Title: This is Not Enough
Chapter Title: "Reawakening the Dark Past"
Author: Peonyqt1004
A/N: Hey everyone... Sorry for the lateness of it all- Gahhh. . I had some problems... tryouts, dance concerts all crammed in one. =D O well, Thanx for the reviews everyone! I loved them! My loyal everyday reviews- OMIGOD THANK YOU SO MUCH! You know who you are. :D After this chapter, I might be able to sqeeze in one more chapter before I leave for Korea. I won't be back for a month or two so I won't be updating in a while. Well, remeber to review. In Korea, I'll make sure- I'll check up on ya to see if ya reviewed. Thanks! On with the story!
-Peonyqt1004
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN CCS!
"Reawakening the Dark Past"
Sakura was restless on the hospital cot. It was nearly dawn and she didn't even get to sleep a wink. Disturbing thoughts kept going through her mind.
'That guy with the blue eyes... whats his name... Mike! I should report him...' Shivering as she remebered what had almost happened to her she hunkered down on her bed. 'Who would want to kill me? Those people had nothing really to do with me. They are not people I know. Somebody MUST have sent them!' Tears pricked her eyelids as she felt her lower lip tremble. 'Who would want to do that to me? What have I dont to them? Do I KNOW them?' A sudden revelation struck her as she realized that the questions answered themselves and pointed at a certain somebody.
'It couldn't be!'
She suddenly found it hard to breath as she repeated the questions in her head. The only person who would have any real hatred towards her or would want any harm to come to her was...
She felt her heart flutter uncontrollably.
A certain amber eyed chocolate brown haired boy came to mind.
'Oh no... he... but... he ...' Unable to belive herself but finding it very reasonable, she let out a low cry and fell into a fitful sleep.
----------------At Tory's Place----------
Tory was nearly drunk with the memories of the past. Tears fell from his eyes as he gripped the bottle of wine with one hand. The world blurred before him and the motely colored light of the city in front of him blurred into a patchwork of bedazzling light.
"Sakura, you would be happier this way.... Sakura." Sniffling, he wiped his tears.
"Tory, come off it. Please. You're scaring me."
A beautiful young woman with light brown hair and bright red eyes looked at him pleadingly, tears pricked her own eyes as they stood on the cliff over looking the town together. "You can't stay here too long... You're drunk and--."
"Be quite Irene." Tory retorted. "She isn't your sister how would you know?" Recoiling from his sharp tone, the young woman brushed back a lock of hair. "Tory... I've never seen you so troubled... if only we can somehow catch Pearl in action--."
"Listen Irene." Tory said, cutting her off. "You're no help. Go back to your boy friend Yukito and leave me alone. I don't need your pity." The girl stood there for a while, and slowly turned away.
"Tory, I only wanted to help you."
His sobs rang into the dark as he held his face and broke the bottle into a million shards on the floor. His hands bled from many cuts, but they didn't hurt as much as the turmoil within his heart.
--------With Syaoran--------
Syaoran quickly looked through files of any possible suspects.
'Can't be Tomoyo, she's too honest and sincere with Sakura to be any threat... Ms Harku? No. She adores Sakura...' He let out a loud sigh. 'Then who could possible be a suspect? Nearly everyone cancels each other out!' Drumming his hand on the desk, he thought furiously. Sakura's tearful green eyes rose in his mind and he felt a lump rise in his throat.
'I won't let her be killed. I'll protect her. That's the least I can do. After all I've done to her... she must hate me.' He ran his hand through his tawny hair and focused his eyes on the papers in front of him.
'I have to go back to my company soon... I can't stay here forever. What can I do during this short period of time? What about when I'm away?' He suddenly envisioned the tall dark haired man named Tory standing next to Sakura, smiling at her.
'Shit!' He cursed, suddenly angry at praticulary nothing. He turned and swiped at his vase and sent his blue china vase crashing to the floor.
'Wait a second.' He thought, his eyes brightening all of a sudden. 'Of course... that black haired man can be a suspect...' Syaoran made an illogical outline in his head, but he was determined to prove Tory Kinomoto guilty. There was something about this man he didn't like. Meanwhile, he decided to go visit Sakura.
--------------At the Hospital in the Shadows--------
Figures dressed in the darkness of night melded into the background. They watched silently as a pretty woman, tall and slender, got up from her bed in a blue and white hospital gown.
"Should we go get her?" A voice whispered fiercely into the dark.
"Shush, wait and see..."
The girl got up and stretched. The figures noticed faint sunlight flitering in from the windows... Dawn was starting to break.
"Shit... we have to go soon... do something!"
The girl sighed, her green eyes sad and forlorn. She whispered something outloud. "I'm going home... today."
"Mike we gotta get her now!"
The boy stared at her from the shadows. "I... just leave her be... we'll catch her later..."
Sakura frowned, she looked towards their direction. Gasping, Mike and his friends made their way back into the air duct.
"Mike! Why didn't you do anything?!" Jeremiah demanded quietly, his brown eyes flashing angrily. However, the blue eyed young man looked dazed. His eyes were glazed over.
'Wait... I can't be falling fo that rich bitch!' He thought feircely as he remebered her sweet yet sad face...
'Th...that can't be true...' His eyes were wide. He trembled as he looked at his very impatient friends.
"Leave her alone. We'll find her later."
Mike made his way down the air duct, his mind confused and clouded. What was this feeling? Could it be possible? With a girl he hardly knew? When they came out into the air, just as daylight broke across the trees, he suddenly understood, and groaned outloud.
'I've fallen for Sakura Li.'
Jeremiah emerged behind him, fusterated. "We was SO close! We could've done her in!" Mike slowly shook his head. "No." He whispered, facing his friends. "I'm going to talk to her." He said, his voice unwavering. "I'll tell her not to tell." "Holy shit! Are you loco or just plain insane?!" Snakes cried out, his eyes wide. "You know if we tell the truth and testify against that Kinomoto lady we're as good as dead!" Mike flinched. "We won't tell who, we lie." Mike said, a smile suddenly spreading across his handsome face.
--------At the Hospital---------
A tall woman with light blonde hair and a cold smile walked into the hospital. She wore a buisness like black suit with stylish pumps to accent her stylish atties. Large dangly silver earring dangled from her ears and a beautiful silver locket was strung around her neck. She was so beautiful that she drew eyes of every male in the room and made every other person in the room look dark and drab.
"I'm here to see Ms. Li please." The woman quipped, her voice curt and short.
"Room 203. Name please?"
Irritated, the woman clutched her black gucci handbag with her claws tightly. "Kinomoto." She said quickly as she briskly walked towards room 203 on the second floor. She had to walk a long time before she came to the door. She noticed the door was slightly ajar and heard suitcases clicking within the doors. Pearl opened the door wide and smiled brightly at the young girl who turned up to look at her.
"Mrs. Kinomoto!" came a startled gasp. The young girl stared at the older woman with suprise. "What brings you here?" Smiling rather benevolently, Pearl strode towards Sakura. "Ms. Li. I was so shocked at the news of your near to death. I had to come and see if you were ok." Sakura smiled brightly, blind to the rather dark and perverse look in the older womans eyes.
"Oh, thank you Mrs. Kinomoto!" Sakura's smile faltered as something glinted on Pearls neck.
"Oh..." Sakura gasped, staring at the silver locket. 'Oh... that looks familiar.' Sakura thought as she eyed the locket. Pearl frowned slightly and wrapped her hands around it.
"Is there something wrong Miss?" Pearl asked, trying to keep the clipped and cold tone out of her voice.
"Oh, no! Nothing at all!" Sakura said, jumping out of her revire. "That locket was just pretty. That's all." Pearl looked suddenly curious. "Oh really?" A rather evil look came over Pearls face as she stroked the locket gently. "This locket is beautiful isn't it? My best friend gave it to me before she died. It's a pity the song which once played in this locket suddenly died out." Pearls face was of mock saddness. She was mocking Sakura but Sakura was too naive to know that.
"Oh! Was your friend nice?" Sakura asked, her eyes bright.
"Oh, my friend was beautiful. She was a model for a famous teen magazine long time ago. She was an airhead and was quite stupid at times. She was a bit selfish and dense too." Pearl said rather nastily. Sakura's smile fell.
"You were friends?" Sakura asked in disbelief. "You sound as if you hate her."
"Oh we were friends all right." Pearl said, a rather canine grin touching her face. "Until the day she betrayed me and took my man away, and she eventually entangeled him in her posionous web and got him killed. He was the only man I could love."
Sakura looked shocked. "Oh... oh..." Sakura said, unable to find any words. "W-w-hat was your friends name?"
"Nadeshiko." Pearl said, her evil smile suddenly fading into a smile of total kindness. Sakura blinked, the name sounded familiar...
"Nadeshiko Ayami..?" Sakura said, her voice a dream like whisper. Pearl looked startled. "What?!" She demanded sharply.
"N-nothing. The name sounded familiar thats all." Sakura said, her voice a whisper. "Just like that black haired woman in my dreams... the name is familiar but so vauge..." Sakura said incoherently. But Pearl caught that immediately, her sharp mind taking in the warning signs of danger.
"Miss Kinomoto. Since I see you are alright. I leave you with a basket of fruit. I have some work to do." Bowing, Pearls face tightened.
"Oh, go on ahead Mrs. Kinomoto! I'd hate to hinder you!" Sakura said, her green eyes sparkeling, her previous muses forgotten. Sakura didn't know how ironic her words were.
Pearl hurried out, her eyes squinted in thought.
'She must be having some type of flashback... she... she might possibly remeber her past. This is bad. Good thing I checked up on her before the developments went too far. I have to plan her death fast. Before--.'
Pearl let out a startled and enraged gasp as she bumped into someone roughly.
"Sorry." Came a gruff voice. Pearl glared up at the tall man and frowned. 'He looks familiar...' Pearl thought. "Excuse me." She said stiffly as she yanked her clothes back in order and strode out.
--Syaoran--
Syaorans stared after the lady he had just bumped into.
'Huh? She looks familiar... wait... wasn't she the lady who got hurt when Sakura was attacked by those men in suits?' Shoving that from his mind, he strode to Sakura's room and saw that she was already heading out and closing the door behind her.
"Sakura?" He said in suprise.
She was dressed in a pink and white sweater with loose pink sweatpants. She looked childish and very cute. Her hair was brushed back up into two pig tails and the healthy flush of her face had somewhat returned. She looked very fetching.
"Syaoran?" She said in suprise. Something flashed in her eyes, soemthing dark and something that Syaoran sensed almost immediately.
"Is something wrong?" He asked softly. "I'm sorry about what I've sai--."
"It's fine Syaoran." Sakura said, cutting him off. Her eyes were cold. "Listen Syaoran. If you hate me, why don't you just go ahead and kill me? What did I ever do to you?" Angrily, she pushed past him adn jogged towards the door.
"Sakura!" Syaoran bellowed, his mind confused. He ran after her and tried to stop her, she already got into a cab.
'Shit.' He thought angrily as he got in his car. Then an amused smile came to his lips.
'Wait a sec. I have her keys...'
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Sakura fumed as she sat in the cab.
'The nerves of him!' Sakura thought furiously. The cab driver sweatdropped as he heard her let out a muffled squeal of anger and start punching the back of his seat.
"Lady- If you would please mind..."
Sakura blinked through her haze of rage. "Ohhh! Gomen nasai!" Sakura said hurriedly, fumbling to regain her composure. The cab driver, who was missing his two front teeth, smiled at her and went back to driving. Sakura sighed and toyed with her suitcase handle.
For some strange reason the thought of the locket shining on Pearls neck kept distracting her from any furthur thought.
'That locket was sooo familiar. I know I saw it before...' Frowning slightly she toyed with the suit case handle again. 'It'll come to me sooner or later.' She thought, dismissing it as she got out of the cab, handing the driver a 10 dollar bill.
"Thank you." Sakura said serenly. The driver smiled again and nodded.
"Lady- I should thank you." He waved good bye to her and turned around to drive off towards the street. Sakura looked up at her mansion. The sky was unatrually bright and the sun shone benevolently on her home.
'How ironic, after what happened to me...' She sighed as she punched in the code to get into her house. The gates swung open and closed slowly behind her as she stepped in.
The wind blew gently across the canopy of the trees, making the vivid green leaves flutter against the cool wind. Somewhere in the distance a windchime rang and filled the air with a light sprinkle of silvery sound. She went up the path towards her home and fumbled into her bag for the keys.
'Huh?'
She searched everywhere, then she realized soemthing...
'HOE! I FORGOT MY KEYS!'
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Syaoran smiled, he punched in the number to open the gate. He knew Sakura would be in there, stuck. She could'nt get in. That girl was sometimes adorably cute. He heard her before he saw her.
"HOOOE- TOMOYO! I FORGOT MY KEYS!"
He smiled as he stepped out from behind a bush, right in front of a startled Sakura, who was holding a cell phone, and took out her keys and jangeled them in front of her face.
"Forgot something?" He said sarcastically.
A look of pure fury passed by her face.
"SYAORAN!" She screeched, she lunged towards him and grabbed at her keys but he held them away. "What would you do for me in exchange of this key?" He asked teasingly. Confused by his sudden playfulness, Sakura frowned.
"I'll rabbit punch your nose in."
"Ouch." He replied, faking a grimace. Then he dropped the key in his pocket. "I guess you won't be needing this then." He replied. uUmfounded by his sudden playful mood, Sakura stared at him.
"Is there something wrong with you?" She asked incredoulesly.
Syaoran cocked his head, "Not really." He said, looking a lot like a curious puppy dog.
"Do you take happy pills or do you have some bipolar disorder?!" She exclaimed. Slamming her hand down on her open palm. He looked started. "Huh?" Sakura looked at him straight in the eye, her eyes green and very sharp.
"Ok, you get angry at me a lot, then you can act really nice. Then you put me down. Then you hurt my feelings. Now you're being playful and cute. What the heck is the matter with you? Your personality is amorphous and unpredictable!" Sakura suddenly looked drained of energy. 'I can't understand. Can it possibly be?'
Syaoran frowned. "What are you talking about?" He asked gruffly. "Maybe it's just you." He said as he turned around and opened the gate. "You coming?" He asked Sakura. Sakura gaped.
"M-my suitcase." She muttered. Syaoran waved a hand. "Leave them here, no one is going to take them." Sakura suddenly looked defeated and trailed after Syaoran. Her cell phone was forgotten. Tomoyo's confused voice rang from the cell phone and there was a click. Sakura had closed the phone.
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Sakura was utterly confused. It was a bit obvious. Syaoran seemed to hate her, yet some things seemed to justify it, and some things seem to oppose her thoughts. Confused and a bit irked, she stared out the windsheild of Syaorans car. There was dark heavy silence. She didn't know what to say. Unspoken rage came from her small body, and... she didn't know how Syaoran was feeling.
"Where are you taking me?" She finally demanded. She was a bit afraid that he was taking her to her death...
"Someplace. In order for me to return your keys, you have to do me a favor." Sakura looked appalled. "A FAVOR? Since WHEN did I have to do that?!" Syaoran looked at her with his cocky grin. "Now." He replied. Sakura shivered and trembled. There was another heavy silence. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes. Maybe it was just her, but from the corner, she just realized how intimidating Syaoran looked. He was tall, large... well built, and a threat. He could do any type of physical harm to her, like the time he had slapped her. The shadows created by the light made him look even more frightful.
'Maybe he does plan to kill em and gain the Li Co. after all.' She thought grimly as they rounded a corner. She had no real choice, it wasn't like she could jump out of the car window...
"We're here." He said brusquely. The sharp halting of his car brought her out of her deep thoughts. "Oh." Came the small whisper from her throat. Now that she looked at him, she was genuinely scared of him. He frightened her. Her heart started to speed up. She surveyed her surroundings. It was a grim dark place with several tall trees surrounding the area...
'He can crush me with his hands.' She thought breathlessly. However, her step-brother held out a hand. "Hey, snap out of it. Come on." Sakura started to tremble.
'No one may know...' She thought dizzily. She stepped back. "No." She replied, her voice a faint rasp. Syaoran looked puzzeled. "Are you still mad at me?"
Sakura did not reply, she was suddenly very afraid. She was paranoid. The moon shone on her delicate features. The silvery moon peeked out from behind the velvety darkness, like a curious child.
Something about the situation did not go well with Sakura. Something was wrong. Something threatened to rise out fo Sakura's throat... Then... it tore out. A loud scream.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Sakura suddenly screamed, tears started to fall from her face. Flashes of unfamiliar yet familiar faces flashed across her mind.
A dark place.
The moon was shining down on her...
A forboding person stood on the other side of the darkness.
Then... she felt sharp pain.... and... she remebered a flash of silver... and something red. Someone was yelling...
"SAKURA!!"
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Tomoyo looked dully out into her world. It was so dark and he moon peeked out from behind the clouds. Eriol was gone. Forever. Sadly, she looked at the painting, the unfinished "masterpeice" which stood on her wall. Her tears were gone, mere saddness and a void filled her troubled mind. She had waited for his call all day and recieved none. Instead, she had recived a call from Sakura, and was cut off from Sakura's ranting about losing her keys. But that didn't trouble her at all. She had been stupid, and selfish.
'I lost the man I loved the most, being selfish.' She thought emptily. Sleep caught up with her, fatigue weighed down her bones and calmed her grief ridden mind... she gradually faded into the black pitch of sleep, and didn't hear the high peircing scream which faded away like the tinkering of bells into the night.
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Mike felt as if he was going crazy. He had ditched his friends in order to stalk that rich green eyed bitch. Yes. He decided he was going crazy. His blue eyes scanned the area slowly. She still wasn't home. None of the house lights were on... Feeling uneasy, he sat down in the undergrowth, holding his blond head.
'What am I doing?' He thought. He had told Jeremiah and his friend Snake that he was going out to a "blue house" to sleep with some chick for fun and he came all the way over to the rich neighborhood and was finding himself drawn to a certain green eyed girl. He checked his watch, it was 11:00, and she still wasn't home.
'I should go.' He thought feverishly. He was going crazy, loco, he needed to go have his head checked or something. But then, he stared at the floor, at his worn down timberlands and at the green grass underneath his feet. He had never met a girl like her. She was strange. She was so naive, innocent... so damn... pure and pureply forbidden to him. He liked that. She seemed to have genuinely cared about who he was. He liked that too. No one really asked for his name. He grinned slightly, and his face fell, and became cold and emotionless.
He killed people for a living, and hunted other gangs as well. He looted off of some unfortunate person who may have entered his territory... he really should kill Sakura. But suddenly, he was sick and tired of killing people, he was tired of it. He really envied those people with families.
'I used to have one.' He thought, with a faint smile which quickly faded away into a grimace of pain. Except his father had been a drunk, his mother a freaking prostitute who threw him away like he was nothing, and he had two little sister, one who have been killed by his father abusive nature, and his youngest retarded brother. Yes, he had a family. But, his fathers brutal beating and his siblings dependency had been too much on him, and he had ran away when he was 10, with dreams of returning a famous movie star. He had been a runaway model, till he had been sexually abused by the director, who had been a rather old woman, who looked more like a man then a woman. He had only been 13 at that time. He had later murdered the director, and ran away, int ehs afety of a gang. That was where he met Snakes and Jeremiah.
They had been shattered.
Mike took out a cigarette and lit it with a lighter. 'Shit, Life is hard.' He thought lazily, his eyes glazed over from past hurts. He was startled out of his thoughts when he heard the roar of an engine. Quickly snuffing out his cigarette he leaned towards the gates and spotted a man. Yes, a man, carrying Sakura into the building.
"What the hell--." He muttered under his breath. He felt betrayed, but he swallowed it, he had been hurt many times before, why not now? He got up casually, and walked away. He heard the metallic click of the gates behind him... and sighed.
'Lousy Hopes.' He thought nastily, but when he pictured Sakura Li's beauitful face, his hard resolve to kill her slowly melted away, and he felt as if he could learn to love again.
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"STOP!" Sakura screamed, she jerked awake, sweat drenching her hair and streaking her face. She blinked. She was home. What was going on?
"Shhh..." Someone whispered. Sakura turned towards the voice and blinked. Syaoran was there, a cold rag was in his hand and he was wiping the sweat from her face. His expression was unreadable. Syaoran didn't look at her directly in the eyes, he seemed to be scared... scared of something. Sakura stared at him... and felt her heart lurch adn flutter.
'How could've I've been so stupid?' She realized. She watched his face, looking painstakingly gentle as he wiped her face... His face had a strange gentleness that she had only sensed before. How could she have suspected him? The hidden kindness... his akwardness with emotions...
Sakura stared and saw Syaoran as who he was.
She realized that he was very akward with his feelings. She noticed that a slight blush had graced his face, his eyes met hers for a brief second, emotion suddenly lit his face, and dissappeared, and he suddenly became very clumsy and akward. He became slightly stiff. SHe could feel it, the stiffening of his limbs as he held the rag to her face... he dropped the rag clumsily and turned red and looked away quickly.
The mask rose again, the cold mask that she had faced many times before.
"Syaoran..." She whispered, suddenly emotions wracked her body. "I-i'm sorry." She said, tears fileld her eyes and spilled over. SYaoran looekd alarmed as he heard those words... and when he saw her tears he jumped up in alarm.
"What did I do this time?" He asked, pleading. He seemed genuinely confused and sorry.
"Nothing... Syaoran... Oh... I'm so sorry." She said tearfully. Syaoran suddenly was at her side. He gripped her arm and shook her. "Sorry about what Sakura?" He pleaded. Sakura shook her head.
"Oh Syaoran. I'm sorry I suspected you were the person out to kill me."
There was sudden silence... the only sound ringing in the room was her sharp sobs... He let go of Sakura adruptly.
"You thought that was me?" He asked bluntly, his voice impassive. His eyes looked cold.
"Sorry..." Sakura repeated, tearfully.... "I don't know what came over me. I was suddenly so... I just jumped to conclusion... Syaoran..."
A hurt and angry look crossed his eyes but instead he walked next to Sakura, his voice sounded throaty with emotion. "Was I that cruel? Sakura. I should be sorry." Sakura heaved another sob and sighed, feeling better.
"I'm sorry I suspected you." She said. Syaoran hugged her tightly... She felt comforted. Her eyes closed slightly... She felt so... happy. She could'nt understand it. The dream she had, those strange visions suddenly drifted away, until Syaoran whispered inher ear.
"Sakura... What were you talking about when you said in your sleep... "Don't come near me, you killed father," in Japansese? I know you don't know any Japanese anymore." Sakura felt her heart race and her eyes widened as she heard the echo of those words in her mind.
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Pearl took out a cigarette and took a puff. Her eyes were narrowed into slits.
'She remebers some things...' She stared as she remebered Sakura looking really dreamy and mentioning her arch rivals name...
"Nadeshiko Ayami..."
Sakura, if she had indeed lost all her momeries, would've not remebered that. Things were worst then she thought. She had to get rid of Sakura. Sakura was beggining to be a bigger threat to her. It wasn't just revenge anymore. Her life was at stake. If Sakura regained her memory... let's just say that Pearl Trinity Kinomoto would be in deep shit now. Pearl let out a puff os smoke from her mouth and narrowed her eyes. A plan formed her head. Something so bizzare anad devious that an evil smirk came across her features.
'I'll covict Tory... Poor Tory. He'll be out of the picture within days.'
She removed her cigarettefrom her mouth and tossed it onto the floor of her persian carpet, not minding that her cigarette was bruning a hole in her carpet, and smashed it with the heel of her boots. A thin trickle of gray smoke came from the smoldering small flame which died out slowly...
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Syaoran felt a deep rush of emotion as he held Sakura, but what he heard during her sleep... her brief and very troubled sleep, troubled him greatly. Sakura forgot all her Japanese and yet, she spoke in Japanese in her sleep. He knew those words. He lived in Japan for a while during his older years... It seemed strange... Could it be? Sakura was having falshabcks from the past?
Sakura was stiff in his arms, her heart was fluttering fast and quickly. Syaoran knew something was wrong. "Sakura?" he asked. She felt so fragile, his to protect, his to keep. He could almost imagine himself as her lover instead of her brother, 'Step-brother.' He corrected. He felt a sudden rush of love for Sakura... and pretened, and fancied, that she was returning his love to him. She broke his fantasy.
"Someone stabbed me."
Her voice was thin and scared. He moved away from her slowly, his heart racing as he realized... maybe she wasn't an orphan? Maybe, she was linked to a dark past? The rest of her words seemed to confirm his words, and a rush of protectivness and anger rushed into his veins like fire.
"I saw someone whom I called father... and he was lying on the floor, dead... with blood coming from his lips. I could'nt see his face, he was lying int he other direction and it was very dark... and someone stabbed me and told me I was... something... I-i... my head hurts."
Sakura turned away, her face haggard.
Syaoran knew that there was something worst.
The past was coming to haunt Sakura. But the thing was, Syaoran didn't know whether he should like this or not.
To be continued...
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The doctor took off his silverish trifocals with great care. However, the look on the womans face was grim, though a smile was pasted on her face.
"Ms. Li. I'm afraid I am about to tell you something that may shock you greatly."
Sakura looked dazed as she held onto Syaorans hands tightly. The beautiful young girl with light brown hair shivered slightly. The amber haired boy with dark chocolate eyes looked intently at the doctor.
"What is it Dr. Kaho? Can you tell me... us... what is happening?"
Dr. Kaho looked away. "Mr. Li. You did tell me that yoru sister here..." She poitned at Sakura, "... was adopted... am I right?" Syaoran nodded slowly. The doctor took a deep breath. "Sakura said she had no recollection of ehr past... before she was an orphan... am I correct?" Again there was the nod.
Dr. Kaho smiled softly. "I do not know if this is bad or good news Ms. Li. From what I've heard from your medical reports and from what the shrink, Mr. Pope, has told me... You are having recollections of the past. Whatever you have forgotten is coming back to you. That, may be a good thing. You might find you family... But, from what you have told Mr. Pope from your hypnotic stage, it may not be a good thing."
Sakura blinked. "Why... not?" Sakura asked, her mind whirling.
"Ms. Sakura. You seem to have a traumatic and horribly dark past... Your mind may have blocked it out on purpose in order to keep you from collapsing or malfunctioning."
Sakura held her breath as the doctors voice droned on.
" You may see things which will trigger those memories... Like a knife. Once these memories are triggered. It is up to you to understand how to deal with them. There is a cost Ms. Li... You will soon learn. You can take this as a gift, or a curse." The doctor smiled slightly. "We will do as much as we can to help you Ms. Li."
Syaoran stared at the floor...
'Can it be?" He thought as he looked at the floor.
'Can the person trying to kill Sakura be someone from the past? Someone who would'nt want her to remeber anything?'
Chapter Title: "Reawakening the Dark Past"
Author: Peonyqt1004
A/N: Hey everyone... Sorry for the lateness of it all- Gahhh. . I had some problems... tryouts, dance concerts all crammed in one. =D O well, Thanx for the reviews everyone! I loved them! My loyal everyday reviews- OMIGOD THANK YOU SO MUCH! You know who you are. :D After this chapter, I might be able to sqeeze in one more chapter before I leave for Korea. I won't be back for a month or two so I won't be updating in a while. Well, remeber to review. In Korea, I'll make sure- I'll check up on ya to see if ya reviewed. Thanks! On with the story!
-Peonyqt1004
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN CCS!
"Reawakening the Dark Past"
Sakura was restless on the hospital cot. It was nearly dawn and she didn't even get to sleep a wink. Disturbing thoughts kept going through her mind.
'That guy with the blue eyes... whats his name... Mike! I should report him...' Shivering as she remebered what had almost happened to her she hunkered down on her bed. 'Who would want to kill me? Those people had nothing really to do with me. They are not people I know. Somebody MUST have sent them!' Tears pricked her eyelids as she felt her lower lip tremble. 'Who would want to do that to me? What have I dont to them? Do I KNOW them?' A sudden revelation struck her as she realized that the questions answered themselves and pointed at a certain somebody.
'It couldn't be!'
She suddenly found it hard to breath as she repeated the questions in her head. The only person who would have any real hatred towards her or would want any harm to come to her was...
She felt her heart flutter uncontrollably.
A certain amber eyed chocolate brown haired boy came to mind.
'Oh no... he... but... he ...' Unable to belive herself but finding it very reasonable, she let out a low cry and fell into a fitful sleep.
----------------At Tory's Place----------
Tory was nearly drunk with the memories of the past. Tears fell from his eyes as he gripped the bottle of wine with one hand. The world blurred before him and the motely colored light of the city in front of him blurred into a patchwork of bedazzling light.
"Sakura, you would be happier this way.... Sakura." Sniffling, he wiped his tears.
"Tory, come off it. Please. You're scaring me."
A beautiful young woman with light brown hair and bright red eyes looked at him pleadingly, tears pricked her own eyes as they stood on the cliff over looking the town together. "You can't stay here too long... You're drunk and--."
"Be quite Irene." Tory retorted. "She isn't your sister how would you know?" Recoiling from his sharp tone, the young woman brushed back a lock of hair. "Tory... I've never seen you so troubled... if only we can somehow catch Pearl in action--."
"Listen Irene." Tory said, cutting her off. "You're no help. Go back to your boy friend Yukito and leave me alone. I don't need your pity." The girl stood there for a while, and slowly turned away.
"Tory, I only wanted to help you."
His sobs rang into the dark as he held his face and broke the bottle into a million shards on the floor. His hands bled from many cuts, but they didn't hurt as much as the turmoil within his heart.
--------With Syaoran--------
Syaoran quickly looked through files of any possible suspects.
'Can't be Tomoyo, she's too honest and sincere with Sakura to be any threat... Ms Harku? No. She adores Sakura...' He let out a loud sigh. 'Then who could possible be a suspect? Nearly everyone cancels each other out!' Drumming his hand on the desk, he thought furiously. Sakura's tearful green eyes rose in his mind and he felt a lump rise in his throat.
'I won't let her be killed. I'll protect her. That's the least I can do. After all I've done to her... she must hate me.' He ran his hand through his tawny hair and focused his eyes on the papers in front of him.
'I have to go back to my company soon... I can't stay here forever. What can I do during this short period of time? What about when I'm away?' He suddenly envisioned the tall dark haired man named Tory standing next to Sakura, smiling at her.
'Shit!' He cursed, suddenly angry at praticulary nothing. He turned and swiped at his vase and sent his blue china vase crashing to the floor.
'Wait a second.' He thought, his eyes brightening all of a sudden. 'Of course... that black haired man can be a suspect...' Syaoran made an illogical outline in his head, but he was determined to prove Tory Kinomoto guilty. There was something about this man he didn't like. Meanwhile, he decided to go visit Sakura.
--------------At the Hospital in the Shadows--------
Figures dressed in the darkness of night melded into the background. They watched silently as a pretty woman, tall and slender, got up from her bed in a blue and white hospital gown.
"Should we go get her?" A voice whispered fiercely into the dark.
"Shush, wait and see..."
The girl got up and stretched. The figures noticed faint sunlight flitering in from the windows... Dawn was starting to break.
"Shit... we have to go soon... do something!"
The girl sighed, her green eyes sad and forlorn. She whispered something outloud. "I'm going home... today."
"Mike we gotta get her now!"
The boy stared at her from the shadows. "I... just leave her be... we'll catch her later..."
Sakura frowned, she looked towards their direction. Gasping, Mike and his friends made their way back into the air duct.
"Mike! Why didn't you do anything?!" Jeremiah demanded quietly, his brown eyes flashing angrily. However, the blue eyed young man looked dazed. His eyes were glazed over.
'Wait... I can't be falling fo that rich bitch!' He thought feircely as he remebered her sweet yet sad face...
'Th...that can't be true...' His eyes were wide. He trembled as he looked at his very impatient friends.
"Leave her alone. We'll find her later."
Mike made his way down the air duct, his mind confused and clouded. What was this feeling? Could it be possible? With a girl he hardly knew? When they came out into the air, just as daylight broke across the trees, he suddenly understood, and groaned outloud.
'I've fallen for Sakura Li.'
Jeremiah emerged behind him, fusterated. "We was SO close! We could've done her in!" Mike slowly shook his head. "No." He whispered, facing his friends. "I'm going to talk to her." He said, his voice unwavering. "I'll tell her not to tell." "Holy shit! Are you loco or just plain insane?!" Snakes cried out, his eyes wide. "You know if we tell the truth and testify against that Kinomoto lady we're as good as dead!" Mike flinched. "We won't tell who, we lie." Mike said, a smile suddenly spreading across his handsome face.
--------At the Hospital---------
A tall woman with light blonde hair and a cold smile walked into the hospital. She wore a buisness like black suit with stylish pumps to accent her stylish atties. Large dangly silver earring dangled from her ears and a beautiful silver locket was strung around her neck. She was so beautiful that she drew eyes of every male in the room and made every other person in the room look dark and drab.
"I'm here to see Ms. Li please." The woman quipped, her voice curt and short.
"Room 203. Name please?"
Irritated, the woman clutched her black gucci handbag with her claws tightly. "Kinomoto." She said quickly as she briskly walked towards room 203 on the second floor. She had to walk a long time before she came to the door. She noticed the door was slightly ajar and heard suitcases clicking within the doors. Pearl opened the door wide and smiled brightly at the young girl who turned up to look at her.
"Mrs. Kinomoto!" came a startled gasp. The young girl stared at the older woman with suprise. "What brings you here?" Smiling rather benevolently, Pearl strode towards Sakura. "Ms. Li. I was so shocked at the news of your near to death. I had to come and see if you were ok." Sakura smiled brightly, blind to the rather dark and perverse look in the older womans eyes.
"Oh, thank you Mrs. Kinomoto!" Sakura's smile faltered as something glinted on Pearls neck.
"Oh..." Sakura gasped, staring at the silver locket. 'Oh... that looks familiar.' Sakura thought as she eyed the locket. Pearl frowned slightly and wrapped her hands around it.
"Is there something wrong Miss?" Pearl asked, trying to keep the clipped and cold tone out of her voice.
"Oh, no! Nothing at all!" Sakura said, jumping out of her revire. "That locket was just pretty. That's all." Pearl looked suddenly curious. "Oh really?" A rather evil look came over Pearls face as she stroked the locket gently. "This locket is beautiful isn't it? My best friend gave it to me before she died. It's a pity the song which once played in this locket suddenly died out." Pearls face was of mock saddness. She was mocking Sakura but Sakura was too naive to know that.
"Oh! Was your friend nice?" Sakura asked, her eyes bright.
"Oh, my friend was beautiful. She was a model for a famous teen magazine long time ago. She was an airhead and was quite stupid at times. She was a bit selfish and dense too." Pearl said rather nastily. Sakura's smile fell.
"You were friends?" Sakura asked in disbelief. "You sound as if you hate her."
"Oh we were friends all right." Pearl said, a rather canine grin touching her face. "Until the day she betrayed me and took my man away, and she eventually entangeled him in her posionous web and got him killed. He was the only man I could love."
Sakura looked shocked. "Oh... oh..." Sakura said, unable to find any words. "W-w-hat was your friends name?"
"Nadeshiko." Pearl said, her evil smile suddenly fading into a smile of total kindness. Sakura blinked, the name sounded familiar...
"Nadeshiko Ayami..?" Sakura said, her voice a dream like whisper. Pearl looked startled. "What?!" She demanded sharply.
"N-nothing. The name sounded familiar thats all." Sakura said, her voice a whisper. "Just like that black haired woman in my dreams... the name is familiar but so vauge..." Sakura said incoherently. But Pearl caught that immediately, her sharp mind taking in the warning signs of danger.
"Miss Kinomoto. Since I see you are alright. I leave you with a basket of fruit. I have some work to do." Bowing, Pearls face tightened.
"Oh, go on ahead Mrs. Kinomoto! I'd hate to hinder you!" Sakura said, her green eyes sparkeling, her previous muses forgotten. Sakura didn't know how ironic her words were.
Pearl hurried out, her eyes squinted in thought.
'She must be having some type of flashback... she... she might possibly remeber her past. This is bad. Good thing I checked up on her before the developments went too far. I have to plan her death fast. Before--.'
Pearl let out a startled and enraged gasp as she bumped into someone roughly.
"Sorry." Came a gruff voice. Pearl glared up at the tall man and frowned. 'He looks familiar...' Pearl thought. "Excuse me." She said stiffly as she yanked her clothes back in order and strode out.
--Syaoran--
Syaorans stared after the lady he had just bumped into.
'Huh? She looks familiar... wait... wasn't she the lady who got hurt when Sakura was attacked by those men in suits?' Shoving that from his mind, he strode to Sakura's room and saw that she was already heading out and closing the door behind her.
"Sakura?" He said in suprise.
She was dressed in a pink and white sweater with loose pink sweatpants. She looked childish and very cute. Her hair was brushed back up into two pig tails and the healthy flush of her face had somewhat returned. She looked very fetching.
"Syaoran?" She said in suprise. Something flashed in her eyes, soemthing dark and something that Syaoran sensed almost immediately.
"Is something wrong?" He asked softly. "I'm sorry about what I've sai--."
"It's fine Syaoran." Sakura said, cutting him off. Her eyes were cold. "Listen Syaoran. If you hate me, why don't you just go ahead and kill me? What did I ever do to you?" Angrily, she pushed past him adn jogged towards the door.
"Sakura!" Syaoran bellowed, his mind confused. He ran after her and tried to stop her, she already got into a cab.
'Shit.' He thought angrily as he got in his car. Then an amused smile came to his lips.
'Wait a sec. I have her keys...'
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Sakura fumed as she sat in the cab.
'The nerves of him!' Sakura thought furiously. The cab driver sweatdropped as he heard her let out a muffled squeal of anger and start punching the back of his seat.
"Lady- If you would please mind..."
Sakura blinked through her haze of rage. "Ohhh! Gomen nasai!" Sakura said hurriedly, fumbling to regain her composure. The cab driver, who was missing his two front teeth, smiled at her and went back to driving. Sakura sighed and toyed with her suitcase handle.
For some strange reason the thought of the locket shining on Pearls neck kept distracting her from any furthur thought.
'That locket was sooo familiar. I know I saw it before...' Frowning slightly she toyed with the suit case handle again. 'It'll come to me sooner or later.' She thought, dismissing it as she got out of the cab, handing the driver a 10 dollar bill.
"Thank you." Sakura said serenly. The driver smiled again and nodded.
"Lady- I should thank you." He waved good bye to her and turned around to drive off towards the street. Sakura looked up at her mansion. The sky was unatrually bright and the sun shone benevolently on her home.
'How ironic, after what happened to me...' She sighed as she punched in the code to get into her house. The gates swung open and closed slowly behind her as she stepped in.
The wind blew gently across the canopy of the trees, making the vivid green leaves flutter against the cool wind. Somewhere in the distance a windchime rang and filled the air with a light sprinkle of silvery sound. She went up the path towards her home and fumbled into her bag for the keys.
'Huh?'
She searched everywhere, then she realized soemthing...
'HOE! I FORGOT MY KEYS!'
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Syaoran smiled, he punched in the number to open the gate. He knew Sakura would be in there, stuck. She could'nt get in. That girl was sometimes adorably cute. He heard her before he saw her.
"HOOOE- TOMOYO! I FORGOT MY KEYS!"
He smiled as he stepped out from behind a bush, right in front of a startled Sakura, who was holding a cell phone, and took out her keys and jangeled them in front of her face.
"Forgot something?" He said sarcastically.
A look of pure fury passed by her face.
"SYAORAN!" She screeched, she lunged towards him and grabbed at her keys but he held them away. "What would you do for me in exchange of this key?" He asked teasingly. Confused by his sudden playfulness, Sakura frowned.
"I'll rabbit punch your nose in."
"Ouch." He replied, faking a grimace. Then he dropped the key in his pocket. "I guess you won't be needing this then." He replied. uUmfounded by his sudden playful mood, Sakura stared at him.
"Is there something wrong with you?" She asked incredoulesly.
Syaoran cocked his head, "Not really." He said, looking a lot like a curious puppy dog.
"Do you take happy pills or do you have some bipolar disorder?!" She exclaimed. Slamming her hand down on her open palm. He looked started. "Huh?" Sakura looked at him straight in the eye, her eyes green and very sharp.
"Ok, you get angry at me a lot, then you can act really nice. Then you put me down. Then you hurt my feelings. Now you're being playful and cute. What the heck is the matter with you? Your personality is amorphous and unpredictable!" Sakura suddenly looked drained of energy. 'I can't understand. Can it possibly be?'
Syaoran frowned. "What are you talking about?" He asked gruffly. "Maybe it's just you." He said as he turned around and opened the gate. "You coming?" He asked Sakura. Sakura gaped.
"M-my suitcase." She muttered. Syaoran waved a hand. "Leave them here, no one is going to take them." Sakura suddenly looked defeated and trailed after Syaoran. Her cell phone was forgotten. Tomoyo's confused voice rang from the cell phone and there was a click. Sakura had closed the phone.
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Sakura was utterly confused. It was a bit obvious. Syaoran seemed to hate her, yet some things seemed to justify it, and some things seem to oppose her thoughts. Confused and a bit irked, she stared out the windsheild of Syaorans car. There was dark heavy silence. She didn't know what to say. Unspoken rage came from her small body, and... she didn't know how Syaoran was feeling.
"Where are you taking me?" She finally demanded. She was a bit afraid that he was taking her to her death...
"Someplace. In order for me to return your keys, you have to do me a favor." Sakura looked appalled. "A FAVOR? Since WHEN did I have to do that?!" Syaoran looked at her with his cocky grin. "Now." He replied. Sakura shivered and trembled. There was another heavy silence. She looked at him from the corner of her eyes. Maybe it was just her, but from the corner, she just realized how intimidating Syaoran looked. He was tall, large... well built, and a threat. He could do any type of physical harm to her, like the time he had slapped her. The shadows created by the light made him look even more frightful.
'Maybe he does plan to kill em and gain the Li Co. after all.' She thought grimly as they rounded a corner. She had no real choice, it wasn't like she could jump out of the car window...
"We're here." He said brusquely. The sharp halting of his car brought her out of her deep thoughts. "Oh." Came the small whisper from her throat. Now that she looked at him, she was genuinely scared of him. He frightened her. Her heart started to speed up. She surveyed her surroundings. It was a grim dark place with several tall trees surrounding the area...
'He can crush me with his hands.' She thought breathlessly. However, her step-brother held out a hand. "Hey, snap out of it. Come on." Sakura started to tremble.
'No one may know...' She thought dizzily. She stepped back. "No." She replied, her voice a faint rasp. Syaoran looked puzzeled. "Are you still mad at me?"
Sakura did not reply, she was suddenly very afraid. She was paranoid. The moon shone on her delicate features. The silvery moon peeked out from behind the velvety darkness, like a curious child.
Something about the situation did not go well with Sakura. Something was wrong. Something threatened to rise out fo Sakura's throat... Then... it tore out. A loud scream.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Sakura suddenly screamed, tears started to fall from her face. Flashes of unfamiliar yet familiar faces flashed across her mind.
A dark place.
The moon was shining down on her...
A forboding person stood on the other side of the darkness.
Then... she felt sharp pain.... and... she remebered a flash of silver... and something red. Someone was yelling...
"SAKURA!!"
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Tomoyo looked dully out into her world. It was so dark and he moon peeked out from behind the clouds. Eriol was gone. Forever. Sadly, she looked at the painting, the unfinished "masterpeice" which stood on her wall. Her tears were gone, mere saddness and a void filled her troubled mind. She had waited for his call all day and recieved none. Instead, she had recived a call from Sakura, and was cut off from Sakura's ranting about losing her keys. But that didn't trouble her at all. She had been stupid, and selfish.
'I lost the man I loved the most, being selfish.' She thought emptily. Sleep caught up with her, fatigue weighed down her bones and calmed her grief ridden mind... she gradually faded into the black pitch of sleep, and didn't hear the high peircing scream which faded away like the tinkering of bells into the night.
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Mike felt as if he was going crazy. He had ditched his friends in order to stalk that rich green eyed bitch. Yes. He decided he was going crazy. His blue eyes scanned the area slowly. She still wasn't home. None of the house lights were on... Feeling uneasy, he sat down in the undergrowth, holding his blond head.
'What am I doing?' He thought. He had told Jeremiah and his friend Snake that he was going out to a "blue house" to sleep with some chick for fun and he came all the way over to the rich neighborhood and was finding himself drawn to a certain green eyed girl. He checked his watch, it was 11:00, and she still wasn't home.
'I should go.' He thought feverishly. He was going crazy, loco, he needed to go have his head checked or something. But then, he stared at the floor, at his worn down timberlands and at the green grass underneath his feet. He had never met a girl like her. She was strange. She was so naive, innocent... so damn... pure and pureply forbidden to him. He liked that. She seemed to have genuinely cared about who he was. He liked that too. No one really asked for his name. He grinned slightly, and his face fell, and became cold and emotionless.
He killed people for a living, and hunted other gangs as well. He looted off of some unfortunate person who may have entered his territory... he really should kill Sakura. But suddenly, he was sick and tired of killing people, he was tired of it. He really envied those people with families.
'I used to have one.' He thought, with a faint smile which quickly faded away into a grimace of pain. Except his father had been a drunk, his mother a freaking prostitute who threw him away like he was nothing, and he had two little sister, one who have been killed by his father abusive nature, and his youngest retarded brother. Yes, he had a family. But, his fathers brutal beating and his siblings dependency had been too much on him, and he had ran away when he was 10, with dreams of returning a famous movie star. He had been a runaway model, till he had been sexually abused by the director, who had been a rather old woman, who looked more like a man then a woman. He had only been 13 at that time. He had later murdered the director, and ran away, int ehs afety of a gang. That was where he met Snakes and Jeremiah.
They had been shattered.
Mike took out a cigarette and lit it with a lighter. 'Shit, Life is hard.' He thought lazily, his eyes glazed over from past hurts. He was startled out of his thoughts when he heard the roar of an engine. Quickly snuffing out his cigarette he leaned towards the gates and spotted a man. Yes, a man, carrying Sakura into the building.
"What the hell--." He muttered under his breath. He felt betrayed, but he swallowed it, he had been hurt many times before, why not now? He got up casually, and walked away. He heard the metallic click of the gates behind him... and sighed.
'Lousy Hopes.' He thought nastily, but when he pictured Sakura Li's beauitful face, his hard resolve to kill her slowly melted away, and he felt as if he could learn to love again.
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"STOP!" Sakura screamed, she jerked awake, sweat drenching her hair and streaking her face. She blinked. She was home. What was going on?
"Shhh..." Someone whispered. Sakura turned towards the voice and blinked. Syaoran was there, a cold rag was in his hand and he was wiping the sweat from her face. His expression was unreadable. Syaoran didn't look at her directly in the eyes, he seemed to be scared... scared of something. Sakura stared at him... and felt her heart lurch adn flutter.
'How could've I've been so stupid?' She realized. She watched his face, looking painstakingly gentle as he wiped her face... His face had a strange gentleness that she had only sensed before. How could she have suspected him? The hidden kindness... his akwardness with emotions...
Sakura stared and saw Syaoran as who he was.
She realized that he was very akward with his feelings. She noticed that a slight blush had graced his face, his eyes met hers for a brief second, emotion suddenly lit his face, and dissappeared, and he suddenly became very clumsy and akward. He became slightly stiff. SHe could feel it, the stiffening of his limbs as he held the rag to her face... he dropped the rag clumsily and turned red and looked away quickly.
The mask rose again, the cold mask that she had faced many times before.
"Syaoran..." She whispered, suddenly emotions wracked her body. "I-i'm sorry." She said, tears fileld her eyes and spilled over. SYaoran looekd alarmed as he heard those words... and when he saw her tears he jumped up in alarm.
"What did I do this time?" He asked, pleading. He seemed genuinely confused and sorry.
"Nothing... Syaoran... Oh... I'm so sorry." She said tearfully. Syaoran suddenly was at her side. He gripped her arm and shook her. "Sorry about what Sakura?" He pleaded. Sakura shook her head.
"Oh Syaoran. I'm sorry I suspected you were the person out to kill me."
There was sudden silence... the only sound ringing in the room was her sharp sobs... He let go of Sakura adruptly.
"You thought that was me?" He asked bluntly, his voice impassive. His eyes looked cold.
"Sorry..." Sakura repeated, tearfully.... "I don't know what came over me. I was suddenly so... I just jumped to conclusion... Syaoran..."
A hurt and angry look crossed his eyes but instead he walked next to Sakura, his voice sounded throaty with emotion. "Was I that cruel? Sakura. I should be sorry." Sakura heaved another sob and sighed, feeling better.
"I'm sorry I suspected you." She said. Syaoran hugged her tightly... She felt comforted. Her eyes closed slightly... She felt so... happy. She could'nt understand it. The dream she had, those strange visions suddenly drifted away, until Syaoran whispered inher ear.
"Sakura... What were you talking about when you said in your sleep... "Don't come near me, you killed father," in Japansese? I know you don't know any Japanese anymore." Sakura felt her heart race and her eyes widened as she heard the echo of those words in her mind.
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Pearl took out a cigarette and took a puff. Her eyes were narrowed into slits.
'She remebers some things...' She stared as she remebered Sakura looking really dreamy and mentioning her arch rivals name...
"Nadeshiko Ayami..."
Sakura, if she had indeed lost all her momeries, would've not remebered that. Things were worst then she thought. She had to get rid of Sakura. Sakura was beggining to be a bigger threat to her. It wasn't just revenge anymore. Her life was at stake. If Sakura regained her memory... let's just say that Pearl Trinity Kinomoto would be in deep shit now. Pearl let out a puff os smoke from her mouth and narrowed her eyes. A plan formed her head. Something so bizzare anad devious that an evil smirk came across her features.
'I'll covict Tory... Poor Tory. He'll be out of the picture within days.'
She removed her cigarettefrom her mouth and tossed it onto the floor of her persian carpet, not minding that her cigarette was bruning a hole in her carpet, and smashed it with the heel of her boots. A thin trickle of gray smoke came from the smoldering small flame which died out slowly...
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Syaoran felt a deep rush of emotion as he held Sakura, but what he heard during her sleep... her brief and very troubled sleep, troubled him greatly. Sakura forgot all her Japanese and yet, she spoke in Japanese in her sleep. He knew those words. He lived in Japan for a while during his older years... It seemed strange... Could it be? Sakura was having falshabcks from the past?
Sakura was stiff in his arms, her heart was fluttering fast and quickly. Syaoran knew something was wrong. "Sakura?" he asked. She felt so fragile, his to protect, his to keep. He could almost imagine himself as her lover instead of her brother, 'Step-brother.' He corrected. He felt a sudden rush of love for Sakura... and pretened, and fancied, that she was returning his love to him. She broke his fantasy.
"Someone stabbed me."
Her voice was thin and scared. He moved away from her slowly, his heart racing as he realized... maybe she wasn't an orphan? Maybe, she was linked to a dark past? The rest of her words seemed to confirm his words, and a rush of protectivness and anger rushed into his veins like fire.
"I saw someone whom I called father... and he was lying on the floor, dead... with blood coming from his lips. I could'nt see his face, he was lying int he other direction and it was very dark... and someone stabbed me and told me I was... something... I-i... my head hurts."
Sakura turned away, her face haggard.
Syaoran knew that there was something worst.
The past was coming to haunt Sakura. But the thing was, Syaoran didn't know whether he should like this or not.
To be continued...
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The doctor took off his silverish trifocals with great care. However, the look on the womans face was grim, though a smile was pasted on her face.
"Ms. Li. I'm afraid I am about to tell you something that may shock you greatly."
Sakura looked dazed as she held onto Syaorans hands tightly. The beautiful young girl with light brown hair shivered slightly. The amber haired boy with dark chocolate eyes looked intently at the doctor.
"What is it Dr. Kaho? Can you tell me... us... what is happening?"
Dr. Kaho looked away. "Mr. Li. You did tell me that yoru sister here..." She poitned at Sakura, "... was adopted... am I right?" Syaoran nodded slowly. The doctor took a deep breath. "Sakura said she had no recollection of ehr past... before she was an orphan... am I correct?" Again there was the nod.
Dr. Kaho smiled softly. "I do not know if this is bad or good news Ms. Li. From what I've heard from your medical reports and from what the shrink, Mr. Pope, has told me... You are having recollections of the past. Whatever you have forgotten is coming back to you. That, may be a good thing. You might find you family... But, from what you have told Mr. Pope from your hypnotic stage, it may not be a good thing."
Sakura blinked. "Why... not?" Sakura asked, her mind whirling.
"Ms. Sakura. You seem to have a traumatic and horribly dark past... Your mind may have blocked it out on purpose in order to keep you from collapsing or malfunctioning."
Sakura held her breath as the doctors voice droned on.
" You may see things which will trigger those memories... Like a knife. Once these memories are triggered. It is up to you to understand how to deal with them. There is a cost Ms. Li... You will soon learn. You can take this as a gift, or a curse." The doctor smiled slightly. "We will do as much as we can to help you Ms. Li."
Syaoran stared at the floor...
'Can it be?" He thought as he looked at the floor.
'Can the person trying to kill Sakura be someone from the past? Someone who would'nt want her to remeber anything?'