A/N sorry about not updatin for so long ! i was really busy ive finished editing the story so it should be up and finished by next week depends on reviews! lol

Disclaimer i forgot this last time oh well : i dont own ccs clamp does i dont own cinderella either i only own the original characters or plot cheers

Stuck in a Rut

After getting over the initial shock of moving to Tokyo and finding out that my Outasan was engaged. I started to take in all the information that people were telling me. My room was on the ground floor by the servant's quarters. My Outasan said that he had to go straight away because he had a business appointment in Hiroshima and would be a couple days. Then they would have the wedding, although it was not really a wedding because they were going to a registry office and signing their names and that was it. It needed to be a quick settlement because Outasan needed the money and my new Okaasan; Summie was from China and needed to be married from Japan to get her papers sorted. So really it was just like a business deal and this marriage was fake. I couldn't quite understand it then but I do now.

Once Outasan had gone I found out that I was going to have two-step sisters: Ying-Le and Meilin. Ying-Le was the youngest by two years my junior, she had straight black hair and dark chocolate brown eyes like her mother. She was plump also and ate all the time. Then Meilin was two years older than me, she had straight black hair and fierce red eyes that looked like rubies. She was tall, thin and beautiful. When I looked at them in their beautiful kimonos I felt plain with my simple plain kimono, lank auburn hair that reached halfway down my back, my face was average but the thing that made me stand out was my eyes. They were the favourite part of me, they were bright emerald green like my Okaasan's, and she was a model before she died but she left the business when she had me.

I soon learnt that I was not here to have fun but I was here to work and basically be a servant to my step family, but this was only when Outasan was not here, when he was here I was moved up into a big room on the first storey with a pretty bed and nice clothes. I was not aloud to tell Outasan about my slavery because Summie had said she would hurt me if I did and that he would never believe me.

So I lived my days like that for a year until Outasan came home with some news. He was moving to Beijing for a little while and I would not see him for a long time. He had found a great biasness opportunity there and wanted to see it through. He left the same day, only two days before my eleventh birthday. I felt abandoned with a beautiful witch and her two evil daughters and no one to help me. Then my daily routine went like this with only Sunday off:

06:00- Wake up

06:15- Breakfast and get dressed

6:45- Mourning chores

08:00- Prepare breakfast for step family

08:30- Deliver breakfast

10:00- Lessons

12:30- Lunch

13:30- Resume lessons

15:30- Lessons finish

16:00- Go to market to get ingredients for dinner

16:45-Prepare and eat tea

17:30- Training

19:30- Tend to fires around house

20:15- Pray at shrine

20:30- Bed

21:00- Light out

I was stuck in a rut. If I didn't do as I was told I was beaten, not to hard but hard enough to know not to do that again.