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.

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Love Over Lust?
Chapter Eleven
Written by: SweetBabyGurl

"Okay, so what's next?" Sakura asked her best friend as she sat before the vanity mirror, the amethyst eyed woman stroking her long auburn locks with a hairbrush.

"Well you've talked to Li-kun and things are good with the two of you now right?" Tomoyo asked making Sakura nod. "Have you talked to Kinomoto-kun?"

"Unfortunately, that didn't go as well as planned. He kind of… found me before I had the chance to figure out what I was going to say," Sakura told her, wincing at the memory.

- Flashback -

"Sakura Kinomoto! What are you and that Chinese gaki!" Touya demanded, barging into her bedroom.

"Hoe!" Sakura exclaimed, caught off guard.

"Answer me!" Touya growled.

"Well, we've had our… eh… trials together, and we've realized that we're really compatible," Sakura blurted out. "And uh… he's a really sweet guy and would never do anything that I wouldn't like!" Sakura continued.

"I don't like him. I never have and I never will. If you do anything stupid with him, I'll you first, and then I'll kill him. If he ever makes you cry he'll see the light of day again. Understand?" Touya threatened, making Sakura nod vigorously as he took his leave.

- End of Flashback-

"Let's just say we're… in understandable terms right now," she answered.

"Well, those are all of the personal problems out the way. Now, you've got to deal with Tai," Tomoyo told her friend solemnly.

"But how do I do that Tomoyo? I mean, what do I have to do to get him to leave me and the cards alone?" Sakura asked, confused.

"I believe I can help with that," a voice came loud and clear from the doorway.

"What can we do Eriol?" Sakura asked, looking up at him with hope while Tomoyo smiled at him with adoration. With a small smile and the motion of the hand, his best friend and his fiancée followed after him into another room.

"You're not into séances now, are you Eriol-kun? I mean, I understand you're surprised Touya didn't go after Syaoran-kun with a machete and all… but this is taking it the next extent," Sakura told her friend with a raised eyebrow as she took a look around the spacious room. The curtains were drawn in the lightly coloured room making it seem as if it were glowing. There were candles set all of the room, most especially in the center where Sakura's symbols were formed with the candles; a sun, a moon and finally a star all interlacing with one another.

"I've been doing some research and I've consulted the Elders of the Li Clan. We were thinking that if you were to sit in your insignia, Tai would have no way of touching you because you're too deep in with your magic. Plus, Syaoran and I would be putting all of our magic towards there as well," Eriol explained.

"Okay," Sakura replied, letting the last syllable of the word roll out, "and what do I do from there?"

"Hey, I only come up with the ideas," Eriol told them, his hands held up in defence making Sakura and Tomoyo fall down anime style, "you're supposed to come up with the rest."

"I suppose you could try talking to him at first. I mean, he did love you at one point after all," Tomoyo suggested while biting her lower lip, a nervous tone overtaking her.

"Talking will get you nowhere Sakura," a masculine voice spoke from the door, making the trio jump.

"Mou! You two have got to stop doing that!" Sakura scolded at once, placing a hand over her heavily beating heart.

"Then what do you suggest we do oh great and wonderful Syaoran," Tomoyo asked in mock praise, letting out her nerves.

"Well, first we'll have to get him here, and then…"

Let the games begin.

"Sakura?" The voice of the ever familiar Tai called out to the empty house. It was dark inside for all the curtains were drawn, candles being the house's only source of light. "Sakura where are you!"

"You always were impatient Tai," her scent attacked his senses before her voice even reached him.

"You would know best. Now what's this you wanted to talk about?" Tai asked, getting straight to the point.

"Well, I was thinking about it, and well… it would be great if we could do this whole take over the world thing together," Sakura told him sweetly, though her voice was serious. A wide grin spread across his lips, making him gather her up in his arms.

"You have no idea how happy that makes me Sakura! I really did start to care about you over the time we spent together you know. But something else you should know in that I don't love you… yet," he added hastily when he saw the sorrow in her eyes.

"I'm glad," she told, a soft look taking over her eyes. "Why don't we sit down and have you tell me all about the plan now that the cards are on your side?" Sakura coxed gently as she took a seat on the ground amidst the candles, him sitting before her.

"Sakura why are you sitting in your symbol?" he asked in a harsh tone, narrowing his eyes. "I'm not stupid."

"You're right Tai, you're not stupid," Sakura sighed, leaning back so the palms of her hands supported her. "But you're not that smart either. In case you haven't noticed, there are other people in this room. And since you're sitting in between enchanted candles, I'm going to get to do to you what you've always done to me," Sakura hissed through her teeth standing up in defiance.

"And what would that be, cherry blossom?" he asked, struggling to be free while invisible strands of pink, green and blue magic held him securely in place.

"I'll take away your memory… but most importantly I'll take away your magic," she whispered deathly low, close his face while his eyes widened in shock.

TBC

Readers: You all have official permission to murder me. I know, it's been forever to update, but so much has been going on lately. I've finally had my personal life sorted out, so you'll be getting chapters a lot more now, I promise! This story is finishing so quickly, I don't know what to do with it. But it will be finished! The story is slowly coming to a close, and since I really don't know where this is going anymore, it might take some time since I want it to go as smoothly as possible without having the ending all abrupt and everything. Thank you so much for staying with this fiction since there has been quite a few bumps along the way. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to drop a review for me to let me know what you think of it alright? Thanks again and ja ne!

— SweetBabyGurl