Chapter 12.- Strongest Emotions.

It was a cool Saturday Night, in the ends of October. Most of the students were at Hogsmade, having a good free time. Although there were some exceptions: like those members from the D.A. they had returned a bit early and were currently practicing in the Requirement Room; Naoko was with them, as she had become a member of the D.A., that helped her practice, and she felt good having more friends and not bothering the couples; Sakura and Shaoran must be somewhere together, looking like couples do when they have some free time to pass together; And about Eriol and Tomoyo…well, she was currently standing in a small room right behind the great Hogwarts's clock, she had been looking for Eriol for the last hour, but just couldn't find him; in fact she hadn't seen him that much in the last couple of weeks except for the times when he was giving her class, and that time doesn't count as she couldn't act like the girlfriend she was supposed to be.

"What's happening Eriol?" Tomoyo asked to no one in particular. "I wish you would explain me what's going through your mind."

Without her knowing, Eriol had heard her, he was standing in a magic-proof room, using his magic seal to watch what she were doing, he wanted so much to touch her, but something just didn't let him go to her, something that had been bothering him ever since that night two weeks ago, when he remembered something about his past life that would have better remained hidden.

"If just I had never remembered…" Eriol murmured to himself, but immediately afterwards regretted ever saying that. "No, it's not her fault. She was a wonderful person, she deserves to be remembered. Rose Tsubame…my Aihana…"

..:Flashback:..

One of the most beautiful gardens ever seen, with wonderful roses of all possible colors, and in the middle of some of them was sitting a beautiful woman dressed in a lilac kimono, with deep eyes and long dark hair falling in delicate curls down her back.

"Seeing you there, like that, I can say you really do honor to your name." a man said as he entered.

He was tall, dressed in black and blue robes with deep blue eyes behind some glasses and midnight-blue hair in a small ponytail.

"I have always loved this flower." The woman said smiling. "Being named after them might have just been a coincidence."

"You know I've always believed there are no coincidences." The man reminded her.

"Just inevitable." The woman finished for him. "Yes, you've said that since the day we met."

"I've always believed meeting you was my destiny, one for which I'll forever thank whatever god is up there. I'll always thank being able to see you everyday: Aihana."

"There you go again, calling me names I don't understand."

"Sorry. I sometimes forget you're fully English, while I'm half English and half Chinese."

"Yes, don't worry. But will you tell me what you called me this time?"

"In fact, this time I used Japanese. Aihana, it means love-flower. Because that's what you are for me, my flower of love."

"You're getting quite poetic you know, my dear Clow."

"Anything for you, my love, Rose Tsubame…"

..:End of Flashback:..

"For very long I had the feeling there was something in my past, in my life as Clow Reed I hadn't completely recalled." Eriol murmured to himself. "But I didn't give it much of a thought, as I had remembered everything concerning my magic, most of my life, my own death. I never imagined the memories I was missing would affect me too much, but there is no other way, with memories of the heart…" he sighed sadly.

And at that very same moment Tomoyo got a hand to her chest, right where her heart was located; there it was again, that deep feeling of grief, of pain, of the most terrible loss.

'There's just one person who's feelings I get.' Tomoyo thought to herself. 'But then, why is he projecting this?' she sighed and added aloud: "What is it my beloved that hurts you so much you just can't hide it."

Eriol just watched her, another deep sigh leaving his lips.

"If you just knew, my dear Plum Blossom…if you just knew…"

.---.

In the deep darkness, surrounded by rock-walls and more than a dozen cloaked and masked figures; two figures stood out: one which was wearing no mask and his inhuman features were almost monstrous, and the second was being held by the first, a woman with eyes devoid of any emotion or even life.

"Have all the preparations been made?" the second figure, Lord Voldemort asked aloud as he threw the dead body aside, licking a drop of blood from his mouth.

"Yes my lord, it is all ready." One of the other figures, a DE said.

"Then we shall give the next step." Voldemort announced.

"You think it wise my lord." Another DE asked. "With that woman out there, she could represent a threat, still."

"Do you dare doubt me Wormtail?" Voldemort was furious at this. "That girl is nothing but a little brat; you think that when her mother being a full-blooded sorceress could pose no threat to me, she will?"

"Still my lord, she is after all one of the Roses." Wormtail reminded him.

"I said do not doubt me!" Voldemort yelled. "Crucio!"

As Wormtail dropped to the ground in pain another DE asked for the chance to speak.

"Yes." Voldemort nodded.

"We've confirmed the information my lord." The DE said. "Nagini was indeed killed by one of them, of those Sorceresses that tried to vanquish you before, and there was a new one this time. The one that is called the Sprite."

"The Sprite, yes." Voldemort said. "The one who holds the power of the two Roses. If I am to kill her and get that power then no one will ever be able to stop me."

"That's right Lord." The De nodded.

"It was beneficial to be on the brink of death once again then." Voldemort said with an evil smirk. "Because now I know the weaknesses of my enemies. Then couldn't kill me before, and they won't be able to do it if the five of them aren't together. As long as I have Mizusu with me her bratty daughter won't dare oppose me, at least not directly; and once the Sprite is dead then two of them will be rendered powerless, therefore becoming completely incapable of defeating me."

"Your are indeed very wise my lord." Some of the DE praised him.

"Right now I'm condemned to be nothing, to survive by feeding on human energy and souls. And that way I shall go on, until that Sorceress energy grants me my full power back." Voldemort said, angry at his own weakness.

"Have you yet decided to whom you shall assign the mission of getting the life of the Sprite and the urn she carries and bringing them to you, my lord?" The DE asked greedily, they all wished for the chance to prove themselves with such mission.

"Yes." Voldemort answered. "Lucius Malfoy, step forward."

Some gasped as the mentioned man stepped right before Lord Voldemort.

"You have been worthless most of the time Lucius." Voldemort said coldly. "However, you have one last chance to redeem yourself."

"Ask my lord, your wish is my command." Lucius said humbly. "I shall get you whatever you wish."

"No Lucius, not you, but your son." Voldemort said.

"Draco?" Lucius was quite confused.

"Yes." Voldemort nodded. "I know he's quite talented, and inclined to the dark arts. If he achieves this your life might be spared Lucius and your son shall be named a DE; I do believe he just may have a bright future here."

"It's an honor that you think so highly of my son." Lucius bowed. "He shall now what's been decided, and I'm sure he too will be honored to follow your wishes."

Voldemort nodded.

.---.

Naoko woke up abruptly.

'Something's wrong.' She thought to herself as she slowly walked to the window nearest to her bed, being careful enough not to wake anybody else. 'The very earth knows this, a terrible danger is coming to us.'

And unknown to her, two more persons had woken to that very same feeling, neither of them made to wake up, but they just had that feeling in the pitch of the stomach, that things were about to turn difficult and very dangerous.

.---.

The following week the expectation grew in Hogwarts, that Saturday night was Halloween, the students remembered well enough what had taken place that night the previous danger, and they were wishing with all their hearts for such a party to repeat itself.

And indeed Eriol was working hard on it, trying to fulfill the students' wishes and at the same time to push Tomoyo and Rose Tsubame out of his thoughts, even if just for a little while.

Sakura, Shaoran, and even Hermione and Harry noticed something strange going on between Eriol and Tomoyo, but just a look at their eyes and they preferred to say nothing about the matter. Sakura had trust that whatever it were those two were going through, their love would be stronger. However Shaoran had the bad feeling this situation, whatever it was, was too strong for it to be overcome just by love.

Naoko just didn't seem to really notice what was going on, too engrossed in her continuous dreams about her past life, and the two Roses.

.---.

Finally Halloween night came. All the students entered the Great Hall in absolute silence. The common house-tables had been replaced for rounded tables that could fit up to fifteen people each. Just the Teacher's Table remained in place.

"Good night everybody." Dumbledore said. "And as I know well enough what you are waiting for, I won't make you wait any longer with inconsequential words. Happy Halloween!"

Next to Dumbledore Eriol raised his hands and whispered a command in an ancient language.

A second later the room filled with ghosts and spirits, some the same as the previous year, others were new ones.

"Oka-san!" Sakura immediately jumped to her mother's arms.

"Konbanwa otou-san, Daniel-san, Nadeshiko-san." Shaoran greeted both ghosts.

"Good night Shaoran, Sakura, have you seen my dear daughter?" Daniel asked.

"I believe she was near the front of the Hall, with Sonomi-san." Shaoran answered.

"Thank you." Daniel said with a smile and he walked away.

"You know were Harry-san and Hermione-san might be?" Xiao Len asked. "I wanted to know if they had seen Lily and James, they were supposed to come here with us, but they didn't."

"I don't think you need to worry Xiao-san." Sakura said with a smile. "I know they're perfectly well."

Xiao didn't fully understand what the green-eyed sorceress meant, but he nodded anyway.

"Wish to dance?" Nadeshiko proposed to Shaoran just as Xiao Len did the same with Sakura.

"I'll be honored to Nadeshiko-san." Shaoran said with a warm smile.

"Please call me oka-san, if you don't mind." Nadeshiko said. "After all, you will be marrying my daughter."

Both Sakura and Shaoran blushed a bit but nodded anyway, as she dreamily took a glance at the engagement ring in her finger; Shaoran couldn't help but smile at seeing her that way, seeing her happy made him truly happy. Xiao Len and Nadeshiko just smiled knowingly.

"Then so be it, Nadeshiko-oka-san." Shaoran said taking the spirit to the dance area.

Xiao Len did the same with Sakura.

They would continue dancing for hours, changing partners once in a while, until tiredness would make them decide to go sit on a table or out on the grounds to chat for a while before the incantation that kept their deceased parents there ended.

Happiness was evidently the strongest emotion in them that day.

.---.

Hermione pulled Ron and Harry through some old passageways until they reached the far end of Hogsmeade.

"Hermione! What do you think you're you doing?" Ron seemed scandalized as he took in their surroundings. "They are going to punish us, take points from Gryffindor if they ever find we have come here."

"Had I known you would be so scared I would have left you behind Ron." Hermione said calmly. "And no one is going to punish us because I have a permission signed by Prof. Eriol and Prof. McGonagall."

"Hn." Ron felt offended at her words. "I thought Harry would have wanted to be in the Great Hall to see his parents."

"My parents aren't there." Harry said simply.

He didn't explain Ron how he knew that, although it was obvious he knew because he hadn't felt their auras the moment all the spirits arrived, which was right when the three of them left.

"Harry, you must remember I still owe you my birthday present." Hermione said.

Harry nodded.

"I told you I couldn't give it to you back then because I didn't have it ready, and with everything that has happened it took me longer than I have expected to have everything ready." Hermione explained.

"You don't have to give me explanations Hermy." Harry said sweetly.

"I know, but anyway, I just wanted you to know I hadn't forgotten about the present." Hermione explained. "And…here it is."

All the while they had continued walking until they reached the outskirts of Hogsmeade, were a picnic seemed to have been set up: there was a blanket, different kinds of food and drink, and a couple of magic-lamps hanging from nearby trees. The boys thought it all looked pretty, simple but pretty until they noticed something.

"Hermione." Ron said a bit confused. "Why is everything arranged for five persons? Who are we expecting?"

"No one." Hermione answered with a small smirk. "Because they are already here."

Right then Harry felt them, he immediately turned around and gasped at the sight that greeted him. James and Lily Potter in the flesh…literally.

Ron almost fainted straight away the moment he saw them. They weren't half-transparent and with the ever-white clothing but looking like normal human beings.

"Hermy, what did you do?" Harry asked raising a brow.

"Just a couple of high-leveled spells some friends help me find." Hermione explained.

Hermy… Harry insisted.

Fine. Hermione admitted. Sakura and Shaoran helped me go through some books of High-leveled Incantations and Sorcery, I combined a couple of them and this was the result.

"The spell shall last twenty four hours." Hermione continued explaining, this time aloud. "Which is exactly the time off we have. No one will look for us in Hogwarts, and if anyone asks, we are doing a special assignment. It will all be over by tomorrow at sunset, and by that time we shall also be back at castle."

The facts registered slowly in Harry's mind. He had his parents with him right then, he would be having them for the next 24 hours. A whole day to be with his parents…

"Oh Hermione!" Harry embraced the girl tightly. "Thank you so much. This is the best present anyone has ever given to me."

Hermione blushed a bit at the affection in Harry's embrace, she was quite satisfied at her work too; it had taken a great effort and energy from her, but just by looking at Harry's expression she knew it had all been worth it.

And if just to confirm her impressions, Harry cupped her head in his hands right then and gave her a long and passionate kiss in the lips.

Love was maybe the deepest emotion enveloping them.

.---.

A certain young woman walked slowly by the limits of the Forbidden Forest; there was a strange dark aura attracting her to the place, an aura that didn't belong there. She had gone there knowing it was her duty to investigate.

And minutes later she found out that in the middle of the Dark Forest, another reunion of Voldemort and his DE was taking place.

'I don't know if Voldemort is really courageous or a fool.' The woman murmured to herself. 'To be holding a reunion here of all places, just some feet away from the place where four Supreme Sorceress party at the moment. Or maybe it's exactly because of that he's here. They are so distracted in their own celebrations they don't know he's here, and he obtains great satisfaction knowing that.' She shook her head.

She went as close as possible, cloaking her aura with a spell, trying to find out what this reunion was about. And she finally got close enough to be in ear-range.

"Are you ready to do your assigned mission?" Voldemort asked to the one before him.

The woman noticed he was a bit shorter than all the rest of the DE.

'Oh my, have they really managed to trick a young one into their dark ways?' she wondered, by much afraid it had been that way.

"Yes my lord, I shall fulfill this mission and bring great honor to you." The young man said.

"Then so be it." Voldemort said seriously. "You, Draco Malfoy, shall go now, and in the course of the next month you will murder the one they call the Sprite and bring to me the urn she protects."

"I will do as you wish my lord." Draco said bowing.

Truth is Draco had never liked to have anyone bossing him around, less of all an awful zombie who depended on human blood to sustain himself; but he didn't want to lose his life under his hands either.

'They want the Sprite…and the legacy she carries.' The woman murmured to herself. 'Seems your second brush with death gave you at least a bit of wisdom Voldemort. You now know you can't defeat Harry and the Sorcerers as easily as you thought you would. But on the other side they too can't kill you as easily. The Incantation done at the end of the last school-year left you without a body and a soul, you are now nothing but an evil spirit in the form of the man once called Tom Riddle, and still, this means you represent a greater danger to us all than you did before.' She sighed. 'Sadly, there's not much I can do without her. Oh nee-sama, if you would just stop trying to deny who you really are.'

Anger and Defeat, strong emotions filling the hearts of those two certain beings.

.---.

Tomoyo was silent that night, standing against a wall, half hidden behind the curtains, pretending to sip some light-wine although she was doing nothing but trying to block out her thoughts. This certain night brought indeed great memories to her, memories that had been full of joy and yet now just brought pain to her.

..:Flashback:..

Father and daughter exited the Great Hall by a lateral door, and just there they climbed the stairs up to a little tower. There they could still hear the music, clearly; Tomoyo could feel a familiar presence.

"Eriol-kun!" Tomoyo exclaimed, then she turned to her father. "Otou-san?"

"Konbanwa my princess." Eriol said. "Would you do me the honor of dancing with me?"

Tomoyo nodded, really happy. Eriol took her hand in his, the other one in his girlfriend's waist, Tomoyo put her free hand in Eriol's shoulder. They both started dancing slowly.

Daniel just looked at both teenagers, he smiled.

After a few minutes Tomoyo closed her eyes and put her head on Eriol's chest, he embraced her as both continue dancing.

..:End of Flashback:..

Yes, both she and Eriol has been so happy that night, dancing with her father as the only witness; but now it brought pain, as she just didn't seem to be able to have Eriol next to her anymore. If she had been sure it was because of that stupid rule that forbid relationship between students and professors she would have yelled her love to everyone in that room and consequences be damned to hell, for all she cared; but she had the feeling it was something really different what bothered her beloved, something that couldn't be sorted out simply by saying 'I love you', no matter how many people witnessed it.

"Are you alright my daughter?" Daniel asked.

"Oh, father, Konbanwa." Tomoyo greeted him with a half smile that didn't reach her eyes.

Now Daniel was truly worried, he had been standing next to his daughter for about a quarter of an hour already, and she just didn't seem to have felt him, that wasn't normal in her, being as perceptive as she was normally; and that sadness deep into her eyes.

"What's wrong with you Tomoyo?" Daniel asked.

"Oh Otou-san." Tomoyo sighed sadly. "What can a princess know when she feels her prince is slowly pulling away from her, but she just doesn't know the reason?"

"She tries harder to keep him with her, asks what's wrong." Daniel said. "And if that doesn't work, maybe it just wasn't meant to be."

'But it can't be.' Tomoyo thought sadly. 'We have to be meant to be. I just don't think I would be able to be happy without him. I love him too much.'

"Tomoyo…"

Tomoyo. Another voice called her name at the same time.

Tomoyo didn't say a single word, she just stood from her place and left the Great Hall, almost in a hurry, following the aura that had called her, finally, after so long.

Confusion was evidently the most noticeable feeling in the father at that moment.

.---.

Tomoyo finally arrived to the top of the Astronomy Tower, where, as she had imagined, Eriol was waiting for him.

"Oh, Eriol-kun!" Tomoyo cried out and ran into his arms, embracing him tightly.

But instead of answering to her gesture, he pushed her away roughly.

"Nani?" Tomoyo was utterly confused, and even a bit hurt by Eriol's reaction.

"Tomoyo, we need to talk." Eriol said.

Ok, now she knew something was definitely wrong. He never called her just 'Tomoyo' like that, and even less in that tone of voice.

"Doushite (What's wrong) Eriol-kun?" Tomoyo asked, confused.

"I want to end our relationship." Eriol declared.

"Nani!" Tomoyo was in full shock. "What…Why?"

"I just want to end our relationship." Eriol insisted.

"Is it because you're a professor and I'm a student? I already told you I don't care what others may think of it and…"

"It's not that."

"Then why? Have I done something wrong? If it's that please forgive me…"

"It's not that, it's not you. I just…I just don't love you anymore."

I just don't love you anymore…

That phrase made an infinite echo in Tomoyo's mind and went into her like a knife stabbing through her heart. And when she was unable to handle it any longer she dropped to her knees and cried.

Eriol didn't say a single word more he just turned his back to her and left. And unknown to her tears began slowly falling from Eriol's eyes, just like they were doing from her own.

Shock, hurt, pain, there are many ways to describe the great sorrow drowning the hearts of this two lovers.

.---.

Happiness…Love…Anger…Defeat…Confusion…Shock…Pain…

So many feelings, they are considered this night's strangest emotions.

And what happened tonight, is just a glimpse on what is yet to come.


Ok, I hope you'll forgive the ending of this chapter and any posible mistakes, I just finished writting it less than an hour ago (It's almost 11 acording to my clock). I'm trying to move faster through the plot, because I think I got stationed on the summer vacations for too long. Ok, you've seen how Eriol's and Tomoyo's relationship is turning, you'll see more about that, and maybe the reason as to why Eriol did what he just did, in the next couple of chapters. Also there's Draco's mission, you'll finally know if he shall be good or evil in this story. Also I believe I'm giving a lot of clues about the whereabouts of the Two Roses. On the other hand, you've already seen the villian, I hope you understand why he is the evil guy, again, and why he wasn't fully defeated. If not, questions are fully welcomed.

Something else: I reached my 100th review! Yay! I'm so happy. I think I'm inspired to write more. Keep g¿coming the reviews and the story will go on faster, I promise.

So, hope you like it. Don't forget to leave review. This fic is reaching its first peak! (And I mean it, it's only the first). Arigato and Matta ne.