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A/N: Sorry for the delay guys! Studying for the entrance exams. But I managed to type this out for u and the next chapter. Sorry again. But pls do review.
Chapter seven
Kaho straightened from Eriol and then hugged Tomoyo for formality.
"So, is this where you were all this time?" Kaho asked, in a serious tone looking around.
"Looks like you both were having a good time." Yue's sarcasm bit into the air.
Tomoyo, for the first time looked at his direction.
"We were stuck here, we couldn't get out." Tomoyo replied tautly and crossed her arms against her chest.
Defensive stature and Eriol looked at her. And winced inwards. She had shut herself from him. Was this because of Yue? Since Yue had come back, was she having second thoughts?
No, that couldn't be. She was his. His best friend, his partner and now, his wife. In every way. She just couldn't love any other. Didn't she say that she loved him?
It was apt at that moment, with whatever they were feeling. So he would really have to make her fall in love with him literally, make her actually mean what she had said at the spur of the moment.
He deliberately moved to her and put an arm around her.
Tomoyo looked at him startled. He smiled warmly at her.
He turned to Kaho and Yue and said, " So does this mean we can go from here?"
"I don't think so." Yue replied again, feeling a restraining force on him...Nakuru.
He stepped back toward the door and it glowed a blue. Okay, so they were stuck together.
The silence was deafening. Tomoyo shut her eyes. Even after what had happened between herself and Eriol, she still couldn't place the thumping of her heart abnormally when her gaze crossed with his.
What did this mean?
What was happening here?
Her head spun and she wavered. Eriol's strong arms came around her, pressing her close to him.
"Tomoyo...are you okay, love?" Eriol's whisper was barely audible and she concentrated on the word 'love' before everything went black around her.
"Tomoyo!!" Kaho's concerned outburst shook Yue from his thoughts.
"What happened?" He asked bitterly.
"She fainted. Have you had something to eat?" Kaho demanded, in a school teacher tone.
"We were going to have our lunch." Eriol said lifting her up.
"Okay, you can get her by the sofa and Yue, please stay with Tomoyo." Kaho said looking at Eriol now, "We both will make something to eat. You know, a proper lunch." She smiled and gestured him.
Instincts kicked in and he didn't want his wife to be with her ex- boy friend. He wanted to be with her.
He placed her on the sofa and made no attempt to move.
"Eriol...please understand. Yue knows how to cook I think taking into account he'd been with Clow." Kaho said ignoring the scowl on Yue's face.
"But, right now, she is no position to tell what is gping on. Maybe you could tell me and we could all work things out. Tomoyo does not have any magic." Kaho said while Eriol produced a blanket with a flick of his wrist and covered her.
"I don't think so..."Yue mumured. Tomoyo did have some magic. Over Eriol. Over him.
But now, mostly on Eriol. He had seen the way she'd look lost when Kaho went into Eriol's arms. He had never seen her so beautiful before, so happy, when he'd seen her with Eriol a few moments ago. When both thought they were alone.
Eriol didn't want to leave with Yue. Hell, he would not. They were just beginning something new. Something pure and delightful. Something that seemed to reach to his core like nothing else had. And they were just beginning to fit into this.
He straightened up.
"Okay. Lets get started then. I will get a glass of water for her." Eriol said walking to the kitchen without much paying attention to any one else.
Kaho followed him, looking at Yue for a moment. She nodded to him and smiled reassuringly.
Yue looked at Tomoyo and something warm spread over him. Nakuru.
He felt her reassuring him and he leaned forward to touch Tomoyo.
He placed a hand on her forehead.
My! She was so warm and...soft.
Tomoyo's eyes fluttered open that instant.
And her eyes met his, Yue gasped as if something had struck him. And something passed in between.
Eriol told mechanically the intructions to Kaho and she nodded springing to work. He grabbed a glass of water and went to the living room.
He froze. Yue bent to touch Tomoyo's forehead and he could see an emotion clearly etched on the moon gaurdian's face. Love.
Something twisted mercilessly inside him and his whole body burnt. Yue had no right to touch her like that.
But he saw Tomoyo's eyes open and look straight into his eyes. And it hurt him even more.
Did Tomoyo have any feeling left for Yue??
Tomoyo looked at Yue and slowly smiled, easing a little away from him. Where was Eriol when you needed him the most?
"Eriol?? Where is Eriol??" She asked sensing that Kaho was not there. Panic rose. Was Eriol with Kaho?? No, it can't be. She had fainted and Eriol was not supposed to leave her.
Eriol was about to leave when he heard her lips breathe his name. Was it an yearning in her voice when she'd taken his name? And his heart warmed over the way she'd looked forlorn at the moment. He could almost sense her panic. But why?
He concentrated on her and got just one word. A name. Kaho.
Eriol couldn't help his triumphant smile. His wife was jealous of Kaho!
"I am right here Tomoyo. I'd been gone to get you this." He genlty gathered her in his right arm and brought the glass to her lips with his left. He smiled at her, with whatever he felt at that moment.
Tomoyo eagerly drunk from the glass, her amethyst eyes wide with emotion looking at him.
"What's funny?" She asked miffed at last and Eriol shook his head.
"Nothing. Take rest. I and Kaho will get lunch ready for us all." He said and got up placing the glass on the table next to the sofa.
Tomoyo's spirits sank when he'd said that. She wanted to be with him. She wanted them to be alone again.
"Oh..."She whispered, shrinking back into the sofa.
"Yue. Do join us in the kitchen. We can talk over this matter." Eriol said surprising everyone when he scooped Tomoyo up in his arms.
Tomoyo was just suprised as Eriol carried her easily to the kitchen and saw the expression on Kaho's face. Whatever she felt she was good at masking it. It was cold face.
"Good. Now that everybody's here, maybe Eriol can tell what happened." She said concentrating on the sauce.
"Nothing much. It is something that I don't get it. We were teleported here I guess. And..."Eriol looked at Tomoyo and she nodded squeezing his hand.
"And, we saw glimpses of our past. Each other's past. That we probably didn't know. And there are times when...we both were like under some pull. Even before we got here. And whenever we even kissed, we'd both glow in blue."Eriol said, putting the matter lightly as it could be.
"So you mean...you both...that you and Tomoyo..."Kaho struggled for words and Tomoyo went red with embaressment.
Kaho couldn't believe this. This was ertainly not expected of the Clow's reincarnation! No, Sir! Not at all. He was behaving like a...like any other normal...she looked at him and closed her eyes, okay, he looked smitten and a little like a puppy who was in love!
"That is common Kaho. We are married." Eriol shrugged not liking Kaho probing further.
"Hmm. Not with you both ofcourse. You both know it. It was after you came here. Couldn't keep your hands off each other, if I am correct." Kaho put the vegetables to boil and turned around with a bright smile on her face.
Tomoyo wanted to crawl under a rock and never wanted to face Kaho again.
"Its none of your bussiness." Eriol said, his voice cold.
"I am sorry. But its our bussiness. We were also pulled here, remember. We are here. Why you both had to be here in the first place? Then why should we follow you here? Then...are we in Japan at present or this place suspended in time?" Yue asked making Eriol jump with surprise.
'Suspended in time' phrase jolted Tomoyo. Not much of a magic liker since she'd gotten hurt the first two times, this idea scared her. It could mean she was in an unknown dimension, not knowing when she'd go back.
And horrors of all, which was far from it actually, she had gone ahead, without her knowledge and fallen in love all over again with a person whose very existence was magic! Magic started from him. And it was not like the first two times, this love seemed to go deep within her soul and shook everything in her.
And here she was stuck here, because of that.
Tomoyo slowly realized that Eriol was holding her hands possessively now and looking at her. It was under the table. Oh, it was a nice gesture of support. She needed it. She was stuck along with tow more people who also knew magic. She needed support.
'Oh my! Is Eriol really...'Tomoyo's thoughts diverted when she felt spark to life again as she sensed Eriol's slow deliberate movements of hands in her palm. That was good. So...good. So good that...
"I don't mind stuck being anywhere if its with you..."Tomoyo breathed. Then looked startled. She didn't say that aloud. She just couldn't have said that aloud!
Eriol's face went blank at that moment. The warm smile was gone. The laughter in his eyes died.
"Okay Tomoyo. Think practically and logically dear!"Kaho's school teacher voice admonished her.
Eriol shook his head.
And a smirk quirked his beautiful lips.
"Thats the best for me atleast. I am not alone. Anymore." The last word whispered, Eriol pulled Tomoyo to kiss her. Right in front of their 'guests'. And to his surprise and pleasure, she responded eagerly.
'This was not supposed to happen. They were not meant to fall in love. They aren't meant for each other. Tsk-tsk...poor Tomoyo has to die then...' One of them present in the room was thinking, although with bitter regret.
A/N: Twist in the plot guys...next update, on SUNDAY!!! I promise. Chapter already written. Just gotta post it, just think of it as my apology goody. Anyway, I did keep u guys waiting.
So...review ne?
Oh yeah, next chapter will be quite lengthy. Plot to kill Tomoyo and the bad guy!!