Ch 14: Morning Troubles, and the first to arrive...
A/N: Yay!!! My beta readers get to.....beta read!!! ^^ *throws confetti in the air and gets some in her eye* o.- Or they would have if I could remember who was supposed to Beta read for this....
Goten: Shouldn't you have thought about that BEFORE you threw the confetti?
A/N: Shut up before I eat your eye...
Bit-kun: I'm beginning to worry about you....
Toei: Only beginning?
A/N: o.-.....shut up.....
~~~~~~~~~Story~~~~~~~~~~ Tomoyo shifted, idly wondering why she was so warm when the castle was always so cold. She yawned and moved to sit up, she opened her eyes when she found it hard to move. She blinked slowly into the face of the sleeping vamp. Her mind slowly processed where she was and how she got there before the days events played back to her. She would have relaxed if not for the fact that she was ALREADY relaxed. She sighed and laid her head back down taking the moment to observe the teen.
She had never really been this close to him, even when he had kidnapped her. She smiled remembering the day, she couldn't quite place why the thought made her smile when it should anger her. She just couldn't be mad. She greatly enjoyed her time there. With Nakuru and her constant pranks, with Spinel and his sweet listening ear, and....
She tilted her head more to look at Eriol. Now that she was closer she could see that he wasn't as unscarred as she thought, across his hairline was a light scar which had obviously been deep. She looked up to his dark blue hair, which seemed lighter in the sunlight, his hair was perfectly clean and shiny, which was surprising seeing as he was dead. She remembered that dead people's hair still grew for awhile after there death, a pointless bit of information and she idly wondered why she remembered it now of all times. She followed a strand of hair to his throat and stared, she couldn't see the marks that turned vampires had, which shouldn't have surprised her seeing as Eriol was Vampire born. She was slightly freaked by the fact that she was wondering what it would be like to sink her teeth into his neck. She closed her eyes trying to think about it. To no avail.
Sighing again she let her mind stray to other thoughts....all of which consisted of Eriol. She realized that she had been thinking on him a lot lately, even more since she got back to the mortal world. But she didn't know why, she knew that he was her friend, yes that wa s a given, and that she was glad to have meet him; even under the terms they had met. She opened her eyes her eyes finding it's way back to his neck before she quickly adjusted it and found herself looking again at the scar on his otherwise perfectly unmarred skin.
She slowly realized that her fascination with his skin being unmarked was unhealthy, that was up until she realized, or atleast she thought she did, that the reason she was thinking on it was because she had gotten the sense that he was utterly perfect. This was her proof that he wasn't as perfect as he let off.
Nibbling on her bottom lip she reached up and brushed her hand over the air infront of his scar, she hesitated again before running her finger lightly over the scar. It was smooth to the touch and she smiled brushing her finger back over it. She froze when his hand tightened on her hip. Slowly looking down to his eyes she let out a sigh when his eyes were still closed.
She moved her hand back on the pillow near her face and watched him as he awoke. His face scrunched up softly like an upset child before he opened his eyes halfway. Tomoyo marveled at the intensity of his still dream hazed eyes. He sat up and gently rubbed the back of his hand over his eyes with a silent yawn. He looked around letting his eyes focus before he looked down at her, she gave a sheepish smile but he simply stared back at her. She frowned thinking something was wrong with him and opened her mouth to speak, but before she could get out a word he had swooped down and fixed his lips on hers in a kiss.
It wasn't hard, but soft and lazy, like one would give there lover in the morning. But even though he wasn't holding her down or kissing her to hard, she couldn't find the strength to move. He gently nudged her chin with his nose before he kissed her again, but she found herself participating in the kiss, her hand slowly moving up to rest lightly on his cheek, she opened her mouth to deepen the kiss and shuddered softly when she felt his tongue prodding at her own. This may have not have been her first kiss, but it was her first with Eriol, and kami did he make it feel like her first kiss. She sighed softly moving her tongue back onto his as he-
She blinked as Eriol screamed realizing that, A, they weren't kissing, B, her hand still lingered on his scar, and D, parts of his face was catching on fire. Eriol bolted up and Tomoyo shrank away from him. The light that had draped over his face so lovingly was now marring his beautiful skin. He rushed to a dark corner of the room his eyes blood red, he crouched on the floor, hissing at the light like a caged animal. Tomoyo stay where she was on the bed watching as Eriol tried to calm down.
"E.....Eriol?....Are you-Eep!!" She squeaked and ducked down on the bed holding her hands over her head when Eriol looked to her, his eyes flashing like a wild animal. She gulped and looked up at him. "Eriol?" She tried again this time he looked scared, his eyes were somewhere between being crimson and changing back to the beautiful blue it used to be. He ran a hand through his hair looking, confused and.....lost. He made a soft whimpering noise in the back of his throat as he looked back to the light that was slowly creeping closer to him. He backed as far as he could into the corner and looked up at Tomoyo in silent plea for help.
Tomoyo crawled from the bed and walked to the window realizing what he was asking, she quickly drew the curtains closed, pulling them tighter for safe measures. After she had closed all four windows she turned to look at him, he was still crouched on the floor but his eyes were gaining more humanity to them.
She didn't know why she did it but she hurried over to him, sitting on the floor and placed her hand over the already healing wounds on his face, she watched as the blood that hadn't already soaked into his clothes rolled backwards to the wound helping it heal over. She could feel the blood rolling over her fingers in warm paths. He watched her as she sat there staring at the back-tracking blood. When she could no longer feel the blood on the inside of her hand she moved it looking in awe at the now healed skin on his face, no marks, no scars, no nothing. She tentively touched his face where the wounds used to be, smooth skin meet her fingers. It was as if he had never been harmed at all.
She looked back to his eyes, and he stared back into hers. "Do you..." "....The pills in my bag. I need to take some of it. To prevent this from happening if I go into light today." She nodded and scurried off to his bag quickly going through it. She didn't know why she hadn't let him do it, she wasn't really thinking properly at the moment, she was too worried. She smiled in triumph when her hands closed around a pill bottle, moving back over to him she sat on the floor holding out the bottle. "Here!!" He smiled softly taking the bottle from her, taking a pill the size of a grain of rice he closed the bottle. "Is the windows in your room closed?" She thought a moment before nodding. "I always close mine before I go to sleep, or else the moon keeps me up." He quirked a brow and she flushed softly. "The moon light, it distracts me." He nodded smiling at her flushed cheeks. "But...the windows in the hallway and my bathroom are always open!" Eriol nodded as they both stood walking down the hall to give Nakuru the pills.
~~~~~~~~~~~Later~~~~~~~~~~~~
The group now washed, dressed, and fed. Sat in the living room awaiting the guests they would be having. Tomoyo sighed remembering the phone call. Forgetting that she had been missing for awhile she answered the phone as she always would and nearly had a heart attack when Yukito squealed happily in her ear. From there, the others had been informed and someone had suggested a reunion. So here they were, seated in the living room awaiting there guests and the questions and accusations that would follow.
Tomoyo looked up at the first knock looking at Raven when she made no move to answer the door. She instead looked at Tomoyo. "You should get that Tomoyo." She mused smiling when realization showed on her face. Raven wanted her to get right to the point. Sighing heavily she walked to the door taking another deep breath before opening it. She was pulled into a hug by a very emotional, very happy Yukito. She didn't blame him for his hysterics. For the past few years they had become like Brother and Sister, sharing there concern and care for the Kinomoto family. And even if no one noticed it, Yukito was as innocently devious as she was, the way he led Touya into confessing all while seeming oblivious. She sighed softly as Touya gently ruffled her hair and looked past her to Eriol and Nakuru, whom were both being hugged and welcomed by the friendly rabbit. He opened his mouth to say something but was pounced on by Nakuru.
"Oh my!! He's so hot!! Can I keep him Tomoyo!? Please!? Please!?" "I'm sorry." Said a small, yet strong voice from over her shoulder, she looked over to see a small blond haired boy with black eyes. "That git belongs to the bunny. And even though I'd rather he just get lost, it would make the rabbit unhappy so.....stay a good distance away alright chick?" She quirked a brow at him standing. "And who would you be?" "I may be Kami himself, depends on who's asking-" "Kero-chan, be nice." Yukito chastised helping Touya stand. He opened his mouth to apologize not wanting to upset his 'mother' but his eyes locked on the form standing next to Tomoyo. He narrowed his eyes moving over. "Why are you here!? And who are you? And why the hell are you standing so close to Tomoyo-neechan!?" Spinel blinked before looking to Tomoyo then back to him. "Tomoyo-neechan?" He tilted his head and blinked. "I'm staying here, that should explain why I am here, I'm Spinel, explains who I am incase you missed that, and I am standing here because I gave up my seat for Raven-san, and Tomoyo was speaking to me. Anymore questions Detective?"
Kero narrowed his eyes looking Spinel over, from his unnatural crop of blue hair, his small cherub face, all the way to his impressive black shoes. He was surprised by the thin frame and gentle voice, much like a girls. "...Are you a girl?" Spinel blinked, but other than that didn't seem too surprised. "No, I am not." Kero nodded, not like a girls....like Yukito's. Thinking on the rabbit reminded him in whose care he had left him. "Damn it!" He quietly cursed seeing as Yukito and Touya were no where in sight. "Nakuru went with them, so they won't be able to do much of anything." He turned to look at Spinel. "How'd you-" "The way you watched him...plus I heard your conversation with Nakuru." He smirked as he walked past him led by Tomoyo as she led him and the others to the garden. Kero's smirked softly watching the thin boy walk off, he shook his head before following. "This should be an interesting reunion. Especially if my hunch is correct." He sighed and walked out after them, waiting for the others to arrive. Yue would love this.
A/n: *happy dance* Alright. Those of you who I said could be my Beta reader....Please e-mail me? So I can send you the next chapter. Kay? I hope you liked this ,sorry it took so long again, and I'm sorry it's so short...
A/N: Yay!!! My beta readers get to.....beta read!!! ^^ *throws confetti in the air and gets some in her eye* o.- Or they would have if I could remember who was supposed to Beta read for this....
Goten: Shouldn't you have thought about that BEFORE you threw the confetti?
A/N: Shut up before I eat your eye...
Bit-kun: I'm beginning to worry about you....
Toei: Only beginning?
A/N: o.-.....shut up.....
~~~~~~~~~Story~~~~~~~~~~ Tomoyo shifted, idly wondering why she was so warm when the castle was always so cold. She yawned and moved to sit up, she opened her eyes when she found it hard to move. She blinked slowly into the face of the sleeping vamp. Her mind slowly processed where she was and how she got there before the days events played back to her. She would have relaxed if not for the fact that she was ALREADY relaxed. She sighed and laid her head back down taking the moment to observe the teen.
She had never really been this close to him, even when he had kidnapped her. She smiled remembering the day, she couldn't quite place why the thought made her smile when it should anger her. She just couldn't be mad. She greatly enjoyed her time there. With Nakuru and her constant pranks, with Spinel and his sweet listening ear, and....
She tilted her head more to look at Eriol. Now that she was closer she could see that he wasn't as unscarred as she thought, across his hairline was a light scar which had obviously been deep. She looked up to his dark blue hair, which seemed lighter in the sunlight, his hair was perfectly clean and shiny, which was surprising seeing as he was dead. She remembered that dead people's hair still grew for awhile after there death, a pointless bit of information and she idly wondered why she remembered it now of all times. She followed a strand of hair to his throat and stared, she couldn't see the marks that turned vampires had, which shouldn't have surprised her seeing as Eriol was Vampire born. She was slightly freaked by the fact that she was wondering what it would be like to sink her teeth into his neck. She closed her eyes trying to think about it. To no avail.
Sighing again she let her mind stray to other thoughts....all of which consisted of Eriol. She realized that she had been thinking on him a lot lately, even more since she got back to the mortal world. But she didn't know why, she knew that he was her friend, yes that wa s a given, and that she was glad to have meet him; even under the terms they had met. She opened her eyes her eyes finding it's way back to his neck before she quickly adjusted it and found herself looking again at the scar on his otherwise perfectly unmarred skin.
She slowly realized that her fascination with his skin being unmarked was unhealthy, that was up until she realized, or atleast she thought she did, that the reason she was thinking on it was because she had gotten the sense that he was utterly perfect. This was her proof that he wasn't as perfect as he let off.
Nibbling on her bottom lip she reached up and brushed her hand over the air infront of his scar, she hesitated again before running her finger lightly over the scar. It was smooth to the touch and she smiled brushing her finger back over it. She froze when his hand tightened on her hip. Slowly looking down to his eyes she let out a sigh when his eyes were still closed.
She moved her hand back on the pillow near her face and watched him as he awoke. His face scrunched up softly like an upset child before he opened his eyes halfway. Tomoyo marveled at the intensity of his still dream hazed eyes. He sat up and gently rubbed the back of his hand over his eyes with a silent yawn. He looked around letting his eyes focus before he looked down at her, she gave a sheepish smile but he simply stared back at her. She frowned thinking something was wrong with him and opened her mouth to speak, but before she could get out a word he had swooped down and fixed his lips on hers in a kiss.
It wasn't hard, but soft and lazy, like one would give there lover in the morning. But even though he wasn't holding her down or kissing her to hard, she couldn't find the strength to move. He gently nudged her chin with his nose before he kissed her again, but she found herself participating in the kiss, her hand slowly moving up to rest lightly on his cheek, she opened her mouth to deepen the kiss and shuddered softly when she felt his tongue prodding at her own. This may have not have been her first kiss, but it was her first with Eriol, and kami did he make it feel like her first kiss. She sighed softly moving her tongue back onto his as he-
She blinked as Eriol screamed realizing that, A, they weren't kissing, B, her hand still lingered on his scar, and D, parts of his face was catching on fire. Eriol bolted up and Tomoyo shrank away from him. The light that had draped over his face so lovingly was now marring his beautiful skin. He rushed to a dark corner of the room his eyes blood red, he crouched on the floor, hissing at the light like a caged animal. Tomoyo stay where she was on the bed watching as Eriol tried to calm down.
"E.....Eriol?....Are you-Eep!!" She squeaked and ducked down on the bed holding her hands over her head when Eriol looked to her, his eyes flashing like a wild animal. She gulped and looked up at him. "Eriol?" She tried again this time he looked scared, his eyes were somewhere between being crimson and changing back to the beautiful blue it used to be. He ran a hand through his hair looking, confused and.....lost. He made a soft whimpering noise in the back of his throat as he looked back to the light that was slowly creeping closer to him. He backed as far as he could into the corner and looked up at Tomoyo in silent plea for help.
Tomoyo crawled from the bed and walked to the window realizing what he was asking, she quickly drew the curtains closed, pulling them tighter for safe measures. After she had closed all four windows she turned to look at him, he was still crouched on the floor but his eyes were gaining more humanity to them.
She didn't know why she did it but she hurried over to him, sitting on the floor and placed her hand over the already healing wounds on his face, she watched as the blood that hadn't already soaked into his clothes rolled backwards to the wound helping it heal over. She could feel the blood rolling over her fingers in warm paths. He watched her as she sat there staring at the back-tracking blood. When she could no longer feel the blood on the inside of her hand she moved it looking in awe at the now healed skin on his face, no marks, no scars, no nothing. She tentively touched his face where the wounds used to be, smooth skin meet her fingers. It was as if he had never been harmed at all.
She looked back to his eyes, and he stared back into hers. "Do you..." "....The pills in my bag. I need to take some of it. To prevent this from happening if I go into light today." She nodded and scurried off to his bag quickly going through it. She didn't know why she hadn't let him do it, she wasn't really thinking properly at the moment, she was too worried. She smiled in triumph when her hands closed around a pill bottle, moving back over to him she sat on the floor holding out the bottle. "Here!!" He smiled softly taking the bottle from her, taking a pill the size of a grain of rice he closed the bottle. "Is the windows in your room closed?" She thought a moment before nodding. "I always close mine before I go to sleep, or else the moon keeps me up." He quirked a brow and she flushed softly. "The moon light, it distracts me." He nodded smiling at her flushed cheeks. "But...the windows in the hallway and my bathroom are always open!" Eriol nodded as they both stood walking down the hall to give Nakuru the pills.
~~~~~~~~~~~Later~~~~~~~~~~~~
The group now washed, dressed, and fed. Sat in the living room awaiting the guests they would be having. Tomoyo sighed remembering the phone call. Forgetting that she had been missing for awhile she answered the phone as she always would and nearly had a heart attack when Yukito squealed happily in her ear. From there, the others had been informed and someone had suggested a reunion. So here they were, seated in the living room awaiting there guests and the questions and accusations that would follow.
Tomoyo looked up at the first knock looking at Raven when she made no move to answer the door. She instead looked at Tomoyo. "You should get that Tomoyo." She mused smiling when realization showed on her face. Raven wanted her to get right to the point. Sighing heavily she walked to the door taking another deep breath before opening it. She was pulled into a hug by a very emotional, very happy Yukito. She didn't blame him for his hysterics. For the past few years they had become like Brother and Sister, sharing there concern and care for the Kinomoto family. And even if no one noticed it, Yukito was as innocently devious as she was, the way he led Touya into confessing all while seeming oblivious. She sighed softly as Touya gently ruffled her hair and looked past her to Eriol and Nakuru, whom were both being hugged and welcomed by the friendly rabbit. He opened his mouth to say something but was pounced on by Nakuru.
"Oh my!! He's so hot!! Can I keep him Tomoyo!? Please!? Please!?" "I'm sorry." Said a small, yet strong voice from over her shoulder, she looked over to see a small blond haired boy with black eyes. "That git belongs to the bunny. And even though I'd rather he just get lost, it would make the rabbit unhappy so.....stay a good distance away alright chick?" She quirked a brow at him standing. "And who would you be?" "I may be Kami himself, depends on who's asking-" "Kero-chan, be nice." Yukito chastised helping Touya stand. He opened his mouth to apologize not wanting to upset his 'mother' but his eyes locked on the form standing next to Tomoyo. He narrowed his eyes moving over. "Why are you here!? And who are you? And why the hell are you standing so close to Tomoyo-neechan!?" Spinel blinked before looking to Tomoyo then back to him. "Tomoyo-neechan?" He tilted his head and blinked. "I'm staying here, that should explain why I am here, I'm Spinel, explains who I am incase you missed that, and I am standing here because I gave up my seat for Raven-san, and Tomoyo was speaking to me. Anymore questions Detective?"
Kero narrowed his eyes looking Spinel over, from his unnatural crop of blue hair, his small cherub face, all the way to his impressive black shoes. He was surprised by the thin frame and gentle voice, much like a girls. "...Are you a girl?" Spinel blinked, but other than that didn't seem too surprised. "No, I am not." Kero nodded, not like a girls....like Yukito's. Thinking on the rabbit reminded him in whose care he had left him. "Damn it!" He quietly cursed seeing as Yukito and Touya were no where in sight. "Nakuru went with them, so they won't be able to do much of anything." He turned to look at Spinel. "How'd you-" "The way you watched him...plus I heard your conversation with Nakuru." He smirked as he walked past him led by Tomoyo as she led him and the others to the garden. Kero's smirked softly watching the thin boy walk off, he shook his head before following. "This should be an interesting reunion. Especially if my hunch is correct." He sighed and walked out after them, waiting for the others to arrive. Yue would love this.
A/n: *happy dance* Alright. Those of you who I said could be my Beta reader....Please e-mail me? So I can send you the next chapter. Kay? I hope you liked this ,sorry it took so long again, and I'm sorry it's so short...