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Alter Ego
1075 Sakura lane held a young family. You would often see the young parents playing in the yard with their little daughter. Watching this, you'd never suspect they'd have something to hide... but they did.
And it was something that endangered their very lives.
Of course, they never suspected anything. After all, everything was happening in Hong Kong. There was no reason for anything to threaten them, right? Right?
That's what they thought.
She lay thinking about the phone call that had made her daddy yell and her mommy cry. Just because she was five years old, didn't mean she was stupid. Something bad was coming.
Things will be better in the morning, thought the little girl, drifting into dreamland.
They weren't
"This is Fumiko Ishioaka from Tomoeda local news. I am at the site of a horrendous crime. Last night two people, Fujitaka and Nadeshiko Kinomoto, were brutally murdered in their home. They both suffered a bullet through the head and multiple stab wounds. Their bodies were discovered this morning by their five year old daughter. We can only hope that the criminal is apprehended as quickly as possible. In the mean time, all our hearts here at Tomoeda local, go out to that little girl."
Sakura sat in a chair at the police station. Everything seemed to be in a different tone of gray. The sound of phones ringing, papers suffling and people bustling about went unnoticed by the little girl. Her thoughts were stuck on the image of her parents' corpses.
She couldn't hear. She couldn't speak. She couldn't even think. The images replayed over and over, like a broken projector. Her body felt numb, like it was empty; a shell.
"Sakura?"
Sakura looked up to see a woman in a brown suit kneeling next to her.
"Your uncle Lang is here to pick you up. You'll be living with him, since your parents are gone..."
Gone. It was such a simple word, with such a harsh meaning.
The woman stood up and held out her hand. Sakura got up slowly off the chair. She took the woman's hand and allowed herself to be led into a conference room.
Inside, there was a man wearing a long black leather trenchcoat. His short black hair was spiked and his gentle blue eyes gazed at her knowingly. She had never seen him before. The woman nodded to him and walked out of the room.
The man, her uncle Lang, walked up and kneeled next to her. "My, how you've grown! I haven't seen you since you were just a baby!" He gazed at her for a second. "You don't know me, I understand that. You don't have to call me 'uncle' until you're ready. Sakura, you're going to be living with me from now on. Is that alright?" He held out his hand to her.
Sakura looked into his eyes, then down at his hand. Hesitantly, she placed her small hand in his larger one.
Lang looked down at the lights of Tokyo from his twenty-fourth floor hotel suite. Sakura was in the next room sleeping. How he did not know. His thoughts drifted to the events of the day.
Idiot brother, Lang thought bitterly. I tried to warn you!
It's true. Lang had known that the Jackal gang was after his brother and sister-in-law. He had phoned, trying to warn them, but they hadn't listened.
Now look where it's gotten you! Lang thought harshly. Dead! He pounded his fist against the thick glass of the window. Now Sakura has to grow up without you!
Sakura...
The same fate would not befall her. He would see to that. She could train with Xiao-Lang easily enough. Though it's the last thing her parent would've wanted, they didn't really leave him an option. So it was decided.
Sakura would become a Wolf.