Warnings: grammar errors, mistypes, misspellings, some OOC-ness, etc.

Disclaimer: Nurarihyon no Mago = Shiibashi Hiroshi, not mine.

AngieCarol: AGH! I can't forgive myself to update soooo slow... I'm so sorry... I got too busy with my school, etc, that I could only made this little by little, which resulted in taking a VERY long time. I'm waiting for Nura-Mago Sennen Makyou ep. 9 and Nurarihyon no mago chap. 167. Please update fast, Shiibashi-sensei! I want to see Rikuo or Tsurara in action! *fangirling mode: ON*

*ehem* okay, enough blabbering. Please enjoy and ignore the mistakes if you can XD

Tsurara sighed. She was standing in front of the biggest sakura tree in the shrine, sweeping the ground. She already changed to her miko uniform about one hour ago. She was rather late coming from the school because she was on the day shift at the class today. The moment she arrived at the shrine, the clock already showed the time 16:30. She might be a little more late if that chocolate brown and black hair boy didn't offered to do the work for her.

'Oikawa Tsurara-san…right?' asked the chocolate brown and black hair. Tsurara nodded. 'I'm Nura Rikuo. Sorry that I bumped on you at the corridor.' Tsurara smiled at him.

'Ah, no, no… It should be me that apologize to you… I didn't use my eyes back then,' she said kindly. True, it was her after all that spacing out in the middle of walking. Rikuo looked at a card box filled with books on Tsurara's hands.

'Are you in the day shift today?' he asked. Tsurara nodded. 'Let me help you!' He suddenly took the card box from Tsurara's hands. Tsurara looked shock because of his sudden action.

'EEH? Don't, Nura-kun! It's my turn to work today, not you!' she yelled at the boy. Rikuo smiled warmly, making his face looked really cute and adorable.

'Don't worry about me, Oikawa-san!' he said lightly. 'I'm actually free after school, so it doesn't matter. You should worry about yourself, you work as a miko at the shrine, right? You should go home now.' Tsurara looked at the clock and gasped, it's already 16:00. People are probably already coming to the shrine now, how will they react if the miko isn't there? thought Tsurara. She turned back to Rikuo.

'Is it really okay?' she asked, with guilty in her voice. It is her work after all, she shouldn't give it to others, even if she has another work to do. But Rikuo just nodded and kept his smile on.

'Yeah, I used to do work like this, so don't worry,' he said cheerfully. Tsurara hesitated for a moment before nodded.

'I'll leave this for you then, Nura-kun,' she said. She took her school bag and ran away, stopped for a moment at the door. 'If you need anything, come to the shrine and ask me, okay? Consider it as a payment for your kindness. See you!' And she continue ran through the corridor as fast as she can to her home. She could faintly heard Rikuo said 'See you' and something before she ran down the stairs.

Tsurara still felt a little guilty about that time, she never throwing her own work to others like that before, even for urgent matter. But she really thanked Rikuo for taking her work at school, so that she could also do her work here, at the shrine. As expected, there were some people who came that waiting for her, some even questioned her why is she being late. But Tsurara only answered them with a smile.

Tsurara looked up at the sakura tree, which always bloom beautifully no matter what season it is. Seeing the sakura tree like this usually calm her heart, but somehow, now it's remind her about that person. That handsome cool face, those bloody crimson red eyes… Tsurara felt her face got hotter. He was so scary but cool at that time…

"Tsurara!" Tsurara instantly turned to the source of the voice, with a face still as red as tomato because of the thoughts about him. When she saw the one who called for her, she smiled.

"Ah, Nura-kun!" The boy was running closer to her and stopped when he arrived in front of Tsurara. The chocolate brown and black hair boy smiled back, making his face looked absolutely cute.

"Good to see you, Tsurara!" he said, pretty loudly that some of the people looked at him with strange faces. The group of people started whispering and chattering about the boy. Great… There will be some rumors uproar tomorrow, thought Tsurara. She just hope that Rikuo didn't feel uncomfortable because of those gossiping people, she will felt guilty if he feel uneasy.

"Wow, you sure are famous here, right?" Rikuo looked around, didn't looked annoyed by the chattering at all. Tsurara smiled nervously, she was the one who annoyed.

"Thanks for your help at the school, Nura-kun," she said. Rikuo shook his head.

"Like I told you, it's not a big deal," he said kindly. "By the way, you can call me Rikuo. I call you Tsurara after all." Tsurara hesitated for a second and nodded.

"Rikuo-kun, then," she said with a smile. "Why are you coming here, Rikuo-kun? Is there something I can help you?" Rikuo scratched his head.

"Not very important thing, really…" he said, a bit uneasy. "I just want to ask you to go along with me, I heard that there's a festival held at the first district." Really? Tsurara rarely go out from the shrine after school, except when she hang out with her friends or to buy daily need. She only go to a festival when her friends invite her, and it's only at certain times like New Year's eve or Christmas.

"So, how about it?" Rikuo asked again. "Would you like to accompany me?" With a smile this time. Tsurara looked confused between the choice to go or not. Even if she really wants to go, she still have some errands to settle at the shrine. But when she hesitated to go, the Arawashi Family, the yakuza people who are her mother's helpers or attendants (sort of…), came to the shrine.

"Don't worry, Tsurara! We'll settle things here!" said Garakuta, the so called leader of the Arawashi Family. Tsurara smiled thankfully to him.

"Thanks, Garakuta-san!" She turned to Rikuo. "Shall we go, Rikuo-kun?" Rikuo nodded and looked at the clothes that Tsurara wore.

"Uh… Maybe you should change your clothes first, Tsurara." Tsurara looked down and remembered that she still wearing her miko clothes. She blushed, there's no way she could go to festival wearing these clothes!

"Y-you're right! I-I will go change my clothes right away!" She quickly turned to the direction of her house and ran, but she misstep on her skirt and fell. She blushed because of her clumsiness, the other people giggled at her. She quickly stood up and ran again to her house.

"Be careful, Tsurara!" Rikuo yelled at her. Tsurara answered by waving her hand. Rikuo watched her until she gone outside the shrine gate. He sighed and leaned on the sakura tree, waiting for Tsurara to back again.

When Tsurara back, she already wore a blue short dress with long sleeves and black laces, there was also a black big ribbon on the chest part. She wore her favorite cream colored long scarf, too, and long light blue stockings. Rikuo smiled at her.

"Those clothes really fit you, Tsurara! You look cute!" he said. Tsurara cheeks blushed a little, making Rikuo chuckled.

"T-thanks… I rarely use my outing clothes, so I just use what I found at home," she said nervously. Rikuo looked at her with a questioning look.

"Why's that? You never go outside before?" he asked.

"W-well… I rarely go outside…" she answered, a little embarrassed. I mean, it's not really normal for a middle high school girl to not hang-out often, right? "A-anyway, if we are going to go to the festival, we better go now!" Rikuo looked at the watch on his hand, 16:50.

"You're right. We better off now. We still have to catch the train," he said and Tsurara nodded as agreement. "Then let's go." Rikuo suddenly grabbed Tsurara's hand and dragging her as he walked to the outside of the gate. Tsurara blushed.

"R-Rikuo-kun… You're holding my hand… I can walk for myself…" she said, extremely embarrassed. Rikuo smiled at her.

"Do you know the way to get there, Tsurara?" he asked her. Tsurara's face got blushed even redder. Rikuo grinned. "I take that as a 'no'. So you should just follow my lead."

"B-b-but, I can just follow you, you don't have to h-holding my hand l-like this," she still making excuses. Rikuo shook his head.

"We're going to a crowd place, it'll be dangerous if we get separated, right?" he answered smartly. Tsurara pouted, realized that there's no use in arguing it even more. Still, I never holding hands with anyone like boys… she thought. She never knew that a boy's hand could be so good like Rikuo's. His hand felt so warm and nice… While she was spacing out like that, she unconsciously holding back Rikuo's hand, making Rikuo smiled a little.

They arrived at the First District around 17:10. The First District was already crowd by so many people, most of them are middle high or high school students, judging from their appearance and were gathering at one shop or market to another, checking out their stand to buy or try something like foods. The festival couldn't actually be said as a festival, actually. It's more like the shops and markets promoted their stuffs, but it was still fun because there are shops that opened game stands like shooting stand. Tsurara stood at the First District gate, amazed by the merry of the festival. Rikuo looked enjoying Tsurara's amazed face. Tsurara turned to Rikuo.

"Rikuo-kun, this is so amazing!" she yelled at him with excitement, which Rikuo answered with his smile.

"So, what are we going to do first?" he asked. Tsurara became silent, she was thinking about what they should do first, since it was the first time she went to a festival other than the shrine festival. And she came with a boy, for god sake.

"Uum… I think you should be the one to chose first, Rikuo-kun," she said. Rikuo made a questioning look. "I…well, it's the first time I went to a festival as big as this one, so…" She blushed. Rikuo nodded in understanding.

"Maybe we should just take a look around," offered Rikuo. "We can try and stop by at each stand while we look around." Tsurara nodded in excitement, agree whatever Rikuo's plan is.

"Then let's go now!" She entered the gate, walked cheerfully while pulling Rikuo who still holding hands with her without thinking much. "Come on, Rikuo-kun!" Rikuo surprised by her sudden action, but he smiled and followed the cheerful girl steps.

Tsurara exhaled a breath, her face looked so happy. She already walked around with Rikuo and tried some stuffs from each stand. The merchant from each store was so kind, they treated them warmly and even giving some samples for free. Today was filled with blissful moments for Tsurara.

Now, she was sitting on a bench near a little fountain outside the first district with Rikuo. She felt tired yet satisfied after all the fun she got when she was with Rikuo. In any case, hanging out isn't a bad thing at all.

Maybe I really should going out often… she thought. Well, she frequently chose to stayed at home rather than going outside the shrine before because she has her own reason. And that reason is…

"Tsurara, do you want to drink something? I can go buy it for you," Rikuo offered suddenly.

"Huh? Uh… if you don't mind… I would like cold chocolate milk," said Tsurara nervously. Rikuo nodded.

"Then I'll go buy it for a moment. Wait here, okay?" He turned and ran into the first district, leaving Tsurara alone. Tsurara watched him as he disappeared in the crowd of people. She sighed.

That chocolate hair boy sure is too kind. Tsurara had just met him some times ago but she already felt comfortable around him. If you want to say it with words, it's like that boy have an aura that make people want to be friend with him. Well, despite his warm and kindly attitude, of course. But that attitude of him actually made him became other students errand boy.

I like his chocolate colored eyes, they looked so warm and shiny, thought Tsurara, her mind swirling around everywhere. And I love his adorable face… He is really cute when he smile. And there goes all her thought about Rikuo. While she was busy thinking about all those thoughts, some mysterious and suspicious shadows slowly moved closer to her.

"So she's the well-known miko here, huh~?" said a scary voice that suddenly appeared in a low tone, made the voice couldn't be heard by Tsurara.

"She sure has a lot of guts, leaving her shrine without any protections," said another voice. The voice chuckled on it own words.

"But are you sure that she's a miko? She looks pretty fragile to me," another voice appeared. A voice hissed.

"She is! I can sense this annoyingly pure aura around her!" said the voice with anger. "I feel like I want to rip her neck to shreds!" The voice laugh terrifyingly. The others frowned when hearing the laugh.

"Anyway, let's kill her and take her spirit power now!" shouted a voice clearly. The others yelled their agreement. They came out from the shadows and ran to Tsurara.

"Huh?" Tsurara turned her head just to saw a group of youkai ran towards her with killing intentions. Ominous 'fear' overflowing from them. Tsurara reflexively shrieked.

"EEEEEEK!"

AngieCarol: Oookaaay... I think I'm getting a bit off the topic in the last parts (XD), but I felt the urge to make it this way... I mean, I want to make it a little exciting love story like Youhime and Nurarihyon's. I make it that the miko has some kind of special spirit power here, but I won't tell you what is it, not now (:3) Also I somehow ended up making this chapter like a special lovey-dovey for Day Rikuo and Tsurara, but this is necessary, at least for my story. (for those who don't like it, please, just spare me) By the way, everything were just my fantasy, there will be some ridiculous parts in next chapters that won't make sense at all, but please stay with it.

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