AN: so this is a one shot. i dont own ah my goddess, i just like to play here. dont expect much from me, this is just a hobby in my spare time. please review.

Shohei Yoshida took one last look at himself in the mirror before heading off to school. Today was the last day he would be a high school student. He looked at himself again, not really seeing but remembering a long time ago. How could one person, in just two day change his life forever? What would he be today if he had never met Urd? Shaking those thoughts from his head, he headed out the door.

"I'm leaving." he said to the empty house as he closed the locked the door to the rundown apartment. His family had moved to another town a few year ago, but he had stubbornly insisted on staying at his school. Between the money his family sent him, not enough and by design, and the part time jobs he held, he managed to some how pay his rent and not starve too often.

Leaving the street, he walked to the school where he had spent his day studying as hard as he could. He was on the track team, and while not the best, he was not the worst either. The same for his studies. His English was not great, and math was a problem. But that day he climbed a huge building, risking death to follow that white haired girl had changed him. That day he discovered that he really could do and not just wish and give up. Scaling the girder, looking into her eyes, he found him self.

These thoughts ran through his head as he passed by the park where he had met her all those years ago. He walked by the park every day, even leaving a hour early just to pass by. He glanced at the kids playing in the park, playing in the sand and he couldn't help himself but to look for a girl with white hair. Well, she would be a woman now. He thought.

He arrived at school and went through the day, his last as a child. Tomorrow he would be an adult. It had been something he looked forward to since that day Urd's sister had told him to grow up. Or maybe that was Urd all along. It was impossible, and it was crazy, but some how he believed her when she said she wasn't a child. Some how he believed it wasn't her sister, but that it was really her.

He slid into his seat, in the second to the last row in the class room, and looked out the window that was right next to his desk.

The day ended, the singing was over, and Shohei Yoshida walked home with Koyko. They were close, but not girlfriend and boyfriend. Still, she was as close as any had ever been for him.

"So, a new chapter begins, huh?" Kyoko said as they passed a bakery.

"Yeah, I guess it does. Are you ready?" he asked her. She paused before answering.

"Not really. I'm heading off to a local college, but I really don't know what I want to do."

Shohei laughed. "Yeah, that sounds like you. Your family is rich, so all you really have to do is get married."

"Yeah, don't I know it, too!" she said with a laugh. Shohei paused as they walked by that same park. He stood there, staring at that seat. Not just any seat. The seat, where he had met her. Urd.

"hey, what is it?" Kyoko asked him. "What is it about that bench? Every time you get this look. Like your sad." she said, her face full of concern.

"Do you believe in magic?" he asked her.

"What?" she said, taken aback. "Magic?"

"Yeah, magic." he said, pausing to collect his thoughts. "I have never told anyone the story about that seat. You want to hear it?" he asked her. She was as close to him as anyone was, she was like the sister he never had.

"Sure." she said as the walked into the park. "I can tell its important to you."

Shohei sat down on the next bench next to Kyoko. "I was a little kid. For some reason my school didn't have school that day, so like I usually did, I came here and sat at the park to play video games like I always did. You see, back then, I was a different person. I was afraid to fail, so I never tried. I was a dork who wore big round glasses. I spent most of my time my myself."

"and then one day, I was sitting there, totally absorbed in the game, when I heard a police officer asking me why I was drinking sake."

"you, drinking?!"

"Well, it turns out it wasn't me he was talking to, but the girl sitting in that next bench." he said, pointing to the bench in the dim light of the setting sun.

"She had this huge bottle of sake, half as tall as she was. She had white hair and told the officer she wasn't a kid. Of course he didn't believe her, so she ended up tossing me the bottle and taking off running. That's when I ran after her. I will never know why this shy kid who never did anything wrong decided to ran away from the cops, but I did."

"Later on I found her, and gave her back the bottle. We ended up back here in this park. I had this game, it was really super hard. She beat it in a few minutes. I swear she said she was some kind of system administrator or something. She beat every game I had. In the end, it got late and she went home."

"We met up again the next day. But this time she wanted to climb a tree. She had no problem, but I did. I remember she was already up the tree when she told me not to look up."

"Up? Don't most people say not to look down?" Kyoko asked confused.

"yeah, well I did. Right up her shorts." he said, with a blush.

"Oh my god, you?! Really?" Kyoko said as she burst in to a fit of the giggles.

"Are you finished yet?" he asked her, once the giggle had subsided.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Its just funny to imagine you don't something as pervy as looking up a girls shorts. So then what happened?"

"Well, then I fell. It was pretty high, and I was falling head first. You remember when I asked if you believed in magic? Because as I fell, I saw her flying down towards me, with an angel on her back."

"Angel? You sure you didn't hit you head?"

"Yeah, positive. I landed on my butt, perfectly fine. I know what I saw. As impossible as it seems, she had an angel with one white wing and one black wing."

Shohei smiled at the memory.

"Then what happened?"

"We broke into a construction site and climbed to the very top to watch the sunset. She just walked over the metal frame like it was nothing, but for me, it was impossible. And that's when it happened, when I changed. I decided to chase after her. I walked over the girder, just a few inches wide, a hundred feet above the ground."

"Later that night, I followed her home. She was living at a shrine. Her sister told me she had gone back to her home country, and that I wouldn't see her again. I asked if when was grown up we could meet again. She said it was a good idea. Then she kissed me. And that's when I remembered, she had called her self a goddess when we first met. Some how, I just knew it wasn't her sister at all. It was her."

Shohei lapsed into silence as Kyoko just stared at him.

"You must think I crazy." he said a last.

"Shohei, is this why you never had a girlfriend? I know a few confessed." she said, her tone soft and serious

"yes." was all he could say. It sounded crazy, even to him.

"Well, I don't know what to say." Kyoko said to him at last. "But, I think you have to follow your heart. If you believe in your heart that she is out there, you have to follow it. Because even if your wrong, never knowing is worse than failing. You sound...like your in love."

"yeah, I guess I still am. Foolish, I know."

"Love is never foolish. Even when it is."

They both sat in silence on the bench as the moon rose. It was he who broke it first.

"tomorrow I meet with my parents. I'm pretty sure they want me to move back with them and help out with the family business. The arraigned me to get married to the daughter of another company." he said quietly.

"What are you going to do?" she asked him.

"I-I just can't leave this city. I know if I do, I will never see her again. And I can't marry some one else, not until I know if she is still out there or not."

"Then you have to follow your heart."

"that's easy for you to say. I can barely make it as is. If I don't do what they want, I think they might disown me. Or worse."

Kyoko stayed quiet at that. Shohei sat there, staring at the ground trying to decide what to do.

"Well, no matter what happens, you can count me as your friend." Kyoko said to him with a smile.

"Yeah, I know." he said, with a smile of his own. But even he could feel the sadness in that smile.

One week days later

Shohei Yoshida sat in the 5 star restaurant as he waited for his parents and a 'guest'. He had put one the one and only suit he had, a nice stylish present from his mother a few months back. Today was the day he would tell his parents he was not moving and that he was not going to get married. Like he had so many times before, he questioned his own sanity to be chasing after a dream like this.

His thoughts were broken as he spotted his all to stern father and his mother walking a step behind her husband. Next to them was a young woman in the latest fashion walking with a grace he had seldom seen. He rose to greet them as they closed in on the table.

"Greetings father, mother." he said with a polite bow.

"I was wondering if you had anything appropriate to show up in." his father said to him before sitting down. His mother follows suit as did the young woman.

"I'm Mizuki Izuna." she said with a bow that mirrored his.

"It a pleasure to meet you." he said back to her before sitting down.

"Now, before we eat, I wanted to tell you we have a nice apartment lined up for you back home." His father said as he looked over the menu.

"Father about that-"

"There will be no discussion on the matter. It has been decided."

"Father I really must-"

"Further, id like to introduce you to the daughter of the Izuna clan. Her father and I have decided that a marriage would be of benefit of both families."

"Father about that I have to talk to you-"

"A management position has been setup for you in the company. The work is difficult, but will serve to strengthen both-" this time it was his father turn to be cut off.

"No." Shohei said.

"No?" his father asked, his tone menacing.

"No. I'm not leaving the city. And I must respectfully refuse the marriage." he said, bowing deeply and formally, more to Mizuki than to his father.

"What?!" his father said, rising from his seat. "Enough of this. You will do as I say."

"I am sorry, but I can not, father." he said, still bowing.

"Is this about that girl?" his father said more than asked.

"What girl?" Mizuki asked, speaking up for the first time.

"My son has had this delusion of some girl he met when I was just a child. This 'magical' girl or something. Its is truly embarrassing, miss Izana."

"I apologize for embarrassing you, father. But I can not leave."

"how long are you going to hold on to this...delusion?" his father asked sarcastically

"As long as I must."

"I see." his father said. His gauze stabbed him and he felt the tension in the air.

"Then I have no son." his father said, before getting up and leaving without another word.

Shohei Yoshida found himself walking back to the his rundown apartment. As he fished out his keys and walked up the rotting steps, he saw his apartment manager standing in his way.

"Um, hello Mr Banri." he said to the old man.

"I am sorry, Mr Yoshida, but you no longer live here." he stated simply.

"I see." Shohei said as the first drops of rain started to fall. "then can I at least get my things?"

"I am sorry, but your father has claimed the contents as his own." Mr Banri handed over an official looking papers.

Legal papers, it turns out. Filled out just minutes before by his fathers legal department

"I am very sorry." Mr Banri said. "I trust I won't have any problems from you?"

"No, of course not. I under stand my father can be very... persuasive." Shohei said. He really should have seen this coming. His father did nothing by half measures.

"I am very sorry. Here." Mr Banri said, holding out an envelope

"Whats this?"

"A refund for the three days left in the month. I'm sorry, this is the best I can do." Mr Banri said.

"I understand." Shohei said as he turned and walked down the street. His job was almost surely gone. He was willing to bet no one would higher him. And getting another apartment was out of the question. He walked down the streets in the rain, the cold soaking his clothes and into his bones. Staring up at the sky, watching the rain fall in all its frigid wonder, he somehow found himself at that same park, were he had saw Urd for the first time all those years ago.

Sitting down on the bench, he questioned his decision. Was it really worth it? Was it really for the best? Was he wrong?

Wrong or right, what was done was done. He had sealed his fate when he went against his father. But one thing was for sure, if he stayed out here, he was going to freeze to death. Getting up and walking over to the phone, he put in his last coins and dialed the number of the only friend he still had left, Kyoko.

He punched in the numbers carefully as his trembling hands would allow.

He waited as the line connected, then started ringing.

Then the line picked up.

"Welcome, you have reached the Goddess help line." said female the voice.

"I'm sorry I must have dialed the wrong...wait. Did you say goddess help line?"

"Yes, now tell me your hearts desire, that I may grant it."

"My hearts desire, huh?" there really was only one answer. "I'd like to see the goddess Urd."

"Are you sure? Is this truly what you desire? Simply to speak to a goddess Urd?"

"Yes."

"You do not desire a house? Or perhaps a job? Or money? Or even a rain coat?"

"Nope. I just want to see her again."

"As you wish. Please give me some time to locate her."

"So she really is a goddess?"

"Urd? Yes. How do you know her?"

"We met when we were both kids."

"Both of you? Are you sure you have the right Urd?"

"Yeah, I'm sure."

"And where shall you like to meet?"

"Were we first met."

"As you wish."

Shohei Yoshida hung up the phone and went back to his bench. He was still soaked, cold and shivering, but some how all that seemed unimportant. A stupid childish dream he had held onto for so many years had cost him everything, and now against all odds, he was going to see her again.

"Well you look like shit." a familer voice from long ago said to him. Shohei looked up to see a woman clad in a black rain coat with her silver hair spilling out from it.

"Urd." he said, staring.

"Yeah, that's me." she said with a yawn. "So your the fool who wasted a perfectly good wish on a conversation with me?"

"Yeah, I guess I am."

"So who are you again?" Urd said to him.

"You don't remember me?" Shohei said, his smile falling.

"Nope, sorry. I don't really remember you. The only person I ever met here was..." she trailed off as she walked closer to him, her face ever so close to his.

"Shohei...is that you?" Urd said, her voice full of emotion.

"yeah, its me."

"but, why? Why would you waste a chance to have anything you ask for granted? Why waste in on just a conversion with me? Are you stupid?! Do you have any idea what you just threw away?!"

"what can I say? Ever since that day I've never stopped thinking about you. Or that kiss."

"So I guess you didn't believe my whole niece leaving thing."

"Well, I did until that kiss. Hell of a thing, for a kid to be kissed by a woman like you. Some how I just knew it was you." he said with a smile.

"Your an idiot, you know that?" she said as a tear escaped from one eye. "this has to be the sweetest thing anyone has ever done. Getting a wish from the goddess help line is very rare."

"What can I say, not seeing more of you was the biggest regret of my life." he said, standing in the rain soaked and frozen but still feeling warm inside.

"Come on, lets get you out of the rain. Where do you live, anyways?" she asked.

"well, no where."

"what? How come?"

"Well, lets say my father and I had a disagreement and I ended up homeless."

"he kicked you out?"

"Well, no. he got me fired, then served the landlord with legal papers and I couldn't even get my stuff."

"What did you do to piss him off?"

"I turned down an arranged marriage."

"I...see." Urd said slowly before continuing, "Well, come on, lets get you some where more dry. You can stay at our place for now." she said, grabbing him by the hand like she had all those years ago.

"the shrine?" he asked, his memory of the place still a little fuzzy

"yep. But first lets find a TV."

"A television? Is there something you want to watch?" he asked, confused.

"well no. you already know I'm a goddess right?" she said as they stopped in front of an electronics store.

"yeah."

"hang on to me." she said, grabbing him by the waist and pulling him tight to her body. He blushed even as her next word startled him.

"were going to teleport through the TV." she said with a smile.