Miko no Chikyuu, Gejo no Nihon
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Usagi- 16
Hotaru- 14
Duo/Wufei/Hiiro/Quatre- 16
~~~~Three years later~~~~
Usagi was coming over a fertile, green field. She was light-headed and felt very weak. She had been walking for over a day and hadn't seen a single sole anywhere, it was like she was the only one left on the planet. But that wasn't the worst part, she hadn't eaten in over three days, she couldn't find a single person vulnerable enough to steal from and she had never been very good at hunting, especially since she didn't really have the equipment to catch even a rabbit.
So she just walked, her never ending walk hoping somebody would have the heart to help her but in her world there was no kindness or charity. She hated the black-hearted people she had crossed before, she'd been going downhill ever since that day she was sold.
Usagi hated that word sold it made her seem like somebody's possession, an object without a purpose in the world rather than please her master. She'd overcome slavery before so she was determined not to let this problem conquer her as well.
'I've had to fight my whole life. This is just another set back meant to break me, but destiny, I won't ever let you control my life!' Usagi thought walking into a rich-soiled ground, just recently planted. Tiny green plants were growing out of the ground but it wouldn't do anything for her great hunger, she needed a real meal.
Standing out in front of the beaming sun she saw a rather large-looking woman working away at the field with a hoe. The older looking woman stopped her work to stare at Usagi's fragile form, she had almost no meat on her bones. The mystery woman dropped her hoe and began to approach Usagi, cautiously however.
"Help me." Usagi lightly breathed it out while trying hard to raise her hand to the woman. Then unable to take it any longer Usagi's feet gave way and she feel back, landing on her back. The woman stopped everything and ran as fast as she could to the younger girl. Just before Usagi blacked out she saw the face of the woman, dark black hair and cobalt eyes, then everything went dark.
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Usagi's eyes began to open. When her focus became clear again she could see mud walls around her, she was laying on a thick cushioned blanket with an animal skin on top of her, keeping her warm. It was obviously well past sunset since the only light she could see was from candles here and there.
She tried getting up but was still too weak for that still. That's when the older woman from before walked in, now she saw why the woman was so large, she was pregnant.
"I'm glad you finally woke. I was beginning to lose hope on you. You've been out since around high noon, the sun went down quite a long time ago." The woman then set down a cup of green tea and a hot bowl of miso-soup. The cup and bowl were slightly leaking but Usagi didn't mind in the least.
"So tell me stranger tell me your name." The woman said holding the tea to Usagi's lips.
"My name is-" Usagi took a sip but coughed some of it up, unused to warm food. "I'm sorry." Usagi apologized closing her eyes for a moment to regain her mind.
"No problem. But your name is." The woman seemed a little persistent in Usagi's name for some reason.
"My name is Tsukino, Usagi. And yours?" Usagi gave her a weak smile, which she hadn't given anyone in many years.
"My name is Akunin, Wabigoto." She imitated the smile that Usagi gave her moments before.
"Where am I?" Usagi asked as Wabigoto helped her sit up to eat the soup.
"You're in a town several miles north of Kyoto. My husband is Akunin, Heifuu, he owns this farm." (His name can be roughly translated into Abusive man.)
"Thank you for caring for me." Usagi said laying back down, as Wabigoto tucked her back in. "I hope I'm not a burden to you."
"Not at all Tsukino-san." Wabigoto then walked out the tiny closet-like room.
'San?' Usagi wondered why she gave her that connotation but didn't bother to pursue further and just fell asleep.
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By morning time Usagi heard cooking and smelled it as well. The night of comfortable sleep and food had very well relieved her and she felt better now, so she could actually get up and walk. When she was about to stick her head out of the corner when a young boy, around fourteen spotted her and waved, getting Wabigoto's attention.
"Ah! You're awake. How do you feel?" Wabigoto went back to her pot filled with rice and herbs.
"I feel much better thank you." Usagi then walked out of the corner and joined Wabigoto. "Let me help you, it's the least I could do." Wabigoto just shooed her away.
"Don't worry about it. You're a guest with us and it's my job to show you our hospitality." Wabigoto then smiled and labored over the hot fire, still with the heavy burden on her stomach.
Usagi sat down next to the young boy, with black hair and dark eyes. "That is my younger brother, Akogo." Wabigoto then took the pot off of the fire and divided the rice between four bowls.
"Akogo please go get Heifuu." The young boy lowered his head, with a gloomy look, but complied and walked out into the fields. Several minutes later Heifuu walked in, he had dark hair and eyes as well with a scar across his left cheek.
"Where's Akogo?" Wabigoto looked at the door.
"He decided to work the fields while I eat." He picked up his chopsticks and began stuffing his face.
"Oh." Wabigoto look down at her belly with sad eyes but tried not showing it and just ate her share, which was less than his. Usagi looked at him, getting an ice cold feeling about him, but ignoring it was well just decided to eat.
"So what's your name?" He asked, putting his empty bowl down, and giving her a good look all over. His gaze made Usagi very uncomfortable, and Wabigoto even more uncomfortable than her.
"Tsuikino, Usagi." She said finishing her bowl along with Wabigoto. He then gave her another quick glance before walking back out into the field.
"Well Usagi-san do you want to help me store away the rest of this rice for noon time?" Wabigoto asked trying to forget her husband's stares.
"Sure." Usagi tentatively said getting up to help.
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Wabigoto was now out in the fields with Usagi, both working with hoes to plant in the fertile ground.
"Usagi-san I seem to have run out of seeds, could you please go back to the house to get more?" Wabigoto asked leaning on her hoe, hand on her stomach.
"Of course. It's the only way I can repay you for all this." Usagi left her hoe on the ground and walked back to the store of seeds deep under the ground of the "kitchen". Just as Usagi pulled out a full bag of seeds she heard a man behind her. Startled she turned around to see Heifuu leaning against the wall.
"What are you doing here?" Is all Usagi could think to say.
"Just thought you might need some help." He walked closer to her and stopped just inches in front of her, but she backed away from him.
"I'm fine. I don't need help." Usagi protectively grasped the seeds, as if that was what he wanted!
"Oh I think you do." He then put his hands on her shoulders, tightly, and started bending down, pulling her with him. Without thinking Usagi slapped him across the face.
"Leave me alone." She berated him and tried to run away but he grabbed her waist and with his strong arms pulled her to the ground, right below him. Usagi began to cry out, but he put his hand on her mouth and tried to hush her up. But Usagi continued to struggle, he pulled both of her frail arms into one of his hands and pulled them above her head.
"This won't hurt you so stop!" He commanded the disobedient young woman below him. He took his other hand away from her mouth and let it travel down to her upper waist, but the worst part was when he tried kissing her. She bit his lip, which began to bleed and then gave him a good knee to the family jewels.
He gasped for breath and released her, dropping the seeds she ran out of the home and to Wabigoto. She ran next to her breathless and tried to tell the story but didn't get very far when Usagi spotted Wabigoto rubbing a sea-shell necklace.
"My- My necklace." Usagi reached out to touch it and when Wabigoto noticed she held Usagi's hand in her own.
"I knew who you were long before you said your name, but I couldn't be totally sure. You matched the description she gave me perfectly and so I just had to know your name." Wabigoto sat down with Usagi not giving up Usagi's hand.
"Her description?" Usagi became perplexed by who could possibly know her around here.
"Hotaru's. I've known her many years and she's told me so much about you. I'll never forget her, she was the best friend I could ever ask for." Usagi's face lit up when she heard about Hotaru.
"Hotaru?! She lives here!" Usagi's heart became lighter than a feather at the thought of seeing her younger sister again after all this time. Usagi nearly jumped up but was restrained by Wabigoto's grip on her hand.
"Well not anymore, they moved out about a year ago. They just couldn't afford to live in the temple just outside town so they moved. Hotaru and everybody else abandoned the temple and moved out to Tokyo to be closer to the Emperor, he also requested it of her anyway, so they would have left anyway." Wabigoto settled Usagi down with those words.
"So she lives in Tokyo then?" Usagi calmly asked to be sure.
"Yes. Usagi-san, you're so lucky to have a sister like her. I also hope you find her one day." Usagi got up and bowed to Wabigoto.
"Thank you so much, but I must go to Tokyo." Usagi frantically proclaimed.
"Well wouldn't you like to see you're mothers grave first?" Wabigoto asked making Usagi stop dead in her tracks and turned around.
"My mother?" She had a grim look on her face now, especially at the word of grave.
"She died many years ago, they buried her in Temple's graveyard. Go visit her, I'm sure you want to." Just then screaming and ranting came out from the tiny home, Usagi had forgotten all about him for a moment. He began approaching them and Wabigoto wouldn't move an inch.
"Usagi, run!" Wabigoto had tears in her eyes and was looking frightened and very desperate. As he got closer Wabigoto became more despaired and Usagi more frightened so she ran away as Wabigoto had requested of her.
Usagi ran and ran as fast as her legs could carry her. The thing that haunted her though was the sounds of fighting and cries. Usagi now knew what kind of man he really was, an abusive, lustful man reminiscent of her own father.
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Usagi stopped running when the Temple came into sight. The Temple was becoming a little dilapidated and was already filled with dirt and leaves. Deep in the Temple she could hear loud voices laughing, so Usagi decided to quietly walk around the Temple to make sure not to be caught.
When Usagi reached the backyard she saw a lone grave in the middle with nothing around it. As Usagi approached it she began to become a little nervous, the very thought that the woman in the grave was her deceased mother frightened her.
When she stopped in front of the grave she looked down and saw her mothers name and date of death written on the grave, because no one really knew the year she was born, non-the-less the day. Usagi then fell to the ground and began to cry.
"Mother?" She put her hand on the stone tablet and couldn't stop her tears. "Mother, can you see me? Can you see what I've become? I worthless vagabond with nothing to hold onto, but memories. Mother, I just- I just miss you so much." She put her head to the ground and cried so hard she felt like glass. When Usagi regained her composure she stood up and wiped away several of the tears away.
"Mother all I can promise you now is that- That I will find Hotaru and never leave her side ever again. Just as you wished for us." Usagi kissed her fingers and put them on the tablet then closed her eyes as a single tear slid down her cheek. Deciding her own fate Usagi walked away, leaving behind her old life and walking into a new one.
/If you had told me that this day was the one where my whole life would be decided I would have called you crazy. But I now see just how important this day was for me, for it was the very day I would begin my journey to spy and then wife. I suppose that everything that had happened in my life so far was all destiny and it was my fate had been decided from the moment I was born, that feeling still frightens me to this day./
TBC………
An: Well what'd you think? I had to write this as to set her future up as well as you can see. A lot of things are going to occur in the next chapter so it's actually going to be one of the last times I skip years in this story. Everything is going to begin to come together now, along with romance etceteras. So please Review if you wanna know what I'm talking about.