-The following mourning, everyone gathered around Eirin and Reisin, as they prepared to get something that could help them travel to the moon. Reisin pulled what looked like a small remote control out of her left pocket. "We've been told to not use this unless we absolutely needed to," Reisin explained to Suwako, "But I can make an exception for a friend of my friend." Reisin pressed the bright red button on the remote, but nothing happened.

"What was that supposed to do?" a rather impatient Ibuki Suika snapped impatiently.

"Just wait." Reisin calmly replied.

-After a few minutes, the ground began to shake, as what appeared to be a cave emerged from the ground, which then, produced a large, silver-coloured vehicle that resembles a space shuttle! The vehicle was at least 20 stories tall, and looked like it came from a different world as it emitted an eerie glow, as if it was calling to Reisin. Reisin smiled as she turned to Suwako, "This is the vehicle our ancestors from the moon used to get to planet Gensokyo." Suwako locked a tad bit confused, "Why did your ancestors leave the moon in the first place?" Reisin sighed, with a look of pain and fear on her face, "They say that the moon was overwhelmed with horrible monsters that overwhelmed the Inaba civilization...and to think, we're headed straight for them!" Ibuki laughed, "They don't sound too terribly tough; I'll bet we could take them on!" "I wouldn't be so sure," Eirin warned the little oni, "keep in mind, these monsters toppled a technologically advanced civilization with plenty of soldiers to spare. We should be cautious in our approach."

-Suwako, Ibuki, Eirin, and their friends all piled into the space ship, worried about the moon mutants, but excited to see the stars beyond the atmosphere of their world. Suwako sat uneasy in her seat as Reisin made her way to the cockpit of the vessel, "Do...do you even know how to fly this thing?" "I do," Tewi chirped in, "Lemme fly!" Reisin grave Tewi an inquisitive look, "TEWI! You and I both know that nobody has flown this thing in years!" Tewi gave one of her cheeky, mischevious smiles, "I did." Suwako cut in, "You flew this ship before, Tewi? But how?" Tewi smirked once more, "I flew it when nobody was looking." Tewi waddled her way to the control panel, and pushed Reisin aside, "I'll bet you don't even know how to start this, big sis!" Reisin grumbled, as she knew that Tewi was right.

"I hope all of you have your seatbelts strapped in, cause it's time to go to the moon!" Tewi chirped over the intercom.

-"Ibuki," Suwako warned in a concerned tone, "I think you should put on your seatbelt!" Ibuki laughed, "I can handle it. Don't worry." Suwako bent towards Ibuki, and fastened in her seatbelt, "I mean it! I don't want you to die because you wouldn't wear the seatbelt!" Ibuki pouted, "You actually care?" Suwako nodded, "Ibuki...you've shown me a side of you that I don't remember seeing at all; something very kind and compassionate." Suwako put her hand on Ibuki's shoulder as she moved closer, "All of that rage and hate...it's just surface. Deep down inside, you know that you not only care about me...but you care about Cirno, too!" I care about Cirno? What a fucking joke! Ibuki thought to herself, but then a new thought crossed the little oni's mind. She thought about the previous night, where Suwako almost found out about her secret. Would Suwako treat me this way if she knew? Ibuki nervously thought to herself.

-Ibuki turned abruptly to Suwako, "Sewy...would you like me if I had..." Ibuki couldn't finish her sentence before she began to brake down into tears, "No you wouldn't! I know you fucking wouldn't!" Ibuki began to reach for her sake bottle when Suwako interrupted her, "Ibuki...I know you're hiding something from me. To be honest, I couldn't care what it is. If it is about something you have done in the past, then that no longer matters, as you have clearly had a change of heart ever since. If it is something happening right now in your life, then it clearly has no affect on your personality, or your will to help others."

Ibuki merely stared as she gently put her sake bottle back down. Maybe she will like me anyway...I guess I'll find out soon enough.

-As Tewi turned the ignition on, the Cirnokurri hopped up and down impatiently in Reimu's arms, "I wanna see the stars easy, mommy! I wanna see em!" Reimu hugged the yukkuri close to herself as she giggled to herself. Eirin glanced over at Reimu as the ship slowly began to lift off.

"You really have changed since we last met...have you, Reimu?"

Alas, the noise of the ship rocketing off into space was too loud for Reimu to hear the question, and thus, Eirin was left to merely sit with her thoughts.

(AN: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last update, but I'm making progress on it. I hope you like reading these as much as I like writing them, because I'm really getting into storytelling; Alice says that she might even let me read a story for her nieces when they come over to visit (Don't worry, it will be a more g-rated story than what I have been writing.) See you all soon!)

~Talos Angel, Fanfiction-Writing Yuklkuri~