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LiL:.CaT:.AnImE : Sorry to confuse you. I need to put something between the breaks. The extra spacing on word doesn't seem to work.

You know, sometimes I just sit at my comp and have absolutely no idea what to type. What am I asking? I'm asking for future ideas, anything that you might think will help the story, or an explanation of what's going on, things like that. Without the fans, the story will suck, I can tall you that! OK, Li and Eriol are the same age, and are three years older than Sakura and Tomoyo, who are born on the same day and are the same age. The clow book is in Sakura's posession, but she doesn't know it. A secret of Eriol and Li will be revealed . . .well, maybe two. I'm going to focus on Eriol and Tomoyo for this chapter. (Yes, I'm not a bad girl, I'm being nice to the two.)

Oh, one more thing. Li has been at Eriol's for three years now, so he and Eriol are sixteen, and Tomoyo and Sakura are thirteen. I know I jumped a lot from the last chapter. I'm tired.

A shadow passed by Tomoyo's window, temporarily darkening her room. When it passed, she awoke. She opened her eyes and scanned the room. Finding nothing wrong, she closed her eyes. The shadow passed again.

"Okay, I saw that. What's out there?" Rubbing her eyes, she got up, stretched, and walked over to her balcony. What she saw made her rub her eyes again. "I had too much candy before I went to bed." Shaking her head, she got back into bed, ignoring the passing shadows.

The next morning, Tomoyo got up early, to surprise her master. She quickly got dressed and headed down the stairs to Eriol's suite. When she entered and looked at Eriol, she quickly turned around, her face buried in her hands.

"I'm sorry, Master Eriol! I didn't think you'd be up and I . . .I didn't . . .I didn't think you'd be . . ." She stuttered. 'He's so handsome! Wait, what am I thinking?! He's my master! M-A-S-T-E-R! I'm just a servant! Stop it, Tomoyo! Why am I blushing so hard?! Stop it!'

"Tomoyo? I didn't expect you so early." He said calmly, though he was a little red. She had caught him sitting on his bed, with only tight black pants, towel drying his hair after his quick bath. There was a little smile on his face at her reaction. Drying his hair with the towel, (A/N: Taking his time, none the less.) Eriol walked over to Tomoyo's trembling form. He let the towel drop, then placed his hands on her shoulders, giving her a massage that made her shiver violently. 'Her discipline is overriding her instinct. She's so beautiful when she does that.'

"Please stop." She managed to get out, but something in her voice that she couldn't control told Eriol the opposite. He let his hands slide down her arms. "Please, Master Eriol!"

"As you wish." He whispered seductively in her ear, his lips only centimeters away from her neck. She shivered. 'She caught me right after I changed back. Why can't she be older? She's still too young . . .'

"Master Eriol, what's wrong? You've done things, but you were never . . . I mean, you never actually . . ." She blushed again. She had been looking at him, but had to look away again. 'He's so well built. It's so . . .seductive. I can't . . .I can't look at him! I just can't! Not without feeling . . .it's so weird . . .I can't control it!'

"Tried to seduce you?" He was closer to her neck. She shivered from the feel of his breath. 'I can't stop now. I want her . . .Wait, Hiiragizawa! She's only thirteen! She isn't ready . . . Not yet . . . wait, let her get older, let her grow . . . more mature, more prepared. She hasn't fully matured yet.' "Tomoyo, you should leave, before I do something . . . You shouldn't see me today . . . It's too dangerous." He forced himself away from her, taking his hands off her arms, where they had stayed. He walked purposefully to balcony and gripped the rail. He heard her leave the room quickly. "Tomoyo . . ."

-Following Tomoyo-

'Master, why did you just do that?! You deserve better than me . . .Why is my heart pounding so hard? And why am I still blushing? Eriol . . .' She ran quickly up the stairs to her room and shut the door silently, sliding down to the floor. Her face was still buried in her hands. Tomoyo sobbed silently.

"Tomoyo? Are you in there?" A voice came in from outside. Drying her tears and getting up, she opened her door.

"Mistress Mei Ling? What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to ask you something, girl-to-girl, but I didn't want Syaoran to find out. If I asked Sakura, he'd know something was up."

"It's okay, he doesn't want to see me today." Sakura came up the stairs. "He was acting really weird. So, what's up?" Mei Ling ushered Sakura into Tomoyo's room and shut the door as the two sat down.

"You see, there's someone I've known for a while, and . . ."

-Following Eriol –

'Syaoran said we should practice in human form today, and said something about sensing strong magic close by . . .I wonder if the clow cards are involved? I hope it's nothing too terrible.' He walked slowly out of his room, fully clothed and his hair mostly dry. Getting a strange feeling, he went upstairs and stopped in front of Tomoyo's room.

". . .you actually did that?! But, don't you like . . ."

"SHHHH! I said don't repeat it! That's why he can't know!"

'What's Mei Ling doing in Tomoyo's room?'

"So, are you gonna go tonight? Hmm?"

"Of course not! . . .Well, maybe." Eriol heard Tomoyo and Sakura giggle.

"I think you should, just make sure nobody follows you. Especially Master Li. I still can't figure out why he was acting so weird this morning." Eriol heard Mei Ling giggle this time.

"Silly. Oh, well, if you don't know, I won't tell you. Just don't go visiting before the sun comes up, k?" He heard Mei Ling get up as the two girls pounded her with a chorus of questions. Moving swiftly, he had turned the corner just as Tomoyo's door opened and Mei Ling came out. "I've gotta go back home. Auntie wanted to see me. See ya later!" Coming up with an idea, Eriol stopped and leaned against the wall casually, looking asleep, bangs covering his eyes. As Mei Ling came past, he startled her.

"So, who's the lucky guy, the one that got your attention away from Syaoran?" She frowned at his sly smile.

"Not that it's your business, but there isn't a guy keeping me away from Syaoran."

"A girl, then?" Eriol followed annoyingly down the stairs.

"Baka. There's nobody, k? Oh, my . . ." They paused at the end of a stairway. Their sensitive ears picked up a faint ticking.

"Grenade. Run!" They turned around and were at the top of the first flight when the grenade went off. They continued up the next several flights until the got to Tomoyo and Sakura at the sixth floor, in front of Li's room. They looked terrified, but Tomoyo turned pink and shivered slightly at the sight of Eriol. "Tomyo, let's go!" Mei Ling grabbed Sakura and the two ran, each with a girl in their arms, and jumped down the balcony as the hallway exploded behind them.

-Tomoyo-

"Master, what's going on?!" Her face was buried in his chest as they fell. He tightened his grip reassuringly.

"We'll find out later." He whispered in her ear gently.

'He's doing it again, damn him! He smells nice. Tomoyo! What are you thinking?!'

"Hold on." Eriol and Mei Ling landed gently on the ground and released the two girls. Looking up, he noticed the pattern, and cursed loudly as Li ran up. "Li, they're after the book!" It was Syaorans turn to curse loudly.

"Well, it's not where they think it is."

"What are you two talking about?" Tomoyo had backed away from Eriol when he had started cursing. Something registered on Mei Ling's face.

"Wait, not . . . that book?!" Li nodded. "When were you going to tell me you had found it?!"

"Somewhere close to never."

"LI! Do you know how much trouble you could have saved me if I knew we weren't looking for the book?!"

"There's only one card."

"WHAT?!"

"The others are loose, and have been for nine years now." Tomoyo and Sakura looked at each of the three, then at each other.

"There's something there." Sakura stated suddenly, looking away from the castle, receiving stares from Mei Ling, Eriol, and Syaoran, whose eyes narrowed.

"Of course there is. There's a garden."

"No, something weird. It's . . .uh!" She fell to the ground.

"Sakura!" Tomoyo leaned down to her.

"Hiiragizawa . . .That's where I put it. But, when I opened the book, there was nothing there."

"So it's . . ."

"Inside Sakura?" Mei Ling turned to face the girl crumpled into a ball on the ground.

"Incoming!" Eriol grabbed Tomoyo, Mei Ling grabbed Sakura, and Syaoran led the way to the gardens as a grenade came flying at them. "I put it in the cavern!"

"Ready to go for a swim?" Eriol flashed a smile down to Tomoyo, who blushed furiously, avoiding his gaze. Which just so happened to put her face centimeters away from his chest. (A/N: What a wonderful day Tomoyo is having, ne?)

'That smell again . . .' She thought. "Put me down." He looked down at her, still running. (He was carrying her bridal style.) "Please?"

"Not until we get to the pool. We're actually running faster than it looks." And so they were. Tomoyo looked and started getting dizzy. The trees were passing by a lot faster than they should be. A few moments later, they were at the pool. Li had already jumped in, and Mei Ling followed after putting Sakura down. Sakura followed. "Go on." He set her down gently and looked back.

"All right." Shaking, and blushing furiously, Tomoyo jumped in. (A/N: Her servant clothes are white. Understand?) The water refreshed her, and she momentarily forgot about everything else. She saw Sakura swimming gracefully ahead of her, and swam faster to catch up. Sakura smiled at her. Suddenly, Tomoyo felt something grab her waist. Panicking, she tried swimming faster, but saw who it was and immediately blushed. Eriol had grabbed her, then Sakura, pulling them through the water so they would swim faster. They reached a cavern just as the two were about to run out of air.

"They won't follow us back here." Eriol told Li as he released the two girls.

"Good. I put it in pretty far, in case someone came back here to look for it."

"I say we build a fire and dry off. I hate being wet!" Li and Eriol rolled their eyes.

"Sakura, do you have the feeling they're talking about something important?"

"Yeah, but I don't think I want to know what it is. Don't you think that Master Li and Master Hiiragizawa are acting weird?"

"Yeah, they are." Tomoyo blushed again. "We should look for some stuff to light a fire with!" She changed the subject. Sakura blinked, then agreed.

Sorry for the long update. Everything is so hectic here, and I couldn't get to the computer for a while. As usual, Give me ideas and the like, I don't mind flames if you don't like it. And if there looks like there's any errors, please tell me! Sorry, but I'm a grammer freak when it comes to my stories. Anyway, see u next chapter!