Gensokyo 20XXI: The Outside World

by Amoridere

It's really called Gensokyo 20XXI: The Outside World, Winter of Sorrow and Year of Uncertainty and it is a fanfiction that switches POVs in accordance to some chapters with haiku summarizing what may happen. It goes like this, after awhile of living in secret after escaping a now nonexistant Gensokyo, someone pulls discovers their ruse, throwing their lives in turmoil.

1. Uncovered Ruse

Apparently, someone uncovered our ruse, when they managed to pull of Ran's veil one night, discovering her ears, and we weren't given much of a choice in going into hiding and changing our looks. I remember that night when Yukari had awakened us, saying, "Girls, hurry, wake up!" She and Ran had quickly ushered us into the bathroom, Ran informing us that we must change our looks. Within no time and with a quick and steady hand, Chen, Flandre, Yukari, and Ran's hair was dyed and mine was put into cut shorter. When I inquired on why hair wasn't dyed, Ran explained, "People already think your hair is an unnatural color, so, if they see you, they'll think you were different person." After we had altered our looks and alerted the others, Yukari with tears in her eyes said, "I'm sorry dears but we have no choice but to separate." At first, Ran tried to plead but then said, "Alright then, I'll take Flan and Chen and you'll have Reimu and the bunny." Yukari reassured her that we'll be together again, while brushing her light grey locks. We all hugged each other and said goodbye, vowing to meet again.

We hurried away, onto a rural path, Yukari saying, "Act natural and pretend we are just an elderly lady and her granddaughter." Now, I remembered why she picked grey to dye her hair with, as to better disguise herself with, as some youkai don't physically age but has been around humans long enough to know that telltale sign of aging would be grey hair, thus she dyed it grey. She bent over, putting almost all of her weight on her cane and started to walk, pretending to have a hunched back. As stupid as it was, I wondered why is it she didn't disguise herself as something else, as I think it is virtually impossible for a very powerful youkai like herself to hold the facade of being a senile infirm elderly lady. We continued walking on that path, acting natural to the best of our abilities. As to be expected, people were out looking for us. We continue on, until we reached an abandoned house in the forest. She explained to me that we were going to hide here for the time being and, if time and circumstance permitted it, we would go out and look for Ran, Chen, and Flan. Naturally, I cried at that because we didn't know where they were and the chances of finding them, especially in this country, very slim.