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Author's Note:
Tried my best to update as fast as I could (Kinda rushed the ending). Hopefully you guys enjoyed the story!
Mission 2: Secret Love (Back)
"I think we should stop here now or else they can't catch up with us," Tomoyo suggested but there wasn't any reply from the guard. Tomoyo was suspicious about it.
"Stop now, I demand you," Tomoyo demanded, trying to pull the guard's hand off hers but it didn't work.
"Can't you hear I said stop!" Tomoyo tried to stop walking but the guard's force power was more than hers.
"I'm sorry, Tomoyo-hime," the guard apologized but didn't stop walking; instead he lifted Tomoyo up and carried her on his shoulder.
"Let me down!" Tomoyo hitted the guard's back.
♫
Whenever you are not around,
I can still hear your soft voice talking to me.
♫
"We had lost their tracks," One of the men reported. Sakura and Eriol were panicked when they heard that.
"We can't possibly lose Tomoyo-hime just like this..." said Eriol, " Three of you please look around that way, three over there and the rest to that side, Sakura-san and Gaara-san, follow me to this way,"
"Roger," said everyone.
"I think she went this way," Eriol predicted.
"You know, we've been going round and round since just now?" said Sakura.
"She really went this way," Eriol was trying to persuade Sakura into believing him.
"You said the same thing for the fourth time and yet we are running in a circle, the cross I made over there is the proof," Sakura pointed at a "X" mark on the tree.
"Maybe we should go this way then," Eriol pointed to the West.
"I will check and see if anyone is around," Said Gaara and he jumped from tree to tree while everyone followed Sakura to the riverside.
"There's a footprint over here and it's still new... they might not be far from us!" Eriol cried out with an eager to look for Tomoyo's look.
"Hiiragizawa-kun, I think we should get a rest... we've been walking and climbing for a while now," A guard suggested.
"But Tomoyo-hime is near us," answered Eriol.
"It's okay, Eriol-kun, I will go with you to look around here while the rest of you can sit and rest at here," said Sakura.
The birds were chirping along with the sound of wind whistling at Eriol and Sakura. Eriol was looking properly at every place they had passed by with a sweaty look on his face. It was because of he was worried as well as the hot weather went against them.
"Ah!" Eriol shouted, falling to the floor because his leg was accidentally pulled by the tree's root. Sakura tried to pull Eriol's hand to prevent him from falling but it ended up both of them were falling down the hill.
♫
Whenever you are not with me,
I can still feel your presence around me.
♫
"What..place..is this?" Sakura asked; holding her forehead with her hand while recovering herself from the fall. She turned her head around and saw Eriol was laying beside her.
"It..hurts" said Eriol while holding his bleeding knee.
"Blood...ah.. wait," She concentrated some chakra into her hand; while pointing her palm towards Eriol's knee, she shouted, "Shosen Jutsu!"
Eriol was amazed at Sakura's healing technique and got impressed by it; his wound was recovering, "Thank you,"
"Your welcome but... where are we?" she wondered. They are lost in the middle of nowhere. It will be easy for Sakura to get out from such place after receiving ninja's training which is much much more harder than this. But, which a nearly-healed wounded boy that's heavier than her, it's impossible to bring him alone. Knowing how dangerous a deserted place can be, the idea of leaving alone had totally been wiped out from her mind.
"I don't know... our main problem now is how are we supposed to get up?" he asked.
"Do you think you can stand up? maybe we can climb up the cliff, I can help to push you from your behind," She said.
"I...tr-ouch!" He cried out when he tried to stand up.
"Hmm... I had healed your outer wound.. maybe you had a broken joint or something in your knee," she said, "Let's just sit over here, when the time had arrived, those people will notice our disappearance and try to look for us... I hope,"
"I hope so too, I'm sorry for being a nuisance to you," Eriol apologized.
"It doesn't really matter, I just hope Tomoyo-chan is alright..."
"Tomoyo-hime..."
Sakura noticed that she had mentioned something wrong, "I'm..sorry for..bringing it up,"
"No-no, it's okay, it shows that you cared about Tomoyo-hime as well," said Eriol.
"How about you?" Sakura asked.
"Me?"
"Do you care about Tomoyo-chan as well?" Sakura asked, out of curiousty.
"I..I don't know,"
"Tomoyo likes you, you know that, don't you?" Sakura asked again after suspecting that Eriol might had some feeling for Tomoyo.
"I know but-... you don't understand..." said Eriol.
"I understand, I understand it very well, you like her and she likes you, you guys should be staying together instead of sending her off to another Aoi country,"
"The matter of fact, it's not as simple as you think it is. I am a servant who had vowed to serve for my country as well as my princess. Tomoyo-hime is a princess who had a strong difference of status between us. Even if we are together, there are people who are suffering from the war which can only be stopped by closing my heart towards hers," said Eriol with a gloomy look on his face.
"I only know that I won't be happy if I am not with someone I like,"
"Are you happy now?" Eriol asked in a sudden.
"I can't say I am happy since the one I really like is not with me now but... I know I will be happy if the one I like is happy," said Sakura.
"Is he happy?"
"I-I don't know but I wish he is happy right now,"
"Why can't you be with him then? since you said you will only be happy with someone you like," said Eriol.
"I'm not even sure if the person I like likes me back... it had always seems like I was the only one that shows my love... if you didn't count the fan girls that are chasing over him (including me)" said Sakura
"You mean Gaara...?" Eriol asked; filled with curiosity.
"Gaara! of course not!" Sakura replied back.
"But, I can see that he likes...no more than that, loves you," Eriol commented, judging from how Gaara had acted towards Sakura.
"He? impossible! I doubt guys like him will ever fall in love. Even if he falls for me, it's impossible for me to like him!"
"Really? I think I won't fall for you too" said a voice from behind.
"Well, I think you--GAARA!" Sakura was startled when she saw Gaara was standing behind her, "Why- I mean how come you are here?" She continued.
"How come I am not supposed to be here then? afraid to let me hear what you had just said?" Gaara folded his arms, a signal that he wasn't so happy to hear what she had just said. There was a moment of silence between Eriol, Sakura and Gaara.
"Er... anything related to Tomoyo-hime?" Eriol asked, breaking the silence between them and trying to remind their main mission; to save Tomoyo not to have a cat and dog's fight.
"Yes, she had been found and she is in a fine condition," answered Gaara, still glaring at Sakura.
"Where is she now..!" Eriol demanded for an answer after hearing that Tomoyo is safe.
"She is on her way to Aoi country," answered Gaara in a cold manner. Eriol couldn't move when he heard that, he was fully stunned.
"Go and run after her! Tell her that you like her!" Sakura gave her support to Eriol when she saw that Eriol was in a petrification state.
"But..." Eriol hesitated.
"She told me she likes you," Sakura confessed.
"..." Eriol was still hesitating.
"This is your last chance, if you didn't tell her how you feel towards her; there will never be another chance," Sakura remarked.
"Okay..." Eriol decided, "I will look for her and confess how much I had always been in love with her,"
♫
Even if you are not with me,
My heart told me that you are here, right beside me.
♫
A few days laters, Sakura saw a letter infront of the doorstep, sent by some anonymous person. She opened the letter and saw something in it.
"Look at this!" Sakura shouted in joy to everyone else in the house.
It was the picture of Eriol and Tomoyo living happily together.