I looked up at my mother with a worried expression. She just laughed. "Leap before you think!" she just barked simply with that cocky little smirk of hers. I swallowed dryly and closed my eyes, getting ready to leap.
"Three"
I tensed my legs
"Two..."
I closed my eyes tighter
"One"
I heard my mother's paws leave the ground. I jumped after her, soaring through the air with the wind whipping up into my face. I opened my eyes, watering the instant I did so. I looked about for my mother a bit, and found her a little way above me, to my surprise. She was moving a bit slower than me, and had a contempt smile on her lips. "Oh, the lower world" she whispered. "How I missed you..."
I too felt I should've been honoured and happy to be down there, but I found it a bit difficult with the blasting current of air in my face. I saw my mother's black eyes open and gaze into my dark red orbs, and, all of a sudden, her happy contempt persona had gone. She grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and threw me up a little bit, making me cry out in surprise and confusion. She tossed her divine instrument underneath us and I saw what she was doing. The clouds cleared and I yelped probably much louder than necessary, seeing the clouds clear from right underneath our feet. I felt a pang of fear and regret when the clouds, turning a pink-orange hue dissapated and vanished before my eyes. They couldn't last long though, because I was falling to earth. Literally.
I got up on staggering feet, the joints painful, my pads aching greatly from mother's instrument. It probably softened the impast greatly though. I looked around me with awe written on my face, my mother clearly amused at my reaction. She raised her head, the wind much less violent down here, and it smelled so pleasant. Like foods from Kamiki village that wasn't far from where I stood, flowers that I had never known to be on the celestial plain, and I got dizzy. This was incredible!
"Shinshu field, oh, you never changed!" I heard, and saw my mother rolling around in the grass like Chibi when he had fleas. Even demi-gods can have fleas. Who knew?
