Chapter Eight

Missing?

This chapter is not very exciting. A piece of advice: Trying turning on some rock music or you might fall asleep half-way through. Mostly on the twins. (I think so.)

Tomoyo was treating Sakura's wound in great cautions, not wanting to wake her up. It had been a while since she last treated Sakura's wound for her. She had always been the one and only one who helped Sakura and Meiling treat their badly-treated body back to original state. Unfortunately, Sakura regained her conscious just after Tomoyo managed to pull the bullet out of her left arm.

"Tomoyo-chan..." Sakura called out weakly.

"Hai, Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked, forcing a smile.

"Where am I?" Sakura asked while she tried to sit up. Tomoyo immediately helped her up.

"You are at my house. Syaoran brought you here just to let you know," Tomoyo replied.

"Syaoran-kun?" Sakura asked in shock. How did he find her?

"Sakura did you really..." Tomoyo wanted to question Sakura about the truth why she had killed Yukito. She knew Syaoran wasn't telling the whole truth. He was hiding something. But maybe it just wasn't the right time to ask. Sakura knew what her friend was going to ask her. She knew Tomoyo too well to have not notice that little thought of hers.

"I met up with Yukito-san," Sakura started, "I questioned him why he had killed Elton. He said he killed him just because he was a threat to his business. I never thought he was such a person. I always thought he was... I killed him..." Tears had wet her eyes while Sakura told Tomoyo about the incident. Tomoyo looked sadly at her friend. She knew how sad Sakura was now and how important Yukito had been to Sakura even since they knew. She also knew how painful it was when you learnt the truth from them. She herself had been through as well.

"It's okay, Sakura-chan," Tomoyo replied as she embraced Sakura in her arms, "You know Meiling and I will always be there for you. No matter what happen."

"Arigato, Tomoyo-chan, hotoni arigato," Sakura sobbed. (I think it's spell like this. My Japanese is limited you know. Hahaha...)

End of flashback

'Sakura-chan must be really hurt after this incident. Although it is not as hurting as when Syaoran sold her off right after...' Tomoyo snapped out of her thoughts immediately. She was busy with her preparation for their breakfast while thinking. How cruel can Syaoran be? How could he do that to Sakura after she gave birth to his children? Mind him, his children!

Eriol on the other hand was sitting in his chair in his study room. Tomoyo didn't answer any of his questions after Syaoran left. No matter how hard he tried to force the answer, he received only a sweet smile from Tomoyo.

'Why is she not willing to tell me anything?' Eriol thought. 'What is she hiding from me?' Just then, his phone rang. He answered the phone and was shock to hear who was on the other line.

"Hello there, Eriol," the voice greeted.

"Rex..." Eriol was too lost of words that he sat paralyzed in his seat.

"Don't have to be this shock to hear my voice do you?" Rex laughed, "Anyway, let's get down to business."

"Business?" Eriol asked.

"First of all, is Syaoran there too?" Rex asked.

"Yes, he is. And how did you know?" Eriol asked.

"I sent people to his house. It seems to me that someone just ransack his house last night," Rex replied.

"You sent people to his house? Why?" Eriol sensed a strange feeling in this conversation. First was Rex, one of the most important figures of the CIA and past partner calling him. Then he received news that Rex actually sent people to Syaoran's house and found it was ransacked?! What made Rex do that? Noticing the silence, Rex sighed.

"Vic is killed last night," Rex replied, "And I think it got to do with the case."

"What?! Vic?! But..." Eriol stared hard into the thin air. Vic was killed?!

"When we found him, he was died cold. It was about 4 in the morning," Rex replied.

"Where did you people found him?" Eriol asked.

"His office," Rex replied, "The security guard found him died while patrolling the area last night."

"Who could have slipped in and done that?" Eriol asked.

"I want to know too, Eriol," Rex replied, "I want to know that's why I need Kinomoto to ask the mystery."

"Sakura? Why her?" Eriol asked wondering what everything got to do with Sakura.

"She might know who have done it," Rex replied, "Get Syaoran and Sakura down to the office."

"Wait, Rex," Eriol called out, suddenly remembered something, "Where's the twins?"

"Ah... I forgotten to tell you too," Rex immediately replied, "The twin is missing as well."

"WHAT?!" Eriol shouted.

This just spelt: Not good!

Twin's side

"Brother, where can we go now?" Xiao Feng asked as she stopped to pant for breathe.

"I have no idea as well. We know very little people here," Xiao Long replied, leaning against the nearest wall. They had been running for the past few hours. Their legs could not longer able to hold on any more of the running.

"Why are they chasing us in the first place?" Xiao Feng asked timidly. Her voice shivered a little.

"It has to be something about Dad and Aunty Sakura," Xiao Long replied.

"Them again," Xiao Feng made a face, "And why did you bring along Dad's ring?"

"Then I will ask you why you are bringing along Aunty Sakura's laptop?" Xiao Long asked. Both of them laughed at once. (Wrong time to do that don't you think so?) They knew the answer to the question. And it was obvious wasn't it?

"Guess we just want them to know where we are," Xiao Feng replied, getting herself up.

"Probably," Xiao Long replied sadly, hinting to her to move along with him. Moving down the quiet alley, both of them tried sensing dangers that they might bump into at any corner and any turns. They were children after all, what can they actually do to escape from the danger they might face after what they met up last night? As they turned about the corner, a man stood at the end of the alley and looked at them, causing them to retreat.

"Hi there, little boy and cute girl," the man smiled as he moved towards them, "Why don't you try being a good children and follow big brother?"

"Stop treating us as small children you moron!" Xiao Long shouted as he pulled Xiao Feng closer to him. Xiao Feng looked from the man to her brother. She could sense the uneasiness in her brother. Fear that was. What can he do now? They were not armed or anything, they didn't even know what to do or to react to this situation. Think, haven't they been clever in almost anything? So why freak out now?

"There there. Be a little bit polite to me and I will treat you better, boy," the man replied, "You can't escape from us anymore."

Xiao Long pulled his sister along with him and tried to escape. But unfortunately, he found that all exists was sealed by men.

"I told you. You are trapped," the man laughed as he stood behind them.

"Damn you," Xiao Long cursed.

"Come along now," the man replied as he stretched out his hands to reach for them. Xiao Long felt his fear grow as the hand moved closer to him.

"Keep that filthy hand of yours away from them!" A voice shouted, causing the man to stop his motion and Xiao Long to turn and see whose voice was it. He saw six girls standing at the end of the alley and two of which had took the men blocking the way down. There was only one lady that caught his eye immediately as it seems. The lady in the middle. Her short black hair and her blue spectacles made her looked extremely dangerous to him.

"Who do you think you are to stop me?" the man asked.

"Kit," the lady in the middle replied, "from the Phantom Gang."

"Phantom Gang?" the man asked in a questionable way.

"Not that you need to know," Kit smiled as she commanded the rest of the gang to attack him. Xiao Long held Xiao Feng even tighter, shielding her to prevent her from seeing the entire 'terrible' scene. He didn't know who the ladies were and what they want from them. It was fear beyond fear to them. In no time, the ladies had finished all the people, forcing them to flee in panic. Kit walked towards them. Grounded with fear, Xiao Long's eyes followed as she drew nearer. His heart stopped died as she bent down in front of him and his sister.

"Where did you two get that laptop?" Kit asked in an unusual tone, which made Xiao Long immediately blinked at her in confusion. That voice just didn't suit her at all. Noticing the confusion in his eyes, Kit sighed and stood up, messing her hair up in frustration, "I guess that voice doesn't suit me."

"It doesn't, like we always told you," Another girl replied. Her short red hair made her looked like a gangster than ever.

"Okay, Evelyn, don't have to remind me," Kit replied while another girl with long black hair tied up high with silver band walked over to them.

"Let me introduce us to you," she replied, smiling, "My name is Teng. That's Evelyn (A lady in red hair), Chris(A lady with shoulder-length hair), Pamela (Long black hair) and lastly, Kit, Leader of the gang (The one with short long hair)."

"I'm not!" Kit protested.

"You are," the group replied in unison, making the twin and Kit to sweatdrop.

"Anyway," Kit coughed while blushing, "Please follow me, the two of you. I need to know how you two manage to get hold of the laptop when it should be with Tomoyo until Sakura was released."

"You know Aunty Sakura and Aunty Tomoyo?" Xiao Long exclaimed. Looking at his reaction, the ladies looked at each other before turning to face them again. Did they happen to know them as well?

"If you know them," Pamela replied, "Then you two definitely have to come along with us. We will need to get the two of you back to them."

"How can we know whether you are trying to help us or lie to us?" Xiao Feng asked, finally getting away from her brother.

"We wouldn't try anything dumb against them," Chris replied, "They aren't anyone to mess with."

"Except Kit that is," Teng replied.

"I just happen to know them well," Kit replied, turning on her heel, "Follow me... Ahm... What are your names?"

"Xiao Feng and Xiao Long," Xiao Long replied, as they followed the ladies closely. They never knew they were going to learn a past that will make them even shock about their parents.

Syaoran and Sakura's side

Sakura was brushing her long hair with the comb in front of the mirror. She had given herself a bath. But in her mind there was only one thing. They had done it again. They had done something they shouldn't have. How can she face the fact that she had once again fall in love with Syaoran? She had told herself not to, but there seems no way for her to do that.

'Falling in love with Syaoran will only make me as weak as I was in the past. I just can't make the same mistake again.' Sakura thought sorrowfully. 'But I don't wish to hurt him like he did to me in the past. I just can't bear to hurt him.'

Syaoran was taking his bath. His mind was also wondering. Had he done the right thing? The government will want her died after everything just like Eriol said. How can he prevent such a thing to happen to her? His heart was beating in pain. What can he do to stop something passed down by the president himself? Even if he was well respected by the government and the president himself, he couldn't just walk in and tell the president off.

'What can I do to keep Sakura alive? I can't live without her, like I can't lose my twin, our twin.' Syaoran thought, grabbing his clothes on (The same clothes he wore earlier.) and walked out of the bathroom. (Additional information: Tomoyo's house had one bathroom to each bedroom. That includes the children's room as well.)

"Syaoran! Sakura!" Eriol's voice and the slamming noise from the door made Sakura and Syaoran to look at him in weird look on their face which Eriol ignored it.

"What's with the rush?" Syaoran asked, eyeing him in confusion. Tomoyo had come up when she heard the slamming of the door.

"Rex called," Eriol told him, "He said your house was ransacked and..."

"Ransack?!" Syaoran shouted in shock. How did anyone get into the house? Wait something was missing.

"Where's Xiao Long and Xiao Feng?" Sakura asked as she stood up. Tomoyo looked at her husband in fear. She had fear something bad was going on.

"They are missing," Eriol replied, "And Rex wants you two to be at HQ."

"WHAT?! MISSING?!" both of them shouted at once, ignoring the fact that they had woken Eriol and Tomoyo's children awake.

"Mommy, what's going on?" A little girl with long purplish hair asked the totally shocked Tomoyo who snapped immediately out of her shock and looked at her. Another boy with bluish hair followed behind her silently.

"Nothing, honey," Tomoyo lied as she held her daughter's hand and looked over at her son, "Let's go downstair and have your breakfast should we?"

"Okay..." the little girl replied as she followed Tomoyo down. The boy looked into the room and at Sakura, then at Syaoran before turning to meet his father. His eyes stopped at his father and smiled a little.

"It got to do with the case right?" the little boy asked. Syaoran and Sakura looked at Eriol then to the boy. His son actually knew too?

"You have been listening haven't you?" Eriol asked.

"Just to tell you, Father," the little boy replied, "I'm not as uncurious as sister is. I know what is going on."

"Then I suggest you, not to get yourself involve in this case," Eriol replied.

"I understand, Father," the little boy replied before he turned to leave, "And unlike Xiao Long and Xiao Feng, I will not try anything stupid."

Leaving them alone again, Eriol sighed while Syaoran and Sakura continued to stare at him.

"He sure knew a lot as well, doesn't he?" Syaoran asked.

"Not as much as Xiao Feng and Xiao Long had learnt," Eriol told him, "Like I said, Rex wants you two in his office as soon as possible. He will help to track the kids down."

"How is he supposed to track them down?" Syaoran asked as if he was questioning the ability of his own friend. Well, at least Rex was a friend and an ally.

"The ring," Eruik replied as he pointed to Sakura's ring, making Sakura looked at her ring and then at Syaoran whose expression changed.

"They brought along the ring?" Syaoran asked.

"More precious, the ring and Sakura's laptop were the only things missing," Eriol replied, "Thus we can only assume that they had the items with them."

"My laptop is missing as well? Wait, how did you know about my laptop?" Sakura asked.

"I have my way," Eriol replied as he turned to leave, "So please get yourself ready. After breakfast I will follow the two of you to the office."

Before he left the room, he told another shocking new that made them widen their eyes in shock.

"Just to add on, Vic is died and Rex is taking over the case," Eriol said, leaving the two of them alone in the room. It took them a while before his last sentence managed to register into their thick brains.

"WHAT?"

Another chapter is done. Hahaha... This chapter is boring. Don't you agree? I almost fall asleep while writing. Hahaha... The twin is going to find out about the truth about their parents. Next chapter... or the next next chapter. I don't know. I will see about that.

Wolf Jade, to your question, Yukito killed Elton Fort that is only one of the reasons why Sakura was brought out.

Crystaleyez, don't stress on me. They will find out about it soon.

Pnaixrose, this is not an SxS story for nothing.

Icicle7, I will see about that only in the later chapter. (I know I'm evil but please bear with it for a while.)

I added a few more characters and a gang. Hahaha... Please don't flame me or flood my e-mail. I beg you people.

In addition, I need names for Tomoyo's children and Meiling's children. So I need you people's help. I need names for them. Tomoyo had a son and a daughter, aged 12 and 8. Meiling had a twin daughter, age 10. So any names I can use? Through review and e-mail will be fine.

And plus, I need bad guys. Anyone of you want to be them in my story? Hahaha... I don't anyone will want to be bad guys as we want to help Sakura right? Anyway, I need names for that as well. So I await your suggestions.

Date is drawing very near to my death... A few more days... Seeing you guys in a... unknown period of time?

Signing off with love and thanks,

Kit.