The Path of Two Best Friends
Pairing: Souji x Bashou
Genre: Romance
Disclaimer: I do not own Senran Kagura or any of its characters.
Author's Note: So…I just decided to write about these two more. It's all thanks to that card with them together that I found in the first place. And now this pairing has become a reality through New Link~! Glad they are in there and hopefully they'll show up in the Second Season of the anime. Hehe! I'm just rambling.
A-anyways! I can't be the only one writing about these two! So the reason for write this little series is for anyone who is willing to be inspired by this to write about them. Or whatever. Ehehe~!
Enjoy~!
Bashou and Souji are alone, walking inside a forest that night, searching for the strange presence of a yoma or two. Souji figures that the yoma might be located here in this forest, so Bashou follows her, close to her so that she won't be separated in case something happens.
"S-Sou-chan...I'm scared!" Bashou whimpers, clinging onto her partner while they are still walking deeper in the forest.
"Hey, no worries~" Souji says with a wink. "With me, the most gorgeous woman on the planet, I'll stay by your side~"
"S-sure...but...leave out your narcissistic personality, please..." Bashou sweat drops. "There's no time for gushing about yourself at a time like this."
"Nonsense! A woman ALWAYS has to look her best even before a fight~"
The shy greenette rolls her eyes with a soft sigh. Sometimes, Souji can be such a handful when being with her. She's lucky to even put up with her ego all the time when she's with her. They walk further into the forest until they stop to see a group of high school girls, just standing there, emotionless. There are about 5 of them.
"Huh?" Souji tilts her head in confusion. "The yoma presence is here and we see high school girls just standing around?"
"W-wait...something's not right," Bashou says as she points to one of them.
Their eyes glow bright yellow as a purple aura surrounds each of them as they start to saunter toward them.
"Soul..." one of them say. "Give us your souls..."
"S-Sou-chan!" Bashou cries, hoping that the blonde has some sort of plan.
"Now for some action!" Souji summons her bladed chain whip and lashes it out on the ground. "You ready, Ba-chan?"
The greenette summons her giant paintbrush that is a sword in disguise. "I'm ready when you are!"
The two separate as they go after the possessed girls. Souji spins around with her chain extending toward two of the girls, hitting them in the chest and she lands on her feet with a smile. The two girls stumble back, but just a little bit before starting to charge at her. Souji jumps in the air and lands behind them. She lashes out her whip again to catch one of them from behind and yank her back towards her.
"GET OVER HERE!" she roars.
Once she closes distance, she uppercuts her and trips her to the ground. She stomps on her chest just to let the spirit get out. As it tries to run away, Souji swings her whip to the right, hitting it and it vanishes into thin air.
Souji turns toward the other one, who is really angry for taking on its ally. The blonde lashes out her whip, catching her and yanking her back again.
"COME HERE!"
Closing distance, Souji punches the girl in the face, grabs her and throws her over head on her back on the ground. She stomps on her chest and the spirit immediately gets out. Souji swings her whip at it and it disappears, screeching as it vanishes.
"Two down...three to go~" Souji says.
Meanwhile Bashou is busy taking on two other possessed girls. She jumps back as one of them tries to scratch her. Clinging onto her brush, she has an idea. She raises it in the air, creates a small black character out of thin air and then swings it to the left, creating purple trails heading towards the two. It hits the two of them accurately, stunning them. She charges toward one of them, swinging her brush left and right and then downward, making the girl fall on her back. She raises her brush again and stabs the girl. She doesn't bleed from the impact, but it DOES let out the spirit. She looks up as she sees it trying to escape. She jumps and swings her brush at it, making it vanish.
She faces the other one who charges toward her, ready to attack. Bashou blocks it in time, shoves her out of the way and lunges toward her, thrusting her blade hidden by the hairs of the brush at the girl. She keeps on pushing her four or five times before she falls on her back, unable to escape. Bashou swings her brush to the left, hitting the girl and letting out the spirit. It tries to fly away as fast as it can, but Bashou uses her ninja speed to get in front of it and slash it down. She lands on her feet and Souji trots to her side.
"Yeah! Way to go, Ba-chan~!" Souji cheers.
"Y-yes, but...there's still..." Bashou says, looking around for the last one. "Where is it?"
Before Souji can answer, she is grabbed by the last possessed girl, a long haired red head. She struggles to get free, but the girl seems too strong. She bares her teeth, ready to bite her, but Souji elbows her and lashes out her whip. The girl blocks it and charges to scratch her and punch her in the gut. Then, she uppercuts, making Souji stumble back and land on her side. She seriously didn't know THIS yoma is the strongest one out of all of them. Was it waiting all this time to strike as they were busy taking out the weaker ones?
"Sou-chan!" Bashou quickly runs to her aid. The blonde is injured, nothing too serious, but at the point where she can't get up. There is a mark on her side that the yoma scratched her with. "Oh, no! You're hurt!"
"Ba-chan...I'm fine...I can...gah!" She tries to get up, but the pain is too much and falls on her side again.
"No..." Bashou is ready to cry from her best friend getting injured like that, but she won't. She HAS to protect Souji...just like the blonde protected her before. "Sou-chan...wait here. I'll handle this."
Souji watches as Bashou turns toward the strong possessed girl and charges at her. She swings left and right, diagonally up and down and then spins 360 to hit it far to distance the two of them and far from Souji. She rushes toward the red head and blocks the scratch attack from the possessed girl, shoves her back and swings her brush left and right again, hitting it multiple times. She kicks it far to create distance and readies her brush.
"SECRET NINJA ART!" she cries.
She traces a gigantic character around the possessed girl with a purple coloring, hitting it as she goes. She then finishes the character by slamming down the tip of her brush and then it explodes where the girl is standing in. She falls down on her back and Bashou jumps on top of her, glaring at her hard.
"No one...shall hurt Sou-chan!" She stabs the girl and in a few moments, the spirit flies out of the girl's body.
It tries to fly away, but Bashou jumps in the air and slashes it from behind, making it vanish and she lands on her feet and wipes the sweat from her forehead.
All the girls lie unconscious due to the spirit leaving them, but she'll deal with them for a little bit. Right now, Souji is still hurt, so she rushes toward her. She grabs a handkerchief from her skirt pocket to treat her best friend's wounds.
"Ba-chan..."
"It's okay. I got you..." Bashou slowly and gently pats the spot where Souji is hit.
"You've really...become stronger, huh~?" the blonde says with a smile. "I'm quite impressed~"
"Y-you think so?" Bashou is blushing, but smiles at the same time.
"Yes," Souji smiles and pets her like a puppy. "And here I thought you're just a follower. My little puppy, so to speak~"
"Hey, I-I'm not Ryona-san!" the shy greenette pouts.
"I'm kidding!" Souji laughs. "But seriously. You've proven yourself to be as strong as me in order to protect me this time."
"Sou-chan~!"
Bashou gives her best friend a hug and a kiss on the cheek for good measure, making the blonde a blushing mess, but smiles at the same time. They have saved the world from evil by working together and protecting each other at the same time. Until another day…where yoma will rise again…
A/N: Tell me what you think. Ehehe! I'm still not fully grasping on their personalities since they only showed up a little bit in PBS in the English version. They need to show more of them! XD
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