Time Frame: A few hours late.

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The salty sea air wafted through the cracks in the wooden planks of the walls and the floors. The ocean waves crashed against the support pillars of the dock. These scents and sounds were what Sakura awakened to. At first she thought that she was dreaming, but when she felt the ropes constraining her arms and legs, she knew that what had happened was not a dream.

'What happened to me?' Sakura asked herself as she slowly came to be aware of her surroundings.

'Where am I?' thought Sakura. Suddenly it hit her, she sense him anymore.

Sakura started to panic and tried to break her bonds. As she struggled a shadow came into her field of vision. She could just barely make out the faint lines of a person. It wasn't until the shadow spoke that she finally realized who it was.

"So sleeping beauty finally woke up huh?" sneered the figure.

Sakura was stunned as she recognized the voice, Liz.

Liz came closer to Sakura and sneered with an evil smirk, "What, no witty remark?"

Sakura was simply too stunned to reply. She opened her mouth to try and speak, but was unable to find her voice.

Suddenly Liz lashed out and slapped Sakura across her check, leaving a reddening bruise.

The force of the blow sent Sakura back into the wall and knocked the wind out of her.

Liz let out a low chuckle.

As Sakura lifted her eyes to look at Liz, she saw the pure hatred of a spurned love.

"Hehe, don't worry, I'll take real good care of Syaoron for you," sneered Liz.

With that final word of contempt Liz left Sakura to lick her wounds.

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"Report," growled Syaoron as he looked out the window of the black Mercedes limo he was riding in.

The man opposite him cowered and weakly began to inform the leader of his clan on his findings. "Yes sir. We have been tracking Xin as you ordered sir. However, we have not seen him do anything out of the ordinary," said the Li clan guardsman. "We have checked into his recent activities as well, but we find nothing strange. The logs from the tracker we placed on him also shows that he has not been near yours or mistress Sakura's dorms for some time."

Most of the information given simply went in one ear and out the other. Syaoron was so deep in thought about Sakura that he almost missed the last sentence.

"Tracker?" queried Syaoron as he turned to face the guardsman.

The deathly scowl on Syaoron's face scared the man so much so that he visibly shrank in his seat. "Y-yes sir," stuttered the man. "We had a sub dermal tracker planted behind his right ear after his near attempt to attack you last night."

"Why didn't anyone tell me of this earlier?" growled Syaoron as he glared to his left at Chang.

Chang looked almost as scared as the man who had just delivered the report. "W-we didn't wish to disturb you with such matters sir," replied Chang as he prayed that Syaoron would not blow up.

Luckily fate seemed to be on his side as Syaoron turned away and resumed his gaze into space.

Chang and the man opposite him let out a collective breath of relief that they didn't know they had been holding.

"Contact the banks," said Syaoron without turning from the window. "Have them freeze all of the Ran family assets."

"Yes sir," was the only reply needed as both guardsmen took out cell phones and called the banks to carry out the orders of their clan leader.

The chatter all around Syaoron just seemed to bounce off him as he stared out the window. The scenery of streets and pedestrians, which passed before him, didn't register in his eyes. All he could see was her face, all he could smell was her sweet scent, all he could hear was her angelic laughter and all he could think about was how he would kill whoever was responsible for taking his Ying Fa away from him. He just hoped that she was all right.

'Please be all right Sakura,' pleaded Syaoron silently. 'Please don't leave me.'

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