OK , last chapter focused on Maui , this one will be Moana's

Moana didn't quite understand why her friend Maui infuriated her at times.

He was so different from the men in the village she grew up with , he's so old yet so young ; so full of himself and immature yet he can be mature and humble. They started out almost hating each other and yet have proven that they would die for each other on their quest to restore the heart of Te fiti .

She knew that some of their fights that they had were because he didn't want her to drift away like she had been .

She's 21 , she needs to think about getting a husband. And she's trying to give her suitors a chance , none of them were ugly or unskilled, but she only feels friendship towards them; and Maui , Maui and her have a different friendship unlike any she has within her village. There's friendship with a bond of comradeship strengthening it and the willingness to risk life and limb along with Maui opening up about his hated beginning hovering between them. In truth she's not entirely sure what she feels towards him.

She heard the sounds of a couple of toddlers giggling from the path below her from her spot in the tree she was currently perched in as the toddlers' mothers and older siblings came to harvest some of the nearby ground plants. A few of the children were shown what to pick by the mothers before everyone set to work , the children scattered about and the women near enough to be able to talk to each other as they worked.

" have you seen the betting pot that the elders set up? " a young mother asked her fellows.

" it's starting to get full with all the small things most everyone is putting in there. " her sister added.

" I wish that they would stop fighting as much and admit that they like each other beyond being friends" the eldest mother told them
" I'll be glad when Moana realizes that. But I don't think that they're at the admit stage just yet." the youngest , a young woman who was the only single non-mother in the group told the 3 mothers

' fighting? I haven't fought with anyone lately , anyone besides Maui..' Moana thought to herself.

" one of her suitors is a man you wish was courting you instead , isn't that right Tiare*? " the younger sister remarked.
" I think Maui hasn't realized why he feels threatened by Moana's other suitors quite yet. Hopefully he'll start to act when he finds out ." the eldest told them.

Moana nearly made a sound as she briefly nearly lost her grip from the tree she was perched in with her thoughts swirling around her head she didn't hear as the women turned their gossip to other things.

' Maui? Feeling threatened by my suitors? Maui himself , a suitor of mine? Do these women even know who their talking about? He once made a point to call me a kid not too long ago.' she thought to herself as the women and their children quickly picked all that could be spared of the paint plants in the area and moved on**.

' Maui? A suitor of mine? ' she thought again as she quietly climbed down her tree ' Nah , they must be confused.' she thought brushing it off.

Even though she might have tried to , she never forgot what she had overheard. Both of them did. And they both began to see each other in a different light; Maui noticed that Moana was now a woman who started to need to think about getting a husband and Moana could see her immortal demigod friend as a man , and not an ugly one at that. That would sometimes cause an awkwardness , one that the cleverest among the villagers could see first , and most weren't too far behind seeing either. ( meaning that caused some of the bets to finish and more to be made filling the pot even more)

not too long later something happens to bring the pair together.

Whoo. Thank goodness that the hated writer's block is over , I broke through while I was hanging out with my boyfriend and his family to help celebrate his father's birthday. It was a fun day, the lucky guy was once a late Christmas present to his family with him being born the day after Christmas. Perhaps my boyfriend is one of my muses, so maybe I should add hanging out with him to my ways to fight writers block.

* - her name is one of the names for flowers , I'm occasionally going to name a minor character for the fun of it and to bring in some of the culture.

**- looked up a reason for the women to be in the jungle and found that they would use many different plants for many different things. And they always need some paint so every once a while they would go and pick some of the ingredients , also one of the ways to ensure that you don't exhaust your supply is to not pick all the plants as probably many of you know.

So I'm going to bring in a monster for Maui to fight. It was actually kinda fun to read the mythology , once I was able to find some , that's out there. I'm glad I wasn't having to fall back on my back up plan of just having a kracken show up since it showed Maui hitting one in his song in the movie; plus I was able to find a few other monsters to have show up to help cement Moana and Maui's relationship.

Also Yes! A longer chapter up , even though a chunk of it is this note. My aim for the next chapter is to have it out by around spring. Until then I look forward to your reviews and feedback is always nice.