Disclaimer – I do not own CCS, though I wish I did.

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Her Wolf in Shining Armour

Prelude

The clanging of armour filled the hallways of the large castle. Hundreds of men dressed in shining armour walked toward their training area with their large swords tied to their waists. The eyes of the young squires standing to the side beat on them as they neatly piled out of the castle. The squires were a group of young boys who would train to become Knights like the ones who they idolized each day as they watched them train.

"I'm going to be the best Knight that ever walked the Kinomoto Province!" a boy with dusty black hair said when the Knights had all left. His name was Takashi Yamazaki. He was the most frail of the boys, or so it appeared, but he knew far more about the land in which they all lived then, many say, the King himself.

"Pfft! Yeah right! I'm going to be the greatest!" Eriol Hiiragizawa, a boy with an incredible intelligence and knowledge concerning anything magic, countered. "There is no way you would be able to beat my masterful swordsmanship along with my array of magic spells!" Eriol stuck his tongue out at Yamazaki.

Yamazaki clenched his fists tightly and looked toward another of his friends, who was leaning on the wall behind them. "What do you think Li-san?"

Syaoran Li was a boy with messy chestnut brown hair and piercing amber eyes. He pushed himself off the wall and walked passed his friends and scratched his chin. "Hmm, neither would be the best, since I would be!" Syaoran grinned and unsheathed his training sword, which were used by Squires when they were learning the arts of the Sword. "Engarde!" He pointed his dull blade toward the small group of Kinghts-in-taining and smirked. He was the best swordsman in class, no one would doubt that.

"Geeze, put that away Li-san! You will get in trouble!" Yamazaki said while flailing his arms around. He hated getting on the bad side of their trainer, Touya Kinomoto. "His highness would be furious!"

"So? He doesn't like me anyway. Something about me being to careless. I think he is just jealous." Syaoran said as he sheathed his training sword.

"Who is jealous?" a deep voice asked from behind Syaoran.

Syaoran jumped and turned around to find his instructor/prince standing behind him. "O-oh no one your highness."

"Good, now come along with me boys, time to start your training for today." Prince Touya Kinomoto was a broad, tall man with dark hair and piercing blue eyes. He led the boys to the other side of the hallway and exited out the door that was opposite that of which the Knights had exited earlier.

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Meanwhile

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"Sigh…" a quiet sigh came from the soft lips of a young girl while she sat in a chair staring out a window. "How I wish I could play with them…" She was watching Syaoran, Eriol and Yamazaki as they swam in a small pond outside her window.

"Princess?" A girl of the same age the girl who was sitting in the chair entered the room. She had gorgeous purple hair and illuminating violet eyes. "Are you watching the boys again?" She strolled over beside the princess and peaked out the window.

The princess sighed again and brushed her shining honey brown hair out of her emerald coloured eyes. "I just wish we could do that too…" She looked up at her standing friend before standing herself.

"Well, princess you know that we can't. You are the princess and I am your lady in waiting. We can't just go do whatever we please." The purple haired beauty sighed and helped the princess pick out a dress for the day.

"I am Princess Sakura Kinomoto; I should be allowed to do what I want." The princess finally picked out a beautiful flowing pink dress. "Tomoyo, what do you think?"

"Hmm , the great Tomoyo Daidouji approves!" Tomoyo said with a smile.

Sakura quickly got changed, with the help of Tomoyo of course, and started to fix up her hair. "Tomoyo, I saw how you eyed that… Hiiragizawa boy." Sakura said with a giggle.

Tomoyo blushed and poked Sakura "Now now, I have to wait for you to marry before I can." She finished the princess' hair and smiled "There!"

"It's beautiful Tomoyo, come on! Let's go explore the castle again!" Sakura pulled her friend's hand and led her down the hall way. She wasn't watching where she was going and soon ... CRASH!

"Ah!" Three boys fell over and hit the ground with a loud thud. The boy who was in front growled and stood up "Hey! What do you-"

"Owwie…" Sakura and Tomoyo stood up and brushed off their dresses. They looked up to see the three boys that they had watched through the window standing before them.

"Oh… Your highness I didn't…" Syaoran stumbled on his words and was hushed by a raised hand, which belonged to the princess.

"It's okay; I wasn't watching where I was going. I'm sorry." She bowed with a smile and looked back and forth between the three boys. "What are your names? I am Princess Sakura Kinomoto, which you already seem to know, and this is my best friend and lady in waiting Tomoyo Daidouji."

"I am Syaoran Li, this is Eriol Hiiragizawa and that is Takashi Yamasaki." Syaoran replied.

"It is very nice to meet you all." Sakura bowed "Would you like to play Hide-and-Seek with a lonely Princess and her Friend?"

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So, was that a good Prelude? R&R