Chapter 4:
The assassination of Syaoran Li
(Warning: Graphic detail of death. Proceed at your own discretion.)
Sakura, Tomoyo and Eriol spent the whole day together. They shopped and went arcade and seen a really bad movie that looked like it was good but if was the worst movie ever. "Wow, what a day" Tomoyo said as she sat on the bench. "I'll say that was the worst so called horror movie, it was funny." Sakura said sitting next to Tomoyo on the bench.
"Yeah, help me kimi help me!" Eriol said mockingly. Sakura and Tomoyo began to laugh uncontrollable, the blue haired boy followed suite. "Well, what to do next?" Eriol said calming down. He pulled a small book out of his pocket revealing it to the eyes of Sakura and Tomoyo. Eriol sat next to Tomoyo. "You have a book on things to do?" Tomoyo said.
"Hai, every person should have one it help when you can't think of anything else to do," Eriol said taking out a pin. "Well, lets see, we went to the movies, mall, lunch, Ice cream, oh we didn't go dancing and to dinner!" Eriol said closing his book and putting it back in his pocket.
"Well, lets just do dinner, We'll go dancing when Syaoran comes the next time," Sakura said leaning her head back. "What makes you think he's goin' hang out with us, Sakura?" Tomoyo said opening her makeup mirror and putting cherry flavored lip gloss. "Well, I don't know I just feel that we'll get through to him yet," Sakura said with a smile.
"Great, but where do you guys want to go for dinner?" Eriol asked. "How about Mix pot, It's a really cool place the food it great and they play jazz there," Tomoyo said. "Well, then off to Mix pot," Eriol said jumping of the bench and taking Sakura and Tomoyo's hands. Tomoyo blushed at the tough of Eriol's hands.
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Syaoran stayed at the beach all day long. He was thinking about his family. Every time he thought about them he would feel worst everyday and every time. "Well, better head home," Syaoran said. Then Syaoran heard the sound something dragging on the ground. "Not before we destroy you," Said a voice behind him. Syaoran turned around.
Then he heard laughs and snickers all around him. 'Oh crap.' He thought. "We have been sent here to kill you Syaoran Li," Said a female voice walking out the shadows.
"Who the hell are you?" Syaoran said feeling a little helpless. "Well, lets just say were assassins," She said whipping around a chain. Syaoran jumped back. Syaoran looked behind him and saw that there wasn't enough space on this hill that ended as a cliff. If they pushed him back he would fall in the cold water, that was something he didn't want to experience at this particular moment.
"Oh look, and I want to play with him more," Said a male voice walking closer to Syaoran. Syaoran looked back. "Not t'day baka's," Syaoran said jumping off the huge cliff. "Ja ne!" He waved to them before vanishing out of their line of sight. They all crambled over to the edge
All the assassins looked as he fell. "Man, that creep is dead," The woman with the chain shook her head in disagreement. "No remember what the boss said the kid'll be hard to kill," She said. "We just have to find him, I want to team of two look every where and I mean it,"
Syaoran swam for what seemed like forever, before he finally got to the land. "I'm in deep shit' Syaoran thought. Syaoran felt the cold breeze brush against his cold body, his nose turned red. Syaoran took off his coat. "They ruined my favorite black coat, there goin to down tonight," Syaoran grumbled running into the bushes.
"Peep a boo, I see you, twerp," Came a voice.
Syaoran turned around and gazed upon an assassin who smirked at his obvious look of surprise. "Who's goin' down tonight?" He said. Syaoran kicked him in the face, and began running. "Oi, Missy his over here!" He shouted. The female assassin's got on a motorcycle, that seemed to come out of nowhere.
"I see him!" Missy yelled speed up to Syaoran on the bike. Syaoran ran at hard as he could. "Yeah!" She yelled whipping around the chain in the air. Syaoran was running so hard his nose began to bleed. Then all the sudden Syaoran felt the cold chain whip around his legs knocking him off his feet. Missy dragged the brown-haired boy across the ground for the sheer fun of it.
"Table for three," Tomoyo said to the lady near the door. "Right this way please," The hostess spoke in a formal tone of voice. Sakura and Eriol followed behind Tomoyo and the hostess to the table. "Here you go, and the menu's are right at the table and the waiter over there will service you," She said.
"Thank you," Tomoyo said. Eriol and Tomoyo sat next to each other and Sakura next to Eriol. The table that sat at was shaped like a triangle, Sakura found this to be very weird
Suddenly the light dimmed and a saxophone began to play a smooth melody, the people at their respected tables began to nodd their heads to the rhythm. The curtain began to raise from the stage and fromt he sounds of it, a female singer was humming along with the saxophone before the music began to speed up in a swing kind of beat. "The music is lovely," Eriol said to Tomoyo. "Hai," Tomoyo agreed.
She took the microphone off the holder and walked off the stage, heading over walked to a few tables and then past Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol table.
Missy had dragged Li, all the way into town toward the restaurant Sakura, Eriol, and Tomoyo resided. She stopped her motorcycle in the middle of the road. Walking toward the battered Chinese boy, she unwrapped the chain from his legs, and wrapped it around his neck, she hung Syaoran up by his neck. "Oh great, his neck did not break," She said.
Syaoran was trying his best to pull the chain off his neck. But he was to cold to even fight. His hands were bleeding and a little purple. "Hey, Missy I want to get the little punk back for kicking' me in the face," DayTek hissed walking over rubbing his bleeding nose.
DayTek took a metal bat and hit Syaoran in the stomach. Missy swung Syaoran around and letting go of the chain making him break the glass and land on someone's table in Mix Pot.
A bunch of people began to screamed, the singer's bodyguards covered her body. Syaoran finally got the cold chains off his neck before falling into darkness. Sakura stood up and ran over to the table. "Syaoran?" Sakura said running over to him. Eriol and Tomoyo followed. Syaoran had a purple bruise all around his neck, and was covered in glass and blood. "Syaoran, wake up, WAKE UP!" Sakura shouted blushing the glass of him.
Eriol heard the police car screeching around the conner coming. Eriol chanted something under his breath and Sakura, Tomoyo, and Syaoran were on the floor at Syaoran's house. "Oh man," Eriol said tough his skin it was cold as Ice. "Come on we have to get him warm, " Tomoyo said running up stairs to the bath room getting water and bandages. Syaoran made a soft moan as Sakura and Eriol picked him up.
"Syaoran you up man?" Eriol said shaking him. Syaoran opened his eyes a little. "Good thing your still alive," Sakura said. Syaoran began to walk up the stairs a little with Sakura and Eriol's help. "Hurray, lay him on his bed," Tomoyo said clearing a space on Syaoran drawing deck. "What happened?" Syaoran said faintly. "I don't know just lie down," Eriol said. Tomoyo ripped Syaoran shirt off and began cleaning his cuts. Syaoran was beat up pretty bad. Eriol rise his hand in the air and chanted a little. Eriol's hand looked like he was in a heat wave.
Eriol then touch the bed making the cover warm. Syaoran felt a little odd. "Sakura I need more bandages, there in the bathroom in the medicine cabinet." Tomoyo said putting a heating pad on Syaoran neck. Sakura tripped on her shoes.
"Shit," Sakura took off her boots and ran to the bathroom. Eriol Took Syaoran's shoes off. "Well, at least his feet don't stink," Eriol said taking his socks off and putting his feet under the covers. Sakura came running back with a hand with a bandages. "Good thing I found some more on top the cabinet," Sakura said handing Tomoyo the bandages.
Eriol went down stairs. "Sakura can you leave for a minute?" Tomoyo said cleaning Syaoran's bleeding hands. Sakura nodded and went down stair with Eriol. Eriol was pacing the room muttering something. "Eriol, you okay?" Sakura said sitting down on the couch. "No, I told him you come with us, If he knew someone was after him then why the didn't he come along?"
Eriol shouted.
"Well, not that I'm not agreeing with you, It's just maybe he trying to get to know anyone, maybe his thinks if he pushes himself away he could get something done," Sakura said softly trying to stay clam. Eriol was still pacing the floor thinking. "Maybe your right, I think I need to put my foot down as a brother," Eriol said walking over to the kitchen and opening the refrigerator. Tomoyo opened the door and closed it softly.
"Is he okay?" Sakura asked. "He's got a few bad injuries and stuff but nothing to bad," Tomoyo said walking down the stairs. Eriol let out a sigh of relief. "He resting now," Tomoyo said sitting next to Sakura on the couch. "I wonder if it was the person that called," Sakura said. "My cup runith over, vanilla carmel Ice cream?" Eriol nearly shouted.
"You guys want some?" Eriol said showing then the Ice cream. "Sure," Sakura and Tomoyo said together. Eriol opened a cabinet and took out two cups.
Sakura heard a shout from Syaoran's room. Sakura, Eriol, and Tomoyo ran up stairs and opened the door. Syaoran was still in the bed he was pushing the cover away from him face. "Eriol I didn't know you had magic," Sakura said.
"Well, It runs in the family," Eriol said with a little blush. "Sakura has magic too, she has the Clow cards but there all Sakura cards now," Tomoyo said.
Sakura looked at Tomoyo in a You-should-not-have-told-him look. "What he was going to find out anyway," Tomoyo said smiling. "Syaoran has magic too?" Sakura asked. "Pretty much, he much's stronger on the full moon," Eriol said.
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The nex day Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol stayed over Syaoran's house just in case he tried to leave the house, to beaten into a bloody pulp again by the gang they briefly sat the restaurant.
DREAM MODE
"Mother, father wait!" Syaoran shouted running towards them but the faster he ran he saw less and less of them, as they driffed into the fog that surrounded him.
"Nooo!" Syaoran yelled falling into a of void of endlessness. "Do you remember?" A sinister voice laughed. Syaoran remembered that voice, It was the person that called him asking him if he remembered the death of his burning sisters.
Syaoran put is hands over his ears as their screams came from out of nowhere encircling him. "The smell?" It said. Syaoran looked ahead and saw his sisters burning in the fire, he could see in every detail of their body peeling away revealing their blood stained muscles, and soon afterwards, their bones appeared as well. He could hear the ear piecing screams of his sisters. A tear fell from Syaoran's eyes as he begged whomever was causing this horrible nightmare to stop. The voice began to laugh maniacally, shattering all sanity Li had left inside him.
END OF DREAM MODE
Syaoran opened his eyes with a gasp. The sun beamed on his face, the time was nine fourteen. Syaoran turned on his side and sighed. 'Why can't I stop having nightmares?' Syaoran asked him self, he lifted up his cover and saw that he was in his boxers. "What the hell? Who toko my clothes off?" Syaoran grumbled.
Syaoran heard footsteps coming up the stairs rapidly. Syaoran reached under his pillow and took out a 20 inch hand knife. Sakura opened the door. Syaoran threw the knife. Sakura ducked. "You have a knife in your bedroom?" Sakura said sighed, most annoyed. Syaoran bit his lip.
"So your the baka who took my clothes of," Syaoran said trying to keep himself from throwing something at the girl. "Oh no, that was Tomoyo, don't worry she was just fixing you up, do you remember anything?" Sakura asked, ignoring the name he had called her.
Syaoran started getting flashes of what happened last night. "Well, I do remember that I was leaving the beach, then I kicked come guy and someone named Missy," Syaoran said trying to get up. Sakura ran over to him. "Here let me help you," Sakura said. Syaoran pushed her away. "I don't need your help," Syaoran spat.
Sakura walked over and helped him anyway. "Syaoran, stop pushing yourself away from people, even if you care about someone that won't make you weak," Sakura said. Syaoran remembered his sister told him that when he was nine.
"Hn. You sound like my sister," Syaoran said making putting on his pants. Sakura turned around really fast. "Um... I do?" Sakura said blushing. "Pretty much," Syaoran answered casually.
Syaoran got up and winced at the spark of pain in this stomach. "You okay?" Sakura said turning around. Syaoran sat back his bed. Sakura saw that was bandage was beginning to turn red. "Wait here, I'll get some new bandages," Sakura said running out the bedroom.
'Weird girl.' Syaoran thought. Syaoran looked at the bandages on his hands. "Shit, they did me in," Syaoran said to him self unwrapping his bandages on his left hand. "They couldda been a litter easier about it." He smiled weakly to himself at his own comment. Sakura came running down the hall with peroxide and bandages.
"I'm back," Sakura said opening the bedroom door. Syaoran looked at his hand and saw three pieces of red and green hairs in his blood. "What in the world," Syaoran said reaching for a stick pin. Syaoran lifted the hairs and put them in a small glass bottle. "I wonder," Syaoran said looking at the glass bottle. "What?" Sakura said.
Syaoran shook his head. "Give me you hands," Sakura said opening a bottle of peroxide. "This might sting a little," Sakura advised. Syaoran put a few drops on his hand. Syaoran closed his eyes. Sakura looked up at him. 'Wow, his not even wincing' Sakura thought whipping his hand and putting a new bandage on his hand.
"Syaoran how come you don't like people?" Sakura asked doing his other hand. "Why?" Syaoran said plainly. "I don't know, It's just when you look at people you like your goin' go mad or something," Sakura said. "I hate people because people murdered my family," Syaoran opening his eyes.
"Well, murder is a really heavy word, why word you use that?" Sakura said. "Is this an another interview? because if it is I'm not answering," Syaoran said sounding annoyed. "Oh no, It's not I'm just wondering," Sakura said smiling.
"You make me sick," Syaoran sneered. "Why's that?" Sakura asked putting a bandage on his hand. "Your always so cheery and kind, and why don't you face up to the fact that everyone is able to kill people, everything isn't always joyful...... what are you waiting for?" Syaoran said.
"Well, I know some people are bad but people can stop things like that from happening, I'm always cheery because there nothing wrong with being happy and I have a lot to look forward to," Sakura said sounding a little mad. "You need to look on the bright side of life."
"There is no bright side, there's nothing anyone can do to stop hating and killing," Syaoran said standing up. "Ouch." Sakura stared at the ground sadly. "So you really hate being sad and you hate being happy," Sakura said walking over to the window.
"Nani?"
"Well, you don't like being sad, you wish you could be stronger and go back in time and stop everything from happening, I use to wish that to but I don't blame people for my mom's death she just got sick, " Sakura said softly.
Syaoran didn't understand why she couldn't hate the world, when they took someone she loved away. "Your a piece of work," Syaoran said laying down on his bed. "Maybe, but I know my mother wouldn't want me to be sad, she'd want me to be happy, and I bet that's what your family would want to," Sakura said softly. Syaoran looked into Sakura's eyes and saw that she was sad to but she didn't want to be because something told her that she shouldn't.
Sakura went over to Syaoran and took the bandage off his chest. Syaoran blushed he never been touched by a girl like this before. Syaoran sat up so it could be easier for her to work. For the last five minutes Syaoran and Sakura didn't say a word to each other.
"Hey Sakura," Tomoyo said busting into the room with a smile, before sensing the tention in the air. "Oh, I'll leave you to along," Tomoyo said, stepping back into the hallway. Sakura jumped up from Syaoran's side with nervous look. "Tomoyo, I need to talk to you in private," Sakura said. Sakura got a that stuff that she use and left the room. "What is it?" Tomoyo whispered.
"I need you to make a date with Syaoran and Eriol and I need to be alone with Syaoran for one day," Sakura whispered back. "What? like a double date?" Tomoyo said with a sly grin. Sakura sighed. "Yes," She said rolling her eyes.
"Great I'll make the best oufit for you and me," Tomoyo said smiling. Syaoran got out of the bed and put a red shrit that had bold bleeding words that read Piss off!. Syaroan looked out the window and sighed. "Maybe she's right, maybe I'm still pushing myself away from what is really happening" Syaoran said to himself.
Tomoyo went in the kitchen and called her mother. "Mom, hey it's me, I need to ask you a favor, I need for you to make appointment at La Evenings, that place that you went to with Mr. Loin, yeah, I need a table for four, Okay, thanks I owe you," Tomoyo said hanging up. "What was that all about?" Eriol asked walking in the kitchen getting Ice cream.
"Well Sakura and I want you and Syaoran to come with us to La Evening," Tomoyo said sitting on the counters. "You mean like a double date?" Eriol asked. Tomoyo nodded. "It was Sakura's Idea, and now I have to go I have some work to do," Tomoyo said getting off the counter and walking to the door.
"Here's your coat," Eriol said handing it to her. Tomoyo smiled. "Your sweet," Tomoyo said putting her shoe's on. Eriol opened the door. Tomoyo kissed Eriol on the cheek and walked down the steps. "See you tonight," She said walking off. Eriol smriked and shut the door. "Whoo, she want me," He said strocking his hand throw his hair doing a cool walk. Syaoran opened the door and walked down the stairs.
"Hey Syaoran," Eriol said turning on the Television. "Oi, what time is it?" Syaoran said getting down the last three steps. "Um...five past ten." Eriol answered turning it to the music channel. Syaoran sighed. "Where was Tomoyo going?" Syaoran asked. "I don't know she just said she had something to do, oh and Sakura and Tomoyo are taking us out to La Evening," Eriol said setting the remote the small table infront of him.
"What the hell is La Evening?" Syaoran asked. "Well, It a dinner that has dancing, music and stuff. It like a ball." Eriol said. "Dancing, no way I reather get my head beat in agin then go," Syaoran said taking a bowl out the cabinet and putting Life cereal in it. "Oh, Syaoran, come on it'll be fun." Eriol said. "Sorry," Syaoran said pouring milk into his bowl. "You'll be letting Sakura down agin," Eriol said teasingly.
Syaoran blushed a little. "Whatever I not going," Syaoran said agin. "What you can't dance?" Eriol said moving over on the couch so Syaoran could sit down."
"Yes I can so dance! It's just I don't want to," Syaoran said taking the remote and turning it to the game shw channel. "Why are you watching this?" Eriol asked. "It give me a reason to yell and throw stuff at the T.V," Syaoran said watching Who wants to be a millionaire.
Sakura came down the stairs. "Hey guys, I'm going out for a while I have to do some shopping," Sakura said walking to the door. "Sure, whatever," Syaoran said to in tuned into the show already.
Sakura walked out the door and took her pink cell phone out. "Come on Kero pick up," Sakura whispered walking down the street. "Hello," Said Kero in a dry kind of voice. "It's me Sakura, Kero are you okay?" Sakura asked hearing up beat dance music in the backround. "Yeah, I doing Tae Bow," Kero said doing little kicks. "Kero you can't get fat!" Sakura said. "So but I must build muscule," He said.
Sakura sighed. "Well, I'm going to the store, do you need anything?" Sakura asked. "Pain killer, and some D-dim-sim chocolate." Kero said hanging up. Sakura sighed. And went the store.
Syaoran fell asleep on the couch, while Eriol was getting ready for the date. Then next thing Syaoran knew he heard the phone ring, he got up and walked over to the phone. "Hello, this is Syaoran speaking," He said with a yawn.
"Hey Syaoran It's me Sakura, So are you coming to La Evening with us?" Sakura said while Tomoyo was putting on her dress.
"No," Syaoran said rubbing his eyes. "Oh Syaoran, It'll be fun, and if you get beat up by the people again I'm not helping," Sakura said teasingly. Syaoran blushed on the other line. 'What's wrong with me, I'm all hot' Syaoran thought. "Fine but I'm only doing this once and that's it," Syaoran said with a yawn.
"Great see you in ten," Sakura said hanging up. Syaoran sighed and walked upstairs to his room.
"Syaoran, you've been sleeping all day, you okay?" Eriol asked picking a black tie. "I guess, I keep having nightmares," Syaoran said putting a green shirt on his bed with black pants and coat. Syaoran took his shirt off and the shower. "Well, maybe you should stop thing about stuff like that," Eriol advised.
Syaoran turned on the hot water and then turned the cold water on a little bit. "I can't do that," Syaoran said. "Why not?" Eriol asked walking out the room to the hall way tieing his tie. "It's hard not to, when you want to know who and why they did it," Syaoran said shutting the bathroom door. Eriol heard a knock on the door. "That might be them you better hurry up," Eriol shouted from as he went down the stairs.
Eriol finally got to the front door. "Hello my fine gentleman," Tomoyo said bowing. Eriol eyes were glowing. Tomoyo was wearing a blue dress that had a deep v in the back and a small v in the front and the dress went down to her feet. She had pear earrings and necklace and a small blue glitter cover pusre and her coat was slik with fur at the bottom. "Wow, Tomoyo you look...Wonderful," Eriol said trying to blink. Tomoyo smiled. "So are you," Tomoyo said.
Syaoran walked out the bathroom and went in his room to put on his clothes. Sakura was behind Tomoyo. She was wearing a pink and white dress that had a triangle front and a plain ful back. It was short and lite wieght. the sleeves were long. It had a big white flower on it that was at the bottom. "Ohm Syaoran'll be down in a second." Eriol said. "A second has past," Syaoran said walked down the stairs. "Oh, well come on then," Eriol said taking Tomoyo hand.
Sakura bowed. "This'll be fun, Syaoran I promise." Sakura said taking his hand. Syaoran blushed a little. 'Why do I always feel hot when I around her, this is stuiped,' Syaoran thought. Syaoran shut the door and put on his coat. Eriol and Tomoyo went into the lemo. Syaoran opened the door for Sakura letting her in first. "La Evening," Tomoyo told the driver.
The driver nodded an pulled off the conner and drove down the street.
TBC.....
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