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[ryuume.livejournal.com]

So maybe... Tanabata wasn't as extravagant as it usually is at home, but it was still a lot of fun! I knew almost everyone who came, and that's the best kind of Tanabata for me! Thanks to everyone who helped and everyone who came! You all really made it a great festival. Yamamoto-san, your chirashi-sushi was really good!

We'll have to plan something better next year! Things were kind of thrown together at the last minute, but that's what made it great, right? I felt a little bad taking off my yukata... I still wanted to wear it. Did you have fun Oneechan?

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[ryuume.livejournal.com]

There was a war where I came from... I left someone very dear to me... So I can't say that I don't know how you feel. I really wanted to make the most of it... and maybe... this is a new door for me. I thought that I could make this place ready when he arrives.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

...yeah, that sounds a lot like what I left.

I was this close to getting her back, and now I'm farther from her than I've ever been. I guess it just makes me want to go hey, fate or coincidence or whatever the fuck I should be blaming, couldn't you wait ten minutes and let me get my princess back and save the world, thanks?

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

I really liked Tanabata because I got to spend time with the people that I've met here. We're all in the same situation, and we're all waiting for someone to come... Maybe that's what makes it seem like home to me.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

I guess that's not a bad way to look at it.

But I've never really been the type to sit back and wait for anything.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

What would the person who's the most important to you want you to do?

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

I promised I'd protect her no matter what.

I can't do that if I'm stuck here without her.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

I think she'd understand... At least, as long as you're thinking of her.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

Probably, knowing her. I don't think she's ever had a bad thought about anybody in her life.

Doesn't mean I'm not going to do everything I can to make it back to her, though.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

I'll do all I can to help!

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks! Start with your name?

I'm Hanabishi Recca.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Natsume Aya. It's nice to meet you, Hanabishi-san.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you too!

How long have you been here?

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

It's over a year now.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

...that's a long time.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

It is...

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

I guess it really is that hard to get out of here, huh.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

It is... When I first got here, all I wanted to do was go home and help Souichirou-sama. But what if he shows up here, and I'm gone? If he comes here, he'll need me more than anything.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it that way.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

"Fate."

That is how that I'm sure one day... that Souichirou-sama will come here. So I have to be ready.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

I kinda never took the fate stuff as seriously as everything else my old man told me.

I know what my duty is, I know what my promises are. It's always been enough for me.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

But I've made a lot of friends! People I couldn't have met unless I came here.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

Man, the way you said that, it kind of reminded me of my princess for a second.

She'd like you.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

...


I'd like to meet her one day.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

Maybe you will!