BLEEDING ANGEL

AN: I do not own Card Captor Sakura

Chapter 11

Warm breath teased me unconsciously and soft skin brushed against my body as I watched the girl turn in her sleep. Her slender fingers twitched slightly on my naked chest and she moaned slightly when I brushed hair from her beautiful sleeping face.

The peace on her face made it clear that she was lost in a world of her own. I found myself smiling down at the girl asleep on me. Her full glossy lips were slightly parted, allowing her warm breath to tease my sense of touch and her thick lashes lay on rosy cheeks. She curled slightly closer to me and my smile grew.

I never wanted this moment to end.

I was lost, lost within her. Lost within the sensation of her small curvy body half on and half resting against me. I was lost within the teasingly wonderful pleasure of her warm breath playing on my skin and her small hand unconsciously grabbing for mine.

I sighed. To have found such peace, such happiness at such a time and in a stranger's home… I would have never thought it. When we entered the house, we came to free ourselves of the of the beats' constant gaze upon us. Their eyes never left us as we made our way through the city. That sickening feeling of intelligence behind those black eyes never left me, only now I didn't feel it as much. I was with her.

The city…

My gaze shifted from the sleeping girl to the closed windows and locked shutters. We had decided that the best thing to have done was to look around the immediate houses surrounding the palace. I wanted my people to be safe; she refused to leave my side. Maybe she knew, about tonight. Maybe…

We have killed a number of beasts on our way through the dark empty streets with the crystals lighting our way. My racing heart always caught in my throat every time she faced one while I was preoccupied with another. Each time she would win. Each time she would secure her life for a few more moments with the slash of her sword or the flick of her knife.

My fingers brushed through her now loose, soft hair. I silently marvelled at the silky texture and its amazing length. Yet, I somehow missed the short bob complementing a pretty girl face. I grinned when I looked at her once more. No, she's not a little girl anymore. She's a beautiful grow woman and her hair has also taken on the role.

If I am forever cursed after the night we have spent together, then so be it. Bit I finally got to taste her. I finally got to feel her skin against mine. I was finally able to tease her and to please her and she never once asked me to stop.

By the Angel, how I have longed and ached for her all these years and finally.

Finally…

One of the crystals flickered slightly and it reminded me of the candles some humans used on earth. Darkness flooded through under the crack of the door and it will for the next three days and one night.

It's the holy month. Every year the planet I drenched in the darkness for three days and two nights. The new year is symbolised with the rising of the three moons across the dark sky. Ending of the old, beginning of the new. This year was the Year of Rebirth if I am not mistaken and the next is the Year of the Angel.

The year of Rebirth…

A loud knock snapped me back to reality and both the girl and I sat up straight with swords in our hands. "Hey! If there is someone in there, please open up!" I knew that voice.

I pulled on my pants and in the corner of my eye I could see the girl hastily dress herself. She nodded at me as she pulled her hair into a ponytail and brought the tips up and fastened it as well to half the length. I opened the door to find three bodies blinking against the light of the room flooding the street.

"Xiao-lang?!"

"Yes Meiling?" I looked down at the tracker's amazed face and turned to the other two. It was Eriol and his fiancé, Tomoyo I think. He had a grin plastered all over that stupid face of his while his fiancé was casually leaning to one side and smiling to the girl. Meiling followed their gaze and she too grinned at the sight of the girl. "Hope we didn't interrupt something."

"Only my sleep." The girl growled slightly. "Are you going to let the beasts jump them before you let them in or what?" I swallowed the smile threatening to break upon my lips. She was annoyed as hell and I had a pretty good idea why. And let's just say, it was not because of a lack of sleep.

She had awoken only a few minutes before and her fingers tracing the lines on my chest were doing all the talking I needed. "You dog." I heard Meiling say at me and I looked down at the tracker as I closed the door. "Finally got what you want did you?"

"Not everything."

She grinned at me. "You always want more."

"I want everything."

"So what are you guys doing out in the city?" The girl's voice broke through Meiling's and my conversation and we both looked at her as she sat down with Tomoyo on the coach we have been laying on.

"We could ask you the same."

AN: Okay, first part was still mushy nonsense, but we are back into the action people!!! (It's like my brother said, there is no story in the world without a little romance.) The next upcoming chapters are going to be filled with thrills, shrills, hate, love, angst and excitement.

I will leave it to you to decide what Xiao-lang and Sakura actually did during the night slash morning, you have imaginations after all and I am not into writing about stuff like that.

HAPPY RECONCILIATIONS DAY SOUTH AFRICA!!!

(16 December 2004)

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Tella