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"dialogue"

(thoughts)

On with the fic.

They bowed and took their ready stances. Touya called fight, and the match began.

Eriol and Li waited for Saku to make the first move. Kenzo was between them. Eriol and Li may not have been dan's yet, but they had trained since childhood together and knew each others moves like the back of their hands. Li switched his grip and lunged, and so the fight began. Saku dodged Li easily and blocked Eriol, quickly knocking Kenzo out of the ring with a powerful back kick. His sword fell, Saku made no move to pick it up. Eriol dodged under her swinging knife and snatched up the other sword.

He swung at her neck, and Li swung at her legs. With nowhere to go up or down she kicked out and spun sideways away from them. She landed in a low back stance and performed and back roll to get back on her feet. From that moment on Li and Eriol considered themselves lucky not to break anything. They landed a few hits on her, but none did enough damage to even slow her momentum. She had considerable endurance to have done this every day. She disarmed Eriol and threw his swords out of the ring so he could not retrieve them. He tried hand-to-hand, but was quickly thrown out of the ring by Saku. Li faced the girl alone, her back was to him and she griped her knife. The girl was slightly panting from taking the two out quickly. Li circled slowly and silently. Saku could not hear him. Touya had been reffing the match, there were no rounds, he just declared who was out and who was not.

The battle continued, Li and Saku were neck and neck. He landed a hard blow on her back, which sent her tumbling. She recovered quickly, getting back on her feet and landing a kick on his shoulder from out of nowhere. They linked their weapons and disarmed each other. Li knew that the advantage was his, he could see. Still, she matched him move for move, he could not get to her torso for a point, and she could not get to his. Finally he caught her right leg and smiled. Saku did not hesitate for a moment. She put all her weight on Li and snapped her left leg up. Li had never seen it coming. Saku pulled the kick and just lightly slapped his face with her foot. He went down from shock and she performed a handspring out of the move. Finishing in a masters fighting stance.

"Match," Touya called, Saku returned to the "attention" position, facing her master, "The score was 7 to 8 with Saku as the winner." Saku smiled and bowed to her three opponents.

"Good match," she said, "Touya, care to join me?" Touya already had a black band over his eyes.

"Sure you don't want to rest first," he asked, taking a ready position.

"No," Saku said with a smirk, "I want it to be fair." Li and Eriol nursed their bruises while watching Touya vs. Saku. Touya was easily the better fighter, but Saku was younger and Touya was not taking half his opportunities. He had Saku down soon. She smiled and took his hand up, the two were excellent fighters, but held no grudge to the victor. (Note to self,) Li thought, (Never piss off Touya.)

"Well squirt," he said, "You ready to go home? I'll drive you." He pulled off his blindfold. Eriol and Li looked outside to find it already dark, they had not noticed how fast time had gone.

"Sure," Saku said. She pulled of her blindfold and walked away. Li was disappointed he had not seen her face. She walked back into the girls changing room. Li hurried so he could see her come out. He waited with Tomoyo, who was disappointed she could not have filmed Touya vs. Saku, neither were tournament fighters.

"It was amazing," Tomoyo said, "Though Touya was easily the best. Saku was pretty good, and she had just face two groups of three."

"Yeah," Li said, "I would say I'd like to face her at her best, but I would probably be in the hospital afterwards."

"She looked like she pulled half her shots," Tomoyo said, "After she knocked Kenzo out of the ring she kind of relaxed. She took Eriol out like he was nothing, but that final point against you was amazing."

"I never saw it coming," Li said, "She a good fighter all right." Suddenly a little boy ran towards the girls changing room. He had black hair and looked like a miniature Touya.

"Aunt Saku," he screamed, "Daddy's threatening to tickle me again." A girl with emerald eyes and auburn hair came out of the locker room and Li's jaw dropped. (KINNOMOTO? I just got my ass handed to me on a platter by KINOMOTO!) She smiled at the little boy and picked him up.

"Is he now?" Saku, Sakura, looked like a completely different person. She was warm and caring. She nuzzled into her nephew and slung her bag over her shoulder. He began to squirm and poke her, like all annoying nephews do. She smiled, then took hold of his ankles and, safely, swung him around while she walked. The little boy shrieked with pleasure, causing a warm and caring smile to come onto Sakura's face. Touya came out of the men's locker room, chatting with Eriol.

"Oi, Touya," Sakura called, "Want to take back your little monster?" She lifted up her squealing nephew to indicate what she was talking about.

"Sure," Touya said, he walked over and took one of his boy's ankles, swinging him up onto his shoulders. The boy once again laughed. Sakura had almost looked, maternal and kind when she was with her nephew. "Do you need a ride home?"

"No, I'm fine," she replied, it was only then that Touya noticed Eriol with his jaw on the floor.

"Hey, Eriol what's wrong," Touya asked, at the name Sakura changed completely, like switching masks. She immediately became like she was at school, cold and distant instead of warm and fuzzy.

"Eriol," Kinomoto asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I just fought you," he said, "Li and I came here to try out the free training session." Sakura looked over his shoulder to see Li and Tomoyo. Her expression did not change to that of recognition or any other emotion.

"I'll see you later Touya," was all she said. Touya, knowing Sakura could handle the guys, left with a warning look at Li.

"I want you to call me when you get home," Touya said, "If you don't I'll be over there." Touya left when Sakura answered him with a nod.

"It's funny," she said, then walked away. Tomoyo shrugged and the three walked out, they did not see Sakura talking to her sensei. The three got outside and saw how really dark it was.

"Do you want me to call," Tomoyo asked, "I can get a limo here."

"Nah," Eriol said, "Let's walk, it's been a while when just the three of us were alone." They talked about the match and school. They did not notice the group of guys behind them, or the number of people who joined it. They did not notice until three guys each grabbed from behind Li and Eriol. They heard the sound of a knife being drawn and a stifled scream from Tomoyo. Eriol immediately began to struggle against his captors.

"Struggle," one guy said, "And the chick's going down hard." Eriol froze, his heart screamed for him to act, to get Tomoyo out of their hands, but his mind won. They were outnumbered, at least fifteen guys were there, and Tomoyo could not fight. "That's better. Now, we're not here for you guys, just the chick." The guys pulled the group into a nearby alley, two guys pinned a very frightened Tomoyo up against a wall. Eriol and Li looked on in horror.

"Hey," one of their captors said, "These guys have martial arts equipment, Caso didn't say anything about them being trained."

"Beat them," another answered, "That way they will cause less trouble. Let them know, the pain we inflict on them will be twice that in the girl if they struggle." A gruff one, probably a football player, punched Li in the stomach, he was very glad for skipping dinner. Another came and punched Eriol in the face and stomach. They did not beat the guys much, they were saving the pain for Tomoyo, who had screamed each time one of the guys were hit.

"Now," the leader said, "It's time for you." Tomoyo whimpered and trembled against the way, regretting her decision to wear a skirt. The guy smiled. "You're a pretty one, not many people have such beautiful hair." He pulled it over her shoulder and began winding his fingers through it. Eriol growled and strained against the arms restricting him. "I told you not to do that." He reached back and hit Tomoyo, she would probably have a black eyes after this was over. She screamed, but did not pass out. He then hit her again, snapping her head against the bricks until Eriol stopped. (NO!) Li thought. (We've got to get to Tomoyo, he's going to rape her!)

"Tomoyo," Li heard him whisper, "No." The jock leaned against her, and slipped his hand up her skirt. Suddenly out of nowhere a wooden practice knife came flying and hit the guy in the back of the head, he turned. All Li saw was a wooden staff come in contact direct on with his face, a loud pop was the only verification of a broken nose. The staff swung again, taking out the two holding Tomoyo to the wall. The figure stomped on them, kicking them while they were down to ensure the position. The leader, blood streaming down his face, lunged at their savior. The figure grabbed his arm as he tried to punch and broke it soundly, then before he could scream, knocked him out, snapping his head back against the wall he had snapped Tomoyo's against. Li and Eriol were struggling with the remaining six.

Sakura wielded her staff as good as any master. She whacked the middle two where they were vulnerable, sending them in the ground with groans of pain. The other four threw Li and Eriol against a wall to get them out of the way. Eriol got up and charged over to Tomoyo, who was on the ground. Li went over and got his practice sword out of his bag, the remaining three, Sakura had already taken one out, pulled out knives. Sakura looked at Li and shook her head, telling him wordlessly to stay out of the fight. Before Li could say anything, Sakura was moving. She threw her staff away to distract two of them and quickly rendered them unconscious. The third, somehow, got his way over to Li and had his knife at Li's throat before he knew what was going on. Li yelled and Sakura turned, letting go the one she was pummeling. The movement masked her arm sliding a knife into her palm.

"I would let him go," Sakura said.

"Not till you're away," he said, Li had dropped his practice sword, Eriol looked up from Tomoyo and froze.

"I'm not leaving," Sakura said.

"Then he dies," the guy said, still unwilling to hurt others.

"Then you die," Sakura said, making eye contact with Li and flashing the dagger to him, "There is no such thing as a hostage situation. It is very simple, I see blood on the knife, and you will suddenly suffer from a broken neck." The guy looked confused. Sakura let out a battle cry and threw the knife three feet away from his head. When he turned Li took hold of the knife blade, ignoring the pain in his hand, and took him out. Sakura ran over, "You all right."

"No," Li said, his teeth clenched, "I cut my hand." Sakura looked at it, pulled out some clean black wool from her bag, and tied his hand up.

"That should hold," Sakura said. She walked over to Tomoyo and took a small flashlight from her belt. Shining it just above Tomoyo's face so she wouldn't blind her. "Hm. Nothing to bad, I've seen worse. You're one tough broad to have taken that." She looked at Eriol. "Li's hand will need a better bandage and Tomoyo will need to be treated and probably rest for a while. Come with me." The picked Tomoyo up, just like Eriol or Li would, and began to carry her. "Your bike it outside the alley, we can walk to my place, it's close." Eriol and Li looked at each other and shrugged.

(Might as well.) Li thought. (We're not going to get help here.) He looked around at the many unconscious teens. (I guess this will teach them not to mess with girls ever again. Second mental note: Never piss off Sakura.) Lie got his bike and walked next to Eriol, who was still worried about Tomoyo.

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P.S. I'm getting my wisdom teeth out this week, keep checking. I'll probably be recovered (and by that I mean awake) by next week. I'll update.

-Verya