Today I picked Yayoi up from the Nara clan compound; I also played an exciting game of shogi with Nara-sama, which got cut short by an act of sheep. The Nara clan compound is really more a collection of houses surrounded by forest and glades… nothing like our mountain-y fort at all. Apparently I'm the only one who knows where it is without being lead there by the hand, which is not all that odd considering I have to go to the Akimichi clan's district all the time for feathers.
I'm also the only one who carries around large amounts of string apparently.
I think the only reason we have more than just each other is because Yayoi was brave and kind enough to make us be friends with Itachi-kun. I know I couldn't have done it- I'm a… a coward, I guess you could say. Kirara's too lost in the sky and her own head most of the time to notice other people- so. I'm glad Yayoi is so brave.
But I don't think I can let myself be so cowardly anymore. That game was fun! And… I owe Nara-sama a new shogi piece.
Maybe I'm not such a coward after all.