The Deadly Duet

Chapter 6: The corp, squad, and staff

--Tomoyo and Sakura—

Tomoyo hung on Sakura for support, "It's... so... it hurts..." she hissed, loosing her voice. "Ssshh... you're gonna be alright, we'll get you outta here," Sakura soothed, tears started streaming down her cheek. "Hold on Tomoyo, please."

Just then, Li and Chang burst in the living room. "Come on! We have to get outta here, and quickly!" Syaoran yelled, he looked down and saw Sakura cried, holding Tomoyo.

"Syaoran! Please, please help her, she's dying," Sakura begged as tears more coming out her eyes. Chang frowned at her by hearing Syaoran's name from her mouth. She then saw Kawasaki's dead body and Sakura's knife that was still attached to it.

"Quick, we don't have much time! I'll get her, Chang you go on and find the others, make sure they get the hell outta here, QUICK!" Chang knew she couldn't let out her anger it was emergency, their lives.

He quickly grabbed Tomoyo and carried her, "stop crying, let's go," Sakura stood up, nodded and wiped her tears.

"Syaoran, what happened? Why's the rush? How about Nakamura?" Sakura asked, while they ran towards the exit of the house.

"Nakamura escaped, and he set up some dumb bombs in this house, so we have to get out, we only have five minutes left," he stated calmly, astonishing he could be so calm at times like that, plus carrying a dying person with him. "WHAT???" Sakura yelled.

--HK hospital—

They waited outside the operation room where they were operating Tomoyo and Chiharu. Sakura's tears streaming down her cheek and she made a loud sobs that she couldn't hold down, Rika was soothing her. Takashi was sitting, his elbows on his knees, his face on his palms. Terada was just sitting there, arms folded. Chang wasn't anywhere spotted.

Syaoran, however, was standing gazing out of the window when he finally couldn't stand Sakura's sobs. He walked closer to her, stopped in front of her. Rika sighed in relief and said she wanted to go to the toilet.

Syaoran sat beside her where Rika was. "Stop it, she's going to be just fine," Syaoran said soothingly. Sakura was kind of shock by his tone but it didn't matter at times like that. "S-she's like sister to me, we've been together since forever, I just cant loose her, I don't want it I never wanna loose anyone again not my brother, and now not her, everyone..." she burst out all that was in her throbbing heart, she was so scared of loosing anyone again. She then remembered her brother and looked up at Syaoran, she could feel his warm eyes soothing her, but, remembering her brother's death didn't help at all, she started to get confused again, strugling with her feelings.

She looked away from him, her sobs even louder. "What tha..." Syaoran muttered confusedly, reaching out to touch her. "No, go away, leave me alone," Sakura stressed. "Hey calm," Syaoran called, touching her shoulders which were shaking. She shrugged, all her feelings, memories, all crowded her brain, her heart throbbing. She didn't know either to cry out in his arms or kill him right away. If he hadn't come and carry Tomoyo she wouldn't know what would have happened to her but how about her brother?

She shrugged, trying to get his hands off her but he just pulled her to him. She couldn't resist the warmth he was giving her. She struggled to get out of his embrace but he was too strong and yet her mind and body couldn't resist him. She just stayed there in his warmth, feeling... safe.

--Li Underground Squad—

They found out that Tomoyo and Sakura's apartment wasn't really safe for now to live in, so they moved temporarily to the Squad house. There are a lot of rooms in there, and even Syaoran sometimes spent his night there, and also the rest of the team. Tomoyo and Chiharu came back from hospital a week after, and Tomoyo was healthy enough to start working in Li Inc. but Sakura insisted she took another day for rest. Syaoran was staying there as well and so the others.

"Yes, Kaho-san, a burglar came down on our apartment and our boss is kindheartedly giving us a place to rest for a while," Tomoyo said to the phone. She had to speak real carefully. She had to anyway tell the group that they moved for a while. But something else came out of her mind.

"And, Kaho-san? Something else bothered me, you know, the one I've told you before? Sakura..." Tomoyo said. "She looked even more depressed, I think she's struggling with her feelings much harder."

Just then she heard someone coming and she had to hang up for she didn't want to take a risk. "Well then Kaho-san, tell uncle Yoshi hi from us, I've gotta go," with that she hung up but only to find Sakura came up to her.

"Who're you calling?" Sakura asked. "Oh, Kaho-san, she's really worried, and I told her to say hi to uncle Yoshi as well," Tomoyo said.

Sakura got her meaning. Tomoyo studied her. She rarely smiled now; it's so different from her. Was it because they were in the enemy's place? But Tomoyo herself didn't know. The people there were so kind and helpful, how could they do such dark crimes? Oh yes, they did kill people easily. Well, they still didn't know much about them. But she thanked God they gave them place for they knew as well that Nakamura was hunting all the members of the team for they all had made him ruined his own house into pieces.

"Sakura? How are you feeling?" Tomoyo asked. She didn't think she noticed her so she asked her, "would you like going for a walk?" in a louder tone.

"Huh? Oh yes," Sakura replied. They walked out of the room and found themselves out of the house. The house didn't look at all like a squad headquarters, it's just an ordinary, even beautiful large mansion fully guarded.

They walked along the yard. "Sakura, how are you feeling?" Tomoyo asked. "Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" Sakura replied, her gaze was on the ground.

"No, that's not what I mean, I mean, how are your heart feeling right now with all the..."

"Just.... Why are you asking that?" Sakura looked up at her. "It's just, Sakura-chan, you looked very thoughtful and umm... pale, just tell me you know."

"Tomoyo, I'm dying from my feelings. In fact, I don't even know how I feel for I didn't know which one's I'm really feeling and which one's not, but Tomoyo, you know, the first thing now, I feel like what we've been doing this past years meant nothing at all," Sakura stated. "shh... let's get out of here," Tomoyo said and dragged her.

--In a cafe--

"You know, our missions, those killings, I felt like it was all nothing," Sakura spilled out. They were in a private lounge of the café so no one could here them.

"What? Sakura? What happened to you? We only killed bad people!"

"That's why Tomoyo! It's still called killing isn't it?" Sakura stressed. "Well, since when did you think of such ways?" Tomoyo asked.

"That night, our mission to the Nakamura's. Tomoyo, I was dying when you're dying! You've no idea of how I felt! What if I lost you? You're like my sister and will always be, how could I live without you? And then I felt that, if you kill someone and he dies, what will someone who loved them felt? I felt like... my hands were so dirty, and I felt like... I felt so guilty," Sakura burst out, tears started down her cheeks. "I don't want to kill anyone again, Tomoyo," Sakura said, sobbing.

"Sakura-chan, what would you do to the bad people for them to stop?"

"Tomoyo, we can give them chances," Sakura started. "NO, Sakura, they just do what they do again and again," Tomoyo cut her off.

"OH I don't know, I just don't feel right," Sakura said. Tomoyo came sitting beside her and soothed her. "It's okay, I don't feel right too, especially of what you just said," Tomoyo said. She really pitied Sakura. She knew just how she struggled with her feelings. Especially towards Li, she knew she was in distress of rather hating him and kill him or... as she could see, she was falling for him. But Tomoyo knew he too had saved her life, so what should she do? "So how about Li?" Tomoyo was sure she had to mention this, because they still had their unfinished mission.

"We start we finish," Sakura said, calming down. "We shall get rid of him soon," she finished her words.

--Elsewhere—

"She's dwelling with her thoughts, and struggling for her feelings, she's suffering from the inside," a woman talked to her phone.

"What do you think's the best to do?" a man replied from the other side of the phone line.

"You should see her as soon as possible before she regrets what she would have done."

--Li Underground Squad—

Sakura closed the door behind her and stepped in the room.

"Where were you?" a voice asked. Sakura startled hearing the voice but only turned around and calmly said, "out for fresh air and a little chat with my sister, is anything wrong?"

"No," Syaoran said, standing up from his desk, "I was wondering what are you doing in my office anyway," he said.

Sakura looked around and saw it really was an office, and she just went in without permission she didn't even know what room it was for she just went in to know what was in the room.

"Oh sorry I didn't know it was your office, I just came in to look around. I didn't know you've got an office in the squad anyway, why are you working here?"

"I can work wherever I want, as it's still my territory," he said, walking closer to her.

They looked at each other and he again felt his can't take his eyes off her eyes.

"So, anything I could help? I mean, I'm your staff and I haven't been working for some days, I've nothing to do," she stated, staring back at him. She was getting used to his stare, in fact she felt like couldn't take off her eyes off his handsome face as well.

Syaoran sighed while leaning against his desk, folding his arms on his chest. "Well, it's more of I should command you, not you helping me."

Sakura smirked. "Yeah, whatever, you don't ask for help, you command," she said.

"That's more like it," he said, smirking. "I could command you something."

"What is it?"

"Well, there's gonna be another businessman party and if I instead of attending, going to another club and getting involved in another murder case my mother would be more than pissed," he said. "The thing is, I never tend to attend such boring thing with annoying people who sneak their noses around wanting to know everything to get more money and higher status and all, and anyway, I command you to get bored with me to that stupid party that is tomorrow night."

Sakura was surprised of his speech. "Wow, seems like you're not one of them even though you're umm one of them you know in..."

"I'm too young to that and I no need to sneak my nose around just to find more status which I already have high without I command it to," he interrupted her. Sakura laughed hearing that.

"Well, Mr. Commander, I'd love to but I've nothing to wear," Sakura said, in laughs.

Syaoran who had been smiling, smiled wider. "It's my concern, you no need to worry."

Syaoran reached the telephone behind him and dialed a number.

"Hello?" a voice came from the other side. "We... where's Wei?" Syaoran was going to say Wei when he realized it was a woman speaking. "Oh, I don't know, I was walking around when the phone rang, so I just picked it up," Tomoyo said.

"Well then tell Wei to call the family designer to make Sakura a dress ready by tomorrow," Syaoran commanded. "Eh? What does Sakura need a dress ready by tomorrow for?"

"She's going to go to the business man party with me, now go tell him Saionji," he said but found no answer instead it seemed like she left the phone. But he didn't have to make a budge for she second later came up at his office door, panting. "Saionji wha..." Syaoran started but cut off, "Li, please, please, let me do the dress, I assure you it will be much much better than your family designer's whoever he is, and will be ready by tomorrow, please, I've always made Sakura dresses, I always seek for the oppurtunity, and I'm not stopping now, please, please..." Tomoyo ran up to Syaoran and begged him with starry eyes.

Syaoran was kinda surprised. He looked at Sakura who sweatdropped. "It's true, Syaoran, she made all my dresses since... ever since," Sakura said.

"Well, I don't really give a damn for things like that, just make it... ah nice," Syaoran stated. Tomoyo squealed in delight. "Thanks Li! I'm gonna need nice fabrics and stuff," Tomoyo said starry-eyed. "Wei will go with you," Syaoran said calmly. "OOOhhh, thank you so so much I'll go get him," he screamed and suddenly blasted off the office leaving Sakura and Syaoran shocked.

"What's with her?" Syaoran said. Sakura laughed seeing his face. "I'm sorry for her, she's always like that."

Syaoran only smirked. "Oh well, shouldn't you go with her for umm measurement or something?"

"Don't think so, she knows all my measurement perfectly, she would even sweep me off before the dress is ready," she said. "Oh, that's terrifying," he commented. Sakura laughed.

"Then since it seems like you want to be around, why don't you..." Syaoran was going to finish his words when the phone rang.

He answered the phone then frowned. "Would you not bother me for just a day? Fine, I'll be right there, see you mother," he said then hung up.

"Well, I'm sorry, my mother wants me there... wait, you can be my secretary today," he said.

"What?" Sakura asked.

--Li mansion--

"Master Li, Mistress is waiting for you in the office," a butler said to Syaoran as he bowed when Syaoran and Sakura came in. Syaoran straightly went to the office followed by Sakura.

"Ah there he is," a woman said when Syaoran came in. "Syaoran, this is inspector Yang from the police headquarter, he wants to ask you ah some questions... and who are you with?"

"Oh this is my secretary, Saionji Sakura," Syaoran introduced her. Sakura bowed and smiled. "Pretty young lady, you're japanese?" the inspector asked. "Yes I am," Sakura answered.

"Well, let's straight to our business Mr. Li, I wanted to ask your alibi when Nakamura Kenji's house was blown up. Of course you've heard of it, haven't you?"

"And what makes you think I'm the suspect?" Syaoran said calmly. "Why would I blow someone-who-you-thought-is-dead's house anyway?"

Inspector Yang looked like he was thinking about Syaoran's words. "As I said I just wanted to know your alibi, and that's if you have one," he shot back. Syaoran was aware, but he would never lose to a conversation. "If you want to know so badly, I was at Sakura's, she's here you can ask, and if I've no alibi what do you think I was doing, blowing Nakamura's house when I have lots of men working for me who would do such lower position's job as that? I've no time for that, inspector, why wouldn't you think Nakamura blowed his own house?"

The inspector looked surprise and so did Yelan. "Syaoran, he's dead, how do you think he would blow his own house?" Yelan said. She was kinda confused of his son's words, she knew there was something he hadn't told her. "There are ways. And If you think Nakamura's dead, why don't you check his coffin again," Syaoran replied.

"Haha.. that's funny, Syaoran, I would possibly do that you know," a man voice came from behind them.

Syaoran looked around and saw the least person he wanted to see. "Tao," he muttered.

"How nice seeing you in your own house, where have you been in the past days?" the man called Tao said.

"None of your business," Syaoran glared.

"Mr. Tao, how nice to see you," the inspector walked towards him and held out his hand. "Well, it's nice seeing you here to inspector, I see you're interrogating my nephew, how'd it go?"

"He was only asking some common thing as alibi, he has just finished. Haven't you, inspector?" Yelan said, the inspector reluctantly nodded. "What do you need here Tao?" Yelan continued.

"What can't I visit my cousin's house, after all we're family," Tao said smiling evilly.

"Well, I guess, I'm off, thanks again Mrs. Li and ah Mr. Li and Miss Saionji, and nice meeting you again, Mr. Tao, I'll see you round," inspector Yang said and left.

"So what do you want?" Syaoran asked Tao. "Be nice to your uncle, would you boy? I wanted to see you, but you weren't around for the past days, I see you've found a catch," Tao answered, eyeing Sakura over.

"She's just my staff and I'm busy of something else that's none of your business, what'd you looking for me for? You had my mother around," Syaoran stated coldly.

"You see, she's no longer the leader, so"

"Get down to business, I've no much time," Syaoran said.

"Easy boy, I'll go straight as you wish, It's about some little thing you all Li had been hiding for years," he said.

Syaoran was aware, and unknownly Sakura was too. He was talking about the underground squad. "Yea what about that?" Syaoran said.

"Well kid, I'm sure you wouldn't want to speak of it here, except..."

"I said she's my staff, so get the hell on with that," Syaoran said impatiently. Yelan only watched the two of them spoke.

"Ah I see, she's now all your witness and stuff, what a staff," Tao commented.

"You're really getting on my nerve, Tao, just go on with the shit," Syaoran shouted.

"Fine, I want you to stop whatever you call the stupid thing, cause it's taken quite much of the corp's expend as it's shouldn't have," Tao said, now warily.

"Bullshit, it's something else, I know, you know I wont ever do that even you begged at my feet, and you only asked," Syaoran said coldly.

Tao smirked. "What a Li. Yeah, something else."

"Well I asked you politely, little nephew, you wouldn't want a confrontation between family, would you? And you might need some help from family wether in the future, or even now," Tao said.

"You might wanna think first, then I'm off, see you later Lis, and... the staff," Tao said then went to the door.

"What haven't you told me, Syaoran?" Yelan asked her son as the door behind them closed.

--In a black Volvo--

"Send em down the road, they're coming in a few minutes I presume, and made sure they got him. And the girl too," a man said to his phone then hung up.

--Outside Li Mansion--

"I didn't understand what your cousin meant," Sakura said.

"Do you have to?" Syaoran said as they went to their car that was in front of the house already. "If you don't mind," Sakura said.

"He commited some stupid little warfare. I heard he got some little underground movement too, but oh well ours much powerful," he said. "Oh you say that," Sakura muttered.

"Yeah? You don't think so?" Syaoran asked playfully as they got in the car, Syaoran on the driver's side. "I don't get you, I was being serious, you don't take him serious then?" Sakura said.

"It's just one of his shitty game in order to take over the corp, you see, my so called cousin clearly loved doing that," he said.

"Is commiting warfare to the squad making you fall down the corp? and do all your cousing seem that way?" Sakura asked as he pulled off leaving the mansion into the main road.

"Oh well, not all, some my cousins cool, they're in the squad too. And no, nothing would make me fall down. now you're asking so much questions, since when have you been so fussy?" Syaoran said, raising a brow at her.

Sakura smiled. "I'm not fussy!" she pouted. "Yea you're weird," Syaoan joked.

"No, you are," Sakura's smiled widen. "just pay attention to the road," she said.

"I can drive with my eyes closed," he stated conceitedly. "Yeah? Do that," she said.

He smirked but then he narrowed his eyes. "What? You're not gonna eat your own words ne?" Sakura asked giggling when he didn't do anything as closing his eyes. "I wont, but not now, I think we've got company."

Just then Sakura saw two black cars heading their way and second later, gunshots coming towards them. Syaoran took his gun out and gave it to Sakura, "Shot as much as you can" he commanded her. She didn't really used to guns but she shot as good as she threw knives, but she still wasn't as good as Syaoran. She let out her head and looked at the car behind her, she tried to point it at the car's front tire and shot. The bullet got it and it's sunken, but it still went fast. The man in the car shot back at her but she quickly got back in the car and dodge. "Shit, I only have one, gimme that!" Syaoran shouted, Sakura handed him the gun.

Syaoran saw a turn then he headed for it. As he treaded on the pedal, the car went faster and on the turn, the car drifted and as it happened, he shot two of the men's heads. Sakura watched him, bewildered. "You know, I got a better idea," Sakura said. The sound of tire screeching showed them they still being followed.

"Yea? What?" Syaoran asked aware of the two cars behind them as he increase his speed. "Let me drive, you shoot better," she said. "Can you?" Syaoran said.

"Oh don't even ask that," she shouted and as they were switching position very difficultly, while the car still going, the gunshots continued. "How many people are in those freakin cars?" Sakura said desperately.

They finally found their positions, "Okay, let's get those freakin cars out of the road," Sakura said.

She sped up, making Syaoran jumped on his seat, but he recovered too fast. The cars caught up on them and one of it got on their right side. The car crashed their car on the side and one of the man shot. "Duck," he odered Sakura who did just that. the shot missed and Syaoran shot back. It hit one of the guys. "Okay, only the driver's left in that car," he said. But the other car came behind them. Syaoran turned around and shot, the bullet went off the rear glass of his car, making it broke down, but it went trough the front glass of the car behind then straight to the driver's head behind them. "that's a fine bullet," Sakura commented.

"Oh the one beside him's taking the driver's side," Sakura said as she saw through the reaview mirror. "Hey look front!" Syaoran shouted. Sakura looked up and saw a big truck in front of them, they almost gonna crash it. Sakura thought fast, she pushed the brake, making the car spinned and as it went 360 degrees, Syaoran shot the cars' drivers and didn't miss any of them. The front car's driver braked before passed out but the other was too late, the car hit the front car and it went to a big explosion as the two cars crashed. Syaoran's car stopped right before it hit the truck with a loud tire screeched but defeated by the sound of the explosion. Sakura and Syaoran panted.

"Well you're one heck of a driver," Syaoran said. "Still not as heck as you," she said smiling and then hit the pedal, turning over the car, and moved on the road leaving the car explosion behind.

-End Chapter 6-

Author's note: Ah finally. I'm so so so sorry for the late update, forgive me... I hope you like this one. well, I hope the next chapter wont be so long. Thanks for all the reviews it really motivated me on writing this, keep reviewing! Hehe... I'm sure the upcoming chapter would be more of the story, so keep cheking out! Hehe.. umm I think Eriol will be coming on chapter 8 or sumthin, I'll try to make him come faster! Hehe... I didn't know the story would be quite long, it's longer than I planned now, but oh well, I could improvise ne? hohoho... well, sorry for the grammar or spelling, as usual I don't read again, cuz I wanna upload as fast as I could, I feel guilty... hehe... well, I'll stop babbling, and ya'll keep reading my story ok? Hehe... love ya'll, arigatou! Ja