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Chapter 7
The group of five hovered around Syaoran's bed. One being invisible to all but Syaoran. Eriol, though still in the dark about what had happened, was watching his descendant with concern. Nakuru and Spinel were downstairs watching Sakura, who was still asleep. Eriol sighed. He had heard about the Li-clan, news traveled fast. He didn't know if anyone else knew yet though. The death of Syaoran's family, did not however, explain this immense increase in power. Touya spoke up,
"I found something since Yue left." Touya grabbed Syaoran's sweater and pulled it gently over the boy's shoulder. Eriol looked surprised and Kero actually gasped. Yue looked indifferent. Nadeshiko looked sad, and for a moment her eyes flashed and she wished she were real so she could slap Yue for being so insensitive.
"Is he hurt anywhere else?" Eriol asked, being the first to speak.
Touya shook his head. "I didn't check. I wanted to wait until someone could tell us what was wrong with him."
Kero flew up to Syaoran's shoulder and inspected it.
"It doesn't look self inflicted." Eriol chipped in. Kero looked surprised.
"Why would you think it was Eriol-kun?" Kero questioned.
"I'm not sure if any of you heard this but a tragedy has struck the Li-clan."
Yue's ears seemed to perk.
"No survivors, except my little descendant here."
Yue seemed to be thinking on something. Touya's grave expression did not change.
"Is it possible the dark aura which attacked us was the same one who had killed his family?" Yue asked.
Eriol shook his head.
"I would have known if the dark aura had hurt Syaoran, it could be possible that whoever attacked him were after his family too but it couldn't have been the dark aura. I should have stayed with him, I thought he looked a little drained after he killed the dark aura."
Kero scoffed, "that still doesn't explain why the gaki has so much power."
"Well, maybe when he was attacked, he released the power, maybe he always had it in him and we just didn't know."
"That is impossible, if he released his power when he was in trouble or for his own benefits then it would have been released at the final judgement. I fought the child, he did not have the power."
Eriol smiled faintly, if a little sick.
"Unless he deemed that not worthy to release his power." The room bathed in silence.
"Maybe we should check for further injuries." Eriol said looking down at the boy.
"I was going to try and disinfect it or something but I didn't have time before everyone arrived." Touya picked the medical supply box up from the floor and set it on the bed. They all waited. Finally Eriol pushed them aside and bent over Syaoran, inspecting him, he frowned.
"He's wearing black."
"So?"
"Kero, he was trying to hide that he was bleeding. We need to get his clothes off, as you will notice, he's wearing all black."
Eriol started yanking at Syaoran clothes, his attempts turned out to be fruitless as Syaoran was still curled into a ball.
"Syaoran, I need you to help me, okay? We need to dress your wounds, then we need you to tell us what happened." No answer. If anything, Syaoran curled up tighter.
"Syaoran, this is very important-"
They heard a gasp coming from the door.
"Madison? What are you doing here?" Kero asked, startled.
"Nakuru called me, she said Li-kun was in trouble." She pushed past them and studied Syaoran. "What's wrong with him, is he just sleeping?"
"No, his family is dead and he's hurt." Kero relayed.
"Where?"
Eriol pulled back Syaoran's sweater. Madison's eyes widened.
"We need to get him to a hospital! What are you all waiting for?!" Eriol looked skeptically at her.
"How are we going to explain this?"
"Just tell them he was missing and we went out to look for him and this is what we found! He was mugged maybe? I don't know. What if the slash is infected? He'll be ill."
Eriol cleared his throat. Meanwhile behind her Nadeshiko looked frustrated and anxious, could they not put two and two together!
"Madison, we think he's injured more seriously than just this bruise and cut. We were just about to check-" Madison looked horrified.
"If you think he's hurt than get him to the hospital. Please, just do it." Eriol hesitated for a second then nodded. Nadeshiko was glad someone in the room had enough sense to bring the boy to the hospital.
Eriol said something to Yue and he detransformed. Yukito woke up a little confused.
"I'm going to do some research, Nakuru and Suppi can stay with Sakura." Eriol said before he disappeared down the stairs.
"I'll stay here with Sakura." Touya added.
"Well, then I'll take Li-kun to the hospital." Madison paused before turning to Yukito. "Would you like to come with me Yukito-san?"
Yukito nodded, "why does Li-kun need to go to the hospital, is he hurt?"
Madison didn't answer him but instead turned to Kero. "Kero, you're coming with us, Yukito-san, could you please carry Li-kun down the stairs. I'll call to have a ride arranged for us." She turned on her heel and opened her phone. Yukito stared, dazed, for a moment before glancing around the room and seeing Syaoran on the bed. Touya coughed and left. Yukito picked Syaoran up thinking him asleep.
Kero, Madison and Yukito soon found themselves in a waiting area in the emergency room. They'd been waiting for about an hour when a nurse finally came up to them. She gave a pointed and suspicious look at Yukito,
"Are you his legal guardian?"
"No, I'm just a friend."
"A friend?" The nurse echoed a little harshly.
"Yes, a mutual friend." Tomoyo answered for him. Kero was stuffed in her purse and she could feel him squiggling. The nurse turned to Tomoyo and her gaze softened.
"I see. Does he have a number at which his family can be reached?"
For the first time since she heard the news it actually registered in Madison's head that Syaoran's family was dead. Madison grimaced.
"No. His family was killed." The nurse looked surprised at Madison's words.
"Killed? Then who takes care of him? Surely he has some cousins."
"I'm not sure. I've just recently been told that his family died. I'm not sure how or who."
The nurse looked puzzled.
"Do you have the number so we can try anyway?"
"I'm sorry, I don't. His family lives in Hong Kong, he's here on his own."
"Alone? Isn't someone looking after him?"
"He was staying at the Kinomoto's."
"Could you give me their number?"
Madison told the nurse who said she'd come back to tell them the news once his proper guardians appeared. Neither Madison nor Yukito corrected her, after all, Syaoran had only moved into the Kinomoto's household less than a week ago, only a few days.
Madison looked over at Yukito.
"Is it true what you said about his family?"
"Yes, Eriol-kun told me. I plan on getting answers once Touya-san gets here."
They said quiet, contemplating, for what seemed like an eternity before Touya arrived. He walked over to them, the nurse noticed and came to speak to them, a new flare in her eyes.
"Excuse me, are you Touya Kinomoto?"
"Yes." She glared at him.
"The police will be talking to you after. Since I hear your his guardian and that his family is deceased I have no choice but to notify you of his condition."
"Police?"
"Please sit down."
Touya sat down, clearly confused and concerned.
"This may be hard to hear so feel free to excuse yourself." She paused. "I won't get into specifics, he's hurt badly. As I may have already mentioned I've sent for the police. I wouldn't be so concerned if it wasn't..." She cleared her throat, never letting her eyes settle on any one of them. "He was not only beat, we have reason to believe he was raped."
Yukito gasped, Madison made a face before bursting into tears. Touya once again stood shocked.
"You won't be able to see him tonight, visiting hours are over and seeing as you're not family....." She trailed off before shifting around her weight uncomfortably and walking swiftly away.
Touya called to her.
"Please."
"Excuse me?"
"Please let me see him."
"You can't, he's not even conscious."
"I don't care."
"You'll be able to see him tomorrow if he allows."
She spun and walked away. Yukito looked as if he was going to cry and was comforting Madison. Touya looked numb.
Nadeshiko looked down on them all. Poor Syaoran, she had been in his hospital room. He didn't look so well, at least now he would get help. She watched her only son softly usher the other two out. He looked back disbelievingly.
Nadeshiko stayed at the hospital for awhile watching Syaoran sleep, he was pale and looked tortured. She quietly questioned why this had happened to such a sweet little boy. Hardly anyone had thought him sweet. She had always liked him. He was just a little boy to her, only nine when he arrived, just a little younger than Sakura. How could he lose his family and be attacked all at once? she was afraid he wouldn't be able to deal with it.
When Nadeshiko got back to the house she found quite a sight. Apparently the others were informed. It seemed Touya had come to realization and Yue transformed as fast as he could after they left the hospital. It was surprising, she had expected more crying. Although tears were undoubtedly streaming down most of there faces, their expressions were somewhat identical. They looked mad enough to kill. Sakura was in the other room, probably resting. They hadn't told her yet.
Yue was in the corner, eyes glowing, glaring at everyone and everything, as if suspicious. Kero was gritting his teeth so hard you could hear it from across the room. Madison was on the phone trying to buy her way in the hospital, she was alternating between two lines, the other being the police force which she had threatened to sue if they didn't get on this quick. Touya was in the middle of the room, jaw locked, fists clenching and unclenching. Suppi had a manical glaze in his eyes if you looked carefully but outwardly appeared almost unaffected except for the ferocious swinging of his tail and the power emanating from him. Nakuru was the only emotion one. Crying, not plotting revenge, just simply crying although her expression held pain.
Kero was at the minute threatening to transform and tear Syaoran's offender to pieces. The only ones not crying were Yue and Suppi, although Suppi's eyes were sparkling.
There was a knock on the door. Yue changed back into Yukito and Kero and Suppi hid as Touya walked down the hall to open the door. Two police officer's came through.
An hour later they had more medical people at the Kinomoto's house. They were currently collecting evidence from Syaoran's (a.k.a. Touya's) room, there was apparently lots of blood and other bodily fluids. They needed samples seeing as Syaoran had taken a shower before his visit to the hospital. Police were suspicious but there was nothing they could do about releasing Syaoran to the Kinomoto's again seeing as the test results wouldn't be back for quite a while. They informed them that Syaoran would be well enough to leave in about a week but suggested he stay there at least two.
Through all the noise Sakura slept, the drugs still taking effect. They had some very unpleasant news for her in the morning. They didn't now how she would take it. They were more worried about Syaoran although Sakura had someone checking up on her every few minutes.
Finally at the end of the night Tomoyo reluctantly went home, as did Eriol and his guardians. Yue stayed to watch his guardian, Touya fell asleep in the living room on the couch. Tomorrow was going to be bad. Tomorrow was going to be hell.
AN: Sorry, writers block. What can I say? I barely wrote much, sorry about that. Sorry if anything or anyone's out of character.