Chapter 7

Sora kneels on a tree branch at the edge of the woods, scanning the tree line for the person who was stalking around in the woods. To her left she sees Bobby emerge from the woods and right behind him is a person with a gun. Sora pulls her dagger out of her boot sheath and aims for the person, she throws it and just as it is about to hit the person in the head, they dodge it and look up at Sora. The person looks back at Bobby and holds the gun up to the back of his head. Sora screams Bobby's name loudly causing him to look up in the trees and see her. The person with the gun turns and runs back into the woods.

Sora jumps down from the tree and runs to Bobby and jumps on him wrapping her arms around his neck and she buries her head in his neck crying.

"Sora what's wrong?" asks Bobby as he wraps his arms around her holding her up.

"The person… kill you … gun." Sobs Sora loudly.

By now everyone inside the house was running outside after hearing Sora scream. All the leaders are first out the door with their guns and they see Bobby holding Sora down by the woods.

Nick is next out the door and he sees Sora and runs past the leaders and right to Bobby and Sora, "What happened?"

"I don't know, we saw someone sneaking around in the woods and we split up I came out of the woods and suddenly Sora screams my name, she was up in the trees. She jumps down and runs at me and she jumps on me crying." Says Bobby as he looks at Li and sees the look on his face.

"What did you do to my daughter?" snaps Li as he walks up beside Bobby and pulls the still crying Sora off of him.

"I did nothing to your daughter. I would never harm her." Snaps Bobby as he glares at Li.

Nick looks at Bobby surprised he just snapped at Li.

"Sora what happened?" asks Sakura as she steps up beside her daughter.

Sora sniffles and wipes her eyes, "We were sparring in the woods, we saw someone lurking around so I went into the trees and Bobby stayed on the ground. I was up there," she says pointing at the tree she was in, "and I saw Bobby come out of the woods, a second later someone came out behind Bobby and he had a gun, I threw my dagger at him," this time she points to her dagger stuck in the ground not far from where Bobby stands, "the person avoided the dagger, they then held up their gun to the back of Bobby's head and I did the only thing I could think of, I screamed his name. Then the person ran off into the woods."

"What's going on out here?" yells Lexus from her balcony.

"Nothing." Yells Meilin as she looks up at her daughter but then back to Li, "I think the boy should stay with us."

Li looks at everyone around him until his eyes fall on Bobby who is hugging Sora and trying to calm her down, "He stays but if he makes one wrong move he will regret it." Snaps Li before turning and walking back up to the house.

Sakura looks at everyone and they all go back into the house. She then turns to her daughter and Bobby, "Forgive my husband, he is quite protective over Sora, he always will be after what happened when I…" but Sakura stops catching herself and she smiles, "Come on we will show you to a room."

"Mom what to do mean after what happened?" asks Sora as she watches her mother carefully.

"Nothing. Come now, let's go inside." Says Sakura as she starts walking up to the house.

Sora watches her mother for a second but her and Bobby follow along into the house. Once inside Sora can hear the music blaring from Lexus's room and she can hear nick talking with Li and the others in the kitchen.

"Sora, Bobby this way." Says Sakura as she heads up to the third floor by Sora's room.

"He's staying on this floor with me and Nick?" asks Sora as they stop at the room at the end of the hall.

"Yes, and don't worry about your father I will talk with him and calm him down. Here is your key Bobby." Says Sakura as she holds up a silver key.

Bobby takes the key and thanks Sakura. Sakura nods and leaves. Bobby opens the door and walks into the room to see it's black and blue.

"Wow I like this room." Says Sora as she looks around.

"You've never been in here?"

Sora shakes her head, "All the bedrooms doors in this house are kept locked at all times. Only two people have a key for every room and that's my parents."

"Well we should go back to my place and get some new clothes. And my other stuff."

Sora smiles, "Great we can have Ka follow us in the truck. We can take my bike."

"Why don't we just take the car?"

Sora snorts, "Well fine. But I'm driving."

Bobby laughs and both he and Sora leave the room. They see Nick in the hall.

"So your on this floor I see. Better watch out for Sora here, she like to spread her cooties at night." Laughs Nick and when he sees Sora's face he laughs harder.

Bobby chuckles a little but stops when Sora punches Nick in the arm giving him a dead arm.

"What's the dead arm for?" whines Nick.

"For always saying I have cooties. Lexus is acting strange."

"Yeah when I was just talking with the leaders dad said that she has had no sleep. Between the flights and stuff she couldn't sleep."

Sora nods and shrugs, "You wanna help get Bobby's things over here?"

Nick look from Sora to Bobby and shakes his head no, "Nope, I'll let you two do it alone. Li was saying before about how you two were in the Zen garden alone, he didn't like that too much."

"Yeah mom said that he will always be protective because of what happened. But she never went further than that. I think it's something I'm not supposed to know about."

Nick shrugs and unlocks his door and opens it, "Well see you guys later."

Sora nods and grabs Bobby's hand and drags him downstairs.