This is really just an idea that was stuck in my head that I put to pen (or keyboard) for now so that I can refocus on my other fic. Hope it's alright. I hope everyone is in character though for Koishi I can't really say she even has a character for now.
Also for anyone that doesn't know, Koishi Komeji has the ability to manipulate your subconscious which may or may not be overpowered.
The bright lights from the dark tall buildings sparkled brightly in her green eyes as she slowly but steadily drifted lower and lower into the sprawl of gigantic stone buildings. Down below, the dark grey streets were illuminated by thousands of lights of all colors, but most were yellow.
Koishi Komeji slowly glided on the wind as she descended towards the gray streets below. Her hands pressed down on her black hat with the yellow ribbon tightly around it, so it wouldn't fall off. Her green hair was pressed down under the hat.
Her yellow shirt was fluttering as the wind blew onto her, the diamond blue buttons that held her shirt threatening to come loose. The flowery green dress she wore was no less affected; it was good that no one could see her just by looking up.
Thought no one would see her even if they looked up unless she let them. Her third eye, closed as usual, was positioned over her heart while the cords wrapped around her waist and both ankles; it's most unique feature was the small heart that it formed above her shoulder.
Down there, humans mingled into the uncountable numbers. Or in other words; far more than she can count in her head. There were so many; way, way more than there was in the human village back home.
And there were just as many men as there were women. For her, that was a spectacular surprise.
"Uwahhh!" she cried when she saw something that she couldn't believe. There were a lot of really weird metal boxes on the middle of the road that seemed to following all these strange lines on the road. They were moving fast and seemed to have a human inside them…
Just like those metal birds she passed on the way here; but a lot slower. Maybe they were the same species.
She was sure Orin really would love one of those metal boxes though. She could feed a lot of corpses to the metal birds and then fly them back to the Underground and then, then…
But how would she bring it back to Gensokyo? She landed on the side of the stone road, with the wiggly lines in the middle, on her shoed toes. The lines of humans moving up and down the footpath ignored her as she landed, just like usual.
Maybe she could try to get one of them as a pet? It would be-
Her face lit up in excitement when she saw a human girl in a really short skirt pull out a phone from her jacket from across the road. It was a phone! A cell phone! The social node of any girl's life!
Sanae had told her all about these magical call phones. You could call anyone at any time with them. She could call her big sister and then her big sister wouldn't have to be so worried about her all the time. That would make her big sister really, really happy!
Koishi skipped off the footpath and took to the air again as she flew at top speeds towards the girl. She came to sudden stop half way, her feet planted firmly into the air to stop herself from flying further.
She couldn't just take that phone. Her big sister always told her that she couldn't just take things from people without giving something back. That would be stealing and only bad people stole things. She didn't want to be a bad person.
Maybe she should ask then. Her big sister also always said that if you don't know something, then ask someone. She'll ask her where to get a phone.
She tapped at the girl's shoulder, making herself known to her. The girl turned around, her phone still at her ear as she stopped to look a Koishi in confusion.
"Do you know where I can get one of those?" she directly asked the girl, giving a smile when the girl took her phone off her ear.
"Umm…" the girl stuttered as she pondered on how to answer to odd girl. Her head looked around at the other passerby's who ignored the two of them who were hidden amidst the wave of humans.
"You can get one at an electronic store?" the girl slowly spelled out for her. The girl lifted her finger to point at an opening in the big stone buildings that had an electronic store sign on it.
"Thank you!" Koishi beamed at this as she vanished from the girl's vision. The girl stumbled back at her sudden disappearance before rubbing at her head in confusion. What she doing again? She was…
"Talking to someone…?" was all Koishi heard from the girl as she trotted in the direction that she had pointed at. There were a whole ton of pretty phones behind a glass window. There were white ones, black ones and even square shaped ones that were bigger than the rest.
She stopped what seemed like the entrance that was made entirely of reflective glass. Her eyes twinkled with wonder when the magic glass door made a 'shhh' sound and slide open for her. It was almost like they knew she was standing in front of it.
It was noticeably colder inside the white dominated interior of the shop. A heap of cold winds were blowing in from these weird lines shaped in the walls.
Where were the phones? She gently floated higher to get a look around the interior. Her eyes lit up when she spotted them at the far end of the big room, attached to some white plastic board.
Skipping with excitement, she bumbled over to the rack of phones; her eyes analyzing each and every one of them carefully as she decided on a white phone that glowed blue. It was when her eyes fell onto the white tag beside the phone she had snatched off did her face fall.
"Ehh…" she drawled out in disappointment as she put the phone back onto the rack. It cost 67935 for the phone and she only brought 54 diamonds with her. So she would need… a lot more diamonds that she had with her.
No longer able to get a phone, she depressingly turned around to walk out of the store. Now she couldn't call big sister…
Her interest was then taken up by the two humans by the counter. The one behind it was the store clerk and the one outside was the customer who was buying a phone just like the one she wanted. But instead of pulling out a really big bag of diamonds and stuff, he swiped some black card in this weird box thingy then coughed out paper with all these words and numbers on it.
The two humans then thanked each other and the one who bought the phone then left. He bought that phone with a black card… she had to get one of those. But where…?
Thus Koishi was already stalking down the man as he walked back out onto the streets. Her big sister always said that if you don't kno-
There was a small bonk on her head and a black card flopped over her head to fall to the ground befall her. Stopping, she bent down to pick up the card, puzzled by its sudden appearance. It seemed just like the same card that the man used before except that it had MBI carved into it.
She had a card…
"Yay!" she cheered as she held the card over her head in happiness. She had a card now and could buy a phone. Any care as to how there just happen to be card to fall from the sky was not even considered. Stranger things have happened to her before.
"Kyaaa! Please get out of the way!" Koishi heard someone scream from way above her. Looking to the skies, she watched in fascination as a girl descended the bright skies above her…
…Right onto some random guy on the middle of the street.
The girl had chestnut brown hair and was outfitted in a traditionally Shrine maiden outfit except with a short skirt. Her thighs were covered with white stockings and she wore brown boots and combat gloves.
And as for the random guy… he was about as plain and boring as a human could be. But then again, he was the generic type.
Koishi had only one thing to describe her appearance. "…big boobed Reimu." She whispered in awe. They were almost comparable to that drunken Oni in the underground.
But this shrine maiden was definitely going to be lacking compared to Reimu. Lady Kanoko had told her all about the true source of a shrine maiden's power. The reason why Reimu and recently Sanae were so strong compared to just about everyone else…
Truly, this shrine maiden was lacking. Her armpits were covered by white cloth and she couldn't reach her full potential!
There was a crackling sound and Koishi spotted a bolt of lightning speeding from above heading straight towards the random human guy and big boobed Reimu. At the last moment, the shrine maiden grabbed hold of the random guy and drag him away just in time for the blast to miss and slam into a nearby wall.
Tracing the bolt, she found two barely clothed girls standing on a tower with some big metal box on it. From how they physically looked the same and seemed to dress in near identical outfits made of black leather; they must be twins. She had never seen a pair of Youkai twins before. "There's no use running."
"Now, come on and fight us!" the lead one said as she placed a harshly foot on a bar at the edge of the tower. Her face radiated overwhelming confidence in her ability to win as she looked down on the big boobed shrine maiden.
"I'm not going to fight yet!" the big boobed shrine maiden adamantly shouted back as the random guy behind her fell back in fear in his eyes.
Fight? They were going to danmaku? But… but… it was two on one! You couldn't danmaku like that! It would be too unfair! But that means… they were cheating!
"Stop!" she shouted out angrily at the Youkai twins as she flew up to stand between the two sides. Her arms extended to both sides to stop the lightning twins. "Fighting two on one isn't fair."
"Eh? Who the hell are you?" the lead twin said as Koishi revealed herself to them. From their perspective it would be as if she had just magically appeared out of thin air; which was silly since she wasn't made of air.
"Komeji. Koishi Komeji." She said seriously her face dropping any hints of emotion. Just like how people in the outside world introduced themselves.
"Thank you!" Koishi heard the big boobed shrine maiden shout from behind her as it was accompanied by the sound of someone dashing. Koishi turned her head back to smile at them and used her hand to coolly incline her hat at bit down in acknowledgment to the thanks.
She felt a really good giddy feeling in her stomach. Hehe… she looked so cool doing that! Maybe she should try it again later when she got a chance.
"Ah! She's getting away!" the other twin shouted out, pointing at the increasingly smaller form of the shrine maiden as she got away. Without another word from them, they both hopped off the tower and descended towards the ground at speeds beyond the average human.
Again Koishi intercepted them by reappearing in front of them again. But this time she accompanied it with a flurry of green heart shaped danmaku bullets. She had to punish the cheaters so that they wouldn't do it again, that was how her big sister had potty trained Orin and Okuu when they were younger.
There were surprised screams from the lightning twins and noises of awe from the humans who were watching from the footpaths as they watched the midday fireworks. While the rows of humans just stood there watching; the two lightning girls seemed to barely be able to keep up with her bullets and were getting hit by them more than dodging them. Small bruises formed on their bodies as the damage accumulated and their meagre clothes were coming apart from the continuous barrage of love symbols.
Why weren't they shooting danmaku back?
Maybe if she made her danmaku harder it'll spook them enough to finally shoot back. Waving her arms faster, she added to her danmaku, intensifying it greatly as she used a spell card. Glowing pink light formed around her as she called on her first spell card: the Embers of Love!
Pink hearts formed in the air and hurtled everywhere in the general direction of the lightning twins. Long trails of pink sparkling light shards followed behind every heart as they went all over the place, their trajectories turning at the last minute to avoid obstacles as the aimed towards the twins.
"WAIT!" one of the lightning twins desperately shouted out to Koishi, reeling from a pink heart that had blown up onto her chest. "You're cheating!"
Koishi stopped her danmaku, wondering what how she was cheating. She was doing danmaku like she usually did and nothing seemed out of place aside from not needing to actually dodge things. She wasn't cheating.
Seeing that she had successfully gotten her attention, the talking twin struggled to come up with something else to add during her short reprieve. Her face struck gold as she finally reached an epiphany on what to say. "You're not allowed to shoot those things arounds! It's against the rules!"
Koishi tilted her head in confusion. Danmaku was against the rules? "Well, how else am I supposed to fight?"
"I don't know but…" the twin said as she charged lightning into her hand. With a surprise attack that didn't really surprise anyone she fired it off a lightning speed at Koishi. It was faster than what an average human could react to, but she easily sat down onto the air and watched it fly overhead.
She fell slightly down further in the air as another bolt of lightning flew overhead and then continued to float diagonally upwards and to the left to dodge a pair of lightning strikes.
"Damnit why can't you stay still!" the other cheater twin said as she threw bolt after bolts of lightning at an elusive Koishi, who had a pondering pose while sitting on the air. Her face resting on her hands as she gazed at the sky.
Koishi paid it the barest of attention as she dully flew to the left a bit to avoid another one as she finally understood what she meant. The cheater twin said that she couldn't use danmaku and thus wasn't allowed to shoot. That explained why she wasn't shooting back. This was a fighting game!
"'kay! I got it!" she cheered as she finally got how she was meant to fight. It just meant that she had to brawl like everyone did at the religious war event. "Round Start!"
Koishi then charged at the twins directly, they wouldn't know she was coming.
"Round start? Wha-?" one of the cheater twins managed to say before twin purple viens, shaped as spears burst out of nowhere and impacted with her stomach with enough power to send her hurtling back into a wall. A small explosion of dust and rubble formed as her body went straight through it, the hole she left weakening the wall enough for it to collapse on itself.
The rest of Koishi could be seen again as she stopped hiding. Her Third Eyes vein lance withdrawing back into beneath the green tips of her yellow sleeves as she sped past the second twin; leaving a long trail of budding Subterranean Roses behind her.
"Hibiki!" the cheater twin shouted out in surprise and worry as she turned around to where her sister had crashed. She angrily glared at Koishi who was turning around to face her.
"Boom!" Koishi softly said aloud as the Subterranean Roses bloomed in its full orange brightness. The roses then exploded rocking the remaining cheater twin aside as showers of pieces of the orange rose were sent flying everywhere before slowly descending back to the ground gently.
…she sounded so cool doing that. Sanae had said that only cool people always added explosions behind them to be cool. So did that mean she was cool now?
Turning her head around both ways; she glanced at the still downed forms of the two weird Youkai and confirmed that they were down for good. She had won without even getting hurt! It was a flawless victory!
"Ya- … I mean; that's what you get for cheating!" she angrily berated them, obviously getting no response. She shook her head in disappointment; the outside world Youkai just didn't have any manners at all and didn't seem all that strong.
…
She was kind of bored now. What was she doing here again?
…
Oh right. He was too drunk and completely forgot about his old creations and essentially let anyone else do whatever they pleased with them. That was it! Geez, he was really silly sometimes; to forget even certain goddesses.
Her stomach rumbled slightly as she trotted away from the battle zone. Mhm… all this fighting made her really hungry all of a sudden. She hadn't eaten in a while…
She floated around the streets above all the other humans. That way she wouldn't have to go through the crowds. It was darker now, the sun was down but there were still plenty of pretty lights to make sure she could see where she was going.
Flying above the busy packed streets, she kept on a look out for anything that looked like a restaurant or at least somewhere that sold food. She was really hungry now and she knew that the black card worked so she could buy anything she wants.
Turning a corner, her eyes narrowed in unconcealed dislike when she saw that yellow glowing 'M' sign again. She wasn't going to be fooled by Sanae's and their false promises and pictures of good food again.
Koishi stumbled into the big building with the glowing 'N' sign on a pile outside. She could see a lot of people eating inside and her stomach was making really loud noises now. Following the line of people walking in, she was lead to a really long metal desk with a glowing set of screens above it.
It took her only a moment to understand that the screens hung above the long metal desk was the menu. And when she had finished looking through all the delicious pictures of all these weird food on it, she was sure that there was drool coming down her chin. She didn't know what all these 'burgers' were but they looked tasty.
Waddling up to the counter, she revealed herself to the store guy behind the desk who was slightly taken aback by her sudden appearance.
"Hello, how can I help you?" the human quickly said, regaining his composure as he faced her like he would any other customer.
Koishi delightedly pointed with her finger at the burger she wanted. It looked like the tastiest one of them all. "I want that one!"
"Of course, combo or just burger?" the human said as he pressed something on the smaller screen in front of him.
Koishi hesitated a bit. She didn't know what a combo was but it sounded bigger than just a burger. So… "Combo!"
"Thank you, that'll be 1135 yen please." The human said as he pressed the screen thing even more.
Koishi pulled out her black card and handed it to the human. Understanding what the card was used for, the human took it off her and slid it through some black box with all these buttons on it before handing it back to her.
"Thank you very much." They both said while the human added a bit more. "It'll take just a moment."
And it did! He came back with a tray only a few minutes later. On the tray was a paper box that had the name of the burger she wanted on it, a tall cup with a lid and some clear thing sticking out of it and a smaller cup with all these potato strips in it.
Taking it away from the human, she balanced the tray with her hands as she disappeared from people's sight again. Walking around, she looked for an empty seat and her face rose when she saw one by the corner.
Koishi carefully dropped her tray onto an empty table, her face filled with anticipation as she prepared to eat the famed delicious and nutritious fast food of the outside world. The one she had picked up looked amazingly good on the bright screen menus.
Pulling out the metal legged chair, she seated herself, noting that it was a bit uncomfortable. But she ignored it as she made ready to eat what was promised to be a good meal.
She pushed aside the tall cup of black juice that was called coca cola aside. It tasted really weird to her and looked like herbal medicine.
The thin potato strips were ignored by her as her hands grasped firmly on the paper box that contained her burger. Great succulent sesame buns, perfectly grilled bacon, green and fresh lettuce, juicy red tomatoes, perfectly slice onions, Swiss-styled cheese, a unique and special tasty sauce and a 100% N-beef patty!
She had no idea what the last three were at all but it sounded important and looked tasty so it must be good! And they said it was good enough to make her rock her chair! That must be really good!
With great hopes and expectations she slowly fumbled with the box, pulling it open with great anticipation. The more and more that she saw of the burger as the lid was pulled open, the more and more her face dropped.
"Ehhh…?" but… but… it looked nothing like that picture!
Koishi scowled at the memory. She had walked out of the place for lying to its customers like that. The real burgers looked nothing like those pictures at all and it didn't even taste that good to her.
Her emerald eyes sparkled when she finally say something that she recognized. It was dango stand with a whole bunch of dango for sale.
She swooped in like a vulture to the dango stand. The welfare and health of her stomach depended on it!
She landed right in front of it, suddenly appearing to the store owner who had a startled look on his old wrinkly face.
"All the dango you have!" she ordered immediately. She was just that hungry.
"Uh… are you su-" the wrinkly man stuttered.
"Now!" she demanded, she was really hungry! Her hands were waving around in the air as she demanded her dango.
"Now, you don't just go around ordering people like that. Do you even have the money to pay for all this?" the wrinkly store owner said as her stared down at her.
Koishi instantly showed him her black card that was sent to her from the sky. It let her buy anything!
But the wrinkly man just crossed his arms and shook his head in disagreement. "Cash only here. And you don't have eno…"
His eyes widened in surprise as Koishi pulled out a fistful of diamonds and dropped them onto his stand. Koishi looked at him with pleading eyes, she knew that was probably not enough for all the dango but she as really, really hungry right now.
"Ah… ha ha, how many dango did you want again?" the wrinkly man suddenly said, forcefully cheerful all of a sudden as he quickly pulled in all the diamonds and glanced around to see if anyone saw that. His eyes narrowing as he saw that some of his neighboring stand owners were now edging closer, rushed stuffed bags of food in their hands.
The park was dark in the silent night as Koishi munched on her dango on some park bench. Beside her was a whole pile of food, stuffed into a whole pack of bags by those kind stand owners. It was why she left there when she had enough food; everyone was just too kind and wanted to give her food. It was kind of dark here but there was some lantern behind her that made it all bright again.
Finished with the stick of dango, she tossed it into the bin beside the bench before moving onto the piece of food. It was some salmon sushi this time.
Opening the clear box made of something she still didn't know the name to; she proceeded to nimble at the first sushi. A sudden noise made her pause her eating and look around. Running in her direction was some woman in a white shirt and only that.
She silently watched with the sushi still in her mouth as the light browned haired woman approached the bench she was sitting on. Her tired eyes locking onto the bench as a place for a moments rest.
She took only a few steps in the bench's direction before swiftly turning around to check behind her. Koishi tilted her body to get a look at what was behind the woman only to see… a lot trees. What was she looking at?
The woman then gave a sigh of relief before settling down onto bench, right beside Koishi, on the opposite end of her food bag. Her legs brought up onto the bench as she took a breather.
Koishi continued to nibble at her sushi now. Her face turned to stare at the woman beside her. Her steel colored eyes were tired and there was a really red strange tattoo on her forehead.
A clear gargle was emitted from the woman's stomach and she gripped her stomach in hunger. The woman then reclined her head back, her face empty of hope and depressed.
Koishi stopped chewing on her second salmon sushi. Reaching over to her food bags, she grabbed a dango stick out of it. Revealing her, she held it out to the woman as she stopped eating to say "Do you want one?"
The woman showed a hint of surprise in her otherwise blank face as she turned to look at Koishi. There was an awkward silence between the two as Koishi held out the dango and the buxom woman alternated between staring at the dango and her.
"Why?" the woman softly asked her.
"My big sister says that sharing is caring." Koishi happily told her. She also had some really long explanation about having everything to yourself doesn't make you happy and stuff but if you shared it with others you get happier because they were happier. But that seemed way, way too long for her say.
"You… care?" the woman asked her as she carefully took the dango from her hand. Holding it to her mouth, she took small bites before outright devouring the dango and leaving the stick bare.
"Yup! Making new friends is always fun." Koishi happily exclaimed as she turned around to grab hold of her bags of food. With a grunt of effort, she plopped them all down onto the bench again except this time placing it between herself and the woman so that they could share.
"Friend…" the woman tested the word as she finished the dango of any scraps.
"Here you can have some more." She told the woman as she returned her attention back to her sushi. The woman wasted no time in collecting more food, but it was in a slow and deliberate manner that made way for whenever Koishi tried to get food first.
"I'm Koishi, a Youkai. How about you?" Koishi introduced herself to the woman who was in the middle of snacking on an onigiri.
"Ah… Akitsu, a Sekirei." Akitsu replied, replicating her.
Koishi nodded jovially as she Akitsu introduced herself. She had no idea what a Sekirei was but it sounded like a Youkai.
"So… what are you doing here?" Koishi asked amidst chewing on some dry seaweed.
Akitsu fell straight down as she was reminded of why she was outside again. "I'm broken."
Koishi looked at Akitsu strangely. Her eyes examined Akitsu's body for any flaws or damage to her and coming up with nothing. "Do you mean you have a broken power?"
"…Yes" Akitsu answered uncertainly, her voice a bit shaky.
"Well… that's okay. Mine's broken too!" Koishi heartily informed her. She was completely okay with her powers being broken though. Being able to read people's mind wasn't fun at all since there were always mean thoughts. "I can manipulate the subconscious. How about you?"
Akitsu seemed to not understand her ability in the least, but that okay. She didn't really understand it either. But she did quickly respond with her own. "I can control Ice."
"Really!" Koishi reached over to stare into Akitsu's face to see if she was lying. Controlling ice could be so useful especially since the Palace of the Earth Spirits was also soooo hot.
Akitsu could only nervously with Koishi's face right in her own face.
"That does it then, do you want to be my pet?" Koishi offered to her. It would be so amazing if she had a pet that could control ice! She wouldn't be sweating all the time in the palace.
"Pet…?" Akitsu mumbled uncertainly. She was going to be pet to someone… "You'll be my master?"
"Oh wait, wait…" Koishi waved her hands in negative as she changed her mind. Her big sister had said something to her about not being allowed to go around making people her pets without their consent. And even with their consent she wasn't allowed to call them her pets because it sounded really bad somehow. So…
"How about becoming part of the Komeji family?!" she offered instead to Akitsu. Akitsu Komeji sounded alright to her. She was sure that her big sister wouldn't mind at all.
"Family?" Akitsu questioned, this time she was definitely a lot more interested.
"Yup! Me and my big sister will take care of you but since she's not here right now; it's just me!" Koishi told the Akitsu. She was already imagining all the fun that they would have when she comes back to Gensokyo with an ice Sekirei/Youkai.
She could teach her danmaku and then they could go around beating up rivals and she would take her with them to all those feasts and then she could show her all the best spots in Gensokyo. She bet Akitsu has never been to heaven before.
"You'll… take care of me?" Akitsu stared at Koshi, her eyes searching for something in her face. Was there some food stuck on her lips?
"Yup!" Koishi confirmed for her. Why wouldn't she? Family was always there for you and you were always there for your family. "So…?"
Akitsu nodded ever so slightly; but that was all Koishi needed for her to go back to celebrating the expansion to the Komeji family.
"Yah!" she cried out, as she waved her arms above her in celebration. Akitsu seeing her celebrating awkwardly tried to join in as she tried raising her arms to celebrate. She quickly stopped when it exposed her body to more cold and shivered slightly because of it.
Seeing this, Koishi stopped her celebration. "Wah! I forgot you don't have clothes and a hat!" she wailed aloud.
Koishi grabbed tight hold of Akitsu's hands and pulled her off the bench. Now that Akitsu was a Komeji she was going to have to look after her from now on. So she had to find some clothes and a place to stay for the night. "We're going to find some clothes and somewhere to sleep!" she declared in words with enthusiasm.
She also frowned when she saw that Akitsu's head was bereft of any form of headwear. Pulling off her own hat, she stuffed it over Akitsu head, much to her the ice woman's surprise. "Here, you can have my hat for now until we can find a silly hat for you too."
I'll just say again that Millet Soup is the best soup.