1st chapter
~*You steal my heart *~
DISCLAIMER: I don't own CCS. Duh.
my old pen name was kit taylor. Im moving everything to this new one.
Ok.... Im starting another fanfic! I was sitting in my bed, reading The Great Gastby (if that is spelled wrong, sorry. Hehe. Im too lazy to run up the stairs and get it.) when I thought, hey, mebe I should make a fanfic where sakura is some naughty little girl and Xiao Lang is some love-sick swooner! Ok... this fic is PROB not gunna turn out like that, but something similar. Lets see what I come up with now...
Lets start.
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It was the darkest of nights. Only the pale moon's light rays penetrated through the darkness. Hong Kong was silent, yet not so silent. This bustling city would never be fully asleep.
It is a time of monarchy, where the royal Li family ruled this vast land. The king had died a year ago, leaving Queen Yelan in charge. She had four beautiful daughters, but most importantly, one son, who would one day take over the throne.
Cold and calculating, Li Xiao Lang knew how to manage a country. When he was young, he was forced to study every subject possible. He learned the art of martial arts, and when he was small started working on magic. He never once complained, but never having any fun in his younger age made him anti-social, and he rarely got along with anyone outside the family.
The Li's were, saying quite frankly, filthy rich. This caused a paranoia, which led them to have many guards in the palace, and top security over their possessions.
A month without a robbery attempt was a near miracle. Robberies every week was normal. If the robber wasn't caught, there was a panic. If the robber was caught, they would say off with his head faster than you could say don't.
Ancient heirlooms and rooms of diamonds larger than ones' head were the rumors that spread like wildfire through the verdant land.
No one had successfully broken into the well-guarded palace, and had come out with a smile on their faces. In fact, it was quite the opposite. I was near impossible to rob the palace, but people never stopped trying.
"It is too irresistible."
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Queen Yelan stood graceful as a swan while she looked her son over.
He was 19. A ripe age to marry.
'He won't agree to marry any Chinese princess' Yelan mused.
Queen Yelan had once hosted a ball, where they invited the entire Chinese princesses in China. The queen had forced Xiao Lang to dance with each and every one of them, which made him infuriated, and after three hours, locked himself in his room with all the princesses at his door, and fumed for the rest of the night, and refused to come out till many days later.
With messy dark brown hair, and gorgeous amber eyes, he was proclaimed the best looking bachelor in China. And while the girls rejoiced over this fact, he damned it to hell.
"Looks," he once seethed," won't help me govern a country!"
Yet while Queen Yelan understood what he was trying to say, she could help but add in "Lets say you're the worst looking man there ever was then. You can surely govern a country, but who would marry you if you had a hideous face?"
"I will marry the girl who wont swoon at the sight of me and will love me for what I have in my heart, not what she can see on my face." Xiao Lang promised.
"I will hold you to that" Queen Yelan said amused.
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Queen Yelan decided to go into the city.
Surrounded by her guards, she walked through a busy street, and noticed people looking at her with recognition on their faces.
Ahead of her, a girl started running, she was going straight at Queen Yeland.
BOOM CRASH
The girl and I fell; the guards were not expecting that to happen and didn't react fast enough.
"Omg! I am so sorry ma'am! I was in a hurry, and didn't see you! Oh no.... are you alright?!" the girl babbled, looking incredibly sorry.
"That is alright," I said, surprise in her voice. The girl didn't know who she was? She had said "ma'am" instead of "your highness" and instead of bowing ridiculously on the ground for all she was worth, she only tried to help her up.
The guards, now over from their shock, started towards her.
Two of them grabbed her arms.
"APOLOGIZE you peasant! You are speaking to your QUEEN!" One said, fear evident on his face.
"WHAT? OH!" the girl cried out.
Her fascinating emerald eyes fastened itself upon me. Her mouth slightly open from surprise.
"Omg..." she breathed.
I finally gave her a thorough look. She wore a silk kimono, cherry blossom petals adorning it. Her hair was tied up with a diamond clasp, a lock of hair tumbling down the side. Her face was flushed, and in overall, she was beautiful.
"Let her go" I ordered the guards that were holding her.
"what?" the guards looked at her confused.
"let her go" I said again, my eyes now on the girl.
She looked a bit nervously at me, as if she was wondering why she wasn't getting a punishment for being so disrespectful.
"What is your name child?" I asked.
"Kinomoto Kanako." She said cheerfully.
"Will you join me?" I smiled at her, as her mouth gaped wide open at me.
"I beg your pardon you highness?" she said, her eyes disbelievingly.
"You are of royalty are you not?" I said to her, "You do not dress like a normal peasant."
Her eyes danced and laughed at me.
"Hahaha! You have a wonderful observation you highness. Yes, I am the princess of Japan. I came here to visit. I hoped to stay here unnoticed of my status, but it seems I have been caught." She said sheepishly.
"Well, why don't you stay in our palace then? We always welcome any sort of royalty." I said generously. I might have found a suitable wife for my son!
Her eyes shimmered with gratitude.
"Oh! That is so kind of you! I really would appreciate it!" she said.
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At the palace...
"Sir, what if someone sees you?" a woman in her 50's asked the young prince of China.
Xiao Lang was wearing a blue t-shirt, along with khaki shorts. If anyone outside the palace had seen him like that, they would have been shocked. The normalcy was that the royal family be at all times in a proper suit.
"More like a suffocation device than a royal garb" Xiao Lang had muttered under his breath on more than one occasion.
"It is the tradition" the woman snapped at him.
Xiao Lang made no comment.
The woman's name was Kaori. She had raised and taught Xiao Lang ever since he was a wee little boy. She had been the little prince's caretaker. In these days, the queen did not take care of her son. Her was taken care of by a nanny.
"If I didn't have one drop of respect for you, I would have kicked you out by now." Xiao Lang said mildly.
"I do not doubt that your highness" Kaori said dryly.
The main door opened before the prince and Kaori.
"Mother" Xiao Lang said immediately, but stopped short when he saw a girl next to her.
She had honey coloured hair. Her emerald eyes were on everything at once. Xiao Lang breathed deeply.
The girl finally noticed the young prince.
Her eyes danced while she approached him. Xiao Lang's voice was caught in his throat.
"Sir, you must be so lucky to work here!" she squealed.
The whole room: ".........."
"What... did you say?" Xiao Lang said incredulously.
"Well... you work for the royal family right? What do you do here?" the girl said excitingly.
Behind Xiao Lang, Kaori was struggling not to laugh right aloud.
Queen's Yelan's eyes smiled.
Xiao Lang couldn't believe it. The nerve of this girl!
"I am the prince..." he said slowly.
Kanako gasped. Then, she laughed right aloud!
Xiao Lang stared at her unbelievably. First, this girl insulted him by thinking HE could be WORKING in the palace, then when she found out the truth, laughed at him!
"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Lang asked quietly, which was what he did when he was angry.
Kanako, oblivious to his anger, said, while choking on her laughter "you are the MOST unlikely prince I have ever met!"
Xiao Lang FUMED silently while Kanako continued with her laughter.
"Can dao le ma? Ni ji bu ji de ni zhiang de hua? (Do you see? Do you remember what you said to me?)" Yelan said over the laughter, which Kaori had finally joined to, as did several of the servants.
Xiao Lang glared, and stormed out of the main hall, and his stomps could be heard.
"Oh..."Kanako's face fell," did I say something wrong?"
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= Xiao Lang POV =
I was angry. That girl...
But... somehow, I couldn't be completely angry with her.
She WAS the first girl that had said anything like that to me. I was impatient and annoyed with rudeness, but I couldn't make myself as angry as I imagined I would be.
I tiptoed out of my room, and went out to the palace garden, where many different flowers had been planted. It was my hobby to collect flower seeds, and plant them there. I strode over to a specific one. The cherry blossom, or in Japanese, known as Sakura.
"Sakura..." I rolled the word on my tongue.
"Hmmm?"
My head snapped. There was a girl nearby, looking at the cherry blossoms as well.
"Kanako" I said, with somewhat of a forced politeness.
"I was looking for you." She said softly.
I was surprised.
"You were looking for me...? But how did you know I would be here?" I said, confused.
"I don't know... just a feeling I guess," she said, walking towards me, until she was face to face with me.
"I... I, wanted to um, apologize, for this morning, you know..." she mumbled under her breath, looking very sorry indeed, "that was very rude of me. I should have said that."
"Oh?" I asked, slightly amused.
"I'm sorry for what I said... but I meant it." She said, a grin trying to force its way upon her face.
Ni ji bu ji de ni zhiang de hua
My mother's words played in my head.
I will marry the girl who wont swoon at the sight of me and will love me for what I have in my heart, not what she can see on my face.
My words played in my head.
I looked at the girl before me, as she exclaimed over the beauty of the cherry blossoms before her. The wind swept her hair and she laughed, her eyes shining.
"cmon...lets go back in. its getting chilly." I said gruffly.
"Ok!" she said happily.
As we went back into the palace, she started humming to herself.
"Oh! I finally found what love is like. Oh! I don't want to let this feeling go..."
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hahaha. How was that? I hope that was ok.
I just wanted to say,
Born to kill: they killed this story cuz I accidentally gave it the wrong rating. Woops! Hahaha. But it's saved on my disk, so I'll have it back up in a jiffy. Hopefully.
Which leads to me second problem. My dad has been catching me going online and stuff. Yeah, I'm a bad girl. -_-' hahahhaha. I find working on fanfic, talking online, and checking out xanga's (btw, mines peEkahb0o, check it out if you want. =] ) much more fascinating than learning what a catalyst is or what president won what election. SoO... he bought a software, where it records EVERYTHING I do, and takes random snapshots of the screen. Yea, how hardcore. I damn the ppl that make these types of products. Hahahahah.
SO , therefore, I cant update or anything until I'm permitted to be online, which might not be for a while. Cuz... "This is the last month. Your future is decided in this month!" yeah. Hahaha. Parents... *sigh. Specially Asian ones. Anyway....
Oh yea! Wonder why the title is called "you steal my heart?" well... ok, ill give it a little away, my plan for this fic. Theres thievery involved, as you prob could tell, reading the beginning. Instead of calling it "you've stolen my heart", I called it "you steal my heart", cuz my math teacher, shes as oddball. I mean, sure, she can teach, but shes a friggin psycho. Everytime no one can solve the problem, she clutches her heart dramatically, and saying with a heart wrenching voice "ooh, you steal my heart!". So whenever she cant solve a problem ( which is like everyday, I wonder how she became a math teacher), we all grab our hearts and yell " YOU STEAL ME HEART!"
Am I weird? Yea. Hahaha.
I hope you enjoy the fic.
Kit TayLor
To my angel EH
~*You steal my heart *~
DISCLAIMER: I don't own CCS. Duh.
my old pen name was kit taylor. Im moving everything to this new one.
Ok.... Im starting another fanfic! I was sitting in my bed, reading The Great Gastby (if that is spelled wrong, sorry. Hehe. Im too lazy to run up the stairs and get it.) when I thought, hey, mebe I should make a fanfic where sakura is some naughty little girl and Xiao Lang is some love-sick swooner! Ok... this fic is PROB not gunna turn out like that, but something similar. Lets see what I come up with now...
Lets start.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It was the darkest of nights. Only the pale moon's light rays penetrated through the darkness. Hong Kong was silent, yet not so silent. This bustling city would never be fully asleep.
It is a time of monarchy, where the royal Li family ruled this vast land. The king had died a year ago, leaving Queen Yelan in charge. She had four beautiful daughters, but most importantly, one son, who would one day take over the throne.
Cold and calculating, Li Xiao Lang knew how to manage a country. When he was young, he was forced to study every subject possible. He learned the art of martial arts, and when he was small started working on magic. He never once complained, but never having any fun in his younger age made him anti-social, and he rarely got along with anyone outside the family.
The Li's were, saying quite frankly, filthy rich. This caused a paranoia, which led them to have many guards in the palace, and top security over their possessions.
A month without a robbery attempt was a near miracle. Robberies every week was normal. If the robber wasn't caught, there was a panic. If the robber was caught, they would say off with his head faster than you could say don't.
Ancient heirlooms and rooms of diamonds larger than ones' head were the rumors that spread like wildfire through the verdant land.
No one had successfully broken into the well-guarded palace, and had come out with a smile on their faces. In fact, it was quite the opposite. I was near impossible to rob the palace, but people never stopped trying.
"It is too irresistible."
+++++
Queen Yelan stood graceful as a swan while she looked her son over.
He was 19. A ripe age to marry.
'He won't agree to marry any Chinese princess' Yelan mused.
Queen Yelan had once hosted a ball, where they invited the entire Chinese princesses in China. The queen had forced Xiao Lang to dance with each and every one of them, which made him infuriated, and after three hours, locked himself in his room with all the princesses at his door, and fumed for the rest of the night, and refused to come out till many days later.
With messy dark brown hair, and gorgeous amber eyes, he was proclaimed the best looking bachelor in China. And while the girls rejoiced over this fact, he damned it to hell.
"Looks," he once seethed," won't help me govern a country!"
Yet while Queen Yelan understood what he was trying to say, she could help but add in "Lets say you're the worst looking man there ever was then. You can surely govern a country, but who would marry you if you had a hideous face?"
"I will marry the girl who wont swoon at the sight of me and will love me for what I have in my heart, not what she can see on my face." Xiao Lang promised.
"I will hold you to that" Queen Yelan said amused.
+++++
Queen Yelan decided to go into the city.
Surrounded by her guards, she walked through a busy street, and noticed people looking at her with recognition on their faces.
Ahead of her, a girl started running, she was going straight at Queen Yeland.
BOOM CRASH
The girl and I fell; the guards were not expecting that to happen and didn't react fast enough.
"Omg! I am so sorry ma'am! I was in a hurry, and didn't see you! Oh no.... are you alright?!" the girl babbled, looking incredibly sorry.
"That is alright," I said, surprise in her voice. The girl didn't know who she was? She had said "ma'am" instead of "your highness" and instead of bowing ridiculously on the ground for all she was worth, she only tried to help her up.
The guards, now over from their shock, started towards her.
Two of them grabbed her arms.
"APOLOGIZE you peasant! You are speaking to your QUEEN!" One said, fear evident on his face.
"WHAT? OH!" the girl cried out.
Her fascinating emerald eyes fastened itself upon me. Her mouth slightly open from surprise.
"Omg..." she breathed.
I finally gave her a thorough look. She wore a silk kimono, cherry blossom petals adorning it. Her hair was tied up with a diamond clasp, a lock of hair tumbling down the side. Her face was flushed, and in overall, she was beautiful.
"Let her go" I ordered the guards that were holding her.
"what?" the guards looked at her confused.
"let her go" I said again, my eyes now on the girl.
She looked a bit nervously at me, as if she was wondering why she wasn't getting a punishment for being so disrespectful.
"What is your name child?" I asked.
"Kinomoto Kanako." She said cheerfully.
"Will you join me?" I smiled at her, as her mouth gaped wide open at me.
"I beg your pardon you highness?" she said, her eyes disbelievingly.
"You are of royalty are you not?" I said to her, "You do not dress like a normal peasant."
Her eyes danced and laughed at me.
"Hahaha! You have a wonderful observation you highness. Yes, I am the princess of Japan. I came here to visit. I hoped to stay here unnoticed of my status, but it seems I have been caught." She said sheepishly.
"Well, why don't you stay in our palace then? We always welcome any sort of royalty." I said generously. I might have found a suitable wife for my son!
Her eyes shimmered with gratitude.
"Oh! That is so kind of you! I really would appreciate it!" she said.
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At the palace...
"Sir, what if someone sees you?" a woman in her 50's asked the young prince of China.
Xiao Lang was wearing a blue t-shirt, along with khaki shorts. If anyone outside the palace had seen him like that, they would have been shocked. The normalcy was that the royal family be at all times in a proper suit.
"More like a suffocation device than a royal garb" Xiao Lang had muttered under his breath on more than one occasion.
"It is the tradition" the woman snapped at him.
Xiao Lang made no comment.
The woman's name was Kaori. She had raised and taught Xiao Lang ever since he was a wee little boy. She had been the little prince's caretaker. In these days, the queen did not take care of her son. Her was taken care of by a nanny.
"If I didn't have one drop of respect for you, I would have kicked you out by now." Xiao Lang said mildly.
"I do not doubt that your highness" Kaori said dryly.
The main door opened before the prince and Kaori.
"Mother" Xiao Lang said immediately, but stopped short when he saw a girl next to her.
She had honey coloured hair. Her emerald eyes were on everything at once. Xiao Lang breathed deeply.
The girl finally noticed the young prince.
Her eyes danced while she approached him. Xiao Lang's voice was caught in his throat.
"Sir, you must be so lucky to work here!" she squealed.
The whole room: ".........."
"What... did you say?" Xiao Lang said incredulously.
"Well... you work for the royal family right? What do you do here?" the girl said excitingly.
Behind Xiao Lang, Kaori was struggling not to laugh right aloud.
Queen's Yelan's eyes smiled.
Xiao Lang couldn't believe it. The nerve of this girl!
"I am the prince..." he said slowly.
Kanako gasped. Then, she laughed right aloud!
Xiao Lang stared at her unbelievably. First, this girl insulted him by thinking HE could be WORKING in the palace, then when she found out the truth, laughed at him!
"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Lang asked quietly, which was what he did when he was angry.
Kanako, oblivious to his anger, said, while choking on her laughter "you are the MOST unlikely prince I have ever met!"
Xiao Lang FUMED silently while Kanako continued with her laughter.
"Can dao le ma? Ni ji bu ji de ni zhiang de hua? (Do you see? Do you remember what you said to me?)" Yelan said over the laughter, which Kaori had finally joined to, as did several of the servants.
Xiao Lang glared, and stormed out of the main hall, and his stomps could be heard.
"Oh..."Kanako's face fell," did I say something wrong?"
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= Xiao Lang POV =
I was angry. That girl...
But... somehow, I couldn't be completely angry with her.
She WAS the first girl that had said anything like that to me. I was impatient and annoyed with rudeness, but I couldn't make myself as angry as I imagined I would be.
I tiptoed out of my room, and went out to the palace garden, where many different flowers had been planted. It was my hobby to collect flower seeds, and plant them there. I strode over to a specific one. The cherry blossom, or in Japanese, known as Sakura.
"Sakura..." I rolled the word on my tongue.
"Hmmm?"
My head snapped. There was a girl nearby, looking at the cherry blossoms as well.
"Kanako" I said, with somewhat of a forced politeness.
"I was looking for you." She said softly.
I was surprised.
"You were looking for me...? But how did you know I would be here?" I said, confused.
"I don't know... just a feeling I guess," she said, walking towards me, until she was face to face with me.
"I... I, wanted to um, apologize, for this morning, you know..." she mumbled under her breath, looking very sorry indeed, "that was very rude of me. I should have said that."
"Oh?" I asked, slightly amused.
"I'm sorry for what I said... but I meant it." She said, a grin trying to force its way upon her face.
Ni ji bu ji de ni zhiang de hua
My mother's words played in my head.
I will marry the girl who wont swoon at the sight of me and will love me for what I have in my heart, not what she can see on my face.
My words played in my head.
I looked at the girl before me, as she exclaimed over the beauty of the cherry blossoms before her. The wind swept her hair and she laughed, her eyes shining.
"cmon...lets go back in. its getting chilly." I said gruffly.
"Ok!" she said happily.
As we went back into the palace, she started humming to herself.
"Oh! I finally found what love is like. Oh! I don't want to let this feeling go..."
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hahaha. How was that? I hope that was ok.
I just wanted to say,
Born to kill: they killed this story cuz I accidentally gave it the wrong rating. Woops! Hahaha. But it's saved on my disk, so I'll have it back up in a jiffy. Hopefully.
Which leads to me second problem. My dad has been catching me going online and stuff. Yeah, I'm a bad girl. -_-' hahahhaha. I find working on fanfic, talking online, and checking out xanga's (btw, mines peEkahb0o, check it out if you want. =] ) much more fascinating than learning what a catalyst is or what president won what election. SoO... he bought a software, where it records EVERYTHING I do, and takes random snapshots of the screen. Yea, how hardcore. I damn the ppl that make these types of products. Hahahahah.
SO , therefore, I cant update or anything until I'm permitted to be online, which might not be for a while. Cuz... "This is the last month. Your future is decided in this month!" yeah. Hahaha. Parents... *sigh. Specially Asian ones. Anyway....
Oh yea! Wonder why the title is called "you steal my heart?" well... ok, ill give it a little away, my plan for this fic. Theres thievery involved, as you prob could tell, reading the beginning. Instead of calling it "you've stolen my heart", I called it "you steal my heart", cuz my math teacher, shes as oddball. I mean, sure, she can teach, but shes a friggin psycho. Everytime no one can solve the problem, she clutches her heart dramatically, and saying with a heart wrenching voice "ooh, you steal my heart!". So whenever she cant solve a problem ( which is like everyday, I wonder how she became a math teacher), we all grab our hearts and yell " YOU STEAL ME HEART!"
Am I weird? Yea. Hahaha.
I hope you enjoy the fic.
Kit TayLor
To my angel EH