Eriol: Good or Bad? (Con't)
By: Keetra
Keetra:: Hey minna! Well, I got this updated quick, ne? ^_~ I posted chapter 3 only a couple days ago. And a round of applause to IceFire. She was the only one to see the connection in the k language (well, at least to mention anything about it). Most of the words I use in the continuum starts with the letter k. It was not random, I planned that. It is the same in most of the continuums I use. The S's, where Stang is from, their names and a lot of their words use excessive s sounds. So, Kem, Keetra, Keelah, Kooslee, etc are used as names in the k continuum. Congrats IceFire!
Keelah:: are you really gonna put S+S in this chapter?
Keetra:: well. depends on your definition of S+S.
Kero:: what's that supposed to mean?
Keetra:: it means that if you wanna figure it out you'll just have to read the chapter. Oh, by the way, the first thing in this chapter is the card reading so don't forget to send your ideas of what the cards are trying to say. I must warn you, it is tricky. I didn't give a very easy one. It seems easy to me because I the writer and I wanna know how easy it is.
Keelah:: then write the chapter already!
Keetra:: hello! Have to thank the reviewers here!
Mitski:: YAY! You got the email! So happy! ::does a little dance. Here's hoping you DID read the rest of the fic after you sent the review. I would be very saddened if you didn't.
Pochacco:: make up your mind. Sign off and sign on. Sheesh. And I soooooo thought I sent you an email. Gomen! Will have to run a check to see which emails people are actually checking and who cares if I send them emails. Hmmm. Oh well. And arigatou for saying that I smart! ^_^ Keelah:: there's someone who doesn't know her very well. Keetra:: hey! Kero and Keelah:: *snicker*
Azure-chan:: ok, I am soooooo not buying the innocent look. So, tell him to wipe that grin off his face. And I hope you do try to guess it. The first thing in this chapter is the card reading but there are some things wrong with her reading. I went through my personal Clow deck and chose 9 cards I thought were best. For once, I know who the villain is gonna be before the sixth chapter. In friend or foe, I had just this image but no real kind of name or anything. I think I did a good job with the reading and if you think hard enough, you may get close to what happens. So just try. I just wanna know what people think it means so I know if I made it too easy or not. And poor Kero. ::gives the crying Kero another slice of cake:: oh, and I hope you put more than 20 words on the next chap of your fic, cuz I did my end of the bargain, so now it time for yours. ^_~
Alexandra-chan:: you bet! Arigatou!
Karisa:: LMAO! Hehe, cute little kitty. But I think that Kero is a much faster flier than you give him credit for. Especially with a little persuasion. ::puts a heaping plate of cookies in a little box:: Kero: *notices cookies* COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dives for the cookies not noticing that Keetra has closed the lid. Cat scratches at the lid trying to get to Kero* cat:: mouse mouse mouse mouse.
IceFire:: you know, even some of my friends who help me write this thing do not notice that. Congrats! And you right. I did that on purpose. If I did more of the k language it would be really noticeable.
Kero:: will you start the fic now?
Keetra:: ::opens the lid partly::
Cat:: ::sticks paw in trying to find the "mouse":: Mousy. Mousy. Yum. Yum.
Kero:: help! Keetra and Keelah:: nah!
Disclaimer:: one of these days I gonna be rich and famous. When that day comes, I assure you that I will buy ccs from CLAMP. Oh it will be copyrighted under my name, but I won't give a crap if you guys don't put this stuff. Until then, I don't own ccs. I do own the K continuum and all of its members along with the S continuum members.
Key:
"Talking." 'Thoughts' "* Thought-speech *" (:: author's babble::) (FYI stuff)
Chapter 4 The Reading and True Feelings
(::this may not be very accurate as to what actually happens in the epi where Sakura reads the cards but I had to make do with what I needed to be read::)
"You really think these cards will tell us if the human is innocent or not?" Keelah asks, incredulously.
"Perhaps, or perhaps not. It is up to the cards to decide what they shall reveal." Keetra responds, taking the cards out of the Sakura book.
"That sounds like something that magician, what's his name? Clow Seed? Sounds like something he would say."
"That's because Clow Reed did say that to me, a long time ago."
Keelah notices a far-away look that has come to her friend's eyes. As Keetra shuffles the cards, Clow's voice rings in her ear, repeating what he had taught her long ago.
'Very good Keetra-san. You shuffle well. Now place them on the table and divide them into three piles with your left hand.'
Keetra, still lost in the flashback within her mind, she follows his instructions.
'Now, make the three piles on again in any order you wish.'
She does so, not even opening her eyes to see the piles.
'Now, using nine cards, make a diamond, with one card being at the top and bottom, three cards in the middle and two in each of the spaces in between.'
Again, not opening her eyes, she does so. But Clow Reed's from the past is silent.
'Now what?' Keetra asks herself.
"* Now you let what I have taught you guide you. *" Clow's voice answers her.
"* What's that supposed to mean Clow? *" she asks him.
"* Trust your instincts, Keetra-san, *" is all he says.
Keetra clears her mind and lets the magical connection Clow Reed taught her about, take over her consciousness. Words of an incantation spill from her mouth.
"Cards created by my teacher, Clow,
transformed by the power of the Mistress,
Lend me your guidance,
Reveal to me you knowledge,
I, Keetra, ask you as your co-creator."
Purple lights shine throughout the cards then die out. Keetra reaches over and grabs the top card. As she looks at it, a smile appears on her face.
"Eriol is innocent." She speaks to Keelah for the first time since she started the reading.
"How do you know?" Keelah asks.
Keetra lays the card, face-up now, at the top of the diamond.
"The Fight card?" Keelah asks, still confused.
"Hmm. Having the Fight card show in that position shows that Eriol is not the one. Fight shows an opponent, one who seeks a challenge. It does not match Eriol's personality,"
"That will not convince the council to cancel the trial."
"Yes, but at least I can look for someone without wondering if the one I seek is Eriol. Now, these three cards," she points to the middle cards, "will tell us some things about our mystery person. Keep in mind that we probably will not understand what these three mean until later. Or even until we meet the person." Saying that, she flips the three cards. They are revealed to be the Return, the Create and the Mist cards."
"Hmm" Keetra says, stumped.
"What do you mean 'hmm'?"
"I know what one of these cards means. But the other two, I don't know." Keetra's voice clearly saying she felt that that was a failure on her part.
"Which one do you know?" Keelah asks, trying to cheer her up.
Keetra points to the first card. "Return symbolizes a person from your past. But, Create and Mist? Create. a creation of sorts. A creation from my past? Something I created? But what does that have to do with Mist? Mist." Keetra turns to Keelah. "What is another word for mist?"
Keetra thinks, saying the words as they come to her.
"Fog. drizzle.uh.lemme see.."
"Try vapor."
Keelah's head snaps up.
"Vapor?" she whispers.
Keetra nods, leading her thoughts.
"And who do we know that has a vapor form and has the power of creation?"
"It can't be. Sloota is still in Klasaban. (K prison. Eriol is in one section while those already found guilty are in another.)"
"Is he? I doubt that anyone has paid him a visit lately."
"We can check later. Let's finish the reading."
"Right, maybe it will tell us more."
She reaches for the bottom card.
"This card shows the person's main target. Once I flip the card, an image will appear within my mind as to who the cards represents."
She flips the card and her face loses all color at the image in her mind. Keelah does not notice, making her own assumptions.
"Firey. Hey! Doesn't that teddy bear, Kero draw his power from the sun and this card? I'll have him brought here immediately." she turns and starts to leave.
"It's not Kero."
Keelah stops and looks back.
"Then who.?"
"It's Arcanemon. Arcanemon draws his power from heat."
"That means.. you're in danger as well!" Concern shows deeply in her eyes.
"I'll be fine. Aint the first time someone's wanted my ass."
Keelah smiles, slightly relieved.
"True." She looks down and notices something. "What about these four cards?" she points to the remaining facedown cards. "Are they just for decoration?
Keetra laughs.
"Nope. They tell us some details. These two," she points to the top two. "will tell us what will happen at the next encounter with the person."
She slips the card and explains it.
"The mirror represents the person doing the reader, me. so it will be me that will meet him, not Arcanemon." She flips the next one. "Sword. This represents an acceptance of a challenge. So, he will challenge me and I will accept."
She points to the last two unflipped cards.
"These two will tell us some important facts about the battle. If Light and Dark cards appear here then it means that the danger will be settled upon meeting without a battle. Anything else.well, let's just see."
She flips the cards, almost hearing Keelah's repeating wish for the Light and Dark. Her wish is not granted.
"There will be a battle. Move means it will take place elsewhere, not in the continuum, which is where I am making the reading. And Arrow. Arrow. No." her voice drops to a whisper.
"What is it?" Keelah asks, worried again.
"Someone will die."
A long, silent pause follows.
"Let's pay Sloota a visit then."
"Right. But if Sloota is the one, then this will be the next encounter."
"That's why I am going with you. Now come on."
They leave, Keetra not daring to voice the thought mounting in her mind to her Kinta.
"I fear the Arrow may mean YOUR death, Keelah Dem. I fear it with every ounce of my soul.'
She turns these thoughts aside and buries them far beyond Keelah's reach, resolving to protect her Kinta no matter what the danger to herself may be.
~*~*~*~ Elsewhere ~*~*~*~
"* Tsssssssssssssssssssssss. Ssso clossse and yet ssso far. Sssuch a ssshame my plansss did not go asss I had planned but., *evil grin* I am enjoying this turn of eventsss more. Tssstsssstssss. *"
~*~*~*~ The CCS Klat ~*~*~*~
Every klat is different depending on the occupant's personal needs. So, obviously, the klat that Syaoran, Sakura and Tomoyo are staying ion looks very different from Keetra's klat. Instead of having one sleeping room, this one has two, the bigger of which having two beds. Sakura and Tomoyo (::Sorry S+S peeps, but they aint THAT far along just yet. Am deciding whether I should have Tomoyo lock herself in the single bedroom forcing Syaoran to sleep in the other room. Then Sakura has a nightmare so she needs to be comforted. but like I said, it just in idea at the moment. ^_~::) share the bigger bedroom while Syaoran has the other one. However, between the two bedrooms is a very large bathroom they all must share. (::tee hee hee. Couldn't resist!::)
At this moment, Sakura is sitting in the main room, which is full of couches, chairs and a fireplace. She is lost in thought, yet again. Through Syaoran's open door, the sound of running water is heard from Syaoran's shower. (::Drool::) Sakura looks at the closed door where Tomoyo is laying down. she hadn't spoken a word or left the room since they had come back from Keelah's klat.
"Tomoyo-chan." Sakura mutters.
She had tried to cheer up her friend earlier, but Tomoyo would just stare away as if Sakura wasn't there so she had given up.
"Cheer up soon, Tomoyo-chan."
Sakura knows the reason her friend is sad is because she is worried about Eriol.
"Poor Eriol-kun. We have to prove him innocent." She says determinedly.
"Why?"
Sakura turns to the open doorwhere Syaoran's standing in just his boxers, drying his hair with a towel. (::OK, don't faint on me here cuz I am dying with this mental image! Sakura is sooooooooo lucky.::)
"Syaoran-kun!" Sakura exclaims, unbelieving.
"We don't know if he is really innocent. He hasn't really said if he DID destroy that dimension or not. And he didn't react much when Keetra told him. Everyone is just ASSUMING he is innocent."
"Syaoran-kun, how can you say that? Eriol-kun is our friend, he wouldn't do such a horrible thing!"
"Are you sure you are not letting your feeling cloud your judgement, Sakura?"
"What do you mean?"
"Eriol can be very flirtatious at times. Who knows what he may have done to win your support?"
"Are. suggesting. flirt. you. Eriol-kun. me. with?"
"Nani?" Syaoran says, not having a clue as to what she said.
"I mean. ARE YOU SUGGESTING ERIOL-KUN WAS FLIRTING WITH ME?!"
"I'm not suggesting, I saw him."
"Saw what?"
"Him flirting with you."
"You're crazy!"
"I saw the flowers and him kissing your hand."
"Now who's the one letting their personal feeling cloud their judgement?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I think all of this is because you are jealous of Eriol-kun!"
"That's crazy! Why would I be jealous of HIM?"
"Maybe because."
"STOP IT!"
The yelling couple turn to the now-open doorway where Tomoyo is standing with a tear-stained face.
"T-Tomoyo-chan."
"The kawaiiest couple in all of Tomoeda shouldn't be arguing." Tomoyo closes her eyes tight. "They should be wearing my costumes, smiling and laughing while I am video taping the whole thing!"
"You taped that?" (-_-);
Tomoyo doesn't hear this for she has run out of the room and is quickly disappearing down the hall. The sound of her sobs echo down the hall.
Sakura runs to the doorway and calls out the door.
"Tomoyo-chan."
Tomoyo keeps running, not hearing her.
"Tomoyo-chan, matte! (wait!)"
Sakura starts to run after her.
"Sakura, iie. Let her go."
"Why?"
"She just needs to be alone."
Sakura looks down the hall where Tomoyo is turning down a bend in the hallway. Sakura starts to walk after her again.
"Sakura."
She turns around as Syaoran steps out of the room.
"If you go after her, then I will have to go after YOU. And I won't have time to get dressed."
Sakura now notices how little he is wearing (::-puddle of drool forming on the floor- ok, give her a break, they were kinda arguing before. -mumbles- but how can you miss it. ::) and blushes deep.
"Hai, I guess you're right, Syaoran-kun. I just don't like seeing Tomoyo-chan like this."
"I don't either. And the two of us arguing didn't help things. Gomen Sakura. I don't know why I said those things."
Sakura walks back to him and gives him a peck of a kiss on his still-wet cheek.
"Daijobou. I'm just glad we stopped."
Syaoran kisses her on the cheek near her lips.
"Hai. Me too."
The two of them turn and re-enter the klat as, further down the hall, Tomoyo flashes her visitor's chip to the guard at Klasaban.
~*~*~*~ End chapter 4 ~*~*~*~
Keetra:: OMG! That took way too much longer than it should've to get out. Gomen nasai!- bows very low for forgiveness- I got so tied up and dad would not let me on the comp and mother was always on when he was off, and. and. I just a slow typer I guess.
Kero:: you go that right.
Keetra:: ::takes off the lid allowing the cat to paw all it likes at the "mouse" in the jar.
Kero:: Eeek. Eeek.
Cat:: mouse mouse mouse mouse
Keelah:: yep, he does sound like a mouse right now.
Keetra:: I like the cat.
Kero:: ::still screeching:: no you don't!
Keetra:: scratch him good kitty.
Cat:: mouse mouse mouse mouse mouse.
Kero:: help help help help help help help help help!
Keetra and Keelah:: read and review!
Kero:: HELP!
Cat:: mouse! Catcha mouse!
Keetra:: Hey minna! Well, I got this updated quick, ne? ^_~ I posted chapter 3 only a couple days ago. And a round of applause to IceFire. She was the only one to see the connection in the k language (well, at least to mention anything about it). Most of the words I use in the continuum starts with the letter k. It was not random, I planned that. It is the same in most of the continuums I use. The S's, where Stang is from, their names and a lot of their words use excessive s sounds. So, Kem, Keetra, Keelah, Kooslee, etc are used as names in the k continuum. Congrats IceFire!
Keelah:: are you really gonna put S+S in this chapter?
Keetra:: well. depends on your definition of S+S.
Kero:: what's that supposed to mean?
Keetra:: it means that if you wanna figure it out you'll just have to read the chapter. Oh, by the way, the first thing in this chapter is the card reading so don't forget to send your ideas of what the cards are trying to say. I must warn you, it is tricky. I didn't give a very easy one. It seems easy to me because I the writer and I wanna know how easy it is.
Keelah:: then write the chapter already!
Keetra:: hello! Have to thank the reviewers here!
Mitski:: YAY! You got the email! So happy! ::does a little dance. Here's hoping you DID read the rest of the fic after you sent the review. I would be very saddened if you didn't.
Pochacco:: make up your mind. Sign off and sign on. Sheesh. And I soooooo thought I sent you an email. Gomen! Will have to run a check to see which emails people are actually checking and who cares if I send them emails. Hmmm. Oh well. And arigatou for saying that I smart! ^_^ Keelah:: there's someone who doesn't know her very well. Keetra:: hey! Kero and Keelah:: *snicker*
Azure-chan:: ok, I am soooooo not buying the innocent look. So, tell him to wipe that grin off his face. And I hope you do try to guess it. The first thing in this chapter is the card reading but there are some things wrong with her reading. I went through my personal Clow deck and chose 9 cards I thought were best. For once, I know who the villain is gonna be before the sixth chapter. In friend or foe, I had just this image but no real kind of name or anything. I think I did a good job with the reading and if you think hard enough, you may get close to what happens. So just try. I just wanna know what people think it means so I know if I made it too easy or not. And poor Kero. ::gives the crying Kero another slice of cake:: oh, and I hope you put more than 20 words on the next chap of your fic, cuz I did my end of the bargain, so now it time for yours. ^_~
Alexandra-chan:: you bet! Arigatou!
Karisa:: LMAO! Hehe, cute little kitty. But I think that Kero is a much faster flier than you give him credit for. Especially with a little persuasion. ::puts a heaping plate of cookies in a little box:: Kero: *notices cookies* COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dives for the cookies not noticing that Keetra has closed the lid. Cat scratches at the lid trying to get to Kero* cat:: mouse mouse mouse mouse.
IceFire:: you know, even some of my friends who help me write this thing do not notice that. Congrats! And you right. I did that on purpose. If I did more of the k language it would be really noticeable.
Kero:: will you start the fic now?
Keetra:: ::opens the lid partly::
Cat:: ::sticks paw in trying to find the "mouse":: Mousy. Mousy. Yum. Yum.
Kero:: help! Keetra and Keelah:: nah!
Disclaimer:: one of these days I gonna be rich and famous. When that day comes, I assure you that I will buy ccs from CLAMP. Oh it will be copyrighted under my name, but I won't give a crap if you guys don't put this stuff. Until then, I don't own ccs. I do own the K continuum and all of its members along with the S continuum members.
Key:
"Talking." 'Thoughts' "* Thought-speech *" (:: author's babble::) (FYI stuff)
Chapter 4 The Reading and True Feelings
(::this may not be very accurate as to what actually happens in the epi where Sakura reads the cards but I had to make do with what I needed to be read::)
"You really think these cards will tell us if the human is innocent or not?" Keelah asks, incredulously.
"Perhaps, or perhaps not. It is up to the cards to decide what they shall reveal." Keetra responds, taking the cards out of the Sakura book.
"That sounds like something that magician, what's his name? Clow Seed? Sounds like something he would say."
"That's because Clow Reed did say that to me, a long time ago."
Keelah notices a far-away look that has come to her friend's eyes. As Keetra shuffles the cards, Clow's voice rings in her ear, repeating what he had taught her long ago.
'Very good Keetra-san. You shuffle well. Now place them on the table and divide them into three piles with your left hand.'
Keetra, still lost in the flashback within her mind, she follows his instructions.
'Now, make the three piles on again in any order you wish.'
She does so, not even opening her eyes to see the piles.
'Now, using nine cards, make a diamond, with one card being at the top and bottom, three cards in the middle and two in each of the spaces in between.'
Again, not opening her eyes, she does so. But Clow Reed's from the past is silent.
'Now what?' Keetra asks herself.
"* Now you let what I have taught you guide you. *" Clow's voice answers her.
"* What's that supposed to mean Clow? *" she asks him.
"* Trust your instincts, Keetra-san, *" is all he says.
Keetra clears her mind and lets the magical connection Clow Reed taught her about, take over her consciousness. Words of an incantation spill from her mouth.
"Cards created by my teacher, Clow,
transformed by the power of the Mistress,
Lend me your guidance,
Reveal to me you knowledge,
I, Keetra, ask you as your co-creator."
Purple lights shine throughout the cards then die out. Keetra reaches over and grabs the top card. As she looks at it, a smile appears on her face.
"Eriol is innocent." She speaks to Keelah for the first time since she started the reading.
"How do you know?" Keelah asks.
Keetra lays the card, face-up now, at the top of the diamond.
"The Fight card?" Keelah asks, still confused.
"Hmm. Having the Fight card show in that position shows that Eriol is not the one. Fight shows an opponent, one who seeks a challenge. It does not match Eriol's personality,"
"That will not convince the council to cancel the trial."
"Yes, but at least I can look for someone without wondering if the one I seek is Eriol. Now, these three cards," she points to the middle cards, "will tell us some things about our mystery person. Keep in mind that we probably will not understand what these three mean until later. Or even until we meet the person." Saying that, she flips the three cards. They are revealed to be the Return, the Create and the Mist cards."
"Hmm" Keetra says, stumped.
"What do you mean 'hmm'?"
"I know what one of these cards means. But the other two, I don't know." Keetra's voice clearly saying she felt that that was a failure on her part.
"Which one do you know?" Keelah asks, trying to cheer her up.
Keetra points to the first card. "Return symbolizes a person from your past. But, Create and Mist? Create. a creation of sorts. A creation from my past? Something I created? But what does that have to do with Mist? Mist." Keetra turns to Keelah. "What is another word for mist?"
Keetra thinks, saying the words as they come to her.
"Fog. drizzle.uh.lemme see.."
"Try vapor."
Keelah's head snaps up.
"Vapor?" she whispers.
Keetra nods, leading her thoughts.
"And who do we know that has a vapor form and has the power of creation?"
"It can't be. Sloota is still in Klasaban. (K prison. Eriol is in one section while those already found guilty are in another.)"
"Is he? I doubt that anyone has paid him a visit lately."
"We can check later. Let's finish the reading."
"Right, maybe it will tell us more."
She reaches for the bottom card.
"This card shows the person's main target. Once I flip the card, an image will appear within my mind as to who the cards represents."
She flips the card and her face loses all color at the image in her mind. Keelah does not notice, making her own assumptions.
"Firey. Hey! Doesn't that teddy bear, Kero draw his power from the sun and this card? I'll have him brought here immediately." she turns and starts to leave.
"It's not Kero."
Keelah stops and looks back.
"Then who.?"
"It's Arcanemon. Arcanemon draws his power from heat."
"That means.. you're in danger as well!" Concern shows deeply in her eyes.
"I'll be fine. Aint the first time someone's wanted my ass."
Keelah smiles, slightly relieved.
"True." She looks down and notices something. "What about these four cards?" she points to the remaining facedown cards. "Are they just for decoration?
Keetra laughs.
"Nope. They tell us some details. These two," she points to the top two. "will tell us what will happen at the next encounter with the person."
She slips the card and explains it.
"The mirror represents the person doing the reader, me. so it will be me that will meet him, not Arcanemon." She flips the next one. "Sword. This represents an acceptance of a challenge. So, he will challenge me and I will accept."
She points to the last two unflipped cards.
"These two will tell us some important facts about the battle. If Light and Dark cards appear here then it means that the danger will be settled upon meeting without a battle. Anything else.well, let's just see."
She flips the cards, almost hearing Keelah's repeating wish for the Light and Dark. Her wish is not granted.
"There will be a battle. Move means it will take place elsewhere, not in the continuum, which is where I am making the reading. And Arrow. Arrow. No." her voice drops to a whisper.
"What is it?" Keelah asks, worried again.
"Someone will die."
A long, silent pause follows.
"Let's pay Sloota a visit then."
"Right. But if Sloota is the one, then this will be the next encounter."
"That's why I am going with you. Now come on."
They leave, Keetra not daring to voice the thought mounting in her mind to her Kinta.
"I fear the Arrow may mean YOUR death, Keelah Dem. I fear it with every ounce of my soul.'
She turns these thoughts aside and buries them far beyond Keelah's reach, resolving to protect her Kinta no matter what the danger to herself may be.
~*~*~*~ Elsewhere ~*~*~*~
"* Tsssssssssssssssssssssss. Ssso clossse and yet ssso far. Sssuch a ssshame my plansss did not go asss I had planned but., *evil grin* I am enjoying this turn of eventsss more. Tssstsssstssss. *"
~*~*~*~ The CCS Klat ~*~*~*~
Every klat is different depending on the occupant's personal needs. So, obviously, the klat that Syaoran, Sakura and Tomoyo are staying ion looks very different from Keetra's klat. Instead of having one sleeping room, this one has two, the bigger of which having two beds. Sakura and Tomoyo (::Sorry S+S peeps, but they aint THAT far along just yet. Am deciding whether I should have Tomoyo lock herself in the single bedroom forcing Syaoran to sleep in the other room. Then Sakura has a nightmare so she needs to be comforted. but like I said, it just in idea at the moment. ^_~::) share the bigger bedroom while Syaoran has the other one. However, between the two bedrooms is a very large bathroom they all must share. (::tee hee hee. Couldn't resist!::)
At this moment, Sakura is sitting in the main room, which is full of couches, chairs and a fireplace. She is lost in thought, yet again. Through Syaoran's open door, the sound of running water is heard from Syaoran's shower. (::Drool::) Sakura looks at the closed door where Tomoyo is laying down. she hadn't spoken a word or left the room since they had come back from Keelah's klat.
"Tomoyo-chan." Sakura mutters.
She had tried to cheer up her friend earlier, but Tomoyo would just stare away as if Sakura wasn't there so she had given up.
"Cheer up soon, Tomoyo-chan."
Sakura knows the reason her friend is sad is because she is worried about Eriol.
"Poor Eriol-kun. We have to prove him innocent." She says determinedly.
"Why?"
Sakura turns to the open doorwhere Syaoran's standing in just his boxers, drying his hair with a towel. (::OK, don't faint on me here cuz I am dying with this mental image! Sakura is sooooooooo lucky.::)
"Syaoran-kun!" Sakura exclaims, unbelieving.
"We don't know if he is really innocent. He hasn't really said if he DID destroy that dimension or not. And he didn't react much when Keetra told him. Everyone is just ASSUMING he is innocent."
"Syaoran-kun, how can you say that? Eriol-kun is our friend, he wouldn't do such a horrible thing!"
"Are you sure you are not letting your feeling cloud your judgement, Sakura?"
"What do you mean?"
"Eriol can be very flirtatious at times. Who knows what he may have done to win your support?"
"Are. suggesting. flirt. you. Eriol-kun. me. with?"
"Nani?" Syaoran says, not having a clue as to what she said.
"I mean. ARE YOU SUGGESTING ERIOL-KUN WAS FLIRTING WITH ME?!"
"I'm not suggesting, I saw him."
"Saw what?"
"Him flirting with you."
"You're crazy!"
"I saw the flowers and him kissing your hand."
"Now who's the one letting their personal feeling cloud their judgement?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I think all of this is because you are jealous of Eriol-kun!"
"That's crazy! Why would I be jealous of HIM?"
"Maybe because."
"STOP IT!"
The yelling couple turn to the now-open doorway where Tomoyo is standing with a tear-stained face.
"T-Tomoyo-chan."
"The kawaiiest couple in all of Tomoeda shouldn't be arguing." Tomoyo closes her eyes tight. "They should be wearing my costumes, smiling and laughing while I am video taping the whole thing!"
"You taped that?" (-_-);
Tomoyo doesn't hear this for she has run out of the room and is quickly disappearing down the hall. The sound of her sobs echo down the hall.
Sakura runs to the doorway and calls out the door.
"Tomoyo-chan."
Tomoyo keeps running, not hearing her.
"Tomoyo-chan, matte! (wait!)"
Sakura starts to run after her.
"Sakura, iie. Let her go."
"Why?"
"She just needs to be alone."
Sakura looks down the hall where Tomoyo is turning down a bend in the hallway. Sakura starts to walk after her again.
"Sakura."
She turns around as Syaoran steps out of the room.
"If you go after her, then I will have to go after YOU. And I won't have time to get dressed."
Sakura now notices how little he is wearing (::-puddle of drool forming on the floor- ok, give her a break, they were kinda arguing before. -mumbles- but how can you miss it. ::) and blushes deep.
"Hai, I guess you're right, Syaoran-kun. I just don't like seeing Tomoyo-chan like this."
"I don't either. And the two of us arguing didn't help things. Gomen Sakura. I don't know why I said those things."
Sakura walks back to him and gives him a peck of a kiss on his still-wet cheek.
"Daijobou. I'm just glad we stopped."
Syaoran kisses her on the cheek near her lips.
"Hai. Me too."
The two of them turn and re-enter the klat as, further down the hall, Tomoyo flashes her visitor's chip to the guard at Klasaban.
~*~*~*~ End chapter 4 ~*~*~*~
Keetra:: OMG! That took way too much longer than it should've to get out. Gomen nasai!- bows very low for forgiveness- I got so tied up and dad would not let me on the comp and mother was always on when he was off, and. and. I just a slow typer I guess.
Kero:: you go that right.
Keetra:: ::takes off the lid allowing the cat to paw all it likes at the "mouse" in the jar.
Kero:: Eeek. Eeek.
Cat:: mouse mouse mouse mouse
Keelah:: yep, he does sound like a mouse right now.
Keetra:: I like the cat.
Kero:: ::still screeching:: no you don't!
Keetra:: scratch him good kitty.
Cat:: mouse mouse mouse mouse mouse.
Kero:: help help help help help help help help help!
Keetra and Keelah:: read and review!
Kero:: HELP!
Cat:: mouse! Catcha mouse!