The Prized Jewel
Author's Notes: I love how that everyone who reads this story is in love with it! Normally when people review my stories a lot quickly, I update quicker. So keep those reviews coming guys, and I'll update faster! I loved all the reviews, and as for the confusion: read things carefully and just wait. And since you guys all wanted to see more of Sakura and her action, here's a chapter just for that! Thanks everyone!
Summary: She was a prized possession to everything and everyone. He was a man who liked to make conquests built with a stone cold wall. Because of this, the world of gangs charged him to protect their most prized jewel, Sakura Kinomoto. He hadn't expected that when he fell in love with her, that he was going to fall in an ocean of chaos.
Disclaimer: Don't own it, don't sue me, but this story is entirely mine.
.:Beginning:.
Sakura and her four bodyguards arrived home at five. She would've begun her afternoon training if an urgent phone call hadn't taken place.
Sakura went into her bedroom as she picked up the phone. The afternoon training had been cancelled and she had a bad feeling about this. The only time when her training was cancelled was that someone from the triad world had contacted her.
She sat down on the bed. "Hello?"
"Hey." She recognized the voice immediately and her shoulders dropped in relaxation. She leaned back onto the bed slightly and pulled the phone closer to her ear.
"Hey, Touya." Her voice soft and gentle. "Did you need something, oni-chan?"
Sakura could feel his hesitation in his response. "The Council wants to see you tomorrow night. Would that be okay with you?" He asked the last part to be polite, they both knew that she would not have a choice in the matter.
"Of course, oni-chan."
"Listen, Sakura. The rumors of the rebellion against you have been confirmed. I want you to be really careful okay? Don't go anywhere without the guys, please."
Sakura nodded, as if he could see. "Okay."
They hung up a few minutes after they talked casually…like normal brothers and sisters do when they were close to one another. Sakura laid down on the bed and stared at her bedroom's white ceiling.
Sakura had always had mixed feelings about being The Jewel when she had been crowned. She liked it in a way but also she resented it. She hated the feeling that she was always being haunt down and she was being used by people. But she loved the feeling of power and being able to escape from the world of politics as well.
However she hated the bloodshed and no matter how many times she washed her hands or blocked out the memories, the fact of her murdering someone remained forever.
It haunted her.
.:The Next Night:.
Sakura was nervous. She always was when she was called in for a meeting with The Council. (AN: Imagine them to have the sort of power like the Elders in the Li clan, only this set controls the triad world.)
She pulled out the outfit from her closet and pulled it on. She always wore this outfit when she met with The Council, she wasn't sure why. Habit, probably, she decided. It was a pair of black slacks and a tight black shirt. The cups that cupped her breasts were ruffled elegantly and the straps made a criss-cross against her back. She pulled on her heels and brushed her hair quickly. After applying a light brush of a pink lip gloss and swiping on some eyeshadow, she left without her bodyguards.
Whenever The Council called on her, they did in a way that seemed like she was going out for a normal day. A man would come pick her up in a sports car, making it look like she was on a date with some rich guy.
The guy would not speak to her and he would have been informed that she was maybe…a friend of his or something. He would drop her off in front of a glass building, thinking she was meeting that friend. Instead she would wait until he turned the corner and out of sight, counted ten minutes and Sakura would walk into the glass building.
Inside of the glass building she would take the elevator to the 63rd floor. She waited in the waiting room like a normal person, normally for no longer than five minutes. Someone would call her in and leave her in a small office. (AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know this is a lot of details that seem stupid but I want the readers to know exactly how important The Jewel is to get all of this. And it's like…a spy would get these type of things too!)
The person would leave and Sakura would count to ten minutes before she left the office. She walked down the hall and slipped into the staircase. Sakura would walk two flights of stairs to the next floor where no one had access to. Sakura would then meet The Council in a grand ballroom, unknown to the rest of the world who even worked at the building.
The Council members sat on a long table on a stage, looking down upon her, although she had much more power than they did. Every single member had sacrificed a lot to get a seat. It was the ultimate level of the game in the triad world.
They would sacrifice their family, their love, even their body parts to get there.
She would know. Sakura was the sacrifice for her brother.
In the middle sat an elderly man, named Ryuu Hinata. To his right was a middle aged woman, 35 at most, Yuna Chow. To Ryuu's right was Touya, Sakura's brother.
"Hello members of The Council." Sakura greeted in a tight voice, her eyes cold and her posture straight and stiff. "You had asked me to meet you hear tonight?"
The eyes of The Council stared down upon her, washing over her figure and nodding at last. "I'm assuming you've heard of the rebellion?"
They didn't wait for an answer when they continued.
"The rebellion has been rumored to have started a month ago. There are only two key players in it. Logically, if we take those two players out, the rebellion will be crushed." Yuna explained.
"We would like you to go into their headquarters, where many of them are rumored to be. The two key players should be there. Kill them, plain and simple." Touya finished. He hid his emotions well whenever he entered The Council room.
When Touya started out, he asked his sister for her help. When he gained enough power that The Council recognized him and acknowledged him, they had asked him a key question.
(AN: All italics are past)
"What are the things that have made you successful?"
Touya was young and happy that The Council wanted to meet with him. Whenever The Council asked for a meeting of a triad member, it always meant they were going to have a chance at a seat.
Like a celebrity winning an Oscar, he made a speech. In it, he thanked the people who had made it possible. Instead of mentioning fans, he mentioned his sister.
"You're sister?" They asked him.
"My sister, Sakura." He told him.
"And how has she helped?"
And Touya told them. She had very high government connections that helped his gang keep out of trouble. She arranged for his men to attack very well, like a military commander.
His sister had never killed anyone back then.
"May we meet with her?"
"She's here with me, downstairs!" He told them excitingly. Touya had taken Sakura with him that day, to tell her whatever happened…good or bad.
Sakura met with The Council in an all black outfit. She impressed The Council, she looked so innocent yet she had the eyes and knowledge of a killer when she met with them.
"Touya, we are prepared to make you an offer. We are offering you a seat."
Touya couldn't stop shaking, bursting with happiness.
"Although we require a sacrifice." They told him and immediately Touya felt a chill down his spine. "We wish for your sister to be a soldier for the triad world."
And thus began Touya's growing coldness and Sakura's journey as The Jewel. Because soon after, The Council found out who Sakura really was, the Princess of Japan. They arranged a meeting with the king and queen, in which they spilled her secret that she was involved with the triad world. Then her public crowning in which The Council soon after erased evidence of.
And Sakura was inwardly tortured as she was forced to kill for the first time. She had tried to leave, however if she did, everyone she loved would die. Forced into it, she became The Jewel; the ultimate prized possession of the triad world.
It had been Touya's foolishness that made him answer the question.
Sakura nodded silently and stated, "I accept."
The Council dismissed her. And Sakura left the same way she had came back to her home to prepare.
.:The Next Week: Tuesday Night:.
It was ten at night and Sakura was standing at her balcony, staring out into the stars. It was the only way to calm herself and clear her head. The biting wind numbed her mind and body so she could successfully shut down her emotions. That was the only way she could kill.
Her bodyguards were already asleep, when it came time for Sakura to be The Jewel, they could not interfere. It was not their job to assist her on her missions. Sakura slipped back inside and changed quickly to a skin tight black outfit with a small belt and tall light combat boots.
She strapped in two long daggers inside of her soundless combat boots and slipped in a couple of gas bombs into her belt pocket, just in case. Then she put a gun and a load of bullets into its hostler and set out, she always traveled lightly.
Sakura jumped down from the balcony of her room, slipping past the many guards on the mansions grounds. Her parents may know that she was part of the triad world, but they didn't know anything about what she did.
Sakura sat down at the rooftop, a building away from the rebellion headquarters. 'Ten guards on the outside, I only see six on the inside. Doesn't look like it's that well guarded…probably to avoid suspicion.'
Sakura looked around closer, trying to find a secluded area where she could sneak in. And she did. She went down from the fire escape and in a minute, she was beside the east wall of the building. Taking a quick glance around, she looked for a door. Luckily, it wasn't locked and she slipped inside.
The building inside, to her surprise wasn't old and disgusting. It had a Victorian design, as if someone rich lived there. To her advantage, the ceilings were dark and had seemingly well structured tiny ledges. She ran quickly to a dark corner and jumped onto it, using it quickly, Sakura leaped up and did a small flip onto the ledge. She almost lost her balance but she quickly grabbed the curtain next to her.
Taking a deep breath, she pressed her body against the wall and listened intently for any indication that someone was coming. When she found nothing, she took small steps with her back pressed against the wall. She walked on the ledge as if it was a balance beam.
Sakura had made it very far down the large hall when someone caught her.
"Hey you!"
Sakura jumped from the ledge when she saw a sharp glint of metal in the moonlight of a knife thrown at her. She did several flips before landing on the marble floor, two feet away from the man who had tried to attack her.
Thinking quickly, Sakura pulled the two daggers out of her boots. She clenched the hilts tightly and she stood up with the blade slicing through the man's body like butter. His body fell with a thump and following his dead body, five men had located her.
She threw one of her daggers straight into the one who was approaching her the fastest who collapsed and died quickly. Sakura held her remaining dagger tighter and launched herself into the man coming fast and hard towards her. She blocked his katana and turned the blade over to stab him.
Sakura ran to avoid his body collapsing on her and as she ran by the first guy she killed, she pulled the dagger out. Sakura dove towards the ground and onto her hands, she did several back flips and then did a jump as she approached the next person. She was two feet over his head and she came down with her daggers straight and gleaming. It cut down his shoulders down to the middle of his chest. She pulled out and without looking, Sakura stabbed the next guy in the chest when she saw a glint of his blade coming over her head.
One guy left and she turned around to look at him, calm and cool. The dark hid her face and he looked in horror. Before he could scream, Sakura threw her dagger into his head. She walked calmly over and pulled her dagger out, wiping the blood on his shirt.
Sakura decided to walk on the ground instead of on the ledge, to be quicker. She had walked far away from the dead bodies when she suddenly she heard two people approaching, and she pressed herself against a wall where the darkness enveloped her and hid her.
"Boss wants us to recruit more people, he wants a whole army to get her." The female voice said.
"Alright, we should get started tomorrow."
Sakura waited until the two were gone before she walked in the opposite direction. She guessed where the two had come from. She was met with a large door. Sakura opened it quietly and slipped inside. The room was dark as well, like the rest of the building had been. An oak desk was in the center and large shelves of books lined the walls. Sakura closed the door softly, pretty sure that if anyone was in the room, they wouldn't hear anything.
Sakura lined herself behind the bookshelf and walked soundlessly on the carpet flooring behind the desk. She gripped her hilt of her daggers tighter and prepared herself.
The chair turned around. The person sitting there shocked her that she dropped one of her daggers and took a step back.
"Takashi?" She choked.
.:End Chapter:.
Author's Notes: HAHA! REVIEW!