Junsui: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah!!!!

Sakura: Am I hearing her right?!

Harushi: *gasp* JUN-CHAN! STOP SAYING THAT!!! YOU KNOW YOU DON'T MEAN IT!!!!!

Junsui: CHE!

Sakura: Young lady! Don't make me hurt you!

Junsui: Young Lady?!!!! Wench! I'm older than you!!!

Sakura: Yes Junsui-onee-chan.... U.U

Junsui: *growl* On wit dis fic that no one seems to like.... *glare*

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Disclaimer: For God's sake... We don't own this fic....

Warning: why?

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Chapter 4: Nuriko's Loved Ones

Nuriko sat at the table at his house. He was still confused about the young woman taking a bath in the next room. "She's a nice girl," he said to himself.

In the bathing room, Sakura steps out of the water. A cockroach crawls onto her foot and she screams. She jumps up and hits her head on the ceiling. As Nuriko runs in, she falls onto the floor.

"What happened?!" he asked, not realizing she was naked.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! GET OUTTA HERE YOU PERV!!!!" she yells as she starts throwing objects at him - soap bars, buckets, shampoo bottles - hoping that he'd get out.

*boom* *slap* *crash* *groan*

Nuriko had passed out just outside the door. "Hmph!" Sakura said as she wrapped herself up in a towel and stompped to the room Nuriko had said she could have. After she slammed the door behind her, she fainted.

*Hours later*

Sakura finally awoke, remembering the reason why she had fainted. She got up and put on her favorite kimono.

Outside in the main room, Nuriko sat rubbing his head. "Good arm..." he commented as she walked in. She blushed and walked passed him.

"I should probably start dinner," she said, walking into the kitchen, when the a knock came on the door.

Nuriko got up and opened the door to find a young woman dressed in a black kimono embroidered with blood-red rose petals. She had shoulder-length hair that was blacker than the night sky.



"Is this the house of Chou Reyuuen?" she asked, her maroon eyes shadowed by her bangs.

Another woman? Sakura thought. You could just see the jealousy in her eyes. She strained her ears to hear what the girl had to say.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything," says the girl, "My name is Harushi. I'm your half sister..."

Sakura stuck her head out of the kitchen doorway, "phew..."

Nuriko stares at the girl in shock and invites her in. Harushi sits at the table and Sakura comes out with enough food for all of them.

"Your father - I mean - our father had an affair with my mother. I am very ashamed and you probably don't want to know me, but I just wanted to meet you," she explains.

They started eating and Nuriko told Harushi that it wasn't her fault that their dad was a two-timing bastard.

He told Katana that she could share a room with Sakura. After all, there was only two bedrooms and he wasn't going to sleep with either of them. Sakura wasn't pleased with his decision but made no argument.

"that's great," she said, a fake smile on her face.

*That Night*

Katana lay on the top "bunk" of a bed brought from Mibaka's time. What a strange bed, she thought. She tried very hard to sleep. "This girl's snoring is driving me CRAZY." she said to herself. On the bottom bunk, Sakura lay dreaming.

She dreamt about her future with Nuriko. All of a sudden, her dream turned into a nightmare. Everything vanished and Sakura was left in the dark.

It wasn't a normal darkness. It was the type of darkness that makes you feel alone - the kind that seems to envelope itself around you. Sakura felt as though the shadow itself were alive and squeezing the air out of her.

She jolted up and hit her head on the railing of the top bunk. "OWW!"

Katana was just about to fall asleep when she heard a loud thump. She figured it was just her imagination since she started hearing Sakura's snoring again. "Oh great..."

*Nuriko's Room*

Nuriko was also having a nightmare. He, too, was in the suffocating darkness. Then, Sakura appeared.

"Boy, am I glad to see you. Hey! Sakura! Can you hear me?!" he yelled. He saw her go into an old shack and followed her in.

All of a sudden, the door behind him shut with a loud bang and he saw Sakura in the shadows, a sword in her hand.

Just before he could say anything, she stuck the sword through him. "I'm sorry..." he heard her whisper before darkness started to take over his vision.



He was dying. "But I..." he choked out, "I...love....yo-"

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He quickly wakes up and wonders what the dream meant. Do I really love her? he asked himself as he sits up in bed.

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Junsui: Well that's it.... You want more, review! I don't care if you have time or not...

Sakura: JUNSUI!

Junsui: what?!!

Harushi: QUICK! GAG HER!!! *ties Junsui up and gags her*

Junsui: GACK!!!!! *muffled cursing*

Sakura: SAYANORA!!!! REVIEW!! FOR JUNSUI'S SAKE - REVIEW!!!!!!!