Silent Night
By: Crazy-cherry
Hey people what's shacken? Well I hope you all didn't wait long for me to update, and I'm really sorry I have taken so long my computer turned into virus city so it just got fixed the other day!!! YAA!!!!! Lol. Also I've been really busy with swimming this past three months! You know it's really fun! Only I've gone through like two caps in one week and my coach is getting made at me for no good reason all the time! But for the most part its great! Well now I think I'm just talking too much so yeah sorry! Here's the story!!! ByE!
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Chapter 6
Trying to forget
The young girl walked along the beach letting the sand slip between her toes, enjoying the breeze as it tousled her hair. Sighing sadly at the water another thought of the boy in the picture came to her mind, he was so young and she felt useless as she stood there looking at the sun slowly rising in the east. Nothing she did seemed to work, everywhere she looked seemed to be a dead end for her, she thought she discovered the whereabouts of the young boy, but it turned out to be a small warehouse that had been closed for some time. To her surprise the police seem to have already gotten to the place and were looking everywhere for the boy as well.
Another sigh escaped from her lips as she pondered whether or not to head back, surly Nick and Sharon would be worried about her if she didn't show up for breakfast.
Entering the house both Nick and Sharon looked up from the table and smiled at her though Nicks smile was a little peculiar in Yieng Hua's opinion; he always seemed to be watching her making her feel crowded by him, and Sharon seemed oblivious to it all. She was always off in her own world walking around the house as if everything was new to her like her mind was lost in a fantasy. Though she had to admit that at first Sharon seemed to be quit the nice person, now however Yieng Hua was a little suspicious of her.
Sitting down at the table she was given a plate of hot eggs and toast (mmm... eggs and toast.) Slowly lowering her fork onto the plate she picked up a piece of egg and put it to her mouth, slowly chewing she watched for any signs that would clue her in on what ever was going on.
"You don't seem to be hungry again this morning Yieng Hua, are you feeling okay his morning? Or is it that medicine your taking, you know the one for your headaches and the eye drops you have to use I remember you telling me that they were bugging you yesterday." Nick looked at her waiting for her to answer.
"My head hurts that's all, the drops are fine now they just burned the first few days." She smiled at the two of them as she slid a small ration of egg into her mouth again.
"Well then, you wouldn't mind if the two of us, um... Nick and I that is; go off for about a week maybe two?" Sharon smiled at her put her toast to her mouth hopping it was fine.
"Of course you two do what ever it is you want!" Yieng Hua chirped as she smiled sweetly at the two, standing up she took her plate to the sink and walked to the door, "You to go where ever you like! Don't let me stop you!" she smiled at the couple as she bounded out of the room.
Once in her own room she walked to the window and watched as Sharon and Nick left for their morning walk. Sighing she looked out at the water and then to her desk where her laptop was resting, its soft pale green and pink illuminating from the light that was casting into her room.
She walked over to it and began to shift through the notes she had taken, everything seemed to confuse her, nothing seemed to make since anymore. The first day she was here everything seemed to make since, the little boy had been taken to a man's warehouse, and apparently had been kept in a room with a glass window above him. His mother was supposedly with him, thus clearing her name of being the mother.
Sitting down at the computer she lifted the top of her laptop and turned it on; since she had gotten here, she had went out and bought a new one in fear of her old one being tampered with. Clicking the long on screen where all her files were that waited for her just beyond her password. The password she had on a five-hour changer, meaning it changed every five hours to a new word or number code. This time she typed in the number of her birthday and pressed enter. Waiting for the screen to long in she shifted through more files and was startled when the phone rang next to her bed.
"Hello?"
"Hi, dose a Mr. Nick Hong live in this residence?" Came a reply that seemed oddly familiar to her, only it had an English accent to it and she was sure shed never been to England before.
"Yes, but he's out on his morning walk with his wife. May I take a message?"
"Yes, can you tell him twelve thirty is fine with me, my partner will pick him up at the warehouse." And the man hung up.
"Fine whatever." She mumbled sitting back down opening her file.
-Syaoran-
He looked behind him as Eriol walked into the room dressed in black along with Koryu smiling their scary little smiles. All had been dressed in black for some time now waiting for the evening to come. All three of them had odd feelings about what was going to happen, they had no idea where the information had come from.
-The other day-
"Man this sucks! I've gone through all the computer basses and come up with the same thing every time." Eriol sighed rubbing his face with both hands frustrated with his computer skills and the damn equipment he was forced to work with everyday. He looked behind him to find a grinning Tomoyo as she walked over to him. His mouth was gapping open as she sat down next to him smiling, and placed a small disk on his desk.
"What are you doing here? I thought that you were in England?" Surprised clearly by the fact that she was smiling at him after she seemed to be mad at him at the airport.
"Hi Eriol! Oh before I forget! That disk was given to me by some weird guy out side the building! Might I add he scared me really bad to! He walked right up to me and thrust some disk at me telling me to give it to Detective Hiirragizawa." Tomoyo said as she slowly leaned forward to look at his computer; frowning she turned her attention on him. Narrowing her eyebrows she pointed a finger at him.
"I was told to tell you that no one is to know about this disk. The man seemed scared while he was talking to me. Almost like he was being watched by something or someone." Frowning she leaned back in her seat smiled at him and got up.
"I'll see you soon Eriol." She whispered softly and left his office.
"There's something she's not telling me." He murmured as he flipped the disk over; having a feeling something was up.
-Back to Present-
Shaking his head Eriol looked at Syaoran smiling for what seemed like the first time in ages.
"It's going to be okay, he'll be there Syaoran, he will." Eriol looked away. "I hope."
"Hey you two stop moping around we're going to be getting Li's kid back tonight and then everything is going to be great!" Koryu lied through his teeth trying to make the situation seem better than it really was.
-Tomoyo-
She sighed looking out the plane window on her way to Japan, if what her mission from a few days ago got her was true then Li and the others would be getting Xiao Ling soon, and she would be on the trail of one of the most notorious drug ring dealers in all of Asia, and the man responsible for her partners death. Slowly her eyes moistened and she couldn't hide the pain anymore of what she found that night. The night her team found all they needed to lock the man up for years and years to come.
-Mission flash back-
"Well you guys please be quiet! That idiot almost got a brain and heard me!" Tomoyo hissed at the members of the team assembled to retrieve files that would prove that the man they had been watching for almost four years now was involved in one of Asia's most darkest gangs drug ring.
Landing softly on the ground two more agents came after her, pulling out Glock's from their side holsters. Nodding to one another they began to walk toward a metal door that seemed relatively easy to get into.
Placing the card into the card ID slot, the numbers on the device in Tomoyo's hand began to wiz by as they slowly one, by one began to stop giving an identification number of an employee of the warehouse. The door clicked open giving a burst of hot sticky air rushing past them, none the less all three entered the building without withering.
"What is this place, it's fucking hot in here?" The agent that walked to the left of Tomoyo asked as he looked around to clear the area of any unwanted guest. Slowly walking up to a cargo box Tomoyo looked around it to the control room that was on the top left.
Signaling for the others to quiet down and follow her, they each began to walk slowly without a noise trying to avoid being seen. That would be the one thing that would ruin their mission, they were supposed to get in and out without being seen, their presents wasn't supposed to be known to anyone; a little boys life was on the line and if they were caught now then he would be gone forever.
Suddenly, a man walked out of the control room looking over the edge of the railing. Looking over he singled to an unseen man to come forward and then left the room again. The other young man next to Tomoyo looked behind them and beeped something into headquarters. Before turning around to the other two.
Soon a man came into view walking up the stairs to the room, only to stop and look around him he seemed to be looking for something, something that caught Tomoyo's eyes almost instantly. A small create sitting on the other end of the warehouse. Looking over to the man again he was smiling, smiling? Why, why was he smiling? Did he know, did he know they were standing just below the stairs of the control room?
Sighing when the man laughed and pulled up a walkie-talkie and began to speak into it and then laugh again when the person on the other end talked back.
"HQ said there's three people in the CR and we need to hurry. We only have five minutes before we need to be out of here and on that plane back to England." The man then looked over to Tomoyo who nodded in agreement.
Signaling the computer genius up to the control room along with the other, she on the other hand would be heading out to create a distraction, and look in that crate.
Walking slowly to the other end of the crate hiding the three of them Tomoyo looked around for any signs of intrusion on their mission. Switching her radio frequency on she walked away from the other two that were also switching their radio's on.
Doing their copies with one another Tomoyo found herself knocking the crate over, after she got her heart at the right pace she looked down were the create had knocked over only to discover what she thought what looked like millions of dollars in cocaine. Grinning to herself she took pictures of her surroundings and a few of the crate itself as well as the drugs. Picking up the lid that covered up what she could. Dropping the lid back to the ground creating a loud echo to transpire through out the warehouse she hurried behind shadows that would hide her, as well as make for a good escape to the CR if they needed her.
She hoped they wouldn't need her, she didn't know if she could survive being up in that room with all those computers and other machines. None the less with people her boss said were highly qualified in their filed, but that didn't matter not to her, she would only feel right with her partner being the one on the computer punching in codes and commands while laughing about how easy the system was to crake into. Smiling ruefully to herself as she remembered their first mission together. She had completely freaked out an Sakura had been as calm as she had ever been, like she had been born for the job and raised to take it head on without fears.
Her smile faded as she was called into the CR to look at something they weren't to sure on. Walking slowly without a sound in the shadows Tomoyo suddenly found herself face to face with a man just a little taller than herself, gasping out in surprise Tomoyo herself being pushed into the shadows further, and began to struggle, but nothing she did would help her. The man was much heavier than her and her training in the martial arts, and self defense was slowly fading as the mans hands tightened over her throat, she was screaming inside, knowing that when her body was found, and an autopsy was done they'd find she died of asphyxiation.
Her hands had began to loss feeling and were slowly beginning to drop to her side as the darkness began to surround her. Suddenly the man grip loosened considerably, and finally they were gone. Dropping to the ground Tomoyo looked up once she caught her breath; standing before her was one of the men on her team, extending a hand down to her she graciously accepted.
"You all right?" He asked looking at her neck before motioning for her to follow him.
Nodding yes, she followed him up the stairs, and looked behind her as she walked into the room. She smiled embarrassedly down at the other man and nodded for him to move so she could look and see what they had found.
Holding her breath she looked at the picture before her and bit her lower lip. Holding back the tears that threatened to fall she slowly scrolled down the page to look at the next picture. Choking on what she saw she could feel the bile raising up her throat; she looked back at the screen and looked at the picture of Sakura, and clicking the play button on the surveillance system.
Tears began to fall as she watched her best friend plead with the bastard that took her, not to let her son watch what was about to happen. Then looked to the side of the screen Xiao Ling was crying, and trying to get to his mother.
Then another video of Sakura crying talking to that man again, turning her head to the side when her best friend was hit with some kind of metal bar, and then collapsed on the floor.
Swallowing the lump in her throat she switched the screen to the download process and began to download the whole computer system. Having some difficulty breaking the codes she left to go look through the files that were kept next to the surveillance screens.
Feeling as if it were all to easy what they were doing she looked back out the window to feel a little comfort that they were in the clear, but that didn't happen. Her eyes widened when she looked at the door only to find that a man was standing there staring at her grinning. She noticed him pop his knuckles and grimaced she always hated it when people did that it gave her the hebe-gebe'.
Grinning again at her Tomoyo only smiled at him before waving at him and walking forward. The man just stood there like the idiot he was and waited for her to come to him, but what he wasn't expecting was to feel a needle prick him in the neck, and be injected with a golden liquid.
Going back to the filing cadent she opened it with only a few lock tricks having to be done. Looking through some of the files she took out a small camera and began to take pictures of some of the material. She stopped when she heard her name called, and turned around only to see a monitor with a little boy sitting down on a cold metal floor alone. He looked like he was asleep, but she couldn't tell, looking back her team.
"Can you find where that's being transmitted from?" Tomoyo's heart began to beat faster as she saw the load bar go from zero to one hundred in at least three minutes.
"Got it!" The man smiled as he nodded at him self for such a great achievement.
"Where's he being kept?" came Tomoyo's rushed voice as she stared at the surveillance camera and spotted men coming their way.
"He's being kept in a warehouse just out side of Hong Kong, called... Hum hold up," The man looked at the screen and found it when Tomoyo told him to hurry because they had company coming their way, "The companies called Triaz!" signing off the screen and going back to the screen in which it was on, before she stood up with the other man and began their descent out one of the windows in the CR and hoped it wouldn't land them in trouble.
Finding the way they came out was still secure each person took their time searching the area for anyone that might give them away. Slowly making their way towards the entry door keeping to the shadows. Once reaching the door Tomoyo set to work on opening the door once again; the door opened with a small creak and everyone hurried out.
Tomoyo looked up at the sky as she and a few others were air lifted to HQ, and thanked Sakura for her protection on this mission, now knowing the truth of her dear friends death. All she needed to do now was figure out who that woman was, and why she was passed off as Sakura. The million- dollar question on her mind now however; was "where Sakura's body was now?"
-Syaoran, Triaz company-
The company warehouse was small only big enough to hold a few a shipping cargo crates and a machine or two. Nothing was being processed there anymore the factory was closed years ago when bigger manufactures took over the outer Hong Kong area. Just past the main housing district the small factor was located seven miles from his home, only seven miles and he still needed a complete stranger to find his own son. His own son that was only a few miles away the whole time, and it took him this long to find him.
Looking up at the sky he could see the stars more clearly here than in the inner city with all the lights, Sakura had loved coming out here, she always said it reminded her of her home in Japan, her home town she always said had the most beautiful sights at night.
The factory was silent that night not a sound was heard, and many animals were scurrying away by the forbidding figures that approached.
Syaoran looked over at Eriol as they walked toward one of the windows that surrounded the building. They didn't know what to expect, they didn't know if Soy Jin would keep his word and let them get his son without a fight since the found him before the time was up.
Syaoran hated himself for allowing fear to nip at his feet, he allowed it once in his life and he never wanted to feel it again. His hands claimed up and sweat began to slide down his head and arms.
Coming to the window each looked at the other and walked separate ways not caring what they found as long as they found Xiao Ling.
Entering the building Syaoran found himself looking at boxes, nothing but boxes. Looking down at the map he and the others had made from the directions given to them from the disk. Angry with himself Syaoran was constantly questioning whether or not this information was trustworthy, or not.
Following around in the dark not knowing where he was going he occasionally found himself thinking back on memories of Sakura and him and their time they spent at the beach when they first met. Of how Sakura had tripped and fell into him; he was angry at first, but when he saw her cry all his anger left him and all he felt was remorse. Thinking back on that day he wished he could change it to were he had never met her because then he wouldn't be going throw this right now and he would be back in his apartment at the moment with some women.
Changing his line of thought so he wouldn't forget the reason why he was here, he continued to look through the small warehouse. He posed when he came across a small create that seemed out of place. He looked at the create and wondered why on earth a create that size would be any where near this factory considering it was to flat to hold their product. He remembered something that Sakura had told him on their first year as parents when he had lost sight of one of Xiao Lings toys and he wouldn't stop crying until he had it. She had looked at him and asked him to look for something that seemed out of place instead of something that looked in place.
He had always wondered why she would say something like that; why look for something out of place when the item was out of place to begin with just miss placed? Looking back on that though it seemed quiet odd that she would say something like that, but at the time it seemed right to think that since he just found something out of place. The box didn't belong there, it didn't belong in this part of the factory, but maybe another part.
Slowly moving the box to the side he found nothing but dust to great him. Sighing he shook his head and told himself that Sakura was wrong about a lot of things, that she didn't know what half the things she was talking about. Ignoring the lump in his thought, Syaoran continued on in the factory looking for any signs of his son.
-Eriol-
Walked in the dark rooms and found nothing but hundreds of small boxes that seemed to be flat but modest size. Sighing he continued to look around and move things as he looked. Looking to the floor he found him self think of the day he and Syaoran were passing out side a hospital room waiting to find news of when Sakura was to deliver their first born child. Syaoran looked so scared that something was going to go wrong that either Sakura or their son world be lost in the process. It wasn't tell later that he found out from Tomoyo that they hadn't been so sure Sakura would make it through the birthing process.
Looking back up from the floor his eyes widened as he was face to face with...
-Koryu-
He looked at the room in front of him not knowing what to do, he already looked at all his sections twice and he was beginning to think that they had been fooled.
Walking in the dark always gave him the he-be-gibes he never really liked it nothing he did helped not even flash lights because there was always darkness around him and not in front of him. He always wondered what he would do if one day someone came up behind him because he couldn't see.
Sighing as he forced himself to keep looking for signs that would show were the boy was. Turning around he began to walk backwards to make sure no one was behind him; feeling that now it was the opposite that someone was in deed in front of him where he now couldn't see.
Turning around he came face to face with...
-Syaoran-
Leaning against a create, he forced himself to admit defeat; he was never going to see his son again.
With each beat of his heart he could feel himself losing control of everything, nothing ever seemed right anymore. He remembered when Xiao Ling first began to walk and shortly after he spoke his first word, mommy. A silent tear made it way down his face going over every new curve that found its way onto his young face over the past few weeks. Pushing one of his hands throw his now pre maturing gray hair; he released a shaky breath before he moved on.
'Xiao Ling where are you' Syaoran thought to himself while he heard two yells coming from the creating room next to the one he was in.
-Eriol-
"Shit!"
"Shit! Shit is all you have to say! You scared the shit outa me!!!" Koryu screeched as he clutched his pounding heart with his righ hand while his other hand was clinching and unclenching at his side.
"What?" Eriol managed to get out as he found himself stunned, and just getting over his petrifaction.
"What the hell do you two think your doing, playing tag?" Syaoran growled as he glared at the two of them.
"Sorry..." Koryu said, he bowed his head as if he were ashamed of himself, and turned around to leave when he fell over on of the boxes. Landing on top of the flat box he cursed as a began to clime off; pushing his hand down on the top of the box the wood snapped and he fell through the box.
Pulling his hand from the inside of the box he cursed again as he assessed the damage done to his hand. Blood dripped from the scratches, and he found himself getting dizzy looking as the scarlet liquid that ran down his hand. He forced himself to look away when he felt someone push him from the box.
"How did these boxes get here?" Syaoran asked as he looked around himself and found himself seeing hundreds f small flat boxes stacked up on each other and formed one big box or medium box.
His thoughts ran over the other small flat box he found in the other create room.
"Um... I don't know they haven't been in any of the other rooms but this one." Eriol offered as he looked around himself.
"When ever I lost something or when I lost something of my sons Sakura would always tell me to look for things that are out of place but aren't." Syaoran looked at Eriol then Koryu as they both looked at him oddly. "I never knew what she meant, but now that I think about it she's right," he posed as he looked around himself. "These boxes are supposed to be here, but the small ones aren't."
"What are you talking about, this factory produced things that were meant to be shipped out everyday they used creates as a day to day process." Koryu looked at Eriol as he shook his head. Looking back at Syaoran they both waited for him to continue.
"True, the factory did ship things out on a daily bases, but tell me what exactly they shipped out." Syaoran looked at both of them waiting for one to answer.
"I think washing machines." Eriol offered as he looked around himself looking at the boxes.
"Exactly washing machines, refrigerators, ovens; things that are built in the factory not outside it. True the boxes aren't out of place, if you come into the factory not knowing what was built here, but these boxes aren't even big enough to hold all the parts for a small washing machine." Syaoran rubbed his chin that had stubble from not shaving that morning.
Slowly all eyes began to search the factory as if some how what they were looking for would pop out at them. To no luck did they find one thing that would help, everything in that factory seemed to be in the right place.
Shaking his head Syaoran took in another shaky breath...
-?-
"How much longer until she regains her memories?" A man asked as he looked across the room to a window showing a parking lot with heat weaves seeping up from the ground. With a sigh another man looked the same way as he shook his head.
"I cant tell but I'm not sure that it will come back anytime soon; it's also a possibility that she'll have it back within the next month or even week. For the most part however I doubt she'll get it back soon unless she's helped along with pictures or other memorabilia..."
"So your saying she may never remember who she really is?"
"No I'm saying theirs a possibility that she may not regain her memories for some time without some kind of help from family." The man replied testily as he stared back at the other man across from him.
"Another possibility could be that she may not want to remember something and because of that she's blocking out, or stopping herself from remembering anything at all." The two men looked at each other for a few seconds until the other got up and left shacking his head.
The doctor looked after the man that came to his office and sighed he had a feeling that man didn't want her to remember, and if that was the case he was going to have a conversation with the young lady before it was to late.
-END of chapter 6-
Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I think its okay, but I don't know I hope you like it though. And again I'm truly sorry its taken me so long to update but I hope this makes up for it. Personally I feel like I could have done better but I'm not having a very easy time right at the moment.
And a little free-be for all of you that read the Authors notes, someones going to be coming back into Syaoran's life in the next chapter, and I think you all might know who it is... hint, hint, wink, wink! And Syaoran will be thrown into another emotional roller coaster.
Well stay tuned for another chapter hopefully soon!!! ByE!!!
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