A/N: Well, if you're reading this, it means I didn't scare you away with the introduction! That's a good thing...I think...

Anyway, this is the prologue, in which Kid!Sakura and Syaoran get married! Well, not really. But they pretend to! And there'll be a little fluff, but how much can you expect from little kids? I'll tell you: not much!

The Forgetful Bride

Prologue

"Hey, kaijuu! Come over here!" Thirteen-year-old Touya Kinomoto called across the backyard. He and his best friend, Syaoran Li, were standing outside the fort that the two boys had built the previous summer, when Syaoran and his family had first moved in next door.

"My name's not 'kaijuu', it's Sakura!" Touya's eight-year-old sister replied angrily. She ran over to them and promptly stomped as hard as she could on Touya's sandal-clad foot, the heel of her Mary Jane shoe digging into his toes. He yelped, as tears came to his eyes from the pain. She was about to return to the tea party she was having with her dolls when Touya grabbed her by the arm.

"Hey, wait! Syaoran wants to ask you something."

"Well then, ask me!" Sakura said, turning toward the nine-year-old boy. His amber eyes met Sakura's emerald, and he blushed, saying, "Well, my cousin Eriol called the other day, and he was telling me about this girl at school, in Hong Kong, and about how she had a boy-girl birthday party, and..."

"Get to the point, Syaoran-kun!" Sakura interrupted, her voice clearly showing her exasperation.

"Oh...right. Well, he got to kiss this girl, and he was talking about how great it was."

"...So?" Sakura said, one eyebrow raised. She'd always been mature for her age, partly because her mother had died when she was very young and her father was always busy with his job as a college professor.

"Well...I wanted to know if he was right."

"And what does that have to do with me?"

"Well, you're the only girl I know, besides my older sisters." Syaoran's face grew even more red. "And I don't want to kiss them unless I absolutely have to."

"Well, I'm not going to kiss anyone unless I'm married," Sakura replied matter-of-factly.

"What? What does being married have to do with anything?" Touya asked before Syaoran could reply.

"I've never seen anyone kiss that hasn't been married, so I'm not gonna do it either."

"I'll give you my dessert tonight if you do this," Touya tried to bargain.

"Not without being married!"

Syaoran placed his hand on Touya's shoulder. "Well...I guess, if she wants to, it's okay with me," the Chinese boy told his best friend.

Touya turned to Syaoran, a look of surprise on his face. "You serious?" Syaoran nodded. "Well, all right...let's get you two married then!"

"Not out here! It's too dirty out here for a wedding! Let's go in the fort," Sakura suggested.

"No way!" Syaoran replied.

"It's a boys only fort!" Touya explained. "No girls allowed!"

"Well, I'm not getting married out here," Sakura said calmly. "So unless you want to kiss one of your sisters..."

Syaoran and Touya sighed and shared a look. "All right, fine," Touya muttered. "Let me get my Bible." He ran into the house and a moment later appeared with a small, beat-up Bible. "But you can't tell anyone that you went in the fort."

Aww, and I was gonna tell Rika Takenouchi! Then she definitely would have invited me to her birthday party, Sakura thought to herself. Rika was the most popular girl in school, and Sakura desperately wanted to go to her birthday party, which was easily the social event of the year for the girls in Sakura's grade.

The three went into the fort, Sakura picking dandelions that were growing in the yard as she walked to make a bouquet. When she went inside, she saw that everything was made of wood and boxes. Man, I thought it was a palace in here or something, from the way they talked about it, she thought. Shrugging slightly, she took slow steps, like she'd seen her Aunt Hino do at her wedding. When she arrived next to Syaoran, Touya muttered, "Finally..."

He opened the Bible to a random page and said, "Do you, Syaoran Li, take Sakura Kinomoto to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

"I do," Syaoran answered seriously, his mouth straight.

"Do you, Sakura Kinomoto, take Syaoran Li to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

I already agreed to this, there's no turning back now... "...I do," Sakura replied after a moment.

"I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the kaijuu," Touya announced with a grin, closing the Bible.

Sakura and Syaoran turned toward each other, their eyes meeting. For a fleeting moment, Sakura felt a spark of something unknown alight in her belly and creep throughout her entire body. Then, very slowly, Syaoran leaned in. Sakura closed her eyes and tilted her head slightly to the left, like her Aunt Hino did when Uncle Tai was about to kiss her. A moment later, Syaoran's lips touched hers, brushing against them softly for about three seconds. He pulled away, and Sakura's eyes fluttered open.

"Well, that's wasn't anything special," she said flippantly. "What was your cousin thinking?"

"I don't think you did it right," Syaoran replied.

"Me? I think you're the one who messed up, Syaoran Li," Sakura rebutted. She turned to walk out of the fort. "Whatever, I'm getting out of this stupid box." Before she did, though, she stomped on Touya's foot for calling her 'monster' again.

As Sakura walked back out into the backyard, she realized something. They never told me I couldn't tell anyone about the kiss! Maybe I will still get an invitation to Rika's party. Warmed by this realization, she happily skipped back to her tea party.

Back inside the fort, Touya had walked over to stand next to Syaoran, and was currently nudging him in the ribs. "So, seriously, how was it?"

"It was kinda weird..." Syaoran admitted. "My stomachfelt kinda funny afterwards, like it was floating or something."

"Eww, maybe Sakura has cooties!" Touya exclaimed. "Maybe you're sick now. We should take you to the doctor for a cootie shot. I should probably get one, too, if I'm gonna hang around you."

"Shut up! It's not cooties. Even I know they don't exist," Syaoran muttered. He stalked out of the fort as Touya followed, continuing to tease him.

A/N: Well, there's the prologue! Next chapter will take place fifteen years later, and will introduce Adult!Sakura and Syaoran, as well as Sakura's life away from Tomoeda.

And one more thing: If anyone is/was offended by the fact that Touya got a Bible, I'm sorry. I'm a Christian and I don't know how people in other religions perform weddings, so I'm going to stick with this. Plus, in the book, the character being played by Touya in this version becomes a Methodist minister later in life, which means that Touya will become a minister as well. This won't be a particularly religious story, but there will be references to God and church, so if you are easily offended by this, then I suggest that you don't read my story. I will get extremely angry if I get any flames on later chapters for this reason, especially since I'm warning everyone now.