Chapter 1: Recollecting the future

I DON'T OWN SO DON'T SUE!

Barely a week had passed and things were as if nothing had ever happened. And yet so many unanswered questions were never asked of him. Where had he gone and what had happened to him? No one ever asked nor did anyone have the courage. Too much respected from the older residents had apparently been rubbed down on the new folk. Or perhaps they had just heard so much about what he had done that they all left him and San along.

But that wasn't what worried him. It was San herself that made him uneasy. Her presence was intoxicating enough to make him unsure of himself but this was a different sort of uneasy. She hadn't asked questions and this bothered him. This bothered him greatly for he had questions of his own. How had he gotten to that bed? He now knew he had walked into the furnace of Iron Town and had come out of it. But then he didn't know what happened. But perhaps that explained some of the uneasiness of the townspeople.

San also seemed to be uneasy around him. Sure they had embraced on the bed a week back but the unasked questions had gotten to them both.

It was now like when they had first met; she was quiet and timid in bed at best. She had cried and viciously hugged him when she was sure it was him but now she would lay with her back to him to sleep. He had given her a kiss the first night but she had not responded in a favorable way. She had blushed slightly and gently drew herself away from him. Perhaps she just needed to get used to him being there and all these "human things" as she had said so long ago for him; but just a year for her.

A year was all he had been gone but it had changed San in a way. She acted more like the Mononoke he had come to love when he was cursed, when he had come to the forest. She still spent her time with him but it was different from when they had spent time together. No hugs and kisses and licking or biting. They just stayed close to each other.

'I have to find out why?' He thought. He had to find several things out now that his life was sort of stable. He had to know what had happened a week ago, why the people were so uneasy, and most of all how much San had changed.

Hello, LockDown here. For those of you who know me, I decided to write this because there was so much in my Within series that is strange at best. Several things I will resolve in the story but I have several things to state hear because no one has mentioned or spotted them.

Time travel. Ashitaka has gone back in time but now he knows things he's not suppose to and he know the future. I just want to point this out.

Now the one thing that no one has gotten was my screw up with the crossover. So here it goes:

Ashitaka lives in an era when they still have samurai; e.i. Lord Mori. This puts the era in the Sengoku era or the Country at War era. The Mori lands are in the south of Japan where there are many iron sand deposits. So far so good. Let us think now. We know from the reference in the movie to a Lord Mori it has to be set some time during the Sengoku which was at it's height from 1530 to 1612 when it ended. This gives us a period of roughly 100 years. Now to the guns. The Portuguese made land fall in the province of Hizen in the winter of 1542 bring with them guns. So the period is now moved to 1542 to 1612, which is still a span of 70 years. Now take any given date in that span and add the 600 years as referred to Power Within. The crossover of Oh! My Goddess places the setting in the 20th century. The only problem is that Ashitaka should be coming out between 2142 at the earliest and 2212 at the latest. WHOPS!

Well, same rule as always. 1 review and the next one will come out. I am writing it as you are typing that review. Rating will go up with next up date. Look in the R area from now on.