A/N: I…cannot…believe…this!!
Taruto: Believe it, writer.
Tsukiko: -sees all of the TMM characters, or only the main ones- I'm going to faint.
Taruto: Well don't faint yet. Don't you have a scrip to hand out?
Tsukiko: Oh yeah. –takes out a list-
Taruto: You have a list?
Tsukiko: A list of the characters that are going to appear in a chapter that was inspired by the movie. –looks back at list- Now let's see… Lettuce and Keiichiro!! Are you here?
Lettuce and Keiichiro: -raises arm- Here!
Taruto: Only those two?
Tsukiko: Them and Dr. Shirogane but you said that only the main characters are here.
Taruto: Well the characters you like to use a lot. That includes Masaya, the Blue Knight, and Deep Blue.
Tsukiko: Well if they're here, can I kill two of them?
Taruto: Only two?
Tsukiko: Masaya stole Ichigo from Kisshu and the Blue Knight tried to kill him.
Taruto: Yeah, but Deep Blue ignored him, used him, abandoned him, and he did kill him. Depending on whether you won't to go with the anime or the manga version.
Tsukiko: Yeah, yeah, I know but in one of the ideas I have, he's not so much of a bad guy.
Taruto: You mean the one called 'Pos-
Tsukiko: -covers Taruto's mouth before he said it- Don't say it! It hasn't come out yet!
Kisshu: -his head right by my ear- Well when then? –I tense up and look at him- I should know when I have to act like a clueless person.
Taruto: More like a clueless idiot.
Kisshu: Hey! –Then I let out a big puff of steam. Both of them look at me as I faint- Ah! The writer! –Both Taruto and Kisshu start fanning me to wake up-
Lettuce: Excuse me, but can I have my script now?
Keiichiro: Mine as well. Isn't the chapter going to start soon?
Ichigo: I'll say this for her until she wakes up. Tsukiko does NOT own TMM, or us, or the songs she uses in her stories, or the movies she uses for inspiration. She just comes up with the different changes and the ideas. Thank you all for the wonderful reviews so far and we hope that you keep them coming. Thank you and please enjoy, nya!!
Ch. 3: The Midorikawas
A few weeks later…
The delivery man closes his trunk and turns around to face a woman and a man. "Okay, that's all."
Both the man and the woman bow to him and the woman gives him a sweet smile. "Thank you for your services," she tells him.
The delivery man goes to the driver side of his truck and gets in. After that, he drives off as soon as his truck came roaring back to life.
The man, Dr. Shirogane looks at the woman and starts, "Now, Lettuce." She looks up at him as he tells her, "I want you to stay here and watch these antiques while I'm gone. I'm going to retrieve the checklist to see if we have everything."
Lettuce nods her head in understanding. "Yes, Doctor." Then he begins to walk off.
"Oh and Lettuce!" he calls before going into the museum. "Don't touch anything while I'm gone." Then he disappears into the museum. All Lettuce could do was cringe in embarrassment when he said that. Bad memories…
Dr. Shirogane is not only a scholar but he's also the owner of the Museum of Antiques in England. He is a middle aged man, possibly in his late thirties or early forties. His skin is as tan as baked wheat bread and his short black hair is silky and straight. He has brown eyes like melted chocolate on fresh fruit and he has the wisdom beyond his age. He's stern and a bit scary when he cracks but he is also kind and a good man. He just doesn't fool around when he's working.
Lettuce Midorikawa, a young lady of the early age of twenty and a worker for her guardian and mentor, Dr. Shirogane. Lettuce's favorite hobby is learning history and has memorized century's worth of histories in her highly intelligent mind. She has a slender, curvy body with skin as white as fresh milk. Her long light green hair is tied into two braids that just lightly reach her lower waist and her deep blue sea eyes hide behind her big round glasses. Since her parents died when she was little girl, Dr. Shirogane took care of her ever since. She's sometimes a big help to him. She remembers codes that he possibly forgotten, the history of each object in the museum, and the meetings Dr. Shirogane has. She is like his own littler personal planner.
Lettuce looks around at the ten crapes worth of ancient stuff surrounding her, along with some loose ones standing on top of the crapes or next to them. She's standing behind the museum and she's a bit excited, like a little kid on Christmas. She claps her hands together once and thinks, 'I wonder what kind of new and exciting antiques we have?' She looks over at one antique and her eyes sparkle. It's a light brown vase, probably like that through the ages of time it has lasted. It's about her waist height and it has dark brown markings on it. As she walks closer to the vase, she can see that it actually has drawings on it instead. Her smile brightens as she looks at the big drawing of a serpent and a man.
"Amazing," she mumbles, looking at how wonderfully craft the vase is. "This vase explains the encounter the storm god, Sosa no wo had with the eight head serpent. Then after killing the great serpent, not only did Sosa no wo marry the girl who was going to be eaten by the serpent but he also cut open the tail of the serpent and found a sword. He sent the sword to heaven to the god above and where his sister the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami is." Lettuce's smile brightens even more with excitement. "I wonder what else the vase would tell us."
"Are you sure with your decision?" Dr. Shirogane asks, talking to a grown man as he was walking back to where Lettuce is.
The man nods. "I had no choice or we would be in serious dept."
"Like you're not already."
The man walking with Dr. Shirogane is Keiichiro Midorikawa, Lettuce's brother. He's a tall man with long dark brown hair that's tied in a low pony tail. His eyes are like warm hot chocolate on a winter night. He's not too muscular or too skinny. He's just right with no access body fat. Like his sister, he has been raised by Dr. Shirogane since they're parents died but instead of thinking of researching history as a hobby, he prefers cooking and baking. He owns a café near the museum but it is in need of some serious work. When Keiichiro started his business, he had a very rough start and it appears that it's not going to change. He's half Japanese and half English, like his sister.
When Keiichiro looks up to see Lettuce happy with all of the new 'toys' the museum just received, he greets, "Lettuce, hello!"
When Lettuce turns around, she hits the vase. "Keiichiro-nii!" she lets out in surprise as the vase begins to fall. Both Dr. Shirogane and Keiichiro begin to panic. But Lettuce sees the vase as well. She catches it and puts it back on the crape. "Got it!" she yells. Both Keiichiro and Dr. Shirogane let out a sigh of relief. Then Lettuce begins to walk towards Keiichiro, only to slip on a piece of cardboard. "Uwaaa!!"
The cardboard goes flying through the air as Lettuce falls to the ground. The cardboard hits another vase and that begins to fall. Keiichiro quickly runs to it and catches it before it hit the ground. When he places that safely on the ground, Dr. Shirogane relaxes again. Lettuce stands up and asks, "Is everything okay?"
But Dr. Shirogane just tells her sternly, "Don't move, Lettuce!" Lettuce freezes where she is. He walks towards her and now she's a little nervous. He asks her, "Give me one good reason why I still have you working here?" Apparently he's upset, but nothing's broken.
Crash
Lettuce and Keiichiro look behind Dr. Shirogane and there are remains of a small green vase on the ground. Dr. Shirogane doesn't look because he looks like he's trying to hold in some type of anger. After seeing the vase, the air got really tense and a blue aura begins to appear from Dr. Shirogane's body. Both Lettuce and Keiichiro look at him and they're scared stiff. He still looks like he's trying to hold in his anger. He has a grin on but the corner of his mouth is twitching, as well as his eye.
"What does it look like?" he asks, very slowly.
Lettuce and Keiichiro are a bit too scared to answer but Lettuce eventually says, "I-I-I-It w-w-was a s-s-small green v-vase."
Crack
Lettuce and Keiichiro heard a loud crack coming from Dr. Shirogane and now they take steps back. When something like this happened, he blew, big time. He's always so hard working and serious but when he's cracked and pushed to the very edge of the edge, he becomes the devil and it's probably best to fill out your funeral plans right when you hear three cracks. Luckily for Lettuce and Keiichiro, they only heard one.
"Lettuce," Dr. Shirogane calls very slowly. She doesn't say anything. She only stands where she is, her whole body shivering in fear. Then he looks at her and demons begin to appear behind him. "Answer me. Why do I put up with you?"
Keiichiro looks at Lettuce cautiously and thinks, 'Whatever you do, Lettuce, don't push him!'
Lettuce tries to calm down but she's still very nervous. She grabs a part of her skirt and begins to play with it to try and stay calm. "W-Well," she begins. "I remind you of all the meetings you have, when the deliveries come, I've memorized your history books A-Z, I can read, write, and speak ancient Japanese, and…" she's trying to think of more so that she won't be in too much trouble, but Dr. Shirogane doesn't seem pleased with the reasons she already gave.
"I still put up with you because your parents were my best friends!" he answers, causing Lettuce to flinch from her anger. "Izanagi rests their souls." Then he lets out a sigh and the demons begin to cease. But that still doesn't mean that he's calm. "Keiichiro!"
"Ah, yes?" he asks.
Dr. Shirogane tells him, "I know that you both are already suffering in dept but that vase was 3,000,000 dollars." Keiichiro turned to stone right there that's a lot of money. He looks at Lettuce and tells her, "It's only fair if you pay for it, right Lettuce?"
Lettuce nods in guilt and tears begin to run down her face. "Yes," she answers, full of shame.
Then Keiichiro remembers something. "Hold on!" he yells. Both of them, Lettuce losing her tears, look at him and he's rummaging through his pockets. He approaches both Lettuce and Dr. Shirogane as he takes out what's in his pocket. "Would this replace the vase?"
What he took out fascinated Lettuce and surprised Dr. Shirogane. What Keiichiro has in his hands right now is a golden pendant. But not just any pendant. A golden pendant with red stones on it. The stones almost look like buttons on the blotch. On the center of the blotch, there are two skinny long shape stones that look like a heart together. But right under it is a smaller stone that's in the shape of a heart. Then at the end of the blotch and right at the point of the heart are four small red stones that are in the shape of short lines. It's at least palm size and Lettuce couldn't help but raise her hands up to it.
She asks, "Where did you get this?" as Keiichiro puts the blotch in her hand.
Keiichiro answers, "I'll answer that later."
"But this is the blotch from the time period of Emperor Sakana's rule!" Lettuce quickly tells her brother. Keiichiro is no surprise to hear that.
"Emperor Sakana?! As in THE Emperor Sakana?!" he asks.
She looks up at him and answers, "Yes, one of the most richest and powerful emperors of the Japanese history." Lettuce looks back at the blotch and notes, "This blotch is suppose to unlock Emperor Sakana's most dangerous and terrible secrets. But it only works on the island of Yomotsuhirasaka."
Then Dr. Shirogane snatches the blotch right out of Lettuce's hand. Lettuce and Keiichiro look up and now Dr. Shirogane looks scarier than he did before. "Which is a myth," he tells them in a very stern and very cold voice. "The entrance to the underworld, Yomi does not exist. I will accept this as payment for the broken vase and I never want to hear you two talking about this again!" After that, he put the blotch in his pocket and he has his checklist in hand. "Lettuce, I wish for you to leave me so that I may check the antiques if we have everything and I want you to take your brother as well. You both have a lot to talk about that does not concern the blotch. Understand?"
After that, Lettuce nods like a little kid that just got smacking. "Yes, Doctor." Then she begins to walk away, with Keiichiro fallowing close behind her.
Dr. Shirogane watches them leave as he thinks, 'If you both had continue talking about this blotch and decide to pursue it, I would have no choice but to choose your fate.' After that, he looks at the remains of the stuff he has and the checklist in his hands.
Lettuce and Keiichiro were walking silently and uncomfortably towards the inside of the museum. Keiichiro looks at Lettuce at the corner of his eyes and he looks really guilty. When they reached the door, Lettuce let her brother in first and then herself. But as she closed the door behind her, Keiichiro lets out a sigh. "Sister, there is something I need to-"
He couldn't finish. Suddenly, Lettuce turns to him and her eyes are pleading. Keiichiro was caught off guard from that look. "Keiichiro, I need you to tell me where you found that blotch!"