Hi All, starblack17 here! Enjoy the part 2!
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Itomori, many years ago
"Hey Futaba-chan, what is your plan after we are graduated? we are already third-year student now."
Futaba looks on the sky, there was short silence before her answer."
"I'll stay here, taking care of the shrine with my mother, how about you, Saki-chan?"
"Me? of course I'll straight to college in Tokyo, graduate, and find a job overseas! Did I tell my plan to you many times Futaba-chan?"
"Fufufu, well...you're really serious about "go overseas" thing I think"
"Of course! Live in the new scenery, meet new people, eat weird food, Ahh...all of that things makes me fired up!"
"But I think you should do something with your English test score, Iikura-sensei never gives you more than 65 at tests.
Her answer makes Saki pouted, the sight of pouted Saki makes Futaba giggles.
"You meanie Futaba-chan! Surely I'll improve my English! nothing can hinder me! HAHAHAHA!"
Futaba was only smiling at Saki's goofy antic.
"Ah...your energetic vibes always cheers me up, Saki-chan...it seems like nothing will troubling you for your dream"
There was a silence again between the two.
"Actually...there's one thing that troubled me..."
"Hmm...what is that, Saki-chan?"
"That I'll go to places far away without you near me, Futaba-chan..."
Suddenly, there was a frown in Saki's face.
"Who will scold me if I do something stupid? who will tenderly take care of mee if I idiotically injured myself? who will kindly listen my nonsense rambling? who will...there beside me when I'm alone..."
Looking at Saki's frowned face, Futaba grab her friend's shoulder.
"You are Saki Inamoto! daughter of Yuji Inamoto, the best carpenter in Gifu! You are Saki the Iron Fist! who beat five bully boys with your own bare knuckles! who's the girl who got bruises at the whole body because she was fall from his bike at the forest and jaust laugh at it? who's the girl who always shouting every night at the front of shrine and shout "I WILL VISIT ALL PLACES IN THE WORLD"? What you need to do is show the world what Saki Inamoto of Itomori can do!
The looks of Futaba as fiery as that makes Saki a little bit surprised
"Are we switching bodies now...?"
The two of them start laughing together, and then Futaba holds both of Saki's hands softly.
"Even when i'm not beside you, I'll always pray for your safety and your happiness, so never think that you will alone, because I'll give you this..."
Futaba takes a bracelet from her pocket.
"A thread bracelet..."
"I make it only for you, you like blue colour, right?"
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Futaba?
I think I know that name, that's my mother's childhood friend, my mother sometimes tell me about her time when still live in Itomori, and I remember when my mother was so sad when she got a phone that her friends passed away.
"She was always serious about braiding, me on the other hand, just want to play this tool without knowing how to use this, sometimes I'm just use the thread to make Tokyo Tower with my finger when she already could make hairbands and bracelet." My mother is smiling when she heard her friend's name.
The thread starts to form something, but I'm not sure what is my mother try to make.
"I thought how Futaba somehow can stand with all of my behaviour, she always help to solve the trouble that I make, she really just like a kind big sister that always looks for her troublemaker little sister."
Imagining my mother as a troublemaker in her younger days is still too weird for me.
"Sometimes I just want to turn back time a little to just relieve my memory with her."
"Time...the flow of time..." Grandma Hitoha says something.
"They converge and take shape. They twist, tangle, sometimes unravel, break, then connect again, just like this braided cords...That's Musubi isn't it, Obaa-san?"
Grandma Hitoha was only smiling and start sit besides my mother who still braiding the cords.
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It's 2 PM now, me and my mother says farewell to grandma Hitoha, on the way home, I ask something to my mother.
"Mom, what's the musubi you're talking about back then?"
"Well...Musubi is the old way of calling the local guardian god, It's literally means "knotting", but that word has profound meaning..."
I'm try to understand my mother's explanation.
"Tying thread is Musubi, connecting people is Musubi, the flow of time is Musubi, the braided cords is the symbolization of God's art and represent the flow of time itself."
That's it, I didn't understand all of that, my mother laugh a little when looking my confused face.
"Don't think about that too much dear, look, I made a bracelet for you..."
So that's what my mother braid back then...
"Sorry if that's not so good, there's many time since last time I braid some bracelet..."
"No mom, it's cool, thank you very much...Kaa-san..."
My mother softly pinch my cheek and smile.
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It turns out to be Mo's mother chapter I think, well this is his mother's hometown afterall, and always, thank you for read my story ! :)
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Talk With Reviewer
DarwinismRising: Thank you for your support! very apreciated that :)
starkitty10: Dates seed is not dangerous, but still if you not careful, you can get choked by it, especially for child, so be careful ;)
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MittensTheWorld9: It should be at school break time when Mo and three of his friend eat dates, sorry for not explaining it clearly on the story, I already corrected that, so thank you for reminding me :) and that's remind me that there's no single animals appears yet on my story :D let's see if there's any cute kitten appears ;)