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I am so sorry for the late update, but after my story got erased, I got really depressed about it and unmotivated, so I didn't write. Actually, I almost gave up too. I finally got motivated by the overwhelming amount of reviews people wrote and decided that I have to suck it up and continue on because I didn't want to disappoint you guys. That and I'm really lazy and a procrastinator and you know what? This is the third time I had to revise this chapter because my computers retarded. So I'm frustrated right now. I think it would have been better if it hadn't gotten switched back this last time, but there's nothing I can do.
I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ AND REVIEWED AND MY BEST FRIEND/EDITOR/COUSIN SAKURA STARR EVEN THOUGH SHE PROBABLY WON'T READ THIS, BUT SHE CAN'T SAY THAT I DIDN'T MENTION HER NOW.
¤¤¤°°°¤¤¤ Okay, let's skip to the weekend now everybody °°°¤¤¤°°°
Sakura stood still as the seamstress put the last few stitches into the hem of her dress. The beautiful emerald green, satin dress glittered as the light pranced on it. It was sleeveless with straps about two and a half inches thick and a V shaped neckline bordered with crushed diamonds. The dress closely hugged her body until it reached Sakura's waist where the fabric split into a large V to reveal layer after layer of white silk that made the bottom half of the dress puffy. Around her waist and down the edges of the split satin were more crushed diamonds. Hanging from her waist were two long silver chains with silver stars that reached to about two inches above the end of her dress. Sakura slipped her tiara into her hair and across her forehead then slowly reached up to her neck to grab her chain. She slowly traced down it until she felt the locket that kept her so safe as she slipped her feet into the green satin slippers especially made for her.
"Okay, Sakura. Let's have a look." Sakura looks up at Tomoyo and smiles. "Wow, you match from your jewelry to your dress to your eyes to your shoes. You think you have on enough green?"
Sakura giggled a little before she stood up to have Tomoyo straighten her tiara for her. Tomoyo's dress was almost the exact same as Sakura's except it was a deep purple instead of green and lacked the Silver Star chains. The dress also hugged her body, but instead of a V neckline, the neckline was cut straight off a little below her shoulders. From her shoulders to her elbows, there was a new white silk fabric that fit perfectly around her arms. At her elbows, a sheer fabric dotted with diamonds flared out and stopped at the end of her fingertips. Tomoyo's gold tiara sat on her head with one tall peak surrounded by two smaller ones.
"I do believe we are ready to go." Sakura smiled.
"Let's go show the parental units." Tomoyo replied.
"Let's." The girls walked into the open throne room to see their parents merrily talking about this and that and Touya reading a book off to the side on a table next to Yue.
"Hello everyone." Tomoyo and Sakura greeted.
"Why hello, girls. Don't you look beautiful?" Queen Sonomi, Tomoyo's mother complimented.
"I quite agree. What do you think, DEAR?" Queen Nadeshiko asked as she elbowed her husband.
"Mm hmm, wonderful." King Fujitake stuttered nervously.
"Thank you, Daddy." Sakura smiled as she laughed a bit.
"Well, I think it's time we go." Queen Sonomi said.
"Yes, off to meet the fiancé who will end my carefree life." Tomoyo replied sarcastically.
"Tomoyo!! He can't be that bad."
"Well, you never know. Once I get tied down, there goes my freedom anyways."
"Maybe, Sakura can find a suitable young man of her own there." Queen Nadeshiko added.
"I don't see the point." Touya suddenly said out of the blue.
"See what?
"Why Sakura has to get married. I mean, I can understand why Tomoyo needs to get married because there needs to be someone ruling the throne with her, but I'm ruling this throne. So the way I see it, Sakura doesn't need to get married." Touya said as Yue elbowed him in the ribs and gave him an evil look.
A fire started to boil up in Sakura's blood. He was such an insolent brother! Why couldn't he stay out of her life! What she did was none of his business and Sakura wished he would just butt out. Her hands were clenched tights in fists so her nails were slowly cutting crescent shapes into her palms. Sakura glared at the floor underneath Touya's boots and a small fire erupted and it slowly started to heat his shoes. As the rubber began to burn, Touya felt the heat and jumped up to quickly escape the fire. Once he was on his feet and had successfully extinguished the fire, he sent Sakura a wicked glare.
"Not funny, Sakura." Touya growled.
"It wasn't meant to be." Sakura hissed back as she angrily turned on her heel and stormed out to the castle with Tomoyo on following her out.
"I guess we better go." Queen Sonomi smiled as she rose from her chair and started walking towards the door with her husband escorting her.
"Sonomi?" King Fujitake called after her reluctantly.
"Yes?"
"Ta.Take care of my little girl, please?"
"Always." Queen Sonomi smiled gently before she left to the carriage.
~¤¤¤°° In Teal'ec °°¤¤¤~
Xiaolang sat in one of the chairs in Eriol's room as he waited for Eriol to finish getting ready. Xiaolang was wearing the classic Prince uniform which was a loose long sleeved shirt covered by a thin covering of black body armor with shoulder guards. He had loose black pants on as well with his sword in the sheath attached to his waist by a brown leather double belt. The cape he wore attached to his shoulder guards by two gold wolves and had the large Vaunimajee seal embroidered with gold and silver threads of fabric to accent the royal green, blue, and black thread. The outside of the cape was black to compliment the emblem while the inside was an emerald green like the cuffs of Xiaolang's pants and shirt and other various highlighted areas of the formal suit. Eriol's uniform was exactly the same, but everywhere Xiaolang had green, Eriol had a sapphire blue. Also, the emblem on the back of his cape was that of Teal'ec and his cape was attached to a silver chain that kept it from sliding off his shoulders instead of the pins. (A.N. For those Sailor Moon people out there, it sorta looks like Darien's prince outfit without the fancy smancy top part and the extra skirt like part jutting out around his waist.)
"You know, Eriol, we can always stay here for the party and cast a spell to make everyone think we went." Xiaolang offered as he looked up at the ceiling.
"Can't. Even though I really wish we could, my parents bound our magic today so that we can only use elemental magic. That means energy balls for me and lightning or earth or whatever for you." Eriol sighed as he finished adjusting his cape in the mirror.
"Damn, they caught us after last time didn't they?"
"Yep. I guess this means we're off to another day of absolute boredom."
"Lead the way, your highness." Xiaolang sighed sarcastically. Eriol began to walk out of the room with Xiaolang in tow when Eriol suddenly stopped.
"Oh, wait. Your ring." Eriol said as he grabbed it off the cabinet.
"Thanks. I forgot all about it. I would have killed someone if I lost it." Xiaolang said as he slipped the ring on. His mother gave the gold ring to him on a special occasion, but he couldn't remember why. It had the family seal, the kingdom's emblem, and his name in Chinese carved out and the grooves were filled with onyx. There was also a thin, jagged lightning bolt shaped emerald embedded into the ring next to a black, opal wolf. It had a special significance to him that couldn't be replaced and he would probably burn down an entire village to find it if he lost it.
The two princes sighed as they straightened their posture and walked out of Eriol's room. They walked down the hallway to a set of oak doors embossed with gold and silver designs. The two just looked at each other for a moment as if they expected the other to know what to do.
"Well, you go first. It's your party." Xiaolang said as he cocked his eyebrow and pushed Eriol towards the door.
"Fine, fine. I'm going already." Eriol said stepping out of Xiaolang's reach. He took a deep breath and opened pushed the door open.
"His majesty, Prince Eriol, crowned heir to the Teal'ec throne." A voice echoed through the ballroom as Eriol regally walked down the stairs greeted by bows and curtsies. Once at the bottom and away from most of the people's stairs, Eriol let out a deep breath he didn't know he had been holding. "His majesty, Prince Xiaolang, crowned heir to the Vaunimajee throne." The announcer boomed again as Xiaolang coolly walked down the stairs visibly more relaxed than Eriol had been.
"Mr. I'm-an-expert-at-these-sorta-things." Eriol mocked.
"I am." Xiaolang smirked.
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Sakura nervously looked out the window as the carriage pulled into the long road before the Teal'ec palace. She grew even tenser as she saw the castle grow as they neared closer and closer. 'I don't know if I can do this.' Sakura whispered to herself as worry filled her head. Before she was ready, the carriage came to a stop before the castle entrance. Her uncle, Drakus (A.N. yep, that's Tomoyo's father's name is), stepped out of the carriage and, like the true gentleman he was, he helped his wife and then his daughter out. Sakura unwillingly allowed her uncle to escort her out before he went ahead to catch up with his family. Sakura purposely hung behind and waited until the happy little family was far enough ahead to run off the path across the lawn.
The Daidouji family walked together chattering about this and that as they were escorted to the great ballroom by one of the servants in the castle. Tomoyo started walking behind her parents so she could be alone with her thoughts at least for a little while. Soon, they were greeted by large gold doors with an intricate design of a garden etched into it. The doors were pushed open and the announcer's voice boomed throughout the crowd.
"Their majesties, King Drakus, Queen Sonomi, and their daughter Princess, of Trekawaiine." Tomoyo walked gracefully into the ballroom until she heard the announcer's voice.
'What about Sakura? Wait, where is she?!?!' Tomoyo thought wildly as she frantically looked around for her lost cousin when suddenly a hand came out of nowhere and pulled her into the shadows.
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Eriol and Xiaolang were cautiously weaving throughout the crowd trying not to be seen by Eriol's parents as they desperately tried to also get away from the drooling girls and glaring guys. Eriol led the way and ducked behind a rather large women in a sparkly royal purple gown as his father looked in the two prince's direction. Both breathed a sigh of relief when Eriol's father turned back around. They turned around to run into the worst sight they could have ever wished for.
"Mother!!" Eriol exclaimed, surprised to find his mother there as Xiaolang tried to get his heart rate back to a near normal level.
"Can't get away that easily. Now come along and meet the king and queen of Trekawaiine." His mother said sternly.
"But mom."
"Now."
"Okay, I'll go. As long as that's the only time this entire party you will ever ask or call upon me."
"On one condition. You have to be polite, carry on a small conversation, and be nice to their daughter."
"Deal." Eriol said as he shook his mother's hand to seal the negotiation. "Let's go." The trio walked into a straight line until they reached the spot where a little group of royals were standing and chatting with each other.
"Why, this must be your son, Eriol. He is quite handsome." Queen Sonomi complimented.
"Yes, it is. The family resemblance can't be that obvious." Queen Kohana stated (A.N. That's Eriol's mom and in case you wanted to know if it has a meaning or if I made it up or not, it does. It is Japanese for little flower.)
"It's not, the family emblem is on his cape." Queen Sonomi giggled.
"You must be the beautiful Queen Sonomi. It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." Eriol smiled a dashing smile as he bowed and kissed Queen Sonomi's hand making her giggle a bit more.
"He's quite a charmer too." Queen Sonomi smiled.
"Don't I know it." Queen Kohana said under her breath.
"I'm just so terribly sorry my daughter isn't here. I can't seem to spot her anywhere. She must have run off."
"That's quite alright your highness. I'm quite sure she is quite wonderful if she has you for a mother." Eriol smiled a toothy smile.
Queen Kohana glared at her son and pulled him a little bit away from the group. "I told you polite, not flattery." She scolded her son.
"Comes across as the same thing." He smirked back as he moved on to have a nice little "chat" with King Drakus. After about fifteen minutes, Eriol thought he would crack, so he politely excused himself and went to the other side of the room dragging Xiaolang with him as he ran. Once there he greedily drank a cup of punch to help him feel better.
"I see you are having a wonderful time at your party." A voice said from behind Eriol scaring him. Eriol turned around still drinking his punch to look at the stranger. He sighed when he saw who it was.
"Thank God it's you." Eriol sighed.
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Tomoyo was being dragged into the shadows and was getting to scream at the top of her lungs at her kidnapper when a hand clamped over her mouth and hushed her. The grip on her arms loosened and Tomoyo spun around to see who it was.
"Sakura? Thank goodness! I've been looking all over for you. Where have you been?" Tomoyo said worriedly.
"I went around the side and came through the a gap in the hedge. I was trying to not get announced just because I don't want any trouble while I'm here. It's bad enough I'm in enemy territory, I don't need a beacon too." Sakura hurriedly exclaimed.
"Well, as long as you're okay."
"I feel very tense in here, too many royals. I think that someone might notice me, so let's go outside."
"Sure, lead the way." The two girls inconspicuously slid out of the ballroom into the connecting garden. They were walking for only a little while until they spotted a giant hedge maze in an area only for magicians.
"A maze. Sounds cool. Want to go, Tomoyo?" Sakura suggested.
"Yeah, I need something to keep my mind off meeting Prince what's-his- name." Tomoyo said miserably.
"Hey, let's make it even more interesting. Why don't we go backwards?" Sakura smiled with a glint of excitement in her eyes.
"After you." The two girls hurried into the maze from the end unaware of the treacherous properties of the maze.
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"So what are you running from this time? Girls, parents, both?" The other guy asked.
"Worse, Yamazaki, my fiancée's parents." Eriol said as he rolled his eyes.
"Ouch, that's gotta be rough."
"You don't know the half of it especially since he isn't dragging you around with him." Xiaolang added.
"Well if it isn't the great Prince Xiaolang. I bow in your mighty and awesome grace." Yamazaki bowed exaggeratedly in a mock style.
"You should be, Duke Takashi, before I strike you down for your benevolence."
"Now, now boys. Let's play nice. For instance, let's get out of this prissy chicken coup and go outside." Eriol suggested.
"To do what?" Xiaolang asked skeptically.
"You decide."
"Oo, oo!! Let's go through the maze!" Yamazaki started jumping up and down like a two year old.
"Cool with me." Syaoran shrugged his shoulders as he started to walk out of ballroom.
"Let's go, Yamazaki." Eriol said as he pulled Yamazaki by the arm almost causing him to fall flat on his face.
The three nobles went outside into the garden and walked around a bit just enjoying the fresh air. Eventually they made it to the great, magical, and very treacherous hedge maze, but once there, they heard this strange sound. It sounding incredibly like giggling, girls giggling, but that couldn't be right. People go into the maze and come out almost dead, people don't giggle. They were proved wrong, of course, when two girls came out of the maze giggling and laughing without a scratch present anywhere on them.
"How did you, why did you, where did you.?" Yamazaki started to ask.
"Oh, hello there." Tomoyo smiled.
"Hi, um, why are you two beautiful ladies emerging from this maze and why are you coming from the entrance." Eriol asked as he eyed the beautiful woman before him.
"Just because we thought it would be fun. Might I ask what your name is, kind sir?" Tomoyo was swept off her feet by his few dashing words.
"I'm, I'm Eriol, Prince Eriol Hiiragizawa." Eriol bowed.
"You're Prince Eriol?" Tomoyo asked shocked.
"Yes, who are you milady?" Eriol was clearly captivated by this woman's eloquence and grace.
"I'm Tomoyo, Princess Tomoyo Daidouji. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Woah. You are more beautiful than I could have ever imagined."
"Thank you." Tomoyo smiled flattered.
"Would you be as so kind as to give me your company?"
"I would love to."
Sakura had been slowly edging away as the prince and princess got better acquainted. She was already far out of sight by the time the two walked off to get to know each other better. Xiaolang had this feeling deep in the pit of his stomach that there was something suspicious about that girl. He eyed her carefully as she quietly made her escape. When her back was turned, he followed closely behind her, but well out of sight. As Yamazaki watched Tomoyo and Eriol walk off together, everyone had left and Yamazaki was left all by himself. He spun around looking for everyone else.
"Where did everyone go?"
Sakura had already entered into the deep center garden where the wild plants made the exotic scene beautiful to behold. She slowly crept by inhaling all of the wondrous scents and drinking in all of the beauty around her. Sakura came up to a doorway covered by hanging vines with little purple flowers. She gently pushed them aside and stepped behind the curtain to see a beautiful fountain hidden within. It had intricate carvings of swans in the white marble base and two elegant swans in the middle of the fountain spouting water from their mouths into the crystal clear water below.
Meanwhile, Xiaolang had been quietly following her all through the garden. She was absolutely breathtaking and he felt as if he had seen her before. He was currently watching her from a branch on a tree just overlooking the fountain. Xiaolang watched as she knelt by the fountain and played with the Koi there as they weaved in and out from underneath the water lilies. There was just something about this girl that he knew. Maybe it was the way the wind blew through her hair, or the way she sighed, or maybe it was the atmosphere around her that made her seem so sad.
He watched her entranced until something he saw knocked him out of his reverie. She wore a little ring on her finger that he had seen before. It was a gold ring with three emeralds in a diagonal with two pearls on either side resting comfortably in the crooks of the emeralds. Something boiled up from within him. She wore the ring of a female royal from Kadenia!!! Without thinking, Xiaolang unsheathed his sword and leaped out of the tree ready to strike the girl down.
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Sakura was quietly thinking about various things until the wind shifted and she heard a branch move. She learned to listen to the wind from her father because sometimes it gave you messages and she learned to pay attention to the plants around her from her mother because they always gave away their secrets. She quickly turned around to see someone hurtling towards her with his sword ready to strike. Panicked, she quickly raised her arms into an X in front of her face to shield herself. When Xiaolang was about to connect, the sword clanged against a solid wall of ice. He quickly withdrew and jumped back away from it. Sakura stood up and reached out her arm causing the wall to break into chunks of ice that were sucked back into her hand. As soon as all the ice was gone, she pulled her hand back then threw a ball of fire with red rings around it at Xiaolang. When it hit him, he immediately exploded into little pieces of dust. Sakura panted in terror and turned to run. Suddenly, a swirl of dirt rose up in front of her taking the shape of her attacker. Xiaolang raises his sword to cut off the girl's head but stopped right at the skin. His eyes wandered from her neck along the glittering gold chain to a locket that swayed back and forth as the girl took rapid breaths. Lowering his sword a bit, he narrowed his eyes threateningly at the girl.
"Where did you get that?" Xiaolang questioned because he knew that that was the locket he gave to someone.
"From..you?" Sakura looked confused at the words that slipped out of her mouth without her consent.
The teens drew closer together and electricity began to crackle around them. As Sakura brought her hands up to Xiaolang's neck, thick bolts of electricity connected her fingertips to his neck. The same occurred when Xiaolang brought his hands up to Sakura's waist. When the two finally touched, continuous volts of electricity were running through and connecting both their bodies rapidly. Xiaolang slowly brought his head down as Sakura closed her eyes until their lips met in a passionate kiss. As they continued to kiss, all of the electricity rushed towards Sakura's locket until it was glowing a blinding light. The brilliant light became too much and Sakura's locket burst open releasing a sparkling thing of light that shattered above the lover's heads and glittered to the ground. Finally, when the last of the glitter falls to the ground, Sakura and Xiaolang pull apart.
"I missed you so much. Never leave me again." Sakura said as a tear slid down her cheek.
"I have been searching for you for so long." Xiaolang whispered as he brought his hand up to Sakura's face to wipe away her tears. "But now that I've found you, I'm promise I won't let go."
"Wait a second," Sakura said suddenly as she abruptly pulled away from Xiaolang, "did you almost kill me?"
"Well, I, uh, exhale. I have no idea what came over me Sakura. Even though I do love you with all my heart, it's like before right now I didn't even know who you were. It was like you were completely erased from my memory and I have no idea how. I'm so sorry and I will do anything you tell me to, to prove that-" Xiaolang was silenced as Sakura passionately kissed him. She drew away from him gradually and slowly opened her eyes.
"I believe you, you don't have to explain. As long as you love me, I'll believe anything you say. Besides, before that kiss, I didn't even recognize you. I don't know what happened."
"I can feel someone else's magic in me. It's covering me like a thick layer of dirt and seeping through my skin." Xiaolang said as the thick feeling of broken magic made him shudder in disgust.
"I can see it in my hair, like it's been growing in there." Sakura said as she looked at a lock of her hair, examining it and trying to brush off the broken magic.
"Whatever happened to us was going on for a long time. Probably a spell to make us forget which is why we don't remember. Think, Sakura. What has been going on lately? What can you remember."
"It's fuzzy, but umm. It is really unclear and it's hard to remember, but there is probably a reason why I can't remember you. I remember Tomoyo, my parents, Touya, Yue, everyone. It's you that is nowhere in my memory; it's you I'm supposed to forget.
"Sakura!!!" A very familiar female voice was heard startling the couple followed by another familiar voice. "Xiaolang!!!"
"Oh shit."
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I am so sorry for the late update, but after my story got erased, I got really depressed about it and unmotivated, so I didn't write. Actually, I almost gave up too. I finally got motivated by the overwhelming amount of reviews people wrote and decided that I have to suck it up and continue on because I didn't want to disappoint you guys. That and I'm really lazy and a procrastinator and you know what? This is the third time I had to revise this chapter because my computers retarded. So I'm frustrated right now. I think it would have been better if it hadn't gotten switched back this last time, but there's nothing I can do.
I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ AND REVIEWED AND MY BEST FRIEND/EDITOR/COUSIN SAKURA STARR EVEN THOUGH SHE PROBABLY WON'T READ THIS, BUT SHE CAN'T SAY THAT I DIDN'T MENTION HER NOW.
¤¤¤°°°¤¤¤ Okay, let's skip to the weekend now everybody °°°¤¤¤°°°
Sakura stood still as the seamstress put the last few stitches into the hem of her dress. The beautiful emerald green, satin dress glittered as the light pranced on it. It was sleeveless with straps about two and a half inches thick and a V shaped neckline bordered with crushed diamonds. The dress closely hugged her body until it reached Sakura's waist where the fabric split into a large V to reveal layer after layer of white silk that made the bottom half of the dress puffy. Around her waist and down the edges of the split satin were more crushed diamonds. Hanging from her waist were two long silver chains with silver stars that reached to about two inches above the end of her dress. Sakura slipped her tiara into her hair and across her forehead then slowly reached up to her neck to grab her chain. She slowly traced down it until she felt the locket that kept her so safe as she slipped her feet into the green satin slippers especially made for her.
"Okay, Sakura. Let's have a look." Sakura looks up at Tomoyo and smiles. "Wow, you match from your jewelry to your dress to your eyes to your shoes. You think you have on enough green?"
Sakura giggled a little before she stood up to have Tomoyo straighten her tiara for her. Tomoyo's dress was almost the exact same as Sakura's except it was a deep purple instead of green and lacked the Silver Star chains. The dress also hugged her body, but instead of a V neckline, the neckline was cut straight off a little below her shoulders. From her shoulders to her elbows, there was a new white silk fabric that fit perfectly around her arms. At her elbows, a sheer fabric dotted with diamonds flared out and stopped at the end of her fingertips. Tomoyo's gold tiara sat on her head with one tall peak surrounded by two smaller ones.
"I do believe we are ready to go." Sakura smiled.
"Let's go show the parental units." Tomoyo replied.
"Let's." The girls walked into the open throne room to see their parents merrily talking about this and that and Touya reading a book off to the side on a table next to Yue.
"Hello everyone." Tomoyo and Sakura greeted.
"Why hello, girls. Don't you look beautiful?" Queen Sonomi, Tomoyo's mother complimented.
"I quite agree. What do you think, DEAR?" Queen Nadeshiko asked as she elbowed her husband.
"Mm hmm, wonderful." King Fujitake stuttered nervously.
"Thank you, Daddy." Sakura smiled as she laughed a bit.
"Well, I think it's time we go." Queen Sonomi said.
"Yes, off to meet the fiancé who will end my carefree life." Tomoyo replied sarcastically.
"Tomoyo!! He can't be that bad."
"Well, you never know. Once I get tied down, there goes my freedom anyways."
"Maybe, Sakura can find a suitable young man of her own there." Queen Nadeshiko added.
"I don't see the point." Touya suddenly said out of the blue.
"See what?
"Why Sakura has to get married. I mean, I can understand why Tomoyo needs to get married because there needs to be someone ruling the throne with her, but I'm ruling this throne. So the way I see it, Sakura doesn't need to get married." Touya said as Yue elbowed him in the ribs and gave him an evil look.
A fire started to boil up in Sakura's blood. He was such an insolent brother! Why couldn't he stay out of her life! What she did was none of his business and Sakura wished he would just butt out. Her hands were clenched tights in fists so her nails were slowly cutting crescent shapes into her palms. Sakura glared at the floor underneath Touya's boots and a small fire erupted and it slowly started to heat his shoes. As the rubber began to burn, Touya felt the heat and jumped up to quickly escape the fire. Once he was on his feet and had successfully extinguished the fire, he sent Sakura a wicked glare.
"Not funny, Sakura." Touya growled.
"It wasn't meant to be." Sakura hissed back as she angrily turned on her heel and stormed out to the castle with Tomoyo on following her out.
"I guess we better go." Queen Sonomi smiled as she rose from her chair and started walking towards the door with her husband escorting her.
"Sonomi?" King Fujitake called after her reluctantly.
"Yes?"
"Ta.Take care of my little girl, please?"
"Always." Queen Sonomi smiled gently before she left to the carriage.
~¤¤¤°° In Teal'ec °°¤¤¤~
Xiaolang sat in one of the chairs in Eriol's room as he waited for Eriol to finish getting ready. Xiaolang was wearing the classic Prince uniform which was a loose long sleeved shirt covered by a thin covering of black body armor with shoulder guards. He had loose black pants on as well with his sword in the sheath attached to his waist by a brown leather double belt. The cape he wore attached to his shoulder guards by two gold wolves and had the large Vaunimajee seal embroidered with gold and silver threads of fabric to accent the royal green, blue, and black thread. The outside of the cape was black to compliment the emblem while the inside was an emerald green like the cuffs of Xiaolang's pants and shirt and other various highlighted areas of the formal suit. Eriol's uniform was exactly the same, but everywhere Xiaolang had green, Eriol had a sapphire blue. Also, the emblem on the back of his cape was that of Teal'ec and his cape was attached to a silver chain that kept it from sliding off his shoulders instead of the pins. (A.N. For those Sailor Moon people out there, it sorta looks like Darien's prince outfit without the fancy smancy top part and the extra skirt like part jutting out around his waist.)
"You know, Eriol, we can always stay here for the party and cast a spell to make everyone think we went." Xiaolang offered as he looked up at the ceiling.
"Can't. Even though I really wish we could, my parents bound our magic today so that we can only use elemental magic. That means energy balls for me and lightning or earth or whatever for you." Eriol sighed as he finished adjusting his cape in the mirror.
"Damn, they caught us after last time didn't they?"
"Yep. I guess this means we're off to another day of absolute boredom."
"Lead the way, your highness." Xiaolang sighed sarcastically. Eriol began to walk out of the room with Xiaolang in tow when Eriol suddenly stopped.
"Oh, wait. Your ring." Eriol said as he grabbed it off the cabinet.
"Thanks. I forgot all about it. I would have killed someone if I lost it." Xiaolang said as he slipped the ring on. His mother gave the gold ring to him on a special occasion, but he couldn't remember why. It had the family seal, the kingdom's emblem, and his name in Chinese carved out and the grooves were filled with onyx. There was also a thin, jagged lightning bolt shaped emerald embedded into the ring next to a black, opal wolf. It had a special significance to him that couldn't be replaced and he would probably burn down an entire village to find it if he lost it.
The two princes sighed as they straightened their posture and walked out of Eriol's room. They walked down the hallway to a set of oak doors embossed with gold and silver designs. The two just looked at each other for a moment as if they expected the other to know what to do.
"Well, you go first. It's your party." Xiaolang said as he cocked his eyebrow and pushed Eriol towards the door.
"Fine, fine. I'm going already." Eriol said stepping out of Xiaolang's reach. He took a deep breath and opened pushed the door open.
"His majesty, Prince Eriol, crowned heir to the Teal'ec throne." A voice echoed through the ballroom as Eriol regally walked down the stairs greeted by bows and curtsies. Once at the bottom and away from most of the people's stairs, Eriol let out a deep breath he didn't know he had been holding. "His majesty, Prince Xiaolang, crowned heir to the Vaunimajee throne." The announcer boomed again as Xiaolang coolly walked down the stairs visibly more relaxed than Eriol had been.
"Mr. I'm-an-expert-at-these-sorta-things." Eriol mocked.
"I am." Xiaolang smirked.
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Sakura nervously looked out the window as the carriage pulled into the long road before the Teal'ec palace. She grew even tenser as she saw the castle grow as they neared closer and closer. 'I don't know if I can do this.' Sakura whispered to herself as worry filled her head. Before she was ready, the carriage came to a stop before the castle entrance. Her uncle, Drakus (A.N. yep, that's Tomoyo's father's name is), stepped out of the carriage and, like the true gentleman he was, he helped his wife and then his daughter out. Sakura unwillingly allowed her uncle to escort her out before he went ahead to catch up with his family. Sakura purposely hung behind and waited until the happy little family was far enough ahead to run off the path across the lawn.
The Daidouji family walked together chattering about this and that as they were escorted to the great ballroom by one of the servants in the castle. Tomoyo started walking behind her parents so she could be alone with her thoughts at least for a little while. Soon, they were greeted by large gold doors with an intricate design of a garden etched into it. The doors were pushed open and the announcer's voice boomed throughout the crowd.
"Their majesties, King Drakus, Queen Sonomi, and their daughter Princess, of Trekawaiine." Tomoyo walked gracefully into the ballroom until she heard the announcer's voice.
'What about Sakura? Wait, where is she?!?!' Tomoyo thought wildly as she frantically looked around for her lost cousin when suddenly a hand came out of nowhere and pulled her into the shadows.
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Eriol and Xiaolang were cautiously weaving throughout the crowd trying not to be seen by Eriol's parents as they desperately tried to also get away from the drooling girls and glaring guys. Eriol led the way and ducked behind a rather large women in a sparkly royal purple gown as his father looked in the two prince's direction. Both breathed a sigh of relief when Eriol's father turned back around. They turned around to run into the worst sight they could have ever wished for.
"Mother!!" Eriol exclaimed, surprised to find his mother there as Xiaolang tried to get his heart rate back to a near normal level.
"Can't get away that easily. Now come along and meet the king and queen of Trekawaiine." His mother said sternly.
"But mom."
"Now."
"Okay, I'll go. As long as that's the only time this entire party you will ever ask or call upon me."
"On one condition. You have to be polite, carry on a small conversation, and be nice to their daughter."
"Deal." Eriol said as he shook his mother's hand to seal the negotiation. "Let's go." The trio walked into a straight line until they reached the spot where a little group of royals were standing and chatting with each other.
"Why, this must be your son, Eriol. He is quite handsome." Queen Sonomi complimented.
"Yes, it is. The family resemblance can't be that obvious." Queen Kohana stated (A.N. That's Eriol's mom and in case you wanted to know if it has a meaning or if I made it up or not, it does. It is Japanese for little flower.)
"It's not, the family emblem is on his cape." Queen Sonomi giggled.
"You must be the beautiful Queen Sonomi. It's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance." Eriol smiled a dashing smile as he bowed and kissed Queen Sonomi's hand making her giggle a bit more.
"He's quite a charmer too." Queen Sonomi smiled.
"Don't I know it." Queen Kohana said under her breath.
"I'm just so terribly sorry my daughter isn't here. I can't seem to spot her anywhere. She must have run off."
"That's quite alright your highness. I'm quite sure she is quite wonderful if she has you for a mother." Eriol smiled a toothy smile.
Queen Kohana glared at her son and pulled him a little bit away from the group. "I told you polite, not flattery." She scolded her son.
"Comes across as the same thing." He smirked back as he moved on to have a nice little "chat" with King Drakus. After about fifteen minutes, Eriol thought he would crack, so he politely excused himself and went to the other side of the room dragging Xiaolang with him as he ran. Once there he greedily drank a cup of punch to help him feel better.
"I see you are having a wonderful time at your party." A voice said from behind Eriol scaring him. Eriol turned around still drinking his punch to look at the stranger. He sighed when he saw who it was.
"Thank God it's you." Eriol sighed.
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Tomoyo was being dragged into the shadows and was getting to scream at the top of her lungs at her kidnapper when a hand clamped over her mouth and hushed her. The grip on her arms loosened and Tomoyo spun around to see who it was.
"Sakura? Thank goodness! I've been looking all over for you. Where have you been?" Tomoyo said worriedly.
"I went around the side and came through the a gap in the hedge. I was trying to not get announced just because I don't want any trouble while I'm here. It's bad enough I'm in enemy territory, I don't need a beacon too." Sakura hurriedly exclaimed.
"Well, as long as you're okay."
"I feel very tense in here, too many royals. I think that someone might notice me, so let's go outside."
"Sure, lead the way." The two girls inconspicuously slid out of the ballroom into the connecting garden. They were walking for only a little while until they spotted a giant hedge maze in an area only for magicians.
"A maze. Sounds cool. Want to go, Tomoyo?" Sakura suggested.
"Yeah, I need something to keep my mind off meeting Prince what's-his- name." Tomoyo said miserably.
"Hey, let's make it even more interesting. Why don't we go backwards?" Sakura smiled with a glint of excitement in her eyes.
"After you." The two girls hurried into the maze from the end unaware of the treacherous properties of the maze.
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"So what are you running from this time? Girls, parents, both?" The other guy asked.
"Worse, Yamazaki, my fiancée's parents." Eriol said as he rolled his eyes.
"Ouch, that's gotta be rough."
"You don't know the half of it especially since he isn't dragging you around with him." Xiaolang added.
"Well if it isn't the great Prince Xiaolang. I bow in your mighty and awesome grace." Yamazaki bowed exaggeratedly in a mock style.
"You should be, Duke Takashi, before I strike you down for your benevolence."
"Now, now boys. Let's play nice. For instance, let's get out of this prissy chicken coup and go outside." Eriol suggested.
"To do what?" Xiaolang asked skeptically.
"You decide."
"Oo, oo!! Let's go through the maze!" Yamazaki started jumping up and down like a two year old.
"Cool with me." Syaoran shrugged his shoulders as he started to walk out of ballroom.
"Let's go, Yamazaki." Eriol said as he pulled Yamazaki by the arm almost causing him to fall flat on his face.
The three nobles went outside into the garden and walked around a bit just enjoying the fresh air. Eventually they made it to the great, magical, and very treacherous hedge maze, but once there, they heard this strange sound. It sounding incredibly like giggling, girls giggling, but that couldn't be right. People go into the maze and come out almost dead, people don't giggle. They were proved wrong, of course, when two girls came out of the maze giggling and laughing without a scratch present anywhere on them.
"How did you, why did you, where did you.?" Yamazaki started to ask.
"Oh, hello there." Tomoyo smiled.
"Hi, um, why are you two beautiful ladies emerging from this maze and why are you coming from the entrance." Eriol asked as he eyed the beautiful woman before him.
"Just because we thought it would be fun. Might I ask what your name is, kind sir?" Tomoyo was swept off her feet by his few dashing words.
"I'm, I'm Eriol, Prince Eriol Hiiragizawa." Eriol bowed.
"You're Prince Eriol?" Tomoyo asked shocked.
"Yes, who are you milady?" Eriol was clearly captivated by this woman's eloquence and grace.
"I'm Tomoyo, Princess Tomoyo Daidouji. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Woah. You are more beautiful than I could have ever imagined."
"Thank you." Tomoyo smiled flattered.
"Would you be as so kind as to give me your company?"
"I would love to."
Sakura had been slowly edging away as the prince and princess got better acquainted. She was already far out of sight by the time the two walked off to get to know each other better. Xiaolang had this feeling deep in the pit of his stomach that there was something suspicious about that girl. He eyed her carefully as she quietly made her escape. When her back was turned, he followed closely behind her, but well out of sight. As Yamazaki watched Tomoyo and Eriol walk off together, everyone had left and Yamazaki was left all by himself. He spun around looking for everyone else.
"Where did everyone go?"
Sakura had already entered into the deep center garden where the wild plants made the exotic scene beautiful to behold. She slowly crept by inhaling all of the wondrous scents and drinking in all of the beauty around her. Sakura came up to a doorway covered by hanging vines with little purple flowers. She gently pushed them aside and stepped behind the curtain to see a beautiful fountain hidden within. It had intricate carvings of swans in the white marble base and two elegant swans in the middle of the fountain spouting water from their mouths into the crystal clear water below.
Meanwhile, Xiaolang had been quietly following her all through the garden. She was absolutely breathtaking and he felt as if he had seen her before. He was currently watching her from a branch on a tree just overlooking the fountain. Xiaolang watched as she knelt by the fountain and played with the Koi there as they weaved in and out from underneath the water lilies. There was just something about this girl that he knew. Maybe it was the way the wind blew through her hair, or the way she sighed, or maybe it was the atmosphere around her that made her seem so sad.
He watched her entranced until something he saw knocked him out of his reverie. She wore a little ring on her finger that he had seen before. It was a gold ring with three emeralds in a diagonal with two pearls on either side resting comfortably in the crooks of the emeralds. Something boiled up from within him. She wore the ring of a female royal from Kadenia!!! Without thinking, Xiaolang unsheathed his sword and leaped out of the tree ready to strike the girl down.
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Sakura was quietly thinking about various things until the wind shifted and she heard a branch move. She learned to listen to the wind from her father because sometimes it gave you messages and she learned to pay attention to the plants around her from her mother because they always gave away their secrets. She quickly turned around to see someone hurtling towards her with his sword ready to strike. Panicked, she quickly raised her arms into an X in front of her face to shield herself. When Xiaolang was about to connect, the sword clanged against a solid wall of ice. He quickly withdrew and jumped back away from it. Sakura stood up and reached out her arm causing the wall to break into chunks of ice that were sucked back into her hand. As soon as all the ice was gone, she pulled her hand back then threw a ball of fire with red rings around it at Xiaolang. When it hit him, he immediately exploded into little pieces of dust. Sakura panted in terror and turned to run. Suddenly, a swirl of dirt rose up in front of her taking the shape of her attacker. Xiaolang raises his sword to cut off the girl's head but stopped right at the skin. His eyes wandered from her neck along the glittering gold chain to a locket that swayed back and forth as the girl took rapid breaths. Lowering his sword a bit, he narrowed his eyes threateningly at the girl.
"Where did you get that?" Xiaolang questioned because he knew that that was the locket he gave to someone.
"From..you?" Sakura looked confused at the words that slipped out of her mouth without her consent.
The teens drew closer together and electricity began to crackle around them. As Sakura brought her hands up to Xiaolang's neck, thick bolts of electricity connected her fingertips to his neck. The same occurred when Xiaolang brought his hands up to Sakura's waist. When the two finally touched, continuous volts of electricity were running through and connecting both their bodies rapidly. Xiaolang slowly brought his head down as Sakura closed her eyes until their lips met in a passionate kiss. As they continued to kiss, all of the electricity rushed towards Sakura's locket until it was glowing a blinding light. The brilliant light became too much and Sakura's locket burst open releasing a sparkling thing of light that shattered above the lover's heads and glittered to the ground. Finally, when the last of the glitter falls to the ground, Sakura and Xiaolang pull apart.
"I missed you so much. Never leave me again." Sakura said as a tear slid down her cheek.
"I have been searching for you for so long." Xiaolang whispered as he brought his hand up to Sakura's face to wipe away her tears. "But now that I've found you, I'm promise I won't let go."
"Wait a second," Sakura said suddenly as she abruptly pulled away from Xiaolang, "did you almost kill me?"
"Well, I, uh, exhale. I have no idea what came over me Sakura. Even though I do love you with all my heart, it's like before right now I didn't even know who you were. It was like you were completely erased from my memory and I have no idea how. I'm so sorry and I will do anything you tell me to, to prove that-" Xiaolang was silenced as Sakura passionately kissed him. She drew away from him gradually and slowly opened her eyes.
"I believe you, you don't have to explain. As long as you love me, I'll believe anything you say. Besides, before that kiss, I didn't even recognize you. I don't know what happened."
"I can feel someone else's magic in me. It's covering me like a thick layer of dirt and seeping through my skin." Xiaolang said as the thick feeling of broken magic made him shudder in disgust.
"I can see it in my hair, like it's been growing in there." Sakura said as she looked at a lock of her hair, examining it and trying to brush off the broken magic.
"Whatever happened to us was going on for a long time. Probably a spell to make us forget which is why we don't remember. Think, Sakura. What has been going on lately? What can you remember."
"It's fuzzy, but umm. It is really unclear and it's hard to remember, but there is probably a reason why I can't remember you. I remember Tomoyo, my parents, Touya, Yue, everyone. It's you that is nowhere in my memory; it's you I'm supposed to forget.
"Sakura!!!" A very familiar female voice was heard startling the couple followed by another familiar voice. "Xiaolang!!!"
"Oh shit."
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