The knocking sound of wooden clogs echoed throughout the residential street that has been enveloped by the rays of the setting sun.
Clad in yukatas, men, women, the young and the old mingled among the crowd of people who are donning everyday clothes. They headed towards the shrine where the Summer Festival was being held with smiles on their faces. One of these people was a young girl wearing a pink colored yukata with floral prints on it. She looked around in the crowd. This is Momoi Satsuki who has her hair tied up in a pretty style. Unlike the people in the crowd, she was pouting with displeasure.
“Dai-chan, you’re walking too slowly!” “You’re damn annoying. It doesn’t matter if I’m a bit slow. Even if you rush, it’s not like it changes anything.” Momoi’s childhood friend, Aomine Daiki retorted, an annoyed look on his face, in response to the cause of Momoi’s displeasure. Aomine is also different from usual, wearing a navy colored yukata. “Also, shouldn’t you stop calling me Dai-chan already?” “Why? When I called you ‘Aomine-kun’, didn’t you say it was strange?” Momoi started calling Aomine ‘Aomine-kun’ after she entered Middle school. That was because she gets teased when she calls him ‘Dai-chan’, so she had no choice but to change her way of addressing him to ‘Aomine-kun’. But when it’s just the two of them, she would address the other party in the way she was used to. However, unbeknownst to Momoi, this only made Aomine more irritated. Even though Momoi rushed him with a “Hurry up!”, Aomine would just sigh without changing his pace. After Aomine dragged his footsteps until he is next to her, Momoi started walking next to him. “ Given that we hardly go out in Yukatas, of course anyone would want to enjoy the summer festival as much as possible right?” “I can still enjoy myself even if I’m dressed as per usual.” In response to Aomine’s retort, Momoi stubbornly said “That may be true but it’s more enjoyable wearing a yukata. And Granny specially made them for us too.” Momoi raised one of her sleeves and looked at it. The yukatas worn by her and Aomine were both tailored by her Granny. On the last day of the school term, also known as yesterday, Momoi went to her Granny’s house after school. It was because her Granny called her and told her to make a detour to her house. What her Granny passed to her was the Yukata she was wearing now. Seeing Momoi happily try the Yukata on, Her Granny also smiled* (^_^) as said “I prepared this too.” And handed Momoi another yukata. The navy colored men’s yukata was prepared for Aomine. Her Granny still remembered that every year, both of them would go to the Summer festival together.