The Scarlet Kanji
the remake of The Scarlet Letter
copyright info: Thank you Ramiko Takahashi!! Without you, I'd never have the characters to fit this story so well. That goes to Nathanial Hawthorne, too! Without your crazy ideas of a Puritan society's outcast, none of this would be possible!!
Ok... onto the story now......
Chapter 3
The Truth Behind the Story
Outside, still stormy and extremely snowy, Kagome ran full-out to the well house. I hope it's true. What a tragic love story. If only it's true!.... Kagome thought while running. Flinging the doors open, Kagome revealed a breath-taking scene. Sticking out of the well, there was a huge tentacle. Some un-known force was drawing Kagome closer and closer to examine the creature. Screaming, and soon regretting that she wanted to investigate this mystery, Kagome tried to force herself out of the hold, but was unable to do so no matter how hard she tried. Suddenly getting captured, and help was too far away, Kagome knew she was going to die. This is so stupid! I wanted this to be a happy ending, but all I get is misery. God! Please help me! As if her prayer was suddenly answered, a bright pink light engulfed the tentacle and the room. The tentacle was ripped particle by particle and Kagome felt a rip from the well. Being pulled into the well as a force so incredible, Kagome blacked out.
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After waking up from the deep slumber, Kagome looked over her surroundings. People in weird outfits because it was so cold were staring into the unknown face upon them. Whispering among themselves, Kagome caught a phrase or two in a semi-English language. Great... I'm trapped in a world where I won't be able to understand them. I knew I should have paid more attention in English class. Kagome, realizing how important was going to be to know English, reached down to pull her handy-dandy English-translator out of her pants back pocket. (A/N- you know you have one of those Kanji translators in your pockets Americans and Brits!!) Realization hit her fast... she was close to be nude! Been stripped-down to only her under garments and shoes, her jacket, pants, and heavy shirt was thrown to the side of her and there was an old women in an ancient Japanese outfit nearby talking to the people. Confused, she noticed that all the other people around her (especially the guys) were carefully observing the clothes.
Trying English first, Kagome was looked at weirdly by most. "Jeez! I know my English isn't that great, but stop picking on me!" Kagome yelled in Japanese to the people. The people, looking frightened, realized suddenly that they could easily understand her.
"Young child, I am Kaede. I'm the town's miko. You might not be acquainted with that word, as that young black-haired man was," Kaede started to get into a dreamy state and popped back to reality when she realized there was a young black-haired girl staring at her strangely. "What may your name be, young woman?"
Kagome looked bug-eyed at the woman. "You expect me to answer you in this garb? I feel like a frikkin piece of meat out for the animals to eat. It's about 20 degrees outside and I feel sick already! Please! I need my jacket." Kagome screamed the last sentence while walking, hugging herself, to Kaede.
"My child, I do not know that last word you said.... ja... ket....?" Kaede asked inquisitively. Kagome, still bug-eyed and now blue ran to her pile of clothes and threw all of them back on. Though not even close to being warm, she felt much better and decided that being a total bitch was not going to work in this weird world.
"Okay, I'll answer you now," Kagome started, but realized that she was feeling very dizzy and started to fall.
"Woah... young lady, I shall help you to your feet and bring you home. All of you, you know it is far too cold to be entertained by such an alien," Kaede grabbed Kagome and called over a young man in the village: the village's monk, Miroku.
"Don't worry, young woman. You're safe here." Miroku said with a huge smile. The smile was so reassuring and warm that Kagome couldn't melt under that stare. But that reassurance was short lasting....
"Houshi-san, why are you RUBBING MY BUTT??!!!!!!!" Kagome woke-up and fully bashed the less-than-perfect monk into the ground. Around the house, a young woman wearing a pink-and-white-topped kimono carrying a large boomerang came running toward Kagome and the perverted monk. "HIRAGATSU!" she cried and the young monk whimpered right before the large wooden boomerang slammed hard on his head.
"Pleased to... *huff*.... meet you..... *huff*....... You know what?...... *huff*...... you look a lot like her," this young woman looked Kagome over. Still in her puffy, warm jacket, she looked over the other girl.
"Hi. My name's Kagome. What's yours?" Kagome asked, there was a sudden pain and a quick dip in unconsciousness. The young woman grabbed Kagome by the arm and led her to the closest hut.
"This is the miko's tent. You can stay here for the night. Stay far away from the young monk's hands, though. Every foreign girl who comes by these parts suddenly has become pregnant. By the way, my name's Sango. I hope we can become really good friends." Sango, laying Kagome down on the futon in the corner of the hut, walked backwards out to the cold world outside. Kagome, examining the hut, realized there was someone else there. "HOUSHI!!!!!! IF THAT'S YOU..........." Kagome warned.
"Nay, child (A/N- nayyyy! I'm a horsey!!). This is but an old woman looking out for the one who looks like her sister." Kaede answered without an explanation. Lighting the fire in the middle of the hut, she began to make dinner for the both of them.
"I... look like your.... sister?" Kagome started to ask about what she said, but she soon was into the land of concussion. (A/N- you like? LoL, I made that up)
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Upon waking up the next morning, Kagome was deathly hungry and homesick. Kaede, not in the hut, had left a meal out for Kagome for breakfast. On the floor, there was a quick note scribbled:
Don't leave the house. The houshi-san is outside watching the tent. If he tries anything, just call Sango. Hopefully, you've met her.
"Great! I'm alone with the houshi-san! DAMN IT!!!!!!" Kagome screamed and heard a muffled scream saying, "I DIDN'T DO IT THIS TIME!" and then a loud bang. A young woman with black hair stepped into the hut and said, "Hope you're better today." Standing with her trusty hiragatsu, she stood as inside guard against the perverted monk.
"Sango, can you tell me something? Was there a girl that looked like me a while ago? I know you're my age, and Kaede is about double our age, but do you know anything about it?" Kagome looked worried and hungry. Afraid of the lumpy mess in the bowl set for her, she set it aside without taking a bite- hopefully wishing there was a McDonalds somewhere around here.
"All I've ever heard was that there was a young miko, related to Kaede, that died because of a roaming youki. Kaede, absolutely distraught from the death of the relative, decided to become a miko-in-training. Hopefully to find the Shikon-no-tama, the jewel of Souls, she trained hard and long. In the end, however, Kaede's one and only true love was really infatuated with her relative. Kaede, with her heart borken in half, couldn't wait until the man would go back home. Unbelievably, the man was never found after the death of her relative. No one ever knew if he was alive or not. He used to come through the bone-eater's well. You don't know of him, do you? I mean, I heard you came through that well, too, right?" Sango said this all mesmerized and skeptical. All the things were coming together too well.
"Oh.... wow...." Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing. The young man had to be Nathanial Hawthorne. She knew that there was no way that the coincidence of the journal and the finding of the information of him was all normal. Way too weird. She thought about it once again. Wait... if I look like Kikyo and she's related to Kaede.... Oh my Kami! Oh my Kami! I can't be here! Standing up and running to the well, Kagome wanted to go home and never find this place again. Having already been branded for adultry in a previous life, she didn't want that to happen again. Sango, not being able to run after her because Kagome was much faster. Suddenly, realization hit her hard- she was lost in the woods around the well. Walking slowly around the woods to ensure she knew which way the village was from the forest, Kagome walked deeper, hoping to find the well in the thickest of the forest.
Walking for hours, Kagome finally found something. A huge tree with many think roots from the bottom and a hollow trunk came across her path. Hoping to get across the roots and away from the tree to find the well, Kagome realized that there was a sense of peace around the area. Tired, and hungry, she had to sit down. Upon coming around the tree, something caught her eye. There was a young man wrapped around with the thick of the tree branches and roots. Scared out of her wits, Kagome ran farther away from the tree. But something was pulling her toward him again and she couldn't resist. Just like the monster tentacle in the well, she was pulled hard against the body of the young man and a pink light engulfed all. Instead of destroying the boy, it woke him up and he looked down at her disgustingly.....
"KIKYO!!!!!!!!!" he screamed and slashed at her. Suddenly, Kagome's world was darkness, yet again.
to be continued.....
A/N- Ok, I'm sorry that this chapter ends so weird and cliffhanging. Of course you know who the young man on the tree is.... I can't decide what I should do with the Scarlet Letter thing. Who should be Dimmesdale and who should be Chillingsworth? I know who's gunna be Pearl and I know what's gunna happen to Hester (you guys dunno who she is in the Inu Yasha story, do you? hehehehe) kukukukuku..... I'm not Naraku or anything, I sware (don't hurt me!)..... just Read and revie!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
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