I Can Only Take So much!
Peels he-Uh, I mean, Twix here!
So, yeah, my third Touhou-story. I kinda wrote it on a whim. I'll work on it alongside with The Kappa and the Wolf. Because I can. Yeah...Basically, if I get ideas for TkatW, I'll write a chapter of that, and if I have an idea for this, I'll write a chapter for this. That way, it won't distract me too much from doing homework. (Though I'll probably be distracted by something else anyway...)
Ok. This time, I'm focusing on Reisen, since I get ideas that won't leave sometimes, and this happened to be one of them. Now, I'm partly basing this on some of the treatment Reisen gets in IotM & IotE, but I'm not too sure about how canon that series is. (I sorta want my fics to be as close to canon Touhou as possible, if you've noticed .3.) But there's at least a little degree of credibility to it, based on SaBND, so that'll do.
I also wanted to introduce a few of my OC's. I actually have a crapload of OC's, but I can't fit them all into one story without it being redundant, now can I? And Lame Title Syndrome stuck again...
Gah, this introduction is too long! I explained too much! Anyway, I hope you enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: Touhou Project and the majority of the characters that appear in this fanfic belong to Shanghai Alice/ZUN.
Chapter 1: That's it, Master!
"Tired...So tired of it...No end to it! Ugh!"
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Eientei. The unusual house in the Bamboo Forest of Lost, and the home of the banished moon princess, Kaguya, and her friend Eirin. This is also the home of several youkai rabbits. Among them, Tewi Inaba, the mischevious Earth Rabbit, and Reisen Udongein Inaba, the more serious Moon Rabbit.
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One afternoon, Reisen wandered through the halls of Eientei, rubbing the back of her head. She felt nauseous and drowzy, and she had a severe headache. Probably a side effect from the new medicine Eirin had decided to try out on her. By hiding it in her lunch, of course.
Reisen was actually Eirin's student, but sometimes she was also used as a test subject for all kinds of weird medicines: Sometimes as punishment, and sometimes just for the heck of it. Some medicines were just fine, like energy boosts and pills against sore throats, but most of them had nasty side effects. Reisen remembered one time when her ears got all swollen and another time when she got paralyzed for a few hours. What an opportunity the others had for pranking her. And how they used that opportunity to their hearts' content!
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Despite her drowziness, Reisen found herself thinking while staggering towards Eirin's study. She thought about her redundant and unfair her life could be sometimes. Whenever she wasn't working hard or being punished by Eirin, she was the subject of fellow rabbit Tewi's numerous pranks. They could range from the harmless "Anko-In-Hand-And-Tickle-Nose-With-Feather-While-Sleeping" to the more sadistic "Nails-on-Chair" or "Talk-Bad-About-Master-In-Reisen's-Voice".
Reisen had noticed for a while that she was tired of this life. Every day felt the same: Work; Punishment; Prank; Work; Punishment; Prank; Work; Punishment; Prank; Being punished for Tewi's prank. Rinse and repeat for the next day.
Neither did it help that she was bacially the only one working: Tewi was rarely following Reisen's orders and was always finding excuses for not lifting a finger, and she could still be bored enough to pull her pranks. Also, since the Earth Rabbits obeyed her, they rarely worked, as well, mostly goofing off or just laying around.
OK, saying everyday was like thatperhaps was exaggerating a bit, but to Reisen, this was exactly what it felt like sometimes.
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"Why do they treat me like this?" She thought. "Do they think that they can treat me however they like in return for hiding me here? I should be grateful to them for helping me, but this treatment..."
She still had bruises from yesterday's punishment. As her mind kept spinning around the subject, another thought struck her.
"And why isn't Tewi ever punished? She rarely does anything at all. And if I can't make her, shouldn't it be Master's or Your Highness's responsibility to make sure that she does something?"
Well, "struck" may not have been the correct term; Reisen had thought about that before, and she already had a theory.
"Well, I guess she's just everyone's little favorite. That's the benefit of being the Symbol of Good Fortune, probably...But I can't help but feel a little bit discriminated."
Sighing, she opened the door and entered Eirin's study. As expected, her master was waiting for her.
"Welcome back from lunch, Udonge." She greeted the dizzy rabbit. "Now, let's get back to work, shall we? I need you to take these medicines and these notes to the storehouse, if you could be so kind."
The last part was just added to make the order sound more polite. She pointed to a few jars filled with pills, powders and liquids. Next to them were a pile of small pieces of paper. Reisen blinked and stared at the jars. She really had to focuse now.
"Understood, Master." She responded, picked the jars up and left the study.
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If Eirin actually had noticed Reisen's condition is hard to say, but to assign a woozy rabbit with a task of carrying things from one place to another could imply two things; Either that she hadn't noticed the effects at all, or that she had noticed them, but was curious at how well Reisen could chores while the effect was still working.
Either way, a wobbly rabbit, carrying a bunch of jars and important papers through a corridor: The perfect subject for a prank, right?
And sure enough, behind a corner, the mischiveous Earth Rabbit was lurking. Her eyes were gleaming and she had a huge grin on her lips. Waiting for her victim to come closer...
"Now!" She exclaimed and pulled a rope.
Reisen never suspected the danger, and with her hands full, she had no means of defending herself.
From above, a heavy bucket fell down. It smacked Reisen in the back of her head, forcing her to take a few steps forward. And here was stage 2 of Tewi's latest prank: A thin wire across the opening, just in ankle height. Needless to say, the moon rabbit walked right into it, making her finally lose her balance and thrust her arms forward. Unforunately, this made her drop all the jars she was holding. The doom was inevitable.
"THUD!"
"CRASH!"
A loud sound of Reisen and the jars hitting the floor: A thud from Reisen, and a crash from the jars. There she layed, her arms spread forward and a sea of spilled medicine in front of her. Distressed, she looked at the mess of liquid and smashed glass. Behind the corner, Tewi was nearly choking on her own laughter. Reisen trembled a little, and then realised that ner dizziness and her headache was gone. The side effects had stopped at this moment. How convinient...
Suddenly, she felt a threatening aura from behind her. Slowly, she turned around.
"Udonge..." Eirin said in a low, but threatening voice. The energy that came from her made it look like she was on fire.
Reisen's trembling got more intense.
"Master..." She squealed, sensing the danger. "I...was being..."
"No excuses!" Eirin roared. "I can't even entrust you with carrying things! You'll be punished good for this!"
She roughly grabbed Reisen's jacket collar and dragged the poor moon rabbit with her towards the study.
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Oh, how intense the pain was! Eirin did not hold back this time when punishing Reisen.
But somehow, somehing was different: Reisen felt different. Instead of just the pain, a dark emotion started to rise from her stomach, spreading throughout her body before it reached her head.
That's when she snapped. She had reached her limit.
She raised one hand, blocking a punch from the furious genious. The surprised Lunarian watched as the rabbit slowly stood up, panting and shaking.
"Hah...A neverending cycle, huh...Working hard, recieving punishment. It just goes on." Reisen's voice sounded unusually calm, but in a very creepy way. "And the odd thing; That sadistic little Earth Rabbit can get away with anything from pranks to slacking off, but if I mess up once, I get such punishment that I can barely stand for five days? You think you can treat however the HELL you feel like because you're keeping me here?"
As she kept speaking, her voice grew louder and louder. She grabbed a small jar of pills and squeezed it so hard that her knuckles whitened.
Eirin watched the rabbit in awe. She had never sensed this kind of energy from Reisen before. And when the rabbit looked up, Eirin also noted that she had never seen Reisen this angry before. The normally calm Reisen was now like a pure inferno of bottled up fury. It was almost scary.
"I'VE HAD IT!" Reisen yelled and threw the jar in the floor, crushing it. "THAT! IS! IT, MASTER! I'M FED UP WITH THIS CONSTANT TREATMENT! I'M LEAVING!"
Declaring this, the furious youkai pulled the door open and ran off through the corridors. Nearly running over Kaguya, who had come to see what the ruckus was about, out through the door, slamming it shut behind her.
"Udonge! Get back here, now!" Eirin yelled, running down the corridor.
"Eirin, what in the world-"
"Udonge started to spout nonsense and just ran off!" Eirin sighed and turned to Tewi. "Inaba, can you go and get her?"
"Understood, Master!" Tewi cheerfully exclaimed, having apparently not noticed the air around Reisen, and went out of the door after her fellow rabbit.
If she had only knew that one of the reasons that Eirin had sent her out was that a part of her really didn't want to follow Reisen. Not now. Not after that.
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Since Tewi had lived in the bamboo forest for longer than she could remember, she knew it like the back of her hand. Soon, she had caught up to Reisen.
"Reisen, Reisen~" She hummed. "Master ordered you to come back now~"
She suddenly froze in her track. Not until now, she sensed that something was not like it usually was. Actually, the energy that emitted from Reisen didn't feel like normal. And as the rabbit turned around, Tewi's mood changed from satisfaction over a prank well done to overwhelming fear.
Reisen's eyes were glowing, and a shadow was lying over her face. No sign of the normal Reisen was there. This was made even more clear when Reisen opened her mouth.
"What? Go back so that she can punish me for some stupid fucking reason again?" Her voice was as cold as ice and as dark as the night. "You'd like that, wouldn't you? Always getting away with everything..."
She grabbed Tewi's carrot necklace and pulled the earth rabbit's face so close to her own that their noses nearly touched each other. Now, Tewi had no choice but to look right into Reisen's furois eyes.
"Listen up, you little sadistic prick. I've just had enough of all your little pranks. You just love being the favorite, don't you? Doing nothing but stupid pranks all day. Well, too bad for you now, because I'm leaving and I won't come back, so you'll just have to pull your little pranks on someone else. Like Master. Let's see how you'll like it then, little miss Favorite, when you've gotten a taste of her fury."
She let go of Tewi's necklace, turned around and walked away.
Tewi was so scared that se was completely unable to move. Sweat gushed from her face, tears started to form in her eyes and her legs were shaking violently until they couldn't bear her any longer. She sank down on her knees, still staring after Reisen.
Reisen had ran away from home once, but back then she had been retrieved by Eirin and punished so hard that she was unconsious for three weeks.
This time, however, Tewi realized that maybe Reisen was serious this time. Maybe she really had planned to not come back...
So, that's the first chapter. I hope it was good. (Even if the idea is a little bit stupid)
One of my OC's will appear in the next chapter, just to be clear. It'd feel like an overdose to introduce my OC's right away, you see...Okay, i nag too freaking much about my fan characters now! See you next chapter! (Of either this or The Kappa and the Wolf...)