AN: hello everyone! It has been awhile since I wrote another fanfic again. So here I am back with another story. This time it is about my current fandom, Sengoku Strays and I've been dying to post it and here it is... Also thanks to my beta reader, Ethan for taking your time just to edit it for me.

Anyway Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sengoku Strays, everything belongs to Shingo Namami. I only own my ocs

Prologue

[Winter, Year 2016, Nagoya City- Kawaguchi Residence]

"Come on, Guys!" A beautiful young girl with long, wavy auburn hair calls out to her cousins who were still getting ready upstairs. "I thought you guys wanted to see the castle again!"

Above her, she hears footsteps. She rolls her eyes at her cousins' tardiness and sighs, it has been awhile since her last visit to Nagoya Castle with them. The last time was in the summer of 2011, when she went to Japan to visit her grandparents in Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, where they owned a popular dojo just a few kilometers from the castle itself. She tapps her foot impatiently on the smooth tatami mat as she waits for her cousins.

They had planned to go to the castle earlier that morning but her cousins overslept, much to her dismay. She glances at the clock on the wall and sees that lunch time was almost over. Luckily she was able to eat some lunch before getting ready to go to the castle. She is excited because she is a really big fan of Japanese history, especially the Sengoku period and of course, Nobunaga Oda.

Nobunaga Oda was a very powerful warlord who initiated the unification of Japan near the end of the Warring States period. He lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japan before his death in 1582.

She turns her attention to the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs. She twitches with annoyance as her cousins finally come down the stairs.

"What took you guys so long?" She snaps angrily at them, with her hands on her hips.

"Sorry.. Jen. I didn't mean to oversleep." Reo apologizes with a slight smile.

"Yeah.. the bed just feels so comfortable in this season." Felix adds.

Jenna rolls her eyes at the four boys before her, then turns around towards the door. As they exit, they see their grandma, busily attending the shop's counter. She greets them and they wave back as they leave the house and start their walk to Nagoya Castle.

[Nagoya Castle: A few minutes later..]

After a long walk, they reach the castle. Part of the reason it took them so long is because they stopped to take pictures on the way there. The castle is breathtaking. They can't help but stare at the gorgeous view. The trees surround the entrance as if it were a scene taken directly from a painting.

Wow..", her cousin whispers behind her.

"It looks so amazing!" Her other cousin agrees.

"I know, dude." he responds.

"Come guys, let's go." She tells them and begins to walk to the castle.

They were not the only tourists touring the castle. There were a lot of people, mostly families or groups of friends. They all gasped in amazement as they entered the castle grounds, then they went to the ticket booth to buy a ticket, for the entrance to the castle. After buying their ticket, they slowly enter the castle itself.

"Oh my gosh! I wonder what it looked like back then?" Reo asked Jenna. "Since they made this into a museum already."

She stares at him thoughtfully as they start to look around the castle.

"The life there is more simple and very hard," she replies as they stop in front of one of the maps of Owari. "Especially because of the war. Even Nobunaga had a really hard time because a lot people did not like him."

"Oh, you mean some of his retainers?"

"Yup and some of the veteran soldiers, who are extremely loyal to his father, the former lord of Owari." She explains as they go up the stairs to the Exhibit Hall. The Exhibit Hall was packed with people both local and foreign. The setting of the exhibit was the whole town during the time of the warring period. You can even try to experience what it was like living during that time.

The group of cousins took a lot of pictures and continued to look around the exhibit, then after that, they went up to the next floor. The fourth floor was also an Exhibit Hall but in this one, armor, helmets, swords, and harquebus from the Nagoya Castle collection are all displayed. This floor was virtually empty of people. This has always been Jenna's favorite floor because of the weapons and all of artifacts.

"Hey Jenna! Look it's an actual Japanese matchlock gun!" Reo exclaims, pointing at one of the guns displayed in the exhibit.

Jenna approaches the glass container of the gun and stared at it with sparkling eyes. She takes out her phone and takes many pictures of it.

"Yeah I know, it has been a while since I last saw one in person and it is good to see an old but interesting artifact like this one again," she tells him. "They say, that Nobunaga had a big collection of guns since his youth, plus he is really good with one."

"Like you, Jen, you are also good with them but you are more like a….. fencing fanatic than a gun fanatic!"

Jenna just rolls her eyes at his comment, but her eyes hold amusement.

"Yeah, yeah... whatever you say, Rey," she says with a smirk.

"Oh come on Jen, I am sure you would do well in that period since you know how to fight."

"That's true," she says, nodding with agreement.

"Jen, imagine… what if you can change the past because you have knowledge of what will happen to everyone now."

"Yeah I know, but those events could turn out both good and bad though," Jenna tells her cousin, in a serious tone. "Something about the butterfly effect."

"Oh, yeah just like those sci fi movies," Reo replies as the duo continued to look through the different artifacts in the exhibit. They also took a lot of photos with their phones.

Jenna walks to one of the samurai swords which was inside a glass container. She stares at it curiously. The sword was wrapped in a red ribbon and it has a round, blue crystal charm tied onto it with a leather cord, making it look mysterious. No..there is something really mysterious about it. She felt so drawn to it. It felt like it was calling her. She tilts her head for a bit as she continues to stare at it.

How interesting… she thinks as she approaches it to get a better look.

Then suddenly the ground below her began to shake, causing her to accidentally crash into the glass container in front of her, breaking it into many pieces. She winces in pain as a piece of glass got stuck in her left arm, causing bad bleeding. She tries to remove the shard from her arm, but the ground continues to shake, making it more difficult.

"Oww..that bloody hurt.." she mutters, trying to get to her feet despite the ground still shaking until finally, it stops.

The room around her was now filled with dust and she could hear distant screams. Something falls on her head but she instinctively catches it in her hands. She suddenly realizes that it is the mysterious sword that she had been looking at a few minutes before the earthquake struck. Before Jenna has a chance to react to the strange item and the chaos around her, the small crystal ball suddenly begins to glow and a blindingly bright flash of blue light surrounds Jenna.

What the hell is happening now…?

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