The sun is shining from behind the bushes, as if the twilight has come to the end in Izanagi. The leaves of a maple tree are shaking slightly; their veins and twigs look like those of a human hand. The eighteen-years old young adult slowly sat up and rubbing her head. The memories of the last night are blurred when she tried to remember, but there are no recollections of what happened when she tried to recall it. "Where... where am I?" 

The girl is an eighteen-years old young adult muttered when she look around--she was wearing her warrior princess attire; consists of white long kimono, worn over by a white and black-bordered haori with red, gold and green obi wrapped around her waist-her haori has a black flower patterns on it and the ribbon of her obi was tied on the front. There she wears a black tekkō with red bracelets and pearl around her neck, her thigh-high boots were dark brown. Her light red layer of satin worn on her shoulders and back that fell to her calves, even with her white and red sleeves extends to her knees, she also wears black bodysuit underneath. 

Her dark chocolate long hair is tied in high ponytail with white flower ornament with hairpin, head accessories and yellow ribbons, letting her front bangs fell on her forehead and between her face, with ones behind her ears left untied. Her black-red-yellow katana was hanging on her left hip, with her red-purple eye makeup brushed perfectly on her eyelids like the paint. Shizuki looked around shifting her sitting position, the warrior princess held her head that she hissed in pain. Shizuki stood up firmly while carrying her katana, her legs wobbled a little from the impact of sleeping on cold ground.

"Ugh..." she rubbed her head before looking around while spotting the stone stairway hidden under the bushes.

The girl looked down, slowly tapping on the blocks of stone ground, they were covered with moss and leaves, giving her a hard time to make out its shape. The girl was curious but slowly approaching the street. As she came down at the end of the stairs, she saw the people walking down the street of the village, she was curious but soon turning to the left way. It surprised her-she has never been into this place before, nor if she ever saw this, yet this was quite new.

The girl took her time with looking around. There are shops selling foods and fruits, she seems interested in them, luckily she had enough money to buy some needs. There are many houses along the streets and alleys, but most of these were wooden houses with thatched roofs. A lot of children were running around playing games with each other, there are a few older women who seemed to be their mothers talking about something and laughing while watching them play. The girl bumped into someone familiar, it was the girl who was around her age. The girl has a long dark brown hair reaching her back, tied back on the side of her shoulder, styled in hime-bangs but messy, she wearing a cream-colored kimono. "My apologies--"

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The girl looked over her hazelnut eyes, suddenly recognizing her. "H-Haruka, is that you?" she tilted her head, she was surprised, knowing that her childhood friend was here. The girl named Haruka had her eyes widened when she was holding her hand, her other hand was carrying a bag of dishes as she whispered at him. "Shizuki, I thought you're being caught by the soldiers from the Sun Palace!"

Shizuki was surprised before her head was got hurt, she heard her mentioned her about getting caught--for some reason Shizuki started to have flashback of what happened last night. "Y-Yeah..." she murmured while nodding her head. "I... forgot."

"Oh my... you don't know what happened?" Haruka asked her with surprise, she prayed that she was alright so she asked her for confirmation. "You escaped from them?" Shizuki heard her as she held her own head while trying to recall the memories, but it was all blurred that she tried to recall them again--but she couldn't remember anything. "I can't remember much, when I tripped down and-" Shizuki started to faint as she felt her consciousness fading away.

"Shizuki!"

Haruka holds onto her shoulder as she almost tripped herself to the ground, she knew that Shizuki is slightly taller than her so she quickly lifted up Shizuki's arm around her shoulder. "Oh no, she passed out... I need to hurry to get her to my place."

Haruka held Shizuki with her arm around her shoulder and walking on her way to her machiya house, she spotted one of her childhood friends together with Shizuki--Hayate Ishikawa--the eighteen years old young adult who has similar age like Haruka and Shizuki. "Haruka! Is that Shizuki?!" he asked, she nodded. "Don't worry, she's alright!"

Hayate sighed in relief that relieved that his friend went fine, Haruka told him to carry her to Tsuki Village where she stayed to with her family and friends. He with his childhood friends and allies had on their way to her village, carrying Shizuki behind his back. He asked how did she get here walking with carrying Shizuki on his back, Haruka sighed as she had to explain what happened. "She's still unconscious because she doesn't remember what happened, and it hurts her head so she fainted."

A lot of people were asking where Shizuki came from, Haruka explained to everyone and the people seemed very happy that Shizuki is now safe. Hayate grumbled, folding his arms. "Tsk... I shouldn't let her stay there... that bastard captured her..."

"It's alright," Haruka shook her head while smiling happily. "If we go now then they'll notice us, so wait until we have enough people before we start."