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Chapter 6;
Requests
Dublin, Ireland. 7th June 2016. 6:19 PM
Sakura entered with delicate steps in the master bedroom, where her niece Naruko slept in her crib. Katrina sat on the bed as she covered Naruko with the thin blanket, she did the same thing when Jade was of the same month as her second daughter, Sakura knew what it means; Katrina covered them in a thin white blanket as if she wanted a shield to protect them forever, both Jade and Naruko are still innocents and they do not deserve to know the evils of the world… not yet at least.
Sakura sat beside Katrina, the red-haired girl noticed her and her lips curved in a small smile, she was immersed in watching her daughter sleeping peacefully between the warm colors of the bedroom and of the house. « You and Touya are wonderful parents you know? » said Sakura as she moved her hand to Naruko's head and caressed it, her lips curved in a gentle smile as she touched the little red locks of her tiny, little niece. Sakura already knew that Naruko would be beautiful like Katrina.
Jade reminded her too much of Touya physically, except for her intense light blue eyes. Personality wise her niece was wild and independent, intelligent and sharp, no wonder that she was one of the best students in school and she was almost fourteen.
Katrina blinked as Sakura removed her hand from her daughter's head and she chewed calmly the left part of her lips. At Sakura's words she nodded only and put an hand on her stomach, in an almost instinctive way « I'm glad that I've met him, It was like a sign of God that I've met both of you »
« I don't believe in God, you know that. »
« I know Sakura, but I think the Lord blessed me, you and our family. It felt like a… » Katrina couldn't find the words for a moment, she looked at the floor and took a deep breath, before continuing with her talk. « It felt like a divine sight… If it wasn't for me… I think Touya wouldn't be here with me and Jade and Naruko wouldn't never be born. »
Sakura knew what she meant and she had to agree with her sister-in-law. Sakura didn't believe in God but she felt that there is a divine source ahead of men, but no necessarily God. Katrina on the other hand was a Christian and she had a great faith in the Irish Church, but she didn't agreed with some of their ideals, like that the homosexuals are creatures of the devil… « You gave life to Touya once again… after the accident that killed Yukito. » Sakura said it in a faint whisper, and she tried to hold back her tears, It was still a fresh wound on her mind and on her body.
Touya, before marrying Katrina, had a boyfriend by the name of Yukito Tsukishiro. They met in High School when they were still in Tokyo, Sakura had a slight crush on him when she was in elementary school but she understood that her feelings for him were like he was another brother of her family tree, and she had accepted that Yukito loved Touya more than anyone else in the world. But… before their university degree and Sakura was in High school, they were in Dublin because Yukito was interested in joining Dublin's Interpol and a drunk truck-driver smashed their car, the only survivors were Sakura and Touya. Yukito was killed immediately, by an head trauma.
Sakura and Touya went back in Japan after Yukito's death and her brother had took his degree, but fell into depression and he was trying to kill himself with pills and cuts on his wrists, he tried even an overdose of alcohol.
Katrina met Touya in a bar in the Shibuya district in Tokyo, she was there for work but when he saw him in that state, she had to renounce to her mission and leave it to another agent, at the time Katrina was working for New Scotland Yard and they were investigating about Tomoyo Daidouji, who at the time she was engaged with Eriol Hiiragizawa. Katrina had become immediately friends with Touya and brought a new light both to him and Sakura and then two years after they fall in love and Touya proposed to her in 2001 and they had preferred to have a traditional western wedding. Sakura was glad that Katrina came into their lives, she was like an angel from the paradise and saved Touya's life from depression and suicide thoughts.
Katrina put an hand on Sakura's shoulder, a gesture to comfort her and smiled gently « I'm glad that I've actually met you, mo chara » they shared a quick but intense hug, while they were hugging, Sakura approached her lips to Katrina's ear « Is breà liom Katrina » she whispered as they parted, after she gave a light punch on Katrina's shoulder « And you should control my brother's hormones! » Katrina widened her eyes in shook, her big eyes looked at her, suspiciously.
Sakura shocked her head, a smile still on her face « Kat. I know you're pregnant don't lie to me » Katrina for a moment forgot how sharp Sakura was sometimes, she shook her head and closed her eyes « How do you know that Sakura? » she asked, her eyes still closed.
Sakura crossed her arms under her breasts and looked at her niece, who was sleeping peacefully on her bed, with the blankets wrapped around her so tiny body. Sakura knew inside of her that Naruko's going to be a mommy's little girl in the future. Jade is already a daddy's little girl and she loved to stay around Touya.
« While I was driving you had your mouth full of food, I remember your cravings when you were pregnant of Jade and Naruko »
You really have an iron mind Sakura Katrina thought as she rolled her eyes in annoyance, but at least she was glad to share it with Sakura, she haven't told to Touya yet. All the work at court and hers with Interpol had made them busy, even through Katrina shouldn't overwork herself since she's pregnant for the third time.
Katrina decided to avoid the subject about her pregnancy, she wasn't feeling comfortable at the moment, especially with her husband and Sakura's companion downstairs. « Do you need my help again Sakura? » she asked almost out of the blue.
Sakura knew that Katrina was avoiding the subject but didn't dared to get back into the topic, she nodded firmly and told Katrina everything.
From her trip in mount Liang where Empress Wu Zeitan should rest along with her husband to the Ambush in Luoyang's excavations. Katrina drank all of her words, without interrupting her and she knew that there was the foot of Doctor Daidouji-Hiiragizawa and her husband. Her files from the Interpol had revealed to her that they were both searching for immortality and now it seems that the Jade Heart was the answer for dear long agony of research and research on its secret, especially for Tomoyo Daidouji-Hiiragizawa, she had killed her sister for the sake to search immortality.
« I have no doubts Sakura, there is the foot of them »
« I know, Shinobu Nakajima was there.. I placed locators on her men's and her own car, so I know where to track them down and try to get the Jade Heart » Katrina indicated to Sakura to take her tablet on the bedside table, she took it without hesitation and handed it to Katrina.
After inserting a few passwords and entering on the Interpol's site, Katrina handed the tablet to Sakura and took her bag, taking a little memory reader and entered it on the tablet. Immediately the tablet let them show the locations of where the agents where at the moment.
Three were still in Europe and only one was in the United States, Sakura's lips pursued in a smirk, satisfied by her own work « Well, It seems that the artifact can be in one of these locations. I doubt that it's in their Master headquarters »
Katrina nodded as she saw the map on the tablet, she clicked on the blue point at the left of the map. There was a possibility that the Jade Heart could be in one of these locations below;
-Venice, Italy
-Washington D.C, United States of America
-Reykjavík, Iceland
-St. Petersburg , Russia
Katrina felt something fishy about these locations, from her knowledge, Hiiragizawa and Daidouji had no headquarters in Iceland and possibly that location is nothing but a mere trap for Sakura in there.
« I think we'll start in Reykjavík first » Katrina shocked her head to her sister-in-law's words, she felt that location was the trap for her. The true locations where Venice, Washington D.C and St. Petersburg and the false one was the one in Iceland because one: they got no Headquarters in Reykjavík and two It could be a trap to get Sakura and Professor Li Syaoran killed. Katrina didn't wanted that Sakura got killed in cold blood, even if she can handle herself very well.
Jade would not stand that blow, If you go in there is suicide. Tell her Katrina, do it now! Her mind was screaming in protest, she had to talk before Sakura did something reckless. « No, from my files they have no headquarters in Iceland. I think is a trap to get you killed. ».
Sakura thought on it for a while. Katrina was right, she remembered that from her Interpol's files, that Tomoyo and Eriol had no headquarters in Iceland. They really must hate her guts very much to lure her in a land that is unknown to them, but probably under their influence. Sakura had only to nod at her once she understood her concern and scrapped immediately that option off her head.
« Where do you suggest to begin? »
« Venice, last time that I checked up on the couple they were in their H.Q in Venice. » Sakura raised an eyebrow, confused. Wasn't Venice their weakest H.Q along with the one in Sarajevo and Minks? « I don't understand… And if it is a trap too? If I recall correctly Venice isn't where their influence isn't that strong such as in Serbia and in Belarus? » Katrina nodded at her concern, she zoomed in the zone of Venice and it once again confirmed Sakura's doubts.
« Correct, but I think that If they want to hide such a precious thing to Daidouji they would hide it in one of their weakest spots, so for now I have to cut off St. Petersburg and Washington D.C. » Sakura smirked at her words, she raised an hand and Katrina high-fived her, exchanging the smirk with her.
« Now, you need anything else Sakura? » Katrina asked once again, an eyebrow raised on her forehead, Sakura nodded and in the meanwhile she put her silken long hair in a neat ponytail. « I need false documents Katrina, for both me and Syaoran » Katrina eyebrow went skyward, her smirk widened, teasing Sakura. She blinked in confusion as she saw her expression on her face. Then after a while she laughed curtly, having fun in teasing her sister-in-law and best friend.
« What is it? » Sakura asked, slightly irritated by her best friend behavior. Katrina shocked her head, still her smirk on her lips, the Tomb Raider rolled her eyes at her smirk. Maybe her hormones are driving her insane and making her things that shouldn't be true.
« Well Saku, You've known him for…what? Three days? You even saved his life! »
« I'm not that heartless Katrina. »
« I know, but I can sense that there's some chemistry in between you two… Sexual Tension even! » Sakura looked at Katrina with wide eyes, she tried not to insult her with bad words such as "whore" or "bitch" because her daughter was sleeping next to them in her soft crib. Sakura decided to keep her mouth shut, but she knew that deep inside Katrina was right.
Syaoran intrigued her, so much. His knowledge of archeology and the passion for his work had made him admirable for her eyes, and also the dedication of how he talked about the artifact that he discovered to his colleagues. She saw that during that night in Luoyang's Museum, his amber eyes lightened up like shining stars and there was passion in his voice. And, may she be damned in hell if she said these words out loud, Sakura had to admit that he was cute… No, he was drop dead gorgeous in her eyes. She had felt her blood boil within her when Syaoran approached her at the Museum in Luoyang. Maybe… and only maybe It was just a physical attraction for Sakura.
Not that she didn't mind that, she didn't bothered falling in love and she did that mistake thousand times, for example in Cambodia, in Angkor Thom, while she took the artifact from the Tomb of Jayavarman VII, her companion betrayed her, breaking her heart and swore to herself to never fall in love. Men mainly used her only to use her money or use her as a trophy 'girlfriend' or use it as the grand prize in bed. She didn't showed it, but it hurt her so much to be seen as an object by men or be the tree of millions of dollars.
It's just a physical attraction Sakura… Well.. at least the sex is good.
« Katrina, don't begin, I'm not going to be love drunk over him » Katrina lifted up her shoulders in an amused expression all over her face. The she was suddenly serious and nodded to her first request « I'll see if I can give you the false documents that I used when I met your brother. I can switch it with your photos. I just need Syaoran's ID for th- »
« MOM! Where are you? » Sakura's eyes opened in shock, she knew that voice too well. It was a young and fresh voice and the Tomb Raider couldn't help but smile at it, even though her eyes were still in shock. Katrina knew what Sakura had in mind and winked at her. « I'm with your sister Jade, in the master bedroom! » Sakura stood up and hid herself behind the door of the bedroom, a playful expression on her face.
Deep inside she couldn't wait to do the surprise to her niece, deep inside, she was her favorite niece and she loved her from the bottom of her heart and if someone dared to hurt her or take her from her family they had to surpass her dead body.
She was very eager to meet her niece.
The little girl entered in the bed room, she was thirteen, long brown hair with black locks that fell gently on her shoulders, honey skin and freckles spread all over her face but unlike her mother not on her body, she had intense blue eyes and light almond shape of her eye's form. She was also pretty thin and athletic, no doubt that she was in the cheerleading squad of her middle school, actually… she was the captain!
Touya couldn't be more proud for her daughter and Sakura can't help but be so proud of her niece, she was carefree, joyous and very open to everyone. It was like a mirror of herself when she was in middle school but mixed with Katrina and Touya's looks. But she had also bad points: she was wild, noisy, she even dared to disagree badly with her parents, raising discussions and bad words with her parents.
Jade was dressed in a light blue shirt that showed her shoulders and black jeans shorts, she had a black bag with written her name in gold on her shoulder. Jade walked to her mother, put her bag on the bed and leaned to Naruko, placing a kiss on her forehead, then she turned to Katrina. She ruffled her head in a playful gesture. « So, How was your day with uncle Derek? »
Jade, at the question, released an annoyed breath, shrugging her shoulders and puffed her right cheek « Uncle Derek is annoying Okaa-san, all he can do is "trying to be the best uncle in the world" » she said the last words moving her index and middle finger and trying to imitate Derek's voice.
Derek Lynch is Katrina's older brother, he works as the owner of a big theatre in Dublin and he has quite the pay. He even promised to Jade to take one of her favorite bands in his theatre when he will have the chance. Derek has accepted both Touya and Sakura in his family but he felt in competition with her, not to mention that he even tried to woo her into his bed, failing. Derek was married with a musical actress from Belfast, Northern Ireland, but he had the vice to flirt with women sometimes, Sakura included. Not to mention that in college he was a playboy and took into his bed many naïve girls.
He felt in competition with Sakura for trying to be the best uncle in the world, but in the thirteen years old heart, that place was for her gorgeous aunt and she knew that Sakura would face hell to protect her.
Katrina laughed at her words as she played with her cheek and moved it playfully. Suddenly Jade's expression sadden, deep thoughts in her mind and desires that are hard to fulfill. Sakura knows her most deepen wish, that she could live in Ireland forever and quit Tomb Raiding forever. She had thought about it thousand times but the temptation of a new adventure was always behind a bend and she couldn't do anything to stop the temptation. She loved her nieces more than she loved herself but she loved also adventure more than she loved herself.
The decision was very hard on her shoulders sometimes…
« How I wish that Aunt Sakura is always here with me… » Jade's words made Katrina smile and mentioned her head to the door « I think that there's something suspicious in there, would you mind to take a look, Special Agent Kinomoto? » It was the joke that Katrina uses sometimes to cheer her daughter up. Jade's lips opened in a whole toothy smile and headed to the door.
She thought that probably there was an huge box with many chocolates and sweets or maybe a new game for her computer, since Jade loved videogames as well. Hesitantly, Jade closed the door slowly and her eyes opened in shock and covered her mouth with her whole hands. Sakura was standing in there with a sly smirk on her face, but her eyes were joyous and opened her arms, waiting for a reaction of the niece.
« Not saying anything to your Oba-san? » Sakura's smirk became an huge smile, Jade removed her hands from her mouth and her blue eyes were watery right now and she jumped into Sakura's arms., crying with happiness and joy to finally see her again, and it wasn't her birthday yet.
Maybe she will stay forever now…
« I missed you Oba-san! » said Jade in between the tears of joy and happiness, Sakura tighten up the embrace, trying to do not suffocate her niece. Katrina couldn't help but smile at watching the scene. She felt the same emotions as her daughter in the meanwhile.
Katrina loved to make her daughter happy, even if that means that she had to cry in front of her favorite aunt: The Tomb Raider Sakura Kinomoto, from a disowned family of the political circle of Japan just because she rebelled herself just to follow her dreams of studying languages and archeology. Katrina admired her and admired her husband so much, for being both so strong in such difficult times. The murder of their father being one of it.
Sakura closed her eyes while Jade was crying on her shoulder, she was caressing her back tenderly, trying to calm her happy tears.
« I missed you too Jade. ».
Hong Kong, China. 7th June 2016. 7:01 PM
Mei-Ling sat on the couch with her legs pressed on her chest, she was dressed in her pajamas and was drinking a mug of hot chocolate and she was also eating chips. At the moment she was alone in her apartment, her twin sister has gone grocery shopping for making dinner and she was getting a little bored at this.
Few days have passed since the ambush in Luoyang and she was in recovery from work. Mei-Ling felt guilty for the dead ones in the excavations, especially for her young trainee Naoko Yanagisawa. She took her mug of hot chocolate and put it on her lips, drinking it slowly as the hot liquid was going slow down on her throat, refreshing her thoughts and sense of guiltiness.
Mei-Ling took the remote and started zapping on the television, finding something interesting to watch before Mei-Xing came back at home with dinner. She ended up on watching the news and she put the remote on the couch and studied the figure on the screen. An handsome man with blue eyes and glasses, dressed in a tuxedo was talking to the journalist on his left. Mei-Ling bit her lip while she was watching the Interview.
« So, how do you think you can make America a better place? » The journalist asked to the man, suddenly his name on the screen appeared, making Mei-Ling's heart jump in shock So he wants the Jade Heart? That's the face of who send that whore and her group just to kill us? I once again have to thank the Tomb Raider for having saved my life.
Eriol laughed at the question of the journalist and adjusted his glasses, with a smirk on his face « Don't doubt about me. I'll make America stronger. And it's citizens shouldn't doubt about me, I'll make the army stronger, I'll make this country a better place and It's citizens will want me as president forever. I'll be sure that they'll remember me for the centuries in coming. Be sure about that. » He said his speech in such a passion that made Mei-Ling's emotions rise to rage and disgust, even that she haven't met him face to face, she felt that he's a disgusting person.
Who have the greed to have immortality and immortality only, according to Sakura's words. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, Mr. Hiiragizawa. But I think that you and your wife deserve a trip to hell, not the Jade Heart. With this thought, Mei-Ling took the remote and shut the television with rage and threw it on the couch.
The urge to smoke a cigarette invaded her mind, but for now she was strictly forbid to smoke just to recover fast from her wound, caused by that Nakajima bitch.
Oh fuck it! She rose from the couch and her feet walked automatically towards the kitchen, in the table there was a package of Marlboro's cigarettes and a lighter. Mei-Ling took a drag from the package and lighted up the cigarette, finally relaxing from the rage of what she saw on the television.
She stayed in the kitchen, smoking angrily and with her right fist tightened, her nails were hurting against her own flesh but she didn't care.
Blinded and deaf by the anger, she didn't even heard her twin sister opening the door and her steps towards the kitchen. Mei-Xing was in front of her with bags of groceries in her hand.
She and Mei-Ling were similar, except that Mei-Xing has longer hair than Mei-Ling, that were tied in two French braids. Mei-Xing put the bags on the floor and crossed her arms against her chest and looked at her twin with an eyebrow raised. Then after a moment, she shook her head.
« You just couldn't resist and took one of my cigarettes right? » she said while walking towards the table and took the package of cigarettes, she took a drag and lighted it up, blowing up the smoke out of her nose and mouth.
Mei-Xing put an hand on Mei-Ling shoulder and gave to her a reassuring smile « Don't worry, I won't say anything to Doctor Wang. » Mei-Ling shook her head and gave the final blow to her cigarette, smashing it on the ashtray beside her and removed her sister's hand from her shoulder, walking towards the fridge. « Xing, I'm in total rage. While you were gone I saw the face of Eriol Hiiragizawa…
I swear, If I see his face, I'll cut his balls and I'll sell them to the black market! » she said in total fury as she took two bottles of beer and opened them. She handed one to Mei-Xing and put her own bottle to her lips, drinking it fiercely.
Mei-Xing put her cigarette on the ashtray and looked at her with a calm smile on her face, she took with calm her bottle of beer but didn't drank it yet. Mei-Ling looked at her sister as she put her bottle on the table.
Mei-Xing sighed as she took the cigarette from the ashtray and put it between her lips. « Let me guess, It's the boss of that woman who had made the ambush in Luoyang right?»
Mei-Ling nodded only, Mei-Xing took her cigarette from her lips and the smoke exited through her nose and mouth in a relaxed sigh.
« I guess you want to help Syaoran… But right now It isn't your moment. »
« How do you kno- » Mei-Xing shut her sister by raising her hand, still her calm attitude wasn't away from her face « I'm one minute older than you Ling, and I know you so well as my back pockets » Mei-Ling rolled her eyes at her affirmation.
Mei-Xing was one minute older than Mei-Ling and that's a fact that she couldn't deny, they were similar in looks but they were so different in personality.
Mei-Xing was calmer and resolved everything with her ever-so-calm attitude, except when she has bad news to her patient's parents if the surgery didn't go as well as it was planned. She never get angry, even though one year ago she was in an abuse relationship and she had to get out her claws by fighting him. Both her and Mei-Ling took some Kung-Fu lessons when they were younger and they were an high category of it, luckily her training came useful on that fateful day… Mei-Xing almost risked her life and she saved herself from hell.
Mei-Ling was the other side of the coin, she was impulsive and hardly she was calm and gentle. Both of them, as their parents always said, were like water and fire.
Mei-Xing was water. Calm, gentle and that could fit in every place, but she was dangerous when necessary.
Mei-Ling was fire. Impulsive, aggressive and could burn everything on the way, but who can be calm and warm.
« Yes, I feel that's it's not going to be easy for him… » She took once again her bottle of beer and drank it calmly, not as before with rage and fury. Mei-Ling remained with her bottle in hands and moved towards the window, looking at the skyscrapers of Hong Kong. They were so high that they could almost kill the gods up in the Heavens. « I mean… He's capable of taking care of himself and there's Miss Kinomoto with him, who's an expert in guns and so on. I have the bad feeling that they will lure them into a trap. »
Mei-Xing nodded to her words and came beside to her sister, looking at the window too. She handed her cigarette to Mei-Ling and she took it without hesitating, blowing the smoke she closed her eyes and looked down at her bottle of beer.
Mei-Xing put her hand on her shoulder once again, trying to calm her from the bad feelings that she has towards her cousin and the Tomb Raider that saved Syaoran and Mei-Ling's life in that damned excavation.
Mei-Xing felt in debt towards Sakura Kinomoto and she didn't even knew her.
« You said it yourself Mei-Ling. Syaoran and Miss Kinomoto can handle themselves very well. But right now, this isn't our moment to enter in scene. It will arrive sooner or later than you think » Mei-Ling looked into Mei-Xing's eyes, nodding with a smile.
She was right, this isn't her moment right now and It will arrive sooner or later. Mei-Ling also was recovering fast, her wound was almost healing but a bad scar will be on her waist, as a sign of that fight for the Jade Heart. In the meantime, she will study deeper the bones of Empress Wu Zeitan and maybe with the help of Mei-Xing she can discover something more.
A Surgeon and An Anthropologist can be a perfect match sometimes. Mei-Xing and Mei-Ling were the perfect twin duo, like water and fire.
« Thank you Mei-Xing » she said in a soft whisper but Mei-Xing heard her voice and smiled. She patted her shoulder and moved a few steps away from her.
« Now that I've cheered you up, would you like to help me making dinner Ling? » Mei-Ling laughed at her words, but she was happy to oblige.
Venice, Italy. 7th June 2016. 9:30 PM
Doctor Tomoyo Daidouji was walking in her laboratory, towards her office. She should call Shinobu if she had any news about that Kinomoto bitch. That evening a strong sense of nausea caught her, but she finally managed to get one of her objectives.
She finally made it and one of her wishes came true, now the only thing that she had to do was to take out the Elixir from the Jade Heart and mix it with the human blood.
She opened the door with a smile on her face and saw two people in her office. Her lips removed the smile that was on her face « Glad that you two came this soon in here » she said while sitting on the chair in front of her desk.
The two women bowed towards her, both were dressed in black and had holsters on her thighs. One was a taller and brunette woman with long hair and chocolate eyes, she had a darker skin than the other girl beside her, just because she got a tan because she was in Ibiza for vacation. The other woman was shorter than her, she got a paler skin, shorter hair in an elegant cut, with some blood-red locks at the end of her hair, she had amber eyes and a sweet face. The perfect look for an assassin.
« I'm glad that you two are here, Agent Akizuki and Agent Sasaki. » doctor Tomoyo Daidouji said while she played with a pen in her hands and put her legs on the desk.
Nakuru Akizuki was one of the best agents of Shinobu Nakajima, she was an expert in technology but she was also an excellent driver and sniper as well.
Rika Sasaki was another of Nakajima's best agents, with her innocent looks she draw the victim into her web and killed him instantly. She was also an expert in poisons, her favorite technique to kill. And that's how she killed her abusive husband in the past.
Tomoyo trusted very well of both Nakuru and Rika, they get along very well but sometimes both girls were Yin and Yang. But it didn't affect their profession luckily.
« I heard that Kinomoto is again tracking your foot, Doctor Daidouji » said Nakuru as she crossed her arms against her chest, Rika remained silent and nodded only to the affirmation of her colleague. Tomoyo nodded at her and closed her eyes « Not only her this time, she's in company. »
« In company? » both Rika and Nakuru asked, raising an eyebrow. Tomoyo remained motionless for a while, she turned the monitor of her computer and showed the picture of a man, dressed elegantly with dark chocolate hair and amber eyes. A stubborn expression was on his face.
Nakuru blinked at the picture as she licked her lips in a seductive way « Uhm, he's handsome, is he the whore's new boy toy? »
Tomoyo smirked at Nakuru's words, the same malicious smirk that showed that she was extremely satisfied when her work is done perfectly and if her experiment was a success.
« Correct Nakuru, He's Professor Li Syaoran from Hong Kong's university. He's also Yelan Li's son. The headmistress of Li Corporation. Eriol tried to make an alliance with her but she refused under the advice of one of her daughters; Shiefa Li. »
« I can say that Lady Yelan Li was foolish enough to refuse the alliance with my husband, the could have got all China on his foot »
« The Li's are very important in China, great mistress. I've heard the work that he has done for Hong Kong's university and at his excavations and he's indeed a workaholic, trough he didn't chose business. What's the point great mistress? » Rika asked while putting a finger on her lips, her eyes demanded answers and so her body language. Nakaru agreed silently with her colleague's question.
Tomoyo bit her lower lip in a seductive and she smirked at Rika's question « I'm going to have Shinobu going to Hong Kong. I want his sisters: Fei Mei and Shiefa Li as cavies for when I extract the Elixir from the Jade Heart. » a devilishly laugh escaped from Tomoyo's lips, echoing around the room. Nakuru and Rika remained motionless and looked at her with no expression on her faces.
Tomoyo's amethyst eyes looked at the two agents and put again her legs on her desk, relaxing her palms on her, not for long yet, flat stomach « I have the feeling that they will come to poach us, for the Jade Heart. » Tomoyo closed her eyes for a moment and removed her palms from her stomach « Your orders are this: Don't let them take the Jade Heart. In the meanwhile I'll try to send it in our headquarters in St. Petersburg. I'll take off for Washington tonight. I expect success from both of you.»
« Yes great mistress. » both Nakaru and Rika said and bowed while Tomoyo stood up from her chair and walked towards the door of her office. The doctor looked at them once again, with her malicious grin on her face and blinked at them « Oh. Well, Just for you to know: I'm pregnant ».
Rika had a shocked expression when Tomoyo said those words to her and to Nakuru, she only clapped her hands to congratulate to her and with a smile on her face. Rika, on the other hand was confused. She knew that Eriol was sterile and couldn't conceive any child, Tomoyo, in the other hand, was very fertile as her gynecologist always said. Rika thought that the possibilities where two; or Tomoyo cheated on her husband just to have a child or she forced him to drink some strange liquid that Tomoyo had created.
« Great Mistress… It's.. Well… »
« It's Eriol's, Sasaki. » she answered before Rika could complete her full question, then it was the second option that Rika thought it could be.
« So… How did it happen? » her voice rang once again confused at her words, she still couldn't believe in it. Tomoyo crossed her arms against her breasts and raised an eyebrow towards her, giving her a look of judgment. « Since my husband refused to drink a special liquid of mine. I made him a blowjob and I took his seed in a bottle, then I used a syringe and put his seed on my ovaries and voilà Sasaki, I'm pregnant. I thought you knew how a baby come out into this world ».
Rika gave to Tomoyo an hardened look, she had the urge of slapping her into her face but she resisted. Before killing her abusive husband, Rika was pregnant but the child was not her husbands, but of an elementary teacher, Yoshiyuki Terada. She was ready to prepare the divorce with her husband and live with him, but he discovered the adultery and forced Rika to abort. But she didn't want to abort and asked immediately for the divorce.
He didn't want the divorce and began to beat her badly, causing for her a miscarriage. He also hired an expert sniper to kill Terada during one day of work, in front of many children, that were scared when a bullet hit his forehead.
That day Rika saw red, she bought some arsenic and slipped it into his morning coffee one morning and was killed instantly. She felt freedom that day and she avoided prison thanks to Eriol Hiiragizawa and recruited her into their brotherhood of expert agents, technicians and assassins.
Rika Sasaki was the perfect assassin for her innocent looks and sometimes naïve attitude. But Tomoyo knew that she shouldn't put on the table the argument of her pregnancy, because that miscarriage was still fresh on her mind and she couldn't forget it. Two years have passed and she cannot forget what happened.
Tomoyo nodded only at the two agents and released her arms from her positions, her smile still wasn't away from her face. She just loved to provoke her agents, especially Rika Sasaki, the not-so-new blood of their brotherhood.
« Congratulations then, Great Mistress. » finally Sasaki said, not having the courage to look at her into her amethyst eyes. Tomoyo noticed the gloomy tone of voice of Rika and approached her. She took her face into her hands and forced her to look into her eyes, Tomoyo shocked her head as she caressed her cheeks. « I remember to you that you are ours. That my husband saved you from life imprisonment just because you wanted to get free from your abusive husband. You are ours now Rika, until somebody kills you.
« And if I ask you to fuck my husband or fuck me, you have to do it without hesitation. And If I want to provoke each of you. I'll do it without hesitation. You're part of my taskforce and brotherhood and you're one of the best Assassins that we had. Don't whine like a child never again to me, I do whatever I want, when I want. Do you understand, Rika Sasaki? » Rika remained emotionless at Tomoyo's words, she had a contract until death with them and they even saved her from life imprisonment. She nodded slowly and Tomoyo approached her face, her breath was connected to Rika's. Doctor Daidouji's lips touched Rika's and Tomoyo with her tongue licked Sasaki's lips in a sensual way.
Tomoyo removed her lips from her after a while and Rika was pretty dazed from that kiss. Her fingers trembled as she touched her lips, still feeling Doctor Daidouji's taste on her. « You too Akizuki, remember: I do whatever I want, when I want. And I wanted to kiss Rika. Objections anymore? » both Nakuru and Rika shocked her head, then they both bowed to their knees and her heads down.
Tomoyo could only smirk at their movement Soon the world will be ours Eriol, soon enough it will be ours.
Dublin, Ireland. 8th June 2016. 1:21 AM
Syaoran that night couldn't sleep, she rolled over and over against the blankets. The weather was great but the temperature was killing him so he decided to sleep shirtless and with his pajamas pants on.
Touya and Katrina offered to him the spare room while Sakura decided to sleep on the couch. Katrina has said to him that when she brought a companion for her adventures and when they slept in their home, Sakura always took the couch while the guest the spare room. Today a lot had happened;
He met Sakura Kinomoto's family, or at least what remains of her family. He found Katrina very available on helping them for tracking the captors of the Jade Heart. The Artifact that seemed innocent but it was very dark inside, the secret of Immortality should remain a secret and nothing more than that.
Jade Kinomoto was very lively and athletic and during dinner he saw how much she was attached to Sakura. Syaoran found it cute when, during dinner, she said "When I grow up, I want to be badass like Oba-san Sakura!" Everyone, Syaoran included, had a good laugh at the pre-teen girl.
Naruko Kinomoto was still an infant so he couldn't judge her, except that she looked more like Katrina Kinomoto but with her father's eyes.
Touya Kinomoto was nice enough to him, even though he said that the men that were always around her sister where only interested on stealing her artifacts, her money or her own body. His words still echoed in this head;
"« Remember Li Syaoran: I know her secret and I know what she does, don't you dare use her or I'll kill you with my own hands. I can't stand to see my sister while she's suffering. She may be twenty-four now but she's my Shimai-chan and I want to protect her. Have I made myself clear? »"
Syaoran was a man full of honor and he hasn't planned on hurting Sakura, neither emotionally and neither physically. Well… He was one hundred percent sure that if he hurt her physically he would have got at least a broken arm or rib. But still Touya's words were echoing on his head over and over that night.
He looked at the clock on the bedside table; it was 1:25 AM in the night and still he didn't managed to sleep. The sense of jet-lag was still in his head but the sleep couldn't catch him. He removed the blankets roughly and stood up from the bed, relaxing his body and arms.
He walked down the stairs, to get in the kitchen for a glass of water, but instead, his foot walked him towards the couch. He felt suddenly hot at seeing her like this, sleeping, almost vulnerable. She had her hair in her usual ponytail, dressed in a black sleeveless shirt, that revealed her breasts and black shorts as well.
Syaoran couldn't help but watch her, Sakura Kinomoto was gorgeous even in such a vulnerable state. Syaoran stared at her long legs and at her well-trained body. He clenched his fists and let the nails breaking through his skin. He had the temptation to touch her, to make her his.
Syaoran closed tightly his eyes and sighed, deciding on what to do. Sakura seemed to sleep deeply, so she wouldn't notice that he had touched her.
Syaoran was a man with vices, such as alcohol and women as Mei-Ling always remembered to him. The heat in his body was incrementing and he couldn't resist anymore.
Releasing an anxious breath, Syaoran put his hand on her right leg, feeling the goodness of her soft white skin. He closed once his eyes and he was enjoying the texture of her skin, he rose his hand higher, touching her thigh and in the end her waist.
The waist was always the part that he loved in a woman's body, he couldn't find an explanation for this but he loved that part of the body of the opposite sex as his.
Suddenly he felt an hand on his wrist and open immediately his eyes.
It was Sakura's hand.
Damn, her instincts are truly razor-sharp. He thought while he tried to free himself from her grips. Her emerald eyes were locked with his amber eyes, a smirk was on her face. « Come here » her voice was a whisper and he obliged her. Syaoran sat beside her, not removing the eye contact.
Sakura put her hand on his cheek and made him come closer to her face, Syaoran felt her warm breath against his lips and cheeks.
« Sorry if I woke you up » Sakura put her hand on his lips, making him shush. Her nose touched his and she didn't dare to close her eyes. There was an high temperature in there but it wasn't for the weather, it was for the atmosphere that they were breathing right now by being so close with each other.
« I dare you on a thing Professor Li » her voice teased him and her breath was still caressing Syaoran's lips and cheeks. He felt the warm down on his legs and he automatically put both of his hands on her waist, feeling again the pleasure of her soft skin against his own.
« What is it? » Sakura didn't answered to that question, instead she put her lips against his own and with her strength she laid her back against the couch and Syaoran was on top of her. His left hand caressing her back, spinning shivers on her skin.
Sakura bit his lower lip, he released a soft groan as she bite it and in the meanwhile she caressed his naked chest and gave to him scratches against his skin, leaving the marks of her nails.
Syaoran broke the kiss and looked at her in the eyes and smirked, she remained with her eyes closed, because she was lost in that kiss and couldn't help but be dazed by it. Syaoran with his tongue licked Sakura's lips, trying to wake her up from her daze state.
Syaoran touched his lips against her neck and kissed it with fury passion, she in the meanwhile was caressing his messy hair. His lips leaved saliva's marks down her neck and moved lower to the middle of her breasts. His tongue was tracing her breasts, teasing her softly but also in a sensual way.
At this, Sakura opened her eyes and the shivers were still down on her spine. She wanted more with him but she had to stop the temptation of flattering him into her bed.
The sex is good, but not now… She though as she took with her hands his cheeks and made with him an eye to eye contact. The two blinked at each-other, trying to realize what happened.
Sakura released a curly laugh but Syaoran smirked only. Then she put again his face closer to her face and put a soft kiss on his lips. It was fast for him but it was enough for him to taste her lips once again. They tasted so deliciously for him.
Damn… I want you so bad. « Go back to sleep Professor…» her whisper was intoxicating for him and she had indeed a point. Syaoran didn't wanted to wake up thanks to a scream from Touya. « One last kiss, Miss Kinomoto ».
She rolled her eyes for a moment, but she was happy to fulfill his last wish before going to sleep. Sakura put again her lips against his own in a soft, vanilla kiss. It lasted longer than the last one.
After the kiss he stood up from the couch and looked at her, Sakura smiled at him, mentioning him to go to sleep with her head.
Syaoran nodded only and he was happy to oblige.
While he went upstairs, he looked at the couch once again and it seemed that Sakura feel asleep almost immediately. Syaoran thought it was only a dream that happened, but it wasn't.
The taste of her lips was still on his own and the scratches on his chest were true. He wanted her so bad, but he decided to do not play with her heart, according to the many heartbreaks that she had in the past.
He had to be sure of his feelings, he wanted to know her better.
Not only she intrigued him as a person, but also as a person. He sighed as he continued to go upstairs to his room.
Syaoran already knew that It could be too easy to fall in love with Sakura Kinomoto.