3 Nights before the Bon Festival. The Bon festival is very important to all the Asakuras for the Bon Festival is the celebration of the dead. It's kinda like our Christmas. I discovered Ryu was planning to purpose to Rachael then and go to America and become a sushi chief! It's history all over with bits n bobs added!

"Wee! I can't wait for the Bon Festival! I gonna make the spirits fish sticks!" Keiko cheered.

She had just come back from the store with 4 packets of fish sticks. McGrill's fish sticks.

"I hope the spirits will like my fish sticks."

"I hope Ryu is thinking straight. It's those cigarette that infect his dam mind!" I exclaimed.

Keiko throws the first packet of fish sticks at me. "Put them in the fridge, baby!"

I put them in the fridge despite them over flowing food in my parents' fridgerator. I was holding it shut.

"Don't worry about Ryu. I will change his mind about Ms Rachael Asakura," Keiko said to me.

Keiko threw me another packet of fish sticks. I shoved it in the freezer of the fridge and got a chair to block the door from opening it's self.

"With the amount of stories about Rachael I have. Ryu will break up with her and break her heart. Then we can play that Jason Donovan song. Too Many Broken Hearts!"

"Ah the heart breaking song with a cheery tune..." I sighed.

"Exactly!" Keiko exclaimed.

Keiko threw me the third packet of fish sticks. Like the last lot, I threw them in the fridge and put another chair in front of the dam thing.

"Do you think I should get fries to go with the fish sticks? Or do the Ghosts just like them by themselves?"

"I dunno, Keiko. I am just worried about Ryu to even care about this year's Bon Festival!"

"Wow! Ryu really did push your fire alarm? Don't worry sweetie. I will take care of them for you. Now... put this forth packet of fishsticks in the fridge for me, baby!"

Keiko passed me the packet of fishsticks and I threw them in the fridge and put the kitchen table in front of the fridge and walked away from it. I picked Keiko up and ran away from the crime scene with her in my arms. Father came into the kitchen and looked at the fridge.

"Why is the table in front of the fridge?"

Father moved the table away from the fridge and all the food burst out through the doors and landed on Father. Father was not a happy bunny at all.

"MIKIHISA-KUN!"

Ryu was at the jeweller's. Buying the perfect ring for Rachael. Keiko and I followed him there. We were pretending to be buying stuff for the Bon Festival. We have a bad habit of buying things last minute... Christmas is our worst time. I go shopping on Christmas Eve...

"I would like to buy that purple diamond ring."

Ryu pointed to this purple diamond crested ring. Basically, the ring was sliver and it had purple diamonds around it. It looked really pretty. You could have something inscribed in it for another $50. Ryu wanted to inscribe 'My Happy Place.' Which sounds typically like Ryu...

"That will be $250. Since we are having a closing down sale." The sales assinsent who looks like Sanji from One Piece gets a mega phone out "Everything must go! Attention People! Everything must go!"

We walked into the store. Keiko was holding my hand. It was just like the time we were dating. Just like a couple of teenagers and boy! Those were the days. Anyway, Keiko and I came in here to 'look around.'

"Ooh... Sliver! Ooh… Gold!" Keiko said staring at the shinyjewellery.

"Oh hello Ryu! How are you and Rachael doing?" I asked.

"Great! Rachael is a great woman. Thanks for letting us have the house to ourselves. It must be hard living with Master Yohmei and Lady Kino. I bet they watch the Discovery Channel and those boring black and white movies alot!" Ryu laughed.

The sales assistant passed Ryu a heart shaped box with his ring for Rachael inside of it. I looked at it in shock. I was too busy thinking how I was gonna react that I didn't notice Keiko getting her belly button pierced. Her belly ring is an M for Mikihisa. One good thing about the whole piercing...

"Thank you, mister," Ryu greeted.

"Ooh... I see you still like that rock band, Nirvana! I prefer the song Smells Like Teenspirit," I said hoping that the heart shaped box was empty.

Nirvana did have a song called Heart shaped Box. Jordis sang it on reality TV show called Rock Star: INXS. That dam band Keiko liked back in the 80's. With Michael Hutchins!INXSare Austrialian.You probably don't know what I am randomly blabbing about now...

"No, the box has a ring in it."

"A ring? For who are you gonna make go bling bling? Haha! Don't mess with anyone with the Bling bling," I laughed.

Ryu put his arm around me and took me to the corner.

"I am gonna ask your sister to marry me," he told me.

"WHAT? YOU ONLY KNOWN MY SISTER FOR A FEW DAYS! THAT AND YOU ARE TOO YOUNG! WAIT TILL TAMAO IS OLDER! SHE WILL BE HOT AND SHE WILL BE SEXY!" I yelled over reacting.

"Hey! Tamao got her Ren and Stimpy look-a-like pests to beat the crap outta me. Remember? She can marry Billy West instead. I am with Rachael now and we love each other. She asked for sex from me," Ryu bragged to me.

((Washu says: Billy West does both the voices of Ren & Stimpy from the Ren & Stimpy show. He also did Fry from Futurama. I know too much... T.T))

"Yes, I would like to get my belly button pierced," Keiko said to the sales assinsent.

I turned round and saw that Keiko was going into the backroom where they did the piercing and I chased after her.

"Don't cha just love my belly button ring? Miki-kins?" Keiko said showing off her belly.

We were walking hand in hand. Keiko had 2 bags with decorations in them for the Bon Festival and I was really pissed off with what Ryu said not with Keiko's new piercing. I managed to except the fact it was her body and she can do whatever she wants with it. Just not tattoo Darren Hayes from Savage Garden's name on her butt. Boy! That was a close one.

"This is a lot cooler than having Darren Hayes Name on my butt!"

We sat at the bus stop and Keiko was hugging me. I hugged her back. I felt she was feeling abit down since we couldn't fool around at my parents' house. Yet they did it last night! Not the Traditional Love Dance. They were watching that Paris Hilton video. A night in Paris. What was special about it? I fell asleep half way through it. Horo Horo should kill Paris Hilton next.

"Are you mad, Miki-kins? At my belly button piercing?"

"No, no, Keiko. I like the ring for it. Nice to know someone respects me. Ryu is really serious about marrying Rachael now."

Keiko smiled "Remember our Wedding day, Mikihisa? That was fun!"

"Yes! I forgot my vows and made it up as I went along. Then this actress that Rachael hire gatecrashes the place and claims to be my wife, then dad says she had the wrong shrine and gave the actress directions to a burnt down shrine. Hehe... If you call that fun, then I will call it that too."

Keiko laid her head on my shoulder. She had a lovely bright smile on her.

"I hope Rachael will not except Ryu's proposal. Ryu is such a sweet guy. She doesn't deserve such a nice sweet guy that you molded Ryu into. I hope Ryu finds a wife like I am to you!"

"I do too, Keiko. I do too."

Tamao visited Ryu thesame day. She was called over by Ryu. Ryu wanted to show Tamao the ring that he was gonna give Rachael. It was still in it's heart shaped box when Ryu bought it.

"Hey Ryu! You wanted to see me?" Tamao greeted.

Ryu let Tamao into our house and she went to sit on our sofa. Rachael was out visiting an old friend from High School. Ryu got the heart shaped box from his pocket and passed it to Tamao. Tamao opened the box and saw the diamond crested sliver ring with 'My Happy Place' inspirited inside of it.

"Wow! Ryu, this ring is beautiful! It's sliver with purple diamonds around it. That is so pretty. It must have cost alot," Tamao said looking at it.

"Read what I inspirited in the inside of it."

Tamao took the ring out of the box and squinted her eyes to read the inscription inside the ring.

"My Happy Place..." Tamao read quietly.

Ryu nodded. Tamao put the ring back in the box and passed it back to Ryu.

"That ring is beautiful Ryu!"

"I know."

"Do you think Rachael really deserves it? My parents told me all about Rachael. All of it wasn't very nice," Tamao explained.

"You ain't gonna go against me too, are you?"

"No! No! I am just warning you. You date whom you want. I don't want to see you hurt. I care about you, Ryu. Everybody does."

Ryu put his hand on his forehead on his elbow on the armchair. Tamao stood up and walked out the house and left Ryu to think twice about his big decision.

To be continued...