CCS (Card Captor Sakura) does not belong to me. Anything related to this manga, other than this fanfic, belongs to CLAMP
Chapter 2: More than friendship?
"Eriol-kun, I just noticed, but where is Akizuki-san and Spinel-san. I thought they follow you everywhere, isn't that what the guardians do?" asked Sakura, on their way to her house, trying to say the last part of the sentence soft but loud enough for Eriol to hear her talking through the crowded bus, "I can't because it'll be weird for a grade 6 girl to have a high school student following me around, and Kero-chan just can't keep still in my bag."
Eriol answered, "Well, Nakuru is staying with Ms. Mizuki. She had found a new hobby of accompanying Ms. Mizuki to the university while hooking up with some "cute" guys; and I believe she is annoying your big brother very much by sending tons of e-mails from Ms. Mizuki's home computer. As for Spinel, I didn't say that he didn't come with me." Just at that moment, Spinel Sun poped out of Eriol's backpack. "Eriol, did you call for me, what do you…….."
Eriol pushes Spinel back into the bag, much in the same style as Sakura would have done to Kero. The people are turning to look at Eriol, but he just returned a gentle smile to every one of them. Tomoyo, standing behind Eriol, is just thinking about her reactions about seeing Eriol at the airport when the bus suddenly jerked at the red light. The people on the bus did their best to keep still, but some pushes Tomoyo off-balance.
"Ahhhh," Tomoyo cried as she stumbled into Eriol's hands. She looked at Eriol, her heart and her eyes shied away from him, "Uhhhh... thank you, Hiragizawa-kun. I'm sorry for your trouble of catching me." Eriol gives her a smile that somehow means more than a "You're welcome" and said, "No problem, Tomoyo-chan, are you hurt?" "No, I'm alright, thank you very much," Tomoyo said in return. Meilin saw the whole incident and her eyes flashed with a hint of ecstatic anticipation of some REALLY interesting might happen in Eriol's stay in Japan.
"Welcome to our house, Tomoyo-chan and Meilin-chan. Ah, aren't you Eriol-kun who helped Sakura with the gardening work, welcome, welcome," said Fujitaka Kinomoto, Sakura's dad, greeting each one of them politely while inviting them into the house. The group moved up into Sakura's room; "I'll bring up the tea and the sweet, just wait a second," said Sakura.
"Yo, Suppie, long time no see," shouted Kero, the symbol of the Sun and one of the guardian of Sakura cards, "What have been up to?" "Not much, and you're still as silly and foolish," answered Spinel, cleaning himself after he comes out of the bag.
"What?! Did you say anything?" asked Kero, while jumping toward Spinel. "Go away from me," said Spinel, while backing away from Kero.
"Kero-chan, Spinel-san, don't fight in my house," said Sakura, bringing the tea and sweet into her room. Tomoyo stands up to take the teapot and the cups from and began serving tea to everyone. "Ummmmmmmm... sweet and tea always goes together quite nicely," said Kero, while stuffing a whole bunch of cookies into his mouth, "Suppie, do you want some candies?" "No thanks, and in case you've forgotten, I get drunk when I eat sweet," answered Spinel and continue to drink his tea.
"I have to go shopping for my mom because I haven't bought the items my mom needs. You people can continue to enjoy the tea, have fun!" said Tomoyo, while walking to the door. "Tomoyo-chan, wait, I'll go with you, I have to buy my toothbrush and toothpaste as well," said Eriol, standing up to follow Tomoyo. Tomoyo didn't answered, but leave the door open so that Eriol can come out as well.
"Hey, Meilin-chan, what happened to Tomoyo-chan? She always act weird whenever I talk about Shaoran-kun and she gets clumsy and quiet when Eriol is there, what is happening to her?" asked Sakura, with a worried tone. Tomoyo is her best friend, and she doesn't want Tomoyo to have any problems that she can't handle herself.
"Well, Kinomoto-san, Daidouji-san is totally fine. Instead of "acting weird", I would prefer to call it "more than friendship" emotion," answered Meilin, shaking her head when Sakura asked her "More than friendship?" Meilin turned and looked out the window and sighed, "Now I'm the only one left," she whispered softly to herself.
