Chapter 7:

Mushroom stand.

Yui


“I’m bored to death! there is nothing to do around here” complained Nakata.

“Yui is not here so we can do basically everything we want” said Eda who sat on the couch and just finished solving his rubix cube “Minato, Kimori, any ideas?”

“The funnest thing I can do right now is to teach you how to use my guns.” Minato took a Yogurt from the fridge”

“Any ideas Kimori?” Eda looked at Kimori who was cleaning his glasses using a napkin with flowers pattern on it. “Few months ago I met a girl who has a mushroom selling stand. I promised her I will go there at least once a week. I can meet her to you if you want.”

“I have nothing better to do so let’s meet her” Nakata stretched in his chair.

“I will come too” Minato said with a spoon full of yogurt in his mouth.

“If you all go I will go to” putted down his rubix cube on the short table near the couch.

Everyone wore their clothings and was ready to go, they walked out the door and started walking up the street. The sidewalk was full of dust like always, nobody thought of cleaning this street in decades.

“I just thought of something” said Minato.

“What is it?” asked Eda

“Isn’t that weird that no one thought of resettling down this street. It’s really close to the main street and has a lot of surface.” Minato looked at one of the buildings they passed by.

“Maybe there are ghosts in this street.” joked Nakata.

“That's a ridiculous idea, we are not adults yet and we know ghosts doesn't exist” Eda said with a serious face.

“Gho… ghosts?” Komori said with a scared expression on his face. The others started laughing, they didn’t showed that but everyone struggled to find an answer to Minato’s question inside their mind and kept on walking.

“Here she is!” Kimori shouted happily and ran to the mushroom stand, everyone followed him.

Behind the stand stood a little girl, her thick long hair was gathered in two braids, she wore a red bandana on her head to make sure her pony would not get in her eyes, stil, a few strides of hair rested on her face. Her oversize jeans overall was dirty from dirt, a few leaves got stuck between the dirt and shined in green. She yelled “fresh cheap mushrooms! I took them from the forest today!” until she noticed Kimori coming, she smiled in joy and waved, “big brother Kimori!”

“Looks like you had a tough day in the forest” Kimori talked to the girl like she is actually his younger sister.

“I did work hard today but it was worth it” she pointed at the goods proudly “look how much I collected today!”

“I don’t want you to get hurt, next time call me, I will help you” Kimori petted her head.

“But I don’t want you to get hurt either” she looked straight to his eyes, they both have big almond tone brown eyes that reflect big emotions.

The others were amazed by how deep their relationship looks, it really felt like they were actual relatives, the girl noticed the rest of the gang too.

“You brought me more big brothers?” she asked.

“Ah, I almost forgot, those are my friends” Kimori smiled sweetly “the athletic guy is Minato, the one with the long hair is Eda and the tall one with headband is Nakata”

“Oh look! you two are the same height” Nakata laughed.

“Don’t ever make fun of big brother Kimori’s growth disorder!” the girl said with an angry face.

“Hey, it wasn’t nice Nana, apologize” Kimori did his best to do a serious face despite how happy he was near the little girl.

“I’m sorry big brother Kimori” she said with a face of regret.

“I meant to apologize to Nakata” Kimori pointed at Nakata.

“It is fine, there is no need to apologize” Nakata knelt down, he was a little shorter than the girl that way “you didn’t tell us your name yet.”

“I’m Naomi or Nana, you can choose how to call me” she still didn’t smile.

“Nana… such an adorable name for such an adorable girl” said Minato cutely.

“Thank you a lot!” her smile raised again “I think my nickname is much cuter than my actual name too!”

“May I buy some mushrooms?” Kimori asked gently and picked ten mushrooms.

“It will be 500 yen” Nana smiled sweetly.

Kimori reached his pocket to pull out his wallet, his calm-happy expression changed into a panicked expression, he looked up to the sky and screamed:

“DAMN IT! HOW COULD I FORGET MY WALLET WHEN GOING TO LITTLE NANA’S STAND!!!”

Everyone on the street looked at Kimori for a second and kept walking, even Minato, Eda and Nakata didn’t knew Kimori could scream that loud. Nana started sweating uncomfortably but kept smiling.

“It’s fine, I will pay” Eda lifted his wallet.

Kimori kned in front of Eda and said quickly “Thank you so much, I owe to you forever.

“Hey, aren’t those Yui and Aku on the other side of the street?” said Nakata.

From the other side of the street, Aku saw the gang, she lifted Yui’s hand and ran across the road. They got to the stand and reunited.

“Big brother and big sister?” Nana asked while packing the mushrooms in a plastic bag.

“Yes, the boy is Yui and the girl is Yui too, call her Aku to prevent confusion”

Her face, her brown thick hair, the two Yuis knew where they already saw her. They both said in surprise together: “you are that goddess!!”

They looked at eachother, Aku at Yui’s face and Yui at Aku’s neck.

“Goddess? what are you talking about?” Nana asked.

“Don’t you remember? a decade ago you helped me reach freedom” Aku was hoping for an answer real bad.

“Ten years ago I was deep in mommy’s belly” Nana gave an answer but not the answer Aku wanted.

“You just appeared in my dream, you told me something about seeing something else than a regular human in me.” Yui joined the conversation.

“Daddy, those people are saying weird things” Nana said and a man with bright skin, white hair and red eyes came out from one of the houses “Is everything fine Naomi? oh… I see Kimori is here, he brought some friends?”

“Daddy” Nana pointed with her two hands at Yui and Aku “they called me a goddess, and she said I helped her to reach freedom ten years ago.”

“Mr.Natsuki! long time no see” Kimori waved his hand friendly.

Yui started to remember from where the albino man was familiar “I know you too! three years ago you told me to kill humans and to try to take control over them. You said it will make me feel good, and I listened to you!”

“You accuse me of murder?!” the man’s face was full of rage “NEVER COME HERE AGAIN” his face became calm again “not you Kimori, you are always welcome.”

“Everyone come, we will return home now” Yui said and everyone followed.

Nana waited until the gang couldn’t see them and changed her face to the same flat face from Yui’s dream.

“Should we tell him?” asked the man.

“We just gave him the girl, I want to wait a little more until we tell him.”

-june-
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