To tell you the truth, I was going to have Namame die, but then I didn't think she would die that early in the story, I thought I was going to have her die like..I dunno, my hands just wrote themselves and then I'm like, ok, how's that happen? ^^;; Yeah... Ok, that's weird...Man, I actually did that...yeah I was planning to do it maybe...You know, I don't remember because I'm a air head and a dumb ass, *anyway*
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Chapter 13: Chiriko
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(Kibou's PoV)
I came to my room, I layed down on my bed and my head buried in my pillow. I soon turned my head to the side and I could feel the tears stream down my eyes onto the pillow. Why Namame? Why did he have to pick on Namame? I wasn't going to get the up the rest of the day, so I fell asleep right there, I was tired..There was nothing else I wanted to do..
"Kibou-san.." a little boy's voice echoed. The voice was unfamiliar to me.
The blackness around me disapeared and I came to a feild of grass filled with flowers at every step. A soft breeze blew against me and blew the flowers and grass. Ahead of me a child sat with it's back turned from me. I walked up to the child. I saw that the child was a little boy, he looked 9 but I could see that he was older than that. He looked up to me and smiled. He had purple hair put up in a pony tail that stuck up and he had big green eyes that were sparkling against the sun that was shining high above us.
"Kibou-san." he repeated getting up.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Ou Doukun, but I was once known as Chiriko."
"Chiriko? If your suppose to be, why am I in your place?" I asked lowering myself to his level. Then I sat down, he sat as well.
"You came here through a book that I made."
"A book?"
He nodded and his face turned serious. "You see, I did this so the same fate won't be met. And I chose you because I knew it wouldn't be met like that. Also to help you, I was the reason you lost your memory but of course, like any normal person, it creeped back over time..But just know, the book wrote itself, whatever you chose to do, it wrote down, once the adventure's over, the book will finish and never open again."
I was still confused about one thing. "So if your suppose to be in my place right now, aren't you alive, and if you weren't Chiriko you wouldn't be able to write the book and I would've never come here, right?"
He shook his head. "I basically exsist in a different time and space where the book has already gone through, a demension where you don't exsist."
"Why?"
He looked down. "In that demension, you commited suicide. And when I chose you, I wanted to change that fate and brought you here where you've been surviving well."
"...But...I want to know more about myself." I said.
"You will." He said with no doubt in his voice. "In the place where the fate of Chiriko is faced, you'll get it."
"Why are you telling me this?"
He smiled. "To help you...Also, one last thing, when one dies, it's not because of the person that's there, it might be if the person pushed the person to that much emotional stress or if that person killed a person, so you did nothing to Namame or Toroki, they were just happy you were there."
"...riko-sama.." a woman's voice called out.
Everything around me disapeared to blackness and I heard knocking at my door. "Chiriko-sama." the woman's voice repeated.
"Come in." I said sitting up. I relized a blanket was over me...Houjun came in to check up on me.. The woman came in, it was a maid. "The emperor requests your presence."
I got up and stretched. I tied my hair back in a low pony tail and followed the maid where Hotohori was with a map laid out. I came over to him and the maid bowed and left. "I was wondering what your opinion on the journey to Hokkan would be?"
I studied the map for a bit. "I've never been to Hokkan, but I'd say that those canals would be the best option."
Someone opened the door. It was Miaka. "Miaka, good morning." Hotohori said cheerfully.
Miaka smiled. "I just wanted to check up one everyone, good morning to you Hotohori, and you Ohne-chan."
She closed the door and we listened to her walk off. "So she's your sister." Hotohori finally asked.
"I think so, I completely lost my memory so I wouldn't really know.."
"Ah, I'm sorry I asked." he said. "Well, thank you for your help."
I bowed and left the room. "MIAKA!!" I heard Nuriko call out. I went towards that direction and saw Miaka waving goodbye to Chichiri and runningtowards Nuriko. Miaka said 'Hi' to me and walked off with Nuriko, I guess Miaka was limiting her talking with me since I didn't rememeber anything. I came and sat down next to Chichiri.
"Are you feeling better?" he asked.
I smiled, thinking to what the real Chiriko said. "Yeah, I had a good sleep...Are you still up to go the star fesitval?"
He looked to me a bit shocked, even though he was wearing a mask, I could see how he looked. "Yeah, of course, no da."
"Thank you." I said. "..And thank you for yesterday, I really appreciate what you did, and what you made me relize."
He looked forward. "Glad I could help, no da." The lake was glistening under the sunlight. I could see both Chichiri's and my reflection in the water, almost too clear. Somehow I remembered, the waters from where I'm from, weren't ever this clear.
"Miaka seems a bit upset about having to fight Yui."
I nodded. "So that's what you were talking to her about...yeah, my visions, they showed me Miaka and Yui as children and they were always playing and coming over to each other's house, Yui seemed like another little sister...And when they were older, they were still stuck to each other...And they were suddenly torn apart. Who wouldn't be upset? That stupid bastard Nakago..Son of a bitch..."
(Chichiri's PoV)
"We can't do much about him." I said trying to change the subject. "But, he'll die sooner or later, and it'll be painful one for all that he's done..."
"Chichiri...What if I was never here as Chiriko..What if I never came into you life?" she asked still looking down into the pond.
I wasn't sure how to answer that. "...All that matters, is your the only one left before I actually became who I am today, and I want to hang onto that..So I would protect you." I doing it agaib...I can't help it, I just feel that I had to tell her..
She got up. "Well, I'm going to get ready, it's the last night here in Konan for a while, I want to look nice." She ran back inside, I decided to get up I really had nothing to do untill night fell.
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We were going to go with Miaka, Tasuki, and Nuriko around the festival, we just needed to wait for Kibou, who for some reason, was taking forever, along with Nuriko and Miaka. Usually, she takes a minute or two in the first thing she could find and comes out, but she said she wanted to look nice so I guess she's having trouble picking things out.
"Damn, girls take too long," Said Tasuki.
"Ok!" said Miaka from behind the door. "We're ready!"
She opened the door and Miaka was in a dress that was somewhat nice. Behind her, I could barely see Kibou. "Come on ohne-chan!"
"Screw that, I'm not going out in public like this." she said refusing to come out from behind Miaka. Nuriko then pulled her out from behind Miaka. Tasuki and I both looked directly at her. Kibou was in a full dress, for once in her life, her hair was down, she actually had make-up on, and even more surprising was that she had jewelry on too. She looked incredible, I had never seen her like this before. Fromwhat her face looked like, she didn't like it.
"Doesn't Ohne-chan look pretty?" asked Miaka going behind Kibou.
"Incredible, no da." I said meaningfully, Kibou blushed and looked down. "She looks ok..now come on! let's get going!" said Tasuki pushing us all out of the palace.
Once we got there, Miaka and Nuriko went to get some sweets. The three of us just sat on a bench. "Aren't you going to have any, no da?" I asked Kibou.
She shook her head. "I don't like sweets."
"I never knew that no da." I said as she got up, "Neither did I..'till now."
Miaka ran over to Kibou. "Ohne-chan, I found your favorite drink!" she said excitly holding her hand and dragging her to a stand. She came back with a cup in her hand, Iced tea. "Another intresting thing I figured out, she knows more about me than I do, pretty scary actually."
Miaka came and sat next to us soon after. "Hey Miaka." Kibou started. "..Did I ever answer you after that letter?"
Everyone looked to Kibou shocked. She was speaking as if she had her memory of her past. Miaka was the most shocked. "..No..The day it got to you, or the post office said it would, I heard the news that you were missing, Jason went to jail, dad died...and..." Miaka covered her mouth and looked at me with tears in her eyes. Then she looked away. "You wouldn't want to know.."
She got up and followed Nuriko and Tasuki. Kibou was stiff, watching her run off. She bit her lip and turned to me. "Come on, let's enjoy the night while we can."
I lost track of where she went in an hour, Nuriko and Tasuki were roaming around together and Miaka wandered off somewhere. I couldn't find Kibou anywhere, I can't really take my eyes off her for a few seconds or she'll disapear on me. She could do that while I was still watching her and she'll teleport herself away. I started to go into stores, but she wasn't in any of them, finally, I went into a Pub. She was in there, sitting at the counter seat with her head down. I came and sat next to her. There were drips of water on the table, she was crying, still holding a small cup with Sake in it.
"Kibou." I said but she didn't look up. She looked up in a bit though to drink the rest of her shot. Then she poured some more, I could see there was only a little left in the large jug. I made her put her hand down with the cup. "Kibou, stop it."
She turned to look and me, tears were still streaming from her face, she had no make up on in her eye lashes or her cheeks so nothing smeared. She still looked the same, except crying. I paid the bartender and helped Kibou up. She couldn't walk strait and leaned against me for support. She soon stoped holding onto me and almost fell to the floor, I quickly caught her. I leaned down. "Come on Kibou, get on my back."
She did so very slowly, and she was going to pass out soon. "I'm sorry, Houjun..I ruined your night."
There was a faint gasp, she passed out. I started towards the palace, she was pretty much limp. I got her to her room as fast as I could and layed her down and covered her with her sheets. I felt her forehead, it was burning. Mitsukake would be asleep by now so I got her a cold towel and put it on her forehead. She was drunk, the first time in 6 years I had seen her drunk, actually only about 3 years, but, Kibou drunk. I wish I could help her through what she's going through. She has her past coming back to her, and it's not a good one, and then my past, which she was apart of and I could see that she feels that she's the reason Kouran died. So much she has to remember of her past that's greiving, I shouldn't be surprised that I found her in a Pub. She was depressed, but she hated to show it for many reasons.
"I'm nothing but trouble.." she muttered.
I looked back to her, her eyes were closed and I could see that see was asleep. "..Nothing but trouble..." she muttered again.
I took the towel from her forehead and washed it in the icy water and placed it on her forehead again. I really wanted to help her. I don't know how to though, she's suffering so much.. I know she doesn't like to show it, she hates it when people give her sympathy, it makes her more sad...I pulled up a chair, I didn't want to leave her tonight. She was sick..
(Kibou's PoV)
I woke up feeling a dry towel on my forehead. I took it off and looked to my side, Chichiri was hanging off the egde of my bed. I saw a bucket next to him with water in there. I didn't have a headache like I thought I would after all that I drank. Chichiri took care of me. I can't believe he stayed here with me and took care of me even though I drank myself silly. He got up pretty soon. "Thank you..You didn't have to watch me all night."
"I was worried about you." he said stretching.
"Thanks." I said getting up.
I took my hair down and grabbed my brush. "We're leaving to Hokkan today, right?"
He nodded. "Yeah, come on, we get to see the ship today."
I put my hair back in a pony tail today, I didn't feel like putting it up in a bun, it's too frustrating to do when I'm tired. I straped both the sword Toroki gave me and the sword that Namame was killed by at my sides. I picked my flute up as well and tucked it into my robe. "Ok, lets go."
"You carry two swords with you now, no da," Chichiri stated as we headed to see the vessel.
"..The one that killed Namame.." I said coldly now remembering, "Is going to die with the blade they killed Namame with, and they're going to get a death that is twice as bad as Namame's."
I soon saw the ship, the size of it and the magnificance made me forget all about everything that's happened and put me in a better mood. "It's huge!" I piped cheerfully.
Miaka came to the ship soon with a huge bag, Tasuki, I found out, was carried onto the ship, him being afraid of the water. Tamahome started to tease him. Tasuki frowned. "SHUT UP! You should talk, after being dumped by Miaka!"
Dumped?..Nah, Miaka wouldn't do that...I walked to her. She apparently didn't care what Tasuki said and took out something...I knew what it was called, but wasn't quite sure...a camera..? It made pictures...
"Hey everyone, look over here!"
She took a picture and a peice of paper came out the other end. A picture started to show and it showed what she took. I remember those...I'm not sure how or why though. They looked familiar but very strange. She took a picture of all of us and then ran around taking pictures of everyone seprately or in pairs, she took a picture of Chichiri and I together and then ran off. Hotohori soon asked Tamahome if he wanted to bring his family here. Delighted, Tamahome gladly accepted. He took Miaka with him I ran to him. "I want to see the family before I leave too!" I said walking with them.
We stopped by a store and bought each of the kids a present. Nuriko snuck up in the store and scared us, or tried to then followed us. We walked to the small town and when we came close I looked to Tamahome. "I'll race ya."
"What you think you can beat me?" Tamahome teased.
"We'll see.. Ready?.. Go!"
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Oo, nice place to end, ain't it, and I got it out the same day I talked to you Water Muse, aren't you happy? ^^ Well at least the same day I posted it, I don't know when it'll show on the website.
Sorry I took so long, I couldn't think of what to write....
~*CosmicMoon
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Chapter 13: Chiriko
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(Kibou's PoV)
I came to my room, I layed down on my bed and my head buried in my pillow. I soon turned my head to the side and I could feel the tears stream down my eyes onto the pillow. Why Namame? Why did he have to pick on Namame? I wasn't going to get the up the rest of the day, so I fell asleep right there, I was tired..There was nothing else I wanted to do..
"Kibou-san.." a little boy's voice echoed. The voice was unfamiliar to me.
The blackness around me disapeared and I came to a feild of grass filled with flowers at every step. A soft breeze blew against me and blew the flowers and grass. Ahead of me a child sat with it's back turned from me. I walked up to the child. I saw that the child was a little boy, he looked 9 but I could see that he was older than that. He looked up to me and smiled. He had purple hair put up in a pony tail that stuck up and he had big green eyes that were sparkling against the sun that was shining high above us.
"Kibou-san." he repeated getting up.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Ou Doukun, but I was once known as Chiriko."
"Chiriko? If your suppose to be, why am I in your place?" I asked lowering myself to his level. Then I sat down, he sat as well.
"You came here through a book that I made."
"A book?"
He nodded and his face turned serious. "You see, I did this so the same fate won't be met. And I chose you because I knew it wouldn't be met like that. Also to help you, I was the reason you lost your memory but of course, like any normal person, it creeped back over time..But just know, the book wrote itself, whatever you chose to do, it wrote down, once the adventure's over, the book will finish and never open again."
I was still confused about one thing. "So if your suppose to be in my place right now, aren't you alive, and if you weren't Chiriko you wouldn't be able to write the book and I would've never come here, right?"
He shook his head. "I basically exsist in a different time and space where the book has already gone through, a demension where you don't exsist."
"Why?"
He looked down. "In that demension, you commited suicide. And when I chose you, I wanted to change that fate and brought you here where you've been surviving well."
"...But...I want to know more about myself." I said.
"You will." He said with no doubt in his voice. "In the place where the fate of Chiriko is faced, you'll get it."
"Why are you telling me this?"
He smiled. "To help you...Also, one last thing, when one dies, it's not because of the person that's there, it might be if the person pushed the person to that much emotional stress or if that person killed a person, so you did nothing to Namame or Toroki, they were just happy you were there."
"...riko-sama.." a woman's voice called out.
Everything around me disapeared to blackness and I heard knocking at my door. "Chiriko-sama." the woman's voice repeated.
"Come in." I said sitting up. I relized a blanket was over me...Houjun came in to check up on me.. The woman came in, it was a maid. "The emperor requests your presence."
I got up and stretched. I tied my hair back in a low pony tail and followed the maid where Hotohori was with a map laid out. I came over to him and the maid bowed and left. "I was wondering what your opinion on the journey to Hokkan would be?"
I studied the map for a bit. "I've never been to Hokkan, but I'd say that those canals would be the best option."
Someone opened the door. It was Miaka. "Miaka, good morning." Hotohori said cheerfully.
Miaka smiled. "I just wanted to check up one everyone, good morning to you Hotohori, and you Ohne-chan."
She closed the door and we listened to her walk off. "So she's your sister." Hotohori finally asked.
"I think so, I completely lost my memory so I wouldn't really know.."
"Ah, I'm sorry I asked." he said. "Well, thank you for your help."
I bowed and left the room. "MIAKA!!" I heard Nuriko call out. I went towards that direction and saw Miaka waving goodbye to Chichiri and runningtowards Nuriko. Miaka said 'Hi' to me and walked off with Nuriko, I guess Miaka was limiting her talking with me since I didn't rememeber anything. I came and sat down next to Chichiri.
"Are you feeling better?" he asked.
I smiled, thinking to what the real Chiriko said. "Yeah, I had a good sleep...Are you still up to go the star fesitval?"
He looked to me a bit shocked, even though he was wearing a mask, I could see how he looked. "Yeah, of course, no da."
"Thank you." I said. "..And thank you for yesterday, I really appreciate what you did, and what you made me relize."
He looked forward. "Glad I could help, no da." The lake was glistening under the sunlight. I could see both Chichiri's and my reflection in the water, almost too clear. Somehow I remembered, the waters from where I'm from, weren't ever this clear.
"Miaka seems a bit upset about having to fight Yui."
I nodded. "So that's what you were talking to her about...yeah, my visions, they showed me Miaka and Yui as children and they were always playing and coming over to each other's house, Yui seemed like another little sister...And when they were older, they were still stuck to each other...And they were suddenly torn apart. Who wouldn't be upset? That stupid bastard Nakago..Son of a bitch..."
(Chichiri's PoV)
"We can't do much about him." I said trying to change the subject. "But, he'll die sooner or later, and it'll be painful one for all that he's done..."
"Chichiri...What if I was never here as Chiriko..What if I never came into you life?" she asked still looking down into the pond.
I wasn't sure how to answer that. "...All that matters, is your the only one left before I actually became who I am today, and I want to hang onto that..So I would protect you." I doing it agaib...I can't help it, I just feel that I had to tell her..
She got up. "Well, I'm going to get ready, it's the last night here in Konan for a while, I want to look nice." She ran back inside, I decided to get up I really had nothing to do untill night fell.
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We were going to go with Miaka, Tasuki, and Nuriko around the festival, we just needed to wait for Kibou, who for some reason, was taking forever, along with Nuriko and Miaka. Usually, she takes a minute or two in the first thing she could find and comes out, but she said she wanted to look nice so I guess she's having trouble picking things out.
"Damn, girls take too long," Said Tasuki.
"Ok!" said Miaka from behind the door. "We're ready!"
She opened the door and Miaka was in a dress that was somewhat nice. Behind her, I could barely see Kibou. "Come on ohne-chan!"
"Screw that, I'm not going out in public like this." she said refusing to come out from behind Miaka. Nuriko then pulled her out from behind Miaka. Tasuki and I both looked directly at her. Kibou was in a full dress, for once in her life, her hair was down, she actually had make-up on, and even more surprising was that she had jewelry on too. She looked incredible, I had never seen her like this before. Fromwhat her face looked like, she didn't like it.
"Doesn't Ohne-chan look pretty?" asked Miaka going behind Kibou.
"Incredible, no da." I said meaningfully, Kibou blushed and looked down. "She looks ok..now come on! let's get going!" said Tasuki pushing us all out of the palace.
Once we got there, Miaka and Nuriko went to get some sweets. The three of us just sat on a bench. "Aren't you going to have any, no da?" I asked Kibou.
She shook her head. "I don't like sweets."
"I never knew that no da." I said as she got up, "Neither did I..'till now."
Miaka ran over to Kibou. "Ohne-chan, I found your favorite drink!" she said excitly holding her hand and dragging her to a stand. She came back with a cup in her hand, Iced tea. "Another intresting thing I figured out, she knows more about me than I do, pretty scary actually."
Miaka came and sat next to us soon after. "Hey Miaka." Kibou started. "..Did I ever answer you after that letter?"
Everyone looked to Kibou shocked. She was speaking as if she had her memory of her past. Miaka was the most shocked. "..No..The day it got to you, or the post office said it would, I heard the news that you were missing, Jason went to jail, dad died...and..." Miaka covered her mouth and looked at me with tears in her eyes. Then she looked away. "You wouldn't want to know.."
She got up and followed Nuriko and Tasuki. Kibou was stiff, watching her run off. She bit her lip and turned to me. "Come on, let's enjoy the night while we can."
I lost track of where she went in an hour, Nuriko and Tasuki were roaming around together and Miaka wandered off somewhere. I couldn't find Kibou anywhere, I can't really take my eyes off her for a few seconds or she'll disapear on me. She could do that while I was still watching her and she'll teleport herself away. I started to go into stores, but she wasn't in any of them, finally, I went into a Pub. She was in there, sitting at the counter seat with her head down. I came and sat next to her. There were drips of water on the table, she was crying, still holding a small cup with Sake in it.
"Kibou." I said but she didn't look up. She looked up in a bit though to drink the rest of her shot. Then she poured some more, I could see there was only a little left in the large jug. I made her put her hand down with the cup. "Kibou, stop it."
She turned to look and me, tears were still streaming from her face, she had no make up on in her eye lashes or her cheeks so nothing smeared. She still looked the same, except crying. I paid the bartender and helped Kibou up. She couldn't walk strait and leaned against me for support. She soon stoped holding onto me and almost fell to the floor, I quickly caught her. I leaned down. "Come on Kibou, get on my back."
She did so very slowly, and she was going to pass out soon. "I'm sorry, Houjun..I ruined your night."
There was a faint gasp, she passed out. I started towards the palace, she was pretty much limp. I got her to her room as fast as I could and layed her down and covered her with her sheets. I felt her forehead, it was burning. Mitsukake would be asleep by now so I got her a cold towel and put it on her forehead. She was drunk, the first time in 6 years I had seen her drunk, actually only about 3 years, but, Kibou drunk. I wish I could help her through what she's going through. She has her past coming back to her, and it's not a good one, and then my past, which she was apart of and I could see that she feels that she's the reason Kouran died. So much she has to remember of her past that's greiving, I shouldn't be surprised that I found her in a Pub. She was depressed, but she hated to show it for many reasons.
"I'm nothing but trouble.." she muttered.
I looked back to her, her eyes were closed and I could see that see was asleep. "..Nothing but trouble..." she muttered again.
I took the towel from her forehead and washed it in the icy water and placed it on her forehead again. I really wanted to help her. I don't know how to though, she's suffering so much.. I know she doesn't like to show it, she hates it when people give her sympathy, it makes her more sad...I pulled up a chair, I didn't want to leave her tonight. She was sick..
(Kibou's PoV)
I woke up feeling a dry towel on my forehead. I took it off and looked to my side, Chichiri was hanging off the egde of my bed. I saw a bucket next to him with water in there. I didn't have a headache like I thought I would after all that I drank. Chichiri took care of me. I can't believe he stayed here with me and took care of me even though I drank myself silly. He got up pretty soon. "Thank you..You didn't have to watch me all night."
"I was worried about you." he said stretching.
"Thanks." I said getting up.
I took my hair down and grabbed my brush. "We're leaving to Hokkan today, right?"
He nodded. "Yeah, come on, we get to see the ship today."
I put my hair back in a pony tail today, I didn't feel like putting it up in a bun, it's too frustrating to do when I'm tired. I straped both the sword Toroki gave me and the sword that Namame was killed by at my sides. I picked my flute up as well and tucked it into my robe. "Ok, lets go."
"You carry two swords with you now, no da," Chichiri stated as we headed to see the vessel.
"..The one that killed Namame.." I said coldly now remembering, "Is going to die with the blade they killed Namame with, and they're going to get a death that is twice as bad as Namame's."
I soon saw the ship, the size of it and the magnificance made me forget all about everything that's happened and put me in a better mood. "It's huge!" I piped cheerfully.
Miaka came to the ship soon with a huge bag, Tasuki, I found out, was carried onto the ship, him being afraid of the water. Tamahome started to tease him. Tasuki frowned. "SHUT UP! You should talk, after being dumped by Miaka!"
Dumped?..Nah, Miaka wouldn't do that...I walked to her. She apparently didn't care what Tasuki said and took out something...I knew what it was called, but wasn't quite sure...a camera..? It made pictures...
"Hey everyone, look over here!"
She took a picture and a peice of paper came out the other end. A picture started to show and it showed what she took. I remember those...I'm not sure how or why though. They looked familiar but very strange. She took a picture of all of us and then ran around taking pictures of everyone seprately or in pairs, she took a picture of Chichiri and I together and then ran off. Hotohori soon asked Tamahome if he wanted to bring his family here. Delighted, Tamahome gladly accepted. He took Miaka with him I ran to him. "I want to see the family before I leave too!" I said walking with them.
We stopped by a store and bought each of the kids a present. Nuriko snuck up in the store and scared us, or tried to then followed us. We walked to the small town and when we came close I looked to Tamahome. "I'll race ya."
"What you think you can beat me?" Tamahome teased.
"We'll see.. Ready?.. Go!"
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Oo, nice place to end, ain't it, and I got it out the same day I talked to you Water Muse, aren't you happy? ^^ Well at least the same day I posted it, I don't know when it'll show on the website.
Sorry I took so long, I couldn't think of what to write....
~*CosmicMoon