“Ohayogozaimasu!!come on Aiko you have to get to the farm!!!”My brother Akiyo said.
“Chotto Matte !!!” I said from my room.
I slowly walked to the dining hall. I looked at the glass and saw me
but it didn’t really look like me. I usually had long straight black
hair and black eyes, but what I look know was nothing like it. It was a
really exhausted face that had a black line right under my eyes. I was
up all night looking at the stars and thinking there is something
mysterious out there and that someday I will want to see it through my
own eyes.
“Ohayo gozaimasu” my mom said as I sit down.
“Ohayo gozaimasu kaasan”I said to my mom.
After I sat down my dad came and told me to get to the farm quickly
after I eat breakfast. I already knew what I was supposed to do I
wasn't really listening to him.
A few minutes later I
finished my breakfast and I went out to feed my favorite dog Hana. I
played with her for a while then we headed off to the farm.
Right.....let me introduce myself. Watashi no namae wa Aiko desu. Wait a minute..... English. My name is Aiko and I’m 12 years old. My story is an adventure and really thrilling too. Well this is how it
started.
I was going to harvest rice and the farm was huge. I always felt that I
was alone so I always had my dog, Hana. Hana is and always will be my
best friend and that day was going to be the most exciting and
terrifying day of our lives. Before we left the house I had a nausea
feeling in my stomach but I thought it was just that I just finished
breakfast and I ran around with Hana. Then in the farm the rice plants
started to shake and I thought that it was an earthquake that I was use
to. Then from nowhere a hand reached over the bushes and everything
went pitch black. I couldn’t see anything and that I thought I will
never going to see the outside world again. But then…..
A few hours later I woke up a dogs tongue on my cheeks.
“Hana!!! I thought that I would never see you
again…………Where are we????” I said to
my self.
I looked out the window and saw the most amazing sight I ever seen. I
saw walls made of marbles. The most amazing pictures of the world
carved in the marble. A temple was there and was as tall as the sky. A
huge statue stood inside it. The building next to it is also a temple
with statues of women as support for the whole building. Nowhere in the
world had I ever seen anything like this. Over the temples were
mountains filled with green plants. And there was the market place. The
people were selling food. The people were wearing very colorful robes. The
market place was filled with people and food. The whole sight of it is
incredible. Suddenly I was pushed out the wagon and fell on the ground.
I rubbed my legs and started to walk. I tried to talk to people around
me but no one could understand.
”Sumimasen, can you help me please?” I tried to tell them.
Then
Hana was not there AGAIN, I screamed her name and she was not there.
Then I saw her playing with a girl my age like she always did in my
village. I went closer and recognized that the kid was Japanese just
like me.
“ Hi! My name is Aiko, nice to meet you…” I said trying to become friends.
“Hey, my name is Hoshi as in star. How did you get here?” Hoshi said.
“It’s a really long story”
“Oh, okay, well I still want to know so tell me the story while we walk to my house.”
“Really? I can come to your house?”
“Yes, let’s go!”
Hoshi
was about my height, black hair and very traditional Japanese eyes. She
took me along with Hana to their home. Her parents were so generous
that they let me stay in their house. At dinner they told me their
story and how they got there and the assured me that those people were
going back and will take my parents here so I had something good to
think about. The frightening thing was that Hoshi was also captured in
the farm and that she had a dog called Hachi and she was outside by the
tree. At night she always slept in the temples and hoped something good
would happen. The next day her family came and found her. As I took
Hana to sleep with Hachi I admired the sight of the outside world and
not being in Japan, but I missed my parents.
At night I was the only one awake and that I was just looking out of
the window and just seeing this spectacular view. How the moon had
shone on the city and that the whole city was silent. The temples,
building, and statues looked magnificent. The moon reflected off the
marbles and the changes of colors on the stone. It felt that the sun
would never come up; the night was too long but in a few hours I fell
asleep. The next day Hoshi took me around the market place and there
was a big crowd and Hoshi and I took a look. There it was a man that
Hoshi says is the wisest man in the whole world. He questions
everything and only he knows the answer and this man was Socrates. We
listened, well I didn’t understand but Hoshi did.
Socrates had a beard and he looked kind of weird. I tried to understand what he said but I always got lost.
“Aiko,
he’s saying that is there really anything like gods and that gods don’t
make rain and sunshine, but really I don’t really get it…” Hoshi said
“Well it’s just his opinion; I mean you don’t know if gods make rain…” I said
“Are you as wise as him?”
“Me? No….”
Then
we started to get bored so we walked down the abandoned street. Then
when we started to go to the big road we met a really cute boy.
“Hi, my name is
Hercules what about you?” he said.
I was really surprised when I heard him speak Japanese. WOW….
“My name is Aiko and this is Hoshi” I said.
From nowhere there was a whole conversation about Japan, Greece,
adventures and a lot more. Hercules was amazing. His brown eyes and
brown, silky, short hair just blow me off my feet. He was the sweetest
guy I ever talked to.
From
that day on while I wait for my family I would just sit down under the
warmth of the sun or the shine and the magnificent light from the moon
and star. While I sit I would talk about everything to Hercules and
Hoshi. We are the best of friends.
