Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ SAKURA- cherry blossom ❯ Final Round BING! ( Chapter 16 )

SAKURA- cherry blossom

By KangaKilla

Dedicated to: Kapries, sorry that I forgot you last chapter, my wonderful mediaminer reviewer

Disclaimer: CLAMP owns CCS, though in my dreams I own Xiaolang (drools)

KK/ do you know what I have realised, just how sad I am, I seriously wished that there were cartoon guys out there, I seriously reckon that they are much better then the real ones, you know like who framed roger rabbit the movie? Ok well enough about me now on with the chapter

Chapter seventeen: final round, BING!

Sakura stood in the middle of the arena, she had only gotten a small rest from the days fighting and now she was clad in an all black fighting gi (clothes) facing an all blue opponent from Australia, his name Eriol Hiiragizawa. Sakura had not seen this boy at all throughout the tournament but the crowd seemed to have, they all called out for him to win, Eriol smirked at the crowed and turned to Sakura. He held out in front of him Sai (thanks for telling me what those forks tings were) the same weapon that Jayden had used in Sakura's first round. Sakura held out her two samurai swords that Touya had given her after she had won against Xiaolang to use in the final round. Sakura looked around at the supporters most of them were waving red and black flags, there were also many blue and gold flags and the green and white flags were no longer waving. Out of the corner of her eye she could make out the still sulking form of Xiaolang, Sakura smirked, if he hadn't become distracted in their fighting then he would have won, that thought didn't really boost up her confidence, she had won by cheating and so she wasn't sure if she could beat this boy from Australia. They both turned to each other and bowed before going into a fighting stance. Sakura rotated her wrists making her swords circle once before she charged at Eriol. Sakura could feel the strain on her muscles, sure she had had extensive training to make sure that she could endure a day of fighting but that didn't account to the many injuries that she had sustained throughout the day. Eriol thrust his Sai out to capture her swords before they impaled his body and then twisted the Sai to dislodge Sakura's hold on her swords, Sakura intercepting this with a knee to the stomach, she flipped over Eriol's head and pulled out her samurai swords before he could finish the twist. Sakura fel back into a fighting stance to wait for Eriol to attack. Eriol swished his blue hair away from his piercing blue eyes as he watched the colours of the girls aura swirl around her; it was kind of distracting with all the colours pulsating around the place.

They both charged again, looking for any weaknesses in the others defence. Sakura was growing tired of the strike, block rutin and so flipping horizontally over Eriol's ducked head she went to slash at his back when he somersaulted backwards underneath Sakura and flipped her onto her back, pinning her to the ground. Sakura growled, how many times had she let her guard down and ended on her back. Eriol discarded his Sai and pushed Sakura's Samurai swords out of her reach.

"How are you going to get out of this one?" Eriol asked in perfect Japanese. Sakura growled and thrashed around. "How about you do to me what you did to your last opponent?" Eriol asked suggestively, Sakura's eyes widened at what he was insinuating, anger flaring in her eyes and she cursed at him. Eriol tsked Sakura's behaviour. "You know, maybe you just need someone to start it." He said raising an eyebrow.

"Don't you dare" Sakura ground out looking desperately for someway of either dislodging the boy on top of her or signalling to the judges watching that she gave up. She stiffened as she felt Eriol move and slide down a little so that their faces were just centimetres apart.

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Xiaolang glared as the boy Sakura was fighting pinned her underneath him.

"Stupid, she let her guard down AGAIN!" Mei Lin snorted at Xiaolang

"Calm yourself iago, before you give yourself a haemorrhage" Tomoyo giggled and turned her attention back to the fight.

"You know, I at least recognised the other fighters from the Australian crew, but I don't remember ever seeing that guy there" Mei Lin and Xiaolang turned to Tomoyo and shrugged, their eyes going back to the struggling Sakura.

Xiaolang's eyes narrowed

"What is he doing?" He asked in a low voice, he could tell right away that Sakura was not comfortable being in such close proximity with the other boy and then the boy slid down her, Xiaolang snarled and was about to charge into the arena when Mei Lin held him back

"Wait, see what Sakura does." Xiaolang tried to get out of Mei Lin's grasp when Tomoyo latched herself on to him, keeping him put. Xiaolang's eyes flared with protectiveness and his aura flashed around him, he had never felt something like this before, it gave him a new strength and he pushed the girls away from him just as Eriol lent down and kissed Sakura roughly on the lips. Crying out in an animalistic rage Xiaolang charged only to be stopped by some kind of force field around the arena.

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Sakura's eyes widened in fright as the boy on top of her attacked her mouth with his rough passionate kisses, an anger over took her that was absolutely powerfully taking control of her actions, her already spiralling aura seemed to brighten and with a new found strength she pushed Eriol off of her and stood up, she had heard Xiaolang's cry of outrage and she desperately wanted to get back to him for some reason. Growling at Eriol she kicked him while he was still down, spitting out his taste from her mouth, she continued with her attacks beating him senseless, her mind seemed no longer in control of her body, the only thoughts running through her head were `kill the enemy, get back to safety.' That safety was Xiaolang. Retrieving her Samurai Swords Sakura stalked predatorily up to Eriol's groaning body where she stood over him, she lifted up her swords over her head, rotating them in the air so that they glinted in the afternoon sun light before she made the downwards plunge, Her swords stopped in mid air just millimetres from Eriol's body, all the on lookers that were no magical thought that Sakura had just stopped herself to give the final declaration that she was the winner but that was not it at all, magic had stopped the sword from going any further, Sakura bared her teeth in frustration before discarding her swords and heading back to her safety.

The barrier had come down and Xiaolang ran into the arena to capture Sakura in his arms, he cradled her protectively and possessively while Sakura just stayed in his arms, both of them calmly snapping out of their weird state of uncontrollable anger. Both looked at each other for a moment, mirroring the others fear, they had just delved into a new part of their magic and it scared them for they had both felt that it was an uncontrollable force and that it was very dangerous to everyone around them. Sakura shuddered while Xiaolang held her tighter taking comfort in the others presence.

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Ardru sat panting still inside the room, the candles had burned out and he could feel the evil power of Shiienpo. Smirking he stood up ready to go back to the arena to see who had won the martial arts tournament. It would be a while before Shiienpo made it to Hong Kong to give Ardru everything he wanted.

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Sakura stood there a little dazed as everyone congratulated her, Touya handed her back her Samurai swords where she sheathed them behind her back. She was going to get her prize money and trophy.

"Announcing SAKURA KINOMOTO the WINNER of the ZAIOZU MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT for 2002 in HONG KONG!" the announcer stated smiling and pulling at Sakura's arm to bring it above her head. Sakura smiled weakly just wanting to go to her bed, a day of fighting then some weird magical thing that happened to her was enough for one day. Sakura kept on taking glances at Xiaolang who wasn't far from her side watching patiently, they had to have a talk about what they had discovered and soon… well maybe after a nice long sleep. Sakura excused herself, her eyes were drooping and she was almost constantly yawning. The crowed groaned saying they wanted to talk to her more but Sakura just apologised and almost ran to her room, Xiaolang not far behind.

Sakura waited for Xiaolang to catch up before she flopped onto her bed, Xiaolang lying besides her. They both looked into each other's eyes.

"I'm scared" Sakura whispered, her hand going up to touch Xiaolang's face softly. Xiaolang frowned at her and pulled her closer to him.

"You don't have to be… not while I'm here" he whispered into her ear pulling the covers over the both of them and safely tucking Sakura tightly to him, he smiled softly down at Sakura who was already out like a light, he kissed her forehead before closing his eyes himself, but before he drifted off to sleep he sighed one word

"Aiishiteru"

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KangaKilla: ok I don't know if I spelt that right but you all know what im talking about. Mwhahaha you were wondering when I was going to bring Eriol in weren't you? Well I was! Even thought there is no clow book I still thought it necessary to give Tomoyo a guy also Mei Lin will get one too. Ok I know I made Eriol seem err how shall I put this a little demanding, nasty and stuff like that (OOC) or whatever, I had to make him appear evil so that Xiaolang doesn't forgive him, you know how Xiaolang detests Eriol well now he actually has a good reason to, in my story I mean, yeah! Thanks for those reviews, I love them: D rock on people.