A Card Captor Sakura Fanfiction
Written By:Darknessdragonz
Recipe Called Love
Eriol Hiiragizawa/Sakura Kinomoto/Syaoran Li
Disclaimer:I DO not own CCS characters!!
Darky Notes:Hiiiiiieexxx!! Chapter 3!! OMG I'm a fast updater nowadays!! So drink a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy!
Summary:Prince Li is in need of a personal cook to cook for him. Sakura Kinoto is one of the most talented cooks among the participants. Eriol Hiiragizawa is our dear prince's personal servant and announcer. Put them all together with a little dash of secrecy in Sakura's part, we have one big delicious meal. But the only thing is..Who will be the perfect match for the other?
"Hihihihi" Talking
'Hihihihi' Thinking
...Main Casts...
Syaoran Li- 18 years old
Sakura Kinomoto/Kinoto- 18 years old
Eriol Hiiragizawa- 18 years old
Tomoyo Daidouji- 18 years old
Touya Kinomoto- 23 years old
Fujitaka Kinomoto- 48 years old
Yelan Li- 40 years old
Hiroku Li- 47 years old
Meiling Sae- 18 years old
Chae HaeKyung- 20 years old
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--Chapter 3--
--She's Tangled up!--
They soon reached Tomoeda . Sakura then saw that her brother, Touya Kinomoto was standing at Hikaru's orphanage, talking to the children and Hikaru herself. It looks as if Touya was searching for someone and Sakura had a pretty good idea who he is searching for. She needed to wear her contacts but Eriol is right beside her and she has to see Hikaru. She was stuck!! Either she gets caught by Touya and gets brought back to the castle or Eriol finds out that she is hiding something major from the Kinomotos' .
She then decided to run. The only option to get away from both situations. She then looked at then briefly and turned the other way quickly. She started tugging Eriol's hand the other way. He looked really confused but Sakura really need to get away from there fast! But she wasn't really that fast. Touya had decided to look at her direction. Touya's eyes widened. He thought he saw that auburn haired girl owning a pair of emerald eyes.
'Is that...Sakura?!' He thought, as his eyes swelled with tears for his missing sister. He looked at the guards, not caring the tears streaming down his handsome face.
"Chase after her! Chase after my sister!" He ordered as the guard dropped their weapons and ran. Sakura looked at them and cursed as she and Eriol started running. Sakura was slightly slowed down by the skirt she was wearing.
'His sister..? Isn't that...?' Eriol thought as he looked at Sakura. His eyes widened. He then realized what this all was. Another runaway. The runaway of the Kinomoto princess. And the princess is...Sakura?! Eriol couldn't believe it but she did tell him that the princess looked like her. Maybe its a mistaken identity? Then why was she running away from them?!
"Eriol..Run the other way and go back...I'll come back after I shake off these guards..They'll capture you and you might get killed for working for a Li...GO!" Sakura shouted as she let go of Eriol's hand. Eriol had to stop thinking weird possibilities and ran the other way than Sakura did and into the forest. The guards as expected followed Sakura only, leaving Eriol to run for safety. Sakura looked behind and cursed. They were gaining speed on her. She then took out her contacts and only had time to only wear one of it. She then felt someone grab her shoulder.
"Halt, princess!!'' The guard said. Sakura growled out in anger and turned , giving him an uppercut to his chin. The guard fell backwards and Sakura elbowed the guard's stomach. She then turned again and continued running. Another guard grabbed her shoulder and she then grabbed his hand , bent slightly and tossed the guard over her. She then jumped over the fallen guard and continued trying to put one her other contacts. She did it successfully after a few tries. Suddenly she felt something wound up on her ankle. She looked down. It was a whip, causing her to trip as it was pulled and fell to the ground face first, dirtying her cook's clothes with dirt.
'Chikuso,' she cursed in her mind as she was roughly pulled by a guard to her feet. The guard looked at her eyes and his brown ones narrowed when he saw it was red not emerald. The guard then raised his hand and slapped Sakura on her face.
"Insolent child. Do you think it's funny playing chasing with the Kinomotos as the princess?!" the guard said. He was about to slap her again when Touya grabbed his hand.
"I believe thats enough. Let go of Sakura now," Touya said, seeing that it was Sakura Kinoto not Sakura Kinomoto in his hands. The guard just let go of Sakura whom fell roughly on her bottom. He bowed and walked to the other guards. Touya then offered his hand to help Sakura up to her feet. Sakura took his hand and slowly get to her feet. Touya then proceeded to dust off all the dirt on Sakura's costume, making Sakura's heart swelled up due to the kind acts her brother always does to only his sister, her.
"I'm terribly sorry for that guard's actions. We are desperately searching for our dear princess and you happened to look a lot like her. I have mistook you for her," Touya said as he bowed slightly in apology. Sakura just nodded in acceptance and looked at her hand in Touya's. He then sighed as he rubbed his temple with his free hand.
"I would appreciate it if you would stop appearing in Tomoeda for a while. My guards will yet again mistake you for my sister and I might not be here to save your pretty little self," Touya sighed as he looked at Sakura with slight pain and loneliness in his eyes. Somehow that look wanted to make Sakura cry her heart out. Cry out in guilt. She was the cause of her brother's pain and she couldn't stand it when it is reflected in his sorrowful eyes. But...she's doing this to sustain her freedom and never to be trapped in the castle like a caged bird. Sakura's eyes swelled with tears slightly as she looked up at Touya and smiled.
"I hope that Princess Sakura shows up again. It had been 3 long years since she ever came back to Japan," Sakura said, her voice slightly shaking with the emotions she tried to keep in. Touya just looked at her with that same sorrowful brown eyes and smiled softly. He let go of the hand he had been holding all this while and looked up at the sky. He let out a sigh which sounded fake and pained.
"I do hope so.. I miss her so very much. Her smiles. Her laughs. Her very emerald eyes. The whole kingdom is begging on their knees to the gods to bring her back. My mother, The Queen, had even promised to break the engagement between her and the Li Prince. The whole kingdom is so bleak and so empty without the liveliness of our dear princess. Why did god had to make her run away and it's not her who suffers..But us," Touya cried out softly as crystalline tears fell from his eyes and he made no attempt to stop it.
The pain he had held for so long. Tears of 3 years which he had kept hidden was now streaming down his cheeks. Sakura clenched her fists at her sides. She couldn't bear it anymore. He looked so goddamn sorrowful with those tears streaming down his face and him just practically crying in front of her which she hardly saw him do.
Sakura then raised her hand slowly. The guards looked at her in awe as she placed her hands on Touya's cheeks. She then used her thumbs to brush away the tears from her brother's face. She then smiled a sorrowful smile which looked so gorgeous even with her own tears streaming down her porcelain cheeks. Touya looked down at her with slightly wide eyes. This reminded him so much of Sakura. Her very ability to feel the other party's emotions till it struck her soul so deeply till she is able to understand how they truly feel.
"Do not cry, your highness. Princess Sakura Kinomoto will come back. She can never be so heartless to hurt her own people," Sakura said, her voice strong and unwavering. Touya just smiled down at her and removed her hands from his face.
"You really do remind me of her so much. Would you mind but do me a tiny favor? This favor may be tiny but it can help the Kinomoto kingdom regain it's former glow," Touya said. Sakura looked at him. What could he possibly be suggesting?
"Sakura Kinoto, I humbly plead you to be our pretend princess for a while," Touya said as he bowed down to his knees. The guards looked at him in shock as he was bowing down to a lower status girl.
"Your highness, please stand up. Do not bow down to me. I am nothing but a commoner. None of a higher status of you," Sakura said, slight worry in her voice due to the favor Touya had asked of her. She couldn't possibly be the princess again. She will be too dearly attached to her former self till she might not be able to part herself with them when she wants to run away again. But Touya wouldn't budge. He knelt there in front of Sakura. Many villagers had came out of their huts to witness this scene of a lifetime. A royalty kneeling down to a commoner. Sakura couldn't stand her brother suffering again.
"I accept this favor. However, your highness, I do have ruby eyes whereas Sakura Kinomoto has emerald eyes. Will the Queen and King not ask of the difference?" Sakura asked, making Touya smirk softly. He then pulled out something from his pockets which looked like... Sakura's eyes widen. Contact lenses! A pair of emerald contact lenses in their casing sat innocently in Touya's hand. Sakura gasped softly.
'I thought contact lenses have yet to reach Japan!' Sakura shouted in her mind as she slowly took the contact lenses into her hands. Touya looked at her reaction and smiled softly.
"These are called contact lenses. They can be used to replace glasses. They have yet to reach Japan. However, Sakura Kinomoto had bought a box of them in Korea and our spies had managed to grab hold of such information. However, the color she bought was not specified," Touya explained. Sakura started to feel quite uneasy.
'Busted! Busted! BUSTED!!' Sakura shouted in her mind as she looked at Touya, whom was still kneeling on the ground.
"Give me a minute, your highness. I'll like to try without people watching," Sakura said as she took out the contacts from their casing. She then turned to look away from Touya and slipped the contacts back into their casing. She then took out her ruby contacts and slipped it into another casing but the ruby contacts did not went unnoticed by Touya. He smiled softly.
'How far longer can you lie to us Sakura Kinomoto?' he thought as Sakura turned with her emerald eyes in place. The guards gasped as she looked up at them. She looked directly like their missing princess. Sakura smiled cheerfully, which hid the tears in her eyes. Touya stood up slowly.
"Now you shall be called Sakura Kinomoto in the Kinomoto castle. Please come in the morning and stay in the castle overnight everyday. You need to find a way to explain to your Prince about this," Touya said as he walked to his guards. Touya gave a her a small smile when he looked back at her.
"I'll see you tomorrow, sister," Touya said as he walked away. Sakura looked at the back of her brother with slight wide eyes. The way he said 'sister' was so pained, loved and caring. Sakura's tears started flowing down her cheeks as she fell to her bottom, crying. Her fist clenched the ground in pain as she continued to sob alone. The villagers looked at her in pity as they shuffled closer to her and placing her in a middle of a protective circle.
'I do not belong in the castle. I do not!' Sakura shouted in her mind as she placed her head on her knees. The tears wet the ground she was sitting on. Up at the sky, black clouds started to loom over the villagers of Tomoeda and Japan itself. The villagers looked up at the sky as rain started to fall, a sign that heaven was feeling sympathy for the trapped girl. Sakura then wiped her tears with the back of her hand. There was no use for her to cry. People would wish to live the life of a princess but she.. she wished she had lived the life of a villager instead.
Sakura hoisted herself up to her feet and slowly turned to the Li castle. Eriol must be worried sick for her safety. She then slowly walked to the castle, not caring about the heavy rain.
At the Li Castle
Eriol waited at the gate with an umbrella in his hand looking out at the rain, looking out for a certain cook. Syaoran had retired to his bedroom for a short nap and Sakura must be back before he awoke. He'll be grumpy if she isn't and it doesn't help when Eriol did not report to him when he had returned due to fear of him asking where Sakura is.
Eriol sighed as he clenched his fist in frustration. It is raining even harder than before, blurring his vision of the front of the gate. Then he saw a faint auburn haired figure. He cry out in relief softly as he ran to the girl. She looked really drenched with her clothes stuck to her body like a second skin. He immediately took off his dry jacket suit and placed it on Sakura when he was near her. He then looked at her as if she was crazy.
"Sakura-chan! Where have you..." He stopped when Sakura looked up at him to acknowledge his presence. His sapphire eyes widen when he saw that it was puffy and red and not the normal cheerful emerald eyes. She had been crying from the looks of it. Eriol sighed and just wrapped his arm around her shoulder and brought her into the castle.
He quickly brought her to his room. His room was not like Sakura's whose was plain. But his was a nice calm sapphire room with the same things in Sakura's room except there was a few additional things like stacks of papers and other things.
"Sit on the bed," Eriol ordered as he walked into another room which was connected to his room. Sakura just sat at his bed, clutching the jacket closer to her as it was cold outside. Eriol then threw her a towel and walked to a fireplace at his room. He then lit a fire in it and the room started to become warmer. Sakura wiped her wet face and hair with the towel. She opened her pigtails and dried her hair with the towel.
Eriol went out for a while, not before telling her to stay put. Sakura looked around the room. It was so much warmer than that of room which she knew is freezing cold as this one had a fireplace in it. Sakura looked at the blur bed she was sitting on. The area around her was wet due to her wet clothes. Sakura shivered as a cold breeze came into the room by the window which Eriol forgotten to close. Sakura then stood up and walked to the window.
She then reached out for the windows when she saw something. There at the garden was Syaoran with an umbrella looking up at Eriol's window...and into her eyes.
'Didn't Eriol said that Li was in his bedroom, asleep?' Sakura thought as Syaoran looked away, seemingly like he had never notice her. He then looked up at the sky. Sakura saw him mutter something and went back into the castle.
"You know, Sakura-chan. You will get a cold if you stand there," Eriol said from behind her. Sakura immediately looked at him and smiled uneasily.
"I was just about to close the window because its getting colder. The heat is running away," Sakura said. Eriol chuckled softly and walked to the window and closed it. He then gave her the cup of steaming tea in his other hand and moved slightly away from her.
"So what did the Kinomoto prince wanted?" Eriol asked as he looked at Sakura's face which was shining with a glow as she drank the tea slowly. She stopped drinking when he asked and brought the cup away from her mouth.
"He..mistook me for Sakura Kinomoto," Sakura replied softly as she looked down as she did not dare to look up at Eriol for she might not know whether she could lie to him.
"And? What did he do to make you cry?" Eriol asked as he walked slowly towards her.
"He...Just asked me to become the princess till the princess comes back," Sakura said as she closed her eyes, bracing for an exclamation from Eriol. But none came. She opened her eyes and looked up at Eriol's face which was dead serious.
"You know, you might be beheaded if Prince Syaoran Li finds out about this," Eriol said, his eyes shining with seriousness with a bit of fear. Sakura sighed and nodded slowly.
"But..Prince Touya was practically crying in front of me and the whole of Tomoeda. I felt too much sympathy for him. Having lost a sister and having to search for her for up to 3 years," Sakura said as her eyes shone with unshed tears as the same pain came back to her heart. Eriol looked down at her, still serious looking.
"Sympathy for Prince Touya..? or... Sympathy for a Brother who is missing his sister whom stood in front of him acting as a commoner?" Eriol asked her, emphasizing some of the words. Sakura looked up at him with wide eyes. She then chuckled softly.
"A sister? Are you saying that I am Sakura Kinomoto? The Runaway Princess of Kinomoto?!" Sakura shouted at him, her voice cracking due to the lies. Eriol just gave her a hard stare.
"Tell me the truth Sakura," Eriol said as he grabbed her shoulders roughly. Sakura gave a soft whimper at the pain but still looked up into his eyes with fear and unshed tears.
"I am..not..Sakura Kinoto...I am Sakura Kinomoto..." Sakura said. There she said it. She said it! Eriol let go of her shoulders and gave a frustrated sigh. He ran his fingers through his hair as he looked at the walls in disbelief.
"This is not good," Eriol said as he looked at Sakura whom was looking down at the floor, in shame.
"You have to go back to your castle no matter what. I'll tell Prince Syaoran Li that you are leaving the country so you can go back to your princess days," Eriol said as he walked to the door. Sakura's eyes widen as she ran to him and hugged him from behind. Tears started to fall from her eyes as she shook violently due to the mention of her castle.
"Please do not bring me back to that place , please! I do not belong there!" Sakura said in a pleading manner. She was gripping onto Eriol like a lifeline.
"You do not know how trapped I feel in there. That's why I ran away. I want to marry for love, not for some stupid merging of the two empires! I do not want my life to be controlled by mother and father! I DO NOT!! I just wish I was a damn commoner! Not some princess!" Sakura sobbed as she slid to her knees, her hands getting loose from her grip on Eriol and placing it on her face. She sobbed in it as tears spiraled down her wrists.
Eriol looked at her with an unreadable expression on his face as he knelt in front of her. He then took out a handkerchief and pulled her hands away from her face gingerly. He then slowly wiped her tears away.
"Alright...But we must keep this a secret among us two..and Daidouji. I somehow predicts she knows you are the princess.. Anyways..It's getting late now. The sun has set and you wouldn't want to be caught in my room at this time," Eriol said as he put away the handkerchief. Sakura looked at him.
"You won't take me back to the Kinomoto castle?" Sakura asked as she gave him that cute pleading look. Eriol just smiled at the look.
"No I won't.. Though we must find a way to sneak you out of the castle to meet with your brother," Eriol said. A big smile stretched on Sakura's lips as she hugged him with much force. It was so unexpected till Eriol fell back to the ground with Sakura hugging him.
"Sa-Sakura!" Eriol shouted as he hugged the girl back. Sakura just tighten her hug and giggled.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!" Sakura said as she smiled brightly. Eriol looked at her smile and felt that blush came back to his face. She was really how the news describe her as. The owner of a heart of gold. Eriol then smiled back and stared at her cheerful face.
"Ahem!"
Sakura and Eriol stilled and looked up at the doorway. There stood Syaoran, arms on his hips and with a slight amused and cross look on his face. Sakura and Eriol's eyes widen. Two servants on the floor , hugging. One girl , one boy. In a reasonably dark room alone at night. A prince at the doorway looking at them.
All this equates to one thing...
Uh-Oh!!
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--End of Chapter 3--
Teehee!! since it was a fork path for our dear Sakura..I decided to make her go straight and get hit by both. But now... WHAT is Syaoran thinking when he sees them both on the ground, hugging..alone? Uh oh... Thats all I can say to all of you Anyways...read and review please! Like I said, I do not want to pressurize all of you to review by putting a certain amount of reviews required for next chapter. Also.. I'll updated chap 4 later cuz I am going overseas for a while.. Meaning.. no computer for 4 days!! WAAAA!! So have fun I'll be back !!
Loves u all--
DarknessDragonz--