imouto-Younger sister

okaasama-respectful formal way for mother

otousama-respectful formal way for father

Hime-Princess

Onee-san-respectful way for older sister

Arigatō- thank you

Gomen'nasai-I'm sorry

Hai-yes

Hontōni-really

Narrator's POV

Fire slowly burns the building. The building slowly starting to crumble. A young girl about four years old, rushes around, trying to dodge the crumbling parts of the building, and fire. She trying to figure what's happening as tears slid down her cheeks.

"Okaasama! Otousama! Where are you? Imouto-san!" The girl yelled. "Akane-chan!"

"Hime-sama! Hime-sama!" A girl yelled.

"Akane-chan! What's going on?" The little girl yelled at a young girl running toward her that had straight shoulder length blonde hair and light green eyes who looked to be ten years old.

"There's no time to explain!" She replied. She grabbed the girl's hand. They ran and ran, desperately seeking a way out. They ran into a room. Blood was splattered on the wall and floor. Both girls' eyes widened. They slowly look around and stop to gaze at something shocking. A woman with orange hair laid on the floor in a pool of blood. The four-year-old girl gasped in horror.

"O-Okaasama? N-No. No! Okaasama! Okaasama!" The four-year-old girl yelled.

"There she is! Get the Hime!" A ton of men wearing black yelled.

"This way!" Akane said, leaving into another room.

"Onee-san! Onee-san!" A girl yelled.

"Huh? Is that my sister?" The four-year-old yelled. The four-year-old turned around, to see her two-year-old sister captured by the terrorist. "No! Sis!" The four-year-old girl yelled as she ran toward her younger sister.

"No! Don't Hime-sama!" Akane shouted. Immediately in front of the four-year-old girl, a small part of the ceiling crumbled and fell through the floor, leaving a hole. They're on the tenth floor of the building which had twenty floors. One of the terrorist grabbed Akane from behind, and the one next to him started to grab the four-year-old girl. However, a small part of the floor under her started to crumble from the fire surrounding them, as she fell through the hole, trying to reach her hand out, as she fell into the flame engulfed floors. "Hime-sama!" Akane yelled.

-Eleven years later-

"I'm going out!" A girl with long orange hair who wore large pink bow in her hair, and had light pink eyes announced.

"You mustn't Momoko-chan!" A woman with brown hair replied.

"Don't worry! I'm only going to get some bread. We're out, right? I won't be long, I promise! I'll wear my red cloak too!" She replied.

She sighed. "Alright, go ahead Momoko-chan."

"Arigatō! Well I'm off!" The girl responded. Momoko walked around, before getting bread.

"Hey, have you heard? There is a ball tonight for the Prince's birthday! Anyone can come!" A random woman talked with another.

"Oh my gosh! There's a ball tonight! I must go!" Momoko whispered. "But, I have to convince everyone back at the house first." Momoko went to buy bread, and then started to head back to her house. However, someone bumed into her and kept running. "Hey! Watch where you're going!" Momoko shouted. Several people follow after the person that had bumped into hrt, he/she was wearing a black cloak. Momoko continued walking, but then remembered that the Sakura trees are out this time of year. 'Maybe just a sneak peek would be okay.' Momoko thought.

She walked into the forest with the Sakura trees. She went through a cave and many obstacles until she arrived at her destination. It's a place with lots of Sakura trees, a water fall, deers and rabbits roaming around. Momoko had found this place out only a year ago, and is the only one that knows about it. She sat by her favorite tree, and took out her basket. She took out an apple she had bought earlier, and then took a bite out of it. Momoko stopped crunching the apple, when she swore, she heard snoring. She looked around, and doesn't see anything. So she ignored it and continued to eat her apple. Momoko finished her apple, and then got up, she walked turns toward the tree, and then started to walk back, but only to trip and fall to the ground. "Ouch!" Momoko said, rubbing her head. She turned around to see what she tripped on, to find a handsome boy with orange hair like hers in a black cloak, sleeping on the ground as he slowly started to wake up. 'That cloak... I feel like I've seen it before...' Momoko wondered.

His eyes flutter open to meet hers. It's revealed that he has blood-red eyes. "Huh? Who are you?" He asked.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?!" Momoko questioned.

"Huh? Oh no! I must get back!" He said, starting to get up.

"Wait, you didn't answer my questions!" Momoko said He began to walk away. "Hey!" Momoko said. Sigh. "Honestly..." 'Wait! I remember now! He must have been the person in the black cloak that had bumped into me earlier! The nerve of that guy!' Momoko thought.

Momoko headed back home. "Momoko-chan! Where have you been? We were worried!" Kaede told her.

"Gomen'nasai! Here's the bread!" Momoko replied.

"Honestly, Momoko-san! Do you know what could have happened?" Atsushi said.

"Yeah, you should listen to mom and dad more." Haru stated, who is thirteen years old.

"That's right." Says Akihiro, Haru's older brother who is seventeen years old.

"Yeah..." Arisu agreed, who's Haru's older sister, and Akihiro's younger sister, who is fifteen.

"Anyway! I overheard from someone that there's a ball tonight for the Prince's birthday! Can I please go? Please!" Momoko pleaded.

"No! You cannot!" Kaede snapped.

"Why? Why can't I? It's not fair! Why can't I go outside casually like everyone else! Why must I stay in the house most of the time? It's because of you, why I have no friends! You're so mean! I hate you all!" Momoko yelled, running into her room.

"Atsushi, maybe we should tell her." Kaede said.

"No, we can't, not until her sixteenth birthday, which is only in a couple of weeks, she just has to wait a little longer and then she'll know the truth." Atsushi responded.

"You're right." Kaede replied.

"What are you both talking about?" Haru questioned.

"Haru, it's nothing. Why don't you go to your room? Dinner will be ready soon. You too, Akihiro and Arisu." Kaede replied.

"Hai."

"So, she's at it again?" A voice said.

"Hideki-san! Yes, she wants to go to tonight's ball." Kaede said surprised.

"We can't. When her ixteenth birthday comes, then she'll know the truth, we don't even know if she'll be the same after we tell her." Hideki said.

"That's right. I'm going to start on dinner."

-With Momoko-

'Why can't I go? It's not fair!' Momoko thought. 'I don't understand... Why do I have to wait untill my sixteenth birthday? Haru-kun, Akihiro-kun, and Arisu-chan gets to go outside whenever they like and meet everyone in the village. It's so unfair! I'm going to that ball no matter what! But... I don't have a dress... What shall I do?' Someone knocked on the door. "Go away!" Momoko shouted, throwing a pillow at the door.

Arisu came in. "Momoko-chan it's me."

"What do you want?"

"I'm going to help you sneak out, so you can go to the ball."

"What? Why?"

"It's because it might be a once in a lifetime opportunity, that's why. It's masquerade so you'll be safe, no one will see your face."

"Why are you helping me anyway?"

"It's because I want you to at least be able to go the ball at least once."

"Arigatō Arisu-chan! But... I don't have a dress or a mask."

"You can borrow mine, I have a mask too."

"Arisu-chan!"

Arisu handed her a dress and mask. "Now hurry up and change, it's going to start soon." Momoko came out dressed in a lovely long light pink dress, flower hairpiece, with her long hair down, and a black, white, and pink mask. She put on her light pink necklace with a crest shaped like a heart. "You look beautiful Momoko-chan!"

"Arisu-chan, arigatō!"

"Now it's time to sneak past, the others." Arisu said. They both nodded. When it became dark, Arisu was able to get Momoko in a carriage that Akihiro will be driving, to get her to the ball.

"Let's go!" Akihiro said.

"The ball! I can hardly wait!" Momoko whispered.

I know I really shouldn't start a new story considering the other stories I have on my plate... but I was insipired by these two animes, and I just had to write a story somewhat similar to them both! I hope you like it so far! Next chapter is when the real stuff happens! The ball! Who will she meet there? Anyway please tell me what you think about it so far!