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Chapter 6 – Our First Meeting"When do you leave to go back to Japan?" Eriol asked Tomoyo as they sat in the dinning room having a snack.
"Um, I'm thinking about sometime next week is when we had planned to leave," Tomoyo said as she looked up at him.
"Hmm, we need to get those two together some how, but Meilin keeps on ruining everything that we try to do," Eriol said as he picked up their plates and walked towards the kitchen.
"I know. It's like she is always there when we try to do something," Tomoyo said as she got up and stretched.
"Maybe we should try to send them grocery shopping together," Eriol said as he walked back to Tomoyo.
"What do mean?" Tomoyo asked as she tried to see what he was writing down.
"It might not mean much, but at least they will have some time together," Eriol said as he went back to the kitchen and looked around.
"But what about Meilin?" Tomoyo asked as she noticed what Eriol was doing.
Eriol came up to her after he was done looking in all of the cabinets and the refrigerator and handed her some things and told her to put them in a plastic bag.
"Everything that is on the outside, but them all in a plastic bag and give them to me," Eriol said as Tomoyo put everything in the bags like she was told.
"Now what?" Tomoyo asked as she looked back at him with a questing gaze.
"I'll see if I can hide them in the shed and tell Yelan that we are out of food so she can send them to get some more," Eriol said as he looked at all the bags he was going to have to hide.
'You better watch your back! He's mine!'
'What are you talking about? I don't understand.'
'Don't play with me, Sakura! I know you know whom it is that I'm talking about. You better stay away from him!'
Sakura tried seeing whom it was that was yelling at her about 'him', but all she saw was the silhouette of a girl with two pigtails and dark eyes. The more that she tried to get closer, the figure got further away from her.
'I'm warning you for the last time, stay away from my…'
"Wake up Sakura!"
"Hmm, what happened?" Sakura asked as she woke up from her dream.
"I've been calling you for the last ten minutes and you just laid here, mumbling something that not even I could understand," Tomoyo said as she helped Sakura up.
"How long have we been out here?" Sakura asked as she noticed that it was already dusk.
"You have been out here for about two hours," Tomoyo said as she giggled at her friend.
"Tomoyo, why didn't you wake me up sooner?" Sakura asked as she and Tomoyo walked back inside.
"Because you looked like as if you needed it. Have you been getting enough sleep, Sakura?" Tomoyo asked as she looked at her, worried.
Sakura didn't know if she should tell her friend the truth or just lie to her so she won't worry about her. It's been about two weeks since she started to have this dream and next week would be when the both of them were to leave to go back to Japan. She thought that things would get better since that day that Syaoran had stayed with her when it had rained, but she was wrong and now Meilin was being just as cold as him to towards her. Even Yelan, who she thought was a nice kind mother and person, was being just as cold as her son if not worse.
"Kind of yes and no at the same time. I've been having these weird dreams about…"
"Sakura, have you seen Syaoran?" Meilin asked as she noticed them ahead of her.
"No," Sakura answered, giving her an apologetic smile.
"Good, keep it that way," Meilin said as she glared at her and walked past them.
"I wonder what her problem is," Tomoyo wondered out loud as she and Sakura continued to walk inside.
'Why is it that everyone seems to be so cold towards me now?' Sakura thought as she smiled sadly.
Once Eriol was done hiding the bags of food, he went looking for Yelan and hoped that she hadn't just bought the food sometime this week. When he found her, she was in the study reading what seemed to be the clan's book. He stood by the door and listened to what she was mumbling, but couldn't make it out.
Suddenly, Yelan looked up and saw him. She was about to go back to reading when he started to talk.
"We are starting to run out of food," Eriol said as he hoped that his plan worked.
Yelan was quiet for a few moments as she thought about something and then looked back at him.
"That can't be, Eriol. We just bought some last week and I doubt that even though you do get hungry that you at it all in just a few days," Yelan said as she smiled a tight smile.
"Well, um, I must have been really hungry or else I wouldn't have ate so fast in just a few days. Besides, Syaoran and I have been training every day and that does take up a lot of energy," Eriol said, trying to think up of something.
"Syaoran doesn't eat that much and he hardly touches his dinner," Yelan said as she looked at Eriol, trying to see what he was planning.
'Come on Eriol, think of something!' Eriol thought as he looked at the floor for an answer.
"What Eriol is trying to say is that I've been wanting to make dinner before it is time for Sakura and I to go back and I don't have the food that I need to make dinner later on this week or next week," Tomoyo said from behind as she and Sakura walked in.
"Alright then, Tomoyo. Eriol may take you to the store to get the food you need," Yelan said as she forced a smile and went back to reading.
"Um, Eriol and I will be to busy to go this week," Tomoyo said as she tried to look apologetic.
"But Tomoyo, you said that you didn't…"
Tomoyo quickly covered up Sakura's mouth with her hand and smiled sweetly at her, giving her the sign not to say anything.
"We were thinking that Sakura and Syaoran go since Sakura knows what Tomoyo needs and Syaoran has been training all this time. I think that he needs a break, even if it is to the store," Eriol said as he smiled at her.
"What about Meilin, Tomoyo? Don't you think you could give the list to her and let her go with Syaoran?" Yelan said as she glared at Sakura.
'I don't like that glare, its worse than Syaoran and Meilin's put together,' Sakura thought as she walked behind Tomoyo and stayed there, looking at the floor.
"We had already asked her about this and she said that she couldn't go because she had something else that she needed to do," Eriol said as he smiled innocently at her.
'I know that if I let them go, they will be alone and I won't be able to watch over them. What is it that Meilin has that she needs to do? I guess I can let them go. Besides, its just to the store and it will only take about an hour and thirty minutes or so,' Yelan thought as she glared at Sakura again.
"Very well then. I will let them go, but they must be back no later than two hours," Yelan said as she looked at them all.
"Um, I also need for Sakura to run some errands for me since we will be leaving sometime next week," Tomoyo said as she looked at her apologetically.
"…Which will take about another hour," Eriol put in as he looked at her.
"…"
"Please," Tomoyo said as she felt Sakura shake a little when Yelan looked at them.
"…Very well," Yelan said as she went back to reading the book and dismissed them.
Both Eriol and Tomoyo walked out with smiles on their faces satisfied that they would get to have a day to themselves, even if it is at the store.
"You guys, I don't think that this is such a good idea," Sakura said as she walked in between them and towards the kitchen.
"Sakura, don't worry. Besides, Eriol and I have things to do here and Meilin is going to be busy this week," Tomoyo said as she smiled innocently at Sakura.
"…Well, okay then," Sakura said as she thought that nothing was going to happen, but she was wrong.
The rest of the day when uneventful for everyone except for Sakura, who kept on getting glares and murderous looks from just about everyone.
After dinner was over, Sakura and Tomoyo headed up to their rooms to go to bed while Syaoran went to the study to see what it is that his mother needed and Meilin was about to follow him, but Eriol stepped in and whispered something to her which made her turn around gruffly and go to her room.
When Syaoran got there to the study, he saw that a lot of the clan's information was out and laid across the desk that his mother used to do research and things. He walked quietly up to the desk and tried to read what she was looking for, but she caught him before he could even read the first word on the page.
"…"
"You wished to see me mother," Syaoran asked as he moved away from the desk and stood beside a chair.
"Yes. You do know that you will become leader of this clan next month, right?" Yelan asked as she had her back turned against him.
"…"
"After you do become leader, you will fly back with Eriol to England to continue your studies there," Yelan said as she heard Eriol come in.
"You wanted to see me as well," Eriol said as he took a stood next to his cousin.
"Once Syaoran becomes the leader of our clan, you both will travel back to England and continue your studies there," Yelan said as she turned around and looked at them sternly.
"But I was going to go to Japan to continue where I had left off. I was not going to go back to England," Eriol said as he looked at her in shock.
"What I have said is final," Yelan said as she saw Eriol's anger in his eyes.
Yelan knew that Eriol had planned to go back to Japan to be Tomoyo, but since her best friend is Sakura…
"…Very well," Eriol said as he looked at the floor and left with Syaoran beside him.
"Syaoran," Yelan said as she called him back.
"…"
"I know you won't let us down," Yelan said as she saw her son nod and left without another word.
'Just one more month of this,' Yelan said as she thought back to when she saw Meilin yelling at Sakura.
Well, that's it. What do you all think? Have I gotten off the topic a bit? Give some ideas that you guys think might be good for the next chapter! I would really appreciate it and please review! I'll take flames too! J Um, I think that's all that I can think of to write. But let me know of your ideas and I'll see if I can fit them into the story. Thanks! -Bluepiper