Disclaimer: I have ascended to godhood! Though I still don't own Touhou... thats Zun's thing. Me dang it...

A/N: For lack of a better statement to make, I'm just gonna say "thank you" to all who continue to read this story. On with the show!

Author: Well, I nearly doubled the length of this one!

Yukari: Congratulations~

Yuuka: Yes, you've done well.

Author: ...What? No snark?

Yukari: We have better things to do.

Yuuka: Yes, we cannot always amuse ourselves with you.

Author: ...Well, I suppose we should get on with... the... show...? Yukari, is that... is that a knife behind your back?

Yukari: Perish the thought.

Author: You just dropped it down the back of your pants! ...Since when do you even wear pants? Just what is going on here?!

Yukari: My, why don't we get on with the show, and ignore your inane prattling.

Yuuka: Agreed. She is simply being paranoid.

Author: Wait, you're just gonna ignore what happened?!

Dawn, Cirno's shack, Usagi's PoV:

Cirno had a look of abject terror on her sleeping face. She was busy kicking me in the face as she battled a wall of manjuu. It was the craziest of dreams, and that's saying something, as fae tend to come up with some crazy dreams. But these weren't your ordinary, every day meat buns. "Mmn... Take it... easy..." They wore the faces of all her comrades, acquaintances, and even the residents of Gensoukyou that she had yet to meet. Their faces haunted her as they bit at her body. Contrary to what you would expect of head-like manjuu without limbs, or much means of attack at all, she couldn't help but be bested at every turn. No matter what she tried, no matter what brilliant stratagem she came up with, the tide of meat continuously swept her away. After all, what could one woman do against an army? As she slept, she swung her sword arm around, and occasionally kicked me in the face enough force to topple a house of cards. That is to say, not much at all.

As for myself, I was busy having a nightmare of my own. With the most displeased expression on my face, I said, "Rumia, nooo...! Stop that... No... Not there... Mmm..." I had the index finger of the hand treated by the youkai of darkness stuck in Cirno's mouth, and in her sleep, she was gnawing on it weakly, thinking it to be a manjuu monster. As I dreamed, I twitched about and squirmed, my free hand clenching and unclenching.

Before long, in my dream, something completely unexpected happened. Mystia had joined in, and started sucking on my other index finger. "Nooo... Not you too, Mystia... Don't eat meee..." For a few minutes, I squirmed about in my sleep, moaning in displeasure.

Suddenly, my savior sang, "Chin chiiin~" It was Mystia, her call echoing all the way from atop her perch in the distance. It also had a side effect of waking me up, to my eternal gratitude.

Bolting upright, I drowsily looked around, and quickly noticed the chewing of my finger. Looking to the source tiredly, I immediately yelped, pulling my finger free of the maw of my master. Thankfully she wasn't chewing all that hard.

At the morning call, Cirno's metaphorical nose bubble popped. Snorting and suddenly scrambling upright, Cirno looked around wildly, before settling on me. Raising a brow, my master asked, "Ehh...? What are you doing up before me, Pupil?" Smacking her lips, Cirno asked with a yawn, "Why do I taste fairy...?" Ignoring that in favor of something more productive, she began to stretch out her back.

Not ignoring that awkward question quite as much as my master had, I said, "Uhh... N-no reason..." Thinking a moment, I blinked. "Wait, why do you know what fairy tastes like...?"

Snorting, Cirno replied, "I've bitten a few fae in my time, that's all." Smacking her lips some more, she added, "But I don't taste blood to go with it... Strange..." It was actually kind of strange to see her this calm. Usually she's so full of fire, as ironic as that sounds. Yawning again, she asked, "So, you ready for your first day of training...?" She was actually kind of mellow, if I had to find a word to describe it.

Raising a brow, I asked, "Erm... Ci- ...Master, are you alright? Something seems off about the way you're acting..." And then I noticed something on her face. "Are those... frozen tears?"

Eyes widening, Cirno replied as she wiped her face clean with her arm, "No! I mean..." Clearing her throat, she continued, "It's nothing, really. Didn't dream about the end of the world at the hands of the handless hordes, that's for sure."

I stared at her concernedly for a few moments. "Well, if you say so..."

Chuckling, Cirno said, "Anyways, let's train!" Satisfied that I had accepted her word, Cirno grinned, and leapt off of the bed, taking to the air. She gave the rickety old door a flying kick to open it. Flitting outside, Cirno shouted, "C'mon, time's a wastin'! Grab my ankles - I can't fly as well with your wings in the way!"

Blushing, I stammered, "Erm... B-but..."

Twisting around to face me, my master asked, "What is it, Pupil?"

Looking down, I said, "Well, uhh..."

Crossing her arms, Cirno said, "Spit it out already."

Jumping, I shouted, "Nothing!" It's too awkward to bring up the subject of looking up her skirt!

Sighing, Cirno replied, "Well, if you're sure... Anyways, grab my ankles so we can get going!"

Blushing, I mumbled, "A-alright..." With that said, I hopped off of the side of the bed, and made my way over to her. When I neared, she flew up so that my shoulders were at the same level as her ankles. Blush getting worse, I resisted the urge to look up and instead did as she asked, grabbing her ankles.

Grinning down at me, she said, "Now, hold on tight! Three! Two! One! Blast off!" With that said, she zoomed off with me in tow.

I couldn't help but let out a girly little shriek as we rose higher and higher, soon high enough that a fall would be quite lethal. Of course, try as I might to not look up, I ended up looking down. The blood instantly drained from my face. This was my first time being even in this realm of height, so I was quite petrified.

Wincing, Cirno shouted, "Hey, not so hard! You're gonna crush my legs if you squeeze any harder!"

My face a ghostly white, I stammered, "L-l-l-lower..."

Raising a brow, Cirno asked, "Huh?"

I suddenly shrieked, "P-p-pl-lease fly l-lower!"

Sighing, Cirno said, "Jeez, I didn't think you were such a coward, Usagi!" Of course, not wanting her ankles ground to dust, she did fly lower. Where as before we were a couple hundred feet in the air, now we were only a half dozen feet over the tree line.

Of course, my grip didn't lessen, as we were still quite a ways from the ground, and moving at least 50 miles per hour

Chuckling weakly, Cirno asked, "You okay down there...?"

I proceeded to look up, and my words died in my mouth. Before me were smooth thighs and... nothing. A complete absence of any underwear, along with anything worth being covered by underwear. Her groin was simply smoothed over, as if there wasn't supposed to be anything there. Of course, my sudden inattentiveness was to be my downfall, as I soon let go of her ankles, and shrieked as I plummeted the handful of feet between me and the canopy of the trees.

Eyes widening, Cirno shouted, "Usagi!"

I didn't fall for long, as I soon broke through the canopy, and suddenly found myself stopping, and hanging by the back of the neck of my kimono. Apparently a branch had managed to catch me by way of slipping down the back of my kimono.

Flitting down to me, Cirno shouted, "Idiot! I told you to hold on tight, not let go!" Grumbling, Cirno muttered, "This was why I was flying so high in the first place..."

Wincing, I said, "S-sorry, Master..."

Sighing, Cirno plucked me from the branch of the tree, and simply carried me like a bride the rest of the way.

Hakurei Shrine, Early morning:

There were many things that the current generation Hakurei miko hated. Youkai that bug her for no good reason. Being woken up before she wants to get up. A lack of donations. Rich people that bug her, and yet leave no donation. Rich people that rub her nose in their money. Rich people who literally rub money in her face. Rich people themselves. Fairies playing pranks on her. But when you combine things that she hates, that's when she really gets heated up.

Although, that dream of a fairy waking her up early by rubbing a wad of cash in her face, which proceeded to turn to flowers was a bit surreal.

Aggravatingly, she was then woken up by fairies.

Of course, Cirno's wings just weren't enough to bring us all the way here. She had overestimated just how strong she was. Truly, she had nearly been strong enough to fly us the whole way here, but the level of closeness in her estimations would be her downfall. Our downfall. You see, when she ran out of go-juice, she was exceptionally close to the shrine, and aimed towards it. We had managed to crash through an open doorway, and land directly on the slumbering head of the Hakurei Shrine. Of course, she was also the last of the line to survive, but that tends to be ignored.

When the dust had cleared, the two of us found ourselves being launched back through the open doorway, and tumbled a few feet across the ground.

Smacking her gohei against her hand, Reimu asked, "Do you two have any idea how early it is?" It was a quiet fury, hers. Of course, this could be in part due to her having just woken up. "You have ten seconds to explain yourself."

Squirming out from under Cirno, I said, "W-w-well, erm..." I was at a loss for words.

Smacking her palm with the holy rod every time she counted, Reimu said, "Nine, eight, seven..."

As Reimu counted, Cirno was busy trying to pull her head out of the ground.

Flailing my arms, I shrieked, "W-well, Cirno said to grab her ankles, we flew, I fell, the tree caught me, Cirno picked me up, the weight was too much, and Cirno fell!"

Digesting this, Reimu coolly asked, "Why are you here?" Of course, she was still smacking her gohei against her hand.

Quivering under her gaze, I said, "M-master said we'd be training here...

Crossing her arms, the shrine maiden leveled a frightening gaze upon me, and said, "So, it's the idiot's fault."

Whimpering, I replied, "If that's not me..." I was on the verge of tears at this point.

Just as the leader of this expedition pulled her head free of the ground, Reimu said, "Look what you did to my courtyard, you idiot. The grounds are now ruined! Now nobody will want to donate to my shrine! " She was furious, by the sound of her voice, and she wouldn't settle for a lame excuse.

Thinking fast, Cirno boldly shouted, "Like anyone would donate to such a smelly shrine anyways!"

Visably shocked to the core, the shrine maiden asked, "What? Is... is that why nobody donates? Why didn't anyone ever say anything?"

Just then, I remembered what was familiar about this shrine maiden. I met her once before, the night before I went to Yukari's home, shortly after I lost my memories. Clutching at the front of my borrowed kimono, I nervously said, "U-umm... It really doesn't seem like such a bad place to me..." Smiling faintly, I added, "You, umm... You seem nice enough, going by back when you cared for me, and when you covered my ears with the cloth... If I could, I'd donate to you, Miss Reimu..."

Always one to nitpick on important details, Reimu rose a brow. "Huh? But the only person that I've done that for would be that bunny girl..." Crossing her arms over the chest, Reimu added, "You look nothing like a rabbit."

Blinking, my eyes lit up with realization. "Ahh, that's right, you wouldn't know, would you?"

Sighing, Reimu commented, "You're gonna tell me you're her, aren't you."

Nodding, I asked, "How'd you know...?"

Sighing again, Reimu answered, "Call it a hunch." Staring at me a moment, she muttered, "...How the heck'd this even happen...?"

Thinking she was asking me, I replied, "W-well, umm... We honestly don't know! One moment I was a bunny, and the next moment I was an ice fairy! Although... Cirno said she would care for me, and teach me, so it's not all bad." I couldn't help but smile at admitting that.

I thought nothing of when Reimu's hand smacked her face front and center, before dragging down it a short ways as she grumbled. In a dangerous tone, Reimu asked, "And what, pray tell, happened to Yukari being the one taking care of you...?"

Smiling brightly, I said, "Well, umm... She said to go on an adventure, and then dropped me out of a hole in the sky, a hundred feet over the lake!"

Grumbling, Reimu began to plot what to do to the gap hag next time she drops by uninvited. After the plotting was complete, she looked to Cirno and sighed. "I guess I should thank you for looking after this girl, huh...?" She grumbled a bit more, and marked Cirno beating off of her to-do list, as she was doing the job she asked Yukari to do, and even threw in training the poor girl. "Anyways, as you're here, I suppose I will have to make tea." With that said, she holstered her gohei, and made her way into the run down shrine she called home.