Enigma Personified

By:Krizzie

Disclaimer:I don't own CCS

A/N: Wii! After the stupendous reviews… I've decided to write another chappie. This is unrelated to the first one… but maybe if you squint a bit you'll be able to make out a connection. ; Hehe… hope you enjoy! And don't forget to…

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"Are you sure this is quite needed, Daidouji?"

Li's skepticism was thoroughly bothering her, though Tomoyo tried effortlessly to hide her irritation. But still… how a man who loved her Sakura-chan so much could doubt this plan was beyond her.

"I call making sure of Sakura's well-being pretty important, don't you think, Li-kun?" Tomoyo asked in her sweet, sweet saccharine voice that only made Syaoran scowl.

"You are manipulating me, Daidouji-chan." he bit out quite harshly.

She laughed. "You're seeing too much, Li-kun."

He looked away, obviously put out at her lack of negative reaction. Tomoyo had too much patience, in his opinion. Even Meiling would occasionally succumb to his baiting and walk away. But this girl had the guts to laugh at him! The respected heir to the LI'S!!! It was enough to make him want to rip his hair out.

"Fine." he said at last, ignoring the grin that grew on her lips as he admitted defeat. "Suppose I agree with this, what are you planning to do, exactly?"

Tomoyo slipped the colored glasses that kept her hair in place to the bridge of her nose, letting her hair fall out like a curtain to cover half of her face.

"There's nothing better to explain it with than a live demonstration." she announced proudly, leaving Syaoran to think for himself.

--

They were at Penguin Park, and to everyone's astonishment, Sakura was wearing her plain, old —though admittedly cute— Tomoeda uniform.

The auburn-haired girl couldn't help but ask, "What… no costumes or videotapes, Tomoyo-chan?"

Tomoyo smiled, looking almost apologetic than actually dying inside. "Forgive me, Sakura-chan. If only situation permits… but I must run along now to do something. Promise you'll tell me everything?"

Sakura nodded lightly. "Sure, Tomoyo-chan. But this isn—

"Good! Thank you, Sakura-chan! Ja ne!"

Sakura turned to Kero, blinking. "Did I miss something…?"

--

Li kicked off the clump of leaves before slumping down beside her. Tomoyo ignored him and continued filming, disappointed with the lack of progress. Li, obviously bored, decided to comment.

"If he had some magical ability or the sort, he would be aware of what we're doing, you know."

Tomoyo merely glanced at him. "That's why you're here; to make sure everything goes smoothly."

"I don't have that kind of magic."

"You kick butt. That's enough for me."

Li could only look at her incredulously.

--

Tomoyo looked at her notes, or lack thereof, in disdain. She didn't expect Eriol to be so… well… boring.

"I had a feeling this would come to this." Syaoran said dismissively. He had just returned to the vending machine and handed her a cold can of juice. Tomoyo said her thanks before wiping the lid with the edge of her handkerchief. When she had opened it and was about to take a sip, he sat down on the bench beside her.

He was surprised when she suddenly laughed.

"What's so funny?"

Tomoyo ceased her giggles and turned sideways at him. "You know, if I didn't know any better, I would've thought this looked like a date."

Li's face quickly exploded into an assortment of cherry shades after she said this, and tried to hide it by shielding his face with his bangs.

"Indeed. I came to the same conclusion myself."

Tomoyo turned just in time to be nose to nose with the subject of their attention. He was wearing a perfume, very distinct, but alluring enough to make her head spin. He stepped back and smiled.

"Stalking me now, Daidouji-san? Sakura-chan hadn't been disappointing you, had she?"

She huffed uncharacteristically, looking away fast enough that her hair fanned out gracefully in the air. "Of course not! Actually, Li-kun and I are having a serious discussion about a matter that intimately involves Sakura-chan! Isn't that right, Li-kun?" Li could feel his skin prickle at the threat in her gaze.

His smile didn't waver. "But you sounded like you were joking, Daidouji-san."

She really couldn't get over how he could manage to sound polite and insulting at the same time, but decided not to get too concerned about it.

"Indeed I was. And it was about Sakura-chan." Oh dear Lord, Tomoyo thought instantly, did I just lie???

Eriol's cock of the head indicated that he found this amusing.

Flustered, Tomoyo stood up and grabbed Li's wrist, dragging him along with her all the while trying to avoid looking at him in the eye. "Goodbye, Eriol-san. Forgive me for the sudden departure, but I have something to do."

"Always the evasive one, eh?" He waved slightly. "Off you go then."

She nodded and stormed away, aware of Syaoran's accusatory stare. Her grip only loosened after being safely out of Eriol's fifty feet radius.

"Let me guess, this hadn't been about Sakura at all." he frowned as he dusted himself off, suddenly feeling betrayed and put-out. "You just wanted to dig up stuff about Eriol."

Tomoyo had the grace to look embarrassed. "Of course it was about Sakura-chan! She's getting a bit too friendly with him and I wanted to see whether or not he would be worth the attention!" She brought her finger up sternly. "Only the best people could interact with her, after all!"

Li gave her a sly look. "And did he pass?" The subtext did not escape her, but she decided to play along. This was Syaoran, after all.

"With flying colors."


A/N: Well, how was it? I hope you liked the ending! I'm not very good with those… but I did my best!

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I noticed something… I seem to be fond of making Eriol pop up suddenly behind Tomoyo… hehe… maybe because she's just too cute when she's caught off-guard.