Love Hurts 5 Ways (OUTDATED STORY) Chapter 3: I Need this Recap, a Fushigi Yuugi + Ouran High School Host Club Crossover fanfic

ATTENTION READERS: This is the Beta version of LH5W, if you want to read the official, updated version of the story, you'll have to go over to DeviantArt. com and head on over to my page. My username is Aloubell. You can also get there by going to my fanfiction. net profile which provides a link over there.
In any case, this Beta version is basically the rough draft of LH5W, my first attempt at it. Much of the plot points from this version will be the same in the official version, but there are significant and consistent characterization changes, a few (but very important) plot differences, expansion of past ideas, and overall better quality in storytelling.

All of this will be done over on DeviantArt. I no longer will write the story in traditional prose nor submit/update it here to fanfiction. net. The Beta version will remain here, just know that it isn't the 100% official story.
The official version will be written in a lazy prose mixed with play-writing elements (you'll get what I mean when you see it).
This is the new format for the story from now on.
So please head on over there if you're interested in updates to the story! Thank you for stopping by =D

-Aloe

PLEASE NOTE: The official version is being written somewhat out of order. The official version will start on chapter 46, the place where the Beta version left off. The official version will go on to complete the last chapters of Season 2. Once those are done, I will redo the story over again from Chapter 1 which will be the official version.

Having said that, if you choose to continue on reading, I hope you enjoy the Beta version and look forward to the official!

Dear Universe,

I just want to make sure I got my facts straight…

A couple months ago, I made a, then, ridiculous wish to you of wanting to find my true love no matter what the cost.( Yeah, it was a bit cliché, so sue me. I bet a whole bunch of you who are reading this private account did the exact same thing). Anyway, after making that wish, some scary old lady—and I mean SCARY—came out of absolutely nowhere saying how she would pretty much grant my wish—quite rudely I might add. But there's a catch: I have no idea what it is. Sorry to disappoint, but she kept me in the dark almost completely. All she pretty much did was give me a wand, a spell, and dropped me off in some totally foreign world. To tell you the truth, there wasn't even enough time to really process everything that happened. It was all like some big unbelievable blur. What I do know, is that nothing is that easy. Ever. It makes my insides get all queasy thinking of what that wrinkly old woman—Taiitsukun—has planned for me.

Just when things couldn't get any more bizarre, I ended up being stuck in Feudal Japan.

Feudal Japan.

By some cosmic miracle, I was able to refrain from totally spazzing out. Because come on, FEUDAL JAPAN! No cities, no phones, no computers, streetlights, etc. Just grass, trees, open space, and some sorry shacks people passed for houses—I assumed. After the moment of nostalgia was finally lifted—okay, maybe not completely lifted—things got even weirder when I saw this guy who looked around my age pinned to a large tree by an arrow. Wearing a crimson red guy-kimono and long flowing silvery-white hair, he looked like he was sleeping peacefully and not dead in any way. Before my thoughts got any further than that, I noticed that he had white doggish ears on the top of his head.

Of course I stared.

I wasn't creeped out or anything, more like fascinated. The rationale that was going through my head was: well, I had just jumped universes somehow, along with going back in time, so this might not even be as weird as it gets.

Here's a brief summary of the events that unfolded after that: touching the ears out of plain curiosity led me to be seized by some village soldiers or whatever, after explaining myself the best I could, the old priestess, Kaede let me go. I tried once again to investigate the guy—who's name I learned was Inuyasha—once again, causing, for some reason, some nasty centipede demon (just as it sounds, LARGE centipede who's upper body looked like some spooky woman) to attack me. My new wand glowed which made the arrow on Inuyasha disintegrate, thus waking him up. Even BRIEFER summary: he killed it, Kaede dug up The Sacred Jewel of the Four Souls from some grave and gave it to me hoping Inuyasha wouldn't get it, I ran (without questions), Inuyasha caught up (darn half dog-demon speed), and with some glow of my wand once again, slammed him into the ground hard when I felt threatened—more so.

This was also somewhere in the time when I accidentally broke the jewel when I aimed that darn spell Taiitsukun gave me for the first time at a demon trying to fly away. I killed it alright. Too bad the jewel suffered too. Since then, I have felt obligated to get the rest of the pieces—that, and I had nothing else to do. Inuyasha came along too, since he wanted the jewel. We didn't get along that well considering he thought I was a nuisance and I found that annoying.

During our journey, we met Shippo, the young, and incredibly ADORABLE, fox demon, Miroku, the perverted, yet kind, monk with a cursed wind tunnel in his right hand, Kirara, the even more adorable and at the same time badass cat demon, and finally, her owner, Sango, the fierce demon slayer with a troubled past. Somehow we all came together and ended up going up against some big bad—and I mean downright evil—half-demon Naraku.

On this little adventure, we've not only met a bunch of colorful characters, but managed to recover some of the shards, and…wait for it…discover my powers! But things weren't all dandy. Instead of being handed my powers, I had to do a lot of concentration to get that darn wand to cooperate. After a couple thousand duds, I was finally, eventually, able to produce, a small wave of water, a few plants grow, a crack in the earth, and, surprisingly, a huge gust of wind. I assumed it was because of what Taiitsukun said about my element being Wind. I decided that was so because those born under the sign of Libra were Wind elements. With the support of my friends—as well as being hunted by a good number of demons—helped my wimpy "sparks" turn into a force to be reckoned with, so to speak.

Except Fire.

Damn that stupid element! According to element compatibility and stuff, the opposite of Wind is Earth, so that should have been the problem, not Fire. But no, I had to get screwed over with a bunch of freaking explosions that come out of my wand or at my target whenever I try to use Fire. What the hell?

My group of friends and I have become pretty close, closer to any group of friends I ever tried to be with anyways. There is only so close people can get to me before they realize my...little problem. In fact, they don't don't even have to be consciously aware of it...it just happens. And I have noticed a little, how uncharacteristically agitated they get sometimes, either with me or one another. Thats really to be expected. However, I have been a bit surprised to the lack of intensity of their negative emotions. Usually, it's WAY worse, but for some reason, there is something partially blocking my effect on people. It's kind of weird...but in a good way. I'm not going to start doing flips for joy just yet. You could be testing me now to see how I deal with the situation. I'd just like you to know, universe, that I won't let my guard down.

Oh and then there's the whole Inuyasha thing...I don't know, but I guess I'm a bit attracted to him, but I'm justified here! He's pretty good looking and I can't count all the times he's saved my ass. Sure, I don't necessarily like all of the help as if I was some sort of damsel or something, but the fact that he goes out of his way sort of says something...right? *sigh* I'm not gonna get my hopes up or anything and this is probably just nothing anyway.

However...remember how I had, or rather, still kind of have an issue with not wanting to show to much emotion around people? I do that for the sake of no one ever using my emotions against me. Yeah, I know that whole scene at the mall tells you otherwise, but that was a special occasion. I was just frustrated and it was the last straw...so I lost a bit of my composure. I usually have more restraint than that. Well, anyway, when Inuyasha saw how much I didn't want to let my anger or anything show, he got really annoyed and, in a much louder way, taut me how it was good that I wanted to be tough, but it is okay to be angry because that tells your enemies to back off and that you mean business. Not that I have any trouble intimidating others, but, his advice did make some sort of sense...Once I was able to comfortably display a bit more of the negative emotions I'd bottle up to maintain my cool, calm, and collected facade, although not too much, I was able to use Fire for the first time, not perfectly obviously, and my other elements came out easier. Was I really the one holding myself back?

Either way, I'm thankful to Inuyasha for that, so of course I feel something for the guy. Ya know, when I'm not annoyed at him for playing babysitter.

And being the "average" teenage girl I am, I can't help but wonder what his feelings were.

But of course, just because it's me, I won't dwell too much on it since I'm pretty sure I already know the answer...

Great, this is just the right thing I need with some psycho demon—oh, I'm sorry half-demon—chasing and trying to brutally destroy us. And I need to collect all of those stupid shards.

(sigh) You're just enjoying this, aren't you?

Love Always, with a HUUUUGE amount of sarcasm,

Aki

-Aloe

Having said that, if you choose to continue on reading, I hope you enjoy the Beta version and look forward to the official!