Heheheheheheheh…I know completely unfair for me to leave u guys hanging like that…but wat can I say it was fun! Lol! Don't kill me! I wasn't gonna write this chapter until next week, but……..i decided to take pity on all of u cuz it definitely was very mean of me to leave the story where I did….soooooooooooooo…without further ado……

Chapter 7

'What do you think you're doing?' his mind asked the question before he could begin the process of taking in her blood.

'What I have to.' He responded back in his mind.

'No you don't. Think about it. I mean look at her, she's so innocent.' (heheheh, yeah right good thing for Sakura, he hasn't realized that she's a hunter yet)

'It doesn't matter. She's just like the rest of them.'

'Is she?'

He thought about that question. His thoughts took him back to this morning in class, when he was watching Sakura, trying to do her math work. She looked so cute when she was frustrated, especially when she was angry, like when she found him following her home from school.

Syaoran suddenly realized what he was doing. He retracted his fangs and pulled away hastily forcing Sakura back to reality.

"What just happened?" Sakura asked quietly more to herself than to Syaoran. 'WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED! O boy Sakura, you did not just let that vampire get that close to sucking your blood…but why did he pull back? Oh crap…I hope he didn't taste my blood, if he did I'm sooo dead. (remember hunter blood tastes different than human blood) Touya's gonna kill me, that is if this guy and his friends don't do the honors first' She thought worriedly.

Syaoran, mistaking her question for one of ignorance sighed, "Sakura, I have something I need to tell you."

Syaoran cupped her chin and forced her to meet his gaze. "I'm a vampire."

"A…what?" she feigned innocence. If she was going to get out of this unscathed or at the very least alive, she had to make him believe that she had no idea what was going on.

"I'm a vampire. You know, shrivel up in sunlight suck your blood by moonlight."

Interesting way to put it. "You're joking right? This is all some sort of joke?" she asked still playing along.

Syaoran touched the spot on her neck where his fangs had pierced the soft flesh. "No, in fact those people at the round table that you met earlier, along with Meiling and a whole lot of others are as well."

She just stared at him, leading him along on her little act.

"Sakura?"

She looked up in his eyes, and once again became lost in them, "So there really are such things as vampires then?"

Syaoran smiled warmly. 'Wait, did he just smile like that? I had no idea vampires could feel like that. That smile looked so real, so inviting.' Sakura found herself wanting to touch the soft lips, then mentally chastised herself for thinking about it.

"Yes there really are." Syaoran really didn't want to admit it. But, he liked this girl. She was somehow different. He didn't know how, but she just was. The way she moved, the way she talked, heck even the way she yelled at him was just…arousing.

Suddenly the alarm on her watch went off. She looked down. '4:00' am? 'O crap Touya's gonna kill me!'

She turned off the alarm then looked up at Syaoran. "I'm sorry, but I have to go."

Syaoran nodded, still captivated by her emerald orbs. 'What is this girl doing to me?' he thought idly.

Sakura backed up slowly still facing Syaoran, "So I guess I'll see you tomorrow at school then?"

Syaoran again merely nodded, then turned around, reluctantly, to face out towards the balcony. 'Well she took everything rather well.'

'Told you she was different.' His mind chastised.

'Yes she is.'

"Man you got it bad cuz." A seriously annoying voice interrupted his thoughts of his sweet cherry blossom. His cherry blossom? Since when had she become his cherry blossom. 'Oh well. I could live with that.' He thought to himself, once again completely shutting off the intruder.

Eriol's eyes widened. He walked up to Syaoran and waved a hand in front of his face. When that didn't work, Eriol resorted to doing the oldest trick in the book, he stuck his mouth right in front of Syaoran's left ear and yelled, "WAKE UP MY CUTE LITTLE DESCENDENT!"

At that Syaoran turned his head, every so slightly, "Mhm, Hi Eriol." He merely stated before he turned around again, watching his little cherry blossom run to her car.

Eriol was flabbergasted. He followed Syaoran's gaze and smiled when he saw the girl getting into her car. He looked back at his cousin, who's attention was focused on the Jaguar XKR which was now zooming away, and stated quietly, "You've got it real bad cuz. I'm gonna have a little talk with Meiling about this."

Meanwhile the conversation going on in Syaoran's mind:

'She's so…beautiful.'

'I told you so.'

'Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever.'

'Remember we have to be careful with Yue, if he found out…'

'I could care less about that overbearing pms vampire right now. I'm going to make her mine forever, if it's the last thing I do.'

(ooooooooo…hate to obsession in less than 24 hours, must be a vampire thing. Lol)

.The next morning

"HOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Sakura screamed as she felt herself being awakened by an icy cold bucket of water. She looked up at her brother. "Onii-chan you BAKA!" she yelled getting out of her bed to start chasing him around but he merely held out a finger to her forehead to stop her. She looked up at him, his finger still attatched to her forehead. "Where were you last night kaijuu? I was getting worried." He stated nonchalantly.

Sakura swatted her brother's hand away. "If you must know Touya, I was doing my job."

"So did you take care of Hiirigizawa?" Touya asked.

Sakura sweatdropped. She forgot, she hadn't taken him out. Oh well she could always try again another time. There were bound to be more parties. "Eh. No. I didn't get the chance."

"So you didn't see him?" Touya asked.

"I did. But some other vamp snatched me and basically claimed me before I had a chance to get anywhere." Which was basically the truth, she just didn't tell him about the rest of it. She then realized that she still had the bite marks on her neck. She lifted her pajama shirt collar up a little more so it wouldn't show

"Really what's his name, did you take him out?" Touya asked, now drinking a glass of orange juice.

"No, my stupid alarm rang before I got the chance. And his name, if you must know was Li Syaoran."

Touya spit all the juice in his mouth out, practically choking. Sakura had narrowly dodged the spewing liquid. "Ok Touya, I cleaned up the vampire ashes, you get to clean up your juice!" Sakura pointed accusingly.

Touya didn't even hear her, he grabbed her by her shoulders. "Did he hurt you? Did he bite you?"

She shoved Touya off, "Cut it out will ya? No I'm fine Touya, just fine! What's got you so worked up? It's not like this one vampire is important, sure I could tell he had a powerful aura about him, but…"

"Just stay away from him from now on Sakura ok?"

"Why? It's not like I'm going to fall in love with him or something." (she says that now)

"Just don't go anywhere near him okay? If you ever see him just avoid him as much as possible."

"But Touya—"

"No butts Sakura."

He only used Sakura's real name when he meant business, other times he'd use her childhood nickname kaijuu. 'I wonder what Syaoran did to cross him.' She shook it off and nodded "Alright Touya. I will."

Touya seemed satisfied with her answer. He ruffled her hair before turning around to walk out the door, "by the way your going to be late again." He told her casually.

Sakura looked at the clock. AHH. Ten minutes till school starts.

She hurriedly put on her uniform, brushed her hair and teeth, ran down the stairs, grabbed her sack lunch, ran out the door and through the streets, and finally stopped at the high school.

She looked down at her watch. ACK! ONE MINUTE! She quickly climbed the steps and dashed through the halls and made it into the classroom just as the bell rang. Tereda-sensei appraised her, "Well done Kinomoto, once again, you narrowly escape being tardy." He motioned to her desk, "Now take a seat."

Relief flooding her entire body she sank into the chair at her desk careless throwing her backpack on top of it. "Do you always make that kind of an entrance or is it just today?" asked a playful voice behind her, causing her to nearly jump out of her skin.

She turned around to face Syaoran, "Gosh don't do that." Then she remembered the promise she made to her brother that morning. Hastily she turned around in her seat and tried to ignore him, and the pencil he kept poking at her back.

He leaned over and whispered in her ear. "We're having another party tomorrow night, same time, but over at Ruby Moon Mansion. You coming?"

"Can't." she stated as simply as possible.

Syaoran was a bit taken a back. This wasn't the girl he remembered last night. "Why not?" he whispered.

"I just can't." came the strained reply.

"It's because of me being a vampire isn't it?" he asked lowering his voice even lower.

"No its not that." She told him. 'Gosh why did I just say that. It was the perfect excuse.'

"Then what?"

'Oh come on, think on your feet girl! It's what you've been trained to do.'

'But for some reason I forget all of it when he's around.'

She shook herself mentally, she couldn't be doing this. "Its my brother." She quickly made up and excuse, "He caught me last night, and grounded me."

Syaoran made a face, "For how long?"

"How long is 'for all eternity'?" she asked being overly dramatic about it.

"Oops." Before he could say any more Tereda-sensei spoke up.

"Li-san, would you please just ask Ayamami-san out on a date already, that way we can get back to our lesson."

Sakura blushed 50 different shades of red. Syaoran just smiled. He leaned forward and said a little louder than necessary, "So Sakura when your punishment is over, would you like to go out on a date with me?"

Sakura rolled her eyes, "We'll see." She muttered too softly for anyone but Syaoran to hear.

"Thank you Li-san, Ayamami-san, now with your permission, could we please return to math?"

Sakura blushed even harder, if that were possible. She was going to kill Syaoran for this. She turned her attention back to the blackboard trying to ignore the snickering from her classmates.

After School

"SAKURA-CHAN! WAIT UP!"

Sakura looked back to find her best friend Tomoyo come running up to her. "Hey Tomoyo-chan."

"OH my gosh! Sakura why didn't you tell me there was something going on between you and Li?'

Sakura rolled her eyes, "Tomoyo, there is nothing going on between me and Syaoran."

It was too late to take back her mistake. Tomoyo was already squealing, "You're on first name basis already? KAWAII!" she said with hands clasped and stars in her eyes.

"Tomoyo, we're just friends besides…" she pulled her friend closer and whispered dangerously low into her ear. "He's a vampire."

Tomoyo's eyes widened, "Are you sure?"

Sakura nodded. "Yup saw him at a vampire party last night, and just to be sure I tried again to sense his aura today, and it's the same, I can tell he's hiding most of it, but if I catch him off-guard, it's like five vampires rolled into one."

Tomoyo whipped out her camcorder. "This is great I'll call it Forbidden Love. YEAH!"

Sakura rolled her eyes again, as she tried to push the camera away. "Tomoyo…Stop!"

Suddenly Syaoran came up behind Sakura and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. This only made Tomoyo even more ecstatic. "KAWAII!"

"Good afternoon Sakura how are you?" he asked as if it were normal for his arm to be around her shoulders.

"Fine. Thank you." She stated flatly while glaring at his arm, hoping he'd take a hint.

He didn't. "Great come on Sakura I'll walk you home." He stated with a smile on his face while leading her away from Tomoyo.

Sakura shot her friend a pleading look, but she only waved and said goodbye. "Traitor." She mumbled.

"What was that?" Syaoran asked.

"Oh nothing. Nothing at all."

"So Sakura I never got to ask you." He began changing the subject. "How comfortable are you with this whole vampire thing?"

She looked up at him, unbelievingly. 'All he wants is your blood, that's it.'

'Then why did he stop last night? He had you, but he stopped.'

'I don't know but I do know it won't happen again.'

"I don't know. I guess I always believed there were supernatural beings in this world I just didn't think about the possibility of vampires, but now, I realize it explains a lot." She said playing along with her innocent Sakura role.

"Oh really. How so?" Syaoran asked, his hand now slipping around her waist possessively.

Sakura tried to ignore the feelings that were suddenly ignited inside of her. Her breathing became labored and her heartbeat tripled its speed. Syaoran smiled knowingly, with his enhanced hearing he could hear her heartbeat. 'So I'm having the same effect on her as she has on me. Good.'

"Well," she started, still trying to ignore the arm that was oh so snug around her waist, "All the murders, the bodies with no blood, that kind of thing."

Suddenly Syaoran had an idea he stopped and and turned her around his arms and pulled her possessively to him. He looked down into her emerald orbs and asked, "You're not afraid that I might do that to you are you?"

She met his gaze, but seemed to be melting into his arms, "…" she couldn't speak at all. What is he doing to her? First she hates him, now she can't get enough of him. This was driving her nuts.

His gaze bored into hers. "Sakura, I will never ever do anything to hurt you. I swear on my life."

And for some reason Sakura believed him. She didn't know why, after all he was a vampire. But after what happened last night, and the sincerity in his eyes now, she just couldn't see how he could be lying.

She hadn't realized that she'd been looking down, but when she did she raised her head to meet his heart-stopping gaze. "I know." She said whole-heartedly.

Syaoran smiled, and for a moment almost seemed human, with his Yankees baseball cap and long sleeved shirt.

Unbeknownst to Sakura they were both leaning in, closer and closer until…

"SAKURA!"

a/n ok u have to admit that this is a better place to be left off at than the last chapter…if u don't think so however then sooooooooooooory, flame me. Lol. I'm sorry I just loooooooooove cliffhangers! Although I hate being on the receiving end, I luv writing them ;) I'll be posting the next chapter on Wednesday, unless I get bored…then it might be posted earlier…lol…tell me in ur review who you think it is! lol I think we all know who it is tho. ;)