A/N: sorry it's short..but it was just to get creative juices flowing. ;D

Tanabata:;

She stood at the water’s edge, dipping her feet into it. Soft, cool against her ankles, soothing to the soul as sayings go. Tanabata, was given the name of a Goddess, her mother claimed that they had descended from a God, therefore her precious daughter deserved a name that showed this. Tanabata however, disagreed. She felt as if she didn’t deserve this name. As her mind pondered these things, there was a rustling in the bushes. Tanabata turned about to see who it was. A young man stood there, handsome, solemn. He held her silken robe in one hand, the other draped loosely at his side. The man turned and ran, Tanabata chasing after him, furious, that he was stealing the robe her mother had left her. She chased him through the swamp and through a river, gaining on him. And when she reached him, he stopped and said, “My name is Arashi.” And he turned, walking away with her robe. Following him, Tanabata learned where he lived, and soon, she was visiting him every day, prying him for her robe, begging.

“Goddesses do not beg,” Tanabata’s mother’s voice chanted in her ear. “They find a way to retrieve what is lost.” Tanabata soon devised a plan to gain her robe.

“Arashi,” she said, coming to him, “Ai shite iru,” she whispers softly. Arashi glows. He smiles at her and asks her to be with him for an eternity. Tanabata is smug, the first step is complete, she only needs to find where he has hidden her robe. Tanabata slowly, despite what her original plans were, to fall in love with Arashi, in truth. Tanabata infuriated, hunts for her robe even more, searching for it.

One day, in Arashi’s room, she finds her robe hidden in the beams of his ceiling. She smiles and pulls the robe on, content. Arashi returns later to find that Tanabata had found her hidden robe. “If you truly love me,” she tells him, “You’d find me again. And if you do without help, then I shall come to you again.” And with that Tanabata leaves Arashi behind and returns to her home and father.

A year later, Arashi finds Tanabata again and declares his love for her. Tanabata’s father is unimpressed. Going to Arashi the father stands before his daughters love and speaks, “You will complete this task: take care of my watermelons for three days and three nights. If you do so, you shall have my blessing to live in peace with my daughter. But, if you eat one, even one malformed, or infected, there will be a terrible price.”

The first day, Arashi lounges in the sun, dreaming of his future with Tanabata. That night, he sleeps peacefully. The next day and night he continues his dream. On the third day he is starving, but does not eat anything. On the third night, he takes just one bite of the melon. Tanabata’s father catches him and tells Arashi, “You have broken the deal! You will never have my blessing!” Tanabata begs her father for Arashi’s forgiveness, but her father refuses and takes her away. Arashi searched and searched for her, but he never caught her trail. But every year Tanabata’s father brought her to visit Arashi for one day and one night only, to reunite and proclaim their love. Then once again, they would be separated. And so it continues for an eternity.