Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun.
Yu/N: As the author is still back in the past, I suppose I'll be the one to water you pretty little flowers today!
Yuu/N: Hey! That's my job!
Yu/N: Figure of speech, my dear. I doubt one would find interest in actually watering humans. ...Okay, maybe you would, but that's besides the point.
Yuu/N: Hmph.
Sunset, Skies over Youkai Forest, Hatate's PoV:
Ahh... Another day of field work done... Jeez, I always get so stiff in the shoulders after a full day of flight... I don't see how Aya does i- Ehh? What's that over there?
In the distance, I see a flesh and crow colored mass in the distance. ...Somehow, this feels a bit familiar.
What could it be?
The mass gets closer still, now more than a simple speck on the horizon.
It looks so familiar, yet I just can't make it out! Whatever it is, it's got to be the fastest thing I've ever seen!
Wait... There's very few that can more this fast... One of them being Tenma, who isn't crow-like... And the other is...
The high speed fleshy missile comes into view, revealing it to be exactly who I thought it was.
Why the hell is Aya naked? ! Who's she holding onto so... tightly? ! Scoooop!
I rushed to pull out my camera, and begin to charge it up for a shot. However, just as last time, I didn't even concider the most pressing of matters; Aya was headed strait for me.
The pair of nude women crashed into me with a loud smack, causing we to panic a bit, and begin to grapple for support reflexively. By mistake, I accidentally stole Aya's most precious of cargos, right before we both were sent spiraling towards the forest below, with no hope of recovering fast enough to do anything but brace for impact.
Why does this crap keep happening to me...?
"Gyaa!" I landed back-first, so as to spare my sudden cargo the pain of rubbed away flesh.
"Ahhh!" She screamed, and quivered in my arms. Well, isn't that a bit cute...
So as to ignore the pain of my wings being torn up, I began to give the girl a once over. A petite, ever so slightly androgynous figure, with small, yet existant, breasts. Her hair was a lovely shade of green, a shade that looked like healthy grass, and contained a cute little pair or chitinous antennae that were about thirty centimetres long. By the time I had finished giving the scared girl a once over, I had finally come to a stop.
...It's probably not a good sign that I can't feel half of my wings, but I'm not about to make Aya place blame upon me for letting harm come to this girl, whoever the hell she might be! Plus, it'd be a waste for such a cutie to have to look ugly for awhile, even if I have to wonder why they were flying about with nothing on...
"Aya, are we o...kay...?" The little Youkai began to talk as though it had been Aya that had saved her, but soon discovered that I wasn't who she thought. "W-what? W-where's Aya? Who are you? !" The girl began to act apprehensively towards me, as she assumed the worst.
"Jeeze, calm down, calm down!" I began to try and quell the girl's fear, which was stinking up the air. ...As well as another scent, which I wasn't too sure what was, but had a rather good hunch, as they were both in a rather shameful state of dress. ...Well, more like the lack there of a state of dress. They had nothing at all on! Aya didn't even have her Tokin on! Whatever happened, it must have been... a unique situation.
"B-but..." The little bug began to blush upon realising she was being held, while wearing nothing, by a total stranger. However, she had more pressing matters than to be embarassed, so she'd tell me to stop touching her... well, anywhere that I was touching, really, later. "W-w-where is she...?" Her eyes began to tear up, and with that, had used a crobar to pry their way into my heart.
"Don't worry, don't worry! I'm sure we'll find her! ...Probably just need to start looking, that's all." Aya's not one to go down from such a landing. If I can make it with just a... Wait, how much damage have I sustained? "Hey, how does my back look...? I can't get a very good look for obvious reasons..." I spread my wings, and winced in pain; I think one may be broken.
"...Are you sure you want to know...?" Okay, that sounds ominous...
"Yeah! I need to know, or else I'll be paranoid about it! I already figure I won't be flying for awhile, but I'm not sure of the exact damage..." I have a feeling it's worse than I thought, going by what the bug said.
"W-well... You lost all the feathers, and a good portion of skin, on the side that's facing away from you. ...Also, one is bent at an odd angle." Yyyep, there's no way I'll be able to fly for atleast a week... Looks like I'm stuck with spirit photography for a bit! I couldn't help to sigh at this, as I'm bored of using my skill that others classify as theft.
"Hmm... Well, let's start looking, shall we?" I let her down after realizing that I've no reason to be hanging onto her. "If we split up, it'll go easier, you know? Call out for me if you find her. ...Ahh, crap, we never introduced ourselfs, huh? The name's Himekaidou Hatate; and you are?" I gave her a little grin of confidence so as to try and bolster her morale, as she looked a bit depressed at being seperated from Aya.
I wonder why that is?
"A-ahh... W-well, I'm Wriggle Nightbug..." She began to fidget about, as she felt rather exposed. Unlike Aya, she's quite shy it seems. I can't even remember the number of times I've seen Aya in some state of undress... Damned exebitionist...
"Well, let's get going, shall we?" While I say that, it's not like we are planning to go in the same direction, so I could have just walked off as an indicator.
"Y-yeah!" I'll give her credit: she seems damned determined to find Aya...
And with that, we split up, and began to comb the forest.
It took me a surprisingly long amount of time, perhapse an hour, to sniff out Aya. While I'm no Wolf Tengu, all Tengu have some extent of being able to sniff things out.
"Wriggle! I found her!" I called out into the now dark forest, and made my way to the battered looking Aya. It seems she smacked into a tree, and was knocked out instantly, but was pretty much otherwise unharmed. Good!
After a couple of minutes, I began to hear the rustle of the underbrush, and after a minute more, the bug had returned. ...Why is her ass pulsating with light? ...Why is there a huge swarm of Fireflies following after her? !
"A-Aya...!" Wriggle had ran the whole way here, as she was starting to lose hope just a bit, so she was quite out of breath. However, upon hearing my call, she began to run as fast as she could, and ignore any feelings of light headedness she felt.
"Gya! That's a lot of fireflies!" I'm not so great around ordinary bugs, you see. I can't stand them at all! So freaking creepy...
I began to back away, so as to try and keep my distance from the things. It's not so much a direct fear of insects, but of how they seemingly always try to fly into your eyes.
"Ehh? Ahh!" She stopped her butt from flashing with light with a brilliant blush, as she had gotten a bit thoughtless and had accidentally been letting her mating signal go off. That was quite the close call, really; had she not been warned, she would have soon been covered in sex crazed fireflies. Not a particularly pleasant prospect, really. Wriggle couldn't help but give me a great deal of silent gratitude.
I sighed with relief as well, as the swarm of eye hunting bugs had now dispersed into the night.