A small sigh escaped the young woman's lips as raven hair fell across her face- for the fifth time. She stopped what she was doing and looked down at her wrist. Good, it was there. That meant she didn't have to go all the way to her room to grab a hair tie. She slowly took the tie off her wrist pulling the loose strands of black hair back and secured it in a loose ponytail. Satisfied she went back to sweeping the wooden floors beneath her.

It was late in the morning and the sun was just making it to its peak. Rei could hear the sounds of people coming up the steps of the shrine. Girls' laughter filtered through the air and she noted to herself to check up on her grandfather to make sure he wasn't hitting on any of them. It drove away customers. Plus it wasn't very ethical in her opinion to be flirting with people less than a fourth your age. In spite of herself she smiled, pausing momentarily in her task. Even with his antics she loved the old man and enjoyed her life on the shrine.

Her mind drifted from her guardian to her schedule. Tomorrow was Friday and she had the day off. It was something still unknown to her but her grandfather recently hired someone else to help out at the shrine. Instead of just one day a week she now had two plus one day with just morning chores. She thought of going shopping or maybe a movie. Out of the two options a movie sounded better but there was nothing to go see. None of the movie posters or previews she saw while going around town interested her. Shopping it was then.

"Rei?"

She froze in her position, her lips suddenly becoming a thin line. After the moment of shock passed she continued sweeping. She ignored the voice behind her and refused to look back and address him.

"Rei, can we talk please?"

Still she ignored him, running the broom over the same spot five times. Her mind wasn't at the task at hand nor was it on the familiar yet disliked voice behind her. She spaced out not showing that she was fuming from the fact he came and visited her. She knew what it was going to be anyway.

"I have a favor to ask."

Of' course he did. He always had a favor to ask and it surprised her that he actually called it such. Gripping the broom tightly until her hands balled were balled into fist around it, she whipped around her ponytail hitting her lightly on the face. She glared at her father trying to make her nerves calm down and look neutral, failing miserably as she did so.

"What?" Her voice surprised her but it was no surprise. It was the one adapted for the man standing in front of her. Her father. It was an edgy voice with forced politeness etched into it.

Her father cleared his throat and adjusted his tie a little nervous at his daughter's tone. He gained his composure a second later looking like a composed gentleman before speaking. "Now it is no need to be rude. I was just going to ask you a quick favor…"

A quick favor, huh? Rei fumed to herself putting on a passive face as she swept the broom back and forth on the same spot- spreading dust more than collecting it. She had a feeling she knew what that favor was. He would like her to accompany him during one of the several events he attended as a politician; to put on an act to the public on him being a good father and family man. She usually obliged to his requests when she wanted to deny them. Deny them and show the public and media he was no type of family man he pretended to be. He was the man who was too busy in work to properly take care of her after her mother died. Either in grief or denial, he forgot or didn't know how to comfort his daughter after the loss. He was the man that left her at his father-in-law's shrine to grow up without a father as he pursued his career; The same man that came to her at least once a month after a couple years of peace to accompany him to different events to try to prove to himself and the public that he was a good father to her little girl.

She sighed and promptly threw the broom against a nearby post. "I don't want to go," she said simply. There, she denied him. She managed to do it and just hoped her resolve will hold up.

"It shouldn't be that big of a deal, I already asked if you had the day off tomorrow. The charity is only tomorrow night and I myself am only planning to stay an hour." He tried to bargain with her.

Rei's shoulders slumped and she gave the older man a sharp annoyed look. She should just go. If it was only an hour and she could bargain with him next time, in a couple weeks or so, and say she already did her father-daughter time for the month. He did manage to leave her alone for two months. An hour wouldn't kill her. "Fine, I'll think about it and call you tomorrow after I decide or not."

"When you decide you can come over and we can figure out what you will wear…"

He acted like she was already set to go. That really, really annoyed her. She bit her lip and shook her head. If she was going she would just go to the event, nothing more. "I'm going shopping tomorrow anyway. I'll figure out what to wear myself." Not listening to another word he said she turned around and walked back to her broom. She picked it up gingerly her eyes narrowed. She went back to what she was doing before being interrupted, ignoring the still standing figure of her father. She registered around five minutes later that he turned around and left. 'Finally…' was the only word that drifted into her mind.

She finished her morning chores and stored the broom back in the normal place. After she was done she hoped to relax during her break in her room. After that she would go out front and help out there and stop her grandfather from scaring away customers. The job at the shrine was easy enough, only keeping clean and helping out with the shrine's business. Lately her grandfather started paying her for it even though she was happy enough with a place to stay and food to eat. It had been her sanctuary for as long as she could remember.

Now that she had a change of plans, her break seemed long and her mind wondered to matters she really didn't want to think about right now. She collapsed on her bed and reached down for her book. It was a romance story that in Rei's opinion it was awfully cheesy but it was able to calm her down more than other books she had. Opening it up and removing the bookmark she placed it to the side before she began to read.

Fifteen minutes in her grandfather came in and she heard the door slide shut behind him. The raven haired girl waited a minute to acknowledge his presence. When she figured out he wasn't going to leave until she said something she looked up from her book and stared at the old man.

"Yes, Ojii-san?"

He stepped further into her room, a look of concern crossing his face. "Your father came by earlier asking if you were free tomorrow. I guess he talked to you."

She nodded her head once before turning back to her book. A moment passed in silence before she spoke up, "Why didn't you tell him I was busy tomorrow?"

"I knew you weren't and you don't plan a lot on your days off. I presumed you would have some time to go with him tomorrow."

"I don't like too. If he actually spent time being a father and not a politician maybe I would enjoy it some more." She turned a page of the book, not caring really about the cliché balcony scene but wanted to get her mind off the current conversation.

He must have realized the conversation wasn't going anywhere and his granddaughter didn't care for it because he left the room a moment later.

Rei sighed and closed her book. The cheesy romance wasn't working for her today. She placed the book on the counter and collapsed on her bed. Her eyes stared up at the ceiling before they drifted shut. Her breathing slowed into a relaxed sleep and before she knew it there was a loud knock on the door that signaled the end of her break.

She laid there in blissful relaxation for a couple more minutes. She dragged herself out of bed rubbing her eyes as she did so.

She was greeted by two crows as she walked outside and she gave a small smile. Phobos flapped black wings once before flying down to a lower branch closer to her. Reaching up to stroke the bird's wings she said softly, "Well I guess I should enjoy this day while it lasts. I have a long one tomorrow."

A/N: Well, I got it done quicker than I thought and overall I am happy with it. The next chapter will be the charity and the one after that Moon's awakening. Sorry for those of you who may not like the wait leading up to it. I just felt like doing a few chapters on each character to help me get their personality down as they are older and will be a little different than canon.

The next chapter is going to be longer from what I did so far. I'm guessing it would take a couple weeks to write.