Now that small village, where the young girl used to live, has become a large city with a hundred times as many people living in it. The people living there now have change that place so much since then. There are people going to and from ho to work and work to home, children going to school, the mall, or hanging out with friends at shops or the park. Cars, trucks, buses, air planes, and trains racing to where they need or want to be. Much has change, but the people in the city can still sometimes hear the howling of wolves form the forest surrounding a shrine, that was made for the young girl who wanted to save the wolves she loved.
The people would often go to the shrine to honor the girl on the first day of the New Year or when they want to ask for her protection and good fortune. The story about her changed throughout time, some people say that she changed into a wolf and lived with them till she was hunted down by the hunters who were unable to kill the pack before. Others say that she was given new life and was the one who sent the wolves top a new, safer location. But no one knew the truth about her or her story. No one. Not a soul.
But living in the forest around the shrine, there is a young girl, named Kuri-mu. She has been living in the forest for three thousand years, along with her guardian, a butterfly named, Chou. Kuri-mu stayed in the forest watching the times change, the people change, and learning what everyone says about her some good others not so much. She would watch couples walk through the forest to the shrine garden then back to the main gate. And she often wondered what it would be like, if she were to be a human in this time. Even though she has lived for so long, she just can’t help but long for what these people, in this time, have.
As she was watching a couple leave, Chou fluttered up to her ear and whispered, “Kuri-mu, it is time to return to the shrine.
“Chou, what is it like to be in love or to be loved,” the girl asked the butterfly flying around her head, “that couple earlier, they spoke of love. Tell me, was I in love once? Did I ever love?”
“Not that question again. Don’t you every get tired of asking about love over the past three thousand and some odd years,” the butterfly responded.
“Well, if you would give me a straight answer every now and then, I wouldn’t ask so much,” the girl said, as they walked back to the shrine.
The butterfly grunted as they made their way back to the shrine. At the shrine the girl opened the doors that were lock to keep the humans out, and entered a dark room where they were soon sent to a beautiful palace in the immortal realm. The immortal realm is where the immortals live, the immortals that live there posses good and powerful magic skills. The palace is the center of the realm, in side is where the immortals get permission from the queen to travel to Earth, but they can only go where the queen tells them to and for how long. This is where Kuri-mu and Chou live, along with many other immortals. Each immortal has their own small house to live in. Kuri-mu lived in a small room with two other immortals, who she doesn’t see that much, so she keeps to herself.
Kuri-mu is the youngest of the immortals. She is three thousand years old, but on Earth she is about seventeen year old girl. Kuri-mu has long crimson colored hair, the same length and color she had when she lived as a mortal. The only new additions to her physical form are the fact that her once brown human eyes turned to a mild purple and she has a pair of white wolf ears with crimson red tips, similar to her hair color. Not only has her physical features changed, but now she has similar abilities as any other wolf; her senses have become stronger, her agility more swift, her hearing more attuned to everything around her.
Chou is Kuri-mu’s guardian, at least until Kuri-mu becomes the immortal age of ten thousand or if she gets wedded off to another immortal. Chou is an ancient butterfly spirit, created from the most beautiful butterfly on Earth. Her wings are a light teal color, with yellow, blue, and green tear drop patterns. Chou is just over the age of twenty thousand, but she always will tell the other butterfly spirits that she’s only seventeen thousand. Since Kuri-mu became an immortal, Chou has been at her side, guiding her to become an eligible bride or at least try, and to keep her out of trouble. Both jobs are very hard and exhausting.
Kuri-mu has never been fond of the idea of being wedded off. Even though she’s an immortal, she still believes that she should marry for love and is loved by that person, not just because she was told to. But despite that, she was to be married off within four months.
Kuri-mu after returning to the immortal realm walked through the jewel garden and sat on a bench in the center looking out across the palace grounds. Chou fluttered around the garden with the rest of the butterfly spirits.
As Kuri-mu began to daydream, one of the elder immortals walked up to her. After whispering a message into her ear, then walks away leaving the garden, when the elder immortals was gone Kuri-mu stood up from the bench and walked towards the great castle, followed by Chou. Not knowing why she was told to go to the palace or to see the queen of immortals, Kuri-mu just did as she was told.
In the palace, Kuri-mu and Chou were told to go to the Great Hall, where the queen and a small feast were waiting for them. After they entered the Great Hall, they were greeted by the queen and her ladies-waiting. In a clam voice the queen asked Kuri-mu if she knew why she was summoned ho see her. When Kuri-mu didn’t respond, the queen said, “If you want to find love, then you will have to live on Earth.”
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