When the Royal Council of Advisors plotted to pair Prince Syaoran with a local girl (which girl, they cared not), they had no idea their scheme would lead to the prince's bodyguard finding his perfect match as well. An AU Kuro/Fai Cinderella inspired story with Clamp crossovers right and left.

On the moons of Saturn lies villages spit between rich and poor, never interacting with each other. All goes smoothly with little resistance. When Oreki Hotarou comes in contact with the rich heiress Chitanda Eru, the perfect orderly world begins to change putting the mild-mannered Oreki at the core of a rebellion.

He continues to hold the umbrella. — Houtarou, Chitanda, a very red umbrella, and a one-way road.

After seeing him beaten and dazed from the heat, Oreki Eru comforts her husband and remembers how they've (not) changed over a decade of being together.

It was the only unsolved crime that had haunted him these past two years—the apparent death, and disappearance, of Chitanda Eru. And now, finally out of Kamiyama High, nineteen-year-old Oreki Houtarou finds evidence that Eru may still be alive, and finally takes up the biggest mystery of his life—that of her absence from it. Ore/Chi.

AU. Chitanda Eru gets transported to a universe where Oreki Houtarou chooses not to enroll in Kamiyama High, and thus, undoes events that should have happened at the Classics Club. She must go to the root of the matter to know why he had changed his mind, if she was to go back to her own universe. Rewritten from the fic originally published under the title '1999.'