Yep…I started a new one…and yep…it's a different anime XD. This is an AU of beauty and the beast, a storyline originally done by Disney and a beloved favourite of mine. I thought this story would be perfect for Nanami and Tomoe, especially based off the first episode where Mikage is the one to lead Nanami to the shrine where she meets the terrifying Tomoe. I also think the story line for kamisama hajimemashita is very similar to beauty and the beast as both developments end in "beast like"(?) male becoming a softer and more understanding character. I'm aware there are a lot of major differences between the two stories but I'm going to try and alter the personalities of the characters and their original purposed in Kamisama Hajimemashita to fit the story of beauty and the beast.
Once upon a time, there lived a very poor and beautiful young maiden named Nanami Momozono.
She lived in a small village with an even smaller economy as well as social interaction. The folks that lived there mainly kept to themselves as a way of insuring they weren't mixing with the wrong people.
The small brunette was a bright child with a very promising future ahead of her, full of high qualifications and jobs that used her intricate knowledge well. Yet her only obstacle was her layabout father.
She was once part of a happy family of three. Nanami was born as beautiful as her mother and received compliments about it on a regular basis. As she grew up, she grew long brown hair, which was rarely seen to be placed in any sort of updo and mostly wore a long flowing baby blue dress that caught the attention of many passers-by in the dull hued village. She had many friends as well as admirers and her life was overall a good one. This was until the passing of her hardworking mother.
The village was a poor one and often endured long droughts of hot and cropless months. Her mother worked as a dancer in the village for as long as she could remember, making it her lifelong goal to inspire people to try their hardest and to cheer them up in the tough times they lived through. No matter her mood or condition, she would always be there to support the ones who needed it the most. She was a well-known and respected woman with as much popularity as her daughter. She often taught Nanami the most popular dances that were requested of her and encouraged the young girl to follow in her footsteps, as the village's number one dancer.
Nanami grew to love to dance through her mother's teachings, and often performed for her many friends. She continued to learn many different types of dance from the few books in the library that was rarely touched. This included knowledge of overseas dances and how to perform them. Nanami's personal favourite was traditional Japanese dances performed by temple worshippers shed learnt about in the books, mainly consisting of beautiful kimonos and instruments used to make the dancers seem almost god like.
The village had no schooling within it except from the passing down of jobs from parents to children, which meant that a limited few could read the simplest of sentences. Nanami's father however, was a foreigner that moved into the village once he had met her mother. Her father came from richer area that did have schooling, which allowed him to pass on his skills to Nanami once she had been born, including the rare ability to read. Therefore this is how she learnt more dances and more ways to cheer up the people in her neighbourhood with her beautiful talents.
However, before long her mother started to become vulnerable and infected by illness. She was no longer able to dance her complex routines and show them to the neighbourhood. Nanami was also too busy worrying about her mother's sickness to do anything of virtue for the village. With the lack of motivation to engage in joyful dancing, the villagers fell into depression and started to do less and less to help the Momozono's in their time of need.
Before long, Nanami's mother passed away and took all the joy she once brought to the people with her. Nanami tried her hardest to bring back the joy she once knew without dancing, the pain of remembering her mother becoming too much to bear each time she tried. She tried and tried and tried to teach the young people of the village how to read and to persuade them to give it a try. but her love for books was seen as almost an insult to the uneducated of the lot. Instead she received hateful comments from her friends and once admirers, accusing her of being strange and unable to fit into their dim witted world, despite living there her entire life.
The people weren't the only ones to act differently after the death of her mother.
Nanami's father was said to be a respectable and good man since he arrived in the village, however after the death of his beloved, he turned his back on his own daughter and started wasting what little money they had on Alcohol while abandoning basic necessities such as food and rent.
Nanami knew the small village lacked room for her and her abilities for a long time and would often travel into the woods behind the village to escape the hateful glares. However, one trip in particular was certain to change the young girls life forever…