I like nature and the forest and that's why I stayed here and annoyed Naive people who think they want to kill themselves. "
"How long have you been dead?"
"Mhh?" Tomoko had to think for a moment. "I think it's been two hundred and fifty-seven years this year. So why are you here if you don't want to kill yourself?"
Anna ignored her question and asked another one herself instead. "So do you know your way around the forest?"
"Of course! I know little about this forest in and out." she nodded hastily. "He is my home."
Itako nodded in understanding. "Did you notice a shaman who is supposed to be here?"
Tomoko began to shine. "Ah, I get it, so you're looking for someone. Is he your friend?"
"Just answer the question."
The black haired woman sighed resignedly. "Eating cherries is really not good with you. But tell me why should I help you when you are so mean to me? I could just disappear and you would never find me here again."
Anna knitted her eyebrows. "I couldn't remember asking you to stay around to give me a full chat."
Again Tomoko pulled a pouty mouth, but after it didn't provoke the slightest reaction from Anna, she shook her head. "How can you be as cold as you are?"
"Answer or leave." Anna gave her an ultimatum.
"Nobody can take that. No wonder that your friend is hiding here from you, I would have done the same in his place."
Anna's features softened barely noticeably. "So is he here?""A good looking man with long brown-red hair your age?"
"Yes, I'm looking for that." Anna nodded.
Tomoko flew up and back a little and then crossed his arms over his chest. "Yes, he's really here. I don't know what he actually wants here. When he arrived he simply burned a lot of ghosts. Not that I would be sorry for them, most of them were just annoying anyway, but not particularly nice of your friend . Keep everyone away from him and avoid him. "
"Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much?"
Tomoko started laughing. "Yes, my fiancé before he hung me. I was too loud for him. Not the right one for his children. The engagement would have been the worst idea of ​​his life. But since my parents were rich ..."
Anna rolled her eyes and cut her off. "Can you take me to him?"
"To Masao?" asked Tomoko astonished. "He's been dead for more than two centuries. What do you want him from ..."
"Not to your fiancée." the Itako uttered annoyed. "To the long haired ones you stay away from."
"I see." the black haired woman began to laugh. "Why didn't you tell them that right away?"
"Can you or not?"
"I could." the girl nodded. "The question is if I would too if you were so mean to me all the time."
Anna straightened her sleeping bag on which she had been sitting the whole time and then lay down in it, averted from the annoying ghost. "Go get out of here. I'll find him alone, too."
Tomoko didn't want to leave it like that and reappeared in front of Anna. "You really are a tough nut to crack. Itako no Anna. Well well, I'll make something to you. If you talk to me a little, I'll take you to your long haired ones."
"Shut up, I want to sleep."
Tomoko gave a dissatisfied snort, but then really didn't say anything more.

When Anna woke up before sunrise the next morning, Tomoko was sitting by the fire with his arms crossed, eyes closed. The little annoying ghost had added wood all night so that the little campfire would not burn out.
With a somewhat friendlier and gentler expression, Anna sat up. After she finished her morning toilet and packed everything up again, she put out the fire and awakened the ghost.
"Come on Tomoko. I'm definitely not going to talk to myself."
Radiant, she drew a few circles around the Itako. "So are you going to spend some time with me?"
"If you take me to him, yes."
Cheering she flew up to the treetops before racing down to Anna again.
"All right." Tomoko looked around briefly to orientate himself and then pointed in one direction. "There it goes."
All day long the Itako walked with the ghost through the forest and talked to each other. Well it was more that Tomoko talked the whole time and Anna only had to throw in a few words every now and then so that the next monologue of the ghost could begin.
In the evening it was enough for Anna, not because the black haired woman really talked about this and that, but because they had passed the same place for the third time.Suddenly the blonde stopped. The sun hasn't shined for hours. The day is over so finally show me the way to him. "
The black haired pretended not to understand what Anna was talking about. "We're on our way to see your friend."
"Do you think I didn't notice that you have already led me past the same place for the third time?" she crossed her arms.
"Don't be angry with me Itako no Anna." she asked, clapping her hands and lowering her head.
"It was agreed that way, so I'm not angry with you. But for me at last to him."
Tomoko shook his head. "I'm sorry I can't."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't dare go near him. He's back there." said the ghost and pointed behind Anna.
The Itako sighed. "If you had shown me the way directly, how long would it have taken me?"
The black haired man made a frightened grimace. "You would have arrived in the early afternoon."
Anna sighed again, only this time louder. "That's fine."
"You are not mad at me?" asked the girl hopefully.
"No I'm not." the blonde then turned and pointed in the same direction Tomoko had pointed. "That way?"
"Yes! Always just follow your nose then you can't miss it at all."
"Thanks Tomoko."
The black haired ghost beamed at her. "With pleasure."