Sakura ran through the back alleys of the small village towards her enemies, and brother's house. She wasn't supposed to be doing this but she couldn't help herself sometimes.
She ran all the way around to the back of the house and using the sneaky skills she had acquired through the years, she went completely unnoticed.
She knew that they weren't home right then but she knew that she had to be as careful as possible if she was to get as much information as she could on the guy that her family had been trying to get rid of for years.
She came up to a door and looked around her. She didn't see anyone right then but she had a sneaky suspicion that someone was around that wasn't the enemy. She slowly reached out for the door but a hand was placed over her shoulder making her squeal a bit.
She turned around quickly and nailed the man who touched her hard over the head and saw him fall to the ground. "T-T-T-Thomas?" she asked seeing the dirty blonde guardian force pilot laying there. "How the hell did you get here?" she asked surprised.
"I don't think that your parents will be happy to hear you using such language. Sorry it too so long to get here. It took much longer than I thought it would to get rid of the one that was following me," he said rubbing his head as he got up.
Thomas was still with the guardian force. He no longer was going after Fiona because he too had gotten married not too long ago but Sakura had a suspicion that he still held a thing for her mother over the years.
"I saw what you are trying to do and I am pretty sure that you won't be able to do this alone," he said walking ahead of her and carefully opening the door and walking into the house.
The two of them walked silently as the crept through different rooms until they came upon what they were looking for.
Thomas sat down in a chair that was set in front of a computer. He was good at hacking into things so he knew he would be best for this job. "We need to find where all the different spies of his are stationed. We can't get Van and Fiona in here without getting them out of the way," he said typing on the computer and turning off any security systems.
Sakura stood looking around and keeping all of her senses open trying to detect when someone could be approaching. "Did you find anything yet?" she asked her ears twitching at even the smallest sound.
"Yeah, come take a look at this," Thomas said and pointed at the screen where it showed thousands of little dots all over a map. "It is a wonder how you guys could have possibly of gotten here. The only open part is through the back which is where I came from. I had to go around the entire continent," he said highly annoyed.
"So he sends all of his men into the area's that are between him and my parents. They will keep the closest eyes on them because he is scared of them, not you or I," Sakura said but then a thought came to her. "can you contact those men on this computer. I am sure he must of the frequencies," she said and she saw Thomas smirk at the remark.
"I think you may be right, we might be able to tell them of a change in location for Van and get them to move into a different area. Hold on while I try it," he said as a typing communication came up and he typed in a message. 'The Flyheight's have moved, go to the following positions.' "That should get a movement of them," Thomas said and the two of them suddenly heard a noise outside the house.
"Shit!" we need to get out of here," she said as Thomas shut down the computer like it had been when they came and the two of them ran out the back door. They ran as fast in as many odd directions as they could to make sure they weren't followed.
Zain opened the door to the house and walked in with Matthew in tow. 'I could have sworn that I heard something,' he thought when he suddenly heard the noise of a trashcan being knocked over by some sort of animal. 'Stupid animals,' he grumbled as he walked over to the computer and turned it on.
Matthew just looked at him working and groaned. That was all that he ever did. It did give him some free time at times because he father would be too busy to keep and eye on him.
Zain didn't even seem to realize that anything was wrong when he went through some of the files on the computer, including the one that Thomas and Sakura were going through moments before.
"Figures that you would immediately get to work. That is all that you are capable of doing. How could mom have even put up with it?" he mumbled but to his great misfortune, his father ended up hearing.
"Shut the hell up boy! I don't even want to hear about that woman," Zain yelled growing frustrated at Matthew's constant words about his mother. 'Then again, I could maybe use this against Flyheight,' he thought as he decided to change something. "Sit down," he demanded pointing towards a seat. "I think it is about time that I told you something important," he said.
Matthew was unsure at first but he slowly walked over and sat down in the seat as his father looked at him with stern eyes. He gulped slightly at the mere look he was being given.
"I think it is time that you learn the truth about your mother. I haven't been completely honest with you. The truth is that your mother is actually still alive," he said and smirked when he saw the shocked look on Matthew's face.
"Wh-what do you mean, you told me that she was dead," he stuttered out as he started to shake a bit. He never did like being lied to and this was a major lie. 'My mother is alive?' he asked himself.
"It was a lie I told you to keep you from a much more horrible truth. I think that you are old enough now to understand it. The truth is that… Van Flyheight kidnapped your mother years ago and killed your uncle. He forced her to marry him and then she merely forgot about us. She just forgot about those who actually meant something to her," he said with a mentally cruel smirk because he knew that this was really getting to Matthew.
Matthew covered his ears because he didn't want to listen to his father talk about the mother he always dreamed about the way he was. He had no idea if he should believe what his father was saying or not.
"She once told me that she loved me and no one else. Then she decided to just stick with Van instead of trying to escape and come back to me and you. Even after I protected her from what Flyheight had done to her before. I protected her and the bastard child he forced on her and just up and left after later giving birth to you, my son. I know this is hard to take in but it is the truth," he said putting on a face of pity but on the inside he had a victorious smirk.
Matthew was tightly covering his ears to keep out anymore of his father's words. He couldn't take hearing such words and ran out of the house with his father just sitting there with a vicious grin.
Sakura waved bye to Thomas as he secretly left town so that he could deliver the message that things should clear up around there soon and that they should start to make their way over in a few days.
She turned around and started to walk down the street when she saw Matthew running down the streets with tears running down his face. She grew worried when she saw that because she knew something happened. "Whoa kiddo," she said grabbing him as he tried to run by. "Where are you off to this late at night?" she asked softly.
Matthew looked up at Sakura through teary eyes and he immediately felt better but not enough to make the pain go away. "Wh-what are you doing out here?" he managed to ask as she started to walk with him right next to her.
"I was just saying bye to an old family friend who came for a visit. What's wrong with you? Why are you crying?" she asked softly but she had a feeling it was his so-called father putting ideas into his head.
"My father told me something about my mother that I didn't want to believe," he muttered out wondering why he was being so open with her. He had never been so open to anyone in his life.
Sakura didn't want to even ask what lies that bastard was putting in his head. "Do you even believe it?" she asked and he shook his head no in an unsure way. "Tell me, how is it that you have always seen your mother. What do you remember about her?" she asked looking ahead but sneaking glances at him.
"I don't have much of a memory of her but I can sometimes have these dreams of this beautiful, kind, caring woman. It sometimes helps me relax to think of her like that when I am feeling sad," he admitted with a slight blush of embarrassment.
Sakura looked at him with a smile because she knew that he just described their mother perfectly. "Is that all you that of your mother, is there anymore?" she asked kindly.
"Yeah, sometimes when I close my eye. I feel like I can actually hear her soft voice talking words of love to me. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can see her crimson eyes staring at me with all the compassion in the world. Maybe it was all just my imagination though. She's alive and she doesn't even care about me," he said as more tears fell down his face.
Sakura just rolled her eyes at Zain's lousy lie. 'That was a cruel thing to do to this child,' she thought angrily balling her hands into fists at her side. 'Wait until I get my hands on you,' she thought before she calmed down.
"What if my father is right though, what if she doesn't care about me. In all of my life, I have never heard anything from her. She is too busy with Van Flyheight, according to my father," he said sadly kicking a rock out of the way.
"The way that I see it, truth can not come from a person's mouth, but from what they actually feel in their heart. Trying finding her sometime. Seek the answers that you wish to have answered. Only then will you really know the truth," she said putting on a smile despite the fact that she was seething inside.
"Thank you, maybe someday when I am capable of getting away from my father. I will go and get the truth from my mother," he said and gave her a quick hug before he walked back to his home. He would just have to ignore his father for a while.
"Don't worry kid. You will get to meet her soon enough. I would say that she will be here in a few days time and then you will have the truth to all the lies that Zain has ever told you,' she thought walking towards home. She was excited. She couldn't wait for this crazy adventure to end with them being a family again.
