Chapter 2: The destiny meet

By Shirrlly

There was a stir at the East Palace of Royal Palace. Guards and maids were spreading and calling out the name of someone. "Crown Prince, where are you?"... However, they found him nowhere.

"Oh god, he must have been out of palace. Announce Leader Ly to find him back."

Meantime, a good-looking young man was wandering on the street. He had black hair some of whose hung down on his black eyes. He also wore black glasses with black rim. He was enjoying watching the animated and crowded scenery in front of him and whispering.

"What a fun out here! It's totally different to palace with a pile of rules and annoyed people anytime."

He was Haragizawa Eriol, Crown Prince, the only son of King Urushi and Queen Mieko. Clan Hiragizawa had been keeping the throne more than 100 years. However, it had been a little bit weaker then partly because the King had only one son.

He did not like the luxurious and magnificent but constrained life there. Move over, hundred of servants and pile of rules and manners annoyed him. He was like Sakura in this aspect.

"Why has Sakura been not coming to play with me for a long time? Sakura is so happy that she can go out whenever she wants. Unlike me…"

If Eriol stayed in palace today, he would certainly meet Sakura. He went off so he would meet another girl, not her. So deep in thinking that Eriol did not pay much attention about the street. As a result, he bumped into a girl and dropped her basket. He quickly bent down to pick up for her.

"I'm really sorry. I'm so careless."

"No problem. Do not worry."

'Wow, a soft voice,' Eriol thought and looked up. 'Oh god. She is so beautiful with that long amethyst hair and amethyst limpid eyes. I haven't seen any girl as beautiful as she is."

"Get away!"

Someone called out. Eriol turned and saw a carriage was rushing towards them. He quickly pulled Tomoyo to one side in panic. He pulled her so hard that Tomoyo fell on him. He asked her abruptly.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm okay. Oops! My leg!"

She called out all of a sudden. Eriol helped her up to the pavement and examined her leg.

"You ankle is dislocated. It's all my fault."

"No. If you are not here, I would have been crushed by that horse carriage."

"But if I didn't bump into you, you don't need to stand there to pick things up. Okay, I will take you home and all of your medical bills will be paid by me, right?"

"Oh, I..."

"Okay, decide! What's your name? My name is Eriol, Hiragi Eriol."

"My name is Daidouji Tomoyo. My house's near the South Gate."

As a consequence, Eriol slowly supported Tomoyo home. After coming to her house, he explained everything to Ms. Sonomi and asked for sending doctor there to look after her injure till when her ankle healed. After that, he said goodbye and went away. Ms. Sonomi watched after him and commented.

"He is surely a nobleman!"

~o~0~o~

Eriol had just left Tomoyo's house about a couple of hundred footsteps, he saw a young man wearing military uniform stood on pavement. Eriol gave out a long sigh.

"Syaoran? When did you find out me?"

"Before you came in that house, Your Highness. I thought it'd better to let you hold your responsibility. I just absented one day and you made everything out of order."

"It's rarely you are not by me. I must make use of it."

Syaoran shook his head discouraged. He knew his Crown Prince hated the rigid life in palace. Moreover, that stubborn lady Sakura always poured full his ears words about the interesting world outside palace which caused him more and more fond of the outside life.

"Uhm, my Prince is just 17," Syaoran gave out that sentence without remembering that he was just 18. Perhaps growing up in a family has tradition of being Generals of the Clow Army; furthermore, he was the first and only son so he became mature sooner than the others. It was because of his matureness than his real age, he was put in position as the Leader of East Palace Imperial Guards – protected and supported the Crown Prince.

"Syaoran, send a doctor to that house immediately to take care of lady Daidouji's injure."

"I will do it soon. It's rare to see a beautiful and slender girl like her. Contrast with..."

"Contrast with who?"

"Ah, nothing!"

'Of course, contrast with that stubborn lady Kinomoto Sakura,' Syaoran thought. 'If she is a half as slender as that girl, the palace will be much less noisy.'

~o~0~o~

"Eriol! You're my heir Prince. How can you always indulge in pleasures? How disgraceful it is."

"I apologize you, Father! I just want to learn about the life of people out there."

King was standing right in the Central Chamber of East Palace and yelling at Eriol while he was kneeling in front of him respectfully and remorsefully. He always behaved like that whenever he made mistakes so the King couldn't scold him a lot.

"Your Majesty, please don't scold Crown Prince. Prince knows his fault," Queen Mieko supported Eriol. She was used to this role.

King was very angry with him but because of his respect to Queen, he stopped. He demanded him to stay in palace for self-criticizing. Then, he went away angrily. Queen sighed in relief and advised Eriol some more then followed her husband.

Eriol sighed in relief.

"Oh, everything's over!"

"Prince, are your remorse sincere?" Syaoran sly screwed up his eyes to Eriol.

"Of course. I'm tired. I must rest now." Eriol got confused and went away quickly.

~o~0~o~

The next tomorrow morning, while Eriol was half sleeping, the rays of early morning sunshine outside the windows splashed on his face and the birdcalls on branches forced him to wake up. When he rolled himself deeper into the blanket, intended to sleep a bit more, a loud yell rose outside.

"What? Your haughty! Do you believe that I will teach you a lesson?"

"You can teach whom? Have you forgotten what happened before?"

"I did not lose. Wait to see."

"What causes those noise?" Eriol was furious to be destroyed his sleep.

"Your Highness, that is the quarrel between lady Kinomoto and gentleman Ly."

Hearing the name "Kinomoto", Eriol came out of sleep instantly. He grabbed his glasses on table and rushed to do personal hygiene. 10 minutes later, Eriol came out majestically and spoke with a smile.

"Do you two quarrel again? How can two of you quarrel any time you meet like this?"

"Eriol, you're here. That haughty Syaoran dare tell me that I was unwomanly."

"It's right, isn't it? Do you see any girl behaves like you, your stubborn lady? You cannot be as good as a small part of the girl whom His Highness met yesterday."

"It's enough, Syaoran!"

"Who did you met? Tell me please~!"

Therefore, Eriol told her what happened yesterday and asked her if she could visit Tomoyo for him. He was looking forward to meeting Sakura because he was imprisoned in East Palace. Syaoran was a man and always busy. Sakura was the most suitable one.

"Hoe, the girl who you tell about is Tomoyo? She got injure? Ah, I must visit her."

Sakura ran away so fast that Eriol could spoke any more word. He surprised when Syaoran smiled silently.

"Hey, what do you smile about? What happens to Sakura?"

"Nothing's serious. I'm sure that lady Daidouji is a friend of this stubborn lady."

Eriol understood and respected speechless how quick-witted Syaoran was. He shook his head and went to the table for breakfast.

~o~0~o~

"Tomoyo !" Sakura called out while she had just come in.

"What happens? Why do you run hard?"

"I heard that you got injure. Are you okay? Do you hurt? What do you feel?'

"Calm down. How can I answer all of your questions one time? My ankle was dislocated. It will heal soon. How can you know?"

"Ah, I heard from the one made you injure."

"Do you know gentleman Hiragi? Ah, it's easy to understand. He is a nobleman. It's not strange if two of you know each other?"

Sakura didn't ask her any more questions. She was with Tomoyo all of that day and took care of her friend very, very careful. It was a merely try of her because people had never seen Sakura so slender like this before. If Syaoran saw her this time, he dare not tell any word to despise her.

Eriol and Tomoyo had seen each other. The destiny stared its move. It would take the bad events in the future or not, nobody knew. Eriol and Tomoyo were sitting in two serepate place this time but they both were thinking about the other with full of esteem.

~o~0~o~

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