I know its been a long time since I updated and I apologize. I'm trying a slightly different format with shorter chapters, if you think what I had before was better, please let me know.

Here is a quick reference list of the gods;

Tachi – Rat, f. sword

Ite – Ox, m. ice

Geki – Tiger, m. thunder

Yumi – Rabbit, f. moon

Yomi – Dragon, m. creation

Nuri – Snake, f. water

Kazi – Horse, f. wind

Hanagmi:

Sakigami, f. bloom

Hasugami, m. lily

Tsutgami, m. vine

Kasugami – Ram, m. mist

Moegami – Phoenix, m. fire

Ammy (Amaterasu)(Okami) (mother)– Wolf, f. Sun

Bakugami – Boar, m. Cherry bomb

Kabegami: Cat, f. walls (what kind of power is that anyways? Sleep, wind, water, sun, moon and... walls??!! poor Kabegami. Oh well, she seems to like them.)

The bleary-eyed hare looks out across Shinshu field, her heart hammering. It has been eleven days since Yumigami fled the Celestial Plains, and for eleven days, she had stood there, unmoving save for tears gently flowing.

Her ear flicked as a moth landed on it, and with it she was brought out of her trance. Blinking, the hare gazed around, getting a better scope of where she was. Yumi took a tentative hop forward...

A loud snap echoed in Yumi's ears, and the next thing she knew, the hare was ensnared. Is this my fate? the goddess wondered, to have my people and my family turned against me? To then be captured and hunted as a wild animal, nothing more than a food source for those 'higher' than I?

She could have tried to escape, but the trials thrown at her had drained her of strength, and she was content here, and try as she might, she could not get herself to move, so entranced was she by the meteor shower.

The hare's gaze pierced the dim sky, the moon still, lifeless, little more than reflecting sunlight, and as such the goddess hardly breathed, not a muscle twitched, as she once more found herself reflecting at the sudden roller coaster that had brought her to this point.

How did this happen, the question echoed in her head, again, and again, How could this be? Still the stars streaked, and the heavens lamenting for the loss of their goddess.

Yumigami sighed, the memory tormented her, but she could not help but look back on it...

I had been hovering in the void between Nippon and the Celestial Plain, the lunar rice paste had been bombarded by my furious strikes and blows, the energy from the pummeling sending silver beams cascading to the world below, and simultaneously creating the most blessed of all foods, mochi.

Bakugami had offered to come and help, but for whatever reason I hadn't particularly want my mochi being blasted into oblivion every ten seconds. The sky has enough stars, and Kazigami was tired of running to the edges of the universe to retrieve them.

Besides, I could make mochi by myself, and I didn't exactly savor the idea my family seeing this... uglier... side of me. I had whammed the mallet into the rice paste with all of my might, passion, soul, anger, and being that I could muster.

I had been ticked off, as my damnable siblings – Moegami, a jerk of a phoenix, and Nurigami, a snake of a serpent or a serpent of a snake, all being one and the same when it came to that loser, had, once again, decided to hide my Lucky Mallet in Nippon, and now here I was using this dumb wooden one, the moonlight absolutely fortuneless.

I had fumed, fumed as if that was the greatest problem I'd ever come across, and smoke coursed out of my long, pale, and luxuriously furred ears. Time had worn on, my wrath subsided, and mochi completed.