A/N: (trying to avoid the annoying stuff about the crisis, considering I live in the USA) YOSHI! Let's get this started. Just to let you all know, DOMO ARIGATO FOR ALL YOUR WONDERFUL SUPPORTIVE REVIEWS! ^_^ (Do you seriously think my story is becoming incest?) So…anyway, just FYI, yes, I did in fact read Chinese Cinderella. It's a very exceptional book. (Though I did feel bad for Adeline Yen Mah throughout the entire story…it made me cry! Great Author, I suggest you read it for yourself. Oh yeah, if you want to read some more good Chinese fiction stories, read The Joy Luck Club. That is another one of my favorites which has been written by Amy Tan) The book(s) helped me see China in a different perspective, so that's what interested me into making the fanfic take place in China. ^_~ Oh yeah to all the CCS S+S fans and all the otaku juk sings out there (juk sing, literally meaning star catcher in Chinese; Asian person born/raised in America) I feel I must dedicate this story to you. ^. ^
Sheng Xin (Sacred Heart/Broken Heart)
Chapter 11: What's the story, morning glory?
~~~~~ Markets of Hong Kong… in hiding ~~~~~~
"You totally screwed it up!" Reiko accused.
"Me! You're the one who knocked over the all the stuff on the shelf!" Chang scoffed annoyed.
"Well, you shouldn't have been leaning on me!"
"Eeep! The store guy is coming after us!"
"Run you idiot!"
"Well you're not going to get paid now!"
"As long I as I don't get caught it's okay with me."
They ran in separate directions, Chang never got paid.
~~~~~ At the Li residence--wherever Sakura is… ~~~~~~
After putting away the groceries in the kitchen she brought a box with her to the guestroom. Gee, I wonder why Li-Sama wanted me to go all of a sudden. She pondered to herself. She opened the flat box and began to snack upon the thin chocolate covered sticks inside.
"Kero-Chan!"
No answer.
"Hmm, even in his sleep I thought he would have been able to sense the pocky…"
Sakura cautiously opened the tiny he slept in. "It's locked? Nani! …It smells as if he has been drugged, or a stomachache of some kind…"
Something is definitely going on…
She quietly shut the drawer and sneaked out of her room. The sound of many voices came from the hallway. She gradually crept closer and closer until she put her ear upon the door and listened.
~~~~~ At the Li residence—inside the living room ~~~~~~
"No I won't believe it! I can't believe it!"
"Shao di, I don't want to believe it either, but it's true. Until you were born, Father had many other wives."
"Oh, so how many other sibling do I have!"
"Only Wu-ming that I know of."
Fanren spoke. "She is the only other sibling we ever had, stop exaggerating."
"Xiaolang, we've been over this many times already, you know the reason, you must get over it."
"Niang, why didn't you tell us before?" Syaoran implored.
"I wanted you to be happy, but now I see you wouldn't have ever been happy to not know."
"You can't make me marry anyone."
"It's tradition, we must continue the legacy."
"NO, I will choose who I want to marry and live with for the rest of my life!"
"Don't dare speak to me like that Xiaolang."
He turned away.
"Xiaolang, it wasn't my fault if we had to find other ways to have a male heir, you finally came to existence, but your father left because he felt wrong and disgraced the family. So, he left."
"Niang I'm--"
"Silence."
"What is it?" Fuutie asked.
"I feel an energy."
Syaoran knew the familiar power, "Sakura."
Feimei slid the door. "Nihau?"
Sakura innocently smiled. "Anou...Nihau?"
********************(Next day)
"Shaoran-Kun iie!"
"It's alright, I'll just fall in love you all over again."
"Demo…Shaoran-Kun…"
[It's too late, the card is sealed. Anou, 'The Hope'?] "I know you may not share the same feelings anymore, demo…anata (you're)… ichi-…Ichiban (you're my number one)…daisuki! (I love you!)" [The hot tears streaming down my face sting]
"Ore wa. (Me too)"
"Shaoran-Kun!" [The card had no effect on him, he still loves me!]
Sakura had fully awoken at this point of the morning. "Where did that memory come from?" she asked herself. "Mochiron desu!"
(A/N 2: Okay, I also finished watching the second movie after I wrote chapter 10. Kawaii ne! So will I apply more stuff from the movie into the fan fiction, eventually…more research!)
She sat upon her bed pondering what had happened, basically taking a reality check.
"That was almost 3 summers ago. How could I have forgotten that I admitted I loved him and told him? That's right, he left the next week. I tried to keep in touch with him for the rest of the year, only Meiling would reply by mail. Then all communication with Li-kun just ended." She stopped her thought process, "I just called him Li-kun, like when we first met. I hated him for ignoring me there after." Do I hate him for ignoring me now? Sakura questioned herself.
"Ara, I'm so dense" she said as she studied her surroundings, "I'm still here in China—with Shaoran-Kun's family…what happened last night?" Sakura stared at herself in the mirror, "I look pale, I feel strangely tired, not like exhausted tired…like my body was pushed to feel tired…" She tried to recall what happened the night before. "Let's see…I was shopping with Syaoran during the late afternoon, we came home around 10pm…it's all so foggy from there." She held her head in slight throbbing pain. "What is this feeling?"
There was a sudden knock at the door. "Come in."
"Ohayo Kinomoto-san." Meiling popped in cheerfully.
"Ohayo Meilin-Chan." Sakura replied sleepily, "Ara, it's 11:54 am! Why didn't you wake me? I'll get to my chores right away!"
"Don't worry about it."
"Hoe?"
"I did you chores for you…err just take the day off."
"Demo--"
"I know it's been 4 months since you left Japan, so for Christmas break, you can go home."
"Anou…it has been awhile since the last time I saw oniichan and tousan…I miss them both. Demo…I don't know if it would be right just to leave China."
"Why do you say that?"
"Well, just a feeling, like a magical source, almost like a Clow card…"
"Ara, you should go home, you're family must be worried."
"Hora, maybe I should but I've been keeping in touch with them a lot—matte, are you trying to get rid of me?"
"SA-KU-RA-CHAN." Meiling articulated, "we would never do that, why'd you ever think of that?"
"I'm just kidding…"
With that conversation said, Meiling left. Sakura still felt a little lightheaded. She passed through the corridor and stumbled. Sakura tried her best to make it down toward the bathroom, "I feel groggy, everything is so unclear…" She stepped into the bathroom slightly trembling. Leaning against the wall she vomited, doing her best to aim for the toilet. The stench irked her senses—this smell is familiar, when Kero was locked in his drawer…have I too been drugged? "Well I can't remember anything…I do feel better now…Would they do such a thing as this to me?" She optimistically hoped she was wrong.
"Chotto matte, why am I not in my own room?"
~~~~ Down Stairs in the Elders' room…. ~~~~
"Did it work?" Siefa asked.
"I think so, but she looks ill." Meiling replied.
"I see, use only a teaspoon of codeine next time."
"It shouldn't have affected her that badly…unless you mixed up the tablets with the--"
"What? What!"
"Well remember Wei had his herbal medicines to suppress his arthritis pain?"
"Yes?"
"It is mixed with ma huang."
(A/N: ma huang is basically like an herbal Chinese "weed", it can be turned into "ecstasy". Very bad for Sakura.)
"You're kidding!"
"NO!"
"You mean we actually drugged her?"
Siefa nodded her head in uncertain guilt.
"If Syaoran finds out…"
"He won't."
"You know how much he is love sick over her and won't tell her. He is head over heels for her."
"He will notice won't he…"
"How can he not?"
"Hmm…what should we do about it?"
"We can't tell auntie Yelan…"
"She would have our throats if she found out we could have killed her future daughter-in-law!"
"Should we tell Feimei, Fanren, or Fuutie?"
Siefa shook her head. "We tell, were dead."
~~~~ In the Kitchen ~~~~
"Wei,"
"Yes chi fu (young master)?"
Syaoran moved in an uncoordinated motion, "What should I do about Sakura? What about the family tradition? She knows, she had to have over heard it all last night. What if she doesn't want to follow through…what if she doesn't…love me?"
"Master Shaoran, you have many questions for an old man who has never truly loved. I cannot answer such things."
Wei sat down slowly on the kitchen stool carefully steaming the dumplings.
"During my time here in China, if you were born a peasant, you stay a peasant. We were still run under communism, (A/N: Though The "The People's Republic of China" now does exist…) we were bound under destiny's hand. We could never leave our position in society; you could only go lower. Women were used for position as well, therefore the reason being for arrange marriages. Marriage was never for love, only to change social status."
Wei gave Syaoran a weary look of ancient pain and memories.
"Change your future, hold onto tradition." Wei said, as if he created the maxim himself.
~~~~ In the living room ~~~~
"Ohayo." Syaoran managed to say casually to Sakura as she descended from the stairway.
"Ohayo Shaoran-Kun." She replied as if nothing happened. "Anou ne…why was I not in my bedroom?"
"Eh?"
Yelan strangely appeared as if from the air sweeping in and out like the wind.
"Oh you were put in a smaller guest bedroom, we gave you the other guest house detached from ours because we assumed you might want more privacy. You were tired last night so we just let you sleep in that bedroom for the night. If you like, you may move into that one if your prefer to do so."
Sakura simply nodded her head. She felt exhausted, happy, sad, and angry all at the same time. Sakura wasn't actually aware of what she had just agreed to. Then Sakura just realized that she was accepted upon a new level to live IN the same house roof as the Li family.
TO be continued…..
A/N: First, apology to the other fans that supported me.
Second, a big arigato towards "Baby Jinx" He/she probably has been the only reviewer who has told me different from what the rest of you have been telling me. Some good criticism that will help me improve the story—not that I don't appreciate the really NICE ones that tell me I should continue and that you really like my story…(I secretly laugh inside and say "Oh yeah Silver dust! In your face!")
Lastly, I am SOOOOOO VERY sorry I haven't been able to keep up with my fan fiction writings. I almost decided to give up…. Demo I DIDN'T! I've been really busy with science fair and now I have midterms in two weeks. GOMENASAI ONCE MORE! I promise I'll try to do my best during this Christmas season. Yokata? Hai! ^_^
BTW: I've been a real baka. I've been using different Chinese dialects…just so you know (mainly the Chinese people who can actually speak any of these languages…) I was using Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghai and other stuff I'm not too sure about. So I met a friend in NY who can speak these languages and he's been helping me with the whole dialect thingy. This time only Mandarin and Cantonese ne? Domo arigato Biao ge!
Domo Arigato Minna-san! ^_^
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Date: 2001-11-16 |
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Date: 2001-11-06 |
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i just wanted to make a comment on how you use your chinese. If im not mistakened Sheng Xin means heart broken ... not sacred heart. And you only use "wu di" meaning 5th brother is if the family it self had 5 sons. Which is not since syaoron is the ONLY son, so it would be wiser to use " shao di" ( meaning younger brother)~!!! Ooofz .... too smart for a Abc~!! |
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Akari Kinomoto () |
Date: 2001-11-01 |
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Shen Xin is SOO WONDERFUL! I simply love it. Too bad I got hooked up. I'm dying to finish it. Please do hurry up and I'm giving you all my support. |
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~8ayumi-chan*~ (moonkid7289@aol.com) |
Date: 2001-10-31 |
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!how dare you stop there please morew chaptrz....onegaigozaimasu.........[makes puppy face] pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,need more chaptrz.........~*AyUmI-ChAn*~ |
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Date: 2001-10-29 |
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the author must of read "Chinese Cinderella"cuz i read it and the title, and some parts of the story has names of the characters in " Chinese Cinderella"...VERY WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!! |
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SakuraBlossom86 |
Date: 2001-10-28 |
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I love your story please continue |
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cheler (chelerk@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2001-10-27 |
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OMG!!! this is an awesome story!!!! you have to update as soon as you can!!!!!! plz oh plz oh plz!!!!!! |
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Magic Key |
Date: 2001-10-26 |
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it was great you should keep going I can wait to find out what happens next. so untill ff.net lets us upload NEW CHAPTERS AND ALL THAT. PLEASE KEEP WRITING AND S&S FOREVER |
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LillSakura |
Date: 2001-10-21 |
Ch: 10 |
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NO!!!!!!! A Cliff hanger!!!!! Get the next chapter out ASAP!!!!!!! Please?????? |
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Date: 2001-10-20 |
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ahhh!!! that wuz soooo good right more more more more more, and more i can't get over how good this is!!!! pleeze write more |
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Disgurl |
Date: 2001-10-20 |
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wow this is really good! Please hurry and continue and keep up the good work! |
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Date: 2001-10-20 |
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continue pleaseeeeee hehehhehe |
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Sakura&Li 4ever |
Date: 2001-10-20 |
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please make mor chapters, i wanna kno wht happens, ur keepin me in suspense, S+S 4ever please |
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SAKURAnTOKYO |
Date: 2001-10-20 |
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OMG!!!! you totally have to continue seriously!!! i looove it soo much i can't believe you can stop it here but wu-ming marrying her half brother what type os incest is this!!! hehe this is worse incest than meiling and syaoran!! :) well keep going you have a killer story!!! |
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Date: 2001-10-17 |
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that was a really good story, please hurry up and continue it. |
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Date: 2001-10-06 |
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wOW that is too cool!!! |
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SAKURAnTOKYO |
Date: 2001-10-02 |
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shweettt!!! keep going!!! i looooove it sooo much!!! |
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Magic Key |
Date: 2001-10-02 |
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please do go on! I can;t wait to find out about Syaoran's dAd. S7S FOEVER! |
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Date: 2001-10-01 |
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Ohhh. I wonder what happens next... |
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Date: 2001-10-01 |
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great job! please keep writing! |
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Kat-chan () |
Date: 2001-09-30 |
Ch: 8 |
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i really like your story. i just wish you could write faster but i know that's not fair on you. so keep up the excellent writing! |
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Date: 2001-09-30 |
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WOW!!! WRITE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE!!! Its really good. I love fluff!! I LOVE IT!! Not a lot of lemon, just the right amount, but lots and lots of blushy fluff stuff, its really good, I love it...MORE!!!! M O R E!!!!!!! |
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SAKURAnTOKYO (too lazy to sign in) () |
Date: 2001-09-30 |
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kawaii please continue!!! |
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Magic Key |
Date: 2001-09-30 |
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ONE WORD! MORE PPPPPPLRASE WRITE MORE. i REALLY LOVE THIS FANFIC. SO PLEASE WRITE MORE! |
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Kewlbunnie |
Date: 2001-09-30 |
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Oh, this story's kawaii!!!! Me like!!!! ^_^ Please write the next chapter as soon as you can!! I know that school is a pain in the butt, but what can we do, ya know? Keep up the good work!! Linkin Park, yo!!!!! Sry, I just had to do that. ^_^ Laterz, dude. |
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Date: 2001-09-29 |
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aw....that was sweet!!! i feel sorri for sakura... being stalked by the grlz of 9a...well i luvd this so far and hope ya update more soon!!!! |
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*~*Midnight Star*~* |
Date: 2001-09-26 |
Ch: 6 |
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GREAT STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WRITE!WRITE!WRITE!RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Sailor Krypton |
Date: 2001-09-25 |
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Oh KAwaii!!I love it.It is even better as the story goes on.I LOVE IT!!So much drama and humor and romance and well not much action or horror.NO angst either.THe perfect traits but i wouldn't mind a little more action.Well there's constructive criticm for ya.Oh well.I think that this story has wonderful plot.Twists and turns and all the best things in a perfect S+S story.Except for the fore-mentioned things this is a great story.Well some one gave me M&Ms so...IM HYPER!!!!hehe. TA-TA!!! ~*Krypton*~ |
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Star Mistress (ijedimaster1@aol.com) |
Date: 2001-09-12 |
Ch: 6 |
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LOVE IT!!!!!!!! WRITE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY WELL DONE IN ALL AREAS AND IT HELPS ME WITH LEARNING CANTONESE!!!!!!!!! grins from ear to ear* Star Mistress Sakura Kinomoto (Ying-Fa) |
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Date: 2001-09-10 |
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gah....please hurrie with the story...onegai???? i love it soooo much so far! it's really good!! hurrie please...arigatou!! hehe |
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~*princess icestar*~ |
Date: 2001-09-08 |
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aw......... poor lil wolf... hope u update another chapter soon!!!! i luvd it!!! it was sooooooooooooooo kawaii!!! (well in some parts)... |
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Sakura-luv-Syaoran |
Date: 2001-09-07 |
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Keep writing~ ^^ |
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Midori iro |
Date: 2001-09-07 |
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Great story! Write more! |
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Magic Key |
Date: 2001-09-07 |
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sssso cool. HEHE it was kind of funny to, Well please go on! |
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Magic Key |
Date: 2001-09-02 |
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pleaase hurry I can't wait to find out what happens! |
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SAKURAnTOKYO |
Date: 2001-09-02 |
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OMG THIS IS GREAT YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO HAVE TO KEEP GOING I CAN'T WAIT YAY WHEN WILL SAKURA FIGURE OUT THAT XIAOLANG IS SYAORAN... HOPEFULLE SHE ISN'T TAHT DENSEbut with sakura you never know hehe:) |
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Sakura-luv-Syaoran |
Date: 2001-09-02 |
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No problem. I like reviewing fanfictions but I get lazy. Update soon! |
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Date: 2001-09-01 |
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uhm, i know chinese and da means big, it can be used as older so da jie is older sister, but if there are lots of sisters they use da to show the eldest and the number for the other sisters except the youngest who is the mie mie. |
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~*krista*~ () |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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please hurry with the next chapters |
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Sailor Krypton |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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Kawaii!!I love it when they have to battle for their love.I think has a very good plot. ***** 5 star review.Hehe.Ta-Ta! ~*Krypton*~ |
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MysticEyes |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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This is gonna turn out great. PLEASE WRITE MORE SOON |
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Emiri-chan |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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Please continue! I like it so far. ^-^ |
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Kat |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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WOW! ANOTHER #1 RATING! ME LOVE THIS STORY TOO! I don't really care if the chapters are long or short, I just want more chapters! ^^; |
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Celestial Sailor Pluto |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
Ch: 2 |
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Continue! but please have Yue in the story!!! |
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Sakura-luv-Syaoran |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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Wow. I like it a lot! Post more soon! |
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SAKURAnTOKYO |
Date: 2001-09-01 |
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ahhhhhhh keep going i wanna know please!!! but longer chapters okay!!!:) |
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