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Chapter 18: A godfather for Fujitaka

by: Nalu Gurl

Syaoran checked his watch. 9:15 p.m. Marco had gone to Penguin park putting yellow 'do not enter' tape around the place an hour ago. Finally his car pulled up. Syaoran stood, Eriol at his side.

"Everything's set up. We put cops around the place, just in case."

"How much?" Syaoran asked.

"10." Marco muttered. "She did say the less cops the more chance she'll survive."

"But didn't Syaoran tell you that she planned to kill Sakura for sure?" Eriol asked, looking at Marco angrily.

"I'm not sure on that, Eriol." Syaoran put in, looking at his best friend. "I think she wants to kill Sakura, and most likely it's true…but…we can't take the chances. And even if she does plan to kill Sakura anyway, we need to be ready. We can't have her trying to kill Sakura quicker then we intend her to."

"Did the agent get the money from your mother, Syaoran?" Marco asked.

Syaoran nodded, showing him the suitcase that contained five million dollars. "I got it…"

"Okay, let's go over this all once again, and then we can leave."

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Syaoran stood in the middle of the park, right next to the penguin slide. A sigh escaped. It was now 10:10. 'Where are you…' he thought to himself.

His phone rung. He looked down at it. 'Private number.' Taking in a deep breath, he answered, "Yes?"

"Hello Darlin'." Kyoko's voice was heard through the phone.

"Where the hell are you?" He asked, trying to keep his calm.

"I'm close by. You put a good amount of cops around, 10, plus Detective Marco and your friend Eriol."

Syaoran looked around. "Where are you?"

"WE'RE IN THE WAREHOUSE, SYAO---" He heard Sakura's scream and turned towards the only warehouse by the park. The phone disconnected, and Syaoran became frantic. He turned towards where Marco was hiding.

"There in that warehouse, Marco! I'm going after them. Sakura screamed it out, she could get hurt. I need to go. Don't send cops in just yet. Just surround the place." Quickly, he ran off.

Marco grabbed his radio. "You heard him, men. Get going!"

Eriol looked at Marco. "I'm going with Syaoran. They might need someone." He told him, and started to run off, grabbing the suitcase Syaoran left behind in his hurry, when Marco nodded. He sighed, grabbing his radio once again.

"We need back up."

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Syaoran walked through the dark warehouse. 'just give me a clue as to where they are…please…'

Sakura's scream rang through out the warehouse and he turned around, running up the stairs to the second floor of the warehouse. 'anything but that…'

A second scream rang throughout the building. He quickly opened the door to a room and saw Sakura, Kyoko holding her tightly with a gun pointed to her back. "Syaoran!" she cried.

Syaoran clenched his jaw. "Let her go, please!"

"Where's the money!" She yelled.

Syaoran swore. "I left it down at the park."

"Isn't that to bad?" She asked, getting ready to shoot Sakura.

"No, wait. I got the money with me." They all turned to see Eriol, holding the suitcase. "Don't shoot her. Here's the money."

"Show me that it's the money." Kyoko spoke sternly. Eriol opened it, showing her the money. "Good. Give me the money, and I'll give you Sakura."

"No." Syaoran spoke. "We trade at the same time. Come towards us with Sakura and we'll come towards you with the money."

Kyoko nodded, starting to move forward. The boys did the same. Eriol with the money, and Syaoran to grab Sakura. Kyoko glared at them. Grabbing the money with one hand, she pushed Sakura at them. Syaoran grabbed Sakura as she held tightly to him.

Kyoko's laugh rang through the room as she pulled up the gun and shot it at Sakura's back. Sakura cried out in pain, the bullet hitting her in the shoulder.

She turned to escape but there was only a window. She turned to see Eriol advancing on her as Syaoran tried his best to stop the bleeding. Kyoko held the gun towards Sakura once more. "Come any closer and I'll shoot her again."

Eriol stepped back, his arms going in the air. She slowly stepped towards the door, getting ready to leave. Syaoran gave Eriol a look, and jumped up, knocking Kyoko and himself off the second floor and plunging towards the first floor. Kyoko screamed, loosing control of the gun. It went off and Syaoran yelled out in pain as they fell in a pile of boxes.

Syaoran held Kyoko's hand down as she tried to escape. She knocked him off her, and grabbed the gun, running towards the exit. Syaoran chased after her. When she opened the door, she stopped, causing him to stop as well. Cops stood in front of the building, holding up guns. She laughed, bringing up the gun to her head.

"I'm happy, Fujitaka's dead, Sakura's about to be, I have money…" She laughed.

"Don't do it, Kyoko! Don't!" Marco yelled.

"Why not?" She laughed more, getting ready to shoot. Syaoran quickly jumped on her, causing her to knock the gun out of her hands. She knocked Syaoran away from her when more cops came, grabbing her and keeping her down. "Doesn't matter!" She screamed, still laughing at the same time. "Sakura's gonna die! I shot her!"

"Call an ambulance!" Syaoran yelled to Marco, who ordered another man to do it as he ran with Syaoran towards Eriol who was carrying Sakura in his arms. He grabbed Sakura into his arms, and brung her to the ground. She was beaten; a black eye, split lip, bruises and cuts all over her body, not to mention the gun wound on her shoulder blade.

"Syaoran, you're hurt." Eriol spoke, going for his side. Syaoran pushed him away.

"No, I'm fine." He spoke, pulling Sakura into his arms. "Just get the ambulance here…just get them here…"

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Syaoran sighed as his mother continued to fuss over his wound.

"You are so reckless! Just like your father! I swear it!" She cried. The women stood in the corner of the hospital room, looking out the window. She had flown in three days ago, a day after Sakura had been put in the hospital. It had been four days in total since Kyoko had been taken into custody and awaited her trial. Sakura hadn't woken since.

His sisters had gone out somewhere to get a quick meal with Tomoyo, Eriol, and Tiffany, along with the baby.

Touya had stayed behind, but had left shortly after to go and get coffee. Yelan stayed behind as well, but for different matters. She fussed continually about his reckless acts.

"One of these days you're going to get yourself killed. I swear it, how could you---"

"Sakura!" Syaoran interrupted his mother when he saw Sakura's eyes open slightly.

Yelan turned and gasped. "Sakura! She's up!"

Sakura's hand moved in his. She turned to look at him, and smiled. "You're okay." He whispered, moving over her to hold her.

"What about you? I heard the gun shot and then your yell…and that was it."

"It was nothing. I'm fine. How're you feeling?" he asked.

Yelan moved over, taking the girls other hand, tears falling. "Do you need anything?"

"No, I'm fine. I feel okay." She looked at Syaoran. "I have a black eye…" She muttered, remembering that Kyoko had punched her there.

"No, no you don't." Syaoran laughed. "Tomoyo used some kind of thing on you, she said you used to always use it. And it seemed to have worked."

Sakura laughed, then coughed. "Where's my onii-chan?" She asked softly. "And Tomoyo, Tiffany, Eriol…my nephew…?"

"They all went to eat. With my sisters. Touya went to go get some coffee."

"I'll go let the doctors know that you're up, and we'll get Touya up here." Yelan told her, kissing her forehead, wiping her tears, and walking out.

The doctor had rushed in, asking her questions and giving her medicine. Syaoran had moved away when Touya rushed in, rambling to his sister how worried he was. Soon enough, everyone had come in. Sakura had smiled, sitting up with the help of Touya. They where there for a half hour.

Sakura admired her nephew, not wanting to hold him because of her weak body. Syaoran had gotten a turn to hold the young boy when his mother and father got to busy holding on to Sakura and talking to her.

He looked down at the baby boy, who had somewhat of a smile on his face. "Fujitaka…" he muttered, rubbing child's forehead. A smile appeared on his face as he poked the babies stomach and it giggled a bit. He played in the corner with the child for the whole time, and the baby seemed to get a long with him, even if he were only a few days old. He grabbed at Syaoran's messy hair, his face, his clothes, everything, 'a sign of affection,' he guessed. He didn't notice Touya watching him with interest the whole time, a brow raised.

The doctor had come in shortly after, telling them she needed rest, and only a few could stay. Everyone had started to leave except for Touya and Tiffany. Syaoran hadn't noticed at first, still playing with the young child, until he looked up like he occasionally did to look at Sakura and make sure she was okay. He got up, carrying the baby in his arms, and moving towards Tiffany. "Here you go." He muttered, reluctantly giving up the baby boy. He looked at Sakura and smiled. "I'm glad you're doing okay. Get ever better."

He started to leave. Sakura, about to call him back, was interrupted by Touya. Tiffany and Sakura stared at him in shock. "Stay in here, Syaoran. You helped a lot with rescuing Sakura. More then any of us did." He motioned Syaoran over, who walked closer.

Given a seat next to Sakura, he took her hand in his. 'maybe I shouldn't be pushing my luck…?'

"Well, I just wanna say, you really do look comfortable with a kid. I guess that means one day you'll be a great father, don't you think?" Touya stated, looking at his wife. She looked at him for a minute, then smiled, getting what he was talking about.

"You know, Syaoran. What Touya is trying to say is that, well, basically I gave him the opportunity to pick the godfather, and I think watching you, he decided that he wants you to be it."

Syaoran stared at her in shock, then turned to Touya. "M-me?" He asked, completely taken back. "Me? You want ME to be the godfather of Fujitaka?" He asked.

Touya nodded. "so, what do you say?"

Syaoran looked at Sakura, then at the baby. "Y-yeah…okay. I…I accept." He smiled brightly at them. "sure."

Okay, this chapter is SO late, but I gave my explanation. Okay, anyways, this story has like, at most, four chapters. I'm not completely sure how I'm gonna end it. I have an idea, but if you want to give any other suggestions, I can look at that and figure something better then what I have. How would you like this story to end?