Disclaimer: I do not own CCS.

Hehehehe. Sorry for the delay! My internet has been down. It's crazy. I HATE my wireless connection. It's not consistent at all. So if I don't update in a while, it's probably not because I didn't write anything, but because my internet is down... again.

Also... my little brother has a fanfic... it's not the best thing in the world since he's only nine, but it'd be cool if you read it, reviewed, and gave some advice to him. His username is BrotherlyFreak... yah I know... weird. And his story's name is Hidden Ability. The title is kind of a jack off of my Hidden Secrets.

Samurai Secret

Chapter Thirty-six

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura's scream reverberated through the air.

Normally, someone would have heard and come running, but it was nighttime, and everyone was in bed in their dorms, which was far away from the dojo.

Syaoran should have come running, but for some reason, he was no where to be seen.

The ice cold hand slowly slid towards Sakura's neck, touching down in a rhythmic pattern, making her skin crawl.

As the hand slowly closed around her neck Sakura's breathing quickened. She took a deep gulp of air, mustering all the courage in her small body, and drew her sword, turning around and slicing the 'ghost' in half, diagonally.

"Yikes!!!!!!" a boy with black hair and closed eyes jumped back. On his chest was a thin red line where Sakura had cut him, and on his hand was a thin sheet of ice, coating his skin. (Don't ask me how he managed to get the ice on his hand, he just did, ok?)

"W-Watch where you're swinging your sword Kinomoto!" Yamazaki looked down at his gi, it had been sliced in half.

"Hoe..." Sakura stood there for a minute, utterly confused, "Weren't you a ghost? Yamazaki... are you a ghost? Wait... you can't be... since you are solid...?"

The boy with never-opened eyes sweatdropped, "Oi... Kinomoto.... How dense are you... really? I was trying to scare you...! But, let's leave that alone for now... can I borrow a bandage?"

There was a thin trickle of blood coming from his cut. It looked small but painful. (Kind of like a paper cut.)

"Oh! Right! I'm sorry, Yamazaki... but you shouldn't have scared me!" Sakura was finally aware of what was happening and was running to get bandages. "By the way... where's Syaoran? What did you do to him?"

"Hm?" Yamazaki ripped the bandage with his teeth and began wrapping it around his chest. "Oh. He's in the bushes somewhere tied up. The others took care of him... he put up a pretty good fight...

"I was watching, but you know, he was in bed and well twenty against one... what are the odds? Besides, I don't think he was fighting back that hard anyway.... I mean he knew us so he didn't want to kill us or anything..."

"Why?" Sakura poked Yamazaki on the cheek. "What did we do to you guys? What's with all this scaring me and tying up Syaoran?"

"Oh. Well it's just revenge for leaving without telling us so long..." he grinned. "And a welcome home party. While we're here talking, the others are setting everything up inside your dojo!"

"What?" Sakura turned towards the dojo and was immediately caught in a headlock.

It was Ichiro, "Hey! Welcome back you no-good don't-tell-people-you're-leaving jerk!"

Sakura sweatdropped, "Oh... thanks and... sorry about that... we kind of couldn't tell you.... We were given a mission in the middle of our original mission so we didn't have time to come back... Ack!"

All the boys had jumped on top of Sakura in a 'doggy pile.'

"Help! –gasp- Need air!"

They complied and got off. When Sakura stood up, she was nearly knocked to the ground again, as each of her friends gave her hardy punches on her shoulder and slaps on her back.

"Let's go in!" Ohjiro grinned and grabbed Sakura's hand to lead her in. The others had already ran inside so Ohjiro stopped and turned to face Sakura.

"Ne... Kinomoto-san... why is your hand so small? After so many years of using the sword.... Surely they would have gotten bigger... unless of course, you were a girl," his gaze was piercing and Sakura was sure he had figured out something was amiss with her.

Beginning to panic Sakura pulled her hand away and began running inside, "Come on Ohjiro! They're going to eat all the food!"

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Laughing, Sakura told the boys of some of the things that happened. Not all of it of course. She purposely left out Kero and Yue... and her being a girl... and only just brushed the topic of the Clow Cards.

"... and that's what happened!" Sakura grinned at her gaping friends. "You remember Makata, don't you? Well, now he's dead."

"H-H-How can you just say it... just like that! I mean... Makata is supposed to be super strong and super evil right?" Yamazaki and Ichiro were staring at her, Ohjiro was smiling at her, Eriol was giving her a thumbs-up and well... all the others had passed out of drinking too much sake.

(Right, Eriol is there too.)

Scratching the back of her head in embarrassment, Sakura smiled, "Um... well... You see... It wasn't THAT hard."

"Kinomoto-san is being modest," Ohjiro was sitting next to her and put an arm around her shoulders.

It was probably meant as a friendly act, but Sakura was beginning to blush. The blue-black haired man next to her was very charming and VERY good looking.

Shaking her head furiously, Sakura thought of Syaoran... Syaoran!

"Oh! Where's Syaoran? Is he still tied up?" everyone gave a start at her comment.

Looking around nervously they began to ask each other, "I thought you untied him! No! I thought you did!"

"Where is he?" Sakura asked. They all pointed to the bushes.

She ran over to them and searched for her brown-haired friend... koibito.

Strong arms were wrapped around her waist and pulled her down onto the ground, "Meh. That's what you get for forgetting about me. Do you know how long I waited?"

Sakura grinned at the boy glaring at her, "But if you could untie the bonds, why didn't you just come join us?"

"I just got them off... that Ohjiro really knows how to tie a knot. It was like he didn't want me to leave... ever!" his wrists were red and there was some blood on them from when Syaoran was trying to get them off.

"Awww... I'm sorry I forgot, here I'll make it all better," Sakura pecked him on the lips.

Syaoran grinned and gave her a swift kiss back and they got up off the dirt.

Sakura waved to the others and yelled, "I found him!"

They were unaware that two black eyes had witnessed their earlier exchange and were now staring at them in jealousy.

To be continued...

Hehehe. I'll leave it at that. I was going to update yesterday, but the service was down so ya.

Sake – a type of Japanese wine.

Koibito - lover

Joke:

Jack had a near-death experience that changed his life forever. One day, Jack went horseback riding. Everything was going fine, until the horse started bouncing out of control. Jack tried with all his might to hang on, but was thrown off. Just when he thought things could not possibly get any worse, his foot got caught in the stirrup. When this happened, he fell head first into the ground. His head continued to bounce harder and harder, and the horse did not stop or even slow down. Just as he was giving up hope and losing all consciousness, the Wal-Mart manager came out and unplugged it.