Here it come, the Chapter 1(Edit due to some errors I spotted afterward) ,It took me some time because I already started the chapter 2 and 3 Before ending that one. When an Idea size me I can't help but go developing it ,and then grinning during a long time at my genius( this story maybe shit but some idea I had ,I am really proud of me). And that generally result in the story being written from different point( for example the start of chapter 2 was made before the end of chapter 1 )
But I digress ,here is the chapter, I hope you Like it
(Edit due to some errors I spotted afterward)
Disclaimer:I don't own Saki,Touhou or their character,
Missing Power in Strict Sens
Chapter 1 :Going out ?
or
"How to end up having to play a game to save the your friends'soul...and the world ?"
(Sakuya POV)
"When will she get up ? I am starting to think we should have gone up there to see what happened"
That's the first thing that I heard when I came to, the memories of the cataclysm that had take place in front of my eyes still vivid in my mind .Seeing the soul of powerful Youkai ripe off of their body wasn't something that you can forget so easily ,and wasn't something that I wanted to forget for the mean time.
"Wait ,It won't take long she wasn't that injured"
Where am I, and who is this ? I carefully opened my eyes while reading my self to fight if needed. My vision was still blurred from the shock ,I could only see four human form but couldn't see their face. I could also see that I was in what seems to be a japanese's style room ,really different from the ones in the Manors,Am I in the shrine?
"Look she is moving she must be waking up" I finally recognized the voices of the ones around me. That one must be Reimu.
"Ah ,at least ,we will finally heard what is today's mess, go spank the ass off the responsible and then take the tea with them at Flandre birthday~ze" .That one indisputably Marisa.
"If it could be done so easily Reimu would have been the first to go, we are waiting for information because her intuition is saying that going without knowing would be useless" and that voice belong to Youmu
It's then that I remember that just before totally losing conscience I saw someone with plutonium hair and fox ears
It must have been Miko... does it mean I fell in the Senkai ,I didn't knew it goes till the Manor.
"So now that you're awake ,can you tell us what happened up there by the hell of blazing fire ,I want to end it before evening to be sure that Kanako-Sama and Suwako-sama take the right present for Flandre . We may have an Incident but it still would be rude to don't give it to her . Even if she is a Vampire"
I was about to tell them what happened when I understood what implied what she was saying " The right present …you mean … there was a wrong present"
"Yeah they wanted to make her test a new product but I think it's to early and I have another present perfect for her" she smirked a little before coming back to what she was saying "but now isn't the good moment, what happen at the party that made you fall here..."
"And younger ,don't forget younger ~ze" Marisa finished
"Eh ? What do you mean younger … no forget ,I will see that latter ,and after what took place this is the least of my worries" then going back to Sanae "But one of my biggest may concern that wrong present, what was it?"
"Nothing , just an electrical converter for magic use , I don't see what it could have to do whit the incident ,like I said we decide to offer her something else in the end. "she said matter of factly " and they shouldn't be there already"
"You are wrong on every thing there Sanae those goddesses were already at the Manor .An the present have everything to do with it ,What sent me through the walls was the apparently the wrong use of them..."
"What ? you were put through the walls by a present!" Marisa interjected ..
"It can't be ,Are you sure they were already there?" Sanae asked.
"What wrong use exactly?" Reimu and Youmu inquired ,seemingly more on the real trouble at hand.
I was starting to get an headache but I opted to answer each of their question .They 'll know soon enough even if I don't says it and I'll need their help to resolve that big mess.
"Firstly ,yes Sanae I am absolutely sure they were at the Manor, like almost all infamous person in Gensokyo."
She was about to interrupt but I hadn't the time so I ignored her ,making a sign that she could complain later, and continued.
"Secondly Yes Marisa I was knock down trough the walls partly due to presents ? But they were Yukari present and "the Wrong" present from the Moriya for Flandre . She was in a bad mood and found that her present were the good outlet for her anger"
Having answered their latest questions I came back to the main one.
"And to answer you first question I will just say that after the misuse of those present by Flandre and the missed tentative of some Lunarians and I to stop the apocalyptic chain reaction that followed" I stopped, catching my breath and making sure every one was listening "
"Every supernatural being that was near enough of the Manor is now an empty vessel having been strip of their soul and Power"
"WHAT!" this time the reaction was unanimous ,even Miko still there had reacted the same.
None of them asking a question I took the decision to deal the last blow "From what I saw their essence still exist but it got out of the Border of Gensokyo" When I ended my sentence I was fairly sure I herd Reimu nerves snap.
And I could see the distress on their face ,
"... all of them, all of them?"Youmu asked ,undoubtedly thinking About Yuyuko
"From what I've seen, yes, all without exception ,from fairies to Yama trough God ,Youkai,Ghost,Celestial, Tengu , Lunarian even Keine and Mokou ,and they're originally humans... I don't even know how I am still here."
"Even the Yama, what was that lesson maker doing there~ze"
"It was her day out so she decided to come and light the bomb" I said in a sarcastic tone "Everything was her handiwork in the first place ,since ,had she not tried to lecture Flandre ,she wouldn't have made everything explode while trying to find quickly an outlet for her rage"
"I knew that by wanting to lecture everyone ,one day ,she would cause an Incident" Reimu was at that moment the portrait of a mother earring for the xxxx time that her child had made a stupidity,That is to say her habitual face during Incident "But to think she would indirectly cause the vanishing of all nearly power holder in Gensokyo... That one I didn't saw It coming" I think that no one saw that coming in fact.
"So what do we do now?"
(Reimu POV)
Even if every thing was already causing me a headache it was for those occurrence that Gensokyo really needed me ,the Hakurei shrine maiden, so when I saw that no one was taking the initiative I started:
"You said that they are empty vessel right Sakuya?" she nodded in agreement at her question
" we should Gather the bodies here first and deal with the immediate treat that came from them being absent ,Miko you will help us for that particularly the underground Sun , it should be resting while Utsusho is out but it will need to be check on it every now and then,...and I don't really know how that thing work so ask Sanae"
"pfiou ...,Reimu you know how to deal with that sorta situation~ze "
"Not really, it's just common sens, I don't now why you are so surprised"
"She wouldn't be if you were more active like that in normal time, you always do only the minimum work"
" Maybe ,but it's always with maximum efficiency . I don't see why I should overwork myself when it's for nothing. But No time to loose ,If everyone is ready we got to start"
" The underground sun," Miko finally caught on "you want me to tend to it ?How am I supposed to do that ?"
"Ask your follower to do it ,Seiga should be able to go there and come back without much effort and is smart enough to understand not to mess whit it I believe"I opened the door and stopped waiting for Miko to show us out " now if you still want to talk do it while we go out of here"
She looked at the five us ,pondering for a time and said "Why do you care so much as to get out of Gensokyo for them?"and then she looked at Sanae and me particularly" Aren't you two suppose to exterminate Youkai ? ...However your desire to save those freak are strong enough that I could ear them even at the other side of Gensokyo"
"That's easy ,even if they are troublesome and some time scary,most of them are still friend~ze"
"Exact ,and even some more for some of us ," Sanae continued "but what do you mean going outside of Gensokyo?" she was a little confused about that bit.
"Weren't you listening when I said that I saw their soul disappearing outside the Border? That why she was asking Miko to take care of the Inside while we go outside searching for them"
"No I didn't hear it ,I stopped hearing for a while after you said that even the Goddesses had vanished,sorry"
"No problem ,but if they are outside we have even more reason to go" that time it was Youmu "So much power getting loose outside won't be good. Being for us or for them"
She was right and Miko knew it ,But she was still pondering .Does she dislikes them that much? Not even awake for long and so much conflict with the other already? To be sure she would do what had to be done I said the thing that would certainly make accede at our request:
"And, even if we don't like it, Gensokyo won't survive long without them. Particularly Yukari and her shikigami who're doing more than half the job maintaining the Border." I frowned saying that last bit ,not being proud of it. I still hadn't enough experience to do it alone myself .Okay ,I admit I'm a little too much lazy on that. But Yukari is even lazier. The one doing all the work's Ran.
While I was self blaming for not having done my work properly Miko reached a decision. "I'll do as you say this time ,Even if it mean that Byakuren might come back, It would be worse for us if Gensokyo become too unstable"
She passed me at the door and said "Follow me I will show you the road to the Manor where I fond Sakuya" she started walking with us behind her.
…...
While walking as quickly as we could Marisa came to me and said quietly "Are you sure you want to entrust those hermits with the security of Gensokyo while we are away ,specially that bit about Seiga and the underground Sun" she looked like that bit was what really upset her " Letting that thief near that thing can't possibly end right~ze"
"You where near it not long ago and nothing happen, she maybe mischievous but she should know not to temper with a Sun ...I hope" I had that last bit in my head before resuming "And it won't be necessarily her, it's just that going trough wall till the former 'hell of blazing fire' will be quicker. And she can let some of her Jiang Shi guard it"
"You are right, she may be on the border of being kleptomaniac but she was the one who show me the road of Taoism, she 's wise enough" Miko had likely use her peculiar earring and heard us "and even if she's not I will make sure that no trouble arise while you're …
Aahhhhh" Miko was about to continue when we heard Sakuya shout we all turn to see what was the reason for the sudden cry"What is this ,why is my body like that? I look Like Youmu now"
She had finally stumble on a mirror in the hall where we were walking
"I don't see what's the trouble looking like me, and I am older than you"
"You should know age has nothing to do with the physical body"
"Yeah ,she's right look at your Mistresses she is more than 500 years old but she look like a 10 years old child~ze"
"Suwako-sama look young but she's been alive for thousands years ,I know she is a god but still"
"I know that but..." she looked at her chest annoyed "And how did I and up like that?
For me it was clear how, "I would say a good mixture between the mess at the Manor and your power to manipulated time" I said impatiently "You just got a little younger that's all"
"Some people outside would kill to have that happen to them" Sanae added
"I don't care about those people ,nobody would take me seriously looking like that" she looked really depressed. Why does she care so much for some years less?
"I don't see the problem, I look young but every one take me seriously,and if they don't I just put my sword under their neck and they understand"
"You can't do that outside Youmu ,weaponry are prohibited outside"
At that time Miko stopped in front of a Big heap of earth and rock and looked at the big hole above where we could see the sun light and a part of what was remaining of the Manor.
"Ah! so she was talking about that hole" I couldn't help saying
"... Is it all you have to say Reimu? It will be a hell to repair everything?"
"At least Patchy won't complain that I never give back the book I borrowed~ze"
She could never have been more on mark ,because the hole that we were under was going from the garden to the other side of the Voile Library ,or more accurately what was the Library.
We could see the bodies of some of the victim just in from of us on the rubble that had fallen from the hole
"That hole wasn't that big when I rescued Sakuya earlier" Miko said to prevent anyone from asking why she hadn't taken the others' bodies
"It must have collapse in the meantime" what Youmu said ended the discussion on the matter everyone implicitly agreeing that it must have been it.
"Anyway we don't have the time to converse about what happened we have to finish collecting the bodies before the Sun set if we want to go out today"
"Why before sun set? Is there something at that time for you to be so serious about it" Sakuya said , put back on track by the tone of my voice
"Because the spell to weaken the Border work better at that moment and we can't go trough without it"
"eh , so you know how to do that to"
"I had no choice but to learn it after you and Yuyuko gave us an endless winter 2 years ago,"Actually I had piked up a lot of trick since two years ago, I was thinking of one notably that will clearly be very useful in the near future,and I don't even have to use my power for that one so no problem using it outside.
While I was thinking that ,Marisa and Sakuya had already gone outside to find the bodies that weren't in the hole and Sanae was extracting Suwako from under the rubble
"I guess we should start to. Youmu help dig out those one ,I wouldn't want a war with the moon because their bodies have been broken" without waiting the answer I started removing the clay on
(Miko POV)
"So that what those girls are able to in time of need , good indeed" I was looking at those 'nearly normal' human girl and liking what I saw, and heard ;Maybe helping them will bring me benefit in the future
"Do you want me to call Futo ,Tojiko and Seiga to helps?"
I didn't wait the answer ,already knowing it and called to them before going out of the hole to help finding the scattered bodies those Youkai ,spotting Byakuren and Kasen's bodies I couldn't help smile a little "At least those to won't bug us for some time now ,What was Kasen doing at the birthday of a mad vampire anyway"
I took one of them under each arm ,not bothering being careful if they were hurt, and got back to the pit. They were only body anyways and if I was right it will take a long time before they can their soul and power,
When I was back I saw that Seiga and Futo were already there.
"So what did you call us for,it must have something to do with that big hole in the ceiling and the soulless body here and there but I don't see what you want" Seiga asked
"And why are you carrying those two ,didn't you hated them?" Futo went on
"No I don't hate them both , just the monk .The only one who hate Kasen here is Seiga"I professed " And for the reason I called you her ,it's to help those girl gather the bodies of the Youkai here"
"And why do we have to do that?"Seiga wasn't pleased by what she just heard.
"Because your boss said you would do it~ze" Marisa said ,carrying carefully in her arm a girl who looked like her but with shorter air ,wearying a white and blue robe ,an other girl ,that one with a full pink dress a cape ,on her broom.
"And because we have to do it quickly so we can go outside to get back their soul" followed Sanae ,having mange to dig out one of her goddesses and digging out the second.
"Are they serious? You really said that Miko?"Futo was on the same wavelength with Seiga for once.
"We don't really have the choice, as much as I am reluctant to admit it ,those freak are necessary to the well-being of Gensokyo and I don't thing we could live somewhere else for the time being"
"... Your right ,I don't like it but yeah tour right"Seiga understood my point more quickly than expect but I was glad
"So where do we put those soulless corps ,not in the Senkai I hope"
"In-fact" Reimu stood on "I would appreciate If you could let them in a piece under the shrine,it will be easier to put their soul back in their body that way since I will send them back using the link between two Yin-Yang orbs"
"I see ,yeah I should have known but..." But then Futo cut Seiga "Wait ,did you said send them back?" Ah that's right they don't know that the soul are outside.
"could it be,... no impossible it was ten years ago" I heard Seiga murmured, and seeing I was the only one to hear it even if I wasn't the nearest ,I thought I imagined it but still put it in the back of my mind before answering
"It would seem that the soul and power of those poor creature got lost outside so those Girls want to go outside to collect them and put them back in their body"
"I understand, and will go along"Futo said while going in what was remaining of the Manor.
Seiga still had interrogation and stayed ,and"But do they at least know at to put a soul that don't belong to a body out of it?" I was starting to ask myself the same question.
"Eh?"It was the girls turn to be surprise .They didn't though about it?
"What do you mean "put a soul outside a body" ,they aren't ghost," Reimu asked
"And even ghost don't do the most of the time" Being half-ghost ,Youmu must have felt she had to say it
"Yes, exactly they aren't ghost,they are power and soul without a body, Even if they didn't want it they Must already be resting inside the body of someone matching with them"That is something I knew too well ,having worked on resurrection ,reincarnation and everything that touch the cycle of soul.
"Really ? That would cause even more problem. Would they take the control of the one they're inside?"
"I don't think ,The main soul is too strongly tied to the body,"she then took a pause to think a little more about it and finished by"Maybe during the sleep ,and even then the vessel would need to be a powerful one himself,that's counting the soul inside already stabilized"
"How do you know it ,your are strangely knowledgeable about that thing"
"What sort of knowledge do you think is necessary to practice resurrection and manipulate Jiang Shi ? Of course I know that sort of thing" Seiga said proudly
"And would that knowledge extend to how to extract it" this time the question came from Sakuya who was still working on gathering the body and was Currently carrying Two vampire that looked exactly the same ,two petites blondes with colorful crystals instead of black bat wings. She had already found two exactly like them earlier.
"Obviously it extend to that ,it would make no sens if it wasn't include,and it's a trouble mean seeing the one outside use supernatural power for only one thing,"
Sanae reacted to that stopped digging and ,with a face of someone who was forced to eat something they hate, begged :
"Please,don't tell me you are talking about that game"
" Oh I see that you know about it ." Sanae gasped, about to cry Does she hate it that much ,I personally find it fun
"That's right if you ,want to collect the soul out of their temporary vessel you will first have to force the vessels to use power and leak out the aura of the ones trap inside them" Seiga then grinned ant finished "And the only mean to do that outside is by playing Mahjong"
"Nooo... I knew it ,why Mahjong I hate that game"
"What In the Blazing hell do you mean ... ,Mahjong,It"s just a normal game?"Reimu seamed to don't understand How mahjong could have anything to do with it.
"You never played it seriously Right . Or you would have reacted more like that girl there"she was pointing Sanae, "or her" this time she was looking at Sakuya who was slightly smiling.
"Miko what does she mean ,I played it from time,using my power a little I admit ,but that game is nothing special"
"You see ,that is part of the problem ,The Mahjong is an old games ,and even if in most case nothing happen,when some one who got power play it outside the Border ,where magic as nearly disappeared , the power of that person manifest itself ,turning around the law of probabilities to fit the personality and deep wish of its user ,it was a great mean to find promising individual back in the day"
"Really ! that game can do that"
"It is like a ceremony to draw out the interior of the players with each draw, Why do you think they are rules that clearly state that you don't have the right to use special power sometime" the one to say that wasn't me or Seiga but Sakuya, still there since we started talking about Mahjong
"I didn't knew ,So we will have to find and then play mahjong against the one who are inhabited by our friend here , I don't think we will end it before next year"
"You maybe right about that but do not worry ,every one of them should actively play mahjong,that game tend to attract those with power"
"At least it will help a little,and it shouldn't be to hard to draw the maximum out of outside people"
Sanae the intervene "Don't underestimate that game ,our the people outside ,it's not for nothing that I don't like playing it even if I love the Kanako-Sama once said ''Mahjong is like a 4Player free for all Danmaku battle ,and they are all using spell-cards at the same time'',and I tend to agree with that"
Every one looked at her ,all with different expression ,some agreeing like me ,some disbelieving , and the witch her was ecstatic , I could literally here here desire to play before she said it
"Genial,I want to try that ,4player free for all Danmaku battle~ze"and she was sincere when she said it.
"Genial for mad person like you ,I hate it when I have to pay even so I didn't get hit directly"
"It's easy just don't let them hit at all~ze"
"As if it was that easy,I never saw someone never paying at all on the long run"
"Okay, okay,... we understand ,It'll clearly be harsh ,but we must first end the gathering of every one,and we Must do it Fast remember?" Reimu was visibly tired of all this"So every one get back to work .Seiga ,where is that Yoshika ?she would be useful here"
"She was here not long ago but I sent her back at the Mausoleum with Tojiko to find something you will need"I had a hunch of what it may be but decided that I should get back to the task ,and while Reimu seemed irritated with the secrecy of my fellow hermits she judged it more important to finish the work at hand.
"I understand , we will see that latter but now we need to work" adding the act to the word Reimu got back on the other side of the rubble to dig out some of the remaining bodies
I then saw Seiga go through the ceiling, probably going to search under the ruin of the Manor and I shrugged It'll be a long work but It will make for a good work-out.
…...
The rest of the project was uneventful ,although it took 3 hours to finish and at least gather all the corps under the shrine . They where all Lying there in the extension of the Senkai that was under the Hakurei Shrine that we had some hard time to find because of the unusual behavior of our shape-shifting dojo
In fact the Senkai seemed to be stuck in real space since Sakuya had gone through the ceiling and was now definitively extending under all that part of Gensokyo ,making giant maze under it.
"...ahhh.. I am so tired ,how many do we have~ze?" Marisa was exhausted
"Seventy I believe ,I am not sure because of some fairy that may not count" So was Sanae who was lying next to the the bodies of her Goddesses
"If it wasn't for the circumstance I would say it was a good work out" Sakuya was still totally fine in spite of the three hours of forced digging and walking with body on her arm
" Yes ,it was good practice,but I didn't knew that a ghost could weigh that much,I will have to force Yuyuko-Sama to diet "and Youmu looked has fine has her
"We had some unusual guess too, It's like every one that we had to fight since Remilia's Red sky was there apart from us"
"And even some that we fought before~ze?" Marisa added " What were those two doing there anyway~ze?"
" I don't know ,surely planing something bad like the last time ,they didn't have the time thought , but I am more concerned about those that one here" she pointed a four identical bodies that where resting in the center of the place.
"You mean Flandre right,It also disturbed me very much , it would seem that in the confusion she used her [Four of a Kind]" Sakuya was visibly worried.
"And the four were struck at the same time ?" Sanae seemed to be in a day were she was questioning every thing, was it an after-effect of the shock of having lost her Goddesses. " How is that possible?"
I choose that time to intervene "She was at the center of everything so her using a spell card to try fleeing the explosion and getting struck instantly on her four incarnation isn't much a stretch, she is mentally unstable so I can easily see her soul split up in four parts,and I'm afraid that's mean you will have to fight four Flandre"
That seemed to convince everyone,and maybe scar them a little at the idea, and with Seiga and Yoshika coming back we followed on the next matter
"Here you five take this ,you will need it" Seiga said while Yoshika gave the bag full of strange Crystal orbs. So I was right she is giving those 'soul collector' ,it's true that's they'll need it outside,Reimu might be able to do without tank to her Yin-yang orbs but not the others and it'll be easier with that.
They took it and looked at them strangely before Youmu asked "What are those? And how do we use them?"
"They are 'soul collector' ,they can capture a soul when it got out of a body. We made them during our quest based on exorcist spell and item" Seiga said
"Has for how they work don't bother about how, you just have to take them with you for your match they will capture the leaking soul automatically, and you can even talk with the soul inside afterward if you want to ask them something," I continued
"Reimu will use her Yin-yang orb to send them back one by one and you will open those crystal and put the soul back in their body once they are here ,right?" Youmu had understood the principle ,and the other too for what I could see
"I don't even want to know why you had those thing and what for you use them but thank it will help us greatly" Reimu thanked us ,a little disturbed by the possible use of the 'soul collector'.
"So with this we got everything that we need so we should go now?" Sakuya said, tying her pouch of orb to her belt.
"Yes we should, opening the Border will take me some time but not too much"
We then took a ladder that we had set a little earlier and got out straight in the entrance of the Hakurei shrine
Reimu ,who was the first to climb, was already inside the shrine opening the Border when I got out.
"I come from outside so I know how thing are there ,you will have to follow me" Sanae was talking to the other and stating the obvious
I entered the shrine and got near Reimu to look at what she was doing. I don't understand at all how she is doing that even so I had an interesting life, those Hakurei're really something
I was joined by the girl and Seiga and we patiently waited for Reimu to finished the spell
When she finished the Yin-yang orb splintered in two and a white portal opened on the wall before her
"It was easier than I though~ze" said Marisa
"It doesn't have to be flashy to be hard, and believe me that one is hard , that why I needed the sunset to help me" answer Reimu ,not liking her work not to be valued
"I was just teasing you Reimu ,every one is ready we're just wanting your cue~ze"
"Ok ,I believe every thing is alright,I just hope nothing will happen while we are not here , I saw some fairy starting to come back so it should be alright, " She then turned at me " Miko ,I am counting on you to do the work here remember?"
"I will do it don't worry ,and my mate here will help me for the other matter"
"I hope" ,she then got back to the other girls who were waiting "we can go now ,ready to dive out?"
"Yep~ze" ,"Aye", "Ready" "After you"
"In that case,.Let's go" Reimu shout before sinking in the gap of white light followed by the other
The portal she made in the Border closed after them.
"Look like you will be a shrine maiden for some time Miko" Seiga said mockingly
"Yeah... Some time in fact , and you will do a perfect guard for that underground Sun"
"What...?"
(Sanae POV)
When we got out of the Border we were in the forest near an abandoned shrines that look like the Hakurei shrine .There was a little road going down the hill to a town in the valley under the setting sun ,the typical postcard of themselves Japanese's countryside.
I was back in the outside word,without fantasy other than strange mahjong player. And I hated playing mahjong.
But for the good of the two world I had to play it.
Why do I have to do that again?
If not for Kanako-sama and Suwako-sama I wouldn't have done hit. Truth to be told I probably wouldn't have to do it in the first place.
"So now that we are outside where do we go? How will we find those strong mahjong player that have Youkai in them?" Youmu was really restless
"I suppose we should go in town first to know where we are,"Reimu answered with the only choice we had
"Damn... Walking again ,we must have done only that today ~ze"
"And it'll take some time, there is almost no magic here so we can't use our power~ze"
"Yeah welcome to the Outside word , no flying here ,we will have to walk, but you are wrong we can use our power , but only while playing mahjong ,that game is the only thing that make supernatural power come out ,it's like an old ritual?remember?"A nerves wrecking old ritual.
"Yeah, I remember ,that's why we'll have to find and play it against strong player ,to force them to their maximum ,to make the Youkai essence inside get completely out but..."Marisa was annoyed,
"Right! it will be a long and hard task ,I can say it without even having started to play,but 'no pain no gain', we have no choice in that matter now" Youmu answered.
"Stop complaining, we've got to reach the town before dark"
On those words we all stopped saying what we were about to say and started walking down the road. Thankfully the road was in good shape, and we where still physically strong despite Marisa's earlier word ,so it didn't too a long time before reaching the little town
And we used that time to check the plans.
And that when I realized we didn't had much of a plan for how to find them ? We knew exactly what to do when we found them and even how to send them back using the duplicate of the yin-yang orb .
We could certainly feel if someone had a Youkaiinside them,even minor like a fairy, after the time we passed near them in Gensokyo, so no need to fight every decent player we cross but we had absolutely no plan to find them.
When we where at the center of the village ,because it was in fact too small to be call town ,I finally said
"Now that I think about it how will we found them?"
"By going where people play Mahjong of course~ze"was Marisa response.
"I know That I mean ,more specifically,there is a lot of people out there you know"
"We will find a mean , don't trouble you about it, fate will show us the road,"Reimu said
"I can already say that fate is saying should go elsewhere tonight,that town is a farmer-town, apart from the station it's exactly like the Human village in Gensokyo, there is nothing here,no place to play that annoying game "Maybe the two village where one at first
While they were people here they where all too old , and looking too weak to be house even a fairy,I look at the other to see if they were OK and said "I don't feel any power at all in here"
"Me neither(~ze)" said the four at the same time"and then Reimu "So where are we? ,if we are to go somewhere else we should at least know our general location"
Wait here I am more familiar with outside it'll be easier form me to find our location" I declared before going to the Station,the only sign we were Really outside.
…...
I came back after some time with the information needed
"So from what I saw on that panel over there, we are just between the prefecture of Nagano and Yamanashi. where do we start?"
I then saw a very strange thing ,the four of them where grinning and nodded ,they where all thinking the same thing . Sakuya was the one to say it like that right was hers "Yamanashi ,I like that name, it ring like a personal revenge ,even if the writing isn't the same" I immediately understood what she was talking about and smiled.
"So it'll be Yamanashi then,The trains' station is just there ,follow me."
" Train station , like the thing you tried to build between the village and the shrine?" Reimu didn't seem to like the idea
" Yeah they're pretty common out there even I took some when we where on the outside" Sakuya said
" Ah ,that right ,you come from the outside too ,I had totally forgotten it'll help me"
" How did you believe I got all that money from the outside"
" From Gensokyo of course , we use the same money"
" Not exactly ,the money we use inside is outdated"
" Never knew ,how do you see the difference"
" You see they're..." We were stop in our discussion by the growl of on impatient Reimu and I saw they were glaring at us.
"Sorry to interrupt your little talk ,but I would like to be on the place before it's to late so can we go now?"
"Sorry, I got caught up devising technical thing.
"Sorry .You all got your Identities cards right?"
"Yes," They all said
As strange as it can get ,Yukari had one day decided to give each resident an identity card valid even outside the Border ,I never knew how she did it but I won't complain,We would have been caught in no time without them.
"Good ,now follow me we will buy the ticket and go in the train,.We will go out at the first main town we cross,it should be my home town in fact .At least I will be a little familiar with the surrounding"
I bough the ticket for the five of us and we got in without much trouble apart for Youmu wariness at the new mode of transportation .At least they will be mahjong parlor in the main city.
At the same time ,In an office in Tokyo a young woman heard her cellphone ringing (... Kanashimu nante tsukareru dake yo nani mo kanjizu sugoseba ii no)
"Hello"
"Hello ,you always pick up at the same time ,do you wait a certain part of the song?"
"Ala, ala...Is it you Hanata? Your annual report I presume"
"Yes ,you're right, but this time it's a bit different"
"And how so?"
" Don't feign ignorance you perfectly know what I mean ,It's for next year ,you should ready everything"
"Ay Ay ,I will get every thing ready .where are they headed?"
"The home place of the one with green hair, I will ready their transport but for the other things I can't do anything. It'll will work Right?"
"Don't worries they know what they are doing ,we just have to guide them on the right track if they can't do it themselves ,It'll just take me some day to ready the school registration ,one week at most"
"OK ,...,they took 10 years to come I guess we can still some month, but how did you knew they would come the same day?"
"I didn't, I just suppose that the world would follow this logic ,I have to start working on the rule for next year now,good night"
The young woman in the office hung up " Good thing that Yukarin made those papers for every one some time ago, it'll really help us"
Then turning to look at the windows" Ufufu...The 71st National Mahjong Tournament will be a fun one to watch"
(At that time inside the head of a third year middle-schoolgirl in Nagano )
"So they choose to go the other way?"
"Yeah I felt the same thing ,look like we will be stuck in here for some time again"
"At least they are here now .We're here since ten years now ,day for day"
"You were counting them? Even while sleeping?"
"Nothing else to do,you said we couldn't take control of her when she is sleeping anymore after what happened with her sister and that girl"
"If one of us do it the little one here will want to do it ,and that won't end well"
"She may be only a fourth of her whole being but she is still scary"
"The vessel is a scary one too, being able to contain all of us without breaking"
"And she got a good compatibility with us, but I wonder when she will go back to mahjong, the girls won't find us if she doesn't play"
"She will go back to play eventually,she got too much raw power ,talent and skill to not play we just have to wait"
"And what do we do while waiting?"
" The same thing we deed for the past Ten years sleeping ,and waking up for time to time to check on thing, Good-night"
"...z-z-z...good...night...z-z.."
End of Chapter 1
Thank for reading my work even so it's far from a masterpiece
Please R&R
Next time will be Reimu and co starting to go High-school for the mahjong tournament,at least a part of the prefecture's mahjong tournament for the Touhou cast and the appearance of the main Saki cast as central character .So, look forward.