Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ False Face, Hidden Heart ❯ Pieces of a Puzzle ( Chapter 10 )

Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura is not mine in anyway shape or form. This plot however belongs to me and if anyone tries to take it Hell will be the price to pay.

Oh, last chapter…I feel most sentimental now. I wish to thank you all for the kind reviews and all that wonderful support that kept me going even when I thought this story was sliding down the drain. You have no idea how happy some of your reviews have made me when I read them. I've never had so many reviews before, it really made me feel better about my writing and that is worth a lot in my eyes. So thank you very much. Okay, now that the cliched speech is out of the way, shall we proceed?

Chapter Ten: False face, Hidden Heart

The wind blew by happily blowing a myriad of leaves along the streets as two figures made their way to the park close by. One with waist length hair that glittered alluring shades of purples when the light danced upon with and another with short black hair which shimmered dark blue once in a while. Tomoyo and Eriol remained quiet as they even as they neared the gates of the park. Silence was their medium.

'Eriol…'

'Mm?'

'What are you doing?'

Tomoyo looked slightly confused as they approached a park bench in the path. He had pushed her to sit on it and was now in the process of making sure she was warm enough in her overcoat and scarf. She needed to stay still for a long time after all; he had to go find a butterfly. Eriol's thoughts temporarily went of track as he wondered where he would find a butterfly in winter. However, soon enough Tomoyo's violet stare brought him around…and then proceeded to drown him into a whole new heaven. He shook his head to clear it.

'Stay.' He told her in a fashion similar to that of a stubborn child.

'Where are you going?' she asked placidly to Eriol's back as he made his way into the small forest of shrubbery.

'I'll be back.' Was the soft reply as he disappeared into the greenery, navy coat blending in with shadow.

Tomoyo leaned back and relaxed on the bench with a contented sigh. Funny wasn't it that the majority of her feelings were brought to light by one patient. She was pretty sure there was an unspoken law that went: Don't fall in Love with patients! Especially unstable ones! She smiled slightly, it was quite sappy how she felt. She needed Eriol's voice to keep her World spinning and his quiet reassurance to stop it from cracking in pieces.

She would have to thank Sakura and Syaoran for this. Her most precious friends. They truly lived to their role. It wasn't as if they didn't have their own lives to live, even in love they did not exclude their purple eyed friend. She had no clue what to do without them. Before Eriol, it was they who stabilised her life. As Sakura's father had said when he saw the three playing together as children, they were like pieces of a puzzle.

Of course she had always known there was a missing piece. Sakura has Syaoran and she had nothing. Every puzzle piece needed it's mate and she had none. And now, well now she did. Syaoran had always been picky about who associated with his friends. The fact that Eriol had passed the golden eyed boy's appraisal at all was quite a feat. Then again, from what she had learnt, they had been friends for a time. Maybe that was what swayed him.

Someone blew on her face. Tomoyo opened her eyes to see Eriol smiling faintly at her.

'What are you thinking about?'

She contemplated not telling him her thoughts but then realised she could not keep things from him. She returned his smile with one of her own,

'I was thinking about us.'

Eriol looked surprised that there was even an 'us', although he knew he cared for Tomoyo he had not assumed she would accept him so easily. He had after all made a reputation for not exactly being the most trustworthy person around. There was something that made the nurse so special in his eyes, he loved her for it. Syaoran had nought to worry about, Tomoyo's feelings would be spared as much as it was in his power to do so.

'I've got you something…' he whispered trailing off almost shyly.

He raised cupped hands and Tomoyo in response lifted hers also to receive his gift. Carefully he transferred the small butterfly he had managed to find delicately into Tomoyo's warm fingers. The insect fluttered wildly for a moment before calming in her palms. Peering through a crack in her fingers a pair of blue-violet wings could be seen with lines of exquisite black painted along it's veins. It was so small. A late bloomer, one of the slower ones to lay it's eggs.

'Kirei ne,' Tomoyo whispered as she peered at the insect. Beautiful…

Eriol watched the nurse carefully. He wanted to see what Tomoyo would do with the butterfly. Beauty like that could not be retained, even by the vainest people. It was futile. It should however be treasured and not contained, not in glass jars or pinned. He smiled most satisfactorily when Tomoyo unclasped her fingers and the butterfly fluttered upwards.

It flew around in a few confused circles before dropping onto his arm, to disoriented to move for the moment.

Eriol smiled and carefully and patiently waited until it had found it's sense of direction and made it's way through the air again. Once the butterfly has fluttered off to wherever it was going he brushed off the dirt on his trousers and once again offered his hand to Tomoyo to pull her from a bench.

'Stay with me.'

'Of course.'

~~~End~~~

Sorry if some of this chapter is unprecise but I have no clue as to the habits of butterflies.