[Event AQ] When You Wish Upon a...Tree? [Yasuko/Yukiya] DONE

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

"Nice to meet you too, Yuki!" he said, the smile never disappearing from his face. But as the other talked, Yasuo simply blinked at Yuki's words - before beginning to laugh. A good-natured laugh as it were. "You sound like you know my sister well! Are you in Faberge too? Or maybe a classmate?" It was not clear that he was honestly curious, or he had used it to deliberately not answer the other's words about his own sister. Or, maybe he simply wanted to get to know him better. Though, there was an unmistakable snort of even more laughter from the boy as Yuki spoke. "You sound like a poet or something!" he said, grinning once again. "Though I'm not sure if you really want to compare Yasuko to a delicate flower here--" He dodged, missing the pouch aimed for his head. "Stop that Yasuko, otherwise you're going to make me drop all of these papers!"

The first-year frowned at him.

Bending down, he was beginning to pick up the pieces of paper, giving Yuki a look that was silently thanking him for his help - while Yasuko was debating with herself if she should help. Though, judging from how difficult it was to move in these garments, she wasn't exactly doing much. "I know!" her brother grinned at Yuki as he continued to take the papers from the ground. "But wouldn't it be way more fun to just make as many wishes as we can make? Writing every single wish that you want granted, and put them all on the tree! Besides." He pointed over to said tree, a wide smile on his face. "There isn't that many wishes on the tree yet! Don't you want to see it all colourful, the papers waving in the breeze, as the night goes on?"

"Wouldn't you be taking up space for other wishers?" Yasuko interjected, a raised eyebrow. She had given up trying to pick up any papers at all, and was standing as she watched them do so.

"Come on, the tree is huge!" he said, as he straightened up. He gladly took the papers back from Yuki, completely ignoring Yasuko afterwards. "Yes let's! What are the two of you going to wish for?"


Calli would have started rambling about Yasuo, if not for seeing Kanpa being annoyed. "Don't worry Kanpa! I'll totally read your story when it comes out!" she said, a determined look upon her features. And to see all of Yuki's drawings! He was so good at it! "And like - I'll totally talk to Yasuko about the whole swapping thing!" She wanted to do that one so badly!

[Yukiya]

"Ahaha...'m sure you know her a lot more than I do," he said. He smiled a bit sheepishly at this while helping the older boy pick up the papers. He dusted some so that it wouldn't be too dirty when they wrote. "Maybe she's more like a rose then? They're really sturdy. Oh, and the thorns. She's very sharp, you know!"

He looked back a few times to avoid Yasuko's wrath, but the yukata was in the way, to his relief.

After he picked up enough papers, he gave them to Yuki. He still though that it was a little greedy, considering a lot of people probably hadn't come to the tree yet. But his enthusiasm was a bit infectious, and he ended up accepting some papers from the guy.

"Wish, huh," he said. He had a few ideas. "Mainly for my parents' restaurant to keep growing and for my sister to be a famous dancer. ...uh wait! Pretend you didn't hear that. It might not come true..." he said, facing away from the siblings. Although he wrote that, he also scribbled something else on a second piece of paper, and put it under his first wish. But he still had some extra paper, when he thought of something, and turned back. "Wait...why don't we make one wish together? That'd be cool, right?"

"R...Really? Calli, you are the greatest person in the world! May glory shine upon your path!" he shouted, twirling around her. "You'll see them all! ...although, I might have to sneak a few from Yukiya-dono again...but it's okay! I'm sure Yasuko-dono's story is amazing! ...you wouldn't happen to know anything about her stories, would you?" He used the big puppies eyes technique on her, but was that really necessary?

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

"Rose?" Yasuo repeated - before his eyes grew wide and an amused grin spread across his face. "A rose is the perfect description! A beautifully layered flower, but has prickly thorns, so you can't get too near! Lovely to admire from afar...but woe befall you if you get too close, for the thorns shall hurt you!" It was clear that her brother was having way too much fun going on about this. "Oh but then again, maybe a cuter flower variant might be better - after all, Yasuko is an adorable little thing, isn't she?"

"I'm right here you two," Yasuko scowled at them, her fingers twitching as she held her pouch close. Her brother simply ignored her as they walked to the bench.

As the two of them began writing their wishes, Yasuko simply stared at the empty piece of paper. Now that they were sitting here, she...honestly didn't know what to wish for. Wish for good times in Faberge? Wish for her career? Wish for the school? For the whole of Seiyo? For...Miuna? Her pen was hovering in the air, its tip just centimeters away from the paper, before the girl sighed and laid it back down on her lap. Everything she thought of just sounded far too superficial to write a wish about. What can a wishing tree do anyway? At least Yukiya had proper wishes...wait, he said something about his sister? Yasuo nodded as the other talked about his wishes, grinning wildly when he got to his own sister, though it seemed to falter slightly at his words. "Why do you think it wouldn't come true?" he said. "And why are none of your wishes about you?"

"One wish together?" her brother repeated - and his eyes shone, nodding enthusiastically. "Let's do that! That sounds like fun! Come on Yasuko, let's do that!"

"What?" the first-year said in disbelief. Okay sure, she didn't have any wishes to write about, but making a single wish together? Ugh. "That sounds way too childish!" she cried.

"Come on Yasuko!" Yasuo said, grinning as he held up a piece of paper. "A shared wish sounds like fun! Besides, you haven't thought of an individual wish for yourself, right?"

"I-" Curse him and his keenly observant abilities! Yasuo simply grinned knowingly. "Come on! Who knows, maybe a shared wish has more chances of being granted, since it was made by multiple people! And it might give you some ideas." Yasuko glared at him as he laughed. "What kind of wish do you two wanna make?"

"Really?!" Calli said, her eyes sparkling with excitement. More of Yukiya's drawings! That sounded way awesome! "Oh oh, maybe Yukiya could try drawing me or Yasuko? Oh but wait, Yasuko may not like to be drawn..." She frowned a little, tilting her head to the side. But at the mention of Yasuko's own stories, Calli turned back to him with big blue eyes, shining with enthusiasm. "I know a little!" she said, beaming. "I mean, she hasn't really decided on what kind of topic to really write a book about yet - she wants to be a fantasy writer you know, and have like these long series of books where people would like to buy them!" She said, making a motion with her hands as if indicating a long line of books. "But she loves worldbuilding! You know, writing a world and it's concepts and all that!"

[Yukiya]

"Ah yeah. Gotta handle those thorns with care. But I think she's starting to mature out of the cute stage, don't you think? A rose is perfect for her, " he said, laughing with him. Although Yasuko's irritated remark silenced him. He still had flashbacks about her smacking him in the face when they first met.

He just laughed nervously when Yasuo asked why none of his wishes are for himself. "Ah, bro...you heard that if you say a wish out loud, it doesn't come true, right? Or is that just for shooting stars..." he said, but just shrugged it off. "And as for me, I don't have any wishes. I live in the present where I meet cute idols and have fun everyday! So I bring wishes for other people instead!."

Pulling out another paper, he put it between the three of them. "It's not childish. We can wish for world peace of something like that? Or maybe...for people like Yasuko-san to succeed in their dreams! Doesn't that sound cool! If everyone could succeed in their dreams, then...maybe people would be happier. Or something like that," he said. "What do you think?"

In the meanwhile, Kanpa rubbed his chin as Calli described Yasuko's stories. "Ohoho! That sounds like the kind of stories Yukiya-dono and I like too. Epic tales of heroes facing dragons and other bad guys in caves and oceans and stuff! You hear about these all the time where I'm from," he said, nodding vigorously, "But he should draw you! Draw more! Draw Yasuko-dono when she isn't looking!" he said, laughing loudly, "Anything to make Yukiya-dono be like he used to be!"

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

"Well!" Yasuo seemed to pause there, furrowing his eyebrows a little. He did have a point. In a way. He frowned back at him, scanning the boy from head to toe, as if he didn't believe his words. But he said not a word then, only looking at him in a rather intense manner. He soon broke it off however, as the boy pulled out another piece of paper.

Yasuko only narrowed her eyes suspiciously at him when Yukiya suggested to make a wish for her ('What are you thinking, Yukiya...' was all she thought as she shot him a dirty look), but her brother found it incredibly amusing instead. "Yes!" Yasuo laughed. "I like that idea! Wishing for people to have their dreams granted is a really cool thing! But!" The boy grinned mischievously back at Yukiya. "You gotta write down your dreams too! I don't believe that you don't have any of your own!" He winked back at the second-year. "And besides, it ain't fair that the both of us write down our dreams but you don't!"

"Really?!" Calli said, clasping her hands together tight as her eyes sparkled with excitement. To think, Kanpa and Yukiya were going to write stories that were really similar to Yasuko's too! What luck! They could totally help each other out then! "That's way awesome! That means Yukiya and Yasuko could totally work together to make something! Or you know, they could even just assist each other in some way; I mean who cares what it is, as long as they help each other yeah?" But she soon paused, tilting her head in a confused manner. Huh? "What do you mean to make him like he used to be...?"

[Yukiya]

Ahaha...Yuki bet that Yasuo didn't want his sister to grow up, by the way Yasuo was looking at him. Which he understood completely! He didn't want Suna to grow up...well, okay she grew up faster than he did. But she still had her cute moments!

In the meanwhile, he just smiled back at him. "Eh? My own dreams?" He just shrugged it off. He rubbed the wish he already wrote down, exposing the second sheet paper a little. He thought of what he wrote down on that page.

<I wish I could look forward to the future.>

"Don't worry about it!" he said, hiding both his wishes behind him, before starting the joint wish. "I'll write the first part, Yasuko-san can write the second part, and bro can write the last part." He already started writing, before passing it on to the other two.

"Yes...that's perfect! I feel my blood boiling! My heart soaring! With their powers combined they can make the ultimate story! And there Kanpa want, flying high up in the sky, before going back down. "I want this to happen! For Yukiya-dono's sake!"

He started dancing around again, except Calli asked him about what he said earlier. He looked downward and sighed a bit. "Ah, well. This is before I came here, but I found Yukiya-dono's notes on the story he was writing. You could feel his passion! He wanted to create a world like the stuff he saw in shonen manga! And he used to talk about his manga all the time!... apparently. I heard his mom and his sister talk about it once. But now he doesn't even bring it up at all! Did you know I was even the main character too! That's why it's my story!" he exclaimed, beating his chest. "But you know, the fact that it's my story isn't really important. It's just that he quit and doesn't know what to do with his life! I can't stand it! His heart is truly in creating manga!" The usually energetic Kanpa had to take a breath. "...we're here because our egg bearers wished for us, right? Since I'm here...that means...he wants to change, right?"

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

Yasuo seemed to still stare intensely at him, looking at him up and down. There was a flicker of his eyes over at the pieces of paper in the other boy's hands - before he seemed to give a bemused smile. "Alright!" he said, holding his hands up as if in mock defeat. Yasuko simply stared in a confused manner at him. Whatever was he trying to do?

But she was soon handed the piece of paper - and she blinked, staring at it. How should she continue? Then again, they already agreed on what exactly to write. And Yasuo was giving her this smile that she absolutely hated. There was no way she was going to argue her way out if Yasuo was giving her that look. Fine. Quickly, she scribbled onto the piece of paper as fast as she could, before handing it over to her brother in a huff. Yasuo simply took it with a grin, before writing the next part of the wish. "Done!" he said, holding the paper up in triumph. Jumping to his feet, he soon looked at the two of them. "Come on, why don't we go and put the wishes on? Yasuko can think of her single wish later." He grinned at her. Yasuko only scowled at him.

Kanpa's excited nature was making Calli ever more excited too! She clasped her hands together, her eyes shining bright. "Yes yes!" she said, nodding enthusiastically. "I'll totally ask Yasuko! I'll convince her, just you wait!" Or at least, she hoped so - but she didn't want to dampen the other's spirits! Besides, teamworking would help Yasuko too!

But she paused as the other stopped dancing, and began to look a little dejected. Oh man, did she say something wrong? She flew up to him with furrowed eyebrows, concern in her blue eyes. And stayed where she was as she listened to him. "Ah well..." she began, though it sounded as if she wasn't entirely sure about it herself. She looked back down too, twiddling her thumbs as she did so. "I think so," she finally said - before she perked her head up and turned to Kanpa with a determined look on her face. "Yes! I think so!" she said once again, her eyes sparkling. "If we're here, that means our owners wished hard enough to change. Even...even if they aren't so into it yet, the fact that we're here means something." That was what Calli wanted to believe. Daichi said the same too, so there must be some truth to it! "I'm sure one day Yukiya will understand! Just like...Yasuko too! So don't give up Kanpa! I'm sure one day we'll all be reading your story, all the way to the end!"

[Yukiya]

To his relief, the joint wish distracted both siblings for a while. He checked his phone in the meanwhile - it looked like his family would be going to the wishing tree pretty soon before watching the fireworks and going home. He texted that he was already making a wish, and he'd meet them there.

"All right!" he shouted, jumping up once the two finished writing their joint wish. "Yup, yup. Let's hang those wishes up."

He rushed ahead, not realizing he dropped one of his wishes on the ground. Specifically, his own wish.

Kanpa was still a little distressed, but Calli's attitude brightened him up very easily. "So even you have trouble with Yasuko-dono, too. I think we have a lot in common! So I think we should officially join forces!
He stuck out his hand, and gave her a thumbs up. "After all, they must really want to change! So, we have to get them there! We have to make sure their wishes and dreams come true! And then Yasuko-dono's story and Yukiya-dono's story will be out there for everyone to enjoy! Now come on!" he exclaimed, holding up his many wishes. "Come on! Let's put these up too!"

And he rushed ahead, just like Yukiya did.

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

"Yes, let's go!" Yasuo cried, pumping a fist into the air, before rushing off after Yukiya too. But Yasuko faltered behind; honestly curse her yukata, it was making her much too slow for her liking. "Guys-" she called out, but they went up so fast. She sighed, before noticing some papers flew out of Yukiya's hand.

"Hey you dropped this-" Yasuko tried to call after them, but they seemed to be far more excited than she was, already so close to the tree. She sighed, before she lifted the piece of paper - and stopped in her tracks. This...this didn't seem to be her brother's writing. So it must be...Yukiya's? I wish to could look forward to the future. She stared, blinking slowly, as if she couldn't believe her eyes. Yukiya...wanted to do that? This flirty lazy mess of a guy wanted to wish to change himself? It was startling to her, to say the least, and she didn't know what to think about it.

She furrowed her eyebrows, lowering her hand a little.

To think that someone like Yukiya actually wanted to change in some way. Even though it was still a wish on a piece of paper, the fact that he still penned it down meant a part of him wanted it. That if he could show it physically like that, it showed that some part of him was strong enough, determined enough to do it.

Somehow, it made her feel rather inferior.

"Officially join forces?!" Calli repeated, before squealing to high heaven, her eyes sparkling. Whether or not she truly appreciated what Kanpa meant was unclear, but she was definitely excited by the idea of working together. They were like teammates! Or comrades! All striving for the exact same goal! It was all so very fun! And so exciting! "Yes yes!" she cried, nodding ever more vigorously the more Kanpa talked. Oh how she would love it to see them all succeed! To read Yukiya's story! To watch him draw! To see Yasuko being a bit more confident in her works for once. "Yes! Let's put them up!" She said, shooting a hand in the air to show her enthusiasm.

She rushed forward too, completely taken she was in his enthusiasm, after Kanpa, wanting to help out with hanging up the wishes! Kanpa had so many; he would surely need help! She wanted to plant one righttttt at the very top! Just because it sounded like fun!

[Yukiya]

Yuki was already at the tree, ready to put up his wishes. It looked like Yasuo already caught up, and...was that Kanpa and Calli on the top of the tree? What if someone saw floating wishes being tied up there? Then again it was so crowded that most people probably wouldn't be looking up. As he got ready to tie up his wish, he only found one of the wishes he wrote. Where was the other one? The one in his hand was the one with his family. He quickly tied that up, before going back for the other one. It probably slipped on the way there, right?

Was it a sign that it wasn't supposed to come true?

He laughed a bit. He could believe that. He was just gonna turn back, when he realized that he hadn't seen Yasuko catch up to them, and right when he turned back he saw her holding something. Huh? Did she write up her own wish after all? He weaved through the crowd and caught up to her.

"Hey, what's this?" he asked. He took a better look at the paper in her hand, when he recognized the color , and then his own handwriting on the wish. It was as if time froze at that second, almost like a movie, and the only thing he could hear was his heartbeat.

He took a few seconds to recover. But he stood in front of her, and pointed at the wish.

"Do you mind...if I have that back?" he ended up saying. He meant to say something a little more demanding, but it just didn't come to him. He couldn't even find it in him to say anything else. It's not like the wish itself really said anything about him, but a part of him thought it sounded pathetic. Most people could look forward to the future, couldn't they?

In the meanwhile, Kanpa finished tying up a wish with Calli. "This ribbon is a symbol of our FRIENDSHIP! And our DREAMS! And the wishes of our friends! Don't you think? he asked her, grabbing another ribbon to tie another wish. "Come on tree! Please make these come true! HYAAAA!" he said, except, well, a wish or two went flying in the air. Kanpa gasped and flew after the extra wishes. "Agh! Come on! Don't fly away from meeeeee!"

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

"Huh?" Yasuko hadn't realised that the boy had returned, and was now looking at the wish in her hand. Well, it was his wish to begin with, so technically she was intruding on it. Judging from the sudden stop in the boy's tracks, that she wasn't supposed to see that. And well, now she had made it all awkward.

But the girl simply stared at him as he requested for his wish, his finger pointing at the colourful piece of paper. She blinked once, before she lowered her head, her gaze onto the paper in her hand - yet her eyes were unfocused, as if she wasn't really looking at it. I wish I could look forward to the future. If Yukiya - the lazy ass of a boy who claimed he entered Faberge only for his sister - could write something like that, then what about her? Wasn't she supposed to be a decisive person, a determined girl and one who strived for her goals until the very end?

She paused, saying not a word, stretching the silence between them even further.

Finally, slowly, she extended her hand, allowing Yukiya to retrieve his wish. She did that wordlessly, not at all looking at the boy, as she handed his wish over. But then finally, she spoke softly. "It's a good wish," she said, her eyes still on the coloured paper in her hand.

Could she do the same thing too?

To write a wish like that?

Meanwhile, up high in the tree, Calli was beyond herself squealing with absolute excitement. Gosh, Kanpa had the most inspiring way of going about things! She loved it! She loved it all! "Friendship!" she cried, pumping a fist into the air enthusiastically. "Yes yes yes!!" she kept saying over and over again, her big blue eyes shining as the other continued to talk. But the wind blew some of wishes away! Oh no! In panic, the brunette fairy flew after them too, her hands outstretched as she tried her best to catch one.

[Yukiya]

He was trembling. He really just wanted to snatch the damn wish away from her, and hope she'd forget that she'd ever read that, but how could he do that without hurting her accidentally? Thoughts flowed into his head. He was hopeless, he was always gonna be this aimless kid who could never grow up or decide what to do, he would never be happy, he was pathetic and wasn't good as he thought he was, even back when he so enthusiastically loved drawing and making stories. His wish was supposed to be for him and him alone, and he hated that she saw any side of the emptiness that he tried so hard to hide. She wasn't even that close to him!

He could feel his fist balling up, just trying so hard to calm the hell down. His breath seemed a little ragged already. It was just a wish? Why was he acting so crazy about a piece of paper? He was supposed to be the laid back guy that people didn't care too much about. He wanted to keep it that way.

He was about to turn around just so he wasn't showing all of this to Yasuko, but her hand moved. She was trying to give the wish back. He put his thumb and index finger on the paper to pull it from her hand, but she kept looking at the wish. Was she...trying to read more into it? Or maybe she was spacing out? He really hoped it was the last one, but she looked so concentrated that it spooked him and he tried to pull out the wish as fast as possible.

But then she finally spoke.

"Huh?" he said. A good wish? He took a look at the wish again, just to see if somehow he wrote something different or if this was a different wish after all. But no, it was still the same thing he wrote earlier. But the way she said it, as if she was somewhat entranced by it...

Did she...feel connected to it?

And why did he feel so happy about that?

He quickly shook his head and turned away from her, taking the wish with him. He was probably reading this all wrong. But she did say that it was a good wish, so she was thinking about that, and...the more he thought about it, the more confused he was, so much that he just stammered away from her, but not so fast that she couldn't catch up to him even with her restrictive yukata. If he didn't get there fast enough, Yasuo might scold them both.

Kanpa on the other hand, was way too busy catching wishes flying around the air with Calli's help. She was able to get one, and Kanpa got another one, and one was flying right in front of him! He stretched and stretched to get it, but it just kept flying right in front of him, just out of rich.

"Oh, come on! This is for Yukiya-dono's sake! Let me REACH!" he said, trying to stretch closer and closer to it, unaware that he was right under Yuki and Yasuko at the time...

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

Yasuko gave no further words on it, instead her eyes still fixated on the piece of paper in his hand - yet it didn't seem like she was really focused on it either. In fact, she only tore her eyes away once Yukiya himself turned his back towards her; blinking as she watched the other walked away in a nervous manner. Almost like a cartoon character. The first-year stood there for just a while, as if she was gathering her thoughts, before finally stepping forward to follow after the boy.

As Calli grabbed hold of one of the wishes, her face brightened and she waved the paper out towards the white-haired hero. "Kanpa, Kanpa, I got one!" she yelled, but the other Guardian Character was busy flying after another paper! She had to help! Clutching tight on the wish that she just saved, she flew behind Kanpa, cheering him on as she went along. "You can do it Kanpa! You can do it!"

That is, till the wish floated right in front of Yasuko - and instinctively the girl raised a hand to catch it. "Huh?" she voiced, staring at it; before noticing the two fairies flying towards her. "...Is this yours?"

[Yukiya]

"Good! Please help me get that last wish, Calli!" he shouted, but it looked like it was only far enough for him to reach. And he would've caught it - expect Yasuko caught it herself. He had to slow himself down to avoid crashing into her. Once he did, he back tracked and looked at the wish that she grabbed. Which wish was this again?

"Mm, yeah! The wind just blew it away, and...huh?" he said. Now that he looked at it closely, the whole wish was blank. He did all this for something he didn't write on? He sighed. "Ahh, I messed up. But Calli and I got the other wishes, anyway. I guess that paper's for you, Yasuko-dono! Now, Calli! Let's continue our mission! Tie! Those! WISHES!"

With that, Kanpa rushed up toward the top of the tree.

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Yuki had walked up close to the tree, trying to look for Yasuo. He thought Yasuko was right behind him, but apparently, no she was still back there. Was the yukata really stopping her from walking fast enough? Even though he was still a bit frazzled from a little earlier, he still wanted to put up a wish, even if it wasn't her own. Maybe Yasuo didn't put up the joint wish yet?

"Yasuko-san!" he shouted. Where was she? "Where are you?"

[Yasuko Kobayashi]

Yasuko stared in confusion at the two sprites before her; and she shot them a questioning look, one that said What in the world are you doing? Calli only blinked, holding the wish she caught tight in her arms, as she clutched it close to her chest. She mustn't let it go! But the Guardian Character wasn't sure what to think, to see her human holding one of Kanpa's wishes in her hand. Would she take it well, or would she not? That is, till the white-haired fairy exclaimed that it was an empty piece of paper! "Oh!" was her response to Kanpa, before beaming back at him, nodding enthusiastically at his suggestion. "Yes!!" she cried, pumping a fist into the air. Before she was soon gone with the other Guardian Character, seemingly not addressing the first-year at all.

And Yasuko simply blinked, puzzled she was by the exchange.

She gave a sigh. Well, weren't these sprites as excited as ever. But she soon paused, raising the wishing paper so that she could take a look at it. An empty piece of paper huh...? Now that she thought about it, she still had the black pen that her brother had given her to write a wish down. She stared at the paper once again, frowning slightly.

Should she write one down?

A particular wish flashed in her mind.

The call of her name however, broke her out of her reverie and she looked up to see Yukiya yelling and Yasuo looking around frantically amongst the sea of people. Oh whoops. She lowered her free hand to grasp a little of the bottom part of her yukata, so that she wouldn't trip. Walking slowly, she soon managed to reach the tree - where her brother suddenly grabbed her into a bear hug. "Yasukoooooooooo!" he cried, hugging her tight. He had spent so much time putting up his (numerous) wishes, that he hadn't ran off in time to look for her, instead entrusting Yukiya to do it when the boy sped down the hill.

Yasuko sighed once again. "Get off me," she deadpanned, though she didn't move to try and push him off. It took him a minute before Yasuo finally released his sister. "Well since you're here now," he said, smiling. "Let's put up the joint wish! Yukiya, help me find a good spot to put it in! Gotta be as highhhhhhhh as we could put it!" He grinned at the boy, pulling him towards the tree.

The first-year only watched them try to find whichever spot that they fancied, before bringing the paper back up to her face again. She stared at the unwritten paper in her hand, her eyebrows furrowing slightly as she gathered her thoughts, before she finally pulled the pen free from it's cap. The scratching sound of the marker on paper would alert the two boys nearby, but she was more concentrated on getting the wish down.

I wish to move on forwards, towards the future

It was silly, and she was certainly copying the other, but there was a power in it, as if she gained a sense of confidence from writing it down. It felt as if she was taking control of her life, and it gave her a sense of determination to try and make it happen. Even if it was rather minuscule in comparison to the things that have been happening in Seiyo. She shuffled on forwards, wanting only to put the wish up, thinking that the other two weren't paying attention, as she reached up and tied the wish to a low-hanging branch. As she lowered her arms, she couldn't help but stay there, watching the paper flutter in the breeze.

(Do you want to end it soon? ;v; )