"Um... what happened to my mother?" he asked his father early the next morning. Matthew didn't know why but a thought seemed to be plaguing his mind ever since his conversation with Lina earlier in the day when he talked about his parents. It was a feeling like the words that came out of his weren't real, that he was lying even if he did only say what it was that his father had told him.

Zain put down his newspaper a little annoyed but he managed to not show it. "I already told you, so why is it that you want to know?" he asked as he turned to his son and took off his reading glasses.

"I was talking to someone and the subject just came up. I don't know why but I had this very strange feeling while I was telling them how it was that she was killed. Can you please tell me how it was again that it all happened?" asked Matthew while he took a seat in a chair across from his father.

His father sighed but decided to just humor the boy a little to turn him against his own father at some point. "Fine, if you really want to know. She was killed shortly after you were born by Van Flyheight. The two of them were once together but she left him for me. He became possessive and tried to force her to come back to him. She refused and he killed her and your uncle since he was trying to protect her from him. Everyone makes him out as this goody two shoes type of person but it is all nonsense. Only I know the truth about him," he said while hiding the smirk that threatened to come up. Something about the calm look on Matthews face seemed to worry him a little though.

"I see," he said calmly as he stood up and started to walk towards the door. He was stopped a few feet short of the door when his father began to speak.

"Don't go off anywhere. I have some business to attend to and I want you to stay close to me for the moment," he said. He only did it because he began to worry for some reason about why the subject would suddenly be brought up again.

Matthew groaned in frustration because he wanted to get outside by himself for a little but he knew that it is almost impossible to do anything with his father around.

Sakura could merely watch from a distance at that moment at the man that she had despised for so many years since her brothers kidnapping walked through the markets of the town practically dragging her brother along with him. She was very tempted to go over and kick him as hard as she could in the one place no one should kick a man. She decided against it because that would probably reveal her identity to him and that was something that she didn't want.

"Keep up already! I have a meeting that I must get to and you are walking way to slowly, so pick up the pace!" he ordered as Matthew was starting to fall behind him even more to his annoyance. Yet Matthew seemed to just ignore his order because he only went slower.

Sakura had to force herself from laughing out loud at that moment. 'He can't even control his so-called son. It gave her a little hope that this might become much easier than she had thought it would originally be.

"Stay here while I go and finish my business!" Zain ordered as he walked off to the far end of the market and into an alley that concealed him from view from most people.

"Hey Aaron," whispered Sakura from her current hiding place to Aaron who happened to be goofing off at that moment much to her annoyance. "Get over here," she said and he walked over. "If you really want to goof off then lets annoy our dear old friend Zain," she said with a smirk on her face.

That peaked Aaron's interest since it was one of his best abilities, annoying people. Anyone that he knew could definitely attest to that. "Sure, what is your idea?" asked Aaron, as he got close enough to whisper.

"Zain tends to get very annoyed when he is not listened to. Try and listen to what they are talking about over there and I am going to see if I can talk to my brother and annoy Zain by not keeping him in the same spot. It may seem lame but let's start out small," said Sakura with a shaking of her head.

Aaron merely grumbled as he walked off because he felt that this was a lame mission for him. He felt like he had so many better things to do rather than eavesdrop on someone that he didn't even know. Sure, he had heard a lot about him but he had never seen him. Suddenly a thought struck him and he couldn't help but grin at it when it came to him. He ducked away quietly and disappeared.

'I wonder what he is up to,' she thought a little uneasily because the type of grin that he had on him usually meant nothing good was about to happen. 'Good anyways,' she thought before walking out of the alley they had been sitting in and walking towards Matthew with Liz following in tow. "Hey there!" she called out to her very bored looking brother.

He looked up from the dirt that he was kicking around to see Sakura walking up to him. "Hey," he said brightening up a little. He may have only met Sakura and Liz once the day before but he liked them. They were really nice to him except for Liz's brother; he was a pain in the ass.

"What are you doing out here all by yourself? You seem very bored. Want to take a walk with us? I have a few questions that I wanted to ask you but I didn't get to because your father sent me off too quickly," she said trying to contain her laughter.

"My father wants me to stay here, so ok," he said with a shrug of his shoulders as he followed after them away from where Zain was having the strange meeting that he wouldn't even tell Matthew about.

Aaron reclined against the rooftop of the building by the alley as he listened into what it was that Zain was talking about. He had a smirk on his face because he had a plan to have a little fun. His fun was also right by his side at that moment.

He listened down below to the conversation that was trying to be kept at a whisper but he could hear it just fine at that moment.

"I want the report on the Flyheights as well as their friends. Where are they at this moment?" asked Zain with worry etched into his voice that Aaron could only assume meant that he was suspicious of them but was unsure. They took every precaution and have done many things to hide their trail.

"About a week ago, the Flyheight child as well as the other two brats," he said but he didn't see that Aaron was getting pissed off at being called a brat. Many have called him that before so he was unsure why it mattered now, "left for the completely other end of the continent. Their parents stayed behind but as far as I can tell they were going to be following them later," said the soldier in a calm voice because he didn't know that all that he said was a mere trick.

Zain couldn't help but let off a sigh of relief when he had heard that. When he had seen his son with the woman the day before he had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach that warned him about something that might have been coming, but hearing that news made him feel a little better. "Good. Keep and eye out and tell me if anything should happen," he said as he walked away.

He got no more then a few steps when he got completely drenched from head to toe with water. It was the same with the other soldier as he drew his gun. Zain looked up only to see a kid on top of the building. "Forget it, it is just some stupid kid. Nothing to worry about," he said calmly but he was mad that this had happened.

Aaron was laughing his head off when they had left because they had thought that he was just some pesky kid. 'Correction, I am a very important pesky kid,' he corrected in his mind with a laugh.

"How come it is that you moved to this place? If you ask me, there are a lot of better places to go then this little dump that I am forced to call my town," he told Sakura at their house as she was making something for them to drink.

"I really didn't have a choice," said Sakura. She thought of saying something and went with it as long as she didn't give away the whole truth about her situation. For all she knew he reactions might help her someday. "I came here looking for someone. I came looking for my younger brother," said Sakura walking out with two mugs of coffee in her hands.

"Why are you looking for him? Did he run away or something like that?" asked Matthew while he grabbed his mug and took a seat on a very comfortable chair by one of the windows.

"No, he was kidnapped when he was a baby. My family has been looking for him everywhere but we haven't found him until a tip came to us a while back. We jumped at the opportunity. Can you keep it a secret though, from all of your friends, and your father?" asked Sakura finding it very hard at that moment to say the words father because Zain was not his father.

"No problem there, I don't have any friends and I don't tell my father anything as it is. Have you seen or talked to this person yet?" asked Matthew looking up from his coffee to look at her and the younger girl sitting next to her.

"I saw him but I didn't tell him anything about it," said Sakura and she saw her brother giving her a questioning look. "What would you do if someone just came up to you out of the blue and said that you have been living a lie and that you were their brother?" asked Sakura figuring that she phrased it well at that moment.

"I'd think that they were crazy. I would want to see proof before I would ever become remotely a believer to their strange story," he admitted before setting down his coffee cup.

"That is why I didn't tell him. I am keeping a close eye on him though. that is why Aaron isn't here at the moment," she lied quickly because she realized a mistake with what she had said. "I'll be right back," said Sakura as she stood up and walked out of the room leaving Liz and Matthew to themselves at that moment.

"Are you two sisters or something like that?" he asked figuring that he might as well start up a conversation or else he would get bored stiff. He always did like talking to pretty ladies also.

"No, our parents are good friends and we are helping her with her task here," she said while looking Matthew over. Except for his hairstyle that was kind of messy like her fathers, but still spiked up like his real fathers, he looked almost exactly like Van.

"I see," said Matthew as he got up and took a look at some of the unpacked stuff. A pictured seemed to catch his eye. It was picture of a woman and she was holding a small baby in her arms. It sent a strange warm feeling through him for reasons that he didn't know.

Sakura came in a about a minute latter to see him staring at the picture of her mother and himself the day that he was taken away from him. It brought back the sad memory of the day that she had relived over and over for the past sixteen years. "That is my mother and my brother the day that he was taken away from us. She seemed so happy at the time as was my father. Things didn't really start out too good with their relationship but everyone had thought my father had died before I was born. He tends to kick himself every day because he feels like he had failed as a father to both my brother and myself by not being there for us," she explained because she felt that if she kept things that he might start to get a little suspicious.

"She looks very nice and kind," he explained which was rare because he rarely ever gave compliments to people that he didn't know.

"She was very kind. I love her greatly because at one time she was all that I had for a family. I was happy to have a brother but I never got to see him at all since then," she said sadly.

"I'm sorry to hear that. At least you have a mother though. When I see your mother though it makes me think about my mother and the love she was supposed to have shared with my father," said Matthew wishing he had been able to see her.

Sakura had to force herself to keep from laughing at that point. 'She never loved him, she has always hated his guts for what him and his brother has done to our family,' she thought managing somehow to hold in her laughs.

"I had better get going. My father will be mad if I don't at least show him that I am alive," he said with a rolling of his eyes as he sadly walked to the door. He really liked talking to them even though he barely even knew them at that moment.

"If you want to then you can come back here whenever you want to talk for a little," said Sakura hoping to spend as much time with her brother as she could before her parents came down here.

"Thanks, that sounds great to me," he said with a smile as he walked out of the door and away from the house. Sakura felt like he was disappearing forever like he had sixteen years before.