Kyuden Shika

"Then stay a time," Nesshin says, "and perhaps I can show you some of the better sights.

"But all lands differ; surely your own are beautiful? They must be," he adds, "to have you be from them."

"You flatter this one." She nodded. "Yet what may be common for someone, it is new to many that are yet to explore." She smiled. "Beauty is in the eye of those who see and can discern what they want to see as beautiful."

"You're right, of course," Nesshin replies, nodding. "Though I'd point out that some make finding beauty easier than others.

"I'd note, too," he continues, "that the exploration's quite a pleasure. Have you explored widely, perchance? Or would you like to?"

"True..." She looked at the stirring sky and smiled. "Like those clouds some may think that it is quite an ugly sky yet in the stirring the clouds show a different aspect of beauty." The Kaito gave it some thought. "What do you think?"

Nesshin casts his eyes heavenward.

"Some might remark on casting a cloak over jewels," he says, "but rain promotes growth, and there is a certain soothing in the sound of a gentle rainfall. Too, even in a storm, there is power and glory, and that, too, is beautiful.

"But I say so to someone who knows beauty well, I think."

The Kaito smiled. "Ah...yes the light rain that refreshes the land and make colorful rainbows in the sky." I want to dance but...I shouldn't in this terrain. "Have you danced in under the rain Shika sama?"

"At times," Nesshin replies. "And under the clouds, as well."

He smiles at her in reply. "Are you asking me to dance with you, Kaito-sama?"

Eeep... "Anooo.... etoooo... anooo... Maybe..." she was flushed and became somewhat bashful. "That is if you so wish sama... I do not wish to impose."

Nesshin stands, approaches her.

"For you," he says, "it is no imposition. What dance will we dance?"

Too close, too close... She took a deep breath to center herself. "Anooo... etooo... do you know the water dragon dance?"