Okay, I'm ditching my last fanfiction. I really, really hope that this is better.

*Plip, plip, plip*

*Pitter patter*

The soft sounds of rain were drumming on the roof.

"*Sigh.* This is going to be one long, rainy day," Reimu mused to herself. This very morning, when she woke up, she looked outside at the sky, a habit that she picked up a few months ago. Her intuition would tell her, "Oh, it's going to be cloudy today," or "Oh, it's going to be sunny today," or even "Oh, it's going to be sunny with a chance of danmaku today."

Today, during the early morning, even though the skies were violet and turning blue, and the rosy cheeks of dawn were rising from the horizons, and though there were no clouds in sight, her intuition told her, "Oh, it's going to be very depressing today. The skies will be totally filled with dark, black clouds for as far as the eye can see."

"I suppose I should make myself some nice, warm tea. I just hope the rain washes away the dust on my front yard." The second statement pertained to her possible laziness. "But them, again, I'm going to have to sweep the day after. *Sigh*" She walked over to her table to make some tea. She took the white-and-blue delicate teapot, added some tea leaves from a container, and put a shiny and clean bucket outside. Not the bucket that is used for holding dirty water.

She waited for the rain to collect, and sat on a simple, wooden chair. She thought to herself, "Barely anybody comes to visit my shrine nowadays. Sure, Marisa comes here every so often, and Suika is usually drinking herself drunk, but today, I suppose not." She looked around her rather run-downed shrine, but to say run-downed in her face would be your death wish. Let's just say she doesn't get donations that very often.

Speaking of donations, she suddenly realized. "My donation box!" she gasped. "It's going to gather water!" She grabbed her gohei, even though she doesn't need it, and looked around for that rather-useful constructible nylon car tent that Yukari was nice enough to drop by.

Flashback

"~Hey, Reimu." Yukari jumped out of her gap right in the middle of Reimu's front yard, tracking dust onto the freshly-swept floor, carrying a—is that a backpack?

"What are you doing here, Yukari?" responded Reimu coldly. The gap hag doesn't usually visit my shrine, and when she does, it's usually for a good reason, she reasoned.

"Aww, come on, don't be that icy to your guest~!" she answered in a sing-song voice.

"Well, you don't usually visit me, and when you do, you don't bring anything but news to me. Usually bad news."

"Well, today, I'm bringing a gift for you. It should make your life a little easier."

"Well, I don't want it. Take your gift and go. Shoo!"

"I haven't even told you or shown you what the gift is, and already you are trying to get me out of here. You do realize I'm not going to go away before you take my gift? I'm going to pester you, continue pestering you, and make your ~oh so~ miserable until you take it!"

Reimu admitted to herself that Yukari can be a pain in the you-know-what, and to be on her bad side would be worse. Not that she have seen her bad side before. Either that, or she kept on missing the sights. She wondered about the possible words Yukari may have screamed out in anger at some hapless youkai. "Fine, fine, show it to me."

Yukari undid the straps on her backpack and slipped it off. The backpack looked more like some sack of random stuff than a backpack. There were some long, strong metal poles sticking out from it. Eight, in fact.

"I brought you something from the Outside World. It's supposed to—"

"What? Something from the Outside World? Why would you bring such a thing here?"

"Oops, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Or, maybe I should gap everything in this shrine away, if you hate it so much."

Reimu lowered her shoulders in defeat. "Fine, fine. Just tell me what it does, so you can go away."

Yukari smiled. "Reimu, oh Reimu, if you wanted me to leave ASAP, then you should've have stopped the complaints!~" she sang.

Reimu frowned. "What's ASAP? Tree sap?"

Yukari stopped smiling. "Ugh, I should've known. You don't write letters, do you?"

"I do! It's just that, well, I don't write them as often. And how would you write ASAP?"

"I don't know the translations for ASAP, not that you would understand what ASAP looks like written on a piece of paper."

"Uh, can you stop stalling for time?"

"Then stop asking questions!"

"Ok, ok."

Yukari pulled the eight metal rods from the sack. "You see these rods? They're retractable. These four," she pointed to four metal poles that looked more like really tall T's, "serve as the base." She pulled Reimu outside, and planted them into the ground. "These other four, well, you screw each one into the ends of the tops of these T's," and screwed each one to make a cube missing its bottom edges. "And now," she stated while pulling out the canvas from the sack, "You put this nylon cloth—"

"What's nylon?"

"Uh, just think of it as canvas, okay? I swear I'll just die of old age while explaining nylon to you." She placed the "canvas" on top and connected it to the construction. "And you're done!"

To Reimu, it was an odd construction, looking like some small hut or structure, with the walls make of cloth. However, to any ordinary human with cars and a grass lawn, as well as a driveway, it is a tent to put your car under. Not that Reimu knew about cars, anyways. She'd probably wonder what those metal monsters are. Maybe new youkai, or something or other.

Yukari quickly disassembled it and forced Reimu to learn how to put it up and take it down. Reimu was cursing while doing this. She's lazy, so she doesn't want to do it.

End of flashback

"Ugh, it will be an absolute pain to erect it in this rain." She grabbed the sack, and took out the rods. "I don't have an umbrella, and I'm sure to catch a cold out there. She looked outside, back at the dark, menacing clouds that poured a huge amount of raindrops every second.

"Then why don't you assemble the frame inside the safety of your shrine, and put it outside under its safety? Then, you can come running in screaming like a pansy from the rain, and even then, you won't get wet. That much." her intuition spoke to her in her mind.

"Thanks, myself," she thought sarcastically. Her intuition remained silent. She quickly created the tent, and was about to move it outside when she looked out of her door to check if there was anything happening.

*Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink* Somebody was dropping coins into her donation box! She squealed with delight. Then, realization kicked in.

"Hey, nobody would be sane enough to walk all the way here and donate in the middle of this rain," she said to nobody in particular. She started moving the tent outside. "Maybe I'm just hallucinating."

Then, out of nowhere, somebody shouted over the sounds of the rain currently pounding on her roof, "Hey! Missy! Why don't I help you with that?" in a clear voice.

"Uh, sure."

Reimu saw a dark figure hurrying halfway across the yard, since she moved it halfway already. Judging on what she could see, despite the darkness of the clouds and the heaviness of the rain, a cloaked figure.

"So, where do you want me to put this?" asked the cloaked figure.

"Well, can you put it over my donation box?"

"Yes, miko."

Reimu moved along with the tent, half-heartedly helping. She looked at the cloaked figure, and saw that he was almost her height. She fancied why she was studying people's heights. If she did that in Satori's presence, she would no doubt be attacked by Okuu for insulting her friend/master.

Clunk!

"There! Done," said the figure.

"Thank you for helping me, mister," she answered politely.

"No problem! I have nothing to do in this rain, after all!"

She thought about the implications. Why would a person be doing in this heavy rain? And why is he here, after all? Maybe he's just a traveler, visiting the many areas in Gensokyo. Whatever the reason, maybe he's not aware of the population aspect ratio. Why is he here?

"I guess I'll be going now, but I don't think that it would be a good idea for you to run back to your shrine in that outfit of yours," he stated, with a hint of concern, and pointed to her regular outfit. "The raindrops are as cold as the deepness of winter. I have an umbrella you can use." He gave her an umbrella. An Outsider's umbrella.

Reimu thought about his character. Certainly, she did not meet anybody who would walk in the middle of freezing rain without a motive in mind. It's as if he's as carefree as Marisa. Possibly even more carefree. She decided that she wanted to know him a little more.

"Why don't you come into my shrine for a while? It wouldn't be a good idea for you to walk around in this freezing rain, as you said. I have some tea boiling."

"Okay, then. I guess I'll go rest my weary feet. I have been walking around with no apparent reason since morning."

The two moved away from the car tent and into the shrine. Reimu just then realized that she didn't even put the tea to boil yet. Heck, she didn't even add water!

"Why do you have a bucket that's brimming with water outside?"

"Oops. I just realized that I didn't even start adding the water to the tea and boil it yet. My mistake!" she responded, a little embarrassed.

"Ah, people forget all the time, so it's not your fault that you forgot about your tea." he responded. He sounded friendly. "I don't usually credit fault to people who say that certain stuff are their fault."

Hmm, so he doesn't blame people, thought Reimu. You don't usually see much of those type of people around.

"So, mister, uhh…"

"Uhh, my name's origin is, well, kind of ridiculous. However, when I was a boy, I usually was found holding a teddy bear. A habit, maybe? Whatever."

"You still haven't told me what you've been called."

"Teddy," he said in a low voice, as if he didn't want to say it out loud.

"Seems pretty okay for you."

"Yeah, but you still seem like a forgetful miko. You still didn't—"

"Call me Reimu. And what was that about forgetting?"

"You put the teapot onto the stove, but you didn't turn on the fire," he stated simply.

Reimu groaned. "That's what I get for meeting new people. Well, sometimes." She turned to go to the stove, but saw Teddy already at the stove. He still didn't take off his cloak. "Why don't you take off your cloak?"

"I don't know."

"Why don't you at least take off you hood?"

"I don't know."

"Do you say I don't know a lot?"

"I don't know. Uh, I mean yes."

He probably wants people to see him as somebody who doesn't think very deeply, Reimu mused to herself. It might be a good idea for him, but I can tell that he might not make good friends. Or that people might see him as an airhead/blockhead.

Maybe he's trying to run away from something, or is trying to keep something away from him, her intuition echoed in his mind.

"Say, Teddy, what was your childhood like?"

"I don't know."

Reimu had a mischievous glint in her eyes, and since Teddy noticed that, he shifted uncomfortably on his borrowed seat. No, not borrow like the Marisa form of borrowing!

"Uh, are you just going to consider bothering me until I say so?"

"Maybe," answered Reimu. "But if it's private or confidential information, then you don't have to."

"Well, I'll just give you a simple answer. I never really left my house in my childhood. So, you could say I am not really that good in social situations."

Reimu rolled her eyes. "Puh-lease. That doesn't mean that you should just fill other people's ears with 'I don't know.' They might not appreciate that."

"I suppose so," replied Teddy.

The two sipped their tea after talking. After drinking the tea, Teddy spoke up:

"I should leave now."

"Why?"

"Well, because I want to? At least that's better than an 'I don't know.'"

"Well, you can leave if you want to."

"Goodbye, Reimu. Maybe I'll see you again someday." He stepped outside the door.

"Goodbye, Teddy." She wondered to herself, "Was I really that friendly with him? Ah well. No matter. He can't beat me in a danmaku match. He doesn't seem like he can. Wait a minute." She looked outside.

"If it's that dark outside," she mused to herself, "wouldn't night youkai be running around? He has no way of defending himself, possibly. Then why does it seem as if he doesn't have any fear?"

"Well, maybe he's different. He probably knows the risks, but takes the chance to travel around anyways."

"He seems friendly. But why doesn't he show his face?" She wondered if Teddy had anything to do with this strange weather. She checked outside once again, and it is raining harder than ever. She could tell that it was raining cats and dogs outside. But why these clouds all of a sudden?

"Maybe there's an incident that's starting to occur. That must be a reason!" Reimu bashed her fist in her other hand's palm in triumph. "Otherwise, it's just some random freak weather occurrence. But weather patterns like that don't usually occur, and when it does, it's usually linked to an incident. Like that scarlet mist," she reasoned. "I guess I'll just go to sleep on it. There's barely anything to do in this type of weather condition. She yawned, and headed towards her futon. She slumped on it, and soon went to sleep. "One little sheep, two little sheep…" she thought drowsily.

Outside, the rain continued falling as hard as ever. But what Reimu failed to pick up was that some of the clouds were drifting closer to the ground, as well as the fact that the water level didn't increase after a certain point. Yes, even though it is raining buckets of water, the lazy miko failed to see that there was no flood. Meaning that this rain is magical, or casted by some youkai.

How was this chapter? Is it better than the really rough story that I wrote earlier? I hope so. Anyways, reviews, plz! I need to know what to improve on! And here's a large plate of cookies! (Whips out a okate of steaming, mouth-watering cookies from behind back) So, what do you think of this new OC? He's going to take a role later. Can you rip apart his character from what I put here? Please, tell me! I need to know the flaws! And, any conspiracy theories?

Touhou Project and its characters belong to ZUN. Teddy belongs to me. Oh wait, that sounds slightly wrong.