( open ) ❀ hanakotoba

[festal]

Who: Sakura and y o u
When: Morning through evening, August 13
Where: Mostly the Near Shore but also the Far Shore
What: Sakura loses an important item and listens to the flowers. It's a no good day.

1. ( 7/12 ) Sakura ❀ kind, gentle, transience of life

( She'd woken up early in the morning and starter about her day. She'd put away her futon and gone to wash her face. She'd gotten dressed and brushed her hair so she could go out for the day and before she could get another step farther— making breakfast, tending the garden, checking any prayers— she'd come to a startling realization. It's a late start to her morning as she searches her room and the entirety of her temple, careful to not wake up Tsuzuki all while wondering if maybe he could help? Is it possible… that she'd misplaced it somewhere? Would he have seen it? No, he would have returned it to her, wouldn't he? Left it on the table for her to find easily?

When her first search fails, she sets out, forgetting her original plans. Those could wait. The longer it took her to find that the more lost it would become. It would become dirty, damaged, someone would take it and she'd never see it again.

Sakura can be found through the morning and afternoon searching,

1. A park in the Near Shore, again, checking some of the gardens but also near a vendor selling delicious crepes.
2. Outside a small European bakery on a quiet street. She stands on her toes to look over the shelves of breads and sweets in the window to see if she can see anything inside the dark store. It looks like it's closed this day of the week.
3. A local shrine on the Near Shore. She's looking at the purification spring and a wall lined with ofuda, apologizing as she tries to not get in anyone's way.

Regardless of where you find her, her eyes are on the ground and she looks horribly distressed. Anyone familiar with Sakura will notice she's missing her signature cherry blossom hair pin. In every new place she searches, she bites her lip and shakes her head, )

No… it isn't here either… ( She tries the other side of where ever she's looking, ) How could I be so careless…?

2. ( 7/12 ) Higanbana ❀ to never meet again, lost memories, abandonment

( While searching for her hair pin, she searches in a garden near her temple on the Far Shore. There are all sorts of summer flowers— sunflowers, daisies, marigolds, and even a few of those red spider lilies. As she searches, she hears a familiar voice calling out to her and she stops and continues only to hear the voice again.

The whispering continues, sweet and gentle. It isn't terrible to hear but it's heartbreaking all the same and as she listens, she raises her hands to her face and begins to wipe away tears, crying quietly to herself. )

Comments

Higanbana

[tacomeme]

[Seeing Sakura with the flowers isn't strange, but once he gets close enough it's clear she's crying...

Takumi rushes over, all concern and a little bit of aggression- just in case there is a someONE that caused her to be so upset]

Sakura-?

1.3

[lostinshadows]

Sakura?

[He was just managing to get back on his feet again, looking somewhat better than the last time she's seen him. With all the healing that's been done, he's been able to get up and move around, even if his movements still seem a bit stalled or jerky at some points.

As it is, being at a local shrine is easy for him to be able to transport back to the Far Shore, simply wanting to get away from everyone a bit when he notices her.]

What's wrong?

1, option 2

[priforprince]

If it's croissants you're after, I can provide.

[ Hibiki has just landed on this street herself after a trip elsewhere on the Near Shore. One simply cannot get acceptable baked goods when limited to the most common haunts for this pantheon. And what good is being a god who can travel anywhere if one does not avail oneself of everything the world has to offer....?

Long story short, this pastry you're being offered is still warm from the (sadly non Pri-)Parisian bakery that created it. Hibiki was there for opening. Time difference. ] Fresh out of the oven.

1.1

[sweetdeath]

Sakura? -- There you are!

[He'd woken up with vague, half-asleep memories of her bustling around the temple, doing -- something? Anyway, he'd heard her moving around, and gone back to sleep, but when he'd woken she was gone.

Then he'd started to worry. It's lucky the park he's found her in isn't far from her shrine, because circling out form the shrine would've started taking him days awfully fast. This's just a few blocks away, though. The sweet scent of crepes almost overpowers the smell of the August flowers blooming across the park, but Tsuzuki's got more important things on his mind than sweets right now. He hurries over to his goddess.]

What's going on?

sakura

[lovemguns]

[ Butch was on his way back to the Far Shore after a visit to a butcher's shop but he stops when he spots the distressed-seeming girl outside the bakery. ]

Is somethin' wrong, lass?

1.3

[tuishou]

[There's never going to be enough free time to learn everything about the Near Shore, is there? Even in this one city, Neji could always get himself lost or facing a new adventure-- this evening, he'd set out to do just that: get lost. It's too hot to be wearing high necked shirts, but that's hardly stopping him. And it's too hot to be one of the bodies crowding this nameless shrine, but despite the forced company it's one of the cooler places he's stumbled upon lately. It's (relatively) quiet, and as secluded as a solemn little place should be, and. That it seems to keep wayward ayakashi at bay is only a bonus, really.

Neji, for his part, is actually perfectly fine with ignoring the girl for a healthy while. Then she does kind of... begin to demand attention, and the fact that she's not getting it can only mean one thing in this world of theirs, can't it? A shinki or a goddess. Either way.]

What are you doing?

[He's not approaching. But he should probably help.]

1-2

[kokuyoyo]

....You could just break in... .

[If Sakura missed Chikusa's arrival near the store, it's fine. He's a naturally quiet person, and she's clearly having a crisis. It's all good.]

1.2

[handsome_genius]

[Yoon is still amazed by all of the various modern food places he can find, so it's no small surprise that he'd wind up gawking at the European bakery for a bit. When he finally turns his head to leave though, he notices Sakura on the other side of the front door also looking inside.]

Oh hi!

[It's been awhile but he does remember her from the festival.]

You're Sakura, right?

[Good memory.]