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A/N: And now, once more we go for a walk, this time with a bodyguard! ...Lets hope she doesn't get hungry... On with the show!
Late night, Hakurei Shrine:
Rumia continuously did her best not to sniff the air. What she had said about me smelling tasty was quite true, and it wasn't just her that was salivating over the smell, a good portion of the crowd was thinking of ways to steal us for themselfs. Rumia was hiding it so well, untill her stomach began growling that is.
"Please don't try and eat me again, okay?" Rumia now knew for a fact that I was on to her secret desire.
"Is that so~?" Rumia decided to try and play it off, opting to say that instead of saying she was sorry.
"Ehh? 'Again'?" Cirno hadn't know what had transpired this morning, not having had been awake.
"A-ahh, nothing." Rumia was quick to sweep it under the rug. She was sure that Cirno wouldn't be happy about having almost lost a portion of her student.
"Is that so~?" I did my best impression of Rumia's question, with the intention of saying that I'd keep it quiet. It's odd how versatile that question could be...
"S-so... where was it you said that this Mima woman was?" With Rumia doing her best to not inhale the delicious scent, she had forgotten to ask.
"Ahh, the steps by the front of the shrine." I sighed, she never did ask where we were going...
We changed directions, and the lesser Youkai about were starting to get ideas. Rumia didn't seem like the brightest candle on the shelf, why not try and trick her into leaving the humans behind?
In the distance, Rumia heard talk of 'I heard Rumia's realy weak!' and 'Wow, free human meat? What a steal!' ...This was the most obvious, and stupid, attempt to trick her she had heard in awhile... Though, it's not like she minded people thinking her an idiot, quite the opposite in fact, Rumia went out of her way to look the part of the fool, it was a pretty large advantage, honestly. People underestimate her, thinking they could easily out smart her. However, she knew that when the current plan failed they would take a more direct approach. While a single lesser youkai was no trouble, there had to be atleast twenty of the things all shouting out those silly sounding traps.
Rumia, not wanting to put us in danger, hopped into a tree with us in tow. She didn't have time to explain, so she simply enveloped the three of us in a dark bubble, plugging our mouths. Rumia's bubble wasn't just able to block sight, the outer layer could block smell, too. Now within the bubble, the Youkai all noticed the smell fade from the air, and began to panic. What had happened to their meal?
Being unable to see, and being held quite tightly against Rumia, I thought she was trying to eat me again. I bit down on the slimy whatever it was that was plugging mouth, trying to defend myself. Rumia jumped, twitching about in pain from being bitten like that, while the blood of the tendril leaked into my mouth. Had I known how I turned into a fairy in the first place, I may not have bitten so hard. I felt my conciousness fading, before ending entirely.
Rumia felt me go limp, and removed her still bleeding tendril of darkness from my mouth. My teeth began to all push themselfs out, which would have been quite painful had I been concious. One by one the teeth fell to the ground below the tree, before a new set of teeth took their place, teeth that bore a resemblance to that of a shark, and to Rumia's own teeth. The sliced through my gums, being of another size than that of human teeth
Cirno squirmed about, wanting to be let go. She never enjoyed being within the bubble of Rumia, even if she knew that the Darkness Youkai only used it when there was reason to. It was just so... slimy feeling in it... Anyone who had taken a trip to the Rumia bubble would agree with two things, it was rather humid... like being breathed on by the whole thing, and that they are glad they dont know exactly what's in it, because Rumia isn't the only thing that lives inside that bubble, no way in old hell!
"Come out, come out, where ever you are..." Rumia heard a youkai talking to hemself below the tree. Crap, they might be on to our location.
"What have we here...?" Rumia heard another voice, a human voice, one that sounded very familiar. ...She couldn't place who it was, though.
"Ehh...? The hell are you supposed to be...?" The Youkai below the tree spoke once more. The human simply chuckled.
"Ohh, wouldn't you like to know...?" The human's voice was full of mirth. Why did it sound so familiar to Rumia? It was on the tip of her tongue, but she just couldn't remember...
"Piss off, human, before I eat you!" The youkai was growing angry, obviously not happy at the interuption.
"Ohh, really, now? You, eat me? Do you know who I am...?" The human was cackling at this point.
"A crazy woman, dressed to look like the Red-white...? It's obvious you arn't her!" The youkai sounded quite sure of himself, not showing a sign of fear.
"Ohoho, you make it sound like Reimu is the only Hakurei!" The human was sounding quite threatening at this point.
"Y-you're lying! That Red-white monster is the only one left!" Fear was starting to become apparent in the Youkai's words.
"Do these lie...?" Just what was happening down there...? Rumia really wished she could see through her own darkness.
"What? N-no! Stay back, no!" The last that was heard from the terrified Youkai was a hollow thud.
"Rumia." Rumia went tense. How had the human known she was around?
"Rumia, I know you're up there..." Rumia swallowed hard. It had been quite a long time since last she had been seen like this.
"Y-yes...?" Rumia, feeling uneasy about being seen like this couldn't think of anything better to say.
"The Youkai are all gone, I... took care of them. Why don't you come down from there? I hear you were looking for me, anyways!" Ehh? Rumia thought about it for a moment, before coming to a conclusion. This must be that Mima person!
Rumia hopped down from the tree, with the girls still in her arms.
"Is that so~?" Mima simply smiled at what Rumia had said.
"Still havn't changed, even after all these years, huh?" What? Rumia began to think harder about the person before her. She look so... familiar...
"I-I'm sorry, do I know you...?" Mima only grinned.
"Why yes, you do! How have you been, sunshine?" Rumia's eyes went wide with realization. She had only been called that by a single person, a very long time ago. Her name was also Mima, and she looked just as she did now, but in the old fasioned shrine maiden outfit.
"Wha- B-bu... You... You died, didn't you...?" Rumia dropped the pair of us, Cirno landed on her butt, while I face planted in the dirt.
"Why yes, I did!" Rumia was even more confused than before. If she died, how was she alive right now...?
"But, you're-" Before Rumia could finish, she was cut off.
"Alive? Yeah, I got better. Thank Yukari for that one..." Rumia's eyes went wide once more. Cirno and myself/Yuuka had fought along side her old friend, Mima.
I finally began to stir, spitting out the dirt that had been shoveled up by my new teeth, due to landing face first. My mouth hurt like crazy, like my gums were split open all over. I stuck a finger in my mouth to check for what was up, accidently cutting my finger on the new teeth.
"Oww...!" I yelped, quickly pulling my finger from my mouth. Attention was brought to me, or more so, my now red eyes.
"Umm... Usagi... What's up with your eyes...?" Cirno was the first to ask the obvious.
"I don't know, but I think I have a knife stuck in my gums!" Rumia raised a brow. A knife?
"...Hey, open your mouth for a second, Usagi." I did as Rumia had asked, opening wide for her.
Everyone was shocked, save for Rumia, who had a hunch on what had happened. My mouth was chock full of teeth of the same kind as Rumia. Rumia had wondered why I was starting to smell so different... Similar to herself, actually. I had somehow turned into a Youkai of Darkness. ...Just what am I? An 'ordinary' human shouldn't be turning into all sorts of strange things seemingly as random!