A/N: I am sorry for the delay in updates. I kinda ran into a block after the last chapter, and then later I got more ideas. Ano, yes I have read In the Forests of the Night. I have no plans for a sequal. (these are answers to review questions that I could remember), and if you don't like my sequals, Elcia, then don't read them. But no plans for a sequal to this one. Besides, I am nowhere near being finished with this yet. There is major OOCness. It had to be done for this story, that explains the whole Yue being a vampire thing. So on to the chapter that I finally wrote. Oh yes, school IS in session now, so that plays a part in when I can update.

Chapter 9- Touya & Syaoran

I was a little surprised at Sakura's sudden decision to become a Hunter. She usually seems so gentle. Kinda like oka-san was. Sakura was very upset, and that was really unsual for her. She gets mad at me, but this was a lot different than that. Sakuran looked strange holding a sword. It was almost creepy.

"Well, lets get going. Right about now is when they all start hunting," I told her. Sakura nodded, with a determined look.

"Hai."

I was concerned about this. "Sakura, are you sure that you are going to be able to do this? I mean, you are going to have to kill Things that appear human," I asked.

She looked unsure, and like she really regretted what her answer was going to be. Slowly, she nodded.

I was really begining to regret agreeing to her coming. I didn't want my sister to feel bad because of what had to be done, or to be transformed into a vampire herself. It has happened to hunters before. And I did not want her to feel like a monster herself. Even though I call her "kaijuu" all the time.

We walked out into the fading light of the sunset.

Syaoran

I didn't return to the human's school that day. I stayed home and slept. Right next to Yue. I have begun to feel love for him more than ever. A son's love for a father. Even though, I couldn't get rid of Sakura's emralde eyes, Yue helped. By sunset, I still felt uneasy. My sleep had been disturbed by dreams that I didn't like at all. Most were about her...Sakura. And then there were some dreams that were memories. Mostly Sakura though. I have barely known this human girl, but I already am mezmorized by her.

I was so weak feeling. I felt entirly too weak...

"Syaoran? You look like something is definatly not right," Yue stated.

I smiled slightly at him. He hit the problem correctly. Yue was generally good at those things. "Nothing is right since we came here, otou-san. But I want to stay. I think I just need to feed, I have had too much sunlight lately," I answered, trying to assure him that I was okay.

He just raised an eyebrow. "Then I am coming with you. I do not need my only fledgling's head cut off by a vampire hunter because you are too weak to move," he stated.

That was considered an honor I think. Yue was one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful of all my kind.

I sighed. "Fine, otou-san."

We dissapeared from the apartment, and reappeared near the human school that I had checked out. There was generally plenty of prey around here. Good, I needed it. I felt worse.

Let me clear something up for you. My kind cannot catch ANY human disease. Most of the human poisions don't effect us. There are few things that can make us sick though, things like diseased human blood. We won't get the disease the human had, but it will make us a little sick. Occasionally, too much sunlight can do that. It doesn't happen much, but there are times when the sun is particulary harsh, and it makes those of us with moon based powers sick.(1)

Yue was still looking at me with concern. Or as close to concern as any vampire can get.

"Quit looking at me like that. I am fine," I snapped. A sudden sent in my nostrils. Warm, life-giving. Prey. I immeadiatly melted back into the shadows of a wall, taking Yue back with me.

It was that Naoko girl again. Walking late from school. She was Sakura's friend, I now know. I had tried once to feed off of her, but was interrupted. I needed blood...bad. It was the only thing to help the sickness from the sun. But I couldn't attack her now, not while knowing that she was Sakura's friend. What was wrong with me?! I couldn't attack because of emotions. Simple emotions. I tried to move, but instead, fell foward on my face. the Naoko girl had gone past.

So weak...sunlight sickness shouldn't be this bad.

"Syaoran!" Yue shouted.

I felt him pick me up in his arms. "Otou-san...why am I sick? I shouldn't...be sick this bad from sunlight. Otou-san...I need...to-"

I couldn't talk anymore, I was too weak.

"Syaoran...rest. I will find a way to get blood into you," I heard Yue coo as I blacked out.

I remember thinking, before I hit total blackness , about why this was happening to me. A girl's eyes couldn't have done this...neither could sunlight. Not this bad. With all of this why...?

Touya

So far, within an hour, we hadn't run across any vampires. I felt relived. Sakura wouldn't have to face that tonight hopefully. We were around the school. By now, the sun had set almost fully.

"Oni-chan! Look!" Sakura cried.

I turned and looked where she was pointing. Standing against a wall, there was a pale person, with long white hair, holding a darker shape. I couldn't make out the darker shape, but I recognized the person holding it. Yue. All vampire hunters know about Yue. He is the most powerful one, and we vampire hunters try continuously to find and kill him for that perpose.

"Sakura, that is Yue. He is the strongest vampire there is. He is the one that needs to be killed...because if he were to change any human into one of his kind, then that would be chatostrophic. Another one with his power would not be good. He was there when oka-san was killed," I told her quietly. I tried not to let it show, but I was scared. It is only natural to be scared of something like Yue.

I noticed that Sakura looked scared. Very scared. "Sakura, you don't have to do this if y-"

Sakura interrupted me. "I have to. For oka-san and Hoshi-sensei! I am determined not to be scared!"

She did looked determined, and to prove her point, she held up the sword that she had found in the basement. I could see right through her act. I knew she was terrified. She was hiding it well enough. I turned back to Yue. I had to be right about who he was.

"You! Put down that person!" I shouted. For as I mentinoned before, the vampire was holding something, that I now saw was a person.

All he did was look at me, and hold whomever it was closer. "No," he said.

A voice like ice...

"I am not going to let you take another life!" Sakura shouted.

This surprised me more than anything else. What Sakura did next, shocked me even more. She ran full out, towards Yue. She let out a wordless cry.

I followed soon after, to be able to protect her should Yue dissapear and reappear behind her to kill her.

That sword of hers grazed Yue's cheek, before he could get completely out of the way. I smiled in pride for my sister. That sword wasn't ordinary metal. Magic was in the steel blade, for the perpous of making wounds that actually hurt the creatures of the night. And that magic kept the wound from healing quickly, and would most likely leave a scar.

"So, you have lead your sister into the dark world that exisits in the night," Yue whispered. Even though, the wound in his cheek was taking so long to heal, and it probably hurt, he still managed to sound cold and distant. He then looked to Sakura, as she tried to kill him again. I had closed in on his escape route and was currently holding a knife to his throat that was also of the magic steel of my sister's sword.

"She came of her own choice Yue," I replied just as coldly. I prepared to drive the knife to his neck, as Sakura prepared to stab him with the sword, even though she had a look on her face like she didn't want to do this. "Sakura, remember this isn't a human. He is not human!" I assured her. We both had to make sure not to stab the one he currently held in his arms. She nodded.

We both thrust ....

Only to hit the brick wall. There had been too much disscussion. Otherwise, we could have gotten him.

"Damn it!" I shouted.

"O-oni-chan, can we go home now?" Sakura asked with a slight tremor in her voice.

I nodded. "I am going to train you, so by next week I'll have you in professional mode. We'll go out again tomarrow at sunset."

She nodded nervously.

I hated to have to do this to my sister, but she wanted to hunt, so I was going to have to make her change. I just hoped that it wouldn't be a change for the worse.

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(1) The whole sunlight sickness thing, I came up with. that was all MINE! No inspiration for that! Well except maby when I got heat exaustion, that might have had something to do with it....

A/N: I hope to update soon, so watch out for more! R/R plz.