Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captor Sakura.

Summary: "I'll be your boyfriend!" "What?!" "I can protect you from those bullies, and I'll support you and your family!" Then he gave an ominous smirk. "But it comes at a price-you have to give me your soul..."

"SO YOU TOOK HIS TWIN'S SOUL INSTEAD?" Eriol yelled.

Syaoran nodded slowly. "W-Well... they look alike-"

Eriol felt himself about to cry at this reply. "Oh crap, we're in deep trouble!"

"What? What's wrong?" Yamazaki asked.

Eriol gulped and turned to Syaoran. "YOU YOU YOU! IT'S ALL YOUR STUPID FAULT!"

"What?" Syaoran asked, puzzled by Eriol's hysterical response.

Eriol was shouting by now, "YOU! YOU COLLECTED THE WRONG SOUL!"

"Now then you realised?" Yamazaki muttered.

Eriol buried his head in his hands. "OH SYAORAN LI YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE US THREE ANNIHILATED! BECAUSE OF YOUR DUMB BLUNDER, HE WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE HAS ESCAPED DEATH, WHILE HE WHOSE TIME HAS YET TO COME IS DEAD!"

Syaoran gulped. "Do you mean to say that... I've upset the balance of Life and Death on Earth?"

Eriol inhaled and exhaled deeply, trying to calm himself down. Then, he turned to Syaoran and he said in a trembling voice, "Y-Yes. And for that, our souls will pay! Oh, the Grim Reaper will destroy us for this!"

Before Eriol could utter the last word, Yamazaki had dashed into Syaoran and shoved him against a wall.

"SYAORAN LI YOU MORON!" Yamazaki screamed, "YOU BIG FAT MORON! LOOK AT THE TROUBLE WE'RE IN AGAIN COS' OF YOU! I DON'T WANNA DIE AGAIN! YOU JINX! WHEN WE WERE ALIVE, YOU KILLED ERIOL AND I ALONG WITH YOURSELF IN SOME STUPID LAB EXPLOSION, AND NOW, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL US AGAIN! WHY WHY WHY DID I CONTINUE TO HANG OUT WITH YOU EVEN AFTER DEATH? YOU'RE A JINX AND A MURDERER-"

"ENOUGH!" Eriol yelled, silencing Yamazaki. Yamazaki let go of Syaoran.

Then, Eriol walked towards Syaoran, who didn't dare to look up.

"There is still one way out of this. We can still save ourselves," Eriol began. "What we need is the soul of a pure-hearted girl! We can offer her soul as sacrifice to the Grim Reaper! It will show our sincerity in repenting of our mistake, and our remorse."

"I'll get that soul!" Syaoran offered instantaneously. "I ought to! Leave it to me!"

This time, Eriol and Yamazaki both shoved him against the wall.

"Not again..." Syaoran breathed out as his friends pinned him down.

"OF COURSE YOU'LL DO IT! HELLOOOOO WHO CAUSED THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE?!!!" Eriol shouted.

"YOU'D BETTER GET THAT FREAKING SOUL FAST, DUDE! OR I'LL ANNIHILATE YOU BEFORE THE GRIM DOES!" Yamazaki added.

"O-Ok...!" Syaoran said as he gasped for air. "J-Just let me down first!"

"Who do you guys think you are? I'm not afraid of you!" an emerald-eyed girl shouted as a group of gangsters cornered her.

"D-Don't you thugs come any closer!" the girl, Sakura, went on, trying not to show fear. "I-I know Black Magic!"

"Well, little girl," replied the leader of the gang, Taro, sinisterly. "Let's see how far you've progressed in it then! Guys, hold her down!"

"HEY! LET GO! DON'T TOUCH ME!" Sakura screamed but Taro's cronies had already pinned her to the wall. One of them snatched her bag from her and passed it to Taro.

"Now, let's see how much your parents give you for your allowance," Taro said as he took out Sakura's wallet. "You know, things wouldn't have come to such a state if you'd just obediently surrender all your money in the first place."

"YOU HOOLIGANS! RETURN ME MY MONEY NOW OR I'LL CALL THE POLICE!" Sakura yelled as she struggled.

"Dammit, shut it and stop squirming so much, bitch!" one of the gangsters threatened as he raised a fist against her.

Meanwhile...

"Ok if I were a pure-hearted girl where would I be?" Syaoran murmured as he wandered about randomly. "Maybe I'd be helping out in the orphanage or the old folks' home-"

Just then, he heard a girl's shouts from nearby. Curious, Syaoran decided to see what was going on.

"Can we just knock her out, chief? She's making too much noise, people may hear," a man with golden spiky hair said as he pointed at an emerald eyed girl.

Is she being bullied by those hooligans? Syaoran asked himself. That scene reminded him of how he himself used to be bullied by the thugs at school many times when he was still alive.

"ARGHHHHHHH!!! T-T-THAT LITTLE BITCH BIT ME!" another guy yelped as he released his hold of the girl's right arm and shook his hand painfully.

He then angrily boxed the girl's right ear. "That'll teach you!"

"Let's just take her money and kill her, man!" another suggested. "She'll go straight to police the moment we release her!"

That doesn't look good.., do I help her? But I'm not supposed to stick my nose into the business of the living. Besides, I've got to find that soul! Syaoran thought.

"H-HEY! DON'T YOU DARE! MY BROTHER'S A POLICEMAN, AND HE'LL ARREST YOU FOR MURDERING ME AND YOU'LL GET THE DEATH PENALTY!" the girl shouted. "IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU, LET ME GO!"

"Shit, you're right," the leader said. The girl heaved a sigh of relief.

"Let's just kill her, guys. If not, she'll tell on us to her brother and we'll go straight to jail," the leader said.

I don't know anything, I don't see anything, I don't hear anything, I'm just going to go my own way... Syaoran chanted as he began to walk away from the scene.

Sakura's POV:

"Let's just kill her, guys. If not, she'll tell on us to her brother and we'll go straight to jail."

I gulped at that statement. Maybe I shouldn't have lied about my brother being a policeman...

"Y-You guys aren't really going to kill me, right?" I asked timidly. "W-We're all schoolmates!"

They guffawed at my words.

"Dude, brothers and sisters have killed each other over simple reasons like money or inheritance," Taro replied. "And you tell me that I shouldn't kill you cos' we attend the same school? Might as well add in the bit that we live in the same country on the same planet in the same universe! HAHAHA!"

I felt my hair rise at that statement.

CRAP THEY'RE SERIOUS ABOUT MURDERING ME!!!

"Enough of the small talk now," Taro suddenly said solemnly as he pulled out a penknife from his pocket. "You'd better pray that I stab you exactly in the heart so you can get to Heaven fast!"

I stared dumbly at that awful penknife and contemplated about faking a sudden heart attack and collapsing dead on the ground. Hopefully they'd buy my act and leave me there.

Fat chance! Firstly, my acting skills aren't really good, and secondly, Taro would still probably stab me in the end just to check if I'm really dead, and ultimately, I'd still die!

Suddenly, Taro withdrew his penknife and threw it away. He then returned me my bag and my money!

"What kind of an evil, bloodthirsty delinquent am I?" he said, slapping himself in the forehead. "Gosh, I not only just threatened some innocent girl, I almost killed her! I'm a sucker, you know that? I'm a dick! I'm going straight to Hell for the evil sins I'm committing right now!"

You can't be more right about that...

"T-Taro, dude, you ok?" one of his friends asked, puzzled by the weird stuff he was spouting.

"HA!" Taro suddenly laughed out, scaring all of us. "HA! So my name is Taro? Well well well, is it just a coincidence or do all the bullies in Tomoeda have the same name? You know, when I was still alive, this huge bloke also called 'Taro' used to bully me too! Damn, I hate him until now!"

Taro then started looking at his own hands before hitting himself hardly. "Stupid gangsters! Just cos' you have gangs doesn't mean you can outnumber others and extort money from them and do whatever you want!" he scolded. "You're in fact just a coward hiding behind cowards like yourself!"

"O...kay?" another guy remarked, seeing such eccentric behaviour. "I think we'd better leave him be."

As quick as a flash, I took this opportunity to pull myself away from the death grip of his cronies and escaped...