darki: allooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Thank u all sooooooooo much for the many fantastic reviews!!! I luv u guys!!!!! *huggles all of her wonderful and faithful reviewers* u guys are the best!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! 27 REVIEWS!!!!!!! but I need more than that 2 keep on typing ppl...... newayz, on with da ficcy!!!!

P.S. could someone tell me how to get the damn spacing of this fic right??!!!!

Running From the Past

by darki and mishi

Chappie 5 - You're Not Alone....

Saiyuri groaned when she woken up at 8:00 am sharp by a maid tapping her shoulder incessantly and constantly repeating "Miss Kimakaze, please wake up. Miss Kimakaze? Miss? Miss? Miss Kimakaze, please wake up..." "I'm awake." Saiyuri stated yawning as she sat up a stretched like a sleek cat. "Where's Tomoyo?" she asked and gave the maid a confused look. The maid sweatdropped. "Uhhh..... Mistress Daidouji is still sleeping...." she trailed off looking supremely guilty and embarrassed. "Then why'd you wake ME up?!" Saiyuri exclaimed. "Because Mistress Daidouji had a meeting in exactly half an hour and we can't wake her...." the girl never finished her sentence as Saiyuri dashed out the door and into Tomoyo's room.

"Tomoyo?? Tomoyo??!! TOMOYO!!!!!!" Sai cried out at her snoring (A/N: sori, couldn't resist that... ^____~ ) friend sprawled out on her bed. "Toyo, sweetie, wake up!! You've got a meeting in half and hour!!! Toyo?? Toyo!! Wake up!!" Tomoyo kept right on snoring. "Damn, she must've drunk a lot of tequilas last night." Sai muttered. When Tomoyo didn't budge a millimetre, Saiyuri resorted to screaming. "DAIDOUJI TOMOYO, IF YOU DON"T WAKE UP THIS BLOODY SECOND I WILL PERSONALLY POUR FREEZING COLD WATER ON YOU AND TP YOUR ROOM AND COLOUR YOUR FACE LIKE A RACOON WITH A PERMANENT MARKER AND SEND THESE PICTURES TO YOUR KAWAII BOYFRINED ERIOL AND THEN POST IT AROUND YOUR COMPANY"S BUIDING AND SEND IT TO ALL OF YOUR CLIENTS AND PEERS. DO YOU HEAR ME??!!! GET UP THIS INSTANT!!!!!"

Saiyuri waited for her friend to respond. Nothing answered. 1 minute.... 3 minutes.... WAIT!!!! Something had moved!!! Saiyuri watched intently only to watch her normally graceful and perfect friend fall snoring out of bed with a loud THUNK. That woke Tomoyo up. "Wha???" she mumbled still 3/4 asleep. "Toyo, get up!!! You have a meeting in 20 minutes!!!!" THAT sobered up Tomoyo fast. "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " Tomoyo's wail could be heard within a 5 mile radius. "Sai, why didn't you wake me up earlier???!!!" tomoyo shrieked as she dashed to her private bathroom (both of tomoyo's guest rooms have private bathrooms as well) for a quick shower. "No time for a shower!" Saiyuri called when Tomoyo searched frantically for her shampoo bottle. "Just brush your teeth and wash your face and put on your clothes." "But---" "No buts missy. Just DO it."

Tomoyo did as told and was dressing in her Versace form fitting black pinstripe suit with a silky halter top underneath the thin blazer and grabbed a pair of silvery black sling-back 3 inch sandals and sprinted out the door with Sai close on her heels. "Toyo, what's Jayce's number?" Sai asked when they were inside the elevator going down. "It's 426.642.246 - but don't bother calling him now," Tomoyo added when Saiyuri whipped out her cellphone. Saiyuri gave Tomoyo a questioning look. "He always knows when he's needed - it's like a sixth sense" Tomoyo clarified and was saved from more questions from Saiyuri when the elevator doors slid open to release the frantic Tomoyo and her calmer friend.

True enough, there stood Jayce dressed casually in a pair of blue slacks and a white t-shirt and nice fat black skateboarding shoes with a cheeky grin on his face and held the door to a black limo open for the two young women. Tomoyo opened her mouth to tell directions but Jayce beat her to it. "Yeah, yeah, AEiR Towers right?" and sped off without waiting for an answer.

Exactly 7 minutes later and with precisely 8 minutes to go before Tomoyo's meeting started, they pulled up to AEiR Towers and with a brief "bye" from Tomoyo, she disappeared and left Sai alone. Well, not exactly alone. "So, gorgeous, where to?" Jayce asked with a smile on his face. "Dunno." Sai answered truthfully. Jayce grinned outright and asked "How 'bout we get rid of this clunky piece of shit and grab something nicer?" Saiyuri laughed and with a slightly ironic smile on her lips replied "Why not?"

~~On the Highway~~

Saiyuri and Jayce were both seated inside of Saiyuri's new silvery-blue BMW Z4 and happily stuck in the middle of a traffic jam. "Great. This is just so fucking great." Sai muttered as she fingered the stupid idiot who had been continuously honking and swearing at her to move for the past 5 minutes. "Can't the little piece of shit SEE that I CAN"T move?!" she hissed cracking her knuckles. Jayce placed a restraining hand on Sai's shoulder. "Chill, kiddo. I don't wanna have ta bail you outta jail for finally losing it an' punching the shit out of the little motherfucker behind us." "Even though he deserves it?" "Even though he deserves it." Saiyuri sighed and placed her head on the steering wheel.

"I'm soooo bored." She mumbled. "Wanna play a game?" Jayce asked. "What? Not 'I Spy'. " she pleaded. Jayce laughed and replied "Na, that game's stupid. How 'bout 20/20?" "Ok..... 'bout what though?" "Dunno. Anything that isn't too personal." "Fine. Who's starting?" "I don't care." "Pick." "No." "I said PICK." "I said NO." "PICK!" "NO!" "PICK DAMN YOU!!" "NO!!" "This is the stupidest conversation I've ever had." Sai stated with a sigh. Jayce burst out laughing at the pouting Sai. "I've had stupider conversations with my little bro. Guess I still have ta pick, huh?" "Of course!!" "Fine.... You go first." "What?! Fine...."

Sai stared at the grinning man beside her. 'What should I ask?' she wondered in her head. "Sweetie-pie, are you gonna keep staring at my hot bod or are you gonna ask me some q's??" Jayce asked with an amused smile. Sai snapped out of her trance and shot back "What hot bod??? All I see is a pile of blubber that is oozing all over my nice leather seats." "Ouch." He winced good naturedly. "Anyways, so here's question one: What's your favourite thing?" "Racing." "Really? I like racing too... what's your favourite or best kind?" "Cars and motorcycle." Sai nearly squealed with glee causing Jayce to sweatdrop. "REALLY??!!!! Oh my God!!!! I LOVE that too!!!!! We've gotta race some day...." Soon her questions were over and then it was Jayce's turn. He asked simple questions but stopped before his turn was over when traffic started moving again.

After a few minutes of silence, Jayce asked quietly "Sai?" "Ya-huh?" Sai mumbled back; not really focused on her new friend beside her as she was driving. "What... What did you do... like before you came here?" Jayce ventured out. Sai nearly killed them by her sudden jamming of the brakes. She swore and calmed herself and started with the flow of traffic once more. "What did you say?" she asked as calmly as she could. He didn't answer for a moment still paralyzed from shock. But he gathered himself together and repeated "What did you do before you came here?" "What did YOU do?" Saiyuri asked in reply. "Hey, I'm asking the questions." He protested but Saiyuri cut him off. "It was shady wasn't it." she stated in a monotone voice.

Jayce stared at the girl driving and turned to stare out the window to hide his fear and shock. "I don't know what you mean." He muttered. Sai's lips twisted up in a cruel smile "Oh yes you do, Jayce Ishmiel. You know exactly what I mean. Or should I say, Janaez Torihiko." (A/N: Janaez is Jayce's real last name and Torihiko's his real first name - he's a mix of Japanese and Egyptian) Jayce froze at the last sentence. He slowly turned to stare at Saiyuri. "What did you just say?" he whispered. Saiyuri's features softened briefly. "You're not the only one running from the past." She replied softly. She laughed a little harshly and sadly at the surprised/fearful look on Jayce's face. "Come on. Let's go somewhere where we can talk without killing ourselves on the highway. Know anyplace? I haven't been around for ages." He gulped and nodded. "Yeah. You can go to my place. Should be quiet enough."

~~Jayce's and Cy's place~~

"Don't be so freaked out over the fact that I know your past and name." she soothed his frazzled nerves slightly. "Come on Jayce, think. You should know me. You must've heard about me even though you probably had never seen me." They were both now sitting inside his small but funky apartment that he shared with his brother Cy. Both were sipping a mug of coffee as Sai had insisted that coffee helped calm your nerves. (A/N: lol... ya I knoe that's probably nt true but I loooooov coffee @____@ )

Jayce racked his memory for someone who fitted the clues that she had given him. She couldn't have been a hooker.... or could she? He looked at the Saiyuri and noted how toned her body was showing that she must've spent many years on the streets fighting. But her clothing which were obviously hers and not Tomoyo's revealed something different than his initial thinking - a tight black cotton side-sleeve sweater (like the white one Kiera Knightley wears in 'Love Actually') that stopped just above her navel and tight low-rise dark blue corded Sevens jeans which showed that she must've been well taught in what makes girls turn green with envy and guys drool. And the way she spoke showed that she was extremely intelligent and well educated. Who fitted that criteria? He pondered a few more moments until the answer exploded in his head.

He jumped up and stared down at her with wide eyes gasped out hoarsely "It can't be..." Sai smiled coldly and replied "Figured it out? Well aren't you a smart boy. So---" "You can't be the Shadow." He interrupted vehemently. "you can't." She raised a perfectly arched eyebrow. "Oh? And why not?" "You... you.... Miss Daidouji wouldn't be friends with someone like you!" he cried out. Saiyuri's eyes narrowed dangerously. "That's why Tomoyo doesn't know." She hissed. "But...but---" Sai laughed humourlessly. "Tomoyo doesn't know anything. All that she knows is that her sweet and kawaii and innocent friend Sakura Kinomoto left Tomoeda 11 years ago and changed her name along with her mum's for unknown reasons and has been travelling the world." "But that's not true, is it?" "No, smart ass, it the whole god- damned truth." Saiyuri replied sarcastically. "What the hell do you think?! You really think that I would burden my only friend in the world with my problems?! Tell an innocent child about the horrors I went through?! About the prostitution, the assassinations, the drugs and all the pain and hatred I went through to be the person I am today?!" Saiyuri stopped nearly sobbing.

"Hey, I'm sorry about what I said." Jayce attempted to comfort the distraught girl in front of her. He could see that despite the harsh life she had been forced through causing her to create a shell of ice around her heart, she was still untainted in parts of her soul. "I was just surprised..." Saiyuri snorted through her tears. "Cut the crap. I'm just a little emotional.... I've been locked up for a long time.... it's been a while since I last talked to someone for more than 30 seconds before either threatening them or being threatened then having to shoot them....." Her face became void of all emotion and her tears seemed to freeze; suspended in time.

She quickly snapped out of her trance and smiled at Jayce her eyes slightly faraway. After a few quiet moments, Jayce ventured out another question. "So... Why are you telling me all this? Why didn't you just blow me off or shoot me or something?" At the withering glare he received, Jayce held up his hands in mock surrender. "Hey, I'm just going by what circulates around." She smirked and answered truthfully "I don't know. I really don't know. I guess I just kinda feel relaxed around you..." She stared at the man sitting across from her a smiled a feral grin showing of her pearly whites and very sharp canines. Jayce gulped at this silent warning. "But my instincts tell that I can trust you - they've never been wrong." Both heard her unspoken 'yet' . He grinned his trademark grin to mask his fear and the surprised pleasure he felt over Saiyuri trusting him so much. But he fully understood what would happen if he ever broke that trust.

darki: yeah, I knoe, it's a short chappie.

Tomoyo: yeah, talk about short. I barely had any part!!!!

Xiao-La (recovered SOME of his letters): Hey, I had NO part at all!!!!! At least YOU had some lines!!! I had zippo!!!! X ^6

Meiling: So??!! I had no part either!!!!

Eriol: Or me!!!!!!

Aerin: Or me!!!!!!!!!!

darki: gomen, gomen, gomen!!!! I was going to include you all but *looks apologetically at her wonderful characters* it only seemed fitting for the chappie to end there, ne?

All characters not included: Hmmmmmmmpppht.

darki: gomen nasai!!!!! I'll add u all in the next chappie!!!!

Left-outers: *suspiciously* reali??

darki: yes reali!!!

L-O: Promise??

darki: PROMISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

L-O: Fine.

Meiling: we'll let u off easy this time. *holds up her fist*

darki: *looks at scary fist with big eyes* eep!!! okee, okee, we get the point.

darki: BUT I WANT MORE REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HARDLY ANYONE REVIWED FOR CHAPPIE 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sniffles* I'M SO HURT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomoyo: uh oh.

Sai: she's gonna start another flood.

*Everyone runs for cover*

Jayce: REVIEW PEOPLE BEFORE WE DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!