Into The Woods- Inu-chan Style!
Introduction:
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, nor do I own "Into The Woods". They would belong to the great Rumiko Takahashi and Stephen Sondheim respectively.
For those who don't know the story, Into the Woods is a musical based on many fairy tales; not the watered down Disney versions (even though they are god!), but the true Hans Christian Anderson/ Brothers Grimm stories. They are not necessarily pretty stories. But the music is FANTASTICO! I recommend it to ANYONE who is interested (it's my favorite musical as of right now, and I know a lot!). Anyways, that's enough. You'll figure the story out as you go. Bonus points for those of you that can guess the characters!
Prologue:
(Curtain rises to Kagome on the left, Rin and a cow in the middle, and Inuyasha and Sango on the right. Kagome is in a VERY dirty dress, doing work. Rin is in close to rags, currently trying to gain milk. Inuyasha and Sango are in decent middle class clothing, in a kitchen [they run a bakery]. All are frozen. Sesshoumaru, dressed in a suit, steps out to the front of stage left.)
Sesshoumaru: Once upon a time...
Kagome: I wish...
(Kagome starts moving as soon as she speaks.)
Sesshoumaru : in far-off Japan...
Kagome: more than anything... Sesshoumaru: lived a fair maiden...
Kagome: more than life...
Sesshoumaru: a sad young lass...
Kagome: more than jewels...
Rin: I wish...
(Rin also starts moving at her own speech.)
Sesshoumaru: and a childless baker...
Rin: more than life...
Kagome+Inuyasha: I wish...
(Now Inuyasha and Sango are moving about their "room".)
Sesshoumaru: with his wife.
Rin: more than anything Kagome+Inuyasha+Rin: more than the moon...
Sango: I wish...
Kagome: The principal's giving a dance at school. Inuyasha+Sango: more than life...
Rin: I wish...
Kagome: I wish to go to the dance at school...
Inuyasha+Sango: more than riches...
Kagome: and the mall...
Rin: I wish my cow would give us some milk. Kagome+Sango: more than anything
Inuyasha: I wish we had a child
Rin: please pal...
Sango: I want a child...
Rin: squeeze pal...
Kagome: I wish to go to the dance at school.
Rin: I wish you'd give us some milk or even cheese...
Inuyasha+Sango: I wish we might have a child.
All: I wish...
(Kikyou, Kagura and Kanna enter, all are dressed very fine in comparison to Kagome.)
Kikyou: you wish to go to the dance at school?
Sesshoumaru: the poor girl's mother had died...
Kikyou: you, Cinderella, the dance at school? You wish to go to the dance
At school?
Kagura: What, you Cinderella the dance at school? The dance at
School?
Kanna: what, you wish to go to the dance at school? All three: The dance at school? The principal's dance? Sesshoumaru: and her father had taken for his new wife...
Kikyou: the dance at school
Sesshoumaru: a woman with two daughters of her own.
Kagura: look at your nails!
Kanna: look at your dress!
Kikyou: people would laugh at you...
Kagome: nevertheless,
All four: I/she still want/s to go the dance at school and dance before the
"prince"!
Sesshoumaru: all three were beautiful of face, but vile and black of heart. Rin,
On the other hand, had no mother, and her father...
(Jaken walks into his "house".)
Jaken: I wish...
Sesshoumaru: well, he was not beautiful.
Jaken:I wish my daughter were not a fool. I wish my house was not a mess
[a.n. it is of course...spotless...] I wish the cow was full of milk. I wish
walls were full of gold- I wish a lot of things... (said to Rin)
You foolish child! What in the Kami's name are you doing with that
Cow inside the house?
Rin: A warm environment might be just what Milky White needs to produce his
Milk.
Jaken: It's a she! How many times do I have to tell you? Only "she"s can
Produce milk.
(there are two knocks on Inuyasha's door; it is Shippou. Shippou is being his usual bouncy self and is wearing a red baseball cap...backwards.)
Sango: why, come in little boy. Shippou: I wish...it's not for me, it's for my Granda in the woods. Just a
Loaf of bread please- to bring my poor old hungry Granda in the woods
Just a loaf of bread please...
(Inuyasha gives him the bread)
Sesshoumaru: Kikyou had a surprise for Kagome.
(Kikyou throws a LARGE book on desk)
Kikyou: I have left a large book of math problems for you. If you have done
My darlings' calc. homework in two hours time...you shall go to the
Dance with us.
(Kikyou, Kanna and Kagura leave.)
Shippou: and perhaps a sticky bun?...or four?... Kagome: birds in the sky. Birds in the eaves, in the leaves, in the fields, in the
Castles and ponds...
Shippou: and a few of those pies...please...
Kagome: come little birds, down from the eaves and the leaves over fields out
Of castles and ponds...
Rin: no, squeeze pal...
Kagome: ahhh....
(birds descend)
quick little birds, flick through the pages. Scritch and scratch but
write out the answers, onto this page...
(birds start writing hiragana script onto page)
Jaken Listen well girl. Milky-white must be taken to market. Rin: But father no- he's the best cow...
Jaken: Was. Was! SHE's been dry for a week. We've no food nor money, and
No choice but to sell her while she can still commend a price.
Rin: But Milky-White's my best friend in the whole world!
Jaken: look at HER! There are bugs on her dugs. There are flies in her
Eyes. There's a lump on her rump big enough to be a hump! Rin: but...
Jaken: girl, we've no time to sit and dither, while her withers wither with
Her...and no one keeps a cow for a friend! Sometimes I fear you're
Touched!
(Shippou, who has been compulsively eating sweets, finishes and wipes his hands.)
Shippou: into the woods it's time to go I hate to leave I have to though. Into the
Woods it's time and so I must begin my journey. Into the woods and
Through the trees to where I am expected, ma'am. Into the woods
To grandfather's house! (with mouth full) into the woods to grandfather's house!
Sango: you're certain of your way?
Shippou: the way is clear. The light is good. I have no fear, nor no one should.
The woods are just trees, the trees are just wood. I sort of hate to
Ask it, but do you have a basket?
Inuyasha: Don't stray and be late.
Sango: and save some of those sweets for Grandpa. Shippou: Into the woods and down the
Dell, the path is straight, I know it well. Into the woods and who
Can tell what's waiting on the journey? Into the woods to bring
Some bread to Granda who is sick in bed. Never can tell what lies
Ahead. For all that I know, he's already dead. But into the woods,
Into the woods, into the woods to grandfather's house and home
Before dark!
Kagome: fly birds, back to the sky, back to the eaves and the leaves and the
Fields and the...
(Kagura and Kanna enter, dressed for the dance)
Kagura: hurry up and do my hair Kagome!
(to Kanna, as Kagome fusses with her hair)
are you really wearing that?
Kanna: (points to her dress)
Here, I found a little tear Kagome.
(to Kagura, eyeing her hair)
Can't you hide it with a hat?
Kagome: you look beautiful.
Kagura: I know.
Kanna: she means me.
Kagura: (to Kagome)
Put it in a twist.
Kanna: who will be there?...
(the two continue babbling underneath.)
Kagome: (to herself)
Mother said be good. Father said be nice, that was always their
Advice. So be nice, Kagome, Good, Kagome, nice good good
Nice...
Kagura: tighter!
Kagome: what's the good of being good if everyone is blind and you're always
Left behind? Never mind Kagome, Kind Kagome-
(accenting each word with a twist of a stand of hair)
Nice good nice kind good nice...
Kagura: ( Screaming, slapping Kagome)
Not that tight!
Kagome: sorry.
Kagura: Clod.
Kanna: Hee hee hee.
(Kagura glares at her.)
hee hee...[stops]
Sesshoumaru: Because Inuyasha had lost his mother and father in a baking
Accident...well, at least that's what he believed...he was eager to
Have a family of his own, and was concerned that all efforts until
Now had failed.
(there is a knock on Inuyasha's door.)
Inuyasha: who might that be?
Sango: We have sold our last loaf of bread...
Inuyasha: It's the witch from next door.
(he opens the door, Kaede enters)
Inuyasha+Sango: We have no bread.
Kaede: Of course you have no bread! Inuyasha: What do you wish?
Kaede: It's not what I wish, it's what you wish. (points to Sango's belly)
Nothing cooking in there, now is there? Sesshoumaru: the old enchantress told the couple she had placed a spell on
Their house.
Inuyasha: what spell?
Kaede: in the past, when you were no more than a babe, your father brought his
Young wife and you to this cottage. They were a handsome couple
But not handsome neighbors. You see, you mother was with child,
And she had developed an unusual
"Appetite". She took one look at my
beautiful jewelery box and
Told your father that what she wanted more than anything in
The world was...stars stars and nothing but stars: rubies,
Sappires, diamonds and emeralds, titanium, and hematite and
Malachite and garnet-! He said "all right" but it wasn't quite.
'cause I caught him in my boudoir in the autumn one night he
was robbind me, raping me, rooting through my chalcedony,
raiding my sardonyx, ripping up the faceting (the most
expensive part of it)- I should have laid a spell on him right
there, could have turned him into stone, or a dog, or a chair, or a
sn...
(drifts off into a momentary trance)
But I let him have the jewelery I'd lots to spare. In return,
However, I said, "fair is fair. You will let me have the baby that your wife will bear. And we'll call it square." Inuyasha: I had a brother?
Kaede: no...but you had a sister
Sesshoumaru: But Kaede refused to tell him any more of his sister. Not even
That name was Yura. She went on...
Kaede: I thought I had been more than reasonable and that we
might all live happily ever after. But how was I to know what
your father had also hidden in his pocket?! You see, when I had
inherited that jewelery box, my mother had warned me that I
would be punished if I ever were to lose any of the... Inuyasha: what?
Kaede: shards.
Inuyasha+Sango: shards?
Kaede: the shikon shards!! I let him go I didn't know he'd stolen my shards! I was
Watching him crawl back over the wall..! And then bang!
Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story
Never mind- anyway, at last the big day came, And I made
My claim. "oh don't take away the baby!" they shrieked and
Screeched, but I did, and I hid her where she'll never be
Reached. And your father cried, and your mother died.
When for extra measure...I admit it was a pleasure...I said
"sorry I'm still not mollified." And I laid a little spell on them...
you too son... that your family tree will always be a barren
one.
(she rises in her chair, laughing as she goes)
so there's no more tricks and there's no more cards and my
jewel box 's fixed...you should see my feldspars...but I'm
telling you the same I tell queens and their guards...don't
ever never ever mess around with my stars....especially the
shards!
(Rin puts her hat and cloak on)
Jaken: Now listen to me Rin. Lead Milky-White to market and fetch the
Best price you can. Take no less than 5 pounds. Are
you listening to me? Rin: yes.
Jaken: Now how much are you to ask?
Rin: No more than 5 pounds.
(he pinches her ear)
Jaken: LESS than 5! Rin Rin Rin, Head in a bin, the house is getting colder.
This is not a time for dreaming. Chimney stack starting to
Crack, the mice are getting bolder the floor's gone slack,
Your father's getting older, your mother's not back, and you
Can't just sit here dreaming pretty dreams. To wish and wait
From day to day will never keep the wolves away. So into
The woods the time is now. We have to live I don't care how
Into the woods to sell the cow, you must begin the journey.
Straight through the woods and don't delay, we have to face
The marketplace. Into the woods to journey's end... Rin: (leading Milky-White out)
Into the woods to sell a friend... Jaken: Someday, you'll have a real pet Rin.
Rin: a piggy?
(Jaken shakes his head in disbelief)
Sesshoumaru: meanwhile, Kaede for purposes of her own, explained how
Inuyasha might lift the spell:
Kaede: you wish to have the curse reversed? I'll need a certain potion first. Go
To the wood and bring me back One: the cow as white as
Milk. Two: the cap as red as blood, Three: the hair as
black as night, Four: the slipper as pure as gold. Bring me
These before the chime of midnight in three days' time, and
You shall have I guarantee, a child as perfect as child can
Be. Go to the wood!
(she disappears) Kikyou: (to Kagura, Kanna)
Ladies. Our limo awaits.
(Kagome hands her a notebook full of math equations. She's covered in lead-marks)
Kagome: now may I go to the dance at school? Kikyou: the dance at school...! Darling those nails! Darling those clothes!
Homework is one thing but Darling with those, you'd make
Us the fools of the dance at school and mortify the prince!
(Houjou sticks his head through the door.)
Houjou: The limo is waiting.
Kikyou: we must be gone.
(they go out with a flourish)
Kagome: Good night Father. I wish...
(she sits dejected, crying)
Inuyasha: Look what I found in father's hunting jacket. Sango: Six shards.
Inuyasha: I wonder if they are the...
Sango: Witch's shards? We'll take them with us. Inuyasha: no! you are not coming.
Sango: I know you are fearful of the woods at night.
Inuyasha: the spell is on my house. Only I can lift the spell the spell is on my
House.
Sango: no,no, the spell is on our house. We must lift the spell together. Inuyasha: no. you are not to come and that is final. Now what am I to return
With?
Sango: you don't remember? The cow as white as milk, the cap as red
As blood, the hair as black as night, the slipper as pure as
Gold...
Inuyasha: (memorizing)
The cow as white as milk, the cap as red as blood, the hair
As black as night, the slipper as pure as gold... Sesshoumaru: And so Inuyasha, reluctantly, sets off to meet the Kaede's
Demands. As for Kagome...
Kagome: I still wish to go to the dance at school. But how am I ever to get the
Dance at school?
Inuyasha: the cow as white as milk, the cap as red as blood, the hair as black
As night...
Kagome: I know! I'll visit Mother's Grave at the Goshimboku tree and tell her I
Just want to go to the pricipal's dance at school... Sango: the slipper...
Inuyasha: the slipper as pure as gold... the cow the cap the slipper as pure as
Gold...
Sango: the hair...!
Kagome+Inuyasha: Into the woods it's time to go it may be all in vain you/I
Know. Into the woods...but even so I have to take the
journey. Kagome+Inuyasha+Sango: Into the woods the path is straight, you know it well,
But who can tell...
Inuyasha+Sango: into the woods to lift the spell...
Kagome: into the woods to visit mother...
Sango:into the woods to fetch the things...
Inuyasha: to make the potion... Kagome: to go to the dance at school... Kagome+Rin+Jaken+Inuyasha+Sango:Into the woods without regret the
Choice is made, the task is set. Into the woods but not
Forgetting why I'm on the journey.
(Shippou joins in)
Into the woods to get my wish I don't care how the time is
Now.
Jaken: into the woods to sell the cow...
Rin: Into the woods to get the money...
Sango: into the woods to lift the spell...
Inuyasha: to make the potion...
Kagome: to go to the dance at school...
Shippou: into the woods to grandfather's house...into the woods to
Grandfather's house...
All: the way is clear, the light is good, I have no fear, nor no one should. The
Woods are just trees, the trees are just wood. No need to be
Afraid there... Kagome+Inuyasha: there's something in the glade there...
(Houjou, Kikyou, Kagura and Kanna are seen riding in their limo)
All: Into the woods without delay but careful not to lose the way. Into the woods
Who knows what may be lurking on the journey? Into the
Woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying.
Into the woods... Kikyou+Kagura+Kanna: to see the principal...
Rin+Jaken: to sell the cow
Inuyasha+Sango: to make the potion...
All: to see...to sell...to get...to bring...to make...to lift...to go to the dance at
School...into the woods! Into the woods! Into the woods
Then out of the woods and home before dark!
****now that wasn't so bad...was it? Read and review PLEASE!!!!! Be kind, this is my first fanficky. I know that there is a good deal of OOC-ness, and before I get flames concerning In-chan and Sango...all will be revealed in due course. As I mentioned, try and see if you can guess what each fairy tale character is! Thank you for reading this! Oh.....happy easter all!
Dea-chan
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, nor do I own "Into The Woods". They would belong to the great Rumiko Takahashi and Stephen Sondheim respectively.
For those who don't know the story, Into the Woods is a musical based on many fairy tales; not the watered down Disney versions (even though they are god!), but the true Hans Christian Anderson/ Brothers Grimm stories. They are not necessarily pretty stories. But the music is FANTASTICO! I recommend it to ANYONE who is interested (it's my favorite musical as of right now, and I know a lot!). Anyways, that's enough. You'll figure the story out as you go. Bonus points for those of you that can guess the characters!
Prologue:
(Curtain rises to Kagome on the left, Rin and a cow in the middle, and Inuyasha and Sango on the right. Kagome is in a VERY dirty dress, doing work. Rin is in close to rags, currently trying to gain milk. Inuyasha and Sango are in decent middle class clothing, in a kitchen [they run a bakery]. All are frozen. Sesshoumaru, dressed in a suit, steps out to the front of stage left.)
Sesshoumaru: Once upon a time...
Kagome: I wish...
(Kagome starts moving as soon as she speaks.)
Sesshoumaru : in far-off Japan...
Kagome: more than anything... Sesshoumaru: lived a fair maiden...
Kagome: more than life...
Sesshoumaru: a sad young lass...
Kagome: more than jewels...
Rin: I wish...
(Rin also starts moving at her own speech.)
Sesshoumaru: and a childless baker...
Rin: more than life...
Kagome+Inuyasha: I wish...
(Now Inuyasha and Sango are moving about their "room".)
Sesshoumaru: with his wife.
Rin: more than anything Kagome+Inuyasha+Rin: more than the moon...
Sango: I wish...
Kagome: The principal's giving a dance at school. Inuyasha+Sango: more than life...
Rin: I wish...
Kagome: I wish to go to the dance at school...
Inuyasha+Sango: more than riches...
Kagome: and the mall...
Rin: I wish my cow would give us some milk. Kagome+Sango: more than anything
Inuyasha: I wish we had a child
Rin: please pal...
Sango: I want a child...
Rin: squeeze pal...
Kagome: I wish to go to the dance at school.
Rin: I wish you'd give us some milk or even cheese...
Inuyasha+Sango: I wish we might have a child.
All: I wish...
(Kikyou, Kagura and Kanna enter, all are dressed very fine in comparison to Kagome.)
Kikyou: you wish to go to the dance at school?
Sesshoumaru: the poor girl's mother had died...
Kikyou: you, Cinderella, the dance at school? You wish to go to the dance
At school?
Kagura: What, you Cinderella the dance at school? The dance at
School?
Kanna: what, you wish to go to the dance at school? All three: The dance at school? The principal's dance? Sesshoumaru: and her father had taken for his new wife...
Kikyou: the dance at school
Sesshoumaru: a woman with two daughters of her own.
Kagura: look at your nails!
Kanna: look at your dress!
Kikyou: people would laugh at you...
Kagome: nevertheless,
All four: I/she still want/s to go the dance at school and dance before the
"prince"!
Sesshoumaru: all three were beautiful of face, but vile and black of heart. Rin,
On the other hand, had no mother, and her father...
(Jaken walks into his "house".)
Jaken: I wish...
Sesshoumaru: well, he was not beautiful.
Jaken:I wish my daughter were not a fool. I wish my house was not a mess
[a.n. it is of course...spotless...] I wish the cow was full of milk. I wish
walls were full of gold- I wish a lot of things... (said to Rin)
You foolish child! What in the Kami's name are you doing with that
Cow inside the house?
Rin: A warm environment might be just what Milky White needs to produce his
Milk.
Jaken: It's a she! How many times do I have to tell you? Only "she"s can
Produce milk.
(there are two knocks on Inuyasha's door; it is Shippou. Shippou is being his usual bouncy self and is wearing a red baseball cap...backwards.)
Sango: why, come in little boy. Shippou: I wish...it's not for me, it's for my Granda in the woods. Just a
Loaf of bread please- to bring my poor old hungry Granda in the woods
Just a loaf of bread please...
(Inuyasha gives him the bread)
Sesshoumaru: Kikyou had a surprise for Kagome.
(Kikyou throws a LARGE book on desk)
Kikyou: I have left a large book of math problems for you. If you have done
My darlings' calc. homework in two hours time...you shall go to the
Dance with us.
(Kikyou, Kanna and Kagura leave.)
Shippou: and perhaps a sticky bun?...or four?... Kagome: birds in the sky. Birds in the eaves, in the leaves, in the fields, in the
Castles and ponds...
Shippou: and a few of those pies...please...
Kagome: come little birds, down from the eaves and the leaves over fields out
Of castles and ponds...
Rin: no, squeeze pal...
Kagome: ahhh....
(birds descend)
quick little birds, flick through the pages. Scritch and scratch but
write out the answers, onto this page...
(birds start writing hiragana script onto page)
Jaken Listen well girl. Milky-white must be taken to market. Rin: But father no- he's the best cow...
Jaken: Was. Was! SHE's been dry for a week. We've no food nor money, and
No choice but to sell her while she can still commend a price.
Rin: But Milky-White's my best friend in the whole world!
Jaken: look at HER! There are bugs on her dugs. There are flies in her
Eyes. There's a lump on her rump big enough to be a hump! Rin: but...
Jaken: girl, we've no time to sit and dither, while her withers wither with
Her...and no one keeps a cow for a friend! Sometimes I fear you're
Touched!
(Shippou, who has been compulsively eating sweets, finishes and wipes his hands.)
Shippou: into the woods it's time to go I hate to leave I have to though. Into the
Woods it's time and so I must begin my journey. Into the woods and
Through the trees to where I am expected, ma'am. Into the woods
To grandfather's house! (with mouth full) into the woods to grandfather's house!
Sango: you're certain of your way?
Shippou: the way is clear. The light is good. I have no fear, nor no one should.
The woods are just trees, the trees are just wood. I sort of hate to
Ask it, but do you have a basket?
Inuyasha: Don't stray and be late.
Sango: and save some of those sweets for Grandpa. Shippou: Into the woods and down the
Dell, the path is straight, I know it well. Into the woods and who
Can tell what's waiting on the journey? Into the woods to bring
Some bread to Granda who is sick in bed. Never can tell what lies
Ahead. For all that I know, he's already dead. But into the woods,
Into the woods, into the woods to grandfather's house and home
Before dark!
Kagome: fly birds, back to the sky, back to the eaves and the leaves and the
Fields and the...
(Kagura and Kanna enter, dressed for the dance)
Kagura: hurry up and do my hair Kagome!
(to Kanna, as Kagome fusses with her hair)
are you really wearing that?
Kanna: (points to her dress)
Here, I found a little tear Kagome.
(to Kagura, eyeing her hair)
Can't you hide it with a hat?
Kagome: you look beautiful.
Kagura: I know.
Kanna: she means me.
Kagura: (to Kagome)
Put it in a twist.
Kanna: who will be there?...
(the two continue babbling underneath.)
Kagome: (to herself)
Mother said be good. Father said be nice, that was always their
Advice. So be nice, Kagome, Good, Kagome, nice good good
Nice...
Kagura: tighter!
Kagome: what's the good of being good if everyone is blind and you're always
Left behind? Never mind Kagome, Kind Kagome-
(accenting each word with a twist of a stand of hair)
Nice good nice kind good nice...
Kagura: ( Screaming, slapping Kagome)
Not that tight!
Kagome: sorry.
Kagura: Clod.
Kanna: Hee hee hee.
(Kagura glares at her.)
hee hee...[stops]
Sesshoumaru: Because Inuyasha had lost his mother and father in a baking
Accident...well, at least that's what he believed...he was eager to
Have a family of his own, and was concerned that all efforts until
Now had failed.
(there is a knock on Inuyasha's door.)
Inuyasha: who might that be?
Sango: We have sold our last loaf of bread...
Inuyasha: It's the witch from next door.
(he opens the door, Kaede enters)
Inuyasha+Sango: We have no bread.
Kaede: Of course you have no bread! Inuyasha: What do you wish?
Kaede: It's not what I wish, it's what you wish. (points to Sango's belly)
Nothing cooking in there, now is there? Sesshoumaru: the old enchantress told the couple she had placed a spell on
Their house.
Inuyasha: what spell?
Kaede: in the past, when you were no more than a babe, your father brought his
Young wife and you to this cottage. They were a handsome couple
But not handsome neighbors. You see, you mother was with child,
And she had developed an unusual
"Appetite". She took one look at my
beautiful jewelery box and
Told your father that what she wanted more than anything in
The world was...stars stars and nothing but stars: rubies,
Sappires, diamonds and emeralds, titanium, and hematite and
Malachite and garnet-! He said "all right" but it wasn't quite.
'cause I caught him in my boudoir in the autumn one night he
was robbind me, raping me, rooting through my chalcedony,
raiding my sardonyx, ripping up the faceting (the most
expensive part of it)- I should have laid a spell on him right
there, could have turned him into stone, or a dog, or a chair, or a
sn...
(drifts off into a momentary trance)
But I let him have the jewelery I'd lots to spare. In return,
However, I said, "fair is fair. You will let me have the baby that your wife will bear. And we'll call it square." Inuyasha: I had a brother?
Kaede: no...but you had a sister
Sesshoumaru: But Kaede refused to tell him any more of his sister. Not even
That name was Yura. She went on...
Kaede: I thought I had been more than reasonable and that we
might all live happily ever after. But how was I to know what
your father had also hidden in his pocket?! You see, when I had
inherited that jewelery box, my mother had warned me that I
would be punished if I ever were to lose any of the... Inuyasha: what?
Kaede: shards.
Inuyasha+Sango: shards?
Kaede: the shikon shards!! I let him go I didn't know he'd stolen my shards! I was
Watching him crawl back over the wall..! And then bang!
Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story
Never mind- anyway, at last the big day came, And I made
My claim. "oh don't take away the baby!" they shrieked and
Screeched, but I did, and I hid her where she'll never be
Reached. And your father cried, and your mother died.
When for extra measure...I admit it was a pleasure...I said
"sorry I'm still not mollified." And I laid a little spell on them...
you too son... that your family tree will always be a barren
one.
(she rises in her chair, laughing as she goes)
so there's no more tricks and there's no more cards and my
jewel box 's fixed...you should see my feldspars...but I'm
telling you the same I tell queens and their guards...don't
ever never ever mess around with my stars....especially the
shards!
(Rin puts her hat and cloak on)
Jaken: Now listen to me Rin. Lead Milky-White to market and fetch the
Best price you can. Take no less than 5 pounds. Are
you listening to me? Rin: yes.
Jaken: Now how much are you to ask?
Rin: No more than 5 pounds.
(he pinches her ear)
Jaken: LESS than 5! Rin Rin Rin, Head in a bin, the house is getting colder.
This is not a time for dreaming. Chimney stack starting to
Crack, the mice are getting bolder the floor's gone slack,
Your father's getting older, your mother's not back, and you
Can't just sit here dreaming pretty dreams. To wish and wait
From day to day will never keep the wolves away. So into
The woods the time is now. We have to live I don't care how
Into the woods to sell the cow, you must begin the journey.
Straight through the woods and don't delay, we have to face
The marketplace. Into the woods to journey's end... Rin: (leading Milky-White out)
Into the woods to sell a friend... Jaken: Someday, you'll have a real pet Rin.
Rin: a piggy?
(Jaken shakes his head in disbelief)
Sesshoumaru: meanwhile, Kaede for purposes of her own, explained how
Inuyasha might lift the spell:
Kaede: you wish to have the curse reversed? I'll need a certain potion first. Go
To the wood and bring me back One: the cow as white as
Milk. Two: the cap as red as blood, Three: the hair as
black as night, Four: the slipper as pure as gold. Bring me
These before the chime of midnight in three days' time, and
You shall have I guarantee, a child as perfect as child can
Be. Go to the wood!
(she disappears) Kikyou: (to Kagura, Kanna)
Ladies. Our limo awaits.
(Kagome hands her a notebook full of math equations. She's covered in lead-marks)
Kagome: now may I go to the dance at school? Kikyou: the dance at school...! Darling those nails! Darling those clothes!
Homework is one thing but Darling with those, you'd make
Us the fools of the dance at school and mortify the prince!
(Houjou sticks his head through the door.)
Houjou: The limo is waiting.
Kikyou: we must be gone.
(they go out with a flourish)
Kagome: Good night Father. I wish...
(she sits dejected, crying)
Inuyasha: Look what I found in father's hunting jacket. Sango: Six shards.
Inuyasha: I wonder if they are the...
Sango: Witch's shards? We'll take them with us. Inuyasha: no! you are not coming.
Sango: I know you are fearful of the woods at night.
Inuyasha: the spell is on my house. Only I can lift the spell the spell is on my
House.
Sango: no,no, the spell is on our house. We must lift the spell together. Inuyasha: no. you are not to come and that is final. Now what am I to return
With?
Sango: you don't remember? The cow as white as milk, the cap as red
As blood, the hair as black as night, the slipper as pure as
Gold...
Inuyasha: (memorizing)
The cow as white as milk, the cap as red as blood, the hair
As black as night, the slipper as pure as gold... Sesshoumaru: And so Inuyasha, reluctantly, sets off to meet the Kaede's
Demands. As for Kagome...
Kagome: I still wish to go to the dance at school. But how am I ever to get the
Dance at school?
Inuyasha: the cow as white as milk, the cap as red as blood, the hair as black
As night...
Kagome: I know! I'll visit Mother's Grave at the Goshimboku tree and tell her I
Just want to go to the pricipal's dance at school... Sango: the slipper...
Inuyasha: the slipper as pure as gold... the cow the cap the slipper as pure as
Gold...
Sango: the hair...!
Kagome+Inuyasha: Into the woods it's time to go it may be all in vain you/I
Know. Into the woods...but even so I have to take the
journey. Kagome+Inuyasha+Sango: Into the woods the path is straight, you know it well,
But who can tell...
Inuyasha+Sango: into the woods to lift the spell...
Kagome: into the woods to visit mother...
Sango:into the woods to fetch the things...
Inuyasha: to make the potion... Kagome: to go to the dance at school... Kagome+Rin+Jaken+Inuyasha+Sango:Into the woods without regret the
Choice is made, the task is set. Into the woods but not
Forgetting why I'm on the journey.
(Shippou joins in)
Into the woods to get my wish I don't care how the time is
Now.
Jaken: into the woods to sell the cow...
Rin: Into the woods to get the money...
Sango: into the woods to lift the spell...
Inuyasha: to make the potion...
Kagome: to go to the dance at school...
Shippou: into the woods to grandfather's house...into the woods to
Grandfather's house...
All: the way is clear, the light is good, I have no fear, nor no one should. The
Woods are just trees, the trees are just wood. No need to be
Afraid there... Kagome+Inuyasha: there's something in the glade there...
(Houjou, Kikyou, Kagura and Kanna are seen riding in their limo)
All: Into the woods without delay but careful not to lose the way. Into the woods
Who knows what may be lurking on the journey? Into the
Woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying.
Into the woods... Kikyou+Kagura+Kanna: to see the principal...
Rin+Jaken: to sell the cow
Inuyasha+Sango: to make the potion...
All: to see...to sell...to get...to bring...to make...to lift...to go to the dance at
School...into the woods! Into the woods! Into the woods
Then out of the woods and home before dark!
****now that wasn't so bad...was it? Read and review PLEASE!!!!! Be kind, this is my first fanficky. I know that there is a good deal of OOC-ness, and before I get flames concerning In-chan and Sango...all will be revealed in due course. As I mentioned, try and see if you can guess what each fairy tale character is! Thank you for reading this! Oh.....happy easter all!
Dea-chan