Prolouge:

This is the prolouge. Not much happens, just a simple beginning...More is,
of course, coming soon.


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Yuuhi leaned over Suzumi, shaking her gently. Her eyes slowly fluttered open.

"What are you doing?" She spat out, angrily."Get your hands off me."

Yuuhi complied. He knew his sister in law was not fond of him, and he was

getting to be more bothered by her as the days went by.

Chidori came running over to Yuuhi and Suzumi, laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Yuuhi called to her.

"Nothing," was her curt reply. Suzumi stood up and shook her head. She stood,

rubbing the growing lump on her forehead. She opened her mouth to speak, but

Chidori cut her off. "What are you two doing here?"

Suzumi ignored her question, turned to Yuuhi and asked, slowly and deliberately,

"What hit me?" She looked up at Yuuhi, because despite his youth he was far

taller than her. His blank stare told her that he did not know.

"What hit me?" She repeated.

He glanced down, this time, and shrugged his shoulders. "I couldn't tell you.

I don't even know, myself." His hands rested on his knees, as he kneeled down

and looked at the ground, carefully. He ran his right hand over the ground,

slowly. Looked quizically at the dirt, and stood up. "I couldn't tell you,"

he repeated. Suzumi sighed, rubbing her head once more, and began to walk

away from Yuuhi and Chidori, towards the city.

Chidori opened her mouth, but before she was able to get a word out, Suzumi

turned and called back to her. "Do you know where Kyuu-chan is?"

Chidori, of course, did not. She called back, telling Suzumi so and without

another word Suzumi left.