Title: Songs Without Words
Anime: Card Captor Sakura
Author: nikki hiiragizawa
Genre: alternate universe/romance/drama
Rating: PG-13 for certain delicate issues
Disclaimer: Card Captor Sakura is owned by CLAMP.
Notes: This is just a trial fic. ^.^ I just want feedback from your people on whether you are interested to read. If I get positive responses, I'll continue this fic as soon as I finish "Caress of Venus." If not...then I guess I'll go back to my ninja stories...-.-;;; This is a teaser, meaning there's absolutely no give-away stuff on the plot. OK, so maybe there is a give-away...ohohohohohoh! Jaa, please read and tell me what you think. I don't think Ill be posting the continuation in FFnet, but I'll update it on my site for sure...arigatou!
TEASER: Prologue
"You're crazy."
Daidouji Sonomi looked at her daughter in shock. "It's not crazy, Tomoyo! Haven't I explained it enough?"
Daidouji Tomoyo calmly sipped her tea, ignoring her mother's remarks. Only when her mother insisted that she answer did she set her cup on the china saucer and wiped her mouth daintily with the napkin. "I already told you, Mom. I think this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard."
"What is so stupid about getting remarried, Tomoyo?" her mother demanded. "Satoshi is a very nice man. He's stable, he's educated, we have the same interests..."
"And you have just met him for about what? Two weeks?" The seventeen-year old girl frowned. "It's not that I don't respect you, Mom. It's just that I think it is impossible to fall in love in such short span of time! His wife died just a year ago and he has a son, for heavens' sake!"
Sonomi looked down to her lap. "Can't you accept this, Tomoyo? You have to give him a chance. His son readily accepted this proposal and they're flying here to talk about it with us."
"I definitely cannot accept." Tomoyo dropped her napkin on the table. "Didn't you think of what other people will say? How my mother managed to be remarried in so short a time after a divorce? Wouldn't they ask questions of how you met that man and for how long? Did you even think of how I feel right now, just nursing the shock from you and Dad just getting divorce suddenly and then informing me after you separated?" She blinked back tears. "I don't understand you!"
"I know," her mother replied, near tears. "I know your Dad and I did that mistake of informing you after we divorced, but we thought that was the best way since we're sure you'd say no. Besides, we knew you have some inkling that we don't love each other..."
"I've had enough of this talk." Tomoyo stood up from her seat and went out of the room.
Still sitting on the table, Daidouji Sonomi quietly shook her head. It will take some time before her daughter accepts the fact that she is marrying again.
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Green eyes watched Tomoyo with concern as the purple-haired girl recounted the events in their dining room yesterday. "I really don't know, Sakura-chan," she finally said after narrating the story. "I don't know how I'm going to tell my mom that I don't like this idea of a whole new family right after the old one was ruined."
"Hmm, Tomoyo-chan," the green-eyed girl said after listening. "I don't know what to say. It's the first time I've seen you like this." Sakura mixed her orange juice using her straw.
"What do you mean the first time?"
Sakura laughed at Tomoyo's sudden question. "Oh well, you know that. You're a quiet, mysterious, intelligent type of girl. I didn't think you were somebody who would flare up like this." A giggle escaped the young woman's lips. "I mean you were so composed and everything."
"Sakura-chan..." Purple eyes narrowed. "Who wouldn't flare up like this? My family has just fallen apart and then this! I wouldn't want another family to live with us."
"But why?" her friend asked as their ordered cake came. "Wouldn't it be fun to have a new father, and a new...uh...is it brother or sister?"
Tomoyo sighed, forking her cake absently. "It's a brother. And I don't want a sibling that did not come from my mother. Who knows what their manners would be? What if they suddenly throw us out of the house and colonize our company?"
"Tomoyo-chan likes movies very much." A glare from Tomoyo closed her friend's lips. "Just joking! But instead of moping, why don't you give them a chance?"
Chance? The purple-haired girl cradled her chin on her palm and concentrated on her cake, not speaking anymore. Sakura smiled in silence and decided that it was better to leave her friend like this.
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"I don't know why I am even doing this..." Tomoyo muttered as her mother and she were ushered towards their reserved table in the hotel. "I'm supposed to be in choir practice."
Sonomi begged to her daughter. "Please, Tomoyo. For me? I promise they will be great persons."
"Whatever you say." Tomoyo sat down and breathed in and out to bring out her friendliest attitude. Being composed and always kind like she had always been makes her tired sometimes...especially if she's doing it to people she didn't even like. Having her breath turn to a sigh, she settled down and waited for the worst.
What was her mother thinking, she can never fathom. Tomoyo never told anyone of the divorce except Sakura. She was too ashamed to publicize that issue. Her family was known to be happy and intact and she cannot ruin that perception. It would be too embarrassing to tell people that her mother and father separated because they grew tired of one another. It was all too stupid a reason.
And then now, her mother is proposing that they live with a man with a son whom she had met for only a short time. It was absurd. How can anyone live with another man a few months after she was divorced? If only her mother was as practical and modern as she, Tomoyo, then she would be able to realize the shame and illogical thinking of this matter.
Sighing once more, Tomoyo crossed her arms over chest and silently waited for her mother's new boyfriend, the sign of her impending doom.
"Ah, Satoshi!" Sonomi stood up, rather excited. "I'm glad you made it."
Tomoyo refrained from looking up. Just seeing the shoes of her would-be father was too much. Nice shoes, she thought. However, Daidouji Tomoyo will never be impressed by anything.
"Tomoyo, this is Hiiragizawa Satoshi and his son, Eriol." Sonomi shook her daughter's shoulder to make her look up. "This is Tomoyo, my daughter. She is quite the same age as you, Eriol-kun."
The purple-haired girl gave up. She would just have to be stubborn as she can be so she can stay strong. She looked up and flashed her best smile. "It's nice to meet...you."
Hiiragizawa Satoshi looked like a very kind man. Formal yet has a twinkle in his eyes, he seemed to be someone whom everyone can respect and love. Behind him stood his son, Eriol.
Eriol, as he was called, was wearing formal clothes just like his father. He wore thin-rimmed glasses fitted for his pale yet smiling face. His dark sapphire eyes reflected light as if they were gems and his dark hair was shiny, not wavy. Locks framed his face very well, conjuring up an image of an intellectual person. He stood with both stability and grace and he was holding out his hand to Tomoyo.
Tomoyo looked at the hand offered to her and then back to the face offering his hand. Biting her lip, she could feel slight warmth rushing towards her face. Slowly, she took the offered hand.
"It is very nice to meet you, Tomoyo-san," Eriol greeted with a smile, his pupils only slightly shown in slits as humor crinkled in his eyes. Smiling slowly, Tomoyo bowed her head, first to show respect and second to hide her pink cheeks.
He's...he's...so cool!
To be continued.
Author's Notes: So, what do you guys think? Please review so I'll know if I should continue or not. I'll write this after finishing "Caress of Venus." Thanks to you all!
