Chapter 16
Li smiles as his plane lands on the runway in Hawaii. The flight attendant opens the door when the planes is stopped and Li walks out onto the runway, and he heads for the airport carrying his bag. He sighs as he walks into the cool air inside the airport. Li heads for the waiting area and looks around at the many people. His eyes fall upon his brown haired, emerald eyed beauty who is sitting down on the chairs. He walks up beside her and sits down, "Hello Ying Fa."
Sakura smiles as she hears the wonderful voice she had been waiting to hear for eight months, she turns her head and smiles at Li, "Little wolf so pleased you decided to come and join me. You have been on the news quite a bit you know."
Li smiles and kisses Sakura and rubs her belly.
Sakura giggles and stands up, "Well welcome to my world. Have you been informed of my life here?"
Li stands up and follows Sakura, "No I haven't."
"Alex Li is my name, a lonely girl who came from far away. Her past never to be told, a new life to protect a new life." Says Sakura as she takes Li's hand and pulls him outside. She waves for a cab and turns to smile at Li, "I still have my tattoo, I have been asked a few questions about it and about my life but I never answered. Made a few friends, Kale a guy who likes me but I only see him as a friend." Says Sakura seeing Li frown at the mention of Kale.
A cab pulls up and they get in. "Wainaku, Wainaku plaza please." says Sakura to the driver.
"So when are you due?" asks Li as they drive to Sakura's home.
"Oh in a week or two. I'm glad you came Li, I have missed you so much. It was so hard to leave that day."
"Well, Alex you know I wouldn't have missed it for the world. You shocked Meilin, Madison and Eli that day with the way you left. They wouldn't stop asking what happened to make you leave like that but I never answered. I was a different person without you."
"Like you were the first night I met you?" giggles Sakura.
"Worse." Growls Li playfully.
Sakura smiles and leans her head against Li's shoulder and they continue the rest of the way in silence. When they stop in front of a very nice apartment building Sakura pays the cabbie and her and Li get out and they walk up the front steps.
"Alex!"
Sakura turns around and tugs on Li to make him stop, she sees Tia running towards her and Kale walking behind Tia.
"Alex Kale told me you were picking someone up at the airport but I though it would have been your mother or something, not a hottie like him." Says Tia with a smile as she looks Li over.
"Tia, Kale this is Li. Li Kale and Tia." Says Sakura with a smile.
"Nice to meet you, Alex has told me a bit about you both." Says Li as he looks at Kale coldly.
"Li like in your last name Alex?" asks Kale as he sees the way Sakura is holding this Li guy's hand.
"Yeah. It's neat I know." Giggles Sakura. She looks at Tia, "So what's up?"
"Have you seen the news? I was watching the international station on my break." Says Tia.
"No I haven't I slept all afternoon." Says Sakura.
"Well in Japan there have been a few gang related murders." Says Tia as she taps her against Kale's chest. "The bodies were all male and their hearts were ripped out and dyed black. They were old bodies though a month old like that."
Sakura looks at Li and sees he's deep in thought, "Anything else?"
"Actually yeah. One of the bodies was found in a graveyard in the arms of a stone angel holding some kind of flowers. The news said that the grave belonged to a Natasha Kin.. I can't say the last name."
"Kinomoto." Says Sakura as she goes white and her eyes grow in fear.
"That's it. Hey how do you know?" asks Tia as she looks at Sakura oddly.
"Oh I knew the name." Says Sakura as she leans against Li and sees Kale is watching her carefully.
"Yeah but the really gross thing about the guy on the angel was that on the marker Natasha was covered with the name Sakura written in blood." Says Tia.
With that Sakura's knees grow weak and she grabs onto Li. Li holds her tightly to keep her standing.
"Alex are you ok?" asks Tia.
"We have to go inside now. I will talk to you later Tia." Says Sakura as she heads for the front door.
Li helps her inside the whole time his mind screaming 'Fóo.'