Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun.
A/N: I'm sure you'll find the cheesy joke with ease, if you've heard it before!
Y/N: It's in the-
A/N: Qu-quiet...!
M/N: I'll be borrowing this joke, z- *gapped*
Y/N: You're welcome.
A/N: ...Thanks. Let's try for another 100 chapters! It'll probably be about that long untill the next incident, and as such, the next part of the story! Anyways... Don't worry, it won't be dull! Incidents don't happen every day, ya know? On with the show!
Late afternoon, Cirno's house:
Rumia was keeping me as close as can be, as I'd burn if not for her darkness, which wasn't one of the easiest of tasks as she was rather busy skinning the boar.
As the thing was quite large, and our spit only moderately large, Mima decided to do it in sections, starting with the legs.
Rumia had already gotten the hind legs skinned, and was simply waiting on Mima to prepare the fire, while busily skinning the front legs.
"Booored..." Cirno had just about nothing to do in this, and was tasked with poking the coals of the fire that Mima had setup outside; The coals had yet to be ignited, so she had nothing to do.
With the sheer size of the thing, there would need to be a fire of similar size, you know? Mima had gathered a bit of fire wood for this very reason, and was currently placing them in the pit she had dug out.
With a flip of her knife, and a quick word that I heard echo through my brain, the wood had ignited, and was ready for what we intended.
...Magic sure is useful...
"Okay, Rumia. Can you rip off a leg now? I'm ready to start cooking." I didn't see what happened, but a sickening pop signified that she had done as requested, and ripped a limb from the creature.
Mima's PoV:
Soon after that rather nasty sound filled the air, a leg of the boar began to stick out of the bubble, obviously being handed to me by Sunshine.
"Thank you." I took the heavy section of flesh and bone, and began to push the metal rod through the more fleshy part, before placing it on the spit that Sunshine's cook friend had left here for just such occasions.
The sounds of skinning resumed, and I couldn't help but wonder what exactly Rumia was using to skin the thing; the only knifes around are the one in my hand, and one that's by the fire...
Rumia continued to slide the extended razor sharp bone talon of her thumb through the flesh of the beast, cutting through like a knife through butter.
I looked to the sky, noting that it was about late enough for Rumia to lower that bubble of hers.
"Hey Sunshine, I think it's about dark enough for you to lower your darkness." Rumia jumped a bit, before grinning happily; her darkness began to fade, first stopping at 95% so as to make sure it was dark enough, then it faded to nothing.
"Ahh~! So comfy to feel the cool air on my skin..." Usagi nodded, agreeing with Rumia that the humidity of the bubble did get a bit uncomfortable after awhile.
Then it hit me.
"Oww!" I looked about, before noticing a bit of red and white floating in the air.
"Having a cookout, and not inviting your Neice...? How cruel..." I sighed, rather annoyed at being hit with...
I felt the back of my head, before pulling out a sharp spike of metal.
...A persuasion needle. I hate these things... Miko always used to use them, claiming that they magically made others agree with her.
Like hell! They only work that way because they hurt like hell, and Youkai don't want to get hit with more of the things!
"You really shouldn't throw these things about willy nilly..." I couldn't help but scold the girl.
"Hmph, you're not my mom!" Reimu pouted and looked away.
"...Right... Anyways, if you want food, go fetch my Pupil." Reimu groaned, just as I had expected of her.
"But it's such a paaain...!" Reimu was in a rather lazy mood.
"No Pupil, no food." I sighed, after having to grind my words into her head; I don't like having to repeat myself.
"Fiiine..." ...That was easier that expected; she's about as lazy as one can be!
"That was easier than I expected; she's about as lazy as one can be!" Rumia echoes my thoughts, word for word.
"...Say anymore, and I'm going to beat you..." Reimu growled, glaring a hole into Rumia, which only got a grin from the girl.
"Is that so~?" Both Rumia, and myself, asked in unison.
"E-err... Yeah..." Reimu was expecting such a responce from the Youkai, but not from myself. She was quite surprised to say the least.
"Is that so~?" Both of us began to grin, my magic turning to wings, and I drew my blade, while Rumia's cheeks split open to expose all of her teeth.
"...I... I'll be going now, bye!" Reimu flew off as fast as she could towards the direction of Marisa's house, a bit intimidated by our threatening actions. Reimu had gained a bit of a fear of my, from back when I was an evil spirit, due to waking up on numerous occasions to the sight of me, hovering over her, knife in hand, with a nasty grin on my face.
It was quite distressing to wake up to such a scary sight, and had left her with a bit of a long lasting trauma; while Reimu could probably beat my now human self with relative ease, she would rather avoid conflict with me due to said trauma.
It wasn't long before Reimu returned, Marisa in tow. The scent was making the poor maiden drool heavily, and her stomach growl in annoyance at not being fed for awhile.
While she was gone, Mystia had arrived, and had given me a hug while crying; she seemed quite happy to not be constantly forced to cook, and spoke of having had needed this break for a long time.
"Wow, Reimu! You're really tearing into that meat!" Rumia couldn't help but giggle at the voracious display being put on by the Red-white, and was quite entertained by it.
"I havn't eaten in over 6 months." Everyone sitting about outside gave her the most confused of looks, while pausing their eating.
"...How are you... alive, ze?" The human body can't go without food for much longer than a month, and probably a little less with how little fat Reimu has on her.
"I attack Youkai, and eat their fear!" Once more we all gave her the most confused of looks.
"...But... But, only Youkai can eat emotions, as far as I've read, ze!" Marisa couldn't believe the words coming from Reimu's mouth, and neither could the rest of us, honestly.
"Well, I'm the acception, obviously!" None of us could defy her logic, as she had obviously done it.
"...And, drinking?" Rumia was truely curious at this point, as she had never heard of a human doing as most Youkai do.
"One month." We all once more gave her a rather blank look.
Reimu has been the strongest around for awhile now, save for Yukari; could that mean she ccan do such insanely impossible things effotlessly...?
The human body simply isn't made the same way as a Youkai's, and as such, we need food and water; there's no way around that really.
...Atleast, not as far as I know...
While we all continued to eat the boar, Reimu easily tore through pound after pound of meat; by the end, she probably ate about five pounds of meat.
Where does she fit it all...?