The Last Straw
Chapter Three: Amber Eyed Mystery
Sakura carefully slipped into the shadows of the alleys and avoided meeting people's gazes. She was as swift as a fox, no one saw her. She slipped her way around most of the market area when she spotted it, a tiny shack with an elderly woman tending it.
She was selling candles, dragon's tears and all sorts of enchanted stuff. She even sold good luck charms and jewelry. Somehow Sakura could sense something in that little shack.
She swung her bag that was slung over her shoulder in front of her and grabbed a coat that covered her outfit and was long enough to reach the floor. She took her shades off and flicked her hair back. She looked like a regular person in the market place.
She approached it nonchalantly and smiled warmly at the elderly woman tending it with a wave. The woman smiled back and ushered her to come closer.
"Hi ma'am" Sakura greeted graciously making the woman nod gratefully.
The woman smiled back and said, "Welcome child, would you like to see our range of quality candles and good luck charms?"
"I'd love to!" Sakura smiled looking through the wide selection thoroughly. The woman seemed to be very pleased. Not too long after Sakura picked up some candles as well as a dragon's tear and purchased it.
"Thank you so much child. Children these days don't normally by so many things from here, they find it, well 'farfetched' and 'old fashioned' don't you think that?" The woman asked
Sakura shook her head profoundly, "Not at all. I think that things like these," She spoke holding her bag of newly bought things and continued, "Are beautifully made and I think that it's magical."
"Wow, such emotion from just a mere child on magic. Do you believe in magic yourself child?"
"Oh yes I do, of course!" Sakura replied making the woman gasp. 'Oops, now she'll think I practice magic or something' she thought so she quickly added, "Magic is all around us, it's nature, the sky and the animals. Magic is so beautiful"
"Oh," The woman's excitement faltered but grinned anyway, "Magic is beautiful isn't it?" She sighed, "So can I help you with anything else?"
"Umm, yeh, I was wondering if you're the one they call Florence or if you know of the one named Florence" Sakura asked hopefully twirling the ends of her ponytail with her fingers.
"How do you know of Florence my Grand daughter? She owns her own shack here in the markets!" The woman answered gleefully.
"Thank you so much for your information, and I know OF her, I haven't actually met her or anything. Let's just say I'm a fan!" Sakura stated humbly, "Thanks again for your help, I'll look for her right now!" She turned to walk away but the woman's voice snarled something quite disturbing.
"You better not be the good-for-nothing dirtbag assassin that is after Florence!" She bit out viciously, "I've seen visions of the one after her and I sense great power within you!" She chided.
"I am an assassin but not the one after your grand daughter. You see I'm after the one after Florence. The one that goes by the name 'Junkai' he has killed every other member of the Juvenile's circle and he's after Florence." Sakura retorted. She could not have sorceresses such as she after her so decided to give out very interesting information.
The lady gaped, "Child I did not mean to point fingers, it's just that-" The woman apologized.
"Save it, do not repeat any information I gave to you and the more time you waste on me, the less chance I have of saving your grand daughter" Sakura retaliated coldly.
Sakura turned on her heels and began slinking away into the shadows again. She moved quickly but also mutely through the alleyways until she heard a small sound. Sakura paused for a second and turned around. She scanned the area but saw nothing, maybe it was just her imagination.
Sakura dismissed the thought and turned her focus back on finding Florence's shop-stand. Even though she was moving incredibly fast she thought that she wasn't covering enough space. She twirled her hand her hand back to her backpack and shoved her hand into her bag. She shuffled through her bag and grabbed something out. It was dash.
She smiled at the card before her and activated it mentally making her move even faster than she already was.
Sakura took a shard rapid turn and saw Florence's little shack, she smiled but heard a swift movement behind her. The one she thought had been trailing her all this time.
She knew it, this moron or whatever it was had been stalking her this whole time. He'd been watching her every move very intently. Damn, why did she have to be so dumb? She could have tried to lose him or her at the very least. She had risked her whole cover and was now regretting it.
"Dammit!" She cursed softly under her breath but made sure her senses were up. She listened carefully and heard distant dire steps drawing closer and closer to her. This person was really getting in deep. Sakura stood there, back against the wall in silence but her attention was to the thing coming in very closely to her.
She could just barely hear this stalker's movements, she could tell it was moving incredibly fast and very quietly. Just who was her secret 'fan' she wondered. She rolled her eyes in the thought of finding out in a matter of mere seconds.
She squeezed her eyes shut momentarily to get a feel of exactly how close this thing really was. She snapped her eyes open feeling he was just about there. She only had a second to think when a hooded figure appeared right before her. His face remained hidden under the hood but his amber eyes reflected the sun and shone brilliantly.
Sakura frowned in dismay, "So you're my little stalker, how nice of you to show yourself," Sakura spoke sarcastically with hostility evident in her tone.
The figure smirked and pulled his cloak off to reveal an extremely hot looking young man with unruly russet hair who didn't look the least bit intimidated with Sakura's coldness. He looked at her with a mock scorn plastered on his face.
He crept up closer to Sakura and she noticed he was dressed in a casual fit, well not really casual, but he had weapons thrusted wherever he could place it. That was it, she finally recognized the way he was dressed, it was the exact same way that Druids dressed.
"I'm glad you're grateful, some people just freak when they see me. Try to get away, you see I'm not usually the one to let my kills get away." The guy mocked with a shrug.
Sakura was beginning to hate this guy's attitude, even more so by the second. He was beating her in her own game, she knew he was faster and quicker than her but what totally pissed her off was the fact that he was also witty with his words.
He knew where it hit the spot and she couldn't sense any sort of emotion in his voice. She didn't know how he was feeling, even his face was hard which only meant that her opponent had an advantage.
Sakura suppressed her thoughts allowing her to concentrate more on this intruder/stalker/druid or whatever this guy was. She hid all her emotions and retorted to the guy's comment with a sly grin, "Since when is a man sent after a teeny weenie innocent girl?" She put on a puppy-dog face and innocent eyes which completely threw the guy off guard.
He began to wonder what he was even doing stalking a harmless girl, after all she was only a girl, what on earth would she be able to do, she couldn't possibly ruin anything could she?
Seeing that the guy was off guard and contemplating over his thoughts, Sakura quickly lunged a swift kick to the guy's side. At the last possible moment the chestnut haired guy dodged out of the way, in shock that she tried to pull something like that off on his face.
"Well there you go, not so innocent when she shows her true colours now is she?" Syaoran chuckled indignantly.
Sakura snorted as she dove for another kick which he blocked easily. Sakura was now getting frustrated with this whole business. She was about to launch a punch when he caught her fist effortlessly, at this Sakura tried to kick him but he cartwheeled back, taking Sakura for the wrong side of the ride as he held her caught fist from before.
The 'ride' had so 'kindly' left her with a long scrape along her arm. Unfortunately the 'ride' had also torn her assassin style outfit.
"Who the hell are you?" Sakura demanded tending her ripped sleeve and not looking at the guy himself. She thought that he at least had the courtesy to not attack while she wasn't paying attention. He didn't strike her as one of those lowly cheaters who wouldn't give a damn if their opponent was fighting or not.
"Ladies first, why don't you tell me exactly what kind of business you have with Florence, hmmm?" Syaoran insisted with a cocky grin. Sakura was really getting pissed off with his manner and punched his face, only thing was he evaded her attack and trapped her in a headlock with a swift movement.
"That is no business of yours. Wait a minute, are you Junkai?" Sakura snapped then raised her brows while her eyes widened anticipating her answer even though she was confined in her headlock. Could it be that this guy was the man she had been sent to kill? If it was he had a lot of work done to his face, he looked so much better now than he did on the photograph Lorenzo had given her.
"Your words wound me, you compare me to a lowly scumbag like Junkai? That really hurts. How do you know of Junkai?" Syaoran persisted as he released her from the deadly lock. She looked at him expectantly but he didn't attack. He was just toying with her, not even that! He was just embarrassing her.
"Does this seem funny to you?" Sakura scowled realizing that he hadn't even tired out, "Do you think this is all just a big hilarious joke?" Sakura's head tilted to the side slightly as she awaited his answer.
Syaoran pretended to ponder over his possibilities for a while but finally responded, "To be honest, it does seem kinda funny. Who am I kidding of course this is just some big joke for me"
"Why you little."Sakura growled, "I'll show you joke when the joke's on you!" She summoned fight and power telepathically making her glow. She charged at Syaoran with everything she had. This time Syaoran just blocked and they were almost equally matched, meaning that Syaoran wasn't so much stronger than her like before.
Syaoran was astonished at the way Sakura had suddenly gotten a lot stronger, he also sensed magic. He knew at that instant that she possessed magic and so he would have to watch out. He too had magic but exposing that little secret would have to wait, right now he couldn't risk anyone knowing that he could do magic.
He managed to shove Sakura out of the way as her went for his perfect get away. He left leaving a baffled Sakura, he knew he had the upper hand and yet he was going for an exit.
Sakura stood there a few more seconds when something shiny caught her eye. She looked up and sure enough on top a roof was a masked guy taking aim and about to pull the trigger of his gun. Sakura followed his gaze and saw it ended at a little shack, more specifically the lady tending the shack- Florence. This had to be Junkai, Sakura wasted no time thinking of the amber-eyed mystery and flipped up high on to the roof (with the help of jump) and landed right in front of him.
Junkai was shocked, even though his facial expression was hidden behind the mask, Sakura could see the shock all over his eyes. He stumbled back a bit, obviously not expecting an approach like this.
"Now, now, you don't mean to tell me that you were gonna kill Florence that way did you?" Sakura teased, "It would be highly unfair, for god's sakes she isn't even aware of your presence. You're a cheap loser aren't you now?"
Junkai was shocked but was staring at her outfit, they were tight and you could see lots of her features. She didn't have a mask on so he also stared at her face for a little while until he got lost in her eyes. When he got out of the daze of her eyes he was staring at her chest.
"You're such a pervert, you little ass" Sakura barked as she kicked his side. Unlike the other guy, he couldn't dodge even though he tried. She wasn't even using her cards at the moment.
"What the fu-" The guy started but Sakura kicked him again sending him sprawling on his back. She grabbed his collar and used her other hand to punch his face about 50 times sending him unconscious.
She smiled, her first job was accomplished, and ever so easily. She took his body and dragged it all the way to Lorenzo's place while using dash and power. Was he ever pleased that he was out of the way.
"He's still alive?" Lorenzo questioned after Sakura told him that she just knocked him out.
"S'not like he's getting anywhere, he'll be dead in one shot, just thought that you might wanna question him before anything, y'kno." Sakura shrugged, "But if that's not what you wanted, I can kill the stupid bastard and end his misery already"
"No it's not that, but this guy is quite a fighter, just didn't think you'd even get close to him, thought that you'd have to shoot him from a distance." Lorenzo replied nonchalantly.
"Well you obviously don't know me very well, I don't need a handicap or any easy way out" Sakura snapped heatedly as she walked away, most likely back to her hotel room.
Lorenzo smirked but stopped when he heard his little wired ear-plug start talking "Wow, she's good, she'll definitely get the job done" Came an enticing feminine voice.
"Yeah, she will won't she" Lorenzo sighed back, "She's one heck of a package."
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Chapter Three: Amber Eyed Mystery
Sakura carefully slipped into the shadows of the alleys and avoided meeting people's gazes. She was as swift as a fox, no one saw her. She slipped her way around most of the market area when she spotted it, a tiny shack with an elderly woman tending it.
She was selling candles, dragon's tears and all sorts of enchanted stuff. She even sold good luck charms and jewelry. Somehow Sakura could sense something in that little shack.
She swung her bag that was slung over her shoulder in front of her and grabbed a coat that covered her outfit and was long enough to reach the floor. She took her shades off and flicked her hair back. She looked like a regular person in the market place.
She approached it nonchalantly and smiled warmly at the elderly woman tending it with a wave. The woman smiled back and ushered her to come closer.
"Hi ma'am" Sakura greeted graciously making the woman nod gratefully.
The woman smiled back and said, "Welcome child, would you like to see our range of quality candles and good luck charms?"
"I'd love to!" Sakura smiled looking through the wide selection thoroughly. The woman seemed to be very pleased. Not too long after Sakura picked up some candles as well as a dragon's tear and purchased it.
"Thank you so much child. Children these days don't normally by so many things from here, they find it, well 'farfetched' and 'old fashioned' don't you think that?" The woman asked
Sakura shook her head profoundly, "Not at all. I think that things like these," She spoke holding her bag of newly bought things and continued, "Are beautifully made and I think that it's magical."
"Wow, such emotion from just a mere child on magic. Do you believe in magic yourself child?"
"Oh yes I do, of course!" Sakura replied making the woman gasp. 'Oops, now she'll think I practice magic or something' she thought so she quickly added, "Magic is all around us, it's nature, the sky and the animals. Magic is so beautiful"
"Oh," The woman's excitement faltered but grinned anyway, "Magic is beautiful isn't it?" She sighed, "So can I help you with anything else?"
"Umm, yeh, I was wondering if you're the one they call Florence or if you know of the one named Florence" Sakura asked hopefully twirling the ends of her ponytail with her fingers.
"How do you know of Florence my Grand daughter? She owns her own shack here in the markets!" The woman answered gleefully.
"Thank you so much for your information, and I know OF her, I haven't actually met her or anything. Let's just say I'm a fan!" Sakura stated humbly, "Thanks again for your help, I'll look for her right now!" She turned to walk away but the woman's voice snarled something quite disturbing.
"You better not be the good-for-nothing dirtbag assassin that is after Florence!" She bit out viciously, "I've seen visions of the one after her and I sense great power within you!" She chided.
"I am an assassin but not the one after your grand daughter. You see I'm after the one after Florence. The one that goes by the name 'Junkai' he has killed every other member of the Juvenile's circle and he's after Florence." Sakura retorted. She could not have sorceresses such as she after her so decided to give out very interesting information.
The lady gaped, "Child I did not mean to point fingers, it's just that-" The woman apologized.
"Save it, do not repeat any information I gave to you and the more time you waste on me, the less chance I have of saving your grand daughter" Sakura retaliated coldly.
Sakura turned on her heels and began slinking away into the shadows again. She moved quickly but also mutely through the alleyways until she heard a small sound. Sakura paused for a second and turned around. She scanned the area but saw nothing, maybe it was just her imagination.
Sakura dismissed the thought and turned her focus back on finding Florence's shop-stand. Even though she was moving incredibly fast she thought that she wasn't covering enough space. She twirled her hand her hand back to her backpack and shoved her hand into her bag. She shuffled through her bag and grabbed something out. It was dash.
She smiled at the card before her and activated it mentally making her move even faster than she already was.
Sakura took a shard rapid turn and saw Florence's little shack, she smiled but heard a swift movement behind her. The one she thought had been trailing her all this time.
She knew it, this moron or whatever it was had been stalking her this whole time. He'd been watching her every move very intently. Damn, why did she have to be so dumb? She could have tried to lose him or her at the very least. She had risked her whole cover and was now regretting it.
"Dammit!" She cursed softly under her breath but made sure her senses were up. She listened carefully and heard distant dire steps drawing closer and closer to her. This person was really getting in deep. Sakura stood there, back against the wall in silence but her attention was to the thing coming in very closely to her.
She could just barely hear this stalker's movements, she could tell it was moving incredibly fast and very quietly. Just who was her secret 'fan' she wondered. She rolled her eyes in the thought of finding out in a matter of mere seconds.
She squeezed her eyes shut momentarily to get a feel of exactly how close this thing really was. She snapped her eyes open feeling he was just about there. She only had a second to think when a hooded figure appeared right before her. His face remained hidden under the hood but his amber eyes reflected the sun and shone brilliantly.
Sakura frowned in dismay, "So you're my little stalker, how nice of you to show yourself," Sakura spoke sarcastically with hostility evident in her tone.
The figure smirked and pulled his cloak off to reveal an extremely hot looking young man with unruly russet hair who didn't look the least bit intimidated with Sakura's coldness. He looked at her with a mock scorn plastered on his face.
He crept up closer to Sakura and she noticed he was dressed in a casual fit, well not really casual, but he had weapons thrusted wherever he could place it. That was it, she finally recognized the way he was dressed, it was the exact same way that Druids dressed.
"I'm glad you're grateful, some people just freak when they see me. Try to get away, you see I'm not usually the one to let my kills get away." The guy mocked with a shrug.
Sakura was beginning to hate this guy's attitude, even more so by the second. He was beating her in her own game, she knew he was faster and quicker than her but what totally pissed her off was the fact that he was also witty with his words.
He knew where it hit the spot and she couldn't sense any sort of emotion in his voice. She didn't know how he was feeling, even his face was hard which only meant that her opponent had an advantage.
Sakura suppressed her thoughts allowing her to concentrate more on this intruder/stalker/druid or whatever this guy was. She hid all her emotions and retorted to the guy's comment with a sly grin, "Since when is a man sent after a teeny weenie innocent girl?" She put on a puppy-dog face and innocent eyes which completely threw the guy off guard.
He began to wonder what he was even doing stalking a harmless girl, after all she was only a girl, what on earth would she be able to do, she couldn't possibly ruin anything could she?
Seeing that the guy was off guard and contemplating over his thoughts, Sakura quickly lunged a swift kick to the guy's side. At the last possible moment the chestnut haired guy dodged out of the way, in shock that she tried to pull something like that off on his face.
"Well there you go, not so innocent when she shows her true colours now is she?" Syaoran chuckled indignantly.
Sakura snorted as she dove for another kick which he blocked easily. Sakura was now getting frustrated with this whole business. She was about to launch a punch when he caught her fist effortlessly, at this Sakura tried to kick him but he cartwheeled back, taking Sakura for the wrong side of the ride as he held her caught fist from before.
The 'ride' had so 'kindly' left her with a long scrape along her arm. Unfortunately the 'ride' had also torn her assassin style outfit.
"Who the hell are you?" Sakura demanded tending her ripped sleeve and not looking at the guy himself. She thought that he at least had the courtesy to not attack while she wasn't paying attention. He didn't strike her as one of those lowly cheaters who wouldn't give a damn if their opponent was fighting or not.
"Ladies first, why don't you tell me exactly what kind of business you have with Florence, hmmm?" Syaoran insisted with a cocky grin. Sakura was really getting pissed off with his manner and punched his face, only thing was he evaded her attack and trapped her in a headlock with a swift movement.
"That is no business of yours. Wait a minute, are you Junkai?" Sakura snapped then raised her brows while her eyes widened anticipating her answer even though she was confined in her headlock. Could it be that this guy was the man she had been sent to kill? If it was he had a lot of work done to his face, he looked so much better now than he did on the photograph Lorenzo had given her.
"Your words wound me, you compare me to a lowly scumbag like Junkai? That really hurts. How do you know of Junkai?" Syaoran persisted as he released her from the deadly lock. She looked at him expectantly but he didn't attack. He was just toying with her, not even that! He was just embarrassing her.
"Does this seem funny to you?" Sakura scowled realizing that he hadn't even tired out, "Do you think this is all just a big hilarious joke?" Sakura's head tilted to the side slightly as she awaited his answer.
Syaoran pretended to ponder over his possibilities for a while but finally responded, "To be honest, it does seem kinda funny. Who am I kidding of course this is just some big joke for me"
"Why you little."Sakura growled, "I'll show you joke when the joke's on you!" She summoned fight and power telepathically making her glow. She charged at Syaoran with everything she had. This time Syaoran just blocked and they were almost equally matched, meaning that Syaoran wasn't so much stronger than her like before.
Syaoran was astonished at the way Sakura had suddenly gotten a lot stronger, he also sensed magic. He knew at that instant that she possessed magic and so he would have to watch out. He too had magic but exposing that little secret would have to wait, right now he couldn't risk anyone knowing that he could do magic.
He managed to shove Sakura out of the way as her went for his perfect get away. He left leaving a baffled Sakura, he knew he had the upper hand and yet he was going for an exit.
Sakura stood there a few more seconds when something shiny caught her eye. She looked up and sure enough on top a roof was a masked guy taking aim and about to pull the trigger of his gun. Sakura followed his gaze and saw it ended at a little shack, more specifically the lady tending the shack- Florence. This had to be Junkai, Sakura wasted no time thinking of the amber-eyed mystery and flipped up high on to the roof (with the help of jump) and landed right in front of him.
Junkai was shocked, even though his facial expression was hidden behind the mask, Sakura could see the shock all over his eyes. He stumbled back a bit, obviously not expecting an approach like this.
"Now, now, you don't mean to tell me that you were gonna kill Florence that way did you?" Sakura teased, "It would be highly unfair, for god's sakes she isn't even aware of your presence. You're a cheap loser aren't you now?"
Junkai was shocked but was staring at her outfit, they were tight and you could see lots of her features. She didn't have a mask on so he also stared at her face for a little while until he got lost in her eyes. When he got out of the daze of her eyes he was staring at her chest.
"You're such a pervert, you little ass" Sakura barked as she kicked his side. Unlike the other guy, he couldn't dodge even though he tried. She wasn't even using her cards at the moment.
"What the fu-" The guy started but Sakura kicked him again sending him sprawling on his back. She grabbed his collar and used her other hand to punch his face about 50 times sending him unconscious.
She smiled, her first job was accomplished, and ever so easily. She took his body and dragged it all the way to Lorenzo's place while using dash and power. Was he ever pleased that he was out of the way.
"He's still alive?" Lorenzo questioned after Sakura told him that she just knocked him out.
"S'not like he's getting anywhere, he'll be dead in one shot, just thought that you might wanna question him before anything, y'kno." Sakura shrugged, "But if that's not what you wanted, I can kill the stupid bastard and end his misery already"
"No it's not that, but this guy is quite a fighter, just didn't think you'd even get close to him, thought that you'd have to shoot him from a distance." Lorenzo replied nonchalantly.
"Well you obviously don't know me very well, I don't need a handicap or any easy way out" Sakura snapped heatedly as she walked away, most likely back to her hotel room.
Lorenzo smirked but stopped when he heard his little wired ear-plug start talking "Wow, she's good, she'll definitely get the job done" Came an enticing feminine voice.
"Yeah, she will won't she" Lorenzo sighed back, "She's one heck of a package."
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