Dragonia: okay well what should I do in this chapter I think its time to learn a little more about Jack? Yes. Okay for starters this might be short so sorry.

Thanks to all. Hope you like this.

Chapter 7

Too Much

The sun shown across the morning sky, and over the sea. The clouds behind him rumbled at the coming light, anger twisted in its voice. A man stood on the docks covered in every way. He had long ago stopped wondering where the next day would take him. He loved the sound of the rumbling storm, like it was Mother Nature's fury and she was mad. So much had happened and he really didn't know how it had happen. He never really remembered his younger days. All the plans and the killing for some reason it didn't matter.

'You know that it does. You killed them to be with her. She's strong and can give you your life back.' The man shook his head at the voice and thought.

'No the spell is the reason I lost my life force and I will not put that burden on her.' He heard only a laugh answer him.

'I guess its time to show you what I am truly capable of. I haven't done this in a long time but I guess it must be done.' The man felt a searing pain in his body and then he was pushed out barely holding onto his humanity. His own voice came from his body he remembered now what had happened so long ago.

"You see I can do this at any time, this is how I killed her parents and how she will give us youth, and power." Barely holding on he knew what had inhabited him from childhood. "Yes it was that fateful day if you had not come to me then you and I might have died. I saved you."

Flashback

A young boy of 10 or 11 was stumbling through the forest. Blood dripped from his fingers, the source was at his arm, multiple wounds. Through his blurry eyes filled with tears he could see the darkness folding in around him. He soon came upon a cave, he was barely able to climb inside before losing consciousness.

A shadow had watched his entrance with interest. No one had dared entered this place in a hundred years. Anger coursed through the shadow, what right did a boy have to be here. Closing the space between them within seconds, the shadow saw that the boy was sleeping no unconscious. The shadow had little of a heart if any, yet for some reason he took pity on the boy. The shadow could save him, but he would have to be willing. Then the shadow had a thought he could hide the boy would never know and at this age unable to push him out. Someday he might take the boy fully over, maybe even a puppet. The shadow mentally smiled and then tended to the boys wounds. "Who. are you?" the boy's voice shuttered forth from the darkness.

"Well I guess you could say that I'm your savior if you want me to be?" the shadow looked at the boy.

"Yes thank you." the boy had unwittingly agreed his own soul over to the shadow.

"Your welcome, child." His voice was dripping with anticipation. The shadow soon joined the boy. The boy did not notice the demon like spirit that had joined him. Though he soon became stronger and faster. As the boy did so the shadow did too.

End of Flashback

"You see in many ways you can not escape me, and I you we are one." The man smiled.

'Shadow please do not hurt her.' The spirit who was once the boy cried.

"You should not worry about her in the end she will come to us." The man walked away from the rising sun dragging the spirit behind him.

Sakura's Room

All night she had slept tossing and turning in her sleep. In the middle of the night she had awakened to find that her room was dark she looked up at the sealing.

"Why why were they taken from me?" Sakura whispered.

"Please mistress don't cry. They will return." She looked to her right to see the cards come to her. Their warmth had always given her strength, she felt much too cold for it to touch her. The voice of the cards were as sad as she felt. "We will help you get some sleep." Sakura only nodded as Sleep's powder fell over her creating a peaceful sleep.

Touya's room

Touya looked up to see his old friend Eriol. "What are you doing here?"

"Well Touya if you didn't know that I am in many ways apart of this family. Well married too. But that's beside the point. Yukito is fine, he'll be here soon enough. I believe when Yue and Kero as you so call it died. It was something that was necessary because of her feelings. They agreed only because they would rather die then see her this way." Touya sighed he didn't realize that she had become so bad.

"When did she."

"Become so bad. Well she was like that when she came if not worse so. Every once in a while she will have an emotion. You have good timing though. Anger something that is akin to hate, which in turn is akin to love and happiness. So close yet so far away. For her to feel that means that she can feel again. A great accomplishment, especially in her state." Eriol sat down in the chair across from Touya.

"I was still kind of surprised when you kept in touch with me." Eriol smiled.

"Well I had to Yelan wanted to know how the family was doing and you were the only one that was willing to talk to me after.." Eriol took a breath, "Touya there is a problem though. You have to let her fight." Touya nodded in answer.

"You should go before they find you here." Eriol nodded and left leaving Touya to his thoughts.

Syaoran's Room

Syaoran lied on his bed thinking of Sakura, her first smile had been for his eyes only. She had seemed so innocent in that second. It was like all of her past was forgotten, and given light to a bright happy girl. Yet he knew when he looked deeper he saw the true sadness, in her heart, soul it was there and wont disappear that easily.

'I wonder if she will be able to get over that.' Syaoran sighed rolling over to his side. 'Is it possible for a killer of killers to be forgiven? I am never going to get any sleep.' Syaoran sat up in his bed and placed his head in his hands. 'Why does she run?' he looked over at the window rain pelted against his window. It was a week to Christmas and the rain would soon turn into snow. He smiled thinking about all his friends. 'I wonder what they would do if they found out that I loved her.' His smile faded when he remembered that Tomoyo loved filming. 'Great not only would they tease me but they would also film the whole thing.' He rose and went to his closet pulling on a pair of pants. 'I should talk to her I know that she doesn't want everyone to know what our parents promised, but if something happens. no she'll be fine I will go with her.'

Suddenly there was a ripple in power. Syaoran froze the ripple was coming from next door from Sakura. Syaoran took no time to put on a shirt or anything but bound out of the room and into Sakura's what he saw shook him to his core.

~15 Minutes Before~

Sakura's Room

Dream

"You must not show emotion. If you truly wish to free your parent's souls stop crying and caring it's only a weakness." Sakura remembered this well she had lived it every night of her life. The pain, the horror, and most of all the fear. "Yes I understand mistress." Her voice turning emotionless in seconds.

"Good now get up." the woman stood with a whip in her hand. "Stand straight and don't move. Its twenty for each emotion, you had five so that's one hundred any more and it will increase."

"I understand." She felt each of them this was nothing close to how bad it had gotten. The mistress knew torture it was in her bones. She had asked for this so that no one could hurt her or touch her. It was the only way for her to be free, Sakura had asked her to be hard as hard as possible. She was.

Sakura still remembered the cuts like it was yesterday...

What Sakura didn't know is that her body is reliving the pain and just that..

Syaoran walked in to see Sakura screaming and her body convulsing almost like it was being beaten continuously.

"Sakura!" Syaoran screamed he ran across the room taking it in a few bounds. He reached her and pulled her into his embrace immediately ceasing her convolutions. Syaoran looked down to see her tearstained face looking back at his. Her face seemed wrong her eyes they were missing something he had seen so many times. Happiness at least a piece it was gone now. "Sakura what's." he was frozen he couldn't move. "Wrong?" she shook her head and looked down.

"I'm sorry that I woke you." Syaoran couldn't help but smile despite her own worries she stopped to make sure that no one else was in trouble.

"Stop, I want to know tell me what's wrong what's going on?" Sakura sighed taking the time to remember everything she had almost forgotten.

"My training was harsh and inevitable, for I needed to be emotional. My dreams are in many ways apart of that." His face contorted in confusion and she continued. "When I left I asked if there was a way to remember my training to never forget so that I didn't get someone else hurt, the mistress as she was called told me of one. The dream state when you initialized it, it gave you those experiences all over again. About a year ago I tired to cease the dreams but. I couldn't and ever since.."

"You've been running from this ever since right." Sakura nodded still being held by Syaoran. "So maybe I can help I mean I have some magic." Sakura shook her head.

"No the only way left is to eliminate my reason for training and you know that." Syaoran nodded.

"Sakura this training what did the mistress do to you?" he felt Sakura shutter even in his warm embrace she was cold more like frozen to the bone.

"She was a brilliant torturer but in many ways we broke each other. I asked her to do her very worst and in doing so she stopped I was her last student." Sakura pulled away.

"May I see?" he saw her shutter. "I'm sorry I asked you don't have to."

"No Syaoran its okay I don't mind." She turned around so that her back was facing him. Sakura pulled at the strings of her nightgown. Syaoran watched as her gown fell around her to her waist. Her back was covered in scars, his vision went blurry. "Four hundred and fifty nine."

"Is it." he couldn't finish for all the training that he had gone through and everything that he had seen he was not ready for the only goddess in his life to have scars as such.

"Everywhere. no.. on my upper arms and some of my shoulders too as you can see." Sakura did not turn, she did not want to see his face. Yet she let out a yelp when she felt his warm hand on her cold shoulder.

"Sakura you will always be a goddess in my eyes." Sakura pulled up her nightgown.

"Syaoran thank you for being here for me but I think you should." her sentence was cut off as she turned to see him staring straight at her eyes.

"Please Sakura don't push me away like you have everyone else." She shook her head.

"I don't know if I can survive you staying. If you stay I won't control what will happen." Sakura for the first time didn't want him to leave but knew that unless he did she wouldn't do in the end what she had to.

"Sakura if I go my heart will break, but if I stay I know that I will break you." Sakura smiled slightly it turned out more like a grimace.

"Syaoran... I..." Sakura couldn't take it if he didn't leave she would. Leave she did, in her nightgown she took to the hallway and down the stairs, through the back door. She heard a commotion but didn't stop to find out what it was. In the snow, cold and pouring rain she ran to the gardens. Trying to find a way to break free, to fly among the birds and never have to worry about revenge, hate, anger, or love. the first time in her life she was lost and wanted to run further then she had ever ran before. (Okay weird I know but just keep reading.)

The cold swept over her body Sakura didn't care. She thought it felt good, she deserved it, she had almost forgotten the reason that she had trapezes across the world and her life to do. To kill the killer who had destroyed her life it was that simple..

"And yet Sakura it has never been that simple has it.." Sakura turned to see a woman silhouetted in light. "Who are you?" the figure held out her hand.

"Why don't you recognize your own.?"

Li Mansion

"Syaoran where's the fire?" Meiling had just seen Sakura run down the stairs.

"Where's Sakura?" Meiling pointed to the stairs and Syaoran took off.

"Meiling what's with Syaoran?" Meiling heard Tomoyo's voice from behind her.

"No clue but something's up."Meiling thought for a minute. "Hey Tomoyo didn't you say that there was a guy here that had a quarrel with Sakura when he came in." Tomoyo nodded. "Let's go pay him a visit." Meiling said with a smile. Tomoyo caught on and nodded. The two friends headed down stairs and to one of the maids.

"Where is the newest guest staying?" The maid being new and not wanting to get fired on her first day only pointed to the far right where she had led him to. "Thank you."

Meiling lead with Tomoyo not far behind. Meiling knocked on the door, and waited for a reply it didn't take long.

"Hi." The man standing in front of her seemed slightly familiar.

"Hello I'm Li, Meiling and this is Hiragizawa, Tomoyo. Who are you?" Tomoyo almost laughed Meiling was blunt and forward. was that possible well it was for Meiling. The man looked at them like they were crazy and motioned them inside.

"I gather your friends with Sakura." They both nodded, Meiling looking thoroughly well it's hard to explain how she looked akin to pissed I guess. "Well I am Kinomoto, Touya her brother." Meiling's jaw dropped to the floor and Tomoyo just stood half dazed.

"You've come to take her."

"Home yes but it seems that she doesn't want anything to do with me." it was then that the two girls noticed the deep sadness and the slump in his shoulders. "I feel that I have failed her as a brother." It was then that Syaoran's sisters decided to make an appearance.

"Yeah a cute guy like you fails a cute cherry blossom like that yeah right." The oldest came first.

"Pleazzzzzzzzzzze don't even try Yang Fa is her own person she doesn't listen to anyone." The second one said entering the room.

"Come now our little brother is so sweet she'll come around sooner or later." The third said taking a stand next to her other sisters.

"By the way you can't take her home unless she wants to. got it." Touya looked up at this collection of women. beating by women. Touya finally nodded.

"For once they helped instead of creating more pain." Meiling whispered to Tomoyo and she whispered back.

"If you let them hear you it won't be."

Dragonia: so what do you think I know it's not as long as the others I hope you're happy oh darn Meiling's new friend wasn't there. well it is night don't worry though there's a date next time.. And who came to Sakura? Why is Eriol so secretive? What's going on between the sisters weren't they planning something. Okay well I guess I have to go. Darn

Syaoran: you took away my kiss scene.

Dragonia: sorry that's not to happen yet.

Sakura: what's going on what are you guys talking about?

(Dragonia and Syaoran sweat dropped)

Dragonia and Syaoran: NOTHING

Kero: you killed me when am I coming back.

Dragonia: I don't know ask the story.

Kero: what do you mean I'm lost! (starts to cry)

Dragonia: sorry.

Yue: weakling.

Kero: am not

Sakura: here we go again.

Dragonia: sorry I guess I shouldn't have invited everyone bye.