Etiquette Lessons

by Cherri J. Ookami

Ch 13: Sakura and Syaoran have to beat the clock to beat the power of Yelan's weapons, whatever they may be. Who is toying with Touya-kun and why? Can an old frienship be resurrected? Find out!(SxS! More ExT in Ch 14. Touya x who?)

1. Prologue

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Konnichiwa, minna-san! Here in this fic you shall find flying plates, shoes, cups, etc, etc. Why? It's because this story mostly is a fanfiction about etiquette. If you think that being a normal person and wanting to be royalty is what you want, try balancing books, wearing high heels, eating healthy food, drinking tea with a pinky out, talking funny, etc, etc. You'll see it in this fanfic. If you see any, errors tell me. I want to be a better author! (There's supposed to be an error somewhere in this sentence, but the auto-correct keeps deleting my errors. -.-;) Anyways, it is time to start the fanfic.

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Disclaimer: I don't own CCS or the characters. If I did, I'd reign supreme!!! *Evil grin* though, don't get mad, because I didn't claim that I own it. That's why it's called a DISclaimer.

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KEY and or LEGEND:

"Talking"

'Thinking'

*Actions*

(My little notes or thoughts)

******Scene change or Flashback or POV or something else******

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Character Information:

Sakura Kinomoto: A princess that doesn't know how to control her anger and how to act like a real princess.

Nadeshiko Kinomoto: Alive, queen of the Kinomoto Kingdom.

Fujitaka Kinomoto: King of the Kinomoto Kingdom.

Touya Kinomoto: He is Sakura's overprotective Onii-chan.

Syaoran Li: A prince in the Li Kingdom, yet he goes to the Kinomoto Kingdom to give the ignorant princess lessons on how to be a capable and presentable princess.

Yelan, Fuutie, Femei, Shiefa, and Fanran Li: Syaoran's family. Very eccentric are the words to describe them. (@_@)

Eriol Hiirigizawa: Tomoyo's boyfriend and Duke of the Palace. He is a NORMAL person with parents

Tomoyo Daidouji: Sakura's best friend and dutchess of the Kingdom

Aria, Araia, Amia, and Amaia Urashima: Maids in the palace.

Sasami Ayanami: A nurse in the palace

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Here it is.

Chapter 1, Ichi, Uno, and Isa of Etiquette Lessons: The BIG Mistake and Getting Acquainted

By: the Cherri Ookami

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*Crash* *Thump* *Splash*

"Well, I guess that's what that button did, eh." Said a boy.

"GET OUT OF MY PALACE BEFORE I KILL YOU!!!!!!!!" went a girl, sounding very angry.

"Sakura! Don't talk to Prince Hayashibara like that!" said Fujitaka.

"Yeah, but he touched me and almost destroyed the castle." She protested.

"He may have done those things, but you must learn to control yourself. You have never chosen ANY one of the princes we chose for you to go out with and meet" Nadeshiko stated.

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"That is why we hired a teacher to teach you the proper etiquette of royalty." Fujitaka said, knowing what word what was coming.

'Here it comes' the king and queen thought. '3, 2, 1, 0'

"WHAT?" she yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Remember Sakura, that we all have to be taught sometime." Nadeshiko said, trying to make it sound like it was normal.

At that she ran to her room.

******Morning the next day******

"Sakura-sama, it's time to wake up." Called a maid.

"Mmm. no. Not those lessons are. Are they today, Hikari?" she said under her pink pillow.

"I'm afraid so, Sakura-sama." She said grimly.

"Aww." she moaned.

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"Good morning, sir. Would you be Li Syaoran?" Fujitaka asked.

"Umm. Yeah. Would you be King Kinomoto?" the boy asked.

"Yes."

"Then, I am honored to meet you." He commented, bowing down solemnly.

"No need for formalities." He said with a very benign smile. (You know what kind of smile, right? If you've seen the anime or

Manga, think of that smile ^_^)

"Oh. All right." Syaoran said, still a bit shyly.

"Amia, can you get his bags? Amaia, can you get breakfast ready? Aria, can you get Sakura's bath ready? Araia, can you show him to his room?" he asked a maid quadruplet. (I had no idea what to do, so I made them rhyme. I think it turned out pretty well. Don't you.)

"Yes, your highness." They answered together. They giggled and went separate ways.

"Come with me, Li-san." Said Araia.

"Hai." He said.

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Sakura walked down the hall and saw the maid talking to a boy.

'It's probably some stuck up prince. He is kind of cute though. What am I saying? I must get rid of him. I'll get him out before he gets a clue of who I am.' She thought.

She grabbed a heavy vase and called out to him.

"Hey!"

He turned around and she threw the vase at his head. (Ha!!!)

*CRASH*

"Sakura, I heard a crash!" said a worried, running Nadeshiko.

She stared down at Syaoran's limp body. He had those KAWAII swirly eyes. @_@

"Sakura, what's going on?" asked Fujitaka.

He also saw the prince's limp body.

"Sakura, did you do this?" they asked sternly.

"What happened? I heard a crash. And who is that?" Touya asked, pointing at Syaoran's body.

"He is Sakura's teacher for etiquette. I don't think that he'll want to stay for much longer." Fujitaka said calmly.

"Oops. I thought that he was another prince you set up for me." Sakura stated innocently.

"I'll phone the Li Palace and inform them what has happened. Sakura, I want you stay here. I want you to apologize to Queen Yelan. She is another queen in another kingdom in China that we have made great peace with." Fujitaka said during lunch.

"All right. Do you think that my sensei will accept my apology?" asked Sakura only half-listening to her father.

"I'm sure that he will," said Nadeshiko, yet being cut off by Touya.

"...Not. I mean, if I were that kid, I'd run out of here once I was healed." He said, stuffing a rice ball in his mouth.

"Touya, I'm sure that he will understand if Sakura says her apology correctly." Fujitaka said, expressing seriousness with the word.

"I hope he does. He looked nice, but if he was a prince, I would have pushed him out the window." She stated.

"He IS a prince, kaijuu. Weren't you listening?" Touya said, eating more and more rice balls.

"He is? Oh, and stop calling me a kaijuu! I'm not a kaijuu!" she yelled, stepping hard on his foot.

"ITAI!!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled.

"Stop children." Demanded Nadeshiko.

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*Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep*

"Hello. This is Yelan Li, how may I help you?"

"Hai. This is Fujitaka Kinomoto. I am the one who has borrowed your son."

"Oh, yes. Kinomoto-san how is he?"

"Err." he did the anime sweat drop. -.-;

"Yes." she led.

"He was hit with a flying vase." He admitted.

"Oh, no. That's the 8th time this month. Don't worry, Kinomoto-san. He'll be fine. He has had hard training. He is as tough as the Great Wall itself." She said, beaming with rolling pride.

"Really?" he asked.

"Yes. All my children are strong, especially my 4 daughters. They eat too much sugar, though. Oh, I'm guessing that's why poor Xiao Lang wanted to leave so much." She said with a bit of laughter.

"Xiao Lang?" he wondered.

"That's his name in Chinese."

"Oh."

"Just wish him well for me, all right, Kinomoto-san?" she asked.

"Hai. Ja ne, Li-san."

*Click*

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"Umm. Sakura-chan, I thought that you didn't like the etiquette idea. Why do you fell guilty about the whole teacher-vase incident?" asked Tomoyo, out in the garden.

"Yeah, I know, but he looked nice. I just cannot take another prince. I wonder if he's hurt, though." Sakura said.

"He probably isn't hurt too badly." She replied a bit afraid of what Sakura would say.

"Hey!" Sakura said indignantly.

"Do you want to see him?" asked Tomoyo.

"Kind of. Just to see if he'll accept my apology." She said.

"Well let's go see." Tomoyo said finally to Sakura, taking out her cell phone.

"What's that for?" Sakura asked, perplexed.

"I'm calling Eriol-kun. I want him to come over." She answered, beaming and blushing. ~^_^~

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"Umm. Sasami, can I see the err...prince?"

"Sure." She answered sweetly.

"How is he though?" Sakura asked quietly.

"He's fine. He has a minor head injury, but nothing that I can't heal." She answered happily.

"All right, bye Sasami!" they called out to the peppy teenaged nurse.

******In Syaoran's Room******

There in the room laid a sleeping boy.

Sakura and Tomoyo walked through the hall and stopped in front of the room.

"You go first, Tomoyo-chan." Said Sakura nervously.

"No way. He's your teacher." She told her.

"Fine." Sakura said, opening the door.

They walked into the room and saw the boy.

"Hey! He looks kind of cute." Tomoyo commented happily.

"Yeah, I guess. I wonder why a kid our age is TEACHING etiquette instead of LEARNING it, like us." Sakura pondered indignantly.

"Maybe it was because he didn't want to, but was forced here by his mother. Ohayo and gomen for intruding into your conversation, ladies." Said a voice.

They turned and saw Syaoran sitting up and smiling. He wore normal commoner clothes (When I say 'commoner clothes', I mean clothes that normal people wear. Not like dressyish clothes made of silk and stuff like that.) And a bandage wrapped around his head.

"Who might you ladies be?" he asked kindly. (I made him be a gentleman, just like Eriol-kun!)

"I'm Kinomoto Sakura and this is my best friend and cousin, Daidouji Tomoyo." She answered, with Tomoyo waving happily behind her back.

"Ahh... so you are the princess that I'm being forced to teach." he said.

"Yeah, but why are you being forced to teach if you don't want to?" Sakura asked.

"My family asked me to do it, because I am kind of 'polite' to people. Your father asked every kingdom for a teacher, but they all didn't want to, for some reason." He answered.

"I think it's because every kingdom has sent princes here and she chased them away. They probably didn't want to send their etiquette teachers to the student of hell." Tomoyo joked, chuckling. Sakura ribbed her in the stomach.

"Hey." Sakura said, also laughing.

"Well, it is a possibility, but you don't seem that way." Syaoran said quietly looking at Sakura with great intent.

"Yeah. See that? I'm not so bad. The princes are just really rude." Sakura said happily.

"I see. Well, I was just wondering. What are you doing in my room, anyway?" He wondered.

"Well, when I first saw you, I thought that you were some new snooty prince that my parents wanted me to meet. So, since I didn't want to be set up with another prince, I just got one of the vases from the hall and threw it. Gomen ne." she said. "I wanted to see if you were all right. I wanted to know that you would stay. You seem so nice, umm. I never caught your name." She continued.

"Syaoran Li. Prince of the Li Kingdom in Hong Kong." He responded sounding a bit embarrassed.

"Well. Nice to meet you, Li-kun." She said.

"I do accept your apology. My mother told me that if the person asking for forgiveness is truly sorry, there should be nothing in the way of accepting the apology." He said wisely.

"That sounds so sweet." Tomoyo said. (^_^)

"I know." He said flatly.

"So, are you staying?" asked Sakura, putting her puppy eyes (So irresistible.)

"I guess." He stated.

"Good." Said the two girls.

"Hey, Tomoyo-chan!" called a boy.

He wore a blue shirt with long blue pants. He had blue hair and blue eyes. (SO MUCH BLUE THAT IT'S SCARY! @_@)

"Hi, Eriol-kun. This is Sakura's etiquette teacher. Li-kun, this is my err." she discontinued herself.

"Boyfriend." Sakura and Syaoran answered.

"How do you guys know, especially you Li-kun?" Tomoyo wondered.

"Well, it sure looks like you two look good together." He stated.

"Do we?" they asked, both of them blushing.

"Yeah. You do." Said Sakura, smiling.

"I wonder when I'll find a person so nice. So perfect for me." Syaoran pondered.

"Maybe you'll find her soon. Maybe even sooner than you may think." Eriol said.

"Yeah, I guess." He said, a bit sadly.

"What do you think she'll be like?" asked Tomoyo.

"Sweet, sensitive, funny, but I mostly want her to be forgiving." He said kindly.

"Ahh. I see that you want a very contented person." Eriol said.

"Yes, but I can dream all I want to." Syaoran said.

"Anyway, are you strong enough to get up?" Sakura asked.

"I've been that way. It's just that I've been thinking if I left the room, where do I go." He said.

"Lets go in the garden." Eriol suggested.

"Okay." They all agreed.

******Out in the garden******

They walked and saw so many flowers. It was as if everything was suddenly peaceful. Syaoran stared at the flowers and remembered his home. He remember so many days in the Li Palace and walking through those flowers and everything being so peaceful until his crazy sisters ran up to him and pinching his cheeks and hugging him. It was one other reason he wanted to get out of the Li Kingdom SO much.

"It's so pretty." Commented a happy Tomoyo.

"Yes, it is. Princess Sakura, did you plant these?" asked Syaoran

"You don't have to be so formal. Call me Sakura-chan. And I only planted the rose bush over there and the sunflowers over there." She told him.

"Okay." He responded.

"We have to go Sakura-chan. Ja ne!" Eriol and Tomoyo said together.

"Okay. Ja ne!" Sakura called to the couple running toward the gate.

"Let's go inside." Syaoran suggested.

"Hai." She responded happily.

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"So. When do I start lessons?"

"Tomorrow, I guess. We'll work on your people skills first, then on just calmly walking past one of the princes you knocked out of here without killing him."

"Why?" she asked.

"It was a request from your father and mother. They want you to go to some banquet in the Palace inviting all the Kingdoms in Japan." He told her.

"Will you still be here?" she asked. "You know. Just to monitor me."

"I don't know. I probably won't"

"Aww. I wanted you to stay for a while."

"I'll try. Wait. Do you really want me to stay?" he asked, suddenly perplexed.

"Hai. I think that you could do very well. Why?" She said simply.

"Oh. It's just that I've never been asked to stay. Usually I'm forced." He said,

"Well, you are getting paid aren't you?"

"Yeah or at least I was supposed to."

"Why aren't you?"

"I don't want to ask for your father's and mother's money."

"But you deserve it."

"I told them that if there is a large change, then I might accept the money. I don't want the money if I didn't do anything." He said honestly.

"Oh." She uttered softly.

Popping out of nowhere was one of the maids. It startled them a bit, but not too much.

"Sakura-sama, Li-sama, would you like anything?" asked Araia, giggling a little.

"Yeah. May I have a plate of cookies?" she asked softly.

"Of course. And for you sir?"

"Just a cupcake. Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, make it chocolate." He said shyly

"No trouble at all."

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"Here you are, cookies and a chocolate cupcake." Aria said.

"I though Araia got the order." Sakura said.

"She had to do something." Aria said simply.

SHE ate and ate. Syaoran, on the other hand, ate slowly.

"Why did you ask for a chocolate cupcake?" Sakura asked, eating a sprinkle cookie.

"It's my favorite food and flavor." He said simply, biting into the cupcake.

"Ahh...I love chocolate too." She said as they continued to eat.

FIN & TBC

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AN: Good? Bad? I only did this fic, for entertainment purposes. In the next chappie, lessons start. Got to go now!!!!! Remember to push the button to review, okay. Ja ne! SO, until the next chapter, Ja ne!