Last chapter…

Suddenly, much to their astonishment and surprise, one of the Eriols, upon hearing Tomoyo's voice, walked over to her and took her hand. The young raven-haired heiress froze on her spot, blinking at the Eriol in front of her. And before the other Eriol could stop him, the Eriol suddenly leaned forward and kissed the poor stunned girl.


Disclaimer: I don't own CCS nor will I ever own it… I don't have enough money to buy it…

Author's blabbering: Okay… So I really was insane when I was writing this… Oh, jeez! I think it was tea that made me more ridiculous than usual… No, maybe it was the rice cakes… Or probably that peach-like pastry, whatever they call it… Thanks for my reviewers. You really make me happy when you review…

Momo-chan: I can't believe I wrote that… A yellow car! Lolz! XD! XD! XD! Told you I was insane…

Shadow Elf Sofi: Intriguing huh? I'll update, don't worry! XD

Animevietgirl: Yes, you seem to love my stories, don't you? XD thanks!

Cristal-shian: There are two Eriols since… One is for Tomoyo-chan… The other is for me… Lolz! I'm really getting zany here! I need to get out of Japan as soon as possible! Oh, and yes, there are slippers for guests… At least, there are, here in my cousin's house. Not as fluffy as mine though at home… We'll just have to see if Eriol did separate himself… XD!

DarkLadyNyara: You think so? Thanks!

Crayon-eater Aya: You think he's getting jealous? … (Looks at my Eriol clone…) Nah! He's just as zany as me…

Tsubame7: Yes, I think we all need to know too… XD thanks!

Mayie-chan: Onee-chan is nicer to listen to… XD

Erie-chan was really nice in lending me her computer… Don't worry, Erie-chan, this fic is dedicated to you since you're lending me your computer and keeping away Akiko-chan and Seisuke-kun from me… Hey! Is that a Neji plushie? Give it to me! … I'm really having trouble writing this chapter… It's so… so Eriol-ish! Full of Eriols…


CHAPTER 2: MAGICAL HEADACHES


"What the hell are you doing, Hiiragizawa!" Li shouted furiously, wrenching the Eriol away from the frozen Tomoyo. "Have you gone out of your mind!"

"It wasn't me!" the other Eriol, the Eriol behind him, protested angrily. "It wasn't me!"

Syaoran rounded on him heatedly, still holding the first Eriol's lapels in his fists. He then glared at the Eriol he was holding then glanced at Tomoyo who was still frozen on her seat, looking blankly at the table. Then back to the Eriol behind him. "What the hell is going on here!" he roared. "There are too many Hiiragizawas!"

Sakura sweatdropped at Syaoran. Well, it's not that she hasn't seen him get mad like this.

"This is what I was talking about," Spinel drawled lazily, as he raised his head from Tomoyo's lap.

Kero, who was watching the events unfolding in front of him amusedly, folded his tiny arms in front of him and sat down in mid-air like some Arabian sheik, nodding. "Yes, yes, but how did that happen?" He seemed to be talking to his own thoughts. "I thought that ancient magic is non-existent anymore."

This time, Tomoyo, who had finally gotten out of her daze, glanced down at the black cat. It stared at her in the eyes and she slowly, painstakingly nodded. "Ah, now I understand."

The Eriol standing behind Li smiled at her. "So you've finally guessed, Daidouji-san."

The raven-haired girl slightly bowed her head, her pale cheeks stained with pink tinges. After that kiss, she just couldn't look at Eriol straight in the eyes. It was a matter of awkwardness. Obviously, it wasn't that often when your friend kisses you in front of your other friends.

The Eriol behind Li frowned slightly at her, clenching his fists. "I apologize, Daidouji-san, I—"

"What the hell is going on here!" Li roared again, his grip on the other Eriol not even deteriorating. "Why—What the hell—!—How the hell did you get doubled! Is this some kind of a magic trick!"

The free Eriol let out a sigh in exasperation, running a hand through his dark hair. He had no idea that the Li clan sprouted from the Huns, barbarians of Northern Mongolia. At least, that was what his little descendant was showing. "I suggest you let go of my twin before he casts a spell on you, Li," he said wearily. Still, Syaoran didn't let the other Eriol go. "Let's have a talk. I'm sure we can clear this one out."

"No, I'd kill him first!" the Li Clan Head growled angrily.

Sakura didn't anymore wonder why Syaoran was so angry. Everybody knows that the Li heir treats Tomoyo as his little sister. He was very protective, almost like Touya, when it comes to the two. After all, they are just as precious to him as his mother, his sisters and Meilin. And especially when it comes to Eriol. He didn't want that "eccentric weirdo" to get anywhere close his "little plum blossom sister". Of course, his "sweet cherry blossom" doesn't get jealous. Why would she?

"Actually, I don't think Eriol would appreciate it if you kill me, Li," the Eriol in his hands replied casually as if they were just talking about the weather. He pried Syaoran's hand away from his shirt then walked over to the seated Eriol, standing behind him. "You see, I'm his other half."

Syaoran and the orange cat gaped at him like he grew another head. Crickets chirped, the wind blew and a bird sang, and still there was no sound coming from one of the two. Sakura sweatdropped even more.

"Sometimes, I'm really curious if you really are a Li," the Eriol on the chair said with a sigh.

"I didn't say I didn't understand what your clone was saying!" Syaoran retorted irritably, forcing himself not to launch an attack on the calm and composed sorcerer. "I want to know how your clone came to be like that and why he kissed Daidouji!"

The Eriol standing behind the "throne of evil" glanced down at the Eriol seated on the "throne of evil". He smirked. "Well…"

"I'll handle this, Eriol," the latter Eriol said wearily, feeling silly. Obviously, people feel silly when they call their own names, addressing them as individuals. "I can't trust you with your words."

"It's just saying that you don't trust yourself," former Eriol said haughtily.

"I don't so just shut up," latter Eriol snapped coolly.

The three teenagers and the orange plushie stared at the two identical Eriols as they argued with each other. Sakura didn't know whom she should listen to: the Eriol sitting down or the Eriol standing. Syaoran was feeling more irritated with each passing minute, having to listen two morons argue about themselves. Tomoyo was still lost. And Kero, well, he was still amused at the sight in front of him.

"I didn't know you have an identity crisis, Hiiragizawa," the Li Head remarked, a smirk on his features.

"I don't!" the two Eriols chorused and Syaoran let out a low whistle of amusement.

Spinel, who was still having a nice nap on Tomoyo's lap, yawned widely. "They've been arguing like this since last night," he said lazily. "And I must say, it is very entertaining to watch. Master must really develop his own skills on knowing himself better."

Tomoyo, who was rubbing her temples because of a developing headache, sighed in exasperation. "Will the both of you calm down and explain to us what had happened?"

The two Hiiragizawas stopped, glaring at each other as if accusing the other for the starting the argument. Sakura cleared her throat.

"All right, I'll tell you what happened," latter Eriol started, coughing to clear his throat. Syaoran took a seat on Tomoyo's other side as if protecting her from the two weirdoes sitting in front of them. Kero then settled on Sakura's shoulder who was seated on Tomoyo's left side. "Last night, I was trying out a spell—"

"That he was trying out for the last few months and keeps on failing!"

They all looked at the archway and found Nakuru walking inside brightly, a tray of tea in her hands. The two Eriols scowled at her.

"And what spell was that?" Syaoran demanded.

"It was an ancient spell that was supposed to remove something that I don't like," latter Eriol explained patiently. "It was more like the Erase Card and the Nothing Card except that when this spell backfires, it would cause some terrible results."

The Li heir narrowed his golden eyes at the former Eriol, the one standing behind the throne of evil. "Yes, terrible indeed."

"Well, as you can see—" Eriol gestured at his identical twin behind him. "—the spell backfired and what I got was something I didn't expect."

"So you got a twin? What's the problem with that?" the orange Beast Guardian asked.

"The problem is actually for us, Kero," Syaoran said mildly. "We're going to have more problems since there is another Hiiragizawa."

"Ooh! Terrible, I agree!" Kero snickered, earning a glare from both Eriols and Sakura as well.

The Cherry Blossom waved an impatient hand at her two charges, gazing intently at Eriol. "What were you really trying to do, Eriol-kun?"

Before Eriol could respond, his own set of annoying guardians interjected. "That's right, Master Eriol!" Nakuru chirped. "You never told us why you're doing all these hocus-pocus! It's really making me look uglier! I couldn't get my beauty rest anymore!"

Tomoyo and Sakura sweatdropped.

"Anyway, as I was saying," Eriol continued, clearing his throat once more and ignoring his Moon Guardian's comment. "I got something I didn't expect. A twin." His twin glared at him. "Actually, instead of erasing that something I was trying to eradicate in my system, I gave it a body and a mind of its own, thus creating another me."

"How conceited!" Syaoran remarked dryly.

"But how…?" Tomoyo asked weakly. "What were you trying to erase anyway?"

The former Eriol smirked widely. "I think I can answer that!"

"Let me guess," the Li heir interrupted again. "Is it vanity? Or maybe arrogance? It's really obvious, you know. I just couldn't put my finger on it."

"Actually—"

"Stop arguing and let Eriol-kun finish first, okay!" Sakura scolded them loudly. Syaoran withdrew back, not wanting to get to his girlfriend's darker side anymore.

"It's nothing really, Daidouji-san," the latter Eriol said, glaring at his twin as if daring him to say anything. The clone kept quiet promptly. "It was causing me distraction, that's why I was trying to get rid of it."

Suddenly, much to Eriol's annoyance, his twin had to speak again. "Not true!" he protested. "It's actually been an inspi—" Eriol had to reach up and clamp a hand over his mouth so as not to finish the sentence.

Tomoyo stared at them for a minute, trying to digest everything in front of her eyes. She then nodded deeply, understandingly. "I see…"

Syaoran, on the other hand, folded his arms across his chest. "No, I still don't see it!" he declared coolly. "Why did he—" He pointed accusingly at the Eriol behind the chair. "—have to kiss Daidouji?"

The two Eriols looked at each other then at Tomoyo who had just turned into ripe red apple.

"Syaoran-kun, you really didn't have to open that one up," Sakura said in exasperation but the Li heir ignored her.

"It was… a matter of a prank…" the latter Eriol finally managed to reply and Tomoyo looked at him with wide eyes. He suddenly felt guilty at what he just said. "I mean, I did tell you that I was trying to remove something out of my system and, well, created a body for itself… Well, that was just what he thought… It wasn't me, Daidouji-san. Honest. I really have no idea this idiot would do that!"

Syaoran smirked. "Finally, the idiot had acknowledged himself as an idiot."

"Oh, do shut up, my dear descendant," Eriol said coolly, then turned to Tomoyo who was still staring at him strangely. "I'm really sorry, Daidouji-san, for whatever my twin has done to you. I swear I wouldn't have done it to you if I were him."

The raven-haired lass frowned at him. "It seems you have a more mischievous side that I do not know, Hiiragizawa-kun."

Eriol, with that impish twinkle in his blue eyes, released his clone and smiled mysteriously at Tomoyo. "We all do, Daidouji-san."

Nakuru looked at each of them then sniffed. They all turned to look at her as if she was some alien. "I smell something…" she said, sniffing the air.

Syaoran scowled at the auburn-haired guardian. "What the hell—"

Before he could finish his statement, Nakuru suddenly launched herself at the basket on the table, nearly knocking him over in the process. "CAKE!"

Sakura giggled. "Hai, Tomoyo-chan baked a cake, Nakuru-chan!"

Tomoyo smiled as Nakuru started to take out the cake greedily from the basket, Kero started screaming to give him some, Syaoran screaming at Kero for trying to transform on top of him and Spinel screaming for help at his Master when Nakuru tried to feed him some of the sweet pastry.

She then turned to Eriol who was watching the scene in front of him. The other Eriol was arguing with Nakuru. Apparently, Eriol's cake-loving side has been transferred as well to his twin.

"When would the spell end, Hiiragizawa-kun?" she asked, ignoring the jovial and loud atmosphere around them.

"I'm not yet sure, Daidouji-san," Eriol replied, letting his fingertips touch. "I haven't studied the spell quite yet."

Tomoyo smiled. "I hope everything returns back to normal…"

"I agree. It's really awkward to call yourself every once in a while."

Sakura, who was watching the two quietly from one corner, smiled knowingly. It seems that trying to watch certain events from just one corner pays off. She could see and find out certain things about certain people.

"Ah… Now I understand."


So… What did Sakura understand? What was it that Eriol was trying to erase and hide from Tomoyo? What is the real reason why the Eriol clone kissed Tomoyo? How will Eriol go to school with his clone tagging around? Will I ever stop thinking about ridiculous thoughts and stop writing silly fanfics? And will I ever stop myself from eating too much pocky, drinking too much tea and squealing at so many bishies around me?

Well, you just have to review and find out on the next chapter! Ahahahaha! I'm so mean, ne?