A/N Hey everyone! I'm back with the 4th chapter! I'm so happy you all reviewed! I didn't think I would get 31 reviews! Anyway Evil Punk I'm so happy I made you go out and buy the movie! It's such a good movie I can watch it over and over again! Kaliflipskater yes you have said in every review that Diego Luna is hot when he dances, but like you said, you're just stating the truth and I completely agree with you! Ccsluva, yes the strap was broken but I guess I didn't explain it well, he straightened the broken strap on her shoulder. I have been having a little difficulty trying to make everything make sense. Because really it's Javier who was the Cuban and Katie who was the rich one so I have to change the scenes a bit to make them the opposite. That's why I had that thing with Shawn in there, it happened in the movie with James and made them closer so I was pretty sure I should put that in to so I could make Syaoran and Sakura closer. To all the people who asked the song in the last chapter if you didn't read the top was 'Represent Cuba, by the Orishas featuring Heather Headley. If you want to know the songs I'm going to use just look at the Dirty Dancing Havana Nights soundtrack. I think the songs I'm going to use are Dance Like This, by Wyclef Jean featuring Claudette Oritz, Satellite by Santana featuring Jorge Morena, Do You Only Want To Dance by Mya, and Dirty Dancing by the Black Eyed Peas. Well that's the end of my author note! On with the story:D
Disclaimer: I don't own CCS CLAMP does, I also don't own this plot it is based on one of my favourite movies Dirty Dancing Havana Nights.
Last Time…
"Man this is ridicules." Syaoran sighed, "They practically choose who are our friends."
"Yeah, well, what can you do? Good night." And she turned around.
"Wait." Syaoran told her and she turned around to face him.
"What?"
He reached forward and lifted the strap to the right place on her shoulder. He smiled at.
She blushed and whispered a small thank you and went inside.
What they didn't know was that someone who knew both of them saw what he did…
Chapter 4
It was the next morning and Syaoran was walking around the hotel. He was walking past a room, when he looked in and saw a man and a woman teaching people how to dance.
They were teaching the people Latin Ballroom dancing. He decided to stay by the door and watch.
"My job is to make you look beautiful." The man told the women as he danced with the female teacher.
"And my job is to make our bodies look like one." The female told the men.
They then started doing a series of moves to music as the people watched amazed at how well they could move. At the end they all clapped.
"Okay, that's it for today!" the man called out to them. "See ya all same time tomorrow."
"And don't forget." The female told them as they started getting up. "If any of you are interested, why don't some of you try out for the Amateur Dance Contest at the Palace on Christmas Eve." As she told everyone this she showed him or her a flyer that advertised the contest.
"But I thought that was just for locals." One woman spoke up.
"Actually, it's for anyone that's got the guts to try." The female spoke again. "Any of you could try if you found the right partner." She was looking at all the people in the room now. "How about you, or you, or…" she then turned to look at Syaoran, "you."
"Me?" Syaoran asked looking at her quizzically. "I can't. I'm not good enough."
"Sure you are." The woman then walked up to him. "I saw you practising, you have a good technique, you just need a partner with a better form than the one you had." As she did that she took his hand and they started doing basic moves. When they parted she looked at him and smiled saying, "Think about."
Syaoran looked over at the brochure and smirked. All that he was thinking right now was, 'Maybe Sakura would be interested in this'. He then walked out of the room and went looking for a certain waitress who he hoped would be around.
"Syaoran!" a voice shouted.
Syaoran rolled his eyes. He knew whom that voice belonged to. "What do you want Nalanie?" he asked exasperated.
"We need to talk about last night when you left me to go home by myself!" she yelled at him angrily.
"Not now okay? I'm busy." And he turned away from her looking around for Sakura.
"She's not here." Nalanie stated, knowing exactly who he was looking for.
"What are you talking about?" Syaoran asked surprised wondering why Sakura wasn't there.
"They fired her." Nalanie told him like it was obvious. "Tomoyo and Meiling saw her last night and they told. Don't you know that you're not suppose to mix with staff?" as Nalanie kept on talking, Syaoran stopped listening to her. How could Meiling and Tomoyo do that? Were they embarrassed that he was hanging around some like Sakura? They didn't even know her! Just because she struggled for money and was lower than them in status they wouldn't let him be friends with! He was going to have to talk with them.
"I have to go do… something…" he told Nalanie and walked off now looking for Tomoyo and Meiling.
He found them by the pool sun tanning and went over to them asking to speak with them in privet.
"Umm… sure okay." Tomoyo answered having an idea of what he wanted to talk with them about.
They walked to a privet area with no people around when Syaoran finally spoke. "You two need to learn to keep your mouths shut for things that don't concern you." He told them in a cold voice while giving them an icy glare.
"Well… what were you doing with her anyway huh? You shouldn't be hanging around with people like her Syaoran! We made a deal before we even came here not to befriend Cubans!" Meiling spat back.
"Yeah. And it's embarrassing having our friend be the one that's friends with her too." Tomoyo said helping out Meiling.
"You shouldn't care what people think! Sakura isn't a bad person! You don't even know her and you're already judging her! The people here are rubbing off on you two. You don't even care that you just made someone lose their job!" and with that, he walked away making them look at him with guilty expressions on their faces…
Syaoran was walking down the streets with a piece of paper in his hand. He had looked through the files at the hotel and found out where Sakura lived. He walked up to the gate and a little girl walked up to him on the other side putting her face up against the bars smiling at him shyly.
"Hola." He said to her while bending down to her level.
"Hola…" she quietly replied.
"I'm looking for a Sakura Kinomoto." He spoke slowly in Spanish to her, making sure not to make a mistake as he spoke. "Does she live here?"
"Si." She said and opened the gate.
"Maria," a new voice called as an older woman came out of the house. She had greying ebony hair and the same emerald eyes as Sakura. Which told him it was her mom. "Who is at the gate…" she then trailed off when she looked up at Syaoran.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm a friend of Sakura's." he told her while bowing his head. When she looked at him surprised he added, "From the hotel."
She nodded her head and Touya walked out. He seemed to remember him from the night before because he was glaring at him for some reason, and he was pretty sure it was because of Sakura getting fired. "Well… I wasn't aware she 'friends' in the hotel." Her mother told him. "By the way, I am Nadeshiko Kinomoto." She told him nodding her head.
"Syaoran Li." Was all her told her, "So is Sakura around?" he asked looking at her questionably.
Nadeshiko looked at him surprised, "No, she is working at the hotel… did you not see her?" she asked him.
Syaoran was surprised that she wasn't aware that Sakura was fired and was about to say something when Touya spoke up.
"I'm sure they just missed each other. Come I'll show you back." And took hold of Syaoran's arm leading him away. Nadeshiko called goodbye to their retreating backs and called Maria back inside.
"What do you want with my sister? Isn't it enough you got her fired?" Touya asked as soon as they were outside the gate glaring at him.
"I came to apologise for that. I feel really bad about it." Syaoran told the older man.
"Yeah well, sorry won't get her job back will it?" he asked again making Syaoran feel uncomfortable. "What else do you want to see her for?"
"I know a way she can make some money…"
Touya then started leading him down a street to an ally while keeping light conversation with him.
"It's your kind that come into our country and go around being gangsters for Bantisto." He was saying. "You come in here with all your fancy things with your gangsters and kill innocent people like my father."
"I didn't know…" was all Syaoran could say. He felt bad for them having their father taken from them. Especially since he was murdered.
"That's right. You don't know." Was all Touya said back.
As they walked into the ally Syaoran saw many people around a bunch of cars and looked like they were painting them. As he looked around he saw Sakura's back faced to him, as she seemed to be getting something out of a box.
"Hey Saky!" Touya called over to her.
She turned around with an annoyed look on her face. She then looked over to Syaoran and that look changed to horror. She came running up and started yelling in Spanish at Touya, "What's he doing her!"
Touya was about to respond when Syaoran interrupted him. "I needed to talk to you." And then Sakura pulled him over to a place where they were alone.
"Why are you here?" she asked him again in a tight voice. If he actually knew what she was thinking, he would know the reason she was so mad was because she was ashamed.
"I needed to talk to you about something…" he started to tell her. "I went to your house but they said you were at the ho—" but she cut him off.
"My house!" she screamed. Then said in an angry whisper, "You told my mother I was fired!"
"No! I just wanted to apologise for what happened." He told her in a calm voice.
"It's okay, I knew better." Was all she said.
"Is this your new job?" he asked looking around.
"That's right! You make 'em, we steal 'em. Isn't that right Saky?" Touya called over.
Sakura just looked away with her head hung low. She then walked back to where she was when he came here.
"I also came to talk to you about a way to make some money." He told her.
"Oh really? Intrigue me." She spoke while gathering things out of a box.
"There's this dance contest on Christmas Eve at the Palace. I think you should go." He told while talking out the paper from his pocket.
"And do what? See if they need any more waitresses? No thanks." She said in a monotone voice.
"No not that. I think you really should compete." He tried to convince her.
"Do you know what kind of people go to the palace? They would never let someone like me in." she still had her back turned.
"I can get you." Syaoran stated making her stop what she was doing. "Of course, you'd have to be my partner."
Sakura then laughed a little and turned to look at him with shock all over her face. "Yo- you mean dance with you?"
Syaoran rolled his eyes at her expression and defended himself by saying, "Oh come on! I'm not that bad!"
Sakura then looked at him and said, "I can't dance with you."
"You didn't seem to mind it last night." He crossed his arms looking at her sceptically.
"But last night I wasn't trying to win a contest!" she then shouted at him loosing herself control.
"Oh weren't you?" he smirked at her, "Does the phrase: 'Let's make her jealous' mean anything to you?" he asked.
Sakura looked guilty for a moment and he thought he had her for a minute, but then she turned around and stayed quiet. Syaoran then decided that he should try something else. "The second prize is 500 dollars." When she was till quiet he tried again, "The grand prize is 5000 dollars." She was still quiet, "The winners get to got to Hong Kong." Finally she said something.
"I don't have time." Was all she said. But he could tell in her voice she was tempted.
"Okay then, fine." He then started to leave. "But think about it." And he placed to paper near by and walked away. If he had looked behind him, he would have saw Sakura look over at where he left the advertisement.
School was out and Syaoran was just walking out the front doors. When he walked to the front of the school he saw Sakura standing there. She was waiting for him. He smirked at her and watched as she came up closer. When she got up in front of him he spoke.
"Hi." Was all he said. He knew why she was here.
"This contest…" Sakura asked quietly looking at her feet. She then looked up and asked, "Does it cost money?"
Syaoran still kept that smirk on his face and just plainly said, "No."
Sakura now didn't look so nervous speaking to him and told him what was on her mind. "But it's ballroom dancing." She said unsure, "That's not what I do." She was now shaking her head with a disappointed look on her face.
"It's Latin ballroom." He corrected her, "If we mix what you do with what I do, I think we might really have something." He tried to encourage her.
Sakura then smirked at him with a glint in her eyes. "I still have to teach you everything."
"Not everything." He corrected her. Then as an after thought he said, "And I'll have to teach you a few things to."
Sakura told him with a smug look. "I'm a very fast learner."
"Oh yeah?" he looked at her, "I happen to be a fast learner to so there."
"So we really are doing this then?" Sakura asked him.
"Yeah…" Syaoran nodded to her, "I guess we are."
They were now practicing to some music. Syaoran was trying to teach Sakura basic ballroom dancing. He wasn't having much luck though.
They were practically pulling each other across the dance floor. They spun around and then let go. Sakura then started doing series of dance moves, which made Syaoran look at her oddly.
"What are you doing?" he asked her just staring.
Sakura looked at him and said like it was obvious. "Dancing."
"But we have a rutine! In a rutine you can't just do whatever you want! It needs structure! It needs—" but Sakura cut him off.
"When I dance I have know rutine." She just plainly said. "I just let myself feel the music and do whatever move a please." She said it so defiantly that Syaoran had to find away comeback.
"But we'll need a rutine at the palace!" as he shouted that at her she grabbed the paper from him and tossed it across the room. She changed the song that was being played. Syaoran looked at her in shock as she tossed the rutine.
"Now first we learn how to feel the steps, then we learn the rutine." She told him and stepped up to him.
He just sighed and looked at her. "Fine."
"Okay now first you have to… to… to" as she was stuttering she was banging her fists on her hips and looked at Syaoran helplessly, "What do you call these things?" she whispered embarrassed that she didn't know what they were.
Syaoran raised an eyebrow at her and told her, "Your hips."
"Oh okay. Now move your 'hips' in a circle." She commanded emphasizing on hips and moving her hips in a circle.
Syaoran rolled his eyes, "Okay." And moved his hips around while Sakura watched him.
"That's a box." She told him in an amused voice putting her hands on hr hips.
When she said this, it caused Syaoran to glare at her. Which only made Sakura giggle.
TBC
A/N This chapter is shorter than the last one but I hope you all like this one. To let me know if you do Read Review and I'll update faster! Well until next time! Ciao!
