"It's A Lonely World in Gensokyo"
Chapter 1 The Rebirth of the Phoenix
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Fujiwara no Mokou, or as most people call her just simply Mokou, was sitting on her porch outside of her house. It was usual for her to be alone, to be completely alone in the Bamboo forest of the Lost. Keine, her only true friend, visited as often as possible, but she was a school teacher. She had a job to do. Mokou did not./p
Mokou leaned backwards and sighed. "I wish that the bitch would die already."
The bitch in question is someone that Mokou hates with all her heart. Oh, Mokou had killed her already. Burning, stabbing, choking, name all the execution methods and she had done it already. And yet Kaguya Houraisan would not stay down. To make matters worst, later she had applied all those execution methods to Mokou, with a massive smile on her face. And of course, Mokou just kept on living.
Mokou hates living. She hates living her life with all her passion. Yet, no matter what she do, no matter how many times Mokou tries dying, she kept on returning back
Eventually, Mokou just gave up. She just gave up, and accepted her fate.
Kaguya and Mokou. The two immortals living in the Bamboo Forest. God knows how the forest has not burned down yet. Actually, it did burned once. And Kaguya and her had to stop fighting and extinguished the forest. Of course, that had drawn the attention of a crow, and that crow was so annoying. It got to the point in which Mokou decided to threaten…ahem…..she meant talk to the crow about Yakitori (1). That made the crow shut up. Promptly. (2)
Mokou stood up and walked into her house. It was a very nice small house, only meant of housing up to two people. The first bedroom was reserved for her, and the second one is reserved for Keine if she ever gotten too drunk. Which is a very rare occasion.
There was a broom standing right next to her, and Mokou grabbed it. Although she may be an immortal, Mokou acted as a housewife. She kept the house in order, she tended her garden, she cooked her own food (namely poisonous mushrooms, but immortality sometimes got it's perks) (3). Just by acting as a housewife Mokou felt very triumphant over her adversary. Kaguya doesn't take the effort to do anything, and have her rabbits servants deal with everything.
"I'm petty, am I not?" Mokou muttered as she swept the house clean. When she was half-way finished, there was sharp knocking on the door.
Mokou frowned. That's weird. Keine shouldn't be done with school by now, she normally arrives when the moon comes down, and Kaguya wouldn't have bothered knocking. She would kicked the door open, in which, by the way, a big hassle to clean up. Kaguya promptly received her punishment when Mokou used the nearby broom to hit Kaguya out of the house. Kaguya never returned back to Mokou's house, saying something about her being inhospitable. Not like Mokou really cared about the bitch's opinion.
As she carried along that line of thoughts, Mokou opened the door. "Good Evening." Mokou started out as she looked at a young child, just barely 13, a boy with black hair. "Is there anything I could help you with?"
The boy started shying away from her. Oh, her blood red eyes make talking so tough at times. She ripped the eyes out often, but the eyes kept on regenerating. It is like a bug that keeps on biting you till the ends of time. "Please don't eat me." The boy muttered as he backed way, "Please don't."
Mokou sighed, and facepalmed. "I'm not a cannibal."
"Wait, you are human?!"
Mokou shrugged her shoulders. It was truly, truly tough to identify who she was. Mokou felt like she's a human, she has feelings damn it! But you can't really call her human if she can't die. Well, for all the sakes of purposes for this young boy she'll be a human.
"Yeah, I'm very much so human. So, is there anything I can help you with?"
The boy nodded. "Yes, um, I'm very much so lost. I was playing in the forest, and suddenly I could not see the village anymore. I was following the directions of the fairy, but only until now I realized that they were lying."
Oh the fairies. Those annoying fairies. Mokou, when she arrived at Gensokyo, killed several of the fairies and eventually gave up. Like Mokou, they cannot die. However, unlike Mokou they're small and really, really big pain. And these fairies have a habit of tricking humans into the forest where they get lost and eventually get eaten by wild youkai.
"The village is to your immediate right. If you go straight and ignore what the fairies tell you, you should arrive at the village by nightfall."
The boy nodded, and proceeded down the direction she pointed. Well, it could have been nice to have a thank you in response, but Mokou didn't linger on that thought. With that done, Mokou looked inside when a thought struck her.
Wouldn't that boy be eaten by wild Youkai or get mislead by the fairies again? Would that boy be able to reach the village safely?
Without a second thought, Mokou ran after the boy.
It was good that Mokou decided to chase after the boy because she perceived a wild youkai creeping behind the boy. It was about to strike when Mokou threw a fireball at the youkai, in which the Youkai decided to abandon the target. Now way was it going to go toe and toe against the fire manipulating immortal of Eintei.
"Are, you, safe?" Mokou panted as the boy looked frightened. Of course he's frightened, Mokou grimaced. After trying to calm the boy down by telling him she was not a Youkai, she than just chuck a flaming fireball right at another Youkai. It didn't really take much of a genius for the boy to pinpoint Mokou as a lying Youkai who wants to eat him. Brilliant Mokou, just brilliant.
"I'm an idiot, am I not?" Mokou said, "Such an idiot. And just to clarify, I'm a human. It's just, I'm a human with, um, what do you call that? Oh yeah, extreme circumstances that gave me Youkai like characteristics."
The boy just nodded. Frantically. She was scaring him more and more by the minute. Oh, this is so going to bite her back later. Right now, she had to escort the boy to the village. And it was already night time. Even better. Nice going, idiot. Not even Kaguya would have made that mistake. Not even Cirno, the ice fairy….wait take that bad. She have seen Cirno done more idiotic things. And Utsuho. But still, this ranks pretty high on her list of idiotic things that never should have been done in the first place. Not the first spot, no that first spot was eternally reserved for making herself immortal.
There was a strange smell coming from the boy's…oh. He peed himself in fright. Mokou sighed. She didn't have enough time to deal with this, so as somebody once said before, when diplomacy fails, force never will. So she punched the boy hard in the stomach.
There was a second in which the boy still remain standing, and than he collapsed. When the boy collapsed, Mokou suddenly realized what she had done.
"Right, this is so close in reaching the top of the list."
(1) - Yakitori = Fried Chicken
(2) - Reference to Bohemian Rhapsody in Red
(3) - Hands up to anyone who recognized Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth reference.
Author's Note
This is my first fanfiction, I love the Touhou character Mokou. I will soon post another chapter, but do not count on it being fast.
This story only has two chapters, so do not expect a long story.
Please review on writing styles, and please no reviews cursing me into hell. Except for all those Kaguya lovers. Mokou rules.