BLAST TO THE PAST

Part One

Michiru sighed as she walked down the empty streets of her town in Japan, as she knew the streets forwards and backwards. She carried her bag of groceries to her apartment. She walked in the house, setting her keys on the table beside the door as she headed toward the counter and set the bags down.

The year was 2001, the turn on the century, or so they say. She wore what the fashion was these times, tight blue jeans that showed off her curves and flashiness with an elegant dress blouse. She wore her long aqua marine hair long and wavy behind her back and her face showed true gentleness, not like the people now wear their faces.

Michiru began putting up the cans when she felt a rubbing ion her leg. "Oh hello, Salem, you hungry?" she asked her cat. She smiled as Salem gave a needy "meow" and started purring. Michiru bent down and rubbed the back of Salem's ears gently as she made her way to the back of the room and grabbed the bag of cat food she had bought the day before. She poured a little bit into the cat bowel and set it down for Salem and she put the bag back.

Sighing, she finished putting up the food she had bought and went into the living room, sitting down on the couch tiredly. "A long day of work and a little relaxation should help...I should really take a break..." Michiru muttered to herself.

"Mew..." Muttered Salem as he jumped into her lap, curling up into a ball, snuggling her. Softly smiling, Michiru reached up and stroked the cats back, stroking his fur. "Oh Salem, if only you could actually know how tired I am of working right now... I wish there were a way that I could take a break..." She muttered as she closed her eyes tightly, slowly drifting off into sleep.

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Haruka paced around in her chamber muttering angrily. She was the mayor's daughter and she had just got another lecture on how she should act and dress like a girl instead of a guy. "They have no right telling me what I should do and who I can be!" Haruka practically screamed.

Haruka wore men's riding pants and a loose shirt, her knee high boots on the outside of her pants making a soft 'tick Tick' sound when she moved back and forth agents the wooden floor.

She paced around a little bit more and finally sat down, holding her head. Haruka was soon to be twenty one years old and she still refused to have a suitor. Her parents have urged her to date men but she has refused all of them. They even did not know that she had no interest in them at all. "They will never know the real...the true me..." Haruka muttered.



Haruka stood up and walked out of her room and down the hall. She passed the armory and out of the house, walking toward the stables, to get her horse. She walked into the stables and with the horses 'Neh's' she smiled. Yes this is where she really belonged. She told all her thoughts to her horses. 'At least they don't care what I am... or who I am.' She thought.



Putting on a saddle on her favorite horse, she jumped on and stirred the horse into a gallop toward an open field.

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Yawning Michiru sat up from where she was sleeping on the couch. Rubbing her eyes and yawned a little and picked up the sleeping Salem off her lap and put him aside. She slowly stood up and looked at the clock. "Oh wow...midnight..." She muttered. Slowly she moved towards her room, trying to keep her eyes open.

She blinked a few times trying to keep awake. She bumped into her table in the kitchen, muttering she moved out of the way, but what she had hit, she wouldn't know. But when she had crashed into the table her talisman started to glow. She crawled on her bed, and laid down, falling asleep instantly when her head hit the pillow.

She started top glow a few minutes later and with a small smile that appeared on her face she disappeared.

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"Its great to feel the wind agents your face...." Haruka said as she smiled. A sudden movement caught her eye. "What in the world..." Haruka muttered and moved the reins of the horse over to where the movement was.

When Haruka got there, what she saw took her breath away. "A girl...who is she.... She looks like a goddess..." Haruka muttered.

Michiru twitched a little then sat up. "Ugh, my head...where am I?" She asked as she looked around, seeing only rolling flowers and grass, being blown by the wind.

"Ahem..." Haruka coughed a little. Michiru gasped and turned around to look at the woman that was on the horse behind her. "Who are you. Where did you come from?" Haruka asked. Michiru blinked and stared at Haruka a bit. "Uh...my name is Michiru...Where am I?" Michiru asked.

"Welcome Michiru, And you are in Japan."

"What year is it? And who are you?" Michiru asked, stumbling onto her feet, facing Haruka.

"I am Haruka Tenou, and it is the ear1801. DO you need a place to stay?" She asked, holding out her hand to Michiru. Michiru just looked at her hand, trying to figure out what she had said. Slowly, Michiru reached up and grasped Haruka's hand and Haruka pulled Michiru onto the back of the horse. "Hold on tight!" Haruka said and kicked the horse into a gallop and raced to the house.

'Why am I here.... And this is definitely not the year 2001.... How did this happen?' thought Michiru as she wrapped her arms around Haruka's waist.

'What kind of girl is she... and where is she from, I do not recognize the cloths she is wearing. And how did she get here?' Haruka asked herself and steered the horse to a stop in front of the barn that is a few feet from the house.

She helped Michiru down, put the horse back in it's stall, and lead Michiru into her chambers. "Ok, tell me, where are you from?" Haruka asked after a few minutes of silence.

"I am Michiru Kaiou, and I am a college student. I was born in 1981, and I am twenty years old. I live in Japan, working hard to make a living." Michiru said, looking down at the floor. "And I do not know why I am here, or how I got here."

Haruka listened with interest. "How could that be though. If you are from the future, the strange future, then why are you here?" Haruka asked quietly. "I do not know..." Michiru muttered, "But I have a bad feeling we will not know why I am here, until it is too late."

"I see.' Haruka said. "Well, we will have to make the people think that you are from another city, meaning you will have to change from those strange cloths and put these on." Haruka said as she went to her closet and brought out a dress, with flowers on it and had a homey look to it.

"Thank you..." Michiru said, and took the dress. "But where do I change at?"

"Take the door to the left and go down the hall and the first door on the right. It is the guestroom and it has its own bathroom. Feel free to stay there for a while until we figure out what is going on." Haruka said. Michiru nodded and smiled leaving Haruka's room and following her instructions, went to the guestroom and shut the room.

'What am I going to do.." Michiru sighed and pulled on the dress. "I will have to make do, Kami, if you're out there, help me..." Michiru said and she looked in the mirror. The story begins.

End of Part one.