Gym:

Chapter 7:

Old enemies…?

(catch up)

"We all went to the restaurant and had a surprisingly good time. When Mr. Li went outside, Nadeshiko soon followed, and seeing as they were best friends, no one argued. They went to cross the street, and Nadeshiko was hit by a car, a drunk driver. Fujitaka still blames Mr. Li for the accident, even though it wasn't his fault.

"There. That is the big story. Nothing fancy or anything. Now, Sakura, please do not listen to your father when he tries to bias this story so it pities him." Sonomi shook her head slowly and smiled sadly. "Do you hate the Li's now? Will you break up with Syaoran-san now that you know the big secret?"

"I won't. Syaoran-kun is a good person. He won't hurt me, or anyone else. I do not hate his father, either. I know that he is a good person, and this is evident in the fact that he is Syaoran's father. Do you think he was a good person, Aunt Sonomi-san?"

Before she could answer, Sakura felt a cold hand grab her wrist. She turned and looked into the person's eyes and saw...

(end catch up)

Sakura turned around just as the impact fell on her neck, rendering her unconscious. "We have her, sir. She is not harmed, nor will she be as long as she is under the protection of yours truly." A person with cold blue eyes spoke into a microphone.

"Good. That is what I want. Take her here, and her aunt too. The person who spilled the secret… they will not be tolerated." A man spoke back to the captor.

"Yes sir. I understand. We will be there shortly." The men left with the two females.

… Somewhere else a few hours later …

Sakura heard voices, but they were fuzzy. She tried to make out words, and her head hurt as a result. She groaned, and the people started to speak louder, apparently talking to someone else. "Sir, the young one is awake."

"Good. Bring her in, and get her some water too. We would hate for her to be thirsty. What about the other one?"

"No improvement with her, sir. What do we do?"

"Leave her alone."

"Yes sir!"

All that Sakura felt were hands grabbing her and dragging her up off of the bed where she was currently residing. She was being made to walk and obeyed. That was all that she could do, since she still had a little bit of a fog to her vision. Soon they got to where they wanted her to go, because she was made to sit in a chair and given some water. Then the people that had dragged her up here left. Sakura didn't drink the water, and sat quietly in the chair while her vision cleared. She looked around, although what she saw was hardly glamorous. She was in a room with bare walls that were in desperate need of a cleaning, and a dirt floor. The ceiling was covered in a substance that looked like smoke from cigarettes. The chair itself was filthy, although Sakura paid no mind to that.

A man walked in, his face shrouded in darkness. "Dear Sakura! How nice of you to come and visit the humble residence that is my house!" The man's voice sounded fairly familiar, although it was from a long time ago.

"Who are you? What do you want from me?" Sakura wanted to know why the voice sounded familiar.

"Dear Sakura, I am hurt that you don't remember me! Don't worry though. You will remember soon." The man stepped into the light and Sakura looked up.

"Please, don't hurt me and I will do anything that you want me to do." Sakura tried to sound brave, although she knew that it was helpless.

She looked up into the eyes of the person who had grabbed her wrist and gasped in pure fear. Her wrist still hurt where they had grabbed it, and it burned from the cold. She tried to look away from the eyes, but failed miserably.

"Thanks for those pretty words, Dear Sakura." the person's voice dripped with pure hatred, and his mouth contorted into what was his version of a smile.

Sakura was shocked. She knew this person, and loved him. She had never seen this side of him, no matter what other people might have said.

"You! I… How… why did you do this?" Sakura started to cry.

"I think that you know why I did this. You still have something that I want, and I want it now." The man started to walk forward.

"NO! Leave me alone, please?" Sakura tried to stay as far away from him as she could, but that was hard because it was a very small room.

"Why should I?" the man was advancing on Sakura with the gleam of lust in his eyes.

"Please… stop this now…" Sakura was almost begging.

"SAKURA!" Syaoran's voice rang in her ears.

'Syaoran! You are right. I need to be strong and not give in to this monster!' Sakura balled her fists and looked up into her ex's eyes with a look full of hatred.

That was something that he wasn't expecting, and he took a step back. "Ah, Sakura, why are you looking at me with those eyes?" He regained his composure and smiled.

"Because I will not back down. I will protect my innocence!" Sakura yelled with fury.

"Ah, so, you are still feisty, huh? Well, that's really good. I would hate to take you without a fight. Well, shall we get started?"

… In Tomoyo's mansion at the same time …

"Sakura!" Syaoran's voice was ringing off the walls of the house. 'Dammit! How could I let this happen? I promised to take care of her!' Syaoran punched the wall so hard that his hand started to bleed.

"Syaoran-kun! You need to calm down! Hurting yourself will not do anything for Sakura-chan, except make her sad that you got hurt for her sake." Tomoyo was sitting down, but her dress was wrinkled and her eyes were red. "Who could have done this? Where are they?"

"Um, Tomoyo-san?" Touya wasn't in on the plan.

"What do you want?" Tomoyo screamed. "Gomen, demo it's so confusing! Why would anyone want to take both Sakura-chan and Okaa-san? I don't get it!"

"Tomoyo-chan, screaming at each other won't help us find them." Eriol was as cool-headed as always.

"I know, but what are we gonna do? I hate just sitting around!" Tomoyo was on the verge of tears again.

"Wait, I think I have something that might be of help in a time like this. There was a really shady guy hanging around the house for a little while. He didn't bug anyone though, so I left him alone."

"YOU DID WHAT?" Syaoran was furious.

"I know. That's my mistake. But, Sakura-chan and Sonomi-san were the one's who got into trouble from it. Please don't make this any harder than it already is."

"Did you see who it was?" Eriol asked, trying to break up the fight that was about to start.

"Well, I think I might have glimpsed him," Touya was trying to remember who it was.

… Where Sakura is …

"Sir!" a guard came into the room before anything could happen.

"What?" the man screamed.

"Um, the older lady is awake. What should we do?" the guard was shaking.

"I'll be right there." The guard nodded. "Well, Sakura, it looks like your aunt has saved you, this time. I'll be back though, so don't move."

Sakura spit in his face. "I will move if I want to, Ryu."

"You!" Ryu smacked her across the cheek. Sakura still looked at him with hatred in her eyes, no fear seen. "You will come to fear me, little Sakura, and when you do, then the real fun can start." With those words, Ryu left the room.

When the door was shut tightly, Sakura sighed in relief. She started to shake at the thought of Ryu touching her again, and squeezed her eyes shut. Tears leaked out anyway, and Sakura remembered something. 'I still have my cell phone!' She looked in her pocket, and sure enough, there it was. She checked it to see if it had service, and…

... at Sakura's house …

"Is she talking at all?" a man stood in the shadows.

"No sir. I think she will, though, if we tell her what will happen to her niece. Should we do that?" a man asked out of a walkie talkie that sat on Fujitaka's desk.

"Just don't hurt Sakura. That isn't what I want. I want to hurt Sonomi, for turning my daughter against me. If we can get her back, then we must do it at all costs. Is that clear?" the man, (you all should know who it is by now though,) ordered.

"YES SIR!" the person on the other line replied.

"Good." He turned the device off. "Sakura…" he whispered.

Start flashback

"Otou-san!" a seven year old Sakura called out to her father.

"Hai, Sakura-san?" Fujitaka watched his daughter go up and down on the swing, always going higher and higher.

"Watch me! I am going to jump!" Sakura whopped in glee as she jumped off the swing. It wasn't at an unreasonable height, just higher than she had ever jumped before.

"Be careful, Sakura-san!" Fujitaka was laughing at his daughter's antics.

"Yea! Yatta!" Sakura had landed on her feet. "Was that a good landing, Otou-san?"

"It was a perfect 10."

End flashback

'Those were the good days, the happy days, and then she met Sonomi and her daughter, Tomoyo. If I had only known the impact that they would have on her…' Fujitaka mussed, missing the fact that it wasn't their fault, instead it was his.

… At Tomoyo's mansion …

"Does anyone hear that?" Syaoran asked, hearing a faint ringing niose.

"That's my phone!" Tomoyo cried.

"Where is it?" Eriol ran after Tomoyo.

"In here!" Tomoyo entered her room, and came out a moment later with a huge smile on her face and tears cascading down her cheeks. "Sakura-chan! Where are you?"

"Its Sakura?" Syaoran and Touya asked at the same moment. "Let me speak to her!"

"Sakura-chan, do you know where you are?" Tomoyo was getting down to business.

"I'm not that sure, but I think its in an abandoned building somewhere downtown. That's all that I know. Demo, Moyo-chan, Its him again!" Sakura was trying to get her point across using as little words as possible. She didn't know when Ryu would be back, and she didn't want to try and push her luck.

"Who? Oh my god….. Sakura! Are you ok? Has he done anything?" Tomoyo was asking, while trying to get one of the boys to get her paper and something to write with.

"I am fine, so far. All I know is that he wants the same thing as last time, and I don't think that I will be as lucky as last time, Moyo-chan! I am so scared! What if he actually does it this time? Aunt Sonomi is here too!"

"It will be alright. We are leaving now. Is he there right now?"

"NO. Right now he is gone, to do something to Sonomi-san. Where are you?"

"Here, talk to Syaoran-kun, ok?" Tomoyo handed the phone to Syaoran, who look it in a rush.

"Sakura?"

"Syaoran! I am so glad that you are ok!"

"Sakura! Where are you? Are you ok? What have they done to you?"

"Nothing, yet. Syaoran, there is this guy, my ex boyfriend, and when I broke up with him, he tried to rape me. Someone was there, though, and I got away, He is the dude that is here with me, and I think he wants to finish what he started. I am somewhere downtown, and I think Tomoyo knows where. I am fine, for the moment. I think he is gonna come back soon, although it is Sonomi-san that we are talking about. She will probably hold them off for a couple of hours. Syaoran, please hurry. I think I can find a way out, demo, I am worried for Sonomi-san. I will try to get away, but please be there for Tomoyo when she tries to come here. I need to hang up, so I can go through the window. I will call you when I get out. Tel Touya that I'm sorry that he couldn't talk to me, and tell Eriol-kun to keep that cool head, cause he will need it. Also, Syaoran?"

"Yeah?"

"I know that we have said this many times, demo, I really do love you, Syaoran."

"Sakura, I really love you too. Now, go and get out of there. We will see you soon, ok?" Syaoran was smiling at his love.

"Ok. I will see you soon. Bye!" Sakura hung up.

By now, the whole group was in Syaoran's car. They took his cause it was the fastest, and it was pretty full gas wise. "Tomoyo-chan, do you know where we are going?" Syaoran was at the wheel, and no one was complaining at his high speeds.

"Yeah. You need to take a left at the next stoplight, and then you are in downtown. From there, I think I know which one it is. Touys-kun, please call the police and tell them what happened." Tomoyo had told everyone what Sakura had told her while Syaoran was on the phone.

"K." Touya pulled out his phone and soon was talking quickly into it.

"Eriol-kun, do you remember where we used to hang out with Ryu and Sakura?" Tomoyo turned to her boyfriend.

"Yeah. Its this way, I think like 4 buildings down from this one." Syaoran nodded and started to slow down, not wanting to ruin his wheels by slamming on the brakes.

"Tell me if you see a window on one of the bottom floors. Sakura told me that there was a window that she would try and get out of."

"It's a good thing that most of the upper floors have collapsed, huh?" Tomoyo was scanning the ground levels and saw a flash of auburn color. "There she is!"

Syaoran stopped immediately. "Where do you see her?" Syaoran looked in the direction that Tomoyo was pointing and sighed in relief. "Sakura!" everyone got out of the car and ran to their friend.

"You guys!" Sakura ran to them and finally broke down. "I wa-was so s-scared… I thought that…"

Touya's arms wrapped around Sakura and pulled her into a big hug. "Don't scare us like that ever again!" Touya was shaking.

Sakura's response was cut off by sirens that came closer. "Hoe! The police are here?"

"Oh! There they are." Eriol said calmly.

The captain started to give out orders and then someone approached the group. "Are you ok?"

Everyone nodded, but they pushed Sakura forward. "Check her out, please." The other person nodded as well.

"Come this way, and we will get you some water."

"Please, is my aunt going to be ok?" Sakura inquired of the person that gave her water.

"What does she look like?"

"She has short red air, and is about this tall. She might be hurt!"

"She will be fine. Simon just radioed in that he found her. She looks a little worse for wear, but will be fine. Now, is there anything else that you got hurt?" the person had finished bandaging her wrist, which had been burnt.

"No, I am fine." Sakura said truthfully.

"That's good." While she was talking, the rest of the group had come up and were surrounding Sakura. All except Touya. He had gone to talk to the person who had fixed up Sakura.

… Later that year …

(this is mainly the epilogue, cause im too lazy to go and type another one up /)

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Sonomi called up the stairs to her niece's room.

"HOE? Am I late?" Sakura came down an instant later, dressed and ready to go. The family and friends were going on a picnic at the beach, and Sakura had slept in late, again.

Fujitaka and Ryu were arrested for kidnapping, and Touya and Sakura had moved in with Tomoyo and Sonomi. So did Syaoran and Eriol. At least for the school year. Then they went back to their families. They were out of the boarding school, and enrolled in a college now. Touya was dating the person that he had met the day of the 'accident', as they called it, and her name was Mizuki Kaho. Yukito had moved in to Tomeada, Touya still didn't like Syaoran, but left Sakura and him alone, mostly.

Everything was perfect in their lives. No one could ask for more, Could they?

… At the beach …

"Ne, Sakura, can you come here for a sec?" Syaoran asked her.

"Yea. Hold on a sec, k?" Sakura got up and tied the sarong she was wearing around her hips.

"Lets go for a walk, k?" Syaoran was really nervous.

"Ok! We'll be back in a little bit, K? Ja!" Sakura grabbed Syaoran's hand and they started to walk off along the shore.

"So, Syaoran, what's on your mind?" Sakura stopped to look at Syaoran, who had stopped suddenly.

"Sakura, you know that I love you, right?" Syaoran was blushing.

"Yeah."

"You love me back, right?"

"Of course!"

"Well, um, willyoumarryme?" Syaoran was bright red now.

"Huh?"

"Sakura, will you marry me?" Syaoran pulled out a beautiful pink diamod ring that was in the shape of a Sakura, will a tiny emerald in the middle. The ring itself was white gold, and Sakura just stared.

She started to cry, and asked, "Are you serious?" Syaoran nodded. "Yes! I will!" Syaoran put the ring on her finger and then kissed her.

Well, thats the end. Sorry it ended so suddenly, but i think its a good story in its own right. Thanks to all reviewers and those who read it, too. I didn't get the nubmer of reviews that i was aiming for, but i couldn't help but update. Im such a weirdo. nevermind. Anyway, thanks for reading the story and please look forward to my next one,

For the Love of Life

Summary:

What happens when the cards make a promise to keep Sakura safe? What about when she goes back in time? Or when she meets Syaoran, a not so dashing but really handsome prince who steals her heart? And when she finds out that his family is after her for her powers?

LOL i really hope you all read it it'll be up sometime shortly... i think... / lol again, thanks for reading my first fanfic!

MeakoXIII