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Yuki stood as he tugged at her hand again and smoothed out her dress carefully. She didn't have a kimono, but at least she was somewhat dressed up. Well, that was her reassurance to herself at least. She sighed quietly and followed obediently after Shinku, eyes darting around everything they pass, except for people. She didn't want to catch the eye of anyone and get involved in some sort of conflict. That hadn't really happened since she came here, but she was so used to it at home that she generally tried to avoid doing it everywhere she went now. After a moment she raised her free hand again, catching a flower as it drifted by. She held it loosely in her hand as she trailed after Shinku towards the games.

He stopped, the wind stopping. He looked up, then hung his head low. "Sorry...I guess I make people's lives worse even when I dont try to..." He sighed, pulled his knees up to his chest and held them with his arms, he stared out towards the picnic, the stands, everyone having fun, everyone but him...her as well as him, it seemed. He spoke softly. "Ever have that feeling that seems to linger...where you think you'll never fit in?....nevermind, that was a stupid question...I suppose everyone feels that at sometime...mabye it will go away for me sometime as well...I wont bother the plants anymore...I'll just sit here..."

Risa got there before the others. After running so far she got out of breathe. Next she laid out a huge towel and put her basket on it. Her knees were so tired that she fell straight to the ground. "I wonder if the others are going to be here soon?" Risa looked at the clear beautiful sky as she waited for her friends.

Keith smiled at Bijou. Yes. I truely do like her... He dosed off untill she said something. "An..Angel?" He questioned as he turned to her, with her wings spread out. "Amazing!" Keith said with a smile. Many things were going threw his head at that moment. An angel! It truely is amazing! I can't believe it. No wonder she is so beautiful.. He smiled as she kissed him. He still got a light blush. You know, I do hope our first kiss will be a pleasant one. He stopped himself. "Gah. I'm thinking to much.." He said pushing his hand threw his hair as he whent behind Bijou and wrapped his arms around her to get into a hug.

"It's so peacful." He said with a smile, as his eyes are closed. "So, are any of your friends here? I don't mind if you go hang out with them if you want, what would this magnificent festival be without friends?" He said continued. "I want whats best for you, what you want. Don't worry about me."

"No, I don't see any of them. We could just find more friends, though. That would be easy. There are lots of people here!" she said. She wrapped her arms around his pushed the back of her head against his chest. Her hair got in the way a bit, she had it back in a spiked out ponytail. Keith was very warm. It was wonderful. It was the perfect moment to take a picture. Like a prom picture in high school. She smiled and curled her legs over to the side. Unfortunately, his clothes didn't match the moment. He wasn't wearing anything that matched her kimono. Not a yukata or anything. Just regular clothes.

She sighed and pushed his arms out of the way. "Well... do you want to go do Karaoke next?" she said standing up. It was hard to walk in her geta. She had bought them at a small store on the outskirts of Ria before she entered into the getas. She smiled and waited for Keith's reply. She was sure he wouldn't object. She took a few steps to the tree and fixed her hair.

Then she remembered that she did have her wings out. She hovered slightly above the ground, about a foot or so, and she was still only just at height with Keith. He was very tall. Then she felt a slight lightening of her load. Her geta's had fallen off. And the grass was very tall where they had fallen off. She couldn't see them. She panicked and over to find them. Couldn't see where they were. "Any help?" she said. She made a slightly embarassed smile and looked up at Keith.

( In response to Ai on the first page. DX )

A small girl wandered around the cherry blossom trees. She could see many people already crowding around cherry blossoms through her chocolate eyes. A small uneasy smile cramped onto her pale face, as she was unsure wether she should frown or smile. She wanted to frown because she was all alone, but she wanted to smile so no one would ask what was wrong. Within a few moments she stopped, alone, lost and really confused. There were so many people! There were so many sakura trees! There were so many... Couples. The girl blushed as she straightened out her silky brown hair. Her hair was pulled into two pigtails, her hair was curcled into little ringlets as well. In her hair was a single pink rose, along She was careful to leave her bangs out, she also was careful to comb her bangs. Wanting to impress some one much?

As for her kimono, it was a pinkish peach kind of color with different flowers designed on it. Although the outlines of the kimono, (the bottoms of the sleeves, skirt and the obi and bow), were all a darker orange, redish, peach kind of color. The outlines, and the obi and bow, also had flower designs on them. The bow also seemed to fade into a darker red on the bottoms. As for her obi, it also had lace on the bottom, top and middle of it. The lace in the middle was secure and was tied on tightly with a red string. There was also lace on the bottom of thwe kimono too.

In hand there was a picnic basket, with a few desserts and sandwhiches she made, and there was also a long pink, silky, gymnastics ribbon. Makie looked around with her chocolate eyes, looking for her friends within this mess.

"Mistyy... C-Can you see A-Ai... Or O-Oliver...?" The brunette said, still looking around helplessly. Behind her came a much taller woman. She had long midnight purple hair that was tied into a loose braid that seemed to reach the back of her knees. Don't ask how she can take care of it. Her cyan blue eyes looked down at the small girl and sighed. She was wearing a dark blue kimono that hugged every curve of her body. The kimono skirt had many red flower designs on it. The obi was a deep red color with dark blue strings tied in the middle of it. Makie made the designs for both of their kimonos and Misty had the task of making them.

"No, for the tenth time-" Misty began to say before hearing Oliver's little french voice. Moments later the small boy and Ai were in clear view. "Yup. I see them." Her tone was hardly excited. Misty's tone was sarcastic and very bored, her expression matched the tone of her voice as well. Makie on the other hand was delighted and looked in the direction Misty was looking. Her uneasy smile changed into a happy excited kind of look the moment she saw Ai.

"A-Ai! Ai!" The small brunette called out before catching glimpse of Oliver. Her waving hand froze and then fell to her side. Her heart was beating fast as she felt herself blush. She also realised that Oliver was wearing the same yukata he wore last year. And a month ago marked their one year friendship anneversery. That day also marked the day that Makie finally had a crush on a guy.

"Keep it moving, shorty." Misty said, pushing the girl back into reality. Makie's eyes almost watered.

"You s-said you w-wouldn't c-call me that..!" She turned around to face Misty, her lower lip quivering. Misty was a sucker for the lower lip thing and the puppy dog eyes that Makie had.

"Alright! Alright. I take it back." The woman said, trying to calm Makie down. Makie's sad expression suddenly turned into a happy one, as she smiled brightly.

"Okay. I-I forgive y-you!" She said, as she began to skip towards her friends. At the same time, Makie was trying to push aside her feelings for Oliver so she could go up to her friends and start a conversation with them without blushing and stuttering her way through it... Okay. Makie always stuttered, but it would be worse than normal...

Misty was strolling slowly behind Makie, who was skipping happily and waving her arms like crazy. Within moments the small brunette was surprised by the sudden greetings from both of her friends. In french. Makie normally didn't know french, but recently she started studying french so she could figure out what Oliver was saying when he spoke in french. Now Ai seemed to know french too. Seemingly getting the 'dizzies' from her eyes, she smiled and tried to speak back in french as well.

"Bonjour Ai et O-Oliver!" Makie said, stuttering only once on Oliver's name. She was a bit more confident when she spoke in french... But that's because she often forgot what she was saying half of the time. A few seconds later Misty joined the three, acknowledging them with a nod.

"Hey." Was Misty's simple, un-enthusiastic (sp?) reply. Meanwhile, Makie began to think up of what next to say. She felt herself beginning to blush again in Oliver's presence. She mentally kicked herself for being such a little fan girl. Still smiling, she tightened her grip on her picnic basket. That was when she finally found something to say. Mustering up the courage to speak, Makie took a breath and fixed her bangs a bit.

"Erm... I-I brought s-some d-desserts... A-And some s-sandwhiches..." Makie said, looking down at her feet. It seemed Ai had already cooked a lot of things that almost made her desserts look so simple and plain. Wanting to get rid of the awkwardness, which was really strange for Makie to be this awkward, the girl changed the subject.

"I-I really l-love your kimono Ai..! I-It's r-really pr-pretty on you!" She tilted her head in delight. "A-And y-your yukata l-looks r-really g-great on you... O-Oliver! I-It's the s-same o-one as l-last year!" She felt herself blush again. Great... I'm blushing again... I don't know why I'm so abnormally nervous today. Makie thought to herself, trying to push it aside. She was failing miserably at that though. Misty, who decided she should let Makie chillax a bit, started a conversation.

"So... Food... Blankets... Are we going to have a picnic or what?" Misty asked, clicking her tongue once. "That reminds me... What's going on today? There's games... But that's all I know that's going on today." Misty let out a sigh, leaning on Makie as if she were a post or something. It took a few moments, but the small brunette immidiately snapped out of her thoughts to get Misty's arm off of her head. She was careful to make sure she didn't mess up her hair or that the pink rose didn't fall out.

Makie and Misty both sat down with Ai and Oliver. At the same time, the brunette began to unpack her sandwhiches. There were different kinds of sandwhiches, but there were a few plain jam ones, which was Makie's favorite sandwhich. All her desserts, (aka ice cream sundaes, special little cakes, cup cakes, and many other things), were still in the basket. After unpacking the sandwhiches, she looked back up at her friends. Ai was smiling softly, Misty had her usual "I don't care" expression, and Oliver was smiling as brightly as he could. Makie blushed, but managed a small smile. Moments after, Oliver began to speak. The small girl froze, feeling her heart rate increasing by the millasecond.(sp?) When Oliver offered the brunette some rice balls, she felt herself blush even more...

But being lightly elbowed by Misty let herself control her blushing. The brunette looked down at the riceballs, and took up a rice ball with one hand. The other hand hovered under it, making sure no extra rice fell onto the blanket. Within moments she brought the rice ball to her mouth a took a small bite from it. It was amazing! It tasted soo good! Yummy...

"Oh..! Mmm! These rice balls a-are s-so yummy!" Makie exclaimed taking another small bite from the rice ball. That was when Ai replied to her comment about her kimono. Ai was embarassed? That was rare. Makie's only seen Ai embarassed a few times.

"I-I think it's really n-nicely made! W-Who m-made it? I want a kimono m-made too! Hee hee." Makie let out a little giggle. Maybe Makie and Ai could have matching kimonos! Maybe who knows. Hearing this, Misty sighed. It al most seemed like moments ago that Makie couldn't stop hugging Misty for making the kimono, and now she was asking Ai who made her the kimono for another one.

Within moments it was Makie's turn to be embarassed.

"Oh-Umm.. Erm... Th-Thank you... I-I made t-them j-just f-for... F-For the picnic..." Makie stuttered through the sentance, looking down at her lap and blushing madly. "I-I hope y-you'll l-like them later o-on..." That was when Oliver began to list off the features of the Sakura picnic.

A weird drink stand... How can drinks be weird...? Oh well.

Karaoke... Well. There were a few songs that Makie really liked. Maybe she'd sing them. Even though she was more of a 'Dancing Queen', she liked to sing too. Although her voice was still childish, and hadn't really matured yet. Ai seemed to like the idea of karaoke. Makie heard Ai's voice, it was the most prettiest voice on the whole planet. She was as good, if not better, then all those famous singers now! Like Teddy Geiger, The Corrs, Cascada, Within Temptation, Evanesence, Jem, Rhianna and so much more!

And a weird stage... Now that seemed interesting. Maybe they could go see it later on.

"M-Maybe w-we can a-all sing l-later on!" Makie said, trying to get Ai into the karaoke mood. "I-I really wanna hear A-Ai sing! A-Ai has such a pretty voice!" The brunette spoke as if Ai weren't there, but Makie knew her angelic friend was there. Makie smiled sweetly towards the lavender haired angel. "Would you sing for us? Pwease..?"

Misty rolled her eyes again at the brunette. Makie was just like a little 7 year old. Literally.