Aomora,
Each year there is a big festival where hundreds of people go to the many shops and activities
So also Leo Letari, an average Teenager with brown hair and gray blue eyes,
as he walks over the terrain he notices a girl sitting alone on the stairs towards the temple crying
As he gains closer he sudden hears a voice behind him...
"That girl is bad news, stay away from her!"
But when he turns around he sees no one.
then he turns back to the girl and asks:
"Are you alright?"
"Why are you crying?"
Girl: "You?..You can see me?"
"Of course..What kind of question is that?, he asks with a curious face
Girl:"Everyone left me"
"Everyone?"
"Y..yes" she says while wiping the tears from her face
"Your not alone now!"
"I'm Leo..Leo Letari"
The girl looks towards him
as Leo looks at the girl he notices she is around his age.
"I'm Miya...Miya Michiaru"
"Would you like to come with me to the festival,Miya"
The girls green eyes suddenly starts to glimmer as a faint smile starts to appear...: "I could?"
"Of course,no one should be alone on a festival"
The girl suddenly jumps up and and her long blond hair falls over her shoulders making them look like angel wings.
"Ok!!" the girl said with a really cheerful voice as if she wasn't crying a moment ago.
That moment a black haired man enters the festival terrain his long black sleeve jacket almost touching the ground
"I know your here,Yaka!!" he whispers to himself as he puts on his black sunglasses
"Hey mister..Why are you wearing sunglasses...it's night?" some kids walking down the stairs ask
the man puts off the glasses and two bright white eyes look towards the kids
"I have my reasons!"
then he puts the glasses back on and starts climbing the stairs
"Fresh apple,peaches and banana's...only tonight for half of the price!!!"
"HEAVEN MIRRORS..THESE FLOWERS ONLY BLOOM DURING NIGHT..."
hundreds of salesmen are shouting over the festival terrain as Leo and Miya arrive at the Festival
"Whoa...so huge" Miya says with amazement
"Really??" Leo says as they walk towards one of the shops selling all kinds of puppets
"I guess it doesn't amaze me anymore as i come here every year"
"you never been on this festival,Miya?"
"H mm...H mmm...no" she responses with a mouth full of mini chocolates
"I never been anywhere"
"huh...You never been anywhere????"
"you must be going to school don't you?"
Miya shakes her head.."No.. Schools are always closed when i go out?"
As Leo looks at Miya with a confused face..she suddenly starts laughing
"Ha ha...that face is so funny..."
"Hey..stop laughing."
Then suddenly the sound of fireworks started from behind the forest
"Wow... I wanna go look at that???" Miya says while pointing at the bright lights behind the trees
"Uuuhhh...Sure it's not too far from here!"
As Leo turns around he accidentally bumps into someone..."Sorry...Mister?"
"Found you!!!" The man says as he suddenly grabs Miya's arm.
"Hey!!..Let go!!..What do you want??" Miya starts yelling.
"You can't fool me , Yaka!!" The man responds
"Let go of her" Leo shouts as he grabs the man by the arm
but the man seems to strong and swings him right against the shops tables that break in two
"Hey.." the shop owner shouts.."you gonna pay for that mister!!"
Other people started gathering around the man event
as the man looks around..he suddenly let's go of Miya and runs away
"You oke ,kid? " the store owner asks
"Yea..I'm fine..just some brouses" Leo responds
"and you, miss? "
"I'm oke" Miya responses while she's holding her arm
"you kids better look out for that guy..I'm sure he isn't gone yet!"
"We will.." Miya and Leo both responded
As they leave the festival grounds Leo suddenly remembers something,
"Why did that guy call u a Yaka?
"What's a Yaka anyway?"
Miya suddenly stopped walking..
Then she points towards a old shack down a small path
"Let's get in there?"
As they enter the dusty old shack,Miya asks: "Do you really want to know what a Yaka is?"
"Yes ..I want to know why that guy was saying that to you?" Leo responded
Miya closes the wooden door of the shack and and looks at Leo with a sad face
"I'm a so called Yaka!"
"A being that can only stay in the dark and in shadows,some call us demons,others say we are ghosts,most people don't know about yaka's because we don't come to crowd places."
With a confused face Leo asks: "but if you can only stay in the dark then why didn't anything happen in the lights of the festival grounds?"
"Yaka's can't touch sunlight,it's not that we can't be in normal light...we just can't be in the sun"
At that moment the sun slowly starts to rise outside of the shack and the first ray enter it
"Look!"
Miya puts her hand in the sunray and it suddenly starts to burn
"This is what happens when a yaka touches the sunlight..we burn up like wood in fire"
"If u want to go and never see me again, i would understand..I'm used to it by now!"
"Are you crazy?" Leo shouts
"There is some crazy person after you and u want to stay out here alone...don't think so?"
"i'll stay and protect u!"
Miya Looks at Leo with big open eyes and suddenly puts her arms around him...Leo can feel that she started to cry and just leaves her like this
After short while Miya fell asleep and as Leo is looking from a distance he started thinking: "Nice work Leo, how are you suppose to protect this girl if u can't even take care of yourself"