Hey guys im sooooooooooo sorry I haven't updated in such a long time, ive been busy and lazy. Well on with the story hope you like it.

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What happened last chapter: -

I stepped forward so they could see me. "Well this girl can teach you that you should never object to an order, and judging by what I can see you are no match for me" I said. He looked at me in fury. " You! You're just a girl. How can you be stronger than me I'm older and stronger." he replied.

"Never be so presumptuous for you may never know what may happen. Instead of having such a tiresome quarrel why don't we settle this over a fight." I answered. Syaoran who had been watching them stepped in. " What use is that?" he said. I looked at him mildly. He looked quite intelligent but he sometimes was not intelligent enough. Walking over to him to whisper in his ear I ignored what the men said. "If I beat him in the fight I will earn respect that I fought him fair and square."

~* End of chapter *~

Chapter Three

They stood in a noble manner, each poised for the attack holding swords. The female's posture looked a bit lax while the male's posture showed his fleeting arrogance that he would win. The man to their left declared, " Let the fight begins!" He wore an outfit that betrayed who he was.

He wore a shirt that had the royal symbol and matching pants. From a fair glance at him one would recognize the royal prince. Immediately after he talked, the man started on the attack while the female remained passive. She looked as if she were cold and remained silent and unresponsive to his taunts.

~* Sakura's POV *~

Schooling my emotions I allowed nothing to bother me. When he began the traditional way of unnerving their opponents I just ignored him and concentrated on my movements. I knew that if I quickly made him indispensable it wouldn't be quite honourable and so I bided my time until the right moment came.

When he started to become intimidated, his movements started to falter and I began my attack. I thrust, I parried and I attacked and when I found the perfect opening I defeated him. In a bare second after I thrust his sword away my sword was against his neck.

Leaning down, I looked into his eyes and said quite loudly enough for everyone to hear, "Never be so conceited about your beliefs for someone or something may drastically change that."

~* Syaoran's POV *~

When she fought I was amazed at such gracefulness she had mastered with the art of dancing and martial arts. Then it came to me she had incorporated dance steps into fighting and that must have been where she got her ideas from. Suddenly in a movement not even known to my knowledge she thrust his sword away with hers. As she leaned next to him I was afraid she might kill him for the ruthless girl she was.

"Never be so conceited about your beliefs for someone or something may drastically change that," she said, "What may I inquire is your name?" She removed her sword from his neck, barely making a mark when he stood up. His head was bowed down but when he lifted his head up, you saw admiration and yet fear in his hazel eyes. " I am Shui leader of the warriors you now see before you," he replied.

He bowed to her as recognition of her as his superior not only in rank but also in skill. She accepted that and walked next to me. "If you disobey her commands you will face whatever punishment she sees fit for you," I said and with that I turned to her, " You will be expected to eat at the dining hall at eight' o ' clock and don't be late." With that I strode off to do my work that was required of the day knowing that I had already wasted enough time with her.

~* Sakura's POV *~

When he finished speaking to me and strode off I spoke to them "Stand in a straight line" I ordered. When they failed to do so I hollered "Now!" in such a forceful and harsh tone that they felt vulnerable and hastened to do what I bid.

Looking at them I noted how each were at different levels of fitness and had a lack of flexibility. After I finished glancing at them I spoke again this time more softly and composed "Each of you possess a variegated level of muscle power and lack of flexibility, I understand that as men you feel that having flexibility to be girlish and useless, but I will train you to live not die"

After hearing me speak they were confused. I said "Furthermore if you don't comply with what I say you will face rigorous training with me for more than an hour. You will each start with the same exercises until you are all at the same level for challenging moves. " Following that I gave each of them and gave out their exercises. Looking at them "You start with 50 push ups, while I will be talking to you leader. When you are finished I expect you to do 25 sit ups."

When they started I sought the leader to know how they had trained before this. He was respectful and gave me a perfect answer with each question I presented him. Apparently they had been quite diligent in their training but were quite arrogant when they felt it. Well If I saw more than enough arrogance I would punish them.

While waiting for them to finish I sparred with the leader to see how strong he was and how I would have to train him. Being the strongest he was quite agile and swift in his movements. I was impressed. He would continue to be stronger than them but I will not allow him to flaunt it.

When we finished I thanked him politely and took notice of his sweating body. Apparently he hadn't expected me to be so good than what he expected. I told him to go and have a couple hours rest since his muscles would be quite fatigued but he was persistent and wanting to see how I would handle the men.

~* Syaoran's POV *~

Upon entering my room for working I noticed my royal diplomats Their names were Touya Kinomoto of the Kinomoto kingdom and Yukito his friend. Together they were quite formidable yet today they were interested what led to my lateness today. "I'm fine, I just had to show the newest soldier to the others. You should try sparring with her Touya she was quite a workout." I replied. I was shocked when Yukito asked if she could cook and when Touya asked about her and what she was like. I had never thought Touya to be interested in many girls despite his nature towards them.

" Yes she can cook, and she has almost the same nature you have Touya, cool calm and intellectual despite her fighting abilities both with and without magic." I finished feeling eager to start my work. What compelled me to think this I had no idea but I was getting irritated about talking about her. Already my sisters had asked me to tell them what she was like on my way back into the palace.

The way they were asking me seemed like they were afraid to ask her. Stopping my thoughts I sat down at my desk to see what needed to be done. Sighing I started. Meetings were to be created and things were to be done. I hated all the work that I had to endure at my position but I had no choice, I was born into this position.

Looking up I realized that I had been working for an hour when I smelled food from Yukito. It seemed that he had gotten hungry. I got up and stretched. Walking to Touya I said "come on let's take a break." Apart from the fact that they were my diplomats they were also my friends.

Yukito said "Why don't we see how Sakura's doing while we rest?" I looked at him. He was interested in a way that sounded like Yue's curiosity about the holder of magic that had created interest in the council just to see a girl that presented her own magic skilfully and masterfully to survive. "Alright" I agreed. It sounded like fine and I was curious as to what was happening to the soldiers outside.

We made our way to the kitchen where we took a basket of food to eat on our way there. When we saw them Yue made his appearance and watched entranced as he watched her fight against soldier after soldier testing them for their limits.

~* Sakura's POV *~

After a while I started to check up on them and found some talking while some appeared to be working. "What are you doing?" I asked them, they should have been working. Looking at me they slightly faltered then someone said "They're finished ma'am." I looked around; almost all were finished by now. "Then they will be fighting against me until I set them an exercise. When you are all finished watch and see how you might fare against me," I said.

"Who will go first?" I asked," If no one will volunteer I will choose." They looked at me wearily then hesitantly one came forward. "I will go first" he said. I warily took note of his strength and flexibility and started to anticipate the fight.

We stood against each other in a fight and then it was called. There were no weapons this time and we proudly fought each other glad that we had an extensive knowledge of movements. During our fight I noticed the arrival of three people. His highness, Yue and his other delegate. Despite this I kept my emotions at bay and worked to quickly finish it off.

He was surprisingly good, but needed to improve on certain areas that I would point out to him later. To the other men anticipation for the winner was growing but they couldn't comprehend why I suddenly performed a move to not just disarm the opponent but also maim.

Finished I said "Be on your guard at all times, and most importantly don't show your surprise. It gives the opponent an advantage." With that I pulled the soldier up to his feet and when he was close enough I whispered "You need to work more on agility and flexibility as well as strength."

He moved to the left slowly as if he was exhausted. The sun beating down on the land and the people was creating a hot climate and the smell of sweat was in the air, "When you have finished fighting me, you may relax and rest, next."

The second person that came was slightly taller this time and carried an air of arrogance, I realised this as soon as I saw his face. "You ready," I asked. When he smirked I took it as a yes and started to fight not caring that he was surprised at the sudden movement.

The fight lasted longer than I thought but I was used to the unexpected happening. Realising his weakness I took him off balance and won. I moved to the side to drink water and replenish my energy for the moment, when I turned around I expected him to be with the others but he was still standing there in the same position staring at me a look of shock on his face.

The prince and his party only lingered for a while and during that time I tested every person. When they left I was about to talk to the soldiers. "This is all for today, tomorrow will be another case as I will set up a rigorous training schedule for all of you. I don't care what you think you either do it or you die, after this you may train as hard as you like to lessen the strain tomorrow but I don't care. You are dismissed." Viewing their faces I took in their emotions and remembered their names as much as I could.

Turning around I left in search for my room to take a shower, when I arrived I headed for the shower and taking out clothes that Tomoyo had prepared for me, after my shower I released Kero from my staff to talk about what had happened so far, what didn't faze me was the fact that he was hungry. Calling upon the create card I created a feast for him and I allowed him to tell me as much as he could about the Li family and the moon guardian of the sakura cards.

While he was talking I realised that Yue and the moon guardian could be the same person as he had the same features of the moon guardian and the names were the same. When he was finished I put him back into the staff and went in search for Syaoran to talk about his training schedule.

Encountering people on the way to Syaoran made me aware of the rumours that were held in the castle of me. I ignored them and made my way to Syaoran regardless of the people that tried to deny me entrance to some places thinking that I was someone of less importance to them.

When I learned that the Princesses had actually taken into consideration of what I had said about creativity, I was remotely surprised. Very few people reacted to the thought of such uses of creativity in their own way and was impressed that they were accepting of most things.

According to some people the princesses were trying to create many things among them were toys, dolls, clothes and the like. I was impressed at their dedication and patience that they held when trying to create things, as patience was an exercised virtue when creating things of such importance in order for it to be perfect.

When I stopped I was startled at how fast I had gotten there. My thoughts had strayed. Taking a breath and closing in my emotions I knocked and waited. Through the door I could hear the noises of people talking and someone apparently getting up and going towards the door.

Listening closely I could hear guffaws of laughter. When the pacing's stopped the door was opened and Syaoran was there.

~* Syaoran's POV *~

I was startled when I heard the abrupt interruption of someone knocking on the door. We were enjoying ourselves as we had finished our work for the day and I heard their laughter at my surprise. Getting out of my chair I walked towards the door ignoring their laughter and opened the door.

Looking into the eyes of Sakura I felt a sudden nervousness occur in me and I wasn't sure why. Her irises were brown but looking into her eyes I saw something devoid of any emotion and that made me nervous. She didn't smell like perfumes or scents actually she smelled of a fresh fragrance of flowers and I liked it. I didn't know what was making her appealing to me when other women hadn't with their perfumes and scents.

Calmly I said, "Do you need something?" I watched her face for any sign of emotion that her eyes seemed exclusive of. She then said " I need to talk with you about the training sessions in the morning." I sighed and then said " Ok come on in and then we'll talk."

She calmly walked in as if she had no inhibitions and was met with Touya and Yue. I envied her, because she seemed to be able to unnerve even the most coldest of hearts. What I sought for when I skilfully obscured my emotions. She was able to do that far more better than I.

I still knew next to nothing about her but being near her seemed to have an effect on me. I was beginning to feel the tidings of love and all the emotions associated with it. I was drawn out of my stupor when I heard her say " I 'm sorry to have intruded on your meeting, but I need to talk to you on issues concerning your training."

I was aware of Touya making gestures as to what the "training" was and blushed. Princes weren't meant to blush and Sakura noted this as she asked me if something was bothering me. Damn Touya must he be so embarrassing!. Calmly as to not reveal my emotions I said "It's no bother we were just going to end it." And with a suggestive glance Yue said " nice to have seen you Sakura I'm Yue and he," pointing to Touya," is Touya. We'll go now."

Sakura bowed of proper respect and said, "It was nice meeting you." When they left she quietly moved to sit as I did. At my gesture to start she said " You can't always train In the same place, I'll need to know what times you're to devote to training, what days you're to train, where else we can train and what you already know." I sighed. She had done her homework. It was frustrating how she could make the thought of training far more serious than it already was.

"Alright, we'll start with the times I'm going to train and how long. You'll need a piece of paper." With that I grasped some pieces of paper and pens to write with. For the next couple of hours we discussed the information she needed to know until it was time to get ready for dinner.

~* Sakura's POV *~

When I went to Syaoran's room I never expected to meet Yue, but nonetheless I held in my emotions and calmly talked and conversed with Syaoran when he left with Touya. The thing was that the name Touya seemed familiar as if I knew him. I don't know if I had any relationship with him, but I not quite sure how to approach that dilemma. It was frustrating trying to figure it out.

I politely acted as if nothing were wrong and as if I needed to talk to Syaoran about training. He handed over pens and paper to help digest the information and set out a timetable of sorts. When we finished it was just in time for dinner and thanking him for his time I made my own way to dinner.

Dinner was a tedious affair this time as Yelan wanted to know what I thought of the soldiers and the training. I merely replied "they would do better with a far more rigorous training schedule and be open to countless situations they'd need to appeal to their weakest and strongest points."

~* Yelan Li's POV *~

It was amazing how strong and wise Sakura seemed to be even to others and still holding almost the same façade that Syaoran displayed except it was far more cold and almost in a way relentless. It was amusing to think of Sakura paired up with Syaoran In a situation that'd embarrass both of them. When I asked her of her opinion of the soldiers she merely replied "they would do better with a far more rigorous training schedule and be open to countless situations they'd need to appeal to their weakest and strongest points."

It was a mystery to which family Sakura came from as to how she grew up and had an expansive knowledge from limitless subjects. A mystery that everyone would be relieved to know the answers to one day.

Finally I finished chapter three. I might take a little longer on chapter four but help me and give me suggestions for my stories anything alright.