The Taming of the Fox
Disclaimer: I am the representative of William Shakespeare from the afterlife therefore I can claim The Taming of the Shrew as my own. Also, because I am a Muse,a guiding spirit, a poet, and one of the nine children of Mnemosyne and Zeus,I have every right to claim a right over anything I please…namely Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin. Okay…not really. Everything here…not mine.
Starring:
Muse: the narrator
Aoshi-sama: the reluctant suitor
Megumi: the fox
Misao: Megumi's younger sister
Kaoru: Megumi and Misao's cousin
Soujiro: Misao's suitor
Kenshin: Soujiro's companion who pretended to be Soujiro, wooing Misao but falls in love with Kaoru
Okina: Megumi and Misao's father, Kaoru's uncle
Sano: Misao's suitor, as well as Megumi and Kaoru's, the playboy
Yahiko: Aoshi's trusted companion
Gremio and Hortensio: old gizzards… er, suitors to Misao
Rest of the RK casts to be introduced upon appearance.
Induction: The musings of the muse
Long, long ago, in the faraway land of the Rising Sun lived a beautiful young fox. She was cunning and sly; she was often perceived as malicious and devious. Her words when spoken are biting; and her tone was hard and gnawing. These traits overshadowed the intelligence and strength she possessed. It did not help to promote her exquisite beauty to any suitors.
Now, as custom, a woman should be married before they turned twenty; but this young fox was already two – and – twenty and with suitors a-lacking. The fox's father did not know what to do. He feared for his daughter's future. What will become of the young fox when he was laid seven feet underground? The society would not be so kind for such an independent woman; and so the future of the young fox was a bleak.
So the father did what he thought was best.
His youngest weasel-like daughter, on the other hand, was the complete opposite of the fox. She was, like her sister, the portrait of beauty. But unlike her sister, she was kind and sweet and pleasant to almost everyone. At the age of sixteen, many were already pining for the young weasel's attention. So the father devised a plan that would benefit both his daughters.
Before the young weasel would entertain a suitor for marriage, the young fox should be settled down with a husband of her own. This the father demanded; this enraged the young fox; this made the suitors desperate.
For in the town, many questioned: who could ever tame a fox?
All hope was not lost. There was a man, they say, who would never crumble under anyone's gaze. There was a man who could freeze a being on a hot summer's day. There lived a man in the Land of the Rising Sun who, possibly, hopefully, could tame the young fox. The man was known in his city-state as the iceman.
Follow the adventures this Muse had set up for the Iceman and the Fox. I warn thee my children for troubles to come. Cold and hot, two polar opposites were about to collide in this tale of romance this world has yet to see.
If thou shall dare, then read, and content thy heart's desires…
A/N: One should be familiar, but not exactly well verse, of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to get the gist of the story. Yet, I am not following the classic comedy as it is. I am only borrowing the plot.Many characters would tend to be OOC, and the setting's in an AU. Oh well…expect twists and turns.
Enjoy!
