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Tora sipped on her tea, waiting on Nitta-sama to reveal the answers.

"No, I don't think you have. I just thought that it was something that would have happened to you,"Serena answered with a light laugh.

"Oh dear," Tora said placing her hand slightly on her cheek and bitting her lower lip. She took in a deep breath and placed the sake cup to her lips. She let the liqued run down her throat, swallowed, then sat the cup back down. "Not bad. Not bad at all," she finnished with a blush. "That wasn't too bad at all," she added giggling.

Yokome had gotten the right answer and sat back to watch the others drink a whole cup of sake!

Nitta laughed lightly behind her fan at those that had to drink, some for the first time.

"Why don't we have one of the maiko take a turn?" Nitta suggested. "And if you're the one telling the story, you can't guess wrong, and therefore don't have to drink any sake!"

Nitta fluttered her fan.

"I think I have a few stories," Tora said shyly. "Do you think I may take a jab at it?" Tora sat up and waited for a responce. She did have one very true story she didn't mind telling. It had been many years ago before she became a Maiko, so she'd gotten over the inital embarrassment of it. And she had a pretty funny one for the lie.

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Tora nodded. All of a sudden she got butterflies in her stomach. "I hope this goes okay," she thought nervously. Her hands began to shake and sweat and her mouth ran dry. She swallowed hard and took a sip of tea. She sighed deeply, a whimper almost escaped her lips. "Okay, here we go."

"Once when I was about twelve or thirteen, my mother had taken me to one of her parties and introduced me to some of her former patrons. She said I was to be with her one day to see what it was like to be a Geisha. It was the first time I had worn a formal kimono and I was very uncomfortable in it. I had drank a lot of tea and so I had to go use the restroom. When I came back, everyone started giggling and pointing at me. I had no idea why. I turned around and there it was, my underwear shinning like a bright new penny: I hadn't pulled all of my kimono down and the back tail was stuck inside of my underwear! I was so embarrassed! My mother excused herself and took me back to the restroom to fix it."

"One day before company came to my mother's house, I had the chore of sweeping and helping the maids clean. I was feeling lazy that day so when I swept, I swept the dust under a rug. When the company arrived I got their shoes and placed them in the closet. The company was my mother's best friend and her husband and her husbands best friend. My mother's best friend had the full Geisha make-up on and everything. She was lovely! But what happened next was unexpected: She slipped on the rug I'd swept the dirt under earlier and the dirt went flying in the air, only to come down and land on her face! I got into SO much trouble and was so embarrassed because they probaby think my mother doesn't have a clean house, all because me. So, needless to say, I couldn't sit for about a week."

Tora let out a breath of air after finishing her two stories.

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"First time to drink sake, Mizu-chan?" Tora asked, hoping she wouldn't be the only one.