Whole at last

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Whole at last

Chapter 7

The black orb headed for her. Meilin closed her eyes and screamed in fear just waiting for that final moment when the energy would hit her and then she'd be no more. But, oddly enough, the orb never reached her and as she carefully opened one eye and then the other, she saw Touya, giving his back to her with an arm covering his face. It was bleeding profusely; he had used it to protect both Meilin and the rest of his body from further damage. As he slowly lowered his wounded arm he and Alex stared in to each other's eyes; Alex gave him a distorted smile and said:

"I see… you have chosen sides." He turned away from them and walked away.

Meilin was speechless; she did not know what to say or what to do. The instant Alex was out of sight Touya turned around with an annoyed look on his face and asked:

"Are you ok?"

"Yes" she said so softly it was almost inaudible, this had been her second time to almost die in two days and the realization hit her, and it hit her hard. Fear spread through her body, her second time to be so close to the claws of death. Sure, she had avoided death so far, but it was only because of him…

"Good, you shouldn't be out this late, you know?" Touya looked at his arm and sighed, it was badly hurt, it would probably take a week or so to fully heal, but first he had to regain strength, when he helped Meilin the first time much of his power was drained.

"You are hurt!" Meilin recovered her voice at the sight of Touya's arm, bleeding uncontrollably.

"Duh. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have been." He responded coldly. But he couldn't help but think he was telling no lies.

"What is that supposed to mean? Huh? I was trying to help you, he was beating the crap out of you!"

"Well, you didn't exactly help, now did ya?" Touya started to walk towards his apartment. He was leaning to the wall so he wouldn't fall; it was obvious he was very hurt and very tired still.

"Soorrey! Hmmm, I guess it is partly my fault you got your arm so messed up. But don't expect any real sorry or anything… But I still have to return the favor." Meilin was talking more to herself than to Touya as she was walking with him, barely even remembering he was there. Touya just rolled his eyes.

They finally arrived to Touya's apartment; Touya just walked over to his bed and let himself fall on top of it. He was almost asleep when a voice scared away the hope he had to have a peaceful sleep.

"You're just going to sleep? You can't do that, you are bleeding!" Meilin's voice suddenly turned very annoying to Touya.

"I'll take care of it in the morning, now go away, I want to sleep" Touya heard silence, Meilin was still in the room, but she said nothing. Meilin started to move around the apartment making noise, but Touya ignored it and fell asleep.

A piercing pain in Touya's injured arm woke him up immediately. Then the first thing he saw as he opened his eyes was Meilin trying to clean his wound; without much disturbance she looked up at him and said:

"I thought you were asleep."

"I was, until you started doing whatever you're doing to my arm. How long have I slept?" Meilin gave Touya a small smile and answered:

"For about 30 minutes"

"What! That's all? AH! That's it! I'm taking you home!" Touya got up and notice his was shirtless. "What the-"

"Your shirt is in the trash if you want it, it was helpless cleaning case, too much blood so I figured you couldn't keep it." Meilin started to clean up, all the bandages and stuff she had needed to clean and close the wound in Touya's arm.

"Fine" He went to his closet and got a clean shirt. He looked at his arm, the wound was very well covered and as he looked at his reflection in the mirror the cuts and bruises on his face where also taken care of. But he had decided already, she couldn't stay at his place any longer. So swiftly he put the clean shirt he was holding and opened the door of his apartment.

"Get out"

"What! You can't kick me out! I tried to heal your wound you can't do that!"

"I said. Get. Out!"

"Fine!" Meilin went outside and before she turned around to complain, Touya had already shut the door. She started walking to her house muttering curses to Touya in Chinese.

She had not left Touya's block when someone went behind her and attacked her. She was pinned to the wall surprised from the sudden attack. The attacker just started telling her what his plan was with her, something along the lines of sexual abuse, but he didn't even finish the first sentence when Meilin pinned him to the floor. She was getting very cocky; she set him free and evaded every attack that went her way. She was getting cockier by the second until, tired of being made fun of the attacker pulled out two guns.

'Crap, now what am I supposed to do? I could take one gun away, but not the other, he could be able to shoot me'

"Hahaha, you thought you could mess with me huh? Well, you can't! You little bitch!" He said menacingly.

The guy was about to shoot her when he collapsed unconscious. She just looked at the guy lying on the floor and then as she looked up to her savior, Touya was once again in front of her.

"This is the second time this day I save your ass." Touya said without so much of a glance towards Meilin rather studying his arm, which had started to bleed through the bandages a little bit.

"So? You think I care?" But she did, not many men risked their own lives for her.

"Whatever, c'mon, I'll walk you home. Everyone must be worried about you." Touya started walking towards the Li household, not even looking if Meilin was following.

"What if I don't want to?" She did not move from her spot, Touya turned around and said.

"Then I'd have to carry you there" No expression whatsoever showed his face.

"You can't. You have a wounded arm." She said.

"Ah, yes but, you forget, I got another one." He smiled. It was probably the first time Meilin had seen him smile and was deeply mesmerized by it. It was not one of those smiles that he gave to Syoran or Sakura; she could see it was genuine.

"C'mon, don't make me carry you" She nodded and followed him to her house.

At the Li mansion, like Touya said, everyone was worried sick about her; she had disappeared during the afternoon and had not called or reached them in any way so they did not know where she was.

"I must go find her. She might be hurt or worse…" Syoran said as he quickly walked to the entrance door or the mansion.

"Wait, I'll go with you" Sakura, his fiancé said.

"Yeah, us too" Eriol and Tomoyo said in unison.

"No, you guys should stay if she comes back" Syoran said.

"We can all look in different places." Sakura said to Syoran.

"God, I hope she's all right" Sakura said, she was very worried for her friend; she still could not get over the fact that Meilin almost died. And she felt extremely guilty because she should've have sensed something before she was attacked, the cards had warned her about danger to come and death, but she did not think Meilin was going to be a victim.

"Kerberos and I will search the skies for Meilin" Yue said.

"Let's go then."

"Hey, Touya?"

"Hmmm?"

Somewhere along the way to the Li mansion, Meilin had gotten Touya to give her a piggyback ride. She was somewhat surprised that he accepted but it wasn't really that big of a deal, they had talked for a while too, nothing important, trivial stuff like the weather. But there was something more, Meilin could sense somehow that Touya wanted to ask her about Sakura but he didn't know how yet, so she decided to help him a bit.

"Wanna guess what am I in Sakura's wedding?"

"You're a bridesmaid."

"Yeah, how'd ya know?"

"Well…I. I just did." His faced turned a little pink.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah"

"How many times did you read the invitation?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Tell me, how many times did you read it?" Touya chuckled, how could she have known?

"A couple"

"Hahaha, I knew it! You still care for Sakura; you're just trying to act all tough because she's marrying my cousin!" She knew of course there were other reasons, but she wouldn't talk about them if he didn't want to.

"I'm Touya; I'm big, buff and tough!" Meilin tried to imitate Touya but she did not succeed; what she did manage was to make Touya laugh a bit. She was starting to like that laugh and that smile, when she thought about it she would blush.

"Well, we are almost there, why don't you get down know, I'm getting tired."

"Are you saying I'm heavy, sir?" Meilin said jokingly.

"Yes, as a matter of fact I am saying that" Meilin was caught off guard and started to babble something inaudible. Touya laughed again, when Meilin finally understood that he was also joking she said:

"Hey, I'm not heavy!" she pouted, but then started laughing and it was not long that Touya joined her.

Finally they arrived to the Li mansion; they were at the door ready to ring the bell when Syoran opened the door, ready to go out to search for Meilin. Syoran could not believe what she was seeing, Meilin and Touya together, and Touya was carrying Meilin on his back.

"Hello Syoran!" Meilin said with incredible joy.

"Mei. Meilin! Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" He looked at Touya.

"Of course not! He was really nice with me, of course he didn't buy me dinner."

"I was supposed to buy you dinner? Huh?" Touya was confused now.

"Brother!" Sakura ran to hug Touya "Are you okay? Oh my god! Look, you are bleeding!" Touya looked at his right arm, and sighed.

"It's all her fault." He pointed to Meilin with one arm.

"No, it's not my fault, we already talked about his remember? I saved you. Got it?"

"Whatever. I gotta go now, someone only let me sleep for half an hour" Touya looked at Meilin accusingly. "Mind getting off me now?"

"WHAT? YOU WERE AT HIS APARTMENT? WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?" Syoran exploded, she was almost his sister, in fact, he felt that he was her older brother, so he naturally was overprotective of her, and one thing he would not tolerate was for Meilin to date him.

"Relax, nothing happened" Meilin said as jumped off Touya and walked in the house. But she did not let go of Touya's hand as she walked, rather firmly too, so he had no option but to go inside as well but not without complaining.

"Hey, why am I going in?" He said.

"I'm going to clean your wound again and then you're going to sleep here tonight." Meilin said casually.

"WHAT!" Everyone exclaimed. Touya just looked at her and said:

"Whatever." He knew he shouldn't argue, plus he probably didn't have enough strength to walk back to his apartment anyway.

The End

I just noticed this is the second chapter that ends with Touya agreeing to stay in the Li household. Thank you so much for reading!

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