The next day, Sakura was gently shaken awake by one of her roommates.
"Wake up, sweetie, breakfast's in ten minutes."
Sakura shot up, "Oh, my!"
"Don't worry, you haven't missed it. By the way, I haven't seen you around before, are you new to the team?" Her roommate asked.
"Yes, I'm new. I only just joined yesterday." Sakura replied.
"Awesome! I'm Rebecca, who are you?"
"I'm Sakura."
"Anyways, you should get dressed. The boss isn't too patient in the morning until after he's had his morning coffee." Rebecca said.
Sakura climbed out of bed, and changed back into her uniform.
"It still feels weird to be wearing this……" Sakura said.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to it. Come on, let's go to breakfast." Rebecca said.
Sakura and Rebecca walked to breakfast, and when they were almost there they ran into Thomas. Well, Rebecca did anyways.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to crash into you!" Rebecca said ashamed.
"I know you didn't, I'm not mad; I know that it was just an accident." Thomas said.
"Thank you for understanding……" Rebecca said.
"No problem." Thomas said.
Then he said, "By the way, how are you doing, Sakura? You seemed like you were a little frightened yesterday. Were you a little nervous yesterday?"
"I'm fine, I was a little nervous yesterday." Sakura replied.
"I see, and why were you nervous?" Thomas asked.
"I was nervous because I wasn't used to people liking me due to my past experiences." Sakura replied.
"Oh, that's right……. You told me the whole story yesterday when I asked you." Thomas said.
"Am I missing something here?" Rebecca asked.
"She hasn't told you?" Thomas asked.
"Nope, she sure hasn't." Rebecca replied.
Thomas looked at Sakura, "Do you mind if I tell her?"
"Go ahead, I don't mind." Sakura replied.
"Okay…… Well, Rebecca, Sakura had a less than perfect childhood. Her parents didn't want her so they didn't name her."
"Then where did she get her name?" Rebecca asked.
"Archie named her; anyways Maxie came to her house and bought her from her parents and took her back to his base and made her his slave. He treated her well enough to keep her alive, but he made her do pretty much everything for him, and he also put a collar around her neck that made so that she couldn't leave his base. She was pretty much trapped with no hope of a better life before we invaded her base and rescued her. I think you can figure out the rest from there." Thomas said.
"Okay, thanks for filling me in." Rebecca said.
"Oh, and Sakura, if you ever need to talk, I'll be glad to listen to you. You need to get over your fear if you want to do well in this team, and I'll be more than happy to help you do that." Thomas said.
"Okay, I'll remember that." Sakura said.
"Let's go in for breakfast." Thomas said.
Thomas went inside and Rebecca and Sakura were about to follow suit when Archie tapped Sakura gently on the shoulder.
"Sakura, I need to ask you something, it will only take a minute." Archie said.
"Okay, what is it?" Sakura asked shyly.
"I'll save a spot for you." Rebecca said.
"Okay, thanks Rebecca." Sakura said.
"No problem." Rebecca replied as she entered the room.
Archie took Sakura's hand before he said, "Sakura, you've had the saddest childhood I've ever heard of…… So I thought of something that might help to improve your life."
"You did? What is it?" Sakura asked, a little braver this time.
"Sakura, you've never really had a family, haven't you?" Archie asked her.
"I suppose you could say that to be true……" Sakura said.
Archie was solemn, "Sakura, due to that fact I have one question for you. It's a big one so you should really think on it before you give me an answer."
"Okay." Sakura replied.
"My question is this; Sakura do you mind if I were to adopt you?"
Sakura was shocked, "You want to adopt me?"
Archie nodded, "Yes, you're a sweet girl, and you deserve to have a family that loves you. I can give you that if you'll let me. Would this be okay with you?"
"That would be fine with me." Sakura replied.
"So you'll let me adopt you?" Archie asked.
"Yes." Sakura replied.
"Oh, come here you!"
Sakura came to Archie and he hugged her. "I'll work on legalizing this after breakfast." Archie told her.
Now Archie and Sakura entered the room to eat breakfast. The team turned around when they entered. Sakura walked over to the seat Rebecca had saved for her and sat down, and Archie walked to the head of the table.
Before he sat down he said, "Can I have your attention for a moment, please. I have a good announcement to make, it concerns Sakura."
"Yes, do go on." An Admin by the name of Andrew said.
Archie nodded and continued, "I'm going to adopt Sakura."
"Awesome!" The team exclaimed.
Now Archie said, "Sakura's had a rough childhood because her parents shunned her and pretended that she didn't exist. In fact they name, it was I who finally gave her a name."
"No wonder she's so shy……." An Admin by the name of Tanya said.
"Yeah, poor child, hopefully we can help her get over that so that she can have a new life." Thomas said.
Everyone murmured in agreement.
Now Archie said, "Oh, and by the way, Sakura's 16th birthday is next week. So you might want to consider getting her something to help celebrate it."
Everyone turned and looked at Sakura, and smiled at her.
"Okay, let's eat." Archie said.
Now everyone served themselves some food and began eating. When everyone finished eating, Archie looked at Sakura and said, "Sakura, why don't you go get your Mudkip so that you can start training it."
"Okay." Sakura said.
Then with that Sakura hurried off to get her Mudkip so that she could start training.