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CHAPTER 3: The Meeting
The next day, the village outside the Kinomoto castle was flooded with many people from their land and as well as others for this once in a lifetime moment and as well as exciting. Since today is the tournament. Right in front of the Castle was where the eliminating round was held. So there was only 8 princes lined up to fight against the Kinomoto's best fighters. Sakura attended for the first five minutes because of being forced to and wanting to study her "worthy" opponents for her match. But that was a major let down. The first 2 princes did so badly. It's not even funny. And they call themselves a "Prince". Pathetic excuses for a prince and their kingdom. They rather are called weak defenseless women. But hey, that would be a diss to the ladies (since we know some that can). Some at least have some skill of defense and fighting. So there are no other words to put the pathetic princes except your own.
She quickly grabbed her green cloak to conceal her real identity and snuck away from the tournament by quickly and quietly getting out of the stand she is sitting in with the whole important people in the castle. She placed the hood over her head and blended in with the exciting crowd and disappeared without anyone noticing. She threw on her hood up so no one could recognize her.
'At last, a little freedom from the life of royalty. I always wanted to wonder around the village outside of the castle. I once heard from Oka-san and Oni-chan that it's quite nice,' thought Sakura to herself. Then after thinking her last sentence, a frown quickly appeared on her hidden face. Those are one of the few and rare memories of her older brother, Touya. He mysteriously disappeared one day without a trace. Is he even alive? That question will probably never be answer except for your guesses. She quickly shook the thought away and went about exploring.
There were little shops opened next to each other that seemed to be endless. Stores that sold food, flowers, clothing, and many other things ever imagined. It was a place for your every need. Sakura then was looking at some of the stuff they were selling. She caught site of a place that sold fine swords and other fighting equipment. She then made her way over.
"Hi, I never would have thought that someone would come her today because of the tournament. Well, glad you're here," said a young blacksmith with black dirt smudged all over his clothes, parts of his face and blonde hair.
"Hi, yea. You have a really fine collection of weapons here. Did you make these by yourself?" asked Sakura while looking at a sword. He smiled.
"Thank you and yes, I made all these. It's quite nice to hear that from a lady like yourself. Hardly there are any women to come here and look at swords. I admire you for that. You are the first. Oh, yeah. My name's Yuhi," said the blacksmith.
"Mine's Sasuke. I hear that a lot. You have a really special gift to make all these at especially at a young age. I really wanted to buy a sword from you, but unfortunately I didn't bring any money with me. Maybe next time okay?" asked Sakura while sweat-dropping. He laughed and nodded.
"That's all right. I will wait till the day I meet you again," said Yuhi smiling. Sakura smiled apologetically and bid her good-bye. With that she left and continued on her exploration.
Across from that shop, a boy with chestnut color hair was shopping around. When he was done, he saw a girl wearing a green cloak looking at swords and such and was slightly surprised, but kept it hidden.
'A girl looking at swords. Now that I don't see everyday. I wish I could meet a girl like that with excellent fighting and sword skills. Hmm, looks can be deceiving. Maybe she's buying a sword for her husband, yet she is too young. Then for her brother or something. But girls don't have much knowledge about that sort of stuff, thought Shaoran. Then his curiosity about her made him want to meet her.
"Yo Shaoran, you're making a mistake if you go and meet her. She would cling on to you like the rest," said a little voice in his head, known as the bad side.
"Maybe she's not. How do you know? Look, she has an interest in swords that's something special about her. Just go and get to know her. What do you have to lose?" asked another voice, the good side. Then and there he debated with himself if he really wanted to or not.
"What if she's a ugly hag?" asked the first voice.
"Hey, I'm not shallow ya know. This is stupid. I rather go over there and talk to her than to debate with my self' thought Shaoran. The chibi good side of Shaoran laughs in victory and mocks the evil side. Er, don't know where that came from...
So then he hesitantly walked over to her slowly. When he was about to go over, a man was running down the street pulling a cart full of food which by the way almost ran over Shaoran. Shaoran stood there frozen with a shocked expression on his face and then slowly turned his head in the direction of the crazy man.
"You bastard! Trying to kill me!" yelled Shaoran. He heart was still racing from that close encounter. He breathed in deeply trying to stop the fast beating. After a while, he remembered the girl. He looked at where she once stood and found her gone. He walked over there with a disappointed look and then wondered around looking at the displays.
***** Inside Shaoran's head *****
The evil chibi Shaoran was yelling and cursing at the good chibi for making them almost dead. "If it wasn't for your stupid good intentions, my life wouldn't shorten for 10 years, you baka! And look, where's the dang girl! Huh?! HUH!?" shouted the evil chibi Shaoran. While the good chibi Shaoran was laughing nervously.
***** Back to the real world *****
On his way of looking at the displays, he suddenly bumped into someone, which caused the other person, which happens to be a girl fell. When she fell, her hood fell off her head and exposed her face. He stumbled back a bit also from the impact. He quickly apologized.
"Hey, watch where you're going next time," said Shaoran coldly.
"Hey I'm sorry all right? I was just caught up with all the stuff here," snapped the girl, which happens to be Sakura.
"Sure, that's what they all say," said Shaoran looking at the girl. "Hey, you're the girl who was at the blacksmith's!"
"Err, yeah I was. Are you spying on me?" asked the girl coldly while rubbing her head. 'Stupid guy spying on me. Wait, does he know I am the princess? If he does I am in big trouble.'
"No! Why would I?" asked Shaoran. "As if I really want to. I got much better things to do," muttered Shaoran so she won't hear that. Unfortunate for him, she heard him and glared at him. He then extended his hand. "Let me help you up." Sakura looked at his hand disgustingly and stood up by herself.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I can get up by myself," said Sakura looking at him suspiciously while keeping her cold look.
"What's your name?" asked Shaoran looking at her face and was stunned by her beauty. Even though she put on her cold look, she still looked beautiful with her dangerous emerald eyes.
"Sasuke. You?" asked Sakura turning away from his gaze. She hated it when people stare at her.
"Li Shaoran," answered Shaoran hesitant. 'Great, big mistake there. She might be all over you since she now knows who I am,' thought Shaoran.
"Aren't you the prince?" asked Sakura feeling amused. "And I bet you are here to be in the tournament."
"Yea, do you know where the tournament is being held?" asked Shaoran. 'She's kinda cute' thought Shaoran.
"Yeah," said Sakura. "Follow me if you want to get there." She started walking and Shaoran followed. "Do you like the Kinomoto Princess?" asked Sakura.
"." said Shaoran. Sakura smiled since he doesn't like her.
"It's all right to say if you don't. I just want your honest answer. I won't say anything Prince Li," said Sakura trying to persuade him into telling. She always wanted to know what guys think of her.
"I don't know a thing about her except she has the Clo- personality of a person who hates men," said Shaoran covering his mistake of almost saying the Clow Cards. That would put the Kinomotos in some kind of danger. Sakura just nodded.
'So, he knows about the Clow Cards by his mistake,' thought Sakura.
"Well, you are right there," said Sakura smiling. 'Right about both things you said,' thought Sakura.
"Interesting, wonder why she held this tournament," said Shaoran.
"It was kinda her idea so she will back out of marriage somehow," answered Sakura then stopped realizing her mistake. "Or so I heard." Shaoran just nodded.
'Eriol is right about her. She is like me not wanting to get married,' thought Shaoran.
So Shaoran was followed her until they reached the tournament. On his way, Shaoran took short glances at Sakura her lovely face. 'She acts so different than other girls do. She really hates me. Which is a change,' thought Shaoran.
"Here it is. I'll be going now," said Sakura and turned around. Suddenly Shaoran grabbed her wrist.
"Could you stay, please?" asked Shaoran. Sakura sighed and agreed to stay and watch. She sat down next to Shaoran. She then pulled her hood up to keep her identity as the princess to herself.
'Wonder if anybody noticed that I was gone,' thought Sakura looking at the stand and sweat dropped. Everybody was searching everywhere like mad. This was amusing. So then she kept her attention at the stand and smiled to herself.
"Hey Shaoran. Where were you? I was looking for you," said Eriol. He suddenly saw Sakura and introduced himself. "Hi, I'm Hiirizagwa Eriol. Nice to meet you."
"Hello, I am Sasuke. Nice to meet you too," said Sakura and extended her arm. Eriol took her hand and kissed it. Sakura was disgusted and pulled her hand back and continued to watch the people search for her and as well as the match later on.
"Is she with you Shaoran?" asked Eriol.
"No, she's just watching the match with me," said Shaoran looking at Sakura. Eriol sat next to Sakura and watched the match also. Sakura was bored watching every single guy lose. How she longed to get out, but can't because Shaoran wanted her to stay. Next it was Eriol's turn to fight. He got up and walked to the rink and stood in his fighting stance. The fighter also stood in a fighting stance. As soon they heard the whistle, they began fighting. It was a good match. It lasted longer than the others did. Eriol kicked but missed. The fighter punched and hit Eriol's cheek. They were fighting furiously. Sakura was sitting slightly amazed at how long Eriol had stayed in the rink. Finally Eriol punched and the fighter dodged, but then kicked him and he fell out of the rink. Sakura was shocked. Shaoran just sat there watching Eriol smirking.
"The winner is Eriol from the Hiirizagwa Kingdom," announced the person. Eriol proudly walked back to his seat. Shaoran smirked and headed for the rink. Eriol smiled and sat next to Sakura.
"How was my match?" asked Eriol still smiling about his victory. Sakura forced a smile, but inside she was furious.
"It was very good. You're the only one who lasted that long and who defeated the Kinomoto's best fighter so far I think. Congratulations," said Sakura.
"Thank you Sasuke, but I wasn't the first. There was 2 other people that had won," said Eriol and watched Shaoran fight. Sakura was watching also and hoped that Eriol and the other two would lose to the next match.
Shaoran stood in his fighting stance and was ready to launch his first attack. The fighter also was ready and was more alarm. The whistle blew and Shaoran stood there waiting for the fighter to make his first move. Shaoran easily dodged it and punched the fighter in the stomach and he fell. He got up and kicked Shaoran, but missed. Shaoran punched and then kicked him and he was knocked out. Sakura was speechless. It lasted less than a minute.
"The winner is Shaoran from the Li Kingdom," announced the person. He walked over to Sakura and Eriol and sat down. Sakura was furious. Two guys pasted the first round. She was sitting there not saying a word. Eriol and Shaoran were talking to one another until Sakura got up and walked away.
"Wait, Sasuke, where are you going?" asked Shaoran. Sakura turned around.
"I'm going to go walk around. See you when ever I see you again," said Sakura and left. Shaoran nodded and walked back to the match. Sakura was now thinking of a way to defeat them a head of time if they win the next match. She walked back to the match to sit with Tomoyo.
"Hey Sakura-chan. Where have you been?" asked Tomoyo.
"Walking around. Did the people search like mad dogs right after I left or a while later?" asked Sakura. "I also bumped into someone who has won the match already along with his friend," answered Sakura and looked at Shaoran and Eriol.
"It was about half an hour later they noticed. What do you think of them?" asked Tomoyo excitedly.
"His friend is a charmer. That's what I could tell of him already. But the guy I bumped into is different. He seems to be I don't know, cold and . just different," answered Sakura still looking at them.
"Is that them over there talking?" asked Tomoyo.
"Yeah. Eriol's the one in the glasses, and Shaoran is the one with messy hair," said Sakura and looked away.
Then Shaoran looked at the two princesses. 'The one with the brown hair looks familiar. Is she Sasuke?' thought Shaoran. Then he shook his head. 'She can't be, must be someone who looks like her,' thought Shaoran. Eriol was looking at the two princesses also.
"Hey doesn't the princess with brown hair look like Sasuke?" asked Shaoran.
"Yeah," was Eriol's simple answer. 'That must be Sasuke,' thought Eriol to himself smiling.
Foxboykurama: wassup? I just love ur review! Ur such a slacker!!!! Kurama deserves better! Way better! Ha haha, just kidding, u ok just messed up at some times.
Skaurali sweetheart: Glad you like it.
Rainingstars: Glad you like the plot so far, I thought it was boring.
Sakume nohara: Glad ur in suspense. I didn't expect it to be a suspense kinda thing.
CHAPTER 3: The Meeting
The next day, the village outside the Kinomoto castle was flooded with many people from their land and as well as others for this once in a lifetime moment and as well as exciting. Since today is the tournament. Right in front of the Castle was where the eliminating round was held. So there was only 8 princes lined up to fight against the Kinomoto's best fighters. Sakura attended for the first five minutes because of being forced to and wanting to study her "worthy" opponents for her match. But that was a major let down. The first 2 princes did so badly. It's not even funny. And they call themselves a "Prince". Pathetic excuses for a prince and their kingdom. They rather are called weak defenseless women. But hey, that would be a diss to the ladies (since we know some that can). Some at least have some skill of defense and fighting. So there are no other words to put the pathetic princes except your own.
She quickly grabbed her green cloak to conceal her real identity and snuck away from the tournament by quickly and quietly getting out of the stand she is sitting in with the whole important people in the castle. She placed the hood over her head and blended in with the exciting crowd and disappeared without anyone noticing. She threw on her hood up so no one could recognize her.
'At last, a little freedom from the life of royalty. I always wanted to wonder around the village outside of the castle. I once heard from Oka-san and Oni-chan that it's quite nice,' thought Sakura to herself. Then after thinking her last sentence, a frown quickly appeared on her hidden face. Those are one of the few and rare memories of her older brother, Touya. He mysteriously disappeared one day without a trace. Is he even alive? That question will probably never be answer except for your guesses. She quickly shook the thought away and went about exploring.
There were little shops opened next to each other that seemed to be endless. Stores that sold food, flowers, clothing, and many other things ever imagined. It was a place for your every need. Sakura then was looking at some of the stuff they were selling. She caught site of a place that sold fine swords and other fighting equipment. She then made her way over.
"Hi, I never would have thought that someone would come her today because of the tournament. Well, glad you're here," said a young blacksmith with black dirt smudged all over his clothes, parts of his face and blonde hair.
"Hi, yea. You have a really fine collection of weapons here. Did you make these by yourself?" asked Sakura while looking at a sword. He smiled.
"Thank you and yes, I made all these. It's quite nice to hear that from a lady like yourself. Hardly there are any women to come here and look at swords. I admire you for that. You are the first. Oh, yeah. My name's Yuhi," said the blacksmith.
"Mine's Sasuke. I hear that a lot. You have a really special gift to make all these at especially at a young age. I really wanted to buy a sword from you, but unfortunately I didn't bring any money with me. Maybe next time okay?" asked Sakura while sweat-dropping. He laughed and nodded.
"That's all right. I will wait till the day I meet you again," said Yuhi smiling. Sakura smiled apologetically and bid her good-bye. With that she left and continued on her exploration.
Across from that shop, a boy with chestnut color hair was shopping around. When he was done, he saw a girl wearing a green cloak looking at swords and such and was slightly surprised, but kept it hidden.
'A girl looking at swords. Now that I don't see everyday. I wish I could meet a girl like that with excellent fighting and sword skills. Hmm, looks can be deceiving. Maybe she's buying a sword for her husband, yet she is too young. Then for her brother or something. But girls don't have much knowledge about that sort of stuff, thought Shaoran. Then his curiosity about her made him want to meet her.
"Yo Shaoran, you're making a mistake if you go and meet her. She would cling on to you like the rest," said a little voice in his head, known as the bad side.
"Maybe she's not. How do you know? Look, she has an interest in swords that's something special about her. Just go and get to know her. What do you have to lose?" asked another voice, the good side. Then and there he debated with himself if he really wanted to or not.
"What if she's a ugly hag?" asked the first voice.
"Hey, I'm not shallow ya know. This is stupid. I rather go over there and talk to her than to debate with my self' thought Shaoran. The chibi good side of Shaoran laughs in victory and mocks the evil side. Er, don't know where that came from...
So then he hesitantly walked over to her slowly. When he was about to go over, a man was running down the street pulling a cart full of food which by the way almost ran over Shaoran. Shaoran stood there frozen with a shocked expression on his face and then slowly turned his head in the direction of the crazy man.
"You bastard! Trying to kill me!" yelled Shaoran. He heart was still racing from that close encounter. He breathed in deeply trying to stop the fast beating. After a while, he remembered the girl. He looked at where she once stood and found her gone. He walked over there with a disappointed look and then wondered around looking at the displays.
***** Inside Shaoran's head *****
The evil chibi Shaoran was yelling and cursing at the good chibi for making them almost dead. "If it wasn't for your stupid good intentions, my life wouldn't shorten for 10 years, you baka! And look, where's the dang girl! Huh?! HUH!?" shouted the evil chibi Shaoran. While the good chibi Shaoran was laughing nervously.
***** Back to the real world *****
On his way of looking at the displays, he suddenly bumped into someone, which caused the other person, which happens to be a girl fell. When she fell, her hood fell off her head and exposed her face. He stumbled back a bit also from the impact. He quickly apologized.
"Hey, watch where you're going next time," said Shaoran coldly.
"Hey I'm sorry all right? I was just caught up with all the stuff here," snapped the girl, which happens to be Sakura.
"Sure, that's what they all say," said Shaoran looking at the girl. "Hey, you're the girl who was at the blacksmith's!"
"Err, yeah I was. Are you spying on me?" asked the girl coldly while rubbing her head. 'Stupid guy spying on me. Wait, does he know I am the princess? If he does I am in big trouble.'
"No! Why would I?" asked Shaoran. "As if I really want to. I got much better things to do," muttered Shaoran so she won't hear that. Unfortunate for him, she heard him and glared at him. He then extended his hand. "Let me help you up." Sakura looked at his hand disgustingly and stood up by herself.
"Thanks, but no thanks. I can get up by myself," said Sakura looking at him suspiciously while keeping her cold look.
"What's your name?" asked Shaoran looking at her face and was stunned by her beauty. Even though she put on her cold look, she still looked beautiful with her dangerous emerald eyes.
"Sasuke. You?" asked Sakura turning away from his gaze. She hated it when people stare at her.
"Li Shaoran," answered Shaoran hesitant. 'Great, big mistake there. She might be all over you since she now knows who I am,' thought Shaoran.
"Aren't you the prince?" asked Sakura feeling amused. "And I bet you are here to be in the tournament."
"Yea, do you know where the tournament is being held?" asked Shaoran. 'She's kinda cute' thought Shaoran.
"Yeah," said Sakura. "Follow me if you want to get there." She started walking and Shaoran followed. "Do you like the Kinomoto Princess?" asked Sakura.
"." said Shaoran. Sakura smiled since he doesn't like her.
"It's all right to say if you don't. I just want your honest answer. I won't say anything Prince Li," said Sakura trying to persuade him into telling. She always wanted to know what guys think of her.
"I don't know a thing about her except she has the Clo- personality of a person who hates men," said Shaoran covering his mistake of almost saying the Clow Cards. That would put the Kinomotos in some kind of danger. Sakura just nodded.
'So, he knows about the Clow Cards by his mistake,' thought Sakura.
"Well, you are right there," said Sakura smiling. 'Right about both things you said,' thought Sakura.
"Interesting, wonder why she held this tournament," said Shaoran.
"It was kinda her idea so she will back out of marriage somehow," answered Sakura then stopped realizing her mistake. "Or so I heard." Shaoran just nodded.
'Eriol is right about her. She is like me not wanting to get married,' thought Shaoran.
So Shaoran was followed her until they reached the tournament. On his way, Shaoran took short glances at Sakura her lovely face. 'She acts so different than other girls do. She really hates me. Which is a change,' thought Shaoran.
"Here it is. I'll be going now," said Sakura and turned around. Suddenly Shaoran grabbed her wrist.
"Could you stay, please?" asked Shaoran. Sakura sighed and agreed to stay and watch. She sat down next to Shaoran. She then pulled her hood up to keep her identity as the princess to herself.
'Wonder if anybody noticed that I was gone,' thought Sakura looking at the stand and sweat dropped. Everybody was searching everywhere like mad. This was amusing. So then she kept her attention at the stand and smiled to herself.
"Hey Shaoran. Where were you? I was looking for you," said Eriol. He suddenly saw Sakura and introduced himself. "Hi, I'm Hiirizagwa Eriol. Nice to meet you."
"Hello, I am Sasuke. Nice to meet you too," said Sakura and extended her arm. Eriol took her hand and kissed it. Sakura was disgusted and pulled her hand back and continued to watch the people search for her and as well as the match later on.
"Is she with you Shaoran?" asked Eriol.
"No, she's just watching the match with me," said Shaoran looking at Sakura. Eriol sat next to Sakura and watched the match also. Sakura was bored watching every single guy lose. How she longed to get out, but can't because Shaoran wanted her to stay. Next it was Eriol's turn to fight. He got up and walked to the rink and stood in his fighting stance. The fighter also stood in a fighting stance. As soon they heard the whistle, they began fighting. It was a good match. It lasted longer than the others did. Eriol kicked but missed. The fighter punched and hit Eriol's cheek. They were fighting furiously. Sakura was sitting slightly amazed at how long Eriol had stayed in the rink. Finally Eriol punched and the fighter dodged, but then kicked him and he fell out of the rink. Sakura was shocked. Shaoran just sat there watching Eriol smirking.
"The winner is Eriol from the Hiirizagwa Kingdom," announced the person. Eriol proudly walked back to his seat. Shaoran smirked and headed for the rink. Eriol smiled and sat next to Sakura.
"How was my match?" asked Eriol still smiling about his victory. Sakura forced a smile, but inside she was furious.
"It was very good. You're the only one who lasted that long and who defeated the Kinomoto's best fighter so far I think. Congratulations," said Sakura.
"Thank you Sasuke, but I wasn't the first. There was 2 other people that had won," said Eriol and watched Shaoran fight. Sakura was watching also and hoped that Eriol and the other two would lose to the next match.
Shaoran stood in his fighting stance and was ready to launch his first attack. The fighter also was ready and was more alarm. The whistle blew and Shaoran stood there waiting for the fighter to make his first move. Shaoran easily dodged it and punched the fighter in the stomach and he fell. He got up and kicked Shaoran, but missed. Shaoran punched and then kicked him and he was knocked out. Sakura was speechless. It lasted less than a minute.
"The winner is Shaoran from the Li Kingdom," announced the person. He walked over to Sakura and Eriol and sat down. Sakura was furious. Two guys pasted the first round. She was sitting there not saying a word. Eriol and Shaoran were talking to one another until Sakura got up and walked away.
"Wait, Sasuke, where are you going?" asked Shaoran. Sakura turned around.
"I'm going to go walk around. See you when ever I see you again," said Sakura and left. Shaoran nodded and walked back to the match. Sakura was now thinking of a way to defeat them a head of time if they win the next match. She walked back to the match to sit with Tomoyo.
"Hey Sakura-chan. Where have you been?" asked Tomoyo.
"Walking around. Did the people search like mad dogs right after I left or a while later?" asked Sakura. "I also bumped into someone who has won the match already along with his friend," answered Sakura and looked at Shaoran and Eriol.
"It was about half an hour later they noticed. What do you think of them?" asked Tomoyo excitedly.
"His friend is a charmer. That's what I could tell of him already. But the guy I bumped into is different. He seems to be I don't know, cold and . just different," answered Sakura still looking at them.
"Is that them over there talking?" asked Tomoyo.
"Yeah. Eriol's the one in the glasses, and Shaoran is the one with messy hair," said Sakura and looked away.
Then Shaoran looked at the two princesses. 'The one with the brown hair looks familiar. Is she Sasuke?' thought Shaoran. Then he shook his head. 'She can't be, must be someone who looks like her,' thought Shaoran. Eriol was looking at the two princesses also.
"Hey doesn't the princess with brown hair look like Sasuke?" asked Shaoran.
"Yeah," was Eriol's simple answer. 'That must be Sasuke,' thought Eriol to himself smiling.
