Touhou ~ Rain of Sleeping Sanctuaries
Chapter 1 ~ Highly Responsive to Prayers
Gosh Syphira! When are you going to stop making so many fanfics!
Well, I ain't stopping now. While I still have a short story thing, Links to Fantasy, and two Persona fanfictions to work on (Dropping the Yu-Gi-Oh! Sorry guys...) I'm not going to give up! Ideas will spark in my mind when they feel like it.
Decided to try out Touhou, since I recently got into again. I apologize if some of it seems... OOC-ish, but I really have trouble on Personalities.
So.. Enjoy!
Snow... Is it winter..?
December 24th, 2009.. Christmas... I had just fallen asleep from a festive celebration in Japan. My family was busily drinking Sake like they did every year, but my sisters would be opening the presents.
...Where was I in the picture?
I always walked out on a snowy Christmas letting my bare feet hit against the snow and make my skin shiver and pop with goosebumps. Snow.. Snow is useless indeed.. Just like me.
..But that night was different.
I was walking down the stairs to get a glass of water to help me sleep (of course, it was 3'o clock in the morning in my time), but I noticed a shadow moving around and rummaging into my kitchen. I ran back to my room, grabbing my bamboo blade and running downstairs in green pajamas. I ran into the kitchen and found the fridge door open, but...
...Where was the enemy..?
"Agh!" I yelped, feeling two arms grab me from behind as I dropped the blade to the floor. I heard grunts as he tried to keep me in place while he wrapped some tape over my mouth to keep me quiet. I was screaming, but I froze in my place as I felt a blindfold wrap around my eyes tightly. "..!"
I felt something touching the back of my head, and when I was going to turn around slightly (despite the fact I couldn't see anything) I felt a swift hit to my head, not to mention hard.
"!" I felt tears bundling up as I felt dizzy, and fell to my knees. Was this a dream..? What was going to happen, was he going to rape me? All I felt was the world slipping from my grasp, and my head clearing as I blacked out.
I'm praying... I'm praying that I'd get out safe and everything.
Kourindou. A shop located in Forest of Magic from world of Gensokyo. Years ago, Gensokyo was a so desolate and haunted .. a place where the people of Japan did not want to visit. That's when those "creatures" came.. Youkai. Now? Humans and Youkai can live together in peace... but Youkai still have a habit of eating them.
"Were you able to fix the cloth on my dress, Rinnosuke-san?" Reimu Hakurei. A Shrine Maiden with a red and white dress held in her hands that symbolized that she meant business. Her hair was a darkened brown, that looked like black. Her dark red eyes looking at Rinnosuke with impatience. "I really need it because I don't need to be seen in a man's shirt!"
"Alright, alright." Rinnosuke Morichika, owner of Kourindou replied. "Though, you really should stop barging in all the time.. it's caused quite a mess..."
"Whatever, whatever!" She spoke to the man in what seemed to be in a black and blue yukata. He had gray hair, and yellow eyes, but he looked like he was in his twenties! Reimu never did listen to his warnings. "Just hurry and fix it!"
"Of course, of course.." He sighed, taking the needle and beginning to sew the cloth back together. "Please stand still, I-"
*BOOM*
"W-What was that?" Reimu moved, having her get pricked on the leg by the needle. "Ow!"
"I told you not to move.." He put the needle and string down and got up onto his feet. "This better not be one of Marisa's hijinks..!"
"I know Marisa likes to blow things up, but.." Reimu looked around to see if the store was in any harm. "I highly doubt she would want to mess with your house."
"Whatever, let's go outside and check out what all the noise came from." Rinnosuke suggested, as Reimu quickly followed him outside by floating in the air. She may be a human, but she was a Youkai hunter and wanted to keep Gensokyo peaceful for it's inhabitants to live in.
The Forest of Magic had trees surrounding all of Kourindou. It's green auras being given off to the other trees as Rinnosuke would work as a shopkeeper. As a half-human and half-youkai, it wasn't a problem getting used to all the trees in the Forest of Magic.
Though something was different about the Forest of Magic. The trees rarely ever cut themselves down, and they never burnt or had smoke coming from one direction of them. Rinnosuke, with the help of Reimu, flew around the trees and spotted where the smoke was coming from. "What the hell..?"
A female was wearing a tattered blindfold, as well as the tape covering her mouth. Only one of the buttons were unbuttoned, so the female must've struggled out of someone's grasp. She had a bang cover her right eye, and the rest of her hair flow down her shoulders. Though, it wasn't as pretty.. or perfect. It was dirty and muddy, but then again so was everything else.
"A girl?" Rinnosuke knelt down to her height, putting two of his fingers on her neck. "She still has a pulse.. and she's cold. I wonder what happened to her."
"Whatever happened, she might have came from the sky!" Reimu's eyes widened as she said this. "Then.. She must've come through the Hakurei Border! Rinnosuke-san, you can fix my clothes later. I need to go check out the shrine!"
'Like I would want to fix your clothes anyway...' Rinnosuke thought to himself, picking the girl up bridal style and watching as Reimu flew into the air and disappeared out of his vision. He fixed the glasses he always wore. "Huh.. She seems injured as well."
The girl didn't budge, or stir as he walked through the trees to get back into Kourindou. The entrance itself was filled with junk, but it was pretty warm on the inside as he took her in.
Hours had passed, but Reimu did not return to Kourindou. The female was placed comfortably onto a mat, laying underneath a kotatsu that Rinnosuke must have picked up when he was looking outside for more junk to put in his house. When he had first put her into the house, her breathing was rather ragged and hard to control. She had no problem sleeping soundly, though as blush appeared on her face from the warmth and happiness she obtained while she was sleeping. Rinnosuke had walked out of the room to make some tea, enough for two people.
"Will this girl ever wake up?" He grunted, placing the tray with only one teacup on top of the Kotatsu as he sat back by his computer and desk. He began to sip the tea that he poured for him. "It's been five hours since we've seen her already... Reimu better know what she's doing."
"...Unn... What happened..?"
Minutes later, the female's hands began to twitch as her sea blue eyes slowly opened to reveal what was around her. She lifted herself up to smell the warm tea on the kotatsu, but something struck her odd. She looked to her left: objects. She looked to her right: more objects. When she looked up ahead, her eyes widened once she saw Rinnosuke. She slid out from under the kotatsu, backing up to the wall with her heartbeat rising.
"Oh?" He looked to her, his brows furrowing. "Well, it's about time you woke up. How are you feeling?"
"N-No! Get away from me!" She screamed, covering herself up as she huddled up and hid her face in her knees. "You just want to hurt me!"
"O-Oi..?" He got up from his chair, walking closer to her as she waved her arm in the air. She was trying to hit him, and he wasn't even that close to her. "Calm down, calm down! Where did you come from, little girl?"
She felt tears fall down her cheeks as she looked back to Rinnosuke. "...I don't know."
"What do you mean?" He tilted his head.
"I-I remember a guy.. trying to hurt me.." She whimpered, "I remember being hit in the head, but... I don't remember where I was at or where I'm from! I-I don't...even remember my name.."
"I see..." He rubbed his chin, kneeling down to her height again and grabbing the cup of tea from the Kotatsu. "Here.. Why don't you calm down and then I'll explain why you're here."
"..." She stayed quiet, reaching her hand out to touch the tea as her eyes examined his face. 'H-He... He's sincere.. and wants to help me, it seems.'
"Come on, I won't bite." He chuckled, "Not like the Youkai do."
She blinked, huddling back to the corner once she snatched the tea with her two hands. "..Thank you."
The hot cup touched her lips as she closed her eyes to remember all that she could. There were fragments of what she didn't want to remember, but she bit her lip and held onto the cup tightly when she did so. Kourindou was pretty silent for the time being...
"So.." Rinnosuke crossed his legs, looking back at the female with an interested look on his face. "Mind if I ask some questions..?"
"L-Like what?" She whimpered, tightly clutching the cup as she trembled from fear. She was quite confused with herself. She was never able to read emotions... so why is she able to read them now?
"Oh, simple ones. For example, what is your name?"
"..I said I don't know..."
"Where you came from?"
"I don't..."
"How old you are?"
"..." She hung her head, averting her eyes in all directions to see if she remembered. She then looked back up to him, shaking her head. "I dunno..."
"I see.." He scratched the back of his head. "You have a strong case of amnesia then.. You don't even remember where you lived?"
"I only remember names.. I don't remember where I've lived, or where I come from.." She huddled herself back up again, "I'm sorry, sir..."
"Hey, don't call me that." His words made her head perk up. "My name is Morichika, Rinnosuke."
"Mori...chika-san..." She whispered the name under her breath, muttering it so she could remember and wouldn't have to stress herself to do so later on. "Morichika..." She winced, feeling a bit faint from all that had happened to her.
"Don't push yourself." He moved to her direction and wrapped his arm around her back to support her as he also held the cup with her free hand.
In truth, the girl was terrified. She faintly remembered an incident that happened at her house.. and suddenly she ended up here, in a man's house of all places. Her eyes were still dilated, as her body tensed up from his touch. She then shut her eyes closed, the tears sliding down the cheeks of hers. Rinnosuke's eyes softened, as he moved the hand on her back to her shoulder.
"It'll be alright..." He chuckled lightly, "You were found in the Forest of Magic by the Shrine Maiden here, and she suggested that I would take you into the store."
"F-Forest of..M-Magic..?" She opened her eyes a little, turning her head to face him. "T-There's no.. s-such thing as Magic..."
"Hahaha, indeed there is." He continued to chuckle, "This world... is much different than any other world. That is what people say..."
"People...say..?" She tilted her head in confusion. "So you mean.. Where ever I was, I'm not there anymore..? Where am I?"
"You are in the world protected by the Spiritual Border," He began to explain. "The world that not many know of, and if they do they run through the border to start a new life here. One where not many die, and one that is filled with a new adventure to be foretold out of it..."
"And.. where is that..?"
"Ah, little girl. I can easily tell you have not heard of this world before in your life." He moved his hand to her head, ruffling her hair a little.
"Welcome.. to Gensokyo."
I sparked up ideas the whole entire day, but got to working on this at like..10PM. So, I barely finished at like 1. I have her profile fixed up and ready and all, but..please disregard all the spelling mistakes and typos I COULD'VE fixed. Hahaha~ I've wanted to do a "serious" Touhou Story, but at the same time add some comical flaws into it later.
Anyways..
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