X How Mount Aka was covered in flowers and how half of it got cleaned from them in seconds.
When Sayashu could finally see her beloved mountain she realized it was changed. Mout Aka was completely covered in flowers, every kind of them. She found her home and the pond where Genjii rested, he was even eating some flowers enjoying their nectar. She asked his old ally what was going on. According to him Sumiko had been following the orders of Tenma which turned out to make her an awful guardian. The taxes were going up in the human village and most hunters had been murdered. Even Morichika Kourindou and wife had been killed by hungry youkai.
Though a red clad spirit showed up, so brutal it was frightening even to youkai. So powerful she could not tell the difference between a human or a youkai but their behavior. She took over Aka Mount and built her home inside of the very same cave that led to the dream world. She was polite and nice, always cheery and happy, though misbehaving would cause her to change. She would turn to a vicious monster, to die was the best she could do, though she rarely killed. Though most of her victims ended up committing suicide, not matter what humans or youkai, they would prefer to die than to see her ever again.
Her behavior had rightfully given her the nickname "Sleeping Terror". Sayashu was outraged by such brutal behavior, and went right away to take back her mountain. So it happened that the red clad girl was watering and grooming the flowers nearby. She gave a smile, a bow and greeted the newcomer. Sayashu asked her to leave immediately, an idea which was dismissed right away.
The young looking girl went back to water her flowers which caused Sayashu to pull out her axe and cut them in a single blow. The girl moved sideways and dodged the swing with quite a natural motion. Her moves her fluid, short and slow. Sayashu could see how the girl was picking up an umbrella laying on the ground. Upon attacking again the umbrella blocked the next swing, Sayashu was impressed of how a simple tool like that could block a weapon capable of hurting a major god.
The girl smiled and tore the umbrella to pieces, as it turned out she had there hidden a war hammer. Sayashu still wondered how such a thin umbrella could have hidden that particular weapon. "I'm sorry but I don't like fighting without the other knowing my name. Know it now I am Kazami Yuuka!". Sayashu looked back at the girl and bowed realizing she had not yet saluted her foe even though Yuuka had done it so when they first met.
"I underestimated your skill. I am Hakurei Sayashu the rightful owner of this land" a grin formed into Yuuka's face, she charged and hit though Sayashu blocked nothing but air. Yuuka had disappeared and at the same time appeared on her back, it was a simple hit, though it was clean and hard. She started to bleed for Yuuka was only playing with her.
She started to see that the club had the same inscriptions than those in her axe, those marks were in the bow too. This girl was carrying a rudra weapon, the deadliest of all physical celestial weaponry ever made. Sayashu had deeply underestimated her, she was not giving it even near her all, she just wanted to scare this person away, instead she was starting to get tired and hurt, every time she tried to hit her she just disappeared and reappeared where her guard was wide open.
Sayashu realized that to beat this person she would need to fight just like how she did with Shiva. Most likely Yuuka kept that appearance to deceive her enemies, so that she would be underestimated then crush her enemies with her real power. In fact she even looked like a weak youkai at first sight, her presence barely different from that of a flower.
When she stopped to underestimate her enemy she was able to realize that she was not disappearing, she was moving. Yuuka did not move in the dimensions but instead between them, getting into those places exclusive to strings and getting out of them once she was where she wanted to be. Though by doing that she did not cover her smell which turned out to be very strong, she could hide her power well, but the smell was a totally different story. She could smell the twisted path of her movement in the extended Calabi-Yau dimensions, and managed to block and counter the attack. Yuuka barely dodged.
Quickly Sayashu had found a way to fight completely matched to this new person, Yuuka could move in strange ways, but her reflexes were slower. Both had about the same strength which caused much chaos around Mount Aka once they started to become serious. Each blow from those two shattered the earth in a much worse way than any earthquake they had experienced. Gods had started to fight giving it their all without realizing the world is a very small place for such power, they had not even warmed up.
Sayashu's muscles started to feel warm and ready to give it their all, thinking Yuuka would be easily defeated now. Yuuka however started to show that she was holding back as much as well, from her back six light wings showed up, she had been hiding them, hindering her power giving it up to the extended dimensions and thus slowing her movement, the main purpose of this was to train herself without the need of a special regime, every movement was a challenge.
Their movement was too fast for even tengu to see, the crash of their weaponry was so harsh the shock wave cleared half of the mountain from all kind of life. It was then when Sayashu could see why Yuuka had been so slow this entire time, the shock had also removed part of the skin on her face and arms. The sight was gory, it looked like she was wearing the skin as another layer of clothing. Yuuka was confused by the pain for a fraction of a second, a moment her enemy did not waste and used to strike her in the right arm in an skinless portion thinking she would be weaker on that side.
As it turned out she cut the arm clean off, though the shock of her limb being cut off snapped Yuuka back into reality and punched Sayashu in an oddly short distance with a great strength. As she started to get air back into her lungs, Sayashu could see that the arm regenerated quickly, though not the skin covering it. The smell of herbs was now stronger in the air than ever before, Yuuka's blood dripped on the earth making new life grow where the liquid touched the soil.
She used that same life to cover her arm with its leafs, this new patch was weaker than the skin she was wearing, though it was better than nothing. Sayashu dodged the hit and tried to hit back, Yuuka blocked with her club and kept her limbs stuck to Sayashu's. The Hakurei warrior tried to release herself from that odd grip but she realized that it was probably a trap, in fact it was a game of patience and skill. It was then where Mima dared to appear trying to strike Sayashu on the back with a star beam.
Yuuka quickly warped out of the lock midway between the laser and the other person. She pointed her open palm at the beam as if trying to block, but right after a bigger beam of light retaliated. The recoil of it caused all of Yuuka's skin to finally come off, Mima absolutely crushed from such a blast.
They poised themselves again for battle, though before they even thought of charging against the other Yukari appeared in the middle. Ran appeared right after blocking Sayashu's side, Yukari blocked Yuuka's. They were still too into the battle though the Yakumo knew exactly how to stop them from fighting.
Yukari held out a fresh human skin which snapped Yuuka out of her rage in a blink. Yukari even covered the red girl in torn red clad clothes to change. Ran in the other hand pulled out a box out of the gap where she came from, she opened it and inside there was the Hakurei orb, they had taken care of it without her knowing. She found this to be a good detail and took the orb realizing this would be a better long range weapon than the bow (which make her toss it to the air later on, the story of what happened to it will have to be mentioned another time).
Yukari apologized to the Hakurei maiden, as it turned out she was worried about the chaos that Sumiko had caused. Sumiko herself even asked Yukari to get someone to stop her, she was only following Tenma's orders and her own code of honor required her to carry them out. Sumiko wanted to stop though to do that she needed someone strong enough to stop her. Yukari quickly thought of the Rudra made after the Adityas, she was quite bored ever since she managed to train her sister into not fearing others.
Mount Aka was the most important place to keep safe since it was a gateway to the dream world and therefore to the moon. Thus Yuuka decided to make her own home there, she started to act out right away and her methods were so effective and intimidating that even Tenma asked Sumiko to stick to the safety of the Youkai Mountain only. Sayashu apologized for her behavior and grudgingly accepted the half of the mountain without flowers growing on it. Yuuka kept the half with a garden and enjoyed her free time in there.
Yuuka later on that night came to Sayashu's place, and handed her three cherry trees in sign of peace. Yuuka herself planted them on the back of the shrine though Sayashu asked her to avoid making them grow unaturally quickly. "Where did you hit him?" Yuuka asked after planting the trees and make them grow roots under the earth, Sayashu acted as if she did not know what she was talking about. "I can smell the blood on the blade, it is still fresh".
Upon realizing she could not hide that fact from Yuuka she answered honestly "On the head, it took me eight years to do so". Yuuka gave off a smug smile "Two years longer than I did". Sayashu could not take such an insult "He keeps improving, I fought him head on!". Yuuka kept her expression "I did too, he would have moved like I did if you started to do so… Though probably I set the bar too high for you". Sayashu looked at the trees without turning to see Yuuka "If it was me who studied with him first… It would have costed you decades to pass the test". Slowly starting to heat up, they both begun a new fight, however this time everyone that night were safe since they only used their words this time.