A Fox for a Wife
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: This is from The Enchanted Island Stories from Shakespeare adapted by Ian Serraillier. I don't know Kaoru's father's name so I'm borrowing the name that Akai Kitsune used. I did not get permission by the above parties.
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As Sunday was near to be finished without any wedding and the wedding guests grew restless with waiting. Megumi remained stuffed in her room; she did not caring if he did show up. Sagara Sanosuke was already two hours late for the wedding.
Megumi was beginning to think that all his talk of getting married was all a load of lies and that he meant for her to wait until she grew old with gray hair waiting for him to show up. She was hoping, wishing, with all her heart that he did not show up because she really did not want to be married off to that insufferable man.
They finally heard the bay of the horses as they came up to the dojo and Sanosuke was on top of a donkey of a horse, with old stirrups and a moth-eaten saddle. He was ridding his horse as though it was a prize-winning horse and he, the emperor of Japan. He was dressed in a ridiculous outfit, a foreign one no doubt, wearing a huge rainbow-colored hat that some foreigners call a sombrero. He also had on a rather bland pair of patchy pants and an ancient coat.
His servant, Myojin Yahiko, was looking just as outrageous was riding a goatish horse following respectfully behind his master. The entirety of the guests looked on with open disgust as the two misshapen people made their way to the ceremony.
"Let's get this wedding started! Where is my bride? Where is Megumi? Where has my lovely bride been waiting?" Asked Sanosuke with a sparkling smile lifting up the lid off a barrel.
"Huhh... oh! But, Sanosuke, you certainly won't be marrying my eldest daughter in those close!" Koshijirou asked skeptically.
Sanosuke looked long and hard at him before answering, "why not? She is marrying me, not my clothes," Sanosuke informed is soon-to-be father-in-law. "Where is my Megumi? It's about time we get married and on our way!"
Sanosuke was off into the dojo before Koshijirou could make him explain anything looking for Megumi. Sanosuke came rushing into her room in the nick of time, catching her before she could hide herself completely behind a chest. He swept her up into his arms and carried her off to be married.
During the wedding ceremony he behaved in the same rude and obnoxious way. When the monk asked him if he wanted to marry Megumi he yelled out, "Hell ya!" He yelled it so loud he startled the poor monk so much that he dropped the book he was holding and shook visible. When he went to pick up the book Sanosuke flicked his head with a strong finger. As the monk continued on Sanosuke demanded that they skip all the talking and swearing like he was going to die. Before it was all over he shouted for a cup of sake, slopped it all over his foreign coat. He threw the cup at the monk just barely missing him; it ended up crashing on the wall behind him. Finally, after all the vows were given he planted a huge, wet kiss on his new wife that echoed in the room that they were in.
Kamiya Koshijirou had arrangements for a huge banquette in honor of his first daughters wedding, but Sanosuke had no intention of going to it. All of the musicians and guests were entering the courtyard for the banquette when he yelled for the music to stop and told everyone that he must leave immediately. Nothing Koshijirou or Megumi said could change his mind. Megumi was his wife, his 'property', now and he meant to show who was master.
"If any man tries to stop me I'll fight back!" Sanosuke warned. He turned to his servant, Yahiko, and told to draw his sword. "We are surrounded! Protect your lord and lady like a man!"
Yahiko took up his sword as he was commanded and brandished it for all to see.
Sanosuke picked up his lady, hauled her over his shoulder and took off with her kicking and screaming. Yahiko took up the rear, walking backwards keeping an unwavering eye on the crowd before him.
Sanosuke made it alive back to the waiting carriage, shoved Megumi into it and went in after her. Yahiko took the drivers seat and drove them home.
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A/N: How do you like it? I think it's way too short, only three pages on word. Anyways... That is a thought I will consider keishiko.
I won't put Kaoru into this story, I was going to, but then that would make some conflicts and I didn't want to go there.
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: This is from The Enchanted Island Stories from Shakespeare adapted by Ian Serraillier. I don't know Kaoru's father's name so I'm borrowing the name that Akai Kitsune used. I did not get permission by the above parties.
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...
As Sunday was near to be finished without any wedding and the wedding guests grew restless with waiting. Megumi remained stuffed in her room; she did not caring if he did show up. Sagara Sanosuke was already two hours late for the wedding.
Megumi was beginning to think that all his talk of getting married was all a load of lies and that he meant for her to wait until she grew old with gray hair waiting for him to show up. She was hoping, wishing, with all her heart that he did not show up because she really did not want to be married off to that insufferable man.
They finally heard the bay of the horses as they came up to the dojo and Sanosuke was on top of a donkey of a horse, with old stirrups and a moth-eaten saddle. He was ridding his horse as though it was a prize-winning horse and he, the emperor of Japan. He was dressed in a ridiculous outfit, a foreign one no doubt, wearing a huge rainbow-colored hat that some foreigners call a sombrero. He also had on a rather bland pair of patchy pants and an ancient coat.
His servant, Myojin Yahiko, was looking just as outrageous was riding a goatish horse following respectfully behind his master. The entirety of the guests looked on with open disgust as the two misshapen people made their way to the ceremony.
"Let's get this wedding started! Where is my bride? Where is Megumi? Where has my lovely bride been waiting?" Asked Sanosuke with a sparkling smile lifting up the lid off a barrel.
"Huhh... oh! But, Sanosuke, you certainly won't be marrying my eldest daughter in those close!" Koshijirou asked skeptically.
Sanosuke looked long and hard at him before answering, "why not? She is marrying me, not my clothes," Sanosuke informed is soon-to-be father-in-law. "Where is my Megumi? It's about time we get married and on our way!"
Sanosuke was off into the dojo before Koshijirou could make him explain anything looking for Megumi. Sanosuke came rushing into her room in the nick of time, catching her before she could hide herself completely behind a chest. He swept her up into his arms and carried her off to be married.
During the wedding ceremony he behaved in the same rude and obnoxious way. When the monk asked him if he wanted to marry Megumi he yelled out, "Hell ya!" He yelled it so loud he startled the poor monk so much that he dropped the book he was holding and shook visible. When he went to pick up the book Sanosuke flicked his head with a strong finger. As the monk continued on Sanosuke demanded that they skip all the talking and swearing like he was going to die. Before it was all over he shouted for a cup of sake, slopped it all over his foreign coat. He threw the cup at the monk just barely missing him; it ended up crashing on the wall behind him. Finally, after all the vows were given he planted a huge, wet kiss on his new wife that echoed in the room that they were in.
Kamiya Koshijirou had arrangements for a huge banquette in honor of his first daughters wedding, but Sanosuke had no intention of going to it. All of the musicians and guests were entering the courtyard for the banquette when he yelled for the music to stop and told everyone that he must leave immediately. Nothing Koshijirou or Megumi said could change his mind. Megumi was his wife, his 'property', now and he meant to show who was master.
"If any man tries to stop me I'll fight back!" Sanosuke warned. He turned to his servant, Yahiko, and told to draw his sword. "We are surrounded! Protect your lord and lady like a man!"
Yahiko took up his sword as he was commanded and brandished it for all to see.
Sanosuke picked up his lady, hauled her over his shoulder and took off with her kicking and screaming. Yahiko took up the rear, walking backwards keeping an unwavering eye on the crowd before him.
Sanosuke made it alive back to the waiting carriage, shoved Megumi into it and went in after her. Yahiko took the drivers seat and drove them home.
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A/N: How do you like it? I think it's way too short, only three pages on word. Anyways... That is a thought I will consider keishiko.
I won't put Kaoru into this story, I was going to, but then that would make some conflicts and I didn't want to go there.
