AN: Ok here's the next chapter, I hope you'll like it. Thanks for those who reviewed the first chapter as in THANK YOU I'm glad you liked it. In addition, yes, Taki and Aki are different from one another; it is not a typo error. Aki is Taki's younger sibling I just can't think of any names during that time. ^_^
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Forbidden Passion
Chapter 2
"Mistress Tomoyo, its time to wake up" Clara shake Tomoyo lightly before going to the window, moving the thick curtains, and letting the sun in. Clara was Tomoyo's nanny since she was five and ever since Clara was like a second mother to her.
Tomoyo stretched out in her king size bed, yawning as she face the direction of her long time nanny. Upon seeing Clara she smiled sweetly and then rolled to the other side of the bed and closed her eyes again. Clara just laughed at Tomoyo's action and then went over to wake her again.
"Mistress Tomoyo, wake up" Clara said, shaking Tomoyo lightly. Tomoyo groaned lazily shaking Clara's hand away and burying her head through her pillows
"Mistress, wake up" Clara continued
"But its still to early" Tomoyo muffled from her pillows, Clara laugh lightly at her remark
"Mistress, your Mother wanted to talk to you about something before she go to work" Clara said
"What is it about?" Tomoyo finally said after a few minutes, turning around to look at her nanny
"I think... it's about the party" Clara answered, hands at her jaws, looking up, thinking if that is what Sonomi wanted to tell her daughter.
"Oh, really? What about it?" Tomoyo asked as she finally decided to get up.
"Oh, I don't know why don't you go and ask her" Clara said while putting dark violet hair behind Tomoyo's ears, and then cupping her cheeks. Tomoyo smiled and then
"Oh, all right I'll talk to her. I hope it's not about those suitors again" Tomoyo replied getting out of her bed.
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Sonomi's door was open, so Tomoyo decided to come in. She looked around for her mother finding that she was seated at her dresser putting on some make-up.
"Good morning mother" Tomoyo said, walking towards her mother's bed lying down on it. Sonomi smiled and turned around looking at her daughter.
"Morning sweetie" Sonomi replied, walking towards her daughter
"Clara told me, you wanted to talk about the party," Tomoyo said, sitting up and looking at her mother with one of her eyebrow raised. Sonomi nodded smiling at her daughter.
"Yes dear. I want you to be beautiful tonight, so I scheduled one of the best make-up artist to fix you up"
"But mom, what for? I mean Clara is good on applying make, why can't she do it. She's my nanny after all," Tomoyo asked whining. Sonomi shook her head, sat beside Tomoyo, and placed her hands on her shoulder.
"Tomoyo tonight is special. You need to look angelic on your angel costume and you must look presentable to my guest" Sonomi said, looking at her daughters beautiful eyes
"I'm already presentable enough, and it's only a party with your friends and associates and I already knew some of them. What's so special about it? " Tomoyo answered. Sonomi's smile grew wider
"Well, tonight is special because you're going to meet your future fiancé" Sonomi said. Tomoyo's eyes grew wide and suddenly stood up away from her mother.
"What?! Fiancé, how could this be? I don't even have a boyfriend!?!" Tomoyo said, shocked at her mother's revelation. She started pacing back and fort in front of her mother saying things hard to understand "HowCouldThisBeI'mToYoungToBeMarriedIDon'tWantToBeMarried" Sonomi shook her head she knew this would be her daughter's reaction.
"Tomoyo calm down, you will like this guy. He is really nice and sweet" Sonomi said standing up and walking towards her daughter to stop her form pacing.
"But Mom I don't want to get married, I'm still to young" Tomoyo said as her mother place her hands on her shoulder's to stop her from pacing.
"Tomoyo I hope you'll understand. This is your father's last wish before he died, he wanted you to be married to this guy as his promise to his best friend. And beside this will make our company stronger because his family has a great influence in our society" Sonomi said looking straight at her daughter's sad eyes.
"But mom..." Tomoyo complained
"No, buts honey, you will meet him tonight. Now go on, go out with your friends or something but be back three hours before the party, I still have to pick up Taki in the hospital" Sonomi said looking at her watch.
Tomoyo raised her eyebrows once again, "Why mom? what happened?" Tomoyo asked. Sonomi just shook her head.
"Your cousin got in to another fight with his gang. Now go on I don't want to keep him waiting" Sonomi said as she led Tomoyo out of her room. Tomoyo started to protest again about the fiancé thing
"Mom..."
"A a a, I don't want to talk anymore of this, you will meet him tonight and that's final" Sonomi stated shaking her head to dismiss any protest.
"Fine" Tomoyo said walking out of the room, bowing her head as she walks to her room sadly.
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"Hey, man loosen up" Yamazaki said, as he sat beside Eriol on the couch.
"How could I loosen up, if one of our member and friend died and the other was sent to the U.S." Eriol said looking down. Danny was sent to the U.S. to stay for a while and for him to recover and to prevent him and Taki from killing one another.
"We can't do anything about, its been five days since it happened and ever since you look like shit" Syaoran said standing in front of the two on the couch.
"I should have stop Danny from punching that guy" Eriol groaned
"Man don't blame yourself, its not you fault. The two are bastard, Danny being sensitive and Taki is just really hard headed, and high tempered, they started the fight not you. So loosen up" Syaoran said as he plopped down on the other side of his best friend, shaking Eriol's shoulder in a friendly way.
"Yeah man, Li is right. It's not your fault they started it not you, right guys?" Yamazaki said turning around to face their other members.
"Yeah boss" some of them said aloud. Yamazaki smiled facing Eriol again.
"See Eriol they believe you" he said
"I guess you're right" he said as he look up at the others
"So, you're going with us to this party and have a good time" Syaoran said
"Party? You know I hate parties " Eriol said raising one of his eyebrows
"Yeah party, you will go with us whether you like it or not" Yamazaki said making Eriol face him and looking at his eyes with his hard and determined look. Syaoran just laughed at Eriol's shock face.
"Understood? No buts!! That's final!!" Yamazaki added determined to drag Eriol to the party.
"Don't worry man, you'll like this party" Syaoran said patting Eriol's back with a wicked smile. Eriol look at Syaoran's face, he hate the way Syaoran smile at him it means bad.
"What else can I do, you two are determined to drag me to that party whether I like it or not" Eriol said slumping back at the couch.
"Good Leader" Yamazaki patted Eriol's head. Eriol shrugged his hands off giving Yamazaki a harsh look. Syaoran just laughed at the two.
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The party was a blast; the designs are great and very artistic and the lights are amazing. The sounds are great too, the food was the best, and her mother invited the best band to perform for the night's party. Guests were everywhere each one different costumes to sooth their taste. Everyone is enjoying the party, some are dancing, and others are chatting in their respective tables and corners.
While the guests are enjoying, Tomoyo sat sadly at her room, staring at her reflection in her mirror when a knock was heard at her door.
"Yes, come in" she said turning around and facing her door. Her cousin entered followed by one of her close friend.
"Tomoyo, what's wrong? Why aren't you down stairs?" Sakura Kinomoto asks. She and her companion step closer towards Tomoyo. The Kinomoto's are also one of the major family mentioned earlier and Sakura is Tomoyo's cousin and best friend.
"Yeah, is something wrong?" Chiharu Mihara added. Meanwhile the Mihara's are also influential but only in Asia not as strong as the ten major families.
Sakura sat beside Tomoyo placing her arm around Tomoyo's shoulder in a comforting way.
"Tell me what's wrong" Sakura said worriedly at Tomoyo. Tomoyo smiled and shook her head
"Nothing's wrong" she said
"Really, are you sure?" Chiharu asks
"Yeah, I'm sure" Tomoyo nodded. Sakura looked at her cousin carefully and then shrugged. If Tomoyo said so, you couldn't force anything out of her you'll just have to find out for yourself.
"Ok, then if you said so. Let's go down and have fun and would you please relax you looked tense" Sakura said pulling Tomoyo up and dragging her towards the door.
"Yeah, Tomoyo cheer up, its your family's party after all, so enjoy" Chiharu said helping Sakura drag Tomoyo out of her room. Tomoyo smiled at her two friends thinking that nothing would happen to her if she just sit around and be sad.
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"Hey guys, is this where the party is taking place" Eriol said pointing towards the big gate of the Daidouji mansion as they came closer to the house with cars lined up outside waiting to get inside.
"Yup, the party will take place here," Syaoran said, nodding as he gets in line with his black C70 Volvo convertible.
"You're joking me right? How could we get in, we need to have an invitation like the other guests," Eriol said
"Relax man, I have this" Yamazaki said from the backseat raising an elegant cream envelope. Eriol turned around to look at Yamazaki. Upon seeing the envelope Eriol's eyes narrowed
"Where did you get that?" Eriol said with a hint of authorization in his voice
"Man, don't be mad, I did nothing, Syaoran's girlfriend gave it to us " Yamazaki said rubbing Eriol's shoulder.
"Fine we have an invitation but Taki is surely in there and I don't want any trouble" Eriol said sternly
"I said relax, he will not recognize us while were wearing are costume and mask, just don't take it off when he's around" Yamazaki said as he sat back down lazily at the backseat. Syaoran just grunted at the two watching Yamazaki through his rear view mirror.
"Ok fine, if you said so. I cannot believe I let the both of you drag me into this" Eriol said shaking his head.
"Don't worry man, you'll love it here and please don't let the guard recognize you" Syaoran grinned, patting Eriol's shoulder.
They stop at the gate, the guard looked at them, and Eriol turned around avoiding the guard's eyes. If the guard recognize him as the leader of the Alpha-Mega group, it will cause a big commotion.
Syaoran handed him the invitation. The guard took and looked at it and then motioned them to go in. The guard stared at Eriol's back trying to remember where he had seen him, 'I think, I recognize that face but that can't be, it's impossible' he thought shaking his head.
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"Hey guys its good that you made it" Sakura said as she saw her boyfriend standing at the side of the ballroom hall. Syaoran smiled as he turned around to meet Sakura together with Chiharu.
"Have you've been standing here for long?" Sakura asks as Syaoran gave her a light kiss on the cheeks.
"Nope, we've just arrived" Yamazaki said, giving Chiharu a kiss as Syaoran did. Syaoran then turned around towards Eriol.
"Sakura, you remember Eriol, right?" motioning towards Eriol who was standing beside him. Eriol smiled at the two beautiful ladies in front of him. (AN: Sakura doesn't know Eriol that much in this story, because she is the niece of one of the Daidouji and Eriol is a Hiragizawa, get it?)
"Good evening ladies" Eriol said bowing a little. Sakura smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, I remember him, he's the kind, sweet and polite friend of yours. Nice to see you here Eriol" Sakura said smiling at Eriol.
"Nice to see you too" Eriol replied.
"Well, why don't we get you settled" Chiharu said as she pulled her boyfriend towards one of the table. The others followed and sat together. They chatted for a while until a sweet music came in and the host invited them to dance. Syaoran smiled and turned towards Sakura
"Do, you want to dance my dear?" Syaoran asked Sakura sweetly. Sakura gave Syaoran a bright smile and nodded.
"Sure, why not" they stood up and before going
"Guys feel at home, ok? Don't be shy. The food is over there if you're hungry," Sakura said motioning to the right side of the room. The three nodded and smiled at the couple.
"I'm hungry," Yamazaki said at Chiharu. Eriol just smirked at Yamazaki as Chiharu look at him
"You're hungry? Then get some food," Chiharu said
"I want you with me" Yamazaki said
"You big baby, we can't leave Eriol here, alone" Chiharu said looking at Eriol
"That's ok with him, right bro?" Yamazaki said looking at Eriol. Eriol shook his head and motioned them to go on.
"Don't worry about me Chiharu, go ahead and accompany him, I can manage" Eriol said. Chiharu look at Eriol for a while "Are sure you'll be fine?"
"Yes, its ok" Eriol said
"If you say so," Chiharu said, standing up to accompany Yamazaki towards the buffet table.
Eriol observe the dancing couple for a while before turning his attention at Yamazaki and Chiharu arguing about which food is the best. Eriol laugh at the two shaking his head.
And then Eriol look around observing all the things around him, 'Very artistic' he thought looking at the decorations until something, no, someone caught his eyes. It was a gorgeous young lady walking in of the room through the big corridor at his right. Her hair was down accentuating her angelic face and gods her costume fits her perfectly.
'Aphrodite just walked in' Eriol thought staring at the beautiful lady with wide eyes.
To be continued...