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Pwale: 1…2…3…
Jenny: Um…
Pwale: 1…2…3…
Mr. X: What the…
Pwale: 1…2…3…
Al: …is she okay?
Pwale: …hmm…
Lia: …is…is that what I think it is?
Inuyasha: Kutsu…
Pwale: 1…2…3…
Inuyasha: Hatsu!
Mr. X: Um…is he speaking in Japanese?
Jenny: Unfortunately, yes. Pwale got a Kana workbook and a Japanese manga, she's been trying to translate it ever since. So far she's got the syllables 'a' as in Father and 'i' as in Machine memorized.
Pwale: …damn, what the hell is…HEY! EURIKA!
Al: What did you find?
Pwale: I CAN RECOGNIZE THE NAME OF INUYASHA, KAGOME AND RUMIKO TAKAHASHI!
Lia: …Good gods…
Pwale: And since I'm SO happy about this, I'll even say it! I don't own any of the things in this here manga that have their names written in Kanji! And for two reasons!
Al: …what are those two reasons?
Pwale: One…I don't. Two…I can't read them.
Mr. X: What's she going to do when she's translated the book and figures out that she still can't read Japanese, even if it is using the Roman alphabet?
Jenny: I don't know…buy a dictionary?
Pwale: How sad is it that I learned more in one day of studying Japanese then I did in two years of studying Latin?
Lia: Not that sad. Japanese has pretty lines and things. Latin has horrible declensions and cases. It's really a no-brainer.
Mr. X: Let's just get on with the chapter.
Pwale: Oh…and yes, I do quote Scully.
The Stamp Of Gold
A story by Pwalefriend
The Oldest Story In The Book
It's the oldest story in the book. And yet, every time it starts being told again, people act like it's the end of the world. They act as if no one could have seen it coming. It's not like people don't know it! Everyone knows the basic plot line! It goes something like this…
Two men. One woman. Trouble.
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Kagome was walking in the fields by herself. She was wrapped up in a thick down coat that she had stolen from Sango. It was a cold wintry day in November, and it looked like it was going to start snowing any minute. Kagome shivered and drew the coat tighter around her.
She hated cold days. And this was almost as bad as the city, where the slightest breeze would become a billowing wind when it swept through the streets in between the modern skyscrapers. Kagome had once heard it said that it was even worse in New York, and that you didn't want to be outside in NYC on a blustery day. Normally Kagome didn't set foot outside on days like today.
But Kagome needed some air. She had been cooped up in that mansion for days now, and the whole place was starting to feel stuffy.
Kagome looked up and saw before her the forest that she had come to with the children her first day at the mansion. With a little smile she decided that she was going to see if she could find the Tree again. Kagome looked around a little and then spotted the small path that the children had taken her on that first day, she was sure that it led to the Tree.
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Inuyasha looked at Miroku in horror.
"What do you mean Koga's going…going to…to…" Inuyasha stammered. Miroku raised an eyebrow.
"Now, really Inuyasha." Miroku said. "It's not that hard to say, and it's not that outrageous a thought…exactly…"
"So you say it then!" Inuyasha shot back. Miroku grinned.
"Happily." He said. "Koga's going to-"
"GAH! DON'T SAY IT!" Inuyasha screamed, leaning forward to clamp a clawed hand on Miroku's mouth. "It's just…too…bizarre…and…really wrong."
"Inuyasha," Miroku said, sounding rather offended. "I resent that. There is nothing wrong about it! It's one person admiring another person for-"
"Not that kind of wrong, moron!" Inuyasha snapped. "Wrong as in it's not in the script."
Miroku blinked. Inuyasha sat back with his arms crossed and a smirk covering his features. He obviously thought that he had just won the argument.
"…Script?" Miroku asked after a moment. Inuyasha's smirk vanished to be replaced by a frown.
"Yes, script." He said.
"What script, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.
"The script."
"There isn't a script Inuyasha."
"Well…no, not exactly. But if there was, then this wouldn't be in it!"
"Inuyasha…you've been reading the Editorials again, haven't you?" Miroku asked in a weary manner. Inuyasha scowled.
"There is nothing wrong with reading the Editorials." He snapped.
"Normally, no." Miroku said. "But you pick at the writers and then take your assumptions to be truth."
"Oh for the love of…" Inuyasha snapped, sitting upright. "That was one time! And that mad did have mental issues! I mean, he said that he ducked his wife because she talked back to him! I mean, honestly! What age are we in? The Elizabethan?"
"…Maybe." Miroku said. "When did that end, exactly?"
Inuyasha opened his mouth to reply, and then stopped.
"Keh." He said, crossing his arms sulkily. Miroku rolled his eyes.
"You don't know, do you?" He asked.
"…Do you?"
"I wonder if it's in the Encyclopedia…"
"Probably."
The two men looked at each other for a moment before getting up with to great sighs and they began to look through the numerous unlabeled books lying around in Inuyasha's study.
"How come almost every time you come up here to tell me something, it ends up with us having to look something up?" Inuyasha snapped. Miroku just shrugged.
"Is this it?" He asked, opening a huge book. Inuyasha glanced over.
"It's an Encyclopedia, yeah." He said. "But I can't read Arabic, can you?"
"Why on Earth do you have an Arabic Encyclopedia?" Miroku asked, peering at the alien runes. Inuyasha shrugged.
"Keeping on to it for a friend." He said. "Now get off your ass and help me look."
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When Kagome felt the first tiny bit of icy cold land on her nose she opened her eyes and looked up just in time to see the first snowfall of the year come softly falling down towards her.
She had reached the Tree a while ago and had been resting, sitting on the Earth and resting her head on the forgiving moss-covered roots of the grand old Tree. She had been dreaming of the stories this grand old Tree could tell if it had the voice to tell them and she had been wondering about the ways the world spoke, thinking about a phrase she had recently read. The phrase went, 'The world can speak, but it does not have a human voice.' And so, as the snow came down Kagome lifter her arms and announced to the whole wide world-
"The sky is falling. It's come to visit for a while."
Kagome smiled and laughed at the complete absurdity of this as the world slowly but steadily became a planet of soft and silent white. She got up and danced around in a circle as snowflakes fell on her head, standing out like stars to the night of her blackest hair.
"Having fun?" A deep male voice asked. Kagome whirled around to see none other then Koga, standing there with a staff in one hand and a handsome smile on his dark face. He was quite a handsome lad…
Shame that he was a drunkard and untrustworthy, because otherwise he was quite the likeable fellow.
"Yes!" Kagome said, breathlessly. "It's so beautiful." She told him in complete sincerity.
"It is." He said. Then he got a wicked, wicked grin on his face. "Say, Kagome…" He said.
"What?" She asked absentmindedly.
"What's that above your head?" Koga asked. Kagome blinked and looked up. The moment she turned her head upwards Koga swooped in and swept her into his arms.
"Wha-Koga!" Kagome shouted, though she still laughed. Koga laughed with her and her twirled her around and around, both of them laughing together.
"Kagome!" Sango's voice came from not to far off. "Kagome!"
"Kagome!" And there was Kohaku too.
"Here, Sango!" Kagome shouted. "Here Kohaku!" She and Koga looked at each other, and they both had a brilliantly evil idea.
"Oh, are you here Kagome?" Sango asked, coming into the clearing where the Tree stood. She looked around. There was no one there?
"Huh?" Kohaku peered around from behind her. "That's odd." He said. "I could have sworn that this is where she-"
"NOW!" Kagome screamed from behind the Tree. She and Koga leapt forth and proceeded to pummel Kohaku and Sango with the snowballs that they had managed to make with the limited amount of snow and time that they had.
"And Koga too!" Kohaku chuckled. Sango glared at Koga and Kagome, who were chuckling to one another, laughing on each other's shoulders.
"This means war." She said as she scooped up a handful of snow and lobbed it at Kagome. Kohaku threw another snowball at Koga.
Koga and Kagome took one look at the siblings before taking off for an afternoon full of wintry fun.
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"Lady Kaede, look!" A servant cried, pointing at the window. "It's snowing!"
Kaede looked up.
"Aye, child." She said. "So it is."
"Really?" The other servants asked as they all rushed to the window and crowded around Kaede's bed. They had moved her, at her request, so that she could watch the grounds while she was bedridden. Now they all watched in wonder and joy as the world transformed shed it's grey skin of late Autumn for a pristine white one of early Winter. As they watched for figures came from the forest and towards the mansion. The figures, the servants all saw, were merry and red-faced.
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"Eh? Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, looking up from the book he was reading and seeing his master gazing out the window with his hand on the glass.
"It's snowing." Inuyasha said. Miroku stood up and walked to stand beside his employer and friend.
"It is snowing." He agreed. He followed Inuyasha's gaze and saw Sango, Kohaku, Koga and Kagome about to come inside, all of them laughing together and having the time of their lives. Miroku took one glance at Inuyasha's face, and new better then to comment on how happy they all looked. Miroku clapped Inuyasha on the shoulder.
"I don't like the snow." Inuyasha said. Miroku sighed.
"Come Inuyasha." He said. "Let's get back to our search."
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"I have…a strange feeling about this winter." Kaede said slowly. "The Folk themselves only know what it will bring, we can only wait to see."
But still her old eyes searched the skies, as if the heavens would present the answers to the mysterious events that would soon unfold at Inuyasha Takahashi's mansion, the stately Feudal Era.
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In the forest two Elementals flitted in between the trees, giggling wildly to themselves. O, what fun these mortals would prove to be!
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Well, I must say that I had fun writing this chapter. I'm going a little easier on Koga then I usually do, because I recently saw the anime where they introduce him and I have become much more fond of him.
To answer the inevitable question before it comes, I read the manga, I don't watch the anime. Which is why some of my accounts are different from other people's. I watch the anime when I can, but I don't have what one would exactly call Television. I have 3 channels. ABC News, Fox New, and WGBY. Good for British Comedies and second-rate news…not too good for anime.
I have finally managed to separate my Review Lion from a certain rubber mouse that a certain Miko had given it…now if I could only find my Catnip Armor…
But I assure you! As long as there is no catnip, my Review Lion will be in perfect eating condition! So if you do not review, then the Review Lion will come and eat you up! And as soon as I find the blasted armor, no amount of catnip would be able to save you! So REVIEW!
Please?
Sincerely
Pwalefriend