Summary- Down to five girls. Time for him to settle down. Having to spend five months with them, who would he choose? Only one girl will be able to change his mind about marriage and... R&R
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Winning My Heart
Chapter 2
Sakura and Tomoyo stood outside the Li mansion admiring it. Since Sakura was one of the chosen candidates, they were to stay at the mansion instead of their hotel.
"Welcome, young misses. My name is Wei, here let me take those for you." He greeted, he was an old butler, probably in his late 60's or so. Wei took their luggages and showed them the way to the living room.
Everyone seemed to be waiting for them. Sakura went and stood beside one of the four girls. They all gave her dirty looks, Sakura tried her best to ignore. She was saved when Yelan had started to talk.
"Welcome, everyone. I'm glad you all made it," greeted Yelan. "Now, as staying here, we have some rules. You may not go in any of the other rooms except your own for they are restricted. However you may go into the library which is just down this hall and to your right. Enjoy your stay here, everyone." With that said, she got up and left.
Butlers and maids showed them to their rooms. Each got their own room which was pretty big in size. They knew they were going to enjoy it here but not Sakura. She was already nervous inside thinking about what would happen.
She followed the maid through the hallways. Sakura wasn't really looking where she was going. Though she heard the maid say something. She wondered who she was talking to but before she got to ask, she fell down.
She got up and the other did too. When she looked up she saw amber eyes staring right back at her. "AHH!" She screamed.
"Shut up. Do you know who I am?" The amber eyed guy asked annoyed.
Sakura looked him over and shook her head no. "Are you seriously sure you have no clue who I am?" Again, she shook her head no. "I'm Syaoran Li." He stated. He wondered what planet this girl was from. Surely she was not from Earth. Everybody knew who he was. How could she not.
That name seemed familiar to Sakura. If only she knew where she had heard it. 'Syaoran Li, Syaoran Li, Syao-' "Oh, I remember now. You were the one on that poster I saw a couple of weeks ago."
"Yeah, now since you know me, don't ever bump into me again, whore." Syaoran was about to walk away but stopped when she tried to say something.
"Excuse me? I bumped into you? I think you got it all wrong, for it was you that bump into me. You didn't even apologize. And now you call me a whore when you know nothing about me. For your information I'm not a whore and you're...you're..." Sakura paused, trying to think of what to call him, her anger growing every minute.
"I'm what?" He smirked. Never in his life had he heard someone yell at him like that. Everywhere he went, girls would just swoon over him or seduce him. But this girl was something. She actually had the nerve to yell at him.
She fumed. "You jerk!" Sakura yelled and turned around heading for her room. Sure, she didn't know where it was. But she was sure she would have no problem finding it.
The maid looked lost. Now what was she going to do. Should she let Yelan know about this? Or just leave it. She looked like she wasn't from this planet until Syaoran broke her thoughts, which brought her back to reality. "Hey, who was that girl that just walked away, a new maid?" He asked.
"No, she's not a maid. She's one of your candidates. I was just bringing her to her room until you showed up." The maid replied trying to hide her blush.
"She is, is she?" Syaoran looked down the hallway which Sakura had just ran off at. The maid nodded. "What's her name?"
"Sakura Kinomoto."
"Nice name. You said you were bringing her to her room?" He inquired. Again she nodded. "Well, now you don't have to, move her stuff to the room next to mine."
The maid nodded again. But looked up and tried to say something like you can't do that. What power did the maid have, for she was silence before she could speak.
"I'll deal with my mother on that. Now just do as I say."
"Alright, Master Li." She curtised and left.
Yelan
"Mother, you wish to see me." Syaoran said coming through the doors to her study.
"Ah, yes. Syaoran, we have a lot to discuss." Yelan quickly said. "As you know you're going to settled down in a few months and-"
"Yeah, I know. Mother can we just forget about this whole marriage thing." Syaoran pleaded. He didn't want to be settled down in just a few months. If he were to get married, he hoped for it to be the one you love.
"Syaoran, you do know in order to take over the clan you have to marry by the age of twenty-one. You do know that don't you?"
"Yeah, yeah."
"Son, marriage isn't that bad."
"Yes it is."
"Oh really, how is it bad then?"
"Because you're going to be stuck with that person you don't love forever."
"You can always file a divorce." Yelan stated.
"Yeah, like the elders and you will let me do that." Syaoran muttered under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
"I'll make you a promise. By the end of these five months, if you don't fall in love with any of them then you won't have to marry them." Yelan said. "But you'll still have to marry to produce a heir, alright."
"Got it." Syaoran smiled at his mother. Who knew she would say something like that. Just as he was about to leave, he remembered something. "Mother, you know that girl. I think her name's Sakura Kinomoto or something like that."
"What about her? Did you meet her already?"
"Yeah, well sort of. Anyways I moved her into the room next to mine."
"You did?" Yelan asked quite surprised and wondered what his son was up too.
"Yeah, um I'll just go now." He said and started heading out.
"Remember you'll have to stop being a model since you'll be taking over the Li Corp soon enough."
"Alright." Syaoran headed out of his mother's study and into his bedroom.
"Aah, my son. What do you feel for Sakura? I know you'll fall in love soon enough." Yelan said to herself. She didn't mind Sakura moving into the room beside Syaoran's. Maybe her son did feel something for Sakura.
Sakura
"That jerk, who does he think he is? He's not a king for all I know. I won't let him call me whatever he wants." Sakura said angrily as she sat on her bed.
It took her some time to find her room. But after some help from the other maids and butlers, she found it.
It was currently July and she wondered how long she would have to stay here. She still had some questions she wanted answers too. But she guess that'll have to wait.
Her anger was slowly going away, she laid on her bed when she remembered she hasn't unpacked her bags yet. She got up and looked around her room. She didn't see any of her bags anywhere, they were nowhere to be found as she search for them.
A knock was heard on her door. Sakura opened it to find the maid from earlier before. Sakura was just about to ask where her bags were but didn't have a chance to as the maid started talking.
"Sorry to interrupt you but this room is no longer yours, your bags have been moved out-"
"What? You mean this room isn't mine anymore? Who arranged this?" Sakura interrupted. Her anger rising again.
"Yes, master Syaoran arranged this after you left but-"
Sakura interrupted the maid again. She didn't want to hear anymore. She figured she should go see Syaoran and ask him why he would do that. "Can you tell me where Syaoran is right now?"
"He's in his room but what I'm tryin-"
"Sorry, but can you tell me where that room is located?" asked Sakura.
"Down this hall, go to your right. Then there should be another hallway, keep going straight and turn left this time. And you'll know which one is his room, very noticeable. But what I've been tryin-"
"Alright, thank you." And Sakura then left the room and the maid by herself.
"What I've been trying to say is that your room you'll be staying in is not this one but the one beside Master Syaoran." The maid said to herself. With a sigh, she too left the room.
"Ok, down this hall and to my left." Sakura told herself as she walked to her left.
Sakura's anger was still rising. She couldn't believe he would do that. So now she had no room to sleep, stay in but what anger her more was that he was the one who arranged this. She wondered why though. Did he not want her to stay here? Hell, she didn't want to stay here either. If he wanted her to leave, she would gladly.
Now walking a bit farther, she noticed some rooms or maybe a whole lot down this hallway. 'The maid said his room would be noticeable, they all look the same to me.' She thought.
Maybe if she walked farther along, she would find it. Though she highly doubt she will. But she decided to give it a try. As she walked, there were less and less rooms. As she took the last couple of steps, she came to an end. There were two doors both green. She decided to go to the one on her left which had a crown on the door.
"King Syaoran, pfft." Sakura mumbled.
It took her quite a long time getting there and it provoke her anger. So instead of knocking, she opened the door and walked right in. "Syaoran you come out here right now." Sakura screamed.
Out the bathroom came Syaoran, hair all wet with a towel around his neck. Dressed in only pants. He still looked hot though. "What are you doing here?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"What am I doing here? What did you do to me is what I'm here to ask."
"I didn't do anything to you." He said running a hand through his wet hair.
"You! Argg, I hate you! Why did you move my bags out of my room? What did I ever do to you to deserve this? You didn't have to move me out of my room. If you wanted me to leave you could have just told me so. You didn't have to do all this. You know what I didn't even want to be here in the first place. I got tricked into this and now you want me to leave, just say so." Sakura said taking a deep breath. She hadn't noticed Syaoran was walking towards her getting closer and closer as she talked.
"What are you talking about? I never said I wanted you to leave, and I had a servant move your things into another room. Did the maid not tell you?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura looked up and stared at his mesmerizing amber eyes. She then noticed how close he was to her and how he wasn't wearing a shirt. She blushed, not only because how close she was but how she made a big mistake.
The maid had tried to tell her. She was just so angry all she wanted to do was let it out on Syaoran. Maybe if she had actually tried to listen and not jump to conclusions then maybe she wouldn't have embarrass herself in front of Syaoran.
"Okay, just nevermind. Tell me where my room is." Sakura asked nervously under the gaze of Syaoran.
"I guess the maid didn't tell you, did she? Anyways I'll tell you but first you-" He stopped as he thought about it. "You have to kiss me."
"Nani?" She practically screamed. She didn't think she heard right, did he want her to kiss him.
"Yeah, you heard me."
"You said you want me to kiss you?" Sakura asked once more.
"Yeah, that's what I said. C'mon you know you want to kiss me. Who wouldn't? I mean, I'm the most wanted bachelor in all of Hong Kong. Plus look at these muscles." He said flexing his muscles. He stopped when all he heard was a laugh.
"Oh my god, haha." Sakura laughed. She tried to calm down but instead of doing that she laughed harder.
"What's so funny?" Syaoran asked confused.
"Oh my god." She continued laughing. Looking at his face, she laughed even harder. She was on the verge of tears. She was laughing so hard, she was almost crying.
Soon enough, after a few minutes she stopped. Wiping her tears even though there were barely any, she started to say. "Sorry but it was funny and your face."
"Okay since you stop, I'd like to ask what was so funny that you were laughing about for like five freaking minutes." Syaoran asked. He didn't understand what was so funny.
"Alright, I'll tell you. What you said before was just hilarious!" Sakura answered him.
"Oh that, I don't think so. You know every girl wants to kiss me much less have sex with me. I'm giving you a chance and you're pushing it away." He neared her closer so that now he was breathing on her.
"Ha, you wish. There's at least one girl that wouldn't want to kiss you."
"Oh yeah, who?"
"Me!" Sakura stated.
"Oh you will, soon enough." Syaoran flirted.
Sakura tried to push Syaoran back but he didn't even budge. She kept trying though. She didn't even noticed she was touching his chest when she was pushing him. At first she was pushing him back on the shoulders but somehow her hands landed on his chest. She only noticed when he told her.
"I guess you really like touching my chest don't you?" He smirked.
Sakura looked where her hands were and when she found out he was telling the truth, she took them off quickly as possible. She blushed and didn't dare look up. For if she did, she would see the smirk on his face.
"No, I was simply pushing you away." Sakura argued.
"But it just had to be my chest."
"I-It was an accident. You got it all wrong."
"I don't think so."
"I swear, I had no intention of wanting to touch your chest."
"But I think you did."
Sakura, tired of this decided to end this conversation. "You know what, please just tell me what room I'm staying in."
"The room next to mine." He answered.
"Alright. Now can you move so I can leave."
Syaoran thought she would surely react to what he just said. But instead she simply just told him to move. Not knowing what got into him that made him move, he ran a hand through his almost dry hair.
As he moved, she walked out. Sakura was shocked that he actually listen to her and moved. Not thinking much of it, she left.
Sakura walked to the room right beside Syaoran's room. She stood there not bothering to open the door. She suddenly took note of what Syaoran had said. The room next to mine.
Quickly running back to his room even though it was only a meter away, she found him sitting on his bed. As if he was waiting for her to come back.
"What did you do that for?" She questioned clearly stating she was mad.
"Do what?" He asked back, pretending he didn't know what she was talking about.
"You know what!"
"No, I don't."
"You do too, why did you move me into the room next to yours?"
"Oh that, yeah."
"What do you mean yeah? Why did you do it?"
"Oh, I felt like it."
Sakura couldn't believe this guy. Maybe that's why they had this contest in the first place. Nobody wanted to marry him, because nobody could stand him, plus he was a jerk. Sakura wanted to think that, but knew that it was not true.
"I hate you!" She shouted at him, then stormed out of the room.
Syaoran chuckled at her behavior. He couldn't believe she would hate him. Not one girl has he come across hated him because he moved their stuff into the room next to his. He, for sure would think she would like it. But how wrong was he. Maybe she was different, but that still didn't stop him to think she wanted him.
He didn't even know what got into him to move her out of her room in the first place. At first he didn't even want this contest (competition) going on. But his mother didn't give him much of a choice, so he had to agree. He had a plan to get rid of each of the contestants so he wouldn't have to marry any. But now he was thinking back on it.
So far, he has met only one and there's four left. He wasn't so sure he wanted to meet the rest. He thought on how they would be like. He shivered on that thought.
There was something about this Sakura Kinomoto, something that got him interested. Something that made him want to know her more, want to spend more time with her. He was going to figure that out soon enough.
Tomorrow was the day where he would have to meet them all. He only looked forward to seeing Sakura again and that's it. He had no clue why. Just like he had no clue why he moved her next to him. Maybe he would have to ask his best buddy and cousin, Eriol Hiiragizawa.
Sakura had stormed into which was now her room. It was quite big, almost as big as Syaoran's but she didn't care. She didn't even bother looking around it either. Though she did look for her bags.
Walking over to them, she noticed the poster Tomoyo made her buy. Curious to what it was, she unrolled it. Now in her hands was a big poster of Syaoran Li at the beach. It was the poster she was staring at in the store a couple of weeks ago.
Sakura blushed. 'Tomoyo must've caught me looking then.' She thought. She broke out of her thoughts when she heard a voice.
"Guess you can't get enough of me eh?" The voice asked.
A/N: Well, that's the end. I hope you enjoyed it. Took me quite a while to write but it was finished soon enough and now I can work on chapter 3 of this. This was mostly a Sakura and Syaoran chapter but I think you like that.
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