Chapter 1:
"I can't believe that you have a date with Ninjo tomorrow!" Hita exclaimed on the bus. She as a tall skinny raven haired girl and eyes like an amethist stone. Her hair as long and straight, covering her whole back with highlights of blue, red, and purple and a very fashionable way. She wore her casual close, a denim mini skirt and favorite gray shirt with a print on it of suspenders and a black tie with her white sneakers that had a small black star on the corner. She was on the bus on her way home from the mall with her friend Mika, her best friend.
"I know! So glad we decided to go shopping for our homecoming dresses today." Mika replied excitedly. She was a very pretty brunette girl, with her long hair, even while pulled up in a high ponytail as it was, covering her whole back. Her eyes were a mysical midnight blue. She wore a black tube top, showing off her very toned stomach, with a baggy pair of green cargo pants, a chain hanging from her back belt loop hooked to her wallet in her side pocket. She wore her black sneakers to finish off the outfit. She ajusted a backpack on her shoulder. She had her skateboard hooked onto "Otherwise we would have never run into him." She said with a smile. "Now we just need to find someone for you to go out with."
"Totally! We could, like, double date!" Hita squealed.
"Ritonomi Shrine. Next stop. If you would like to stop, please ring the bell." A voice came on overhead, repeating a second time afterward.
"This is me," Mika sighed as she pushed the button. The bus soon came to a halt and Mika made her way towards the door. "I'll tell you all about as soon as it's over."
"Text me if you need saving girl," Hita finished with a clicking sound and giving Mika a high five.
"Will do!" Mka said as she stepped off the bus. She looked at her house. There were so many steps. "Thank God I'm in shape..." She said as she started up the steps. Then she did a double take at her home. There were decorations, and lights, and music. "Oh shit!" She yelled as she picked up the pase to get up the steps. "Dad's gonna kill me!" She yelled when she got to the top of the steps and ran to her father's booth. She totally forgot about the festival of her family's shrine. People were everywhere in kimonos with their family. She got to her father's booth of talismans and sutras. "I'm SO sorry Dad! I totally forgot!"
"I told you we needed you today to run the errands Mika! Where were you?" Dad asked.
"I went dress shopping with Hita... I'm really sorry Dad." She apologized again. Be nice, suck up, and MAYBE you can get out of this to go on your date tomorrow. She thought.
"Ok Ok. It's alright. I just need you to do one more errand. Mom didn't have time to make dinner. Go pick up the take out your mother ordered. It's Nikodo's." Her father told her. "And here. This should get you there faster." Dad said as he tossed a skateboard at Mika.
Mika caught it and held it for a moment, not believing what she was see, or touchin. "Oh my GOD! The newest Tony Hawk! Dad! Seriously?!" She squealed.
"Seriously. Happy Birthday kid. Sorry all this had to be today." Dad said with a smile. Mika ran around behind the booth and hugged her old man. She loved her family so much. She couldn't believe this.
"Thank you so much Daddy! I love you!" She said.
"I love you too Honey. Now go get that food or we'll have nothing to eat tonight with your cake." Her father said as he disheveled her hair. She laughed as she left her father and ran inside to put her old baord away. In her room she had one empty shelf, perfect to shrine her old one, one of her best friends, in a shrine with the rest of her past boards. She sighed, touching her old one one last time before it would become a permanent wall ornament on the shelf. Then she grabbed her new board, squealing she she looked at it, then ran out of her room. She'd pick up some new stickers for it on her way home.
She threw the board on the ground and jumped on it, pushing it off with one of her feet through the crowds on people. "Scuze me! Coming through!" She yelled as woman yeled at her to watch where she as going and complained of a skateboard at a public event. She smiled at them, then kicked the board up to make a grind down the hand rail to go down the steps of the shrine, making a perfect landing before pushing off towards Nikodos for the food. Who knew it would be the last time she would see her home?