Summary: Darkness formed as the Shadow Taika was released from its sleep, ready to kill the innocent people. Sakura Kinomoto was the only girl who had magic to seal it again, and Syaoran Li was the only one who knew how. Could they work together and captured the beast? SxS pairing. R&R PLZ!

"Talking"

'Thinking'

(A/N:) – Author's Note

Disclaimer: I don't own Card Captor Sakura...CLAMP does...

Last Time...

"Sakura!" he ran across and swept her into his arms, off her feet before the Shadow Taika could eat Sakura alive. He read about it, if the Shadow Taika did manage to devour the person with magic, he would possess it forever and would become stronger; undefeatable.

Him, being the person to teach, had to protect the magician as well. Or else all that studying would go to waste. But Sakura, being the one with magic, had to protect the teacher as well, or else she wouldn't have a teacher to seal the Shadow Taika again. So they'd better look out for each other, or else the Shadow Taika would make the world a miserable place.

A/N: Ame-chan here, I hope you people like my stories...I try to make it as long and interesting as possible...and i still need to encourage the other anime sisterz to make and update their stories...

Chapter Three: Little Shiro

By: Ame-chan

"Syaoran!" Sakura gasped, startled by his actions and self consciously clung onto him.

"Are you okay?" he asked, setting her back on her feet. Sakura nodded and swallowed hard. Her heart was pounding in her chest from all the excitement. They looked back and they saw all the other people running and screaming for their lives.

Shadow Taika had flown over the village and knocked a few buildings down. 'I hope no one is hurt...' Sakura thought, breathing fast from all the excitement.

They heard the dark creature roar and saw it's shadow looming over them. It was aiming for a small child who was lost. Sakura's eyes widened. She couldn't let anybody get hurt so she made a run for him.

"Sakura! It's too dangerous!" Syaoran yelled, reaching for Sakura's hand, but he missed.

Sakura ran as fast as she could, her eyes looking up and watched the Shadow Taika make another swoop for the young child in the middle of the dirt road, his mother calling to him, but she was stuck in the big crowd of scared people.

Sakura's eyes sparkled, her hands in fists. She had to make it. Closer, closer. 'Yes! I have to protect him.' she thought, slowing down and pulled the small boy in her arms as she collapsed into a kneeling position. The creature was nearing, it's mouth open, ready to eat the puny human and magician.

Syaoran panicked. "Sakura!" She was so far away. He ran to her, even though he knew that he probably wouldn't make it in time.

The boy was whimpering and clutching onto Sakura's shirt as the roaring came closer. Sakura held onto him tightly and squeezed her eyes shut, preparing for her pain and death.

Syaoran ran and ran, past screaming girls and such. That was it. The Shadow Taika would eat them. And he would fail to teach the only magician in Etowaru.

But something caught his eyes. Pink sparkles were twirling around the two. Syaoran blinked. 'Must have been my imagination...' he thought, taking another look. But it wasn't. The sparkles were definitely there and they were growing bigger and wider within each passing second.

'What is that? Could that be...magic?' the worried messy haired young man thought, as he got closer to the two.

The sparkles spread around both Sakura and the small child, surrounding them with a pink barrier. The dark monster came and hit the barrier without hurting Sakura or the boy. She opened her eyes a crack and then looked around franticly, having no idead what just happened.

By the time Shadow Taika had touched it, he felt a bolt of pain inside. It felt like he was being purified. They barrier was trying to purify the darkness inside. It roared, flapping it's wings to avoid the pink layer of magic and scampered back into the sky and flew back to the Shadow Lands.

Sakura let the boy go and looked to see if he was alright. The poor boy was still sniffing and rubbing his teary eyes. She sighed in relief. At least he was okay. She couldn't bear to watch a small, happy boy die like that.

Syaoran had caught up, and he saw the whole thing.

"Sakura! Are you alright? I thought you'd be gone for sure." Syaoran replied, catching his breath. He felt so scared during that moment, seeing it dive closer and closer to her.

"I'm fine, Syaoran. At least I think so...what happened?" Sakura asked, standing up and dusting herself. The young boy was still scared and clung to Sakura's skirt as if she was his mother.

"I'm not sure. But when Shadow Taika came closer, I think your magic sensed it and did something that would protect you from it." he replied, patting the young child's head and smiling at him. Sakura looked down at him and knelt down in front of him.

"What's your name?" she asked softly, trying to calm him down.

"S-Shiro...t-thank you f-for saving me..." he muttered, keeping his voice small.

"That's okay. You're too cute to be put in danger." she smiled teasingly and pinched his nose. "I'm Sakura. So, should we find your mother? I'm sure she went with the crowd of other people." Shiro nodded and smiled too.

"Okay..." he replied, looking at Syaoran with questioning eyes. He pointed at him. "Who's he?"

Sakura giggled. "That's Syaoran. My friend. Don't worry, he won't bite...I hope." she giggled again. Syaoran raised a brow and pouted.

"I do not bite!" he protested, crossing his arms. Sakura continued to giggle. "Of course not." she said, holding the small hand of Shiro and walking down the road.

"H-hey! Don't leave me here, wait up!" Syaoran sweatdropped and ran after them.

They walked in silence for the next few minutes, looking around and looking for his mother. Everyone had settles down again, even though they were still a bit scared and worried about the scary monster coming back and destroying the village. Everyone was trying to help others and trying to fix up the mess and dust of the fallen buildings.

Shiro decided to ask a question that was nagging him for the longest time. "Sakura-san, are you and angel?" Sakura looked surprised and shook her head. "No, I'm not. What makes you think that?"

Shiro smiled with delight and answered. "My mommy said that angels come from heaven to look after us and protect us. And she said that everyone has their own guardian angel. So when I was in danger, you seemed like an angel coming to rescue me. You're nice and pretty, are you sure you're not an angel?" his eyes showing his innocence.

Sakura smiled sadly and shook her head again. "No, I'm not and angel. But good people help others when they're in danger, so I was being a good person. And that also means you should do the same. Help others when in need." she explained, looking around once more.

Actually, they've been searching for a while; it was practically lunch time!

"I'm hungry..." Shiro stretched and stopped walking. "And I'm tired. I wonder where my mommy is..." Sakura smiled.

"How about we go back to the cafe and I'll treat you some delicious food?" Shiro nodded and grinned.

"Can I have chocolate milk and cookies?" he asked, his mood lifting into a happier one. Sakura giggled.

"I guess, after a proper lunch." The three walked back to the cafe and went inside.

"Sakura-chan! There you are. Meilin went back home because she felt sick and Kuro's having a hard time trying to serve all these people. Where were you?" Tomoyo said all at once in one breath. Shiro laughed a little.

Sakura sweatdropped. "Ah...well, I was trying to help Shiro find his mother, but since we haven't yet and he's hungry I came back to make him something to eat." Syaoran smiled.

"I'll help, besides, I haven't anything to do. Might as well. Can I work here?" he replied. Tomoyo thought about it and smiled.

"Well, I guess so, after all, we need help." Tomoyo said, rushing behind the counter and told him what to do, while Sakura led him to the other side of the counter and let him sit on one of those tall stool chairs.

"So," Sakura said, leaning on the counter and smiled. "What would you like to eat?" Shiro looked at the menu.

"Um...I dunno how to read..." he said, putting the menu on the table. (A/N: Let's say that he's about...5 years old...lmao) Sakura giggled and told him what there was to eat.

"I want a peanut butter and jam sandwich!" he chirped, giving a cheeky smile.

"Alright, and what would you like to drink?" she asked, getting his sandwich ready.

"Chocolate milk!" Shiro smiled in delight.

"Coming right up!" Sakura turned around and made some fresh chocolate milk. "Well, its not exactly chocolate milk. It's more like a...shake."

Shiro raised a brow. "The chocolate milk shakes?" he started to laugh. Sakura laughed with him and gave him his milk shake.

"No, it doesn't shake. It's called a shake because...um..." Sakura thought about it. "I dunno why." She shrugged sheepishly. (A/N: IS there a reason why it's called a shake? I don't know myself...XD)

The little boy took a bite of his sandwich and chewed happily.

"Good?" Sakura asked, settling herself down on a chair behind the counter. Shiro nodded, since he knew it was rude to speak with his mouth full.

Syaoran was watching the whole time. 'Sakura is so...nice. She always is. Even if she would have died, she saved Shiro anyways.' he thought, serving the other costumers.

After about an hour and a half of eating lunch and talking, Shiro started to look scared a little. Syaoran sat beside Sakura and noticed his scared expression.

"What's wrong? Ate too much?" Syaoran smiled, trying to cheer him up. Shiro shook his head.

"I wonder why my mommy isn't here. We looked a long time and we still didn't find her." he sniffed. Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other, thinking about what to say.

"Well, maybe your mother wanted to help the people who got hurt at the hospital." Sakura suggested, taking the dirty places into the sink and washing her hands.

"We could try that." Syaoran replied. Both of them came out to Shiro and started walking for the exit.

"Tomoyo-chan! I'll be back later, don't worry!" Sakura yelled before walking back out into the dirt roads of the village.

A/N: Sorry, couldn't think of anything else...and sorry for the late update...school is back from the strike...T.T how sad...I can't update as much anymore...

Ame-chan