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Tralalala… yes I've updated yet again:D

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Hidden Secrets

Chapter Seven

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"He is SO gullible!" Sakura grinned as she handed Syaoran the stack of papers with the information Hitonari was using to blackmail government officials with. "Now tell me I didn't do a good job."

Scowling at her Syaoran retorted, "I already said so for getting the info back when he first promised to give it to you, but we still need the password to the mainframe of his computer..."

"Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm here for. I keep telling you how I'm better than you are," Sakura grabbed her partner's arm and pulled him towards the control room.

She sat in the chair and began quickly clicking around on the screen, pressing certain keys to pass through certain files. Finally, she stopped on a large window with a small box that said "PASSWORD: " on it.

Sticking her tongue out at the bemused Syaoran she swiftly typed "Under the Cherry Tree" into the blank.

It worked.

Pages and pages of information began springing up on the large screen. Sakura merely smirked and Syaoran and within a minute had decoded and loaded all the information onto two disks, and had sent a copy to JPSN.

"There. One disk for you, one disk for me, and a copy sent to headquarters. That way, if one or both of us lose our disks, at least a copy was sent to JPSN and vice versa," looking haughtily at Syaoran, Sakura grinned. "Now tell me I didn't do a good job."

"Oh shut up!" Syaoran grabbed a disk and stomped out of the room. "Besides, we still have to check if that guy has any extra info not stored in a computer."

"Oh, Li..." Sakura taunted in a sing-song voice. "What if I told you I knew where to find some more secrets Hitonari has been hiding?"

Turning around, he crossed his arms, "I see that you two certainly get along great. You're a match made in heaven."

Despite Syaoran's protests of how repulsive it would be, Sakura had gone straight ahead and coaxed the information out of Hitonari using a method only women could utilize.

"Is someone jealous?" Sakura just grinned as he flipped her off. "The password, 'Under the Cherry Tree...' He talks so much when he's drunk! Though I suppose we ought to be grateful, it makes our job a lot easier. This 'Under the Cherry Tree' has a special meaning to him." She batted her eyelashes at her partner. "Something hidden under a cherry tree!"

"Fine. You get that information... I'm going to go check his room," Syaoran stormed out muttering curses about women.

Carefully checking for any people, Syaoran stealthily jumped through the window and into the room. He began quickly and quietly sifting through various papers.

"Bingo," Syaoran grinned as he pressed the corner of a table drawer. Inside, was a stack of papers, quickly swiping them, he closed the fake bottom of the table drawer. Searching the room again, making sure he hadn't missed anything he left, leaving the room exactly as it was before, with the exception of a missing stack of papers.

Walking towards the garden to meet Sakura, he heard a loud scream, "AII! Ghosts!"

Syaoran sprinted towards the source of the sound and found Sakura fallen on the ground, surrounded by men with guns.

He drew the dagger hidden in his waistband and slit the throats of two men. "Hey! Kinomoto! Are you ok?"

"Baka," Sakura hissed in his ear as she stood. "Don't yell my name so loud! People have heard of me!"

Too fast for the eye to follow, she threw kunai at them in rapid succession. After all of her small but lethal weapons had fallen onto the ground, there were still five men standing.

"Fancy but not effective," Syaoran snorted. "Anyhow, we have to kill Hitonari tonight if not right now and get out of here. I'll bet anything we can't get rid of these bodies in time... and some people probably heard all the commotion we were making.

"I already got some files from that old guy's room... how'd you do with the Sakura trees?" pausing, Syaoran thought for a moment. "And besides, what happened? Why in the world were you screaming about ghosts?"

Her face became pink, "N-None of your business! It's just... I'm scared of ghosts is all... and they startled me..."

Syaoran burst out laughing, "AHAHAHAHAHA! Ghosts! You're scared of ghosts! What'd they do to you? Say 'BOO!'?"

Shoving a slip of paper at him, Sakura frowned, "Here you go. This was buried under the tree."

On it was written "We'll take care of him on Friday. Meet me at the bar at 2:00 tomorrow; we'll work out the details there."

"We have to kill Hitonari now though, you know," Sakura's voice was frank. The amber-eyed boy nodded, "Don't worry about it... Hitonari will make it to the meeting... dead or alive."

Raising a delicate eyebrow Sakura questioned, "And how, Li, do you expect to do that?" "You'll figure it out. For now, let's just kill that rich pervert."

"Agreed."

"Kinomoto."

"What?"

"Tell me I didn't do a good job, saving your a. (From the guys surround her.)

"Shut up... you did an ok job."

"Don't I get a thanks?"

"Don't push it."

To be continued...

Won't it be interesting... how Syaoran manages to kill the old fart and have him attend the meeting the next day... and how will he figure which bar it is?

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