Disclaimer: I don't own CCS, Clamp does. But I do own this story.

Pairings: Syaoran x Sakura, Eriol x Tomoyo, Mei Lin x OC, Rika x OC, Naoko x OC, Chiharu x Yamazaki


Chapter Thirty-Seven

"One on One"


Aki aimed his shot in between the man's eyes before leaning back on the wall panting.

"You alright?" Jay asked as he pushed himself off the wall, trying to steady his breathing.

Aki smirked at him in return.

There weren't much Kins in the room as they expected when they came in, but they were still outnumbered. That didn't stop them from winning over them though. But not without wounds.

His smirk faltered as he placed pressure on the wound on the right side of his torso. He had another wound on his left leg but it wasn't as painful as the one he was holding on to.

Jay saw him and walked over to him in a poorly-concealed limp.

"I'm fine" Aki insisted as he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and tied it around his left leg. "You better cover that up too, you're bleeding like hell" he said nodding at Jay's leg.

"You're doing much worse than me" he replied, looking at the wound Aki's holding onto by his torso.

"Hold up your shirt Aki" Syaoran ordered as he approached him, holding onto a shirt he got from one of the dead Kins on the floor. He ripped the shirts a couple of times and started circling it around his friend's torso and tying it as tightly as he can, making Aki curse at the pain.

"You're a monster" he retorted at Syaoran who looked like he didn't suffer from any wound at all.

Syaoran smirked at this before he took Jay's handkerchief and tied it on the wound on the man's leg.

"My wounds aren't as bad as yours that's all" he said before tossing his guns on the ground and helping himself to the guns the Kins owned which were more loaded than theirs. Aki and Jay did the same before the three made their way to the door at the end of the room.

Jay looked at Syaoran from the back suspiciously, seeing a large stain of blood on the right side of his stomach. He turned to Aki, who also looked like he saw it.

"Syaoran, you have blood on your shirt" Jay said casually.

"That's from the last guy I killed. I tried to force him into telling me where Shikou was" he answered shortly without even so much as a glance at which stain they were talking about.

Both men shook their head at him. He really was stubborn.


"Let's move in" Kimi told her sisters after another pillar fell and this time, flattening one their men who was taking cover behind it. "All these pillars are unstable and they figured that out"

Katsumi nodded at her and turned to her twin sister. "Are you alright enough to fight?" she asked unsurely but already knew her reply.

"Fuck yeah" Kyoumi said with a murderous look in her eyes.

Katsumi smirked at her before taking aim at the large cracked areas of the pillars left standing in their opposite end. The pillars started to crack down further before crumbling. The fall caused the ground to shake, making the pillars they were hiding behind start to crumble as well.

As it did, they jumped out of their hiding place spotting their targets as they did and started firing.


"Where is he?" Syaoran growled at the men inside the room which were full of monitors and such. It looked like a security room.

The men in front of him had their hands in the air but kept their mouths shut.

Syaoran eyed the man who seemed like he was the head of the Kins security and pointed his gun at him. "Speak" he ordered harshly.

His mouth was still shut tight.

"Aki" just as Syaoran said his name, a gunshot erupted and one of the men in the room fell on the floor, dead with a bullet stuck in between his eyes. "Still not talking?" he asked the man darkly.

"Th-That door" he stuttered out, pointing to one of the doors opposite the one they used in coming in.

"Where does it lead?"

"The weapons room" he muttered out.

Keeping his gun firmly pointed to his heart. Syaoran looked over the man's shoulder and at all the monitors in the room. Some screens were off, and he guessed that they were the cause of that. But there were still a lot of screens on left regardless.

"Show me" Syaoran ordered before grabbing him and pulling him onto the chair ruthlessly. "Cameras to your weapons room, turn it on"

The man gulped and did as he was told, making 6 of the screens change its images to a large room that had different sorts of weaponry and explosives inside. But no Tsuyoshi.

Syaoran help his gun at the back of his head.

"How stupid do you think I am?" he hissed into his ear, making him gulp even more. "Where…is…he?" he ordered out, word for word. Without waiting for a reply, he turned to Jay and nodded at him.

Two more gunshots erupted, and two more bodies fell to the floor.

"He's through that other door!" One of the men spoke up abruptly, pointing to the door beside the one being pointed to him earlier. "It'll lead you up the roof" he muttered, half irritated and half scared.

"You heard him. Turn the cameras to the roof on" Syaoran ordered.

The man in front of him glared at the man who was stupid enough to reveal their boss' whereabouts.

After clicking around, 10 screens switched to the roof which was all shaped triangularly and another 8 screens switched to a large area of a flat ground in the middle. Surely enough, 2 of the screens shown that Tsuyoshi really was on the roof with the flat surface, and he was up there talking with a woman while he was readying his guns.

"Who's that?" Syaoran said, pointing to the woman who was with him.

"A slut he's really fond of" the man retorted seeing Saori. He really wasn't fond of the woman, she always acted like she had authority over the rest of them when she was just one of Tsuyoshi's women albeit his favorite.

Syaoran turned to the other monitors and just saw Mika, Naoko and Takashi who was carrying Chiharu in his arms, walk past one of them.

"Aki, Jay, you guys stay and keep an eye on things from here. I'll go on ahead and take care of Shikou myself. Don't come after me. If you find a way to monitor the girls from here, or find a quick way out, or even find the bombs from here, do that as well"

Both men didn't like leaving him to do this on his own especially when they knew he was badly injured.

"Hai" they said in unison. When Syaoran made his way towards the door, Aki and Jay shot down every Kin in the room except the one who actually told them the truth of Tsuyoshi's location.

As the door to the roof closed, Aki sat on the chair at the head of the table with all the monitors. "You, give me a hand with this" he ordered, looking at the last of the Kins in the room.

Jay pulled him and sat him beside Aki, still holding up his gun to the man's head.


Sakura looked at the girl in front of her. She had long killed the men who accompanied the sisters and the other girls were preoccupied with the three of them. She on the other hand now faced a new and unexpected opponent.

'Sairi?' she thought in shock.

The girl in front of her didn't hold a gun, and Sakura replaced hers in her holsters. It was pointless anyway since she has run out of bullets.

Sakura looked over to Rika who was nearby and battling it out with one of the twins without her guns as well.

"I'm your target" Sairi called out to her, a knife in hand.

Sakura glared at her and readied herself in a stance.

As soon as she did, Sairi came her way in a series of flips before landing on right in front of her. Sakura blocked her kick with her arms, caught off guard at the girl's speed.

"Fuck" Sakura hissed, sliding across the ground on her knees.

Sairi smirked at her and flipped her knife around. "Don't take me lightly just because we're about the same age. I'm far better than you think I am"

Sakura looked at her. It was obvious that she took the girl for granted the last time they were together. No wonder Tsuyoshi was confident to leave Sairi as her only companion on her last mission as a Kin. This girl's not as innocent as she thought. And Sakura had wondered before why the girl in front of her was so close to the sisters, now she knew, she seemed to be just as good as them.

"Stop staring at me and try to land shot" Sairi hissed mockingly, eyeing Sakura's every move.

Sakura smirked at her and ran towards the girl, her fist missing her by mere inches as she dodged. Every punch and kick she tried to land on her she missed. It was obvious she was far better at martial arts than she was, the girl's agility was impeccable. Landing behind her, Sakura spotted the large piece of one of the broken pillars beside her. Grabbing it and turning swiftly, she aimed it over Sairi's head and sent it across the side of her head as hard as she could just as she swiped her knife across Sakura's torso.

"Shit" Sakura hissed, staggering back as the blade sliced through her clothes. She looked up and saw Sairi thrown back across her but she was still conscious enough to try and stand.

"You cheat!" Sairi called out in a hoarse voice with blood by her lips. Spitting it out, she slowly stood up, knife still in hand.

Sakura also stood up, wincing as she did. The knife cut through her clothes and reached her skin after all. "You have a weapon, it's only fair that I do too"

Sairi glared hard at her, finding her voice to be very familiar. Gripping the side of her head which was throbbing in pain, she made her way towards Sakura, eyes locked on her. Close enough to hit, she raised her knife and swiped again but missing.

Sakura moved out of the way and gripped hard on her wrist.

"Drop it" she hissed at the girl.

"Not until you drop yours" Sairi hissed back as she used her other hand to grab a firm hold on to Sakura's wig. She pulled it off her just as Sakura twisted her wrist and took the knife. Throwing the wig behind her, Sairi looked at the girl in front of her as her honey-colored hair came tumbling down behind her back. "I knew it" she said, glaring hard at Sakura as she kicked herself out of her reach.

Sakura stumbled back and gripped onto her stomach. She kicked the exact area where she swiped her knife earlier and it hurt like hell.

Sairi rolled across the floor and immediately pushed herself off of it and took out the gun she hid secured on the back of her pants.

Holding onto her stomach, Sakura tried to stand up while looking at the girl who had her gun pointed straight at her.

"You dared to come back here?" she asked, almost laughing at the ludicrousness of the situation. "You betrayed us and you dared to come back here and fight me?"

Sakura spit out blood before she came to a full stand, still holding her gaze onto the gun.


"Come out of there you bitch!" Kimi spat, holding her guns up around the ground at the area Tomoyo was currently crouching on.

Tomoyo immediately reloaded her guns before taking several shots that made Kimi jump out of the way and towards the ground as well. They're not getting anywhere with guns, whoever runs out of ammo first will obviously be at the losing end and Tomoyo hoped it wouldn't be here but this was her last round. All she had left was a bunch of the small grenades the boys gave her and it was too risky to use in the already wrecked room.

She looked over to Rika who was already in hand-in-hand combat with one of the twins where as Mei Lin was in the same position as she was, waiting for the first one to run out of bullets.

Before she was about to take a few shots at her target yet again, she spotted Sakura not too far from her. Her wig was off and she looked like she could barely stand. Her gaze fell on the girl who was across gun held gun straight in front of her and at Sakura.

Tomoyo looked around her in a panic at what to do. She had her own predicament but Sakura's position was much worse.

She could use the grenades, neither Rika or Mei Lin would probably get hurt since they were the farthest from them but Sakura and probably her as will surely get hit.

"Damn it" she whispered out. "Alright, calm down Tomoyo" she told herself in a low voice, trying to steady her breathing. Standing up, Tomoyo took her shot at Kimi at the same time Kimi tried to shoot her.

Kimi jumped out of the way and saw Tomoyo change her target. She whipped around and saw Sairi at the end of Tomoyo's aim.

"Sairi!" Kimi called out just in time Tomoyo took her shot. She turned to Tomoyo and fired towards her as well.


Sakura fell to the ground just as the gun shots fired. She looked up and frantically looked around her. Tomoyo was gone, Sairi was on the ground and she saw one of the sisters heading to where they were. Pushing herself up with all she's got, Sakura ran low and towards Sairi and grabbed her gun before jumping behind a fallen pillar.

"Sairi!" she heard one of the sisters call out. "Are you all right?" she asked, turning the girl over on her back.

Sairi didn't reply a word, instead blood ran down to her chin from her mouth and a large blood stain was seen through the hole on her shirt in the middle of her stomach.

"Fuck this!" Kimi screamed, tears streaming down her face which landed on her dead friend's body. She took out her guns and left in a fast pace to where she new Sairi's killer was hiding.


Tomoyo gripped on her right arm where the bullet landed. She could see it inside her arm and it hurt like hell. She winced as she held on to it, willing the blood to stop from seeping out.

"Shit" she hissed, the pain was excruciating.

Then a gunshot sounded and bounced of the broken pillar piece she was leaning on.

Tomoyo screamed and threw herself flat on the floor. She couldn't move the fingers on her right hand at all, the entire arm was numb.

"You killed one of my closest friends you bitch!" Kimi called out not too far from her but she could hear her coming her way. "You'll pay for this!"

Trying to crawl from the spot she was on, Tomoyo pushed her body as fast as she could and towards a more well-hidden spot.

"There you are"

Tomoyo's head snapped up and saw Kimi standing on the broken pillar beside her, gun pointing right at her.

"I'lll make you suffer for what you've done!" she yelled at her.

Thinking of nothing else, Tomoyo kicked her by the ankles, sending her falling beside Tomoyo as she her gun fired towards the air before it slid out of her reach.

Kimi growled and punched her on the stomach several times until Tomoyo managed to kick the side of her head. Watching her crawl away from her reach, Kimi pulled out a knife hidden by her ankle and dug it deep into Tomoyo's right leg letting the girl scream out in pain. Taking her chance, Kimi turned Tomoyo over and pounced right on top of her.

"Die" Kimi hissed darkly, taking out another knife from her other ankle.


"Why don't you die already?" Katsumi spat.

Rika spit out blood as she tried to get up. "You first" she hissed starting to get tired from all the punches and kicks she had to make and block.

"No thank you" she hissed back.

Rika growled as she charged yet again.

Katsumi blocked each of her blows but realized she was slowly pushed towards the hole on the ground behind her. Holding her ground, she blocked Rika's last kick and took hold of her ankle lifted her in the air before slamming her hard on the on her back.

Rika cursed at the pain that shot through her entire body, trying her hardest to ignore it for the time being. Trying to pull herself up, she managed to stand up.

"Now die" Katsumi said calmly, swinging the piece of wood she took from the many broken pieces of wood and rock lying everywhere.

It hit Rika right on the side of her head, sending her falling down the hole.


Spotting Rika and one of the twins fighting not too far from them, Mei Lin back flipped her way towards the hole on the ground and the roof was with Kyoumi's constant shooting aimed at her.

Kyoumi tried to keep up with her but it was hard with all the wounds she already had. She cursed at herself for her disadvantage at being unable to move. Although she was sure she landed a lot of shots on the girl she was aiming for, she knew it wasn't enough if she was still able to move like how she was doing at the moment.

Mei Lin landed firmly beside the hole just as she saw Rika fall down into it. Eyes wide, she turned towards her direction.

"Stop right where you are" Kyoumi hissed, her breathing short. She pointed her gun straight at Mei Lin's head. "Turn around"

Doing as she was told, Mei Lin turned towards the girl she thought wouldn't catch up to her in such a short time. She underestimated her because of the wounds she had.

"Fuck me" she whispered to herself, her guns still in her hands beside her.

Kyoumi saw her grip on her guns tighten. "Throw those away"

Mei Lin looked down the hole behind her.

"Do as I say!" Kyoumi screamed.

Glaring at the girl in front of her, Mei Lin did as she was told and tossed the guns down the hole.

"Now it's my turn" Kyoumi hissed with a manic grin on her face. "I'll make you suffer even more bitch"

Not waiting for any sort of response, Kyoumi aimed and shot Mei Lin on the exact same spot she made on her earlier.

Mei Lin fell to the ground gripping her thigh.

"Feels like hell huh?" Kyoumi mocked. "Don't worry, I'll make your death slow but as painful as possible" she said before aiming Mei Lin's hip where Mei Lin gave her the 2nd wound.

Mei Lin glared at her, shutting her eyes to a close just as a gunshot echoed inside the room.


"Good idea" Sakura whispered from their side before she shot the girl twice on the chest.

Sakura walked over to both girls before falling onto their side and pushing the dead girl off her best friend.

"Tomoyo, are you okay?" she said, pulling her head onto her lap.

Tears started forming in Tomoyo's eyes as she saw Sakura. "Oh my God Sakura" she cried out, tears falling down her pretty face. "I-I thought I was going to die! Thank you" she said, sounding scared to the bone.

"I should be telling you that" Sakura told her, managing a smile. "I would've been dead first if you hadn't shot that other girl"


Katsumi dropped the piece of wood on the ground and let out a deep breath. She looked up to see her twin sister on the opposite side with things under control having just shot the girl on the leg.

Smirking at her sister's spunk, she walked over towards where the red-head she was fighting fell. She inched towards the edge, made sure it was stable before she peeked down.

"Like I said, you first" Rika said menacingly.

The bullet hit the girl right in the middle of her forehead. As the girl fell forward, Rika held on tight onto the bar she had been gripping all this time. She hardly had any strength left to hold, she couldn't manage to swing herself back up.


"No" Kyoumi said in a whisper, as she saw the bullet hit her twin sister. "NOOOOOO!" she screamed hysterically watching as her body fell into the hole.

Mei Lin took the opportunity and slipped out the gun she kept secured in her pants behind her. She immediately took her shot and aimed it at Kyoumi's hand that held the gun.

Kyoumi looked up at the girl in front of her.

"Unlike you, I won't make the same mistake again of giving someone a slow death" she told her curtly before repeatedly shooting the girl on the chest until her gun starting clicking from running out of bullets.

This time, Mei Lin was sure she was dead.

Sighing, she crawled towards the edge of the hole.

"Rika! Are you all right down there?" she called out to the girl who was still dangling in the air, holding onto the piece of the bar that's responsible for holding up the floor below them.

"I'm fine! But I can't hold on for much longer!" she called back. "A-And thanks for the gun by the way!" she added, making Mei Lin smirk. It was lucky enough she tossed her guns behind her back earlier in the right direction.

"No problem, just try to hold on! I'll find a way to get to y-"

Mei Lin stopped, hearing a loud rumbling sound from the outside, until a large light was aimed at the hole from the roof.


"What happened?" Eriol asked, watching as a few of the Wolves entered the building carrying an unconscious Mika and Naoko with Takashi following them carrying an unconscious Chiharu.

"We were attacked by Kins stationed outside the mansion when we made our way out" Takashi replied as he rest Chiharu onto a stretcher before she was taken to a room which was already set up like a hospital's emergency room.

"Are you alright?" Eriol asked, eyeing him for any injuries.

Takashi nodded watching the people inside the hospital-like room move around in a hustle at the new arrivals.

"They'll be fine" Eriol said, patting him on the back. "I'm going in to get the others, you wanna come?"

"Syaoran said not to go back in there. The place might blow up" he pointed out although he already did think about going back once he got Chiharu to safety.

"Some of the guys are going in regardless of Syaoran's orders" Eriol said, pointing to the unfamiliar men behind him. "They're Sakura's family's defense force. They intend to go in there to get Sakura even if they have to fight us for permission. And I'd rather not lose any more men unnecessarily"

Takashi looked over Eriol's shoulder. The men behind him seemed suspicious in his opinion and then he saw a few of them had police badges. He looked back at Eriol as if he were crazy.

"Some of them are in the police, which is why the Kinomoto's have part control of the police. Remember what Fujitaka-san told us before?"

Nodding his head in understanding, Takashi tried to relax. "So what's the plan?"