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Summary: Syaoran returns after almost eight years to graduate from school in Japan. He and Meilin find things aren't different with them selves as they thought. Sakura is a punk, who gets into trouble, but will she drag Syao into it, or will she send him home before he gets in to deep?
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Chapter Three:
Sakura walked into her room and sat on her bed, she had been think of what Syaoran could be doing there, when she ran into her brother and his girlfriend making out in the living room. They were on the couch when she walked in and they both jumped apart, Nakuru yelped grabbing her shirt he discarded on the table. He gave her a look and she hurried from the room. As she moved into the hallway she her Nakuru say she'd see him later. Knowing she'd hear it from him, she locked her door behind her and went to her bed.
'Does he really think that if is around me, I'll forgive him just like that?' She thought to herself laying back.
She looked up at the ceiling and saw the picture of Lilith and a few other of the Venture's favorites. Knowing that the few people in the group were close and would help her, she stayed. The girls of the group hated her, mostly because she was popular…but the thing she thought was funnie was she was popular. At one time in her life every girl wanted to be her and every guy wanted to date her. Now the preppie girl couldn't stand her and only the not-so-normal guys wanted her.
"Sakura! You have guests!" Touya called from the bottom of the steps. He was obviously over the walk-in.
She opened her door and stood at the top. She began to pull her hair in pigtails when Seth, Ben, Geoffrey, Roxanne, Eleni and Alianne started up. They walked past her with a hello, and went into her room. Knocks on the door made Touya stalk back into the hallway and throw open the door. He threw a glare up at his baby sister and stepped aside. In walked Reina, Syaoran, Tobe, and Junia. They walked into the hallway and Touya grabbed Syaoran. Her brother threw the teen into the wall behind him, smacking his headfirst. Touya was about to throw a punch, when he found himself looking at spots behind his eyelids. A gasp made him open his black eyes to see the ceiling and a few people standing over him.
"Are you alright?" A girl asked
"What happened?" Was his question
"How dare you try to punch him, Touya!" Sakura yelled and grabbed the front of his shirt, "He didn't even do anything yet!"
"Sakura threw you to the ground." Seth said looking at his girlfriend. "She's got quite an arm when it comes to throwing punches."
"Yeah I know." Touya said sitting up and prying her hands off his shirt. "He doesn't need to be here. You could have warned me the gaki was coming."
Sakura turned to look at Syao, "I didn't know… Come on let's go up stairs." She led her friends to her room, where the three earlier ones were lounged in there.
No one made any comment on her mood the whole time, nor did she question why her ex was there. They continued with their meeting as if he wasn't there…that was until Reina called Sakura to attention. The girl hopped off her chair and stood in front of the smaller girl.
"Have you been listening to this meeting at all?" She asked, superiority in her soft voice.
"I have." She said truthfully, "I just have a way to look like I haven't been. Reason one why my teachers never call on me."
"I thought teachers were supposed to call out the spacers." Alianne said off handily
"Thank you for your input…" Junia said from her place at Geoffrey's feet.
"Quiet! Then Sakura, may you tell us what we are to do with the curse?" Reina asked noticing from the corner of her eye Junia's smirk.
"If we were really Venture's I'd say kill 'im, but now a days you'd get arrested." She said not looking at anyone but her.
"So what do you suggest?"
"I truly don't know." She admitted.
"Then he will be under your care, at least until he is joined." Reina said dismissing her.
"Has he even been Embraced yet?" Kura asked astonished.
Reina looked from Tobe, who shook his head, to Junia. She shrugged. "No, so you will also be his sire."
'Great gods! Why me?' Sakura thought and dropped into Seth's lap.
Sakura walked everyone, but Syaoran, Tobe, and Junia to the door. With the meeting done, everyone just wanted to go home and do their homework and/or chores. These three, well two, wanted to stay and hear the conversation with the promised one and the cursed one. She walked back upstairs and shook her head at Syaoran.
She sat on her computer chair, and looked at the screen. "Syaoran, I think we will have to talk over dinner. Is that alright with you?"
"Sure…" He said looking at the back of her head.
"Alright. I'm going to take a shower then you and I can go out." She said spinning in her chair to face the two others. "Sorry guys, but it'll be just us tonight. No tailing us either… and I will know if you do."
Syaoran stood and left. He knew now her word, under Reina's, was law. He was sure why she was in such command, but he wasn't going to be the one to question it. Unlike Junia and Tobe, he had no wish to get on her bad side. Seeing how she must have pent up anger in her, he didn't want to be the victim when she exploded. Tobe drove up with the blonde in the passenger's seat.
"If you come home tonight give me a call." Junia said
He looked at her questionably, "I don't have your number."
"You will. You have to have every member's number so you can call back up. Get the list from Kinomoto." She said with a smile and Tobe took off.
"Great so now I have to deal with the older brother again." Syaoran said as he walked back to Sakura's house.
At the Café
Sakura walked with Syaoran to their seat. The girl whom showed them the way looked at Syaoran then to Sakura, who nodded her head. The girl seemed to know something that even he couldn't figure out. They entered a back room and she left them closing the door behind her.
"What are we doing here?" He asked looking around at the place.
There were pillows in the corners and a table set up in the middle of the floor. It looked like it could fit 20 people. The walls were painted a darker color then the rest, while the pillows were a light pink.
"We are going to talk, eat, and talk more." Sakura motioned to a seat. "Please sit."
"What do we have to talk about, that we have to be in here?" He sat looking around again.
She sat across from him, facing the door. "Well you wanted to come here and be in my life again, so I'll let you… Through you may not like what I am doing."
"You're into vampires. So what a lot of people are these days, Tobe's been bringing me up-to-date."
"No, no." She said with an innocent giggle. "That's just the… Hello Bridget and thank you." A girl walked in with a tray weighted with food, as the girl left she closed the door. "That's just the cover-up we us for school and outsiders."
"Excuse me?" He asked looking up from his plate of food. "What cover-up? For what?"
"I'll explain, but first you have to promise me that you will tell no one. Not Tomoyo, not Eriol, Nor Meilin."
"I wont." He assured her.
"The Venture's are actually a gang. We rule this area, this city. There are rival gangs and such, but not to get into it right now. The Embrace is when you get initiated into the gang and become a member. Those in the Circle of the Crone are leaders, and high rank. Tobe and Junia are trying to get you into the gang so 'something' happens to you and I'd quit. Reina is leaving and therefore we'd be leaderless… Well she's giving the leadership to me. I will be the top of this gang and it pisses Junia off, because she's been with Reina since she took her place. Tobe wants me out because he thinks that if he helps her she'd insure him a high rank. Right now he's only a lower ranking scout. Junia is a spy and a court personality. She makes the appearances for us."
Syaoran was shocked into silence for only a little, "So what great role do you play now?"
"I am spymaster, head court personality, and I make the appearances when Reina can't. Meaning I am the one who takes command in her absence with the other leaders. So they know me and they also like me. We may be in gang wars once things get out of order, but other then that we are fine. Gang wars are usually caused be things like what Junia and Tobe are trying to pull. The leaders don't like her so they will begin attacks if she is successor."
"Ah… So if I were to be 'Embraced', where would I be?" Syaoran asked. He had become interested in this type of thing, but was never going to go look for it. Now that he could, he wasn't about to pass it up even if Sakura didn't want him. And besides he needed to watch her, incase she did become leader. No one stayed silent for long.
"You would be by my side. No matter where I went. Like some kind of shadow. Then you will be placed where you are either needed or where your skills allow."
"You know me Sakura." He said hoping to get a good place. He wasn't one to sit around and let everyone else do the work. He would like to be a spy or at least a patroller of the grounds.
"Yes, which is why you will stay by my side. Even when you are to be placed. I would like to see how you are trained first, but if you are as you were when we were younger, I'd like to have you at my side at courts and gatherings. I don't trust any of the guards Reina has picked for me, so you will do. Now since our food is cold from talking, why don't we go home and we'll talk tomorrow. If you still choose to be in the Venture, after a nights sleep. Then you will be Embraced in a week. That's just before Reina leaves. She'll be able to give you her blessing and then you will be one." Sakura said and stood.
"This is definitely different from the last conversation we had. You are something else." He said and opened the door for her.
Sakura stopped and kissed his cheek then said, "How many times do I have to tell you. I've changed."
