Authors note~: Hi all this is my second story on and Kagome is human in this one( 16 years old.) Oh and Kiyomi in Japanese means "Pure beauty". Oh and btw it takes place in feudal japan however it is sort of like Memoirs of a Geisha but only a little in setting just so you know I don't own it etc nor do I own Inuyasha.:P
I hope you like this first chapter!
Chapter 1: Expectations
"No Souta, run!" Kagome screamed in fear as she fell consumed by darkness.
Waking up covered in perspiration and tears spilling down her cheeks, Kagome sat up from her fouton shakily. She had been tormented by these nightmares ever since she was found by travelers in a forest far from Gion, in which the travelers had sold her to an Okiya there where she currently resides a novice about to make her debut as an apprentice geisha.
"Kiyomi! Hurry up we are going to be late!"
Dressed in the the regalia of an apprentice geisha, I took a look in the mirror catching
in its reflection lovely gray-blue eyes and a pale face with red lips as I hurried to the door of
the Okiya stepping into my getta. " Sumimasen, mother it will not happen again." I
bowed very low respectfully. Mother nodded and had one of the maids spark a flint on my back and I stepped into the rickshaw telling the driver where to go. As I sat looking on at the lit streets of Gion. I thought back to when I first came to be here.
~FLASHBACK~
Kagome opened her eyes slowly feeling a pain at the back of her head and a sticky feeling. She reached back and touched her head, shocked to find that the stickiness was her blood. She started to scramble to her feet, dizzy and in a bad state she wondered through what was trees in every direction. " W-where am I?" I cried searching for anything recognizable instead I got so tired I fell to my knees hoping that someone would find me before it got dark. Faintly as I drifted in and out of consciousness hearing the crack of lightning and a boom of thunder. Rain started to pour down soaking me through to my bones, as I crawled under a tree trying to keep myself warm. The next morning, a man roughly jerked me to my feet. Pointing at my clothes then asking me in a strange accent where did I come from." Sir, I don't remember." He stared at me in puzzlement and said again." I will take you to the closest city." Thanking him hoping that this city would somehow be able to tell me why I had come to be here. He put me in the back of his wagon, hope and alittle excitement welled up in me but I did not know what was to come. After hours of riding in the uncomfortable wagon, we had finally reached the outside of the city. I looked at the city and was in awe at the bustling of the city which I had known later by its name Gion. Looking over at the man I had thought to be kind I noticed an exchange between him and another man who looked unnaturally flawless as they looked at me , the flawless man more so with a look in his eyes that made me uncomfortable. What came next was not what I expected at all. Another man, at least I thought he was a man lifted me from the wagon screaming until he knocked me unconscious. I don't know how much time passed but I awoke grasping my head in my hands suddenly freezing I looked up to find a pair of red eyes staring at me with lust. I cried out in fear as he came toward me out of the shadow. He was a demon, not a monster as I had thought during this moment. "Silence wench! I will partake of your body this night." He sliced off my already tattered clothes mercilessly as I tried to say something other then muffled sobs between my fingers. Another voice was heard suddenly. " Kunio, do not ruin the merchandise!" She will not sell very high if she is not intact." The demon Kunio standing over me grunted walking away through the trees. The person who's voice was heard came towards me. " Put these on girl!" He threw at me a frayed kimono as he looked away, I changed. " Are you finished?" he asked not very kindly. I trembled "Y-yes." He turned back toward me binding my hands. As he did this I scrutinized his face in the growing darkness. I thought he was a handsome demon but he was nothing like the royals as I came to learn later. I looked at his pale face and slitted green eyes, his cherry red hair that was bound in a long ponytail down his back. After he was done he tugged on my rope I was bound with pulling me along through the trees. I asked the demon fearful, but needing to know." Where are you taking me?" He turned to look at me. " What concern is it of yours?" A dull surge of anger went through my veins but I was to exhausted to really fight with the man so I simply looked away my spirit seemingly broken. He tugged once more on my rope walking on. I looked down at my feet for so long that when the demon finally stopped I didn't notice and I walked into him. " Human! Do not try my patience!" He jerked on my rope so hard I cried out." Gomennasai!" After he appeared satisfied with her punishment he turned to a door and an old woman in a beautiful kimono came out and paid the horrible demon and he left with the money.
The woman looked at me and asked. " Where on earth did you come from? A human geisha.. this will be difficult." She took me by the arm, pulling me into the Okiya. " Girl, what is your name?" I looked at her horrified that I could not give her a name. " I do not remember..." She stared me hard for a moment." Can you remember anything?" I looked down at the floor and answered. "Yes, I'm 15 years old." She sighed. " Pretty old to be a geisha but you will do I think." with that she took me to change kimono and fixed my hair into a neat ponytail telling me to bow and not to speak even when talked to directly. "Yes ma am." sliding open the screen the woman went in before me and bowed arranging herself on the tatami. " Mother this is our new arrival." I bowed so low to the floor my nose nearly touched the mats. I could feel 'mother' looking me over. " She is human no?" I kept my eyes to the floor as the older woman explained." Yes she is but still rather pretty even for a human." Mother waved her hand signaling for us to leave. "Human, you better pull your weight around here or you will be on the street!" I sighed in relief even though I did not know what a Geisha was, I still did not want to be on the street so I made up my mind to work hard if only to find out what a Geisha is.
~Flashback End~
I shuddered at the thoughts looking out to find that the driver had now stopped, quickly I paid my fair and stepped out carefully shuffling to the tea-house I would be attending for my debut. Inside the tea house I met my older sister. I bowed low giving a brief smile to the demon who had only ever been kind to me and was my teacher. "Kayo-San, what if I'm not good enough?" I asked suddenly nervous." Kiyomi, just focus give all your attention to the dance." I bowed and followed Kayo through the hall to the party we would be entertaining. I waited trying to relax as Kayo introduced me to a few high ranking demons and telling them it was my debut, they looked me over murmuring about me being human and some even uttered why I was not in a whorehouse. A spark of fire entered me but sputtered out quickly. I will show them all!
