Author's Notes: Don't cry…Don't cry…I think I'm going to cry…I never really thought that anybody would read this. I very happy that there are people out there who really like my story. I'll try my very best at it though I will probably post it during the weekends or what not. Ok, I'm not completely sure on when Tomoyo and Eriol are going to meet each other for the first time. But for now, I shall find a way. But please be patient with me, first time in high school is tough for me sometimes…Especially in English class…maybe because I can't read well, where did I put it?
*Cries* Too late I'm crying already! Oh thank you soo Much Reviewers!
Disclaimer: Do you need to have a disclaimer in every chapter you make? Well as long as peoples don't chase me and sue me for everything, I guess it's worth it. I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura and the characters. It would be nice though if I did but then…my lil sister might kill me for that since she is more obsessed in CCS than me.
Thank You list
*~*Princess*~* Thank you for reviewing this story
Khuyen ~*~ Thank you for the interview as well, your name seems familiar though…
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Mink~*~ Thank you for the review as well and don't worry, Eriol and Tomoyo will meet soon
Eriol and ME 4-ever~*~ Thank you for the review and yes I am Vietnamese and proud of it!!! (To anybody who don't know where Vietnam is, it's below China, I went there to see my true heritage with my family)
StarChild~*~ Thanks for the review and for the comment. I thought in a story, you must have details so I did that…I hope I didn't overdid it
Tenshii91688~*~ LoL, ok I get it; I know I'm being another Sarah with these Cardcaptor Sarkura fic. But I'm slightly different; she likes S&S pairings more and I like E&T pairings (I like S&S too but E&T are the best to me!) Don't worry though; I'll try another shot at some other anime EXCEPT EVANGELION.
Purple Girl~*~ Thanks purple girl, I might take that advice of yours. Who knows maybe I can try enter some of the contests in school. It could be fun. Oh and I made a copy for you but it's dubbed into English names since you don't really know much on the Japanese one.
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The Barrier Surrounding Him "Prince Eriol""What is it now?" The young man shouted in distraught, his piercing blue eyes turned to the knocking on the door.
A servant with crimson eyes and burgundy hair opened the door and bowed in front of him, "Um…your majesty sir? The ceremony is about to begin, you should be getting ready."
"I know already, now leave!" he said in a cold harsh voice.
"As you wish," she bowed again and leaved the room as quick as she can. Unlike the other servants Narkuru knew and understood why he was so cold-hearted, but she knew neither she nor anyone else could sooth his pain from his past and memories.
He waited as soon as the door was closed, "Stupid servants, why can't they just leave me alone?"
He removed his glasses and left it on his desk. Rubbing his eyes the dark haired adolescent then walked to the deck where he watched the ocean spray soundly over the shores; he watched the seagulls gliding gently in the air forming a silhouette in the evening sky. It was the only thing that kept him to think with concentration watching the soft colors of the clouds forming shapes of anything his mind could think of. In his mind though was one thing…freedom and happiness, one thing he couldn't have. The one thing everybody had except him.
He hated it; he abhorrent and reviled everything his heart had set on. But the thing more that he had loathed was his father, who left him without giving him any guidance to rule the Hiiragizawa Kingdom. Ever since he could remember, it was always his father that drove him to being emotionless, always him to remind the prince the true meaning of pain and torment. The whole time in his life his father, the king, would always rejected him, calling him weak…pathetic…useless…
He spat with disgust as if poison had been inside his mouth. He remembered how his father always treated him and how determined his father was to make him become blood thirsty and merciless just like how his father believed a king should always be. Now his father was dead and it was now his turn to rule over the country. The ceremony occurring right now was for him to be crowned as the King. Since he was the age of sixteen, he was young but capable enough to rule. The prince was hardly interested in such thing, but because he was the only heir to the throne he had go through this without his consent in it.
He looked at the small portrait of his parents on his desk. He inherited a lot of his mother's personality than of his father's but his looks are more to his father though. His mother, the queen, had always been good and kind to him until her mysterious death when he was 5. Ever since that had happened, his father became cruel and heartless, blaming him for her death. His father would always train him to fight and always make the prince come with him during battles, making him watch the men fight and get killed, attacking the opponents and sometimes the innocent villagers of weaker kingdoms. Sometimes he still remember their cries of pain and calls for mercy, sometimes he could still picture the battles through his head. It was a sick cruel game his father had played.
He sighed and went to sit on his chair thinking in deep thoughts. There were a lot of things on his mind and there were so much confusion for him. He stared in deep space with a blank expression as if he was lost in his mind.
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"Quick, they are in here!" his father ordered as the soldiers rammed the door to the room. Eriol stood by his father watching them and looked at his father who was determined to destroy whoever was left of the Daijouji family. The eight-year-old prince stood in silence and looked outside to see the fallen soldiers and corpse of the King whom his father had drew his sword through. The clouds had darkened from the smog of the flames from the burned towers and parts of the cindered castle. The river nearby the battlefield had blood tainting its waters. There was still some corpse lying there in the waters. Everywhere there was death and havoc all over.
He knew that there were good outcomes of this devastation, the Hiiragizawa Kingdom would be expanded and that his father would gain more power than before but was it worth it? To destroy and sacrifice souls of soldiers who were only battling for the honor and patriotic to their country and their ruler just so that his father could reign with such sovereign power?
'No' he thought, 'It wasn't worth it'
Even the creatures of the Underworld would cry with true tears than to cry with tears of blood for the lost souls. He turned from the scenery ashamed of what his father had done. The door was already rammed. The King and the soldiers entered the room with the prince following behind them with his head down looking at the ground.
"Quick, go after the princess I have something I have to take care of!" his father ordered the two soldiers to go after her. Eriol looked up, the room had a passage that was supposedly hidden behind the fireplace, above was the portrait though it was slightly moved for the switch, which opened the secret passage. There in front of the fireplace was a woman dressed in elegant clothing of high rank; she must've been the queen he believed. Quickly enough he took a glance at the young girl before she had went deep inside to the passage. He was not certain at how she looked but just enough to see her raven hair and her amethyst eyes.
"I hope she would make it," he silently whispered. He had seen royal children died before by his father's command. When his father meant that he wanted to end the kingdom of his enemies, he really meant it as in killing children if he had to so that there was no way they could revolt against him in the further future. Hopefully the girl he just saw had a chance to escape from his father's soldiers. He looked at the queen again; her face showed no emotion but she was filled with fortitude and resilience to face what his father was about to do as her fate.
"Hello my dear Queen Sonomi, it seems there is some unfinished business to resolve," his father said in a menacing laugh before he raised his sword and cut against her neck, she reeled forward and fell with a thud, the blood from her neck seeped through the carpet. The prince watched the whole thing against his will, he was often used to watching his father killing so many yet it still frightened him to think he would too do the same thing once it was his turn to become a ruler.
He watched silently as his father laughed with triumphant. "See this my son, weak rulers always die one way or another because of their kindness and mercy to the people, only the strong will survive."
"Yes father," he said unconcerned of what his father had said. He looked at the deceased queen with repentance and guilt. No one should deserve such cruel fate even if they are his enemy.
Later the two soldiers came back from the passage and went to the King, "Your majesty the princess is dead she is no more a threat to the kingdom." "Excellent, now we must go, this place is to become cinders and ashes you understand?" his father ordered. "Yes your highness," one of the soldiers answered. As they went out of the castle, the prince stood looking at the portrait above the chimney. He turned to the dead queen. "I'm sorry for what my father did," he said even though he knew he was not going to get any answers anytime soon. He turned to walk out until he noticed something on the ground near the corpse. He walked near the body and took the necklace that the queen held in her hands before she died.
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"Your highness," a knock was heard outside of the door. The prince stood up from the chair. He shook his head trying to wipe out the memory; he couldn't understand why this vision kept coming back to him. He looked where the knocking came from. "What is it now?" he shouted irritatingly. "Can't I ever get any peace around here?" he muttered to himself. A young man with russet brown hair and amber eyes opened the door to see the soon-to-be King. "Must be a bad day for you huh?" the young man chuckled, "And it's the day you are to be crowned as king as well.""Oh, it's you," Eriol said in a monotone voice. It was the military general Syaoran, he and Eriol were friends in a way though he wasn't very warm hearted to make him as a friend yet Syaoran and him go a way back as kids when he wasn't what he was now. He recently was announced as the military general since his father fell ill and passed away.
"We better go before you're going to be late," Syaoran said despite to the fact that he knew Eriol wasn't very enthusiastic about it, "You know that it's important even if you don't want to go through it."
"I know but what's next? Are they going to force me to marriage?" Eriol joked.
"You'll never really know your highness, maybe someone will come to your life very soon," Syaoran answered, he turned around and left the room. He mentally smiled leaving a very confused prince even though he did not showed the expression.
Eriol stood there for a while in bewilderment; sometimes he thought that his friend could be very much of an enigma at some point. He turned to the deck again staring at the ocean and its shores just for one last time before he went to the ceremony to announce his title and then he left not noticing. Though as if in a coincidence, there strolling on the beach was a young woman…
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'What's happening to me, this is the third time this week that I have been having these visions?' It was evening already, Tomoyo took a walk around the ocean feeling the zephyr breeze blown against her face, her raven hair blown slightly almost being tangled as the wind played with her hair. She loved the ocean of the salty air and the sand pressed against her bare. She always took off her shoes whenever she came here. She frequently came here whenever there was trouble in her mind. A lot of things had changed for her, her best friend Chiharu and her fiancée Yamazaki were already married and her other friend Rika is having and arranged marriage soon and as for Naoko, she had already moved away from her childhood home. As for her parents, they were becoming strange sometimes when they around her, it was like if they were looking at her as if she weren't their daughter or something like that. She was already sixteen yet she haven't married yet, in fact she was considered late since most people are to be married once they reached to the age of thirteen. She never really cared though; all she wanted is her family and nothing else. Tomoyo watched the ocean quietly with the evening sun on the horizon; if only things weren't so confusing to her she would've enjoyed it. She remembered when she first came here, her mother would always joked that she had came from the ocean made by the foams like the goddess Aphrodite. Though it was only her mother's kidding, sometimes she did felt like as if she did came from the ocean. It was confusing and yet foolish for her to think of that. Though sometimes she would often think of it, it never removed from her head. Just to think of it made her believed that there was something her parents are hiding from her but she was not sure. She was never certain any more.She turned from the sight of the sunset. Tomoyo looked up at the cliff, which laid a huge elegant castle. It was a beautiful sight though, seeing a castle above a cliff with the sunset and its ocean to mirror its reflection. She looked closely at the figure at the castle. It was a young man similar to her age, she saw him left however and couldn't get much of a glimpse however.
//Why do I have a feeling…that I know him somewhere?// She thought. She knew she never met him before yet he seemed very familiar in some way…
DaWiofFaith: O.o……………………………………… Tomoyo: ^_^; DaiWiofFaith: T_T "I hate my story" Tomoyo: ^_^ "Actually I think it's good" DaWiofFaith: T____T; "It sucks badly" Tomoyo: "No it's not, it's really ok." DaWiofFaith: "Yeah right it's dumb!Tomoyo: *sighs* "Ok…maybe it's a little bit strange but it's interesting"
DaWiofFaith: "Its BAD I TELL YOU!! BAD!! And if it is really really bad than I had imagine then………… Shall the Big Guy in the sky smite thee" *Lightening strikes DaWiofFaith out of no where* Tomoyo: "Uh………Halleluiah?" Preacher: *Makes cross sign and holds the cross and prayer beads* "The Lord always answers" DaWiofFaith: X_X "Owiee……………………" Sakura: "…I'm thinking rare" Tomoyo: "Medium" Syaoran: " Well done" Eriol: "Extra Crispy"Spinel Sun: KFA (Kentucky Fried Author)
Kero: "I'm Hungry" *Drools*
DaWiofFaith: *Walks away* "I'm gonna go sulk in my thoughts and swallow some Zoloft pills."
"Attention all reviewers, I'm DaWiofFaith's personal secretary. The author is now in a nervous mental breakdown and practically burnt so she cannot be here to join us. Please review and if there are any advices you would want to give, feel free too send in and any opinions and questions as well. Please review and have a nice day!"