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New to Heartshrine- Kantsumiki festival part 3

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It's growing dark now. A beautiful sunset. The sky fades smoothly from light blue high in the sky, through an array of yellows and reds, and finally cascading into a deep purple. The air is cool and the streets are beginning to glow as the paper lanterns that line the roads are gradually lighting up. Children are running around with sparklers, cheering and laughing… I love this! I can hear music now growing louder, guess I'm almost at the center of the village…

"Oh wow!"

I couldn't keep that one in my head… It's so lit up! Candles and lanterns everywhere, the dancefloor is quite large and lined with spotlights that were all aimed at a large pink banner hung high above the dancfloor that brandished a very detailed ink portrait of the village symbol. On the other side of the dancefloor… I think I'm about to cry… a buffet table the length of a mansion! Oh hallelujah! Pork bar-b-que!  Sushi! Buckets of ramen! Cocktail weenies! Punch! Oh nevermind someone spiked the punch… I can smell the liquor from here… Shrimp puffs, spicy stuff, hell I just can't get enough! I'm gonna be so bloated that they'll need to expand this friekin dancefloor! Haha!

By now more people had begun to poor onto the dancefloor and were socializing… I've got a clear path however to those cocktail weenies and I do intend to partake… Off I go. Bob, weeve, jip, jive… That buffet will be mine! 50 feet, 40 feet, 30 feet, 20 feet… Oh god! Out of no where comes some huge laughing drunk guy. He backed into me as he was doing some odd wavy-arms dance…

"The hell you think you're doin?!?" He shouted with a mouth still full of booze. So I guess it was something more like… "tou heru tinkss you dooooin?!?" Kinda funny actually...
"Sorry man I was just passing by…" I started to say, I like to try and be civil but he simply interrupted me with more booze-driven babbling… Allow me to translate to make things easier… I'll also sensor it cause I'm just a nice guy like that… Wait, I'm sensoring my own thoughts… Oh well…

Anyway he said "I was trying to show my friends here this dance that I learned from a group of traveling geishas…" He stood up and puffed his chest out, getting real close to me and looking me dead in the eyes. The liquor fumes were almost toxic on this guy but the terrifying part was he towered like three feet above me and he was looking down at me. Everyone has a 'fight or flight' instinct and I suppose my body chose to fight, cause I would not, or could not move. He continued with "I'm trying to have a good time here, and little punks like you have to come along and ruin it! What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Well, um, I don't see how….." I stuttered…

"Wrong answer!" He picked me up by the neck with one of his giant sausage hands and lifted me off the ground up to his eye-level. I grabbed what I think anatomically would've been his wrist (his arms were shockingly thick) and pulled up to keep myself from being choked to death seeing as I was now three or so feet off the ground… He pulled me close to his face and growled… Kinda weird… And proceded to launch me clear across the dancefloor with one powerful throw. I'm pretty sure I felt a pulse of chakra come from his arm when he threw me so I figured he must be a veteran shinobi… Then I realized that I was hurtling over a large number of people... Everyone was moving out of the way because no one was sure where I would be landing… I was… I looked ahead and I saw standing right where I was heading was a girl. She wasn't facing me so she didn't know to move out of the way. I was really flying fast so if I shouted I don't think she would've heard in time… I twisted in the air to make sure my feet were ahead of me and I spun quick (like I was break dancing) to knock her legs out from beneath her, but catch her bridal-style before she could hit the ground. I slid, spinning, with this girl in my arms for about 30 feet then stopped when my back hit a support beam to the massive stage at the head of the dancefloor. With a cursory glance I could tell that this girl was about my age. Long, pretty, light-brown hair… And I couldn't see her face… She was wearing a mask like the one I had bought earlier today but hers was a fox mask with pink swirls on the cheeks… Cute… Crap, mine's not still on my head, oh nevermind it's on the ground to my right, ok. What else? Let's see she's wearing a short black dress with a black top, and a tan vest. She's still in a daze, but I'm glad she's neither hurt nor screaming… Oh ok she's turning her head up towards me (she had it buried in my chest before).

"Are you alright?" I asked with a grin.

"Erm um yes I'm fine," she said, clearly still gathering together what just happened, "do I know you?"

"Atsuo." I replied.

"Last name?" She asked.

"Not important." I said with a wink. I think by now she realized just what her situation was and she clumsily but quickly stood up… Guess she doesn't enjoy being held in the arms of a stranger.

"Ehhem… So um, where did you come from? One minute I'm standing here having a drink and waiting for my family, and the next you're flying out of nowhere and knocking me off my feet…" She said.

"So I knocked you off your feet?" I asked nonchalantly as I stood up.

"Haha not like that… But again where did you come from?" She asked again.

"Dragonscale vill…" I started.

"No I mean just now…" She interrupted.

"Oh, um, over there…" I pointed in the direction from whence I came, past this girl's spilled drink and right to where that large man was shoving a path towards me… Persistant bugger…

"YOU!!!" He shouted. "I'm not done with you yet!!!"

"My dear it seems as though I've inadvertantly gotten myself into quite an unfortunate situation here. I don't know you and you don't know me, but if you could do me a favor and hold my mask and my shirt while I handle this in as civil manner as possible." I said to the girl quickly as I took of my mask and flower shirt and handed both to her. I was now down to my shoes, shorts and black sleevless shirt… Not very well protected but much more comfortable.

"Why your shirt?" She asked as I started walking towards the man… People were really booking it to clear the dancefloor now.

"It's my favorite shirt and I don't want to dirty it up." I said with a wave, "and I promise you I'll get you a new drink after I'm done!"

"But if you fight, security forces will come. This is supposed to be a festival of peace and fun…" The girl shouted as the large man grew dangerously closer…

"This is a dancefloor is it not?" I called back to her but turned my attention back to the behemoth, "So let's dance!" Then I turned to the left side of the dancefloor where I noticed earlier a band had set up. "Hey you guys! Give me something… lively!"

The band members looked at eachother briefly and shrugged… Then they started playing a lively, fast-paced song which was heavy on sanshin and bass drum… Perfect…
part 3 of my Kantsumiki saga for Atsuo of :iconheartshrinevillage:

-behemoth guy has no name
-girl's name will be revealed in part 4 ;)
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