Litanya: Lol, I'm finally updating! It's my birthday tomorrow and so I decided to celebrate by updating. That and exams are finally over! Anyway, I don't own CCS and a huge thank you goes out to everyone who has reviewed!
Cursed Love
Chapter 5: Cured?
"I have a plan to help Hiiragizawa, but first I have one question for Daidouji-san," Syaoran announced dramatically as he re-entered the room.
"And what would that be, Li-kun?" she asked, suddenly wary.
"He definitely isn't evil, right?" Tomoyo sighed.
"Yes, he definitely isn't evil. I can bet my life on that," she told him, somehow having known that his question would be pointless.
"I know it's stupid, but sometimes you just have to check. Even an evil business can decide to kill someone evil sometimes. The twins are definitely evil, but you never know with the Hiiragizawas," he went over and closed the window, "Now here's the plan. We need to pretend to hire the twins to assassinate someone…" He went on and explained his plan in great detail to the two females.
"I don't know about that last part," Sakura said a little dubiously, "Do we really need to set them on fire?"
"Sakura-chan, they're family! It's my duty to avenge them!"
"Syaoran-kun," she only said one word. He looked at his fiancée and sighed.
"No, I guess that we don't. But we need to punish them somehow. No one can mess with the Li family and get away with it!" he looked at the ground whilst he said this, knowing that if he looked at Sakura he would lose.
"I agree with Li-kun. We have to punish them somehow!" Tomoyo declared, not backing away from Sakura's gaze. The emerald-eyed girl then grinned mischievously, surprising both Tomoyo and Syaoran.
"I never said that we shouldn't punish them, I just said that we shouldn't set fire to them," Tomoyo brightened a little at that, although she was still surprised. Innocent little Sakura would never have usually said something like that.
"Ah, now I know why I love you," Syaoran grinned at Sakura and she just rolled her eyes.
"Our plan has to work before we can plan the torture Syaoran-kun. And the plan will never work if we spend all of our time standing here talking. Come on, actions always speak louder than words as they say," she sauntered over to the door and turned back to the others, "Are you coming?" They followed her without a word. Their plan needed to work. It just had to.
"Nakuru, for the fiftieth time, STOP PACING!" Spinal had had enough. Nakuru had not stopped moving ever since Tomoyo had called. She was wringing her hands in agitation at the new developments that had cropped up. She could not believe that she and Spinal had missed it.
"Why didn't we sense the curse Suppi-chan?" she used his nickname out of the sake of habit for once, not meaning to irritate him. He sighed and flew over to the window.
"He wouldn't have wanted us to know. You know how Eriol-sama is. He would keep everything bad away from us if he could help it. He wanted to hide that he was sick and by doing so he probably unconsciously blocked the aura of the curse. We couldn't have done anything about it Nakuru, so get a hold of yourself," he didn't want to be harsh, but it was the only way that she would snap out of her current state.
"I…I guess that you are right. Eriol-sama would do something like that, wouldn't he?" she sank down to her knees and stared glumly at the floor. Spinal had never seen her look so depressed. To distract himself from looking at Nakuru, he stared out of the window. It was a bright night, a full moon and there were no clouds to block the brilliant light of the stars. It was a beautiful night, one which did not happen very often in England. A few clouds were usually scattered around the sky, obscuring the stars from view. Spinal took it as a good sign that the stars were out. Maybe a miracle would occur.
"Nakuru, I have a feeling that everything will turn out alright. Daidouji-san will come up with something, I'm sure of it. She is special Nakuru, and our Master is well aware of that fact. I think that it was a sign when he met her. She was a sign that everything was going to change. Just think about what she has done for our Master. She is a sign that nothing is impossible. We have to believe in her. She will find a way to save him, I know it!" he fluttered over and perched himself on her shoulder, trying to cheer her up. He knew that Nakuru took these things as a personal insult and although she irritated him, he hated it when she was upset. She was, after all, his friend.
"You're right! Tomoyo is special and she will help us get Eriol-sama back to normal again!" she had cheered up again and he was glad. A depressed Nakuru was almost as bad a hyper one. She stood up and gave him a big grin, "Now Suppi-chan, I'm going to go and eat some cereal. Do you want any?" The cat-like guardian shuddered.
"No thank you. Do you know how much sugar is in one bowl of cereal? There is a lot," he automatically flew away from her, knowing that she would be determined to give him sugar. Even though their Master's life was in danger, they could do nothing but return to normal life. As much as they wanted to help their Master return to perfect health, they could not. And so they returned to their usual lives, praying to God that a miracle could occur.
"Sintered, Santerado I need your services. Appear now so that I can hire you!" Syaoran demanded, sounding impatient. It was all a part of their trap. There was no politeness needed when you were hiring an assassin.
"Ah, a Li wants to hire us. This is new," Sintered drawled casually to his twin brother as they appeared in the room. Syaoran pretended to be unimpressed.
"Even a Li needs to get rid of someone sometimes. How trustworthy is your business?" the twins smirked and held up a mirror. Reflected on the surface was a list of tables and graphs that seemed to extend on forever.
"We always get our target. Our most famous case has been the Hiiragizawas. The only surviving Hiiragizawa is dying from a curse at this minute. That will show them not to mess with my family," Sintered snickered. Syaoran pretended to be impressed, but inside he was fuming.
"Well, I suppose that I can trust you then. I want to eliminate two sorcerers. They have been bothering me for a few years now. Hang on, I'll need my fiancée and friend in here so that we can explain the situation and how we want you to deal with them," he stalked over to the door and swung it open, "Sakura-chan, Daidouji-san, I need you in here." The two females entered the room casually and the twins did not move. Santerado looked Tomoyo up and down for a moment, his smirk growing wider.
"Ah, it is a pleasure to be here," he murmured, rubbing his hands together.
"Who do you want to get rid of?" Sintered demanded, annoyed at Santerado's behavior. Syaoran checked to make sure that the girls were in position before he replied.
"We want to get rid of you,' he stated simply, relaxing his 'tough guy' attitude. The twins narrowed their eyes.
"What did you just say?" Sintered demanded, his voice suddenly unfriendly.
"Didn't you know that the Hiiragizawas were related to the Li's? You're dumber than I thought. We have you guys now, you cannot escape," Yelan, Syaoran's mother, popped up from behind the twins, along with five other magicians, all from the Li family.
"What do you want?" Santerado looked around nervously at all of the hostile faces. Never in his entire lifetime had he ever come up against more than one magician at a time. Now that he was facing a crowd of them, he didn't know what to do.
"Hiiragizawa happens to be a close friend of Daidouji-san here, and her friends are our friends. We have never managed to catch you before, since you always seemed to operate in remote Africa, but now we have you. We want you to remove the curse that you put on Hiiragizawa, it's as simple as that," Syaoran idly walked over to a cupboard and pulled out a dull, rusting knife. The twins' eyes widened.
"We-we can't remove the curse unless we are near him," Sintered stuttered, taking a step away from Syaoran and the knife.
"That can be easily arranged," Sakura nodded and Tomoyo picked up the phone. She dialed slowly and carefully before putting the phone up to her ear.
"Nakuru, it's Tomoyo again," there was a small pause, "Would we be able to transport Eriol-kun here for a few moments?" Another pause. "Yes, we have it all worked out. I promise that everything will be fine. Thanks Nakuru." She hung up the phone and nodded. Yelan and another of the magicians muttered something in unison and Eriol appeared and floated in front of them.
"Now heal him or else…" Syaoran left the threat hanging and the twins scurried to Eriol's side.
"No funny business otherwise we will obliterate you… no, we'll just torture you for a while," Sakura corrected herself, holding her hands ready to cast any spell that could torture. Sintered recoiled visibly away from Sakura and he kept on giving her quick sideways glances. Santerado just muttered something under his breath and a white light surrounded Eriol for a second. Then a small bubble-like thing appeared from within Eriol himself. It was glowing white but a black light was pulsating from within it.
"This is the curse. I have removed it," Santerado told them, obliterating the sphere in front of him, "He should wake up in a few hours." The people in the room visibly relaxed, with the exception of the twins.
"We've done what you want, so can we go now?" Sintered asked meekly, as Sakura's hands were still in spell position.
"We have to wait until Hiiragizawa wakes up first, to make sure that you have done your job correctly," Syaoran leaned against the cupboard he had gotten the knife from, as though he was causally leaning against a wall. He still held the knife.
"Yes, and if Eriol-kun doesn't wake up, then you're not going to enjoy the next few days," Tomoyo told them darkly, her amethyst eyes flashing like steel. Eriol's breathing seemed to have gotten better since the last time she had seen him, but that did not mean he had been completely healed.
"Well, let's all just sit around and wait then," Sakura said brightly, giving a bright smile, "And I know just the way to make sure that we're not bored…"
To be continued….
End of Chapter 5
Litanya: This isn't great, or long, but I've just encountered writer's block for this fic yet again. It'll come to me, probably on Monday, so I'll post as soon as I can get inspired. Sorry once again that this is short. And Steph, it would have taken longer if I hadn't written it out on those tissues during TOK! See you all later!