Mary On A Cross ✔

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Chapter 1: Ruka?

'I'm going to die young!'

You didn’t remember much from how you ended in an old fashioned Japanese house. You hand touched your cheeks as your eyes widened, your normal [E/C] eyes were now the colour of deep red with white pupils and your hair was long raven.

Your hands and head shook from the new look you had, the person staring back at you was rather mature and a few years older than you, maybe the same age. She looked around sixteen, and you were sixteen – right?

What made you think she was older were her eyes, how cold and wise. Even now that she reflected your despair her eyes were calm. Reminding you for your current Waifu named Ruka. Mother of Rengoku Kyojuro who you simped for.

Then you realized, you were Ruka!
“what?” you whispered as your hands fall on your sides.

You started to pinch for cheek and pulled the sleeve of the kimono and scratched your arm making it turn red from the scratches.

Just now you were walking in the park alone after a heated argument with your step-mother and now you were here?

You sighed and tried to calm your panic and accepted that you were now the wife – or future wife – of the asshole named Rengoku Shinjuro. You didn’t like him much even if you knew he wanted his sons to be stronger, or he just wanted to vent his anger on them.
Even if you created him, even if you knew why he was like that.

But still, you disliked him.

What if you refused to marry him? What if you avoid him?

The story will change, Senjuro and Kyojuro’s story will change and who knew what would happen? And if that happens Mitsuri will not be Hashira and many things will change. The ending will different.

You sighed again and started to brush your hair as Ruka was doing before you appeared here. The blue coloured comb yanked the knots out of the woman’s long raven hair and then braid it. You were used to braiding hair when you were back home.

You used to braid your mother’s long hair before she ended up bald due to medications.

You hummed as you heard the door open, “Ruka-Sama?”

You turned seeing an unfamiliar woman, she kind of reminded you of a Kakuchi, the pretty Kakuchi that helped Tanjiro last time. Her eyes were a colour of violet and her hair was raven, just like you she had the white pupils.

“yes?” you tilled your head as she bowed.

She gulped, “Master has called for you to have breakfast, today you are unusually late my lady.”

You nod and started walking out the room following the woman you didn’t dare call maid after all you saw everyone equally.

You walked and reached an engawa from the outer hall that lead to that room. You bowed as you saw a man sitting there. Just like you his eyes were red with the white pupils but unlike you he had red hair. He reminded you of Yorichii was it your idea?

You didn’t say a word as you sat down across from him as on his right sat a woman with pink eyes and had white pupils and raven hair.

Was it something the family carried of the white pupils thing? Or was it just them?

The man never bothered to signal a word to you as he spoke to the woman over the clan – wait CLAN?! You were in a CLAN?! Fuck no! your inner crack and crazy woman started to come out in your mind, you perverted of showing it on your calm and stoic face not to make the man angry.

Dinner ended and the man stood up is arms shoved in the kimono sleeve and looked down at you, “I will be excused, and Ruka, better be nice to the Rengoku when you go to visit later.” He walked off like that.

“yes Father,” you said bitterly and turned to the woman who had a passive smile of her lips.

Even if they reminded you of the Kamado they didn’t act like them. You sighed finishing and stood up, “excuse me,” you thought since the man did so you were allowed but no.

“Ruka dear.” A chill ran down your spine from the tone the woman gave you, “you are not allowed to leave until I finish and leave, did that boy from the Rengoku clan make you forget the rules we have here.”

You didn’t turn and took a step back before sitting down no words leaving your lips. Your eyes stared at the tatami covered floors trying to figure who they were. Ruka’s actual life was never written by you since she was a minor character.

You only knew that their maybe your families.

The woman finished and stood up, her raven hair was in a bun decorated by pins and combs her kimono was a colour of dark red and ended with a colour of brown. She smiled before leaving followed by her maid.

You got up, groaning, something the woman that was cleaning didn’t like due to her confused and bewildered look on her face. Does that mean Ruka never reacted like you did just now?

You walked down the halls and saw many people walking around males and females, all wearing kimonos, but just like the Uchiha Clan they had symbols on the back. And all of them had white pupils.

What was Ruka’s maiden’s name?

You went to your room and brushed your teeth and started to write down everything you knew that could happen in the anime, you knew that you were in the Edo Era

(A/N: I am not sure if the Edo Era is before the Taisho Era or not, let’s just assume so)

And things were different, the master of the corps was someone else, rules were different it made you shudder as you tugged the bow of the obi loose and wrapped the sash before placing it on the table and pulled the kimono off and all the layers under it.

And then changed to another kimono that had the symbol of ‘かまど’, you didn’t know what it was since you never learned Japanese and worse Kanji. You sighed and started to pull the kimono up your shoulders and tugged the ends together and wrapped a orange coloured obi over the white kimono.

You knew with was messy to how the maid that talked to you that morning, she shook her head and started to tighten it and fixed the bow.