I know I probably shouldn't start another story when my other stories are still waiting to be finished...but I couldn't help it! This story was begging to be written! (plus I've been completely obsessed with Hetalia for the last couple of months. So anyways, these will most likely be more like drabbles than a story with an actual plot, so sometimes I'll go back and forth in time. I hope nobody minds? If you do, please leave a review and I'll try to be accommodating. Also, I might add in some other crossovers just for fun. :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or Inuyasha. Any historical events included in this story won't necessarily be accurate...at all.
Prologue: Birth of the League of Nations
"Okaa-san! Look what I found!" A young girl dressed in a blue sundress yelled to her mother, who was smiling indulgently at her. The young girl, who looked to be only eight years old, ran to her mother with the pretty necklace she had found outside the well house (which she hadn't gone into because mommy had said that it was dangerous and she could fall in).
"What do you have there, dear? Here let me see." Her mother gently took the proffered necklace and examined it.
The chain was a silver color that glistened softly in the sunlight. The pendant was a golden circular disk with an etching of a pentagon with two five pointed stars inside of it with the smaller star was inside the larger star. The lines were finely etched and then filled in with some silver metal so that it felt completely smooth to the touch.
Kun-loon frowned at the beautiful piece of jewelery. Where had it come from? She knew that they did not own anything like this so someone else must have dropped it. Perhaps a visitor? She looked down at her eight-year-old daughter, who was looking up eagerly.
"So Okaa-san? Isn't it pretty? Can I keep it?" Kagome looked up with a puppy dog look on her face and her sapphire eyes wide. Her mother sighed.
"Sorry dear, but this looks expensive. We're going to have to find the owner." Kun-loon felt a pang of guilt as her daughter pouted and her lower lip started trembling. "How about this? You can wear it until we find the real owner. How does that sound?" Kun-loon said in an attempt to pacify her child, who, hearing the words, immediately brightened up, took the necklace and put it on, and danced around in circles in happiness.
"Yay! Arigatou, Okaa-san! I promise I'll keep it safe until we find the owner!" Kagome giggled as she spun around until she was dizzy. Her mother smiled indulgently at her before going inside to make lunch.
Kagome continued to run around happily like the eight-year old she was, her waist length hair flowing behind her. She was so happy! Kagome felt so grown-up wearing such a pretty necklace and she couldn't wait to show her baby brother. Souta was so cute...well, most of the time anyways, when he wasn't crying or needed his diaper changed. Kagome wrinkled her nose at the thought. Just as she was about to turn to go inside however, something caught her eye.
There was a strange light coming from the well house (which her mother had told her never to go into). Kagome frowned. Should she listen to Okaa-san and leave the light alone...or should she go check it out? Well, it wouldn't be too bad if she just took a peek, would it?
Kagome made her decision and ran over to the well house. She peeked into the door and saw that there was something shining from inside the well. With a child's curiosity and lack of concern, she walked to the edge of the well and looked inside. Suddenly, Kagome felt a sharp tug from around her neck and panicked as she grabbed the edge of the. She looked down to see that the pretty necklace was pulled taut towards dark interior of the well. It was as if some kind of magnetic force was calling that necklace, and it was taking Kagome with it.
Kagome screamed as she felt the necklace tug towards the dark depths of the well again, except with even more force. She felt the chain bite into her neck as it pulled her insistently into the well and she shrieked with terror. Kagome pushed herself away from the well and turned to run but at that moment, the necklace gave its largest tug yet and sent Kagome flying into the depths of the dark well.
Kagome pulled at the necklace, desperate to get the haunted necklace off, but it was too late. She was already hurtling into the well. She closed her eyes as tears began to leak out of the corners of her eyes. She would never get to see her mother or her brother or her grandpa again. Kagome waited to hit the ground, but it never happened.
She opened her eyes a tiny bit and then gasped. Her eyes popped open to look in wonder at the blue light that was surrounding her. For some reason, she no longer felt afraid. The warm, and that was the only word to describe it, blue light seemed to be cocooning her and whispering reassurances to her. She sighed and relaxed, almost forgetting that she was supposed to be terrified.
All too soon, however, it was over as she was deposited onto hard cobblestones. Kagome winced as she rubbed her back and tried not to whimper or cry. She was a big girl and big girls didn't cry after all. She scrubbed at her eyes and looked around. What she saw made her want to cry again: she didn't recognize anything at all. She wasn't at the bottom of the well; instead she seemed to be standing in a dirty alleyway. The surrounding walls were made of grime-covered brick, giving her no clue as to her whereabouts except that she wasn't at the shrine anymore.
Shrine? What shrine? Kagome frowned and tried to remember why she would be thinking of a shrine. She came up blank; there was nothing in her memory except her name. She couldn't remember where she had grown up, who her family was, nothing. The only thing she knew was that she spoke Japanese.
Kagome started hyperventilating as it seemed as if her memories had slipped away like water. The high red brick walls felt claustrophobic and so she ran from the alleyway into the open street where she stood open mouthed at what she saw.
The streets were filled with bustling people all in a rush to get somewhere. The women were dressed in functional dresses with skirts that fell to their knees and small, bell shaped hats (1) while the men were wearing suits. There were box-like cars driving through the roads, occasionally honking at a neighbor. As Kagome stood in awe of the strange sights, a man bumped into her, knocking her down.
"Itai!" Kagome winced as she hit the ground and scraped her knee. The man looked down impatiently and glared at her.
"Déplacez-vous, fille! Je suis pressé." The man growled at her before walking briskly down the street. Kagome stared after him as she processed his words. The mean man had spoken in a language that she felt she shouldn't know, yet she could understand him. He had told her to move and that he was in a hurry. It was very strange, because she could hear him speaking in a foreign tongue but she could still understand it. Kagome slowly got up from the ground and walked to a destination that she didn't know of.
She wandered aimlessly through the streets of the city she was now in, passing by newspaper stands that screamed, "The Great War is Over!" and "Treaty of Versailles to Be Signed Today!," not that she knew how to really read them since they were in French. She passed by people laughing, cheering, and hugging each other for some reason that she couldn't place.
By this time, Kagome was hungry, hot, and tired. She walked in a daze, without really seeing where she was going. She was so out of it that she didn't notice that her feet were taking her towards a grand palace.
In fact, she only noticed when she reached the gates and a pair of guards walked over to her, demanding to know who she was and why she was trying to get into the palace. Didn't she know that they were signing the Treaty of Versailles in there? Of course, Kagome was very confused because once again, they were speaking in French. While she could understand them, they couldn't understand her since she couldn't speak anything other than Japanese. It was turning into a rather large mess with the guards talking about calling the police and the embassy, when an irritated sounding voice told the two guards to shut up.
Kagome and the two guards looked to see a young man, who couldn't be much older than 20, stalk towards them. He had unruly blonde hair, brilliant green eyes, and the thickest eyebrows that Kagome had ever seen (not that she could really remember any other instances). He was dressed in what seemed to be a dark green, almost brown, military uniform with a crisp white dress shirt, a dark green tie, and boots. He also had on an aggravated expression that did not bode well for anyone that stood in his way.
The man walked up, rather stiffly, to the two French guards and proceeded to give them a tongue lashing. In English.
"Are you French so bored that you spend all day pestering a little girl? Don't tell me you're afraid of a little child? Now then, run along and guard whatever you're supposed to be guarding, not that the frog has anything worth guarding." That last was was said in a disgruntled grumble which the guards couldn't quite hear.
Kagome, however, heard it loud and clear since the blonde man had come to stand next to her with a hand reassuringly on her shoulder. She giggled a bit at the image of the guards guarding one a frog and his lily pads.
The guards, who hadn't been able to understand all of the rapid English that had been spewed at them, looked at each other with consternation. Duty said that they should take the young girl into custody but self-preservation warned them that if they didn't want to have their asses handed to them by the rather formidable, if young, looking British man, they'd get out of here. Self-preservation won. The guards shrugged and walked towards the opposite end of the gate, leaving Kagome alone with the strange British man.
She peeked up warily through her eyelashes at the man who still had his hand on her shoulder. For some reason, she felt a sense of safety around him that she couldn't explain. It was like she had known him her whole life (which she couldn't remember) though she was sure she had never met him before. Moreover, there was a strange connection that she could feel pulling her towards this stranger that made her feel like she would do anything for him. Kagome was jolted out of her thoughts when she heard the man speak.
"Now then, child. Why are you are here? What's your name and where are your parents? It may be the end of the war but you still shouldn't wander the streets by yourself." Kagome looked up at the man's concerned green eyes, opened her eyes, and felt herself say words that were not quite her own, especially since they were in English, with the same accent that the man had.
"I am here because the Treaty of Versailles was signed today, and with it the existence of the League of Nations. My name is Kagome Higurashi, Representative of the League of Nations and I am here to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security (2)."
After this stunning proclamation, the man just stood there for several with his mouth open and his amazing green eyes widened in shock. The only noises that could be heard were the far off sounds of a city celebrating the true end of the Great War. Finally the man seemed to snap out of it and bent to one knee in front of her and looked her straight in the eyes. Sapphire blue met emerald green as the man slowly bowed to her.
"League of Nations. I am Arthur Kirkland, representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We have been waiting for you."
The man, Arthur, stood up, took her hand, and led her into the cool interior of the palace. With every step that they took into the palace and closer to their destination, Kagome could feel herself becoming revitalized and stronger than she had ever felt before. It was almost as if she was finally awakening.
She hardly noticed when Arthur led her through the doors into a room full of people. She only noticed when he pulled her towards a certain group of people that gave her much of the same feeling that Arthur did. Arthur stopped in front in front of the group and looked down towards Kagome.
"Now then, introduce yourself. These are the countries that you will be looking after." Kagome felt herself speak the same words she had before, except it seemed as if she were speaking in a multitude of languages, all the while wondering how she was going to take care of people so much older than her.
"I am here because the Treaty of Versailles was signed today, and with it the existence of the League of Nations. My name is Kagome Higurashi, Representative of the League of Nations and I am here to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security." With those words, the ink of the last signature dried on the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations was born.
History Lesson: After WWI, the League of Nations was established to in attempt to keep another world war from happening and was the predecessor of the United Nations. The League of Nations was signed into existence on June 28, 1919, along with the Treaty of Versailles. The main signers were Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. The four main members of the Council at the beginning were also Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. Germany didn't join until 1926 and of course, the Senate shot down the whole thing so America never joined. The first council meeting was in Paris on January 16, 1920. The headquarters were eventually moved to Geneva, Switzerland and the seat of the League of Nations was transferred to Geneva on November 1, 1920. The official languages of the League were English, French, and Spanish, which is why Kagome could understand French and English. More information is available on Wikipedia. :)
1) Cloche hats were quite popular after WWI.
2) Opening words of the Covenant of the League of Nations
So, how is it? I don't actually take French so I had to rely on Babelfish. :P If it's wrong, please correct me! Oh, and please leave a review and tell me what you think!
