A/N: I am sooooooooooo sorry! I had this typed a while ago and thought I posted it, but I didn't and then I finally had some time today and I logged on and I noticed I hadn't updated in three weeks! Gomen nasai! I hope you guys like it!

Oh! And thank you to Dark Matsuo for betaing! huggies!

Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptors aka Card Captor Sakura.

Chapter 2

The next day, Meilin went to school with him and found out for herself how much her friends had changed. Ying Fa wasn't in the first class and Li asked the teacher about it.

"Oh, Ying Fa? She only comes to class once a week. We arranged it special for her because she worked best in a non-contact environment."

"That explains a lot," Li mumbled, "Thank you, sensei."

He left and went to his next class. Again the entire day was filled with Ying Fa bashing. Li's and Meilin's dislike for their fellow class mates grew. After a while, the majority of the school had decided that if they weren't with them, they were against them and ridiculed them as well. The only problem was that the Li family was very influential and they had forgotten this very important fact. Pretty soon, the students found the teachers had become stricter and the punishments had become harsher. The students soon found out that rewards for being kind and the model student had increased exponentially. It was quite amazing really. The school had gone from rowdy and untamable, to the best behaved school in the city.

Unfortunately, there were some who did not submit and made Ying Fa's life a living hell. The first of Jason's attacks began right after the new rules had been put into place. He had gotten off lightly, only being suspended on put on probation. But he attacked her a second time when she had been in the girl's locker room, changing for gym. He had gotten expelled for that. This didn't stop him though. Things had been quite quiet and Ying Fa was tense, knowing Jason was planning something and it didn't bode well for her.

Jason had been lusting after her for years now and since this was possibly the last year they would ever be in the same vicinity, planned desperate measures to get her to go out with him on the day of love, Valentine's Day. It started a month before. Ying Fa was looking things up for her senior thesis at the library when one of Jason's flunkies came up to her and gave her a bouquet of roses, "Miss? Are you Ying Fa?"

She looked up from her books, "Hai, doushite?"

"These are for you, Ying Fa-san. He wants you to meet him outside."

"Who?"

"Jason," he answered and abruptly turned and left. She had escaped by going out the worker's entrance. 'Thank goodness I know the workers here so well.'

Over the next few weeks, Jason had taken to stalking her and sent her a deluge of gifts. To her it was a bit overwhelming as no guy had ever paid this much attention to her. She really didn't think she was that attractive. So she ignored the gifts and got to know Li and Meilin better. Or should I say, they got to know her better. She was very reluctant at letting them in, but seeing as over the weeks, they hadn't thrown one insult at her or bullied her, she started to open up. This was about three weeks after they had arrived.

To Li's and Meilin's great surprise, though they had had their suspicions before, she was nothing like the school thought she was or what they had thought she was like. In fact, they had a lot in common. They all loved action movies, anything to do with magic (though Li and Meilin didn't tell Ying Fa that magic actually existed), good food, and sports. They got along great. Sometimes Li forgot that she was a different person and thought of her as Sakura, but he thought, she was a totally different person, right? Yeah.

Putting aside his search for Sakura, Li found time to have fun as he never had before. The fun denied in his childhood, he experienced with Ying Fa and Meilin. Even Eli arriving at the end of January didn't put a damper on his fun. If Ying Fa was worried about all the gifts she was getting, she didn't show it because Li and Meilin hadn't picked up on anything being out of the ordinary. She happily introduced herself to Eli, once Li had reassured her that he was a good friend.

However, things got out of hand when Li and Eli received death threats to stay away from Ying Fa 2 weeks before Valentine's Day. Deciding not to go to the authorities because of the absurdity of it, Eli took the message to Ying Fa. That is how we find them, gathered around a Cherry tree, speaking in hushed tones. "Alright, I know this might come across as a little odd, but I've only been here for what? A week? I don't think it's normal to receive death threats for hanging out with a new friend."

Li's eyes widened, "You got one too? I thought it was just a joke!"

"Well," Meilin spoke up, "It can't be a coincidence if both of you got one. Whoever it is, they're after Ying Fa and there's only one suspect, Jason."

Ying Fa looked miserable, "This is going too far. Being bombarded with gifts is ok, but when he starts threatening my friends…I would go to the police, but all the evidence we've got is circumstantial."

"Well, we can't just ignore it," said Eli.

There was silence for a moment and then Meilin snapped her fingers, "I've got an idea! How about we all move into Ying Fa's house until the threat is over. That way we can look after each other better."

Ying Fa immediately protested, "Wait, I couldn't ask you guys to do that! You have your own lives and–"

"I think that's a good idea," said Eli, turning a deaf ear to her protests.

"Me, too," said Li.

"So we're in accord," said Meilin.

Ying Fa sighed in defeat, "Fine. I have three rooms not being used anyway and a sofa bed." 'I just hope Touya doesn't blow a gasket if he finds out 'the Chinese gaki' stayed in the house.'

Inwardly, Eli was frowning as he couldn't get into her mind at all. It was frustrating. Only a powerful magician should have been able to block him and he sensed no magic from her. He had never heard of a natural block being this powerful. 'Who are you Ying Fa?' There was also the mysterious disappearance of Sakura to think about. Yep, very frustrating.

So the three moved in with her and stayed for the two weeks up to Valentine's Day. During this time, Eli had managed to turn Madison. It was as if she had awoken from a spell. (A/N: hint hint nudge nudge -) The minute Eli spoke to her, her eyes had cleared and she behaved like the Tomoyo of old. Yet another thing to add to his growing list of worries. Ying Fa treated Madison neutrally, as if she had just met her and didn't know what to think of her.

When Valentine's Day came, Eli left on a date with Tomoyo and Ryo surprised Meilin by flying in from Hong Kong to spend the day with her. This of course, left Li and Ying Fa alone.

Everything went off without a hitch until Li left Ying Fa along at home (she was taking a shower) to get some food. (A/N) They hadn't felt like cooking and none of the restaurants deliver OK?) In the half hour that Li was gone, Ying Fa had disappeared.

Li was walking back to the house with a few bags. He reached the porch and his eyes narrowed. The door was slightly ajar and unlocked. He could have sworn he had locked it. He walked in, senses on high alert. Immediately, he knew something was wrong. The entire hall was in disarray. There were wet spots here and there and the shower was still running. "Damn it all!"

He quickly took out his magic board and sword. Grabbing Ying Fa's favorite hair tie, he mentally ordered the board to show him where she was. A blue light instantly appeared and he ran in the direction it pointed. I seemed to take hours to find her when it was only a few minutes. As suspected, Jason had abducted her and dragged her to an abandoned warehouse. It was this warehouse that the light took Li and then disappeared.

"Guess she's inside," he said and cautiously entered.

Yells reached his ears from farther in, "Jason, let me go! You're hurting me!"

He ran as silently as he could toward the voices.

"Nobody ever says no to me."

"Yeah? Well you know what? I've said no to you a million times over! Could you get a clue!"

Jason seemed to get redder in the face and Ying Fa backed away as far as she could in the chains he had put on her. 'Maybe it's not such a good idea to make him angry when you're only wearing a bathrobe, Sakura,' she thought. Her eyes caught slight movement in the shadows, 'Li!" she thought, 'great, now I can't use my magic. Huh?' Li signaled for her to distract Jason and she slightly nodded, 'No problemo.' "Hey and you know what? I bet that puny sized brain of your is the problem. What's the matter? Cat got your tongue? I feel bad for your mother, the poor thing, having to give birth to an oaf like you. Why don't you go find some bimbo? I bet she'll go for you, or maybe not. She might actually have a brain while you have the mentality of a horny monkey."

While she said this, Li crept up behind Jason who looked like he was about to slap her. There must have been a reflection off of her eyes because Jason turned around just in time to avoid Li's attack and give him a vicious kick to the stomach that knocked him to the wall behind him. Li grunted and slid down. Ying Fa looked on with worried eyes, unable to do a thing because of the chains fastening her to a mattress. She heard a sickening crunch signaling that Li had broken his arm.

"Why won't you leave me alone! This is none of your business you Chinese geek! You think you're so important, coming here, like you own the place. Well, Ying Fa is mine!" Jason yelled punctuating each word with a punch or a kick. Li, unable to fully function after breaking his arm and still winded from the blow to the stomach couldn't block in time and was beaten up. When Jason deemed Li unable to move, he tied him up and turned his attention back to Ying Fa.

"Li! No! You stupid bastard!" Ying Fa cried, seeing his condition.

"Shut up!" Jason yelled with a feral gleam in his eyes. He captured her jaw with his hand, "I'm going to make you scream my name in pleasure."

Eyes widening in terror, she struggled even harder against her bonds. Jason laughed at her pitiful attempts, "That's titanium alloy you're trying to break, sweetheart. No possible way." The feral gleam turned to a lustful one as he slowly removed the bathrobe, "And now, an aphrodisiac." He took a needle and pulled out a sick looking blue liquid. Struggle all she could, she couldn't get away from the needle and he injected it into her bloodstream.

She heard groaning and knew she still couldn't use her magic. "Li! Li help me!" she begged.

"Pretty boy can't do anything right now," Jason said divesting her of the scant coverings she had, "He's a little tied up." He looked at her admiringly, "Perfect." He took and oil and slowly started rubbing it all over her.

Traitorously, her body responded to his touch. The injection was working. She moaned when he took her nipple into his mouth and gasped with he pushed a finger into her womanhood, "Li…please…help…me," whispered weakly.

Jason's eyes flashed, "No, you'll only say my name! Now, say it!" She stubbornly refused him and he moved the finger that was inside her, causing her to moan. "Say my name!"

She opened her eyes, smirked, and said, "You may have control over my body, but you don't over my mind. I don't love you. Do what you want with me, but my heart will never be yours."

At the end of this speech, Jason was knocked over the head and fell forward unconscious. Li didn't stop there, chanting in ancient Latin, he opened a portal. A feeling of dread filled the area as it grew larger, large enough to push a human through. Jason was dragged into the portal and then it closed. Ying Fa watched the whole thing in disbelief, 'Where on earth did he learn to do that?' "Li?" she said hesitantly.

"Gomen nasai. I couldn't stop him from defiling you," he said, beating himself up for it and set to unlocking the chains.

Once the manacles were off her, she sat up and grabbed his chin, forcing him to look at her, "Li…he didn't…it was just…a finger…He didn't go all the way in either," she rushed through the words, blushing.

By now, Li's face was red at her…brazenness, "H…he still–"

"It's fine. He didn't…you know…and the memory will fade. Come on, let's go home," said Ying Fa, feeling a warmth bubble up in her stomach from the thought that he was living with her. She quickly shook those thoughts out of her head before her thoughts degenerated to…well you get the idea.

She looked around for her bathrobe and that was when Li noticed she was still in a state of undress. Achieving a new shade of red, he averted his eyes and handed her the robe. She, also blushing, accepted the article and pulled it on, tying it tight around her waist.

He looked at his arm while she was at it. "Li?" she said uncertainly, then noticed his arm, "You're hurt!"

"It's nothing," he denied, attempting to hide his arm behind his back.

"Nothing my ass!" Li's eyes widened at the colorful language. "Let me see it," she commanded.

"I'm fine, really," he protested, "I probably just bruised it."

"That arm is broken!"

"So I'll go to the hospital," Li shrugged nonchalantly.

Ying Fa bit her lip and then made up her mind, 'I can't use my star magic, but there's no way he could detect me if I used healer's magic.' "Why? So you can have your sword arm useless to you for six months? I don't think so."

Li's eyebrow rose. "Then what do you propose I do? I can't leave it like this and how did you know about my sword?"

Ying Fa pointed to it, "You brought it with you, silly. And a few days ago, I heard you and Meilin talking about sorcerers. You really should be more careful. And that portal…where…"

Li's eyes widened in panic. Ying Fa gave a small reassuring smile, "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone…if you don't tell about me."

"What about you?" he asked puzzled.

She gently took his broken arm and murmured something under her breath. Her hand glowed green, the color of Li's aura and Li felt the pain go away. He flexed his arm in amazement, "You have magic? But I don't sense anything from you."

"I'm a healer," 'half-truth' she said mentally, "I don't know why you can't sense me. Maybe it's just a natural defense or something like that. I don't really understand magic that well." 'Well that's partially true, I didn't and still don't. I just have more powers is all.' "I found out about it when I fell down a flight of stairs and broke my leg. I kind of just…wished the pain would go away and it did. That's the first time I've ever seen a color when I healed though." 'A little white lie never hurt anybody right? Touya had a color, but I'm not supposed to know him at this point. So did Yue for that matter.' She winced, remembering mangled wings, torn from taking the blasts of some enemy, which? She couldn't remember. There were too many that year.

Li's voice snapped her out of her reverie, "Green, the color of my aura. It's normal. One of my sisters is a Healer as well."

"Looks like we have a lot more in common than we originally thought," she said smiling. Her stomach rumbled and Li sweatdropped. She scratched the back of her head, "um…can we go eat? I'm starving!"

Li chuckled, "Sure. I left the food at the house. Let's go, I don't want to worry the others. It would be a mess. Has that drug worn off yet?" he asked noting her flushed cheeks.

"Nope!" she giggled, "It's probably the reason why I'm acting like nothing hap-"she suddenly fell backwards and Li caught her, "-pened…Li-kun?"

"I'm right here, Ying Fa, everything is going to be fine."

"Good."

Li found that she was drifting in between consciousness and unconsciousness and carried her home. Once there, he found she had a fever, possibly a side-effect of the drug. He got her comfortable and put all the food in the fridge, not feeling hungry anymore and stayed by Ying Fa's side. He was grateful that he had found out she was a healer of he would have not known not to give her medicine. One downside about being a Healer was that you couldn't take medicine. It messed with the natural healing magic in that person and they would be violently ill.

A few hours later, Eli and Meilin returned to the house. The hall was still a mess, but Li had managed to clean up the staircase and the upstairs hallway, that being only water and no broken objects. Eli magically restored the rest of it and they found Li.

"What the heck happened?" asked Meilin.

Li started as he had begun to fall asleep and motioned to move somewhere else. They followed him to the kitchen where he made himself a cup of coffee. "Jason kidnapped her while I was out picking up our food. I followed and got her out. He had given her some sort of drug and once it wore off, she fell unconscious and developed a fever. She's sleeping it off now."

"And nothing else happened?" asked Eli, sensing that Li was hiding something, but not being able to pry into his mind.

"She found out I'm a sorcerer."

"What! How!" exclaimed Meilin.

Li shushed her, "She saw me open a portal with my sword and overheard a conversation between you and me."

Meilin wince, "Great."

Li decided to keep Ying Fa's ability to heal a secret as he didn't want to betray her trust. She really had a hard time letting people into her life and Li wasn't about to destroy the fragile friendship they had. "One good thing though, it takes a load off my shoulders," Li said tiredly.

Eli nodded, "And since she knows about you and Meilin, I can tell her that Tomoyo and I know about magic as well."

Li sighed, "We can move back to our own places tomorrow. Jason can't bother us anymore."

"You called the police?" asked Meilin.

"No, I sent him to that prison dimension we discover years ago. No way he'll get out of there. He can rot there for all I care."

Meilin was surprised at the vehemence in his voice, "Li?"

"The bastard tried to rape her! If I ever see his face again–"

"Li, calm down. You said it yourself. He can't escape from where you put him," said Eli.

Li deflated, "Sorry, guys. I'm going to go check on Ying Fa."

They watched as he left, silent, until Meilin spoke, "He's angry because he almost didn't get there in time."

Eli nodded in agreement, "But there's something else, too, Meilin. He cares for Ying Fa in a way he thinks he should only for Sakura. He's confused."

"Do you think we'll ever find her?"

"We will. It's just a matter of time. I can sense traces of her magic, but they're very old, seven years approximately, which means she hasn't used her magic in about seven years, unless she has a magically cloaked room of course. She'll be out of practice and her aura should be easy to fin with all that unused magic, but for some reason, it feels as if she's disappeared into thin air. Very frustrating," said Eli thoughtfully.

"Even more so to Li. Come on, let's get some sleep," she said yawning, "We've got a lot of explaining to do in the morning."

They both went to sleep, neither of them noticing the glowing red eyes just outside the window.

(to be continued)

ChinaWings – Thank you for reviewing. I'll try my best to keep them long.

dreamteam – Not to worry, I know what you mean. I happen to be a Tomoyo fan too. I only made her that way because while I was envisioning this story, Sakura was all alone and I had to make it so that Tomoyo was out of the picture somehow. Turning her against Sakura came to mind and since she's very loyal to Sakura, Sakura putting a spell on her came to mind. I hope you don't mind. Thanks so much for reviewing.

Iridescent Twilight - Thank you! That's very kind of you to say. Sorry about the delayed chappie, like I said above, I thought I already posted this. Sorry again!

Squeaky mouse – That's a very good question, one that I'll be sure to address in the next chapter at length. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for being so understanding.