Hey everyone! I'm really sorry for the late update. My cousin's came tonight and she'll be staying for the month. Shes very little so I have to help take care of her and soon school will start, so updates will become less and less frequent. But I will try my best.
So a reviewer gave me an idea that Sakura and Syaoran should control 2 elements. Sakura would have 2 elements while Syaoran has 2 as well. I really like that idea. So there will be a change in stats:
Sakura: total control of fire and earth
Syaoran: total control of wind and water
Tell me how you think of that arrangement.
Summery: She grew up enjoying life. He grew up shunned from it. It was destiny for them to meet and come together like the 4 elements. Noone said it would be easy as they learn to listen to their own Sounds of Love.
Review of last chapter
"You should smile often, you look a lot better that way." Sakura whispered quietely to the wind. Using the wind, he managed to drift the comment she made to his ears.
"I'll keep that in mind." Syaoran whispered back. Sakura twirled around, horrified at the fact she had been spotted. Syaoran gave another short laugh, before tucking the jacket closer towards her, seeing her shiver. "Come on, we should get in." Syaoran commented softly, unable to place his hands off her shoulders. Sakura nodded silently once again, not knowing if she liked the sensation of his hands against her shoulder.
"Xiao Lang..." a voice gasped from behind her.
Gwen stood in front of them, bags and more bags by her side. A spark of jealousy rose within her.
Inside
The 8 other children watched in horrified amusement at the triplets. The three giggled, seeing their expression.
"Mission Accomplished!"
Chapter 7: Awakened once again
The children ran outside to the front of the house, all 10 of them lined up. Sakura and Syaoran walked in first, Sakura wrapped in Syaoran's jacket, with Syaoran's hand on her shoulders. The children passed down looks of glee and pride as a Gwen walked in after them, seething with anger, the feeling churning inside her. She glared at the woman in front of her, wanting her to burst into flame and crumble into ashes within her glare. She looked up, seeing the ten children all sharing identical smiles of glee.
"You insignificant, little, idiots." she hissed deadly, looking at the triplets seeing their spark of achievement. "You did this. You three did this." she hissed dangerously, raising herself above the three. Carina and Xiao Chen eyed each other worriedly.
"I will get rid of you three first as soon as your father and I are married. We will rid us of you three you evil twits." she growled, her hand slowly raising above her. It flew down as the three squeezed their eyes shut...
Carina and Xiao Chen ran towards the three, filling up the space between the triplets and the raving woman. Gwen let her hand dropped at her direct targets when something grabbed hold of her wrist.
Sakura was walking past the children when Carina and Xiao Chen rushed past her. Her emerald eyes flickered angrily seeing Gwen give the children the cold glare, but what came next she would not allow. Dropping the jacket, leaving it fluttering behind her, her hands automatically rose and caught onto her wrist.
"Don't you even dare touch those children." her voice growled menencingly. One thing she could not bare was someone hitting children.
"You will let go of me." Gwen ordered in a supressed voice, "You have no right and furthur more you are not the children's mother. I will be their mother and they need decipline."
"I don't care who you are, or what you are, you will not touch them as long as I am around," Sakura fought back, "Oh and mark my words. Do not think I am making this up, I will make you regret this." Sakura added fiercely seeing that Gwen was about object. Walking away, Gwen fought down a growl. Reaching the last of the children, Hitomi and Ying gave small giggles, their usual soft ruby eyes replaced by those of amusement. Gwen smirked,
"If I can't hit those brats, I can sure hit you two."
The girls screamed loudly seeing Gwen approach them. It all happened so fast. Sakura immediately flipped around and shot daggers at her through her flaming emerald eyes. But what happened shocked her. Instead of the warm flickering feeling she had gotten used to, her eyes sharpened and her pupils contracted in concentration. Sand blew from every direction possible at Gwen's face, making her scream, her eyes pained and stinging from the sand in her eyes. Sakura let out a gasp, quickly dropping her gaze, at the same moment, the sand disappeared, leaving bits of sand everywhere.
"You-you witch! What are you? A-a monster!" Gwen screamed, running off angrily. Sakura stood still as a statue, thoughts running through her mind.
Witch... witch... monster... Was that what she was? Sure she had had this power for so long now, but ever since then the sisters at church never made it look like she was a monster, never made it that she was... different. But now, she was having doubts. What was she then?
Syaoran watched in amusement as the sands and dirt screamed towards Gwen's face, attacking her from every position. Assuming it was Hitomi and Ying he let out a silent chuckle. But Gwen screamed out words at Sakura making him feel like throwing sand at her himself. Then Sakura was silent. It wasn't the type of comfortable, assuring silence he usually found with her, but it was the awkward, ear ringing silence that radiated from her that seemed like things weren't how he thought it was. He knew Sakura was a fire controller, could she be more? Whatever thoughts that ran through his mind was stopped as Gwen threw his children a look of deep loathing.
"Gwen you will not give that kind of look to my children understood?" he ordered in a deep, rumbling voice. Gwen replied him with a look of shock.
"Xiao Lang! They-she, she," she emphasized, pointing an accusing finger at Sakura, "threw sands and grain at me! How can I have a well connection with the children if, everytime she breaks the bridge between me and the children?" Gwen cried hysterically, thinking Syaoran would be by her side.
"I hired my staff for a reason. Sakura has done a very well job in keeping my children in order. I did not hire her to attend to your needs as well. As far as I am concerned-or the contract of the job is concerned- however she acts to place herself in self-defence does not require her to be dismissed. I for one will not let the 15th nanny gp when she's doing such a wonderful job." Syaoran said coolly, breezing pass Gwen and into one of the washrooms. "Now excuse me while I wash up for dinner. Sakura, Tomoyo said she could require your assistance, if you agree to it." Syaoran added before disappeared through the door.
Everybody tried to stiffle laughters and giggles as Alana stiffled a mean laugh into a badly interpreted cough. Sakura smiled brightly, her emerald eyes alit.
"Come now, Children. Get ready for dinner. I mustn't disappoint your father if he has such high opinions of me." Sakura giggled, giving them an all knowing spark of laughter in her eyes.
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Syaoran resisted the urge of plunging his fist hardly against the innocent mirror, reflecting his angered image back to him. His amber eyes were alit with a burning disire to protect her, his heart-he knew- pumped every blood cell through his veins every second so he could protect her from harm's way. Yet his mind denies and declines every living proof of what might be happening to him.
At first, he had thought, maybe it was his disire to protect his children. They were still at a vulnerable age when Meiling had left them. Had left him with his 10 children. He thought it was his duty, his obligation as-now a father and mother- to protect them at all cost.
But something snapped inside his head, his disire grew, fueled not by his protectiveness of his children, but fueled by the anger boiling deep within his stomach, the anger that shrieked to be released upon Gwen. It was then when Sakura had unleashed her little sand storm did it start to calm down in a oddly satisfying way. He growled deeply, angered at how he could be so careless on letting his emotions set loose, how easily Sakura was able to make him loosen up. But most of all, how bad and how foul Gwen had treated her. Angry at how he wasn't able to protect her from those words.
Snapping open the tap, he turned it maxed towards the right, a rush of cold water touching his skin. He splashed it against his face, enjoying the feeling of the contrast of the cold water against his hot skin. He shut his eyes, feeling the small drift of power in his gut, whirling around inside wanting to release. He pushed it down, swallowing it, hoping to cool it. His eyes snapped opened with a glare that made his amber eyes glow a deep, hot amber that could match even the beams of the sun. The feeling rushed out of his gut, into his brain and spread itself into his vains and ran the course around his body. The power sent a boiling sensation throughout his body as he nearly collapsed from the near power surge. He shook his head. Never had that happened before. Shaking away his weakness, he stood himself up properly before deciding he needed another blast of cool water against his-even hotter, if possible- skin.
Cupping his hand, he dipped it under the opened tap and immediately pulled it out as soon as the liquid had touched his skin. He took a glance at the handle that controlled the temperature of the water, it was still turned to cold. He eyed the rushing water, seeing steam rise from the now boiling water. Was something malfacturing? Oddly, his body seemed familiar to the heat, as though it had once... ran through his body...
A theory-crazy as it is- ran through his mind and he set out to test it. Kneading his mind in concentration, he once again formed a glare, a glare that portrayed the endless, icy, glacier in his eyes and directed it towards the stream of water. At once the water cooled, steam no longer rose from it and touching it, the water was freezing. Closing the tap, he rushed out to find Sakura rushing towards his direction, the exact same look on her face as on his.
"It happened to you too..." Sakura said in a soft whisper.
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Gwen sat on her king sized bed Syaoran had offered to her on her first night. Her room was lavished with exqusitedly done furnitures and decorations. Her bed, now covered with a soft golden cover, stood in the middle, tall and proud around the many things included. Her washroom stood beside the large, flat screen TV she had requested. The drawers and closet stood in front of her bed, wide opened with colourful selections of famous, designer labled clothes. Next to it was the table bearing all her powders, mascera, eye liner, lipsticks, nail polish and every possible item you could imagine to enhance or make your appearance much more appealing. Large windows stood beside her bed, 2 at each side, allowing in beams of warm sunlight, bathing her room in gold and warmth.
Today, however, Gwen took no notice of the luxery or the amazing view around her. Sitting cross legged on her bed, she held the room phone against her eyers, a frown on her cherry red lips and her eye brows deepening, an angry look on her slender face.
"Gweneth, honey, there will be no way Xiao Lang would deny you of your marrage." her mother said over the phone.
"Mother, I've been telling you. The way Syaoran looks at her, he has the deep look of softness in his eyes everytime, he is known for his iciness, his... beastly side of him. I don't even get a glance of sympathy!"
"Honey, he only wants the girl as a spare mother for his children. By the time you get in there, she will be packing her bags and going along home."
"Honestly, Mother. As soon as I am the Mistress of this house, I don't care what he says, she will be leaving here."
"That's the spirit Gweneth."
"There's still the 10 brats I have to deal with." she said, the emotion of disgust and horrid in her voice.
"Don't worry about them. If they try anything, just make sure that woman is out of the way and when she is, Xiao Lang will have no reason not to believe you."
She sighed. "Yes mother. I have to go, it is almost dinner and they will get suspicious. Good night mother."
"All right then. Call me tomorrow and tell me how things go. The sooner you enter the family, the sooner things will calm."
Shutting the phone, she chose a V neck t-shirt and jean shorts. Smiling at her attire she headed downstairs to see a flash of amber hair and auburn curls rush past the stairs and into the yard.
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Pratically running past the stairs, Sakura and Syaoran quickly opened the door to the backyard patio and shut it, not noticing that it was still slightly opened. Their minds were clouded with confusion as they found a way to make themselves more comfortable.
"I- what just happened, back there?" Syaoran inquired, breaking the ice. "The sand attack, it wasn't... normal." he said. Sakura gave a visible wince as he said that her response wasn't normal. If she wasn't normal, then what was she?
"I didn't know what happened. I mean I thought I was unleashing fire, not, well earth. When she had actually tried to hit Hitomi and Ying, it was like something inside me broke. It broke loose, the gate was opened and a beast was roaring inside my very body. Then all of a sudden, this surge of power started building and--"
"-- started to run through your body, leaving you feeling weak but unleashing the attack." Syaoran ended for her, his voice but a mere whisper.
"Do you know everything about me?" Sakura said, offering a small, but gentle smile. Syaoran chuckled,
"That's because I've felt the same sensation." Syaoran told her. Sakura eyed him carefully. Somehow, those amber orbs had small streaks of a watery colour in them, making them look... glassy as if there was a shield of water between his eyes and her.
Syaoran looked carefully at Sakura. His eyes trailing directly into her eyes. The emerald orbs. The gentle, caring, soft, assuring and alluring orbs were gleaming back at him, more hard, more concentrate than he had ever seen it.
"Your eyes they're--" the two blurt out at the same time, their hearts racing. Sakura'd body was suddenly encircled by a flame of two colours, the colour or rich red, and the colour of fresh green. A current of wind circled around Syaoran, forming a sphere around him, also consisting of two colours. The colours of pure white, and the colours of deep blue.
Aura...
"The four elements!" Sakura gasped out loudly, looking at both her hands. A sphere of fire was created on her left while a sphere of dirt, sand, leaves and other earthly plants swirled on her right. The same situation held true for Syaoran. His left was the sphere of blistering winds, his right the pure blue of fresh water.
"Sakura..." he suddenly called out, an evil smile plastered on his face, his adreneline running from the power. Sakura looked up to see a flood of water shooting towards her. Shrieking, she ducked before placing her left hand on the ground. Almost immediately, cracks were formed on the ground, running, slashing their way towards their intended target; Syaoran.
Allowing the wind to carry him upwards, he let out a short laugh. He was both shocked, surprise, and weirdly proud seeing a spark of annoyance and indignation in Sakura's emeralds. At the same time when he released his final water ball, a stream of dirt, sand and mud was flying towards his body, travelling along the wind currents he had unknowingly left behind, the attack was evident of Sakura's quick thinking.
A high shriek and a low, but loud growl sent the birds flying into the golden orange skies. Sakura stood there, after all ready changing from her soaked yellow dress, she was now drenched in her light pink dress, her hair matted tightly against her head. Little drops of water dripped from her hands and onto the ground. She aimed a glare at Syaoran, but quickly stopped and stiffled in a laugh.
Syaoran slowly drifted back down towards the ground. His eyes glowing dangerously, with sparks of amusements. His entire body was encased with dirts and grims, sticking to his still wet shirt from the lake. The only place that hadn't been hit was his face, which looked oddly sharp and clean from the other parts of his body. A giggle finally escaped Sakura's mouth chamber, making him take a dangerously step foward.
"I-I'm so-sorry..." Sakura chocked, her face red, her body shaking from the contained laughter. She screamed, running around the yard as Syaoran growled. Tackeling her down, Sakura landed on her back, Syaoran looming insanely on top of her.
"Any last words?" he growled insanely, his hands gripping onto her wrists preventing her of escape. Sakura giggled,
"You, you have bad breath." then burst out laughing. Syaoran looked down at her oddly.
"You're about to die and all you can say is 'you have bad breath'?" he asked, looking down at her incredelously. She looked back at him, her mouth drew into a pout, her eyes gleaming with dark innocence. For a while Syaoran remained silent, happily drowning in the sea of emeralds. His eyes unconciously trailed down to her lips. Slowly, ever so slowly, he closed the distance between them. And slowly, ever so slowly, Sakura rose up in initiative and reduced the distance even more...
they were so close...
Sakura could feel small, wam breaths from Syaoran...
The warm breath caressed her soft, drenched skin...
So close the tips of their nose started to touch...
they were so close...
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Gwen arrived downstairs and by the patio and saw Sakura shriek once before Syaoran tackeling her down onto the ground. She heard laughter, talking, whispers, then complete, silence. Silence that could break just by a small cough. Unable to stand any of the tension, she carefully stepped out, not seeing the small camera peep through the fence that stood besides the fallen Sakura and Syaoran. Giving the camera holder the perfect angle for the perfect video for the perfect couple.
Gwen leaned foward and almost let out a shriek.
Syaoran leaned in closer towards Sakura, glancing up he managed to see Sakura's eyelids flutter closed. He could feel the soft skin on her nose brushing against his own. He could feel the staggered breathing from her mouth, the deep pounding of her heart in her chest. He was so close, so close and slowly, his lips breifly, roughly, yet gently brushed against hers. A spark ignited inside him, setting what he thought had been sleeping for the past few years, alit. The fire had returned, had came back, and was burning stronger than ever. And he made no move, or had any intention in setting it off and placing it asleep again.
"Oh...my...god!" a shriek came from the patio. Gwen could take it no longer. How could he? Make her look like a fool? Breaking apart immediately, Sakura snapped her eyes opened, her eyes wide and unbelieving at what had just happened. A blush creeped onto her cheeks. She had kissed her own boss, the man she was working for! Dear god if the children had seen this, they would, they would absolutely hate her for doing so. Heck, she hated herself so much right now. Under the quivering cold stare of Gwen, she would give anything, anything to disappear from the spot.
Syaoran actually gave Gwen a cold, deep, angered, and annoyed stare. If she hadn't been there, he might have continued, and might have deepend the feeling, and might have fueled the fire that burned inside him more power. He wasn't sure if he was happy she intruded or not. All he knew was that the power was now more wide awake than ever, and no matter what, there was no stopping it.
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From the dark attic, 22 pairs of eyes eyed the screen happily, sent in from the camera they had slipped into the fence. God must be by their side because they had perfect view of everything.
"I knew it! I knew something would go on between them." a man screamed in triumph.
"Shh! We're still in the house." Alana told him, her voice filled with happiness.
"Now that we know how they feel, especially Father. I was ever surprised." Carina giggled.
"But I like her, shes very nice." Sora said quietely.
"Yeah yeah. Now we gotta make sure it happens. Adults can be so stupid sometimes." Tenchi said, rolling his eyes.
"Hey! Don't I get some credit?" the man said in a mocked, hurt voice. The children rolled their eyes, though they couldn't see through the dark.
"Thank-you Uncle Eriol!"
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A/N: and so ends another update from me. I am so sorry, my cousin came and I spent most of my waking hours taking care of her, she is very active and very attention seeking, though she is cute none the less. I hope you guys liked this chapter. Some evil from the children, some fluff from Sakura and Syaoran, and more making Gwen mad! LoL. Well please review!