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Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to CLAMP and the original plot belongs to Yoko Kamio!

Tagged by a Dragon

Chapter 3

By Ivolynn

Warnings: Strong language

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The Nurse's apartment...

"Hold still, Li-san," said the school nurse. She tried shove the cotton ball up the boy's bleeding nostril, but each time she tried he would move his head to the side. The boy was impossible. More blood streamed out of his nose and onto the pristine carpet of her living room.

'Damn,' she thought, thinking of how much money it would be to get it washed out of her nice carpet. The school may be rich and the teachers may have a bigger wage than other teachers, but the point was teachers were still underpaid. And in this case, on a Sunday morning, overworked.

"No fucking way! Get away, you ugly banshee!" Syaoran shouted, jumping off the couch. More blood spilled onto the carpet, and the nurse mentally cried. He glared pointedly at his two friends who had carried him to the nurse's quarters to be fixed up after he fainted.

His two friends shrugged. Takashi disapproved of Syaoran calling a woman a banshee no matter what age they were. "Oi Li, don't call her that."

The boy glared in response and dodged another futile attempt of the nurse. "No way is that thing-," he pointed at the cotton ball, "-going up my nose."

"Please sit down," the nurse cried out, exasperated. "If you keep moving around you'll lose too much blood."

Syaoran laughed haughtily; more blood dripped onto the carpet. "Hell no. When you lose that thing and hand me a tissue, I'll be more willing to sit."

The nurse looked to his friends imploringly. They obliged.

A second later, Syaoran found himself held down, Takashi holding his feet and Eriol holding his arms down. "What the fuck!" He flailed when the nurse came closer, two cotton balls in hand. "No," he said weakly. "Stay away..."

She jammed the cotton balls up his nose.

"#$#1!"

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"What are you doing, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked when they got into her cottage safely. "I told you not to do something like this!"

Sakura was silent, recalling the events earlier.

"Did you just… spit on me?" she had asked. There was laughing.

She looked up. A wide smirk confirmed her question.

"I dunno," the boy answered snidely. "Why don't you reach up there and feel it?"

Fury began to boil within her.

Sakura pulled her hand back in a fist and punched him in the face with all her might. The arrogant boy fell back, his friends catching him, the other girls crying hysterically. Blood trickled from his nose, the skin underneath his right eye swollen.

"You bitch!" one of the girls had shouted. "I can't believe you did that!"

But Sakura could care less. She felt… empowered and victorious. Taking Tomoyo by the crook of the arm, she led the bewildered girl outside and back to the dorm.

"Come on, Tomoyo," she said calmly, walking towards the kitchen. "Let's get you cleaned up."

"Sakura…"

"Mistress?" came Kero's voice. The bodyguard appeared at the kitchen door, his mouth dropping when he saw his mistress covered in flour. "What happened!"

"Tell you in a minute," Sakura answered for the girl. "Please get a towel." She collapsed onto the couch wearily.

Sensing the brown haired girl was being serious, the bodyguard flew off to the linen closet to get a towel.

Tomoyo, meanwhile, took off her flour caked hoodie and threw it into her room. Kero handed her a towel, and she dusted herself off. When she came back into the living room, she plopped down next to her friend. Kero seated himself on the armrest.

"Okay… What's going on? You guys look like somebody died."

"Sakura… punched Syaoran Li," Tomoyo whispered, placing her chin on her hands.

"Sakura punched… Sakura punched… Who now? I coulda sworn you said that gaki's name." Kero had a look of disbelief on his small face.

"I punched that jackass named Li," Sakura confirmed for him. She wasn't feeling all that great at the second. The way she felt at the moment was the way a child would feel when they were caught in a lie. Heck, she'd just punched the "prince" of Amakusaii which was just as bad as kicking a mama bear's cub. Eventually, a herd of "mama bears" would come knocking at the door for her crime.

"Why oh why did I let you go out today? I knew something would happen!" Kero cried. The tiny bodyguard was in hysterics.

"Kero."

"I shouldn't have! I shouldn't have! I had been hoping before that they would forget all about Tomoyo, but now it's worse!" Kero was banging his head with his little fists.

"Kero…"

"I'm such a baka! A baka bodyguard!" he ranted. "I should've gone with you! No… I shouldn't have let you go in the first place!"

"Kero, shut up!" Tomoyo snapped, surprising the others. "Power off."

Kero looked shocked. She'd never turn him off before. Hesitantly, he did.

"Yes, Mistress." His small figure slumped against the couch.

Sadly, she turned to Sakura, a grave look on her face. "You do know that they'll do anything to get back at you now, Sakura."

"I do," the girl replied.

"What made you do that, Sakura? I told you not to do something idiotic like that."

"You did, Tomoyo. But I could care less. That guy is a jackass and he needed to be told." The girl sighed. "Anyway. Keep your promise and tell me what happened."

"Fine." Tomoyo gritted her teeth. "It all started a couple weeks ago when I was running down the stairs, heading to my music class. I was running late to class. I slipped on a stair by accident and fell down the stairs to the bottom. I barreled right into someone at the bottom. Li. He was so pissed; it was scary. I'd heard stories of him before. I was downright frightened."

"What happened?" Sakura felt compelled to ask, even though she knew the answer.

"He began to yell at me. I told him I was sorry. He slapped me." Tomoyo was trembling. "I was pissed. I told him I had already said sorry and that it would be enough. I called him a jackass for slapping me. Then when I stopped by my locker for my next class, I found a red tag hanging in there. Then my roommate Michiru, who had a locker a couple lockers away came to visit to me. We had been on good terms then, but when she saw the tag she freaked out and started to announce to everybody that I had been tagged. Ever since… people have been treating me like the plague, taking every chance to make my life miserable, to make me leave. I've been egged, hit with balls in P.E., had my desk stolen…" Tomoyo coughed a little, her voice throaty. She was trying very hard not to cry. "In other words, this place is an absolute hell. And I-I'm just lucky that D3 hasn't done anything serious yet."

'Tomoyo…'

Just when Sakura thought her friend would cry, Tomoyo stood up, wiping a tear that had escaped her eye. "Where's your ticket, Sakura?"

"My train ticket?" Sakura questioned.

Tomoyo nodded.

"Why?"

"You're going to leave as soon as possible."

"No!" She shouted. "If I'm going to go, you're going to come with me! I'm not going to leave you and Kero here to get bullied by these assholes!" Then in a soft voice, "What happened to the old Tomoyo? The one who used to tell me to stand up for what's right?"

"I am still the same! But this is different, these guys can't be shaken!"

"No…" Sakura said, shaking her head. "I remember when we were in grade school, when I used to be bullied. My big brother Touya was in junior high and couldn't protect me anymore. But that's when I met you." She paused, trying to remember more clearly. "A third grader was picking on me because I had his swing. He threw me off the swing. Then you came over and told him off, saying that I had the swing first and he had no right to do that. He didn't get off the swing and said that he claimed the swing first and that I was stupid for not knowing that. Then…" She laughed slightly at the memory. "You punched him in the face, and he cried and got off the swing."

"But this is different, Sakura. These guys are bigger and they have the whole school behind them. We can't just punch them. We're just little fish in an ocean of sharks!"

Sakura looked like she was going to argue, but didn't. She sighed. "I guess you're right. Less than two days, and I get you into trouble. Sorry." Hesitantly, she stood up as well. "I guess… I'll go pack and get ready to go to the station now."

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At Li's dorm...

"Now that wasn't that bad, was it, Li?" Takashi questioned his friend later, almost laughing at the image of him. He looked really beat up. A small tuft of cotton was sticking out of one nostril making his nose about the size of a tomato. The right side of his face, right next to the ridge of his nose and below his eye was swollen and was beginning to color a deep bluish black.

"Shut the hell up," Syaoran responded. He looked down at the red tag in his hand. The emblem of a golden dragon- their logo- was in the middle of it. In Romaji, the words D3- Dragon Three were threaded below it.

Eriol laughed. "I still can't believe you got knocked out by a little girl."

Syaoran glowered at him silently as he put a piece of tape on the top of the tag.

"I mean, whenever your sisters beat the crap out of you, you never faint. And whenever you get in fights at the clubs, you get beat up worse than this, but you don't faint," Eriol said.

There's that glare again.

"Hm... Perhaps you fainted because you have been hit by Cupid's arrow of love?" Takashi suggested. "In the ancient days of Rome and Greece, people believed when one became weak in the knees of the sight of another, it meant Cupid's arrow hit them. When one fainted at the sight of another, it meant that you have met your true love." Takashi sighed dreamily to add an effect.

Syaoran and Eriol stared at him as if he'd grown an additional two heads.

"Ha. Yeah right. Maybe I fainted because a certain retard dragged us out of our beds to go to the store when I haven't eaten," Syaoran shrugged in exasperation. "Anyway, good joke. Ha ha. I've known that girl for less than five minutes and already I'm about as attracted to her as I am to rabid guerilla in a drag," Eriol was about to reply to that, but Syaoran cut him off, "And before you ask, I am NOT attracted to guerillas in drags."

"I never said that," Eriol said, showing false hurt on his face.

"Whatever." That didn't fool Syaoran. He picked up the tag and smirked. "Well, I think we've given those girls enough time to prepare."

"Tagging is beginning to become childish to me," said Takashi with a yawn. "She's just a girl after all."

"A girl who punched me."

"Yes, and only you."

"But she called us bastards! She needs to be put in her place."

Eriol raised an eyebrow. "So? We've been called worse, Li. Get used to it."

"Don't you get it, Eriol? This is our pride! Our power. It's our job to set the rules for this place." Syaoran slipped into his jacket. "If one person gets out of line, others will get out of line too. That is why we must tag anyone who disobeys. Even a wimpy little girl."

Eriol and Takashi both rolled their eyes. At the same time, the thought "He is so obsessive over tagging people" went through their heads.

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"Please, Tomoyo! I won't go without you!" Sakura pleaded as Tomoyo tried to shove her on the train. She had begun to have second thoughts on leaving her friend behind before they arrived at the station.

"Miss, the train is ready to leave. Please board," said the ticket man, who looked somewhat annoyed.

"Sakura, I've already told you have to go alone," Tomoyo responded, giving it all her strength to push her friend inside. She succeeded. The train doors shut. She waved slightly as her friend banged on the window with her fists.

'Don't worry, Sakura,' Tomoyo thought silently as the train began to leave. 'I have Kero to watch over me. And I have you to thank for reminding me to be strong again.'

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"What? That girl already left?" Syaoran questioned Tomoyo. Kero, who had transformed into his guardian size, was between them ready to toss the boy around if he tried anything.

"Yes, my friend left." Tomoyo replied, unsurprised that Li had came to her to find Sakura. She was quite amused that Sakura had punched the boy so hard he had a bruise the size of a tomato on his nose and cheek. When she had asked whom the tag was for, she was surprised that it was for Sakura only.

"Where is she?" he demanded.

"I can't tell," Tomoyo said shaking her head. "But she is miles away from here."

"What is that girl's name?"

Tomoyo shook her head again. "Sorry, I can't tell you that either."

"Bitch," Li hissed as he moved forward. Kero growled menacingly, rounding up towards him. Li stopped in his tracks, glaring at the huge cat. Kero flashed his teeth.

"You won't call my Mistress such a profane word."

"Whatever, you big stupid… whatever you are," Li replied. He took a red slip of paper out of his coat pocket and flung it at Tomoyo. "This is for you, bitch. Have a nice day."

With that, he turned sharply and left to look for his friends; plans were already forming in his head.

Tomoyo looked down at the paper. Another red tag. She looked around the street to see if anyone saw the exchange, but she saw no one. She crumpled it.

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The end.

Okie dokie. Sorry for the late update, but I was gone for Christmas and all that. Guess what? I got a graphire tablet! I'm so happy! The only problem is my brother has discovered a new manga, and he's always on the computer these days. I drew a pic and pretty soon I'll put it up for you guys to see. Also, sorry to those who wanted to see a more humorous reaction on Sakura's part. But I hope Syaoran's reaction made up for it. That would hurt (i.e. The Cotton Ball of DooOom). I know how it feels (being the unlucky person that I am. Got hit in the face with a soccer ball.).

Next chapter- Something arrives in the mail. Father is clueless. Big brother is pissed. Sakura is unfortunate.

A little note. I was having a little trouble deciding whether Sakura should go home this early or not (and let Syaoran have his revenge), but in the end I decided this would be the better choice. Which means… I'm gonna have to do a little more tweaking to my summary. I hope you didn't find this chapter too boring because well… I didn't find it all that exciting.

Anyways…

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