Inu cast appears in authoress' room. They see books of torture everywhere and random knick knacks pilled on shelves and the floor…
InuYasha: What are we doing here? And why are there How to torture: the easy way! books everywhere?
Kagome: Don't know, but it looks kinda…
Shippou: Scary?
Sango: Strange?
Kirara: Mew?
Rin: Sexy?
Inu cast: What?!
Miroku: The hottest man alive?
Everyone: What?!
Rin/Miroku: We saw it on the wall.
Inu cast: (scoots over to see the wall. Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood, and random Anime clips are taped all over wall) Scary.
Silv: (appears in a puff of smoke) I'M HERE!!!!!!
Inu cast: EEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Silv: EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! IT'S SESSHY!!!!! (runs over to Sesshomaru and grabs his tail) OOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!!!!
Rin: Yeah!!!!
Silv: Yeah!!!! (pats Rin's head) Cutie!
InuYasha: Do you want to explain why we are here? Or more specifically, WHY IS THAT BAKA HERE!!! (points to Sess)
Silv: I'll explain, but the readers come first!
Inu cast: Huh?
Silv: (ignores them) Hi everyone! This fan fiction is based on the movie Ever After! The Cinderella-like movie, except no magic pumpkins and stupid fat mice! Sorry Gus-Gus!!! Anyway, here's the fic!!!
Disclaimer: Don't own InuYasha or Ever After! So don't sue!
Ever After
Ch. 1
The morning was bright and sunny as Kaede dressed the overly-excited girl-child in a new kimono. "It will be wonderful! Just think! I get an otasa, a sister, and acousin all on the same day!" the girl literally shouted at her nanny.
"Hold still, child!" Kaede cried, as the girl kept reaching for a ribbon, or a book that caught her fancy. "We don't want that imp living in side ye to make itself known!" The old woman chortled at her own joke.
A light tap suddenly came to the window, and the girl leaped from her nanny's grasp and the ran to sling open the shoji screen. She looked down at the ground where a demon servant of her father stood, looking fairly annoyed. The wolf-pup growled and yelled up to her. "Kagome! I've been waiting for twenty minutes but you…Hey! You look all…girly!" he cried, sticking his tongue out.
The girl glared at him. "You better take that back, Kouga! I'll never be a girly-girl!" The wolf laughed heartily, and wiped away a tear."
"Not from where I'm standing!"
"A girly-girl wouldn't be able to beat your face in!" she retorted.
"I'm sure, milady." he mocked.
Ina flash Kagome leaped out of the second story, into a wagon filled with hay. "You're gonna pay, Kouga!" she shrieked, and rolled out of the hay to chase the wolf-pup around a corner, out of Kaede's sight. She took a deep breath and set her hand on her leaping heart.
"That girl is going to drive me to an early grave." she said to herself.
xoxoxoxoxox
Higurashi led his men and a horse-drawn carriage through his estate gates, and down the tree-lined path. As he led his party through his late wife's bonsai garden, he caught his young daughter chasing his stable-boy, shooting balsa wood arrows at the unfortunate demon-child. He was glad to see his gift of balsa arrows was being used, and that his miko-potential daughter was using them, but he wasn't pleased to see that they were being used to pummel the stable-boy.
The samurai lord led his party through his late wife's bonsai garden, and stopped his black horse in front of a stableman and dismounted. He nodded to his servants, who were standing in front of the steps that led to the main entrance of his manor. Everyone of them were outside, bowing, and eager to greet their new mistress.
The carriage door was opened, and a woman, wearing an extravagant- and not to mention expensive- kimono, stepped down from the carriage. They could see the white, high-heeled traditional sandals of the Japanese woman of privilege, and saw a brilliant fan in one of her hands. She had her black hair in a complicated bun, and wore earrings of green beads.
The male servants sucked in their stomachs and puffed up their chests; their new mistress was a gorgeous woman. The maids were obviously envious of the woman's beauty, but they kept their thoughts to themselves; she would be a fine mistress.
The woman stepped over to her husband's outstretched arm and gazed about the Japanese mansion. It would suit her just fine, for now. She kept telling herself she would get divorced from Higurashi within a year, and, because she knew him to be a kind man, she was confident he would give her, her lovely daughter, and her disappointing niece plenty of money. Then, the woman thought, Then I will find a royal, and become royalty myself!
A little girl appeared out of the carriage, bearing striking resemblance to Higurashi's daughter. She wore a kimono and held a quiet, calm, gaze and manner. She was a graceful child, and she seemed neat and tidy. But she also held prejudice in her air, like she only liked you if you did everything she told you.
A second girl stepped down from the carriage. She wore a kimono as well, but she kept stumbling as she walked, and scowling at the dress when it stopped her long strides. She didn't like how tight it was on her legs. She preferred her loose, comfortable kimono, which wasn't rich and expensive.
Higurashi's new wife smiled, proudly at her daughter, who stood obediently beside her. The woman narrowed her eyes at her niece's behavior, of tripping, and cursing quietly at her dress and tall sandals.
Suddenly black-haired little girl, or at least the woman thought it was black, ran around a corner and catapulted herself into Higurashi's arms. "Otosa! Otosa you're finally here!" The new mistress saw the child was covered in mud, hay, and everything else found on the ground, and the girl was currently coving her new husband with all of it.
Higurashi set his daughter down and turned her to his new wife. "Kagura, this is my child, Kagome. Kagome, this is your new otasa." The girl smiled, innocently at her new mother an bowed respectfully. She did not judge or calculate strangers, unlike the woman she now called otasa.
Kagura smiled, stiffly, at the girl. "So pleased to meet you, my daughter." she said, sweetly, though she was disgusted inside. Higurashi didn't catch the sparks around his new wife, and continued the introductions.
"This is Kikyo, your sister." he gestured to the quiet little girl, "And this is Sango, your cousin." He gestured to the girl who was still scowling at her dress.
"Lovely to meet you." the two girls said, and Kagome bowed to them, and they her.
"Let us go in for dinner. I am truly starving." he laughed, and directed his family into the house. No one caught the flames Kagura and Kikyo silently sent Kagome and her father's way. This would not end well…
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Three days later, Higurashi was getting ready to leave, again. The household stood outside in the morning air. Two of the little girls were yawning, and the other was watching everything, blankly.
Kagura followed her husband down the steps, as he walked to his horse. "Do you really have to leave, Okoto?" she asked, just as he stumbled on a step. The household gasped, in surprise, but the samurai lord caught himself.
"I am fine." he said, and continued down the steps. He made it to his three little girls, and patted Kikyo and Sango's heads. "Be good girls." he said, and kneeled by Kagome. "I love you. I'll see you soon." he told her.
"But you just got back, otosa." she said, and hugged him.
"Teach them the ropes, Kagome. I'll see you in two weeks." He let her go, and got ready to stand, but his daughter grabbed his arm.
"One." she corrected, sternly. He caught her determined gaze, and nodded, though reluctantly.
"Alright. Just one." He stood up, and blew a kiss to his wife. "I love you," he said. He turned and climbed into his horses saddle. "I love you all." he said, and turned his horse towards the gate.
"Come ladies, we must get back to your lessons." Kagura clapped her hands and ushered the girls back to the house.
"Wait!" Kagome cried, "He always waves at the gate." Her new mother gave a curt shrug and continued ascending the steps. The girl shook her head and ran to the edge of the bonsai garden. She saw her father turn his horse, at the gate. She raised her arm to wave him goodbye, and, instead of waving back, he fell from his horse with a thud.
"OTASA!"…
The child would grow into a young miko, of seventeen, with a life opposite of what she was destined. Kagura, enraged that she was stuck as the Higurashi widow and could not wed royalty, set the girl to working as a scullery maid in the manor. It would soon come to pass when her life would be changed forever by one man, who was still a boy in many ways…
Silv: COOL!!! I DID THE FIRST CHAPTER!!!
InuYasha How annoying is this? We're trapped here, for God only knows how long, with this psycho. (points thumb at Silv, who is doing a stupid victory dance)
Silv: Thank you for reading! I would love some reviews!!!
Rin: What are those?
Silv: I'll tell you!
Inu Cast: Oh NO!!!! RIN!!!