BLEEDING ANGEL

AN: I do not own Card Captor Sakura

Chapter 10

The girl let her blade glide through the air in one smooth stroke and the tip ripped through black-brown skin exposing deep pink flesh. The beast growled in pain and anger at her and she jumped at it.

Something caught my attention from the corner of my eye and I turned to find a beast launching itself at me. Unhurried I lifted my sword from my side and in one split second its head laid severed on the dark ground. I looked at the dead black eyes staring up at me and I got a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Someone is looking through their eyes. Someone is looking through these things eyes at us. At me. I turned to look at the girl and found her making a scene about her new shirt which was now beyond saving with any kind of bleach. She mumbled something about Jic and washing powder.

At the girl.

They are all coming for the girl, no one else. I kicked the head so its eyes face the other way and looked at the area surrounding us. In the dark I could make out black eyes slightly reflecting the light from the crystals around our necks. Ten or more pairs of eyes, all looking at us, all watching our every move. Observing our every detail and detailing our every…

"Sakura." She didn't hear me and continued to mope about that silly shirt. "Sakura."

"What?"

"What ever you do, do not attack it."

"What? Are you mad? I don't want to be eaten or what ever." I took a step back closer to the girl and I felt my arm bump against her shoulder, my eyes continuously fixed on the beasts around us. I sensed her looking up at me, her eyes followed my line of sight and she squinted into the darkness.

There was no way her human eyes could see what I saw, what I was looking at. We were surrounded by ten, maybe more. Probably more, I couldn't tell really, but I sensed it some how. They were watching us, waiting. But for what? And for who?

"Syaoran." Her faint voice drifted to my ears and I became aware of the girl slightly clutching my arm with both her hands and her body pressed close to mine. She called me my earth name. She hardly ever calls me my earth name, always Li. I slipped my arm around her waist and pulled her against me, my eyes drifting back up at the beasts.

I clenched my jaw as I locked eyes with one. Intelligence flickered behind that black glossy layer and I knew my suspicions were correct. Someone was looking through their eyes, using their bodies, giving them orders.

But I was not about to surrender Sakura to them.

Never.

The crystals lit up and the room's contents became more detailed. It was a modest home for a family. I glanced at the hologram projecting an image of a man and a girl smiling brightly at us. Next to it was another hologram of a pretty woman with a small caring smile gracing her features. The owners of the house.

The girl came down the stairs carrying two shirts. She tossed me one and continued to pull her bloody one off her body. She groaned when her skin held a slight colour of blood which had soaked through her shirt and clung to her skin. She walked to the bathroom and I followed her.

She washed the blood of her skin with a wet cloth and paused when she couldn't find anymore on her front. "Is there any on my back?"

"Yeah." I took the cloth from her and whipped the dry blood from her smooth skin. My eyes trailed down the details of her back and shoulders. The cloth and my hand ran around the edge of the strap running across her back. My eyes drifted to our reflection in the mirror and I found her emeralds staring at me.

Her hands rested on the basin as she leaned her weight onto it. Her chest rose and fell with each steady breath and her hair hung in a mixture of wet and dry mess around her face. Her eyes never left my reflection. "Done?" She took the cloth from my hand and rinsed it under the tap. She turned to me. "Come on, take it off. You're a mess."

I obediently took off my shirt and sat down on the bath's edge, allowing her to wash the dry blood from my skin. She rinsed the cloth for the third time as I listened to the sound of running water as my eyes bore into the white floor. Her fingers brushed under my chin as she tilted my face up.

Our eyes met and she grinned at me as she whipped some blood from my face. She giggled slightly. "You're all stubbly."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah." She leaned closer as she whipped my cheek with the wet cloth. Her fingers lightly brushed against my skin. She seemed slightly lost as she searched my eyes for something. My hand rose up and met her cheek. She closed her eyes as she surrendered to my touch.

My thumb traced the lines of her full moist lips and her warm breath played on my skin. Grinning slightly I leaned in, closer to her, closer to what I have wanted for such a long time. I watched her face, pretty and flushed.

I closed my eyes as my lips brushed against hers.

AN: Hello people!

I hope this was worth the long wait. It better be, because this is the third time I rewrote this chapter and this time around it is way different and in my opinion way better than the first attempts. I was between the bark and the tree when it came to the little romantic scene. I didn't know whether is should put it in or not. In the end I did. I thought that it's a small break from all the violence.

Plus! He finally kissed her!!! It took like 9 chapters to get there, but Xiao-lang finally kissed Sakura. Hallelujah! Ha-ha!

Thank you for all the reviews

Tella