Ok I've finally calmed down and now my writers block is over. I really like to thank those who have been waiting patiently and now I'll try my hardest to keep up with many updates as possible with no more "Author's notes" . Now that that's over, enjoy the show.

Chapter 7 "Meiling-Sempai?"

The door to Syaoran's room laid open and a girl still stood on his doorstep.

"Meiling…" he breathed.

"Yes, it's me Xiao Lang." she said never being more relieved in her life.

Syaoran stood up and slowly walked towards her. He still was having trouble believing that this was all real. Meiling gently took a step in and closed the door behind her for privacy.

Meiling was about to tackle Syaoran like she usually did back in the old days but she didn't expect Syaoran to go first.

" I always knew you were alive.." Syaoran said with so much relief. Meiling never heard Syaoran sound like this. "Even if everything looked hopeless that day, I knew you were alive."

Syaoran has never been so happy, so happy unaware that he was hugging his cousin so tight.

"Xiao Lang…" Meiling struggled.

"Yeah Meiling?"

"I know you're happy to see me and I'm happy to see you too but Xiao Lang….but…you're choking me…"

Syaoran quickly released his hold. Meiling panted furiously to catch her breath.

"Tell me Meiling, how did you survive?"

"Well, it kind of a long story." Meling sighed.

Syaoran locked his eyes on Meiling's. She was serious now. Meiling knew that she had to recall this sometime later.

"This happened about the time the mansion was set on fire. The damage was too brutal to tell who survived or not. Wei and I were outside in the back garden training. But - ."

Meiling's face fell in her hands. "Wei told me to go on and escape." she brokenly cried out. (I don't even think brokenly is even a word.)

"Meiling.." Syaoran murmured.

"I didn't know why but no matter how much I argued he wouldn't let me stay." "I hated the idea of leaving all of you behind." she sobbed.

Syaoran drew her into a hug. He understood how she felt. He did feel the same way when his mother forced him to leave too.

"I wasn't .." sniffled "I wasn't sure that any of you guys were alive…" she sobbed even harder.

"I was so scared Xiao Lang." she cried.

"Everything I feared came true.. ." her tone softened. "and I was all alone."

"Shhhh." Syaoran soothed. "It's all right now." "We've found each other." "You're not alone anymore, Meiling." "So please, don't cry anymore. I'm here now and I'll make sure we won't be separated." "Pull yourself together cousin and continue on with your story, okay?"

Meiling's red eyes glimmered with tears hanging out her eyes and nodded obediently. "Ok.."

" So I ran just like Wei ordered me to. Before I left, he informed that some of our enemies have raided through our mansion and were out to eliminate us all. While I ran, it didn't take them that long to catch up to me. I was so scared that I didn't care what was going on around me. All that echoed in my head was to run and keep running."

Syaoran's gaze on Meiling intensely increased. So much sympathy and anger ran through his mind.

"Without realizing it, I came across a pier and hid in the supply room of one of the ships. I spent the whole day inside there, seeing that I haven't been caught yet, it was safe to leave. But I couldn't bring myself to. The whole incident still horrified me. So I stayed there and cried over and over. When I finally stopped and regained some sense, I knew that I wasn't in Hong Kong anymore."

" Then the place you ended up at was…?" Syaoran curiously asked.

"Yes.. Tomoeda, Japan." "But there was a boy who was unloading all the stuff in the room." "Remember that I was in the supply room." " All of the packages have been taken out and he clearly saw me sitting in the corner."

Flashback

The boy approached Meiling. He looked to be around 12 years old.

"What are you doing in a place like this?" the boy asked.

"Nothing.. ."Meiling said blankly. "Nothing at all." ( Remember that Meiling was only 5 years old at this time.)

The boy crouched down to get a good look at Meiling's face.

"You've have been crying, haven't you?" the boy asked.

"What's it to you?" Meiling said bitterly but still sounded a little broken.

"Nothing…." "But if you feel that you have nowhere to go, follow me or you can just stay here and do as you please."

Afterwards the boy walked away. Meiling got up and walked when the boy was out of sight.

She turned her head towards the boy. He was still walking. Meiling didn't know why she kept on following him but continued to do so.

The boy kept on walking on casually. From the way he was walking, Meiling was relieved to see that she haven't been discovered trailing him yet. But what Meiling didn't know was the boy was aware of that.

In front of the Dragon's Hideout

Meiling saw the boy turned a corner and immediately ran towards there. She lobbed her head out to the direction he took. But Meiling didn't see anybody there.

"Damn it.." "Where did he go?" Meiling murmured.

"So I see you took my advice." the boy stepped out and revealed himself.

Meiling panicked. "Umm .. I .. It's not what it looks like!" she shouted.

The boy kept his gaze on Meiling flustering. He stared at her with warm eyes.

He grabbed Meiling's hand. "Hey! What do you think you're doing!" "Let go!" Meiling yelled.

"Don't worry, you're safe here." "Come with me."

Meiling kept quiet. While they made their way to the front door, Meiling got a good look at his face. He wasn't actually bad-looking. The guy had jet black hair as dark as hers but with lightning green highlights and pure hazel eyes.

As the boy opened the gates with Meiling by his side, it revealed nothing but a dark room until light shone in from the doors. She saw two boys who seems to be the same age as the one standing next to her in the far distance across. One was sitting on a fancy engraved dragon chair with brown eyes and black hair and along with his friend who was wearing glasses at his side.

"I see the delivery was a success…" Touya exclaimed.

"Yes, Leader Touya…" the guy said bowing respectively.

Touya saw this and sighed. "No need for formalities Zhu. How many times have I told you? We're all friends here…." Touya replied happily.

"I know I know." "But it can't be helped, right?" Zhu chuckled.

"Being noble like always…" "Is that why you're not alone?" Touya asked pointing at Meiling.

Meiling realized that the guy named Touya was gazing at her. Meiling felt stiff at such a presence so she hid behind Zhu.

"There's no need to be afraid." Zhu assured her with warm eyes.

"Touya, while I had finished unloading everything from the ship, at my surprise I found her sitting in the corner alone." "I saw that she had been crying for quite some time. Her clothes were a mess and probably didn't have a decent meal for days.

Touya listened to every word Zhu said carefully. He was starting to understand the situation.

"So you see Touya, I couldn't just leave her there. And also-" Zhu was about to finish but got cut off as Touya signaled him to stop.

"I've heard enough…" Touya said.

"Wait a minute Touya… you're not going to throw her out, are you?"

Meiling clutched tightly on Zhu. Zhu looked at Meiling with sympathy.

"No I'm not. I can see clearly that you meant every word you said." Touya calmly said. Meiling was confused. "And I can see that she's just like all of us here." "I leave her in your hands." Touya smiled back.

"Understood." "Come on, we have to get you settled here." Zhu said to Meiling.

"Wait!" she yelled before Touya left. Touya stepped forward to get a good look at Meiling's face. "Sir, may I ask what is it that you do here?" "You said that I was just like everyone else here, just exactly what do you mean by that?" she sprinted.

"We take in people like you and I. Those who are unfortunate with no place to go to and we train them to be better fighters."

"Anything else, little miss?" Meiling blushed.

"No" she cutely nodded. "Please teach me to fight!" she sprinted out. "I-It's just that I want become stronger." Memories resurfaced in her mind. "Because of the way I am now, I wasn't able to protect my family." An image of Syaoran and everyone else formed in her head.

Touya saw her beating herself up with the verge of tears.

"So please…I want to become stronger…to protect those that are close to me…" "I wasn't able to do it before.. But I assure you, if I'm stronger, I won't let it happen again."

Touya didn't say anything. Meiling was anxiously waiting.

"What determination." Touya patted his hand on her petite head never seeing anything like it. "I promise that you will get stronger." Meiling brightly lit up. "But I can't promise you that it will be easy." "Are you willing to accept it?"

"Hai! And the name is Meiling. Li Meiling!" she happily shouted with excitement.

End of Flashback

"And that's how I am today." "One of the Dragon's." she stated.

"So not too long after the incident, you just ended up here. But what about the invaders who tried to destroy us?" "Have they kept any tabs on you?" Syaoran asked.

"Funny thing is they haven't. It's weird." "They're not the type of people that would easily give up." "But I have kept a low profile. So basically I'm safe." "Most of the time I go out on missions out of the country with Zhu to make deliveries."

"Do you make deliveries out in Hong Kong?"

"Yeah. There hasn't been havoc ever since the Li clan incident." "And there has been rumors that a top notch organization has died out." "But I keep getting the feeling that are the ones behind our destruction and that they're still out there somewhere." Meiling worriedly stated.

"It's better that we don't think about it now. All we can do is train and do our best." "Let's just be thankful we found each other." Syaoran softly whispered.

"I missed you, Xiao Lang.." Meiling cried hugging him tightly.

"Back at ya, Meiling." Syaoran happily whispered.

(This is getting annoying. I know Meiling usually calls Syaoran "Xiao Lang". But I'm just gonna stick with Syaoran because I'm getting confused on what name to use.)

Few Hours Later

"So Syaoran.." "I heard about your situation with Sakura." "How do you feel?" Meiling softly asked.

Syaoran turned his head away. "How do I feel? How do I feel! It hurts…It hurts so much that I can't help but scream out my feelings for her. . . . Her alone!" he screamed in his mind.

Syaoran struggled to put on a normal face "I-I'm okay with it" he forcefully laughed. "And so is Sakura, right?" "I mean she has Yukito after all.."

Meiling looked at him with sad eyes. She knew he was lying. It was written all over him. She could see the pain. She didn't know how long Syaoran knew Sakura but she could tell he was acting different. Beyond normal. And that he must've treasured her and cared a lot about her than anything at all in his entire life.

Syaoran continued frantically ranting. "Why wouldn't she like him?" "He's everything a girl like her could ever want." Syaoran gritted his teeth. "The guy is handsome, an awesome fighter, strong, someone Leader Touya wholeheartedly trusts, and…and…"he desperately choked out with depressed eyes " . . . someone who is worthy of protecting a precious flower like her."

"Syaoran stop it." she begged.

Sadness drew all over his face. He struggled to hold the tears back.."I feel like shit, Meiling. It hrts so much." "Out of all my opponents, the pain I feel for her is much more intense."

Meiling hugged him to calm him down. "If I got to her first… would I be the one taking Yukito's place now?"

Meiling stared at him back with sad eyes. "I'm sorry, Syaoran. Not even I have the answer to that."

"Luckily not many people were abround to see this." she thought. "Come on Syaoran, let's meet up with Eriol and Tomoyo and have lunch. My treat!"

10 Minutes Later

Syaoran was beginning to feel a bit better but some of the pain remained inside. Eventually all he can do is give it time and hopefully he can get used to see Yukito and Sakura together or maybe even accept it. He was just happy that his cousin was here and arose the little hope inside that he lost for a long time.

Syaoran and Meiling were engaged in a delightful conversation along the way to the dining room.

"Ne Meiling.." Syaoran mumbled. Folding his arms behind his head.

"Yes?"

"The conversation we had earlier…"

"What about it?" Meiling turned her eyes towards Syaoran.

"You said that someone helped you become a part of the Dragons, Zhu was it?"

"Meiling's eyes widened then later put on a warm look with her eyes that filled with affection. Her cheeks turned bright red. Syaoran wasn't naïve to miss this. He squinted and suspiciously eyed Meiling's face carefully. And there was no doubt that there was more than what she told him.

"Y-yy yes…" she softly answered.

"Then is he part of the leader's group too?"

Meiling still dazed out from the image of Zhu in her head. "Y-yy yes.."

Syaoran gave her a weird look thinking if she is actually giving him a straight answer or not.

"Are you really being truthful or are you too busy daydreaming about your boyfriend?" Syaoran teased.

Meiling's eyes widened hearing what he just said. "I didn't- How did- Where is this coming from!" she angrily remarked.

"You can't fool me Meiling, I'm your cousin after all. And your face is practically so readable. In fact you could be mistaken for a cherry from the way you're blushing." he triumphantly remarked and gave a smirk.

"Syaoran, you meanie!" Meiling cried giving him a bruise on his forehead.

"Heh, just like old times, right Meiling?" he thought rubbing his bruise with a smile.

"Hmm! She grunted. "What's so funny, you bastard! She

"Nothing." he raised his arms like he was surrendering. "It's just that you get angry easily just like back then."

"Don't screw around with me, Syaoran!" she yelled as Syaoran covered his ears.

"Ok ok, now back to my question. Is Zhu really a part of Leader Touya's group?"

"Yes." she pouted still angry at Syaoran. "Him and I are part of Touya-sama's group."

Syaoran gaped. "What!"

"What is this Syaoran? You sound surprised."

"This can't be." His eye fidgeted. "How can you be stronger than me! Syaoran barked out.

"What do you mean by that!" Meiling glared at Syaoran with Syaoran bringing it back with his.

"You heard me!" "Answer the question dammit!" Syaoran roared.

(They're not really fighting. This is the kind of relationship they share with each other. It's close to rivalry when comparing they're fighting skills to each other.)

"Well it just so happens that Zhu and I are in Touya-sama's group, and it makes us the second strongest pair of all the Dragons, aside from Touya-sama and Yukito."

"Are you two just gonna argue all day or have lunch?" Eriol replied sneaking in between the two fired up cousins.

Both Syaoran and Meiling lighted up from the word lunch. "Yeah." they said in unison.

The Dining Room

"Burp!" "That was good." Syaoran happily blurted.

"I see you still haven't sharpened up in your manners, Syaoran." Meiling looked down in disappointment.

"But…you seem to be feeling better Syaoran." Tomoyo said smiling.

"Yeah, I know I should be mad at you for interfering, but you have my thanks. Thank you Tomoyo."

"Always a pleasure to help." "And I assure you, out of the guys I mostly see around here, it's so nice to meet a decent guy like you." "And if Sakura-chan wasn't already taken, you would be the one for her."

Syaoran blushed but just shrugged it away thinking that Tomoyo's only trying to cheer him up.

"It's ok, Tomoyo. You don't have to be so modest."

"Who said I was being modest?" she smirked. Syaoran surprisingly looked at her. He was a bit confused at her words.

"Anyways Tomoyo. Is it ok if I stopped by your room and ask you a couple of questions about something?" Syaoran asked.

"Syaoran…" Meiling said.

"What is it that you want to ask me? If you'd like, you can ask me here now that I'm available." Tomoyo said.

"No…" "There are too many people here and I believe you're the only one who know the answers to what I have to ask." "Please don't take it too offensive, Eriol and Meiling."

Eriol looked at him with worried eyes.

"It must be really serious for him to use manners like this." Meiling thought.

"All right. My room is 372. Come by at 7."

"Sorry that I'm taking away your girlfriend from you for one night, Eriol." Syaoran calmly stated.

Eriol blushed furiously at Syaoran knowing that he spends most of his time with Tomoyo. "Not a problem." putting on his creepy smile. "I just wished you were decent all the time, you look so cute when you're like that, Syao-chan."

A vein popped out his head. "Don't call me that!" Syaoran roared.

Meiling giggled at the cute scene before her.

After Lunch…Around 5:30pm

"You okay, Meiling?" "After all you did shoot milk through your nose from all that laughing." Syaoran cracked up.

"Agh!" "Must you laugh at everything I do!" "And it's not like you and Eriol aren't at fault here." "I never knew your relationship would be so funny." "Are you sure that it's Sakura you have the hots for? And not someone else?" "Hint-hint." she smirked.

Syaoran's face turned red with steam coming out of his ears. "MEILING, I AM NOT GAY!"

"Okay okay. Don't scream anymore." "I can't afford a new pair of ears."

Meiling and Syaoran continued walking but not missing the conversations they passed by.

A couple of young teen girls were having one of their gossips.

"Hey have you heard? Meiling-sempai is back here at the hideout." girl 1 asked.

"For real?" girl 2 asked.

"No lie." girl 3 said.

All three of the girls squealed loudly.

"Meiling-sempai's so cool." "I hope I get to meet her face to face." girl 2 said.

"I know." "She's exactly the female idol any girl looks up to." girl 3 stated.

"Yeah, she's like the strongest female fighter of the Dragons here, not to mention the only girl in Leader's group.." girl 1 said.

"And have you heard that she stood up for one of the girls that was close to being harassed by one of the horny bastards?" girl 3.

"That's old news, Saki." said girl 1.

(If any of you seen Revolutionary Girl Utena, then you know where I'm getting all this. Squeals I just love that anime. It still remains to be one of my top favorite animes.)

"Hehe..he.he" Meiling nervously laughed. She heard everything the girls said back there in their conversation.

"Hey Syaoran, are you in the mood for some running?" she said shaking and sweating.

"Depends, may I ask why?" he saw Meiling looking at three girls and desperately trying to hide behind him. Unfortunately another fan Meiling happens to be behind Syaoran where Meiling attempted to hide.

"Ahhhhh!" It's Meiling-sempai! Can I have your autograph!" the girl squealed.

"Shit!" she hissed. "Syaoran we got to go…"

"But Meiling-" he screamed dragged by his cousin. He screamed at the top of his lungs. "At least slow down!"

One of the fans flashed her glasses, light glittering through her eyes.

"You're not getting away, Meiling-sempai." she smirked. "Let's go girls!"

"Yes, Saki." replied girl 1.

"Meiling-sempai, please wait for us!" girl 2 called out.

Meiling continued dragging Syaoran around. Syaoran was starting to lose his breath but Meiling looked like she had a lot left in her.

"How can she still run?" he thought nauseously until something caught his eye.

"Wait! In there!" they both ran to the direction Syaoran pointed to.

A stampede of girls still ran and scour for Meiling, not knowing she was hiding in a narrow hallway.

"Keep going girls, she's gotta somewhere further!" Saki shouted.

Once the girls were gone and Syaoran and Meiling guaranteed their safety, Syaoran turned back to Meiling.

He panted furiously. "What the hell was that all about Meiling! He shouted.

"Damn that Saki. She's always trouble." Meiling hissed.

"Answer me dammit!"

"All right all right." You do have a right to be angry." Meiling said trying to calm him down.

"Well you see….the girls around here…well most of the girls consider me an idol." she smiled.

"Why would they consider you an idol?" he bitterly said unsure if it's true.

"Let me finish." she hissed. "They consider me an idol because I'm the strongest female of the Dragons. And that I always stand up for those who are defenseless and protect them from harm. Especially when the guys are harassing them."

Syaoran stayed quiet.

"You might think that Touya-sama's motives are good, and they are. It's just that things can get out of hand when it comes to some of the guys hormones when they take advantage of girls and forcefully hurt them."

Meiling sighed. "So as time went by, the more I helped out, the more they idolized me. Everyday they would chase me around nonstop, cook me home made lunches and comment me on my cuteness. But I do appreciate everyone of them."

"And that is why we had to go through what happened earlier." "Anything else, Syaoran?"

"No. That's about it." "It seems that you have helping out a lot here and that I'm proud of it."

"Thanks." "Now if you'll excuse me." "I will be returning to my room." "Last mission has made me tired and I could use a rest." Meiling yawned.

"But how?" Syaoran asked.

"My rooms not too far away from here." "I'll just go through the window and climb into my room from outside."

"Take care, Meiling."

A thump came from Meiling's room. Syaoran sensed she was back there safe and sound.

"Girls! Meiling-sempai just went to her room! Let's go!"

The horde of girls knocked on her door.

"What is it now, Syao-" her eyes widened at the girls.

"Meiling-sempai! Meiling-sempai can you go hang out with us! The girls yelled in unison.

Syaoran can hear the situation and was about to leave , not before hearing Meiling's cries.

"Syaoran! Help!"

"Take care Meiling."

"Why you! I'll get you for this!" Shouting in pain as the girls pinched her cheeks and happily chattered among her.

Tomoyo's Room, 7pm

The door opened revealing Syaoran. Tomoyo was on her bed patiently sitting curious to see what Syaoran was going to ask.

"You're here Syaoran." "Now what is it that you wanted to ask me." Tomoyo said.

"It's not much of a question, but more of a favor." Syaoran said seriously.

"If it's something that I can do." "Please, name it."

"Tell me how close Sakura and Yukito are."

……to be continued……..

Finished! Another chapter done. It's been too long I have continued this story. But I promise now that all the shit is out of the way, I won't hold back on making major updates! And if u guys want to read as much as u can. I guarantee u to show me how much u want to see wat happens next! If you guys really want the next chapter as soon as possible and show it, I guarantee you it will b up in two or three days from now. Gotta give time for those reviews to come in. Just getting 10 reviews for one chapter is an accomplishment. But more would be good. Thanx for all those who reviewed earlier even if I failed to speeden things up. ALLOWING FLAMES AND GOOD REVIEWS ONLY ON THE STORY! Review!

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Sayonara, Minna!