"Shaoran-kun, what are you doing?" she asked mentally.
"Nothing," he answered the same way before he pecked her cheek.
He saw surprise register in her eyes. She knew he was holding back.
"What do you want, Shaoran-kun?" She kept the silent conversation going.
"I want to ask you out to dinner tonight." He didn't move. He knew that if she really wanted to, she could very easily push him away with her aura.
"Mizuki-sensei will be coming today, Shaoran-kun." She tried to think up excuses for them not to go out to dinner.
"She'll be here for lunch, Sakura."
"Well, I still have to train today." She tried another excuse.
"You won't be training all day. You promised to go with Touya to pick up her up this morning," he answered her, waiting for the next excuse.
"I'm supposed to meet Tomoyo-chan tonight about something."
"She'll understand."
"We're supposed to eat dinner with your mother."
"My mother won't kill us if we eat without all of them."
Sakura tried to think of another excuse. She couldn't think of any. Shaoran being that close to her made it really hard to think, and she didn't understand why. He definitely hadn't changed position in the last few seconds. She gave up with a sigh of resignation. "Fine, what time?"
"Seven tonight." He started to lean toward her. They didn't hear the bedroom door open...........
- - - - L.P.B.- It might be Likaun. Then again it might be Tomoyo. Then again it might someone else altogether. I guess you'll have to read the chapter to find out.
Tramie- As you know from writing your own story that cliffies are essential and fun to write. We just hate reading them. I don't care though because I can play with what is left in my mind. I usually can come up with several different scenarios. As for your second question; that blue light is Fuutie's powers. That blue light is Fuutie's powers. I'll be playing with her powers along with the others off and on through the story. To think that this story has only begun.
To-ya- Thank you for helping me to write this story. If it weren't for some of the things that you have pointed out to me then I wouldn't have been doing as well on this story. Well I hope you enjoy reading this!
Fleur de Cerise- You know I think that it is cool that you're using a French name but speaking Japanese. I hope you like this chapter!
Chapter 13
"What do you think you're doing to my little kaijuu?!" Touya entered the room, screaming at the sight before him. He wasn't expecting his sister to allow anyone that close to her.
Li found himself clear across the room, rubbing his butt.
"Kinomoto, was that really necessary?" He asked her brother under his breath.
Touya smirked at Li before he turned around, surprised to see his sister in his face.
"I am not a kaijuu!" She didn't stomp his foot this time, though. She did a roundhouse kick on him, sending him to join the 'gaki'.
"Ouch!" He muttered before letting out a string of rather colorful words.
"Better not let Mizuki-sensei hear you say that. She'll have your hide." Sakura grinned.
Touya glared at his sister. He was too busy glaring at her and the 'gaki' to notice that she had reacted to what he'd called her. That didn't last long, though, because just as soon as they were up, Tomoyo entered the room with Likaun on her tail. "Is everything alright Sakura-chan? I heard you yell."
"Everything is fine," Sakura reassured her friend.
"What did you do to him?" Likaun was watching Shaoran clambering up off the floor and saying that there was something that he needed to do.
"What did I do to whom?" Sakura asked innocently.
"Shao-kun. What did you do to him? He was rubbing his butt when I got in here." Likaun continued questioning Sakura.
"I didn't do anything to him, Likaun-san. If you don't mind, I have some things to do," Sakura said before she tried to follow Tomoyo out of the room.
Likaun closed the door before she could, though. "You stay away from him. He's mine, you..."
"Likaun-san, if I wanted to get Shaoran-kun away from you, I could do it without effort." Sakura cut her off before she could continue. "Since I know that you didn't just come here to threaten me, why don't you go and talk to him."
Likaun stared after Sakura, mouth open. She couldn't believe that Sakura had told her that. No one had dared to ever talk back to her; let alone look at her openly with such disgust.
"Why, you are going to pay! Why do you show no fear of me?" she muttered darkly under her breath.
-Sakura-
Sakura was going to go to the training grounds but thought better of it when Likaun was on the grounds.
"I guess I'll have to do this the old fashioned way," she said to no one in particular. She finally found a gym in the house that she could just work on the martial arts.
The dream that she had the night before was beginning to replay in her mind. She remembered everything almost as if it was happening again.
Touya had been there. He had called her 'kaijuu,' as he used to when she was younger. "I guess he'll never outgrow that."
She smiled at the memory, but not so much that she didn't remember what happened next. She felt his soul whimpering, as if he had lost her. She had felt like she had lost him, as well, but she could still see him. What would she have done all these years without having him around when her father was away on archeological digs? He was sometimes gone for months at a time. Touya had always been there to help and watch over her. The memory of losing him left a great sadness in her soul. She knew that she wouldn't be here today if it hadn't been for her brother. He had kept her safe before Shaoran had come along. He even tried to keep her safe after that. She had sometimes gotten the feeling that he was beginning to feel a little inadequate at the job. She supposed that was why she acted clueless at times, when she really wasn't.
She was spinning through the air. The wind was burning her fiery skin. Shaoran had been put on ice. Yet she was still spinning, uncontrollably wild. It was terrible. "Careful, Li. She might find out that you're in love with her," the voice said in her head.
"He's in love with me? How can he be in love with me?" she asked the bag that she was punching. There was a lot confusion going on in her mind right now. She couldn't dwell on the thought of Shaoran being in love with her.
She had been screaming, she remembered, when Tomoyo had fallen to the ground. What hurt her worst was that she didn't even know what happened to Tomoyo. All she knew was that her friend couldn't stand for some reason. She felt anger toward the voice's owner, mixed with the pain that he had been causing for all of them.
She couldn't keep the tears back when all of that was combined with Fuutie and her baby. Fuutie's screaming was almost more than anyone could bear.
"Shoot! She was losing a child!"
Sakura kicked the bag. She ignored the sharp pain that kept running through her stomach. Every time she remembered Fuutie's screaming, the pain returned. The baby was screaming, too. He was screaming out of fear. The baby may have been just a fetus, but here it seemed to be very real. She couldn't even move to save them. Her mind had been muddled enough that everything was mixed together, to the point where she could no longer tell what was happening to whom.
Sakura wanted to clear her head but didn't know how. She didn't notice that her aura had begun to show. She gave one last kick to the bag, and was surprised when it didn't bounce back. She was ready to punch the bag a couple of times more. Sakura was surprised to find Li Yelan standing behind the punching bag.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Li. I didn't know that you were training over here today." Sakura was about to leave the room.
"It's all right, Sakura-chan. We can train together," Yelan said to her.
Sakura bowed to Mrs. Li before she went into a fighting stance. They fought like this for about an hour before they stopped, both sweating and out of breath.
-Yelan-
Yelan didn't have to hear anything to know that Sakura was in there. Her aura could be felt. The sound of a bag being viciously beat on rang through the door. Yelan opened the door to see the tears streaming down Sakura's face and a badly beat-up bag that she had been letting out all of her emotions on. There was a mix of too many emotions for one young woman to endure.
Then she was inside the young woman's mind, only for an instant. She saw a screaming baby and mother. The confusion, the excruciating pain, and not knowing which friends were going through what. She saw Sakura's desperation to get out of her thoughts but being unable to. She went to see if she could help at all. She held the bag while Sakura did a roundhouse kick on it. Obviously, the young woman expected the bag to come back to her.
-Normal-
The two women were going at it for a little while.
"Sakura-chan, tell me what your dream was about last night," Yelan requested of the younger woman.
It took a few minutes and a lot of encouragement from Li's mother. Sakura finally gave in, wanting to tell somebody what had been going through her mind.
"It wasn't a dream." Sakura began to tell the horrific tale. She told Yelan about every feeling she could remember and every bit of pain. Sakura shook her head before she started to cry.
"It took Fuutie's baby out of her. She was in so much pain and kept screaming more and more. I felt so helpless. I couldn't get to her or anyone else," Sakura whispered before she was pulled into the motherly arms of the woman.
"Shhhh... It's all right, Sakura-chan," Yelan comforted.
"No, it's not. What if it had been real? What if I had been really stuck behind a magical force field and not able to fight back? I felt everything that they were feeling." She was still crying.
"It's alright, nye-ur." She kept her arms around the young woman before her. She didn't have to look inside her head to know that Sakura hadn't let out any of thoughts or feelings for a few years now.
-Eriol-
"Daidouji, it's time to train now," he called through her door.
"Hiiragizawa-kun, you don't get it. This is too important. I have to finish this." Tomoyo didn't come to the door.
"Daidouji, you've been working on that for a week now. How can it not be finished?" He sighed. Why did he get stuck with most of this hard-headed girl's training?
"No! It's not finished."
"I'm coming in, Daidouji," he said through the door before he said something to make the door unlock.
Tomoyo was in the middle of the room, crying and holding a piece of shredded red cloth in her hand. Eriol closed the door behind him. "Daidouji, what happened?"
"I don't know. I went to take a shower and came back to find it shredded. It was supposed to be Sakura-chan's dress for tonight. I'll never get another one finished on time." She cried into the material. Eriol only shook his head.
There were no words that he could give her. Eriol only comforted; silently, though, he contacted Shaoran. "My cute little descendant, where are you?"
"I'm not your cute little descendant and I'm escorting Likaun off the grounds," Li answered Eriol. "What's wrong?"
"You need to get to Daidouji-san's room ASAP," Eriol said to him.
"I'll be right there. Let me get rid of this pest," Li sighed.
-Touya-
"Yuki, have you seen Sakura? I haven't seen her since I walked in on her and Li," Touya asked his friend.
"Last time I saw her, she was headed toward the gym," Yukito told him. "What were she and Li-kun doing?"
"I don't know exactly. It looked like he was going to kiss her." Touya glared at his friend's smile.
"He wasn't in the hall, was he?" Yukito asked.
"No. He was in her room." Touya could have glared a hole through the floor.
"Okay." Yukito passed it off as if it wasn't important.
"What do you mean 'okay'?" Touya transferred a murderous glare to Yukito.
"I mean that she's a beautiful woman, and that she deserves someone that loves her."
"I love her. Isn't that enough?" Touya asked.
"You have Mizuki-san. She doesn't have anybody."
"She hasn't talked to me in three years except for that cold tone that you heard at the table when we came in last night. Well, all except for today..." Touya thought about what she had said and done to him. "Where is the gaki? I need to talk to him."
-Shaoran-
"Look, I'm really busy. I have a mountain of work to do today and very little time to do it," Li said.
"But Shao-kun, I was going to spend the day with you before we have dinner at my Otou-san's house tonight," Likaun whined in his ear.
"I have a previous engagement tonight," he said to her, irritated.
"You can cancel," she persisted.
"No, I can't. It's a business dinner." He let his tone go even colder. 'Finally, we're almost to the gate.'
"My cute little descendant, where are you?" Li heard the urgency in the telepathic voice.
"I'm not your cute little descendant and I'm escorting Likaun to the gate. What's wrong?"
"You need to get to Daidouji-san's room ASAP," Eriol said to him.
"All right; let me get rid of this pest," Li said to him.
Li made sure she was out the gate and then told the guard after she left that she was not to come back in. Shaoran found his way to Tomoyo's room only to see Eriol trying to comfort Tomoyo.
"Hiiragizawa, what's wrong?" Shaoran didn't miss the shredded material in Tomoyo's hands. He didn't have to ask if it was the same material that she had been working with that morning. "What happened, Daidouji?"
"I left the room for just a few minutes only to return to see that the dress had been shredded." Tomoyo looked at him with tears running down her face and unshed ones in her eyes.
The room dropped ten degrees when he realized the full meaning behind her words.
"I'll take care of this," he said before he left her doorway.
"I'm going to have to take her shopping." Tomoyo wiped the rest of her tears away.
"No, you won't. He has four sisters; I'm sure that one of them has a dress that will fit her," Eriol said to her.
There was a knock at her door. "Daidouji-san, have you seen Sakura? I can't seem to find her or the gym."
"Hiiragizawa-kun can take you there." Tomoyo dismissed him. "I need to talk to Feimei-san about something."
Eriol glanced at her to make sure that he'd heard her right and when he was sure, he left the room with Touya.
"So who are you looking for? Sakura-san?" Tomoyo heard Eriol ask.
"She was supposed to go with me to pick up my wife and kids."
-Sakura-
Sakura had dried her tears and was training with Yelan.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Li," she apologized before she sent a punch to the left of Yelan.
"Sakura, it's all right. We all cry sometimes," Yelan said before she sent a kick towards Sakura. Sakura avoided the kick with a back flip.
"You don't. Your life seems to be perfect."
"That's where you're wrong, child." They heard a knock at the door.
"Aunt Yelan, I'm sorry, but Kinomoto-san needs to speak to his sister." Eriol bowed to her.
The door opened a little bit more to reveal Touya standing there. He also bowed to Yelan before he looked at his sweating sister. "Sakura, we can't meet Kaho with you sweating like that."
"Hoe?" she whispered almost inaudibly.
"Gomen nasai! I'll go change," she said nervously before she looked at everyone around her. She transported herself to another part of the house.
-Another Place-
A woman splashed the seeing pool. "How can this happen? I thought you were on top of everything!"
The man that had been beside her shook his head. "The walls that we have been building up for the last few years are breaking down, albeit slowly. Her family and friends are what makes her strong."
"If you can't stop them, I will. Do you understand that she must remain cold?"
"You can't stop what is happening. Do you remember that you hired me because she is too powerful?"
"I need to get in that house. If doesn't have her cards, then she can be beaten."
- - - -
Okay guys I am really sorry that I am late getting this story out to you. I really have no good excuses so you really have to forgive me. I hope you enjoy the chapter! Arigato and ja ne!
"Nothing," he answered the same way before he pecked her cheek.
He saw surprise register in her eyes. She knew he was holding back.
"What do you want, Shaoran-kun?" She kept the silent conversation going.
"I want to ask you out to dinner tonight." He didn't move. He knew that if she really wanted to, she could very easily push him away with her aura.
"Mizuki-sensei will be coming today, Shaoran-kun." She tried to think up excuses for them not to go out to dinner.
"She'll be here for lunch, Sakura."
"Well, I still have to train today." She tried another excuse.
"You won't be training all day. You promised to go with Touya to pick up her up this morning," he answered her, waiting for the next excuse.
"I'm supposed to meet Tomoyo-chan tonight about something."
"She'll understand."
"We're supposed to eat dinner with your mother."
"My mother won't kill us if we eat without all of them."
Sakura tried to think of another excuse. She couldn't think of any. Shaoran being that close to her made it really hard to think, and she didn't understand why. He definitely hadn't changed position in the last few seconds. She gave up with a sigh of resignation. "Fine, what time?"
"Seven tonight." He started to lean toward her. They didn't hear the bedroom door open...........
- - - - L.P.B.- It might be Likaun. Then again it might be Tomoyo. Then again it might someone else altogether. I guess you'll have to read the chapter to find out.
Tramie- As you know from writing your own story that cliffies are essential and fun to write. We just hate reading them. I don't care though because I can play with what is left in my mind. I usually can come up with several different scenarios. As for your second question; that blue light is Fuutie's powers. That blue light is Fuutie's powers. I'll be playing with her powers along with the others off and on through the story. To think that this story has only begun.
To-ya- Thank you for helping me to write this story. If it weren't for some of the things that you have pointed out to me then I wouldn't have been doing as well on this story. Well I hope you enjoy reading this!
Fleur de Cerise- You know I think that it is cool that you're using a French name but speaking Japanese. I hope you like this chapter!
Chapter 13
"What do you think you're doing to my little kaijuu?!" Touya entered the room, screaming at the sight before him. He wasn't expecting his sister to allow anyone that close to her.
Li found himself clear across the room, rubbing his butt.
"Kinomoto, was that really necessary?" He asked her brother under his breath.
Touya smirked at Li before he turned around, surprised to see his sister in his face.
"I am not a kaijuu!" She didn't stomp his foot this time, though. She did a roundhouse kick on him, sending him to join the 'gaki'.
"Ouch!" He muttered before letting out a string of rather colorful words.
"Better not let Mizuki-sensei hear you say that. She'll have your hide." Sakura grinned.
Touya glared at his sister. He was too busy glaring at her and the 'gaki' to notice that she had reacted to what he'd called her. That didn't last long, though, because just as soon as they were up, Tomoyo entered the room with Likaun on her tail. "Is everything alright Sakura-chan? I heard you yell."
"Everything is fine," Sakura reassured her friend.
"What did you do to him?" Likaun was watching Shaoran clambering up off the floor and saying that there was something that he needed to do.
"What did I do to whom?" Sakura asked innocently.
"Shao-kun. What did you do to him? He was rubbing his butt when I got in here." Likaun continued questioning Sakura.
"I didn't do anything to him, Likaun-san. If you don't mind, I have some things to do," Sakura said before she tried to follow Tomoyo out of the room.
Likaun closed the door before she could, though. "You stay away from him. He's mine, you..."
"Likaun-san, if I wanted to get Shaoran-kun away from you, I could do it without effort." Sakura cut her off before she could continue. "Since I know that you didn't just come here to threaten me, why don't you go and talk to him."
Likaun stared after Sakura, mouth open. She couldn't believe that Sakura had told her that. No one had dared to ever talk back to her; let alone look at her openly with such disgust.
"Why, you are going to pay! Why do you show no fear of me?" she muttered darkly under her breath.
-Sakura-
Sakura was going to go to the training grounds but thought better of it when Likaun was on the grounds.
"I guess I'll have to do this the old fashioned way," she said to no one in particular. She finally found a gym in the house that she could just work on the martial arts.
The dream that she had the night before was beginning to replay in her mind. She remembered everything almost as if it was happening again.
Touya had been there. He had called her 'kaijuu,' as he used to when she was younger. "I guess he'll never outgrow that."
She smiled at the memory, but not so much that she didn't remember what happened next. She felt his soul whimpering, as if he had lost her. She had felt like she had lost him, as well, but she could still see him. What would she have done all these years without having him around when her father was away on archeological digs? He was sometimes gone for months at a time. Touya had always been there to help and watch over her. The memory of losing him left a great sadness in her soul. She knew that she wouldn't be here today if it hadn't been for her brother. He had kept her safe before Shaoran had come along. He even tried to keep her safe after that. She had sometimes gotten the feeling that he was beginning to feel a little inadequate at the job. She supposed that was why she acted clueless at times, when she really wasn't.
She was spinning through the air. The wind was burning her fiery skin. Shaoran had been put on ice. Yet she was still spinning, uncontrollably wild. It was terrible. "Careful, Li. She might find out that you're in love with her," the voice said in her head.
"He's in love with me? How can he be in love with me?" she asked the bag that she was punching. There was a lot confusion going on in her mind right now. She couldn't dwell on the thought of Shaoran being in love with her.
She had been screaming, she remembered, when Tomoyo had fallen to the ground. What hurt her worst was that she didn't even know what happened to Tomoyo. All she knew was that her friend couldn't stand for some reason. She felt anger toward the voice's owner, mixed with the pain that he had been causing for all of them.
She couldn't keep the tears back when all of that was combined with Fuutie and her baby. Fuutie's screaming was almost more than anyone could bear.
"Shoot! She was losing a child!"
Sakura kicked the bag. She ignored the sharp pain that kept running through her stomach. Every time she remembered Fuutie's screaming, the pain returned. The baby was screaming, too. He was screaming out of fear. The baby may have been just a fetus, but here it seemed to be very real. She couldn't even move to save them. Her mind had been muddled enough that everything was mixed together, to the point where she could no longer tell what was happening to whom.
Sakura wanted to clear her head but didn't know how. She didn't notice that her aura had begun to show. She gave one last kick to the bag, and was surprised when it didn't bounce back. She was ready to punch the bag a couple of times more. Sakura was surprised to find Li Yelan standing behind the punching bag.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Li. I didn't know that you were training over here today." Sakura was about to leave the room.
"It's all right, Sakura-chan. We can train together," Yelan said to her.
Sakura bowed to Mrs. Li before she went into a fighting stance. They fought like this for about an hour before they stopped, both sweating and out of breath.
-Yelan-
Yelan didn't have to hear anything to know that Sakura was in there. Her aura could be felt. The sound of a bag being viciously beat on rang through the door. Yelan opened the door to see the tears streaming down Sakura's face and a badly beat-up bag that she had been letting out all of her emotions on. There was a mix of too many emotions for one young woman to endure.
Then she was inside the young woman's mind, only for an instant. She saw a screaming baby and mother. The confusion, the excruciating pain, and not knowing which friends were going through what. She saw Sakura's desperation to get out of her thoughts but being unable to. She went to see if she could help at all. She held the bag while Sakura did a roundhouse kick on it. Obviously, the young woman expected the bag to come back to her.
-Normal-
The two women were going at it for a little while.
"Sakura-chan, tell me what your dream was about last night," Yelan requested of the younger woman.
It took a few minutes and a lot of encouragement from Li's mother. Sakura finally gave in, wanting to tell somebody what had been going through her mind.
"It wasn't a dream." Sakura began to tell the horrific tale. She told Yelan about every feeling she could remember and every bit of pain. Sakura shook her head before she started to cry.
"It took Fuutie's baby out of her. She was in so much pain and kept screaming more and more. I felt so helpless. I couldn't get to her or anyone else," Sakura whispered before she was pulled into the motherly arms of the woman.
"Shhhh... It's all right, Sakura-chan," Yelan comforted.
"No, it's not. What if it had been real? What if I had been really stuck behind a magical force field and not able to fight back? I felt everything that they were feeling." She was still crying.
"It's alright, nye-ur." She kept her arms around the young woman before her. She didn't have to look inside her head to know that Sakura hadn't let out any of thoughts or feelings for a few years now.
-Eriol-
"Daidouji, it's time to train now," he called through her door.
"Hiiragizawa-kun, you don't get it. This is too important. I have to finish this." Tomoyo didn't come to the door.
"Daidouji, you've been working on that for a week now. How can it not be finished?" He sighed. Why did he get stuck with most of this hard-headed girl's training?
"No! It's not finished."
"I'm coming in, Daidouji," he said through the door before he said something to make the door unlock.
Tomoyo was in the middle of the room, crying and holding a piece of shredded red cloth in her hand. Eriol closed the door behind him. "Daidouji, what happened?"
"I don't know. I went to take a shower and came back to find it shredded. It was supposed to be Sakura-chan's dress for tonight. I'll never get another one finished on time." She cried into the material. Eriol only shook his head.
There were no words that he could give her. Eriol only comforted; silently, though, he contacted Shaoran. "My cute little descendant, where are you?"
"I'm not your cute little descendant and I'm escorting Likaun off the grounds," Li answered Eriol. "What's wrong?"
"You need to get to Daidouji-san's room ASAP," Eriol said to him.
"I'll be right there. Let me get rid of this pest," Li sighed.
-Touya-
"Yuki, have you seen Sakura? I haven't seen her since I walked in on her and Li," Touya asked his friend.
"Last time I saw her, she was headed toward the gym," Yukito told him. "What were she and Li-kun doing?"
"I don't know exactly. It looked like he was going to kiss her." Touya glared at his friend's smile.
"He wasn't in the hall, was he?" Yukito asked.
"No. He was in her room." Touya could have glared a hole through the floor.
"Okay." Yukito passed it off as if it wasn't important.
"What do you mean 'okay'?" Touya transferred a murderous glare to Yukito.
"I mean that she's a beautiful woman, and that she deserves someone that loves her."
"I love her. Isn't that enough?" Touya asked.
"You have Mizuki-san. She doesn't have anybody."
"She hasn't talked to me in three years except for that cold tone that you heard at the table when we came in last night. Well, all except for today..." Touya thought about what she had said and done to him. "Where is the gaki? I need to talk to him."
-Shaoran-
"Look, I'm really busy. I have a mountain of work to do today and very little time to do it," Li said.
"But Shao-kun, I was going to spend the day with you before we have dinner at my Otou-san's house tonight," Likaun whined in his ear.
"I have a previous engagement tonight," he said to her, irritated.
"You can cancel," she persisted.
"No, I can't. It's a business dinner." He let his tone go even colder. 'Finally, we're almost to the gate.'
"My cute little descendant, where are you?" Li heard the urgency in the telepathic voice.
"I'm not your cute little descendant and I'm escorting Likaun to the gate. What's wrong?"
"You need to get to Daidouji-san's room ASAP," Eriol said to him.
"All right; let me get rid of this pest," Li said to him.
Li made sure she was out the gate and then told the guard after she left that she was not to come back in. Shaoran found his way to Tomoyo's room only to see Eriol trying to comfort Tomoyo.
"Hiiragizawa, what's wrong?" Shaoran didn't miss the shredded material in Tomoyo's hands. He didn't have to ask if it was the same material that she had been working with that morning. "What happened, Daidouji?"
"I left the room for just a few minutes only to return to see that the dress had been shredded." Tomoyo looked at him with tears running down her face and unshed ones in her eyes.
The room dropped ten degrees when he realized the full meaning behind her words.
"I'll take care of this," he said before he left her doorway.
"I'm going to have to take her shopping." Tomoyo wiped the rest of her tears away.
"No, you won't. He has four sisters; I'm sure that one of them has a dress that will fit her," Eriol said to her.
There was a knock at her door. "Daidouji-san, have you seen Sakura? I can't seem to find her or the gym."
"Hiiragizawa-kun can take you there." Tomoyo dismissed him. "I need to talk to Feimei-san about something."
Eriol glanced at her to make sure that he'd heard her right and when he was sure, he left the room with Touya.
"So who are you looking for? Sakura-san?" Tomoyo heard Eriol ask.
"She was supposed to go with me to pick up my wife and kids."
-Sakura-
Sakura had dried her tears and was training with Yelan.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Li," she apologized before she sent a punch to the left of Yelan.
"Sakura, it's all right. We all cry sometimes," Yelan said before she sent a kick towards Sakura. Sakura avoided the kick with a back flip.
"You don't. Your life seems to be perfect."
"That's where you're wrong, child." They heard a knock at the door.
"Aunt Yelan, I'm sorry, but Kinomoto-san needs to speak to his sister." Eriol bowed to her.
The door opened a little bit more to reveal Touya standing there. He also bowed to Yelan before he looked at his sweating sister. "Sakura, we can't meet Kaho with you sweating like that."
"Hoe?" she whispered almost inaudibly.
"Gomen nasai! I'll go change," she said nervously before she looked at everyone around her. She transported herself to another part of the house.
-Another Place-
A woman splashed the seeing pool. "How can this happen? I thought you were on top of everything!"
The man that had been beside her shook his head. "The walls that we have been building up for the last few years are breaking down, albeit slowly. Her family and friends are what makes her strong."
"If you can't stop them, I will. Do you understand that she must remain cold?"
"You can't stop what is happening. Do you remember that you hired me because she is too powerful?"
"I need to get in that house. If doesn't have her cards, then she can be beaten."
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Okay guys I am really sorry that I am late getting this story out to you. I really have no good excuses so you really have to forgive me. I hope you enjoy the chapter! Arigato and ja ne!
