I just read this one manga and it was good. Then I thought what if that person came from the heroine's time, then I thought of Haruka 300 years to the past. *Light bulb* Oh~yeah~
"Where am I?" asked Haruka. She was on the ground looking at the houses and the people around in kimonos. She stood up and went to ask one of the people there "Umm… Excuse me but where am I?"
The bald man, who she asked, looked at her then to her clothes which were her school clothes. Then he finally replied "Where else? You're in the East Side of Masikawa. (Made up) And what is with you and those weird clothes?" He looked disgusted as he turned away.
"Weird clothes?" Then Haruka noticed the same disgusted or sometime confused look from the people around her. She looked at herself and as far as she knew, they were not weird, for her. Judging by the reaction of the people around her, for them it was weird. They all wore kimonos but her so it was attracting attention. Then the place echoed in her mind. Masikawa… She had heard that place from somewhere.
Ah! She remembered that when she was in class with Ringo-sensei, he was talking about an old ancient place probably 300 years ago that was famous for their music.
"The word 'masika' from Masikawa is from the word 'musika' meaning, music…" Then Ringo went on babbling about the history of Masikawa.
Haruka was certain that the place of Masikawa has been long gone now. Why would she be there now? Unless… Haruka was back 300 years into the past.
"Move you peasant, Ryou-sama is passing through!" A short blonde haired teen pushed Haruka out of the way as the people behind or 'Ryou-sama' walked through the streets of the East Side.
Haruka fell on the ground again and watched as 'Ryou-sama' made his way through. Haruka's eyes widened in surprise when she noticed that this 'Ryou-sama' looked like Hyuuga-sensei, only that he was wearing a kimono. "Hyuuga-sensei?!" Haruka accidentally spit out. She immediately covered her mouth with her hands.
The short blonde and 'Ryou-sama' stopped. They turned to Haruka whose eyes widened in surprise again. The short blonde approached her.
"Syo-kun?!" Haruka accidentally spit out again.
"One, my name is not Syo. It's Kurusu Shouki. I request that you not call me that again for we are not close. Two, why are calling Ryou-sama, sensei? I do not recall that he had a fourth student or rather, a female student. Lastly… How dare you show your face to Ryou-sama with that attire!" Syo or 'Shouki' shouted at her and about to raise his hand against her but Ryou-sama held it.
"R-Ryou-sama!"
"It is not nice to raise a hand against women Shouki." Ryou smiled at him and Shouki immediately put his hand down. Ryou then held out a hand to Haruka who was on the ground.
"Do you need any assistance?" He smiled.
"Um… Yes. Thank you." Haruka took his hand and stood up. She could hear Shouki click his tongue.
"By the way, I see that you have a familiarity to the Hyuuga residence. Would you like to come with me and have a talk?" Ryou offered.
"What?! B-but Ryou-sama!" Then Shouki retorted. Ryou held out his hand to silence the short blonde.
"Oh… But I would not like to be a hindrance among you…" Haruka fidgeted.
"Oh no! It would not be a hindrance at all. Shall we go?" Ryou then walked ahead with Shouki at his side and Haruka had nowhere else to go so she followed them.
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"Hey did you see that?" a voice said
"Yeah, she managed to get into the Hyuuga residence without much of an effort. She could be useful right? Kiraki?" a second childish voice turning to the third
"Yeah." The third voice who is called Kiraki quietly said
"Now, Nagisa, maybe we should be patient and wait until she really gets close to them before we get into action. What's more is that there is a possibility that she might get into the Tsukimiya residence or better, the Four Knights; Mikaze of the South, Camus of the North, Kotobuki of the East and Kurosaki of the West. This plan might actually be better than finding the lost prince. Wait, that girl might find the lost prince!" The first voice excitedly said to the second who is now called Nagisa.
Nagisa pouted "Ehh? You know, Ei-chan, it's too boring to wait."
"But if we wait, then there will be something better. I should know, I am Eiichouri." Eichouri said.
"But we shouldn't hope too much…" Kiraki quietly said that only he can hear.
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Haruka was right infront of the Hyuuga residence and saw that it was really big old Japanese house.
"Amazing right?" Shouki said being proud. They walked in the front gates.
"Welcome back! Ryou-sama!" a loud shout from men said while they bowed.
"I'm home." Ryou replied.
As they were walking through the line of people, Haruka could hear murmurs. She was certain that it was about her. They finally got to the front door and went inside. What Haruka saw was again surprising. It was all Japanese inside with many swords and many ancient stuff that Haruka could think of. Ryou motioned Haruka to come in a certain room and Haruka followed. Before Shouki could in the room too, Ryou closed the door in front of him.
Shouki pouted and went to his room without a word, took his violin and played.
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"Well?" Ryou said taking his cup tea and drank from it.
"Um… Well what?" Haruka fidgeted as she hesitantly took a cup tea.
"Don't worry, they're not poison. I want to know your relations to the Hyuuga residence." Ryou demanded.
" Uu… Umm… Huh?" Haruka looked around when she heard a sound. "What's that? A violin? How relaxing…" Without noticing she changed the subject.
"That's Shouki, playing the violin. He's very good at it." Ryou said with a proud face. Haruka's face lit up.
"Yeah! As expected of Syo-kun!" She smiled brightly as she hummed to 'Pachelbel's Canon in D' Ryou turned to look at her in curiosity and interest.
"Hmm… It's amazing that you know such a foreign tune. But what interests me is that you keep on calling Shouki, Syo-kun. Have you met him before to call him with that nickname?" Ryou said as he took another sip of his tea. Haruka stopped humming and took another sip as well.
"Um… No, it's just that I know somebody that looks like him…" or rather, he could him… Haruka thought. "Do you by any chance know what time it is?" She said to Ryou. Ryou then stood up and opened a door beside them leading to outside. He looked at the sky for a while before turning to Haruka. "It is around noon. Oh. I have to attend to my students, would you like to come with me?" Ryou said as he closed the door and went towards another door.
"Umm… I am fine." Haruka replied as she stood up. Ryou frowned and raised a brow at her. "You know, if you don't have anything to do here, you are forced to leave. You should come with me and watch us. It would be nice if my students had an audience besides themselves; and also, Shouki will be there as one of the students." Haruka had no choice again so she followed Ryou as they left the room and proceeded to another. It was a big room, somehow like a dojo. When they entered they were greeted by three men in kimonos on their knees and their foreheads on the floor. "Good afternoon Ryou-sama/Ryou-sensei."
Haruka widened her eyes in surprise as she saw two more familiar figures in front of her. One had blue-hair while the other had orange-hair. "Jing-" Before she could say names again she covered her mouth. The three raised their heads and saw Haruka. Shouki had a frown as soon as he saw her. The orange-haired man smirked while the other had a confused face.
"Oh my, who do we have here Ryou-sensei?" The orange-haired man stood and cupped Haruka's cheek that turned red. Haruka stuttered "U-um… U-m… A-ano…"
The orange-haired man smiled and leaned in closer to her "How cute…" Their faces were only inches apart. Before the orange-haired man leaned in closer, the blue-haired pulled him back.
"You're bothering her." He said. Then Ryou cleared his throat and the three men went up in a line in front of him. "Well, I will introduce you to these men."
He turned to the orange-haired man "This is Jinguji Renri. He's the youngest son of the Jinguji Family."
"Nice to meet you, Ojou-chan." He bowed with a very deep tone. Then Ryou turned to the blue-haired man beside him "And this is Ichinose Toriyama. He is the twin brother of one of the famous performers all around Masikawa, HAYAME" Then the blue-haired man bowed.
Ryou turned to Shouki "And you've already met Kurusu Shouki. He doesn't belong to any special family but he is currently staying here with me." Then Shouki just turned to the side and clicked his tongue. Then Ryou walked over to Haruka and said "And this is… Err… Come to think of it, I never asked for your name."
Then Haruka immediately bowed and stuttered "My na-name is Nanami Haruka… Nice to meet you!" When she raised her head, she could see the surprised look on the faces of the three men. "What is it?" she turned to Ryou who was equally surprised.
"Nanami Haruka, you said right?" Toriyama said.
"Yes. What about it?" Haruka tilted her head. And she saw Renri held Toriyama's shoulder and whispered something to him and did the same thing to Shouki. The only words she could make out of what he said was … different… hi… They turned to look at Ryou and he nodded.
"A-ah… Well, Nanami-kun nice to meet you." Ryou said to Haruka. Ryou motioned Haruka to take a seat. "They will perform and we want you to know how my students do. Ok?" Ryou asked. And Haruka nodded. Ryou signaled them to start and they did.
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Somewhere outside of Masikawa and about the same time…
A girl with long reddish-orange hair tied in a ponytail with bright yellow eyes stands looking over the country of Masikawa at a high hill. She holds a bucket of water as she wore sackcloth with a rope tightened around her waist.
"Haruhi! Come help me here!" an old voice called for her as she took one last glance at the country of Masikawa and went back to her grandmother. "I wonder how they are doing right now…" she muttered.
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R&R please!