Author's Note: Domo arigatou to all of those who've reviewed the first part! I'm truly grateful for you comments and encouragement. However, the prologue was not the one I had intended to post - it was my drabble, and therefore took on the consistency of a piece written by a stream of consciousness writer on a hallucination-inducing five-cup coffee high. The actual prologue will be posted soon, but I will leave the one you have just read up as a reminder to myself that I should never leave a typed ficlet on the computer for more than two weeks, lest my brother decides out of impatience that it should be posted. Again, I thank you profusely.

PS: Aki-san, think you for bothering to review this. ^.^