the Tail Tale

Chapter: 3

By: Cobalt-eyedAngel

Here's a small passage from last chapter, because it continues right where I left off.

"What do you mean?" Sakura snapped, still glaring hard at him.

He returned the glare fully, but Sakura wouldn't back down. "I'm keeping you."

Her glare slipped and she was confused yet again. "Huh?"

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"You lost my specimens, so you will have to do." Syaoran said. He pushed her to another glass container, that was slightly bigger than the last and he pushed a few buttons in the control pad. It made a swooshing sound, and Sakura saw with horrified eyes as water filled it.

It took all her might not to cry, but she promised herself she wouldn't cry in front of him. He easily climbed the ladder, and lifted them both onto the small platform that was positioned at the top.

He placed her into it and closed the top.

He climbed off the ladder and watched her closely. A soft pink glow surrounded her lower half, and the long porcelain legs slowly turned tanner. Until, finally, the tan soon turned to a dark peach, which soon after turned to a rosy pink. Whenever she moved, even the slightest bit, tiny specks of gold seemed to appear on her fin.

It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. A part of him wondered if it was just her, but his mind quickly argued back that he had never seen a mermaid transform. When he had found Eriol and Tomoyo, they were already mermaids and they had just kept them weight and transported them to the laboratory in a water tank.

Sakura let the lab coat float to the top and her long auburn traces covered most of her chest. She stared at Syaoran staring at her. The both let their faces become monotone.

Syaoran couldn't help but feel a guilt pang into his chest when he saw such a beautiful creature as Sakura, trapped in a water tank.

"Stop that." Sakura said.

"Stop what?" Syaoran asked.

"Stop that!"

"What?!"

"Stop staring at me!"

You're staring at me."

"I don't have much else to do." Sakura said with coldness entering her voice.

"Neither do I."

"You don't live here, do you?"

"Of course not."

"Then, can't you leave or something?"

"I don't feel like it."

"Baka..." Sakura muttered finding an interest in her hands as she lifted them slightly trying to distrac herself from those intense amber eyes.

"You know Japanese?" Syaoran asked with slight amusement.

"Of course." Sakura still wouldn't look at him.

"How?"

"I know most languages from around Europe and Asia, old and new." Sakura explained, and she had no idea why. He would just use the information against her someday.

"How come Eriol and Tomoyo don't know as much as you?" Syaoran asked, for once finding information about someone and not taking notes or keeping a mental note.

"Are they you're friends?" She barked suddenly.

"What- who?" Syaoran asked confused, but not showing it.

"Eriol and Tomoyo, did they give you permission to call them by their first names?" Sakura asked looking him straight in the eye now.

"No, but I don't know their last names."

"Figures..." Sakura huffed. "I won't talk to you about them, don't even say their names."

"Fine."

"Fine!"

"When they," Syaoran started and Sakura glared because he talked about the exact thing she DIDN'T want to talk about. "talked about you, they said you were nice and caring. But to me you seem spoiled and stubborn."

"Reminds me of a dear old friend of mine." Sakura said sarcastically.

"Well, night." Syaoran said and turned around to his desk. He gathered a few things and deposited then into his briefcase and grabbed his coat.

"Wait! Where are you going?" Sakura asked frightened. She hated this man with all her being, but she certainly didn't want to be all alone in a huge building all by herself.

Syaoran resisted the urge to smile, he turned to face her. "I'm going home. Is there a problem?"

Sakura gulped afraid to say anything. Ok, she could handle this. She had slept out in the ocean by herself a lot of times. Even out in the middle of nowhere. But in this small freshwater tank, with the hum of the cleaner on the side, she felt really lonely and scared.

"You know what," Syaoran tried to make it sound like he was talking to himself, but he was full aware of Sakura listening. "I'm not done, I have tons of paperwork due to the University and it's already morning, I'll just take a quick nap."

Sakura sighed relieved and Syaoran set his briefcase back on his desk. Why was he doing this for her? The question bothered him so much. Why would he stay and sleep on his desk just so Sakura wouldn't feel lonely?

Sakura lay herself on the bottom of the tank, and exhaustion filled her. Her eyes fluttered closed and her breathing became easy.

Syaoran took a seat in his chair and pulled a spare blanket he kept there, incase the occasional full-workload day. He settled himself, with his feet propped up on his desk and watched Sakura.

He couldn't help but notice her rising and falling chest. And all of a sudden he had this weird urge to wrap his arms around her tiny waist and kiss her hard and full on the lips. He had an urge to crush her to his chest and fell her chest on his, and run his hands through her hair, to see if it was as silky as it looked.

'Whoa, what am I thinking?!'

Author's Note- Ok, I have a question. Are you allowed to write only author notices? Instead of another chapter, can you just write a notice to tell ur reviewers about delayed stuff? Review!