Double Identity

By: Callista Miralni

Chapter Two: Eriol knows

Hey! Callista here! Yeah, well, anyway I hear my younger sister, Lita Meilin, yelling at me to get off the computer so she can do her homework. Yeah right! More like sit in front of the computer screen and chat away on IM to her friends who never know when to get off the computer. Oh well, I'm older, it's not like I have to get off for her to chat 24/7, ne? Why did my parents even buy Lita a Liztop when she doesn't use it? Oh well, here's the disclaimer from my other younger sister, Athena Renee.

Athena: My sister, Callista Athene Miralni, does not own CardCaptor Sakura and will never gain any profit off of writing this fic. Can I go to the mall, Callie, since I did the disclaimer?

Me: (sweatdrops) Ummm... I don't know. Ask Roy.

Athena: Like Roy would take me! He's just a mean onii-chan!

Roy: I heard that, Athena Renee Miralni! You just wait 'till I get my hands on you!

(Roy start chasing Athena throughout the house)

Me: Ummm... Well let's go to my fic, before..

Lita: Get off the computer Callie! I need it now!

Me: No way! Use your Liztop, you spoiled gaki!

Lita: Why you little... (Proceeds to try to beat me up, yet fails)

Me: Enjoy the fic while I teach my little sister not to mess with me...

"Can you believe him Meilin? He barely knows me and he hates my living guts! Our little meeting earlier certaintly made me hate him!"Ying-Fa said furiously to Meilin up in the Sorceress's Citadel. Meilin shook her head sympathecially.

"He's really nice once you get to know him." Meilin murmured.

"Key word, Meilin: Once. That's gonna take an eternity the way he's acting."she retorted.

Meilin sighed, "I still don't understand. Syaoran's usually nice to people he first meets but, the Sorceress Ying-Fa is a different story."

Ying-Fagasped and fell over anime-style. "Nani?"she shrieked. She was sitting on the floor, her legs sprawled out in every direction.

Meilin smiled. She walked over to the spacious balcony in the tower. Ying-Fa picked herself off the floor and followed the young handmaiden.

The two thirteen-year-old girls stared out into the se beyond the valley pass. Meilin murmered into the fuming sorceress's ear,

"Sakura, you shouldn't get upset by Li. Look," Meilin gestured to the land below.

"You have a perfect paradise. Will you let one rude boy ruin it all for you?" she finished softly.

Ying-Fasighed and stared off into the distance. Meilin was right. 'One annoying kid shouldn't ruin my life'she told herself.

Outside, in one of the castle's many gardens and mazes, Eriol followed the angry Princess Tomoyo through the gardens to a maze with a gazebo and garden in the center. As Eriol struggled to keep up with the raven haired girl, he was amazed at how skillfully Tomoy picked her way through the seemingly impossible labrynith. Upon arriving at the gazebo, Tomoyo calmly walked up the steps and sat down on one of the ornatly carved benches.

Eriol sat down beside her and said, "I apologize for my cousin's behavior. He doesn't know how to act around people his own age."

Tomoyo burst out angrily, "It's just not fair! Sakura hasn't done anything to him, but Li-san acts so unkindly towards her!"

Tomoyo stopped, realizing her mistake. She dared to look at Eriol, who simply smiled and said,

"Sakura? I never saw Princess Sakura. In fact, the only ones who have met Li is Rae Ying-Fa and yourself."

Tomoyo bowed her head, not wanting to look at Eriol for she had spilled Sakura's secrect.

"Rae Ying-Fa is Princess Kinomoto Sakura, am I correct?" Eriol said calmly.

"Yes." Tomoyo replied. "People would be scared of the Princess, my cousin, if they knew about the tremendous amount of power she holds and about the Sakura Cards. Sakura didn't want anybody to be in danger, so the only ones who knows about her secrect are her family, myself, and Meilin."

"I won't let anybody else know. I have a feeling that Sakura trusts me already." Eriol assured the girl. "Look, there's Meilin and Sakura on the balcony of that tower. Is that the Sorceress' Citadel?" Eriol asked, pointing to the tower that was one story higher than the four story palace, like all the other towers.

Tomoyo looked up in surprise. "Yes. That's where Sakura practices her magic and is her getaway from the palace. Only Meilin and myself, besides Sakura, know the password to get in."

Tomoyo thought about bringing Eriol up to the Citadel, when Eriol asked, "Can we go there?"

"Sure!" Tomoyo replied. "Just follow me."

The twoo teens sprinted (a/n: If you can find your way through the maze, getting back outisn't a problem.) out of the maze and stopped at the tower's base.

Tomoyo tapped her finger on the image of the cherry blossom painted on the wall.

"Password?" a small, high-pitched, Osakan accented voice asked, (a/n: Guess who that was?)

"Celeste." Tomoyo whispered to the flower. A small wooden door appeared where the cherry blossom was painted. Tomoyo grasped the door knob, opened the door, and shoved Eriol inside. She, herself walked quickly through the door and closed it, certain that no one was watching.

Little did she know that somebody was watching.

Somebody named Li Syaoran.

Li was walking through the gardens when he saw the Princess Daidouji and his cousin Eriol sprint out of a nearby maze and towards a stone tower with vines spiraling around it in intricate designs. He watched them with curiosity, but was too far away to hear anything. They were exaiming a painted cherry blossom on the wall, when a door appeared! Li watched in amazement as Daidouji-san and Eriol walked quickly through the door and shut it. But, as the wooden door closed shut, it disappeared!

'What just happened?' Li asked himself, bewildered.

Hearing voices coming from a nearby balcony, Li climbed a tall tree that was near the balcony. He heard Eriol and Tomoyo's voices greet someone. Then, Li heard Meilin's voice. Their voices grew louder as the three teens walked out onto the balcony that was near the tree Li was eavesdropping in. But they were not alone. That sorceress was with them too! As Li strained his ears to catch the whispers of their conversation, he heard:

"Eriol, you are always welcome here."

"I thank thee, Sakura-hime."

Syaoran's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't gotten a chance to meet the princess. In fact, Li could have swore the Princess wasn't even there. But there she was, standing next to Meilin. Syaoran was shocked at the striking resemblance between Princess Kinomoto Sakura and Sorceress Rae Ying-Fa. Checking to make sure he hadn't mistakenRae for Princess Kinomoto, Syaoran sawRae-san was standing next to Eriol, while Princess Sakura was standing next to Meilin. Quietly, Li climbed down the tree, bewildered at the event he had just witnessed.

Callista here! Well, what did you think? I tried to fix the formating so it would be a little bitless confusing when you read the fic and I hope I fixed all the problems. Please Rewiew! It means so much to me when I know people enjoy my stories and bothered to give me constructive critisim and/or praise.

Words You Might Not Know:

hime-Princess

Oh and if you were wondering about Eriol's reply to Princess Sakura, it's written in Elizabethan grammer or the grammer of Shakesphere. 'I thank thee' just means in 20th centuryEnglish, 'Thank you.' I hope that clears up any questions.

'Till next time!

Callista Miralni