A/n: Oh!!! I should be punished!!!!! I'm so so so so sorry for not uploading this story for so long!!! But I have my reasons!
Kero: Let's here it...
LiL DreameR: Well, first of all, after school ended I wanted to take a one week vacation before starting the story... big mistake!! Then, after that one week I was killed with practices for my play, "Annie", which was practically every day up to 2 o'clock in the morning! Then the real plays came! (It was a huge hit by the way... I did great as Kate!!! Heehee... that rhymes... ~.~;;) And then FF.net was down and...
Kero: Excuse! Excuses! Excuses!
LiL DreameR: But it's true!!
Kero: Uh-huh...
LiL DreameR: Humph!! Anywayz, I said I was sorry. Soooo, I thought it would be nice to start a new story before starting chapter 7 or 8 or whatever for "For My Love." (My other story...) A little note about this story: Me no own plotty! It's based on this book I really liked called Just Ella. (Just Ella, Just Sakura... see the resemblances?) Anywho... if you read the book, plz don't spoil the story for the other readers!! Tanku! (Btw... it's changed a little bit, newayz...) S+S story of course! Oh! And it's AU.
Kero: WHAT!!! No Keroberus!! WAAAA!!!
LiL DreameR: *Snickers* You'll be mentioned... It's my sissy's bithday today!! (the 24th of June) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ATE!!!! Now on wit da ficcy!!!
Key: "Dialouge"
=Thoughts or dreams=
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~*~Character's POV~*~
~*~Flashback~*~
Emphasized Word
(Author's Notes)
Disclaimer: *Sigh* Now I gotta make two freakin' disclaimers... Well, I don't own CCS as much as I'd love to. CLAMP owns this lovable anime. And I don't own most of the plot... Miss Haddix does.
Just Sakura
By: LiL DreameR
Chapter One: "Princess" Sakura
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~*~Sakura's POV~*~
I laid there on my oh-so comfortable bed in my spacious chamber. It probably was too comfortable. I guess I wasn't used to this kind of living... yet.
Anyway, I'm Sakura Kinomoto... or as now Princess Ying Fa. So what's a Japanese village girl like me doing in this Chinese castle? Well, it all started when...
~*~Flashback~*~
"The prince of China is having a ball, okaasan!!!" squealed Hime, my horrid half-sister.
Hime Kinomoto. She was obnoxious, four years younger than me, spoiled, ugly, fat, and thinks too highly of herself. She started getting all prepped up that day when the prince's messenger gave the message that he was having a ball to find his bride. Of course, I was excited but not as much as her.
So I asked my step mother, Kumasi, if I could go too. But of course, since I was the family slave, I couldn't.
Kumasi Kinomoto. I still don't understand why my otousan, Fujitaka, decided to marry such a self-absorbed woman. All she thinks about is herself and her bratty child, Hime. It's no surprise that she named her that anyway, since "hime" in Japanese means "princess". Che... Kumasi didn't even love my father. All she wanted was a child...
I remember when I was only three years old, my mother died. Nadeshiko Kinomoto. My okaasan... I miss you. My otousan told me, before he died, that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. He told me she had an angelic voice, a kind heart, and a deep love for her family. But then she died from an unknown disease... but I still have her deep inside my heart... along with me deceased father, Fujitaka... and brother, Touya.
Fujitaka Kinomoto. I miss my otousan so much... My otousan was so sad when she died, he went and married the first woman who was kind to him. Kumasi, she pretended to be deeply sorry for him just to get him to marry her. After that wretched woman found out she was pregnant... she didn't want anything more to do with my otousan, onnichan, or me.
Touya Kinomoto. My beloved onnichan. I remember when I was three... before my family died... he would call me his "little kaijuu". I had no idea why he called me his "little monster" but I loved it when he called me that, though. I miss him.
I hate Kumasi for what she did... after she gave birth, she took my brother, Touya, and... she... killed him. My father and I mourned for his death... we lost both okaasan and onnichan. But then Kumasi threatened I was next to go... My father pleaded to spare me and let me live... so I could grow up. So she spared me... but only so I can serve her and Hime's wants and needs.
So she jabbed otousan's chest with a knife right in front of my little eyes... His last words were to me, "I love you, my sweet little Cherry Blossom. Good bye."
"Stop daydreaming and go back to Hime's dress for the ball!!" snapped Kumasi.
Me. Sakura Kinomoto. Personal slave for Kumasi and Hime. Anything they demanded, they got. Sometimes I wish my otousan let Kumasi kill me so I could be in heaven with my family... but no, I lived for my parent's and brother's sake... One time, I planned on suicide, but then okaasan came in my dream and told me not to. She was looking out for me and she wanted to see me grow up... and she said she wanted me to find my true love. I always thought who my true love would be. I always thought of Prince Wong from China, such a handsome face.
"Mother, why can't I go to the ball?" I asked Kumasi. Ever since my family's death, she made me called her "mother" as much as I hated it.
"Because you've got work to do!" she snapped snobbishly. "Besides, Prince Wong would never pick someone as ugly as you! Only a beautiful one, like Hime!"
I stuck my tongue at her once she turned her back. It was just the opposite. Not to be bragging or anything, people from the village told me I was beautiful, even if I declined it. They say I picked up my beauty from my real mother, Nadeshiko.
Anyway, I planned on going to that ball, whether step mother likes it or not!
On the night of the ball, after Kumasi and Hime left for China, I pulled on my mother's wedding dress and grabbed the pair of glass slippers I found in the village. I fled to the nearest boat and they rowed me all the way to China... (A/n- Erm... don't ask.) Of course, I was very late but it was worth it. Prince Wong chose me as his bride!!! You should have seen the jealous faces of Kumasi and Hime!!
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That's how I ended up in this here Chinese castle. And I'm happy! I'm living the life of luxury, with no work to do, no annoying half sister or murderous step mother, and a handsome fianceé who is not to mention the prince of China.
Ah.. the handsome Prince Wong Fei Hung of China. I can't wait until we get married which is in two months!! It's going to be a huge celebration!! Hmm... Queen Wong Ying Fa.....? Does that really sound right? It has to... The fire went out. I simply got up and restarted it myself. "Sakura," I lectured myself, "you're no stranger to tending fireplaces. Just because they placed a crown on your head and called you a princess doesn't mean your hands forgot how to work." But still, I had to get out of my comfy bed and tip-toe across the freezing floor. "Oh well," I said as I searched for a tinderbox and poker. I finally found it and soon a fire was blazing once again. I ran across the icy flagstones and jumped into bed, where I fell into a peaceful sleep.
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~*~Normal POV~*~
Sakura woke up to whispers from her maidservants, they were gossiping about her chambermaid. Sakura got up from bed and listened to what they were talking about. One said, "She was still found in her bed sleeping and it was past five o'clock."
"No," the other one gasped. "So she was..."
"Beaten within an inch of life and dismissed," the first said. The two entered Sakura's bedchamber and curtsied to the "princess."
"Good morning, Princess Ying Fa," they greeted in unison. Sakura curtsied back and then they resumed talking.
The first one whispered while fixing her bed, "She was thrown out of the palace gate by six."
"Lazy slugabed got exactly what she deserved," the second said as she placed a single rose on the bed after it was made. "But the fire..."
They both fell silent and looked at the girl in her nightgown. She lowered her head and started out the door to change.
To be continued...
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A/n- I know, I know, I know. That was short... only six pages but this chapter was like a prolouge, it was meant to be short... heehee...? So how was it? I'll continue only if I get at least one review saying it was good. I don't know yet but some characters might be OOC. Like Sakura and Syaoran... who will be making his appearance probably in the next chapter or the next. So plz review. And if you have to flame, plz be gentle. I'm very sensitive... *Meep*
Anywayz, I hope it gets more reviews then my one-shot-song-fic. I thought it was pretty interesting... but it got one review... : ( So, I'm out. Expect another chapter next week (if I get enough reviews) along with chapter 7,8, or whateva I'm on for "For My Love." Toodlez!!! (R+R plz!!) (Kumasi and Hime are little bi*****!)
~*~LiL DreameR~*~