OKAAAY u guys had better thank me, im taking a break from all my homework. And since u have been waiting patiently for an update….i decided to write another chapter! Its my first Friday night during the school year…argh I really should be doing my English essays, but hey I figured why not update? I was going to do a chapter for Obsession, but then I started getting writer's block about what to do next…so I'm going to have to think about it for awhile so for those of u who r fans of Obsession, the next chapter won't be up for a little while longer….anywayz, onto the next chapter that u've been so diligently waiting for…

Chapter 10

Sakura was lying on her bed, holding fast to the new wound that had just hours ago been inflicted, trying desperately to stem the blood flow, at the new house in Tokyo. She was thinking, almost incoherently, about what had just occurred. It had all happened so fast, she barely had had any time to react.

It had all started two weeks ago, the night that she had left Syaoran at the dance…

One Week Earlier

Sakura had managed to run all the way home without any problems, other than her constant sobbing of course. Turns out that running track had finally paid off. She knew Syaoran wasn't following her, she was taking the bike path home, which was far away from any street.

When she saw the porchlights of the home she had lived in for 16 years, she started crying even harder. She'd have to leave it all behind. Why? Just because she was a hunter, and she had let her personal feelings get between her and her job. She staggered up the steps, and opened the door quietly not wanting to talk to her brother. But alas it was not meant to be. Touya was waiting for her on the living room couch, looking very agitated. He looked up when she came in. "There you are! I was about to come looking for you." When he noticed her tear-streaked face he stopped, "Did he hurt you?"

"Just my heart." Sakura whispered not looking at him. Then she ran up the stairs and locked herself in her bedroom. After throwing herself on her bed, she started to cry her eyes out, even harder than the day before.

After a while, she finally got up, numbly, and went to her closet to put on her pajamas. After that little chore had been taken care of, she heard Touya's voice outside the door. "Hey Saku, you alright in there?"

Sakura was about to nod, when she remembered he couldn't see her so she just let out a small, "Yes."

"Can I come in?"

Sighing Sakura went to the door and opened it, but not all the way, "What do you want Touya? You want to say I told you so? Then fine say it! Just get it over with! I have more important things to do than just stand here and listen to your stupid lectures."

Touya put his hands on his little sister's shoulders. "Listen baby sister, I'm not here to lecture you or to give you one of my famous 'I told you so's I came up here because I need to show you something. Something very important."

She was about to protest when he held up a hand. "This can't wait Sakura. Mother said that we need to do it now."

Sakura's eyes widened, "But Touya mom's—"

"Dead, I know. She didn't exactly say it in those words, but you need to see this…now."

Sakura knew he wouldn't take no for an answer, so she compliantly followed, not saying a word. He led her into their parent's old room and pulled down the attic stairway. (for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, its like those doorways in the ceiling and you pull them down, and a staircase 'magically' appears. Lol)

"Touya, I thought you said that the attic was off limits."

Touya looked back for a brief moment then turned back to the stairway. "I know. But now, it isn't. Sakura what you're about to find out, is going to change your life forever. You will never think, act, or feel the same way ever again. Knowing that, do you still want to follow me?"

Sakura's eyes widened, Touya was really scaring her now. But the way she saw it life couldn't get much worse could it? So she simply replied, "Yes." (she seems to be good at that…lol)

Touya sighed, still not looking at her and ascended the steps to the attic. Sakura before stepping onto the stairwell, took a deep breath and tried to prepare herself for what was to come. She finally got the guts to follow her brother, and rushed up the stairs after him.

When she reached the top what she saw amazed her. The attic was huge! It was three times the size of her bedroom. Along the walls were bookshelves stacked with endless books, probably pertaining to vampire-hunter history. There were daggers, and portraits aligning the vacant spots on the walls, as well as a few swords here and there. On the floor were various objects, such as a cross, endless bottles of holy water, which the hunters had found had very little effect on vampires. There were other odds and ends as well, but what attracted the most attention from Sakura was the shining sword currently standing in a solid large boulder in the center of the large dusty room.

As if on cue, the sword began, it seemed, calling to her. At first, Sakura was hesitant, remembering her training, not to touch anything unknown without a proper examination first, but this call was too irresistible. It was like every fiber of her being was being pulled towards the sword. She inched closer and closer not removing her eyes, from the golden-silver hilt of the sword. She reached out to touch it, but before her fingers could reach their goal, a hand swooped down and grabbed it.

Suddenly snapped out of her trance she looked at the hand and the body it was connected to. Remembering where she was, she looked at Touya confused, "What," she began breathlessly, "What was that? What the heck was that thing doing to me?"

Touya's eyes took on a sad look, "Sakura, there's a lot I have to explain, you better sit down for this, because we're going to be here for a while."

Sakura nodded, then sat down where she was on the dusty floor. Touya, to avoid any further enticings from the sword sat on her other side, so her back was to it. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and then began.

"Two thousand years ago, when Yue became a vampire, the known world turned into chaos and destruction. Those were evil times, dark times. And then Kaiya Kinomoto, our predecessor gained her powers as the first hunter. She made it her goal to destroy the evil and darkness that had so quickly consumed the world.

"She cut down every vampire in her path, hoping that one day the darkness would cease to exist. But she had yet to face her deadliest opponent. You met him the other day at Penguin Park, he was the one who sent that energy blast and knocked you into that tree. Yue."

Sakura gasped, "You mean that was…"

Touya nodded solemnly.

"Then why didn't he—"
Touya held up a hand, "I'm getting to that." He cleared his throat and began again. "As I was saying, she had yet to face Yue. They had battled each other before, but those fights were merely tests to asses the others abilities.

"Then the day of the final showdown arrived. Kaiya and Yue would go head to head in a battle to the death. They fought long and they fought hard, each driving each other to the brink of defeat, only to stand up and fight with more conviction than before. On and on they fought. Until one of Yue's followers became impatient. While Kaiya was concentrating all her senses on her struggle with Yue, he sunk his fangs into her and began the process of turning her into a vampire.

"But as you know, a hunter cannot be merely a 'blood-donor' or half-vampire. The process must be completed or the hunter will die a most painful death. The hunter blood fights against the vampire blood and eventually the blood cells will kill each other, leaving absolutely no blood left in the body. Some say that if Kaiya had not been weakened by her warring with Yue, she would've been strong enough to fight the vampire blood off, but I'm not so sure.

"No hunter can be half-and-half. But if there was ever one to do it, it would've been Kaiya. But the point I'm getting to is, that with the magic she had remaining she cast a spell that would allow her to be reincarnated when she was needed most, and she would wipe out Yue and his followers."

Touya stood up and walked over to where a portrait lay against a bookshelf, covered with a white dusty cloth. "That time is now." And with those words, he dramatically pulled off the cloth to show a detailed portrait of a young woman with honey-brown hair, and emerald eyes.

Sakura gasped. "That's impossible, that's…that's me."

Touya nodded, "Sakura, you are her. You are Kaiya. You are the Seeker of Light."

(And I would've left it off there, but I won't have time to update any time soon, so be very very thankful!)

Sakura just sat there gaping at the portrait, which was, to her, more of a mirror. A crack in time per say. Sakura had to remind herself to breathe. This was impossible. There was no way she could be Kaiya, and why hadn't she heard this story before. "Touya. What—How—"

"I know this must be really confusing Sakura, but you have to trust me, you are Kaiya. That pull you felt just a while ago, to that sword. Take a closer look at it, but whatever you do don't touch it."

Sakura listlessly stood up and walked towards the sword careful not to let the power overtake her once again. She gasped when she saw the words inscribed on the blade. 'Excalibur.'

Sakura's breathing became even more rapid. She started walking backwards when she walked into Touya. She jumped and he tried his best to steady her. "Sakura, don't you get it? Kaiya, was given her powers by the Lady of the Lake! That sword, was originally made for her. It was given to her descendent Arthur 1000 years later, Guineviere, Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table may have never existed by Arthur did. After Arthur had passed, instead of returning it, it was passed to his only child, and from there it has found its way to us, to you."

Still breathing rapidly as though she had come out of a 10k marathon, she waited for Touya to continue. "Somehow mother knew. The night that she died, she told me what you are, who you are."

Suddenly realization struck her, "Why didn't you tell me?" she asked barely more than a whisper.

Touya ran a hand through his hair, "She told me not to tell you until the time was right. And that I'd know when it was. And then when I saw you with that gaki, I don't know I guess I just…knew."

Sakura dropped on the floor, an overwhelming feeling suddenly overtaking her body. "Why can't I touch the sword?"

Touya bit his lip, "Because if you do, you will be infused with Kaiya's person. You will receive her memories, every feeling of every moment she was ever living will enter you mind, heart, and soul. You will take on her powers, and her strength. You and Kaiya will become one, forever. This cannot happen, until you are ready, ready to take on that responsibility."

Sakura felt like she was about to throw up. "Sakura, I know this a lot to take in at once—"

"Ya think?" she asked sarcastically.

Touya knelt down beside his sister. "But, no matter what happens, you will always be you. You will always be my little kaijuu."

That got a little smile out of her, "There see? It's not so bad. Besides you might not have to worry about this for years to come! Let's just enjoy the present ne? Tell you what, I'll go downstairs and put on some pancakes, sausage, and bacon for a late-night-dinner how does that sound?"

Sakura nodded, "Thank you onii-chan, but I really would rather be alone right now, if you don't mind?"

After a brief moment of hesitation, Touya nodded reluctantly, "Alright, but do not, and I repeat do not touch that sword understood?"

"Yes Touya…"

"Good." And with that he stood up, ruffled her hair, then proceeded down the attic stairs.

Once she heard their parent's bedroom door shut, she layed down on her back and sighed. 'Great,' she thought sarcastically, 'as if my problems with Syaoran weren't enough, now I find out I'm the reincarnation of a dead hunter out for revenge. Oh yeah this is just great! Why can't I just for one day live a normal teenage life! Why does it always have to be vampire-this, vampire-that. Oh Sakura we need you to kill that vampire. Oh I'm just sick and tired of this!'

Once again the tears began to roll down her eyes, but this time out of frustration. With a newfound urgency she got up and started going through the books on the shelves. She felt as though she were looking for something, but she wasn't quite sure what it was.

All of a sudden, a white hot spark was sent through her arm and then flowed out through to the rest of her body. She looked at the book that she held in her hands, and read the binding. Kaiya Kinomoto. Sakura stared at the old leather bindings. She had to admit this was strange. Pushing away her pestering thoughts she sat down against the bookcase and opened the leather bindings of the book carefully, not wanting to ruin the 2,000 year-old pages.

She was almost disappointed when she realized that the writing was in a very complex form of ancient Japanese that she didn't recognize at all. Feeling very frustrated, Sakura was about to close the bindings, when suddenly she realized she could read the characters.

Quickly she reexamined them, but they were the same ancient characters that she had first seen. And yet she could read them. 'I guess this means that I really am Kaiya…why else would I have gone straight to this bookshelf, and picked out this book and be able to read an ancient language that even the best of scholars have trouble reading, with dictionaries and references. And here I am just reading it right off the bat.'

She thrust the remaining thoughts she had left, and focused all her attention back to Kaiya's writings…

Ok I'm really getting tired now…cuz I'm sick, I have this crappy food poisoning, either that, or its something else. Either way, I'm going to bed…sooooo good night everyone! I hope you enjoyed this new chapter, and don't forget to review or I'll find you and……..and…….ooo I know….i'll barf on you! Lol no I won't do that, but you better review! ;)