Alright, confession time. I actually had this finished the same day as the last chapter, but since I couldn't get over the shortness, I decided to upload it the following day to compensate; can't give people too much story at once, can I?

CAN I? Hahaha, I hope you enjoy this chapter despite its shortness, and while I would have certainly done more, I'm just sort of lazy, and I needed to get back on my 4-page track; especially since I only have five or six chapters left!

And just to clarify, Azure, Kaguya's computer wasn't stolen. Just the two or three Impossible Requests that sat on and around it.

Kaguya didn't sleep at all. Her Five Impossible Requests; such important relics, were just stolen right under her nose! Who on earth (or the moon, for that matter) was cunning enough to sneak into Eientei, get past every guard, including Eirin herself, sneak into Kaguya's room, and steal all of her Impossible Requests at once? Just trying to figure out who the mastermind was wore her out, and she groggily turned to face the sound of her door opening.

"I have all the rabbits searching," Eirin said. "If they can't find those requests of yours, we'll go to the Myouren Temple and ask for their help." Eirin had heard that there was a youkai or two there who could find treasures with relative ease, so getting their help would be invaluable in the search for the treasures. "But for now, we have to attend the next event."

"I don't want to go," Kaguya whined; nearly mourned. "My robes were stolen."

"Wear your tracksuit," Eirin said. "Are you really going to give Mokou the pleasure of seeing you surrender?"

"She can have the pleasure, I -yawn- I don't care anymore," Kaguya said exhaustedly. "I just want to try and sleep."

"…I heard she called you fat," Eirin lied.

"Let's kick some ass," Kaguya near-instantly said, now fully awake.

"First off, I'd like to congratulate Mokou," Ran said, handing both Kaguya and Mokou a small booklet of papers. "Your winning streak was more than impressive. Now for the matter at hand. This booklet holds one thousand mathematical equations, and you two have to finish them all. Some are harder than others, but to really apply pressure, you have a time limit."

"How long do we have," Mokou asked. "Math isn't really my strong suit, so…"

"You both have until Yukari-sama wakes up."

"…oh. I bet I could finish in that time."

"I'm sure you can. When you two finish, just give the booklets to Eirin and Keine so they can bring them to me; I have to go find Chen and make sure she isn't in any trouble."

That night…

"My, these scores are impressive," Yukari said. "Well, one is at least."

"I sort of did doubt Mokou a little," Ran said. "Though Kaguya seemed rather off her rocker when we first met her, too, so I wasn't sure how she would score. But it certainly is impressive."

"I'll say. That princess only missed one question!"

"As for Mokou…" Not such a pleasant score. One question short of getting a hundred right, which would have meant absolutely nothing against Kaguya's next-to-perfect results. "Well, Kaguya won. And if you'll kindly excuse me, I have to go tell Kaguya and Mokou how they did."

"Oh, of course." Yukari opened a gap near Ran, and said "Just head through there."

"…that good?"

"Indeed. Well done, Kaguya; I bet Eirin's proud to have such a genius princess to protect."

"How did Mokou take the news of her score?"

"I'd rather not answer that question," Ran replied hesitantly, moving one of her nine tails beneath the rest to hide the burn marks. "And I heard about the thief that came through here. I asked Yukari to help, or even allow me to, but she won't have anything to do with it."

"That old hag!"

"Please hold your insults until after I've left."

"Oh, right. Sorry." And with a wave goodbye, Kaguya watched Ran head back through the gap to…wherever it was Yukari lived. And then Kaguya said, with increased enthusiasm and volume, "That old hag!"

"Ninety-nine out of a thousand…" Mokou shuddered at the score. "Keine, how the hell do you teach all of those kids?"

"I'm not sure. Oh, did you hear? Somebody snuck into Eientei and stole those Five Impossible Requests that you were on about the other day."

"I heard. Part of me wants to laugh, but something inside me is saying to not laugh, and to actually help her look. Any ideas what it could be?"

"Oh, gee," Keine said sarcastically. "It couldn't possibly be love, could it? Or at least friendliness?"

"Get real!"

"Here. Hide them well; I can't have Kaguya or Mokou finding them too soon."

"You've got it." The mouse youkai took the five priceless treasures in hand and flew off. Somebody was entrusting her with the task of hiding the Five Impossible Requests all across Gensokyo in all but the most subtle of places, and Nazrin intended to do her job right. The person handing her the requests even had charms placed on them so that only Nazrin, Kaguya, Mokou, and the thief could so much as touch these treasures. That was most certainly a powerful charm…

Hahaha, I hope Ran was a surprise! Like I said in the last chapter, Kogasa won't show up here; she already has her own fanfic in which she co-stars alongside the cute adorable Rumia~

You know, now that I look back at some of my older works (cough cough Poisonous Chinese Tea) I've certainly matured as a writer since I first started writing fanfics. No, really. Read some of my older works (Poisonous Chinese Tea and Attack of the Yukkuri are my oldest) and compare them to my newer ones, like this and Team Nineball's Daring Adventure. I should get back to that Daring Adventure one; it doesn't even have a single review at the time that this chapter is being uploaded D: