Disclaimer: Not mine. The characters and setting belong to ZUN, as does much beer.

The characters that don't belong to ZUN belong to KimikoMuffin.

Who is also not me.

Having been an occasional browser through Kimiko Muffin's webcomic Touhou Nekokayou, I have, naturally, run across his random pairing generator.

And upon seeing the first few names that popped up, along with the work of Sect who had this idea before me, I thought "This stuff needs writing!"

And so ... that stuff got written. Although I initially planned on only doing pairings using the Windows characters - due to those being the ones I actually know of - I accidentally left more boxes unchecked than I should have. And while no PC-98 characters turned up before I noticed my mistake, one of Kimiko's OCs had.

(Also, so had Giant Unamed Catfish X Nitori, but ... no.)

I saw the pairing I had accidentally created and it was good.

In fact, it went far beyone good into awesomeness.

So, I asked for, and recieved, permission from Kimiko to use his OCs, purely to do this pairing.

Anyway ... last thing. The 'how this is going to work' thing. I rolled up 20 pairings and wrote them down. Then, I write one, and put it online. Then I chose another one, and so on.

Anyway. My first such story, and the accident I mentioned before.

Masha Kinoko and CAPTAIN MURASA.

And yes, like BRIAN BLESSED, CAPTAIN MURASA's name deserves the all-caps.

Apparently, it was spring.

Masha Kinoko wasn't entirely sure why this was such a big deal, but she couldn't really ask the fairy flying along behind her about it.

Mostly due to said fairy flinging danmaku around whilst joyously proclaiming the arrival of spring.

Most youkai would have simply blasted the fairy but, perhaps due to her youth and inexperience, Masha's response to the bullet-spraying fairy had been to run off with her hands over her head, a technique that had worked the last time she'd tried it but, unfortunately, this fairy seemed more intelligent than most and had just followed her.

Closing her eyes was, Masha realised abruptly, a major mistake. The half-formed thought that maybe the fairy would go away if she couldn't see her was wrong on many levels and, even more obviously, closing her eyes meant that she couldn't see where she was going.

It might have been a rock or a root or even an invisible pumpkin, but the identity of whatever Masha ended up tripping over was less important to her than the fact that she had tripped over and now the fairy was right above her and it was still shooting and she was going to get hur-

'Whang!'

Something large swept through the air above Masha, smashing into the fairy and sending it flying off away from the terrified mushroom youkai.

Teal eyes were peering down at her when Masha opened her eyes again, glad to have not gotten the expected faceful of danmaku, but still scared.

"I was going to ask if you were alright," the owner of the teal eyes said gently. "But ... you ain't. You got anywhere you can go, or anyone who can take care of you?"

Silently, Masha shook her head. Daiyousei had helped her when she had first been born, but Masha hadn't seen much of her after that and had no idea where the abnormally intelligent fairy was.

Abruptly, the face of her rescuer vanished from sight as she straightened up.

"Don't ... don't leave me!" Afraid and worried that she was about to be left alone in a wood full of fairies and scary evil spirits again, Masha started crying before she felt arms underneath her, lifting her up off the ground.

"Don't worry," her rescuer replied. "I ain't gonna leave you. I reckon there's room on the ship for another lost soul. Unless you don't want to ...?"

Not trusting herself to speak after her ordeal with the fairy, Masha just wrapped her arms around her saviour and firmly shook her head. She felt safe, for quite possibly the first time in her short life. She wasn't going to say no to her brave, strong, handsome ... Blushing, she buried her face in her saviour's shoulder.

As she carried the mushroom girl back to the ship- no, it was a shrine now, wasn't it? Murasa smiled to herself. Either way, she was still the captain. Looking down at the redhead in her arms, her smile grew. After all those years causing shipwrecks before Byakuren rescued her, it felt nice to finally save someone.

Especially someone so pure and cute and ... no. Bad Minamitsu. Bad thoughts.

"Anyway," she said after a few moments, trying to get her mind to change tracks. "I'm Minamitsu Murasa, captain of the Myouren Shrine! What's your name?"

"Masha ..." Glancing down again, Murasa was unprepared for the big, slightly teary eyes that peered back up at her.

As she had told Shou many times in the past, Captain Murasa doesn't blush.

So when Nazrin noted that her face was bright red when she got back to the shrine, she had clearly been mistaken.

A/N: And next up, according to this d20 and my list is ... Yuuka Kazami × Tewi Inaba.