Summary: Sakura was a poor peasant, living the poor life, it was okay and she did have fun. But that changed when the prince of the Li kingdom changed her life forever, cuz his father wanted everything to be perfect. Causing pain. Yet chaos to happen.
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'I don't remember......'
Meilin knew nothing would ease her pain, her memories can't be regained, it was too late. For everyone knows loosing your memories was the worst.
Meilin stood up and held up the crying girl up. "O my family is such ingrates! To hell with them! And I send my apologizes to you, I should have known. My uncle can be so wretched at times." Meilin asked as she gave her handkerchief again.
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ILLEGITIMATE
CHAPTER 4
BY: LIL DUDETTE
They say, that that was over. No one cared for her. Letting her rot there, to die. The king, and the rest has forgotten. That was over. No more troubles. Years have gone by, years.......
Not aware, of what was happening......
Years......
Nine years later
Li Syaoran, who is currently twenty years old, he had chocolate messy hair and intense amber eyes. The perfect muscle toned, but not to bulky, of a prince, The only son of King Lian and Queen Yelan, the brother to his four sisters, Fuutie, Xiefa, Fanren, and Femei. The heir to the throne. The number one prince to be the wife of the princesses, but still undecided.
Syaoran was walking, when he saw his cousin right in front of him. Here he was, minding his own business, when she just stopped in front of him. He was going to push her away to move, but was not allowed to.
All of a sudden, she punched him. Again..... for no apparent reason. He laied their on the ground, blood flowing from his lip, dripping.
He wiped the blood from his mouth, onto his sleeve. What the hell was she thinking? All he was doing was walking, while she just stood there.
Meilin just placed a smirk on her face. "My, my, what a displeasure to see you!" she said sarcastically, with venom in her voice. Clearing showing the obvious. Hating him.
The crimson eye princess looked at her nails. Admiring the beauty and lovely features of it. "You know, you should die a terrible death." she stated as she circled around him, as if he was her prey. Syaoran was never surprised by this, but..... she was talking about his death already?
"Once I am queen, there would be nothing in my way to get you to die your death. Painfully and slowly......
I completely do not understand why, uncle, would want you to be king..... you can not do anything right. They do not know that I clearly, hate him like hell.... stupid, is he not? Here, right now, a girl, let alone a princess.... just punched you. Hmpf! Thinking you are more superior than me, while you just walk around, doing your so called duties."
She stopped in front of him, putting her face a few centimeters away from his. Their noses barely touching "Once I am queen, remember that, you would die a terrible death......one hundred percent, that I am going to enjoy that." Meilin turned away from him, her sandals lightly tapping the floor as it faded away.
Syaoran just watched her walk away, of course he can beat her. His anger was building higher by the moment. However, his mother, the queen did not want him to do that, fighting. She, thought of it as a test of control. Syaoran stood up, just once, he wanted to stop being the so called prince, and beat her. The one thing he wanted to know was why did she hate him.
He did not do anything!
Syaoran went towards his destination..... Everyday he would go there, to do his so called duties.....
He hated it.
As he reached the golden doors, he signaled the soldiers to open. The soldiers knelt down for the heir of the throne of the Li kingdom, the soon to be king, and...... hated of all.
Now, of course no one loved the Li kingdom, for they did destroy families. Killing one by one, and for what? Breaking their so called laws. However, they had to be one hundred percent loyal to their kingdom.
As the price walked on the red carpet, his eyes trailed towards the king, the throne. Where one day, he will be sitting there, being in control.
"Father." Syaoran said out loud when he reached the throne room. His father, who was dressed in dark blue, was sitting on his throne and had a piece of rolled up paper in his hand. "Aw, Xiao Lang." the King said in a deep voice.
The prince bowed, showing his respect as he showed his manners. "I assume you know what will be happening tonight. It is going to be enormous, and they will all not leave until you and Meilin find one." he said coldly.
Syaoran was annoyed by this, he was twenty years old, he hated balls and such. He did not want a wife, you could say he was the independent type, who only works alone.
"Father, you know that I do not want any of those princesses." he said as he looked straight at the king. "Besides....you and I both know I will do great on this kingdom. Give up this frivolous nonsense and leave me be." he said as he turned away and started to walk. "I'll be leaving tonight."
King was not very pleased at this. Where did that boy go at night? Howl at the moon? "Xiao Lang! Give up this absurdity. It's only a dream of yours. It will never be adequate!" The king stated, but did his son cared? No.
"Don't ever dare leave!"
Syaoran's dream was to be alone. To be the lone wolf he was called and will ever be. To be independent, to rule with only his power. Of course he knew he needed a wife, he knew it was the law. He snorted, laws, they were so stupid. Once he gets crowned king, the first thing he was going to do was to banish that law, and make something new.
Meilin ran, towards where she would go every day. 'It was time..... time for her to get out of here.....' the crimson eye princess thought sadly. This was it..... this was the only chance she was going to get. For sure, she was going to do it. This is where the torture of her friend will end.
The crimson eye girl stopped in front of a door, her white dress seemed a bit wrinkled. She straightened it, as she looked around to make sure no one was there. Fortunately, since everyone was busy, that hall was empty, for the ball was tonight. Meilin smirked, this was just too good. Everyone was so predictable.
Slowly she opened the door and slipped in. Making a quiet creak........shutting the door. She sighed in relief. As she looked towards her right, a lit torch was there. She grabbed it, and walked down the stone stairs, making sure she would not trip on her white dress, she lifted it up and slowly descended.
As she finally got unto the leveled floor, she let go of her thin white dress, flow down. Not caring if it did get dirty. She lifted her torch so that the light could be more adjusted towards her surroundings.
"Sakura....." she whispered in the darkness, but as she got closer, a girl with shoulder length honey brown emerged from the darkness. Her face covered in dirt cakes, her hair messed up, and her raggedy dress, that looked a little tight on her. You could say that was the dress she wore, since the incident. Meilin smiled, she knew Sakura never took off that dress, for that was the only thing left from her past.
"Sakura.....its time...."
The girl in the cell looked at her strangely... Time for what? Time to eat? Meilin rolled her eyes, she did not tell her yet.
"Tonight is the night that. That. You are going, to escape..." Sakura took in what she said, and smiled greatly. This is what she was waiting for her whole life. The day she was waiting for. To be in the outside world.
Meilin smiled. "Now, of course, we're going to have to get you. Uh. Cleaned up...." she laughed out. There was going to be a ball, of course, she had to look the part. "Come on, I am going to have to get you towards my room. I will lead you out tonight......" quickly, Meilin lifter her white dress, but there she wore another different, yet similar white dress.
"We can not have you go out, in your clothes."
Syaoran was getting ready for the ball, he stood in front of the mirror, and glanced at his formal clothes. 'This is going to be a heck of a ball' he thought remembering they would not be leaving until he found one. He sighed and went out to his balcony.
The sky was turning to a darkish orange, with magenta swirls, as the sun that slowly descended the horizon.
Since months ago, well, ever since he was born, all he ever wanted to do was be alone. Alone, away from the world, as he looked out, towards the villages.
He could see peasants laughing and running. The little children giggling, playing with one another. For years, he wondered, why were those peasant people.......happy? Were not they were sad, for they did not have the riches of the rich, the luxury of the best, servants to serve them?
"Ah! Sakura you look great!" Meilin squealed out and hugged her. (A.N. Still in dungeoun! and don't tell me how she got cleaned up and stuff! ITS MY STORY! ^_^,) Sakura was dressed in a light pink dress, that had white linings, that showed her curves (A.N LIke the one in Swan Princess, Part I. Not those frilly ugly dress *shudders* I wore those when I was young *shudders* the dresses like the thin kind, but a good fabric, not see through.) She wore white sandals. Her hair was in a small bun that had strands of hair coming from the right places, she had light pink eye shadow, and light red blush on her cheeks.
"Thank you, Meilin!" Sakura hugged her, tears began to form in their eyes. "I would never had survived without you..." Sakura sobbed out as she kept crying, remembering over the years.
"Hey, don't worry about it.." Meilin stated as tears formed in her eyes. She was going to miss her lots.
"Thank you, when are we leaving?" Sakura asked eagerly.
The smile faded off the princess. Her eyes watered at the words she was going to say. "I won't be coming with, Sakura" Meilin sadly said as she looked down. Sakura's smile went to a frown hearing this.
"What? Why?" Sakura asked wanting to know.
"Because, if they find me gone, they'll look for me. I want you to be safe and all."
"I understand. But please, look for me, when you can." Sakura begged.
"Of course, let's not forget each other." Meilin held out her pinky and Sakura crossed it with hers. With a small ring on Sakura's left ring finger.
Syaoran walked in the ball room, filled with people of all ages. As he walked towards his father, girls everywhere stared at him with starry eyes. Also, unpleasant looks came from boys as he walked by. Syaoran just kept a straight face as he walked. Bowing towards the kings and queens of the other kingdoms. It was a duty, he had to do....
As Syaoran came upon the throne, he saw Meilin was there, giving him a glare, but acted sweetly when people were looking. He quickly looked at his father.
The trumpets blared as the King stood, noting that he was going to say something. "Attention, everyone. My son, Li Xiao Lang, and my niece Li Melin, will pick their future partners...." everyone clapped. As the princes and princes smiled with delight.
As the king made his speech, obviously Meilin and Syaoran were bored to death. This was wasting their time! As the King had finished his speech, he kindly ask all the Kings and Queens to the dinning area. Clearly showing he wanted Meilin and Syaoran to pick their partners.
Meilin rolled her eyes. 'Where are you Sakura?' she asked mentally. She scanned the area, looking for her. Unfortuanately, she found a prince was trying to talk to Sakura. Meilin smirked, it was a bit funny, seeing her friend trying to get away from him. As she saw that everyone was busily talking, she gently slipped away and tried to get to Sakura, who by the way began hopping up and down.
Unfortunately she was then being block by a huge amount of guys trying to talk to her. 'Damn.'
"Good Evening, Princess." a guy with a bulky body with dark blonde hair said kissing her hand. 'Ew...' Soon then the other guys came up to her and did the same process.
She was trapped.
Sakura was really having a hard time. Of course he did look handsome, his black hair and hazel nut eyes. Of course he did seem sweet, he actually got her a drink and asked her to dance. But of course she said no. It was not that Sakura did not like him, but it was absolutely against the law for a guy like him to like someone like her. Also, she did not know how to do dance.
'Where are you Meilin?!' she asked in her mind. She then saw Meilin coming towards her and smiled, but her smile soon faded, as she lost sight of Meilin when guys came up to her. Sakura frowned.
After what seemed a while, Sakura was getting really bored. She of course was not listening, cause she did seem interested of what he was saying. But it was impossible.
"Ah! I am so sorry! I did not see you there. I was carelessly drinking when I banged that glass towards your head. !" Everyone turned towards the voice. Pieces of glass was on the prince and on the floor. He was bleeding. As the advisors and people tried to help and watch.
It was Meilin
Sakura then saw Meilin jerking her head towards the doors.
Syaoran was long gone. He went towards the gardens, to get away from everyone. He looked towards the moon. The light shone brightly as the stars shined brightly. He sighed. He truly was a lone wolf. Living up to his name, he laid on the green grass and looked abroad.
He definitely could see the constellations. Being fascinated by it, he frowned. He did not want anyone to know he liked to look at the sky. That was a feminine thing to do. Being the man he was he stood up, walking towards the romanesque castle.
Looking down at his feet as he walked he heard a female voice, saying.
"I am here."
Syaoran surprised by this looked up from his feet towards where it was coming from, he saw a girl, dressed in a plain pink dress. Different from what the other princess had.
Sakura made it outside. "Yes!" She felt the light breeze and the smell of the outside. 'I'm outside!' she squealed in her mind and smiled. She looked around and found no one was there. "Now, I have to wait for Meilin." she said quietly to herself. The moon was shining brightly throughout the sky, she remembered this.
She happily looked around, happy to see the outside world. The emerald eye girl started to dance, happily. Slowly she started to calm down, feeling the cool breeze around her. She giggled, feeling the wind tickle her.
As she looked around her gaze took notice of a flower, a peony. She slowly traced her fingers on the flower. It was smooth and soft. As she was about to pick it, she then felt a light familiar grip on her wrist.
"What are you doing?" Sakura heard and turned around.
She looked towards the voice, somehow it triggered something in her mind.
-Flashback-
`"AHHH!"
"NOOOOOO!" a girl yelled out as she saw the boy took out his sword and saw blood trickle down. She just saw a death before her eyes. She saw everything. "MOTHER!" the girl voice yelled out and saw the boy dropped the body and turned towards the girl, his face was still expressionless. He stared at the crying girl, he then walked towards a horse.
-End of Flashback-
She gasped. Her voice became deathly. "No, you killed her." she said softly, not even herself could hear it.
Syaoran looked at her with a look, not knowing if this was a dream or not, but it has to be real. This girl did not seem like the others, only her and Meilin was not wearing a green dress. He looked at her, his eyes trailing to her flawless face. She was cute, indeed. Immediately his attention was soon went to the trembling of her voice.
"No." she said as her voice cracked. "Not you, anyone but you!" she screamed out. Syaoran stared at her shock, what did she mean by that?
Just then she screamed out. "Meilin!" she then gripped the dress up to her thighs and tried to kick Syaoran in the stomach, but since he was training all his life, he quickly blocked it. He blushed slightly as he saw her bare legs. 'Where did she learn that?' he asked in his mind, knowing not many princesses don't know how to defend themselves. Suddenly his thoughts came to a halt.
'Wait a minute, MEILIN?'
Memories started to flow back to her. She heard voices.....
"I get to stay here tonight!"
"I love you"
"No don't take her"
"Sakura.....be careful...."
"PLEASE THEY ARE JUST CHILDREN!"
"LOOK AT HER! SHE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HER FATHER AND ME!"
"NO! DON'T TAKE HER!"
"Burn the house."
Sakura then sent another kick towards his head. She did not know what the voices were talking about, but she knew it was scaring her.
Unfortunately, he saw this, and quickly blocked her leg and grabbed it, causing both of them to lose balance. Sakura did not want him to touch her, "Get away from me!" she yelled out as she quickly got out of the way and let him fall flat on his face.
"Ow!" the prince yelled out. 'What the hell?' Sakura then tried to run, but however he caught a hold of her foot. She then came crashing down, landing with a big thud.
Meilin then came rushing out. "Sakura!" she quickly looked around, and spotted the scene right before her eyes. Syaoran was on the ground holding onto Sakura's leg. She saw the trembled face of Sakura, streaming with tears. The tears of fear and sadness, which she saw when she first met her in the dungeon when they were little kids. Meilin came rushing up to them. "Get away from her!"
Meilin quickly went to the two and helped the petite and trembling Sakura up. "You, ok?" she asked hoping that he didn't hurt her. "Yea, I'm okay." Sakura said with tears in her eyes. Meilin turned towards Syaoran on the ground. "Do not dare touch her!" Meilin said as the two dashed off.
The two girls ran as fast as they could, but couldn't make it at a fast pace, since they were in sandals.
"Meilin, I'm scared!" the green eye girl sobbed out as she then fell on her knees.
"C'mon, Sakura! We can not let him catch us!" Meilin begged out. "C'mon Sakura!"
"No Meilin, I can't...." Sakura cried out.
"Mama!"
"She's not illegitimate!"
"Get over here!"
"Listen to me, brat! I am your prince!"
Voices, she kept hearing them. Where were they coming from? She pushed her hands towards her ears, trying to block the voices out. However, it was hopeless. The voices seemed to get louder, making a piercing sound. The troubled girl winced in pain. All she wanted to do was stop everything.
"C'mon! We gotta get going! C'mon!"
Suddenly Meilin saw Sakura's face pale and her eyes closed. "Are you okay?" Meilin asked as held onto the peasant's shoulders.
No answer.
"Sakura?" Meilin asked once more, receiving no answer, and before she knew it, she saw Syaoran carrying her.
Meilin then gave him an icy glare. "Syaoran put her down this instant!" she ordered as she tried to pull Sakura out of his grip. "And then what? Let her stay here, while you don't do anything." Meilin frowned, but she knew this was the right thing to do for her friend.
"FINE! But how are you going to bring her in? You do know that everyone is there." she stated as she looked at him, with an icy glare.
"Syaoran, get away from her!"
"What? You get away from her!"
Sakura heard voices, her head was throbbing in pain. She slightly opened her eyes, but it was kind of in a blurry state.
"You get away from her! I am her friend!"
"What?! Since when did you have friends?!"
Sakura immediately got up and said. "Since I was here!" She quickly got out of the bed and ran towards Meilin, however since the amber eye prince saw this he immediately he pushed his cousin inside a wooden closet and locked it.
[BANG BANG]
"Li Xiao lang, you open this door!" Sakura heard Meilin's voice and banging.
"Quiet Meilin, or I'll tell my father!" Syaoran yelled out, but kept his eyes on the girl.
"FINE"
Sakura looked towards the man with intense amber eyes watching her. "Meilin?" Sakura called out while her voice cracked, obviously fear was overcoming her. 'Those eyes.'
She quickly then looked at the door. 'Gotta get across the room....' she thought as she quickly looked at the door and back at the prince. 'Please, God....' she begged in her mind.
"Don't even think about it." The prince ordered. "You're not leaving this room, until I find some answers." he said calmly, but notice tears were forming in her eyes. "Xiao lang…do not scare her!" they heard her voice from the closet once more. Except this time the whole closet was rocking.
Syaoran walked up to the auburn hair girl, but as he got closer she staggered away. "Get away from me..." she said quietly.
Something struck him, this was somehow familiar.....
"That's it!" Meilin yelled out and pushed the closet sideways and making a loud crash. Causing the closet to break. "Ha!" she stated in triumph and then she quickly charged at him, causing them both to fall. "Run! Go to my room on the fifth landing on the second door on the right!" Meilin yelled out.
Sakura nodded and ran out the door.
Sakura ran down flights of stairs, and still didn't find the fifth landing. Turning in circles and whimpering of fear, she did not like what was happening to her. 'Where is it...' she thought. However she filled with gloom afterwards. She did not know which landing she was on. The worst part was, she does not even remember where the hell she came from.
"What are you doing!" he asked as he tried to get out of her grip.
"Trying to get her free!"
"What? I did not do anything!"
"Do not act dumb! You are the cause of everything!"
Syaoran pushed Meilin off and quickly ran out. "Get back here this instant!" Meilin commanded, but he didn't listen. She then started running after him.
Quickly the prince ran fast, trying to get away from the princess. However, she continued to follow him. Meilin was not going to let him win. She hated him.
"Would you stop!"
"No. You stop!"
Syaoran stopped, and turned towards her. He could not stand it anymore. Grabbing her arms, pushing her against the wall.
Obiously, the prince did not hesitate to speak and do the actions towards her. He let one of his hands off of her and slapped her face. A loud echo was heard. Meilin looked at him with a shock and confusion.
"You are an imbecile. I could not even lay one finger on you, why? My damn mother told me not to lay one finger on you, a test of control! Well, for you information. I do not give a shit about it.
For once in your life, I feel sorry for you. You need other people to protect you. Do your things! Never in my whole life did I see you do an actual good deed." Syaoran looked at her. She had tears in her eyes.
"What? You are going to cry now? You are so damn pathetic. All these years, you criticize me. It never put me down, but you are unpleasant to be around! No wonder no prince has even stand you for less than one day. Also all they see from first sight is some slut who can't do anything, easily to be taken advantage of! You are too stupid to understand that. Do you not know of me, who actually helped you. That I am in lo-" but Syaoran stopped. He let go of her and placed her down.
"C'mon, we have to find her. We will put this aside until we find this so called friend of yours.. Being the idiot you are, she is probably lost around here." he said expressionless. His hard, emotionless eyes not taking them off her.
She ran back and forth, trying to find her place out of the darkness. She stopped at a dead end, again she started running. Trying to find the way out of this. The torches, the only source of light, guiding her to God knows where. The peasant girl trembled in fear.
She was lost.
Syaoran ran through the west wing, his father's castle was extremely enormous, how was he going to find her? It may take days to find her just to find her. What if something bad happened to her? Also the thought of what he was about to say to Meilin.
Suddenly Syaoran stopped himself. Why was he caring so much? He only caught one glimpse of this girl, and to him, he was acting as if it was the end of the world.
A.N. Hey wassup! Lil dudette here! hehehe. anywayz, I am thinkin of changing my penname. I really don't say dude that much anymore... and no I am not a surfer chick. I just kept hearing the word "Dude" from one of my classmates last year. heheheheheh. anywayz.
I thinking of sharing a penname with my sister now.
I finally got the html thingy down! Woop woop!