Sorry! Sorry! Sorry, for the long delay but finally it is here Chapter 10!! Yay!! I hit double digits and thanks for all the lovely reviews, thank you! Thank you!

Disclaimer: I wish I owe CCS and Charlie's Angel but I don't.

Syaoran's Angels

Chapter 10: Seeing Red

Marcus grinned down at Meiling and hugged her tightly.

"Wow," he said.

"Wow," she agreed.

Without thinking their faces inched closer together again and they kissed once more.

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Diana giggled helplessly as Sakura relayed their encounter with Belinda back to Chelsea and Zachary.

"I can still picture the look on her face when... whe... when..." Diana managed to sputter before breaking down into a helpless fit of laughter.

Chelsea laughed along with her as well as Sakura smiled coolly at them and sipped her drink.

"Well, you certainly have changed," Zachary noted.

"Thank you," Sakura grinned at him.

"You look great!" Chelsea beamed at her.

Sakura smiled and nodded.

"Of course I do," she said smugly, "So do you."

Chelsea laughed as Diana looked around the room. Seeing Belinda scowling at them from the corner of the nightclub, she smirked before turning back to her friends. Her ears pricked up as Zachary asked Sakura a question.

"So what do you do now?" he asked curiously.

"Me?" Sakura blinked at him.

There was a slight pause.

"I'm a stripper," she said seriously.

Everybody gaped at her. Sakura grinned impishly before sipping her drink.

"I'm joking for gods sake!" she laughed, "So what do you guys do?"

"Lawyer," Diana said proudly.

Sakura beamed at her.

"Congratulations!" she squealed pulling her friend into a hug, "I knew you would make it someday!"

"Hey, what about me? Aren't I important?" Zachary asked teasingly.

Sakura turned to him.

"Of course you are," she grinned at him, "What do you do?"

Chelsea beamed up lovingly at her husband.

"He's one of the rising stars in an international corporation," she told them proudly.

Zachary blushed as Diana and Sakura giggled.

"What corporation?" Sakura asked.

"You probably haven't heard of it," Zachary told them, "I work for Spinnel Corporation. It's a business company."

Diana wasn't quite sure but she was certain that Sakura seemed to freeze for a while when she heard the name of Zachary's company. The moment passed and Sakura smiled at him before teasing him gently about his job.

"Come on let's hit the dance floor," she grinned at Chelsea and Diana.

"I don't know..." Chelsea began.

Zachary grinned at her and hugged her around the waist leading his wife onto the dance floor as the other two girls followed. Diana grinned hearing the whistles of approval as Sakura began dancing again.

She grinned at her friend as she began dancing as well. Suddenly she blinked realizing something.

Why didn't Sakura tell us what she does for a living? she wondered.

Her instincts told her that Sakura was hitting something.

But what?

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Lily absently stuffed a handful of popcorn into her mouth and chewed slowly her eyes glued onto the movie screen oblivious to her surroundings.

Tomoyo grinned at the little girl before focusing her attention up onto the screen trying desperately to ignore the man sitting beside her who was obviously staring at her instead of the screen.

She fidgeted nervously as Eriol continued to stare at her.

"Lily, pass the popcorn," she whispered to the little girl sitting beside her.

Absently Lily passed the box as Tomoyo suddenly became very interested in the way that the butter was soaking through the cardboard. Nervously she sneaked a glance at Eriol who continued to look at her.

"Want popcorn?" she whispered shoving the box at him hoping to stop him from staring.

"No thanks," he whispered back.

Silence reigned again between them, she tried to distract herself by staring up at the screen but somehow the normally soothing antics of anime characters did little to distract her from the man sitting beside her.

She shifted uncomfortably and shoved a handful of popcorn into her mouth wishing that Eriol would stop looking at her like that.

Like you're the most beautiful woman on earth? a little voice inside her head asked suddenly.

Well, it's unnerving Tomoyo told the voice.

Rightttttt... the voice drawled That's why you feel flattered and embarrassed like a schoolgirl..

Shut up Tomoyo firmly told the voice.

Fine the voice snapped.

Tomoyo thought she heard the sound of a door swinging shut and to her immense relief the voice was no more.

"Why am I talking to myself?" she wondered.

"What?" Eriol asked.

"Nothing," Tomoyo whispered back.

Tomoyo fidgeted nervously again and peered up at the screen. She glanced at her watch and sighed.

One more hour to go...

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Zachary smiled at his wife's antics as she danced beside him, winking at her husband. Looking past his wife's shoulders he saw Sakura and Diana, the latter groaning as more men flocked around the auburn-haired girl who seemed oblivious to her admirers.

"Well, Cherry seems to be enjoying herself," Chelsea grinned as a slow romantic love song came on.

"Care to dance?" Zachary asked her with a smile.

"I'd love to."

Chelsea leaned against her husband as they swayed to the music. Sakura and Diana by now had moved off the dance floor and walked over to the bar for another drink. They were laughing at something Diana had said as Sakura grinned brightly as the bartender getting his attention.

"It's Sakura now," Zachary reminded her gently.

"Yeah, I forgot," Chelsea continued to watch their two friends as Sakura chatted to the bartender as Diana looked on with a small smirk on her face.

"She's changed," Zachary commented.

Chelsea nodded.

"And yet she's still the same," she noted.

Zachary smiled at her as the couple continued to dance. Chelsea's eyes drifted over to the doorway and she stiffened.

"Honey, what is it?" Zachary asked concerned.

Chelsea looked at him and glared towards the door.

"Dan," she spat.

Diana looked up casually and stiffened seeing who was now walking into the bar.

"Dan..." she growled.

Sakura looked at her confused.

"Did you say something?" she asked curiously.

Diana pasted a smile onto her face and shook her head. Sakura shrugged and continued chatting to the man sitting next to her who was having slight problems actually participating in the conversation since he was staring at her so much.

Dan... how dare you come! You stupid... Diana cursed viciously in her head as she glared at the tall, blonde-haired man standing in the doorway who was sending arrogant grins at everyone as a willowy, blonde-haired girl wearing a skimpy mini-skirt, who was obviously his date, clung to his arms.

Dan Williams, star quarterback of the Los Angeles High School Football Team of 1998.

Dan Williams, the French hunk with blonde hair, blues eyes and perfect white teeth.

Dan Williams, the breaker of hearts and the object of every high school girl's inner fantasies.

Dan Williams, the most popular guy in school

Dan Williams, the arrogant, heartless tormentor of the so-called 'nerds' and 'geeks'.

Dan Williams who took it upon himself to make Sakura's time at school a living hell.

Dan Williams, Sakura's arch nemesis.

"God damn son of a..." Diana whispered.

The last time she had heard of Dan, he a CIA agent or something who was working for the government on some top-secret case. And she'd only come across this little bit of information when she was examining some government files that had been related to one of her cases.

Mentally she rolled her eyes. Knowing Dan, he probably loved being a CIA agent, probably thought he was James Bond or something...

"Loser," she muttered rolling her eyes.

Sakura flashed a final grin at the man she was talking to and turned back to Diana.

"Loser?" she echoed, "Who's a loser?"

"It's nothing," Diana reassured her with a small smile.

Sakura looked at her strangely and smiles seeing Zachary twirl Chelsea around on the dance floor.

"I'm jealous," she announced.

"Of what?" Diana frowned.

Sakura was beautiful and definitely had a lot of admirers why would she be jealous of anyone?

"Well, Chelsea and Zachary have each other and what do I have?" Sakura answered her own question, "Absolutely no one."

Diana sighed along with her friend.

"I know how you feel," she commented, "Alone and no one in my horizon."

Sakura winked at her.

"How about us two spinsters go check out the cute guys hanging around the dance floor?" she grinned devilishly.

Diana laughed as grabbed her friend's hands.

"Well, if you put it like that..."

The two girls weaved around the busy club and walked onto the dance floor totally oblivious to the fact that a pair of amber eyes that were staring straight at Sakura in devilish glee.

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Meiling laughed as Marcus nuzzled her neck. The two were seating on the couch by now and had been doing so for the last two hours as they chatted about random things trying to get to know each other better.

"So let me get this straight," Marcus told her amusement dancing in his eyes, "Tomoyo does all the computer work, Sakura flirts with the guards and you beat up anybody that gets in the way?'

Meiling grinned at him.

"If you put it that way, it seems so easy," she teased.
Marcus looked at her carefully.

"Isn't it?" he asked.

Meiling shook her head, the amusement in her ruby eyes fading.

"No," she said softly.

She continued to stare off into the empty space lost in her own thoughts and memories until Marcus suddenly hugged her.

"What is it?" he asked.

Meiling bit her lip and looked up at him hesitantly.

"It's not always easy, there has been a few times when things went wrong," Meiling shuddered, "the last time thing went really wrong, I got shot in the stomach."

Marcus looked at her in shock.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"I'm alive and here, aren't I?" Meiling asked.

She grinned at him as Marcus smiled crookedly.

"Yeah," his tone suddenly became teasing, "Do you want me to have a look at it?"

As he said this he slipped his hand beneath her shirt.

"When did you become a doctor?" Meiling asked giggling, "I thought you were a lawyer."

"Whoops, my mistake," Marcus smirked.

The two laughed together before silencing each other's laughter with a deep, emotion-filled kiss.

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Lily chattered endlessly not really caring that nobody was talking to her. The little girl skipped beside Tomoyo who was holding her hands tightly making sure she didn't run off into the crowd. Beside them Eriol walked along lost in his own thoughts.

He knew he shouldn't have come but he had been following her again staking out her house when he saw her and that other girl along with a man and a little girl walking into the house. A little later the little girl and Tomoyo had walked out again almost without thinking he had impulsively followed them.

Eriol smiled softly to himself thinking how beautiful she had looked, sitting in the dimness of the cinema with the light from the screen highlighting the silkiness of her hair and skin. He shook his head to get rid of those thoughts.

You're supposed to kill her not love her! he scolded himself.

But ever since that kiss in that nightclub...

Eriol shook himself and wondered why he was bothering to stalk Tomoyo Daidouji, shouldn't he just kill her and collect his money? That's what he usually did.

But this woman is different. She's dangerous. It would be foolish to try and kill her without finding more about her his mind tried to justify what he was doing.

But his heart knew the truth.

He, Eriol Hiragizawa, the cold-blooded, calculating assassin had fallen in love with his quarry, Tomoyo Daidouji.

Damn it.

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Uh oh... Diana winced seeing who was approaching them.

She gestured frantically to Zachary and Chelsea, Zachary looked up and grimaced seeing who it was. Sakura who had her back to the approaching person was oblivious to what was going on.

Chelsea looked around trying to figure out a plan quickly, her eyes suddenly lit up as she saw something but by then it was too late...

"Cherry," an arrogant voice said somewhat too loudly.

Sakura whirled around and looked up seeing who it was.

"Oh, it's you," with that she turned back around to Diana.

Taking one look at Dan, Diana could tell that he was slightly drunk judging by his flush cheeks and the slightly dazed look in his eyes.

"Hey, you look at me when I'm talking to you!" Dan snarled grabbing Sakura's arm and yanking her to him.

Sakura sent the drunken man a dirty look and yanked herself out of his grip.

"I don't think so," she said coldly, "Come on Diana, let's go."

Before Diana could respond Sakura sent one last furious glare at Dan who smiled foolishly and stormed off. Diana quickly followed.

"She likes me," Dan slurred with an arrogant smirk on his face.

Chelsea growled under her breath and would have done something drastic if Zachary hadn't held her back.

Too bad Dan was too drunk to realise that Sakura didn't feel the same way.

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"I. Don't. Believe. Him," Sakura spat plonking herself down onto one of the stools, "That arrogant... pig!"

Sakura gestured for the barkeeper to fix her a drink as Diana arched an eyebrow seeing her friend's explosive reaction. In high school, Sakura had take all of Dan's teasing and tormenting in meek silence never daring to stand up for herself and go up against the awesome might of Dan Williams, the prince of Los Angeles High School.

But now...

She looked ready to beat him into a bloody pulp.

"Sakura, calm down. He didn't do anything..." Diana paused and added, "That was too bad."

Sakura shot her an incredulous look.

"Too bad?!" she asked.

Diana shrugged.

"Compared to the others things he has done to you..." she trailed off.

Sakura nodded sadly as the barkeeper set down a drink in front of her.

"You're right," she took a deep breath, "But I'm not the same anymore. I'm not going to just stand there and let him make fun of me again. I'm not!"

She punctuated her sentence by swallowing half of her drink before setting her glass down and glared at Dan who was now dancing with his blonde girlfriend.

"He touches me again and there'll be hell to pay."

Diana looked at her friend's angrily face and half-wished that Dan would try something.

She had a feeling if he did, he would spend the rest of the night in a hospital bed.

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Tomoyo fidgeted nervously with her straw as she glanced around the small ice-cream shop trying to find something to distract her. Lily sat beside her, happily working her way through an ice-cream sundae. Eriol sat across from them studying Tomoyo intently, his own milkshake standing forgotten on the table between them.

"So... how's your business going?" Tomoyo asked breaking the silence.

"Business?" Eriol asked blinking in confusion.

Tomoyo stared at him.

"You are a businessmen... aren't you?"

Eriol frowned for a minute before remembering the lie he had told her last time. The confusion slipped away from his face to be replaced by a charming smile.

"Of course, of course!" he said with false cheerfulness, secretly congratulating himself for another multi-awarding winning performance, "Sorry, it's been such a long time since I've worked and I've been enjoying my holiday."

"Not working?" Tomoyo asked puzzled, "It's everything okay?"

"Yes of course," Eriol's smile remained on his face, "It's just that I've been working for the company for well over eight years and I decided I needed a short break."

"Oh," Tomoyo fell silent again.

Lily remained oblivious to her Aunt Tomoyo's nervousness and continued to spoon ice cream into her mouth giggling in pleasure as she licked her spoon clean. Tomoyo grinned at the little girl, glad for the distraction.

"Who is she?" Eriol asked curiously looking at Lily, "Is she your niece?"

Tomoyo smiled affectionately at the little girl and stroked her hair gently.

"No, her father is a good friend of mine," she smiled wickedly thinking of Meiling and Marcus.

Meiling had been furious when Tomoyo had suggested taking Lily out to the movies knowing full well that Meiling had to stay behind alone with Marcus in order to stave off any further possible attacks. Tomoyo hid a snigger as she pictured Meiling's angry glare in her mind's eye.

"Are you just friends?" Eriol asked half-dreading the answer.

Eriol wondered briefly why he even cared. But even he knew what was that burning sensation overpowering his body and mind, it was jealousy. Nobody had the right to touch his Tomoyo aside from...

Wait a minute...

His?!

Tomoyo flushed realising he must have misinterpreted her wicked smile.

"No! No! No, we're just friends," she stammered hot and bothered.

Eriol had the grace to blush as well and put a comforting hand over hers. Looking into her lavender eyes, he smiled charmingly.

"I'm glad."

"Excuse me?" Tomoyo asked puzzled.

By now Lily was watching the two adults intently.

"I'm glad you're just friends," Eriol sent her a smile chocked full of flirty goodness.

Tomoyo stared at him for a while not understanding what he was getting at. Then it hit her.

"Oh..." she blushed brightly, "Oh."

"You're cute when you blush, you know that?" Eriol asked with a teasing grin.

Tomoyo's blush deepened.

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For the first time in their lives, they were doing exactly the same thing. For the first time in their lives, they agreed on one matter.

Dan Williams was a scumbag.

Sakura glared at him, contempt causing her emerald eyes to almost glow in the dim lights of the nightclub. If looks could kill Dan would have been rotting in the very bowels of hell.

Belinda glared at Dan hating the fact that he was dancing with his so-called girlfriend when he should have been dancing with her, the Prom-Queen of '98, the head of the cheerleaders that used to cheer him on at every game, his ex-girlfriend.

"Two-timing scum," she growled under her breath.

Sakura narrowed her eyes at him as Dan glanced at her giving her a wicked wink. He grinned at her as Sakura gritted her teeth and resisted to urge to go up to him and reconfigure his face with a well-deserved punch.

"Chill, Sakura," Chelsea gripped her arm gently, "It's only Dan being Dan, no point in killing someone over it."

Sakura managed to smile at her old friend.

"I'll try," she promised with an impish grin.

Chelsea breathed a sigh of relief and thanked god that Sakura had calmed down slightly and was no longer plotting to kill or maim Dan. Diana sent Chelsea a grateful look and breathed a sigh of relief as well. Sakura reverted back to her normal cheerful self and continued to catch up with her old high school friends as Belinda who was still studying Dan decided to make her move.

"Hey, Danny," Belinda gave him her most brilliant smile using her old nickname for him.

Dan peered drunkenly at her and frowned in confusion.

"Wha... what? Wh... who?" he slurred swaying on his feet slightly.

"It's Belinda," Belinda gritted her teeth as she sent a warning glare at Dan's blond girlfriend daring her to say a word.

Wisely the girl didn't say anything.

"Who?" Dan asked confused.

"Your old girlfriend. Hello? Remember me?" Belinda growled.

Dan blinked in confusion and peered at her.

"Bel... Belinda?" he asked himself.

Suddenly he laughed.

"Oh, the blonde cow that used to follow me around like a lovesick puppy!"

His girlfriend sniggered as Belinda flushed and gritted her teeth.

"Yes, it's me," she growled.

Seeing that Dan didn't recognise that she was Belinda, she sighed and tried a different tact.

"I see you were talking with Cherry," Belinda said the word Cherry like it had a bitter taste to it.

"Yeah, she was that geek who I used to tease and torment," Dan laughed loudly, "Man, she's a vixen now! I mean, look at her body!"

Chelsea froze as Diana grimaced.

They exchanged worried glances.

"Uh oh," Chelsea murmured.

Zachary who was standing on the other side of the club talking to some of his old friends also winced slightly hearing Dan's drunken outburst.

Sakura gritted her teeth and began seeing red... literally. She glared at Dan with vicious hatred burning in her eyes as her hand slowly slid across the bar groping for a weapon of some kind.

"Okay," Diana grabbed Sakura's arm, "Let's go outside and calm down before you get charged with murder number one."

Against the auburn-haired girls protests, Diana dragged her outside as Chelsea gestured wildly for her husband.

Unfortunately her waves caught Dan's attention. With a burst of laughter, he strode across the bar pushing everybody out of his way.

"Where do you think you're going?" he demanded directing his question to Sakura.

Sakura remained silent seething inwardly as Diana shot her a warning look.

"Answer me!" Dan roared.

"We're going outside," Diana answered for Sakura as she once again tried to drag Sakura outside.

"Hey, nobody goes until I say so!" Dan yelled.

"And why is that so?" Sakura growled, the threat in her voice was unmistakable.

Dan drew himself up.

"Because I'm a CIA agent!" he boasted.

Sakura raised a cool eyebrow.

"Is that the part when I'm supposed to go 'Ooooo..." and swoon?" Sakura asked.

By that time, the whole club went silent as everybody watched the confrontation between High School prince, Dan Williams and school outcast, Cherry/Sakura.

"Don't you dare mock me!" he growled surging forwards.

He raised his hands to slap her. Sakura shoved Diana out of the way and grabbed his hands and twisting into his body, threw him over her shoulders.

She grinned in satisfaction as Dan hit the ground heavily and lay there gasping for breath.

"CIA agents, you're all the same... for god's sake learn some hand-to-hand combat," Sakura clucked her tongue and chuckled slightly, "Come on Di, let's go."

With that she helped her friend up and left the club as somebody began sniggering in the crowd. Soon everybody began laughing and pointing at the winded Dan.

Dan growled in anger and jumped to his feet, his blonde girlfriend shook her head in disgust and left as Dan began roaring about how he would get Cherry back for this.

Nobody believed a word he said.

Not even him.

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"Umm... Sakura? Do you want to talk?" Diana asked her silent friend as they walked out their door

"That... that..." Sakura began hesitantly.

Diana waited patiently.

"Felt good!"

"What?!" Diana yelped looking at her friend in shock.

Sakura grinned at her.

"I got payback for all those years of torment," Sakura sighed and smiled happily, "Damn, payback feels good!"

Diana shook her head and changed the subject.

"So what do you want to do? I don't imagine you would want to go back in there," Diana gestured towards the door.

"You're right," Sakura yawned, "Well, I'm tried and I just came back from a trip so I guess I'll go home and sleep."

Sakura reached into her pockets and got out her car keys as she began to walk off she was stopped as Diana grabbed her hand.

"Do you think that's wise?" Diana asked.

Sakura looked at her friend, confused.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked puzzled.

Diana gave her a look.

"I mean you've been drinking," Diana informed her, "I don't think you should be driving."

Sakura sighed.

"Great, how do I get home then?" Sakura asked knowing her friend would refuse to budge.

Diana smiled.

"I take you home."

"Are you sure you want to?"

"Why not? What are friends for anyway?" Diana asked with a small smile.

Sakura grinned back at her.

"Let's go then."

"Wow, you live there?" Diana asked amazed as she drove down the desolate street, "it's a pretty expensive place."

Sakura merely nodded as she glanced out the windows.

"Hmmm... how can you live there with your stripper salary?" Diana asked with a wicked grin.

Sakura grinned back just as wickedly.

"I'm very good at what I do," she said seriously.

There was a slight pause before both of them dissolved into fits if helpless laughter.

"Seriously, what do you do?" Diana asked.

Once again fate saved Sakura from answering as a black car came screeching out from the shadows and smashed into them.

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Tomoyo smiled to herself as she touched her lips gently remembering the soft kiss they had shared before Eriol had left stating that he had to go home early.

Lily skipped happily in front of her along the footpath as Tomoyo followed. Reaching her front door, Tomoyo unlocked it and pushed it open and could feel a devilish grin spread across the face as she stood there silently observing the scene spread out in front of her.

Marcus Flaron and Meiling Rae were curled up against each other on the couch sharing a very passionate looking kiss.

Lily frowned in confusion and bounded up to her father and her Aunt Meiling.

"Daddy? What are you doing?" she asked confused.

The look on both of their faces was priceless.

"You're back," Marcus said slowly his eyes flicking from Lily to Tomoyo.

"Hi," Tomoyo said with a wicked grin, "Don't mind us, please continue."

Meiling sent her an infamous death glare, which Tomoyo ignored.

"So how was the movie?" Marcus asked seating up slightly.

"We watched Spirited Away!!" Lily said excitedly, "And we ate popcorn and ice-cream!"

"Jeez, she spoiled you didn't she?" Marcus asked with a raise-eyebrow.

Tomoyo smiled back innocently as Lily continued to jump up and down in excitement.

"And then Aunty Tomoyo kissed this blue-haired man!!" Lily continued.

Tomoyo glared at Lily as Meiling's face lit up with a devilish grin.

"Ooo... how is this new guy of yours?" she asked as Tomoyo sighed.

"Okay! Okay! Truce!" Tomoyo held up her hands in surrender.

"Fine," Meiling answered with a grin.

Marcus looked at the clock and turned back to his daughter.

"Come on, it's time for bed," he said getting up.

Lily began pouting.

"Awwww... daddy..." she began.

"Nice try with the cute eyes," Marcus said with a smile, "But you're going to bed."

"The spare room is the second right," Tomoyo called after them cheerfully.

She paused for a minute.

"Meiling's room is on the left," she added wickedly.

"TOMOYO!" Meiling yelled outraged.

"What?"

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Sakura opened her eyes and looked around in confusion.

"Wha... what?" she looked to her left and blanched seeing Diana slumped up against the window.

The back of the car was a total mess with the front of the other car sticking in through the now missing door. With a grimace, Sakura push the door open and stumbled outside.

"Diana?" Sakura whispered, "Diana?"

"Sakura?" Diana opened her eyes slowly.

"Call an ambulance," Sakura told her, "I'll check on the other driver."

Diana nodded wearily and began fishing for her mobile phone. Sakura limped around the car and winced seeing the damage.

The front of the other car was crumpled as it some massive giant had stopped onto it. The windshield had shattered leaving chips of broken glass to capture the light of the nearby street lamp. The back of Diana's car had been crushed by the collision but luckily neither of them had been hurt.

But the other driver...

Sakura stumbled to the other car and peered inside.

Nobody.

"What the?!" Sakura looked around in confusion.

"CRUNCH!"

Instincts took over as Sakura ducked, the person who had been trying to sneak up behind her attacked, attempting to punch her in the back of her head. The fist smashed through the car's windows as Sakura saw something glinting the street lamp's flickering light.

Claws. Long, wicked metal claws.

"Rika!" Sakura whirled around and punched the woman heavily in the stomach.

The woman stumbled backwards as Sakura flipped onto her feet. Diana who was still in the car gasped seeing the blank-eyed woman who was attacking her friend.

"SAKURA!" Diana yelled.

She punched in some numbers on her mobile phone and began talking frantically as Sakura and Rika sparred.

Rika's metal claws sliced the air as Sakura leapt backwards narrowly missing the attack. She launched a quick volley and kicks and punches driving Rika back only to be tagged on the arm. Sakura grimaced as blood dripped down the long scratch on her arm but ignored the pain opting instead to kick Rika in the chest.

The assassin stumbled backwards but recovered quickly grabbing Sakura's foot and dumping her onto the ground. Sakura landed heavily as Rika raised her arm and brought it down, the claws ready and eager to impale her.

Sakura rolled out of the way just in time as the claws hit the pavement making a loud clang as the hard asphalt deflected the metal.

Sakura kicked at Rika's shoulders and leapt up following up with a roundhouse punch to Rika's head.

Rika grabbed her arm and drove her backwards into the car. She pinned Sakura to the side of the car and stare at her with her blank brown eyes.

"Damn it!" Sakura swore as she tried to break free but Rika's iron hard grip refused to budge.

Rika brought her arm up and placed the tip of her metal claws against Sakura's throat.

Sakura closed her eyes and braced herself to feel those wicked claws sink into her neck, she prepared herself for the pain.

"FREEZE!"

What the?

Sakura's eyes flew open and she let out a gasp of relief as she saw a police car parked behind them. Two cops had their guns out and pointed at Rika's back.

"Drop her!" one of them commanded.

Rika looked at them with her blank eyes and let go of Sakura. Sakura sank down to the ground shaking visibly as she thanked god for saving her.

"FREEZE!" one of the policemen yelled.

Rika lunged at him as the gun went off. The bullet shrieked through the air and slammed into Rika's stomach. The assassin's mouth opened in a silent scream as the woman clutched her stomach trying to stop the flow of the blood. With one final last stare at them she ran off into the night vanishing into the shadows.

"Are you alright?" one of the policemen asked running up to her.

Sakura nodded.

"I'm fine," she rasped.

"Who was she?" he questioned.

Sakura shook her head and lied.

"I don't know."

Diana appeared behind the policeman and stared at Sakura in horror.

"You're lucky we were in the area," one of the policemen commented.

"Thanks," Sakura said weakly.

She struggled to her feet as the policeman went off to join his partner. Diana continued to stare at her in shock: she had seen the whole fight.

"What are you?" she murmured.

Sakura had no answer for her.

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It was a little after midnight before Sakura stumbled home. After making sure she aw alright the medics at the scene allowed her to go home. Diana was being treated at the hospital for minor cuts and bruises and shock.

Sakura shuddered remembering Diana's question.

'What are you?' she had murmured in shock.

Sakura shoved that memory into the back of her and made it to her door. It was slightly open frowning in confusion Sakura pushed it fully open and peered inside.

"What the?" she murmured.

The inside it was a mess, it looked as if a struggle had occurred in there. Tables were overturn, chairs were lying on the ground and one of the windows had been smashed allowing a cool breeze to flow into the room.

"Dad?" Sakura yelled frantically, "DAD?"

No answer.

"Daddy?" Sakura murmured stumbling inside.

She limped over to the spare room and peered inside, here the bed had a huge rip in it and the table had been overturned. A stack of photos lay on the ground, seeing it Sakura gasped and limped over to it looking through them.

They were the photos of the relics at her dad's latest archaeological dig.

The ones with the book in it but... but... that was at the Angel's headquarters right now.

Sakura gritted her teeth.

"Spinnel..." she growled.

The Corporation must have found out about her father and his connection to the book. They had kidnapped him.

She clenched her fists as a murderous rage invaded her mind.

She was beyond angry.

She was beyond furious.

A red mist seemed to colour everything she saw, as her emerald eyes seemed to burn with some kind of demonic light.

She was beyond outrage.

She was seeing red.

Someone had to pay.

Someone had to die.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Another cliffhanger!! Don't you just hate me?

Next chapter:

Sakura infiltrates Spinnel Corporation in order to find out the whereabouts of her father as Tomoyo and Meiling find out what happened. As the two girls race to stop Sakura's anger-fuelled rampage, Sakura comes face to face with Lilia. But finally it is the climatic confrontation between Sakura and her father's kidnapper that shakes her to the core. Find out what happens next in... No mercy

A/Notes: Sorry, once again for the long delay for this chapter but I had a mild case of writer's block but hopefully this chapter didn't ended up that bad.

And to finish off, both Diana and Dan were characters created by winners of the Syaoran's Angels competition, prepare yourself for another character very, very soon.