It's chapter six, this time it's set at night though...so the chapter name isn't consistent anymore (lol). I wasn't really to sure how to best depict Flandre when she didn't need to be shielded from society, so she ended up being a really childish character, a heavy contrast with her sister, especially since I've placed them down to be the same age (An act of laziness to put them in the same school year...one was born at the start of the school year, the other at the end...problem solved). ZUN owns Touhou project.

Chapter 6 – A playful night of another Flandre Scarlet

The bright summer days have been replaced by the darkness of the seasonal storms. Dark clouds loomed over the land, sending a downpour of heavy rain. Streams of light broke the clouds every few minutes, causing a bright flash followed by a thundering crash. Kids love to play in the rain, but the sound of thunder would soon send them running home. One kid however, a young girl with blonde hair, was bouncing excitedly at the window, apparently enjoying the sound and view.

Flandre Scarlet opened her eyes wide as another flash passed the window of the Scarlet residence, laughing happily, she turned towards her sister, "Onee-sama, come look, the lights are so pretty."

"I can see from here," Remilia replied with her back towards said light, "Fran, please sit down while we're having dinner, especially when we have guests."

"Ah, ok onee-sama."

"The many aspects of a rich girl's life, by A. Shameimaru." A black haired girl said as she scribbled into her notebook.

"Put your notebook away already Aya-san." Another girl said as Aya continued to lengthen her article.

"Hahaha, guess you're right Reimu-san, now's time for eating, I'll get this finished off later."

"That's not what I meant...ah whatever. Hm? Suika, you aren't eating much."

"Thats..." Suika looked up at her sister, "I'm not really into western food."

"i would never have guessed." Reimu replied inn a slightly surprised tone, "You would shovel this stuff down if it was served at a party."

"Yeah, but meal times it's best when it goes well with sake."

"For the love of...you're a minor, don't determine a meals taste with alcohol."

"Wahh...ok I'll eat it all." The brown haired girl struggled a bit as her sister attempted to load her mouth with the contents of her plate.

Flandre returned to her seat, laughing at the commotion over the dinner table. Of course, usually meal times weren't this lively. The storm that Aya had correctly predicted had indeed arrived, forcing her, along with Reimu, Suika and Marisa to stay over for the night. The dinner table now sat the three residents of their home, along with the many friends who had come to stay, finally, adding on their maid and red haired Chinese friend, Meirin, who had arrived later.

Flandre opened her mouth to continue her conversation with her sister after a few mouthfuls, "Onee-sama, the lightning today was pretty wasn't it?"

"Hm? Yes, yes of course."

"She hasn't looked even once." Patchouli said without looking up, her eyes still glued to the book on her lap.

"Onee-sama, you didn't look?" the blonde girl looked up at Remilia, who was now avoiding eye contact.

"Refi fuzin't like da wain." Suika's muffled voice sounded from Flandre's right, her mouth packed with food.

Reimu hit her little sister lightly on the back of the head, "Chew, swallow then talk."

Suika chewed and swallowed, washing down with some juice before talking again, "Remi doesn't like the rain, or anything to do with it."

"So is that why she only has a parasol and no umbrella." Reimu commented as Remilia clearly began to blush.

Flandre laughed as her sister started to let out an incomprehensible whining sound to Reimu. The blonde sister turned in her seat to watch the other members of their group having a leisurely conversation about their day.

Sakuya appeared to be in a conversation with her Chinese friend, while Aya was posed ready to scribble any news worthy material down, "By the way Meirin, how was work at the medicine shop today?"

"It was good thanks," the red haired girl replied happily, "I wasn't late getting there from the dojo for a change to."

"How can you be late when the stalls down the street from the dojo?" Marisa asked, looking away from the book she was reading.

"Ah, I get tired after a workout sometimes and take a nap."

"You were taking a nap at the stall last time I visited." The maid said with a slightly concerned look, "are you saying you slept before and during the time you were at the stall?"

"Really, I was asleep? Didn't think I ever fell asleep while I was working." Meirin scratched her head a little trying to recall the last time Sakuya had entered the stall.

"Well, do you remember the people you served while working?" Aya asked, her pen raised ready to write.

"Yup, that girl from the pharmacy came to look for ingredients. Yeah, Reisen, she came by today, bought a whole boxes worth to take back."

"People actually buy that stuff?" Marisa asked in disbelief.

"Well, yeah, really effective medicine can be brewed from the stuff sold there." Meirin retorted fiercely.

"I don't know about effectiveness, I just know it was really bitter."

"You've been to the stall Marisa-san?" The maid gave Marisa a side-ways look as she spoke.

"Yeah, only once, Meirin-san was asleep that time I went."

Meirin looked round at Marisa with a confused look on her face, "Huh, but there's only one person serving customers at the front of the stall."

"Maybe your memories hazy, you were asleep." Marisa replied, shrugging the response off.

"Sneak thief admits to past crimes in a round-about manner."

"Hey." Marisa attempted to reach over the table to grab Aya's notebook from her, failing after Sakuya caught her by her collar.

"Please have proper manners at the dining table." The maid said with a small smile.

"There's lots of Marisa onee-san's name in the book." Flandre pulled herself up onto the back of Aya's seat, examining the many variations of 'sneak thief has...' that decorated the majority of the pages.

"Eh? Seriously Fran-chan?" Marisa turned to the purple haired girl next to her, "Hey Patchy, does everyone think I'm that much of a thief?"

Patchouli gave Marisa a long bored look, "I'll vouch for your innocence if you return all the books you've taken."

"I'm just borrowing."

"Without permission."

"You two really do bicker like a married couple." Remilia suddenly said, causing Patchouli to become incomprehensible as she flushed bright red.

"Can lovers take each other's things?" Flandre asked as she dangled from Aya's shoulders.

"Of course we can," Marisa said in a confident voice, "Isn't that right Patchy?"

"Ah? Wah? I...I'm done eating." Patchouli stood up and made her way out of the room as fast as she could.

"Onee-sama, why did Patchy leave?"

"She wants to calm herself down because she's too happy Fran." Remilia said, doing her best to keep a straight face as she spoke.

"Hmm...Marisa onee-san, are you and Patchy lovers?" Flandre asked while dropping herself back to the ground.

"Of course, that's why we can borrow from each other so easily."

"Sneak thief is willing to lead children down the wrong path to get away with theft."

"Hey!"

After dinner had been cleaned up, Sakuya arranged the rooms each person would be sleeping in tonight before preparing to leave for her own house with Meirin.

"How are you two getting back, I know you live next door and all..." Reimu asked, looking out the window, where the wind and rain were still clearly moving at full speed.

"We have a tunnel between our house and my lady's house, in case of an emergency, I would still be able to rush over here quickly." The maid explained, showing the door to the tunnel she was talking about.

"It's real cool," Flandre said excitedly, "It's underground but it's all bright."

"It's designed to withstand everything but earthquakes, where you would naturally think of going round outside." Sakuya continued her explanation, "The lights use stored energy gained from solar panels so there's no need to worry about energy waste when powering it."

Aya listened to every word eagerly, writing down the details as they came, "Really something that only rich people would do, memo memo..."

"Well then, good night all," Meirin said with a wave of her hand, "Sleep well."

A chorus of 'good night' responded, and the two older girls disappeared down the tunnel, back to their own house.

"Well then, I'm going to go see if I can get Patchy out of her study." Marisa announced, turning away down the long hallway towards the bookworm's personal library.

"Don't harass her too much." Reimu called out to her friends retreating back.

"Yeah, only a tight hug will do." Remilia added, to which Marisa held up a thumbs up to show she heard.

"That is harassment, ah, I give up."

"Ne, onee-sama," Flandre tugged lightly on her sister's sleeve, "Why does Patchy only complain after Marisa onee-san's left?"

"She likes the company till it leaves, obviously." She replied with a chuckle.

The group split ways after heading up the stairs to the second floor. Aya and Reimu bid good night and headed towards the guest room on the right, while the younger girls made their way towards Flandre's bedroom on the left side.

The younger sister's bedroom was comparatively larger than that of her sister's, easily rivalling Patchouli's study which was crammed full with bookcases. The room itself was decorated mostly in colours of red and white, allowing any who entered the room to easily distinguish Flandre's most precious belonging in one glance across the room, a necklace made up of coloured beads set into a rainbow pattern.

"And so...I've got the floor I'm guessing." Suika said, glancing at the mattresses and blankets that had been laid out by the maid earlier during the day.

"Me and you." Remilia said, indicating that there were two sets laid out next to each other.

"Whaaaaaat?" Flandre let out a loud yell of complaint at the arrangements, "Why don't we all just sleep together, It'll be much more fun."

"Sleeping together in the same room should be enough," her sister replied, "Sleeping together in the same bed would be..."

"Ah hey that's not that bad an idea," Suika cut in, stopping Remilia who still had her mouth hanging open, "Your bed is definitely big enough to squeeze us all in."

"Suika-san, I must insist..."

"Yay! We can stay up all night and talk about all sorts of things."

"Fran, please listen..."

"Its' gonna be the best night for a long while."

And with that, both Suika and Flandre jumped onto the latter's bed, leaving the elder sister rooted to the spot.

"Really, you two..." she began.

"Bed or floor?" Suika asked, once again cutting Remilia off.

"Bed." The reply sounded of that of a defeated person.

Flandre reached over as Remilia approached the bed, pulling her sister roughly up the bed so that the three girls could lie parallel to each other.

"Yay, it's just like before," the little sister rolled over to hug her sister, who couldn't help but let out a smile.

"I suppose it has been a long time since we slept like this." She replied, returning a light squeeze.

Suika let out a chuckle on Flandre's other side, "Good to see you two are so close." She said as she repositioned herself so that her head rested on her arms.

Flandre rolled over to give her friend a hug to, "You and Reimu onee-san are close too."

"Have you ever slept together with your sister?" Remilia asked with a grin on her face.

"Mmm...not recently," Suika replied, tilting her head slightly, "We did last time my room's roof leaked right above my bed. I have to say, it was really comfy snuggling in with onee-chan for a couple of weeks."

"That must have looked cute."

"Heh heh, we probably did look that way. We really did cuddle up because of how cold it was then, it was during the coldest part of winter come to think of it."

"Mmmhmm..." the blue haired sister thought to herself for a while, "Sounds nice, I don't really know that feeling since I'm the older sister here."

"It feels really nice and comfy," her little sister replied happily, immediately snuggling up in response.

"That sounds very nice Fran." Remilia said, stroking her sister's blonde hair lightly with her fingers.

"You know Remi? You could ask onee-chan if you could sleep with her if you ever decide to sleep over," Suika said, rolling over into a more comfortable sleeping position, "I doubt she wouldn't let you since you would be a guest."

"That would be very nice, but I wouldn't want to intrude so much."

"Ah no need to be shy, we intrude here all the time, although not as much as Marisa."

"I'll take you up on that offer then." Remilia said happily, as she too moved herself into a comfortable position to sleep in.

"I want to sleep with Reimu onee-chan to." Flandre piped up between the two other girls.

Suika let out a small laugh, "Our beds aren't that big Fran-chan, and I would feel left out if you both slept with onee-chan."

"Oh, oh yeah," the blonde girl thought for a bit, "I'll sleep with you when we come over then."

The various conversations continued into the night, until the three finally drifted to sleep after many happy talks. Flandre Scarlet slept that night with a happy smile on her face, holding the hands of the two girls next to her in her own.

A quick and not so required Gensokyo theatre (6)

"The little sister, she was the one who could easily threaten the whole of Gensokyo, wasn't she?"

"Yes, I suppose if she had grown up without her powers, that life could easily be mirrored in the one in our own world."

If anyone was paying attention while reading, they would have noticed there were no inner thoughts from Flandre, that was an attempt to bring out a more childish side to her, kids always state what they think yeah? Note that my implications of PatchyMari were deprived from a fanbook by Cosmic Dare, where Patchy responded to Remilia teasing her about letting Marisa escape with books by yelling out "Murimurimurimuri" which effectively translates to something along the lines of no way, or your wrong said repeatedly...you get the idea.I thought it was cute so yeah...a cute flustered Patchy ended up making an appearance. Rate, review and no flames please. Thank you very much.