Angelic Destiny

Four


Eriol looked at Tomoyo, eyes wide with surprise.

"Tomoyo Daidouji? Is that really you, Tomoyo?" Eriol asked.

Tomoyo looked closely at the guy standing in front of her. He really seemed familiar. He had...the Eriol on Earth's prominent nose...his hair colour and the paleness of his skin seemed very, very familiar too. She stared incredulously at him. "You are not by chance Eriol Hiiragizawa, aren't you?"

"Er...yah." Eriol nodded his head hesitantly.

"Oh Eriol! It's so great to see you!" Tomoyo exclaimed as she flew into Eriol's arms.

"Me too..." He murmured into her ear. "I thought that I had lost you forever."

"Well, I am here right? How come you are in Heaven? I thought that you were still on Earth?"

At this, Chiharu, Naoko and Rika looked at Eriol doubtfully. "We thought that you were in Heaven the whole time. Where have you been? Earth?" Naoko finally broke the awkward atmosphere.

"I sort of sneaked out of Heaven. Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha." Eriol became sheepish and laughed lamely under the furious glares of Chiharu, Naoko and Rika.

"No wonder we could not find you when we went to your residence to ask you something. Argh!" Chiharu yelled with frustration.

"Gomen..."

"I guess you were busy with Tomoyo..." Naoko suggested slyly as she darted evil eyes between Rika and Chiharu. Both Eriol and Tomoyo blushed hard.

"Hey! What are you all discussing? Care to let us know?" Syaoran shouted at the others after spending sometime with his girlfriend and wife-to-be, Sakura.

"Oh! We were just discussing about Eriol sneaking out of Heaven to be with Tomoyo..." Naoko replied before Eriol's hand clamped her mouth shut. Naoko struggled wildly before Eriol hissed in to her "You better watch out." He then released her.

"Oh...so the Guardian of Wayward Souls is out of Heaven, chasing after Tomoyo? I should really tell your father, the Minister of Heaven."

"You dare? If you dare, I will tell your Father that you have not been doing your duties! Then, you will be in for big trouble!"

Syaoran looked shocked at this. "How can you say that? I have been doing my duties after all! You are the one who has sneaked out of Heaven! So why blame me?" He protested.

"I just want to blame you, if that is all right, Your Highness?" Eriol stepped closer towards Syaoran. Syaoran frowned, and stepped closer too.

"All right, all right! Both of you! Stop fighting!" Sakura flew in between them and shoved them apart. "Any more quarrelling and both of you will get it!"

"Get what?" The confused Tomoyo asked dumbly.

"Well..."

"Tell me, Sakura!"

"All right. But don't blame me. If both Eriol and Syaoran still want to fight, I will keep Tomoyo and myself out of both of your sights until I say that everyone could meet. That way, Tomoyo can learn more things about Heaven while the two of you are sulking. All right with that?"

"Fine!" Eriol flew off to sit somewhere further away, under another tree. The rest looked at Eriol's sudden departure. Tomoyo, concerned, flew after him. When she was about to reach the tree he was sitting, she landed and walked silently until she was directly in front of him.

"Don't be angry, all right? It is only a joke, not to be taken seriously."

"Easy for you to say! I was not sneaking out of Heaven, sort of..." Eriol looked at Tomoyo and his eyes softened. "I had a mission to do. You see, I am the Guardian of Wayward Souls, and my job is to guide those who stay on Earth for no reason to the other place other than Heaven. It is my job. I just have to deal with something, which is why I was not in Heaven."

"Eriol..."

"I am sorry that I had lied to you. I am not a human being. I am an angel. However, not many people believe in angels, only a small handful of them. Even among them, there are a lot of people who believe that angels are like the cherubs, with chubby bodies and tiny wings. That is not who we are! Besides, I was on Earth...was because of you." Eriol looked at the others who were far away from where they were sitting. The others were also sitting down and chatting. They were probably talking about a joke, for laughter could be heard.

"What? What do you mean?"

"You seem to be confused about this. Has He told you about it?"

Tomoyo shook her head. "I guess this means that you are not ready to hear this either. You will know what I mean sooner or later."

"Can you tell me?" Tomoyo looked into his deep blue eyes. "Can you? Or is it something that I can only find out when the time comes?"

"It is..."

Meanwhile, Chiharu and the others were talking about someone, and that someone was Tomoyo. It was always news to the angels that some new angel, who was not the so-called pure angels, had arrived to Heaven. Therefore, for the first few months, all the talk would be about Tomoyo for the time being. Whatever she did, either right or wrong, would be prone to comments by all the angels. If she was not careful, some of the angels would bully her, though it was not obvious to the other angels.

"So...what do you all think of Tomoyo?" Sakura asked when she got everyone and the angry Syaoran to sit down.

"She's nice and is humble. If that is what I am going to say." Rika answered immediately. "I believe that she has great potential, and would be a great angel if blossoms under your care, Sakura."

"Yeah! Me too! I had thought that she would be some new seamstress to sew clothes for the angels and God...unless she has some other ambitions?" Naoko asked.

"Oh, she sure has! She wants to be a member in the choir! I wonder why? The choir is very competitive and if there is one that surpasses all their talents...well, Tomoyo might be in trouble if she is the one." Sakura answered Naoko's question.

"True. If that is the case, then she might be in greater trouble, for I believe that when the angels find out who she really is and what she would do to help us, well..." Syaoran trailed off. "She has a destiny to fulfill, and the destiny, only few angels would know. But, to them, some may not think that it is the time for that someone to appear and bring us all to freedom."

"What do you mean?" Rika, Naoko, Chiharu asked in unison.

"We cannot say. We can only see what would probably happen in the future..." Sakura replied as she looked into the distance, where Tomoyo and Eriol were sitting under that tree, lost in their own worlds, chatting as if the others did not exist...


Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura. I only own this story's plot!

This chapter is done! Yippee! Well, I may not update as much this week but I will try for holidays is next week and my teachers may give holidays homework earlier, so I would like to have a head start at them. Holidays are only one week long, and I want to finish them as soon as possible! So don't blame me if I only update once or none at all for the next few days...

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