Chapter 14: No one to Come for Me

I swung my blade to the edge of his neck in an instant.

"Speak," I ordered. "Or die."    

My move alerted just about everyone there. We're all together in the waiting room, with Onii-chan's team, and the National Council Squad.

"Sakura?" the fake Onii-chan squeaked. "What-"

"Imposter?" Aoi popped out. "This is my brother. Oh, don't mind him. He's just-"

"A trouble maker," Michiko finished off the sentence. "Where's Natsu?"

"I'll find him," I threw Aoi's brother, Goro over to Tetsuya. I set my sword back in place and sniffed all around. "No scent or trace of him."

"You put perfume all over him," Michiko realized. "So Sakura wouldn't find him or notice him."

"One of her weaknesses pointed out," Hayato (Bosco's Representative) noted. "Smart kid."

"Tsk, you found out," he muttered. "You won't-"

"I won't what kid?" I ganged up on him. "First of all, never admit that you did it, otherwise I can trace the smell of perfume of any kind. Second of all, know the person you'll be acting as, or else you'll get caught easily. And thirdly, don't think because Aoi is my ex that I won't beat you up. Regardless if he were to be my boyfriend I would."

"Pft," Aoi chuckled. "You still haven't changed."

"You dated?" Gray asked in surprise.

"Damn bastard! Where are you?!" Onii-chan and his damn fire breathing mouth ran like an ox. "I'll-"

"Onii-chan!" I jumped on him, reverting to my little sister complex mode. "Here's the culprit!"

"When Natsu went to the restroom, he attacked him," Erza predicted.

"Onii-chan was quite out of shape when he came here, so Goro took the chance to attack. Then Goro used magic to mimic Onii-chan's scent. He used his transformation magic to turn into Onii-chan and tied him up, but once Onii-chan woke up, he burned the ropes and went looking for him," I inferred with the information I had. "Onii-chan, your hands have rope marks right here."

Before I could point to the marks, Onii-chan was trying to kill Goro. Tetsuya stopped him, with Aoi trying to hold in his laugh in the back, yet also worried about getting in trouble at the same time. After struggling to get Onii-chan calm, we all explained the situation of bringing all of Onii-chan's team along. Goro ran off, but only Onii-chan and Aoi cared enough to try to go after him. Aoi couldn't, because he was called to get the information of where to teleport.

"Aoi!" I yelled at him. "Hurry up already! The Council is tired of waitin' for ya ass outside!"

"Stop being so impatient, Darkness," Aoi sighed. "If we leave Goro here, he'll make a mess. It'll be at my fault then."

"Yea," I responded instantly. "Goro can do whatever. He's 15 already, the same as me. Besides, you gotten in more trouble before. What makes you so scared of this?"

"Old Man Mori is gonna be on me!"

"Man, you're actually scared of him. If you're really scared then call him King Moriyama, not Old Man Mori. He's gonna be on you if you keep goin' 'round callin' him dat."

Note: Sakura reverts back to how she likes to talk, but goes back to talking normally eventually

"..."

"Idiot! You didn't even think of dat!"

"Fine, I'll start, but if Goro gets in trouble it's on you."

"Yeah, yeah, let's go already."

Aoi sighed and teleported us all to the scene at last. As he did, the scene of us came back up from seven months ago. Three months before thoe seven months, Aoi and I met in a alleyway. Then he followed me to a bar, where he nickname was Devil's son and mine was Beauty in Darkness. Those ten months all led to this one event.

I gazed out in the balcony at the people walking, leaning on the barrier. They don't know. They don't know about this world. I stopped these thoughts at once. They did know. They have their own problems, so why am I trying so hard to pity myself? There's nothing to pity about me, other than my terrible actions as a human being. I'm a killer. I'm the reason why this world is like this. People like me are the reason.

Aoi stepped in. My back faced his view. His footsteps only reached the opened doors to the balcony, when I spoke up.

"Aoi, I ain't doin' this anymore," I spun to face him. "It's not love. You don't love me, Aoi."

"Darkness- no Sakura," Aoi grabbed me to pull my body in, but I shook my head. "Sakura, I do-"

"Don't," I strained my icy cold eyes that once glittered of hope. My voice soften from what was strict and authority-like to a tearing voice. "Just don't, you devil Aoi. I know what love is. You never been in love before. Not my love. You've always mistaken this for love, but it's not."

"It has to be dark- Sakura, "Aoi held fear onto him. "What else can it be?"

I made a loose, no effort attempt to calm myself down. "NO! IT'S YOUR SELFISH ASS FAMILY LOVE YOU'VE NEVER HAD. IT- it's not love," I sucked in my tears. "You never thought of me as your girlfriend. It's only your sister love."

Of course. Of course it happened. My relationship never lasted over a month, but this fake one did. It was different from all of them. I had a longer time to fall in love with him than the other ones. It was so in love with him. It hurt. It hurt really badly in my chest. Aoi released his grip on me, as if he just understood what I was thinking all this time.

"Sakura," Aoi softly murmured. "You- I... I-"

The flashback in my mind blinked out. It's all in the past. That's what I thought. I still have feelings for him. Those feelings lingered for a week, but I forgot about them, after moment Aoi and I parted ways. We met up in meetings and made-up, but only as family. Aoi's love need for a family was mistaken for romantic love. My confusion cleared up. I still love Aoi. I need to get rid of these feelings. That's what I believed, so I've been using Gray and Tetsuya as an excuse to not think about him, but it really isn't over. It's not over at all. I've manipulated Gray's feelings and my own. I'm a horrible person. I really am.

"Kaito!" I jumped on top of him. We're teleported to the murder scene. Kaito hit my eyes as the first to be seen. "Kaito! I missed you!"

Gray flinched. Aoi looked away. Tetsuya laughed. Natsu ran after the dog making fun of him. Really, things sure do happen at any time and place.

"It's been long," Kaito grinned, holding me. "You showed up."

"Which one is your boyfriend?" Miyako shared the same grin as Kaito. "Kaito or one of the others guys here? If the guys aren't, then I'm stealing one."

"You can't steal onii-chan," I stuck my tongue out. "He's mine, but Lucy is trying hard to take him away."

"I'm not- "Lucy blushed.

"Sure, that's what they all say," Kaito teased. "Natsu is having more fun playing with Maru than you two."

I flipped 360 degrees in his grip and kicked him right on spot to the chin.

"Onii-chan is MMMIIINNNEEEE!!!!!!!!!!" I chased after onii-chan who was pissed off at Maru. I was just as pissed off. "OOO-NIIIIIIIII-CHAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Oww!" Kaito rubbed his chin, getting up. "I'm coming after you!"

Maru was running away. Onii-chan was chasing Maru. I was going after onii-chan. Kaito was coming for me. Michiko was speeding up to us all. Miyako and Hisui was trying to stop her, thus chasing Michiko. Tetsuya and Tatsuya raced to Miyako and Michiko, still behind them for no reason. Aoi sighed, going to pursue us. Then King Moriyama happened to stampede from behind to get us. We all ran as hasty as possible, not looking back. King Moriyama can frighten anyone. Natsu, who dared to pick a fight with him was being dragged by me. Aoi, who can teleport only once a 15 minutes, speeded up. Maru was leading, even quicker than any of us in fear. Everyone around was once running in a food chain, but now, we're all running away from one guy. The guy who can make the world's strongest leaders run away all at once. That guy is King Moriyama. We all received scolding from the king, or as many of us say in the dark when he's gone the old man. Aoi, who got the worst part on the end for always calling him Old Man Mori.

"And you left Goro in the Council!?" Mori sighed. "Sakura, it is your responsibility this time."

"I'll talk to Goro about it," Miyako chimed in. "Let's start what we all came here for."

"Then I'll join. Sakura knew I'd pretend to be a person, because she was the one who gave me permission and helped me plan it out, but I didn't think I would do it on her brother. She told me, I'd better show up here after and get it all sorted out was the promise," Goro popped up. "I can do something! I'm not just Aoi's little brother! I'm- I am not only a kid. I only acted like one. You all treat me like one, all except for Sakura. Let me join!"

"Goro, you aren't a kid. I'm sorry we all did this, but you shouldn't- "Aoi replied.

"Go ahead," I interrupted. "See it as your first mission."

"When did you two get so close?" Tetsuya questioned nearly showing all his amusement. "Don't tell me you're going to date the older brother and younger brother after."

"Oh please," Goro whipped his hand. "She's a sister, but that's all. Like ever I'd date a girl with such a big brother complex-"

Before Goro finished, my fist brewed a jab to the solar plexus. Just what is he thinking to dare make fun of me? Did he not remember his position? I'm sure the jab helped him understand.

"Your temper is just as normal," Goro struggled to stand up, holding his stomach. "It hurts."

I was about to keep teaching him about his position again, but Aoi held his arm up straight above me nose. The realization of how tall he was came back to me again. I'm 5'1(154.94cm) and he's 6'1 (185.42cm), just a perfect one foot (30.5cm) taller than me. My heart beat over and over again. Time was slowing down, but my heart was beating too fast to count. His arm was a signal to stop me from punching Goro. It was only a signal, but it was too much more than enough to push myself to a stop. I really do still love him.

Eventually, we all grouped up together and came back to the scene of the death.

"Sorry, I'm afraid that can't happen," A buff worker shook his head. "We can't allow anyone in. This is construction area. You're welcome to come tomorrow, but not today."

"When tomorrow?" Hisui asked.

"Noon."

"Then let's go to the hotel and sleep there for today. We're not wasting anymore of Aoi's magic than we have by teleporting so far away back and forth. We'll come here again tomorrow."

We all walked to the hotel. After dinner, anyone could do whatever, so I had to talk to Gray.

"I'm sorry," I bit my lip. "I can't be with you."

"What-"

"That's not all of it," I continued. "I ran away from my feelings for Aoi, so in the end your feelings and my own were used."

"All this time, I being pulled around by you," Gray shook his head in disbelief. "You... you're awful."

"I know. I already know I'm terrible. I can kill without remorse. Hell, I killed my own dad. I killed what people in my clan left looked onto for hope. I used people's feelings. I used my own to not be hurt again. Just not to be hurt again. Aren't I weak? I'm scared of all this pain. I fear myself. My life, my actions, my mind. There really isn't anything as bad as me in the, huh?"

Gray was silent and so I found my cue to run away from the room. I walked outside, letting my feelings boil and exposed in the fresh cold air of the outside. It was snowing. The snowflakes dropped all around, whirling, twirling, and dancing in the light air. One settled on my winter dress, as another melted on the tip of my nose. This place where I could lift the weight of love, life, and living easily and throw it off sprinkled a storm of waving gust to the far north. The wind, I flowed through and along with. Such a magical wind blew, snow fell, clear bright moon shined. My lips parted, my voice whirled, my tune twirled, my body danced within the view of the night moonlight.

"The night sings a soft tune.

The moonlight over me.

Cries from my heart released.

Through my days,

The darkness comforted me.

As my mother of my own.

She sang, she sang her love to me.

All the dark done for me.

It was more than seen.

I fell down. Mother came.

She never left me alone.

I cried. Mother came.

She came for me.

Why? Where did she go?

Who will come for me?

Why did the darkness disappear?

Was my comfort all a lie?

Why? Why? Why?

Why is it only me?

No one to come for me.

Why? Why? Why?

Why is it only me?

No one to come for me.

Once my tear ran down my cheeks.

A boy wiped it all away.

He smiled, he laughed.

It never went away.

Until that day. Until that day.

Why? Why? Why?

Why is it only me?

No one to come for me.

Why? Why? Why?

Why is it only me?

No one to come for me.

The boy stood up

And stomped away.

My heart sank down, and swayed.

It jumped up and down, but then went down.

He took my crown, then ran away.

My heart fell apart from the start.

Why? Why? Why?

Why is it only me?

No one to come for me.

Why? Why? Why?

Why is it only me?

No one to come for me."

I sang out my heart. No one was to hear me, but the echoing woods and the peaceful nature all around it. The sun rose. I skipped the night leaping in the woods. Playing with the squirrels, feeding the beavers, patting the birds, cuddling with cubs was all I did, until the sun's rays shined. It was time. Time to go back. I walked my way on the cobble path to the hotel, where they all slept peacefully, or not. On the path I followed, I met up with them all. They were like a pack of wolves. I smiled to myself. Somebody came for me. Someone really did. Maybe I was blinded. I never saw how much people were caring about me. How selfish of myself. My heart melted. My feelings sank in to their affection. My love for them all was there. My path down life wasn't over life. I fell down, but I'm going to get back up. This is my life. My beautiful life.

"Sakura!" Happy flew in circles. "We found you!"

"Why didn't you tell us where you'd go?" Michiko huffed. "I was worried."

"We thought you got lost," Kaito ruffed my hair. "Don't scare us."

"Yeah!" Goro agreed. "Who's going to coach me with the Council if you keep going off?"

"Seriously, you didn't get any sleep at all," Aoi smoothed me clothes. "Look, you have fur on you."

Tetsuya's contagious laughter put us all in laughter. Natsu, Wendy, Gray, Ezra, Lucy, Miyako, Kaito, Hisui, Tatsuya, Mori, Hayato, Michiko, Seikei (Iceberg's King), Ryutaro (Caelum's King), and I were all laughing. We all forgot our worries at the moment. The weightless shoulders of ours, danced freely. But that didn't last.

In this world, it's awful, but happiness can be found. What'll happen to me in the future? I'm going to find out now. Over and over again, I'm going to face my life with my head held high and back straightened. What'll happen now?

Chapter 15: Achimito

We all became detective to a homicide scene. Victim is Mei Kunida, the leader of the DJE [Desierto, Joya, and Enca] force. She was known to be strict, but a good leader, so everyone loved her in the DJE group. The DJE is on their way for revenge already to the MMS [Minstrel, Midi, and Sin].

"We'll spilt up," I insisted. "If we don't stop the DJE, then one of the biggest battles of war will begin. By the time we get to who killed Mei, the war's worst moment will occur. Most go to the DJE and stop them, while few are left here to do the detective work."

"We'll go with it then," Hisui agreed. "But let's gather them all."

"Wouldn't have it any other way."

By gathering them all, Hisui literally meant to get everyone together on the north side in the council, including the extended people, who don't do much. It's about time us north made a move. We'll crush the war, the conflict, and Hiro.

I drew closer to the body. By then I'd already have made my conclusion. Hiro must've gone off and did this as I was distracted by my love and drama affairs. Damn, I can't blame it all on him. I'll still have a team go investigate to see if I'm wrong, since my mistakes I make increased. I can't make this mistake or any other error now. I have to set my love aside, if anything is to be done with the war. No relationships now; only saving the people.

"Team Blooddops and Roosevelt Thrones goes to recuse any living people in the war zone, led by Ezra, Seikei, Mizuki, Kaori, Suzuki, and Akemi. The battles in those areas haven't stopped yet. Nightfall, Blade, and Knight's health teams go along with team Eclipse; Health teams follow under Kaito, Ko, Maki, and Miyako. Sapphire and Ravens groups investigates with Goro, Sara, Rika, Mio, Miko, Lucy, Wendy, and call over Hibiki for anything that may be slightly related to the war at all, including this death," I ordered. "Team Crows, Light, and Serpents will join in to stop the battles, possibly by killing the leader of the clash in making the battle cease, directed by Naoko, Aya, Erika, Ami, Ryutaro, and Kai. Kuu will join Love Heart and Crystals group for other world related matters and Shibuya, Naru, Hana, Yamada, Machi, and Takeshi. Hisui, Gray, Hoshino, Setsu, Sora, Yaku, Yoko and onii-chan will join in multiple groups when necessary, otherwise are stand-ins; replacements. The council and I will do all that we need for the rest of the part and go planning."

"The time for the north to unite as one whole," King Moriyama smiled. "For the north to take action, is now."

Hiro POV

I can praise that scheming devil. He can make a praise-worthy move that'll satisfy me and Kuro Sakura. Sunako has many centuries left of sleep; however my years will end soon. Kuro Sakura will kill me, unless he kills her. I wonder if he can. I wonder very well if the devil's son can kill Kuro Sakura the way she will kill me, if she does that is.

I wonder, what this devil can achieve with my health stumbling. I will not die, from this disease. It won't kill me, nor will it kill Kuro Sakura. This disease of ours, Achimito. It does not kill; but brings pain. To what extent of this pain can Kuro Sakura endure? That I wonder. That decides my future. But the devil decides the future of this world.

He creates the future of this world in what tries it best to be perfect. A perfect world, despicable. A perfect world is the same as an absolutely imperfect world. The imperfect world is was Kuro Sakura dwells in. It's the truth. The truth she never uncovered. The truth only the devil and I know about. How far can you go to understand the truth, Kuro Sakura?

(A/N: It's kinda confusing for you guys, but it'll make sense later on. P.S I put hints for what will happen later in the plot.)

Sakura POV

Mostly the south has a system where everyone is organized. Similar to the Kurosaki clan, everyone is born into a label. I was born into the Kurosaki gang of the clan, as the princess. Some were born into the weapons defense, strategist, etc. We were forced into these roles from birth. I was forced into being a princess from the beginning.

The system used by the south mostly was a castes system and heritage. Whatever business you family had was your job in the future. If your mom was a doctor, you'd become one too. There's no choices in there. The castes were classified as gold's, sliver's, bronze's, and steel. Steel's, at the bottom of the list slaves and criminals. Bronze's were poor; most of them could afford an apartment and food; however were poor. They were farmers, carpenters, construction workers, maids, etc. Sliver's were just the average guys with a normal-like home and income. They are landowners, office girls, shop owners, merchants, police, firefighters, etc. Then there were the gold's with the most influence and money. The very top of the community. Anyone big in the entertainment industry, designer clothes makers, workers in the army, military boys, government, political people, etc. I hate this method to keep the society organized, but it was there and I lived through it.

The north had kings and queens, or presidents, which were uncommon. We north opposed the south, but tried to not cause war. Years, decades, and centuries of avoiding war, whenever it was war only in the south or in the whole world, Hiro happened to stirred one up. All of the work we north did to maintain peace in the past was for nothing. Hiro, he is truly evil. He did this to destroy one clan, my clan. The one who will slay him is me.

That's what I was so determined to believe, until I remembered my biggest weakness; this disease. And so again, I felt the dizzy side effects. My vision blurred, my legs staggered. I fought to stay awake, but I knocked out. Ha, perfect timing, ain't it? Right when I was going to make my first move against Hiro and plan in out with everybody.

I blink and sat up right away. No, I did faint again. Geez, this damn disease has to keep hitting me. Hiro, he also has this disease with no name. Maybe it does have a name, but I just can't get enough information on it, because it's so rare. Hiro would know all about it. Why does he have to be such a strong, knowledgeable, and smart opponent? And who is his spy? I forgot about that, but Hisui and I did discuss that there should be a spy in the council. Who would it be? I crossed Aoi off the list almost without realizing it as I pondered this question. The more I want to cross someone off, the more likely they'd be a spy, but I can't ever see Hisui, King Moriyama, and Aoi as a spy. I don't even want to go anywhere near accusing someone as a traitor, but I know there's one. Geez, everything is going happily, where we all smile and forget our worries, then reality slips in the creaks and darkness erupts like a volcano. Ain't my life just marvelous?

I walked around the National Council. No one is here. Odd, why is it so quiet? And why can't I smell anything? I stepped in front of the next room. It was part of the National Council, but split it up. The top of it was for the Magic Council. The bottom was for us Countries Council. At least every country has five people that can teleport the main leaders in the council to this location, like Aoi and Kaito, so it's easy to get from where they are to Flore and back. That's why the National Council Branch is here in Flore. Why did they choose Flore? That's because Flore is such a troublemaking country. We always make trouble as we fix it. It's just something Flore does as a country, so the council got pissed off and decided to put us here. The door opened. A hand with dark loose cloth over gestured to come in. It was no mistake to be Hiro.

A/N: Sorry this chapter was short! I'm getting busy with a school project these days and then I'm also in a small play, so I'm going to be pretty busy, until winter break.