Well...I've been gone a month, does this count as me "coming back"?
Name: Sakura Tsubasa (Sakura = Cherry Blossom; Tsubasa = Wing)
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Looks: like this and this, except her hair is slightly longer, to just past her shoulders. She's around 5'7" and her eyes are green. (In case you were wondering, no, I have not gotten over my obsession.) Using the GAC I got these two which are pretty close: Headphones and music and with her bag.
Personality: She's naturally always happy, very cheerful, so if she's not then there's something wrong with her. She's extremely loyal to her friends, loves to make new ones, and hates when something bad happens to them.
Relationships: ...eh. They'll come out.
Other: She has a strange fear of ghosts, though nobody really knows why.
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Sakura
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It's not really unusual to see a teenage girl in the mall on a school night. It's not even that unusual to see her in the arcade, even playing a little. But seeing her actively and earnestly playing a difficult game isn't that common. It's a rare sight to see her beating similarly-aged boys at the same game.
I'm one of those rare sights.
It might help that I play the drum set in real life, but finding that I can play DrumMania better than any guy who tries is still a bit of a shock to me. Must be my Japanese blood or something.
Of course, the real reason I like playing this particular game is not for the crowds of people who gather behind me when I play. I like it because I get to meet people who come and play with me on the GuitarFreaks machine that's linked to the DM machine. Tonight it happened to be two other girls: a really lively girl named Shonta, and a slightly (dare I say it?) goth-ish girl named Trish. I could tell Shonta was very musically inclined too, she just had a bit of trouble getting used to the game layout. Trish seemed to know her way around the guitar, but still wasn't expertly skilled.
"So, you like music?" I asked Shonta as I scanned through to pick the final (Extra Stage) song. Trish followed my song-selection on the other machine.
"Yeah," she said, "though I haven't heard any of these songs before."
"Not surprising, really," I said, "they're all Japanese." I stopped on Daikenkai (大見解 - by Des-ROW) and smiled. "Sound good?" I asked. Shonta nodded, Trish smiled, and we went playing again.
About two minutes later we finished, amid a slight torrent of applause. It was only then that I really noticed that it was starting to get late. "Hey, I gotta get home, and I live kinda far, almost right across from that skate park they built recently."
"You live near there?" Trish said. "No way, so do I! And…" she added, as we walked out the mall doors, "I know a shortcut!"
"Does it happen to go through that old construction site, the one they abandoned a couple years ago?" Shonta asked tentatively.
"Yes, how'd you know?" Trish asked, looking slightly deflated at having her 'brilliant shortcut' already known about.
"'Cause I came through there to get to the mall," Shonta answered "I live a few blocks down from that skate park…what's wrong Sakura?"
For when Shonta had mentioned the old construction site, I had started to get rigid and shaky. "I d-don't want to g-go through the c-c-construction site," I stuttered. "P-people say they've s-seen g-g-g-ghosts in there!"
I looked over to see the two of them looking at me funny, and I tried to hide my embarrassed blush. I was always afraid that the angered ghost of some guy who died during the construction or something would come and get me for walking over his grave. It's why I stayed out of graveyards except for when I was forced, though usually that was during the day anyway.
"I-I'm sorry," I apologized, "I'm just...kinda s-scared of g-ghosts..."
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Ahh, I think I still have it after more than a month. Sorry if I played any character wrong, or if we aren't actually going through a construction site like in the Animorph books.