Hello Touhou fans or other people who just came and read this put of curiosity! I am InabaRabbit and this is my first ever Touhou fan fiction! This is also probably the first fan fiction that I actually put effort into. After reading this, I'd very much like you to criticize and I would return your comments ASAP! Also, please no cussing or fowl language. Just… no. Thanks! Oh, and if you want to, go ahead and tell me which character is you favorite and which character would you be interested to read about their past. I am willing to accept suggestions! Arigato Mina! (Thanks everyone!)

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the main characters from this story. Sure there are some OCs here and there, but the recognizable ones belong to Zun and the Touhou games. Mainly Imperishable Night.

Mokou of the Fujiwara Clan

Ch.1 the Day it All Came Apart

It was the passage of time when day melted into night. The nightingale sang it's mournful song and the crickets chirped a harmonic chorus. At young girl, about the age of 7, dashed into the room, clutching a small doll made out of grass and flowers. Her short but glossy black hair bounced up and down, matching her hasty pace. Dust glazed her short robe. "Papa! Paapaaaaa!" she shouted excitedly. " Look! I made a –"

A middle-aged man looked up. His handsome, clear-cut face was flushed in a shade of pink, for in front of him sat a gorgeous woman. He shifted uncomfortably in his gold-and-red royal robe. The exotic princess that sat in front of him had pale, soft skin; her smile could lighten even the darkest of days. Her eyes, twin pools of hazel, twinkled with… mischief? Vanity? Maybe it's just that she was a princess…? To top it all off, her midnight black hair cascaded in locks that gently touched the floor. To say she was beautiful beyond compare is a horrible understatement.

Who is this amazing beauty you ask? Why this is the famed Kaguya-Hime, Princess Kaguya of the Moon. Her graceful, alluring charm had caused many men, from princes to even the emperor of several countries to ask for her hand in marriage.

"Oh my." She giggled. "I never knew that she was your daughter. I always thought she was your niece or something." For a moment, the little girl that was holding the grass doll stood by the door, stumped by the scene of this lovely princess and her father together. Several thoughts swam through her head at once. This isn't momma… She is…is… the lady from last time with the sweets… why is papa with her… and where is momma?

The prince's face turned fifty shades of red. "Mokou. G-go s-somewhere e-else and play. Do-do not bother us." He stuttered.

Mokou snapped out of her confusion and asked silently, "Where is momma? Where did she go?"

Her father choked. "Momma is gone."

She took a shaky step forward and demanded loudly, " Where is Momma?! Why are you with this woman!? Why?! Bring Momma back!"

This time the prince's face turn even more red if it were possible, not only out of embarrassment, but out of anger as well. "Why you impudent brat!" The prince feared that his daughter's comments and news might embarrass him in front of the Princess. "Get. Out. Of. My. Sight." the prince stood up and reached for his sword that was tied around his waist. His fist gripped the hilt of the sword so hard that his knuckles turned a sickly white color. "NOW!" he screamed.

Mokou's innocent young heart was torn apart by fear and betrayal. She didn't make a sound as she turned and ran out of the room. Her grass-and-flower doll tumbled to the bamboo floor. "Momma…Momma…" she sobbed as she raced out the front door of the large, bamboo house.

The prince turned back to the princess and sat down apologetically. "I'm very sorry about that girl. She didn't know what she was talking about." He mumbled, too embarrassed to make eye contact with Kaguya.

"Anyway, as I was going to say," Kaguya continued, not even batting an eye at what just happened. "Nothing, my good prince, nothing comes without a price. Unfortunately, I also come with a price. You, see there is a branch that I really wish to have. Consider it a wedding gift between you and me. It is a branch from the legendary Hourai Tree." Princess Kaguya smiled. "Bring it to me, and we are a promised couple."

Mokou ran on, not knowing what to do. Tears poured from her eyes and spilled onto the stone path. Everything blurred. She had never been so far into the city and it was cold. People reached out and tried to restrain her, but she was like quicksilver. No one could even come close to laying a hand on her. Her lungs felt as if they were about to burst, and her legs felt like lead, from tearing down the stone streets like lightning. Yet, she still ran. She ran. She didn't care anymore. She thought that if she ran as fast as she can, she could escape all this.

That lady had visited before. At first Mokou enjoyed her company, for the Princess had brought Mokou delicious sweets and delicacies. That was, until her father told her mother that he was going to marry the beautiful lady that visited everyday.

Mokou choked back sobs as she ran faster and faster still. She recalled the night that her father broke the horrible news to her mother. Loud shouting, sobbing, and the sound of many things breaking at once filled the house that fateful evening. Mokou had huddled into her futon with her favorite doll, not knowing what to do. She snapped back to harsh reality. "Momma is gone… I HATE HER! I HATE THAT LADY! SHE CAUSED all this…" Mokou's voice wavered and she collapsed. She could take no more. By that time, she was already out of the city walls and was in the rice fields nearby. She didn't care that it was wet. Heck, she wouldn't care if she died right now.

" I want momma…." She sobbed. "Momma, come back…" Mokou then fell asleep, tears still streaming down her cheeks.

"Well, well, well. Isn't it the prince's daughter?" Mokou cautiously opened one eye. The daylight blinded Mokou's eye for a moment, causing Mokou to flinch. "Hello, child. What are you doing here?" Mokou opened her other eye and sat up.

"Who-?" Mokou started

"Never mind who I am. Come. You can catch a cold out here." The speaker was a lady with dark brown eyes and hair tied up in a bun. She wore a short, simple but durable brown tunic and had kind, warm eyes. She reached out to stroke Mokou's hair, but Mokou backed away.

"Wha-What do you want? G-go away!" Mokou sputtered and coughed. Muddy field water had gotten into her mouth while she was asleep. It was a miracle she didn't die from choking and suffocation. "I need no one's help." Mokou croaked .

"Silly child. Follow me."

As much as Mokou had bluffed about her not needing help, she followed the lady across the rice field and into a humble, but homey hut. The lady brought some warm soup for both Mokou and she, dried Mokou off with a rough towel, and gave the shivering child a new tunic to wear. As the Fujiwara princess ate and drank the humble food gratefully, she described her plight with the beautiful Lunarian princess and her father and also how her mother had ran away because of the betrayal.

The old woman listened carefully, not interrupting, not asking questions.

A piece of wood in the fireplace cracked, sending a flurry of sparks and embers that extinguished almost instantly. The woman's eyes seemed to take on a purple gleam. Mokou fell into a hushed silence, as she could go on no longer without breaking down and sobbing. Mokou did not like to appear weak in front of strangers and in her opinion, breaking down and sobbing in the middle of a sentence is a sign of weakness and is extremely embarrassing to her. She choked and cringed, trying her best to hold in her tears. "And then, my father…" she sobbed. Suddenly a small yellow fox ran in through the door and sat beside the woman. Mokou was mystified with the sight of a wild fox in a house.

The woman stood up abruptly. "I must go. My… pets need me. I will be seeing you in… I'd say several hundred years." A gap opened in the air. The strange woman stepped through it and disappeared. The gap closed almost immediately after the woman.

Mokou finished the soup, wondering if she had been visited by a deity or something.

And thats it for this chapter… Anyway, any guesses on who the old woman really is? w0