Whole at Last
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Whole at last
Chapter 9
'Oh no' Touya thought immediately. 'Fuck. How'd the hell did she get here so fast?'
The leader of the Li clan was hugging her son and niece strongly leaving them almost breathless. Sakura approached Li Ieran sheepishly, the last time they had seen each other was when Syoran had asked the council for permission to marry her and, as Sakura clearly remembered, Ieran had been very distant. But today it was different; she looked relaxed and quite happy to see her son and niece, something that had not been seen of her in a long time. As if hearing Sakura's thoughts, Ieran turned around and looked at Sakura, she stopped hugging Syoran and Meilin, and in a swift moved started hugging her.
"I am so happy that you and Syoran are getting married. Finally I say!" her hug was not as long as Syoran's and Meilin's but it left Sakura needing some air as well. Kaho and Yukito also proceeded to welcome her Ieran was obviously not as affectionate with them. By now, she had regained her composure and acted solemnly towards everybody else in the room.
"Good morning, your excellence." Kaho said as she bowed down. Yukito did as well while saying:
"Good morning"
"Good morning to the both of you. It's good to see you two again. You're married now I suppose…" Ieran eyed them suspiciously.
"Umm, no, we are not, your excellence." Kaho answered.
"Pity, is that boy still causing you trouble?" She meant Touya of course and looked over at the kitchen where he was listening to the conversation between them, that last comment had distracted Touya from what he was doing and he accidentally dropped a glass. Evidently the glass broke and caused all the attention to shift to the kitchen. Touya saw no way out except the door to where Ieran was and decided to take his chances with her.
'That woman is so annoying! I guess I'll have to deal with her for a while. But I'll make a run for it as soon as I can.' He thought as he walked to the room where everyone else was.
She was waiting for him…
"Touya" The Li clan leader acknowledge his presence with a nod. He nodded too and said:
"Ieran, long time no see, huh?" The reaction in the room was not surprising; he had already expected it to happen.
"Ieran! Respect my mother you imbecile!" Syoran snapped, he had been able to restrain himself in the past because Sakura, the woman he loved, was his younger sister and undoubtedly wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. But insulting his mother was something else. He moved to punch him in the face, but before he was even close to touch Touya he froze. His body would not move no matter how much Syoran's mind ordered it to.
"Syoran! What happened? Are you okay?" Sakura screamed seeing his fiancé immobile in mid air.
"I. Can't. Move. What. Is. Wrong. With. Me." Even talking was hard for him now.
"Is he ok?" Yukito asked very worried.
"There seems to be some sort of power controlling your body." Said Kaho as she quickly approached the frozen Li.
"Mom. What. Is. Going. On?" All eyes shifted to Ieran, but the only thing she did was chuckle aloud and replied, but not to his son:
"Hey, Touya, how about we go out? I've been bored out of my mind in a plane for the past 5 hours! I need to have some fun!" She then walked out the door and asked. "You coming or what?"
Everybody just stood there, not knowing what to do, well at least most of them didn't.
Touya just shrugged and grab his jacket from the room he had stayed the night in.
"Do I even got a choice?" He finally said as he followed Ieran on to the street.
The End
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