One By Millions

chapter 3

"Shino! "

The sound of her name being called alerted the four year old. She looked towards her clock to read the time. Was it already three pm? It appeared so. Her parents must be back then. She looked down at the floor admiring the work she had done. She had been playing with her legos for the last hour and successfully built a mini city. The city covered the entirety of her floor so she would have to carefully navigate her way towards her door. Or she could just not touch the floor at all. She looked around her room. There was enough for her to move around on. With an excited grin she climbed onto the second bunk of her bed. From there she climbed onto her wardrobe and descended  upon her dresser. From there it was a small jump onto her toy chest and she was at the door. It was a lot less harder than she thought. Oh well.

Now out of her bedroom she made her way down the hall and towards the stairs. Once there she stared at the endless amount of stairs. She didn't understand why there needed to be so much. Why do mansions always have so many stairs? Couldn't they have installed an elevator? It would have been a lot more convenient.

Shino was not trudging down those stairs. Her legs were tiny and it would take forever. Instead she climbed onto the railing and glided down effortlessly. It was something she did often and had become an expert. The first time around she landed flat on her face. Now she could gracefully land on her feet.

After having conquered the stairs she made a bee line for the living room where she had heard the call from.

In the living room stood five familiar figures. Four adults and one young boy her age. She smiled upon seeing them.

"Hello uncle Toshinori, aunt Emiko" she greeted the adults and turned towards the strawberry blonde boy who has a huge grin on his face. "What's up Sora? "

"The sky"

"You had to didn't you? "

"Yes. Yes I did dear friend of mind"

Shino sighed and turned away from her long time friend. He can be a complete idiot despite the working head on his shoulders.

"Welcome back mom and dad"

"It's good to be back, what were you up to Hiro? I bet you never even left your room"

Shino laughed sheepishly. Her father was right. She never once stepped foot out of her room until that very moment.

"I built a city"

"Whoa really? How big is it? "

"Huge. It covers my entire bedroom floor"

"You gotta show me"

"I will only if you promise not to reck it"

The last time she had graced him with one of her inventions he had broken it. He didn't have an ounce of remorse for doing so.

"I won't. I promise"

Shino stared into those green eyes for some time. She tried to locate any trace of deception. But found none.

"I'll believe you for now" she sighed. "Anyways what  are you three doing here if you dont mind me asking? "

"Well young Shino there is some hero business  we need to discuss and your parents suggested meeting at their lovely home" the bulky blonde explained very loudly and energetically.

"We figured since we'll  be coming over we might as well bring Sora with us so you two can catch up" the red headed female said with a kind smile.

"Oh, OK. Is anyone else coming over? "

"Yes, they should be here any time now" just as Nico said that the sound of the doorbell could be heard.