Authors note: coughs err… yeah, lol, to start, I'd just like to say that I am really really really sorry although it wasn't entirely my fault! Ok, so it was kind of my fault, but I do have a fairly good excuse! You see, the week after I posted the first chapter I went on holidays with my family, so obviously I couldn't post then, but while on holidays, my mom got a good promotion offer on her job, the drawback? It meant moving halfway across the country to Calgary. When we got back (near the end of August) it was like hectic zone trying to get everything packed before the end of September (I never realized how much stuff I have) so then I couldn't post because A.) there were no time, and B.) by the time most of it was packed, three weeks later, the computer was packed, then when we got here (October 3) there was more hectic zone of unpacking, and I didn't get internet until two weeks after that (mind you I could have been typing this, but that's when the whole "my fault" part kicks in. so now, six months later, here I am! With a new chapter! Yay! On a better note, I will have chapters up fast now (well…. faster than 4 months anyhow…I hope) because the parents bought a new computer, and I get this lovely one all to myself in my room, with internet , so I shall try to work on this as much as possible. PLUS I now have almost the whole story written out on paper (what? I had to do something for the 2 day car ride.) PLUS AGAIN I wrote out little character bios (you see! I have been a busy little girl working to make this story somewhat readable for all you wonderfully patient reviewers!) and I am now even starting to think of a sequel! Fun fun fun! Although that's only if you review ;) any who, I'm done my blabbering, up here, so without further ado! Chapter two! (hey, that rhymes!)
Ps: for those of you who actually read these, I'm going to need a BETA reader, so contact me by e-mail if you're interested. when I moved recently I had to give up my previous BETA reader (she usually did it at my house because she almost never gets to use her computer so now she doesn't have a chance to do it) the only requirements i have that you are a.) a fan of card captor sakura and know a fair amount about the characters b.) support (are can at least tolerate) SS and E/T pairings and c.) know how to use Microsoft word and can set it so that the changes are highlighted and I just have to hit accept or decline. owl me if you are interested, my next chapter is almost done and I don't want to put it up unedited, thank you!

Also to 'Blueice anime gurl' why thank you my dear, you've helped me out a lot with that little tidbit

SarA

Mafia Madness Chapter Two: White Jelly Beans

"CRASH!"

Syaoran and Meiling had just pulled into the large drive way of a mansion on the outskirts of Hong Kong. The black Mercedes Benz sports car that they had been driving was a wreck, none of the windows were not shattered and had at least three bullet holes in each. The vehicle body was covered in hole, dents and scratches, and the passenger door had been completely broken off when meiling tried to cut off a police car by having him ram into it. Sen and Kenji and the guys defiantly had their work cut out for them. It was a very good thing that their "business" was doing so good, otherwise they'd never have enough money to buy new cars and still have their expensive comforts.

The Hong Kong division of the Chinese mafia was very well known for their success, so successful, that all of the higher ranking people there lived in luxurious mansions and their meeting place was almost like a hotel with tons large bedrooms and their own bathrooms, a pool, tennis and basketball courts, large entertainment room a ballroom for parties, vast kitchen with very loyal hired help And a chief. It was indeed a total dream place to live, although it was only used for when member from other cities came for meetings and such, but was not much of a loss to the very highest ranking people that they didn't live there, their homes were almost as vast and beautiful and this building was.

"SYAORAN! That had better not be you with another car for me to fix, there's only so much work I can handle!" bellowed a voice from the massive garage. Meiling turned to him with an expression that clearly stated 'your going to get it now!' and she struggled to hold back a laugh.

"SYAORAN! YOU GAVE ME YOUR WORD THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN AGAIN THIS WEEK!DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH WORK I HAVE NOW!" The voice boomed again this time followed by a very angry Kenji Sakamoto storming towards them short black, usually neatly spiked, hair tussled and annoyance burning bright from his bronze eyes.

A giggling coffee and cream eyed girl came up to them and was joined on her way by Tomoyo who was tapping the scenario with an amused smile. The new girl with chin length wavy red brown hair was the first to speak.

"I can't believe you guys totaled ANOTHER car you guys, geez, maybe you should stay home form now on" she smirked and walked over to Kenji, who immediately stopped glaring when he saw her and wrapped his arms around her and rested his chin on her head.

"now, now Rika" he playfully tsked his girlfriend " what would they do if they stayed here? Knit? Blowing things up and killing people are pretty much all these useless clowns are good for." He smirked at the glowering Meiling, and glanced at Syaoran who surprisingly was also smirking.

"Meiling knit? I doubt it, she'd probably find some way to hurt people doing it." He chuckled lightly as Meiling's cold glare was turned from Kenji to him "but then again, rather that than her be in the kitchen, that's just a death wish to us all" he continued to smirk until her small yet deadly fist made contact with his shoulder.

"oh shut up Syaoran! I can't be perfect you know!…although, one does have to admit I am pretty damn close" she finished with a wink and then sauntered over to Tomoyo and Rika. "so ladies, shall we hit the mall?"

Kenji looked at her with a raised eyebrow "and what exactly do you girls need at the mall?" the rika rolled her eyes, while Tomoyo and meiling giggled.

"clothes baka!" she stated with a sigh " the big meeting is next week you know, we need some cool club clothes a few party gowns, and of course all the basic accessories" Rika replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

The men all sweat dropped and the girls turned and walked up to the house to change and head out.

"Where the hell do they keep all of the stuff they buy? God knows their closet isn't big enough." Kenji asked as her stared at their giggling backs. Eriol shrugged and then turned to look at the car.

at the mall

rika sighed as she pulled on yet another gown for the party coming up, she wanted to look perfect for Kenji.

'I love him so much' she thought ' i wish he would tell me if he feels the same'

she suddenly heard an aggravated growl and assumed it was meiling in the next stall. One of the perks of being in the mob was all of the money they got, and with money they could get whatever they wanted, including a private fitting room in clothing stores so they could talk freely without being disturbed or overheard.

On the topic of meiling, Rika envied her more than meiling knew. She (meiling) was arranged to ,marry Sen Hanari 2 year ago, sen was a very hansom 24 year old young man with shaggy dark almost black brown hair and bright blue eyes, he came from a well off family that had been very involved in the mafia for a fair few generations. When their parents had told them, they hated each other with a passion and tried everything to get out of the marriage, but as time drew on, their hate turned into a blossoming love for each other. Which did make sense, seeing as they were perfect for each other, only a few months between age, both highly sarcastic, very good fighters, and both shared a love of shooting and blowing things up. They were the perfect couple, and although they got out on a rocky start, it just added to their passion.

"Meiling..." rika asked, not quite sure how to word her question "how long did it take for sen to tell you he loved you?" she finished unsure of what her answer would be. There was a pause then a burst of laughter.

"Do you mean before or after we stopped trying to kill each other?" meiling's voice questioned from the stall.

Rika giggled and replied "after of course! From when you guys started going out"

meiling sighed " I don't know exactly, about 3 months, I think. Why?" meiling questions, Rika was silent and then Tomoyo's voice came from her stall.

"Rika... are you worried about Kenji?" she asked tenderly. There was a pause before she replied.

"Yes. I know I shouldn't, we've been together for seven months and I think we have a solid relationship, but I can't help but wonder, does he love me? I don't mean it like does he care for me, because I know he does, but does he truly love me, and want to spend the rest of his life with me, he's never told me. You guys are both so luck, you know for sure that you already have the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with (Tomoyo and Eriol are engaged) and I don't even know if me and Kenji will last a year" Rika said sadly.

"Ooh, rika" Tomoyo said softly, don't worry, Kenji does love you, everyone can see that, you know how he used to be with girls, the longest relationship before you was three weeks, and he's been with you for seven months!" she exclaimed. Rika paused for a moment as she slipped on another dress then replied.

"Yeah, but how do i know I'm different to him than all of those other girls? What if I'm just some long term fling to him? If he loves me shouldn't he have told me by now, I mean really, you and Eriol were only going out for eight months before he proposed, me and Kenji have been together seven and I haven't even gotten and "I love you" yet. What if he dumps me? I'll never be able to face him again." she said, then smiled at her reflection this was the dress, it was perfect. (You'll get the description soon enough)

meiling finally decided on the dress she wanted and put it back on the hanger and started to get back into her regular clothes "don't worry about that rika" she reassured her "if he breaks your heart I'll personally make sure you never have to see him again, even if he's a friend" she stated and walked out of her stall, dress in hand.

"I'm going up front to pay for this, I'll meet you guys at the car" she said as she walked out of the private room. Tomoyo and Rika put the dresses they picked aside and got dressed.

"Don't worry about Kenji rika, its written clear across his face that he loves you, he's probably waiting for the perfect time to tell you." Tomoyo said and came out of her stall wearing a pair of flared pale blue jeans and a white silk Chinese style tank top, her long purple hair was put up in a messy bun held in with chopsticks.

"I hope your right I shouldn't be complaining though, at least i have someone, when I think about Syaoran and what happened to him, it's makes me feel so angry and sorry for him at the same time." rika said with a angered expression wearing a light pink knee length skirt and a white button up 3/4 sleeve shirt.

"Yeah, I feel the same way, he's become so much colder and closed off since it happened , it's really worrying me. Me and meiling were taking about it, what he needs is a girl who can show him that not everyone out there is horrible. Although I should be happy he's at least talking to us, that first week i wondered if he's ever come around again." Tomoyo said sadly.

Rika nodded and replied " you guys are right, he really does need to find someone, i hope he does, he deserves to have someone special after what happened. I don't think he was even this cold before." Tomoyo agreed ands both girls grabbed their purses and got ready to leave the room.

"Hey, who's on duty tonight?" rika asked as she walked towards the door. Tomoyo pulled her credit card out and also walked towards the door.

"Hmmm, I'm pretty sure it's Chiharu and Takashi, why?" she asked.

"Oh, I was just wondering if we were going to be able to go out to a club tonight, what with all of the division heads coming we're going to have to act 'well behaved' and 'grown up' man is next week going to be dull or what?" rika giggled and walked out the door to pay for her gown.

"Tell me about it!" Tomoyo giggled as she walked out of the room as well.

later that night in a back alley way

Sakura panted for breath as she leaned against the wall red cheeks and her wig was a mess, she could not believe his people knew about it already.

flashback

Sakura had just got out of the airport and was walking down the busy streets of Hong Kong when she heard a name that sounded all to familiar from two men's conversation.

"...Poor taka though he must be blaming himself for this, I mean really, it was his fault, his daughter finds out and coincidentally a day later she's committed suicide." the first man said in Japanese, making it quite clear who he worked for.

the other man shook his head sadly " yeah, i hear he has the whole Tokyo unit out looking for her, or her body whichever they find first. I wonder how this will effect profits?" he asked as an after thought.

"Probably with make them really low" the first man replied " but who are we to question him, i personally prefer my head without bullets in it thank you very much." Both men chuckled quietly before the first man's face turned glum.

"You know, chances are somebody already does have bullets in their head from questioning this, i hope it's nobody we know." both men agreed and walked on chatting about some movie, but by this time, sakura had already turned and ran down her nearest exit, a large dark alley.

end flashback

sakura caught her breath and tried to think rationally. 'Ok, be calm, they said that they were looking for me in japan, but they never said anyone was looking for me here, plus there are a million and one different cities in china, and that's only if they look in china, what are the chances that they would choose to look in Hong Kong? I'll just lay low for a while until they give up and assume that i really am dead. Oh gods i hope Naoko is alright' she thought and continued down the alley, it wasn't as if she could get hurt by anyone, her father had made her learn a few types of martial arts growing up, and she was very good at all of them, plus being a former high school cheerleader would help, the gymnastic moves from it would give her an easy way to escape.

she jumped when she heard a noise.

"Hello" she said uncertainly "who's there?" she asked walking slowly forward. Again there was that noise, it's sounded like rustling plastic, she was just to put it off in her mind as and animal of some sort when she came nearly face to face his a funny looking old man dressed in rags. Not expecting it she jumped and shrieked.

"HOEEEEEEE!" she yelped stumbling backwards, the old hobo man named 'bob' gave her a raised eyebrow as if to say 'what the hell if your problem?" and then continued to munch on what appeared to be...

'WHITE JELLYBEANS!' sakura thought with surprise as she looked at the plastic bag and sure enough there was a small amount of white beaned shaped things, which she assumed were jelly beans, however this thought reminded her how hungry she was, and strangely she hadn't seen a single restaurant or grocery stores around here minus the over priced ones in the airport, and then she hadn't even thought of getting food. She sighed with defeat and realized she have to ask 'bob' where he got those and pick up some food there, even if he was an odd little hobo man.

"Excuse me...er...sir?" she asked getting his attention, but getting slightly freaked out noticing how strange his eyes suddenly looked "could you tell me where you got those from? I'm new here and don't know where anything is." shew asked as sweetly as possible. The old man 'bob' looked at her strangely.

"Aren't you a little young for these?" he asked holding up the bag "you don't really look the type for them."

sakura, now being tired and slightly annoyed replied "aren't you a little old for them?" the man laughed and stood up properly, although sakura noticed he had trouble doing so, he seemed to be unstable and was leaning heavily on the garbage can beside him.

"Touche my dear. You see that door down there?" the man pointed down o the very end of the alley, she nodded " go down there, knock and when they ask for a password, stick your finger in the air and say 'did you know' they've got a large supply and should have what you want" he said and sat down once again.

Sakura looked at him as if he was nuts, but then realized, she didn't really have another option, she had no idea where the grocery stores here were, besides, maybe he was right, perhaps the stores here were just really strange. With that in mind she walked towards the door and timidly knocked.

A slot opened up and a pair of golden brown eyes stared back at her. Okay, the stores here were really REALLY strange.

"Password?" the person asked who was a girl as far as the voice showed. Sakura sign and stuck up her index finger.

"Did you know." she said and really hoped that old man wasn't making her look like a fool. There was a pause, and then the golden brown eyes narrowed.

"TAKASHI! YOU BAKA! DID YOU CHANGE THE PASSWORD TO THAT STUPID THING AGAIN!" the woman yelled at someone behind the door, then turned to sakura and opened the door, sakura timidly stepped in.

The room wasn't as dirty as she expected, in fact besides the creepy door it was kind of nice, only, it didn't look like a grocery store, it had multi colored pill type things all over the place and little plastic bags, and bags of powers and jellybean shaped things.

'oh, I guess this is some sort of candy store' sakura thought looking around (poor kid, so dense). The woman from the door looked her over, she had a slim figure with wavy light brown hair just past her shoulders.

"Hmm, you sure don't look like our usual customers, but who am i to judge! What can we get you?" she asked. Sakura looked around unsurely, she had never seen any of these types of candies before.

"Um, I'm not sure what i want, what do you have that is good?" she asked, her stomach growling from hunger, right about now, she'd take anything.

A young man with dark brown hair gelled up in the front and grey eyes stepped forward and grinned, she assumed this was the "Takashi" that girl had been yelling at.

"How about these?" he asked holding up a bag of pink tablets "they are sweetened so they taste good (I know nothing about this kind of stuff so bare with me), you can try one to make sure you like if you want" he said offering her one of the tablets (ok, for the record, Takashi is not evil, he thinks she knows what she's taking) Sakura nodded and popped the tablet in her mouth.

She had never felt anything quite like this before, the tablet did taste somewhat good, but it was making her feel nauseous, she could hear the two people talking, but they started going out of focus, suddenly she felt that she couldn't stand and began wobbling back and forth. Her legs eventually gave out and she was falling in what felt like slow motion to her to the floor, she heard a shout from somewhere, but didn't know what was going on.

'What's wrong with me?' she thought as everything turned black and she hit the floor.

Chiharu turned to Takashi and glared at him "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU GIVE HER!" Takashi looked down worriedly at sakura before handing the package to Chiharu. She rad the label and gasped.

"Do you have any idea how strong this stuff is to someone who is not used o drugs!" she questioned him.

"Well, seeing as she came here i assumed that she was used to them, but by the looks of things, she's never even touched them before, and I'm beginning to doubt she even knew that was what we sell." he replied, picking sakura up and laying her on a near by couch.

"Never had them before? And we gave her this!" chiharu yelped before they both looked and each other.

"Oh shit"

AN: OMG! look! i actually FINISHED chapter two! I've had it planed out for two years and I actually finished it! Woohooo! guilty expression yeah, SS haven't even met yet, I'm sorry! lol, this was basically the chapter that tied the two different sides of the story together, and gave you a better idea of what some of the characters are like. I swear I will have the next chapter up soon than this one took, give me a couple weeks and it'll be up. RR with comment and suggestions please. I also apologize for any grammar mistakes in here.