A/N: 4 chapters in 1 update! Hurrah! I was wrong about earlier. (you never can tell when you'll actually be able to post sometimes ^^;) Anyways, a longer chapter for you people who like long chapters! 4 pages according to my computer! Anyways, I'll say it here so I don't have to at the end R/R please! After you read review! ^_^ thankyou all my readers!
Chapter 13- Sakura & Syaoran
I woke up in my bed. I didn't know at all how I got there. But for an instant, I saw amber eyes looking at me warmly. But when I tried to take a closer look they were gone.
"How did I get back here?" I asked myself. I noticed the sword was still clutched in my fist. "Hoe?"
I tried to think back to what happened after Touya was slammed to the floor. I remembered being held in that sleep-like state, and dimly hearing a door crash open. After that, all was blank, probably because I had been unconcious. Dimly, I thought I could remember at one point being carried gently, although it felt like I was no big weight at all. Arms that seemed warm, but cold too. I shook my head to clear it.
Then I remembered Touya.
"Oni-chan!" I hollered, bounding out of bed and to his room. I banged open the door. He was sitting up in bed, with a confused look. Must have been feeling the same way I was. "Daijoubu?!" I asked frantically, and ran to his side. Luckly, Otou-san was out on another trip for his job.
"Hai." Touya answered
"Are you sure?" I insisted.
He nodded, while rubbing his head. "Yeah, Just have a headache. Tomarrow, night we have to go back."
I nodded myself. "I agree. We have to find out who saved us for one thing, and we have to finish the job we started."
I really didn't want to go back, but it had to be done. I looked out the window at the rising sun. School today, but no school tomarrow. At least tonight Touya and myself would be able to stay out late enough to cleanse the city some more of the vampires. Especially since, more people have been found dead, and empty of blood.
That night...
Touya and I left at sunset. We already knew that the vampire night club we had found, had burnt down and the owner (the one who attacked us after we had killed most of the people in there) was found dead. One less monster to worry about. I don't like thinking that way, but I have to if I am ever going to be able to kill the one who killed my mother, or at least try to. I am not too sure if I want to kill. I headed out to the last place we saw Yue. I have been for the past three weeks. Touya had gone to another part of town, where he knew he would find more vampires, that were considerably powerful, and that had to be eliminated. He didn't want me trying Things like that yet. Oni-chan is really caring.
Syaoran
I didn't go to school. Not because I didn't have the energy, I had plenty of that, but because I just didn't want to. I wanted to stay in the dark apartment, with my father. He was helping my emotions. Just being near him and in his embrace. He was coming hunting with me again. I wanted him too.
We had gone back to the school area. I don't know why. Mabye because it is an ideal hunting ground. We were in luck. Two people coming out late. One was Chiharu, I belive, and the other was Yamazaki. But...they were Sakura's friends. NO! I cannot love her, and I decided that I wouldn't treat people that she likes special.
"Otou-san, here comes prey," I stated.
Yue nodded.
"Chiharu...Yamazaki," I called.
"Li-kun?" Yamazaki questioned and peered into the shadows where I was standing, with Yue. He and Chiharu walked over.
"Li-kun, who is that?" Chiharu questioned, gesturing to Yue.
"My father," I answered simply. This was getting ridiculous. Come closer...I whispered to her mind.
"Syaoran, I think I will leave you to this. I am going to find older prey. I think you can handle it by yourself though," Yue told me.
"Alright."
Yue left. So much for the hunting together. Oh well, I felt like hunting alone anyways. And now I had two people in my power.
I grabbed Chiharu by the shoulder and then bent her head over. It felt...wrong doing this. Sakura would be sad. But I had too! I was a vampire so there we go! It had to be done! I was out in full sunset. There was still enough light to be seen. I had Yamazaki slumped against a wall.
I bent over and my fangs peirced the skin of Chiharu's neck.
"Monster! Leaver her alone!"
I jerked my head up, causing Chiharu's blood to splatter down my front and down my chin. Not to mention the blood trickling from the puncters in Chiharu's neck. I ignored the person behind me, and began drinking again.
"I said. LEAVE HER ALONE!"
This time I heard the whirling of a blade through the air. I whipped around to glare at the hunter who had caught me here.
The girl dropped the sword suddenly. Sakura.
"S-syaoran?" she said faintly, using my first name. "No..y-you can't be one of those...those things. No..."
I nodded coldly, while inside, it felt like I was being torn apart.
Sakura
This couldn't be true. My head was whirling. Syaoran, I used his first name, so might as well keep using his first name, Syaoran was one of the damned? A vampire? He looked so unlike himself, standing there, with blood dripping down his chin, and splattered across his shirt from when I startled him. In the setting sun, he looked paler than I ever saw him before.
Then I remembered. The first time I met him, when he came to dinner. He had blood running down his chin. He didn't eat anything during dinner, he kept sending Oni-chan looks of hatred, and then there was the one he sent me that first day. Also the fact that his skin felt like ice, and that he kept missing school.
"No...you...for how long?" I asked weakly. I felt my knees give way and I hit the concrete.
Syaoran stayed where he was. But he answered me. "I have been this way for so long, I lost count of the years. My best guess would be five hundred or six hundred years."
Five or six hundred years?! (a/n: I just like those numbers, so that is why Syaoran is so old, k? ^_^)
I couldn't bring myself to try and get up. It would have been impossible anyways. "So, you killed Hoshi-sensei?" I asked.
He nodded. I figured since there had been blood running down his chin the night Hoshi-sensei was found dead. "And you tried to kill Naoko?"
Another nod. He looked so cold and indifferent. It tore me apart to see him like that. I felt tears welling up in my eyes. I loved him...but he was a vampire. Then a sudden thought poped into my head.
"Syaoran, you've known me longer than this haven't you?" I asked.
He nodded slowly. "When you were three."
No...not this too! He couldn't have! "And...you knew my mother also didn't you?"
Another nod. "I knew Nadeshiko Kinomoto. So did my father. We both knew her well, for she tried to kill us many times. But we..." he paused like he really didn't want to complete that.
But I understood. I knew now. "You...killed my mother," I said empty of emotion. I was beyond everything. Everything was just falling apart inside.
"I did."
"How can you be so emotionless about it?! You and your kind are so emotionless it makes me sick!" I hollered suddenly, angry for no reason. I had bounded up to my feet.
I must have hit a sore spot, for a light flared up in Syaoran's amber eyes. And I think he lashed out at something with his power, for the concrete around him cracked suddenly.
"You think we are emotionless?" He hissed quietly, walking slowly towards me. "How would you know?" His voice was filled with anger, but still managed to sound so cold. "How would you know what I go through in my head? You want to know how emotionless I am? I love my father, with all my heart, and my feelings for you have kept me from killing you! And from killing your brother! Because of you, I have been not myself! And because of you and your damn emralde eyes, I have been confused for the past weeks I came back here. Because of my feelings for you! Kinomoto Sakura, I LOVE YOU! Got it?!" He finished the last part in a shout.
This brought even more confusion to me. I was speechless. I had finally met the murderer of my mother, but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of him. He just told me he loved me....a vampire loved a human. We were silent. He glared at me with a look of extreme anger, but also something softer underneath it. While I was just blank.
"You want to know something else?" He asked quietly. "I carried you and your brother home from that vampire night club. I killed Ashi, the owner, for trying to hurt you."
"Syaoran...I-"
"No. Just stop. I don't need anymore of this. I will have otou-san help me to forget y-"
"Syaoran listen! I...think I can l-"
He cut me off again, by suddenly jerking backwards. "Otou-san!" He whispered urgently.
"Syaoran, what is it?" I asked, stepping closer to him.
"You are coming with me to deal with this!" He shouted and we vanished from the spot.
Who could his father be? Don't think like that Sakura! What I want to know more is...why does he love me so much? Especially, when I find myself loving him back. I hoped, even though his father was also a vampire, that Syaoran's father was alright.
