Disclaimer: In order to fully understand the world of this Spin off, please atleast read Gensokyo Chronicles: Ultima Brigade War in order to learn all of the background elements. After all, you would not play Mario and Luigi without playing the mainlines right? Such Background includes Ziden's Backstory, his relationship to certain chars, what certain events are, and so on, which will be carried over here. Also I own none of these properties, which is obvious.

" Ngh..." Well, that was a chaotic last night, a flash of light and now I have a bunch of tenants now, basically people who live with me and pay rent. Well, can't complain i guess, they do not look like trouble. But I can't exactly meet them right now, got a job today, gonna go help out some scientists try out time travel. This ought to be fun.

Shifting my feet, i made sure to move to my kitchen and made my breakfast, simple stuff, bowl of cereal and 2 buttery toasts. Didn't want to take too long eating so i made sure to devour the cereal first, gotta love it, even if its the generic stuff. Might as well head back to my room to grab my sword.

Shifting the door open to my room, i step inside. Clean room, always make sure it is minus a few socks on the floor and tomes for when I want to read up on any monsters of the world. Get the feeling i am gonna have an insane amount of time for that in the future. But i did notice something odd in my line of sight, my bed had an occupant in it.

Purple nightgown that barely hides anything, long blonde hair, poofy hat. I already knew who it was. Yukari Yakumo. A...'friend' of sorts. Well, friend is stretching it, she's my aunt. Took me in as a favor to my mom due to an incident due to their friendship by combat thing they had. Damn lady smacked her with a trainer. Reminds me shrine maidens are all scary women. So what do I do when i see the snoozing Yukari in my bed?

I threw my toast on her face and that peaceful face turned into a frown from the toast striking her face. Now that, that made me smile. So it was time to head out before she wakes up. Got nothing better to do and this job pays well.

Out the door i go and time to head down to Ichigaya and get some work done...

And I have learned a wonderful lesson today, never. Goddamn. Time Travel. Literally had to wander through from the past and get back to the present, know how hellish that is? It sucks, it really sucks. Now i am so damn old mentally and I hate it. Or not, i feel alot wiser and humble. Plus met alot of new faces.

Speaking of new faces. There was Yukari at my Kotatsu where I lounge in this winter sea- Wait a second, its Winter and she is still awake?

" The toast, was heavily uncalled for you know." Her voice sounds annoyed, i can tell from her face alone by that.

" Sorry, but that is so old, thought you wold be fine with that." I smirk at that joke before she scoffs.

" That's why you got eaten by a dinosaur." Wait what. " I was watching, I died laughing honestly. Good thing for that phoenix, eh Nephew?"

That smug grin she is hiding behind that fan, it really pisses me off. Wonder if this is what those people talked about on those forums, Gappies? Complain about when it comes to this woman.

" You typically don't come to bug me, so what is going on-" And i am cut off by a light blue cube on the table, staring at it for a moment, i knew what it was exactly. " A cosmic cube, so that was that flash."

" A strange youkai found it and was using it to heavily damage Gensokyo, me and Reimu took it out after a simple fight." Ah, Reimu, if i recall, that's the name of the Shrine maiden that is apparently my cousin.

What do I mean by that? Its funny actually, see, back before Genoskyo became what it is now, there were two sisters in the Hakurei clan, one was older and far more popular. The younger was heavily overshadowed and she hated that a ton, so she left for greater pastures. Supposedly, the God of their shrine did not like that, but did not want to risk one side being lost so he blasted both with a heavy dosage of magic and made it so that their bloodlines wouldn't wane with too much lines of kids in the future.

Its messed up that essentially, her side is the Mario side and my side is the Luigi side. Wonder if that means I am taller than her?

" Uhm, excuse me, Mr Ziden? There's uh, someone out here to see you?" Huh, that voice? That's the woman that wanted to be my gatekeeper, it was coming from the built in speaker system i put in. Lemme just uh- oh, that is a gap around my foot.

Thwaam!

And that is the floor, hello floor. Freaking hell, my face burns hot now. Gotta slowly get up to my feet now and press the button. " Yo, Gate keep, who is it at the door?

There was a pause, likely because she was stunned by the fact that my voice came through it. " Oh uh, its someone in this long black thing and he is calling himself, the Emperor of Japan."

Well, that's a new one, I always get some weird prankster trying to pose as someone important, ya know what, imma have Yukari eat em. " Send em in, open the gate and let this Emperor in."

" Gotcha Master!" Does she have to call me that because I employed her? How annoying. Well, lets see who this prankstar is.

Holy crap, its the actual Emperor o Japan in my home. Fancy suit, old looking and his body guards are in the room and guarding the entrances to the room.

" Greetings, Mr Icrim, I apologize for coming by unannounced. I have come to discuss urgent business with you." Urgent business huh? What, is Izanami back again or something?

" No need for the fancy talk, Emperor, I've done favors for ya before, we are essentially close enough." I rose my hand up as he relaxes.

" Good..Ziden, last night there was a massive surge of energy coming from a certain area of Japan." Ah, so his people felt it too huh? Certain area though, he doesn't have to beat around the bush. " You may know it as Gensokyo, a hidden land formed in olden times, long before Japan was united by those famous Three."

" Indeed, Gensokyo seems to have vanished off the map by that weird energy." Ah, Yukari is speaking up. " But what does this have to do with you, Fuji?"

" Nothing, we sensed a massive surge of supernatural events after it ended, our Priests sensed many magic signatures appearing all over japan and all over the world as well. They discerned that the magical denizens and youkai of the land may have spread around to the outside world." That does not sound good. Not at all.

" And what does that have to do with me?" I wondered, he can't about to ask me to-

" Find these people, bring them here, keep them safe here and keep an eye on them." The Emperor really did ask me to go on a fetch quest for a bunch of youkai and magic dorks.

" Well, atleast that means you are sort of done, since we are here." Oh, its that mag- oh god, the bodyguards pulled out guns on her. She is just sorta staring at them though before floating over to the table with a crystal ball. " I am the or rather was the Magician of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the Great Unmoving Library, Patchouli Knowledge. If you need aid in tracking down the missing people of Gensokyo, I can use this."

The guards are putting away their guns, seems they don't wanna shoot someone willing to help.

" Very well, we have set up an ID system for those from Gensokyo." This..kinda sounds like. " I am aware what it sounds like, it is nothing like the times of WW2 of those camps. They are of Japan, even if they are locked away in a bubble, they simply need IDs to be truly official citizens."

Well, I thought that was gonna be dark but apparently, there was a reason for it. There's a beeping, oh, Patchouli is doing something. " Hmm, there are atleast 3 dots in this immediate area, by scanning for Magical resonance and making sure it matches to Gensokyo's own magical energies. One seems to be directly next door."

Seriously? The only thing next door is the school. Is one of them in the school?

" I see, then I shall leave you all to it. We will contact you via phone to see how things go. We will set up an old office building nearby so those ID pictures can be opened for Gensokyo."

The emperor was rather reasonable about this, well it looks like the other two dots are in...the more Yakuza infected areas of town, great. But the next door one, who could it be.

Well, time to hit outside, seems Yukari is gonna be joining me on this endeavor, Patchouli is gonna be our comms person. " also, Ziden, you do not mind if I take one of your guests room in your housing section do you?"

Oh, i just thought she would sleep in the Library. " sure, go for it, I don't mind." Well, i had three guest rooms, and now its two. Out of the gate we walk it seems and the Gatekeeper is out here, seems she slept out here. I had to ask. " Yo, Redhead, did you sleep out here?"

She snaps to attention and salutes me, she takes her job kinda seriously it looks like. " Yes sir! I always slept outside the gate ya know!"

I would not know, I do not even know you." You...know you can sleep inside right?" The red head blinks at me like I just gave her some kind of realization.

" I-I can? For real and truly!?" And she is now in my face, i am now noticing she is quite tall and imposing, literally only an inch shorter than me. I just kinda nod. " Oh, so where can I sleep when i need to sleep?" Well, i guess one of my guest rooms would be fine.

" You can use one of my guest rooms in my housing section, the big one with the Phoenix statue before it." I did have that there, kinda forget its there sometimes. She does nod happily at this. " You can head inside for dinner and rest once its night time at 7:00PM."

" Yes Master!" And she is chipper as hell. " Oh right, my name is Hong Meiling! Its a pleasure to work for you!" And she is bowing, she really is a martial artist chinese type.

We end up leaving her and walking over to the school and already I see a sight, blue dress, slightly wrinkled and that hair, that couldn't be who I thought it was. during that time travel escapade, i ended up getting into really weird adventures, one of which involved meeting her.

" Oho, not surprised she made it here." Yukari seems to know her too, only one way to find out.

" HEY! COW LADY!" Oh wow, that was loud and she flinched when she heard that before looking around and soon spotting me, and she seemed to have a moment of confusion before running right over to me. If this was a sitcom, you'd probably have that cheesy music with her running to me on a beach.

She did leap onto me and latch me into a hug but this woman...she wasn't about to do anything romantic. What she did was-

Thwack!

Literally headbutt me into the floor as Yukari looks down at me. " Oh my, are you okay, old man, do you need me to get your nurse?" I'm stabbing her, I am stabbing her in her dust filled chest.

" Honestly, its been almost 4 years since we last met and this is how you greet me?" The blue woman is Keine, during that hug, i could tell she had perfume on, but i had a sharper nose now so I can smell what was underneath.

" Could be worse, could be hiding stink under perfume like ya are right now." She actually broke my nose with that one, and her face is red.

" S-shut it, I am trying to make due." Sounds like she has not been having a good time at all. " Living in a school is not a good place to uphold proper hygiene with no proper cleaning supplies."

" So what I am hearing is, you need a place to stay." And she does brighten up at this.

"Of course i do, do you know a-"

" Stay with me, think of it as payback for letting me stay with ya in the past." I had to pay back my debts at one point.

" Oh uh, sure, where do you live?" She seemed to be down for it atleast, now she can bathe and stuff. I casually point to the large houses behind me as she blinks. " Wait, you live there! I was told some monstrous demon lives in those houses!"

Wow okay, note to self, beat up whoever started those lies. " Well, apparently that demon is me, just because ya let a few Youkai live with ya, its a pain. But you can take up the last guest room in the main house. Phoenix statue, yadda yadda."

" Well, i wish i could but I have a school day to work through." She seemed pumped though. " Finally, a proper bath. You do have bathroom goods like soap right?" I nod, i would be terrible if I did not have that. " Good, after work, I shall sneak my goods out over here and I will take a nice hot bath. I was told the baths in the Outside world is to die for."

They are Keine, they are. But I wave her off as Yukari was already walking off, to Shinjuku we go to find us who these people are.

Reimu's POV

That flash of light was a really big pain in the ass, I tell you, i woke up in a dumpster and had to sleep in a box because no one would take in a shrine maiden covered in gunk. What utter crap, this place is terrible, but i did learn I was in the outside world. But the bad news is that the barrier is entirely gone and I can't even tell where Yukari went.;

So here I am, walking down the streets with a grimace on my face, that's fine. This is still less annoying than that Spring incident, honestly, its cold but not freezing. I think the most annoying thing is-

" Yo Reimu! Look at all these weird moving metal things!" Marisa being loud and explorative, people are staring at us since, out of everyone, we look the weirdest. Honestly, that is not even the thing I am weirded out by, those weird Metal things are loud but i am more fixated on this plush doll of me.

A whole store had alot of these and even my outfit, though this one feels alot more, nicely crafted? They even had stuff for Marisa and stuff. weird thing called Touhou Project Goods, I don't even want to think about it.

Marisa had some weird books about chars finding out they are fake and i don't want any more crises like they do. " Shush Marisa, we need to figure out where Yukari is and figure out what to do from there."

I thought it out well enough, Find Yukari and smack her for this, she touched that weird cube. So we better search around, probably ask people if they have seen a blonde in a purple dress.

But Marisa had it lucky, seems she got found by a nice older couple and they just took her in without question and let her stay the night. How did she get luc-

" Hey you, lil ladies!" Huh, there is someone calling out, are they calling for us? I turn to see some rather shady types in suits approaching us,they look, rough, one is even missing his pinkie. " You know, lil girls shouldn't be walking out here alone like this. How about we escort ya home, eh?"

Their japanese is rough, really rough but they really gave off the air of bad news. " No thanks, we are fine on our own." I bluntly stated as I sideglance Marisa who seemed to be gripping onto her broom tight.

" Now now, no need to be shy, just come with us!" And now he is touching my shoulder, we may not have alot of men in Gensokyo, but i was taught by my mom how to deal with creeps. And that is a swift kick between the legs.

Crunch!

And he is screaming from that one and the other guys are staring hard at us, seems they did not like me harming that guy like that. " That black haired bitch! Screw selling her off, waste her and that goofy witch!" Bitch? Now that is just rude and now i have to fight, great.

I know how to fight but it was quicker this way, pulling out ofudas and firing them right at them, watching them slam into their chests and soon send them flying down the street. " Gah! What the hell!?"

Oh yeah, the Outside world, doesn't have magic and stuff, oh well, the people that were once here were dispersing and i see some of those guys coming out of one of the shops.

" One blasttastic special coming right up ze!" And i heard a boom behind me, seems she is using those new magic bombs of hers, but i had to deal with two guys, pulling out weird black sticks.

I wasted no time, I leapt up and slammed my leg right into one of their faces and made sure to follow up with a strong kick to their jaw, knocking them off of their feet, needles soon forming between my fingers, i launched them right at another's feet, making sure they exploded and knocked that guy right on his ass.

" I knew those jackasses would fail! Lets gang up on em, they are just two girls! Lets ge, grrk!" And i turn to see a gloved pair of hands around his neck and I heard the snap and then saw him being thrown, and behind him was Yukari of course and she just killed a man.

I was gonna yell but they beat me to it, screams up in the air as I saw blood this time, a man right next to Yukari as a red blade was shining in the light. " Hey, old hag, don't freaking race ahead like that." Old hag, he's familiar with her.

" H-hey! Yukari, other guy! Don't just kill these guys!" I have never really liked killing, makes me feel weird, its why made the spell card system, to avoid this kinda stuff.

" Eh, nah, with scum like this, you have to kill em." What. " Let em live and they come back and do worse shit, kid." That's the spiky haired guy, instictly, a kick back into the gut of a yakuza sneaking up on me, seeing them soon stopping as that guy stabs another one, even after i told him not to.

" I said stop!" And I have my ofuda ready, this guy has to be a youkai! I'll seal him and stop th-

" S-screw this! We'll get you back for this you bitches!" The guys who could even more were running away and catching my eyes.

" Ziden, enough, if they wanna retaliate, let them, I have been rather hungry lately." That's his name...Ziden. Yukari mentioned his name once. Oh right, he's the jackass whose room I blew up.

" Fine fine, but hey, we found your Maiden, this is a win in my books." Ziden stretched it looks like, I don't like him, not one bit.

" You, why did you kill those people!" I point at him with my Gohei was Marisa was messing with her hat, she better not have stolen anything.

" Why? Those are Yakuza, thugs of the streets, they have been going overboard with kidnapping girls lately, and this is the best way to deal with em." Yep, I hate this guy but those guys are pretty scummy.

" Indeed, they have been becoming rowdy this time of year." Yukari is adding her two cents. " This is how a Hero of the outside world operates sadly, you will live. Now come on, we have a home to come back to." Oh great, atleast I won't have to live in garbage anymore. But i am gonna kick this guy in the ass at some point.

In the Akyuu Residence...

" So, what do ya think?" Akyuu was bouncing happily as Ziden raised a brow.

" Its pretty good, kinda wondering why ya wanted to make this though." Ziden wondered while looking at her.

" I want to write my own story without anything getting in the way! so this is what I am doing, from the outside world books that come here, I am taking hints and signs to work on this one!" Akyuu seemed happy about this. " I can't wait for the romance angle to come in!"

" Come again?" And Mokou was there, staring at the sight.

"Well, the women of the village love sappy romances so, I will add in romances for each and every type of woman." Her eyes are sparkling, this is not a good sign.

" Now hold on!"

" Nope! As an author, I need not listen to unimportant complaints! Time for Romance, love and things that the women will love!" And she is ignoring them

" We are witnessing the birth of a monster." Ziden said while sighing.

" Good job, now your story self is getting a Harem too." And his arm was slugged by her.

" Hurray." Ziden rubs his arm before kicking her right in the leg.

" Yes, harem, women love those when the men is not some fat pig!" What books were she even reading? Well, he was gonna see alot of weirdness soon enough.

Trivia:

1. Yes, Touhou is an actual thing but will be properly explained next chapter

2. In terms of plot, this is after PCB but the following games will occur, including manga elements.

3. There will be cameos of others series but this is a mainly Touhou story so the girls are taking the main stage here

4. Akyuu may or may not represent some who go rather overboard with 'power' when making fanfics

Author's Note: Babysitting sucks, its the main reason why this took so long, I want the summer to end so they can leave and I can do this alot faster alongside the other story. Anyways Read and Review