This just popped up in my head and I HAD to write it. It's the cliche MaLoRa after-episode-26 fic. Go figure. But read it, it's gonna make you smile, at least XD

Hatenai sora wo koete,
(Crossing the endless sky,)


I see you



It was Mayura's eigtheenth birthday.

Knowing that a rock had more spiritual power than her daughter, Mayura's father ideated a plan.

From the very beggining it became obvious that a miko with no ability to sense the most pathetic precense would finally lead the shrine bankrupt. And Misao-san was a very concerned man. He wanted the best for his daughter's future and, he reasoned, she would be the head of the family temple when he was gone. Therefore he had a plan. And this plan was very simple.

Through the ages it had been known that the existance of evil spirits could be condensed into something called jaki if it was handled by a skilled person. The shrine, as every other shine that could claim to be called one, had a small reservoir of jaki if, given the chance, something... inconvenient like Mayura should happen. Because jaki had the amazing property of restoring (or, in those cases, giving some degree of,) spiritual power.

Indeed Misao-san's plan was very simple.

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That morning, Mayura awoke with a squeal of delight. The sun poured gently into her room and she noticed that her father had let her over-sleep. Jumping into the new clothes her aunt had bought for her the previous day, she made her way happily to the kitchen, from where a delicious smell spread into the house.

There was plenty of food, and as she attacked some random dish with her chopsticks, she watched with a smile the trees dancing out of the window. The leaves were already turning shades of yellow, and the air was fresh and nice to breath.

She was already done with breakfast when Misao-san walked into the kitchen, greeting her good morning, and congratulating her in making it to her birthday, which kinda freaked her out. But he then let out a laugh, and she laughed too, and then he said that her birthday present was waiting for her in the shrine.

The stone path already presented some withered leaves spotting it.

Mayura skipped alonside her father, humming softly with her slurry right-out-of-bed voice.

When her father opened the shoji to the temple and let her in, her eyes eagerly scanned the room for some sort of wrapped object. But there was nothing in sight.

"I can't see anything," she pouted. "Did it disappear? Mystery!"

"That's no mystery," Misao-san said sweatdropping, and Mayura thought he did sound a lot like Loki. "It's not something you could be expecting."

She dedicated him an intrigued look.

Her father smiled patiently. "Mayura, haven't you ever wished to see ghosts and spirits?"

"Of course!" she beamed, adding, "You caught one for me?"

There was an odd twinlke in her eyes that made Misao-san sweatdrop again.

"Not exactly. Come over here," he instructed, and started towards a small box that rested, covered with dust, atop a forgotten wooden shelf. Many charms and seals covered it, and, though Mayura couldn't see it, it had a faint red aura enveloping it. Misao-san felt a single, cold shiver trickle down his spine.

"What's that?" Mayura asked, when her father had, from inside the box, taken a little bottle that to her looked empty.

Misao-san sighed. Inside the bottle, there was a small purplish red orb that glowed incandescently. He looked to her in the eye.

"Mayura, inside this bottle is a small ball of jaki. It should enable you to see things the normal eye can't see."

Her eyes shined. "Like poltergeists, UFOs and the chupacabra?" she inquired excited.

Her father sighed. "Something like that..." He carefully removed the final seal over the cork, and opened it. "Give me your hand," he instructed.

Mayura eagerly reached out, and Misao-san let the orb of jaki slide onto her open palm.

His eyes opened wide. She was glowing! But it only lasted a couple of seconds.

"I don't feel any different..." she said, putting her finger to her chin. Squinting her eyes, and placing her hand over them as if to brace her sight from a supposed sunlight, she looked around. "We don't look like we have any poltergeist here..."

Misao-san contemplated her in wonder. She would never end to surprise him...

"Thank you, papa!" she squealed, taking him by surprise. She clung to his neck and said happily, "This is positively the best birthday present ever!!!"

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Ah, if she knew! BTW, this is a multi-chaptered fic, and the more you review the faster I'll update! XD

SO...

R&R!!!