KawaiiDragon82: Hiyaz ppl, I'm a fairytale fanatic as you could probably have already saw………*sweatdrop* Well here is Cinderella YGO style! Couplings are KaibaxShizuka (Serenity) as the main one, HondaxAnzu, and JouxMai.

Yami: What???? I don't get to be with someone??? Nor does my aibou???

KawaiiDragon82: -.- shut up, Yami. Would you want to be paired with……...me?

Yami: GAH!!!!!! NNNNNNNEEEEEEEVVVVVVVEEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!!!

KawaiiDragon82: *sweatdrops* I'll pretend that was a compliment………*snicker* But I knew that would work………on with the story and please R+R!

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Shizuka scrubbed the floors to her own house. She sighed and could remember a time when she could go horseback riding with her brother and father. But since her brother, Jou, had to move away to find a job, those two have been very lonely. Now, Shizuka's father had married another woman as Shizuka's father had to work. They didn't think it was very ladylike for woman to work but I guess that didn't go with her stepmother and stepsisters' prospective. ((KawaiiDragon82: -.- do not blame me for the stepsisters' names………I had to think of something!)) Nikore and Sanmi walked over to her; their long dresses flowing rigidly behind them. Shizuka looked up at them with big brown eyes pleading for a new dress besides her old rag one that she has worn for years. After all, she did deserve one since her stepsisters' had a new dress every day!

"SHIZUKAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why aren't you scrubbing the floors???" Sanmi yelled. Shizuka looked back down; hey eyes burning with fury.

She wanted to yell "You fricken' witch((KawaiiDragon82: Or another word that rhymes with witch………but, not appropriate since this IS a fairytale………)) But instead, she just squeaked out her words. "I am, oh great one," she said quietly.

"Hmph! Don't protest back against her or me! Now keep scrubbing!" Nikore said snobbishly and walked away with her sister snickering. Shizuka sighed and was on the verge of breaking into tears. When suddenly………Ding-dong! The doorbell! Shizuka got off the floor and walked over to the door. A short stubby man was there with a scroll. She quickly unrolled it and started reading it.

"All women of Domino City are invited to Prince Kaiba's castle for a royal fiesta," the man said. Shizuka gasped a little startled. The man quickly added something that was probably not mentioned on the scroll. "Word is out that the prince is looking for a bachelorette………" the man whispered and quickly headed off. Shizuka's eyes closed and a smile formed on her face as she imagined herself dancing with the prince. That had to be the wrong time too.

"SHIZUKA!!!! What on earth are you doing??? Never mind that, who was that at the door, and what did they want?" Shizuka's stepmother questioned with an evil look on her face.

"N-nothing………" Shizuka stuttered. She quickly tried to hide the scroll but Sanmi grabbed it from her. "Hey! Give that back!" Shizuka demanded. Sanmi stuck her tongue out and handed it over angelically to her mother. Shizuka gulped. Her stepmother ((KawaiiDragon82: Hmm………I'll make the stepmother's name………Kikyo)) read the scroll with eyes widening every sentence she read through.

"What is it, mumma?" Nikore asked hopping up and down. Kikyo closed the scroll and walked over to Shizuka with a grin on her face.

"You want to go to this party?" Kikyo asked ignoring her daughter's question. Shizuka nodded. She heard Nikore and Sanmi both really excited about going. Of course, they could. "Th-that's ridiculous," Kikyo said laughing. Shizuka frowned. "The prince will never choose you! Besides, what are you going to wear?" Kikyo said still laughing. Sanmi and Nikore heard this and started laughing too. Shizuka looked at Kikyo, then Sanmi, then and Nikore. She bursted into tears humiliated and ran up to her so-called 'room'. They had given her a poor looking room.

"I wish Daddy were here………I wish Jou were here………they would protect me………they would help me………" Shizuka sulked. She suddenly had an idea. If she could make a dress, maybe her stepmother would think she's worthy of going. So she called out her birds and mice friends (KawaiiDragon82: YAMI!!! Gomen-nasai, no bird or mice friends, she's not Snow White, Yami stole the comp from me and now he's going to pay, no mice or bird friends, I repeat……… Yami: *gulp* Great………now I did it! *Sees Kawaii scribbling furiously with a pencil and he suddenly turns into a bird* CHIRP! KawaiiDragon82: *bursts out laughing* Hahahahahahaha! Did you see that? First a neko from my other fanfic and now a bird! I could have sworn he was a penguin too………). She hummed a song while quietly sewing some pieces of well cloth that she had saved for a while. They were her mothers. Something broke the silence.

"SHIZUKA!!!! Come down here and do the dishes!" Sanmi's awful voice rang out through the house. Shizuka sighed and looked at her dress.

"I guess it'll have to wait………" she sighed let s tear slip out of her eyes.

"SHIZUKA!!!" they called again.

"I'm coming! I'm coming!" Shizuka said running down the stairs. ((KawaiiDragon82: This is a different variation of Cinderella, since there are no mice or bird friends, I hafta tweak it a lil'………)) Her fairy godmother suddenly appeared and looked at the dress.

"Honey, you've got to get professional work on this," the blond woman said. ((KawaiiDragon82: Yep, that's right! Mai is Shizuka's fairy godmother!)) She shook her head, and with a quick wave of her wand, she magically turned the unfinished dress into a gorgeous masterpiece. She smiled at her work. "There………now it's my lunch break," Mai commented and vanished before Shizuka could come back to find out about the dress. Shizuka panted and walked back into her room. She finally finished washing the dishes. If it wasn't a mile high into the air, she would have finished sooner. She gasped as she walked inside to find a stunning dress waiting to be tried on.

"Oh my kami!"" Shizuka said, hey eyes literally popping out of her eye sockets. She grabbed the dress and quickly went to try it on. She giggled slightly being so excited and all. "This is wonderful………thank you………whoever made this dress for me………I owe you big time," she said. She started crying………this time because of happiness not sadness.

KawaiiDragon82: Alrighty, there's the first chapter right there!

Yami:*still ish a bird* CHIRP! Aren't fairytales mostly just one shots?

KawaiiDragon82: BIRD! *hugglez* No they aren't! =P