Full Summary: Sakura was your average well-loved girl that was graduating from medical school that year, and was she happy about it. She only had a year more of the torture of exams and waking up early in the mornings until she would finally be able to do what she really wanted – practice as a psychologist. But now that the exams for her third year had finally finished, she expected nothing out of the ordinary to happen to her. Just having her best friend/cousin move out of the apartment the two shared and attending her and her other best friend's wedding. Oh! And sharing the apartment with a new roommate, one of her cousin's fiancée's friends. A man named Li Syaoran. But who would have known this single man would turn her world upside down… along with all the expectations everyone had for her. Including her own.

Disclaimer: I do not own CCS or anything like it, it strictly belongs to CLAMP. I also do not own the movie Gothika, it belongs to the producers and whoever. I do own this plot though, and a few characters here and there.

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From the Last Chapter:

"I'm guessing you're wondering who that was," she mumbled softly as she snuggled into Syaoran's chest, getting more comfortable as she sat in his lap. Slowly, Syaoran nodded give her a signal telling her she didn't have to tell him if she didn't want to, but she continued. "I guess it's about time I told you about my father."

Love Over Lust?
Chapter Six
Beta-Read by: maixwolfblossom
Written by: SweetBabyGurl

"My mother was sixteen when she met him. He was dropping something off for my uncle when she was running from her friends who were playing tag and wasn't watching where she was going. When they crashed into one another, apparently it was love at first sight. Well, it was lust for him and love for my mother," Sakura began with a rueful smile. "They dated a little while. Nine to ten months, eleven at the most. After that they were engaged. But what mother didn't know as they were planning 'their perfect family' my father was seeing several other women behind my mother's back. Even after Touya was born just a year after they were married, and even after I was born seven years after he still kept up the act. But I guess it's partly mom's fault too. She knew. She acted as if she knew nothing, but truth be told, she found out about everything when Touya was about three. It killed her, but Touya looked up to our father so much, she couldn't bear to get a divorce. But, when I was about five years old, mom and that bastard got into a huge argument, and all the secrets spilled out. There was even a few I didn't know about. My father's brother, Fujitaka, and my mother were in love at that time, seeing how she had fallen out of love with my father. I always liked him; he acted more like a father to me than my biological one. I loved him so much, and Touya did too. Not once did we ever think of him as anyone other than our father," Sakura continued with a sad smile at the memory of her true father. "But anyways. After that huge fight between Aiden, that's my biological father's name, and my mom, he just left. He walked out the door the moment mom told Aiden that she was in love with his brother, and he never really did come back. Thank God too, Lord knows what would have happened if he did." Sakura finished as she wiped the stray tears from her eyes. "I hate him so much Syaoran, I just want him to leave me the hell alone. Why did he have to find me? And even when he did, can't he keep his distance?"

"Shh, it's okay baby. He won't bother you. I won't let him," Syaoran whispered in Sakura's ear as he pulled her closer to his chest and held her there while she cried. Syaoran listened to her the rest of the night as he just continued rocking her back and forth and kissing the top of her head.

..Tomoyo & Eriol..

"I can't believe he's back Eriol. Why? Why did he have to come back? Doesn't he know when to stop?" Tomoyo murmured as the two sat in the car, their minds blown away.

"He has no right to want to even look at her after what he put their family through. Sakura will never admit it, but she loved him. He's her father, she can't help but love him, no matter what he's done," Eriol replied as he gripped the steering wheel tightly.

"Are you sure that Syaoran's with Sakura right now? She really shouldn't be by herself right now," Tomoyo asked, biting her lower lip.

"Pretty sure. Neither one of them are here nor they're not picking up their cell phones," reasoned Eriol.

"Eriol what's the history between you and Syaoran? And don't tell me you two are just really close friends… what have you got against him?" Tomoyo asked after a few moments of silence. She saw the looks exchanged between the two as well as the awkward moments. Weren't they supposed to be good friends?

"We are really close friends, our families are friends. We've known each other since we were practically born," Eriol told her while reaching into his pocket.

"Then why is everything so… different between you two?" Tomoyo asked curiously.

"Because he likes to play with women and I won't let him do that to her," Eriol replied bitterly.

"Syaoran? Sweet Syaoran?" Tomoyo asked, shocked.

"It's just a façade. Don't get caught in it either," Eriol told her as he started the car and began to drive away while Tomoyo watched him with a saddened look.

..Later..

By the time Eriol and Tomoyo ended up at the apartment Syaoran and Sakura were currently living in, they were surprised to find that the two were already there, Sakura in the kitchen making some hot chocolate and Syaoran on the couch, popping in a movie to the DVD player.

"Thank you for calling and telling me you're alright you foolish little girl! Do you have any idea how freaking worried we were?!" Tomoyo exclaimed at the top of her lungs.

"I'm sorry Tomoyo-chan. I just figured you guys would come back here, and we'd get to see you then," Sakura whispered. Without answering, Tomoyo drew her friend into a hug which Sakura readily welcomed.

"I'm sorry for yelling, but since what happened…" Tomoyo trailed off as Sakura nodded.

"Let's not talk about that anymore okay? Syaoran's putting in a movie, and I'm just making some hot chocolate. Go sit on the couch, I'll be there in a sec," Sakura told her best friend with a shaky smile. Hesitantly, Tomoyo nodded and walked over to her fiancée and new friend whom she had now become quite suspicious of.

"So what movie are we watching?" Tomoyo asked as she sat beside Eriol, leaving the space next to Syaoran empty.

"Gothika," Syaoran stated simply as Sakura came walking in. She passed around the hot chocolate before settling herself next to Syaoran who immediately draped his arms around Sakura, pulling her close to him. Seeing this, Tomoyo bit her lower lip. If what Eriol was saying was indeed true, was she wrong to still want the two of them to be together?

It was almost near the end of the movie as Sakura was practically in Syaoran's lap, his shirt tightly clutched in her fists as she watched the television screen, eyes wide with terror. Tomoyo, simply to say was in the same state except of course, with Eriol. Just as the girl who possessed the woman starring in the movie raised the machete to cut the man up into tiny pieces, the doorbell rang making Eriol and Syaoran jump slightly while Sakura and Tomoyo screamed. Scrambling up, Syaoran turned on the lights, stopping Sakura and Tomoyo's screaming. As the girls composed themselves, Syaoran went to answer the door while Eriol followed him. Opening it curiously, the two men's eyes filled with anger and hatred.

"What the hell do you want?" Syaoran spat with malice, looking at the elderly man up and down.

TBC

Readers: Hey there everyone! Yes, I know it's been an entire decade since I've updated but life has just been life, and has stopped me from updating. But, I hope you all enjoyed this pretty much short chapter, and I hoe to hear hear from you lall in reviews soon! Thanks a lot for standing by the fic and ja ne!!