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Invisible Journey

By Toreshi-san ^_^

Chapter 1

Hating Eriol

" Arghhh!" screamed Tomoyo as her polarised glasses slipped off her face. She dropped her video camera. There was the sound of it breaking. The light card's light radiated blindingly for but a moment and then all went pitch black around her. Tomoyo dropped down on her knees and just sat, trying to recover from the fall. She had stars in her eyes and could not see anything. It shouldn't be this dark she thought, even if it is midnight.

Though she couldn't view what was happening all around her, she could hear everyone and everything that went on around her form. "Sakura, HURRY!" then came Sakura's voice, "light card return to your powers confined, do as I bide you and transform into a Sakura Card. LIGHT CARD!"

(Author's Note! ^_^: I have no idea what the actual incantation is for when she changes the Clow Cards to Sakura Cards so I just made one up, Ok? =''=)

Both Syaoran and Sakura could see through the polarised shades that Tomoyo had ordered to match their outfits. The sound of feet pounding feet upon the ground became apparent. Then came Sakura's voice, to her right and a hand helping her to stand up. " Tomoyo, are you all right?" she sounded very worried. "Sakura, of course she not all right!" that was Syaoran. Then came another set of feet running towards them in the dark. "Tomoyo! Sakura! Syaoran! Are you all okay?" it was Eriol! "What do you think you F*GG*T! We are okay but not Tomoyo!" Syaoran was yelling at him.

Tomoyo then felt that they could still see in the dark, while she could not. She started to feel frantic and her insides started to feel like lead. She knew what had happened and how it happened. But because she was a friend to all, she could not betray anyone. She had already realised that long ago. She would not blame anyone.

"I bumped into something and my glasses came off," Tomoyo's voice started to shake," Sakura, I looked directly into the Light Card's light. I can't see you. Syaoran, I can't see you either!" Now Tomoyo began to panic, " why is everything so damned dark? I know it is the middle of the night but there are streetlights! My eyes are hurting Sakura, please tell me that in the fight to recapture the light card, you had knocked out them. Please Sakura! Tell me that."

" Tomoyo, I'm sorry but I didn't…" then it dawned on Tomoyo –

"I'M BLIND!" Tomoyo's voice echoed through the no longer silent park. It was followed by a sequence of shrieks and sobs.

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"Mother" Tomoyo yelled with what breath she had left in her. Sakura had brought her to a door. Tomoyo was not sure whose door it was, but hopefully it led into her house.

" Tomoyo, what happened to you?!" Sonomi gasped. "Mother, I'm blind, I can't SEE YOU!!" Tomoyo rasped this out. Panic was making her short breathed. "Mother are you okay? I can't see you, where are you Mother? Somebody HELP ME!!!!!!" she felt cold and alone like she had never felt before, she couldn't see anything, it was all black. I'm cut out of the world, she thought. She heard Sonomi calling out orders frantically, "Call an ambulance, Sakura hurry!"

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The doctors were unable to do anything other that distress Tomoyo any more than she was already. All the while, her heart felt cold and ached to see, but she still kept her tongue to herself and told no one the whole truth as to how she got blind, not even Sakura. That would be a secret to everyone forever, or until she felt ready to tell anyone. Meanwhile, Tomoyo felt and heard every word that the doctor said penetrate her heart and she felt even more stressed than before.

"I am sorry Miss Daidouji," said Dr. Chan solemnly, "there is nothing we can do for you. Your case is one that does not comply with any existing medical procedures that repair people's eyes. I am afraid that you may be blind til the day you die. I recommend that you live somewhere quiet until you get used to being blind and learn how to feel your way around."

He left then.

Tomoyo sat down on her bed, with tears streaming down her face. She felt around on the table beside her for something to sooth her fears. Tomoyo found something – her camera… the thought that this was the reason that she could no longer see made her feel despair. Then she also realised that she loved to videotape things and the thought that she would never be able to use one again was just too much for Tomoyo. She grabbed the camera and threw it against the wall. It smashed instantly. Then she felt her way around her room until she found the cupboard where she kept all the tapes she ever made. Grabbing as many as she could she dumped them onto the ground and crushed them them into shards of useless plastic. Then finding a pair of scissors, she started to shred the long pieces of film, cutting herself in the doing so.

A week later, Sonomi and Tomoyo moved to a small island off the mainland of Hong Kong. It was very quiet, but Tomoyo had told her mother not to tell anyone that she had moved. She wanted to start a knew life and she knew that if she told Sakura and Syaoran where she was going, Syaoran would find out where she lived and Sakura would not rest til she did as well.

When next Sakura went to the Daidouji residence, she found a "SOLD" sign out the front and saw Tomoyo's mansion, empty…

Sakura tried to find her but no one knew where she had gone. Fortunately, Sakura did not know any of Sonomi's clients from her toy company. But it would not of mattered. Sonomi had asked specifically that they do not tell anyone, unless for business, where she and her daughter had moved to.

Sakura, Syaoran and even Eriol tried to find her, but it was no use. A week later Sakura had given up on ever finding Tomoyo.

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Tomoyo had enlisted in a school for the blind people. She had decided that even if she was blind, she should at least prove to her now over protective mother that she could take care of herself. She felt that she also wanted to find a talent that she could be extra good at.

(Author's Note: sorry if that sounded bad but how else would I fit the next part in? ^_^ )

Tomoyo decided to learn an instrument. What should I learn? It has to be something really challenging. She thought. But then now that I am blind everything will be challenging!

Sonomi was listening to a CD that time exactly. Tomoyo with her now enhanced hearing could hear that it was the Moonlight Sonata. She remembered that she had once heard Eriol play it before. Then she remembered that Eriol was a person in her past, part of what had made her blind. This made her fill with hatred for Eriol. Tomoyo decided that she would learn the piano. If I have to be blind then I must at least be better than some one at something, she thought while her heart was feeling depressed, and if that some one is from my past then I will strive to be better than they are. I never realised just how much I hated Eriol with his smirking face.

But deep down in her now hardened heart, she missed every one that was a part of her past, even Eriol.

I must be better than Eriol.

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Well, what do you think? The end doesn't make sense, but it will soon! ~_~ !

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