Sorry to all of u that I haven't updated in a long time. I have had a major writers block ever since. Staying true to my word, I did promise all of u a new chapter in less than a month. If this chapter seems to be original than my previous chapters, I am sorry since these days I feel like an airhead more than usual. Again this is my 3rd fanfic and I haven't wrote a story in a year so please go easy on me. Thank you and enjoy!!!!

Disclaimer: CCS does not belong to me. It belongs to Clamp.

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Chapter Four: Memorable Scars

Inside to what looks like to be a bare bedroom showed no sign of life. Every piece of furniture in the room consisted with the colors of pastel blue and white. There in the room stood two doors. One of the doors can be assumed to be the exit and the other was slightly opened letting out hot steam. Within a few moments later, a sign of life was shown as a half naked teenager stepped out from the steamy room with only a towel around his waist and his hair dripping wet. The teenager had navy blue hair and light blue eyes. (My description is getting corny these day. But I do understand that u all know who I'm talking about at this point .... right?) He narrowly made his way towards the mirror looking at his reflection revealing his bare chest and abs and his clear blue eyes giving him a different look without his glasses. In the mirror showed a serious expression planted on his face as if he was lost in thought. He slowly turned his back towards the mirror revealing what appears to be an old yet deep scar. Gently he took his right hand tracing the scar with his fingertips.

"It never seems to fade away, does it Tomoyo?" said Eriol.

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In Tomoyo's Room

Tomoyo lied quietly on her bed tightly hugging her pillow lost in her own thoughts staring at the ceiling.

"Eriol..........." Tomoyo sighed.

--Flashback--

It was a quiet but also a cloudy day where any sign of rain could drop at any minute. In a peaceful and rich neighborhood, no sign of life was yet to be found. But at one specific house, a crowd of people all dressed in black stood outside in the front with sad and sorrow expressions on their faces. The house had a golden plate forged with the name "Daidouji Residence". All of the crowd's attention was at the van parked in front of them. It was a black limo. Inside of it was an opened coffin holding a pale looking young woman with short burgundy hair surrounded by flowers.

"I guess I will meet you at the church" said the butler.

"Yes." said the driver.

The driver averted his gaze from the butler to the crowd of people. Out of all the people, he focused his gaze on the little plum haired girl who seems to try to hold back her tears. He couldn't help but feel sorry for her. Among everyone else, this little girl seemed to be the youngest and more in pain than anybody there. From looking at her, she looked to be 5 years old.

"Is the young miss going to be all right?" the driver said while pointing at the girl.

The butler didn't give him an answer but only looked down at the floor with a sad expression. The driver understood and didn't go any further. He began to walk back to the limo and started up the engine, driving the limo away from the Daidouji's.

After the driver made his exit, a cry can be heard from the crowd. It was from the little plum haired girl.

"Mother!!" yelled the little girl as tears rapidly streamed down her amethyst eyes. She was about to go after the limo but someone held her back.

"Let me go!" "I. Said. Let. Me. Go!!!" the girl painfully cried out.

The butler looked at the kicking and screaming little girl trying to break free from the person's grasp.

"How am I going to explain this to Miss Tomoyo?" the butler thought while looking at the little girl.

"With Miss Sonomi's passing, we don't have anyone to take custody of the mansion and her company. And also there isn't anybody to take in Miss Tomoyo. Miss Sonomi was the only living relative she had left." the butler thought as he glinted his eyes in sadness.

"It's now or never." the butler muttered. (AN: You guys are gonna hate what I'm about to do.)

The butler slowly approached towards Tomoyo. He had a sinking feeling that this was not going to end well. Tomoyo saw this. She had a little ray of hope that he was going to give her some good news and that her mom was all right from the start. Each step that he took, her heart was beating harder and harder. The person holding on to her let go of their grasp.

"Jenkins. Tell me..." Tomoyo said sniffling. "Is my mother going to come back?" said Tomoyo pleadingly.

"I'm afraid not, Miss Tomoyo."

"What?" Tomoyo said losing hope.

He felt more hurt as he went on. Looking straight into her young and innocent eyes made it more harder for him but he knew she deserved to know.

"Miss Sonomi....your mother.......she.... she.... she has" Jenkins tried to let the last words out.

"She has?!" Tomoyo demanded.

"She has passed away......" Jenkins softly murmured.

"No.....no......no..no!!!" "She is not dead!" "She can't be dead!!" cried Tomoyo.

"Miss Tomoyo..." said Jenkins reaching out to her.

"No!!" Tomoyo backed away from Jenkins. "She is not dead!! This is nothing but a cruel lie!! Everything will be all right!! Mother will come home like she always does!! We will have tea together and she will always tuck me into bed and kiss me goodnight!!" Tomoyo fell down her knees hiding her face in her hands and crying her heart out.

Jenkins couldn't bear to tell her anymore but he knew he had to tell her now.

"Miss Tomoyo..." "I'm afraid there's more." Jenkins said with pain.

Tomoyo raised her head looking at Jenkins with her puffy and red eyes from crying. She was about to make another attempt to run away but Jenkins stopped her.

"No more. Just stop ." Tomoyo softly cried out clasping her hands to her ears.

"Miss Tomoyo, please you have to listen to this."

"I said no more!" "Let me go!!" Tomoyo sobbed.

"Miss Tomoyo, now that you don't any living relatives left to take care of you and being too young to take over your mother's company, I'm afraid we have to send you to an orphanage."

Jenkins lost his grip on Tomoyo as he was devastated from his words. He waited to hear what Tomoyo's response was but he didn't get any. All he saw was a horrified look on the girl's face as she began to step back and swiftly ran away from the mansion.

"Miss Tomoyo! Come back!!" yelled Jenkins.

As she was running she can hear her butler trying to have her come back, but she didn't even bother to listen nor care. No one could understand the pain she was going through. All that ran through her mind was to just run away and keep on going.

20 minutes have passed as Tomoyo finally ran out of energy and decided to take a break. Looking at her surroundings, she ended up being in an alley that is strangely clean. Just to her left she saw a neat pile of cardboard boxes deciding to take one and sit on. Defensively she hid her face in her knees allowing all the sadness to release from her.

"Mother... why did you have to leave me?" Tomoyo whispered.

As things couldn't get any worse, a few drops of rain began to make their way down until it turned into a brutal thunderstorm. But this didn't effect Tomoyo as she was still crying her eyes out. Minutes passed and it was still raining. At this point Tomoyo was soaking wet everywhere but she still had her head ducked in her knees. Strange noises were heard near Tomoyo. She decided to raise her head and see where it was coming from. What she saw didn't make her feel any better. It was a flock of crows. They were staring at her strangely. She didn't like it. It looked like they were about to attack her. Before she could defend herself, the crows already made their movement and flew straight to her. Tomoyo screamed waiting for the impact but it never came. She opened her eyes to see what happened. Instead of being attacked, a mysterious boy about her age came out of nowhere shielding her from the crows.

"Who are you? Why are you.......?" asked Tomoyo.

"Shh....Don't move.....They'll be gone soon." said the boy.

The crows continued their attack on the both of them. The boy kept on shielding Tomoyo, trying to show no hint of pain but he couldn't hold it in for long. He winced from the pain but continued to struggle and protect this girl that he doesn't know. Tomoyo noticed this and couldn't help but feel guilty.

"Why is he doing this?" Tomoyo thought.

The crows finally got tired from attacking and flew away leaving the two alone. Now just remembering they were still out from the rain, the boy pulled Tomoyo in to take cover with him.

"That was a close one, wasn't it?" said the boy smiling at Tomoyo.

"You shouldn't have stayed outside. It's really pouring out there. You could've caught pneumonia or --" the boy was cut off wincing from the pain the crows left on him.

The boy slowly tried to trace where the pain is from. It was on his back. Tomoyo saw this.

"Don't worry about me when you're in pain yourself." Tomoyo informed.

"It can't be helped. To me pretty girls like you always come first before anything." said the boy smiling at Tomoyo.

Tomoyo couldn't help but blush at his words.

"By the way, my name is Eriol, Hiiragizawa Eriol. What is yours?" he kindly asked.

Tomoyo shyly stepped up to the boy still blushing "Um.. Tomoyo, Daidouji Tomoyo." Tomoyo muttered shyly.

"Nice to meet you, Daidouji Tomoyo-chan. So, tell me. What were you doing out there in the rain?" asked Eriol.

This reminded her of her mother's death. She didn't feel like talking about it so she just gave a simple reply. "Nothing.."

"It had to be something if you didn't notice the- Ow!" Eriol winced at the pain on his back.

"Here let me take a look." said Tomoyo. Tomoyo looked to check for any bruises on his back. She gasped. Blood stained on his shirt. She lifted his shirt to see where the wound was coming from. There nothing major but minor scratches, but one thing caught her eye. It was a deep and narrow scar and it is where all the blood was coming from.

"How could you be so reckless?" said Tomoyo angrily. "Jumping in all of the sudden without thinking first." she said immediately ripping a piece from her dress to bandage his wound.

"But--"

"But nothing!" Tomoyo shouted with tears beginning to form. "You just recklessly keep on saving people and then ..(sob)..the next thing you know..(sob)..you're dead!!" Tomoyo cried out.

There was silence between the two. Eriol was shocked at what she just said. It was silent for a few minutes but Eriol decided to break the silence.

He gently walked over to embrace her in a hug. "I'm sorry if I made you worry." said Eriol gently.

"It's my fault. I shouldn't have just said that." Tomoyo sniffled.

"Would you care to tell me what happened?" Eriol said still embracing her. But he didn't get a reply. He could tell from looking at her that she has been through a lot and decided to drop it.

"It's ok. You don't have to tell me."

"No." she simply replied. "I want to."

Eriol began to felt his shirt get wet. He figured that Tomoyo was still crying.

"Today I found out my mother passed away." Eriol's eyes widen. "And I also found out that I have nowhere to go." More tears started to form. "Tell me...." she gently replied. "Why is the world so unforgiving?" Tomoyo cried.

Eriol tightly embraced Tomoyo in his arms. He couldn't help but feel so much sympathy for her. This was all too much anyone could go through. He knew that she was just a stranger but in his heart felt a sudden urge to hold her in his arms and protect her.

"It's all right......" "I will protect you." said Eriol.

"Thank you."

--End of Flashback--

(AN: Whew... that was a long flashback)

With no place to stay, Eriol decided to take Tomoyo back with him to join Touya's group. He explained everything about how Tomoyo was in a situation just like everyone else in the group and got Touya to accept Tomoyo. Before Eriol met Tomoyo, he was close friends with Sakura and was on good terms with Touya. The time where his parents began to abandon him, Touya took him seeing that he was a good friend of Sakura. Over time, Tomoyo lived her life happily among the group later becoming best friends with Sakura and unexpectedly falling for Eriol with him returning her feelings.

In Tomoyo's Room

Tomoyo was lying on her bed still deep in her own thoughts. A lot of images of Eriol ran in her head. Thinking back to that day when they first met, she didn't know what caused her to trust him. But she was glad she did. It was the most happiest moment of her life when she met him. and nobody in the world would ever replace him.

Breaking Tomoyo out of her thoughts, the door to her room flew open. It was Eriol. Tomoyo immediately rolled out of bed face to face with Eriol.

"Tomoyo.." replied Eriol.

"Can I see it?" asked Tomoyo.

"Yes."

Tomoyo lifted up the back of his shirt searching. She slowly lifted her hand right to where the scar was. Tomoyo traced to see how the scar was with her fingertips. Finished, she pulled his shirt back down to the way it was and began walking slowly away from Eriol with her back to him.

"You are an idiot, you know that?" Tomoyo said smiling with tears forming on her eyes.

"Yes I do." Eriol happily replied back.

Eriol took hold of Tomoyo's hand and forcefully pulled her into a hug. He felt his shirt get wet.

"It's all right Tomoyo." Eriol whispered. "Cry as much as you want."

"Thank you."

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Wow I didn't even know I was capable of putting up such a chapter. This has gotta b the most dramatic chapter I've ever wrote. I'm sorry I've dissapointed all of u if u were looking forward to some S&S moments but I thought Eriol and Tomoyo deserved as much attention as S&S, so I dedicate this chapter to them. Tell me how I did in this chapter because I'm dying to know if I'm losing my touch or not and again please go easy on me since this is my 3rd fic and I havent wrote in a year.

Maybe i shouldn't say this but I got another chapter waiting to be posted, so if all of u loyal readers can help me get my reviews up to 30 or more, I will b happy to post up the next chapter. I can guarantee u I'll explain y Syaoran can't get close to Sakura in the next chapter. If u can have other people come check out my fanfic and give a review, I appreciate it. Ja ne!!!!! Remember to R&R!!!!!!