A/N: HEY! I haven't died yet! Sorry for those readers who were waiting for an entire YEAR for this fic's update. I thought I would discontinue this fic, and I told many of my reviewers that because highschool started, but I then I thought at least I should give this some sort of ending.

Here it goes!

Eriol's POV

Chapter 15: The Earthy

Tomoyo and I have been together for one week. One good long week. A week of witnessing sunrise in each other's embrace, and watching the pink and purple clouds when the sun sets.

But the longer we are together, the more I get the feeling......... Tomoyo is having unpleasant thoughts............... but that can't be it, she is next to me.................. I— the god of magic, the gift from heaven to humans.

God, I've been spending so much time with her, I have no clue what's going on inside the palace. Has Sakura angered Syaoran to death, or did Empress Yelan already cut out their stomachs and pulled out all the intestines, I have no clue. Ugh, and if that's the case, I don't even want to know about it.

But Tomoyo and I wanted to take a vacation, and go to Lotus Island, Yukito's home. He told us many stories during the time he lived in Tomoyo's shop. It is a small island in southern china surrounded by miles and miles of blooming white water lilies all year long. Tomoyo was fascinated by his story, so I volunteered to take her there.

Even though I have magic, I purposely avoid using it and made the both of us walk the way to Lotus Island, because............. well frankly, I just want to spend more time with my amethyst eyed girl. For some reason, I don't think our good times will last much longer, and I want to elongate the time we spend together. I mean, it can't be everyday when my love feeds me bite by bite as we walk the streets of smiling people. Well, the strangers' faces were kinda blurry, but I'm just going to assume they were smiling. And we buy small chicks that chirp nonstop because Tomoyo thinks they're cute. And they grow so fast on the second day, they were fully developed I cannot even recognize them anymore. But they sure were delicious when they went into our stomachs. At night time, we would by fire crackers, and try to burn each other with them. Ahhhh. This is just the life.

On the third day of our journey, we reached the Hua Mountain. It's a rather famous site in China, so we grabbed a bunch of sharp metal objects, hooks, ropes and started climbing.

Tomoyo looked at her rope skeptically. "Eriol! My rope is skinnier that a watch belt! Do you want to kill me?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "You were the one who wanted to buy it. It's purple and pretty, unlike those dull brown ones. Unfortunately, I think this purple this is used to tie hair or something."

"Do you mean we'll have to go to the tool shop to buy more supplies?!" Tomoyo whined, "but I was really looking forward to getting to the mountain top before nighttime!"

"That's okay, I have an idea!" I was sure a lightbulb formed on top of my head momentarily. "You can use that purple rope and tie yourself to me. I," and here I looked proud, "am a skilled mountain climber. I don't need rope to help myself up the mountain."

Tomoyo at first looked like she would rather choke to death than to trust me on this, but then I reminded her that she loved me, and she would have to listen to me on this. So we were tied together, back to back, as I slowly climbed up the mountain. However........

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

........ my hands were kinda slippery and we both tumbled down the slope of the mountain. So we tried again. And again. And again. At least until Tomoyo's mountain climbing dream was ruined and she insisted I should just fly our way up the mountain on my enchanted cloud. We were the only people on the top of the mountain, because the rest of those mortal fools that climbed with us fell down the mountain as well as they were climbing.

Tomoyo and I sat together in a long period of silence.

I finally leaned closer to her, and whispered in her ear, "what are you thinking? Hm?"

Tomoyo shifted her gaze from the ground to me. Her eyes were so serious yet beautiful, that I wanted to stare into them the rest of the day. But on the other hand, her eyes weren't smiling, and it showed that she wasn't happy.

"I was thinking," she paused to turn her head away from me, like she's ashamed of something, "I— I want to break up with you. I don't want to see you any more."

And that was when my poor heart plummeted from the mountain's zenith back to nadir. I laughed, "I'm sorry, I got distracted, I didn't hear you. What did you say?"

"You heard me perfectly well, Eriol." She said in a fake frigid tone. "You know clearly we can't be together, but you have to be cruel enough to love me and make me the bad guy and end our relationship."

"I apologize. I still didn't hear you. What?" I was in denial as Tomoyo's words slowly processed through my head. Reality was slapping me in the face, but I chose to ignore it.

"Eriol, I know you well enough to know that you're not that stupid."

My vein popped as I twitched. Stupid? "If you know me well enough, then why are you breaking up with me?!"

I think I said that a bit to loud, because now Tomoyo started shouting as well. "It's not like I WANT to! But haven't you figured this out yet? YOU, you are a royal advisor. If Syaoran died without an heir, you would be king. And you are the most powerful sorcerer in our country! You should be with a girl who has equal rank in social class and magic skills as you!"

I was finally starting to catch on with her. "That's it? That's your fabulous reason for breaking my heart?"

Tomoyo now was on the verge of tears. "I'M NOT THE CARDMISTRESS, DAMN YOU!" She admitted to me finally. "Isn't it obvious? Sakura gave me a bunch of clow cards, because she was traveling back then, and didn't want to keep all her cards in possession because she was afraid she might lose one. But without the clow cards, I'm just a nobody. Just another random girl you meet out on the streets! I'm not suitable enough to marry a member of the royal class!"

She lost me again. "Whoa! Marry? Who said anything about marrying?"

Tomoyo turned a tinge of pink. Either from embarrassment or from anger, at the moment it's hard to tell.

"You mean to say you never planned on marrying me!?" She exploded.

I think she just answered my question.

"But we haven't even known each other for a year yet."

"413 days is MORE THAN A YEAR!" She yelled, as she punched my chest. And I can't say that iron fist did not hurt. But, what's special is she counted the days since we met. Because of that, I'll forgive her and not punch her back.

"But I thought we just loved each other. We're too young to marry right now." I reasoned, but for some reason, that just angered her more.

"But we are going to eventually, aren't we?! AREN'T WE?! If we aren't going to, then why bother even spending time together? Empress Yelan won't approve! She'll skin us both alive! I was right, we should just end our relationship here right now, before we conjure up more feelings for each other!"

I was dizzy from all her shouting up to that point, "NO! We shouldn't break up Tomoyo. Who cares if you're not the Cardcaptor? I have enough magic, money, personality and good looks to share for both of us. Being with you isn't a crime, and it's not like I'll be missing out on anything. Why should we break up?"

I did it. I opened the gates. Beads of tears rolled down Tomoyo's eyes. "True," she sniffled, "you're powerful, rich, and damn handsome. You have everything. Nothing is missing from your life. I basically just have to be around you to make you shine more compared to me. But what about me? I'm a person too. I'm not some scarecrow! I have feelings, and I want to contribute something to make your life even more meaningful. But since there's nothing I can give to you, I choose not to be with you any longer. Because your perfection is not something I want to be around. And I don't want the world to hate me for being the plain person I am to steal away their beloved god of a magician."

"Tomoyo," I exhaled, "that's not what I meant. I don't know how to say this to you. But all I know is I still want to be with you, regardless of what'll happen to us in the future."

"Too bad, that's not good enough for me."

"Then you leave me with no other choice," I pushed her onto my flying cloud again, and zoomed us down the mountain to a nearby village.

I rented a restaurant area from a store owner, and gather a bunch of villagers together. I then quickly bought flowers, wine, golden plates, and all that other good stuff.

"Eriol, what are you doing? You're spending all our journey money on a bunch of expensive stuff we don't need!" Tomoyo scolded me.

I just rolled my eyes, and kept on buying accessories, and treating our guests well. It was kind of awkward though, inviting a bunch of people I have never in my life met before drink wine and eat food at a restaurant I borrowed.

I rang the gong loudly for all my guests to be quiet and listen to my announcement. I stood on a chair so everyone can see me. "My dear villagers! I am from a foreign city, but today, I am getting married here! My friends aren't with me to witness me and the lovely Tomoyo getting married, so I invite all you people to drink and feast with us! Let the wedding begin!" Plaudits ensued.

I magically transformed the clothes Tomoyo was wearing into a traditional red wedding dress, and turned my clothes into wedding clothes as well. I gathered a band of wedding horns, and we were about to start the ceremony.......

But that's when I realized Tomoyo had already fainted.

Lanturn: Yay! They got married! Sort of.

I'm so glad I picked up where I left. I thought I had already forgotten the entire plot of this story.

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Next chpt is Sakura, talking more about her, Syaoran, Meiling, and the rest of the stuff that's happening in the palace!