Note: I just found out recently from a review that I should have been calling Naru, Urashima Naru, instead of Narusegawa Naru since she was married to Keitaro. From now on I will. Also I would like to ask if anyone knows where i can find and download the OAVs for LH.
"NANI?!"
Naru, Keitaro, Suu, Sara, Kitsune, Tai, and Motoko were all having a fit about hearing that they were someone on an island in the middle of nowhere, coming out of a hole that Keitaro's head had made and yet Seta claimed to have fallen through, which would mean it was also made before they saw Seta in the caves. Mutsumi just smiled innocently and looked around. "Ara, is something the matter?"
As of anime style they all fell backwards to the ground. Sara sat bolt upright and started screaming. "OF COURSE SOMETHING IS THE MATTER! WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!"
Seta stood there rubbing his chin. He looks around and nods thoughtfully. "I finally figured it out. The dig site isn't here anymore. It looks like my crew has left. It looks like we're stranded." He said this matter of factly and with no worry in his voice. He smiled at everyone and Sara rounded on him. "Papa? We're stuck here with no way out. HOW IS THAT A GOOD THING?"
At that moment Tama-chan popped up on the top of Mutsumi's head and raised a flipper. "Myu!"
(Enter opening theme)
Yane no ue de sora o aogu, hizashi wa uraraka
miageru sora, karadajuu genki ga minagitteku
THAT'S SO WONDERFUL! ikiterunda!
yamerarenai, akirameru da nante
Tohou ni kureta kinou ni sayonara
futsufutsu to wakiagaru kono kimochi
nando demo yomigaeru, hana o sakaseyou
omoi dewa itsumo amai nige basho
dakedo tachi kire, asu o ikiru tame
shukufuku no toki wa kuru, te o nobashite
Uruwashi no yawaraka na hada, imada te wa todokazu
me o tojireba fukuramu IMEEJI, miwaku no kajitsu
THAT'S SO WONDERFUL! ikiterunda!
yamerarenai, sono saki o mitai
Dotou no hibi wa tsuzuku, doko made mo
tengoku to jigoku, yukitsumodoritsu
nando demo yomigaeru, hana o sakaseyou
hashire hashire, ai o te nisuru made
sore de kurushimunara nozomu tokoro
shukufuku no toki ga kuru, te o nobashite
Tohou ni kureta kinou ni sayonara
futsufutsu to wakiagaru kono kimochi
nando demo yomigaeru, hana o sakaseyou
omoi dewa itsumo amai nige basho
dakedo tachi kire, asu o ikiru tame
shukufuku no toki wa kuru, te o nobashite
Te o nobashite, ryoute agete!
(End Theme Song)
Episode 5: Fear unto Thyself
Day 8
The tenants and kanrinin, along with Seta, Haruka, and Mutsumi, all sat grinning across the table as food was passed back and forth. Keitaro grinned and pointed towards a bowl of rice. "Shinobu-chan, could you pass the rice please?" She smiled and passed the bowl of rice, he took it, dropped it, grabbed at it, ended up touching Motoko's legs, and got blasted away by a Zankuusen. Conversation continued as usual. It was such a bustle of talking that it was hard to make out what was being said, several conversations were going on at once and on different topics. A short while later Keitaro dragged himself back to his seat and rose onto it painfully. He resumed eating and talking.
Taisuke suddenly slammed his hands against the table and rose to his feet. "What in the world is going on here!" Everyone stops talking in shock and looks up at him. He shakes his head and grabs a bowl of rice and shows it to them.
"One moment we're frustrated and bitching about being stuck on this Kami cursed island in the middle of nowhere. And then there was that stupid song..."
Shinobu blushed and muttered, "I kind of liked it."
Taisuke continued as if he didn't hear what she said...which he probably didn't since he was close to shouting. "...and when it ended we were all herer! Eating in Hinatasou as if nothing had happened! And that's the worst thing! WHAT THE HELL IS HINATASOU DOING ON THIS ISLAND!"
Everything fades back to reveal Hinatasou sitting in the middle of a tropical jungle, it keeps expanding until it shows a view of a beautiful little tropical island. Then it pans far to the right to where it finally stops with a red arrow pointing at Hinata. The view condenses until it is focused on the hinata gang.
Taisuke glared at everyone and shook in frustration. Tama-chan chose that moment to pop up on his head and myu at everyone. This broke the silence and the talking began.
Suu grinned and finished shoveling a bit of food in her mouth, "It is time for lunch! All other activities are dropped at lunch time! That's a japanese trait!" Taisuke sighed and dropped his head into his palms. Always the same.
Kitsune nodded her head as if it makes sense. "True, the song was just like an interlude, except the beginning, sort of like an opening theme. So now we started here, that music covered what actually happened between then and now." She nodded her head and grinned. Taisuke blinked. She was wearing a detective outfit, the full Sherlock Homes. How she had changed without anyone noticing and with no time for it only God knew.
Keitaro leaned over the table and started shouting. "That doesn't make any sense at all! Even in an anime we should know what happened between then and now! But it's all gray area! We just are here! Can you explain that?"
Haruka just looked at them all blankly. "There isn't any use arguing. Nobody knows whats going on and badgering with Kitsune is only going to lead to more argument. And you shouldn't be leaning over the table like that."
Keitaro glanced over to her and in doing so his hand that was supporting him on the table slipped and he tumbled forwads. Of course being who he was his hand ended up smack dab on Kitsune's right breast. The punch knocked him right out of the inn and into a pond outside. Naru looked at Kistune appraisingly and clapped. "That was a great punch Kitsune!" Kitsune smiled and started bowing left and right as the applause started. Tai blinked again. She was back in her normal outfit. And there was no point in even trying to get an explanation of that.
Outside of Hinatasou a figure watched from the shadow's as Keitaro pulled himself from the pond and gasped for breath once he was out. There was a glow of red in it's eyes and they faded. A mist began to descend upon Keitaro, not the same mist that appeared when the elders were about, but a darker mist, something cold and ancient. The feeling coming from it was familar, a sense of foreboding...of apprehension...it was fear.
(Fade out and in again to Hinatasou)
Keitaro walked up the stairs towards his and Naru's room. The former inn seemed rather empty for this time of the day. He didn't notice the faded outlines at the edge of the scene that named it a dream...or at least a false reality. "Oi! Naru! Naru! Where are you Naru?" There was silence for a moment and then finally a voice called back.
"I'm up here Keitaro, I'd like to talk to you about something." The voice sounded cheery enough...but something was off about it. It had quavered for a moment as if uncertain. Keitaro shook of the feeling of dread and finished his march up the stairs and walked right to his room. Naru was in there in that yellow shirt and black skirt she liked to wear, she looked beautiful. He smiled the instant he saw her. But for some reason she seemed a bit downcast, uncertain and yet determined about what something. Finally she looked up at him and the grim and tearful look on her face was enough to put the fear into Keitaro's heart.
"Keitaro...", she began in a shaky voice. "I have to tell you something...I...I've been living a lie. I thought that I could be happy married to you, but I'm not. And every day I live this lie is hurting me more and more and making the truth all the more painful. The truth is...the truth is...I don't think I love you anymore." Tears streaming from her eyes she pressed something into his hands and ran from the room shutting the door behind her. Keitaro just stared blankly at the spot Naru had just occupied.
Slowly he looked down at what she had placed in his hand. A thin band of gold with a tiny diamond in it lay there. Her wedding ring. He stared at it unspeaking and a tear trickled from the corner of his eye. His heart felt as if it had been ripped from him. He threw back his head and wailed, "NARUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!"
(Fade out and back in)
Urashima Naru rushed up the stairs towards her and Keitaro's room. If she had slowed and truly looked she would have noticed the fuzzy edges that made this all untrue. But to her it was real as anything else. She was happy, giddy even, she didn't have any real reason, she just wanted to be with Keitaro at that moment. So she rounded the corner and opened the door.
She stopped dead and stared at the sight before her. She felt dead inside as if all that was important to her was gone. Keitaro jerked upright and turned to stare at Naru in shock. She stumbled backwards a few paces and only stopped when her back hit the wall. She shook her head in disbelief at what she had seen. She turned and started to run. Keitaro reached an arm out and called, "Wait! Naru! It isn't what you think!"
She ran sobbing as her heart was ripped away from her. She tripped and fell to the floor and lay there staring at nothing. Keitaro had been kissing Mutsumi-san...and nothing would be the same again. She began to sob, her shoulders heaving, as she lay there on the cold floor.
(Fade out and back in)
Motoko didn't notice the fuzzy edges of the scene, all she noticed was Tama-chan. That little turtle was after her! Oh certainly the others would say he was harmless...and even cute! But not her...she knew evil when she saw it, and nothing was as evil as a turtle. Nothing whatsoever. Her feet slapping against the floor she ran as fast as she could away from that evil turtle. "Leave me alone oni no kame!" She spun around and her sword swept downwards with a slashing telekenetic strike. Her attack split the wall open and it showed green. Tama-chan stopped and myued, the myu was echoed hundreds, no thousands of times. Motoko stared in horror as the walls began to shake. She knew what was about to happen. The walls burst and thousands of turtles came pouring in, a flood of them that washed over Motoko burying her. Before it swept all the way over her she screamed, "ONI NO KAME!!!!!!!!!"
(Fade out and back in)
Mutsumi sat in her room silently. "Kotatsu, watermelons, hot springs." She smiled contentedly.
(Fade out)
The figure watching stared at the mist and what was seen. "What is wrong with that girl?"
(Fade out and in again)
Kaolla sprung from rooftop to rooftop in glee, "Nii-sama...I'm not so sure now...maybe...but I don't know."
(Fade out)
The figure blinked a few times. "Nothing? There is uncertainty...but no fear. What is this girl?"
(Fade out and in again)
"Seta...I love you." Konno Mitsune, Kitsune to her friends, stared deeply into the eyes of the man that she loved. Seta, her hearthrob who she had nearly given away to Naru...who no longer loved Seta but instead loved Keitaro. Kitsune waited with hope in her heart at Seta's response. Seta simply began moving backwards without walking. He said nothing, simply got farther and farther away from her. She stretched out her arms and started running after him. But no matter how fast she ran he was always ahead of her. She yelped as she stumbled and fell. She lay there on the ground in silence. Tears flowed from her eyes and dripped to the ground beneath her. Kitsune mumbled the only thing she could. "Always out of reach...no matter how hard I try."
(Fade out and then in)
"Papa! No Papa! Don't leave Sara! PAPA!!!!!" Sara collapsed her body wracked by sobs.
(Fade out and then in)
Maehara Shinobu, sixteen years old, an outcast in school despite her beauty, she was a petite girl yet one of the most attractive girls at her highschool. Her best friend, Kaolla Suu, was one of the others, though she had been more of a late bloomer. Similar to Shinobu herself. Shinobu had a crush on Keitaro for the longest time. But when he married Naru she was able to give him up, but she wasn't the only one. Mutsumi had done the same as had Keitaro's adopted sister, Kanako. Shinobu suspected that even Motoko had feelings for Keitaro at one point. But at the moment one thing alone occupied her mind. The gravestone before her. She sank to her knees staring in shock at the words written on it. Her parents...they couldn't...first they got divorced, their actions tearing at her heart, and now they left her like this long before they should have. It wasn't right. She cried out and draped her body over the headstone and cried upon it.
"KAA-SAN! TOU-SAN! NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(Fade out and in)
Shutairo Taisuke, third son of Shutairo Urami, younger brother of Migami, Nezuhaki, and Kawaichi(a name that had always annoyed his middle brother's twin sister). He was part of the long-line of Shutairos who kept the family name going, and soon enough his father would hand down the clan leadership to Nezuhaki most certainly, his skill surpassed Migami's and he was not married. Unless Nezuhaki chose not to claim the right of leadership, then the title would be passed to Taisuke himself.
Urami Shutairo stood before Taisuke and stared down at him with that cold hard gaze. He held out the clan sword and nodded to his youngest son. "Do you Taisuke accept clan leadership?" Taisuke's eyes widened and he backed away on hands and knees shaking his head. "I am not ready...no...this is cannot be happening...this will not happen this way...this isn't possible...THIS IS NOT REAL!!!!"
The figure staggered backwards as the mist was forcefully dispersed. All went silent as the last echoes of the teenager's shout faded. The figure watched carefully at the teen in awe. "You have much power and skill young one, I underestimated you. But what exactly are you?"
One at a time the Hinata gang came awake. They blinked groggily and tried to shake off the effects of their nightmares, all their fears coming true so suddenly. The only ones that seemed no worse for the wear were Suu and Mutsumi. Suu just seemed calm, which was strange for her anyways, but Mutsumi smiled as if nothing had happened. All of them looked up in surprise at the face that looked down at them.
Keitaro fixed his glasses and blinked, "Minna-san?" His adopted sister nodded once to him and flashed that cold smile that sent a chill to the bone of everyone except Keitaro himself. Seta and Haruka seemed unaware that anything had happened at all but were silent.
"What are you doing here Kanako?" Urashima Kanako turned that cold gaze upon Naru and yet Naru did not flinch. She merely met her stare for stare.
"There is evil inhabiting this island, and I was drawn here when I opened the door at Hinatasou. I was coming early before I started helping out here while you and Keitaro started up again for the new year at Todai. This island is not when, or where it should be. The evil that inhabits this place has drawn us all here."
Taisuke stood and looked Kanako right in the eye. She looked back equally unimpressed. But secretly both were impressed by the ki of the other. They had known instantly that the other was a fighter and a skilled one at that. "Listen Kanako, I know about you and all, but what I don't know is what you think we can do against this evil. If it has the power to twist time and space to its will then even with me, Motoko-senpai, and you working together we still wouldn't be able to win."
Kanako nodded calmly. "No. We wouldn't. But there is one thing you didn't count on."
"And what's that?"
"Kaolla Suu."
He blinked in surprise and heard, "Tada! Introducing, fully outfitted Kaolla!" He turned and found himself looking right at Kaolla. She was dressed in a tight pink tank top that didn't cover her stomach, and a long light-green flowing skirt. She had a dulcimer hanging around her neck and her hair was undone and to her shoulders. She had a golden bracelet on and green banded things on her upper arms. She was beautiful.
Taisuke suddenly became aware of laughter when Kitsune nudged him with an elbow. She giggled into her hand and everyone looked a bit amused. "Ahh...Tai-chan thinks Suu-chan is cute. He's staring at her. Isn't that so?"
Taisuke's eyes widened and he glanced back at Kaolla. Then back at the Kitsune. He stood there for a second and then turned around and fled the room. "IT'S NOT KIND TO SAY THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWERS ABOUT! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Kaolla looked at where Taisuke had run off to and then a small smile crossed her face.
(End theme)
I'M A DREAMER
yoake no hikari sosogu ka no chi wa doko?
I'M A DREAMER
Honojiroi sono hohoemi, douka sawarasete
Koko wa hi no ataranai basho
hitorikiri de naku toki no himitsu no basho
sakebu youni namae yobunda
kimi ga inakerya, kimi sae ireba
Kitto iku yo, hi no ataru basho
kono mama ja owarenai, yakusoku ga aru
tooi michi, hitosuji no michi
kimi ga inakerya, kimi sae ireba
Kitto iku yo, hi no ataru basho
kono mama ja owarenai, yakusoku ga aru
tooi michi, hitosuji no hikari
kimi ga iru kara, kimi sae ireba
Note2: Next chapter! Original character time! A big shock and the puzzle of the island begins to be solved! A bit more at Taisuke's expense, can you blame him for staring at Suu? Btw, at this point Suu would look like, and now be dressed like, her adult self that first appears in Episode 10. And if nobody has figured this out then I'll let you know. Everyone is now three years older then they were at the start of the show.
"NANI?!"
Naru, Keitaro, Suu, Sara, Kitsune, Tai, and Motoko were all having a fit about hearing that they were someone on an island in the middle of nowhere, coming out of a hole that Keitaro's head had made and yet Seta claimed to have fallen through, which would mean it was also made before they saw Seta in the caves. Mutsumi just smiled innocently and looked around. "Ara, is something the matter?"
As of anime style they all fell backwards to the ground. Sara sat bolt upright and started screaming. "OF COURSE SOMETHING IS THE MATTER! WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!"
Seta stood there rubbing his chin. He looks around and nods thoughtfully. "I finally figured it out. The dig site isn't here anymore. It looks like my crew has left. It looks like we're stranded." He said this matter of factly and with no worry in his voice. He smiled at everyone and Sara rounded on him. "Papa? We're stuck here with no way out. HOW IS THAT A GOOD THING?"
At that moment Tama-chan popped up on the top of Mutsumi's head and raised a flipper. "Myu!"
(Enter opening theme)
Yane no ue de sora o aogu, hizashi wa uraraka
miageru sora, karadajuu genki ga minagitteku
THAT'S SO WONDERFUL! ikiterunda!
yamerarenai, akirameru da nante
Tohou ni kureta kinou ni sayonara
futsufutsu to wakiagaru kono kimochi
nando demo yomigaeru, hana o sakaseyou
omoi dewa itsumo amai nige basho
dakedo tachi kire, asu o ikiru tame
shukufuku no toki wa kuru, te o nobashite
Uruwashi no yawaraka na hada, imada te wa todokazu
me o tojireba fukuramu IMEEJI, miwaku no kajitsu
THAT'S SO WONDERFUL! ikiterunda!
yamerarenai, sono saki o mitai
Dotou no hibi wa tsuzuku, doko made mo
tengoku to jigoku, yukitsumodoritsu
nando demo yomigaeru, hana o sakaseyou
hashire hashire, ai o te nisuru made
sore de kurushimunara nozomu tokoro
shukufuku no toki ga kuru, te o nobashite
Tohou ni kureta kinou ni sayonara
futsufutsu to wakiagaru kono kimochi
nando demo yomigaeru, hana o sakaseyou
omoi dewa itsumo amai nige basho
dakedo tachi kire, asu o ikiru tame
shukufuku no toki wa kuru, te o nobashite
Te o nobashite, ryoute agete!
(End Theme Song)
Episode 5: Fear unto Thyself
Day 8
The tenants and kanrinin, along with Seta, Haruka, and Mutsumi, all sat grinning across the table as food was passed back and forth. Keitaro grinned and pointed towards a bowl of rice. "Shinobu-chan, could you pass the rice please?" She smiled and passed the bowl of rice, he took it, dropped it, grabbed at it, ended up touching Motoko's legs, and got blasted away by a Zankuusen. Conversation continued as usual. It was such a bustle of talking that it was hard to make out what was being said, several conversations were going on at once and on different topics. A short while later Keitaro dragged himself back to his seat and rose onto it painfully. He resumed eating and talking.
Taisuke suddenly slammed his hands against the table and rose to his feet. "What in the world is going on here!" Everyone stops talking in shock and looks up at him. He shakes his head and grabs a bowl of rice and shows it to them.
"One moment we're frustrated and bitching about being stuck on this Kami cursed island in the middle of nowhere. And then there was that stupid song..."
Shinobu blushed and muttered, "I kind of liked it."
Taisuke continued as if he didn't hear what she said...which he probably didn't since he was close to shouting. "...and when it ended we were all herer! Eating in Hinatasou as if nothing had happened! And that's the worst thing! WHAT THE HELL IS HINATASOU DOING ON THIS ISLAND!"
Everything fades back to reveal Hinatasou sitting in the middle of a tropical jungle, it keeps expanding until it shows a view of a beautiful little tropical island. Then it pans far to the right to where it finally stops with a red arrow pointing at Hinata. The view condenses until it is focused on the hinata gang.
Taisuke glared at everyone and shook in frustration. Tama-chan chose that moment to pop up on his head and myu at everyone. This broke the silence and the talking began.
Suu grinned and finished shoveling a bit of food in her mouth, "It is time for lunch! All other activities are dropped at lunch time! That's a japanese trait!" Taisuke sighed and dropped his head into his palms. Always the same.
Kitsune nodded her head as if it makes sense. "True, the song was just like an interlude, except the beginning, sort of like an opening theme. So now we started here, that music covered what actually happened between then and now." She nodded her head and grinned. Taisuke blinked. She was wearing a detective outfit, the full Sherlock Homes. How she had changed without anyone noticing and with no time for it only God knew.
Keitaro leaned over the table and started shouting. "That doesn't make any sense at all! Even in an anime we should know what happened between then and now! But it's all gray area! We just are here! Can you explain that?"
Haruka just looked at them all blankly. "There isn't any use arguing. Nobody knows whats going on and badgering with Kitsune is only going to lead to more argument. And you shouldn't be leaning over the table like that."
Keitaro glanced over to her and in doing so his hand that was supporting him on the table slipped and he tumbled forwads. Of course being who he was his hand ended up smack dab on Kitsune's right breast. The punch knocked him right out of the inn and into a pond outside. Naru looked at Kistune appraisingly and clapped. "That was a great punch Kitsune!" Kitsune smiled and started bowing left and right as the applause started. Tai blinked again. She was back in her normal outfit. And there was no point in even trying to get an explanation of that.
Outside of Hinatasou a figure watched from the shadow's as Keitaro pulled himself from the pond and gasped for breath once he was out. There was a glow of red in it's eyes and they faded. A mist began to descend upon Keitaro, not the same mist that appeared when the elders were about, but a darker mist, something cold and ancient. The feeling coming from it was familar, a sense of foreboding...of apprehension...it was fear.
(Fade out and in again to Hinatasou)
Keitaro walked up the stairs towards his and Naru's room. The former inn seemed rather empty for this time of the day. He didn't notice the faded outlines at the edge of the scene that named it a dream...or at least a false reality. "Oi! Naru! Naru! Where are you Naru?" There was silence for a moment and then finally a voice called back.
"I'm up here Keitaro, I'd like to talk to you about something." The voice sounded cheery enough...but something was off about it. It had quavered for a moment as if uncertain. Keitaro shook of the feeling of dread and finished his march up the stairs and walked right to his room. Naru was in there in that yellow shirt and black skirt she liked to wear, she looked beautiful. He smiled the instant he saw her. But for some reason she seemed a bit downcast, uncertain and yet determined about what something. Finally she looked up at him and the grim and tearful look on her face was enough to put the fear into Keitaro's heart.
"Keitaro...", she began in a shaky voice. "I have to tell you something...I...I've been living a lie. I thought that I could be happy married to you, but I'm not. And every day I live this lie is hurting me more and more and making the truth all the more painful. The truth is...the truth is...I don't think I love you anymore." Tears streaming from her eyes she pressed something into his hands and ran from the room shutting the door behind her. Keitaro just stared blankly at the spot Naru had just occupied.
Slowly he looked down at what she had placed in his hand. A thin band of gold with a tiny diamond in it lay there. Her wedding ring. He stared at it unspeaking and a tear trickled from the corner of his eye. His heart felt as if it had been ripped from him. He threw back his head and wailed, "NARUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!"
(Fade out and back in)
Urashima Naru rushed up the stairs towards her and Keitaro's room. If she had slowed and truly looked she would have noticed the fuzzy edges that made this all untrue. But to her it was real as anything else. She was happy, giddy even, she didn't have any real reason, she just wanted to be with Keitaro at that moment. So she rounded the corner and opened the door.
She stopped dead and stared at the sight before her. She felt dead inside as if all that was important to her was gone. Keitaro jerked upright and turned to stare at Naru in shock. She stumbled backwards a few paces and only stopped when her back hit the wall. She shook her head in disbelief at what she had seen. She turned and started to run. Keitaro reached an arm out and called, "Wait! Naru! It isn't what you think!"
She ran sobbing as her heart was ripped away from her. She tripped and fell to the floor and lay there staring at nothing. Keitaro had been kissing Mutsumi-san...and nothing would be the same again. She began to sob, her shoulders heaving, as she lay there on the cold floor.
(Fade out and back in)
Motoko didn't notice the fuzzy edges of the scene, all she noticed was Tama-chan. That little turtle was after her! Oh certainly the others would say he was harmless...and even cute! But not her...she knew evil when she saw it, and nothing was as evil as a turtle. Nothing whatsoever. Her feet slapping against the floor she ran as fast as she could away from that evil turtle. "Leave me alone oni no kame!" She spun around and her sword swept downwards with a slashing telekenetic strike. Her attack split the wall open and it showed green. Tama-chan stopped and myued, the myu was echoed hundreds, no thousands of times. Motoko stared in horror as the walls began to shake. She knew what was about to happen. The walls burst and thousands of turtles came pouring in, a flood of them that washed over Motoko burying her. Before it swept all the way over her she screamed, "ONI NO KAME!!!!!!!!!"
(Fade out and back in)
Mutsumi sat in her room silently. "Kotatsu, watermelons, hot springs." She smiled contentedly.
(Fade out)
The figure watching stared at the mist and what was seen. "What is wrong with that girl?"
(Fade out and in again)
Kaolla sprung from rooftop to rooftop in glee, "Nii-sama...I'm not so sure now...maybe...but I don't know."
(Fade out)
The figure blinked a few times. "Nothing? There is uncertainty...but no fear. What is this girl?"
(Fade out and in again)
"Seta...I love you." Konno Mitsune, Kitsune to her friends, stared deeply into the eyes of the man that she loved. Seta, her hearthrob who she had nearly given away to Naru...who no longer loved Seta but instead loved Keitaro. Kitsune waited with hope in her heart at Seta's response. Seta simply began moving backwards without walking. He said nothing, simply got farther and farther away from her. She stretched out her arms and started running after him. But no matter how fast she ran he was always ahead of her. She yelped as she stumbled and fell. She lay there on the ground in silence. Tears flowed from her eyes and dripped to the ground beneath her. Kitsune mumbled the only thing she could. "Always out of reach...no matter how hard I try."
(Fade out and then in)
"Papa! No Papa! Don't leave Sara! PAPA!!!!!" Sara collapsed her body wracked by sobs.
(Fade out and then in)
Maehara Shinobu, sixteen years old, an outcast in school despite her beauty, she was a petite girl yet one of the most attractive girls at her highschool. Her best friend, Kaolla Suu, was one of the others, though she had been more of a late bloomer. Similar to Shinobu herself. Shinobu had a crush on Keitaro for the longest time. But when he married Naru she was able to give him up, but she wasn't the only one. Mutsumi had done the same as had Keitaro's adopted sister, Kanako. Shinobu suspected that even Motoko had feelings for Keitaro at one point. But at the moment one thing alone occupied her mind. The gravestone before her. She sank to her knees staring in shock at the words written on it. Her parents...they couldn't...first they got divorced, their actions tearing at her heart, and now they left her like this long before they should have. It wasn't right. She cried out and draped her body over the headstone and cried upon it.
"KAA-SAN! TOU-SAN! NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(Fade out and in)
Shutairo Taisuke, third son of Shutairo Urami, younger brother of Migami, Nezuhaki, and Kawaichi(a name that had always annoyed his middle brother's twin sister). He was part of the long-line of Shutairos who kept the family name going, and soon enough his father would hand down the clan leadership to Nezuhaki most certainly, his skill surpassed Migami's and he was not married. Unless Nezuhaki chose not to claim the right of leadership, then the title would be passed to Taisuke himself.
Urami Shutairo stood before Taisuke and stared down at him with that cold hard gaze. He held out the clan sword and nodded to his youngest son. "Do you Taisuke accept clan leadership?" Taisuke's eyes widened and he backed away on hands and knees shaking his head. "I am not ready...no...this is cannot be happening...this will not happen this way...this isn't possible...THIS IS NOT REAL!!!!"
The figure staggered backwards as the mist was forcefully dispersed. All went silent as the last echoes of the teenager's shout faded. The figure watched carefully at the teen in awe. "You have much power and skill young one, I underestimated you. But what exactly are you?"
One at a time the Hinata gang came awake. They blinked groggily and tried to shake off the effects of their nightmares, all their fears coming true so suddenly. The only ones that seemed no worse for the wear were Suu and Mutsumi. Suu just seemed calm, which was strange for her anyways, but Mutsumi smiled as if nothing had happened. All of them looked up in surprise at the face that looked down at them.
Keitaro fixed his glasses and blinked, "Minna-san?" His adopted sister nodded once to him and flashed that cold smile that sent a chill to the bone of everyone except Keitaro himself. Seta and Haruka seemed unaware that anything had happened at all but were silent.
"What are you doing here Kanako?" Urashima Kanako turned that cold gaze upon Naru and yet Naru did not flinch. She merely met her stare for stare.
"There is evil inhabiting this island, and I was drawn here when I opened the door at Hinatasou. I was coming early before I started helping out here while you and Keitaro started up again for the new year at Todai. This island is not when, or where it should be. The evil that inhabits this place has drawn us all here."
Taisuke stood and looked Kanako right in the eye. She looked back equally unimpressed. But secretly both were impressed by the ki of the other. They had known instantly that the other was a fighter and a skilled one at that. "Listen Kanako, I know about you and all, but what I don't know is what you think we can do against this evil. If it has the power to twist time and space to its will then even with me, Motoko-senpai, and you working together we still wouldn't be able to win."
Kanako nodded calmly. "No. We wouldn't. But there is one thing you didn't count on."
"And what's that?"
"Kaolla Suu."
He blinked in surprise and heard, "Tada! Introducing, fully outfitted Kaolla!" He turned and found himself looking right at Kaolla. She was dressed in a tight pink tank top that didn't cover her stomach, and a long light-green flowing skirt. She had a dulcimer hanging around her neck and her hair was undone and to her shoulders. She had a golden bracelet on and green banded things on her upper arms. She was beautiful.
Taisuke suddenly became aware of laughter when Kitsune nudged him with an elbow. She giggled into her hand and everyone looked a bit amused. "Ahh...Tai-chan thinks Suu-chan is cute. He's staring at her. Isn't that so?"
Taisuke's eyes widened and he glanced back at Kaolla. Then back at the Kitsune. He stood there for a second and then turned around and fled the room. "IT'S NOT KIND TO SAY THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWERS ABOUT! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Kaolla looked at where Taisuke had run off to and then a small smile crossed her face.
(End theme)
I'M A DREAMER
yoake no hikari sosogu ka no chi wa doko?
I'M A DREAMER
Honojiroi sono hohoemi, douka sawarasete
Koko wa hi no ataranai basho
hitorikiri de naku toki no himitsu no basho
sakebu youni namae yobunda
kimi ga inakerya, kimi sae ireba
Kitto iku yo, hi no ataru basho
kono mama ja owarenai, yakusoku ga aru
tooi michi, hitosuji no michi
kimi ga inakerya, kimi sae ireba
Kitto iku yo, hi no ataru basho
kono mama ja owarenai, yakusoku ga aru
tooi michi, hitosuji no hikari
kimi ga iru kara, kimi sae ireba
Note2: Next chapter! Original character time! A big shock and the puzzle of the island begins to be solved! A bit more at Taisuke's expense, can you blame him for staring at Suu? Btw, at this point Suu would look like, and now be dressed like, her adult self that first appears in Episode 10. And if nobody has figured this out then I'll let you know. Everyone is now three years older then they were at the start of the show.