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*Pinky Here* Yoo Hoo! Thanks everyone who come and visit our story. We really appreciate that you take your time to glance at our story. Thank you very much for reading it. Even though it is not that good, it is only the start. Look forward for more of the story. All right? Here is chapter 2. Quick, huh? No worries. We have it all plan out. Hope that it will satisfy everyone needs. Ehehe. Have fun enjoy reading it.

*The Kitty jumps in* Can't believe we are in chapter 02 so fast. *pauses for a second and thinks of her own FFs*….Somehow…I feel like this is unfair to my readers…*walks away slowly and dejected*

Sweetness of Pain

PinkuTsutsuji88 & Kitty1217

Chapter 02

Fingers twitched, as consciousness came to the girl that had been passed out.

Kagome woke up with a pounding headache.

'Ugh.' Her hand made her way to her temples, trying to sooth the pain. She opened her eyes, and looked around. She was lying on the ground, where exactly she didn't know. She tried to remember where or how she got here but her mind resulted in a blank state. She tried again, wanting to not give up and this time flashes of what last she had done came to mind.

Tanabata. Rain. Running home. Lightning. Buyo. Well house. Lighting. And suddenly she falling. After that, darkness had consumed her and well, one could guess what happened after that.

She looked around her. It looked to her like she was entrapped in a four way wall but then, her brain told her, she wouldn't be able to see. Knowing that little of information now, she looked up and saw blue sky. She tilted her head.

'Did I fall down the well somehow?' She continued to stare at the sky. 'That lightning must have hit the well house last night or something.' She looked besides her and noticed green vines that were surrounding her and the wall. She had never been inside or seen the inside of the well so she guessed this somehow grew below the seal board that it had.

"Mom! Jii-Chan! Souta! Are you guys there?" Kagome screamed loudly. She took a hold of one of the vines and tried to push herself up. "Can anyone hear me? Is anyone up there?" She scowled as she listened but everything outside was quiet. She found a bit weird but paid it no mind.

She looked at the sky once again, trying to pinpoint what time it was at the moment. It couldn't' be that late, otherwise her brother could have come already with their mother.

She decided to take things under her own hands and deal with it herself. She tugged on the vine she had on her hand, trying to see how strong it was, and if anything, could hold her weight. Hoping it would, she started climbing but failed a few times. After said few times, she took off her geka and threw it over the well. After doing so, she easily climbed up. Exhaling she dropped down the wall and into something soft. Shocked, she looked around her and was further shocked.

All area surrounding Kagome were full with nature. The trees were tall and ripe with fruits, the grasses were slim and wave for as the breeze hit them, and the flowers were pretty. Birds could be heard chirping around her. Dawn had yet to break.

'Where am I?'She continued to look at her surroundings. 'This... This is... This is exactly not Tokyo… is it…?'

Standing up on shaky legs, she looked around her once again, hoping that this was a mirage of some sort. When her eyes continue to see the same thing, she gave up and dropped down again.

Where was she?

She looked around, and decided there and then, that she needed to contact her family, someway somehow. She needed to start moving and that was what she was going to just do.

Once again, she stood up on shaky legs and look on all directions. Picking one, she walked south and hope to all the Gods above, that she would find someone.

"Why is it that I have to go all the way to the forest to gather firewood?" Someone grumbled as they stump through the forest floor. "Why couldn't he do it?" The voice slowly started to climb higher in volume. "He is stronger, just as he said." This time the voice had a hint of sarcasm in it.

The trees rustled as they passed by them. The greenery did nothing to the person's mood, so they just continued to stump. They thought back to the ordeal that was happening right back at this moment in their hut. Their mother, who has been pregnant for almost nine months now, was in labor. This had alerted them all and they had gone for the midwife right away. Of course, she could not get there as fast as they wanted her to so their father had sent her and her brother to get the necessaries in case she was really ready to give birth.

Firewood and water. As much as possible.

Her brother who was close to her age, and had a stronger build since well he was a male, decided to go get the water from the closest river. The closest one was a mile or two away from their village. He had said he would go and get it, since it was far and he could carry more water and faster than her. And then he left her, leaving her the task to gather the wood. In the forest. At twilight.

Of course she understood that she had to do this for her mother and her father. She really did.

But…she was a female for God's sake! Couldn't he think before sending her to the forest, where danger was always lurking?

She huffed as she spotted a thick wood to her right. She made her way to it and picked it up, fastening it to the wood carrier she had on her hands and putted back on her backside. She stood up fast, the anger still in her system.

She would show him! She walked fast, her brain ignoring her surroundings. A surprised gasp left her and she suddenly found herself on the floor. She looked in front of her fast and she noticed another girl.

"I am soo sorry! Are you okay?" She stood up fast and was by the girl's side in less than five seconds.

She heard a small ouch below her.

"Are you okay?" She asked again. The girl looked up. Blue met brown and for a moment she was lost on the same color as the sky, as if she was flying. A painful sensation brought her out of her thoughts.

"Ouch!" She looked down and saw that the wood had fallen from their carrier and to her left foot. She suddenly remembered what she was to do. 'Oh no!' She looked down once again. The blue eye girl, a bun full of good accessories and a green kimono* was still on the floor.

"AH! Sorry!" She extended her hands down to the fallen girl and helped her stand up. "I'm really sorry! Are you okay?" She started dusting the pretty kimono alongside the girl. She hoped it wasn't ruined.

"Yes, I'm okay thank you." She gave her a smile and she sighed in relief. The pain in her foot returned and she became alarmed.

"Oh no…" She hurriedly picked up the carrier and the wood and fastened it so that it wouldn't fall once again. She turned to the girl. "I'm really sorry! I have to go! I hope the kimono is not ruined. If it is, I'll take responsibility." She turned to her south and pointed. "I live in a village down that way. Just asked for Sayuri!" With that she turned and ran to the east, hoping she could find wood fast. She needed to return to her mother.

"Wai…!" was the only thing she heard but gave it no mind as she turned all her attention to finding wood.

Kagome looked puzzled as the weird girl left. She must have been in a real hurry. That, or she was trying to run away. She shrugged as she turned to the south once again. The girl, Sayuri if she remembered correctly, had said there was a…village that way. She thought the way she said it sounded weird but pay it no mind.

'Must be what they use here.' She looked around, her blue eyes taking in the scene of the trees as they dance quietly around her. Slowly closing her eyes, she inhaled calmly. The air was fresh, different from the city where she has grown up. It didn't have that scent of pollution to it and she thought for a moment she liked the air.

But how had she gotten there? She opened her eyes and looked around once again. Had she been kidnapped or something and left to die in the dry well she woke up in? That couldn't have been it… her family barely had money to take care of the shrine. Meaning they couldn't want a ransom or something. She frowned as a thought entered her mind. Had someone wanted to do bad things to her? It couldn't be…right?

She once again looked around. The greenery of the trees…everything around her… everything looked so healthy. She must be in a mountain. She smiled triumphantly but frowned once again as the truth sank into her mind. She must be far away from civilization.

She had heard many things about tribes that lived on mountains. Like some along the lines of many that were still living like a tribe of the past, with no modern technology and such.

She looked for sign of cords and polls or anything that showed signs of modern technology but only frowned when she found none. How was she going to contact her family if there was no modern technology here?

A bird flew by and she looked up as it flew with the wind.

For now… she'll have to get to the village.

A relief sigh left her as she started walking down the sides of the rice field that was the entry of the village.

It looked like the villagers were just waking up as dawn was just leaving to leave sun to continue traveling the sky.

A few people looked at her and turned to whisper to the one next to them, alerting more and more that there was someone entering their village.

People stared at her as she made her way down the middle of the village. She caught some whispers while others were too low for her to hear. She glanced at them and some gasped horrified. A frowned appeared once again on her face. Could it be that this village didn't like outside people? She hoped that wasn't the case.

She looked at her surroundings. All the huts were about the same size, making everyone, she would guess, about the same status. She sigh, 'just in like those historical dramas.' A house, hut she corrected herself, caught her eyes. This one was bigger than the other and if she remembered right, she chief of the villages would live there. She smiled and picked up her pace as much as she could, her geta* not allowing her to run as she would like to. For a moment she thought of just throwing them away and running at the speed she was used to but thought otherwise as she looked at the pebbles, rock and dirt that was the ground. That would hurt more than the geta she was wearing.

She slowed down as she saw people surrounding the house. Tilting her head, she wondered if something was going on. She made her way cautiously, the thought of them not welcoming outsiders still on her mind.

"Excuse me," She began as she started making her way through the people that were there. There weren't much but she felt like she was back in her school cafeteria once again, trying to buy a melon bread before it sold out. "Sorry," she said as she bumped into a few people. She could feel the people's stare as she passed them. She exhaled as soon as she was in front of them, feeling as if she was somehow safer now that she was at the doorway of the chief's house.

She froze as she saw a couple of people in front of her though. One she recognized. Long brown messy hair, about the length of her chest, and worried brown eyes stared at someone next to her.

"Ano*…" she began low. After a second, it looked like Sayuri hadn't heard her. "Ano," this time her voice traveled to the girl's ear and she looked at her. For a moment she stared at her, and her face showed confusion.

"Ah!" She exclaimed, recognizing her from the forest. Kagome gave her a nervous smile as she walked in long strides toward her. "From this morning!" Sayuri was wearing a short kimono, lower than her knees. To her it looked as if she was wearing some kind of hamaka* but looking at it more closely, she decided that it as in fact a kimono.

"Yep." She answered after a few moments to her.

Sayuri gave her a strange look while tilting her head. "You talk weird…" She looked her up and down. "You're not from around here, are you?"

"Nope." Kagome looked around her once again. The people were staring at her weird. She became nervous and leaned towards Sayuri. "I'm from Tokyo." She whispered, hoping the people around her did not hear her.

Sayuri on the other hand leaned back staring at her weird, and her heart drop. Was she also a person that did not accept outsiders?

"To-ki-ou?" She pronounced it different that her and at that moment Kagome didn't care.

"Yes, I was somehow taken away from my family and I want to contact them." She said slowly, a dreadful feeling entering her heart.

"Um…I am not sure where this…" she paused as she tried to remember what the girl in green kimono had said, "…to-ki-ou…is."

She frowned. "Where is this?" She hoped that she had heard of this place, like that she could tell in which part of the map it actually was.

"This is Edo." She told her proudly.

"Then this is Tokyo?"

It was Sayuri's turn to frown. "No, this is Edo. I have never heard of the place you speak of."

"But Edo is Tokyo in the..pa…st…" She stopped, a frightening thought appearing in her mind. "What is the date?" The looked she gave Sayuri… She knew that it had surprise the girl by the eyes she was giving her.

"Um…it's the 2nd year of Shohei. 8th day of the 7th month." She stared at her bewildered.

Shohei…Shohei…Sho..he…i.

Didn't that mean the 1340's?!

Vocabulary:

Kimono: a long, loose robe with wide sleeves and tied with a sash, originally worn as a formal garment in Japan and now also used elsewhere as a robe.

Geta: Japanese wooden shoe with a thong to pass between the first (big) toe and the second toe.

Ano: Equivalent of 'umm' in English.

Hakama: loose trousers with many pleats in the front, forming part of Japanese formal dress. Were mostly wore by males.

*The Kitty Jumps in* This chapter….Uggggggggg *drops down next to Pink*

(Pink closes her eyes and collapses on the floor like a heap of bundle of straw. T_T)

-PinkuTsutsuji88 & Kitty1217