Title: "This is Not Enough"

Author: Peonyqt1004

Chapter Title: "Convict Tory and New Emotions"

A/N: Sorry for the late update- I got back from Korea a few days ago- It wuz fun. =D Hope you like this chapter- I'm going to end this soon so I'm cramming things into this short chapter! Hope ya lyke and remember to read and review! Tell me what *you* think!

-Peonyqt1004



Title: "Convict Tory and New Emotions"

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Dark amber eyes watched Sakura as she slept.

'She looks so helpless...'

He stared at her still form, smiling as he watched her snuggle up to the pillow. A frown crossed his face as he remembered her words... 'Someone stabbed me.' If his prediction was correct... then... He shook his head.

'I'm not going to think about it right now.'

He looked at the clock, it was three in the morning, and he really needed to go to sleep. Still disturbed about what she said, he walked out the room and slept on the couch.

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The blonde man with blue eyes snuffed out his cigarette and eyed the bag he had beside him. He had gotten a wad of cash from it, that was nice, but he was more interested in its other contents. Within the bag he found her drivers license and her planner. He smiled; it was a cute little thing. However, he was more interested in the pictures that were inside.

There were many pictures of Sakura... Sakura with her friend... Sakura with a tall woman... Sakura under a tree. It was bliss.

He put away the picture in his pocket, including her driver¡¯s license. He found out her birthday was April 1.

'Nice.' He thought. What really made him curious was that Pearl had called him and asked for another service, including this girl. His first impulse was to say no, but this might be the last chance to talk to her. Not to mention the wad of cash he was to get. He wasn't going to kill her; he might just spare her life.

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Sakura went to see a shrink and a doctor.

Syaoran had made sure of that.

She had refused to at first, bursting into tears and accusing him of thinking her as some strange "freak". But he eventually convinced her to go. He was waiting outside the door, waiting for her to emerge. Sakura did.

She looked beautiful and fragile, her eyes large and green and her face pale and wane.

The doctor came in behind Sakura and took a seat at the desk, motioning for Sakura to sit. Sakura looked traumatized, she was shivering when Syaoran managed to get her down to sit. He chafed her arms with his hands, hoping she would feel better.

"Ms. Li. I know this was hard for you, what we did in there seemed to make you scared."

Syaoran was confused, but Sakura spoke before he could. "Could my dreams... dreams be real?" She blurted, her face flushing at how childish she sounded.

The doctor took off her silver colored trifocals with great care. However, the look on the woman¡¯s 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 your sister here..." She pointed at Sakura, "... was adopted... am I right?" Syaoran nodded slowly. The doctor took a deep breath. "Sakura said she had no recollection of her 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 doctor¡¯s 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 wouldn¡¯t want her to remember anything?'

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Syaoran didn't know how right he was.

Meanwhile, the murderer whom he was talking about, no murderess was already setting up her action of blaming Tory for anything Sakura was going through into action. The beautiful yet elderly lady sat at the police office with her face set into a sorrowful mask. God, she was an actor all right. Her baby blue eyes looked tearful and her perfect skin was marred with a false worried wrinkle on her forehead. Impatient, she didn't let it show except for the faint and rhythmic tapping of her silvery high heels against the floor.

"I just wanted to tell you just how worried I am!" She said, faking a warbled note of sympathy and false fear in her voice. "After I heard about Sakura's accident I was so worried... and it was far from my mind that my beloved son Tory could've done any wrong!" A let her voice crack with sadness... a sadness that wasn't there. "Until I saw this... Oh this is too much..." She took out something from her bag... it was a picture of Sakura (from a magazine) with slash marks across her face and a pile of business paper from his companies talking about the past negotiation. "I never thought he could store so much hatred... I know... I love him too much to let him go on like this... I-i-i heard him talk about the Li Company so hatefully after that company broke some vital connections with the Nadeshiko Company... I-I don't know whether I feel ok by doing this... this is such a bad... bad ... you know... to my conscious..."

The policeman didn't detect the hateful break when she said "Nadeshiko" and looked at with a sorrowful face. "You must make painful decisions when you have to do the right thing... What you did is right Mrs. Kinomoto. Without this vital information Ms. Li might've die in the future if this information was not to be known¡¦ We appreciate your help Mrs. Kinomoto¡¦ This violent outbursts of wrongdoing will be dismantled before they can fester and become any worse.¡±

Mrs. Kintomoto faked some tears but smiled inwardly to herself in glee. ¡®Now, a few more things to do before this plan is done over with¡¦¡¯

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Nxt morning Syaoran takes Sakura to the police station...

"Is there anyone you can identify during that accident where you were beaten nearly to death?"

Sakura was silent. She could remember everything clearly... so vividly that she could've made a movie with it, including every single second and detail with meticulous care. However something held her back. So, instead she shook her head.

"Actually, everything is a bit fuzzy..." She said. The police looked at her critically and accepted the false answer with a nod.

"That is the case for most victims of a violent outburst."

Sakura nodded mutely, not catching the disbelieving look from Syaoran, who stood protectively at the other side of the room.

"When I recall anything... I'll tell you." Sakura said, her voice thin and whiny. The policeman nodded, his dark brown hair and freckled face content.

"That's good enough. Go on now. We'll have this case settled in no time."

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Early the next morning...

A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and beautiful jade green eyes smiled sweetly as she heard her answering machine... It was Tomoyo... and she sounded pretty happy... only she didn't meet Eriol... She met some other guy. But a tint of sadness was in her voice, Sakura could hear it.

[Hey Sakura! I see you aren't home... must be hectic back there right? *YOU* should take a vacation. I made some new dresses; they were influenced by some European style. Hehehe... I got a new boyfriend... (pause) He's all right. He cares a lot about me and I think it's serious. That's nice. But he has the same navy eyes as Eriol... never mind, I have to go! Many things to-- *BEEP*]

'She's not over him.' Sakura thought sadly. Sadly enough, she herself had never really been in an intimate relationship with the opposite sex so she wasn't so sure about her statement later. Such a beautiful girl with many guys flocking around her, waiting in a line to get her attention.

She never noticed.

Maybe you can say she was dense... maybe you can even say she was stupid. Period. But she was still young and still had much time to go.

Smiling to herself she fiddled with the golden sun locket in her little wooden box she kept in her drawers.

'So pretty.' She thought dreamily. She snapped out of her thoughts when her eyes happened to stray to her clock.

"Oh no!" Sakura gasped. It was already time for work. Looking in the mirror she patted her hair vainly and grabbed her purse. She pushed open the door to Syaorans room to see if he was awake and found herself staring at a rather nice scene...

Syaoran was asleep, his arms folded about his head with brown wisps of chestnut hair covering some parts of his face. Sakura found herself staring at him and smiling slightly... He looked so much like a child. A gentle smile played on his sleeping face as Sakura walked over and started to touch his face. Her fingers were millimeters away and she found herself shaking.

'He's so cute...' Sakura thought fondly... and realized just how tired he must be. His easy breathing and the rise and fall of his chest was a faint lull in the silent room. She almost got caught in the spell of the moment... but realized just how close her face was getting to his face. Not comprehending the rather fluttery feeling she had in her stomach, she stared at him adoringly as she turned to leave.

'He must be so tired, he stayed up all night on something... and he was so concerned about me...'

Shutting the door softly behind her, she left with a buoyant heart.

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With a beautiful raven haired girl...

A rather tall woman with dark raven hair pulled into two pigtails fiddled with the sipper of her light crisp red jacket. The elder has decided, finally, to tell Syaoran about his engagement with Meiling. Her heart was all a flutter and her ruby red lips were parted with anticipation as she made her shaky hands take her cell phone and dial Syaorans number.

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Emerald eyes sparkled with life as she skipped down to her office building... all her past dark thoughts and memory was thrown away and she basking in sunlight again. Stopping in front of the office building she stretched luxuriously and yawned... drawing rather lusty stares from males walking around her, she was quite... unknowing of these situations. She was about to skip right in when someone grabbed her arm... and all her recollections of some sort of past, nightmares, and fears rushed back into her body and she almost screamed... and almost fainted when her eyes met two frost blue ones. Long aristocratic fingers gripped her arm, a handsome face framed by longish white blonde hair stared down at her and smiled...

'What... what does he want?' Sakura thought fearfully to herself.

"Hello Sakura." Mike said softly. "Do you know what today is?"

Sakura shook her head, trembling.

A smile grew on his face... a beautiful smile, but Sakura couldn¡¯t trust the smile of someone who tried to kill her...

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He felt her sweet soft hands caressing his face... he knew who it was before he turned around to see her face.

'Sakura...'

Syaoran turned around and gave Sakura a heartwarming smile. She smiled at him, cocking her head at him mutely and shyly she played with the hem of her shirt. A habit she had when she was young. The habit only came out when she was nervous now that she was older. She smiled at him silently, her eyes glimmering with life.

'Sakura...'

"Do you like me?" She asked softly, surprising Syaoran. The voice which emerged from her was that of a Childs... not of the current Sakura.

"Yes... Of course..." He sadly remembered he used to say the opposite when she asked him when she was little.

"You do?" Her eyes glittered with tears. "Thank you..." Sakura smile suddenly vanished and a look of horror came over her face and she was screaming. Syaoran felt his heart lurch. "Sakura? Are you ok? Sakura?"

Sakura was growing younger and younger as each second past till she was the little orphan he had seen at the airport when he was little... her face was tear stained.

"Who am I?" She whispered. "Am I really Sakura? Who is that person who was lying on the floor in a pool of blood in my dreams?" Her face contorted into a look of a child lost and hopeless.

"Doesn't anyone love me?" Her voice was become tinier as she seemed to shrink.

"Of course people love you... Sakura, everyone does!" Syaoran said truthfully.

"Then why did they leave me?" Sakura asked, she looked up. "No one loved me, they all left me... I have no one..." She started to disappear.

"SAKURA!" Syaoran yelled. "Wait! Someone does love you- Sakura!" He reached for her arm and pulled as hard as he can... He was afraid to lose her.

And woke up startled as he heard a loud clatter.

"Oh... another dream." Syaoran thought to himself. Rubbing his forehead he looked around his room... It was late morning. Sakura must've left already.

'Another shitty dream.' He thought to himself.

He heard a familiar tune and turned to find his vibrating cell phone in his jacket pocket.

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Tory couldn¡¯t believe what was happening.

In the middle of the night cops suddenly rushed into his house and handcuffed him.

He was still in his pajamas. Enraged he struggled in his bonds only to have a cop come to him and read him his Miranda rights.

"What's going on?!" He busted out, a vein popping out of his head in confusion and anger. A cop chuckled. "Don't act innocent, you're coming with us." Hauling Tory up onto his feet, the cop dragged him to the police car... actually, it took a few policemen. Tory struggled in vain and caught sight of a pair of icy victorious blue eyes. Then everything came into place.

"Pearl!" He bellowed. No one heard him. They pushed him into the police car and shut the door, Tory glared at Pearl from his window and was met with a victorious cocky stared. He was defeated... He slumped forward in defeat. He closed his eyes tightly and silent tears of anguish came as realizations crashed down on him.

Sakura was going to die.

To be continued...

A/N: Sorry ppl- No preview this time~ =L

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