Kuruizaku (to bloom out of season)

Pairings: as of yet, none. Soon E+T (S+S, T+Y, K+E)

Content: Angst, humour, romance, etc…

Warnings: none as of yet

Note from the Author: This is my first Eriol/Tomoyo fic so be nice! And please review!

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It had been raining for almost a straight week.

A girl sat, gazing out the window at the rain. Her long dark hair spilled down her shoulders to her waist, and her stormy eyes reflected the clouds in the sky. Sighing, she shifted on the bedspread, her gaze unwavering from the gloomy weather.

“Tomoyo?” A young girl walked in the room, brushing her short red-gold hair, a puzzled frown on her face. She dropped the hairbrush on a pillow next to a sleeping creature that looked remarkably like a stuffed animal, and approached her friend. Grumbling slightly, Sakura prodded her friend gently to get her attention.

Tomoyo jumped. “Ne!”

Sakura stifled a giggle. It wasn’t often that she got the best of her friend. Usually it would be the other way round. At school, for example, Tomoyo was best known for snapping Sakura out of her daydreams, or breaking her gaze towards a certain Chinese boy. Pushing her thoughts aside, Sakura sat down next to her friend with a small frown. “Tomoyo-chan, are you alright?” She motioned towards the opened window. “Aren’t you cold?”

Shaking her head, the other girl idly played with a strand of her hair. “Oh, Tomoyo-chan!” Sakura whined, pouting. “What’s gotten into you? It’s your birthday, you should be happy! But now you are daydreaming worse than me!”

“I’m fine,” Tomoyo sighed, looking at her best friend. “I just… I don’t know.” She turned her attention back to the weather. “Do you think this rain is at all strange?”

Sakura frowned, and cocked her head to the side. “It’s autumn… it usually rains in autumn, Tomoyo.”

“That’s not what I meant!” the dark haired girl cried, throwing her hands up. “I meant this rain seems… unnatural. Like there is some not-seasonal-related-reason for it. Don’t you feel it?”

Sakura looked a mixture of perplexed, stunned and doubtful. “Uh, Tomoyo…”

“I know! I know I am not a magically inclined person like you or Li-kun, and I have no sixth sense for these things, but, something just feels… off.”

“Maybe it’s intuition. Mizuki-sensei once told me everyone has an intuition of a sort, just some people find theirs is stronger than others.” She smiled happily, placing her hand on Tomoyo’s. “Maybe something is coming, meant for you and you alone! Maybe it is time for you to find your own happiness, Tomoyo. Maybe that is what it means.”

Tomoyo smiled back at her best friend, squeezing her hand, before turning her attention back out the window. Sakura sighed, and got up to close the window. Tomoyo sighed again, and got off the bed. “I’m sorry, I’m being really a bore.”

“It’s okay Tomoyo. I understand. If you want to be alone we can forget about the sleepover…”

“Don’t even think about it!” Tomoyo cried. “I invited you here, and it is my responsibility as a guest to keep to the plan. Mother would have my head for such a thing! Now, shall we leave Kero to his cake-induced coma and get some hot chocolate?”

Grinning, Sakura nodded and followed her friend out the bedroom door.

ELSEWHERE IN TOMOEDA…

“How typical!” Nakuru splashed in a puddle. “From one wet country to another! Remind me WHY we are back again?”

Spinel rolled his eyes, glaring at the other guardian from the safety of Eriol’s coat. “You were the one excited about returning, if only for the opportunity to harass the card Mistress’s brother again. We on the other hand, are back for other reasons, and you know exactly what they are.

“Besides, you seem to be enjoying yourself well enough,” he added, watching Nakuru bounce up and down in the puddles, splashing water up ‘her’ stockings and boots.

Eriol said nothing, a small smirk on his face, and he waved down a taxi. He was back in Tomoeda, and no one knew it yet. It was time to put the past five-odd years behind him and start again.

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