Yukari's POV
"I warn you. Do not use your power" I warned.
"I will not, my friend. Don't worry. Besides, where's the fun in that?" asked an unknown person..
It was night in an unknown world as the hint of winter was devoid in this place.
A crescent moon was seen in the sky, lighting the Zen Garden where I and my friend are located.
"Good. Tomorrow, release some cherry petals into Gensokyo, so our 'friends' will have a lead" I said.
"Ok, Yukari. I will make it believable" said Anonymous.
"Good. Be ready tomorrow. I will weaken the border between Gensokyo and your world" I said.
"It will be interesting to see this boy you brought into this world, he sounds like so much fun~!" sung Anonymous.
"Fufufu, you will like him" I said, giggling.
"I think I will enjoy him when he comes to me~"
"Oh yes, I forgot to send him a little gift"
Ken's POV
(God.....I'm really starting to get tired of cooking the same thing over and over again. It's not as orgasmic when you eat it for the third time in the same day.)
(Our supply of eggs and rice are starting to run out, not sure about any other dish I can cook up.)
I walked away from the kitchen, getting irritated at cooking the same thing.
I decided to go take another shower, needing that great feeling again, and getting rid of the stress
(Thank god it was dinner I last cooked, hopefully, they won't want it again.)
(It's so weird how such "royalty" loves such a simple dish. Have they never tasted food from the outside world?)
(I remember that my dad could make "Buddha Jumping Wall" Oh how they would love that. It would also be nice for my family to be here with me.)
(I miss my parents.)
(If they could take up residence in the human village, it would be dandy.)
(But how could they make a living? I'm not sure if people in the human village like their nails being done in such an archaic period.)
(....They could open a restaurant! They just have to get the ingredients needed, but where?)
(There's always Kourindou, but you have to go through the Forest of Magic to get there.)
(Hehe, this will be tough to figure out. Oh, here I am.)
I arrived at the same bathroom after walking through the long scarlet hallway, the long journey apparently shortened by my pondering.
I opened the door and immediately noticed a difference.
"From: Yakumo To: Sington, it says. Yukari?" I said.
(Huh. Whatever is in here better not do anything bad to me. Damn Ramen noodles.)
I opened up the box by peeling off the duck tape, then lifting the flaps to reveal what's in the box.
The first thing I saw was denim jeans neatly folded on top of something.
(Are these my jeans?)
They were the same regular-sized jeans 30 by 30 that O always wore to school in the outside world.
(Hmm what else is in there? Was Yukari raiding my closet?)
I kneeled down as i took out the jeans and saw a thin hoodie.
The hoodie had a word on it, "Kentucky."
(Yukari has good taste, I do like Kentucky.)
I took it out and laid it on top of the jeans.
(What else is in here?)
I found a light blue Aeropostale shirt, briefs, red shorts, a green scarf, and a black beanie as I laid them on top of the hoodie.
(Was Yukari seriously raiding my clothes, because I swear I have them. I can even smell it. What the hell is this?)
I saw some sort of gun as I picked it up, it had the words, "Taser X26 Made by USA" then it had the earth with a lightning bolt over it.
(A taser? Why would Yukari get me a taser? Aren't these the ones that police officers use?)
It had another note on it, it said "Usable every two hours, projects by inscrutable wire, use wisely, -Yukari"
(So if I was given a taser, is it possible for me to use it to cancel a spell card?)
(Oh how Gensokyo will react if I have a taser handy.)
I smiled as I put it away next to the clothes.
(Oh yes, time to take a shower, after that, Let's give Sergeant Meiling a surprise.)
I evilly grinned as I went ahead and took off my clothes before taking a shower.
After I was done and waited a while drying myself by air, I donned on my new clothes, leaving out the beanie and the scarf.
(For once, I actually feel more clean and comfortable right now. The clothes I wore before must have built up a lot of grime.)
(I'll put those when I actually have to go somewhere.)
I put them back in the box as I closed it and put the taser halfway in the pocket.
(God that's big.)
I smiled evilly as I head out carrying the box, I went downstairs and put the box next to the main entrance in the main lobby.
Then I walked outside, noticing the snow on the ground.
(Crap, I'm still barefoot, I should probably just hover over it.)
And I did as I hovered over the snow to Meiling, who was sleeping on her stool with her arms crossed.
(She's a bit severely undressed don't you think?)
(Hehehehe, time for a surprise.)
I pulled out my taser and aimed it at Meiling as I prepared my finger on the trigger.
"Wakey Wakey~" I cooed.
"Meiling, you can go to sleep no-. Ken? What are you doing with a gun?" asked Sakuya.
"Shh~. I'm going to surprise her" I said.
Sakuya was still wearing her french maid outfit but with a scarf over her neck.
"You're going to kill her! Stop!" exclaimed Sakuya.
"You knife her probably every day in the head!" I protested. "Like this is going to kill her!"
(Okay, now to test if this works on youkai.)
Sakuya stopped talking and looked down, then she looked at Meiling as I pulled the trigger.
The dart came out of the gun connected by a black wire as it flew through the air before hitting and piercing through Meiling's clothes.
Immediately, the dart flashed rapidly and made a chi-chi-chi sound as Meiling apparently woke up but couldn't move.
"Hng~!" grunted Meiling while seemingly minimally going through a spasmodic state.
She made the noise like that throughout the whole time the dart was in here.
After a few more seconds, the dart got out of Meiling and returned to the gun. Meiling immediately got up and karate chopped the gun.
The gun fell to the snow on the ground, broken into pieces as I just stared at Meiling who was very angry.
"What the hell was that for?!" yelled Meiling.
"Why the hell you break my Taser!?" I argued.
(No~!)
"You basically attacked me with that thing, I was paralyzed and I couldn't do anything, but a huge shock across my body" described Meiling.
I dropped to the ground and picked up the pieces, not minding the cold on my feet
My hands shook erratically as the pieces fell.
(Goddamn it Meiling.)
Then a hand was on my shoulder as I looked up who was touching me.
It was Sakuya, who was worried while she was standing up.
I got up and breathed in and out deeply, trying to get rid of anger.
Then I looked at Meiling who had an apologetic expression on her face, sighing.
"It's okay Meiling. I only had it for a little while, but still...."
I punched her square in the jaw, which tilted her head back, then she fell back down to her stool with dazed eyes and a drunken smile.
Sakuya giggled as my fist relaxed, while I took another deep breath.
(Wow, I made Meiling unconscious? Training really did pay off.)
"You're too strong Ken" complimented Sakuya.
"Well that's what she gets for breaking something. Are we going to leave her here?" I asked, looking at the gate guard seemingly comfortable sleeping in her stool.
"She looks like she wants to continue guarding. So if she wants, she can stay there" said Sakuya.
(Hahaha Meiling, you do always sleep better on a stool probably.)
(Wait! Huh! She must have forgotten about doing Tai Chi if you're about to fall asleep. Then again, I just knocked her unconscious.)
"Well, now that we are out here, you wanted to look at the stars?" I said.
Sakuya nodded and blushed pink, looking down at me as I stood up.
"But there's snow, and I'm barefoot, where would we be at to look at the stars?" I asked.
"What about My Lady's balcony? Over the main entrance" replied Sakuya.
I looked at the mansion as i did see a balcony over the doors, an umbrella with two chairs can be seen.
"Ah. There it is, There's no snow there thanks to the umbrella. Let's go!"
(Seriously, I don't like the feeling on snow on my bare feet.)
I flew up to the balcony as Sakuya did so too, both chairs were wooden with the color of scarlet.
I took a seat and so did Sakuya, as we looked at the stars.
I relaxed and looked at the many stars in the black sky, noticing a crescent moon.
"This...is..nice, nice to unwind from anything and just...relax..but.." hesitated Sakuya.
Sakuya sighed, and looked down to her feet.
"This is bad. The winter is still going, and our winter supplies are beginning to run out."
"Well why not just go to Kourindou and the human village for more food?" I suggested.
"Rinnosuke might be struggling because of the winter too, and I don't want to go to the human village for more food..It.."
I looked up at Sakuya who had her arms crossed and kept looking down, she seems to be struggling for words.
"What? What's it?" I asked.
"It...would be inconvenient for me to ask them. I never really made friends in the village. I was cold to them. Whenever someone tries to talk to me there, I make them go away because it meant I would be late tending to the mansion and attending my lady Remilia. They would probably do the same to me, so they could feed their families" explained Sakuya.
"Then how come you acted differently towards me?" I asked, confused at Sakuya's hospitality.
Sakuya looked at me, her lips quivering, beginning to form a smile.
"To be honest, I wanted to stay on your good side. You knew my secret, so I tried to be kind to you hoping that you wouldn't try to blackmail me with the secret at first."
(Woah, paranoia at a whole new level.)
"So then if i carried your secret, why didn't you let Remilia kill me? I would have been silenced and you wouldn't have to worry about me telling it?" I said, confused.
"Because, I felt that you are the only one I could open up to. If I tried to be like that to people like in the human village, they would shun me, for I only wanted to serve my lady Remilia and food on my plate. They would shun me for the fact the most important matter to me is to make Remilia happy."
(Jeez, who am I kidding about paranoia? It's Loyalty that's way up there, but still..)
"Why would they shun you for your loyalty?" I asked.
"Remilia is a vampire. I think you know that from the incident that shrine maiden herself fixed. They feed off of blood, which people like in the human village have, and since I wish to only make Remilia happy as a human myself, they would label me as the "devil's advocate" or believe I would trap them into dying by my Mistress's hands, and Remilia doesn't mind that at all."
(That is true. I'm surprised Remilia nor Flandre didn't bite me yet.)
"Have Remilia and Flandre bitten you yet?" I asked.
Sakuya rolled up her right arm sleeve as it revealed many scars that resembled bite marks on her skin.
(Holy, at least Remilia and Flandre aren't like Yuyuko, I bet she would suck her dry even if she wasn't a vampire!)
"Many times, but I let them. I wish for my Lady Remilia and Lady Flandre to be happy.
(Loyalty Scale is probably over 9000 at this point.)
"So why haven't they bitten me yet, or Reimu?" I asked.
(Considering the visits they gave Reimu.)
"I don't know, they probably don't like your blood, and Reimu warned Remilia that the sacred blood of the Hakurei Bloodline is poison to vampires. And Remilia does not want to risk being poisoned and enduring the wrath of that powerful miko" explained Sakuya.
(Well lucky her, the lazy-ass miko can't become a vampire.)
"Then how are you not a vampire yet?" I asked.
Sakuya pointed to her neck then her arm full of bite marks.
"They could, but they would have to do it by the neck. I don't really know how that works out though, but only in the neck will they turn you into a vampire. Lady Remilia wants me to be able to function in the daylight, so she hasn't bitten me on the neck."
(That explains that one dream where Remilia was biting my shoulder, and said it was tasty.)
(....I didn't notice we got off topic...)
"So, basically what you are saying is that you don't know what to do about the low supplies in the SDM?" I asked.
Sakuya nodded, while she pulled down her sleeve.
(Reimu and Marisa are probably experiencing this too.)
(If this could possibly be the Perfect Cherry Blossom, then I know I may meet Yukari. It would be perfect to confront her.)
"Here's an idea, Reimu and even uhh~, the witch are experiencing this weather too. So we should go to the shrine tomorrow, and Reimu will know what to do" I said.
Sakuya nodded while she began to shiver.
"I will ask the mistress tomorrow, I will come to you when she gave me her answer" said Sakuya.
"Okay, are you cold?" I asked, noticing Sakuya freezing.
"Yes, I am cold. Shall we head inside?"
I nodded as we sat up from our chairs, then flew down to the entrance as we headed inside.
Sakuya shut the doors while I took off my hoodie and jeans, placing them in the box.
I yawned and raised my hands in the air as Sakuya giggled a little bit, there was barely any lighting in this room as I could barely see anything, but a dark red tint.
"I think I'm gonna go to sleep" I said, continuing to yawn.
I went ahead and walk towards the bed where I had always slept.
"Wait!" exclaimed Sakuya.
I turned around and looked at her while she was blushing and her arms were crossed standing next to the box, looking down at the floor and then looking up at me.
"There is a guest room that is free next to my room, you can put your things there, plus you don't have to worry about the maids" said Sakuya.
(That would be nice, I wouldn't have to sleep on a bunk bed.)
I walked up to Sakuya as I grabbed my box and held it at my side.
"It's pretty dark in here so you'll have to show me somehow though" I said.
"Umm~, we can hold hands" suggested Sakuya.
(I was going to suggest we lock arms but holding hands are fine too.)
I held out my right arm, and soon our hands were together, but her fingers interlaced with mine as her fingers rested on the back of my hand.
Her fingers were cold and so were her palm, elbow, forearm, and arm when they contacted my arm as my fingers rested on her palm too.
I felt a rush of heat to my cheeks, while Sakuya was flustered, who was on my right side, very close.
"Well, let's go" breathed Sakuya.
She said that quickly as I followed along while she walked.
She walked somewhat slowly as she took her time.
(This feels like, Sakuya wanted to do this for a long time.)
We went upstairs as we walked down a hallway, turned right into a hallway, walked down, then turned right again, continuing to walk down until we stopped at an end.
(And I didn't see a single bust of Remilia, thanks to the darkness, Sakuya must have remembered the path.)
She continued to hold my hand tightly as she opened a door on my right, then we went inside.
Sakuya separated the curtains from the window, letting the moonlight in, and illuminating the room.
I put my box down and looked around and spotted the bed.
It was a platform style king-sized bed with wooden support, there were scarlet pillows and a scarlet blanket to match it.
(And she couldn't get the color scarlet out of her system, but at least it isn't a futon or a bunk bed.)
I smiled and looked at Sakuya, who smiled back.
"Thank you for leading me to my room" I thanked.
She let go of my hand as her fingers left mine, and soon my arm lost contact with hers.
Then she embraced me with her arm wrapped around my neck and another one under my arm with her hand with her fingers spread out.
She rested her head on my shoulder, her head touching mine as I felt her hair and her cheek.
I was surprised as I felt her heart beating rapidly along with the pads.
My heart was beating rapidly too at this sudden embrace.
I could feel Sakuya breathing into my ear.
"You're so warm" whispered Sakuya.
(Yeah, and you are robbing me of my warmth.)
(You was unusually cold, in spring too.)
She held on for a minute before letting go.
"If you need me, my room is right across yours" said Sakuya.
Then she turned around and walked towards her room out my door, as she left me cold.
She turned around and looked at me again.
"Oh and bathroom is beside our rooms at the end" added Sakuya.
(That kinda sorta ruined the mood.)
She walked back towards her room as I continued to stare at her, opening the door as she went in and closed it, as I only saw darkness now out in the hallway.
I walked to my bed and lied down as I was instantly warmed by the scarlet blanket with my head on the soft pillow.
(Mmm...comfy..)
(Is she....)
