haha back again...sorry for the crap summary too...im really bad at giving summaries
sorry sorry sorry...and the spelling, well since now i realised that i can change it anyway here in i just couldn't be bothered...sorry! so yeah the spellings on my present and future fics will be australian/british spelling...anywho, enjoy this chapter!
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Chapter 3: Strangers once again?
Nobody noticed that it was their princess, lying unconsciously on the ground. They thought she's dead and just a normal commoner so they left her. Cries and fire cracklingare the only sounds that can be heard. Chaos reigned the place. In the corner of a carriage, Nakuru is crying loudly. She and her cousin are the only ones who knew that their beloved princess was left behind. They tried to tell the people who's bothered to listen to them. But their replies are all the same. Princess was with the Queen…
"I-it was my fault…ii-if I just ignored t-the bracelet and continued ru-running, she wouldn't have been hurt…" Nakuru sobbed. Her eyes red and puffy from crying for sometime now. Eriol is lost in his emotions. He lost himself between pain and grief.
"Help! Help is here!" a man shouted. Everybody in the carriage, tried to look in the small window, Eriol was one of them. He saw the palace guards coming to their aid…His aid…'What about Tomoyo's?' He thought sadly.
Seven years had passed. War ended two years after the attack. The neighbouring country surrendered and their land has been rebuilt. It looked better this time. In the centre of the town was a monument with the names of all the people who died during the attack and the war. The palace has been rebuilt as well. It took 7 years for wounds to heal. But there are still some people grieving. That includes the Queen, Sonomi Daidouji. She refuses to believe that her only daughter is dead.
"My lady, we still cannot find anything about the disappearance of Princess Tomoyo. It's been 7 years since she disappeared and it's been 7 years too that girlsstarted pretending to be her. Why don't we just give up and pray for her soul?" the Queen's butler said while preparing her tea.
"NO! My daughter's not dead! She's still alive! I-I can feel her. M-make fliers this time! Put her picture on it…I'll pay 60 000 000 yen if I have to! I just want my daughter back…" the queen broke down. Loud sobs echoed the room.
"Yes my lady, we'll do what you want."
"Wow, Eriol, I can't believe that, that Kaho Mizuki is still smitten about you!" a 24 year-old Nakuru exclaimed while eating a sushi. They were in a restaurant while a 22 year-old Eriol Hiiragizawa is calculating his debt.
"Well what can I say, I'm good looking enough for a woman to fall head over heels for."
'He's so confident.' Nakuru thought. But she had to agree. Time had made his cousin grew handsome. His chiselled face, azure eyes that are so clear, pale skin and his midnight blue hair are a perfect combination for an eye candy for the opposite sex. Eriol adjusted his glasses and stretched his arm.
"Now I need to pay that damn bastard 3 million yen and then we're free."
He yawned. Nakuru finished her sushi and looked outside the window. She saw a man putting a poster on the wall. When the man left she tried to read the writing.
"Ne Eriol, wanna check that poster outside? Looks interesting. Unless you still wanna be with Mizuki."
"We both know perfectly well, why I'm with her ok?" he glared at Nakuru.
"Ok ok, hold your horses. Let's check out the poster ok?"
They left a bill on the table and walked out of the place. They were standing in front of the poster for a while before Nakuru dared to break the silence.
"They still haven't given up aye…" sadness evident in her voice. She looked cautiously at Eriol.
"They're really desperate now…they even put up a reward…60 million yen…I see…"
Eriol still didn't say anything. He lifted his right hand and with his fore and middle finger, he traced the princess's cheeks on the poster. 'She's gone...to heaven. That's what he learned to believe 6 years ago. A year after the attack.
"Hey Nakuru, if we get that amount of money, I can pay the debt and still have enough to start over in a different place." He absent mindedly stated. His fingers still not leaving the poster.
"But how are we gonna get that amount of money? From Mizuki-san?" Nakuru asked quietly.
"No. Can't you see? If we find someone exactly like Tomoyo Daidouji, we can give her to the queen and get the money." At last, he finally removed his fingers off the poster. 'Goodbye Tomoyo-san.' How many times had he bid goodbye to her?
"But isn't that bad? I mean we'll lie to the Queen! To the whole country! If they find out we're dead!" her voice rising.
"Shhh! Will you put your voice down! That's why we have to find a girl exactly the same as Tomoyo Daidouji! So we won't get caught. Plus it's a two way thing, she help us get the reward and we help her have a better life!" Every second, his idea seemed better and better.
"I dunno Eriol." Nakuru said. Doubt and worry painted in her face.
"Trust me on this Nakuru-chan ok?"
"What ever you say Eriol-kun."
"HEY! YOUNG LADY! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!" A fat sweaty lady shouted.
"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" a girl about the age of 21 yelled back.
"I knew it! I shouldn't have taken you with me! You low-life commoner! You owe me your life!"
"Well who told you to take me anyway! And I don't owe you anything because first of all, I didn't wanna be with you! Second, you didn't treat me well and third; I worked my ass off for 7 years in return for meals and a roof over my head! So don't you dare tell me I owe you something!" she angrily retorted while tucking her long raven hair under her hat. She packed her stuff in a minute and called her pet feline.
"Come Suppi-chan." Her only friend jumped on her shoulders. 'I'm sick of this orphanage!' she thought. She didn't even finish her work today, which is cleaning the fat lady's dirty car. She too is dirty, but she suddenly had an urge to run away. And so she did.
"Goodbye Fat Lady!" she yelled back to the orphanage. 'Gee that felt good!' she smiled to herself and continued on her journey.
She wanted to start over again. In a different place. 'I need money.' She thought. 'Hmmm…so this is the town, maybe I'll find a job.' She was walking around when she realised that her feline had gone missing. 'Oh no!' She started calling his name and ran to the corner.
Nakuru and Eriol were about to leave the spot they've been standing for sometime now. The spot in front of the poster. Nakuru was not looking in her path. When she was about to step away someone suddenly yelled.
"Nooo! You'll step on him!" a girl was running towards them. Nakuru looked on the ground and indeed true, that she was about to step onto this feline…which really looked familiar…
"SPINEL!" she gasped.
"Ahhh…Watch out!" the girl was coming closer. She couldn't stop her momentum.
Eriol looked at the advancing girl. He knew he needed to move away but he was frozen on his spot. The girl hit him hard which made both of them fall on their bottoms. 'This is like déjà vu…only a little different' He thought. The girl was leaning on the wall, her hat fell off revealing her long raven locks.
"Ano….gomenasai…I was just looking for -"she started to explain.
Eriol stiffened. 'That voice! It sounds familiar!' He suddenly remembered Tomoyo 7 years ago, who said almost the same thing. But before the girl could finish her sentence, Nakuru gasps loudly. The girl looked at her. Eriol felt air leaving his lungs.
On the right side of the girl was the poster of the missing princess…
"Tomoyo."
Tsuzuku
chap 3 is done...hihihi...i update fast coz i've once been a reader from those famous writers here in
and i've experienced waiting too and sum didn'thave the chance of finishing the fic which
really made me sad...especially if i really liked the fic...so since im on holidays, i'll try not to let you guys
wait for a long time for the next chap and all...stay tuned for the next chap! JA NE!
-ushi no hime