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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]

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]

That's what makes the gears turn. Your ideals, your resolve, that's part of "Fate."

So I'm going to wait for him, so I can welcome him when he gets here.

[lasthokage.livejournal.com]

Little too philosophical for a dumbass like me, I guess!

I bet he'll be glad to see you.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Imagining the look on his face makes waiting bearable.

[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!