A/N: Time to end the play. Everything isn't what they've always been anymore. It's about time we have some change, back to the original place!
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Chapter 14: Revealed
Sakura heard the ringing sound of her cell from the bedroom. She stopped the hot running water, wrapped a towel around her body then ran out of the bathroom, messed all her room up to find her cell was put under a bunch of clothes and weapons. It was Tomoyo: "Moshi moshi Sakura. I'm back! I'm in Beijing. How have you been? Alright? Did you Yukito find out anything?" A bunch of questions were thrown against Sakura. She laughed: "Wow...slow down, girl. Too many questions. How about meeting each other? I'll talk into detail for you later." Tomoyo nodded in agreement: "Ok, let's meet at the cafe we met last time. I can't wait to hear about what you have been doing lately". "Then I'll meet you in an hour." - Sakura agreed and shut her phone. She quickly dried her hair, put on a tight jeans, a sweater, a coat and a scarf. She threw her phone into her bag, grabbed it then rushed out of her room. She met Yukito at the way out of the mansion. He caught her by the arm: "Hi darling, where are you going?" he bent down and kissed her. Sakura smiled innocently: "I'm meeting a friend of mine. It's been a long time since the last time I seen her. She was the one who always by my side when my parents were killed. I owed her so I want to keep the friendship between us. Don't worry, I know what to say. I won't let her know anything about Red Lions. I promise." She wrapped her arms around his neck, pulled him down and kissed him on the lips then turned around and ran to her car, opened it and got in quickly.
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Tomoyo nearly jumped on Sakura when she saw her: "Oh, I'm so sorry. I've been abroad for so long that I couldn't even come to Beijing to see what happened to you or at least how you were. Glad you're fine… or not?" She lifted one of her brow suspiciously. Sakura shook her head slowly: "Not really. I've just had a battle with my own family and hit Eli and made Syaoran break his arm or shoulder or both." She concluded in despair. "And you know what? I've been wondering about one thing. Meilin was so weird. She seems to know Shenhua for a long time. At the end of the battle, she told me to trust no one but Shenhua, the enemy. But the problem is they're having crisis between them so how the hell could she told me to do that? What's wrong with her?" Tomoyo lower her voice: "No way! Are you sure Meilin isn't the enemy? I mean no one on our side would tell you to do such a ridiculous thing, don't you think?" Sakura shook her head again and said firmly: "That can't be. Anyone can betray Syaoran but her. She's loyal to him than anybody else. She's just like a safe lock. She can't betray him!" Tomoyo asked: "Then why did she tell you to do such things? It's not hilarious at all." Sakura bit her lower lip: "I'm not sure but there's must be something between them. Despite Shenhua's negative reaction, Meilin was so desperate to talk to her. The kind of look on Meilin's face was...hard to describe. It contained both loved and hatred. I don't know which is her true feeling. Maybe both. Oh, wait a minute! Now I've remembered. I used to feeling Shenhua is familiar. She resemblances someone I know. And that someone is Meilin. They look perfectly alike." She hit her forehead in discoverable: "Maybe that's the reason why she told me to believe Shenhua. Maybe she knows that Shenhua hasn't lost her humanity yet." Tomoyo frowned in confusion: "I still don't get it. What does "they look alike" get to involve with this? Don't tell me...Oh god, they're cousin, aren't they?" Sakura nearly jumped out of her chair: "That's exactly what I mean. I'm just not sure if Meilin was right or not. Maybe Shenhua can't help me. Maybe she will kill me instead. But actually I've never heard of any cousins that Meilin has other than Syaoran." As she finished her sentences, her phone started ringing. She quickly opened it to see it was Yukito who called: "Wait a minute, Yukito's calling." She brought her cell up to her ear and said in a cheerful voice: "Hi darling! Oh, you want to see me? Now?" – She could see Tomoyo frowned and struggled uncomfortably in her chair by the corner of her eyes: "A fight? What did they think to leave the mansion alone? Ok, got it. I'll be back in 10 mins." She shut her phone, quickly threw it back into her bag and explained to her friend: "Some other gang is trying to screw up the mansion and Yukito ordered me back to protect our hideout because most of the members have left it so now it's unsecured. Sorry but I gotta go now, I'll try to see you in the nearest future." She promised. Tomoyo looked at her understanding: "Don't know why but I got a bad feeling about this, doesn't matter what it is."
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Sakura got out of her car, rushed into the mansion's living room and looked around confusingly. She saw no one, not to mention a fight had happened there. The mansion remained intact, dark and silent. Like Tomoyo, she started to feel really bad. She raised her voice: "Yuki? Shenhua? Garrick? Where the hell are..-" Her words were caught in her throat, couldn't get out. She felt the hard, cold barrel pressed against the back of her head. Before she could react with the situation, the heavy rifles hit on her head, everything went dark as the place she was falling into...
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Sakura's body fell on the hard, cold floor. Behind her, a tiny figure coldly looked down on her unconscious body and from the back of the garden, a big man came into the mansion: "Get her out of here" - It was a child voice. A girl. The man behind her nodded simply and lifted Sakura up easily. The girl looked around the mansion one last time with her sharp purple eyes then turned away and walked out of the mansion. A moment later, sound of their car's engine working was heard and they drove off.
At the darkest corner of the mansion, a pair of eyes looked at the place Sakura had fallen calculatedly...
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Syaoran sat behind his desk, head in his hands. He didn't know why but he'd been feeling uncomfortable since the very early of the morning. A weird feeling kept growing inside him. His thought wandered back to Sakura: "I hope she is okay. I don't like this feeling. Not at all."
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"Splash" The cold water hit her face. Sakura slowly opened her eyes and looked up. Her head was still in pain, her vision was blur and it took her a long time to see everything clearly. She blinked a few times until she could focus on everything around her and the situation she was in. She was sitting on a short wooden chair, her hands were twisted behind and tied tightly into the back of the chair, she could hardly feel anything because of the numbness. "Hello sleeping beauty. Have you fully awaken or do I have to wake you up instead?" A familiar voice got her attention. Sakura looked at the person in front of her, it made her shiver when she realized the person who caught her: "Lily? What the hell are you doing? Let me go! Yuki called me back to the HQ. Where's he?" Slapped. Lily looked at her with hatred: "Shut up slut. Stop calling him like he's your. It's not the same situation anymore. The play is over, time to reveal who you really are, Cherry Lin or may I call you Kinomoto?" - She raised her voice mockingly. Sakura froze. She could feel Cherry's glass mask had broken into pieces. Her throat went dry as she tried to speak up: "What Kinomoto? Have you gone mad?". Lily glared at her dangerously as she said through gritted teeth: "You're smart, but not smart enough to trick us. You think you can fool us forever? You think we'd never know you're Sakura Kinomoto, a slut who dared to fool around with us? Huh, you've always been thinking like that, haven't you? Answer me you fucking Kinomoto bitch!" At the last question, Lily exploded and a slap came across Sakura's face. Sakura swallowed the salty blood in her mouth, tried to talk back eventually she knew for sure it wouldn't help her much: "I didn't trick you guys or anything. Stop imagining things. You're just a child, you can't act like you want based on your imaginative head". Lily laughed out loud: "Excuse me? What did you just say? No, I'm not a child. You're only a sixteen years old girl, Kinomoto, while I myself have lived on this earth for 26 years". Sakura gulped, her voice trembled: "Does Yukito know what you're doing to me? I told you I'm not a traitor. Even you told him that, he wouldn't believe you because he loves me. He'd know that I'm not your fucking Kinomoto girl". Lily broke out laughing again: "You fool. You think your trick could surpass my intelligent co-leader's eyes? He used you. He only interested with your body. He needs you to pleased him, not love him, and definitely not betray him. Now he knows the truth, you're done for, Kinomoto" She said ruthlessly.
Sakura dumbfounded. She cleared her dried throat but nothing came out. Suddenly, a pair of strong arms wrapped around her shoulders. "His" breath tickled her ear: "I can't believe it. It's you, the one I loved the most turned out to be a bitch from the Wolves. That I couldn't take. Now, tell me..." - He let her go and slowly walked to her front: "Who are you? I want every detail. Remember to tell the truth because we nearly knew everything about you. Even the smallest lie may harm you." He started walking across the room and back: "Firstly, what's your name?" Sakura gulped. They knew her name: "Cherry Lin. Listen Yuki, this is ridiculous, you know that I...-" Slap. Yukito growled "Don't call me Yuki and don't fuck around with me. Listen up bitch, you're spy, so for your own sake, tell us the fucking truth." Sakura trembled. Even they'd known the truth, she still couldn't bring herself to tell all what she knew even though she was frightening about her "former lover" and afraid of her life being taken away: "I've told you the truth and I'll say again whether you believe me or not. I'm not a spy and I'd never do anything such as betray you. I don't know where did you get the idea from but I can't betray you. I love you Yuki, please trust me!" Yukito looked at her, his eyes sparked dangerously as he snapped his finger. Lily gave him the file with a name that made her blood run cold: Sakura Kinomoto. Sakura paled, her eyes never left the file: "What is this now? Is this some kind of joke?" Yukito slowly opened the file and read out loud: "Sakura Kinomoto. Born in 1/4/xxxx in Tomoeda, Japan. Father's Fujitaka Kinomoto, director of the Kang Corporation, was murdered three months ago. Mom died since you were three. Student of Tomoeda high school, has been missing from 4/26; it's been six months since people last seen her. There's still no information about her whereabout." Yukito looked up from the file and accused: "Is it enough? From the beginning there was no one named Cherry Lin with her parents killed by Li Syaoran." His lips curved up with victorious. Sakura closed her eyes to control her scare as Syaoran and BW's image slowly appeared in her mind. Looked at each face of her family, she couldn't resist the feeling of protecting them. She opened her eyes, which were flashed with determination at that moment: "It's bullshit. I'm not your self-created Kinomoto".
Yukito seemed to be pretty impatient. He snapped his fingers again as behind him, Xihu and Garrick appeared. Xihu cut the rope, pulled her off the chair onto the floor. Sakura didn't have the chance to know what really was going on because of a punch she received right at her stomach. Xihu hands caught her falling body and kept her stand still. Xihu's voice echoed from above her head: "I knew it. It was you who leaked the info. I've never trusted you since the first time I see you stepped into this place." Sakura frowned in pain. She struggled, tried her best to get out of Xihu grip but everything she did was useless. He was too strong so she started to panic. Her mouth went dry as she tried to speak up: "What made you think I'm the spy? I told you I'm not...-" Garrick's kick flew right to her face. He growled furiously: "Shut your mouth! Do you know that information about you has been given to us? If you want to keep your life, spill!" Sakura's tears of pain started flowing out but she stopped them, bit her lips to prevent saying anything unexpectedly. Syaoran's image flashed through her mind before she was given another kick from Garrick...
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Sakura opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the dull dirty ceiling. Her body was cold and heavy. When she tried to get up, she fell down immediately because of the piercing pain in her chest. Lied down slowly, she brought her hand up and touch her chest. She knew for sure after the ruthless hits of Garrick, some of her bones must have broken. She breathed heavily and tried to get up one more time. This time, she managed to lean on the wall. After a while of awakened, she finally felt every paths of her body were aching and hurt like hell. She turned her head to look around. She was trapped inside a small dark room with no windows or furniture. Actually, it seemed like a storage that hasn't been used for a long time. Her eyes left the place to focus on her arms and legs. Cuts and wounds on her body have stopped bleeding. Even though, her head was still spinning around madly. All of a sudden, the door swung open, a tall figure stood in front of the only way to get out of the room, covered all the weak light came from outside. Yukito's voice came, cold and dangerous: "Hi darling, I'm taking you to the leader". He stepped inside the dirty room, grabbed her upper arm and pulled her up, made she scream because of the pain. He didn't care about her pain even just for a little bit as he kept on pulling her after him, made she almost fall on the ground. She ran after him, tried to pull him back but instead of stopping him, everything she gained was just the unbearable pain in her arms and body. He pulled her to an elevator, pressed the button and pushed her in violently. Sakura hit the back of the elevator, looked at the door closing in fear then turned her eyes to Yukito - who was leaning against the door: "You're still taking me to the leader even I told you I'm not the spy?" Yukito seemed to have tired of her denial. He sighed and looked at the electric board. They were on 9th floor. "We've tested your ADN. Your is the same to Fujitaka's". Sakura legs shook, she knew that she's lost, lying couldn't help her anymore so she looked right into his eyes, questioned him: "You killed him?" Her words just like a whisper. Yukito shook his head: "No. We got someone at the police department to do his job". The elevator stopped as the door opened. He grabbed her arm and pulled her after him again. This time, Sakura didn't bother to resist since she couldn't escape from Yukito.
They stopped in front of a wooden door at the end of the hall way. Knocked on the door, Yukito heard his leader voice: "Take her in". Yukito didn't say a word. All he did was open the door, pushed Sakura inside before closed the door and locked it. Sakura looked around the dark room, got herself off the floor and stepped back only to face the hard cold wall. Suddenly, the wall behind her started moving and a pair of arms wrapped around her body. A familiar voice - which she hadn't realized before - whispered against her ear: "How surprising! I can't believe the betrayal is my long lost fiancée". Luke Kang slightly wrapped his fingers around her slim neck. Sakura startled. She struggled and got out of his grip. She stared at him, terrified: "Luke! You're... Red Lions' leader? That can't be... The leader must be Kai Ochiwa" She stepped back, her eyes wide opened. He laughed and smirked: "Kai Ochiwa is just a pawn. Everything command was from me. I promised him money, fame and everything. In the end, all he got was death since he'd known too much than he should have. Sacrifice a pawn for the king is an usual thing. All left was Yuuri. I'll soon take care of that bitch". Luke started walking around her. The light from the moon was the only light left in the room. He walked closer to her and lifted her chin up: "I could see they did a great job. At least they've left you face as beautiful as ever. But you body, hurt, broken... I love it". His hot breath made she shiver. Her body went numb as she couldn't move anymore. Plus the wounds and broken bones in her body, since when she didn't know, her body had to lean on Luke's body to stand on the ground. She pushed him back and tried to stand on her only shaking legs: "Bastard, what are you intending to do to me?" Luke laughed and started to walk around her: "What do you think I'm intending to do? I wanted you so badly as I proposed to you but you ran away. Now what? What should I do when I found out the one I wished to marry is right in front of me, tried to fool around with me? Should I take her to be my wife, or... should I kill her painfully?" His eyes flashed evilly. Sakura breathed heavily. The atmosphere in there was solid, she couldn't breathe or control herself.
Luke walked to her back, and whispered against her neck: "Or maybe I'll just have to enjoy her before I kill her to satisfy my needs". As he finished what he said, he pulled her violently to the king sized bed in his room, pushed her down and sat on her. Sakura yelled and pushed him off but both her hands were caught by his as he kissed her and tried to tear her clothes off. Sakura cried out loud as she bit him, made him bleed. Luke growled with anger: "Fuck you, bitch! You slutty whore, how dare you?" He brought his hand up and slapped her hard, made her lips bury and her cheek swell. Sakura looked at him disgustedly, then spitted in his face. Luke's face was reddened. He used all of his strength to kick her, made she fly across the room and hit the bookshelf. Her body dropped on the floor, motionless...
The door swung opened...
Garrick ran into the room, announced with a serious tone: "We're being under attacked". By now, he finally saw the situation. His leader was in extreme anger, Sakura's body was lying at the back of the room, buried under tons of books. But he didn't spend much time worrying about it, he looked back at his leader, waited for the command. Luke looked at him angrily, he growled: "What the fuck did I pay you to do? It's protecting this fucking mansion. How the heck could they find out this place and attack us? Who is attacking?" Garrick was a bit hesitating before he decided to speak up: "It's the Green Dragons". As he thought, the whole mansion nearly broke out into pieces because of Luke's anger. His face turned into furious as he grabbed Garrick's collar and wailed: "Fucking bastard! How come you let those dick-headed get into my hideout? Where the fuck is Yukito? I want him to come here, now!"
Suddenly, a noise behind him made he turn back.
Sakura has awakened. She was trying to climb out of the wide-opened window and the noise she made was the sound of the window being pushed open. As soon as Luke saw her, he immediately reached for the sword he hang on the wall and jumped toward her. She closed her eyes when she saw him jumping to her and then a sharp pain on the back made she scream painfully. Luke's sword left a long cut on her back. Sakura looked at the sword above her head, terrified. In that destined moment, she sudden felt like surviving. She grabbed the nearest thing to her and stabbed him in the left eye. Luke screamed and hugged his bleeding eye, dropped the sword on the ground. Sakura breathed heavily then back to her escaping plan. As she got one of her leg out of the window, a bullet was released from Garrick's gun, whizzed and pierced right into her thigh. She yelled and fell out of the window, into the dark night...
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to be cont
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A/N: Hope you're satisfied with this chapter eventually I know that many of you still have tons of questions in your head but don't worry, it'll be revealed soon in a few next chapter. Surprising is the interesting path of reading a story right?
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