AN: Ohayo minna! Yep, it's Xiaoling again! Back with her third fic of CCS and the usual exclusive S+S!! LoL ^^;; This story is a bit itsy bitsy different than my other ones since it's back in the old times when princesses and princes were in power, and kings and queens! Anyways, on with the story! Right now the gang is 9! I repeat 9! Do not mind if Sakura is acting annoyingly stubborn! She's only 9 anyways.
Disclaimer: I do not down CCS or
any of its characters much to my dismay! They belong to CLAMP.
" Speech
* Thinking
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By ~Xiaoling~
Chapter 1:
The Little Princess
"Lady Sakura! Please stop running around! You'll get your dress all dirty and I'll have to wash it again!" Mika said, her voice full of frustration while chasing after the little princess.
Little princess Sakura giggled as she splashed into a muddy puddle, ruining her dress even more. "Tee hee! I bet you can't catch my Mika!"
"Princess! Look what you did to your dress! Your majesty will not be pleased!" Mika said furiously, almost catching up to Sakura.
Sakura ran with amazing speed for an nine year old. She shrieked and screamed when Mika picked her up and off the ground.
"I'm very sorry your highness, but I must get you cleaned and into a new dress now! You have to be ready for the party!" Mika flustered as she carried the shrieking princess in her arms and into her vast room.
"I don't want to go!" Sakura snapped as she was placed onto the floor again. "I think parties are ridiculous! A waste of time!"
"This one is important! Your father's kingdom is going to be alliances with the Daidouji Kingdom! This is very very important and you must look your best!" Mika said while filling the huge tub with water.
Other servants came into the room and poured flower petals into the water to make it smell pretty. Sakura sighed as she got into the tub, as she sighed she blew her bangs up into the air.
"Alright alright! I'll be good...demo (but)..." She had a mischevious grin on her face.
Mika sighed and started scrubbing Sakura's back. "But what my lady?"
"You have to play house with me for the next three days! Alright?!" Sakura asked excitedly.
Mika groaned, "I am much to old for your frolick and games!"
"You're only twenty two!"
"Much older than you princess!" Mika chuckled and finished cleaning Sakura with a bar of pink soap that smelled of roses.
Sakura crossed her arms in the water. "Then I'll be as stubborn as I can get!"
"Fine! Just be good today!"
Sakura smiled brightly. "Of course!" She stepped out of the tub and Mika dried her.
Mika had been Sakura's personal maid since she was a baby. Mika knew Sakura very well, espeically how stubborn and how much trouble she could be. Sakura knew very well that Mika hated chasing her around the castle, but she loved annoying people out of their minds.
"This dress is itchy!" Sakura complained, scartching at her arm. "The lace is scartching my arms!"
"Oh please stop complaining! It looks wonderful on you! Very kirei (pretty)!" Mika complimented while fixing Sakura's shoulder length auburn hair into a loose twisty bun.
Sakura sniffled, "I hate this!"
"It will be over all to soon."
"Why is daddy going to have an alliance with the Daidouji Kingdom all of a sudden? Why not some other kingdom?" Sakura asked.
Mika shrugged, "I'm not sure your highness. But it is safer to have alliances if we go to war."
"War? What's that? And why would that happen?" Sakura had so many questions.
Mika poked a pin into Sakura's hair. "Stop asking questions princess. Curiousity killed the cat as we all have heard."
Sakura rollled her eyes and spun away from the mirror. "Ok, I'm ready. Let's get this over with."
She strutted out of her room with her head held high, her hands holding up her skirts so she would not trip on them. As she walked by, some nearby guards our maids would bow their heads as she passed. She merily nodded back at them and continued walking, hearing the familiar footsteps of her maid Mika behind her.
She stepped into the huge grand ballroom. Some eyes went onto her, and she heard a couple of whispers.
"Isn't she the daughter of King Fujitaka? I have heard she is quite a brat!" Someone whispered.
Sakura frowned, she wanted to kick that man in the shin.
"Oh look! There's the little princess! She looks adorable!"
Sakura rolled her eyes and went to stand by her mother, Queen Nadesiko.
"I'm glad you are not late dear." Nadesiko smiled at her daughter.
Sakura pouted, "I didn't want to come at all!"
"It won't be as boring as most of the other parties dear. I've heard that the Daidouji Kingdom also has a young princess around your age."
Suddenly, the room went into huge applaus as King Fujitaka appeared through the grand double doors of the ballroom. He smiled at everyone, and his smiled brightened when he saw Nadesiko, Sakura, and Touya.
"We are all here today, because the Kinomoto Kingdom and the Daidouji Kingdom will now be officially allies!" Fujitaka announced and the room went into applause again.
Queen Sonomi Daidouji was the queen of the Daidouji Kingdom. She ruled alone, since her husband died of sickness. But other than that, she was a very strong ruler for a women.
Sonomi walked up to the king, and shook his hand.
"I am very pleased to be allies with the Kinomoto Kingdom." She smiled at everyone, she glanced over to Nadesiko, Sakura, and Touya.
She walked over to Sakura, and crouched down so she was at eye level with Sakura. "What a pretty little girl!" She exclaimed and looked at Nadesiko. "She must be Princess Sakura am I correct Queen Nadesiko?"
Nadesiko smiled, "Yes, you are very correct."
"I have a daughter just the same age! Tomoyo dear! Come here!" Sonomi gestured to a girl with long black hair to come over.
She slowly walked over, holding her skirts. When she reached King and Queen Kinomoto, she curtsied.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." She smiled.
Fujitaka smiled at the young girl. "You are a very polite young lady Princess Tomoyo."
Tomoyo smiled and looked at Sakura. "Hello Princess Sakura."
"Hello..." Sakura mumbled back. *She's so goody goody!*
Sakura planted herself onto a chair, and waited as the party neared it's end. Tomoyo had been trying to talk to her, but she had been rude and scared her off.
Sakura happily went back to her quarters with Mika trailing behind her.
"It's over! Thank god!" Sakura sighed in pure delight as she flopped onto her bed. "Mika, I want to go to the market tomorrow!"
"Why the market princess? Don't you always hate the filth and smells?"
Sakura sat up from her bed. "I just all of a sudden want to go badly! Maybe I actually miss the noise and smelly places!"
Mika laughed, "Ok your highness. But get some sleep so you have enough energy tomorrow."
"Alright."
"Oh please Xiaolang! Pwetty pueeze!?"
Syaoran frowned in deep frustration. "Meiling! I do not want to go to the marketplace!"
Meiling stepped back with her arms on her hips. "It's our very first time in Japan and I want to see how their marketplaces are compared to ours in China!"
"Fine!"
Meiling smiled, "I wonder why we're here in Japan anyways. Did you hear mother or father say anything?"
"They said they had some business. Something to do with the Kinomoto Kingdom." Syaoran answered.
Meiling stuck her tounge out. "That's it? We all know that our kingdom is the strongest and the best!"
"Whatever Meiling. Let's get going if you even want to go at all." Syaoran grumbled while getting onto the carriage with many guards surrounding it.
Meiling stepped in, holding her chinese
dress, got in and they rode off.
Sakura was nearly falling asleep in her carriage. She pulled the pink curtains aside so she could look out at what the common people were doing.
She stuck her tounge out at the smells. "Maybe I don't miss the smells."
Mika, who sat beside Sakura, chuckled, "It was your choice to come anyways."
Suddenly the carriage stopped.
"Why are we stopping?" Sakura asked.
"Stay right here. Let me go out and see what's happening. I hear quarelling going on," Mika said while pushing the front curtains aside and stepping out.
She saw another carriage in their way. "Who are they?" She asked a guard standing next to her.
"I think they say that they are from the Li Kingdom, and they say that we better move aside." The guard answered.
Sakura, hearing this, stepped out of the carriage. "How rude can that be!"
Meiling popped her head out of the carriage. "Move aside! And who might you be?!" Meiling said, pointing at Sakura.
Syaoran frowned and sweatdropped while stepping out of the carriage. "Meiling, you know it's rude to point. And you're a princess for god's sake!"
"Sorry..." She muttered. "But those people are blocking are way!!!" She said, still pointing at Sakura and Mika.
Sakura crossed her arms. "I suggest you move out of the way."
"And why should we?!" Meiling and Syaoran both shot back.
"Because I'm Princess Sakura Kinomoto, and you are standing on my father's land right now." Sakura said truimphantly.
Meiling's jaw dropped down, and Syaoran sighed.
*This Princess Sakura is like a clone of Meiling!* He groaned.
"Well? Move it!" Sakura said while
tapping her feet.
AN: Hehehehe! Yes, Sakura is being annoying like Meiling. But she's only like this in the beginning of the story alright?! She'll turn into the sweet loving Sakura we all know =D Just bare with me for now! Just to clear things up for you, Meiling and Syaoran are princess and prince of the Li Kingdom. They are visiting Japan because their parents are here dealing with a "problem". Ooohhhhoooo, what is this "problem"?! Read to find out ~.~