Chapter Seven: Sleeping with the Enemy

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Author's Note: I'm so sorry I took ages with this chapter! Really I am, and I hope you all aren't too mad with me, anyway on with the story.

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Silence was taking its turn at Madame Gisella's Young Girls, as the girls on the upper floor sat huddled together aware of the screaming match being held in the room door the hallway.

A few of the younger girls cringed at the syllables that were being carried down into their room.

One of the girls had tried to close the door to drown out the noise but it had carried through nonetheless. So they were all seated in the living room, some on the cold floor, all motionless and hesitant as to whether they should try and intervene.

Sakura and the older girls had decided after a few minutes into the fight it would be useless to try and take sides between Meilin and Gisella and so they were all helpless to watch the fight play out.

"You have no right to walk out!"

"She pays better than you Gisella and why the hell not?"

"Because you owe me Meilin," came the cold voice of Madame Gisella.

"I owe you nothing; I didn't sign one of your bloody contracts. I saw the opportunity to do better for myself and I'm taking it."

Gisella smiled maliciously at Meilin's comment. "If you wanted to do better for yourself Crimson you would've taken one of the countless offers of marriage you've had from the men you've seduced."

Meilin blushed viciously, but didn't let it spoil her attitude.

"I don't care; I'm out of this hell-hole. Go find yourself another star, just don't choose Sapphire will you," snapped Meilin, her final words to the woman who had taken her from the streets and fed her for the past years.

Making sure she had her grand exit, she slammed the cold, hard door behind her stalking her way down to Esmeralda's.

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Madame Gisella wasted no time in recollecting herself, storming to the room were the rest of her girls were huddled up unsure of her reaction.

"Get up! The lot of you," she yelled in no particular direction the moment she entered the room and found them all clustered up together on the ground.

Standing up alongside the rest of the girls, Sakura bit her lip not knowing whether Gisella was going to be bitter about the loss or act oblivious to it.

"Crimson has quit and she is perfectly entitled to do so as she has signed no contract with me due to reasons at the time."

Gisella paused, eyeing every girl in the room to check her reaction to the news.

"However, that in no way suggests that you have the same entitlements as you all signed the contract and until I release you, you are all under my care."

A few disgruntled sighs erupted but were quickly stopped with Gisella's next sentence.

"As Meilin has decided to take sleeping with the enemy literally, it means that all of you will be working twice as hard to cover for her. We start tonight the new schedule tonight."

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Syaoran couldn't stop thinking about last night. Those almost sad emerald eyes were still haunting him, and he couldn't make them go away no matter what he tried.

"Colonel?" a voice asked, as Syaoran turned around to face the short stubby man that was ranked major.

"Just informing you sir that the telephone lines are back and operational now," he mumbled leaving his eyes on the ground as he shuffled out.

With a calm hand, he picked up the receiver to place a long-distance call.

"Syaoran?" came the soft voice of a young lady one the other end.

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Sakura scanned the streets of one of the poorest areas in the city. This was what she had been reduced to.

Beside her Tomoyo was walking nervously, jumping every few seconds when a man in the street eyed her up and down. Sapphire glared back at the man, she was cruel but she wasn't heartless.

After Meilin's betrayal to Gisella, Gisella had taken it on them to work twice as hard and earn more than Meilin would have. It was her way of spite to say that she didn't need Crimson after all.

Most of them had been taken to working on the streets and only a few that had regulars were staying back at the building. Unluckily for Anna, McArthur hadn't come today.

Tomoyo had also officially started working, and the both of them were trying to protect her. The girl wasn't ready.

Sapphire eyed a scruffy looking man that was hanging in the doorway of his broken-down apartment. His white shirt was stained, his trousers looked as though the buttons would burst open any second but he was much more decent than the people they had seen on the streets.

"Wait for me," said Anna, leaving Sakura and Tomoyo as she walked over to the building. Opening the squeaking gate, she joined the man who closed the door behind them.

"What's she doing?" asked Tomoyo, unsure of why she had asked them to wait.

"We'll wait," answered Sakura, a faint idea of what Sapphire had gotten herself into.

A while later they saw the familiar smile of the blonde-haired girl exiting the building. The man closing the door behind her while re-doing the buttons on his trousers.

"Don't ask how it was," said Sapphire, before any of them could comment.

Sakura closed her mouth knowing that was the question she was going to ask.

"So what happened?" said Sakura.

"Here," replied Anna, passing over to Tomoyo a few notes. "Go over to the café over there and buy something for yourself and at the end of the night just go home and give Gisella the rest."

Sakura understood what Anna had done; she was trying to cover for the girl. Being her first time, Tomoyo wouldn't have earned a lot anyway and better to spare her from these drunkards on the road.

"Go," ordered Sakura when she saw the girl hadn't moved.

"So any other ideas?" asked Anna after Tomoyo had left. Walking down the down-trodden street, they tried to ignore the men sitting in the streets who were looking at them menacingly.

"We'll be lucky if we can find anyone that would pay," Sakura, stopping when they reached an intersection at the outskirts of the town. "Take a chance?" she asked the blonde haired girl as they went their separate ways.

Walking a few blocks down, Sakura started to regret her decision in splitting up.

It seemed she had chosen the wrong way to turn, the street turner darker and darker from the overhanging buildings. The street lamps looked as though they hadn't been maintained properly and were flickering every few seconds.

"You lost there?" said a voice from under a broken light; she almost mistook his tone for genuine concern.

"I'm fine," she replied stiffly, hastily pulling her skirt down. She couldn't see his complete face, a shadow was covering what features he had.

"Why in such a hurry little girl? Me and my boys aren't scaring you are they?"

"No."

Sakura jumped when a rough hand came to touch her shoulder, backing away from the figure as she bumped into another.

"Hey, Scar's talking to you."

Scar? Sakura instantly knew who they were talking the moment the man from under the street lamp walked into the light. A deep cut ran from along his cheek, it seemed as though it was old but hadn't been sewn up properly.

"You find my name amusing?"

"Perhaps," she replied boldly, as the man across from her gave her a menacing look. "I'm going."

"I don't think so, right Scar?" a man on her right jeered, taking no notice of his leader's response.

Sakura started to feel a chill come over her from the looks the men were giving her.

"Is there something the matter Missy?" came a snarling voice from behind her right shoulder. Sakura turned around abruptly to find a group of them entrapping her in a circle.

Some had hideous faces, deformed features or were just ridden with scars from previous encounters.

"Back off," screamed Sakura her frightened emerald eyes on the leader Scar. Turning around she tried to break the circle to escape but the men pushed her back in.

"Where do you think you're going?" a man with ragged long hair sneered, Sakura ignoring his taunts.

Looking around her, she saw the group was coming in closer. A few of them were carrying weapons but most of them were bare-handed.

"What's a little girl like you wondering in this part of the city?"

Sakura didn't answer; the lights seemed to be flickering more often. All she could think of was how to escape. For a second when the light flickered on, she caught a familiar symbol on a cast-down building.

It was a government building enclosed in barbed wire, but there seemed to be no soldiers guarding the entrance.

"Awfully cold down here ain't it boys?" the leader Scar continued, when he saw the girl made no try to answer. "Shouldn't be wearing something like that, it gives grown men like us… ideas."

The way he emphasized "ideas" sent shivers up her spine, but she was only thinking of a way to escape.

"Not so bold now aye?" said one of the greedier looking men.

"I said back off!"

Sakura had picked a discarded piece of scrap metal in the form of a stick off the ground, waving it furiously in front of the men in front of her to ward them off.

"Not a lot of good that's going to do you girl, drop the stick," replied Scar, his mood turning grim when he realized the girl was going to try and fight them off.

Desperate when she saw them coming closer, Sakura threw the metal at them causing a break in the circle as she ran past them, off towards the government building.

"Hey! Get back here!" yelled a man, "Run after her!"

Glancing behind her shoulder, Sakura found them hot on her tail. The pins in her head started falling onto the ground, as her hair unraveled behind her.

Damn it, what kind of government building was this anyway with no security guards?

Pushing open the gates that had been left unlocked she continued running with no direction in mind.

"What the hell?" exclaimed a tall man when he saw the scantily clad girl run past him, "Should she be here?"

Sakura took no notice of the commotion around her, instead she ran into the nearest shelter she saw, a tent.

Inside she quickly closed the entrance behind her, her fear turning into surprise when she saw the men had stopped chasing after her. Rather they seemed to be going back to what they had been doing before.

Turning to look at the room she had run into, her breath stopped when she caught a familiar pair of amber eyes that were looking at her with the same amount of surprise.

"Syaoran, are you still there? Answer me Syaoran! What's happening?"

Aimee's voice broke the silence of the moment, but the damage had already been done. Sakura began remembering short flashes of the night before.

His rough hands were holding her hips. She was straddling him and her entire body was reacting with every movement, the most intense pleasure she'd ever felt in her entire life. His kisses leaving every part of her body more sensitive… her breath getting heavier…kisses across her shoulder trailing to her neck.

Her body felt more alive than it had ever been.

"Are you even listening to me? Why won't you say something Syaoran?" Aimee's soft tone transformed into a screech made them both cringe.

Sakura turned towards the entrance, unsure of what she was about to do as she bit her lip.

She needed the money desperately. That was her decision.

Making her way towards the bed the Colonel was sitting on, whilst talking on the phone she straddled her legs across him. Taking his hat off with practiced ease she watched the confused expression on his face.

Sakura motioned for him to remain silent, with a finger to her lips as she went to undo the buttons on his shirt.

"Syaoran! Are you in trouble or something? What's happening?" said Aimee, pacing around her room in Syaoran's estate, her mind hysterical as to why he would not be answering her.

Sakura glanced at the object Syaoran was carrying in his right hand. Lost in the feeling Syaoran dropped the phone onto the ground, dull beeps replacing the screeching girl's voice.

His copper locks fell into his eyes, Sakura brushing it aside for him. Their sense of urgency grew as they both struggled with each other's clothing, throwing it to the ground when they were done.

His hands ran over the now exposed flesh on her small back, Sakura shivering a little from his touch.

Syaoran feeling her shudder pulled her closer to him, his tongue against hers as he pressed against her body harder. His kisses becoming more fierce and passionate, as they both stopped to catch their breath.

Sakura was the first to begin again, leading him onto her bed, his large frame over her small form.

Syaoran started kissing her neck softly, making his way downwards. Her moans of pleasure urged him on; both of them had lost control of their emotions, a perfect chord.

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The sun had only just come up, but a lone figure was already up scavenging the room she was in for anything precious. A soft light caught her eye, as she scrambled through the drawers to find the object.

It was a ring, probably not worth as much as others she had seen but it would do. Stuffing it into a pocket of her clothing, Sakura went back towards the bed where another figure was lying asleep. Slipping under the cover, his steady heartbeat lulled her to sleep.

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"Hey Li, time to rise and Shiiine!" a cheerful voice called into the abyss, waiting for the Colonel to make his entrance.

Normally the Colonel had them awake as soon as the sun came up, but for some reason he had spared them the torture today. They had been the ones kept waiting for him to arrive, unusual as he had never been late.

"Colonel are you in there?" the man called, starting to get nervous when he saw the Major march over towards him. Taking a peek inside, he noticed two bodies intertwined with each other backing off he bumped into the Major, clearly embarrassed at the situation he had caught his Colonel in.

"Is there something the matter soldier?" asked the Major.

"No, nothing sir. There's no problem," he replied, tilting his head towards the ground as he sauntered off.

"Colonel, the soldiers are waiting for your orders sir," boomed the short man's voice into the tent.

Inside, two figures stirred from the flickering lights that had come into the room, the harsh noise hurting their ears.

"I'm coming in sir!" the Major stormed, as he pushed the entrance back to enter. He did not expect the sight before him. "I-I, s-sorry sir!" he started, his facing growing hot before stumbling out of the room.

Syaoran woke up to find a soft body huddled against him for warmth, he shielded his eyes as light erupted into the room when a short, plump man accidentally walked into the room, hastening out when he saw them.

Since when did he give anyone permission for anyone to enter his room? Getting out of the bed, he went over to his drawers of clothing getting out a clean shirt and uniform to put on.

Syaoran walked over towards his desk; getting a piece of parchment he quickly scrambled a note leaving it beside a few bills. Watching the figure sleeping peacefully on his bed, he smiled before walking out to face his regiment.

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Author's Note: Okay, thankyou so much for reading all the way! So now his soldiers know and Syaoran's cheating on his fiancée. Bad bad! I was really impressed when you guys picked up on all the small details. So tell me what you guys think okay? I would really appreciate it!