Of Lies and Deceit

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Thanks to: Teardrops of Hatred, Mama, dbzgtfan2004, yayme (Did I update fast enough for you to read it?), che33yLubwolf, kwitchie, Awak3 inxth3 Forgott3n Snow, MoshiMoshiQueen, Pinaygrrl, skippypeanut25, butterflywinds.

Just so you know, I edited the ending part of Chapter One.

Chapter Two: Li Syaoran

Sakura fell to the floor with a thud as she turned around just in time to land on her back. The fall wasn't from a very high altitude, she could feel it, and she stood up, brushing imaginary lint off her clothes. Sakura walked at a slow pace, as she looked at her destination.

'I'm in a forest!' that was the first thing she thought as she noted the different varieties of tall trees around her. She had unconsciously landed on a round clearing in the forest where there was only grass covering the ground. "I guess I'm in Hong Kong." She muttered softly to herself.

She glanced at her watch and fiddled with some controls. Slowly, a map that was made only to be seen by her eyes had visualized right in front of her. The Handler had said it would be helpful to finding the Li estate and getting out of the forest. Following the trail that was given to her, she made her way out of the forest, hoping to get out of there before dusk came.

Running at a fast pace, zooming in between trees according to the map she had, something didn't seem right.

"This watch was tampered with. Didn't the Handler know? Useless thing!" Sakura screamed in frustration. Nothing seemed to be going right for her at the current moment. The sky was turning dark at a rapid pace, and Sakura had to find a way out of there.

'I don't care so much about hiding my powers anymore! Damn, this better work!' Sakura thought to herself (A/N: Oh my! Sakura's got herself a potty-mouth!) as she flew high up into the sky and observed the way out of the forest. It seemed that the forest itself was a maze restricted by magic which caused anyone with magic that was not powerful enough to not be able to get out of it. It wouldn't be surprising, for right next to it was the Li estate. And they were one of the strongest magic users known till that day.

'Probably to prevent anyone from entering their plot of land unauthorized. Guess I have to do this the hard way.' Sakura thought as she slowly landed back in the forest. Controlling the forest with her earthy powers, she summoned the trees to hold back until she had crossed, creating a path.

She ran through the path, just in time before the trees closed in on her again, and looked at her change of surroundings. 'The Li estate, indeed. They probably even have a barrier to prevent anyone unauthorized from going into the estate.' She thought bitterly as she glanced at the mansion in all of its glory.

Looking further ahead, she could make out some buildings of sorts. Then, she proceeded to walk ahead, hoping to find somewhere she could stay at for the night. There seemed to be a hotel nearby, and she made her way over toward it. The Handler had given her some foreign currency, just in case she had needed it. And she did.

Little did she know a pair of doe-black eyes were on her as she made to leave the land of which belonged to the Lis.

"I can sense a strong power from her. Escaping from the forest was a quite a feat. She has very strong potential and seems to have rather adequate training. She seems to be rather suitable for my Xiao Lang."

(A/N: Any guesses who the aforementioned person is?)

--Later--

"I have to think of a way to infiltrate their premises without them realizing. Anything! Anything at all!" Sakura yelled furiously in her hotel room when she unexpectedly caught sight of an ad in the newspaper she had just accidentally thrown to the floor.

'Li residence is hiring a bodyguard. Qualifications: Must be able to fight. Arrive at the residence at 9:00am sharp to see if you fit the bill.' Sakura read as a sly smirk found its way onto her lips. (A/N: Sorry I'm not very good at advertisements.) "I think I've found my solution." She said as she lay down on her bed, ready to go to bed.

--The next day--

"HHOE! I'm late!" Sakura shrieked as she scurried out of bed and stared at the alarm clock. It read 7.45 AM. She sighed in relief. Thank god that was only a dream! It would not have made a very good impression on the Li household if she had been late. Scrambling to get a fresh set of clothing, she opened her luggage which had been delivered to her by the Handler last night.

Sure enough, there were enough sets of clothing in there to last a YEAR! But she knew it was only to cover up for the fact that underneath that pile of clothing was a secret panel that only she could access, and that in that secret panel, there contained weapons and suits necessary of all selections.

She should know, having had so much experience from this.

(A/N: This sure makes us wonder how many people she's killed eh?)

Since she was sure that she would get the job, Sakura checked out of the hotel first thing in the morning and using a shrinking spell Tomoyo had taught her, she shrunk her items so she wouldn't have to lug them along to the mansion.

Sure enough, when she reached there, there were already a long line of people queuing up to see if they were up to it. Most of the queue consisted of girls, though. It seemed that they were trying to get the job only because of Li Syaoran. Sakura had already heard many murmurs in the queue about how he was so good-looking and hearing all of that was making her sick to the stomach.

Not long after, she could see quite a few of unsuccessful girls limping slowly out of the Li residence. How was it that Sakura knew they were unsuccessful? No, it was not because of the scornful looks on their faces, nor was it because they were talking so publicly about it. It was because of the bruises that were seen on them.

'Foolish girls, courting their own doom just for a glimpse of Li Syaoran in the flesh. And dressed in such tiny clothes, even! Don't they know that only in movies do people fight dressed like that? Don't they know that fighting without experience is dangerous?' Sakura thought with a roll of her eyes.

She watched as some girls, panicked that the same thing would befall them, backed away from the scene, shortening the queue. Sakura whose thoughts were still revolving around what she was formerly pondering about, hadn't even realized that she was next.

"Excuse me, miss? Miss? You're next!" The security guard called out and snapped Sakura out of her trance-like state. She proceeded forward, as she and the next few girls were brought by a bodyguard to a private room where they were supposed to have hand-to-hand combat with some bodyguards who were already working for the family.

'Easy…' Sakura thought as a triumphant look was etched onto her face. It had only taken her a matter of minutes to beat this bodyguard she had just been fighting, who was lying on the floor, knocked unconscious. Looking around, she saw that the other girls were all struggling with the bodyguards they were assigned to, except for a girl around her age who had also just beat hers.

She sported an identical look on her face as they sat together at the far end of the room, watching as each girl was defeated and brought out of the room, till each and every one of them were gone. A different bodyguard then escorted them to a different room where a no more than ten girls were waiting, and we were instructed to wait there until they brought the next batch of girls in.

It seemed that out of the few hundred girls, only twelve of them had made it this far. This realization thus strengthened Sakura's resolve to win, and her determination to win also grew stronger. In the mean time, the girl that had been brought in with Sakura seemed to have gotten bored for she was trying to strike up a conversation with Sakura.

"Ni hao! Ke bu ke yi gao su wo ni jiao she me ming zi ma?"

Sakura blinked. Twice. This girl was speaking in a foreign tongue, something she perceived as Chinese. The girls outside had been speaking English, so she could understand. But this was another case… The girl seemed to realize that Sakura didn't understand what she was saying, and switched to English almost immediately.

"Hello! Can you tell me your name?" she asked, and flushed at the notion that she had mistaken Sakura for a local. "Sorry about that just now, I didn't realize that you were a foreigner. I am Fei Yin." She explained to a very perplexed-looking Sakura whose eyes widened and Fei Yin smiled.

"It's okay, really. My name is Sakura." Sakura replied, returning the smile. They conversed a little, both as polite as the other as they waited for the remaining girls to be brought in. Not long after, the last batch of girls had gone and three girls had joined their midst. Then they were brought to a room where there appeared to be many tasks to complete. They had to crawl through a hole where they had to escape from all the lasers shooting at them. Once they were hit, they were brought out. Then they would have to do acrobats as they escaped from the attacks across the room.

After that, they would have to evade all the items that were thrown at them by hurling them back at the attacker. Then she heard a deep, male voice coming from the right.

"But Mother, I don't need a bodyguard! I can protect myself! I'm not a child!" was what she heard as all attacks at her stopped except for one which had been thrown at her at the last minute. She caught sight of the person who was speaking, a guy with messy chocolate brown hair, and amber brown eyes which seemed to be burning with gold fire. In other words, Li Syaoran.

Pretending not to notice that anyone had come into the room, she purposefully kicked the sharp object in his direction. He didn't seem to react and Sakura had thought for a second, 'Score!' when she realized he had completely evaded the attack. She inwardly groaned, pissed off at herself for not being able to hit him.

The female he had addressed as "Mother" had raised an eyebrow and was making her way toward Sakura. Sakura had a blank look in her eyes, hoping that she wouldn't be able to read her thoughts.

'She's the girl from yesterday! Her aura is so distinctive I could recognize it anywhere. Guess this is fate.' Yelan thought as she looked at Sakura. Her emerald eyes which reflected the earth,(A/N: Not the one in the Solar System, the one in the forest.) and honey-blonde hair that now hung down to her shoulders, with bangs.

"What is your name?"

"Kinomoto Sakura," she answered defensively, revealing her true name for if the Li family was indeed responsible for their parents' deaths, they wouldn't reject her as she might try to take revenge for both her parents and for losing her job. However, Sakura was disappointed when she didn't show any recognition of her family name.

Yelan looked around the room and seeing that there were no other girls left besides Sakura and Fei Yin, told the bodyguards to leave them alone.

"You may address me as Yelan, Sakura." Yelan said as she turned to Fei Yin, and asked, "What is your name?"

"F…Fei Yin,"

"Fei Yin, you will take on the job of being Syaoran's bodyguard. The both of you will be staying with us. Sakura, you will be training along with Syaoran every morning starting tomorrow."

"I know you have very strong magic. Inner core, in fact. So don't even think of rejecting me." Yelan whispered to Sakura as she passed her. Sakura stood there stunned. She was supposed to be the one to get the job! Now instead, she would be staying at the estate, training with Li.

And to make matters worse, she had to get through Fei Yin before she could attack Li. And Fei Yin was almost as good as her. Then she would have to attack Li, who she was sure had inner core magic too. This was getting to be complicated. 'If only you were here with me, Tomoyo…' Sakura thought as a wave of homesickness hit her.

--Tomoyo--

'Where am I?' Tomoyo thought as she slowly awakened from her slumber. She was in a damp and dark place, and it was already late into the night. She really still wasn't used to traveling places like this, even though it wasn't the first time.

The streetlamps were slowly lighting up, the nearby buildings shutting down. The night was in reign. Tomoyo then conjured up a bed outside a garden, which was where she was, (A/N: She was outside the garden I mean.) and too tired even to move, Tomoyo welcomed and succumbed to the darkness once more.

A/N: I finally finished this chapter! Sorry there wasn't really much about Tomoyo in this chapter. There will be more of her, Eriol and Syaoran, who I introduced in this chapter, in the next chapter! I promise! I hope this wasn't too boring, and can you kindly please drop me a review to let me know what you think? I'll update only if I have ten reviews! Or when I have inspiration. Whichever comes first. Please R and R! It isn't that hard is it? I'll give lots and lots of mistletoe! Constructive criticism greatly appreciated.