Another type of Cinderella Story
Sum: Puzzleshipping. Everyone knows the story of Cinderella. This includes the servant boy Yuugi and the servant girl Anzu, who serve there cruel step-mother/ mistress and her just as mean daughter. When the prince of the kingdom hosts a ball at his palace who will win his affection Anzu or Yuugi? Not the same old Cinderella story but if you don't believe me read and find out ;)Also Anzu bashing later on, not right away.
4-chan: I don't own Yugioh but I will on opposite day ^^
Ryou: aren't you supposed to work on something for Fairly odd parents, that you haven't worked on for over a year.
4-chan: … I'm getting around to it.
Ryou: *rolls eyes* Suuure you are.
4-chan: T^T shut up and on with the story
~Prequel~
Once upon a time there was a family who lived in a small cottage on the outskirts of the kingdom of Domino. It was a small family of four; the father, Mr. Mutou, who was constantly away for business, the mother, Mrs. Mutou, who was a kind hearted and beautiful woman but sadly she was also a very ill, and their two children a girl named Anzu and a boy named Yuugi. Anzu was the oldest by 2 years and liked to remind Yuugi every chance she got. She was a very pretty girl with dark brown hair that almost touched her shoulders and light blue eyes, along with nice, cream colored skin. Yuugi had unusual tricolored hair that defied gravity in a starfish shape. His bangs were blond while the rest of his hair was black with purple tips. He had light, pale skin that he had inherited from his mother along with his huge, innocent, amethyst eyes. (1)
One night their mother read them the story of Cinderella. "And then both Cinderella and the prince lived happily ever after." Her soft voice said as she shut the book and kissed both of her children good night.
"Mommy?" Anzu, who was only 6 at the time, called out when her mother was about to leave the room.
"What is it Anzu?" Her mother asked.
"Do you think I will get a happy ending like Cinderella did?" Anzu asked.
Her mother smiled. "Of course you will but you have to remember that sometimes you have to work for happiness."
While Anzu looked confused at that statement a four year old Yuugi asked, "Do you think I will get a happy ending like Cinderella did too?"
Before their mother could say anything Anzu interjected. "Of course not in order to get a happy ending you have you be a girl or a prince and you are neither so you don't get a happy ending."
Upon hearing this information Yuugi started to cry, he wanted a happy ending too. Their mother picked him up and set him on her lap while rubbing his back. "Don't cry Yuugi, you'll get your happy ending too. It doesn't matter if you are a boy or a girl, a prince or a princess, you have the exact same chance at a happy ending as every one else."
Yuugi sniffled, "R-Really?" he asked.
"Of course you do." His mother said before turning her attention back to Anzu, who was looking down at the floor. "Look at me young lady." It took a couple if seconds before Anzu lifted her head towards her mother. "I want you to apologize to your brother."
Anzu's eyes widened, "But why?" She asked, "In all of the fairy tales it is the girl and the prince that get the happy ending."
He mother's gaze hardened. "Because what you said hurt you brother's feelings and if only girls and princes get happy endings then how did me and your Father get ours?" She asked.
Anzu, who didn't have an answer to her mother's question, looked over to Yuugi and sighed, "I'm sorry Yuugi." She said.
Yuugi sniffled and gave her a slight smile, "It's okay."
Their mother smiled and put Yuugi back in bed before walking to the door, "Good night little ones, I hope you sleep well." She said and turned off the lights.
"Good night Mommy" They said in union. Then their mother shut the door and the children could hear their mother's harsh, muffled coughs as she walked away from the kid's room.
"Do you think mommy is going to be okay?" Yuugi asked, obviously worried.
"She'll be fine she probably just has a cold." Anzu said. "Now go to sleep."
"Okay." Yuugi said and went to sleep.
Not even a month later their mother had died from her illness. During her finial days she had given Anzu and Yuugi something to remember her by. Anzu was given her mother's old earrings; the earrings were gold hearts with a sapphire gem in the middle. Yuugi was given the necklace his mother always wore; the necklace was shaped like a small, upside-down, golden pyramid that had a ruby in the middle of an eye. (Think of the millennium puzzle only way smaller and a ruby in the center of the eye.) The pyramid could open up like a locket and inside was a picture of his family on one side and of his mother on the other. His mother had given him two gold chains, the small one she always wore it with and a medium sized one so he could put the necklace under his shirt. Neither Anzu or Yuugi and taken off her gifts since. Her death had devastated the entire family. The father was away even more then normal after her death and left the kids home with nannies to take care of them. Anzu would lock herself in the room she shared with Yuugi and cry for hours. Yuugi would go into the woods surrounding his house and cry at the lake he and his mother would eat picnics and fish at. (2) Anzu didn't like the bugs in the woods so only he and his mother knew about the lake.
After a few months things began to get back to normal. Anzu stopped locking herself in their room as often and she didn't cry as much, but she did get annoyed easier then normal. Yuugi had stopped crying down at the lake and he even helped the nannies with small jobs like he would with his mom, but he was noticeably quieter then normal. Their father came home a little more often and said that he might have a surprise for the kids in a couple of months if things go right. Both kids were confused by what he meant by that until their father came back from a business trip a year later with a black haired, Asian woman and a blonde haired, American girl who looked around Anzu's age. (3) (A.N I can explain! Just continue reading.)
"Yuugi, Anzu this is Vivian Wong and her daughter Rebecca Hawkins. Vivian, Rebecca these are my kids Yuugi and Anzu." Their father said.
"Daddy why are their last names different?" Yuugi asked quietly, he still didn't speak much.
"Wong is Vivian's last name she had before she was married to Rebecca's daddy, but Rebecca's daddy died when she was little so Vivian decided to change her own last name back but keep Rebecca's the same, okay?" He said, hoping Yuugi could understand what he said. (4)
Yuugi nodded, not fully understanding what his father had said. "Okay daddy."
"Why do they look different and why did they come back with you?" Anzu asked.
Their father sighed silently at the questions he knew would be asked (5), "Vivian is from the Chinese kingdom but married a business man from the American kingdom (6), Rebecca got most of her genes from her dad. As far as you other question goes Vivian and Rebecca are your new step-mother and step-sister."
"WHAT?" Anzu screamed, Yuugi just looked at his Father with a hurt expression on his face. "How could you replace Mommy?" Anzu cried.
Their father sighed. "I didn't replace your mother, no one could ever take her place in my heart, I just found a new love in Vivian and I'm sure once you get to know her you'll love her too."
Yuugi looked up at his father with tears in his eyes, "But I don't want to forget about Mommy."
"Oh Yuugi," His father said giving him a hug, "I'm not asking you to forget your mother, I would never do that. I just want to try to make a new place in your heart for Vivian and Rebecca, okay?" He asked.
"Okay Daddy." Yuugi said.
Their father sighed, "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to make this visit short I have a meeting in a few days in another kingdom and if I want to make it I'll have to leave now. The good news is now that Vivian is here the nannies aren't needed anymore. I'll see you all as soon as I can. I love you." And with that he gave them all good buy kisses (Yuugi, Anzu, and Rebecca on the forehead. Vivian on the lips. Ew) and drove off. (7)
"Okay brats listen up," Vivian hissed, glaring at her two new step-children, "You are going to do everything my little angel and I say or I'll tell your dear old daddy that you weren't behaving no matter what I did, got it?"
"And what if we told Daddy that you were being mean to us?" Anzu said with a glare of her own.
Vivian grinned evilly and kicked a tree close by causing it to fall to the ground. "Tell and that will happen to you, understand?" Both Anzu and Yuugi nodded their heads. "Good, now I'm moving into your father's room and Rebecca is moving into yours so get your stuff out of there and unpack ours. But make it quick because I want lunch soon. Now which one of you two knows how to cook the best?" She demanded.
"U-Um I-I do." Yuugi said. He had gotten a lot of experience from helping the nannies and had a real talent for cooking even at his young age.
"Good, then you will do the cooking along with helping your sister clean." Vivian said.
"M-Ma'am," Yuugi said in a low voice, "W-Where will me and Anzu sleep n-now that Rebecca has our old room?"
Vivian groaned. "I saw a shed in the back yard sleep in there or in a closet, just as long as I don't have to look at you all the time." She said then walked upstairs with Rebecca.
"There is no way I am sleeping in a shed that is where we keep our chickens." Anzu said.
"W-Well how about why don't you sleep in the storm cellar, there is a spare bed down there and I could take the shed." Yuugi suggested. "I'll even help you clean it up the cellar if you want me too."
Anzu hugged her little brother. "Thank you Yuugi, we better get started."
That day Anzu and Yuugi had cleaned out their old room, unpacked both Rebecca's and Vivian's things, and moved their things to their respective 'rooms'. Half way through unpacking his own things into the shed Yuugi had to make dinner it was a simple dinner, much to Vivian's displeasure, but it was good. After dinner he helped Anzu clean up the cellar and made it look at least a little bit like a 7 year olds room. (8) Once that was done he went back to the shed to finish his own 'room'.
As time went by Yuugi and Anzu learned that Rebecca was just a cruel as her mother. Their father ended up having to move to another kingdom because of his job and left Yuugi and Anzu in the 'loving' care of Vivian. He also sent half of his check back home every month for food.
Over the years Yuugi and Anzu had gotten into the routine of Yuugi waking up first to make breakfast for everyone, then Yuugi waking up Anzu so they can give Vivian and Rebecca breakfast in bed, then they both would do what ever chores they were told to do, Yuugi would make lunch and Anzu would wash the dishes, then they would do their afternoon chores, once those were done then they had the rest of the day to themselves as long as they weren't around Vivian or Rebecca, then Yuugi would make dinner, and everyone would go to bed sometime after that. Anzu, age 19 now, would go into her 'room' in the cellar, which now looked like a somewhat normal 19 year olds room, and dream about happily ever after with the prince of Domino. Yuugi, age 17, would go to his mother's lake and either fish for their dinner instead of going in town at the markets or sit down on rock and stare at his mother's necklace before he would go back to his shed to sleep. Rebecca, also 19, would go upstairs and talk the night away with one of her many boyfriends and Vivian would either sleep or go out with Rebecca to shop. This was the normal life in the Mutou household at least until the letter from the King arrives.
4-chan: I think I'll end the prequel there.
Ryou: And to think it only took you 5 hours.
4-chan: T^T You're mean today, are you sure you're not Yami Bakura?
Ryou: I'm sure.
4-chan: Meany, Anyway read and please review. Constructive Criticism is welcome but no flaming please I shall give you future warnings now.
There will be Yaoi, Vivian and Rebecca bashing, maybe some cussing, later on Anzu bashing I still don't know if it will be major or minor I might just leave it up to you guys, I don't think that this will go to the M rating, there might be abuse in here too. Okay that is all that I can think of at this moment.
Side notes:
1: I've never been good at descriptions so please bare with me
2: Just incase people think that it is unsafe for Yuugi to go to a lake by himself at the age of 4 he has been there enough with his mom that he knows what he should and shouldn't do. (But don't let your 4 year olds go down to a lake by themselves it is dangerous and life isn't fanfiction, they could get hurt)
3: To answer the question on why I decided to make Rebecca Vivian's daughter and make her older then Yuugi even though in the series she is way younger then him. It was because I didn't want to make any OC's if I could help it and that Rebecca's older age fits the story better.
4: Yuugi is 5 at this time and would most likely not fully understand what his father said about Vivian's last name being different then Rebecca's
5: Mr. Mutou knew that kids ask questions when the notice that something is different and he knows that kids can be blunt so he was expecting Anzu's questions
6: Again bad a descriptions and didn't want to describe what American and Chinese people look like and I didn't want to have countries and kingdoms so all countries are kingdoms.
7: This fic will have modern technology in it like cars, phones, etc.
8: Yuugi and Anzu decorated the cellar with the stuff from their old room
9: Even though there isn't a number 9 in the fic I would like to say that in the beginning of the story when I had Anzu be rude to Yuugi I'm not going to call that Anzu bashing because she was doing what older siblings do when they think they know everything. (I have two older sisters and a 7 year cousin) I didn't mean anything bad by it. But, again there will be Anzu bashing later on.