Chapter 10: Treatment

Italics: character thoughts

Reimu stomped away from the dining hall, scowling. She was pissed, she was annoyed, she was several other synonyms of angry. She was just...done with this. She wandered up to a random room and walked into it, the space empty of all but three soft chairs and a table. She sat down, and sighed.

This day, was just awful. She just wanted it to end, fall asleep and wake up in her shrine with an unbearable hangover and the smell of just...anything foul. She'd take anything to escape this nightmare. No matter what Keine said, a nugget of fear whirled around at the back of her skull. She was scared, she was angry, she was...worried. Who did this? What were they doing now?...Where did Yukari go? That's a good question that no one could probably answer.

As she sat there, a feeling of exhaustion grabbed her. The endless emotional torment was getting to her, capped off by the fact she didn't sleep that well last night. Her eyes closed as she fell asleep, the world fading.

Reimu opened her eyes to see a world of swirling crimson. Well, that's not normal. She stood and looked around, stretching, accidentally hitting her wings. Yep, looks like this is real...ish.

"Boo." a female voice whispered.

Reimu jumped into the air, her wings instinctively flapping and bringing her higher.

"Wha-?! Wait, how do wings work?!" she shouted as she sailed to the left before slowing her wings by accident, resulting in her crashing into the floor.

"(Giggle) Wow, a bigger reaction then I thought." the girl said, smiling.

Reimu stomped over to her.

"Hey, what's the big idea!" she yelled, before noticing something.

The girl bore a striking resemblance to her, except for height, standing a foot taller than her, and had longer hair.

And was naked.

She narrated with a chuckle, Reimu going red.

"P-Put something on!" she looked away, the girl sighing.

"Got it." with a surge, the floor enveloped her in red liquid, before falling away, the girl in a shrine maiden outfit.

"Ragh, good, also, what was with that weird statement, with the naked part." Reimu raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" she replied with a grin.

Reimu's eye twitched, who does she think she is? Why does she look like her and-

"I said stop narrating!" Reimu yelled.

The girl sighed.

"But I'm just sayin' what you're thinking." she commented.

"Well don't." she huffed "But seriously, who are you and where am I?"

"O-kay, time for some explanation, to an extent. I'm, well, part of you." she smiled, exposing her fangs.

"So your my vampire half or something?"

"Well yeah...ish. It's a bit complicated, especially because he told me not to talk about it much." she whispered, Reimu getting into her face hearing that.

"Who's 'he'?"

"Can't talk about that, I'll get my metaphorical head torn off."

"Uhhh! Why is this so complicated! Do Remilia and Flandre have something like you?" Reimu asked, folding her arms.

"Nah, not that I/you know of. You're a bit of a special one." she commented.

"So if you're my vampireness, then if I get rid of you, I'll be human?"

"Ehh…" the girl gave a frown and wiggled her hand, clearly unsure. "That or you're body would rip itself apart. Not a good idea in any way."

Reimu's only response was back up and sit down.

Damn it, this is weird, how am I supposed to figure this out.

"There, happy?" vamp Reimu (amazing name brain!) remarked smirking.

"What do you mean…?" Reimu looked up at her.

"No narration?"

"Wha-?! So you can read my mind?!"

"No! I'm in your head...we're in your head. This is your head." she gestured to the column.

"Ugghhh!"

"(Sigh) Reimu, hey look. Let me give you a piece of advise. It doesn't matter what your power is, you can follow the path you want in life. You just gotta adapt. There is no wrong choices, just life changing ones. The paths have different endings, but joint ones too, don't go full despair on yourself." vamp Reimu smiled crouching down.

"Nhh…!" Reimu held her head "Ow...that, I've heard something like that before. Uh, my head." she squeezed her ears, a headache flaring.

"Calm down. Your life got messed up pretty bad by whatever made me, but remember, there might be a cure and if not, well, who said ya can't keep going at your job. You never exorcised, purged or destroyed youkai, gods and stuff. You rarely sealed things and you managed to do a simple one by imitating your old powers. Practice, train, and beat up the annoyances. Nothing's changed. You just need to tell everyone 'Hey, vampire now, still old lazy shrine maiden, just a little short tempered now!'" her vampiric self explained "Sorry about the anger flares by the way."

"What do you mean?" Reimu stood and stared, teeth bearing.

"That anger from your blood as you described it, that's a bit of me leakin' out. And before you ask, I think the oldness of the blood messed with your stuff, making me a bit short tempered, which kind of makes you angry faster. And it probably messed with me and you in other ways and it's a, well, let's just say it's a bit of a mess because of all this."

"Ragh! This is so, bi-tif-ugh!" Reimu rubbed her hair in frustration. "No, no, you know what, let me ask you a question. And please answer it." silence "Why are you a thing?...Please."

"Well, something made me to contain your Hakurei energy, magic and powers, to make sure it didn't kill you. The holiness wished to purge the taint in your blood, but it would have killed you if it tried. So it was locked up, with me watching it. That's why you couldn't use it, or your new stuff unless pissed off. Well, it's gone now, but I'm still around."

"So, I've lost my old power…"

"Yeah, well, I can't talk anymore, it's time to wake up." vamp Reimu stated spotting something manifesting behind Reimu "Too much I guess. Well, see ya later."

"How do I-" she was punched full force in the face.

Reimu jolted awake in the chair, yelping in pain, holding her cheek.

"Screw you!...me...vampire thing!" she hissed, pissed off by the phantom pain.

The approach to the village

The four fairies flew through the air, wobbling as they struggled with Alice's weight. The human village came into sight.

"C-Come on, nearly there!" Clownpiece whispered through grit teeth.

"I can't hold on anymore!" Luna whined as Alice's legs slipped out of her hands.

"Wah! Luna grab her!" Star begged as she started to sink.

"Sorry!"

Soon they reached the outskirts of the village and started falling faster, ending with the four crashing onto the ground by the entrance with Alice landing on them.

"Gack!? Heavy…" Sunny moaned as she pulled herself out from under her.

Then they all looked around to see the humans all staring at them, confused by why four fairies carrying someone just crash landed by the entrance. Clownpiece was the first to react.

"Hey, does anyone know how to get to the doctor place? She needs help or something!" She cried out, the humans all looking around.

A woman shrieked as she spotted Alice's neck, several others grimacing and stepping away.

"Hey, so does anyone know?! This is important!" Clownpiece yelled, annoyed.

"They need the guide." "Should we get her?" "Look at that, I don't want that spreading around here!" muttering filled the air.

"Come on please!" Star joined in, looking around at the hesitating people.

"Yo, someone want to go to Eientei?" someone said using Clownpiece's head as a arm rest.

"Yes! Can someone help instead of just looking!" Sunny complained waving her arms rapidly.

"Hmm, okay let's see-oh gods what is that?" the white haired woman got off Clownpiece and walked over to Alice.

"Do you know how to get there?" Luna asked.

Mokou turned to the four.

"Yeah, I was waiting around to talk to Keine about something important, but she's ran off somewhere, plus this seems a bit important too. What happened to her?" she kneeled down grabbing her hair and lifting Alice's head.

"K...Kag...e...Ka...g...e." Alice muttered, barely conscious.

"Kage? That a name or…?" Mokou asked as she coughed up a dark liquid "Okay, no condition to talk then, so what happened?" she looked at the fairies.

"We don't know, she just showed up at the shrine like that." Sunny stated.

"Hmm, well, she needs help, that's for sure. Never seen something like this...that I can remember." Mokou picked her up "So, a few things. One, some of you stay and tell Keine when she comes back that I want to talk to her, some stuff came up but I'll be back. And two, one of you come with me. I want someone who has a chance of explaining be there so Eirin doesn't bombard me with questions I can't answer. Nmmm...you." she pointed to Clownpiece.

"But I don't know what happened!" she complained as Mokou picked her up "Wait! Put me down!"

"Nope. Time is kind of important from the look of it, so let's go." she leapt into the air, a blast of flames rocketing her forward, the three speeding off towards the bamboo forest.

"Ehhh...well then." Sunny just shrugged, dumbfounded "Do we just...hang around or something?" she asked.

"I-I guess. Keine is the teacher lady right?" Star sighed, Sunny nodding.

"What if the gap lady comes to the shrine and we're not there. Didn't she what us to look after it?" Luna wondered.

"We, just gotta tell her about the girl, she'd understand right?"

"Maybe…"

Eientei

Eirin steps out of the patient room, patting down her outfit. Aya had woken up again and tried to leave, again, as she tried to set Marisa's nose, which in of itself was a nightmare. She had to make sure she didn't collapse the nostril, hold the bone in place. She could stand to be a bit better at bones, but no one ever broken anything in Gensokyo. It doesn't matter, it's done.

"Now to finally go to the mansion. Hopefully Reisen is still there. Heh, maybe she found the report...who knows. As long as Marisa doesn't wake up or Aya crawl out of bed. I could lock the door, or get Kaguya to look over them. Hmm, I'll lock the door and ask Kaguya to make sure they don't break out. Yes, that will do…" Eirin reasoned as she stood in the doorway.

"Uhhhgghh...ma head…" she heard someone moan.

Turning around, she looked at Marisa sit up, holding her head.

"It feelz lik I got punhed in the noze." she complained, her words warped by her blocked, bandaged nose.

She tapped it, wincing.

"Mabe I did…" she looked around "Oh Eirin, how ya doin'." she smirked.

"Fine, does your nose hurt?"

"Hmm, a tiny bit, iz making ma words funny though."

"Really, you always were bad at proper speech, now you just can't help it." Eirin fired back, Marisa frowning.

"Zmart azz." she joked.

"Well, if it's bearable, could you make sure Aya doesn't attempt to leave. She needs rest and I need to leave for a spell.

"Wat? I'm your babyziter now. Zhe'z no' five."

"True, but she is sick and delusional. How about I make it so you don't need to pay for todays treatment." Marisa smiled "Only the two outstanding treatments" the smile faded.

"Ack, fine, I'll mine her."

"Thank you. If your nose starts to become unbearable, take one of these." she tapped a bottle on her bedside table "And guide Aya back to her bed if she gets up." Marisa nodded as Eirin turned and left.

"Nhh, ma punizhmen' for getting caught I guezz. I juzt got to be a bit more carful next tim'." she shook her head, annoyed.

Eirin exited Eientei and sighed. Okay, she needs to go to the village, get to the lake it should be visible from there. Yes, that how to get there. It's been a while seen she went there. Wait…

I should tell Marisa about the blood, in case the person tries taking it again. Hmm, just 'keep an eye out for anything off' yes, that'd be enough. Eirin thought on the doorstep, before something landing in front of her drew her attention.

It was Mokou, holding two people. A fairy and...oh gods! Eirin rushed over to Alice, spotting the black skin and spreading dark.

"Mokou, what is this?!" she asked, concerned, grabbing Alice and laying her down.

"No clue, this fairy plus friends showed up in the village with her." she placed Clownpiece down.

"What happened?!"

"W-We don't know. She showed up at the shrine like this asking for help. We didn't know what to do so we carried her to the human place. It's gotten worse since she showed up though. It's gone down her arm and her face and-" Clownpiece explained, nervous.

"Okay, that's enough. Both of you come with me. Reisen isn't here and I may need help." Eirin picked up Alice and rushed inside, the fairy and immortal chasing after.

Eirin burst into her surgery and placed Alice down. She grabbed a syringe and began drawing blood.

"One of you get me a basic toxicology slip! Lower shelf to the right! The other grab a blood pack marked 'Y' from the cooler!" she ordered, rushing over to a cabinet of bottles.

Clownpiece bent down and rummaged on the shelf, grabbing the paper like sheets while Mokou grabbed the blood.

We don't know what this is, be it disease or poison. If it's spreading this fast, I doubt disease unless it's magic based. Most likely poison, but from what? I need more information. she examined the syringe in her hand.

The blood was far darker red than normal, with a wispy black swirling in it. Poison, most certainly. The blood was slowly disappearing, replaced by the wispy black.

"Here, is this it?" Clownpiece help up the paper.

She had grabbed all of it instead of one or two slips. It didn't matter. She dumped the bottle and slips down, grabbing one and dropping a speck of blood onto it. It changed to a blue colour first before fading to a yellow, then green, then yellow.

Her blood is very basic? And yellow. Yellow is for microbes, but green is toxic substances. This isn't normal, it's meant to a shade of red or blue for pH and a single colour for a basis on where to start, how is it changing?! she shook her head, grabbing the bottle.

A stimulant, it's dangerous to rouse someone in this state, only if absolutely necessary. But the changing slip is enough of a red flag. Mokou hands her a bag.

"Blood delivery." she looked serious, good, no fooling around.

Grabbing a needle, Eirin jabbed it into Alice, hooking up the blood pack to replace the destroyed blood. She drew out some of the stimulant, injecting it into her wrist. After a few seconds, the unconscious Alice opened her eyes barely, exposing her darkened scapula.

"Uhh...it...hurts...h...hel...p…" she pleaded, fighting to stay awake.

"What happened? What caused this?" Eirin asked, holding the girl.

"K...Kage...shō...yo...uk...ai. Syringe...r...red…" she whispered before coughing up a black ichor.

"Syringe?...Red...no...no, damn it!" Eirin looked like she was about to rip someone's head off.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Mokou questioned, confused by what Alice said.

"I know what this is. It's vampiric poisoning. Someone from what she said injected vampire blood into her. It's poisonous to youkai!" she ran over and grabbed another bottle "Mokou, go to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, they should have a report about this. There are cures for it in there. I don't remember them fully, I'll slow this down, attempt to cure it, but I need that report. Go, quickly!" she ordered, tapping her temple as she racked her brain for the ingredients of one of the cures.

"Hang on, if vampire blood caused this then wouldn't it have been those two at the mansion?"

"No, and we don't have time to explain and argue, Mokou please!" Eirin injected something into Alice, glancing at the lost Clownpiece "I need you to get me-" she began listing off a bunch of chemicals, each having a longer or weirder name then the last "and a herb called sage's rest, they're in the back room, did you get that?"

Clownpiece's head was swimming, she stared with a panicked expression.

"I didn't get any of that!" she yelled, confused.

Eirin clenched her fist, before relaxing. She was asking a fairy to gather ingredients and chemicals, that was a terrible idea. She probably thought some of the ingredients where chemicals and mixed it all together. Calm down, panic won't help.

"Okay, look after her for a minute, get me if she appears to worsen while I get them, okay?"

Clownpiece nodded. The fairy turned back to Alice, who looked like she was about to slip back in unconsciousness.

"Uhh, this looks really bad…"

"Uh?! A-Alice?" Clownpiece turned at the sound of the voice, seeing a paling Marisa frozen, having opened the patient rooms door to see what all the scrambling was about "The hell happened?"

Kourindou

Ran dropped Seija and Kagerou grabbed her shoulder, holding her close.

"Nearly broke your promise…" she teased, Seija scowling.

Ran walked up to Rinnosuke.

"Hello, nice to see you again."

"Uh huh, yeah, it's usually Yukari that sticks her head in to poke around and annoy me. She asleep." Rinnosuke asked as he sat down.

"Probably, but I'm not here for your patients, I need to investigate…" she looked at Seija.

"Closet."

"Your storage room, and ask you for any information relevant to my investigation." Ran explained.

"He thought it was ghosts or spirits in the room and was too scared to check on the voices he heard." Seija taunted.

She received a bop to the head from Kagerou.

"Hey!" Rinnosuke blushed, embarrassed.

"Did you recognise the voices?" Ran questioned as she rounded his counter and opened the door, finding a crack in the door and a crackling remnant of the portal Seija had been flung through.

It collapsed as she walked in, not that it mattered, that portal was finished.

"Hmmm…" Rinnosuke closed his eyes as he thought, attempting to remember the voices.

"I think one sounded like her." he pointed to Seija "that was the most mumbled one. The clearest one I didn't know and the third…"

"If it had me it was probably when Miss gap b**th was trying to drag the youkai through the portal thing." Seija commented.

"You know Yukari would kill you if she heard you call her that." Kagerou warned.

"She's heard me say it, it's fine." a spanner thrown by Ran which struck her in the head, missing a horn barely "OW?!" she grabbed the impact point.

"Maybe it was Yukari, it sounded angry. I've never heard her get angry, I thought she was immune to emotions like that." Rinnosuke shrugged.

"She gets more...passive aggressive then angry." Ran rubbed some goo off the wall.

"What is this about anyway?"

"A youkai, Kageshō, stole something and Yukari wants me to find her. Looks like she jumped to here, then jumped again after she closed her shadowy gap. But there's more of a trace this time." she held the goo in a ball of light."

"What was stolen?"

"Some vampire making blood." Kagerou said offhandedly.

"What?...Wait, then Reimu…"

"Huh? You say something?" Seija looked at the man, raising an eyebrow.

"Ehh, nothing, I shouldn't gossip. Especially about that."

"Now you have to tell me." Kagerou walked over, dragging Seija by the collar.

"Well, Reimu Hakurei showed up early this morning with an umbrella, because the sun burnt her...and she had fangs."

The two just stared at him and then glanced at each other, before Ran slowly stuck her head out the store room door.

"Well, f**k." Seija whispered "That's not something I was expecting. Little miss shrine girl isn't human anyone. That's gonna mess with the humans." Seija sniggered.

"Okay, I get why Yukari said this was important now. Well, bring the tester." Ran ordered as she went back in.

"What? Wait, do not throw me through another portal thing I refuse!- Put me down!" Seija was carried over the closet as Ran ripped open a new portal.

"Is that-" Kagerou chucked her in "safe to do?" Rinnosuke wondered, Kagerou hand waving.

"She'll be fine." she reassured as Ran grabbed her and sprinted out, hopping over the counter and out the door.

"Okay bye then I guess!" he called after.

Today was weird.

Yukari's home

Chen sat on a cushion staring at a clock, slowly ticking back and forth. 57 minutes...Yukari wanted an hour nap, so the time was fast approaching. She'd been staring at the clock for 5 minutes as to get the time exactly right. Because last time she went 16 minutes over and she wasn't happy...at all. As much as she wanted to go run around outside, check the drying towels, play with the towels and sheets hanging up, mess with them...hug them…

She slapped her cheeks as she looked up at the clock. One hour, wake up time! She hopped to her feet and ran over to Yukari's room, opening the door, to find Yukari sitting in a chair by a table.

"Wha? I thought you were…" Chen spluttered.

Yukari looked at a small clock on the table "A minute late, better than 16. I can let that slide."

"Were you even asleep Lady Yukari!" Chen whined, pouting.

"I was, I woke up 5 minutes ago, and wished to see if you'd get me up on time. Now." she stood and walked over "Chen, I'm going to go check on a few things. I want you to stay here and if Ran comes back with any information, get it, remember it, and tell me if we don't meet. You can be my info cat." she chuckled.

"Uhh, what if that mean youkai shows up?"

"Ah, well, I doubt she'd be stupid enough to come near here, but if you should spot anyone remotely like her, you can chase them. But remain hidden." Not that it will matter, she would never come near here. Yukari thought as she smiled.

"Okay!" she cheered as Yukari opened and stepped into a gap.

After it closed, Chen looked around Yukari's room. It's normally locked, so she for once could look around. Not that there's much to poke at that Yukari wouldn't notice being poked at. She doesn't wanna annoy her...she subconsciously rubbed her backside, remember her last punishment. She tiptoed around, opening a drawer and closet. Than she picked up a sealed box, with a spell tag on the lock. Nope, even she knew that was dangerous. She as jumped up to the top shelf in Yukari's closet to look at the cardboard boxes, but froze as she heard something shifting around outside the room.

Was it Ran? She'd get in trouble if she knew she was rooting through Yukari's stuff. Was it Yukari? She wouldn't be able to sit for days if it was! Chen reached over and grabbed the door, pulling it closed. Just hide and when they leave she'll escape. If they want to know where she was...she was at the stream, perfect! Someone opened the door, peeking in. The closet door had slanted rivets in the door, letting her barely see out. She...didn't know the person. She had black hair.

"Heh, no one home? Good, I'll hide out here and if someone comes, I'll shadowstep away. The other room has a blind that make it nice and dark, gotta have the right light level." the girl said, closing the door.

Chen opened the closet and hopped down, not making a sound. She snuck over to the door and peeked out. The person disappeared into Ran's room.

Someone was in their house, hiding out. Well, Ran and Yukari would be angry if they came back to the person there. She'll open the door, scare them off and then tell Ran or Yukari. It was just some random girl. Maybe it was that girl from the wanted ad. She had black hair. Chen walked over to the door and reached for the handle.

AN: I got to finish my other story's chapter, it's half done...but I've been using Touhou misic and remixes as background music and it makes me wanna write this...

Anyway, moving off that, the first part with Reimu up there was written like, three times. I still have most of the first version because it had too much info in it, then the second didn't have enough so I just rewrote the whole thing. Next time, people will stop being in like seven groups and I won't need a list to remember who's where.

Okay, that's about it. Pm, review, tell me I messed something up and I need to fix. Hopefully not that last one...
Anyway, enjoy.