Disclaimer: Don't own nothing… Oh well—just using CLAMP's characters to make a good fic:)

A/N: Okay, I'm kinda confused about the story, so um… please don't send me flames! Oh, and it's a bit OOC.

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Chapter 1: War

            The Kinomoto kingdom and the Li kingdom came across its borders and shared a beautiful, greenish lake with sparkly sunlight dotted on its trims. Half of this lake belongs to the Kinomoto kingdom, and half to the Li's.

            On the side of the Kinomoto kingdom, a land of magic, lived a handsome king and a beautiful queen. Among them are two beautiful structured children. Touya, the oldest, wise and protective, with jet black hair and a pair of acute emerald eyes, and Sakura, the youngest, with shoulder-length auburn hair and a pair of same, glittering emerald eyes like her brother—a gentle princess who loved martial arts.

            On the side of the Li Kingdom, a beautiful Chinese woman, the queen, ruled the dark, misty forests and the deserted land. Tall buildings stood among cities, and a civilized city was built. Her husband died a long time ago due to the war between the borders with the Kinomotos, and left five children. The oldest four were twins, and grace and beauty developed in them; then came the last, the one and only heir to the throne. A messy chestnut-haired boy with flashing dangerous amber eyes, cold, and unforgiving, also practiced the martial arts.

            War would never stop. For thousands of years war continued, killing men of both sides. As the kingdoms grew darker and darker, enslaved persons were brought to gallows and hanged. The youngest princess in the Kinomoto kingdom, Sakura, wanted to join the army, but she couldn't. It was only for boys. She sat and gloomed herself day by day, watching her men suffer, and eventually she became sick.

            Her mother's tragic death brought her even sicker. Nothing could cure her, no medicine, nothing. As the king worried deeper about her daughter, he grew fierce and brought the fault to the Li's.

            War would never stop.

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            Sakura's illness seem to better, and she quickly disguised herself as a boy and joined the army resulting in a sneak away from her loving family. Touya had known this, and was reluctant to let her go. Hatred pierced into her heart, and as she charged, she charged to herself, and fell down on the back of the horse, and collapsed on a roadside. For many days she laid there, pale as a white sheet.

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            "Hey, look, Eriol, there's a soldier laying there in that forest," called a messy chestnut-haired, amber eyed boy on a white horse to his left.

            "Oh, who cares, he might be dead!" Eriol exclaimed, and directed his black horse toward the other direction.

            "You don't understand! He might be ours!" the boy whispered, and got off his horse and ran to the fallen soldier.

            "God, Syaoran! You're the most stubborn person I've ever met! Come on, I gotta get back to the kingdom." Eriol said impatiently. "There could be Kinomoto soldiers everywhere for all I know."

            Syaoran ignored him, and walked slowly toward the soldier. He lifted the soldier up, and stared into his eyes. "Hello?"

            Slowly, the soldier seem to open his eyes, his emerald, glittering eyes—

            "A KINOMOTO!" Syaoran yelled suddenly, and took out his sword, pointing it at the soldier's chin.

            The hood on the soldier's head fell off, and a shoulder-lengthened, auburn-haired girl stared at him, then quickly got up and took out a sword from her side, and pointed it at Syaoran's heart.

            "A girl?" Syaoran said in surprise.

            "A knight." Laughed the girl, and pushed harder on Syaoran's chest.

            "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Syaoran grinned, "a tough girl, huh?"

            Sakura pursed her lips, and pushed even harder. "Any last words, you filthy Li?" she smirked. Syaoran smiled, and used his sword to attack on Sakura and her sword fell to the floor. Sakura looked at him cautiously, and dodged a knife coming at her. She flew up into the trees, and jumped and circled around them, and Syaoran suddenly levitated himself onto the trees, and followed closely. Without a second hesitation, Sakura jumped to the ground and grabbed her sword—but a sharp thing was pointing at her back. She turned around slowly, but to see those cold amber eyes staring at her with contempt.

            "Any last words, Kinomoto?" Syaoran sneered, and saw Sakura stand up. His sword followed her on her back, and he saw her turn around.

            "Fine, kill me, I don't care, but I must die fighting a Li!" Sakura roared, and pointed her sword she picked up on Syaoran's chin.

            Eriol, in the distance, clapped wildly. "You go, Syaoran, finally met a match for you, huh?" he smiled kindly. Sakura glared at him with her emotionless green eyes, and Eriol shut himself up in an instant.

            "Dammit," Syaoran spat, "I'll let you go if you let me."

            "Scared, Li?" Sakura asked with contempt.                            

            "You wish." Syaoran said confidently. Suddenly with the movement as fast as lightning, he kicked off Sakura's sword, and wrapped his arms around her neck. Sakura looked at him indignantly, and punched his arm.

            Absolutely no effect. Syaoran is too strong for her. After three days of no food and no water just lying there, Sakura collapsed into his arms.

            "Uh, Kinomoto?" Syaoran chuckled nervously.

            "I didn't really kill her, did I?" he asked Eriol.

A/N: Okay, isn't this a good fic? Please R+R!!