A/N: We are so sorry for the delay!! You know that fanfiction has been down lately and we couldn't upload the next chapter. But to ake it up... we present the last two chapters! YEY! We finally finished this!! Anyway, we also have to inform that Miss Stardust has formally found a new nickname, so you can all call her *Kisaki Tenshi* from now on. If you're wondering were we got it from... well, that's when happens you start reading a Japanese dictionary!!
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Chapter 6: Morning problems.
Next morning, Eriol woke up first. He slowly opened his eyes and yawned, it usually took him a while before he completely woke up, but when he tried to move he felt resistance.
He turned his head to his right and found a sleeping person that was hugging him as a pillow. The scenes of the past day came to his mind when he recognized the sleeping person. It was Tomoyo, she had her arm over his chest and her head was resting on his shoulder.
He smiled to himself, but then his expression changed when he felt something under the covers. That's when he noticed that not only her arm was wrapping him, but also her leg, fact that made him a little uncomfortable.
"Mmmhh.... Eriol...." She murmured in her sleep.
He raised an eyebrow and then started grinning. Tomoyo was dreaming about him? who knew what kind of dreams they were...?
"... let go of me!" She cried still sleeping.
Eriol sighed and rolled his eyes. He decided to get up from bed, but was suddenly stopped when Tomoyo started stretching her arms and leg. His eyes widened when he felt the movement under the covers, although he tried to ignore them, he just couldn't.
*Please wake up, please wake up, please wake up....* He thought when finally she stopped moving and slowly opened her eyes.
She looked up at him, smiled and then closed her eyes again. It took her a while before she realized that Eriol was on the same bed as her and she was actually hugging him!
"AHH!!!" She cried sitting up and letting go of him. "What are you doing in my bed?!?!"
Eriol sighed. "First of all, this isn't your bed, it's my bed... and second..." He finished indicating the handcuffs still attached to their wrists.
"Oh, yeah... I forgot..." She said blushing.
"Looks like you had a good night sleep." He murmured getting up from the bed and dragging her along.
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, you had quite a pleasant dream... did you know you talk while you sleep?"
"Nani?? I don't talk while I sleep!!"
"Oh, really? Then how come I know you were dreaming about me?" He asked eying her suspiciously.
Tomoyo blushed. "Well, for your information... it was a nightmare!" She declared and then crossed her arms in front of her chest pulling him closer to her.
He grinned at her, it was that evil grin. "Sure it was..."
They entered the bathroom and Eriol stood in front of the sink.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"I'm going to brush my teeth..." He answered with his toothbrush in his hand.
Eriol turned on the water and then splashed some on his face. He spread some toothpaste over his toothbrush and took it to his mouth.
"Hey, you're dripping toothpaste on my hand." She cried when some white paste fell on her hand.
"Sorry..." He said with the toothbrush in his mouth.
He finished brushing his teeth, put some water in his mouth and then spit it out. He looked up to the mirror in front of him, then took the towel and dried his face.
"Are you going to brush your teeth?" He asked looking at her.
"Of course!" She answered taking the spare toothbrush Sakura brought for her last night. She then spread some toothpaste on the brush and proceeded to brush her teeth.
Eriol's hand was pulled to her face and was slowly caressing her cheek with every movement she made while brushing her teeth.
He never thought that her light skin will be so smooth.
"Can you put your hand down?" Tomoyo asked trying to put down her toothbrush, but failed when she was stopped by a tug.
Eriol cleared his throat. "Sorry..."
After she finished washing, they both turned their attention to the bathtub.
"Let's wait until Sakura-chan and Li-kun are here..." Eriol said. Tomoyo immediately agreed and then they headed downstairs.
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Tomoyo slowly and very carefully stepped down the stairs, doing her best not to fall down. When she finally reached the last step, Eriol smiled and clapped his hands.
"See?... I knew you could do it without falling." Eriol said grinning.
"Oh, shut up!" She said sending him an evil glare.
He was about to say something, when the doorbell rang.
"That's probably Sakura-chan and Li-kun." He said as he walked up to the door and opened it, letting in Sakura and Syaoran.
"Ohayo, Sakura-chan, Li-kun!" Eriol greeted politely.
"Ohayo!" Sakura said happily. "I see that you're up already... sleep well?"
"It could have been better..." Tomoyo murmured yawning.
Eriol grinned evilly. "That's not what you said when we woke up."
Sakura and Syaoran turned to see Tomoyo, who was now blushing at the insinuation. "What is that suppose to mean??" She demanded.
"Oh, you know what I mean..." He commented still wearing his usual smile.
In response Tomoyo only shot him an evil glare.
"Well... I think we better fix you some breakfast, how about it?" Syaoran asked.
Tomoyo and Eriol shared glares for a while. "Actually..." Tomoyo started, looking at the floor.
"... we wanna take a bath." Eriol finished.
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Sakura turned on the water to fill the bathtub. She put her hand to check the water's temperature and since it was a little cold she opened the hot water and then let it run.
"Perfect!" She said drying her hand on the towel and then head out of the bathroom to get things ready.
Meanwhile, Syaoran was in the bedroom with Eriol and Tomoyo, explaining how thing were gonna work out.
"Well... since you decided to take your bath in the bathtub..." He said but was interrupted by Eriol.
"She decided." He corrected.
Then they brought up the subject, another fight started. Tomoyo wanted to take a nice relaxing bath in the bathtub while Eriol just wanted to take a cold shower. And as usual, Tomoyo ended up winning the discussion.
"Whatever..." Syaoran continued. "We'll just have to take turns. While Daidouji baths, you'll wait blindfolded and then vice versa."
"That's a very easy way to put it, but..." Tomoyo said thoughtfully. "What about when it comes to switching places?"
Syaoran opened his mouth to answered that, but was stopped when he realized that he didn't have an answer for that one. "Let's not get into that yet... we'll figure something when the time comes."
"Sure we will..." Eriol commented sarcastically when Sakura came out of the bathroom.
"Your bath is ready!" She announced.
"Well... here goes nothing." Eriol said turning to see Tomoyo, who was trying her best not to blush. She only hopped that things turned out well this time...
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Tomoyo took a deep breath and relaxed. She finally got a little time to settle down quietly in a nice warn bubble bath, just what she needed after all the things she had been through. Although she could be better if she didn't have to wear a towel under the water, but of course it was better to be sure that nothing will be showing.
She closed her eyes and thought about everything that had been happening to her. She had to admit that although she was mad at Eriol at the beginning of everything, he sure knew how to win her friendship back. And he was probably now gaining something else besides her friendship... her heart.
She opened her eyes again and turned to see him. Eriol was turned around facing the door with his eyes blindfolded and his left hand behind his back, so she was comfortable.
She wondered what was going through his mind that very moment. Eriol Hiiragizawa sometimes seemed the most distant person she ever knew, cold, serious and mysterious. But other times, he was the sweetest thing ever, polite, caring and happy. Although she liked both personalities, she wondered which one was the real one.
Tomoyo was starting to get bored of her conversation with her mind, so decided to talk to Eriol. The only problem was that she didn't like when she was talking to somebody and the other person was not looking at her.
"Eriol-kun?" She asked.
"Yeah?" He answered without turning around.
She remained silent for a moment. She didn't know if she should ask him to turn around or not, since they weren't very close... but thanks to the power of the handcuffs she felt really close to him, no matter if she wanted to admit it or not.
"What is it?" He asked again, beginning to feel a little frustrated since he couldn't see what was happening.
"You can turn around if you want to... the bubbles are covering me." She finally said, while her cheeks turned pink.
Eriol hesitated for a moment. Not seeing anything made him uncomfortable, so he removed the blindfold and turned around.
And the moment he did so, he felt his heart stop. His mouth suddenly felt dry and dropped open, and his eyes widened when he saw Tomoyo. She had her hair pulled up in a bun and two locks fell down to her sides. Indeed she was covered by the bubbles, but she was also showing her bared shoulders and knees.
"Are you all right?" Tomoyo asked a little confused when she saw the expression on his face.
He immediately snapped back to reality and closed his mouth. "Uuh... yeah, I'm fine!" He answered a little embarrassed.... he felt embarrassed?? What the--?
There was an awkward silence for a while, Eriol felt like he needed to say something, but Tomoyo spoke first.
"... thank you."
Eriol thought he heard wrong. Did she just said thank you to him?
"What for?" He asked a little confused and surprised.
"Well... since we got locked up together you've been very nice to me... well, sometimes. But I know that... you always do your best to make me feel comfortable."
"What exactly do you mean?"
"I mean you letting me watch my tapes even thought you didn't want to watch them, letting me sleep on the right side of the bed even thought you felt uncomfortable and letting me take a bubbles bath..." She said blushing a little at the last comment.
Eriol couldn't help but to smile. "I know that you feel very uncomfortable because you're attached to me and I'm just trying to make it a little better... after all this was my fault, not yours."
"This isn't your fault... it's Li-kun's fault."
And in some other part of the house, Syaoran sneezed.
"I suppose you're right..." He said grinning evilly. He never missed a chance to blame his cute descendant about what happened.
Tomoyo smiled. "And... you know what? I don't feel uncomfortable because I'm with you..." She said blushing slightly.
"You are not? I thought you were mad at me because of what I said about your dress?" He asked razing an eyebrow.
"Well, I was mad... but you said you were sorry, right?"
"At that moment I was only saying it because you were gonna go ultrasonic..."
"WHAT?!" She asked getting a little mad.
"But now..." He finished before she could get madder. "I am seriously sorry about what I said." He said giving her a serious look. This time, he was telling the truth, not because he didn't want her to get mad, but because he did feel that way.
Tomoyo smiled, she knew that this time he was serious. "Well then... apology accepted."
And suddenly, another link shortened. Tomoyo raised her hand from the water and stared at the handcuffs.
"Look... it shortened another link." She said smiling a little.
"Hai..." He said with a serious look on his face.
"What's wrong?"
"No, nothing." He answered thoughtfully, still looking at the handcuffs. *Can it be possible...?* He asked himself and then turned so see Tomoyo.
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"Hmm... don't you think they're taking to long?" Asked Sakura while she sat on the chair by the big window in Eriol's bedroom.
"Maybe they decided to switch places already." Syaoran commented.
They both shared glares for a while and then said in unison. "Naaaahhh..."
"I'm going to check, maybe Tomoyo needs help." She said and then got up from her seat and went to the bathroom, but before she entered a strange noise caught her attention.
She could swear she heard giggles and splashes coming from the bathroom, but that was impossible! She put her ear on the door to hear better and indeed, those noises were coming from the bathroom.
"Hoe?" She asked confused. "Syaoran... can you come here a minute?"
"What?" Asked Syaoran as he approached her, but froze when he heard the noises coming from the bathroom. "Is that coming from the bathroom?" He asked unsure.
Sakura nodded. "I think so..."
Syaoran got closer to the door, he put his ear on it and then backed away. "It is coming from the bathroom." He said while the giggling and splashing continued.
"Do you think we should..?" But before Sakura could finish, Syaoran opened the door and everyone fell into a awkward silence.
In the bathtub were both Eriol and Tomoyo all wet and covered in bubbles, not to mention that the floor was also under the same conditions. (Remember that they were both wearing towels so nothing could be seen!)
In the entrance of the bathroom were Sakura and Syaoran with quite confused faces, and still wondering what was happening in there.
Eriol was the first one to break the silence by clearing his throat and removing his glasses that were covered with bubbles. "May we help you?"
Syaoran and Sakura were still froze and still wondering if this was real. Syaoran pinched his arm to make sure he wasn't dreaming, and the only thing that Sakura could was...
"... hoooeeee???!"
"We kinda got bored...?" Tomoyo tried to explain blushing furiously.
"Kinda?" Asked Syaoran raising an eyebrow.
"Kinda..." Confirmed Eriol not wanting to go to any further details about it. It was enough embarrassment for one day...
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A/N: *Giggles* Well that was fun to write! Sugoi! Hope you all liked it and don't forget to read the next and final chapter! Please review if you feel like it! *Secretly begs: Please fell like it, please feel like it... *
