chapter 3

Kei" Since there isn't any club activities today I'm going home first. You staying or leaving."

Ryoma" I'll stay for a bit longer."

Kei" Suit yourself."

(Tennis courts)

The game started and it was Katsuo's turn to start first.

1st Try: Miss

3rd Try: Miss

4th Try: Miss

6th Try: Miss

7th Try: Miss

10th Try: Miss

Katsuo" Awww man, I couldn't even touch the can."

Next to try was Kachiro, but again it ended in utter failure.

1st Try: Miss

3rd Try: Miss

4th Try: Miss

6th Try: Miss

7th Try: Miss

9th Try: Miss

10th Try: Miss

Kachiro" Sigh this was harder then I imagine it to be. I didn't even hit it once" He said with a heavy sigh.

Horio" Wow you guys are really bad."

Kachiro and Katsuo frowned. "Hey, we can't help it. This is the first time we've ever played. It's not our fault that we are totally new at this." Kachiro defended.

Horio "Well then, I guess I don't have a choice but to show you guys how it is done. Time to show you guys my tennis experience of 2 years." With that said Horio got ready to serve.

The first serve as expected missed. As did the second and the third all the way up to the 9th serve which also missed.

Horio" No way, I wasn't even able to hit it a single time."

Senpai" Haha, oui, oui, you only have one more try left." He said Not hiding his disdain, which surprisingly no one noticed except for Ryoma who was just chilling with his hand on his head while his eyes closed shut.

(With kei)

After bidding farewell to his brother kai left the school premises and started walking around the neighbourhood, to get himself reacquainted.

Some of the shop owners recognised and greeted him with smiles which he returned.

It felt good to be back home. He was happy that he didn't have any arrangements outside, so he could finally relax a bit.

As Kei was too absorbed in his own thoughts he hadn't noticed that he ended up near a Forrest. He only noticed when a leaf struck his face.

Kei" Huh, what the, where am I." Looking around he saw lots of forestry with a stone path leading back to the town. He was just about to walk back when he suddenly heard a sound.

(JINGLING)

Kei' Mhh what was that. It sounded like a jingle of bells. And it came from up there.' Kai thought while looking up a dirt path that led up a tall hill.

Having nothing better to do he thought he might as well investigate.

It took him no more than 20 minutes before he finally made it to the top, where something he didn't expect to be here was. It was a shrine. Not one of those city shrines mind you but a really beat up and old shrine.

The shrine itself was massive, but the wood was already decayed, the stone path leading up to the shrine was too hard to climb for normal citizens.

The temizuya, or water cleaning was in shambles and the offering box....well there was no offering box, just a card bored box at the front of the shrine.

He could tell that this shrine must of been a sight to behold in its heyday, but now. He didn't know why but he felt a bit of sadness, looking at its state.

But interested in the shrine and its history Kei decided to walk around and see if there was anything to indicate what god was worshipped here.

(30 mins later)

Thirty minutes later he couldn't find much but he did find old wooden tomes that said the words Holou, as well as Doubt and Trust, family and luck. He had never heard of this goddess or god before.

He knew he had never heard of the god as when he was 5 he was diagnosed with Hyperthymesia or what some like to call it super memory.

Kei stayed there for another 30 minutes before heading home. What he dident notice was that 2 people were watching him. 1 was an orange fox with 2 tails, and another was a little girl the same age as Kei.

The only difference was that while Kei looked like a normal handsome human. This girl didn't. She looked more like an actual goddess.

Overall her look was very traditional and colourful in nature. She wore a frilly white hat that had decorative orange-yellow ribbon laced around it and a traditional Japanese mask shaped like a fox on the left side of her cute but mature button face.

She had purple bangs that changed to blue on both sides of her head and her long hair went from blue to green.

Her eyes went from blue-green to purple, and she wore red eyeshadow. She had two red tiger-like markings on both sides of her face, as well as an ornate orange-yellow choker.

Her outfit leaves much to the imagination as her outfit was quite revealing, as it exposed her milky midriff and legs.

The clothing itself had a colour scheme of orange, purple, and yellow with ribbons flowing all around it. She was surprisingly barefoot, but didn't have an ounce of dirt on them.

???" Kami, why did you let that human inside, I thought you didn't want to get involved or associate with them anymore." The Fox asked the supposed goddess.

Holou" His soul felt warm." She said in a monotone voice. She had no expression when she responded back to the fox.

Like anything that went out of her mouth didn't matter. But the fox could tell there was something her goddess wasn't telling her. All she could do was sigh and go back to her duties.

As the fox walked away, once she was for enough from the goddess she called out to the forest and a second later two foxes a bit smaller in size to the two-tailed fox appeared.

Fox 1/2" You called for us lady Miko." Both foxes asked with a hint of respect in their tone of voice.

Miko" Mhh I have an important mission for the both of you. Do you think you can handle it?

Fox 1/2" We will not fail miss Miko."