Chapter 14

"Don't answer it. It's not ringing." Says Li as he looks at Sakura's face.

"Li you know I can't do that. I have to answer it." Says Sakura as she slips from Li's arms and grabs her phone. "Hello?"

Li sits up and watches Sakura as her face mixes with sadness, fear and anger.

"Ok." Says Sakura as she hangs up the phone. She looks at Li and quickly looks away as she walks to the closet and pulls it open and starts grabbing her clothes and shoving them in her suitcase.

"Sakura don't go please." Begs Li as he watches her pack as many clothes as she can.

"I have to Li. I'm not even taking an airplane. There is a helicopter waiting for me. Fóo got the call from the elder's two days ago Li. She's been gone for two days, she's on her way back now. I have to leave." Says Sakura as she tries to hold back her tears.

Li walks over to Sakura and holds up her guns, "Take them just incase. How are you going to get there?"

"I'll drive. Someone will take the car back and leave it at the gates for you. I love you Li. Remember this isn't good-bye, there'll never be a good-bye." Says Sakura as she looks up at him and smiles softly. She grabs a few pictures and throws them in her bag. "Please don't follow me Li it's too hard as it is."

Li grabs Sakura and pulls her into his arms and he kisses her with such passion and love. Sakura starts to cry and she breaks the kiss and runs from the room. She runs downstairs and towards the front door where Meilin, Madison and Eli are standing. They see Sakura and wonder why she is crying and running. Sakura opens the closet and grabs a few of her jackets and her boots. She pulls on her sneakers and she runs out of the house with not one word to her friends. She runs for the green Lexus and jumps in it and speed away from the house.

Meilin, Eli and Madison stand in the open doorway and watch the car leave. After she's gone they turn around and look at each other and then to the stairs where they see Li standing at the bottom of the stairs watching them.

"Where did she go? What's wrong with her?" asks Madison.

"Where did who go?" asks Li coldly.

"Sakura you asshole. Why the fuck did she run out of here crying and with her bags?" yells Meilin.

Li ignores Meilin and walks into the kitchen. The three look at each other and wonder what's going on. Just then Fóo walks up the front steps to the house and coughs. They turn around and look at her.

"Excuse me you guys. I would like to get in the house."

"Sorry Fóo." Says Eli as he grabs Meilin and Madison's hands and pulls them off to find Li.

Sakura drives for about an hour until she reaches the site. She pulls up and sees the black helicopter, she turns off the car and gets out carrying her things. She hands the keys to a boy from the China gang and she climbs into the helicopter. Within a few minutes they take off and Sakura stares at the floor as she silently cries.

Eight months had passed and Sakura never returned to the house. Eli, Meilin and Madison missed their friend so much. Li had turned back into the man he was before Sakura ever came into his life, so cold and heartless. But Madison, Meilin and Eli could tell he was in pain, they could see it in his eyes. Fóo had been asking many questions about Sakura but no one had answers and Li just glared everytime her name was mentioned. The Black Hearts were now the most feared gang in Asia because of Li and how cold he was.

Sakura had been flown to Hawaii after she arrived in China. She was given a new name and a new life. She spent the days trying to have fun and everything but she was torn inside. She missed her friends and Li. She cried herself to sleep every night. She had made a few friends over the past eight months and she seemed to have a wonderful life. Her pregnancy was coming along well and she would be ready to give birth in a week or two.

Sakura was laying on her bed staring at the only pictures she had brought with her, her fans going full speed cause it was a nice hot day. That's when her phone rang, Sakura grabbed it (cordless phone) and answered it, "Hello?"

"Sakura I think it's time Li comes to you."

"Excuse me may I please ask who you are?"

"Xander. Are you close to your birth date?"

"I am."

"He will be in your arms some time this week." And the phone line goes dead.

Sakura smiles for the first time since she had left Japan. She hangs up her phone and looks at the photos again.

Madison, Meilin, Eli and Li are sitting in the living room talking about business when Li's cell phone rings. He pulls it out of his pocket and answers, "Yeah?"

"It's time to see your Ying Fa, Li. A car will be there to pick you up in one hour." The line goes dead.

Madison, Meilin and Eli see Li smile as he listens and then hangs up the phone. "I have to go away for awhile." He says as he gets up and leaves the room.