[center][h1][color=Gold]Akio Tendou[/color][/h1][/center]

Akio nodded in agreement with Aoi's suggestion, confident she'd be able to enjoy the show even if it was going to be full of people . . . as long as they were in the front seats so that she didn't have to see the crowd. Speaking of, Akio was noticing more and more people crowding the streets, even a few in the roads. The greater number of people made her instinctively walk a bit closer to Aoi, and then she saw what she'd quickly presume to be the reason for all of this, The Great Tenzu Hall. Akio felt her stomach contort into knots as a sneaking suspicion enter her mind. [i]Oh god, please tell me this isn't where we're heading, please, please, please let me be wrong on this.[/i]

Sadly, however, that hope was dashed by Aoi's eager exclamation of the Film Festival, and while she hid it behind a slightly weakened smile, Akio was cursing every god she knew about, and even a few she just made up, in her mind a million times over. The crowds were getting really large, and she knew that going into this place was going to be a fucking nightmare. So when Aoi offered up the chance to just skip the whole thing and go somewhere else, her first instinct was to grab the clown girl and high tail it out of there. But she controlled the impulse, took a few calming breaths, then moved forward past Aoi towards the building, a somewhat strained smile on her face as she took the clown girl's hand in her own.

"I'll be fine," she said rather unconvincingly as a cold sweat had broken out over her face, and she'd taken to nervously licking her lips, her eyes flicking all over the place. " . . . okay, I'll last long enough for you to get your autograph at least. So, lets put your plan into action so we can get in there, yeah. Just promise me that after this we'll go to the park in Smalltown, okay?" Akio didn't want to be a burden and have Aoi possibly miss her chance of getting an autograph, plus she was going to have to deal with this fear sooner or later. She always trained by pushing her self to her limits and past them, this was no different . . . at least, that was what she was telling herself a million times in her head as she kept glancing at the all of the people around her. The closer they got to the crowds, the less leading Akio became, and the more she seemed to cling to Aoi. But she kept on a brave face through all of it, hopefully making her friend feel a bit better about the whole thing.

[@Savato]