After another happy night of concert with both religious and non-religious music and of course so more of that little something that made them more in connection with everything the lot of them awoke in their respective tents, to preserve orther and decency the boys were sleeping in one tent and the girls in a different one, after a couple nights of sleeping late and wake early to perform physically challenging competitions you can get used to it and feel not so much tired or you can get worst and feel it double that was the case of Aiko, she had been a big lot of help in the competitions but after so many nights of rock and fun she would be a disaster in the mornings, she was last on the day's purifications in the lake, strange that she would be last in anything, though she went there by her own foot, fearing that the Minamoto Twins would repeat that little thing of bringing her to the lake in her pijamas.

Now after the purifications and prayers of the day the two groups now engrossed by dozens of volunteers congregated at the foot of the nearby hills, they held the ropes and at the sound of the gong among mud and trees they all hauled uphill to see who would arrive first pullng a huge two thusand pound treetrunk.

But the most dangerous thing on this competition wasn't getting to the top of the hill but getting back down the hill riding the trunk, this is considered an act of faith, since there is danger included only the faithful shall do it and if their faith is good enough they will come out of this unharmed, even if the trunk rolls over when it is sliding down the hill, the team that gets the trunk down first will be the winner and the trunk will be used to make a shrine or for some other sacred purpose, of course to avoid deforestation this competition cannot take place every year.

This time the other team had gotten a bit better muscle than them and their team was peak on the competition, our friends' team was back for just a few feet but in this kind of competition a few feet means alot, perhaps they were overmotivated after suffering so many loses or perhaps they were just into the spirit of the ceremony the point is that they were winning.

A moment before our friends' team would arrive to the top of the hill the other team was already there, the judge on the top waved a white flag to let the other judges downhill know that the team had indeed laid the trunk horizontaly ontop of the hill, and so the team mounted the mud covered trunk and down they rode, a moment later the same judge was waving the flag again and our frinds went downhill with a big "Whooooooaaaaaaa" screamed by Kyo.

The other team had a big lead ahead of them it seem imposible that Aiko's team would catch up with them, not to mention passing them and win, but then something happened, many of the members of that team looked back in mockery jeering and laughing, they assurely didn't know much of physics, by turning themselves that way they carried too much weight on one single side of their trunk and it rolled, many injuries to regret, and smashed a smaller tree but amazingly didn't stop its way downhill but it obviously reduced the speed quite enough for the other team to catch up, the finish line was too close and the trunks were side to side, so Miko whispered something to midory then to Masato, Midory then stepped on the peak of the trunk with Miko holding her and Masato holding Miko and with Midory's arms outstreched they won for a nose...er...for a hand.

A great fest was served that night and the honor guests were those days champions, but among those champions Masato and the Minamoto twins were most celebrated.