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Running From the Past

darki and mishi

Chappie 6 - Everyone changes after a while.......

Saiyuri swept into Tomoyo's apartment giggling with Jayce behind her. "I really liked that bar!" she exclaimed. Jayce chuckled and ruffled Sai's spiky hair. "Whatever punk. Don't get tipsy on me now. Easy does it...." "Ah, shut up. I'm not tipsy... just hyper!!!!!!" With that she promptly flopped onto a couch and tossed her sandals off. "Hey Sai, you're back." Tomoyo wandered out of her bedroom towel-drying her long lavender-black hair. "Yup!" "Hey, miss." "Jayce!" Tomoyo raised an elegant eyebrow. "I take it that both of you have found a new drinking buddy?" "Hell ya!" they chorused. Tomoyo sighed and flopped onto a couch and turned on her 24 inch plasma screen TV. "Hey Toyo, can we use your bathroom?" "Maybe. Why?" "It's really urgent." She yawned and yelled after the giggling duo with Sai dragging a sick looking Jayce to the bathroom "Fine, but just don't puke onto the carpet!!!!"

~~~Next Day~~~

Sai woke up once again at 7:00 AM but this time, the maid was holding a phone. "Miss, there's someone who wishes to speak with you." She whispered. "Wha---? Oh..... ok, give me a sec." Sai murmured yawning and rubbing her eyes. She took the phone with a smile at the maid who quickly exited the door.

"Moshi moshi??" Sai asked. "Sai?? Hey, it's me, Meiling! Wanna come over to my gym? I've got nothing to do today!" "What the hell??? Meiling, Do you have any idea what time it is??!" "Uhhh..... it's 7:05. Why? Can't you come?" "Yeahyeahyeah, but what does it say BESIDE the numbers?" "uh... AM? Sai are you ok??" "Exactly. It's 7:05 in the _morning_. The _MORNING_. I'd love to come over but couldn't this have waited a little bit longer?!" "Oh, sorry. We just wake up really early over here, that's all." "Like??" "Like 5 AM." "Holy shit!!!!!1 What's wrong with you people??!!! Drink black coffee the whole night or what???!!!" "Haha, NO. We're just more disciplined." "Oh, so you're calling me a lazy butt now, huh." "No, no, you've got it all wrong. I meant---" "Chill, Meiling. I'll just kidding." "Oh." "Anyways, I'll be over in.... how about an hour?" "Great!!" "Whatever. C ya." "Bye."

Saiyuri groaned as she dragged herself out of bed. Scribbling a quick note and pasting it on Tomoyo's forehead with a grin, Sai sighed and stumbled into the shower. This was going to be another long day.

~~Li Mansion~~

Exactly 55 minutes later, Saiyuri stood inside a vast Li Mansion. Meiling was giving her a brief tour of the place and Sai had to use all of her mapping skills to prevent herself from getting lost. The place was filled with priceless antique and works of art. After a while, Meiling and Sai ended up at the large training arena adjoined to the mansion. "This is where me and Xiao and occasionally his sis's train. It got everything you could ever want. "Meiling surveyed the arena with pride and smugness. "Ever been anywhere this nice?" "Actually, yes. I've even been somewhere nicer." Sai laughed at Meiling's shocked face. "Relax, that place was your training centre in Hong Kong."

Meiling's features cleared then a frown creased them again. "Wait, how'd you get in there?" Sai laughed again. "Simple. Asked Lang-zi to let me in. It really wasn't that hard - he was really proud of his stuff and wanted to show it off." Meiling laughed with a slightly bitter edge. "Yeah, that sure sounds like the old Xiao Lang." Saiyuri's eyes narrowed at the 'old'. "What d'you mean, the 'old' Xiao Lang?"

Meiling sighed as they strolled over to the centre of a sparring box and got into their ready positions. "I dunno," She said as they signalled for the fight to begin. "He just changed that's all. How old were you and him when you knew each other?" "We were both 14." Sai replied ducking under Meiling's high kick and whipping out a sweep kick at Meiling who easily avoided it. "Hn, and you were drinking buddies?" Meiling asked with a sceptical look as she threw a series of punches ranging from high to low. Saiyuri fended of the punches with one arm and she leapt up suddenly to do a jump kick aimed at Meiling's head. Meiling quickly dodged in the nick of time as Sai replied "Yeah. We were both underage but we got into bars just fine." "Oh really? And how'd you do that?" Meiling charged at Saiyuri only to drop down and slide between Sai's legs and yank on her ankles. Sai went along with the fall tucking in her legs and somersaulting backwards only to thrust up her legs mid way to shoot Meiling over and behind her. "I knew pretty much all of the bouncers and staff." Sai replied simply while she pinned Meiling down with her knee.

Meiling looked up at her with a wry grin as she held up her hands. "You're a pretty good fighter." She complimented. "You're not bad either. You're the first person who's given me a decent fight for over 5 years." Sai answered helping Meiling back up onto her feet. "But you still haven't told me what changed Lang-zi so much." Meiling sighed as she stretched her legs. "You guys separated when you were both around 15 right?" Saiyuri shook her head. "Nah, we were still only 14 - I was there only for 2 weeks - business trip." "oh. You guys got that close in 2 WEEKS??!!" "Hey, he was pretty wasted the first time I met him so I dragged him to a table and gave him some ice water and some of my pills to wake him up. When he was up, he was still partially drunk and happily chatted away with me. He passed out about 15 minutes later and I felt sorry for him so I rented a room for him and left him there. After that, he and I were good drinking buddies for no apparent reason." "Oh. Ohhh.... that kinda explains a lot... hmm.... and so close to Kira too..."

Sai looked at Meiling in surprise. "Kira? Who's Kira?" "Oh, she was Xiao Lang's fiancé. As he was to be the next clan leader, he got engaged pretty fast - he was supposed to marry her when he was 15." Meiling smiled wistfully. "She was a really nice girl too. Long black hair with natural blue highlights, tall, gentle... God, she was like an angel on earth. Xiao Lang really did love her..." "What happened? As far as I know, Xiao Lang never got married." Meiling's eyes teared up slightly. "Yeah. Kira died - she was shot during a random shootout. Raped multiple times, 2 bullets to the head and 3 in the belly." "OH my God." "Yeah. Xiao Lang took it really hard blaming himself for not being there, not protecting her enough, and so on. The night you found him was probably when he had just found out about Kira's death." "Holy shit."

Saiyuri stared wide eyed at Meiling. "I had no idea about anything..." "You weren't supposed to. Anyways, now, 6 years later, Xiao Lang is single, head of the Li Clan business empire, single, and a bastard with a heart of ice. He never got over Kira - so now he stays emotionally away from women - he only toys with them now.... He can't remember true love or care." Meiling smiled regretfully at Sai. "Even with me and Auntie and his 5 sisters we can't really turn him back into the old Lang-zi. The only one he's still remotely close to is Zi-lan. [A/N: XL's got 5 sissies in this fic!! Zilan is his younger sister - she's 4.] "Who's Zilan?" "She's Xiao Lang's little sister - technically she's not his sister as he found her beaten an alleyway a few years ago and brought her home. She's been with us since - You can meet her - she's really cute. She even calls Xiao Lang 'daddy' sometimes.... much to his embarrassment." Sai laughed and shook her head. "I'll bet she's he only one who gets away with that." Meiling rolled her eyes. "Tell me about it. Last time Eriol tried something like that, he nearly lost 6 teeth." "Ouch." Sai winced. "Come on, Ill show you Zilan."

darki: ok, ok, I knoe this was slow! And there will be S+S meeting and some kawaiiness (only if you REVIEW) in the next chappie. So REVIEW or NO KAWAINESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REVIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!