I Thought he was Perfect
A/N Hey! I know you guys' thought that Koji's sentence wasn't long enough, but I have heard worse. If any of you have paid attention to some news here in Canada, Karla Homolka just got out of prison and she was serial killer and she was only in for twelve years! And that was because she did the same thing as Koji did and made a plea-bargain. People have also asked how I came up with this type of story and well to tell you the truth it's from watching stuff about serial killers with my dad. I've watched documentaries about things like Jack the Ripper, who I have found out that they now believe was an American, and other stuff on A & E about what the killers would do and their trials. Then I just decided to make up my own plot, and as for the killing prostitutes, well that came partly from stuff I heard about of Jack the Ripper and a book I've read called The Presence, but I didn't copy it from the book because then Sakura would have precognition and would be having visions that she was in the woman's who was about to be murdered body in her dreams. So yeah it's all my ideas just with a little help from things I know. Anyways here is the seventh chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own CCS; it belongs to CLAMP.
Re-cap of chapter 6…
Koji was now sitting in his cell. The cell he would be staying in for a long time now. The place disgusted him. He was going to have to smuggle in a pack of cigarettes to make sure he doesn't become some guy's bitch. He heard that usually works…at least it did in the movies.
"You think that you'll have to wait twenty-four years to see me again, don't you Sakura?" he was muttering under his breath. "I'll make sure it's much sooner…"
Chapter 7: When Daddy Comes Home
Things had been different since Koji was sent to prison for Sakura. She now had to learn how to cook because she couldn't waste all her money on take-out and she had to move to full-time on her job. Part-time didn't give her enough money to support her and Sumi. She found that she was always exhausted with all the work she had to do and Sumi practically lived at Nozomi's now because she worked almost all the time.
She had to be a little thankful though. Nozomi, feeling sympathetic to what happened, didn't ask to be paid for babysitting. Sakura objected at first but she said that she should think of it as a favour to a friend.
Sakura was also thinking of moving her and Sumi into an apartment. The house was getting too hard to take care of with just the two of them, and she wasn't making enough money to keep it up. But the problem was she loved this house, she started her family in this house and even though some terrible things had happened here also, this was her house and she didn't want to leave it. She knew Sumi wouldn't want to leave it either, she still thought her dad was going to come home soon….
Sakura sighed tiredly as she sat at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee. She had come to depend on the substance lately with all the hectic changes that had gone on around her. She had to go to work soon, she was just waiting for Sumi to come down once she got ready for school.
At that moment, Sumi came bounding down the stairs in her little outfit for school. She had the same frown on her face that she had every morning. That frown was there because she didn't want to go to school. She was only in kindergarten and already hated it. Sakura figured it was the whole having to get up early to go there thing. She was just like her, never a morning person. Sakura wanted nothing more then to go back to bed and sleep, but she realized she had to grow up and realize that things need to be done and she has to get out of bed to do them.
Sakura stood up when Sumi got to the bottom of the stairs. "Ready to go?" she asked smiling. With all the problems going on in her life right now, she always put a smile on for her daughter. She wouldn't let her know about her dad just yet.
"Do I have to?" Sumi whined. "I want to go back to bed, why does school have to start so early?"
"It's one of life's many unanswered questions sweetie. No one really knows." Sakura said shaking her head dramatically.
"Well people should start answering it," she grumbled.
"We'll find someone on the way to school. Okay, come on, or we'll be late."
"Okay," Sumi sighed forlornly.
They then headed out the door to their car. They got in and sat down in the seats.
"Put your seatbelt on." Sakura instructed her daughter. Once said, Sumi complied.
As Sakura started driving to school there was a silence between them that was soon broken by Sumi.
"Mommy…" she said quietly and paused to wait and see if her mom would give her a sign to continue. Sakura looked over at her quickly to show her that she was listening but turned her eyes back to the road when she knew Sumi saw her. "When's daddy coming home?"
Sakura sighed, Sumi hadn't asked her that in a long time. Not since she wondered where he was the night he was arrested after his trial. "Why do you want to know?"
"Because he doesn't call like he usually does when he goes away and it's been like forever since he was home and you said he was going to be gone for along time, so when's he going to be home?"
Sakura looked at her daughter with sad eyes. She felt so bad for her daughter and for herself. She felt bad for her daughter because she was lying to her. And she felt bad for herself because she was lying to her daughter.
"Sumi, he's going to be gone a really long time. Not months like it has been, it'll be years…" there, she said he'd be gone for years. Now all she had to do is find a way to tell her he was gone somewhere but not let her know that he was in prison.
"But…. but where could he go that would take him away from me for so long?" she asked with tears threatening to fall from her eyes.
"Some place where we won't see him. I-he didn't mean to leave you like this okay? It just turned out this way…" Sakura tried to not let her voice crack.
"I still don't understand… but okay…" Sumi said, her tone sad.
Sakura nodded her head. The rest of the ride to school was quiet. When they got there Sumi got out without saying a word. Right when she was about to close her door Sakura called out to her, "Remembered to go to Nozomi's after school okay."
Sumi just nodded her head and closed the door.
Sakura sighed, she must have taken the conversation harder then she thought.
Now she had to head to work. Sakura groaned at the thought of work. Everyone at work was acting nice around her. They didn't want to be, they were being sympathetic. And the two things she hated most were when people pretended to be nice and when they gave her sympathy. They never realized she didn't want it.
She shook her head and drove off to work.
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Syaoran tiredly got into work that morning. He didn't sleep well last night. He had let Eriol talk him into going on a date and it was horrible! He should have known it would be bad since she was one of Eriol's wife's friends.
Tomoyo had bad taste in friends was what he had decided. It wasn't a mystery to him why they were single. For the past two months since Tzu was put behind bars, Eriol had told him that Tomoyo had decided he needed a girlfriend and that she had plenty of gorgeous friends to step him up with. He hated being step up. It made him feel that the people around him thought he couldn't meet someone on his own. But since Tomoyo didn't know the meaning of the word NO, he was stuck going on a date almost every weekend. None of her friends left a good impression with him. He started to shudder at the thought of some of them.
He had had eight dates in the past two months and he never wanted to see any of them again.
First there was Yatsumi Udea. She was pretty, he'd admit, but did nothing but talk his ear off. All night long all she did was talk. She even talked with her mouth full! And she had this annoying laugh also. It sounded something like mahahaha, and she laughed at everything! Like when they sat down the first thing she said was "Hi! I'm Yatsumi! Mahahaha I just told you my name!" That had ruined the whole evening.
Then there was Hideka Himatsu. She was a Goth. It wasn't that he had a problem with Goths… she was just scary, the way she looked for that particular night made her look like a vampire in his opinion. She had on a long black dress that covered everything so in a darkroom all you would see was her head, her hair was black, her skin was deathly pale, and her eyes were loaded in eyeliner. And just some of the things she said really made him want to stay away from her.
And he couldn't forget Chiyu Tadami. How could he? She never stopped talking either! But of course it was because she was so boring! When they got there and were looking through the menus she would explain to every last detail what was in everything. He now knew how they made almost everything on the menu. More then what he'd like. He also now knew more about his car then he would like to as well, and hair care, or how they make silk, and a bunch of other stuff…he kinda fell asleep during most of it.
Those were the worst three so far and he didn't want to meet anymore. He now realized that Tomoyo was the most normal out of all her friends, which was kind of scary when he thought about it.
Now thinking about the ending of the Tzu case, he started to think of Kinomoto. He started wondering how she was and how she and her daughter were holding up.
Now he was shaking his head to get the thoughts out. What was he doing thinking about her? He barely knew her! It was because he felt bad for her. Yeah because he felt bad, that was why he was thinking about her when he thought about the old case.
Just then Eriol came into his office with folder in his hand.
"New case," was he said as he placed the folder down on his desk and took a seat across from him.
"Really? What is it this time?" Syaoran asked while flipping through the papers.
"Little girl was kidnapped," Eriol told him sighing and raking his hand through his hair.
"Oh joy…"
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Sumi was playing at Nozomi's after school. She had noticed that ever since he dad went away on his trip her mom had started working more. She also noticed that even as her mom tried to hide it… something was making her sad.
She continued playing with her Barbie's. That was one thing she could always do, play with her Barbie's for hours. It kept her busy and sometimes Nozomi would play with her.
She had noticed that even Nozomi was acting weird. She noticed that she wanted to talk to her mom more then usual and sometimes she would look over at her and have this look on her face… like a sympathetic face.
Nozomi came into the room and sat down around the mess Sumi made on the floor. She was quietly watching her for a while when she decided to have a conversation.
"So what's going on with Barbie and friends today?" she asked curiously.
Sumi then held up a Barbie and pointed to her, "This ones name is Sakura, she's named after mommy."
Nozomi nodded her head, "And who else is in Sakura's family?"
Sumi then held up a little Kelly and pointed to her next, "This is Sakura's daughter Sumiko. She's named after me."
Nozomi nodded her head again, "She's pretty like you too."
Sumi smiled at what she said and then held up a Ken, "And this is Sakura's Husband Koji. He's named after daddy."
Nozomi's eyes were hard for a minute thinking about Koji, but then remembered that Sumi didn't know what he really was and went back to her regular self. "So you made your family hmm?"
Sumi nodded her eyes shinning in happiness, "Yup! Mommy said daddy had to go away for a long time, maybe even years so making up a toy daddy is the best I can get."
Nozomi looked at her sadly. Even though her father was evil she couldn't help but feel bad for the little girl sitting here with her. She really did love him. "So what's happening with the family?"
Sumi still smiled, "Daddy finally came back from his trip that mommy said he was on and everyone's happy again. Mommy's not working as much as she was and gets to play with me more. Daddy does all the cooking again so I don't have to eat mommy's bad food, and daddy doesn't leave anymore and spends as much time with me and mommy as he can. Mommy's also going to have a baby because I heard mommy and daddy talking before about having another one to give me a brother or sister before daddy went away."
Nozomi really felt bad for the girl now. She was imagining what would happen when she saw her dad again. If only she knew why he was gone… then she'd probably never want to see him again. "So your mom ordered a stork to bring over a baby?"
"Yup. The stork's bringing me a baby sister." Sumi said happily picking up a little Krissy. "And she's going to name her Kaori because she said that besides my name, that's her favourite name."
"You've thought this through, haven't you?" Nozomi laughed.
"Yup. I can't wait for daddy to come home so all this can happen in real life."
"Maybe someday it will…" Nozomi said quietly. She knew she was lying to the girl. She knew there was know way Sakura was ever going to take Koji back, but she knew that she shouldn't be the one telling Sumi that, it had to be Sakura.
Just then, someone knocked on the door.
"Mommy's here!" Sumi exclaimed dropping everything and running to the door to see her mother.
"Wait! Sumi! You need to pick up your toys!" Nozomi yelled to her retreating back.
But of course, she didn't come and pick them up. Nozomi sighed and started to pick them up herself.
TBC…
A/N I know this chapter probably isn't much, but I didn't really know what to do for this chapter. I have a new idea for a story that I might try posting but I don't know if I will yet. I had a bit of writers block with this chapter so that's why nothing really interesting has been happening but I thought that Sumi needed to be in some more scenes as well as Nozomi so I created a scene especially for them. Anyways I hope you enjoyed it and remember Read and Review! Ciao!