A/N: ^_______^ NOTHER CHAPPIE!!!! A special note before we begin: C'est la vie means that's life.

Chapter 11- Sakura

The next week passed slowly. At school, things dragged by. Li-kun didn't come to school at all. I found myself missing his presence badly. Strange for me. I barely knew him, but I still miss him terribly. I wander if he feels the same way? Sakura! Stop thinking like that about someone you barely know!

The training with oni-chan, has been going well. I am now very good with that sword. I never knew Touya knew how to use a sword..go figure. (a/n: The power of the author! ^_____^) I have also stopped regreting killing those Things. In a way, I am setting their souls free, and I also stopped thinking of them as humans. I am NOT heartless, its just I think of how many people have died at the hand of vampires, and then I can get rid of them. Oni-chan and I have found many of them here in Tomoeda, but we didn't run into Yue at all this week. I don't think I was ready to face him anyways.

Now it was Monday again. The begining of another week. I wandered if Li-kun will be here? I guess not, the bell rang all ready. We were having a free period outside today. Mizuki-sensei is so nice to us! We could do what we wanted.

"Rika-chan! Pass it!" I shouted with joy. Tomoyo, Rika, Naoko, Chiharu and myself were playing basketball with some other kids in the class. (a/n: I like basketball more than volleyball, and this is AU. So no complaints about how we never really see SAKURA playing basket ball. I think at one point in the series they show Syaoran and Eriol playing basketball. I havn't seen any of that series though.)

I tried to catch the ball as it came at me, but it flew over my head an off the court.

"Gomenasai Sakura-chan! I'll get it!" Rika shouted.

"Don't worry Rika-chan! I can get it. It is my fault for not catching it," I assured her.

"That gives us the ball," Yamazaki stated. "Now let me tell you about basketball-"

"Hai. Hai!" Chiharu said quickly and covered Yamazaki's mouth.

I smiled to myself as I ran after the ball. It had rolled under a tree.

"Silly ball," I laughed. Even at fifteen, I am a cheerful girl.

Just as I bent to pick it up, someone flipped down from a branch to look at me. Needless to say, I was startled.

"HOE!"

"You don't have to shout like that," a familiar voice told me in an annoyed tone.

"Li-kun! You surprised me! Ano, why are you hiding in that tree?" I said/asked. He was hanging upside down off of a branch by his legs.

He didn't answer. "..."

"Li-kun, daijoubu?"

"H-hai..."

I saw his face redden slightly. He was still so pale though. He was blushing?!

"Ano...I have to get back to the game. Want to play?" I asked gesturing to the sunlit basketball court.

"No! I don't want to intrude..."

"You wouldn't be intruding!" I insisted.

"No, I would prefer to stay here, after I go sign in..." (a/n: at my school, if you're late to school, you have to go sign in at the front office before going to class)

He then flipped back up into the tree.

"Li-kun!" I shouted and looked up. The tree was empty. "Hoe?"

Two weeks later... (a/n: sorry about all the time passing so quickly, but this is crucial to the story.)

I was now a seasoned vampire hunter. I scare myself, for I seem to be getting too good at it. You know what they say, C'est la vie! Syaoran has been coming to school for the past two weeks. Only there have been a few days that he has been absent. I have gotten to know him really well.

Even with the small time that I have known him, I feel as if I am begining to fall in love. His amber eyes intrigue me. I just hope he is okay, for he keeps missing almost every other day of school. Oh well...

We "hang out" together so much, that rumors have started that we are a a couple. We AREN'T. We are just friends. Although, I do wish that it could be more... But even our friendship isn't a very warm one sometimes.

Anyways, Tuesday night, Touya and I went out on another hunt. The previous week (we were doing this on weekly schedules so I could get sleep for school) we had located a new café that catered to vampires. This week we were going to go break it up.

We had to walk to the city part of Tomoeda.

"Sakura, are you sure you are ready for a job of this size?" Touya asked me.

I nodded. "Hai. We are prepared so I am not too afraid," I answered. We had his magic bladed knife, and my sword. Also, we had wooden stakes, just in case, we had to do things the old way, and Touya had a gun. About stakes, Touya told me only the weaker vampires would really fear them, but we have found only weaker vampires lately so they will hopefully be useful to us.

We opened the door quietly, so as not to seem suspicious. Then Touya jumped into the building ahead of me, hoping to protect me I guess. Oni-chan can be so sweet...

I heard the gun go off and several of the Things inside hiss with pain and rage. I bounded into the building to help. Touya went right, and I went left.

He used the gun, and stakes, and his knife. I used my sword. Slashing as many of them as I could. I had also gotten so much better when using that sword, thanks to Touya. In what felt like hours, we had gotten rid of most of the vampires. At least the ones who didn't run.

We had the rest backed into a corner. That is when another one entered the building, and we didn't notice.

"Well, you two are at it again?" A cold female voice hissed. "I should have thought of this happening after you discovered my newest club, that I had to open because that idiot went and disgraced me at my one in Tokyo, but now you come and kill everyone?!" the voice shreiked. "Why don't I get rid of the one that taught this little girl!"

Touya and I didn't have time to react, for the statement above was said very fast. Right after that, Touya was slammed to the ground, so hard it knocked him out.

"Oni-chan!" I screamed and turned to face the one who did that. I found that I could only move my head.

"Sakura...I will feed off of you, and then kill your brother, so you won't have to watch him die!" the female vampire purred.

I felt her in my mind...I knew she was there because I was feeling relaxed suddenly. A blanked of darkness fell over my eyes, my ears stoped working. I had fallen asleep. Dimly through the darkness, and fuzziness of my ears, I head a door crash open.

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OOOHHHH! I am in suspense!!! Even I want to know what happens, for I haven't written the chapie after this. So ja ne!