Fated
Witch-Mistress-Animaru
In this case, let's pretend that Japan is a monarchy ruled by the Lis. It is an enclosed country that refused to accept the modern innovations of the world. (Kinda different from the REAL Japan...) Let's just call it autonomy from the world.
Syaoran was trained to be the crowned prince, being the only legitimate son of the king with his real crowned queen. He is CRUEL, MEAN... a BULLY, and yet many girls dreamt to be his princess someday. Eriol is Syaoran's older half-brother, the king's son to another woman. Sakura and Tomoyo are cousins. They were once well-off but all the riches of their families went to basic commodities they need. Fujitaka, sadly, in here, died when Sakura was 13 (he was once friends with the king, being the leader of the army—the very reason he died.) Sakura moved in with her aunt Sonomi, who was also struggling with the sudden raise of taxes. Touya was sent to jail for stealing a bit of stale bread for the two of them (Sakura and him, of course!) to eat. There he meets Yukito, who was also jailed for stealing a piece of sweetmeat...because of hunger. Sakura and Tomoyo's status at school were... cinder girls. They were considered dirt, especially by a popular girl named Mauari.( Make-believe character for me...) They wore rags to school, that is the main reason. Tomoyo has a deep crush on Eriol, but then was weak, and scared. Sakura was the stronger one.
What was forgotten by these people, especially Sakura and Syaoran (Undying fan of SS tandem, at your service... c",)) was the two of them being friends when they were about 7 years of age.
When Sakura was 14, Syaoran ordered the burning of the houses he considered squatters...Including Sonomi's house.
Sakura's anger flared silently. The next day, Syaoran visited the school that the two girls, who lived in no certainty of what would become of them, currently attend. It was ordered that same day that all those who attend schooling will have to wear decent clothing. The teacher pitied the two, but had only one dress to give. Sakura gave way, because se thought she owe Tomoyo's mother a lot. She decided to visit her brother in jail, who gives her a thing her mother had saved up for her. Clothes and money enough to keep their stomachs full for years.
Sakura dressed up and immediately ran to school. She came face to face with the two princes, but refused to bow down, being the cause of her expulsion from the school. The principal was cruel enough to also expel Tomoyo, who was crying quietly beside Sakura. Then and there they decided to leave Japan, believing that a better future awaits them away from the wretched country.
Sakura returns a few years later, unrecognizable from the impoverished teener who left ages ago. With a sworn vendetta against the Royal Family, she tracks down the Crown Prince, to seduce him and get revenge. But fate is just as cruel as the prince years ago when she finds herself falling for her sworn enemy, Li Syaoran.
So, How about it? I've got a few chapters on the ready if this is approved by my readers, okay?