BNB: Je suis contente avec chapitre quinze…Oh yeah this isn't my French paper.
Ken : Tu es stupide! ßHopefully you don't need a translation for that!
BNB: smacks Ken I have finally turned up my music so my mom won't nag me about homework.
Ken: Today's guest is Li's mom!
Fans: hold up 'I want your son' sign
Yelan: chuckles yes my son is turning out to be quite the handsome young man. But I have to admit Fujitaka is much more handsome.
BNB & Ken: drops jaw what about your husband?
Yelan: Who? giggles Fujitaka is so cute. I wish he taught at my school in high school. winks
BNB: Who knew Syaoran's mom was a flirt.
Ken: Yeah, that was odd.
BNB: Anyways, I like to thank lil-cherry-wolf and Vi3t BaBiI, my two loyalist reviewers. Thanks for your support. Now on with the chapter before I get too gushie!
Disclaimer: The world is a Matrix. Now if BNB catches Neo, the Matrix will let her own Card Captor Sakura. Until then, it is owned by Clamp.
Chapter 15: Playing With Sake
A scream erupted from the waterfronts. Touya was pretty sure he had lost ten years off his life looking for Sakura, but this took away twenty. He quickly drew a cloth hanging from his pocket and covered Meilin's mouth.
He grabbed her arms and pulled her out of the cabin as footsteps were heard a couple of feet behind them. Touya ignored the woman's pounding fist as they leapt off the ship. When they were far enough from the docks and prying eyes, Touya unwrapped the gag and waited for a scream…or a really nasty name. None came.
Instead she was silently glaring at him. That made him nervous. He was use to rants and screaming, but silent anger felt weird. It was a sign that person wouldn't get over their anger quickly and they would want revenge, blood revenge.
Meilin lifted her nose and assumed I'm-better-than-you-and-I'm-extremely-pissed-at-you position. He could help but smile. Meilin's glare intensified at the small curve on Touya's lips.
"Well? Aren't you taking me somewhere to stay? I have need of a drink." Touya stood there speechless. Now that he thought about it, he didn't really think this plan through.
"We need to travel to the next city before we get your drink." Meilin sighed and let Kinomoto lead her to his horse. 'Great, now what will the Elders think?'
Syaoran found himself traveling on the road with a girl he just met. He kind of felt sorry for the girl when she found out the old man had tricked her and in result, made her miss her ship's departure. And now he was here, helping the girl to the next port city to try to find a ship to Hong Kong.
Sometimes he wished he wouldn't have a soft heart for women's plights. He blamed it on being raised with all his sisters. They absolutely weren't normal and always teased him when he was young. He remembered they use to cross dress him and called him Lan-Lan when he was five. He just blushed remembering that.
"Syaoran, are you okay? I think the sun had burned your cheeks." Syaoran quickly turned the other way, in hoping Miss Sakura hadn't seen him blush too much.
"By the way, thank you Syaoran for helping me." An uneasy silence fell over them. Sakura fidgeted in her saddle.
"So, I didn't catch your last name. What is it?"
"Li." Sakura stiffened in her saddle. 'Li! Oh no, he can't find out who I am.' Syaoran observed how Sakura was riding the horse. Her back was too stiff, and she'd end up hurting herself. He wondered if his family was involved with the girl's somehow.
"And what is yours?"
"Ah, Hoshi. Yes, Hoshi Sakura." Syaoran's eyes narrowed. She sounded like she was making up her name. What was she keeping from him? Maybe his family did do something to her family. He decided to ignore it for the time being. They trotted on to the next city.
Touya watched in amazement as Meilin gulped cup after cup of sake. Did she even know that was liquor? Or maybe she wanted to out drink the town drunk. Touya eyed the other Inn's inhabitants warily as they nudged each other and grinned at Meilin.
Touya grabbed Meilin wrist before she could order another cup. "I think you had enough, Lady Li." Meilin glared at him from half closed eyes. She was definitely not somber.
"Release me! I need my freedom of what I have left and you're…" A burp sounded before she could finish. You could hear laughter form the table across. Meilin just continued glaring at Touya. Too bad it didn't have its usual effect because she was swaggering left and right. Touya drank down Meilin's newly ordered drink. Meilin stared up at him in a glazed look.
"Hey, that my hiccup drink. Give it hiccup back!"
"I think it's time for you to sleep." Meilin fought him as they both walked upstairs.
"I don't hiccup need to be treated like hiccup a baby. You such a bastard hiccup Kinomoto." Touya rolled his eyes and got a glass of water for her. She stopped hiccupping, but not glaring.
"I can't believe Li is going to marry you." Meilin looked away before he could see the hurt look in her eyes. It seemed everybody thought she wasn't good enough for Xiao-Lang.
Touya noticed for once she was quiet. He didn't like it when she was quiet. Did she really take his words so seriously? He saw himself looking at Meilin in a new light. She looked flawless on the outside with a hint of defiance, but was she broken inside? He lightly tapped her shoulder.
"Lady Li?" He almost tripped as he took a step back. The look in her eyes was of a broken woman barely kept alive by determination. She threw the glass at the wall. He winced as he felt some glass shard insert in his skin.
"Don't call me Lady Li…Meilin is just fine. Lady Li is for a future reference…" Touya watched as she stumbled into her room.
Sakura always wanted to try sake. Mimi never let her have any. She took her first gulp and nearly choked on it. 'Yuck.' Syaoran chuckled form across her. She watched Syaoran drink his sake slowly and she copied him. 'Hmm, it doesn't taste that bad as before.' Sakura downed the whole drink as Syaoran stared at her in amazement. She ordered another one.
He sweat dropped as he watched Sakura down more quickly. He stopped her before she could order another one. She grinned up at him in a dazed look. Her eyes seemed to clear a little as she turned toward the south.
"Excuse me, but I have to go to the woods for privacy." Syaoran blushed and nodded. She kind of swaggered as she ran towards the bush and then puked. As she sat there with her head bent and muttering curses to the gods, a tingling sensation was pulling at the back of her head. The same tingling sensation that made her come outside. She thought it was to throw up, but now she didn't know. It felt somehow familiar. 'Oh crap. No, not now!'
She stared at her reflection in the water and waited for the Clow power to come. She saw her reflection ripple. Where did that ripple come from? Nothing was hitting the water!
Sakura dodge the water darts that followed her by summoning jump. She called upon Windy to slow the water down and cage it within its gale. She gritted her teeth as she felt some of the water splash on her in big gushes. The Clow glyph glowed beneath her as she raised her staff.
"From the power of Clow Reed you stem
I command you to return to your form of gem…
Watery!"
The water swirled and turning into a simmering blue gem that landed in her palm.
"So, you are who I'm looking for." Sakura almost dropped the gem as she stared in shock at Syaoran. She didn't like how he looked at her as if he was predator and she prey. He took a step forward.
"Another step and it'll be your death Li." Syaoran looked up and saw…Kinomoto.
BNB: I know, I know…short. But I kind of rushed it so I can do more homework…yay… :'(
Ken: My head hurts. Why do I have to be part of you? cries
BNB: sigh C'est a vive. Next chapter is Taiketsu At Night Well on with the lyrics. This is Boom Boom Ba by Metisse. You might've heard this from the show Dead Like Me.
Phoenix: REvIeW!