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Chapter 2
9:00am..
"You idiot I cannot believe you, why would you make a deal like that again with the Elders!" Eriol sighs out at the man who took a seat next to him on the chair frustrated.
"Well what else was I supposed to do Eriol, they were going to kill her for no reason.I couldn't just stand there and listen to how they were planning to mutilate her. After all it was me who brought her here and put her life in danger." Syaoran tells his friend getting even more aggravated.
"Yes but-"
Eriol begins but gets interrupted by a new voice entering the room, causing the two men who were conversing to stop and glare at the person who interrupts them carelessly.
"Syaoran they are our Elders for fuck sake, you cannot just go around and challenge them for someone's life. Why can't you just sit still and let them do whatever they want to with that fat girl?"
Yuri's words caught Syaoran off guard, He new perfectly well that it was stupid to go against the Elders. He certainly did not need to hear it from one of his trainees with a big mouth, who has decided to butt into their conversation uninvited.
How dare this newcomer show that much disrespect towards him, the leader of the gang.
Syaoran didn't care what anyone thought of his plan. He would do anything to save an innocent bystanders life, to him she was just an innocent person in this and did not deserve to be tortured or murdered through a mistake.
"Fuck you Yuri, do you really think I could be that sort of person who would just abandon an innocent person to die?Well Never. I was the one who brought her here and endangered her life, so she is and always will be my responsibility." Syaoran says out tightly at the loud mouthed boy, who just stood in the lounge doorway smirking weirdly.
"Well I would have-."Yuri Starts but gets stopped by Syaoran's fist flying towards his face with great speed, but luckily for him it got caught seconds before it connected.
"Eriol, why did you stop me? This bastard has it coming to him. No one else in my entire gang would ever think like this sick bastard thinks. He is basically talking about stone cold murder. "Syaoran screams out, still being held back by Eriols grip.
"Maybe, but not by you." Eriol tells him with a smile, before tightening his other fist and pounding it in the direction of the boys face instead.
"But Why?" Yuri sputters out, getting off the floor holding his now bleeding, swollen nose staring wide eyed at Eriol.
"Well do you really think I would let my buddy here." Gesturing towards Syaoran "Give the likes of you, a spy for the Elders a punch just so you could rat him out and jeopardize what he is trying to do for that girl? I don't think so you little runt."
"Eriol is he really?"Syaoran says out in surprise
"Yes, actually I have been observing him for weeks now, I was going to tell you when I was certain yesterday but I forgot, so I guess no time like the present." Syaoran nods in agreement, before his eyes turn towards the boy evilly and shouts.
"GUYS, it looks like we have ourselves a spy for the Elders in the wolves! Lock him up and throw away the key. "
"Hu you're joking, you can't do that to me! The Elders own you!" The boy screams out, before he receives a fist in the abdomen to silence him and his struggles.
"Wrong! I own my gang! They control outside of it, that's why even if it kills me I will initiate that girl and protect her." Syaoran calls out to him, glaring at the boy's retreating figure.
"Don't worry too much Syaoran, we can do it together. I am with you all the way bud." Eriol tells him smiling, putting an encouraging hand on his shoulder.
"After all you have fought the Elders once before for some one's life and succeeded!"
At this Syaoran looked at Eriol and sighed, knowing full well who that 'someone' he was referring to was.
Suddenly Syaoran's phone started to ring, as he took it out of his pocket he noticed the caller ID flashing as the witch.
"Great, this is all I need right now."
Phone call..
"Hello mother how are y-"
"Never mind that greeting nonsense Syaoran, you and Eriol are to come to Hong kong on the next available flight, leave the gang to Mailing for the time being. "
"What no Mother I cannot do that right now I have-"
"I do not care for your excuses my boy, come here immediately"
"Sorry mother, OK i understand. How long for?"
"Three months."
"What. Mother, that's impossible. I just can't be expected to leave here for that long."
"What was that? Are you deifying my orders Li Syaoran because if you are!"
"No mother, I would never disrespect you. We will be there, I will ask Mailing to watch the gang for me."
"That's better, call me when you land and I will send a car."
..Hangs up...
"What's got you so frozen all of a sudden?" Eriol asks Syaoran, as he watches him put his phone down in shock.
"That was the Witch on the phone, she has just told me that we have to leave for three months and go to Hong Kong."
"What but that is..."
"I know, the Elders must have gotten to her first."
"Shit so what are we going to do now?" Eriol questions him, with uncertainty written all his face.
"I don't know, I will just have to give her a strict diet for three months and hope it will do something with her weight.
With Sakura 10:00AM
"Knock Knock"
"..."
"Yo...you awake" Syaoran calls out, as he opens the door to the room he sent Sakura to yesterday.
"Go away you Brut!" Sakura hollers at him, angrily grabbing a pillow from the sofa she was sitting on to throw it in his face which he dodges easily .
"Seriously, I am the leader of the biggest gang in Hong Kong and your chosen weapon to defend yourself against me is a pillow. Lame."
"Who cares! Anyway we are not in Hong Kong right now, we are in japan and this is known as kidnapping. So let me go." Sakura marches to him angrily staring at him, making him back away from her suddenly a bit intimidated at her forwardness.
"No"
"What? Why?" Sakura stutters out to him stunned.
"Just that NO. Did i stutter" Syaoran asks her mockingly, stepping closer to her trying to show his authority over her before continuing to speak.
"Listen I have to go on a trip for three months, so while I'm gone you will follow a strict diet and stay where I put you. Don't cause me any trouble missy." he tells her as he walks up to her with a finger pointing at her face sturnly.
"Why do I have to stay here and do what you say? Are you going to shoot me like you did to all those people on the street last night if I try to leave? You people are just disgusting creatures, who have no regard for anyone's life." She grimaces at him, before sitting down stubbornly on the sofa staring at him with anger as he just stood there holding his forehead in exhaustion.
'Disgusting creature, no regard for life?' He repeated her words in his mind angry before replying to her coldly.
"Maybe,but that depends on you."
"..."
"Fine don't answer me just listen, you will be put into my private house at the back of this house for the three months while I am gone. Clothes and food will be constantly provided for you. So under no circumstances are you to venture into this house or try to escape while I am away. Do you understand? Just stay where I put you and keep a low profile, until I come back."
"..."
"Hopeless, Eriol" Syaoran calls out.
"Yes"
"Take her to my private house out the back way, so no one sees what a trouble maker I brought back yesterday. " Syaoran tells his cousin as he stares at Sakura mockingly.
"Me trouble, you people are the ones kidnapping me" She bits out at him before feeling herself being led out of the room slowly.
6:00pm Garage
"Really" A man calls out from under a black Ferrari, as he finishes the last screw he was tightening.
" Yea apparently, Syaoran made a deal with the elders about her just like" Mailing trails of slightly saddened.
"Me" the guy finishes for her, getting up and wiping his hands off with a rag he kept in his back pocket.
"I am sorry PinYin(Brian) I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine, don't worry about it."He smiles out at her in assurance.
Mailing was sat on an oil can, next to the guy who was now sticking his head inside of a cars bonnet working on its engine diligently.
"Bang"
This startled Mailing, to the point where she took out her gun and aimed it at the noises direction immediately.
"Ha ha don't worry about that Mailing, it was just some old stuff I have falling off of my workbench. Man, I really need to hire a cleaner. Sorry."
Mailing breaths out a sigh and puts her gun away, she returns to her seat just in time to hear him talk again.
"So about this girl, what kind of deal did Syaoran make for her?"
"Well..."
...Twenty minutes later...
"Wow harsh, So now because of the witch he has been summoned to Hong Kong and has to delay her training by Three months."
"Yep, she is also supposed to be a secret from everyone."
"O well how did you come to know about her then?"
"Eriol told me before he and Syaoran left, he gave me the job of stocking up the fridge and freezer every month with this diet food. Apparently I am not even allowed to look at her. Don't you think that he is being stupid Brian?
"No not at all, I think he is being practical."
"How is that practical? You are probably just siding with him because you're his twin!"
"Not really, I mean think about it for a minute. If you all met her and you started to bully her because of her weight, then there would be almost no chance in trying to save her life. It would probably make her depressed or even suicidal she may even gain more weight."
"Well I never thought of it that way, anyway I have to go. I have lots of work to do as acting leader. See you soon Brian" Mailing skips off happily.
"Hang on Mailing, since I have nothing better to do let me stock up her food for her."
"OK, sure I was worried about what to buy her anyway, I was just going to buy her cake."
Brian shakes his head at her stupidity as she throws him a set of keys before walking off.
...Next day...6:00AM. Private house
"Miss"
"..."
"Knock, Knock Knock"
"AHHHH" Sakura gets up angrily from her bed, to stomp over to her door and knock out whoever was on the other side of it. Ever since she was little she was never much of a morning person.
Opening the door she spots a pair of brown eyes looking at her happily, gasping for breath as she stares at the owner in surprise she ends up biting her tongue a bit taken back .
`Who is this`Sakura thought.
The visitor however ignores her reaction and steps in the room, smiling warmly at her.
"Hi"
"UHH, Hi who are you?" Sakura asks Brian nervously."
"Hu me, you mean you don't think I am the man you met yesterday and ignored for almost three hours."Brian asks, trying to Imitate Syaoran.
Sakura laughed at the man in front of her, knowing instantly one person he definitely was not.
"No, I do not believe you are anything like that man!" Sakura tells him in a matter of fact voice, gesturing to him to have a seat on her bed.
We'll Miss I must say you are the first to ever recognise that me and Syaoran are different people, so what gave me away then?"
"Your eyes" Sakura say's simply, making the man freeze as she sits next to him out of shock.
`That's it, the only difference between us is the slight difference in eye colour. No one has ever noticed that before, now that's amazing.'
"Hey are you ok?" She asks him out loud, touching his shoulder lightly to bring him back to reality.
"What oh yes I am fine thank you, sorry I was just a bit out of it."
`That's good, so Umm what brings you here? It's just that, he told me not to expect any visitors and to stay away for everyone, until he gets back." Sakura's face fell sadly.
"O don't be too angry with him, I believe he only behaved badly toward you yesterday so he could protect you.
"Protect me that retch, how so?"
"well..."
Half an hour passed as Brian explained everything to Sakura, about what Syaoran proposed to the Elders and the reason why he wanted her to stay secret from everyone.
"O I See." Sakura utters out finally after a few minutes of silence, so she could absorb everything.
"Sakura, this story kind of leads me to my reason for coming to see you today."
"Ok, we'll go ahead then."
"Well when I was born I was really small right, so small that every doctor that my mother took me to see said the same thing. That I was going to die before I became ten but as you can see that did not happen. I did however get taken very ill as I turned fifteen, so ill that the Elders ordered my death, because they considered me a burden."
Brian paused for a minute and turned to Sakura, she was now silently crying to herself next to him. So before continuing he rapped a comforting arm around her smiling.
"Don't worry my story does get better I promise. Anyway Syaoran did something that saved me, after hearing what the Elders wanted to do to me he went mad to the point where he marched into their conference room and challenged them for my life."
"So then what happened?" Sakura asks him eagerly, grabbing his hand eagerly to continue .
"He won of course, silly. If he didn't I wouldn't be here sat with you would I " he tells her ruffling her hair playfully.
"No I realised that, I mean what did he have to do to save you?"
"O that, it was to find something that I was worth saving for! You see the Elders won't throw away anything that could be considered valuable to them, or useful so here I am." Brian smiles out at her as he spreads his body out into a 'tada' position smiling.
"HA HA, Brian you are quite funny."
"Thank you."
"So what is the reason you came to see me today?"
"O Yes that, Could you please consider doing your training with me for three months until Syaoran gets back?"
"Why?"
"Well think about it Sakura, my brother can be a bit rude sometimes but he has saved my life and is trying to save yours. So I just thought that maybe we could..."
"help him along the way" Sakura finishes for him before continuing.
"Ok let's do it"
"Thank you Sakura." Brian exclaims out happily, jumping off the bed and in the air a little.
"Alright Calm down."
"O sorry."
"Sure"
"Alright well then see you tomorrow then Sakura, I have to go now I have to find a cleaner to help me in the garage." He tells her as he walks towards the door happily.
"You mean the thing you do so well is clean Garages, that's what saved your life?" Sakura looked at him puzzled, earning a deep chuckle from Brian as he turned to look back at her amused.
"No babe! I am a mechanic, I fix things that are broken and judging by the fact that I am still here I must be pretty darn good at it."
'I'll say' Sakura thinks lightly blushing as she sees him just about to leave her room.
"Wait, how about I do it for you."
"Do what?" Brian asks her confused
"Your cleaning."
"You, Really?"
"Sure, we can exercise in the Mornings and I could help you in the garage in the afternoon. You are after all going to be helping me, so helping you clean is the least I can do."
"Alright, let's see how it goes then,you got yourself a Deal sweetheart. See you tomorrow at Six."he tells her as he leaves her room amused .
'I hope he means six in the evening' Sakura thought a bit worried.
