Title: This is Not Enough
Ch. Title: Piecing it together
Author: Peonyqt1004
A/N: It's a bit of a very fast update, I have to be going to Tae Kwon Do now, hope you enjoy this chapter! =D You can see it's clearly drawing to an end, but I'll make it worth your while! Sorry for any spelling errors! I didn't use da grammar check program thing... Bear with me! Remeber to R and R! Thanks for your WONDERFUL reviews!
DISCLAIMER~ I DON'T OWN CCS!!
"Piecing it Together"
"Yes?" the beautiful blonde haired woman asked, fearing the angry rage in Pearls eyes.
"Do you have anything to do with Sakura's dissappearance?"
"N-no!" Pearl stuttered, unnerved by the peircing amber glare . Amber eyes surveyed her. "Isn't it a bit strange that Sakura was attacked for the first time and you somehow appeared?" Pearl took in a shuddering breathe and decided not to fall to peices yet. Her blue eyes blazing she looked up. "There is nothing strange about me being there." She replied. Syaoran growled a bit as he removed a file from his coat. "This contract you signed with Sakura. Isn't it true that you don't own a company? What is this "Iris Company" that you signed your name under? Sakura has been a bit careless, she should've researched more about other companies before agreeing to something."
Pearl felt her heart thud uncontrollably and a shiver of fear ran down her spine, but her pride and desire to over come this task got her.
"What are you implying Mr..."
"Li." He said softly. He detected her slight paling of her skin.
"Mr. Li." She finished. Syaoran was very suspicious of her. Something was not right, and he smelled a rat. There was an uncomfortable silence and a sharp ringing of the phone broke the tension.
"Excuse me Mr. Li." Pearl said with fake brusquness. "I think I must answer my phone. You may take your leave! I am expecting an... er... important call today." She pushed him out her front door and slammed it shut.
Her heart was thudding uncontrollably in her ribs. Was this how it felt to have your deepest darkest secrets dug out? No. She would'nt let this nosey Li dig it out. She had other plans. She picked up the phone after a few more rings.
"Hello? Kinomoto residence." She said briskly.
"This is Mike." Came a soft voice on the other side. Her fingers convulsed and clenched the phone in her hands.
"You have her?" She whispered, walking furthur into the building.
"I have her locked up nice and tight. Come quickly." The line was cut off and Pearl fell against the wall. Hard and cold evil intent filled her eyes.
'This will have to be buried... more safely this time.'
With Sakura...
Sakura wanted to cry. She barely touched her foor and her face was thin and wane from her grief. Staring at the news paper she wanted to scream. Yell. Anything to relieve this tension! Maybe that was the feeling sparked between both her and him when they have met. But the real mystery on how she got to be in the predicament she was still lay unsolved.
Pearl kept coming to mind. What did she have to do with anything in her pass? Was Pearl her true mother? Did Pearl ditch her at the orphanage or was there some strange dark reason to it? The toil of bearing such a burden was evident on her face. Her eyes glimmered with sadness and all her joyful energy departed. 'Please... Someone, come get me...'
Tomoyo...
Tomoyo was in a hurry. She cursed at the slow drivers and made it to the police station, looking infuriated.
"WHERE IS SAKURA!" She yelled angrily. Her grief was momentairaly forgotten. The policemen looked at each other. "We don't know for sure ma'm." The replied.
Tomoyo got a finger and brought it up to the mans face. "You better find my friend quickly with NO mistakes. Or I'll..." She was lost for words. What COULD she do? "Or I'll file a complaint." Tomoyo felt so helpless. Her plum purple eyes glittered with sadness. "Who is it?" She asked, voice deadly.
"We think it's Tory Kinomoto."
Tomoyo remebered him from the fashion show. It sounded reasonable but something was not right. She was going to talk to this... Tory Kinomoto. She wasn't going to lose Sakura. Eriol was gone, maybe for good, but Sakura. She was a friend Tomoyo would never give up.
Syaoran...
Suspicion made Syaoran look more handsomer. He knew soemthing was wrong. He headed back towards the police station, and found a hysterical purple haired woman there already.
'Sakura's friend.' He thought with a slight grin. He missed Sakura already. Her bright smile, her green eyes... Everything. He would'nt lose her. She was the only family he had... She was... important to him.
"PLEASE let me talk to him!" The girl begged. The policemen looked troubled. "You need to schedule this. We can't just do this on a whim."
"Excuse me." Syaoran said, his deep husky voice drawing everyones attention. "This lady wants to see Kinomoto. I'll take her with me."
Later w/ Tory...
Tomoyo didn't know what to say, she could only stare at Sakura's so called kidnapper. Tory looked uncomfortable at her glazed gaze.
"There is something going on." Syaoran said softly. "And it has to do with you, Pearl, and Sakura." Syaoran's dark brown gaze held Tory's dark ones. "What is it?" Tory looked away, his eyes tired. "I'm tired of this..." Tory said his voice dangerously low. Tomoyo suddenly spoke. "Please! If you are not guilty why won't you tell us! This might mean Sakura's life!" The convict finally looked up, his eyes looked haunted, almot empty.
"For years and years I have searched for her. She was my little angel. I promised my mother to protect her after she died. It seems as if I can't. I am failing." Tory dropped like a withering flower.
"Who are you talking about?" Both Syaoran and Tomoyo asked. Syaoran had a little idea about what might be going on.
"I searched for her after her dissappearance. Hoping to find her. Only finding imposters who had her eyes, or her hair, sometimes both. But no, she wasn't there, she was right inf ront of my eyes."
There was a long pause as Tory's gaze seemed distant.
"I found her, and almost told her the truth. Then, I saw how happy she could be. What I knew and what she forgot could ruin her. Her past was nothign more then pain and the agony of being repressed. But now I see, I should've told her. She might die not knowing who I am... Because of her."
"Who are you then?" Syaoran demanded.
"I am Sakura's real brother." Tory finally admitted to Syaoran. Syaoran's eyes widened in shock.
"Real brother?" He stuttered.
"Yes. Sakura is really Sakura Kinomoto. This is my case. It's final." Tory looked away... Syaoran was suprised to see that tears were coming from the older mans eyes.
"Pearl... you know she's the one who has Sakura." Syaoran nodded slowly. It was starting to make sense in a way.
"Save Sakura while you have the time." Tory begged. "Pearl is a cunning woman. She tricked everyone except for you and me. Please..."
Syaoran felt his blood run cold.
"Tell me what she did to you... what can she do?"
"She killed my father adn got away with it... She tried to kill Sakura... I guess it didn't work. Sakura saw everything... and..." Syaoran had enough. "I'm going to get her." Syaoran said. He slipped on his black trenchcoat and briskly walked out and was stopped by a voice.
"Li. Good luck."
Syaoran nodded. He saw Pearl entering a building not far from Sakura's company. He had a vauge suspicion about that building.
'Let's hope I am right.' He thought to himself grimly as he made his way towards building.
Tomoyo...
She could'nt believe her ears. The broken convict was... Sakura's brother? Her mind was whirling with unanswered questions. "Wait. What's going on? Tell me everything!" Tomoyo begged. "Who exactly is "Pearl"?"
"The blonnde haired murderess from hell." He spat.
Tomoyo froze, she remebered the warning she had thought was only childsplay on the bulletin.
'Avoid dark streets... and a blonde womans...'
Shock consumed her wholey. "Tell me what happened! Tell me!" Tomoyo demanded. The dark haired man started to weep. "If you hold onto this memory and don't tell others, it will destroy you." Tomoyo said softly, her eyes distant as she sat in the room... with Sakura's brother.
Pearl...
Eantering the building, she was isntantly surrounded by thugs and bodyguards she had paid to kill whoever entered other then her.
"The girl is mine." She told them, disgusted at how some looked at her body. "Anyone else who comes in here dies. When the minute clock passes 6, then I shall kill her, first... I will have the pleasure of making her memories quite pleasent."
Syaoran got to the door and tried to open it. It was locked. There had to be another way in. Looking around he found that the bricks to this apartment stuck out and he could scale it easily to that window and just break in. Gritting his teeth, he fumed angrily at that overly beautiful and cunning blonde. She was going to pay dearly for hurting Sakura. He managed to find a footing and started to climb up. Mortar crumbled under his ahnds and a loose brick fell from under his feet. Cursing her grabbed the window ledge and pulled himself up, sweating with the effort. He looked in the window. Nobody was there.
'Good.' He thought as he brought his foot up and crashed through the window.
He heard a faint voice from downstairs... there was a scream. It was Sakura.
'No they won't hurt her!' He thought as he started running towards the sound.
"Where do you think you're going?" A thick beefy man stood before him. He was taller and wider then Syaoran. He cracked his beefy neck.
"To my sister." He said coolly. The thug grinned, showing his broken teeth.
"Somehow... I don't think so."
Sakura...
"Daughter don't cry..."
There was a faint hacking. The voice... It was so gentle. Tears formed in her green eyes as she tried to see behind the curtains of the death bed.
"Don't come close!" Said a weak voice. The voice was so gentle and beautiful... and weak.
"Mom... I want to see you!" The little girl with light brown hair cried out. "No." Said that voice. It was full of sadness. There was the sound of labored breathing.
'Why can't I see you?!" Sakura demanded, stamping her tiny feet. There was a pause and a very soft reply.
"I want you to remeber me as I was. Not what I am now."
Sakura heard her mothers voice crack.
"Mama? Are you crying? Ma--."
"What are you doing here?! Your mother is sick!" A bellow of a voice demanded. Sakura turned to see her father. A tall broad shouldered man with brown eyes and glasses. His eyes were angry... but in a sad way.
"I wanted to see her!" Sakura demanded. "Is mom getting better?" she asked, hopefully.
Grief was in her fathers gentle brown eyes. "She's getting better." He answered. His voice tense. "Get out. She still needs rest." There was a choked gasp from behind the curtains. The machines faint beeping turned into a low constant sound.
Sakura's father looked frantic.
"Get the doctor! Sakura! Go!" He shooed her out, his hands shaking as he heard the struglging watery gasps on the other side.
"But mommy-- She--."
Tory bursted in, his young face full of horror and frantic hoplessness.
"Dad! The doc's coming!" There was a hustling sound and people dressed in white came in. They smelled like the hospital that Sakura had visited when her mother had collapsed. She didn't like it. She started to cry.
"Get her OUT for goodness sakes!" The father bellowed. Tory grabbed his little crying sister and went out of the room.
Then she woke up. Tears sliding down her face. Then what had become of her mother?
Light flooded the room and Sakura blinked. There was Pearl in front of her, a glint in her eye. Was Pearl her mother?
"P-p-pearl? What are you doing here?"
"Taking care of buisness." Pearl smiled a teethy white smile.
Syaoran...
Syaoran dodged another attack, he expertly flipped backwards before those beefy fists could land on him. He was glad he took combat training. He dodged the blows and blocked them. He grabbed the beefy thugs arm and twisted it around quickly. The man screamed in horror as he was suddenly flipped into the air... and he landed flat on his back. Syaoran had no time for these games. Getting two fingers, he grabbed the man's throat, and twisted it. There was a strange tearing noise as the throat ripped open. The thug went slack.
"I have no time for this!" Syaoran hissed, getting up. He wasn't that hard but he was a total waste of time. Then he heard thundering footsteps. Somebody must've sounded the alarm.
Tory and Tomoyo...
"After our mother died, Pearl came into our lives." Tory started, daring to believe that Tomoyo, might not look at him with pity, but with understanding.
"Our mother died from cancer. Her lungs of course. Afterwards, Pearl came in and everything changed. My sister, Sakura, was used to a loving smiling mother. Pearl hated us, mostly Sakura. In front of our father, she was sweet and kind to us, but once our father turned the other way she would beat Sakura, break her lovely things... and... degrade her or lock her up in the attic."
"Sakura was deathly afraid of ghosts when she was young, and Pearl told her nasty stories of how ghost haunted the attic and locked her in there for hours. After that, beauitful happy Sakura became more and more withdrawn. My father was making a will, and Pearl somehow got her hands on it. Pearl read it and was enraged that nothing was left for her or her Son, whom she had before hand. Sakura never told father about anything. Then it happened, my father was killed with poison. Sakura saw everything and ran away. She was eventually caught by Pearl, but Pearl was deathly afraid of what Sakura might be able to do. She locked me up in the basement and Sakura in the attic. I didn't get to see the rest, but when Yukito, my step-brother, got me out, he told me Sakura was dead."
Tomoyo could'nt believe it.
"Pearl? So... do you think Pearl has her now?"
Tory shrugged. "Most likely, or Sakura's already dead."
Tomoyo's breathing hitched in anger.
"Don't worry Tory." Tomoyo said, deadly fire in her eyes. "I'll bail you out."
With Sakura...
"Hello Sakura." Pearl whispered, her eyes glinting with malice. "Remember anything yet?" Sakura blinked. "Are you... my mother?" Sakura asked softly.
'But she as so mean... in my dream... I thought my mom would be nice and Pearl looks nothing like me...'
"Your MOTHER?" Pearl said mockingly. "Girl, I'm far from it! Your step-mom, but not your mother! I'd rather burn in hell then spawn such a bitch like you!"
Sakura flinched. "W-who are you then?" Sakura asked fearfully.
Pear smiled. "I'll make this long and painful. For everything you had done to me, for everything your MOTHER has done to me!" Sakura's eyes widened as Pearl closed in, like a vulture to its prey.
"First... let me give you a little history lesson..."
To be continued...
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Sakura gasped in pain as Pearl struck her face. "Look what your mom did to me!" Pearl said fumingly. Sakura coughed, her head hurt. She remebered everything now. She wanted to die.
"What about what you did to my father...?" Sakura asked through swollen lips. Pearl leered at her. "Listen pretty." Pearl spat, "You weren't suppose to see that! Furthurmore! You're suppose to be DEAD!" Pearls pretty face was contorted by anger, bitter hatred, and something else.
"But I'm not dead." Sakura whispered. "Justice will be served." Pearl smiled. "Not if I can help it."
Syaoran...
'I hope I make it in time...' Blood ran down the injury on his arm and he gasped in pain as someone grabbed his arm.
He met the peircing blue eyes of another thug named Mike.
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Ch. Title: Piecing it together
Author: Peonyqt1004
A/N: It's a bit of a very fast update, I have to be going to Tae Kwon Do now, hope you enjoy this chapter! =D You can see it's clearly drawing to an end, but I'll make it worth your while! Sorry for any spelling errors! I didn't use da grammar check program thing... Bear with me! Remeber to R and R! Thanks for your WONDERFUL reviews!
DISCLAIMER~ I DON'T OWN CCS!!
"Piecing it Together"
"Yes?" the beautiful blonde haired woman asked, fearing the angry rage in Pearls eyes.
"Do you have anything to do with Sakura's dissappearance?"
"N-no!" Pearl stuttered, unnerved by the peircing amber glare . Amber eyes surveyed her. "Isn't it a bit strange that Sakura was attacked for the first time and you somehow appeared?" Pearl took in a shuddering breathe and decided not to fall to peices yet. Her blue eyes blazing she looked up. "There is nothing strange about me being there." She replied. Syaoran growled a bit as he removed a file from his coat. "This contract you signed with Sakura. Isn't it true that you don't own a company? What is this "Iris Company" that you signed your name under? Sakura has been a bit careless, she should've researched more about other companies before agreeing to something."
Pearl felt her heart thud uncontrollably and a shiver of fear ran down her spine, but her pride and desire to over come this task got her.
"What are you implying Mr..."
"Li." He said softly. He detected her slight paling of her skin.
"Mr. Li." She finished. Syaoran was very suspicious of her. Something was not right, and he smelled a rat. There was an uncomfortable silence and a sharp ringing of the phone broke the tension.
"Excuse me Mr. Li." Pearl said with fake brusquness. "I think I must answer my phone. You may take your leave! I am expecting an... er... important call today." She pushed him out her front door and slammed it shut.
Her heart was thudding uncontrollably in her ribs. Was this how it felt to have your deepest darkest secrets dug out? No. She would'nt let this nosey Li dig it out. She had other plans. She picked up the phone after a few more rings.
"Hello? Kinomoto residence." She said briskly.
"This is Mike." Came a soft voice on the other side. Her fingers convulsed and clenched the phone in her hands.
"You have her?" She whispered, walking furthur into the building.
"I have her locked up nice and tight. Come quickly." The line was cut off and Pearl fell against the wall. Hard and cold evil intent filled her eyes.
'This will have to be buried... more safely this time.'
With Sakura...
Sakura wanted to cry. She barely touched her foor and her face was thin and wane from her grief. Staring at the news paper she wanted to scream. Yell. Anything to relieve this tension! Maybe that was the feeling sparked between both her and him when they have met. But the real mystery on how she got to be in the predicament she was still lay unsolved.
Pearl kept coming to mind. What did she have to do with anything in her pass? Was Pearl her true mother? Did Pearl ditch her at the orphanage or was there some strange dark reason to it? The toil of bearing such a burden was evident on her face. Her eyes glimmered with sadness and all her joyful energy departed. 'Please... Someone, come get me...'
Tomoyo...
Tomoyo was in a hurry. She cursed at the slow drivers and made it to the police station, looking infuriated.
"WHERE IS SAKURA!" She yelled angrily. Her grief was momentairaly forgotten. The policemen looked at each other. "We don't know for sure ma'm." The replied.
Tomoyo got a finger and brought it up to the mans face. "You better find my friend quickly with NO mistakes. Or I'll..." She was lost for words. What COULD she do? "Or I'll file a complaint." Tomoyo felt so helpless. Her plum purple eyes glittered with sadness. "Who is it?" She asked, voice deadly.
"We think it's Tory Kinomoto."
Tomoyo remebered him from the fashion show. It sounded reasonable but something was not right. She was going to talk to this... Tory Kinomoto. She wasn't going to lose Sakura. Eriol was gone, maybe for good, but Sakura. She was a friend Tomoyo would never give up.
Syaoran...
Suspicion made Syaoran look more handsomer. He knew soemthing was wrong. He headed back towards the police station, and found a hysterical purple haired woman there already.
'Sakura's friend.' He thought with a slight grin. He missed Sakura already. Her bright smile, her green eyes... Everything. He would'nt lose her. She was the only family he had... She was... important to him.
"PLEASE let me talk to him!" The girl begged. The policemen looked troubled. "You need to schedule this. We can't just do this on a whim."
"Excuse me." Syaoran said, his deep husky voice drawing everyones attention. "This lady wants to see Kinomoto. I'll take her with me."
Later w/ Tory...
Tomoyo didn't know what to say, she could only stare at Sakura's so called kidnapper. Tory looked uncomfortable at her glazed gaze.
"There is something going on." Syaoran said softly. "And it has to do with you, Pearl, and Sakura." Syaoran's dark brown gaze held Tory's dark ones. "What is it?" Tory looked away, his eyes tired. "I'm tired of this..." Tory said his voice dangerously low. Tomoyo suddenly spoke. "Please! If you are not guilty why won't you tell us! This might mean Sakura's life!" The convict finally looked up, his eyes looked haunted, almot empty.
"For years and years I have searched for her. She was my little angel. I promised my mother to protect her after she died. It seems as if I can't. I am failing." Tory dropped like a withering flower.
"Who are you talking about?" Both Syaoran and Tomoyo asked. Syaoran had a little idea about what might be going on.
"I searched for her after her dissappearance. Hoping to find her. Only finding imposters who had her eyes, or her hair, sometimes both. But no, she wasn't there, she was right inf ront of my eyes."
There was a long pause as Tory's gaze seemed distant.
"I found her, and almost told her the truth. Then, I saw how happy she could be. What I knew and what she forgot could ruin her. Her past was nothign more then pain and the agony of being repressed. But now I see, I should've told her. She might die not knowing who I am... Because of her."
"Who are you then?" Syaoran demanded.
"I am Sakura's real brother." Tory finally admitted to Syaoran. Syaoran's eyes widened in shock.
"Real brother?" He stuttered.
"Yes. Sakura is really Sakura Kinomoto. This is my case. It's final." Tory looked away... Syaoran was suprised to see that tears were coming from the older mans eyes.
"Pearl... you know she's the one who has Sakura." Syaoran nodded slowly. It was starting to make sense in a way.
"Save Sakura while you have the time." Tory begged. "Pearl is a cunning woman. She tricked everyone except for you and me. Please..."
Syaoran felt his blood run cold.
"Tell me what she did to you... what can she do?"
"She killed my father adn got away with it... She tried to kill Sakura... I guess it didn't work. Sakura saw everything... and..." Syaoran had enough. "I'm going to get her." Syaoran said. He slipped on his black trenchcoat and briskly walked out and was stopped by a voice.
"Li. Good luck."
Syaoran nodded. He saw Pearl entering a building not far from Sakura's company. He had a vauge suspicion about that building.
'Let's hope I am right.' He thought to himself grimly as he made his way towards building.
Tomoyo...
She could'nt believe her ears. The broken convict was... Sakura's brother? Her mind was whirling with unanswered questions. "Wait. What's going on? Tell me everything!" Tomoyo begged. "Who exactly is "Pearl"?"
"The blonnde haired murderess from hell." He spat.
Tomoyo froze, she remebered the warning she had thought was only childsplay on the bulletin.
'Avoid dark streets... and a blonde womans...'
Shock consumed her wholey. "Tell me what happened! Tell me!" Tomoyo demanded. The dark haired man started to weep. "If you hold onto this memory and don't tell others, it will destroy you." Tomoyo said softly, her eyes distant as she sat in the room... with Sakura's brother.
Pearl...
Eantering the building, she was isntantly surrounded by thugs and bodyguards she had paid to kill whoever entered other then her.
"The girl is mine." She told them, disgusted at how some looked at her body. "Anyone else who comes in here dies. When the minute clock passes 6, then I shall kill her, first... I will have the pleasure of making her memories quite pleasent."
Syaoran got to the door and tried to open it. It was locked. There had to be another way in. Looking around he found that the bricks to this apartment stuck out and he could scale it easily to that window and just break in. Gritting his teeth, he fumed angrily at that overly beautiful and cunning blonde. She was going to pay dearly for hurting Sakura. He managed to find a footing and started to climb up. Mortar crumbled under his ahnds and a loose brick fell from under his feet. Cursing her grabbed the window ledge and pulled himself up, sweating with the effort. He looked in the window. Nobody was there.
'Good.' He thought as he brought his foot up and crashed through the window.
He heard a faint voice from downstairs... there was a scream. It was Sakura.
'No they won't hurt her!' He thought as he started running towards the sound.
"Where do you think you're going?" A thick beefy man stood before him. He was taller and wider then Syaoran. He cracked his beefy neck.
"To my sister." He said coolly. The thug grinned, showing his broken teeth.
"Somehow... I don't think so."
Sakura...
"Daughter don't cry..."
There was a faint hacking. The voice... It was so gentle. Tears formed in her green eyes as she tried to see behind the curtains of the death bed.
"Don't come close!" Said a weak voice. The voice was so gentle and beautiful... and weak.
"Mom... I want to see you!" The little girl with light brown hair cried out. "No." Said that voice. It was full of sadness. There was the sound of labored breathing.
'Why can't I see you?!" Sakura demanded, stamping her tiny feet. There was a pause and a very soft reply.
"I want you to remeber me as I was. Not what I am now."
Sakura heard her mothers voice crack.
"Mama? Are you crying? Ma--."
"What are you doing here?! Your mother is sick!" A bellow of a voice demanded. Sakura turned to see her father. A tall broad shouldered man with brown eyes and glasses. His eyes were angry... but in a sad way.
"I wanted to see her!" Sakura demanded. "Is mom getting better?" she asked, hopefully.
Grief was in her fathers gentle brown eyes. "She's getting better." He answered. His voice tense. "Get out. She still needs rest." There was a choked gasp from behind the curtains. The machines faint beeping turned into a low constant sound.
Sakura's father looked frantic.
"Get the doctor! Sakura! Go!" He shooed her out, his hands shaking as he heard the struglging watery gasps on the other side.
"But mommy-- She--."
Tory bursted in, his young face full of horror and frantic hoplessness.
"Dad! The doc's coming!" There was a hustling sound and people dressed in white came in. They smelled like the hospital that Sakura had visited when her mother had collapsed. She didn't like it. She started to cry.
"Get her OUT for goodness sakes!" The father bellowed. Tory grabbed his little crying sister and went out of the room.
Then she woke up. Tears sliding down her face. Then what had become of her mother?
Light flooded the room and Sakura blinked. There was Pearl in front of her, a glint in her eye. Was Pearl her mother?
"P-p-pearl? What are you doing here?"
"Taking care of buisness." Pearl smiled a teethy white smile.
Syaoran...
Syaoran dodged another attack, he expertly flipped backwards before those beefy fists could land on him. He was glad he took combat training. He dodged the blows and blocked them. He grabbed the beefy thugs arm and twisted it around quickly. The man screamed in horror as he was suddenly flipped into the air... and he landed flat on his back. Syaoran had no time for these games. Getting two fingers, he grabbed the man's throat, and twisted it. There was a strange tearing noise as the throat ripped open. The thug went slack.
"I have no time for this!" Syaoran hissed, getting up. He wasn't that hard but he was a total waste of time. Then he heard thundering footsteps. Somebody must've sounded the alarm.
Tory and Tomoyo...
"After our mother died, Pearl came into our lives." Tory started, daring to believe that Tomoyo, might not look at him with pity, but with understanding.
"Our mother died from cancer. Her lungs of course. Afterwards, Pearl came in and everything changed. My sister, Sakura, was used to a loving smiling mother. Pearl hated us, mostly Sakura. In front of our father, she was sweet and kind to us, but once our father turned the other way she would beat Sakura, break her lovely things... and... degrade her or lock her up in the attic."
"Sakura was deathly afraid of ghosts when she was young, and Pearl told her nasty stories of how ghost haunted the attic and locked her in there for hours. After that, beauitful happy Sakura became more and more withdrawn. My father was making a will, and Pearl somehow got her hands on it. Pearl read it and was enraged that nothing was left for her or her Son, whom she had before hand. Sakura never told father about anything. Then it happened, my father was killed with poison. Sakura saw everything and ran away. She was eventually caught by Pearl, but Pearl was deathly afraid of what Sakura might be able to do. She locked me up in the basement and Sakura in the attic. I didn't get to see the rest, but when Yukito, my step-brother, got me out, he told me Sakura was dead."
Tomoyo could'nt believe it.
"Pearl? So... do you think Pearl has her now?"
Tory shrugged. "Most likely, or Sakura's already dead."
Tomoyo's breathing hitched in anger.
"Don't worry Tory." Tomoyo said, deadly fire in her eyes. "I'll bail you out."
With Sakura...
"Hello Sakura." Pearl whispered, her eyes glinting with malice. "Remember anything yet?" Sakura blinked. "Are you... my mother?" Sakura asked softly.
'But she as so mean... in my dream... I thought my mom would be nice and Pearl looks nothing like me...'
"Your MOTHER?" Pearl said mockingly. "Girl, I'm far from it! Your step-mom, but not your mother! I'd rather burn in hell then spawn such a bitch like you!"
Sakura flinched. "W-who are you then?" Sakura asked fearfully.
Pear smiled. "I'll make this long and painful. For everything you had done to me, for everything your MOTHER has done to me!" Sakura's eyes widened as Pearl closed in, like a vulture to its prey.
"First... let me give you a little history lesson..."
To be continued...
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PREVIEW:
Sakura gasped in pain as Pearl struck her face. "Look what your mom did to me!" Pearl said fumingly. Sakura coughed, her head hurt. She remebered everything now. She wanted to die.
"What about what you did to my father...?" Sakura asked through swollen lips. Pearl leered at her. "Listen pretty." Pearl spat, "You weren't suppose to see that! Furthurmore! You're suppose to be DEAD!" Pearls pretty face was contorted by anger, bitter hatred, and something else.
"But I'm not dead." Sakura whispered. "Justice will be served." Pearl smiled. "Not if I can help it."
Syaoran...
'I hope I make it in time...' Blood ran down the injury on his arm and he gasped in pain as someone grabbed his arm.
He met the peircing blue eyes of another thug named Mike.
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