--- Oh My Goddess characters owned by Kosuke Fujishima and not by me. ---
Setting: Warm afternoon with Keiichi holding a small bike in the driveway of his home.
"Come on son, put your foot here and hold on here and I'll steady you until you learn how to balance the
bike on your own." Mr. Morisato helps Keiichi onto the bike, showing him where to put his feet and how
to hold on to the handlebars. He just removed the training wheels for Keiichi's first attempt at riding the
bike without them.
"Now if you need to stop, rotate the pedals the other way and it will stop you."
"Hold on dad! I know…I…think, ok, I'm on, go slow!"
"Ok, her we go." Mr. Morisato slowly pushes the small red bike down the driveway as Keiichi tries to keep
his feet on the pedals. The handle bars wobble back and forth as Keiichi overcompensates during steering,
making it difficult for Mr. Morisato to keep him upright.
At the end of the driveway, Mr. Morisato turns the bike around and pushes him back. A couple passes down
the driveway later Keiichi steers better and Mr. Morisato decides to let go unbeknownst to Keiichi. Keiichi
feels the bike get lighter and looks back seeing dad standing a few paces behind him. In a panic, he drops the
bike on it's side in the driveway.
"OW! Daaad! I wasn't ready!"
Mr. Morisato chuckles, "I think you are, you just don't know it yet."
"Ow! I scraped my knee on the driveway, could you ask mom for a band-aid?"
"Yes, I'll be right back."
Keiichi picks his bike up and walks it back up the driveway after Mr. Morisato goes inside. "Megumi can balance
already, how come I can't?" Keiichi thinks to himself. The blood dribbles down his leg, it's not a bad cut, and not
too painful. "I'm going to try this again before dad comes back out, it might be easier with nobody watching…"
Keiichi sits on his bike and looks down the driveway. A breeze comes up from behind and gently pushes him.
Pretty pink flower pedals flow down the drive with the breeze. Keiichi kicks off and put his feet on the bike pedals,
trying not to oversteer. Halfway down the driveway and he's still riding, then he's almost to the end of the driveway
and still upright, "Yay! I made it!" cries Keiichi as he reverses the pedals and stops the bike at the end of the driveway
without falling over.
Mr. Morisato comes out with a band-aid, "Keiichi, you haven't come back up here yet? Come on up so I can clean your knee up."
"I did make it dad! I went back up there and then rode down here, without putting my feet down!"
"Really? Good! Come on back up here and you can show me."
Keiichi hops off his bike and runs it back up to his dad. "Dad, the wind helped me out, it pushed me and I felt steadier.
And it smelled good, like perfume."
Mr. Morisato sees just a few pedals of pink flowers in the driveway, "Well, those would be cherry blossoms, but they're
usually not in bloom yet…"
Setting: Warm afternoon with Keiichi holding a small bike in the driveway of his home.
"Come on son, put your foot here and hold on here and I'll steady you until you learn how to balance the
bike on your own." Mr. Morisato helps Keiichi onto the bike, showing him where to put his feet and how
to hold on to the handlebars. He just removed the training wheels for Keiichi's first attempt at riding the
bike without them.
"Now if you need to stop, rotate the pedals the other way and it will stop you."
"Hold on dad! I know…I…think, ok, I'm on, go slow!"
"Ok, her we go." Mr. Morisato slowly pushes the small red bike down the driveway as Keiichi tries to keep
his feet on the pedals. The handle bars wobble back and forth as Keiichi overcompensates during steering,
making it difficult for Mr. Morisato to keep him upright.
At the end of the driveway, Mr. Morisato turns the bike around and pushes him back. A couple passes down
the driveway later Keiichi steers better and Mr. Morisato decides to let go unbeknownst to Keiichi. Keiichi
feels the bike get lighter and looks back seeing dad standing a few paces behind him. In a panic, he drops the
bike on it's side in the driveway.
"OW! Daaad! I wasn't ready!"
Mr. Morisato chuckles, "I think you are, you just don't know it yet."
"Ow! I scraped my knee on the driveway, could you ask mom for a band-aid?"
"Yes, I'll be right back."
Keiichi picks his bike up and walks it back up the driveway after Mr. Morisato goes inside. "Megumi can balance
already, how come I can't?" Keiichi thinks to himself. The blood dribbles down his leg, it's not a bad cut, and not
too painful. "I'm going to try this again before dad comes back out, it might be easier with nobody watching…"
Keiichi sits on his bike and looks down the driveway. A breeze comes up from behind and gently pushes him.
Pretty pink flower pedals flow down the drive with the breeze. Keiichi kicks off and put his feet on the bike pedals,
trying not to oversteer. Halfway down the driveway and he's still riding, then he's almost to the end of the driveway
and still upright, "Yay! I made it!" cries Keiichi as he reverses the pedals and stops the bike at the end of the driveway
without falling over.
Mr. Morisato comes out with a band-aid, "Keiichi, you haven't come back up here yet? Come on up so I can clean your knee up."
"I did make it dad! I went back up there and then rode down here, without putting my feet down!"
"Really? Good! Come on back up here and you can show me."
Keiichi hops off his bike and runs it back up to his dad. "Dad, the wind helped me out, it pushed me and I felt steadier.
And it smelled good, like perfume."
Mr. Morisato sees just a few pedals of pink flowers in the driveway, "Well, those would be cherry blossoms, but they're
usually not in bloom yet…"
