THREE

"Do we riot?"

Yuki Tsunoda questioned his team principal as she stood beside him, a glare on her face as she watched from a distance as her other driver, Pierre, was made uncomfortable in an interview.

"Grab the hose pipe, sweetie. We'll start a water fight and pretend to accidentally spray that dick with it."

Sakura Aoki spoke as she clenched her fists, nodding her head once as she heard her youngest driver immediately obey, his footsteps sounding as he ran off.

How dare they?

How dare somebody speak to Pierre as if he was a piece of garbage! He was one of her drivers, her boys, and she'd be damned if she would ever let somebody talk down to him and patronise him.

"Drench me first so it looks like the water fight already started." Yuki uttered as he handed her the hose pipe, holding his arms out wide as he allowed himself to be soaked with the freezing cold water.

Pierre Gasly furrowed his eyebrows together as he heard his team mate squealing loudly as he ran away from their team principal, who was chasing after the boy with a hose pipe full with water.

He noticed his team boss running in heels with a small smile on her face, but noticed the smallest of glints in her eyes which signalled that she was up to something else.

The French man screamed as he found himself covered in the freezing cold water, though he felt smugness fill his chest as he noticed how the interviewer who had been making him uncomfortable was now dripping wet too.

Arms wrapped around him as he was yanked backwards, turning to see his team mate grinning at him with a scheming look in his eyes, making it all click in to place.

They were saving him from the interview.

The interviewer tried to run away from the bursts of water, but was unable to as the liquid erupted from the pipe with such force and speed that it made their bodies shiver from the freezing temperatures.

Whilst they were busy with checking their camera for damage, Sakura and Yuki kidnapped their driver back, dragging him back to their garage where the three of them took cover in her office.

"That was a set up, wasn't it?"

Pierre laughed as he noticed how his boss was already grabbing some warmer sweatshirts for her drivers, with the both of them pulling them quickly over their bodies.

"It serves them right for making you uncomfortable, right Boss?" Yuki beamed up at the other two people in the room.

"They get what they deserve when they mess with my drivers." Sakura shot him a wink, seeing his face light up in to a bright smile.

"Are you coming with us to team meal? I know that last time you missed it and it was only Christian there." Pierre asked, seeing her smile grow.

"I'm not missing it this time, even Horny Spice can't put me off."

"Horny Spice?"

Yuki and Pierre erupted in to loud laughter, never expecting their boss to use such words to describe her own boss.

"It's what some of the fans call him, I find it quite fitting. Just don't tell him that it's what I call him." Sakura teased as she took a seat on her office chair, leaning back against the back of the chair.

"Are your siblings going to be at the next race?" Yuki questioned, since he got on quite well with the siblings of his boss.

They treated both Pierre and himself as they wyere their nephews.

"They might be, so be prepared for a lot of hugs, especially if my parents are around too." The Aoki woman giggled, knowing that her family loved her drivers and treated them as if they were her children.

"We don't mind." Pierre shrugged his shoulders as he beamed, Yuki nodding his head up and down beside him.

"We love hugs."

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"Oh my god, I hate hugs."

Yuki whined as he stumbled away from the family of his boss, since they had bombarded him with hugs from the second that they set eyes on him and his small frame.

Pierre had managed to escape and avoid most of her family, except for one of her brothers who had dragged him towards the restaurant bar to try some different alcohol, so he didn't have to worry about what Yuki was having to worry about.

The Tsunoda boy was currently sat with the two sisters of the AlphaTauri team principal, both of which were repeatedly tugging at his cheeks and hugging him as if he were a child.

"Yuki, you are so cute!" Chiaki Aoki giggled as both of her hands were placed on his soft cheeks, her light brown hair sprawled down her spine so that it was not in the way whilst she ate.

"Your mama takes good care of you, doesn't she?" Etsuko Aoki hugged him once more, not noticing the exasperated look upon the young boys face.

"Yeah she does, she likes to feed me a lot. She tells Sakura how I like certain food so she always makes it for me." Yuki grinned with pride beaming off him as he spoke.

"Where is our sister?" Both the Aoki women questioned, seeing the eyes of the boy dart around the room to try and find her.

His smile which had faded, grew immediately as he noticed her arriving at the restaurant, walking in as if she totally wasn't an hour late.

"Ahh, Sakura it's lovely to see that your family have joined us."

Christian Horner gave an uneasy smile to the AlphaTauri boss as she entered the room and sat opposite the seats where her drivers were seated.

The quietest sibling of Sakura's immediately brightened his mood at the sight of the youngest sibling of the five of them, a large grin coating his features as he waved to his sister, having zoned out prior to her arrival.

"Sorry I'm late, Daniel made me listen to every song on the newest Taylor Swift album and wouldn't let me leave until I did." Sakura muttered as she gave her introverted brother a fist bump.

"I'd like to welcome all of you, to the Red Bull and AlphaTauri family and we hope to make you proud during the season." Christian gave a speech, standing so that everybody could hear him and that he had everybody's attention.

"And we want to assure all of you, that we will be kicking ass throughout the entire season." The Aoki woman joined him in standing on her feet so that she was not being pushed in to the background.

She was a team principal, after all.

"Red Bull will be there to get podium results and wins, and AlphaTauri will be there to help us achieve that."

"I think you mean that both teams will be getting wins, actually." Sakura narrowed her eyes at her boss, glaring at him coldly.

Pierre and Yuki exchanged a glance, smirks forming on their lips as the both of them knew that there could be a battle or possibly a fist fight between the two team bosses.

It was her third year as a team principal, but she was not about to let that get the better of her, because she knew that if she did, that her drivers would then be mistreated.

She was not going to let that happen.

She was the team principal that helped Pierre get his very first Grand Prix win last year, so she knew that both her drivers and herself was capable of getting wins and good results.

AlphaTauri may have been Red Bull's sister team, considered as the team where the bad drivers go or trainee drivers go, but they had defeated the odds just by Pierre having gotten his win.

They were supposed to be the team that could switch out drivers to help their bigger team but that would not be good enough.

She was not one for mistreating her drivers, or letting anybody mistreat her drivers or any drivers for that matter.

When Alex Albon was demoted from Red Bull, Sakura had fought for him since she felt disgusted with how he was treated.

When Pierre was demoted from Red Bull, she could have killed Christian for how the man had handled it, and it only made it worse when Pierre lost his childhood friend during a crash in Formula Two that same weekend.

Pierre had expected her to be patronising when he returned to her team, so when he recieved the biggest hug that he had ever gotten, he was pleasantly surprised because he very much needed it.

It healed his heart a little bit.

She always had his back even when he wasn't around to know it, and he knew that for as long as he stayed at her team that he did not need to worry about anybody talking about him behind his back, because his boss would put them in their place and defend him.

"Uh, yes of course." The Horner man nodded his head once, a slight grimace on his face as he noticed the icy cold glare that he was receiving.

"And to save money for improvements on the cars, Christian will personally be paying for everything that is consumed tonight, so make sure to eat and drink as much as you can." Sakura noticed the cheers that the people at the table made and smirked, raising one of her eyebrows at her boss since she knew that he would now have to follow what she had said.

Call it a punishment for bad mouthing her drivers.

She did not care about standing up for her drivers, as it was her job to be their boss and make sure that they had as equal chance as everybody else.

She did not care if she would get scolded by the big boss for how she acted, because he had basically implied that her drivers were useless and only there to back his drivers up, which was completely un true.

She couldn't lose her job, since she was contracted for at least another two years, so she figured that she may as well just let loose her thoughts and feelings when it came to how he treated her boys.

She always had been a very outspoken person, anyway.

Like when she had very publicly spoke in am interview when she had first gotten the job, about how little women were given chances to do the big jobs in Motorsport.

She was the only Team Principal, and there were barely any female drivers in any of the motorsports.

She knew approximately five women who were drivers, she knew approximately twenty women who were crew of some kinds, in comparison to the hundreds of male crew members and hundreds of male drivers within all of the different categories of the motor sports.

Why did it matter what gender they were? It should have been based on talent, skill and knowledge. Not what they've got inbetween their legs.

"Now, why don't we all give a massive round of applause to the people who will actually be doing the hard work this season. The drivers."

Sakura felt smugness forming in her chest as the defeated sigh that the Horner man released at the words that she had spoken, once more interrupting his big, stupid fancy speeches.

Rounds of applause sounded as Pierre, Yuki, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez were praised, being the ones to actually get in to the fast cars and going super speeds in them.

They were the ones risking their lives, who should be getting the real praise, not the stupid idiot that the Red Bull boss that was also her boss.

Christian Horner.

The man in question grimaced once more, applauding before he decided to take a leaf out of her book and copy her.

"And everybody give a huge round of applause to Sakura Aoki!"

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A/N

This chapter is kinda dead but that fits me pretty well right now so yayy

Literally got new meds the other day so I'm still in the adjustment period for them but considering I was mentally struggling before switching to the new meds, having this put a pressure on my shoulders so I had to force myself to do this

Sorry this chapter took so long

Anyway, what do you think?

I also added the family for Sakura, so they will be popping in here and again, plus we should be seeing some flashbacks.

In case you didn't want to scroll to see who I added in as the family, her dead grandparents are Pat Morita as MASARU AOKI and Takayo Fischer as SHINJU AOKI, her parents are Emily Kuroda as HANAKO AOKI and Hiroyuki Sanada as AKIMITSU AOKI

Her siblings are, Masi Oka as ICHIRO AOKI, Brian Tee as HARUTO AOKI, Devon Aoki as CHIAKI AOKI and Charlet Chung as ETSUKO AOKI

I hope that you all enjoy this chapter and I'll see you all soon for the next one,

I'm so proud of all of you, my loves

Love you all,

-RUBY