Onwards to the long awaited Chap 4

It had been three days since the club incident. Three days since she had almost died. When Teni and her had ran from the club they had come to a mansion. It was beautiful and rich, but held ascertain coldness in its build. Over the past days she had been wondering, talking to Teni and some others that she had met. She liked most of the people she met. But she liked Teni most of all. He was the one who made her laugh and helped her in understanding some of the things that had happened that night he saved her life. She loved his dark brown spiky hair with their blonde tips and she loved his smile. How his teeth would peak out ever so slightly. After only three days she had found herself completely caught in his charm.

Looking up from her book she had been trying to read, at the sound of her door opening to the room she had been given Naoko saw the very person who dwelled on her mind. Teni entered, a sly look on his face, one that didn't go unnoticed by Naoko. That was her as well as Sakura's forte they could read people well. His baby blue eyes gave him away. Teni offered his masculine hand to Naoko to grab. He was trying to seem as non-mischievous as possible but why she didn't know or didn't care. 'That's just who Teni-kun is'. Naoko reached her own smaller hand out and accepted the offer.

"I have a surprise for you Naoko, come on."

Confused and intrigued Naoko placed her book gentle on the stand that resided by her bed and stood. She made eye contact with Teni only to see that he had finally succeeded in masked his former look that resembled the childish look of a boy who had just stolen from the cookie jar. He tugged gently on her hand to inform her he was ready to leave.

Familiar hallways and staircases were passed. A small smile resided on her innocent face not aware of the demons she past, in ever person she waved to, ever hall that she registered, even those that dwelled in the person she had become found of. Teni allowed that insidious look slip over his face; soon she would only know what she absolutely needed. She would receive the information needed to persuade her to their side and to further their ultimate plan. Teni stopped at a wide oak door that always remained locked and only had two keys. Teni lifted his left hand, which did not bear the girls and knocked. The sound came out with authority and demand.

This area was somewhat unfamiliar to Naoko, her brown eyes scanning the walls. She had been in here only once before, never returned because of two things. The one door the area contained she found locked, and the mysterious dark feeling that gave her the chills. But now the door was open and the room inside looked like an endless pit. Teni nudged forward bring her along. Inside, the feeling increased and her eyes landed on a man well into his thirties stand behind a dark mahogany stained desk. His posture was of superiority and duplicity. His hair was slicked back, cheeks chiseled in casting a sickly looking shadow over his face. The sinister smile that resided on his thin lips gave Naoko chills.

"Hello there."

Naoko looked at the man in slight shock. Though his appearance was hair rising his voice was soft and almost kind. The man gestured to take a seat.

"Well Miss..."

"Sakura Kinomoto, your parents are Nadeshiko and Fujitaka Kinomoto ne?"

Nodding Sakura looked at the man before her. Keiji sat slightly leaning back in his chair his hands folded in front of him. It was only then that his age truly set in. Before he had looked like a mid twenty-year-old but like this she could see the age and wisdom in his features. Keiji continued.

"Dear, are you positive you are ready for this? Today has been a rough day for you."

"I want to know." Sakura replied with a shear determination and hunger for the truth of her past

"Good, good, just like your mother, I guess it would be best to start from the beginning. Your father and I had been friends since a young age. We were both brought up in the same environment, one we both loved greatly and were some of the best in it. When Fujitaka was 24 he met a beautiful woman...

It was mid-afternoon and everything had a beautiful glow. The trees seemed an even more lush green; the birds sang the song, which welcomed the noon sun, with more vigor. One word that described it all; astonishing. No matter how dreadful the aura coming from the building behind the landscape was, this made everything seem okay. A young woman thought so at least, her grayish violet hair sweeping around her crunched up frame. Her pale hands laid gracefully on her knees making a good place for her chin. Stormy green eyes stared into the distance, looking through the curtains of forest green leaves. Here she was content, didn't have to worry about the world, didn't have to worry about the building behind her.

"Hey girl, why are you up in a tree?"

Startled by the sudden interruption, the woman unraveled herself rather clumsily. This caused her to feel weightless, which she was not expecting. She was falling. Bracing herself for the impacted the woman shut her eyes tight and let out a small scream. But the ground never came, but a loud gruff did and she found herself sitting on top of a man she had never seen before.

"Oh dear sir I am so sorry. I didn't mean to make you a human pillow I swear." The girl stammered slowly removing herself from on top of the man.

He chuckled slightly brushing his self off. The man ruffled his auburn locks to get the remaining dirt out of it. This action mesmerized the woman in front of him. 'Wow pretty! What an amazing color for hair. Oh no I'm staring.' The girl looked down and blushed deeply when the man's chocolate brown eyes met her green.

"My names Kinomoto Fujitaka, yours?"

"Umm... Uh Amamiya... Nadeshiko"

"Its very nice to meet you Amamiya-san."

"You too... um I'm sorry again for the... uh tree thing..."

The two started to talk lightly before being interrupted by a loud shrill cry.

"NADESHIKO!!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S GONE NADESHIKO!!!!!!!!!!!"

"She was 17 at the time; they had met in a hospital. Nadeshiko had just lost her mother to cancer. It was a tragic time for her that made the two of them to become very close and soon they started to fall in love."

Sakura smiled widely, she loved to hear how her parents met. She however did not notice the amber eyes that were taking in her smile.

"Fujitaka; however, was in a bind. He wanted to marry this woman but his life style, he felt, was too rough for her. He would have quiet if she hadn't found out about how he lived before he could. When she did she jump on the opportunity for an adventure, that was very Nadeshiko we would come to learn, always looking for something to challenge herself with. Her innocent spirit made many doubt until they saw her in action. Needless to say she shortly was married to Fujitaka and lived her life like her husband. The two of them soared through the competition and even after the birth of their son continued to become the most feared in the business known as the "Pestilences ". They fought the best together but they were also each other's down fall. During this time there was a war going on between two groups...

".... The Serpents and the Wolfs. The Wolfs had started to bomb the Serpents warehouses and intervene in their business deals. They had given the Wolfs time to stop their sadistic actions but they simply increased. Soon too many Serpents were dieing innocently, of course. The leader waged war against the Wolfs. It is a war that is going on still. The Serpents offered many alliances but the Wolfs would simply kill more innocents."

"How awful!!"

"Yes, dear they are very cold hearted people. They just want blood spilled. Their hands a stained with so much blood it is hard to see any sort of soul. I'm not sure that they have one. Especially the two that were known as the "Pestilences ". They killed countless numbers of men and women. They were ruthless killers, and husband and wife. The Serpents had observed a downfall in each other's performance while the other was gone. When the wife had given birth to their first child the man was especially weak. So when the wife became pregnant again we took action, wanting the killing to stop. We raided the house that they lived in going after the man, leaving the woman alone considering she was with child and the Serpents are not heartless or cold-blooded like the vicious Wolf pack...

"...Your mother was 7 months pregnant with you when it happened. The Serpents raided the mansion. Your father hid your mother in an underground passage that had been built in their room. Nadeshiko tried to protest but your father wouldn't hear it. What happened next would haunt your mother for years to come. She sat in the hidden passage holding her swollen belly listening to the Serpents torture Fujitaka. After what seemed like hours to your mother the beating stopped and they questioned your father about where Nadeshiko was, your father refused to tell them and they continued to beat him. After many other question about the Wolfs, all of which he didn't answer, they took a bullet to his head."

Keiji stopped looking solemnly at the poor girl in front of him. Her eyes were downcast into her lap. But her tears were not hidden; they rolled gently down her face nothing stopping them. Every teardrop that fell from Sakura's face and on to the table seemed to make it easier for them to come. How could they do something like that? Kill so viciously? She had never gotten to meet her father because of them. Every time she had asked about him to mother she would smile and say that he was the greatest and strongest man, and to be proud of him. Now she knew why, he had died protecting his family. 'You truly were a great father and man.'

"We can stop if you would like?" Keiji's caring voice brought her to make eye contacted with the older man. Her eyes were a stormy green color, filled with pride, sadness and a harsh bite of hatred towards those that caused the death and unhappiness of her family. She had to know everything!

"No sir I would like to finish."

"Very well, this is were I need to ask Eriol and Syaoran if they would please go and stand outside the door."

Sakura had forgotten about the two men that accompanied them in the room. It had just been her and Keiji; she had faded everything else out. The end of the world may have very well came and she would not have known nor cared. Her eyes followed the two men as they left the room. When the door gave a final click, her attention once again fell on Keiji's kind face.

"I'm sorry about that but I figured that you might not want any one else here for what I'm about to tell you."

Sakura nodded slightly before Keiji again continued.

"It was 12 years after that incident that everything came crashing down. Nadeshiko had volunteered to go on an assignment that followed a lead we had achieved. I should have known from the very beginning it wouldn't have been a good idea." Keiji shook his head solemnly. He remembered the day Nadeshiko begged to go on the mission.

"No Nadeshiko it is too dangerous!! We don't even know if the information is legit. I will not allow it!!"

Keiji's eyes blazed at he woman before him. She was suggesting something preposterous, and he would not permit it. Nadeshiko looked back her eyes a deep forest green; they bore into him as if boring into his soul. It had always unnerved him the way her eyes expressed such emotion.

"Keiji I will not accept that answer. I will go on this mission with or without your blessing" Nadeshiko's voice remained unchanging. She would not be persuaded or refused. This was her choice.

"Nadeshiko..."

"NO! I don't want your 'think about your children' talk! I am thinking about them. That is why I asked about my daughter's entrance in the beginning. They are safer with the protection of the gang then anything else!! These men killed my husband, tortured him! They will never leave my family alone until they are dead! I want my revenge even if it cost me my life!!!!! My children will understand!!! DAMMIT KEIJI I NEED THIS!!!!!!!"

"....She knew what it would cost of her and yet she was still willing to go. And in the end she gave the ultimate sacrifice, her life. She did not go down without a fight, she got the revenge she wanted."

"... But I don't understand, mom always told me that I should never give in to my anger no matter how strong. Why would she go and leave me like this? And why would someone ever want to kill my family? WHY?!"

"...Because Naoko they knew that if they took out this one station, no matter what the cost, then they would greatly weaken and almost completely put the Serpents out of the run. Thinking that we would cower and scatter around Japan. However what they did not see was that I would take over the position of my father who was brutally killed by the woman."

"But what does this all have to do with me?"

The girl asked. It tore her heart out to hear about these horrific events and how evil these wolf people really are. But what was she suppose to do with this new information?

"Help us Naoko, help me, help Teni, help the Serpents take back our place and show those heartless beast what happens when you mess with the Serpents, they always strike back."

The tears were flowing rapidly now as he had figured they would. Sobs found there way out of her tight lips. He hated seeing her this way, such a beautiful and innocent girl having to face the cruel world of her family. Here she was losing herself completely and he had yet to tell her who she was. But there was no point in avoiding the subject, for it was the only answer to all of her questions.

"Sakura your mother had another family as well that she loved equally as much as you. A family that she was sure to pass on to you before her death. The mark of the Wolf Gang, you wear it on your left hip. They are your people, they were your mother and father's people and at heart they are your brother's."

Sakura's thoughts stopped at that moment. Honey brown hair flew up Sakura's stormy eyes took on a tint of lighter green, wide with shock. He had mentioned her brother as if he were alive. Very few memories resided with her about her older brother. Much like she had done with her father she had questioned her mother about her lost brother. Never in her 16 years of life had she gotten a straight answer. It was just always assumed that he had died. But now here was this man who referred to him as alive and... that her family was in a gang?!

"Wh...WHAT!!!!!!!!!!"

Keiji rubbed his ears gingerly. He should have expected that. She was after all Nadeshiko's little girl. First he had informed her that her family is in gang and that her brother could be alive, which he was, very much alive. But that was something he would not burden her with.

"Yes your parents were very influential members of the Wolf pack. As are you."

A trembling hand reached for the hem of her shirt. Painfully slow she exposed the ink drawing permanently on her left hip. It made since now. Everything that hand happened within those two weeks before her mother was killed. Waves after waves of emotion filled Sakura's heart. Her mother had given her the mark of her other family. It meant even more to Sakura now then it ever did before. Everything that this man she barely knew had told her before all made perfect sense now. She wondered how she had not put all of the events together before. But she wasn't as strong as her mother she couldn't deal with seeing her closes friends or possibly her husband die from such a family. She couldn't do it, could she?

Keiji sat back in his leather chair watching the young girl contemplate all the information she had just received. From her pale forest green eyes he could see her doubt and worry. She was so much like Nadeshiko. Not for one second did he doubt that she was worried about whether she would be strong enough for a life like this. He remembered the day when Nadeshiko first found out about everything as well.

"WH....WHATTTTT!!!!!"

The three men standing in the room nursed their ears at the girl's sudden out burst. Her purplish gray strands whipped around as she stared at each man question running through her head. Her confused eyes stopped on the man that was the reason for this all.

"Fu...Fujitaka is this all true??"

His chocolate eyes could not meet the stormy green. He heard the desperation in his love's voice. She wanted all of this to be a lie, he knew she did. How could he have thought that she would have accepted this? A life of killing is no life for an angel like her.

"I'm sorry Nade it's true"

Nadeshiko stood there in slight shock. Her eyes stared past everyone in the room. Fujitaka, her one true love had kept something so big from her. Keiji, his best friend and the closest thing she had to a brother had kept this from her. Nadeshiko slumped back into a raggedy yet comforting couch. It made so much sense now. The constant clubbing, the constant martial arts and firing practice: and most of all the constant secrets between the two of them. All of his random disappearances, all the times he had to leave after getting a phone call. It all made sense.

"W...Why? How could you do this to me?"

"Nade please stay with me, I don't want to lose you over something like this. Stay with me here, please"

She couldn't just leave him, she knew that already. She wanted to stay with him and if that meant joining a life style she had always feared then she would. But was she strong enough for something like that?

"Oh Fuji I could never leave you... but... but I'm not strong enough, I'm not like you! I would only be a danger o you and I don't ever want that!!"

Keiji looked at Nadeshiko. Her green eyes were a pale yet deep green in her confusion and self-doubt. Turning away from the two, Keiji approached the other figure in the room. Both of their presences had gone unnoticed by the couple, which Keiji hoped remained for a short time.

"Li-sama"

The man turned from the couple's discussion to the young man beside him. His dark amber eyes shone with slight amusement at the scene unfolding in front of him. To him Fujitaka had found a wonderful companion, this was just a slight bump to bringing them closer then before. Seeing the questioning look Keiji's blue eyes, he ran his hand through his chocolate brown locks swiftly before nodding and exiting the room.

"Nani ka?"

"Li-sama, do you still think it wise to continue with the territory breach on the Serpents docks? With Fujitaka's new... problem... she most likely will not be too pleased to have to let him go on such a life risking mission."

It really was making him worry. Keiji knew the risks of this particular mission, and the chances of all of them making it out were slim to none. Just from the look in Li's eyes told him that they had no choice. Li was not cruel in his dealings, Keiji shoved a few blonde strands out of his face as he contemplated the worry that brother the urgency in his half brother's eyes.

"Keiji do you remember the time you and Fujitaka took the bikes down to the bridge when you two were 16?"

This memory made both men chuckle.

"Yah, Fujitaka had just legally got his license. When he won everyone was so pissed. They flipped his bike over the bridge. Minako-sama was so mad she almost bite our heads off."

"It was right after Fujitaka-san's mother had showed up."

Silence fell over the two. They remembered that time well. A sudden shrill noise came from the room that the couple was still in, ripping the two from the memories. Thinking something was terribly wrong the two rushed in. The scene that met them was something that was hard to forget. Fujitaka was wide- eyed pale and crouched in a corner far as possible from the woman in the middle of the room. The smile on her face was almost devilish.

"W....Wh...what d...do you mean... pr...pre....PREGNANT?!?!?!?!?!?!"

"I'll do it!"

With a voice of determination and the spirit she hoped would keep her strong, the answer flowed from her lips.

"Good girl welcome...."

This chap was ALOT of past and memories but everything is very important to future events. I know it skipped aroud views alot, it was so you could grasp both sides. You'll understand later. Pwease review tell me if I should redo this chap or what kk luv yall