Here is my first attempt at fan fiction. Please be gentle with me. I realize that this prologue is really short, but its just setting the stage for the rest of the story. I already have the next several chapters written and I'll try to update every week.
Disclaimer: I do not own Phantom of the Opera or its characters. I am merely borrowing them and will return them (mostly) unharmed when I am finished playing with them.
Prologue
In the Muromachi Period, Japan was a nation embroiled in conflict. The Ashikaga shoguns, as well as the central government in Kyoto, had virtually no authority over the Land of the Rising Sun. The nation was instead split into many different provinces that were ruled by feudal lords, called daimyo. These lords were constantly warring against each other during the Sengoku jidai, or age of civil wars.
On a peninsula on the eastern side of the island of Honshu is the tiny province of Awa. It divided from the larger province of Kasuza in the year 781, but during this period of civil unrest, the daimyo of Kasuza decided to make an attempt to regain Awa. The daimyo of Awa, a man by the name of Sakurai, assembled an army to resist the greater forces of the daimyo of Kasuza, a man named Hidemori. This small army managed to resist Hidemori's army and at last the two forces came to a temporary truce. Sakurai and his chief councilors returned to their capital in the Heguri district to recoup and devise a strategy to defeat Hidemori once and for all. Little did they know, Hidemori was putting into action his own plan…