Do You Remember
by Regina
Eriol Hiiragizawa
Tomoyo Daidouji
Chapter Three:
"I heard your thoughts. And I watch what you do. You were thinking of me, weren't you?"
Clow Reed Li
Present
After meeting Clow Reed, Rumiko just can't sleep that night. Something was bothering her. A someone. Him.
'Did he cast some kind of spell on me?' she thought.
She went to her balcony instead. staring at the full moon. Looking at the stars. Gazing at the night's color of dark.
Falling in love with your cousin? What a ridiculous thing to say. It's time to move on.
Her hands approached the cold balcony. She wasn't looking. She was still looking at the dark sky. But instead her hands touched flesh.
She jumped with shock as another hand took over hers. Her eyes went to two hands holding hers.
But she was more shocked when this man embraced her from behind.
"Did you miss me?" the man said.
She knew this voice! His voice!
She turned around to see this man. Straight in the eye.
Azure.
"You!" she yelled.
"Yes, me." He said.
"Why are you here!"
"Why do you panic?"
"Someone might see you!"
"I'm not Romeo and you're not Juliet to have a life like that!"
"Why are you here?"
"I heard your thoughts. And I watch what you do. You were thinking of me."
He snapped his fingers and a card came out of no where. The song card. It started to sing the 'Song of Night'.
As it started to sing, he faced her again. Then the mist started to cover the balcony's ground. Flowers bloomed all over.
"What the—-"
"Would you like to dance with me?"
Before she could answer, he had already waltz them around her balcony.
"You're pretty powerful, Clow-san."
"There are different kind of magic, dearest."
"Such as?"
"The magic of love?"
"I don't believe in such thing."
"Why?"
"I have to see it before I believe it."
"Then let me show you."
Right then and there, he kissed her. The song card stopped singing. And guess what? The time card stopped the time just for his master.
When the time returned to its normal pace, Rumiko opened her eyes and saw an empty space. The song card. The mist card. And the time card which she saw all disappeared.
And then she noticed the flowers. The flower card was still there!
Just then, someone knocked on the door.
"Rumiko? Rumiko!" someone yelled her name.
She figured it must be Kazuki. He's certainly like a brother to her.
Struggling of what to do, she opened the door and tried to pretend the flower card wasn't there.
"Kazuki! Ayame! What are you doing here late at night?" she acted.
"He's here, isn't he? I felt him close by. Here in your room. Where are you hiding him?" he yelled.
"Kazuki, I order you to stop now! Look around you! There's not a single clue that Clow-sama was here!" Ayame yelled at her fiancee.
She hushed him and pushed him to their room and winked secretly at Rumiko. She knew Clow was there.
Rumiko closed her door and went to the balcony again. The flower card was already gone.
When she was about to return to her bed to sleep, a flower fell to her hands. A cherry blossom.
'Thank you, Clow-san.' She thought.
'You're mostly welcome.' He replied in thought.
That's when she started to think she wasn't always alone.
Present
'Where am I?' Tomoyo thought.
She glanced around the room.
It was very dark. You could almost see nothing. Thanks to the light from the windows.
She looked at herself. These weren't her clothes. She wasn't even at her own house.
And then the door opened.
A lady wearing a uniform same as hers entered.
"Hello, Miss Daidouji. Master went to school and ordered me to stay here and stay with you." She said.
"Sorry. Um… where's my uniform?" Tomoyo asked.
"Oh. It's in that closet. If you ever need anything, just call me. I'm Nakuru Akizuki. I'm Master Eriol's cousin." She said.
"Oh don't worry. I know about you. Hiiragizawa-kun has magic, right? He's the reincarnation of Clow Reed, correct?" she said.
"Yes. Do you mind me asking something?" Nakuru asked.
"What is it?"
"By any chance, are you Mistress Rumiko's reincarnation?" Nakuru asked.
"Rumiko? Who's she?" Tomoyo asked.
"Oh nothing. Just forget I asked." Nakuru said.
"Oh. Okay."
But as she said those words, what Nakuru told her still bothers her. Rumiko. Who was she?
"Akizuki?" she called.
"No formalities, Tomoyo. Just call me Nakuru."
"How did you know my name?" she asked.
"Oh, that. Master told me your name. but by some way, Mistress was not comfortable at all."
"Mistress? Are you referring to Miss Mizuki?"
"Yes."
"I see."
"Anyway, Tomoyo, how did you get unconscious?"
"Oh. I asked Hiiragizawa-kun to…"
"You asked Master to what, Tomoyo?"
Just as Tomoyo was going to tell Nakuru what happened a while ago-- I mean, yesterday, Eriol opened the door.
"Nakuru, please cook lunch for us. Now." He said.
"Yes, Master." Nakuru said.
After the two was left alone inside the dark room, he closed the door.
"How are you doing?" he asked.
"Fine." She said.
"How do you feel towards Sakura?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know… or you don't want to know?"
"I don't know, Hiiragizawa-kun."
He didn't press the topic. She might get unconscious again.
He approached her and sat beside her on the bed.
"Who's room is this?" she asked.
"It's my room." He said.
"Where did you sleep last night?"
"Beside you."
She stared at him and said nothing. And then yelled at him all of the sudden.
"You did what!"
"Slept beside you."
"How dare you!"
She was going to slap him when he stopped it with his hand.
"See. I told you, you don't love Sakura anymore."
She stared at him questioningly. What was that supposed to mean?
"Not because you got mad I slept beside you. It's because you forgot the topic earlier. For all I know, you weren't supposed to talk to me after that. You were supposed to be spacing out. But instead, you moved on with the topic I engaged."
"True."
He stared at her. And then he placed his hand down to her lap with hers.
"Nakuru asked me a question earlier." She said.
"What did she ask you?"
"She ask me if I am Rumiko Amamiya's reincarnation. Do you know that woman?"
"No. never heard of her."
"Oh. I see. But her last name is my middle name, mind you."
"I know."
A picture flashed in their minds at the same time.
Rumiko.
"Is it me, or did I just see someone dancing across this room?" she said.
"A lady just danced in this room." He said. "You don't have magical powers, don't you? No. maybe it was just your imagination. I was trying to read your thoughts and maybe I saw what you saw." He added.
And then he looked at her dress.
"Oh. And who changed my clothes?" she asked.
"Nakuru did."
"Oh. For a minute there, I thought I was really going to slap you if by any chance, you changed my clothes." She said.
"Now, now. Why would a gentle man do that?"
And then the room's door opened.
Revealing Kaho.
"How, are you, Daidouji?" she asked sweetly.
"Perfectly fine, Miss Mizuki." She answered.
Then Tomoyo looked at the two of them.
'There's something wrong with this picture.' She thought.
'Why do you think so?' Eriol thought to her.
She simply ignored him.
"I should be leaving now. Do you mind if I dress up?" she said.
Kaho and Eriol went outside the room to let her dress herself.
While Tomoyo was dressing up, Kaho turned to Eriol.
"Eriol, be careful." She whispered.
"Be careful of what?" he asked.
"You'll know someday."
He raised his eyebrows at her.
And as he was about to ask her why and what again, the door behind them opened.
Tomoyo wearing her uniform, of course.
Tomoyo smiled at the two of them. She knew she was interrupting something important.
"Do you want me to walk you home?" Eriol asked her.
"No, you don't have to." Tomoyo answered.
She went down the stairs and walked out the large door.
Then Nakuru came out from the kitchen.
"Where is Tomoyo going, Master? I thought she was going to eat lunch with us here." She said.
"Well, plans changed."
"Oh. I see."
Then Nakuru went back to their kitchen to continue setting the table.
"I'm going to the library." He told Kaho and went upstairs.
Kaho went to the kitchen and helped Nakuru bring the plates to the dining table.
"Nakuru, did you ask Daidouji, yet? About Rumiko Amamiya." She said.
"Yes, Mistress. But she said she doesn't know anything about her. She doesn't know about her past life."
"So it is true. Even Eriol doesn't seem to remember half of Clow Reed's past. But that's a good thing. I asked Kinomoto to use the dream card every night on Daidouji and Eriol. So somehow these two would remember what happened to their lives before."
"Mistress, you really have a good heart. Don't you feel sorry for yourself?"
"No. because I didn't really feel like I'm in love with Eriol. And I went to England the same time Daidouji went there with her mother. Eriol just bumped onto me. So maybe he thought I was the one."
"I just hope everything will work out okay, though. And they look so cute together, too!"