Note from Authoress:

Me thinks Santa is pleased.

Okay like I promised, Chapter Four!

-Cerridwen

Disclaimer: I don NOT own Card Captor Sakura...Make me say it again and so help me god I will beat you death with shovel- Remember a vague disclaimer is never fun.

ENJOY!

Chapter Four: "Morsel"

Sakura lifted her heavy eye lids. Her vision blurred as she pushed herself up slowly. She put a hand to her throbbing head. " Where..?"

"You're home sweetie." a melodious voice echoed into Sakura's surroundings.

Sakura looked up and a blurry figure was hovering over her. The figure reached over and caressed Sakura's cheek softly.

"Oh my darling baby girl. Look at what they did to you" the figure whispered sadly, their long gracious curly hair bounced when she turned her head to the side.

Sakura's vision adjusted and she met a pair of familiar smiling emerald eyes. " Mom?" she choked.

Sakura's mother's eyes softened and she nodded her head silently.

"We got some tea!" Two familiar male voices rang out.

"Dad? Touya?"

Sakura's father smiled sweetly as he placed a tray of warm tea and some crackers on her bedside table.

Touya walked over to his sister and placed his hand on top of her head, mussing up her hair. "Jeeze, kaijou . What did you do, run into a wall?" His soft brown eyes twinkled in amusement.

Tears filled her eyes. She wrapped her arms around her mothers waist. " Oh god. I missed you all so much." Sakura's mother put a slender hand on her back and rubbed it in circles. " Hush baby. You're safe now."

"You're safe now."

The sweet melodious voice suddenly turned deep and malicious. The hug tightened. Sakura's eyes widened as she realized she was hugging a male torso.

She looked up and met a pair of icy vampire eyes.

"You are all mine now."

"Sakura, wake up!"

Sakura's eyes snapped opened in a start This time, she came face to face with a very handsome man with a pair of mesmerizing amber eyes and messy chestnut brown hair.

She screamed in surprise.

Syaoran placed a hand over her mouth. " What the hell are you screaming for?!" he hissed. He saw her wince and he took his hand off her mouth. He apologized. " Sorry, but I can't have you screaming like that at this time of the night. Someone next door might think I'm murdering someone."

Murder.

Sakura sat up, quickly in surprise. She stared up at him in wonder and amazement, as he looked down at her. She was so confused. Wasn't he supposed to be dead? His eyes suddenly glowed along with his cheeks. He quickly turned around. " S-Sakura remember, you are lacking clothes…"

Sakura blinked then looked down at her naked body under the white sheets.

"AH!!" She pulled the sheets up to cover her. She duck down, and hid under the pillows in embarrassment. She heard Syaoran mumble and open a door. As he continued to mumble, that vaguely sounded like the lords name, she heard the sound of coat hangers clinking together.

"Here wear this." she heard him mumble 'Before I get any ideas..'

She peeked her head out from the blankets with a red face and looked over to the end of the bed. She saw a long grey t-shirt and some sweat pants thrown there. " They will do for now." He mumble loudly. She cocked her head to the side and watched him walk over to the window keeping his back turned to her.

Sakura picked up the T-shirt and threw it on. It was huge on her but Sakura felt quite content in it. As she pulled on the large sweat pants, she looked over to Syaoran's form. He wore a white unbuttoned white dress shirt. The sleeves where rolled up, exposing his long broad muscular arms. She could tell by the white shirt of how muscular his shoulders and back were. Narrow, defined and rock solid. Sakura licked her lips as she let her gaze drop.

And that looked yummy too.

He wore black pants with a leather black belt strapped tightly to his waist. The pants were not tight, but they definitely defined his body perfectly.

" Are you done?" His husky voice interrupted her small 'analyzing a god' reverie. She blushed and quickly pulled the drawstring on her pants, so they wouldn't fall.

"Done."

He turned around and Sakura felt the urge not to faint again.

Like she said before, the white shirt was unbuttoned, exposing….too much for her hormones to handle. She then noticed a white bandage tied tightly around his lower torso.

The bullet wound.

"Oh God! Syaoran are you all right? You should go to the hospital and get that thing-"

"Taken out?" He finished for her. He nodded his head to the bathroom. There, lying on the sink was a few bloody cloths and small sliver bullet covered in blood.

Sakura's mouth dropped. " You picked it out yourself?!" She yelled. She then turned to him. " What were you thinking?"

He closed his eyes, pressing his fingers to his temples. " Sakura-"

"You could have torn something eternally, or caused an infection." she grabbed his arm as she tried to lift herself from the bed since her ankle was still quite tender.

"Sakura…" he was trying to sound angry, but his voice came out in the sound of a whine.

"You need to get that looked at right away!"

"Sakura!!" He yelled this time and she stopped to look at him.

"My body doesn't work that way anymore."

He pointed to the mirror in front of him. Sakura turned her head and saw her reflection in the mirror. She suddenly felt Syaoran's hand drape themselves around her waist, but she saw nothing of him in the mirror.

How?

She could feel him touching her, but when she looked in the mirror, he wasn't there. A strange wave of excitement made her heard pound in anticipation. But she was till awfully confused.

He was sitting on the bed besides her, leaning his head on her neck and to begin to softly brush his lips across her collar bone. She made a small squeaking sound as his warm breath warmed her cold skin, making it skin hum. She felt her pulse quicken its pace as he pushed her head into his chest. She would have swooned and melted, if she didn't notice the haunting silence of Syaoran's heart beat .

She pulled away and looked up at Syaoran. He turned away and stood up, walking to the window again.

"I'm a vampire Sakura." He whispered softly.

Sakura swallowed the lump in her throat. " You don't scare me.."

Syaoran turned his head at a glance and Sakura watched his amber eyes glow, and his pupil changed its shape.

"Are you sure about that?"

He walked back to her and sat behind her again. Sakura kept looking straight, ignoring the body tremors when she could feel Syaoran's breath on her skin. She suddenly heard a low growl, and suddenly felt his lips on her neck. His tongue brushed across her skin, savouring her taste.

Sakura was beginning to shake.

And she wasn't quite sure if it was from the overwhelming desire growing within her, or the fear of what he was about to do to her.

He began to suck hungrily on her neck, as his hands began to move down her arms. She heard that feral growl again. Suddenly she felt something sharp graze her neck as he kissed and tasted her.

His fangs.

Sakura suddenly stiffened her body and she felt Syaoran stop. " You are afraid." he whispered. " I don't blame you. It would be strange if your weren't. This is what I do, Sakura. I have to kill, so I can live."

"You haven't killed anyone yet…. Have you?"

Syaoran stood up. " No. Not human at least." He walked over to the window again. It was still night. " And I don't plan on starting. Once I get the taste of it, I won't be able to stop."

"Stop what?"

"The demon. It's blood thirst. It's urges." He turned and looked Sakura again. " It's desires."

Sakura had heard this tone of voice before. She heard it the day before he left for Hong Kong, eight years ago. Sakura frowned.

"And when you are around me, the demon just wants to come out more."

"So now are you going to tell me that you don't want me around you anymore, aren't you?" Sakura whispered bitterly.

Syaoran kept his gaze on the full moon. " I think it would be better if-"

"Bullshit!"

Syaoran whipped his head around to Sakura's swearing. She was standing now, holding onto the railing of the bed, but she was standing, and those lifeless emerald eyes were alive and ablaze.

" That's bullshit and you know it! Just because you can't control your 'urges' around me. God, Syaoran, that's lame. You sound like a horny teenager. Well guess what? I don't give a damn."

As much as this fiery side of Sakura, was very much, turning him on, he wasn't about to let her win. He may be dead, but he still had his pride.

" Sakura," He glared at her coldly " I'm not going to let myself be responsible, if I do something to you. Don't you think you should be a little concerned about your own safety? Life even?"

" You are my life!" bellowed Sakura. Syaoran looked at her in surprise. " Eight years, Syaoran. Eight, bloody miserable years, I've waited for you! I could have had any other boy in my high school to become the love of my life, but I was obsessed with you! And every night I dreamt of seeing your face again. I didn't go to high school dances, or even my high school Prom because of you. I had this silly imagination that you'd somehow return to me."

"I didn't ask you-"

"Don't interrupt me while I'm trying to pour my heart out here!!" Tears began to run down her face. " I was so lonely, Syaoran. I cried myself to sleep every night. I cried when I read your letters, emails and after I had spoken with you over the phone. It tore me apart about knowing you were there but so far away. I had turned down so many offers of becoming happy, loved by someone- Because I felt I would be betraying you. I was teased and looked upon at school as a bitch, or the 'rejection queen.' And little by little, I lost all my school friends. Tomoyo and Eriol were the only ones left." she turned around as she wiped her tears away.

"Then two years ago, I lost all contact with you. No letters, no emails, no late-night phone calls. I would mail and email you everyday and I still got no reply. I felt I was loosing everyone. And I was right. About six months ago Touya and Dad got into accident. Dad died three days later, and Touya was in a coma."

Syaoran paled. A sinister dark haired vampire came into his mind

"First, I think I will start with her loved ones. It'll make her break faster."

" Tomoyo and Eriol came to live with me, take care of me. Even though they were there, I felt so lonely. And then these nightmares started-"

Syaoran jumped. " Nightmares?"

"Let me finish-"

"But Sakura-"

"TOUYA DIED! He never woke up from his coma! They pulled the plug out on him earlier."

"Sakura-"

"Then, I was so determined to find you. I did a Clow reading. Do you know what they told me?" she yelled again.

"Sa-"

" They told me you were dead!"

Syaoran stopped trying to talk to her and looked into her lost, teary, confused emerald eyes.

" It was then, I felt as if the entire world came crashing down upon me. I felt like someone ripped into me… and a part of me was lost." he lips quivered uncontrollably. " I couldn't stop the pain, the tears and god, I was so sick of crying!"

She looked him straight in the eyes. " I was ready to kill myself last night. Jump off a building. Slit my wrist. Hell if those bozo's were planning to slit my throat after they raped me, I would have let him. I wanted to see mom, dad, Touya, and you again. I was ready to join you."

She paused and looked at her reflection in the mirror, knowing Syaoran was behind there, she touched the place where he was supposed to be.

" ….and now, somehow, you are back. You are different now, and yes I admit it, this frightens me. But it only makes me want to be with you more. I can see you are suffering with this change, and I want to help you. And if you think you can turn around and say ' I can't be around you.' Then think again. You can hate me, abuse me, hell you can even try to kill me. But I promise you, I will NOT leave your side!"

A black shadow suddenly consumed the room and the hotel's glass window, shattered into a million pieces. Syaoran and Sakura were thrown backwards. Syaoran was thrown into the bathroom while Sakura, hit the wall. A figure in a black cloak floated down to the balcony railing.

" There you are my little princess. You shouldn't run off like that."

He pushed back his cloak's hood revealing a pair of lucid icy eyes. His black leathered gloved hand, swept through his long messy raven black hair. His fangs glinted in the dark as he gave the frightened emerald eyed girl a wicked smile.

"Don't be afraid, princess. Your dark prince is here to save you."

He reached down and pulled her off her feet. " Don't be afraid, I won't bite… much." The vampire's eyes suddenly widened as he felt something long and sharp along his neck.

"Take your dirty hands off of her."

The vampire growled in annoyance. He turned his head to see a lean figure in the dark holding a sword to his neck.

"Well, don't you sound like a nummy treat."

The figure walked out of the shadows, revealing a pair of cold amber eyes. " Lucius." he growled.

The vampire glared at him.

" I distinctively remember you being dead."

"I am dead. Just a little… spry."

"Right. And I'm the sugar plum fairy."

"You'd look fabulous in the pink tutu. It would bring out your eyes."

Lucius growled then snapped his figures. Suddenly the sound of flying metal wisped through the air. Syaoran's sword was knocked straight out of his hand as small jagged star embedded itself into it. Syaoran grunted in pain and looked at his hand.

"Syaoran!" Sakura cried.

Lucius forcefully grabbed her by the arm and pulled her over to the broken window where two feminine figures stood. "Let me introduce you to Mira and Kira- Blood Ninja's if you will call them. Aren't they spiffy?"

The two vampire girls looked pretty much the same. Both had long silver hair braided down their backs, both wore scandalously clad leather cat suits, showing off vast amounts of cleavage in the chest region and down to below the navel. They both had deep red eyes and dark eye shadow, pasted on their eyes. The only difference was one had a black star on the sides of both eyes, while the other had a crescent moon.

And those symbolic purposes matched the same symbol of weapons. One had chains and chains of small sharp, jagged stars around her neck and her waist. She had jagged star earrings and a large, three foot metal jagged star was strapped to her back.

The other vampire on the other hand, had less trinkets and more of a double edged scythe. Oh yes, she had little crescent moons hanging from her ears, but Syaoran wasn't intimidated by that. He was staring at the two and half long meter, scythe being pointed at him.

He made a mental note to remember, to watch his head.

"Now that we are all acquainted, The Clow mistress and I, have a date. You all play nice now."

"Syaoran!!" Sakura screamed and stretched out her hand to him. The vampire growled as she tried to pull away from him. Lucius hit the back of her neck, and Sakura fell limp into his arms.

" You see, this was NOT part of my plan! Knowing that everyone she loves was gone, she would nimbly walk into my open arms freely, with out any struggle and I would whisk her away so she can meet her beloved family and friends in the after world. But no, you had to come around and spoil it!"

"Sorry to shit on your parade, psycho." Syaoran said dryly.

Lucius eyes turned into slits and he glared at Syaoran. He scooped the unconscious girl into his arm, bridal style. He walked by the two lady vampires. He looked at them.

"You don't have to play nice."

The girls looked at each other and smiled wickedly. Lucius jumped up to the balcony railing then turned back to them. " And make sure he's dead this time."

Lucius jumped off the railing and disappeared into the night.

Syaoran pulled the metal star out of his hand and licked his flowing blood. His eyes glowed and changed as he stared at the surprise faces of the two vampires.

"Lets get ready to rumble."

Tomoyo paced through the silent hallway. Its been hours and there has been no sign of anyone. She walked by Sakura's room and suddenly a light burst out of the doorway. Tomoyo ran to the her door and pulled it open.

"Sakura!?"

But instead of who she had expected, there stood a soft blue woman draped in a long white cloth. Her long hair fell to her back, before a ribbon tied the rest, allowing her hair to spread and fan out below her ankles. The front of her hair was adorn in red ribbons, that hung from the sides of her face. Her pale, blue face was tense and in concentration. The ever flowing light was illuminating from the large silver mirror she held in hands.

Tomoyo eyes widened in shock.

"The Mirror…"

The Clow Card's ethereal form opened her empty eyes.

" Mistress is in trouble." Mirror whispered.

Her hand flew up to the air and all the Clow Cards, that were scattered on the floor, glowed and flew up to Mirror's beckon.

"Protect her."

A sudden flash erupted again, and the Clow cards flew through the ceiling and into the night. Mirror turned to Tomoyo and bowed before vanishing like the rest of them.

Syaoran ducked as six sharp stars were hurled at his head. The stars hit the wall behind him and he jumped as another set was thrown at him. One star grazed his cheek and other went into his arm.

Syaoran pulled out the star and threw back at the Blood Ninja. She merely moved her head and let it hit the mirror behind her.

"Great. Seven years bad luck. That's ALL I need now." Syaoran whispered sarcastically.

The other vampiress jumped high and raised the giant scythe. Syaoran grabbed the table by the mini bar, and held it up in defence. The blade came down again, spitting the oak wood table into. Syaoran held the to pieces and looked at them. "Well that wasn't very useful…"

She smiled again, raising the giant scythe. Syaoran hardly avoided it when it came down again but he ran up close to her and smashed her face in with one of the table pieces. He grinned when he saw her stumble backwards, but frowned as twenty little stars came flying his way. He jumped behind the bed as they hit the wall again. The moment he went to get up again, more stars flew at him.

'She's not giving me a break.'

He looked up at the fan above his head, and smirked. " That could work."

In a swift moment, as more stars flew at him, he jumped and latched onto the fan. The fan turn him and he hit the star-throwing nut in the face with his foot. She wasn't fazed as much as her other companion, but that was expected. Syaoran pulled the rotating fan off the ceiling, and held it front of him like a shield.

Dust fell from the ceiling blinding her for moment, but she continued to throw those stars. The fan turned in front of Syaoran and took the full impact of the crazy vampire's frustration. Soon the fan wasn't able to hold much longer and he threw it at the other vampire, with the scythe, who was coming up behind him. The scythe easily sliced it into, so Syaoran ran to find his next 'shield'.

He grabbed one of the table's chairs and held it out as the stars flew at him. He followed the direction the stars were heading to with the chair, but missed one as it flew into his leg. Syaoran growled and winced, giving a nasty glare to the nasty smirking girls.

"What are you going to do now vampire?" one seductively taunted.

Syaoran growled and grabbed the two chair legs and pulled them apart, making two splintery sharp pieces of wood, or in other words- stakes

"What I should of done in the first place."

He ran at them. He avoided the plunging scythe, but more stars collided into his arms, chest and legs, but he didn't stop. She backed up in fear and pulled out her large star and whipped it at his head. He ducked and kicked it cleanly into the air. At that same moment, he took the broken table leg, and plunged it deep into her chest. There was a mighty yowl as her skin turned into smoke and her skeleton vaporized into dust. He heard another cry as the other vampires scythe was about to collide down on him. He caught the large fallen star, that he had kicked into the air, with his hand and swung it at the vampires head- taking it right off. The scythe dropped just before it was about to slice him into. The vampire girl wailed and turned to dust just like her companion.

Syaoran panted hard and looked around the room. He then let out a relieved sigh.

"Holy… mother fucking hell- THIS HURTS LIKE A BITCH!" He yelled.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Syaoran froze.

"Um this is room service. There was a lot of noise coming from this room, we were wondering if you were okay?"

Syaoran licked his lips as he pushed up the two table halves together before it fell apart again. He grimaced.

" Uh yeah! I'm okay. Just had the television up too loud. Got to love those action flicks Ha ha ha ha !" he faked a laugh and the stared at the now, star embedded television, and then ran a hand through his hair nervously.

If that man came in here, Syaoran didn't know what he'd do.

….Eat him?

"Oh okay. Just keep it down next time, sir." Syaoran sighed in relief

"Will do!"

He heard the disappearing footsteps and growled at the dust floating around the room. After a few loud growls and a load of loud swear words, Syaoran managed to pull all the stars out of him. He counted thirteen. The last one was on his leg again higher to his thighs, but still too close for comfort.

"Now would be the perfect time, incredibly fast healing abilities!"

As he spoke he felt some of the wounds slowly heal. The pain though was quite evidently still there. Syaoran walked over to his coat lying on the other chair.

He picked up, brushing off the ceiling and vampire dust, and was very pleased to know his coat wasn't even touched but the evil stars and scythe.

He slipped it on and pulled his suitcase out from his now sliced-in-half bed. He opened it up and pulled out a long necklace with a red round bloodstone gem hanging from it. He put it around his neck and stood up.

"Its been a long time." he whispered.

He walked to the railing and stepped up on it. He looked down at the passing cars and specks of people walking down the sidewalk, from the tenth story floor and smiled. The old Syaoran hated heights, the new Syaoran loved them.

He leapt off the railing enjoying the breeze that soothed those tender wounds. His long black coat floated behind him as he fell down further and further. He landed on a flag pole, sticking out of the five-star hotel building, and then jumped in the air again landing on the roof of the next building. He stood high as his vampire eyes glanced all around the city. Like a hawk, his vision moved into the far, far distance. He could see anyone's face from miles away. But his eyes could not catch the sight of his auburn-haired beloved.

So he did what he did when he arrived in Japan earlier on- he tried to catch her scent. Syaoran closed his eyes as he brought his head left and right slowly.

He stopped and snapped opened his eyes. A smell of cherry blossoms hit his senses.

"There."

He narrowed his eyes as he felt two presences approach behind him.

"You really don't want to piss me off right now," Syaoran hissed. " Because I'm already very cranky."

He turned his head and saw two more vampires. One was male with bleach blond hair slickly gelled back, the other was a female red-head who had her hair tied back into a pony-tail.

"Mmm, me guessin' youz not human." She murmured.

"Brilliant assumption Sherlock. You didn't figure that when he jumped from a bloody ten story building?"

"He coulds be Superman…?"

"Well since the Sharpies, weren't the ones to jump down from there, I guess that means you killed them." The bleached blond one sneered. Like Syaoran he wore a trench coat, but everything else was worn with black.

Syaoran crossed his arms. " Who wants to know, Billy Idol wanna-be?"

The red head began to giggle as the blond head one glared.

"The name is Kaitou, General-grumpy-pants. And this wee lass, is Tess.

"That's nice. Gotta go." He turned to leave when all of the sudden he felt something latch onto his arm. Tess had a large black ribbon wrapped around his wrist.

"Na ah ah." She wagged her long black nails

"That's where you are wrong, mate. We know you are off to save little britches, but we, Tess and I, have orders to not allow you to do that." The blond vampire smiled and slipped on black gloves that had long spikes resting on the knuckles.

"Sorry me sweet thing, we havta kill ya now." She giggled.

" Always the hard way with you crazy blood suckers." Syaoran sighed and with his other hand, he ripped his necklace off his neck. "Want to see a trick?"

A light shone from the necklace and in a split second the necklace had turned into a long, double edged sword. He cut the red head's ribbons about a second after.

Tess looked down at her now limp ribbon hanging off of her. She looked up and smiled and then clapped her hands together.

The blond vampire shook his head. " If you think that's going to kill us mate, think again. Swords can't kill us unless-"

Tess made a slicing sound to her neck. " Choppy choppy!"

"-and I'll tell you right now, we will be too fast for you to even aim at our necks."

Syaoran smirked. " Who said I was planning to kill you?"

The two vamps shared a glance at each other. Tess brought her finger up to head, moving it in circular motions as she whispered 'cuckoo cuckoo.'

" But I was planning of chopping off your limbs one by one and then kill you…"

Both vampires stood in a stance preparing to fight. Syaoran smirked. " Really now. If I wanted to kill you with out any trouble, I' do…"

He whispered a small incantation in Cantonese under his breath. Suddenly his sword was engulfed by an angry, fiery flame.

"..this."

Tess eyes widened in horror as suddenly the flame shot out and engulfed her in it. She cried out as her body just spontaneously combusted, and burned away into ashes like the vampires before her. The flame died, and Tess was no longer there.

Syaoran turned to Kaitou, as he stared in horror as Tess's vanishing body. Kaitou then looked up and met with Syaoran's vampire eyes glinting madly.

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust."

"She was slow, weak even. The only thing she was good at was torture."

Syaoran raised his blazing sword at the vampire. " I prefer evens over the odds anyway. Just fair play after all." His eyes narrowed dangerously, and began to change

"Now, you are in my way. Either you get out of it, or I sweep up your remains. What's it going to be, mate?"

The blonde headed vampire's eyes glowed as he went into a crouch, drawing back his spiked fists. Syaoran's pupils shifted like a cat, focused on its prey.

"The latter one it is then."

A/N: Woot! Go cliffhangers!

"Always leave em' wantin' more"

So the next chapter might not be up till after Christmas. I have work, comic book deadlines and loads and loads of Christmas presents to wrap because the two male specimens in my family, are too fricken' lazy to wrap OR learn how to wrap, even.

Well at least, I get a dollar for each gift though. $$$$

The Blood Ninja's- Mira and Kira are from my comic book, and I'm beginning to see alot of Tatsuya ( the vampire protagonist in my comic) in Syaoran. What can I say, I like my men, rough! Though Tatsuya has a very bad potty mouth, like his girl, who is NOTHING like Sakura- Cerridwen is the goddess of fire. Fire equals angry. Fire equals bad temper. She did throw him out the window quite a few times...

And that reminds I have some pages to complete. Chapter One has 129 pages... and I've got..what 10 done

...And now procrastination is about to bite me in the ass.

And I'll let it if procrastination is a sexy god-like vampire.

-mind wanders into dreamland-

Until next time folks,

-Cerridwen

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