Chapter five: Revelations
Sakura limped to the carpark where she saw Madison was waiting anxiously for her.
" Oh my god Sakura! " Madison cried and ran over to her and hugged her. " What happened, why are you limping? "
Sakura told her. They sat in the back of her car and talked. Sakura shushed Madison and smiled at her.
" I have something to show you. Close your door. I don't want anyone to see this. " Sakura said and Madison closed her door and locked all the doors.
First Sakura pulled out all the contact lists, and gave them to Madison, who was surprised and happy at the same time. Then Sakura pulled out a bulging bag and gave it to Madison.
" Here it's half of what I found yesterday. It's yours. I stashed mine with the
diamond. " Sakura said and watched as Madison pulled out the wads of money.
Madison starred at them as if she wasn't seeing what she was seeing.
" Oh my god. " she gasped. " How much is here? " she asked, looking at Sakura.
" There's nine wads there. I've got the other nine. And it's all $100 notes. " Sakura smiled.
Madison screamed happily, hugging Sakura.
* * *
" Psst. " Madison said, trying to get Sakura's attention. They were in Music.
Sakura turned to Madison and grabbed the note that she held out for her before the teacher saw. Sakura opened the note and her eyes bulged as she read what Madison had written. She starting to choke and the teacher looked at her worriedly. Li and Meilin watched her curiously as she tried to stop herself from coughing. On the note that Madison had written:
' My Total - $81,000. '
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Sakura was messing around with a new device Madison had given her. It was a bomb detecter. She shoved it into her pocket and ran downstairs. Tonight she was dressed all in black again. She hopped onto her bike and zoomed away to a late night club.
* * *
Li scanned the crowd impatiently. Where was she? He felt tense like a caged animal and wished she'd show up. Then he spotted her. She was dressed all in black this time. Her emerald eyes shone seductively as she walked toward a table. Li couldn't tear his gaze away from hers. Those eyes had haunted him for days. Why did they seem familar?
* * *
Several people had slipped her contact numbers and would whisper: ' Alliance. ' Sakura wouldn't acknowledge them for safety reasons. Li watched it all.
Sakura had been sitting in her own thoughts when a beeping entered her mind. Puzzled she searched around for it but couldn't see anything that would be making that noise. A thought struck her and she delved into her pocket and pulled out the bomb detector. It was beeping frantically and Sakura read the location and looked up in tie to see two people with Tiger tattoo's putting something on the wall. Sakura froze.
Li followed her fearful gaze and saw the two guys with the Tiger tattoo's. Li jumped up.
" Bomb! EVERYONE GET OUT! TIGER'S PLANTED A BOMB! " he shouted.
Everyone panicked and bolted out of the club.
* * *
Sakura had just made it out of the club when it exploded sendind her flying. She felt something bite into her flesh and cried out as she hit the ground and rolled. Metal, wood and flame fell all around them and Sakura dragged herself up. She gripped the left side of her chest, where the bit of metal had cut her as it had flown past her like a dagger.
She staggerd to her bike that wasn't damaged. She was about to get on when someone tackled her. She cried out as pain shot through her. She realised that someone was holding her tightly and she struggled to be freed. Her panicked gaze meet amber and she gasped and tried harder to get away.
" Will you stop struggling! " Li hissed, his grip on her shoulders biting into her.
" Go to hell! " Sakura spat and punched him in the stomach.
Li grunted but didn't let go. Lightning lit up the sky and within a few seconds, rain poured from the heavens in torrents. Sakura freaked and pushed him away from her.
" I want you to tell me where to find Jade Fox. " Li demanded coldly.
Sakura got up.
" I won't tell you anything. " she spat.
Li growled and stood up. Steam hissed from the burning building, the flames lighting up the area.
" Jade Fox has no idea what she's gotten herself into! Tell her to stop doing what she is doing, she'll get herself killed! I know she's a rookie, she can't just barge in head first and expect to get what she's after! She may get away with what she's done now, but it'll catch up to her! " Li yelled angrily.
" Why do you care what happens to me -I mean Jade Fox? " Sakura snapped.
Li looked at her suspiciously.
" Who are you? " Li demanded.
" None of your damn buisness. " Sakura snapped. She tried to get past him, to get to her bike, but he wouldn't let her.
" I know you've been connected with all that's been happening and I know that you are either Jade Fox herself or a messenger. " Li stated.
Sakura starred at him stunned. She pushed past him and he grabbed her arm.
" I have a message for her. Tell her that I want to meet her. No tricks, no disguise, just her and me alone. I wish to talk with her. Tell her that. " he said.
" Why should she trust a Wolf? " Sakura spat.
Li looked at her suspiciously. Sakura pulled away from him again.
" I'll tell her. And if she decides to lower herself to meet with you alone as you put it, she will be in her true form. " Sakura spat and stumbled.
Li reached out to steadied and his eyes widened.
" You're bleeding! " he said and looked at his hand.
He seemed confused.
" It's black. " he said in the dimming light.
Sakura's eyes widened. Her hair! The rain was washing the dye out of her hair!
Li looked up at her hair. Sakura tried to stop him, but he grabbed a strand of her hair and slid his hand down it. He pulled his hand away and it was coated in running dye. He starred up at her and saw the honey-brown hair that had been washed clean of the black dye. His eyes widened. Sakura grabbed her chest as pain ripped through her. Li momentarily distracted noticed that she was bleeding. He could see it through the rip in her shirt.
Before he could do anything, she got on the bike and sped away, leaving him looking after her.
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~* Next Day *~
Sakura sat down in her chair as her teacher started calling out their names for marking. She flashed Li a 'good morning' smile. He seemed thrown off guard and confused. Sakura made a face at him and turned away. She was not going to give him any more cause to believe it was her last night. She hadn't told Madison. She had heard about the club being blown up, but she didn't know that Sakura had been there.
The cut on her chest was killing her, but she wasn't going to let it get in the way. As much as she wanted the day off to heal, Tori would want to know why she couldn't go and she couldn't show him because he'd want to know how it had happened. So she would grin and bear it.
* * *
They had a free for P.E and only a few kids were playing. Li and the others were sitting down talking. Li kept shooting her strange glances and she ignored them. She was sure of one thing though, White Tiger was going to pay! She was nearly killed last night becasue of him, and she knew that he was testing her. He'd get what was due. But how? Sakura hadn't figured that much out yet.
" Heads up! " someone called.
Sakura didn't look up in time. The ball hit her right on the same spot she had been cut. Stars passed in front of her eyes as she fought not to cry out in agony. She buckled over, gripping her chest tightly.
" Sakura! " Madsion cried, jumping up. " Are you alright? " she asked kneeling down in front of her.
Li had leapt up and was kneeling on the otherside of her, glaring at the idiot that had kicked the ball. Sakura screamed as she couldn't hold it back any longer. Tears fell as she sobbed in pain.
" Let me see Sakura. " Madison asked gently and concerned. " Take your hand away. "
Sakura pushed her away.
" Leave me alone I'm fine. " she snapped.
" Sakura what's that? " Rita asked fearfully, standing above her indicating her hand.
Madison looked at Sakura's hand and gasped.
" Sakura you're bleeding! " she cried frantic.
Li was trying to pull her hand away, but she pushed his hand away.
" I said I'm fine. " Sakura cried.
" Is everything ok? " the boy asked that had kicked the ball.
Li managed to pull her hand away. It was coated with blood. Rita squeaked and passed out and Sakura starred at it.
" I'm taking you to the nurse. " Li stated firmly and helped her up.
Sakura staggered as she came in and out of conciousness due to the pain. Li picked her up, careful of her wound and carried her towards the nurses office.
* * *
Sakura was aware that she was laying down. Li was looking down at her expressionless. She groaned as pain returned.
" I want to see it. " Li demanded.
" Where's the nurse? " Sakura asked grogily.
" Not here. I want to see it Sakura. " Li stated firmly.
Sakura gripped her collar protectively. Li pushed her hand away and pulled her collar away, revealing her bare skin and a deep, red and enflamed cut. Li starred at her stunned. Li let go of her collar and Sakura looked away. Well he knew now!
" I think you had better explain how you got that Sakura. " Li said.
Sakura remained quiet.
" It was you then. You were the one last night at the club. The one I spoke to. " he said.
" You said it not me. " Sakura replied. What was the point he knew anyway.
" You have a lot of explaining to do. " Li said.
" I have nothing to explain to a Wolf. " Sakura said looking at his arm that was covered by the uniform.
Li ran his hand threw his hair and turned away fom her. Sakura thought he was talking to himself, but she saw the cell phone that he was talking into. He turned back to her.
" Eriol's bringing the car around. That needs tending to, and I think I saw a bit of metal in that. It's going to get a whole lot worse if you don't let Wei look at it. " Li said looking at her seriously.
" If you're trying to corner me into an interrogation, I won't tell you anything Li Showrun. Not unless you explain a few things first. " Sakura stated.
A car horn beeped and Li put his arms under her and lifted her up gently. Sakura passed out as pain seered through her. The last thing she remembered was Li saying sorry for hurting her.
* * *
Sakura came to as she was being layed down. Her panicked eyes flew open and met amber.
" It's ok Sakura. You're back at the mansion. Wei's being called for right now. He'll be here in a minute to take care of you. " Li said calmly.
Sakura looked away and starred around the room. It was just a plain white room. Nothing special. No funiture except for the bed she was laying on and the table beside her and medical supplies all around them.
Li busied himself with a few things, before coming back to her, a determined expression on his face. Sakura didn't like that look.
" Whatever you're thinking of doing the answer is no. " Sakura said firmly.
Li smirked.
" Someone has to clean it before Wei gets here. Plus I have better eyesight then him. I want to see if what I saw was metal or not. " Li said coming over to her.
Sakura eyed him warily. When he didn't go for her collar but the bottom of her shirt she pushed away from him, causing more pain.
" What the hell do you think you're doing? " she demanded warily.
Li looked backed at her expressionless.
" What's it look like I'm doing Avalon? You're damn collar gets in the way. I need to look at it fully. You'd have to do the same thing with Wei. " Li said and tried to lift her shirt again.
Sakura slapped his hand away.
" Yeah well I'd rather do it with Wei. At least he's not a 17 year old teenage boy. " Sakura snapped.
Li made a noise of frustration.
" Look Avalon. You could get or already have lead poisoning. I need to make sure that it wasn't metal I saw in there. So stop acting like baby. " Li snapped.
The fear of possible lead poisioning, momentarily startled her and she let her guard down. Li nodded and lifted her top over her head and put it beside her on the bed. Sakura gasped and was left in her black bra with a nasty looking wound. Blushing red, Sakura glared at Li.
Ignoring her, Li examined the cut. He turned on a light beside the bed and lit up the cut. He made a noise in his throat and reached over and grabbed a pair of nasty looking tweezers. Sakura freaked.
" What are you doing with those? " she asked fear in her voice.
Li smirked, but didn't say a thing. He put anticeptic on it and Sakura cried out as it stung like all hell. Sakura gripped the bedsheets in a iron grip force and gritted her teeth. Li looked up at her and then back down at her cut. He gently blew on it for her, making it not sting as much. Sakura held her breath.
" Now this may hurt. " Li said and before Sakura could ask a sharp pain ripped through her chest. Her scream echoed throughout the mansion. Li clamped his hand over her mouth, his ears still ringing. Li held up the tiny hunk of metal that he had pulled out in front of her eyes. Sakura starred at it and bit his hand.
" Ouch! " Li cried shaking his hand. Tiny bite marks were imprinted in his skin.
Li glared at her.
" That hurt! " he spat.
" Good. Becase what you did to me hurt like hell! " Sakura spat.
Suddenly Wei arrived in the doorway looking like he had run a mile.
" Good god Li what did you do to her? It sounded like you were in here killing her. " Wei stated.
" If bloody only. " Li muttered looking at his hand.
He held up the bit of metal.
" I was just about to see if there was any more. "
Sakura looked at him petrified.
" You are not digging around in me with those bloody vicious looking things do you hear me? That god damn hurt! " Sakura spat.
" How do you expect to have a bullet extracted Sakura? " he asked looking at her.
" What? What does this have to do with a bullet? " Sakura demanded.
" Well if you kep messing around like you are with this Jade Fox thing, not knowing what to expect, that'll be what we'll be pulling out of you, and trust me, it'll hurt ten times more than what this tiny little thing did. " Li stated.
Sakura clamped right up and didn't say a word. Li went back to searching for anymore bits of metal.
* * *
By the time Wei and Li had finished with her. Sakura was a tense, emotional wreck. Li noted with sympathy that she was as stiff as a board with tension. He knew she had to go through pain to make sure the cut would heal, but he didn't really think it had hurt her that much. Maybe he had forgotten how much it had hurt the first time he had metal pulled out of him. By now he was used to it, but Sakura. . .
Sakura reached over to put on her shirt but Li prevented her. Sakura looked up at him, her normally bright emerald eyes, were dull with pain.
" Wei, can you please go get something of Meilin's clothes for Sakura to wear? " Li asked looing at the older man.
Wei nodded and left.
" I'm sorry we hurt you Sakura. But it had to be done. " Li said, his voice full of concern.
Sakura nodded, fighting tears. Li wiped away one of the tears that had fallen.
" Hey don't cry. " Li making her look at him. " You're too brave to cry. "
Sakura shook her head.
" Don't fight me on this Avalon. Trust me I know. " Li said firmly.
Wei came back with some of Meilin's clothes and Sakura got dressed in the bathroom. When she came out, Li was gone. Wei however was holding a needle and was looking at her meaningfully. Sakura took one look at the needle and passed out.
Sakura limped to the carpark where she saw Madison was waiting anxiously for her.
" Oh my god Sakura! " Madison cried and ran over to her and hugged her. " What happened, why are you limping? "
Sakura told her. They sat in the back of her car and talked. Sakura shushed Madison and smiled at her.
" I have something to show you. Close your door. I don't want anyone to see this. " Sakura said and Madison closed her door and locked all the doors.
First Sakura pulled out all the contact lists, and gave them to Madison, who was surprised and happy at the same time. Then Sakura pulled out a bulging bag and gave it to Madison.
" Here it's half of what I found yesterday. It's yours. I stashed mine with the
diamond. " Sakura said and watched as Madison pulled out the wads of money.
Madison starred at them as if she wasn't seeing what she was seeing.
" Oh my god. " she gasped. " How much is here? " she asked, looking at Sakura.
" There's nine wads there. I've got the other nine. And it's all $100 notes. " Sakura smiled.
Madison screamed happily, hugging Sakura.
* * *
" Psst. " Madison said, trying to get Sakura's attention. They were in Music.
Sakura turned to Madison and grabbed the note that she held out for her before the teacher saw. Sakura opened the note and her eyes bulged as she read what Madison had written. She starting to choke and the teacher looked at her worriedly. Li and Meilin watched her curiously as she tried to stop herself from coughing. On the note that Madison had written:
' My Total - $81,000. '
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Sakura was messing around with a new device Madison had given her. It was a bomb detecter. She shoved it into her pocket and ran downstairs. Tonight she was dressed all in black again. She hopped onto her bike and zoomed away to a late night club.
* * *
Li scanned the crowd impatiently. Where was she? He felt tense like a caged animal and wished she'd show up. Then he spotted her. She was dressed all in black this time. Her emerald eyes shone seductively as she walked toward a table. Li couldn't tear his gaze away from hers. Those eyes had haunted him for days. Why did they seem familar?
* * *
Several people had slipped her contact numbers and would whisper: ' Alliance. ' Sakura wouldn't acknowledge them for safety reasons. Li watched it all.
Sakura had been sitting in her own thoughts when a beeping entered her mind. Puzzled she searched around for it but couldn't see anything that would be making that noise. A thought struck her and she delved into her pocket and pulled out the bomb detector. It was beeping frantically and Sakura read the location and looked up in tie to see two people with Tiger tattoo's putting something on the wall. Sakura froze.
Li followed her fearful gaze and saw the two guys with the Tiger tattoo's. Li jumped up.
" Bomb! EVERYONE GET OUT! TIGER'S PLANTED A BOMB! " he shouted.
Everyone panicked and bolted out of the club.
* * *
Sakura had just made it out of the club when it exploded sendind her flying. She felt something bite into her flesh and cried out as she hit the ground and rolled. Metal, wood and flame fell all around them and Sakura dragged herself up. She gripped the left side of her chest, where the bit of metal had cut her as it had flown past her like a dagger.
She staggerd to her bike that wasn't damaged. She was about to get on when someone tackled her. She cried out as pain shot through her. She realised that someone was holding her tightly and she struggled to be freed. Her panicked gaze meet amber and she gasped and tried harder to get away.
" Will you stop struggling! " Li hissed, his grip on her shoulders biting into her.
" Go to hell! " Sakura spat and punched him in the stomach.
Li grunted but didn't let go. Lightning lit up the sky and within a few seconds, rain poured from the heavens in torrents. Sakura freaked and pushed him away from her.
" I want you to tell me where to find Jade Fox. " Li demanded coldly.
Sakura got up.
" I won't tell you anything. " she spat.
Li growled and stood up. Steam hissed from the burning building, the flames lighting up the area.
" Jade Fox has no idea what she's gotten herself into! Tell her to stop doing what she is doing, she'll get herself killed! I know she's a rookie, she can't just barge in head first and expect to get what she's after! She may get away with what she's done now, but it'll catch up to her! " Li yelled angrily.
" Why do you care what happens to me -I mean Jade Fox? " Sakura snapped.
Li looked at her suspiciously.
" Who are you? " Li demanded.
" None of your damn buisness. " Sakura snapped. She tried to get past him, to get to her bike, but he wouldn't let her.
" I know you've been connected with all that's been happening and I know that you are either Jade Fox herself or a messenger. " Li stated.
Sakura starred at him stunned. She pushed past him and he grabbed her arm.
" I have a message for her. Tell her that I want to meet her. No tricks, no disguise, just her and me alone. I wish to talk with her. Tell her that. " he said.
" Why should she trust a Wolf? " Sakura spat.
Li looked at her suspiciously. Sakura pulled away from him again.
" I'll tell her. And if she decides to lower herself to meet with you alone as you put it, she will be in her true form. " Sakura spat and stumbled.
Li reached out to steadied and his eyes widened.
" You're bleeding! " he said and looked at his hand.
He seemed confused.
" It's black. " he said in the dimming light.
Sakura's eyes widened. Her hair! The rain was washing the dye out of her hair!
Li looked up at her hair. Sakura tried to stop him, but he grabbed a strand of her hair and slid his hand down it. He pulled his hand away and it was coated in running dye. He starred up at her and saw the honey-brown hair that had been washed clean of the black dye. His eyes widened. Sakura grabbed her chest as pain ripped through her. Li momentarily distracted noticed that she was bleeding. He could see it through the rip in her shirt.
Before he could do anything, she got on the bike and sped away, leaving him looking after her.
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~* Next Day *~
Sakura sat down in her chair as her teacher started calling out their names for marking. She flashed Li a 'good morning' smile. He seemed thrown off guard and confused. Sakura made a face at him and turned away. She was not going to give him any more cause to believe it was her last night. She hadn't told Madison. She had heard about the club being blown up, but she didn't know that Sakura had been there.
The cut on her chest was killing her, but she wasn't going to let it get in the way. As much as she wanted the day off to heal, Tori would want to know why she couldn't go and she couldn't show him because he'd want to know how it had happened. So she would grin and bear it.
* * *
They had a free for P.E and only a few kids were playing. Li and the others were sitting down talking. Li kept shooting her strange glances and she ignored them. She was sure of one thing though, White Tiger was going to pay! She was nearly killed last night becasue of him, and she knew that he was testing her. He'd get what was due. But how? Sakura hadn't figured that much out yet.
" Heads up! " someone called.
Sakura didn't look up in time. The ball hit her right on the same spot she had been cut. Stars passed in front of her eyes as she fought not to cry out in agony. She buckled over, gripping her chest tightly.
" Sakura! " Madsion cried, jumping up. " Are you alright? " she asked kneeling down in front of her.
Li had leapt up and was kneeling on the otherside of her, glaring at the idiot that had kicked the ball. Sakura screamed as she couldn't hold it back any longer. Tears fell as she sobbed in pain.
" Let me see Sakura. " Madison asked gently and concerned. " Take your hand away. "
Sakura pushed her away.
" Leave me alone I'm fine. " she snapped.
" Sakura what's that? " Rita asked fearfully, standing above her indicating her hand.
Madison looked at Sakura's hand and gasped.
" Sakura you're bleeding! " she cried frantic.
Li was trying to pull her hand away, but she pushed his hand away.
" I said I'm fine. " Sakura cried.
" Is everything ok? " the boy asked that had kicked the ball.
Li managed to pull her hand away. It was coated with blood. Rita squeaked and passed out and Sakura starred at it.
" I'm taking you to the nurse. " Li stated firmly and helped her up.
Sakura staggered as she came in and out of conciousness due to the pain. Li picked her up, careful of her wound and carried her towards the nurses office.
* * *
Sakura was aware that she was laying down. Li was looking down at her expressionless. She groaned as pain returned.
" I want to see it. " Li demanded.
" Where's the nurse? " Sakura asked grogily.
" Not here. I want to see it Sakura. " Li stated firmly.
Sakura gripped her collar protectively. Li pushed her hand away and pulled her collar away, revealing her bare skin and a deep, red and enflamed cut. Li starred at her stunned. Li let go of her collar and Sakura looked away. Well he knew now!
" I think you had better explain how you got that Sakura. " Li said.
Sakura remained quiet.
" It was you then. You were the one last night at the club. The one I spoke to. " he said.
" You said it not me. " Sakura replied. What was the point he knew anyway.
" You have a lot of explaining to do. " Li said.
" I have nothing to explain to a Wolf. " Sakura said looking at his arm that was covered by the uniform.
Li ran his hand threw his hair and turned away fom her. Sakura thought he was talking to himself, but she saw the cell phone that he was talking into. He turned back to her.
" Eriol's bringing the car around. That needs tending to, and I think I saw a bit of metal in that. It's going to get a whole lot worse if you don't let Wei look at it. " Li said looking at her seriously.
" If you're trying to corner me into an interrogation, I won't tell you anything Li Showrun. Not unless you explain a few things first. " Sakura stated.
A car horn beeped and Li put his arms under her and lifted her up gently. Sakura passed out as pain seered through her. The last thing she remembered was Li saying sorry for hurting her.
* * *
Sakura came to as she was being layed down. Her panicked eyes flew open and met amber.
" It's ok Sakura. You're back at the mansion. Wei's being called for right now. He'll be here in a minute to take care of you. " Li said calmly.
Sakura looked away and starred around the room. It was just a plain white room. Nothing special. No funiture except for the bed she was laying on and the table beside her and medical supplies all around them.
Li busied himself with a few things, before coming back to her, a determined expression on his face. Sakura didn't like that look.
" Whatever you're thinking of doing the answer is no. " Sakura said firmly.
Li smirked.
" Someone has to clean it before Wei gets here. Plus I have better eyesight then him. I want to see if what I saw was metal or not. " Li said coming over to her.
Sakura eyed him warily. When he didn't go for her collar but the bottom of her shirt she pushed away from him, causing more pain.
" What the hell do you think you're doing? " she demanded warily.
Li looked backed at her expressionless.
" What's it look like I'm doing Avalon? You're damn collar gets in the way. I need to look at it fully. You'd have to do the same thing with Wei. " Li said and tried to lift her shirt again.
Sakura slapped his hand away.
" Yeah well I'd rather do it with Wei. At least he's not a 17 year old teenage boy. " Sakura snapped.
Li made a noise of frustration.
" Look Avalon. You could get or already have lead poisoning. I need to make sure that it wasn't metal I saw in there. So stop acting like baby. " Li snapped.
The fear of possible lead poisioning, momentarily startled her and she let her guard down. Li nodded and lifted her top over her head and put it beside her on the bed. Sakura gasped and was left in her black bra with a nasty looking wound. Blushing red, Sakura glared at Li.
Ignoring her, Li examined the cut. He turned on a light beside the bed and lit up the cut. He made a noise in his throat and reached over and grabbed a pair of nasty looking tweezers. Sakura freaked.
" What are you doing with those? " she asked fear in her voice.
Li smirked, but didn't say a thing. He put anticeptic on it and Sakura cried out as it stung like all hell. Sakura gripped the bedsheets in a iron grip force and gritted her teeth. Li looked up at her and then back down at her cut. He gently blew on it for her, making it not sting as much. Sakura held her breath.
" Now this may hurt. " Li said and before Sakura could ask a sharp pain ripped through her chest. Her scream echoed throughout the mansion. Li clamped his hand over her mouth, his ears still ringing. Li held up the tiny hunk of metal that he had pulled out in front of her eyes. Sakura starred at it and bit his hand.
" Ouch! " Li cried shaking his hand. Tiny bite marks were imprinted in his skin.
Li glared at her.
" That hurt! " he spat.
" Good. Becase what you did to me hurt like hell! " Sakura spat.
Suddenly Wei arrived in the doorway looking like he had run a mile.
" Good god Li what did you do to her? It sounded like you were in here killing her. " Wei stated.
" If bloody only. " Li muttered looking at his hand.
He held up the bit of metal.
" I was just about to see if there was any more. "
Sakura looked at him petrified.
" You are not digging around in me with those bloody vicious looking things do you hear me? That god damn hurt! " Sakura spat.
" How do you expect to have a bullet extracted Sakura? " he asked looking at her.
" What? What does this have to do with a bullet? " Sakura demanded.
" Well if you kep messing around like you are with this Jade Fox thing, not knowing what to expect, that'll be what we'll be pulling out of you, and trust me, it'll hurt ten times more than what this tiny little thing did. " Li stated.
Sakura clamped right up and didn't say a word. Li went back to searching for anymore bits of metal.
* * *
By the time Wei and Li had finished with her. Sakura was a tense, emotional wreck. Li noted with sympathy that she was as stiff as a board with tension. He knew she had to go through pain to make sure the cut would heal, but he didn't really think it had hurt her that much. Maybe he had forgotten how much it had hurt the first time he had metal pulled out of him. By now he was used to it, but Sakura. . .
Sakura reached over to put on her shirt but Li prevented her. Sakura looked up at him, her normally bright emerald eyes, were dull with pain.
" Wei, can you please go get something of Meilin's clothes for Sakura to wear? " Li asked looing at the older man.
Wei nodded and left.
" I'm sorry we hurt you Sakura. But it had to be done. " Li said, his voice full of concern.
Sakura nodded, fighting tears. Li wiped away one of the tears that had fallen.
" Hey don't cry. " Li making her look at him. " You're too brave to cry. "
Sakura shook her head.
" Don't fight me on this Avalon. Trust me I know. " Li said firmly.
Wei came back with some of Meilin's clothes and Sakura got dressed in the bathroom. When she came out, Li was gone. Wei however was holding a needle and was looking at her meaningfully. Sakura took one look at the needle and passed out.