Ren: Hi minna-san, its Ren, a new author! I can't guarantee my work is great, but I'm trying and I'll learn over time. I would actually like flames, they could help me improve my story.
Kero: I'm not sure many people actually like flames, you must be odd.
Ren: ::pouts:: meanie
(Ya, this is me having a conversation with a muse, or attempting to have one. I'll get better, hopefully)
Ren: anyways, Kero, do your job.
Kero: fine, Ren does not own our wonderful anime/magna CCS or Anastasia, CLAMP, Nelvana, and Disney own them
Ren: ::mutters:: lucky…
Kero: ::raises an eyebrow:: well, here are some notes on the story before you read…
Ren: And, I would like to say Happy Birthday Sakura! Since yesterday was her birthday, and I didn't have time to load my story yesterday.
"Talking"
Thinking, unless it's in a flashback
~~Flashback/End of Flashback~~
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(A/N: me talking, but I doubt this will occur much unless I need to explain something)
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Summary: Loosely based on the Disney movie, Anastasia. The plot will change drastically as the story goes on, so don't worry about already knowing the ending or whole plot, I have ideas for twists. Oh, and it takes place in about 1877, no particular date. There's may be magic, but no cards
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I, like no one else who writes fanfiction for CCS does not own it, CLAMP does (lucky smart people).
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One December Night: In Search of the Future
All her life, or at least what she was able to remember, had been in this house. From the window of the stone house was a beautiful women and man holding each other with sorrowful expressions.
The young woman's long auburn hair was spotted with white, powdery snow that fell all afternoon.
~~Flashback~~
A young woman, about 17, stared at the ground. Her emerald eyes refused to look at her to long time friends that sheltered her when she arrived in their small town 7 years ago.
"I'm sorry Tomoyo. It's just… I don't belong here. You have Eriol, and I'm happy for you. But, I can't stay," the young woman said.
The other people in the room were silent. A young man with navy blue hair and sapphire blue eyes stood up from his chair and walked over to the silent woman.
The young woman trembled slightly. Her long violet hair framed her face and covered the watery amethyst eyes.
"It's okay, I'm sure she'll visit us," he said.
A sob escaped the woman.
"It's not the same, Eriol. Sakura will be gone……gone," she managed to whisper. Her voice was slightly broken. Another sob escaped her as she realized her best friend was leaving her and her fiancé forever.
She hugged Eriol and cried into his shoulder.
Eriol looked sadly at Sakura, he nodded to her to make an exit before Tomoyo got hysterical.
"Goodbye my friends," Sakura whispered, "You've done more for me than you could ever imagine."
~~End of Flashback~~
Two cold tears slid down on both sides of the young woman's beautiful face. She never imagined that she would leave her home with Tomoyo and Eriol, but they needed their space from her, a lonely orphan without a clue to who she was.
Sakura started to walk away slowly and broke into a full out run. Her face became tearstained as she ran away from the only life she knew.
A few minutes later, the auburn haired woman was out of breath and lost.
She looked around. Where am I? I couldn't have run too far away from the village.
There were snow-covered trees surrounding the dirt road she walked upon.
From behind her there was a sound. It was a soft clinking of hooves on the frozen ground. Sakura turned around just in time to see a grand amber horse galloping past her.
The rider slowed down as they came near her, but he didn't stop. His chestnut brown hair was windblown and his cold amber eyes glanced quickly at her. As soon as he had come, he left.
Sakura stood at the side of the road confused.
"Ano (um)," she said once she regained her breath.
All of the sudden, a golden dog raced by her. It was chasing the horse and rider that had just appeared, but abruptly stopped at the sight of the woman.
The dog glanced up at her with his head tilted to the side. His coal black eyes shown with happiness. He found a new mistress!
The dog, almost one and a half feet, happily jumped on her.
"Hoe," Sakura moaned as she picked herself up from the pile of snow she had been knocked into and brushed the snow off as well as she could.
Sakura looked at the dog.
"Sorry little guy, I'm going to Hong Kong."
Sakura looked up to the road signs telling her which towns she could go to.
From the back, there was Tomoyo and Eriol's village, and then there was Tokyo and Tomoeda. Sakura stared up at the sign with a blank expression.
"But where's Hong Kong?"
The dog sweat dropped.
Sakura looked at the golden dog that had followed her.
"Oh, so now you think your sooooooo smart, don't you?" she said sarcastically.
The dog barked happily.
"Hai, you keep thinking that," Sakura replied, "Oh, wait! Hong Kong is in China! And I'm in Japan…"
The dog looked at the young woman sadly.
He barked, but she didn't look up. He barked again and was ignored. Now he was getting impatient. The dog took Sakura's scarf and dragged it with him as he ran to Tomoeda. They were going to visit a friend.
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Sakura gave up on trying to get her scarf back and just followed the dog.
"So, you got a name, dog?" she asked.
"Bark (A/N: Kero: so original, isn't she?)," the dog replied.
"Okay, well, my name's Sakura. I know this sounds funny, but I don't know my last name," She said to the dog.
"Well, I can guess your name, tell me when I get it right, okay?" she asked.
The dog nodded.
"Smart…" Sakura mumbled and the dog smiled proudly.
"Okay, how about, Tsuba (A/N: I'm making up names, I don't know if they are real or not) or Sunei. Hmmmmm how about Hikaro? No? Hua? Lin? Puar? Grrr, one more try. Kero?"
The dog barked happily and pranced around her ankles.
"Kero, I like that. So Kero, want to come join me on a journey to Hong Kong?" the young woman asked.
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Ren: well, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Oh, and don't worry, my writing will improve as time goes on and my story and plot will be much better and more understood as time goes.
Kero: she's too shy to ask but you all know how much authors LOVE reviews, good or bad. So all you gotta do is click that little button and review.
Ren: if you like it, tell me, I'll post the chapters faster because I started a few at one time so I won't fall behind in updating and take a year.
Kero: For a first chapter, 4 pages aren't bad. Oh, and she plans on making this about 14 chapters long, but this girl writes A LOT, ask some of her friends.
Ren: thank you Kero.
Kero: no problem, wait a minute, did I say you have friends, like it's actually true?!?!
Ren: HAI!!! Hey, that's something my parents would say O.O
Ren: I think I'm gonna get a new muse, you're not very nice (goes over to computer to look up some of her favorite characters for a muse)
Kero: ::desperately:: noooooo, you can't do this to me, after all we've been through!!
Ren: One chapter?
Kero: not the point!! I promise to be better!!
Ren: ::thinks:: hmmm
Ren: anyways, talk to you all later. And email me if you want to tell me something that's not in a review or want to flame but doesn't really want everyone to see or something. My email is horsegirl223@comcast.net, if you look in my profile, it'll say that, I think. Oh, and can someone explain what a beta reader is? I'm not sure… *_*. Bye minna-san!!!!