Sugar rush
Four years ago
As far as Tsuki was concerned, she had just hit the jackpot. A sweet shop, unattended and poorly locked, just waiting for her to raid. It didn't matter that she was spotted during her exit; with a barrel full of sugar now inside her, nobody had a hope of catching her. Now, as Tsuki sat hugging her knees in a ditch, shivering with a silly grin on her face, she tried in vain to calm down. She knew she had to make as much progress towards her next destination before withdrawal kicked in, causing her to become depressed and tired, not to mention throw up everywhere. So, with difficulty, she got to her feet and staggered off down the road.
Tsuki had made a lot of progress with her skills over two years. After so much time practicing with sneaking into houses and such, she was now far more agile and stealthy than she had previously been (when she hadn't had sugar, of course). Her ability to sense heartbeats had improved, too. Now she could detect them almost a hundred feet away, and could even detect the tiny heartbeats of the small animals and insects around her. At first, this was uncomfortable and made it hard for her to sleep in the wilderness, but she had quickly got used to it and was now able to ignore them. She still had the same silver hair and purple eyes, and was dressed almost the same as she did two years ago. The only noticeable difference was an increase in her height and a tiny gleam of confidence in her eyes that wasn't in there before. She was still on her own, but that didn't bother Tsuki; she was used to it.
The sugar starting to wear off, Tsuki began to take more notice of her surroundings. She frowned, sure that she had been here before. She looked around at the trees and the dirt path she was standing on, and suddenly remembered.
"Wow…" She thought. "I was here two years ago. Of course, it was night and it was raining, so maybe…"
She remembered the boy who had bumped into that night.
"Oh yeah! That boy who liked my eyes!" She laughed inside her head but then paused. "Aww… I called him a douche-bag afterwards!" She thought, feeling bad about being so unfair.
She glanced down the path that the boy and the old man had taken, wondering if they were still around after two years. Tsuki decided it was worth a look, after all, if they weren't home, she could always rob them…