Everything was tense in the morning. Everyone noticed the distance that the once happy couple, had put between each other and in such short of time. At breakfast time, Meiling had cooked up a breakfast fit for royalty. It contained a lot of Syaoran's favorite foods, and of course they were all Chinese. Sakura had never had such a breakfast in her life, and enjoyed tasting everything.

Syaoran made no comment of the breakfast. He would have even acknowledged it before by asking Meiling what the occasion was for. But none came. He ate it quietly, put his dishes in the sink, and didn't even give Meiling her peck on the cheek. No smirk, no nothing.

It was around the afternoon when havoc started. Nobody uttered a word of Syaoran's behavior, afraid that they would bring upon bad luck. They did have their suspicions, but kept it quietly to themselves, and decided to just observe the two.

Meiling had been fed up with this. Was he trying to mess with her head? What was wrong with him? She found him, staring dreamily at the gate outside. He sat there on the porch, head leaning against a pole. She almost couldn't even bring herself to disturb him, but she wanted to end this. What was the matter with him?

"Syaoran?" she timidly asked.

He looked at her with pure venom. Even when he hated it when she had clung to him as adolescents, he had never looked at her like that. She flinched slightly. Had she done something wrong? "What do you want?" he asked icily.

"Is...there something wrong?"

His head fell to his right. Closing his eyes, he brung his head back to her, and looked at her again. Syaoran slowly heaved himself up and walked right up to her. Staring right into her eyes, he told her, "Yeah, there's something wrong. It's you." Her eyes opened in surprise. Had she gone overboard with the shopping this time? "Don't act surprised. I hate you. I hate everything about you."

"Syaoran..."

"DON'T CALL ME SYAORAN! FROM NOW ON, IT'S LI-KUN! DO YOU GOT THAT MEILING-CHAN?"

Sakura had been searching for Meiling for awhile, when she heard the shouts. What was going on? Meiling had always been the only girl who had been able to call him Syaoran for the longest time. She didn't even think he allowed his sisters to call him by his first name.

"Bu-But..."

"BUT WHAT!"

Meiling's voice seemed so frail, Sakura could tell that she was choking up. She decided to hurry up to the source. Sakura finally saw them, Meiling bursting into tears, Syaoran looking at her like she was nothing but trash.

"Syaoran! What did you do!" she yelled, as she ran to comfort the little raven head. But Syaoran seemed to take no notice in what she was doing, but this time looked at Sakura with much interest.

He grabbed her viciously, ripping her away from Meiling, and turned her so that she was facing him. "You were always so beautiful..." he said seductively, while having his finger trail down her figure. Sakura looked disgustedly at him.

"I don't have a clue what has gotten into you, Li-kun, but I liked the old you better." she spat before pulling him away from her. She grabbed a rather tearful Meiling away and after taking a last look back at him, took her into the house.

- - -

"How's the operation going?" Tomo finally asked Fang when he could get her alone. He hated the girl. Every time they were together, she flirted openly with him and trying every possible way to seduce him. But he'd never fall for it. He was still loyal to Shinta, and it hurt him to be hurting her. Though he didn't know it, Shinta was enjoying the time that they had together, despite the fact that she had to pretend to be hurt by his words.

Fang looked up surprised to find him behind her. She was looking into a deep bowl, filled with some sort of invisible liquid. A mist was emitting from it. From there, she could easily watch Syaoran, and tell him what to do. She smiled at him, acting the way she always did when he was around. "It's going perfectly well. In a few short days, Meiling should be so depressed, that she'll be ours."

Now, he was going to ask the question that had been probing his mind for awhile. He'd ask Jing himself, but that was easier said than done. You never knew what new outburst he'd put on. What did they want with Shinta? "You never told me, why'd you bring Shinta here?"

Fang smiled lightly at him. "I thought you'd appreciate it. After all, that was your one wish, was it not?" she cocked her head and looked at him innocently.

"So it was, but I have a feeling that there's another reason why you've brought her here...are you going to tell me?"

She shrugged, and continued to stare at the events taking place in the Li household. It took everything Tomo had to not hit her, and leave the room as calmly as possible so as not to raise suspicion that they're spell had not worked on him.

Fang heard the door close. Making sure he was gone, she pressed a button under the table. "What, Fang?" Jing's voice said annoyed.

"Tomo's asking questions Jing."

"Don't worry about it." With that the connection was cut. Fang frowned, but didn't dare to bug him again.

Jing on the otherhand, turned his chair around and faced the chessboard once again. He had known Tomo wasn't under the spell. After all, it was he who had placed it on him. Jing had pretended to perform the spell while Fang was there. It was all a part of his plan. Tomo didn't know it, and he could suspect surprise from him when he realized he had control of his body still.

Carefully studying the board, he moved a black pawn and took the white queen.

"Check." he muttered to himself, smiling slightly.

- - -

Sakura had managed to take the Chinese maiden into her room, where now, she was finally calm. Meiling was sitting on the edge of her bed, staring at her hands, and saying nothing. Sakura had attempted to have Meiling tell her what was wrong, but she didn't have the same amount of charm Tomoyo had when it came to such matters. Thinking back, she wondered how in the world Tomoyo could stay so calm, and seem so unworried when things like this happened.

"Li-kun..." Meiling muttered. A small tear fell from her eye to her hand.

"Now, I'm sure he was just kidding, Mei! Every couple has their little fight every now and then..." she told her doubtfully.

"Did you?" Meiling timidly asked while still staring at her hands.

"Well...no...but I'm sure if we stayed together longer, we would have!" This of course was not true. They both knew Syaoran wasn't the type to have the girl he loved angry. He was always sweet and there. He knew what to say and always brightened their life when he was there.

Meiling saw through Sakura's attempts at trying to comfort her. Still she smiled at her, trying to let Sakura not worry about her so, and told her that she could leave. Sakura argued that she should stay, but Meiling shook her head and told her that she was fine, and what she wanted right now was a little time to herself.

Sakura finally complied, and left the ruby eyed girl to herself. With a sigh, she layed in her bed and stared up at the ceiling. Her conversation with Syaoran last night came back into her head.

"There's no one more suited for me, than you, my little bird."

Depression finally hit her, and she realized that she now felt as alone as she did when she thought nobody cared for her.

- - -

Ice was like a walking enigma. Xing kept watching over her, but when the shouts erupted from the porch, Ice didn't seem surprised. In fact it seemed she had been expecting it.

"You know what's going on, don't you?" he finally told her after finding her alone.

She nodded.

"Are you going to tell me?"

"They're out to get all four."

"All four what? And who's they?"

She didn't answer, but instead left in the direction of Meiling's room. Xing watched her perplexed. What exactly was going on?

A/N: First off, I'd like to thank red lantern and Inuyasha's Babe for writing in their reviews. Not only were those reviews helpful in giving me some creativity, but it also helped in keeping up what I thought to be a dying story. So, thank them! Anyways, I had this chapter name up for as long as I can remember, and I just didn't know what to write for it! Awful huh? But now that I'm inspired again, be expecting the next chapter soon! Remember to review, I love to read them, and it helps keep up my inspiration!