uzi: thanks for your review Pink Emo Punk :)
I've made a guide for you guys ... read it otherwise you will be utterly confused :D
Syaoran - 18
Yamazaki - 17
Terada - 19 - I know I know, he's the teacher, but to bad I turned him into a teenager. I also know his first name Yoshiyuki, but Im just gonna call him Terada, seeing its SOO much easier to type. lol . yes lazy lazy me D
Noako - 17
Chiharu - 17
Tomoyo -17
Eriol - 19
Touya - 21
Mei-ling - 17 a/n Mei-ling and Syaoran are NOT related in this story. :)
The Park, The Trap, The Beating and The Escape
Sakura gingerly awoke to the hypnotizing silence of the rising sun. The leaves of trees swayed to the light breeze and she could hear birds happily chirping. Yawning, she pulled her jacket closer to her body, realizing only when her back started to ache that she had fallen a sleep on the bench
stupid
Sakura gazed dreamily as the sun rose over the trees. It was so close, she reached out as if to catch it, hold it in the palms of her hand but stopped as a voice interrupted the silence she had started to love.
"Its not as close as it seems." a gruff amused voice came from a figure standing not twenty feet from her.
Sakura snatched up her bag as she quickly got up and stepped back.
"What do you want?"
He glared at her
"A place to sit." he replied as he sat on the bench.
"Can't you find a different place?" she asked now feeling very uncomfortable.
"No there's no where else, unless you want to find one for me, then I'll gladly leave," he replied eyeing her lazily taking out a ciggaret. "Dont worry, I'm not going to steal your stuff."
Sakura slowly sat down and watched him put his ciggarette in between his lips and light it.
"You smoke?"
"No."
"Oh. I was wondering, since your watching me smoke so intently." He smiled not looking at her.
Sakura blushed a beet red "uhm .. I was just wondering." she said lazily trying to cover up for her analyzing. She had been staring at his chocolate brown hair as the breeze lifted it gently to and fro.
"About what?"
"Nothing."
"How can you wonder about nothing? Is that even possible?" He smiled as his deep amber eyes twinkled mischieviously at her. There was a familiarity in them, a soothing warmth that Sakura couldn't put her finger on.
Does he have an answer for EVERYTHING. Jeez. she thought as she looked back at the sunrise.
He stared at her, sensing that she was annoyed. He smiled to himself, It was fun annoying people. They got irritated so easily.
"So.. where you off to?"
"What?" Sakura asked in confusion, her gaze still intent on watching the sunrise
"Where you goin'?" he asked again bringing his face in front of hers.
"Oh. No where. Just here and there."
"So what's your name, O great traveller of the no where road?" he asked sarcastically taking a long drag on his ciggarette.
Sakura glared at him. "Akira." She waited for his name, but none came. "Yours?"
" Kane."
"Soo ... " he took another drag of his ciggarette. "Who or what are you running away from?" he asked simply
"Wha..?" Sakura replied flabbergasted How did he know "What makes you think I'm running away?"
" Your bag is stuffed with necessities. Your not in the best state to be travelling. And even if you were travelling, its much to early for you to be." he replied matter of factly staring at the open bag.
"Oh... My father." she replied quietly. Something told her he could be trusted. That something had better be right, or she was screwed.
"I see. Yea, my father was a bastard too. He beat my mom, and so eventually I ran away as well." Kane replied calmly as his insides churned at the thought. Why he was telling her this, he didn't know. Maybe it was because her bruises were much more noticeable then she could have imagined. It almost made him laugh, her and her fruitless attempts to cover them.
"Well, heres twenty bucks," he said getting up and stomping on his ciggarette. "My house is the last one on the last block on the left. The only one with the Sakura tree. I'm almost never there, so if you need anything you can just go there. The key is under the flowerpot on the right, your welcome to stay as long as you want." he said walking off leaving her sitting there surprised, clutching the twenty.
Sakura sat back on the bench staring at the sky, not bothering to watch kane as he made his way out of the park. She sighed and smiled, atleast one good thing had happened. Eventually she got up and walked away in the direction opposite of Kane's house.
He must think I'm stupid if he's expecting me to come to a strangers house...
And yet there was something inside her that urged her to go to his house, urged her to find out if her suspicions were true. Urged her to figure out if Kane and Syaoran were related.
Kanes pov.
What the hell is wrong with me? I need to stop bringing people into that house. Hmm, wonder what she'll say, probably have another heart attack like last time...
Deep in his thoughts, Kane had been walking slowly towards the sunrise.
Wonder If she'll bother to stay at my place.
He made his way slowly into a surprisingly quiet park. The kids on the other side were rambunctiously loud, squealing, jumping off the swings, marking their place and running back to see if they could beat their record, yet no noise could be heard on his part of the park. It became more and more silent as he walked on deeper and deeper into the park where the trees began to thicken. Eventually, the trees thickened into a forest, and Kane made his way expertly through them as though he were in a maze.
"OH FUCK," he cried suddenly pulling himself back before he fell into the, now open ditch. "The hell man ... " he said rubbing his elbow which had hit the trunk of the tree as he fell on the floor. There was a faraway "breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" coming from farther into the trees. Before Kane could make another move two men were on him, each grabbing onto his hands and pinning him onto a nearby tree.
"..Not again ... " he moaned as the two men let go of him.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU KANE! DONT YOU EVER LISTEN TO HER?" cried one of the men, pulling off his hood. He had black hair and his eyes seemed to be closed. He was about 5'8 and very finely built.
"Your screwed" the other man simply stated as he walked away, taking his hood off. His towering height of 6'1 cast long shadows upon the trees as the sun slowly creeped into the middle of the sky, marking midday.
"Wait Terada!" Kane yelled after the man who had completely decided to ignore him. Kane chased after him without another glance at the other man, somehow knowing that if he turned around, the man wouldn't be there."Terada!" he screamed again. Terada stopped, and turned around slowly, squarely meeting Kane's amber eyes.
"What?"
"WHY is there a FREAKIN' pit in my FREAKIN' path? AND WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME!"
"Don't you ever listen to her?" Terada asked smirking, knowing full-well the answer to his question. "What the hell do you do at the meetings anyway?"
"Which meeting? There are SO many" Kane asked harshly stopping infront of him.
"The one where Yamazaki had to kick you, to wake you up..." Terada sighed
"Oh. That one .. "
"I dont understand why you always do this. She even gave out a MAP. Just because of YOU she was up all night making a map of this freakin' maze." Terada tsked, shaking his head and a evil smile replaced his frown "When she finds out... WOW." he said walking away from Kane and into the house .. er .. mansion.
"SYAORAN-KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNN" screamed a girl with red ruby eyes. She ran right into Kane, knocking him over. Her long hair was tied up in two odangas (s/p?) "Syaoran! Where the HELL have you been? We've been searching every where for you, well not "we" per say, but I HAVE, and oh my god, you dont know what happened. Yesterday there was a phone call...Anyway, YOU MISSED A JOB! I can't believe you didnt come home, i was FREAKING out, you said you were going shopping! Well, I should have known when you said that, since you NEVER come with me, but thats not the point ..." the girl squealed jumping around.
"Shut up Mei-ling, your rambling" Kane/Syaoran replied "And HOW many times do I have to tell you NOT to call me Syaoran?"
"Whatever, we're at home, who cares" she replied, her eyes twinkling as she grabbed his hand and led him into the house, slamming the door behind her.
"What were you saying about missing a job?" Kane asked, sitting in the kitchen as he watched Mei-ling prepare an enormous sandwhich for him.
"Oh, you missed a job, something about a run away girl or something .. " she replied vaguely, as she brought his sandwhich to him.
"A missing girl?" What the-- could it be her?
"Yea .. some girl, who knows, who cares."
"What was her name?"
"WHY? HUH? Who cares, Reaper's got it. Jeez Syaoran, first you leave for two days and then you don't even ask me how I've been." she accused sitting down infront of him. Watching as he quickly engulfed the whole sandwhich along with a glass of milk " ... ew ... "
Kane smiled " I just left for a night, stop freaking out. Oh, and how are you?"
"Shut up .. idiot." she replied monotoned as someone stalked into the kitchen.
"Oh shit .. " Kane whispered as he saw the girl stalk in. She was 5'8 and fuming. Her dark brown eyes sought out the man sitting on the table. Pulling her waist length hair into a ponytail she got ready for battle.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, LI?" she screamed as she slapped him across his head
"Oh, sorry Rika, I didn't .--"
"YOU DIDN'T WHAT?" she questioned, her eyes boring into his "Did you or did you NOT get the map that I gave out to everyone?" her voice, now in a dangerous whisper, her face, inches away from his.
"I .. "
"THAT IS IT, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU SYAORAN LI" she screamed
---- in the living room --
"He's screwed" Tereda stated matter-of factly
"Shouldn't we go help him?" questioned the dark haired man that had accompanied Tereda into the forest.
" Yamazaki, if YOU have a death wish, then BY ALL MEANS, go help him. Hell no, am I going in there" Tereda replied, plopping onto the couch
"She's your girlfriend.."
"And your point?"
"Why don't you just tell her to chill out?"
"How about YOU try first, and then you can give me all the gruesome details about her threatening to create a new sort of bomb and shoving it up your arse, or the some next military weapon she can create to harm you."
"Good point .. " Yamazaki replied slowly "Why did I even ask?"
"Don't worry about it, we all have our idiot moments." Tereda stated as he heard Kane screaming from the kitchen. "And his moments, NEVER seem to come to an end."
--in the kitchen--
"OW, ow ow ow" Kane screamed, as Mei-ling put an ice-pak to his now bruised cheeks. "Damn, she hits hard"
"Yea, I know."
"What happen to her, she used to be so ... quiet .. "
" YOU HAPPENED" mei-ling replied bomking him across his head " .. idiot .. "
"Whatever." Kane grabbed the ice-pak and made his way upstairs.
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Sakura walked down the street which was now covered with auburn leaves. The sun was about to set and the wind flowed, following its own silent harmony. Her auburn hair was lifted gently by the chilly breeze.
-- "HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONKKKKK --
"OH SHIT" She jumped, her warm coffee, now all over the road. Looking up she saw a red car pass her by in a blur, and suddenly stop.
"WATCH WHERE THE HELL YOUR GOING! YOU STUPID BITCH" the driver screamed as he got out of the car
"GO TO HELL" she screamed back, her pace quickened until she had come and passed the car.
Unbeknownst to her, four guys stepped out of the car and started to follow her, hiding in the shadows of the trees.
Darkness was coming fast, and Sakura didn't know where to go and for some weird reason she kept feeling as though someone was following her. Every two seconds she would swivel her head right and left in a state of extreme paranoia. Making her way down the street, she walked past a dark alley, and as she did she was dragged into it. A hand muffled her screams, and as her eyes got accustomed to the darkness, she could make out four very blurry figures.
"Hello there sweety" whispered a nasty gruff voice in her ear. She could smell the stench of liquor from his breath, they all reaked of it. Sakura tried to scream but found it impossible to do so, with the mans hand over her mouth.
SHIT I can't Fight, Oh God, Oh God Oh God .. What the hell am I gonna do ? ... sakura could felt her body go rigid, as her brain freaked out Wait, calm down, think this through Sakura. Your standing, well thats good .. .what else...
There was a man at her right, who was holding her, very tightly. One right infront of her, another very close behind her, and the last was leaning against a wall.
What the hell do I do? She thought, as one of the guys touched her waist, she could feel the tears coming out of her eyes. Sakura's life flashed by her, all her memories. But only one really caught her attention. It was of a chocolate haired boy, trying to teach her to kick, and everytime she tried she would fall flat on her butt, but he would never laugh.
I have to try Sakura thought as she felt another hand grab her butt.
Gathering all her strength she kicked the guy behind her, right in his groin, he fell down, groaning in pain. The rest of the men were in bewildered shock as Sakura punched the one on her right in his face, and shoved the one infront of her into the one leaning against the wall. With that she ran the hell out of the alleyway, making her way quickly to a strangers house .
--knock knock--
"WHAT" replied a gruff voice
"Open it, its me" Syaoran replied still holding the ice-pak to his cheeks
"Ha! She found you didn't she." smirked the man who had opened the door. He had brown hair and dark brown eyes. A very properly muscled body, that could make any woman keel over in awe. The man stood tall, at the height of 6'2, making Syaoran crane his head to have an eye-to-eye conversation.
"Yea, she did .. " he replied walking into the room " Reaper, tell me about your job."
"You heard about it?"
"Yea, Meiling just told me .."
"I see, don't worry about it, its just about finding some girl .. "
"Whats her name?"
"Why?"
"'Cause I might know her .. tell me what her name is."
"Kitigawa"
" What's her first name?"
"Heh, kinda forgot that, I have to go to Eroil tomorrow and ask .. "
"You suck, Reaper" Syaoran grumbled,slamming the door as he left the room. Could it be her?
Angelicuzi: o0o0o whose house is she going to? lol
Sorry again for the really really late update, its just been really busy. By the way, I would really like to thank my reviewers, even though there are only like three. lol. The story will still keep going, even with the lack of reviews, except reviews will make it go faster. I get motivated. anywhoo I'm going to go sleep now XD. hehe like 4:14 a.m right now, but I thought to finish this up. -- bye bye --
-uzi