A/N: And after a long wait, it's finally here. The next chapter. Enjoy~

It was almost amusing to see the myriad of emotions playing across Sakura's face as she stared back at him while he leant against the entrance to the hanger. He heard Yukito sigh in exasperation behind him, concealed by the shadows of the relatively-dark corridor.

"Touya, listen, I-"

"I'm not going to let you prance off to get yourself killed like an idiot," he repeated firmly, inwardly grinning at the angry face Sakura made at hearing that as he calmly strode over to her. He had missed his Kaijuu so much. "Which is why I'm coming too." Yukito smacked his shoulder for laughing at the way his sister's jaw dropped to the floor at his declaration. "I'm your Onii-san, you dumbass. I know there is no changing your mind once you've made it up, so I might as well join you for the ride to ensure that you won't be getting yourself killed."

'And besides,' he thought to himself as he allowed a small grin to form on his lips, happily returning the hug his sister gave him, 'I promised to look out for you. I failed to keep that promise once, but I'm not going to fail again.'

"Thank you so much, Touya." She grinned up at him, her eyes sparkling with joy. He felt a little irritated that the thought of being able to save the brat was the reason why she became so happy, but he reined the feeling in. The brat might have been the basic reason, but there was no denying the fact that this happiness was because her brother was coming along.

"Well," Yuui chirped lightly as he straightened up and headed towards the entrance to the hanger, "I suppose I should wake up Tomoyo and Kurogane. With you two aboard-"

"Three." Yukito spoke up, "If Touya and Sakura-chan go, I go."

"Alright then," the blond grinned, "with you three aboard, a change of plans is in order."

-0-

"Sakura said that she could sense Syaoran in Clow and Hong Kong at the same time," Yuui said, "Which means for those who don't know, Fei Wong Reed has separated Syaoran's spirit, or shall we say his conscience for the lack of a better term, from the rest of his body."

"Is that even possible?" Sakura noticed the frown deepen on Yukito's face as he asked the question. The two hunters, plus Sakura, Yuui, Kurogane and Tomoyo were all seated in one of the conference rooms that Sakura and the other girls used to meet up with clients to discuss job details. The one they were currently in was decorated with a mix of modern technology and antique furniture. The table was a heavily carved, mahogany thing with eight imperial-styled chairs. At first glance it appeared as though the tabletop was covered with a thin sheet of glass, but in reality it was fitted with a touch-screen that allowed the people seated there to be able to view various files, documents, maps, pictures and pretty much anything else that might be within the required data for a job during the meeting.

"Normally, that would be impossible to accomplish without killing the person being subjected to this process," Yuui replied with a shake of his head, the soft glow from the active touch-screen casting shadows across his face, "but in Syaoran's case, Fei's seal made his body adapt and recondition itself for this very day."

"So he had always been planning on doing this to the kid?"Kurogane growled, his knuckles whitening as Sakura saw him clench his fists where they lay on the table.

"A puppet without any conscious thoughts of its own would be far easier to control in comparison to someone who can think for themselves, no?"

"I'll rip that bastard with my bare hands." The dark-haired man snarled as he jumped to his feet, roughly pushing the chair back with so much force it wobbled on two legs before settling back again.

"Calm down, Kurogane." To Sakura's surprise, it was Tomoyo that admonished the dark-haired man, laying a hand on his arm and making him sit back again. "Let him finish what he was saying."

The blond shot her a grateful look before continuing as his fingers began to dance across the table top. "In order for us to be able to save Syaoran, we need to reunite the two halves and form a whole. It's all just a theory, but that should be possible if we bring the two to the same place. I think that's probably the reason why Fei put them so far apart in the first place."

"Won't Fei move the other half when he realizes we have freed one of them?" Yukito pointed out with a small frown as he seemed to take note of the long list of files that began opening up at the blonde's commands. The flashes of each opening file overlapping the previous one reflected from his round glasses.

"He will," Yuui nodded as he wiped the top of the table with his fingers one last time to pull up two space maps. "If he finds out about it before we've gotten to the second half." He finished with a grin that reminded Sakura of a cat-lion that had nabbed some delicious cream without anyone knowing about it.

"What do you mean?" Touya questioned, meaning for the blond to elaborate. Sakura knew the same thoughts were running through her brother's head, but he no doubt wanted the pilot to clarify what he meant before coming to any concrete conclusions.

"These two maps show the current situation of the space surrounding Clow and Hong Kong," Yuui slid his index finger across the screen and the maps rose up from the surface of the table to show a three-dimensional grid. "As you can see, patrols have been heightened rather drastically around both worlds, Clow more so than Hong Kong for the obvious reason that the asteroid belt surrounding the latter makes it quite difficult for ships to leave or enter the planet except from a few cleared off points. These points are being watched heavily, but any skilled pilot worth his number of years should be able to get through the asteroid belt without arousing much attention."

"Get to the point, Blondie." Sakura suppressed the urge to giggle at her brother's irritation with the pilot. "What is your plan to save the brat?"

"The plan, Touya," Yuui grinned as he leaned back in his chair, letting Sakura know that he was thoroughly enjoying dragging the whole thing out, "is that we will be breaking out both halves at the same time and bringing one to the other to merge. At least that was the initial plan that I had thought up, but with just the three of us, that would have been impossible to accomplish. So we had signed ourselves up for a suicide mission and decided on saving the Syaoran in Clow before heading to Hong Kong." He said all this in the same cheerful tone that Sakura had heard him use back on the ship Little Dragon, "Now with you three on board, we can get both together with minimal trouble."

"Do you know where on Clow and Hong Kong the bastard is keeping him?" Touya quirked a brow, "One entire planet would have been enough of a pain in the ass to search for the brat, let alone searching through two."

"I know of the facilities that Fei had had built around the time when I had been working with him," the blond nodded. Sakura struggled to keep her thoughts from showing on her face. Yuui knew of the facilities that had been built several cycles ago. What made him think Fei Wong would have still used the same places? As though having read her thoughts, the man continued, "Fei Wong Reed is an arrogant bastard with a bit of a god-complex. Trust me when I say that he will be using those facilities. He has far too much confidence in his 'all-powerful' army of hunters and wizard slaves to even think about something like what we are planning."

"Right, so, do you know how to get in to those facilities?"Sakura asked, her mind already going through various plans that might be suitable for the current situation before the blond gave them all a sheepish grin.

"See, that is what I thought we could decide on in this little meeting."

"In other words, you have no idea." Touya deadpanned.

"Not in the slightest." The pilot responded in such an exuberant tone, one would think he was announcing a lottery win or something.

"Depending on the facilities," Sakura cut in before any of the others could speak, "I think I might be able to help come up with a plan of action." At seeing Touya's somewhat-puzzled frown, she gave her brother a sheepish grin. "After having spent so many cycles breaking and entering into a few of the state-of-the-art facilities around the galaxy, I know a thing or two about bypassing security, Onii-san."

"The facilities were built in the catacombs below Clow Castle and the ruins of the Hong Kong Palace."

"That slimy son-of-a-" Touya growled angrily as Sakura felt a spark of rage within her body as well. The Bat Lord had made those two places secure facilities simply to make a mockery of the conquered people. The centers of their previous governments were the very places that were being used to destroy what remained of the legacy of their fallen leaders. "Sakura," her brother said, taking a calming breath to reign in the emotion clearly dancing across his face, "you, Yukito and I will head to Clow, while those three can go on to Hong Kong and-"

"Actually," Yuui interrupted the hunter in a serious tone, "You will have to accompany Tomoyo and Kurogane to Clow while Sakura, I and Yukito will be heading off to Hong Kong."

"What?" Both Kurogane and Touya growled at the same time.

"Kurogane, you and Tomoyo have no magic. The Syaoran in Clow is the one that can't be controlled and so he won't be dangerous to either of you." To Sakura it seemed as though the blond was talking to kids instead of people his age as he went about explaining the plan in a patient manner that reminded her of a school teacher. "Touya said that the catacombs can be accessed through a secret entrance that only the royals know about or can access, so you two can't get in without Sakura or Touya. We'll need Sakura's help to keep the soulless Syaoran at bay in Hong Kong since she shares a connection with him that can prove advantageous for her in a fight." Without giving a chance for anyone to interrupt, the blond continued, "The quickest way to get Syaoran from Clow to Hong Kong would be through a portal. Yukito and Touya are very strong magicians, no doubt about it, but you both lack enough power to open a portal connecting two points in space this far apart and hold it stable long enough for four people to cross, so the best portal that I can think of is one that is established at both ends instead of just one. You two have grown up together, have you not?"He asked, quirking a brow in the direction of the two hunters as his fingers began dancing across the touch-screen once more, "so you two must be well aware of how the other's magic works. I am going to Hong with Sakura simply because I can get us through the asteroid belt with ease."

"That confident in your abilities?"Touya quirked a brow, as though sizing up the blond and trying to see if he could match his claims.

"I've actually gotten to the planet several times through that very belt." Was the blonde's reply, surprising Sakura yet again. "My mentor and I used to deliver special goods there." He said by way of explanation. "Do you guys have any objections to this arrangement?" Nobody spoke up, mostly because the pilot had offered quite sound reasoning for splitting them all up the way he had. Yukito would go with Sakura and Yuui to Hong Kong to establish the exit half of the portal while Touya would be going to Clow to help Tomoyo and Kurogane break into the Clow facility through the underground catacombs. Sakura would be heading off to Hong Kong to keep Syaoran at bay until the others arrived, and Yuui would be the pilot to get them there stealthily.

"Now we have only one problem left to tackle." The blond said, pinching the bridge of his nose tiredly, "Anybody knows how to get into the Palace without being detected?"

No one spoke, but Sakura could see her brother struggling with something as he gritted his teeth and looked away. Almost half a minute later, he heaved a sigh and turned to face them. "I don't know how to get in there without summoning every guard in the vicinity upon us, but I do know someone who might."

"Touya, you do realize she is still quite angry at you?"Yukito pointed out warily, piquing Sakura's interest.

"She's always angry at me." He shrugged carelessly, avoiding Sakura's eager gaze, "you, on the other hand, she adores. Besides, I can tell she'd kick my ass to hell and back if I left her out of the loop on this one. Especially considering who this whole deal involves."

A/N: A mystery lady awaits half the gang at Hong Kong. I wonder who that could be. Any guesses? Fai has taken up the role of the leader for this rescue mission due to his previous experiences with Fei. Oh and he will be referred to as Yuui from now on as that's his real name. Next chapter we have some crazy piloting from our favorite blond as the gang tries to get out of a dogfight and Sakura narrowly avoids dying of a heart-attack or two. ;) ;)

Keep an eye out for the next update.

~Obsidian