Chapter 2: The Child
Vocabulary:
nani - what
please - onegai shimasu (request)
forgive - yurusu
me - watshi
Disclaimer: *sarcastic smile* Yea, that's right. I own Card Captors and everything else! Uh huh...
Tomoyo awoke Saturday morning later than usual. 'What was so important about today again?' she wondered. She sighed, and got out of bed. She pulled out an outfit. She pulled on the blue t-shirt, then pulled on the creme overdress. She slipped on her matching blue sandals and started brushing her hair, then pulling them into two tight braids and securing them with blue twist ties. She walked downstairs to find Eriol in the kitchen. He had just finished. He had omlets ready for the both of them. He turned around to find Tomoyo. Tomoyo stared at him in disbeleif.
"Nani?" he asked. Then realised what her look was for. "Let's say I found your cookbook." he said with a laugh.
"Oh." Tomoyo said with a small smile. She took a plate and they sat down. She tasted a bite cautiously.
"I didn't poison it." Eriol said with a frown.
"Are you sure?"
"Don't mess with me."
"Why not?"
"We should be on our best behavior."
"Our best behavior?" Tomoyo snorted. "Your best behavior is one that matches fire trying to spread on water. It doesn't happen." she laughed. Eriol soon became angry.
"I told you not to test my patience today!" Eriol shouted. Tomoyo should have listened, but she didn't.
"You wouldn't do anything to me." she said with an air of confidence. Eriol snapped. He stood up and grabbed Tomoyo's wrist and jerked her up from the table and pinned her against the wall, a fiery look in his eyes. Tomoyo whimpered in pain. He didn't seem to notice.
"Don't test me!" he yelled at her. Tomoyo shrunk against the wall.
"Eriol...your hurting me..." Tomoyo said quietly. Eriol let go of her wrist and walked away. Tomoyo slid down the wall so she was sitting on the floor and held her wrist and stared after Eriol. Tears filled her eyes once more that week. A pink mark was on her pale skin showing clearly. 'Eriol...what's with you today?' she wondered. 'What's with that best behavior stuff to-' she suddenly remembered. 'We get the kid today!'
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Eriol sat on his bed, trying to read a book. He couldn't. 'Tomoyo looked so scared.' he thought. 'I didn't mean to hurt her...that always happens when I snap...I really need to control my temper.' he thought. He was angry with himself. He wanted to apologize, but at the same time, he had warned her. It was her fault she didn't listen. She also didn't understand how terrible he was when he was in a bad mood. So in a way it was both of their fault. 'Spinnel Sun would have made me apologize already...him and Nakuru...plus my mom might have killed me...' Eriol thought in amusement. He sat up on his bed and practically flew down the stairs, his mind made up. He searched the house until he found her outside under the willow tree where he had been sitting the previous days. He walked up to her. She didn't look up.
"Tomoyo...I'm...I'm sorry." he said finally. Tomoyo looked up at him, pain and sadness was clear in her eyes. She didn't know if she wanted to forgive him.
"I'll forgive you for one reason." Tomoyo said softly. Eriol looked at her curiously. Before he could ask however Tomoyo finished her words. "I'll forgive for the reason that we are getting our child today and I don't want it to see us like this." Eriol was silent. He looked away.
"I know you don't want to forgive me Tomoyo...and I don't blaim you. I can't forgive myself right now." he said and he walked back inside the house. She watched him. 'Too late Eriol...I've already forgiven you...' she thought. She stood up and tocuched the tree as Eriol had done and walked back inside the house.
"Onegai shimasu yurusu watashi Tomoyo. Someday." Eriol said as Tomoyo walked in.
"Too late."
"Nani?"
"I already forgave you Eriol. When are we going to the orphanage?"
"Now?"
"Then let's go."
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Tomoyo and Eriol entered the orphanage. A woman from the place came up to them. Tomoyo looked around with frightened eyes at seeing all the children without homes.
"Are you from the highschool by the new houses?" the woman asked.
"Yes. I am Tomoyo Daidouji and this is Eriol Hiiragizawa." Tomoyo said. Eriol nodded.
"Yes. We were expecting you. Come this way." the woman said and led the 'couple' to the back room where children that were six, seven and eight years old. "Take your pick. Tell me when you have decided." she said in a monotone voice. Tomoyo and Eriol nodded and stepped forward.
"How about seven? Just in the middle." Eriol whispered to Tomoyo. She nodded with a slight blush. His breath tickled her ear. They looked at all the children. All seemed unhappy and scared. One caught Tomoyo's eye though. A little girl sitting in a corner. Her hair was choppy and flowed to her shoulders. The girl had black hair that had red streaks in it as well. She was wearing a sky blue jacket, a black shirt and a sky blue skirt and black boots. Tomoyo immediatly knew this girl was the one. She tapped Eriol on the shoulder.
"What about that girl? The one in the corner wearing the blue?" she whispered. Eriol looked at the girl and took an immediate liking to her.
"Agreed. That one." he said with a smile. Finally they agreed on something. They walked to the woman that had led them to the room. "We have chosen." Eriol said simply and they pointed out the girl. The woman understood which child and went into the room.
"Mikazuki!" she called.
"Yes?" a timid voice asked. The girl looked up.
"You are being adopted. Gather your belongings." she said. The girl's young face split into a smile. A smile that suited her face, a smile that obviously wasn't often used. The girl had her things in an instant and followed the woman out to Tomoyo and Eriol. She hid behind the woman's legs. "Present yourself." the woman said. The girl stepped out from behind her and turned to her new parents.
"My name is Mikazuki and I am pleased to meet you." the girl said and she bowed. Tomoyo and Eriol seemed taken aback at her behavior but brushed it aside.
"My name is Tomoyo."
"Eriol."
"These will be your parents Mikazuki. Please enjoy yourself." the woman said and she left.
"Let's go Mikazuki...would you like to hold my hand?" Tomoyo said kindly. Mikazuki smiled and took her hand. Then she looked at Eriol rather timidly. Eriol smiled and took the little girl's other hand and they left the orphanage. Eriol was driving home and Mikazuki was sitting in Tomoyo's lap and Tomoyo was sitting in the seat next Eriol in the car. Eriol pulled into the driveway. They all climbed out of the car and walked inside the house. "Would you like to see your room? We haven't bought you anything too special yet because we didn't know who we were getting."
"Yes please." Mikazuki said politely. They showed her to her room and she stared at it in awe. "It's beautiful! Thank you so much!" she squealed and hugged Tomoyo and then hugged Eriol. They smiled happily.
"Do you know what your name means in Japenes Mikazuki?" Eriol asked. Tomoyo let a smile drift across her face.
"No..."
"Do you want to?"
"Yes please."
"Mikazuki in Japenese means cresent moon." Eriol said and Mikazuki squealed in delight.
"Really? I never knew..." she said quietly.
"Really."
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Tomoyo woke up late again the next day. She sat up and rubbed her eyes. She dressed in a white and navy blue dress. It had navy blue collar and navy blue cuffs on the sleeves. It had a navy blue underdress. The main dress was white with two buttons at the top and was slightly tight until the waist were it fanned out and ended just below the knees. She put on navy blue socks and black shoes and brushed her hair and went through her ribbons but couldn't find one that matched. She sighed and walked downstairs to find Eriol in the kitchen again, Mikazuki eagerly sitting at the table, and a small wrapped present at her place on the table. She looked at Eriol questioningly and picked it up. She looked at Eriol again and noticed he was trying to hold a smile. She smirked and unwrapped the gift. It was a single navy blue ribbon with a card tied to it. She opened the card and it had 6 words on it. She smiled as the words were: 'Onegai shimasu yurusu watashi Tomoyo. Eriol'. Tomoyo took off the card and placed the ribbon in her hair on the left side. She walked up to Eriol and gave him a hug from behind surprising both of them.
"Argito Eriol." she mumbled and then walked back to her place at the table next to Mikazuki who had a huge smile.
"I told you blue was the way to go daddy!" she called to him as he came in with three plates. Eriol winked at Mikazuki and placed a plate in front of each of them. He sat down. Tomoyo took a bite of her biscuit and smiled.
"And you told me you couldn't cook Eriol!"
"Well I couldn't."
"Don't lie to me!!"
"Who says I'm lying? I was just learning from watching you."
"Is that a fact."
"That's a fact."
"Yea right."
"You saying you don't beleive me?"
"Why are you two arguing?" Mikazuki asked innocently from her seat at the table. Tomoyo and Eriol looked at each other and immediatly quieted down.
"Oh, we're just messing around."
"Umm...yea." Eriol said. He looked uncomfortable. They continued eating in silence and the rest of the day passed uneventfully.
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Tomoyo and Eriol were walking upstairs with Mikazuki that night. Mikazuki hadn't noticed it before, but she watched in wonder as Tomoyo went to her room and Eriol went to a different room. She decided to voice her question.
"Don't you two...sleep in the same room?" she asked innocently. Tomoyo and Eriol froze at their doors. Neither had an answer for the young girl. "Or do you guys not like each other?" she asked, her eyes suddenly filling with tears. Tomoyo and Eriol turned to look at each other.
"Don't cry Mikazuki..." Tomoyo whispered.
"Are you gonna seperate like my other parents and discard me again?" she whispered. Tomoyo and Eriol's eyes shared a look of pure shock.
"No! That's not it." Eriol said.
"Then if you guys don't hate each other, why don't you sleep in the same room?" Mikazuki asked in confusion.
"We do." Eriol said without thinking. "I'm...just getting my pajamas."
"Oh! That's great! Do you sleep in that large room at the end of the hall?"
"Umm...yea." Eriol said. Mikazuki's face brightened and she smiled largely and watched the two parents walk into the room at the end of the hall before going into her own room. Tomoyo and Eriol walked into the room and shut the door. Tomoyo sat on the bed. Neither teen had noticed that a bed was in the room when they had moved in, then again, when they first moved in, they wouldn't have slept in the same room if their lives depended on it.
"Nice going. Now we have to sleep in the same room. I'm tempted to make you sleep on the floor." Tomoyo muttered.
"Oh, and what would you have said? Huh?" Eriol said angrily. He mimicked Tomoyo's voice. "'Oh yea, we actually do hate each other but we won't discard you. We just had to do this.' Like that would have gone well."
Vocabulary:
nani - what
please - onegai shimasu (request)
forgive - yurusu
me - watshi
Disclaimer: *sarcastic smile* Yea, that's right. I own Card Captors and everything else! Uh huh...
Tomoyo awoke Saturday morning later than usual. 'What was so important about today again?' she wondered. She sighed, and got out of bed. She pulled out an outfit. She pulled on the blue t-shirt, then pulled on the creme overdress. She slipped on her matching blue sandals and started brushing her hair, then pulling them into two tight braids and securing them with blue twist ties. She walked downstairs to find Eriol in the kitchen. He had just finished. He had omlets ready for the both of them. He turned around to find Tomoyo. Tomoyo stared at him in disbeleif.
"Nani?" he asked. Then realised what her look was for. "Let's say I found your cookbook." he said with a laugh.
"Oh." Tomoyo said with a small smile. She took a plate and they sat down. She tasted a bite cautiously.
"I didn't poison it." Eriol said with a frown.
"Are you sure?"
"Don't mess with me."
"Why not?"
"We should be on our best behavior."
"Our best behavior?" Tomoyo snorted. "Your best behavior is one that matches fire trying to spread on water. It doesn't happen." she laughed. Eriol soon became angry.
"I told you not to test my patience today!" Eriol shouted. Tomoyo should have listened, but she didn't.
"You wouldn't do anything to me." she said with an air of confidence. Eriol snapped. He stood up and grabbed Tomoyo's wrist and jerked her up from the table and pinned her against the wall, a fiery look in his eyes. Tomoyo whimpered in pain. He didn't seem to notice.
"Don't test me!" he yelled at her. Tomoyo shrunk against the wall.
"Eriol...your hurting me..." Tomoyo said quietly. Eriol let go of her wrist and walked away. Tomoyo slid down the wall so she was sitting on the floor and held her wrist and stared after Eriol. Tears filled her eyes once more that week. A pink mark was on her pale skin showing clearly. 'Eriol...what's with you today?' she wondered. 'What's with that best behavior stuff to-' she suddenly remembered. 'We get the kid today!'
________________________________________________~*~
Eriol sat on his bed, trying to read a book. He couldn't. 'Tomoyo looked so scared.' he thought. 'I didn't mean to hurt her...that always happens when I snap...I really need to control my temper.' he thought. He was angry with himself. He wanted to apologize, but at the same time, he had warned her. It was her fault she didn't listen. She also didn't understand how terrible he was when he was in a bad mood. So in a way it was both of their fault. 'Spinnel Sun would have made me apologize already...him and Nakuru...plus my mom might have killed me...' Eriol thought in amusement. He sat up on his bed and practically flew down the stairs, his mind made up. He searched the house until he found her outside under the willow tree where he had been sitting the previous days. He walked up to her. She didn't look up.
"Tomoyo...I'm...I'm sorry." he said finally. Tomoyo looked up at him, pain and sadness was clear in her eyes. She didn't know if she wanted to forgive him.
"I'll forgive you for one reason." Tomoyo said softly. Eriol looked at her curiously. Before he could ask however Tomoyo finished her words. "I'll forgive for the reason that we are getting our child today and I don't want it to see us like this." Eriol was silent. He looked away.
"I know you don't want to forgive me Tomoyo...and I don't blaim you. I can't forgive myself right now." he said and he walked back inside the house. She watched him. 'Too late Eriol...I've already forgiven you...' she thought. She stood up and tocuched the tree as Eriol had done and walked back inside the house.
"Onegai shimasu yurusu watashi Tomoyo. Someday." Eriol said as Tomoyo walked in.
"Too late."
"Nani?"
"I already forgave you Eriol. When are we going to the orphanage?"
"Now?"
"Then let's go."
________________________________________________~*~
Tomoyo and Eriol entered the orphanage. A woman from the place came up to them. Tomoyo looked around with frightened eyes at seeing all the children without homes.
"Are you from the highschool by the new houses?" the woman asked.
"Yes. I am Tomoyo Daidouji and this is Eriol Hiiragizawa." Tomoyo said. Eriol nodded.
"Yes. We were expecting you. Come this way." the woman said and led the 'couple' to the back room where children that were six, seven and eight years old. "Take your pick. Tell me when you have decided." she said in a monotone voice. Tomoyo and Eriol nodded and stepped forward.
"How about seven? Just in the middle." Eriol whispered to Tomoyo. She nodded with a slight blush. His breath tickled her ear. They looked at all the children. All seemed unhappy and scared. One caught Tomoyo's eye though. A little girl sitting in a corner. Her hair was choppy and flowed to her shoulders. The girl had black hair that had red streaks in it as well. She was wearing a sky blue jacket, a black shirt and a sky blue skirt and black boots. Tomoyo immediatly knew this girl was the one. She tapped Eriol on the shoulder.
"What about that girl? The one in the corner wearing the blue?" she whispered. Eriol looked at the girl and took an immediate liking to her.
"Agreed. That one." he said with a smile. Finally they agreed on something. They walked to the woman that had led them to the room. "We have chosen." Eriol said simply and they pointed out the girl. The woman understood which child and went into the room.
"Mikazuki!" she called.
"Yes?" a timid voice asked. The girl looked up.
"You are being adopted. Gather your belongings." she said. The girl's young face split into a smile. A smile that suited her face, a smile that obviously wasn't often used. The girl had her things in an instant and followed the woman out to Tomoyo and Eriol. She hid behind the woman's legs. "Present yourself." the woman said. The girl stepped out from behind her and turned to her new parents.
"My name is Mikazuki and I am pleased to meet you." the girl said and she bowed. Tomoyo and Eriol seemed taken aback at her behavior but brushed it aside.
"My name is Tomoyo."
"Eriol."
"These will be your parents Mikazuki. Please enjoy yourself." the woman said and she left.
"Let's go Mikazuki...would you like to hold my hand?" Tomoyo said kindly. Mikazuki smiled and took her hand. Then she looked at Eriol rather timidly. Eriol smiled and took the little girl's other hand and they left the orphanage. Eriol was driving home and Mikazuki was sitting in Tomoyo's lap and Tomoyo was sitting in the seat next Eriol in the car. Eriol pulled into the driveway. They all climbed out of the car and walked inside the house. "Would you like to see your room? We haven't bought you anything too special yet because we didn't know who we were getting."
"Yes please." Mikazuki said politely. They showed her to her room and she stared at it in awe. "It's beautiful! Thank you so much!" she squealed and hugged Tomoyo and then hugged Eriol. They smiled happily.
"Do you know what your name means in Japenes Mikazuki?" Eriol asked. Tomoyo let a smile drift across her face.
"No..."
"Do you want to?"
"Yes please."
"Mikazuki in Japenese means cresent moon." Eriol said and Mikazuki squealed in delight.
"Really? I never knew..." she said quietly.
"Really."
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Tomoyo woke up late again the next day. She sat up and rubbed her eyes. She dressed in a white and navy blue dress. It had navy blue collar and navy blue cuffs on the sleeves. It had a navy blue underdress. The main dress was white with two buttons at the top and was slightly tight until the waist were it fanned out and ended just below the knees. She put on navy blue socks and black shoes and brushed her hair and went through her ribbons but couldn't find one that matched. She sighed and walked downstairs to find Eriol in the kitchen again, Mikazuki eagerly sitting at the table, and a small wrapped present at her place on the table. She looked at Eriol questioningly and picked it up. She looked at Eriol again and noticed he was trying to hold a smile. She smirked and unwrapped the gift. It was a single navy blue ribbon with a card tied to it. She opened the card and it had 6 words on it. She smiled as the words were: 'Onegai shimasu yurusu watashi Tomoyo. Eriol'. Tomoyo took off the card and placed the ribbon in her hair on the left side. She walked up to Eriol and gave him a hug from behind surprising both of them.
"Argito Eriol." she mumbled and then walked back to her place at the table next to Mikazuki who had a huge smile.
"I told you blue was the way to go daddy!" she called to him as he came in with three plates. Eriol winked at Mikazuki and placed a plate in front of each of them. He sat down. Tomoyo took a bite of her biscuit and smiled.
"And you told me you couldn't cook Eriol!"
"Well I couldn't."
"Don't lie to me!!"
"Who says I'm lying? I was just learning from watching you."
"Is that a fact."
"That's a fact."
"Yea right."
"You saying you don't beleive me?"
"Why are you two arguing?" Mikazuki asked innocently from her seat at the table. Tomoyo and Eriol looked at each other and immediatly quieted down.
"Oh, we're just messing around."
"Umm...yea." Eriol said. He looked uncomfortable. They continued eating in silence and the rest of the day passed uneventfully.
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Tomoyo and Eriol were walking upstairs with Mikazuki that night. Mikazuki hadn't noticed it before, but she watched in wonder as Tomoyo went to her room and Eriol went to a different room. She decided to voice her question.
"Don't you two...sleep in the same room?" she asked innocently. Tomoyo and Eriol froze at their doors. Neither had an answer for the young girl. "Or do you guys not like each other?" she asked, her eyes suddenly filling with tears. Tomoyo and Eriol turned to look at each other.
"Don't cry Mikazuki..." Tomoyo whispered.
"Are you gonna seperate like my other parents and discard me again?" she whispered. Tomoyo and Eriol's eyes shared a look of pure shock.
"No! That's not it." Eriol said.
"Then if you guys don't hate each other, why don't you sleep in the same room?" Mikazuki asked in confusion.
"We do." Eriol said without thinking. "I'm...just getting my pajamas."
"Oh! That's great! Do you sleep in that large room at the end of the hall?"
"Umm...yea." Eriol said. Mikazuki's face brightened and she smiled largely and watched the two parents walk into the room at the end of the hall before going into her own room. Tomoyo and Eriol walked into the room and shut the door. Tomoyo sat on the bed. Neither teen had noticed that a bed was in the room when they had moved in, then again, when they first moved in, they wouldn't have slept in the same room if their lives depended on it.
"Nice going. Now we have to sleep in the same room. I'm tempted to make you sleep on the floor." Tomoyo muttered.
"Oh, and what would you have said? Huh?" Eriol said angrily. He mimicked Tomoyo's voice. "'Oh yea, we actually do hate each other but we won't discard you. We just had to do this.' Like that would have gone well."
