DISCLAIMER: I do not own Card Captor Sakura, CLAMP does.

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Fanny chan: Is this long? I trying to write longer chapters.

Chibi fanny: And this fic have a terrible cliffhanger.

Tomoyo: *rereads it* But the cliffhanger not so bad.

Fanny chan: *evil grins and shrugs*

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Summary of this story: Haha… I couldn't stand not writing angst… hehe. Must be something in my blood. So here is a short-story ExT fic… *smiles* R&R please. I don't know why… *ponders* But I find angst fic more touching, more beautiful… *turns to readers and smiles* Right?


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Crying without tears

By Fanny chan

There are more important things

Eriol woke up in the morning in his own bed in his own room in his own mansion. He reached up to his face and found it sticky with dried tears. It was then that brief memories from the previous day came into his mind.

Tomoyo was sleeping soundly a couch situated in his room. Spinel was lying on the arm of the sofa beside her head, snoring lightly.

Eriol smiled. He must have slept the whole day. Slowly removing the warm blanket than surround him and wrapping it around Tomoyo, he made his way to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Usually it was Nakuru who did it. But she had left for a visit to Hong Kong, to see Sakura.

As he heated up the oil and cracked the eggs, his mind wandered back to that horrid incident two days ago.

[ :: Flashback :: ]

He was visiting his crush, Kaho Mizuki. He had finally gathered his courage and was to confess.

Kaho opened the door and smiled that lovely smile at him. A smile which cause him to literally melt at her feet, a smile which cause him to swoon ever time he sees her.

"Eriol-kun. What a splendid surprise."

"Yes it is… Kaho-san?"

Kaho nodded slightly, acknowledging his words.

"I… I…" he wavered, feeling his confidence ebbing away slowly.

"Yes? What are you saying Eriol-kun?"

He took in a deep breath. Suddenly he saw a silver band on Kaho's wedding finger, glinting slyly at him, mocking him.

"You're engaged?"

"Oh?" Kaho lifted her hand and blushed. "Yeah. I had been dating and just last week, he proposed."

"Who is he?" Eriol asked, desperately trying to keep the hurt out of his voice. Why didn't she tell me?

Kaho put a finger to her lips and thought silently.

"I don't believe you met him. His name is Reisl Tesada, a really kind and sweet gentleman." Kaho gushed, sparkling eyes staring dreamily at nothingness.

Eriol took one look at her expression and his heart hardened.

How could she? How could she do this to me? Is she an idiot? How could she not notice my feelings, getting engaged just like that, so abruptly. She did not even inform me until I asked her.

Eriol glared hard at his crush and at that moment, found her particularly repulsing.

"Oh I'm so glad for you. Oh and Kaho?" he mummered bitterly, but Kaho took no notice of his sacarasm in her oblivion.

"Yes?"

He then spat the next words out so forcefully, so suddenly, so emotionally that Kaho could barely recoil.

"I HATE YOU!"

He spun around and dashed back, leaving the flabbergasted and hurt Kaho Mizuki behind, secretly vowing never to return to this wretched household ever again. He had meant what he said. He had really hated her at that fateful moment.

The pain and sorrow only caught up with him once he returned to the warm haven of his home.

And he did the only thing he could- tell Tomoyo.

[ :: End of flashback :: ]

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Tomoyo sniffed delicately as a strange burning smell invaded her sense of smell. Opening her eyes and coughing slightly, she walked out of the door, immediately tracing the origin to the kitchen.

The soft sputtering of the frying pan reached her ears as she pushed open the door. Twin black substances lay in the spluttering pan; dazed eyes stared into nothingness.

"ERIOL!" she shrieked as she turned off the gas.  Holding Eriol gently, she guided him to the kitchen table where he sagged against the chair, throughly exhausted.

Tomoyo sat down on the chair nearest to him, tilting it so it faced the dazed male.

"What's wrong?" She asked as Eriol came back to life, massaging his temples gently.

"Nothing… nothing. You should go home."

"No. I won't until I find what Mizuki-sensei did to you."

Eriol glanced at her through the corner of his eyelids. "How did you know?"

Tomoyo shrugged non-commitally. "I know because I knew."

"She's engaged," he finally muttered, his voice tight and forced. There was a strange finality in his tone, as if he had nothing to live for anymore.

Tomoyo blinked. "She's engaged? But how? When?" she trailed off as Spinel flew onto her shoulder.

"I told you master. She doesn't deserve you. Now when you are broken, you start to sink in your own pool of self-pity. Pick yourself up master. Listen and pay attention to the people around you, people more valuable then Mizuki, people more important."

Eriol remained silent, staring at his palms. She felt anger radiating from Spinel rather violently.

The next thing she knew, the full form of Spinel Sun was before her. A vast beam of light shot straight for Eriol but it was merely absorbed by his shield.

"MASTER! WAKE UP!" Spinel Sun growled as he rammed straight into Eriol, flinging both of them across the kitchen onto the wall, Eriol taking the brunt of it all.

This time, azures woke up from its glazed state and glared at Spinel. "Why did you do that?" Eriol muttered darkly, cradling his injured arm.

Spinel did not even flinch at the cold tone, his own teal orbs glaring into azures.

The tension was broken by a soft, timid voice. "Eriol-kun? Suppi-chan? Are you both okay?"

Spinel Sun changed back and flew into Tomoyo arms, arms which instinctively wrapped around the small animal.

Tomoyo walked towards the fallen Eriol who was concentrating of curing his cuts and bruises. His arm was already healed.

"Are you okay?" Tomoyo asked again as she knelt down beside him..

Eriol nodded and glanced up at Tomoyo, staring deep into bright clear amethysts. Then he realized what Spinel's words had meant. How could he have not noticed before?

There was a strange tingling feeling which spread through Tomoyo as the distance between them shortened. Both individuals' eyes slowly closed, lips slightly parted.

Tomoyo tilted her head slightly as she felt Spinel leaving her embrace.

In a few seconds, their lips were mere millimetres apart, breaths entwining with the other.

Just a little bit more…

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Am I evil or what?! *grins* I will post the next chapter soon. I promise. Oh yes. After I read one particular review which said that Eriol getting hurt again, I decided to change the encounter with Kaho and Eriol a bit. So how was it? He was still hurt but he told Kaho straight in the face that he hated her. Maybe it is still not good enough but at least it was better than before where Eriol ran away without a single retort.

Anyway, Thankies for the reviews! Here we go!

:: Thankies to everyone ::

[REMOVED]

~Completed on: 11th November 2002~