Miko no Chikyuu, Gejo no Nihon
An: Hello! Well this is chapter 2! Now also in this story there will be a triangular relationship. I'm leaning towards Duo, Hiiro, Hotaru triangle (of course she only likes Hiiro) and a Quatre, Wufei, Usagi triangle (of course she only likes Wufei). But I'm still thinking about this. I also got a request to make it like DLC, I've never read that story but I guess I should because a lot of people liked it. But if anyone just wants to give me a quick summery of it please email me (
**If words are in italics that means that the person talking is talking in a different language than Japanese.**
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The person then followed the three down the road trying not seem out of place even though it was plainly clear this person was not from around there.
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Usagi and Hotaru's father was still dragging them down the dirt road. Usagi and Hotaru were both walking as fast as they could so they would not trip over their own feet. "Father why are you doing this? Where are we going?" Usagi said while struggling to loosen his grip on her upper arm. "You'll find out when you get there!" He yelled back at her. Hotaru however was looking in back of them at a person who had caught her eye. The person was trying to seem inconspicuous but Hotaru had a good eye for many things.
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They had finally reached the center of town and there was a pretty large crowd precipitating around a tiny wooden stage. There were people there that Usagi and Hotaru had never seen before. Some even looked like they were dressed as kings with slaves tending to their every need. But one certain thing caught Usagi's eye. "Hotaru look it's the carriage that we saw earlier." Usagi whispered to her sister. Hotaru then turned her head to left and low and behold there was the carriage. "I wonder what he wants with this place?" Usagi wondered out loud. Hotaru just grimaced and stood silent beside her sister.
They were standing behind the "stage" when a man climbed up onto it and started yelling to the crowd. Although neither Hotaru nor Usagi was listening to the man shout their father seemed to be listening very tentatively as if waiting for something. Then the man went silent and the crowd started shouting hundreds of different things, several were even shouting in different languages, with their translators by their sides.
Their father then started to walk forward clutching their little arms in his hands. He finally stopped at the side of the stage and let Usagi go. But he then grabbed Hotaru by the waist and hoisted her up on the stage, and the man that had been shouting earlier intercepted and put her down next to him. "Dad what are you doing?" But before he answered he grabbed her and pushed her up as well. This is when the two little girls finally noticed what their father was doing.
Usagi clutched onto Hotaru with both her hands while Hotaru buried her face in Usagi's chest. Usagi had a frightened look on her face, while Hotaru was just crying her eyes out soaking her dirty dress. The man then got a harsh look on his bony face and tried pulling them apart. Another man then came onto the stage and assisted the man. He grabbed Hotaru by her arms, which were clutching Usagi's, and pulled her to the opposite end of the stage. And the man holding Usagi was squeezing Usagi's shoulder very tightly to the point where Usagi thought he would break her shoulder blade.
"So sorry everyone. Now maybe we can start the bidding." The bony man stated. "Bidding will start at ten yen for both of them." People then started waving their hands and calling out all different numbers. "I'll give you 12 yen for both." Yelled one man that didn't even look Asian. "No. 15 yen!" yelled another man. "16." And so the numbers continued with Usagi and Hotaru struggling to get away from these crazy people. Usagi then locked eyes with her father for one last time and noticed he was smiling.
/He must have been happy at the money that he would make off of our heads. I was disgusted./*
"I'll give you 45 yen for the dark haired one." Everyone then gasped at the price someone had just offered for just one of the girls. Hotaru then looked around the stirring crowd before she noticed the person that had been following them earlier. The mystery person then walked up to the front of the stage and stopped right in front of a red eyed Hotaru. The person then removed her brown cloak and revealed a woman with dark black hair, like her own, and bright green eyes. She was wearing a lovely sky blue kimono with clouds and birds flying all over it. Her hair seemed to reach down to her thigh although most of it was still hidden by the brown cloak.
The man holding Hotaru merely stared at her dumbfounded, and Hotaru just stared at her blankly. "Well. Well it seems we have a high bidder here. Miss please tell us your name. And I don't think even the two of them put together are worth that much." The bony man then laughed along with the crowd. "I think this girl alone if priceless. I don't care what happens to the blond, I just want this one." She then moved her hand gesturing to Hotaru. "Well then alright. Does anyone wish to bid against this woman? I'm sure they could make great workers, or even when they're older be great to fool around with." The man then laughed along with all the rich men in town. "We'd have to be crazy to bid as high as that woman did!" Yelled a man along with his translator. The woman merely just stared straight at Hotaru who stared right back at her.
After the man was done laughing he spoke one last time. "Well if no one else is to bid then they are sold to the woman umm…what's your name?" "My names Mizurei. And I think you may have misunderstood my words Sir. I only want this girl." The man then burst out laughing once again. "You're a damn fool. Paying that much for only one of these guttersnipes." The crowd then started their loud rough laughing once more. "Well then she's all yours. Now as for this girl, the bidding will start at five yen." Usagi then broke free of the man's tight grasp and ran over to Hotaru who was being helped, reluctantly, off the stage. The men that were holding them then grabbed Usagi before she could even reach Hotaru. Hotaru was already trying to get back on the stage but the woman who had bought her grabbed onto the screaming girl. "Child please come. She is no longer your family."
/I could not believe that. Usagi the only friend and sibling I ever had was no longer my family. I had spent my whole life with her. I refused to accept this for a long while./**
One man finally had a good grip on Usagi, who was balling. "Sorry once again. So now who shall be the final bidder. This girl could be a great servant because she is already very strong. "10 yen." And so the bidding continued for several more minutes until one man that had a blue cotton kimono on made the final bid at 25 yen. Usagi was then dragged off the stage towards the man. He had a slick black moustache and a fine green silk yukuta (it's like a kimono) on with several other slaves surrounding him. He then paid the man and one of the older slaves grabbed onto Usagi as they started to walk off.
Then once the crowd almost completely dispersed Mizurei walked in front of the man. "Sir I want to ask you a favor." She was still holding onto Hotaru tightly around her shoulder blade. "What is it?" He asked. "I pray that you let this little girl say one final farewell to her older sister." "I haven't got the time. And anyway there's no point, they'll get over it." He then began to walk off but Mizurei refused to give in. "Listen we are more civilized than that. You must give them a good bye at least." She pushed on the stubborn man. "Listen you wench get away from me. You will not do any such thing." Mizurei then grabbed the man on the neck and his eyes went totally blank. "Will you please be a kind sir and let them say good bye?" She asked with a cold look in her eyes. "Yes, just make it quick." He said with no emotion in his voice. Hotaru then pulled away from the tight woman's grasp and ran up to Usagi.
"We could run away now you know. Just you and me and never return." Usagi said with water-filled words. "But they would come after us." Hotaru said looking down at the ground. The two then embraced each other. "I will see you again. I promise you that. Not even the gods can keep me from finding you little sister." "I know we will Usagi. And we'll never give up hope." The two then let each other go as Usagi grabbed a thin black rope hanging around her neck. "Here take this, to always remember me by. And when we find each other again I'll know for sure its you." "Your necklace I couldn't. It means to much to you." "I want you to have it. And please never lose it." Usagi then placed the necklace around Hotaru's neck. It wasn't the most expensive piece of jewelry in the world, for it was merely a thin black piece of rope with a sea shell tied at the bottom, but to them it meant the world. "It's awful because I have nothing to give you to remember me by." "I don't need anything because I will always remember you." The two then hugged each other one last time.
Mizurei then let the man's neck go. His eyes then returned to their normal look. "Look woman-" But Mizurei was already walking off in the opposite direction with Hotaru still tightly grasped in her hand. "Well then lets go Dibiju." (An: What?! I couldn't think of another name! =p) And then the man with Usagi and his several other slaves walked off.
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"That onna is such a fool. To pay that much for a slave." The young prince said still resting inside his carriage. "But Sir she will not be a slave. She will be a priestess at the famous Shinto shrine in Kyoto." "Well then she'll be an important slave." He simply replied staring out his tiny window. His caretaker merely sighed and stuck his head out the window. "Alright it's time to go now." And with that the driver lightly whipped the horses and they were off at a steady pace.
TBC……..
An: Well I hope you liked this chapter! Next you will meet the mother again, and see what the father does! Isn't the father I huge ass! Whoops! I think I just moved up the rating there! =p Anyway review please! Cause if I don't get reviews I won't continue!