Chapter 12
They all head out onto the busy street towards their car from the doctors office. Sakura looks up and sees Fóo across the street walking down the sidewalk with Aaron talking and both of them in deep conversation.
"Hey space cadet you coming?" says Madison as she looks up from the car and sees Sakura staring across the street.
"What?" asks Sakura as she shakes her head and looks down at Madison, "Oh sorry, yeah lets go." Sakura climbs in the car and Li starts it and swings into traffic.
Twenty minutes later they pull into the long driveway and Sakura watches the trees pass them by. Soon the trees give way to a very large clearing in the woods. Li stops the car and Sakura gets out and walks up a path looking at all the grave markings as she goes. She finally stops at a stone angel holding a bunch of Sakura flowers; Sakura kneels on the ground and traces her mothers name carved in the stone with her finger tips.
"I'm going to have a baby mom. I wish you were here to see me, I miss you so much. I'm in grade twelve, I probably won't be able to finish the year at public school but I can get Li to home school me. I know if you were alive I wouldn't be in the Black Hearts but things had to change for me. Dad and Tori moved away and I didn't want to leave so I stayed here. I was only twelve then and I survived on my own." Says Sakura as tears slide down her cheeks.
Li and the others sit in the car and watch Sakura kneel in front of the stone angel.
"Li she can't stay here. You know that, she will have to go back with Fóo." Says Meilin softly.
"If Sakura goes I go to. I'm not going to let her face my family and the elders alone. She's strong and they know that, they will try and brake her down."
"We won't let her leave is all. There is no way they are splitting us up." Says Madison firmly as she sees Sakura stand back up and wipe her face.
"They will try." Says Eli as he looks at Li.
"Bye mom. I will be back to visit again." Says Sakura as she turns and heads back to the car. She looks up and sees Fóo and Aaron again at the edge of the woods, watching her.
Li watches Sakura stop dead in her tracks and stare out into the woods, he puts his hand on his gun and looks at the woods to see no one.
Sakura walks back to the car and gets in, "Leave now."
"What did you see?" asks Li.
"I said leave now!" snaps Sakura.
Li starts the car and turns around and speeds away. Once back on the highway Sakura relaxes but only a tiny bit.
"What did you see?" asks Li again.
"Nothing. I didn't see anything." Says Sakura as she watches the cars they pass.
"Do you think this is a good idea Fóo?"
"Aaron I told you it's for the best. Good idea or not we have to do it and I need your help."
"The elders didn't send you here did they." Says Aaron with a frown as they walk through the woods to his car.
"No they didn't. I came of my own free will. Of course by now they know I am gone."
"Why did you come back?" says Aaron as he opens the drivers door to his black Lexus.
"There is something to Sakura that no one knows about. I have talked with her father and brother they also agree that something is wrong with her. They sensed it before they moved but never said anything. I want to know what that is."
"So that's why you were following her at school and at the club the other night."
"You knew I was there?" asks Fóo as she turns and looks at Aaron as he backs out of the woods onto the road.
"I knew you were there alright. I saw you lurking in the shadows, why do you think I said those things to Meilin? I wanted to show you what kind of leaders they have now."
"Your smart. Too bad your so young."
"I'm not that young." Snaps Aaron as he speeds down the road to the highway.
"I'm twenty-nine Aaron, your eighteen. Just over ten years difference between us."
"You miss my brother don't you?" asks Aaron as he pulls onto the highway.
"I do miss him a lot. I told him not to go on that mission but he didn't listen to me. 'I'll be alright and I'll come back to you. I promise.' That's what he told me before he left that night. He broke his promise and he never came back to me."
"I miss him too."
"You look so much like him its a bit scary." Sighs Fóo as she looks over Aaron's face as he watches the road.
"So should I take you back to the house? I mean Li and them probably wouldn't want to see me there but Sakura did say she wanted to talk to me."
"Take me back to the house and come in with me. I have something's I for you and your parents."
"Sakura are you going to tell me what you saw or not?" asks Li his voice stern and cold.
"I said no." snaps Sakura as she walks through the living room heading for the kitchen.
"Sakura we just want to help you." Says Madison softly.
Sakura stops dead in her tracks and stares down the hallway to her right, towards the front door.
"She's doing it again." Says Meilin.
"Sakura what is it?" asks Li as he gets up and walks to her side and he too stops dead in his tracks to see Aaron and Fóo walking up the hallway. "You." He snarls and stares hard at Aaron.
"Who is…" starts Eli but stops when Aaron and Fóo walk past Sakura and Li.
"This way Aaron." Says Fóo as she pulls him along beside her so he won't stop and talk to Li.
"Fóo you know he's not allowed back here." Yells Li.
"Like I give a shit Little Wolf." Snaps Fóo as he looks back over her shoulder at Li.
Sakura waits for them to be out of the hallway before speaking, "I'm calling the elders."
"Why?" asks Li looking at Sakura.
"Because she isn't supposed to be here." Says Sakura before heading to the study.
"Wait what do you mean?" calls Li.
"They didn't send her here. They don't know she's here, they need to know." Says Sakura before walking into the study.
"Li how could Sakura come up with something like that? The elders know everything." Asks Meilin.
"I have an odd feeling Sakura's right."