed her mind already working miles ahead.
"Sakura, Mist never told me of this... she never thought to tell me for she thought she would be able to tell you. Yet from what you have told me it appears that you are preparing for the battle at hand. I can not tell you what you might change to, how much you will turn or if you will ever be the same. All I know is that the change will be over a long period of time a few weeks maybe a month. I'm not sure but maybe there are some answers in your very memory, since you and Mist are one in the same the answers are there in your head Sakura all you have to do is look." The line started to go and crackling Meiling said something but the line went dead. Sakura handed the phone back to Syaoran.
"I believe that your family is going to be in for a surprise." Syaoran looked at her and shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Sakura stood and looked at him.
"I mean there will be a change a battle and a very big ending. That is the surprise."
Dragonia: I hope you like this I don't know really where to go from here... this one is longer then the others there was a lot that I wanted to fit in this one... there was a lot more that I wanted to fit into this one but it will just have to wait till next time.
Preview-
The sky was rolling and everything was going wrong, nothing happened as was planned. There before them all was a stone, a stone that hadn't even been thought of the day before, it is sad how a happy day had fallen like this. It can only be imagined what would happen now.
