hello everyone!
it is I Kitsune120moron or Kitsune for short!
today i bring the fourth chapter of The true will of fire.
yeah i know it's been awhile since i actually uploaded another chapter but i was busy with school and all but i will keep continue the story, never abandon it after all.
but anyway after this chapter i will begin write Dragon Heart: True Hero because both the stories are connected in someway but different main character and such.
but anyway enjoy the story now
Chapter four: beginning of a great Friendship...
"so do you two have anything to say?"
"um" Firu scratched back of his head while trying to find some excuse to get him out of this mess.
"why am i here?" Cirno whined as she rubbed her head where Reimu bashed with her Gohei for no reason. Reimu's right eye twitched "oh excuse me if i'm going to correct your memory you idiotic fairy but you and this fox destroyed a piece that could be used to repair my donation box" Cirno pouted and crossed her arms.
"so? it wasn't me first who broke your stupid donation box!"
*BASH*
"OW!" Cirno clutched her head in pain as Reimu bashed with her Gohei again, she huffed in irritation and she looked at Firu who was nervous "what about you? mind explain to me why the hell was so good idea to destroy my donation box?" she asked while Firu sweated bullets in fear to also get bashed to the head.
"u-um w-well i... i t-thought that no one lived here as it l-looked abandon and run down so i-"
*BASH*
"ow..." Firu whined as he was lying on the ground as Reimu Bashed him on the head a lot harder than she did to Cirno.
"so not only you got the guts to not only destroy my donation box and my door to the storage house but to call my Shrine abandon and run down?" Reimu glared at the two, she sighed in frustration as she turn around "see this? this what's left of my donation box!" she pointed at what's left of her Donation box, frankly even if she still had the piece whole without Firu and Cirno accidently destroying it, it wouldn't be enough to repair the donation box.
"why don't you find a new one or at least buy one?" Firu asked while Cirno gave him the look "are you an idiot" look, Reimu suddenly was wrapped in dark aura and turned around toward Firu who was shaking in fear.
"do you want to die?" Reimu spoke in demonic voice making Firu even more scared as it is.
"n-n-n-n-no nonononon please i'm sorry!" Firu bowed and apologize, Reimu stared at him but calmed down "listen kid, the reason i can't find or buy a new one is because .BROKE" Firu looked up and starred at Miko in front of him.
"why?" he asked "because most of my money goes to repair the shrine or either buy food from the village and i don't have anything left then, does this answer your question?" Reimu answered while looking a little bit depressed. Firu saw this and couldn't help but feel bad, after all she did lived here and he suddenly went and broke her donation box.
Suddenly he stood up "hey i'm sorry that i broke your donation box but what if i help find a new one?" Firu asked which Reimu and Cirno looked at him in shock, mostly Reimu.
"really?" she asked while getting a nod from Firu "yeah i mean i know what i did was wrong but if it will make you better then i promise that i get a new one, Believe it!" Reimu looked at Firu to see if there was any sign of lying but she found none.
"*sigh* fine i believe you kid, but finding one new donation box is going to be troublesome if you don't have money but there is easier way to just build a new one but right now i don't have any materials... unless you go to Rinnosuke's shop and get some" Firu tilted his head a bit, looking bit confused "Rinnosuke?" he asked.
Reimu nodded "yeah he have all the material to build a new one but" suddenly Reimu grabbed Cirno back of her shirt and lifted her "i can tell that your new here in Gensokyo so Cirno here will help you find the shop" Cirno just looked at Reimu in shock and let out a shout "EH!? WHY ME!?"
"Because you were a part of this and owe me after the last little incident you and your friends did to my shrine" Reimu said while looking evily toward Cirno which made her scared.
"ok"
"good girl now" Reimu dropped her "i want you two be back before the sun set or else I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN, now run along now~" both Firu and Cirno nodded and ran of out of fright.
Reimu watched them running away then let out a sigh "geez, it's already bad enough without that Saren Jerk landing on my Donation box months ago ugh not only that but what my Shrine became of" suddenly Reimu cried anime fake tears as she remembered some horrible memories that befall on her shrine.
"but still i hope that Tu-erm... whatever that jerk's race is called isn't causing too much trouble... ugh who am i kidding" with that Reimu went to attend her duties, by lazying around the shrine.
*the forest*
"so Cirno... do you know where this Rinnosuke guy live?" Firu asked while walking through the forest while Cirno herself was flying next to him from above.
"i do but dammit why must i be dragged into this mess! heck what the hell did you even need that piece of wood for anyway?" Cirno asked while glared at Firu who didn't care for her glaring at him.
"well i needed it for covering a hole in a tree which is my home for now" Firu answered while had both his hands behind his head, Cirno pouted "geez all this mess to cover a stupid hole? did you get drunk or something?" Firu growled a bit "no and beside i'm completely new to this place plus i don't remember anything where i came from or how i got here"
Cirno glanced back to Firu with confused look "you don't remember anything?" Firu nodded while sighed "yeah, i mean i suddenly woke up near the giant lake last night and then went out to find soem shelter which i found was a dead tree that was empty inside. After that i went to sleep inside it" Firu explained while Cirno sighed.
"great not only i fought against some new guy but someone who doesn't remember a thing at all" Cirno mutter while both the fairy and the fox youkai continue to go through the forest.
"but still i have to give you credits for that, your really are brave to actually broke Reimu's donation box and broke her door to that smaller house back of the shrine" Firu blushed a little for the praise as he looked at the other way "not like i had a choice, i needed something to cover the hole and put some food in the bag" he mutters while Cirno stopped flying "bag? Reimu never mention anything about a bag before and what food? i didn't know Reimu had anything good to eat" she asked while Firu just shrugged his shoulders.
"well there was a mansion on the other side of the lake so i thought i needed a bag to go over there and borrow some food" he explain while Cirno snickers "or rather you stole them didn't you?" Firu nodded regretfully "yeah, beside i don't know the people that lived there so i wasn't sure if they were willingly gave away something to eat"
Cirno shook her head while smiled brightly "yeah your right, the vampire that lived there isn't exactly that much kind toward lesser youkai and such but damn you just went there and stole the food without them notice you?" Firu nodded "yeah none were able to see me sneaking around so i took some food and ran away" Cirno began to laugh on what Firu have done.
"oh man i wished to see that smug vampire face when she see's all her food is gone!" Cirno laughed while Firu looked at her with confused look.
"what's so funny?"
Cirno stop laughing but smile kindly though Firu don't know why but he found her cute and friendly when she smile more kindly "because that vampire is so arrogant and she think she is unbeatable because she can control fate, she see's us Fairies nothing more but insect and slave labor so thanks for teaching her a lesson!" when she said that Firu can't help but frown on that, maybe stealing from that mansion was a good idea to teach that mean vampire a lesson, or whatever the hell is a vampire is but Firu didn't care about that.
but this made Firu smile a bit, Cirno seem happy and glad that this Vampire was a least taught a lesson just by stealing from this vampire so maybe his action did some good after all.
"u-um well glad to help, even though we were kinda fighting each other not long ago" Firu said while Cirno nodded "yeah but hey wanna be friends?" she asked which Firu looked at her in surprise "huh? friends?" he asked which she nodded "yeah, i mean your pretty fun and brave enough to actually do things even me the strongest wouldn't dare to do" but she blushed a little while mutter "plus your kinda...cute"
*silence*
"um... w-what did yo-you say just now?" Firu asked with huge blush on his face, he swear he thought he heard what Cirno just said something at the last part.
Cirno blushes heavily when Firu accidently heard the last part of what she said "w-what u-um i said that you look strange with purple eyes!" Firu rose an eyebrow at what she said, what's so wrong with his eyes?
"but a-anyway do you wanna be friends then?" Cirno ask again hoping that Firu won't question any further and beside she wonder herself why she even thought that he looked cute, sure he has those cute fox ears and tail. That's probably why she thought about it, after all foxes and other animals are cute anyway.
"um... yeah sure we can be friends" Firu said while Cirno grinned happily and extened her hand "alright then it is settle! together we can kick anyone ass!" Firu smiled and he shooked her hand "yeah, back then when we fought you weren't half bad"
Cirno nodded while crossed her arms "heh~ beside you weren't bad either, but anyway i want you to join Team 9 as well" Cirno exclaimed, Firu blinked couple times "team nine?" he asked while Cirno proudly nodded "jupp me and some of my other friends are member of team 9! because together we can over come anything! plus i'm the leader of the team anyway~"
while Firu sweatdropped "team 9 huh? but why do i get the feeling that team 9 sound more of a idiot team or something like that?" he shooked his head while smiled brightly as he have a new friend, even though both were kind of trying to kill each other but still Firu can't help but feel happy for how this turned out.
but still... to join this team Cirno have made sound like a good idea too, after all he get to gain more friends so he won't be ever alone and someone to depend on should he need help.
"sure i join the team!" Firu exclaimed while gave Cirno a thumbs up, Cirno grinned while also give Firu thumbs up "great! i can't wait to tell Dai-chan and Rumia-chan that we have a new member!" she said but this made Firu wonder who were those two who Cirno spoke of.
"dai-chan and Rumia-chan?" Firu asked.
"oh right forgot to tell you about them, well first is me the leader of team 9 Cirno! the second one who joined my team is Rumia, a Youkai that control darkness plus she eats human, the third who joined the team is my best friend Daiyousei but i call her Dai-chan, Dai-chan is a fairy like me but she is a great fairy though" Cirno explained while making Firu wonder what's the difference between a normal fairy and a great fairy.
"she's a great fairy? what's the difference with normal fairies and great fairies?" Firu asked while Cirno happily replied seeing as she want to make a impression that she is smarter than she looks and the leader of the team "a great fairy is someone who is more powerful than a normal fairy, but when a normal fairy get really strong she will evolve to a great fairy!"
Firu nodded as he undesrtand "i see so does that make both you and this Dai-chan Great Fairies?" he asked but his question just got a confused look from Cirno "huh? me as a great Fairy?" she asked "yeah your pretty strong so you must be a great fairy right?" Firu asked again but Cirno seem to be quiet. Like she's in deep thought, until she shook her head "no i'm not a great Fairy, if i was i would looked different than i am right now"
Firu was surprised, she wasn't a great fairy then does that mean she's just a normal fairy? "wait you mean your just a normal fairy then?" he asked but Cirno looked a bit angry now "yeah i am, i'm just a normal ice fairy but i grown really strong recently and i'm way more stronger than Dai-chan is yet i'm a normal fairy, yet i never evolved into a Great Fairy like Dai-chan and everything i do to get stronger i cannot seem to evolve to a Great fairy!"
Firu felt bad for Cirno now, right now she looked sad. Sad that she can't seem to evolve into a Great fairy and become stronger and what she said is true that she is way stronger than Daiyousei then why hasn't she become a greater fairy then?
but then Firu thought about something "wait if she hasn't evolved into a great fairy yet then does that mean she need to get a lot stronger than she is to reach a new level perhaps? or maybe evolve into something else? wait that's it!" Firu might have found out the solution to why Cirno haven't evolve yet.
"hey Cirno i don't know if this helps but i might have an idea to why you haven't evolve yet" Firu said which Cirno looked at him in surprise "really? your sure?" she asked hoping whatever the reason why she can't evolve from a normal fairy to a great fairy. Firu nodded and began to explain "yes when you said that your stronger than Dai-chan but keep growing stronger then maybe your evolving into something that is more powerful than a great fairy, like a Youkai maybe?" Firu suggested making Cirno to think what he said.
"a Youkai... is it true? but if it is why i can't become a great fairy then..." suddenly she smiled "that means i am really becoming the strongest!" she said while Firu smiled at her, he feels happy to help her out from her depression and made her realize that she might become stronger and evolve into something that is more powerful than a greater Fairy.
"glad to see that it helped Cirno-chan!" Firu said while smiling
Cirno don't know why but she felt more happy than usual or maybe because Firu is really a good friend who actually helped her out.
"thanks"
Firu nodded "your welcome, but let's hurry find this Rinnosuke guy and hurrying up building the new donation box for that scary miko" Cirno nodded "yes i rather be done with that and do something else!"
both were about to go until...
*flash*
"eh?" both Firu and Cirno looked up and saw someone flying above them.
"ayayayayaya! i knew this was a hot scoop but this isn't what i thought how it would turned out to be~" a black haired woman with Red eyes, semi-long black hair with pointy ears. Wears a white blouse, a black short skirt. but last thing Firu notice about her is that she has black crow wings on her back plus she was holding a camera.
Firu just stared at the strange woman while Cirno growled and glared at her "what do you want you stupid Tengu?" she asked.
Firu rose an eyebrow, what the heck is a Tengu?
the black haired winged woman smiled while took out a notebook and a pen "oh nothing much nine-ball but i came here to see if there was anything interesting after both you and this cute little foxy-kun were sent by Reimu to Rinnosuke's place" she said and start to write something on her notebook.
Cirno growled being called Nine-ball while Firu wondered why she was even here to bother them.
"um excuse me but who are you?" Firu asked making the Tengu smile brightly at him "my, my~ here is someone with manners and a male to that, but very well i will tell you little one my name is Aya Shameimaru your good honest reporter!" Firu tilted his head at the side while looked confused "reporter? what a reporter?" he asked making Aya even more happy to tell.
"i'm a reporter that goes all across Gensokyo and ask and write anything interesting that is happening and later print it on my newspaper which is called the Bunbunmaru News! here have a copy~" Aya handed a newspaper to Firu who took it but when he looked at it he was really confused.
"what's so special about a paper with strange words and pictures?" he asked.
"oh my you can't read can you?" Aya asked with little disappointment, Firu nodded "yeah i can't read" he said which made Aya sigh.
"oh well but still, i know your obviously new here in Gensokyo so my advice is be careful and should you ever need to learn how to read you can go to the human village and ask the teacher to teach you how to read" Cirno huffed "whatever can we go now?" it was obvious she is irritated to even be in the presence of Aya, did something happen between the two?
Aya just smiled "oh don't worry i'm just going to ask few question and we be-" she never got to finish her sentence until both she and Firu heard something.
"YOU MADE ME INTO A MIDGET!"
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"why are you two so quiet about?" Cirno asked when she saw how quiet Firu and Aya was as they looked around to find the source of the outburst that sounded like some kind of a chipmunk screaming, sadly she didn't have the same enhanced hearing like Firu and aya so she is little confused what's going on.
"ayayaya? i wonder what that was?... oh maybe a new scoop just came up!" with that Aya suddenly took off from the ground and was flying in the sky "take care nine-ball and foxy, until we meet again!" with that she flew away to find the source of who screamed not long ago.
"yeah right don't come back you stupid Tengu!" Cirno shouted back while Firu really wondered what's going on now.
"um Cirno-chan didn't you hear the scream?" Firu asked while Cirno put her hands on her hips and huffed "no i didn't and beside why were both of you and that stupid Tengu so quiet all of the sudden?"
Firu shrugged while shooked his head "don't know but i suddenly heard a scream and i think Aya heard it too" now Cirno was little confused until she realize that both Firu and Aya have better earing that she has, but now she is curious about who screamed.
"i see but who screamed i wonder?" she asked while Firu scratched back of his head while thinking "how should i now? beside it sounded like someone screamed like you made me into a midget is what i heard" he said which Cirno blinked a few times.
"that's it? is that what you two heard?" Firu nodded though Cirno start to snicker a bit "oh i wished to find out who screamed like that and maybe even see if someone did turn into a midget" Firu stared at her in confusion until he get what Cirno said and laugh a bit too "yeah your right! who knows it might be some famous jerk turn into a midget?" both began to laugh and start image some famous person (A.K.A Reimu) who might be a jerk turn into a ugly midget.
Meanwhile Reimu sneezed and wondered who is talking or thinking about her.
"anyway we should probably keep going and see Rinnosuke!" Cirno said as she began to fly but Firu stopped her "h-hey wait your just going to fly without me!?" Cirno who is in mid air looked at Firu in confusion "huh? well of course, you can fly right?" she asked but to her surprise Firu shaking his head no "does it look like i got wings?" he asked.
"wait are you telling me that you can't fly!?" Cirno half shouted at Firu who nodded "of course i can't fly, i don't have wings like you do!"
Cirno just stared at him in confusion "but i thought you could fly since you never did when we fought!" "well you guessed wrong" Firu said while Cirno sighed "great so it's up to me to help you on how to fly then" Firu looked at her and wondered again "help me to fly? how i don't have any wings!"
"Rumia can fly without any wings" she said while landed on the ground, Firu was surprised at what she said.
Apparently this Rumia is able to fly without any wings "whoa wait are you telling me she can fly without any wings!?" Firu asked while Cirno nodded but suddenly a voice spoke out from behind them "who can fly without any wings?" Firu turn around and saw another girl but she looked around to be their height.
She got red eyes, short blond hair. Wears a black vest and skirt, and white blouse. Also Firu notice a small red amulet is tied to the left side of her hair, making it look like a ribbon of some sort but can't help but see similarity with Reimu's amulet and this amulet on the blond girl.
but there was another thing what Firu notice about her is that there was some kind of dark haze seem to emit from her, it's like the girl control the darkness but then it hit him the girl must be Rumia of Cirno spoke of.
Cirno who confirm Firu suspicious smiled at the girl and said "Rumia-chan! heh i'm glad that your here now" Rumia giggled as she actually flew toward them slowly without any wings, Firu can't help but look surprised at how could it be possible for her to be flying without any wings or other means to fly.
"what are you doing Cirno-chan and who is this?" Rumia asked while eyed Firu with curiosity though Firu was also curious on how she can fly.
"oh this is Firu, he's going to be a new member to our team!" Cirno happily said though caused Rumia to be even more curious about Firu, curious enough to suddenly got closed to his face and stared at him in his Purple eyes with a big smile.
This kind of action caught Firu off-guard on how close she is and it wasn't helping that he fell back on his butt, Rumia only giggled at Firu "hehe~ you look strange and cute, i like you~" she said which caused Firu only blush on how blunt this girl is but irritated at the fact she called him strange hell it wasn't helping how Cirno was in a fit of giggles.
"h-hey what's the big idea?" Firu asked Rumia who only giggled "just taking a close look on you~" she answered but Firu frowned on that answer "yeah right you just wanted a laugh!" Firu thought as Rumia turn to Cirno "hey Cirno you said he is new member to the team?" She asked which Cirno nodded "jupp~ hey you should hear what he have done Rumia!" with that Cirno and Firu began to tell the Youkai of Darkness of their little adventure, well mostly Firu adventure.
Rumia had a good share of laugh at how Firu stole the food from the supposed almighty vampire without being detected, but she felt sorry for both Cirno and Firu when Reimu brought her wrath upon them.
"i can see why you want him to join and i approve to it too!"
Cirno grinned and crossed her arms "heh of course plus he's a pretty kind too!" Firu blushed a little with all the praise he gets, though now Rumia looked at Firu in wonder "so anyway Cirno said something about you can't fly right?" she asked.
Firu nodded "yeah because i don't have any wings but seeing you fly not long ago is there something that makes you fly?" he asked which got a nod from Rumia "yeah all i have to do is use Youkai magic" she anwered but got a confused look from Firu.
"Youkai magic?" Rumia nodded "yeah i just gather small amount of magic then there i go flying everywhere i want" Firu tilted his head a bit, he's wonder about Chakra, from what Rumia said the only way to fly is using Youkai magic but when he used his Chakra he couldn't fly but walk on water and climb walls, so does that mean Chakra and Youkai magic are different?
"so how do i use Youkai magic?" he asked but got shocked look from Cirno and Rumia "Wait you can't use your Youkai magic?" Rumia asked while Firu nodded "yeah so far i have been using another energy source known as Chakra" he explained while Cirno remembered that he did say he used chakra when they fought before.
"oh yeah what's up with that? before you could literally walk on water with out any problem and you said something about using chakra but you can't use youkai magic?" Cirno asked.
Firu nodded "yeah i don't know why but i can't exactly explain what chakra is either because... i'm not sure to be exact but my knowledge of chakra is kind of there" this confused both Rumia and Cirno "ever since i woke up last night i just suddenly had the knowledge of it and how to use, i don't know where or how i got it but i can't seem to remember anything or why" Firu explained which caused Cirno to sigh.
"but still i never heard of chakra before, what is it?" Rumia asked "i'm not exactly sure yet but from what i know it's something about using life essence within our body" Firu explained "life essence? wait is it like Meilings power or something?" Cirno asked but Firu wondered who that is.
"Meiling?" Firu asked which Cirno told him that Meiling is a gatekeeper of the mansion he snuck in and stole the food from, this kind of surprised him "huh... so that red haired woman name is Meiling and she is the gatekeeper of the mansion but she sleep very often because her job is so boring right?" he got a nod from both Cirno and Rumia which he sighed.
"well when you put it that way with guarding a gate every day without doing anything else i can see why she sleep because it's so boring" Cirino nodded "yeah but Meiling pretty nice, she sometimes play with us when we are bored but not very often" she said while Rumia nodded.
"hey Firu-kun want me to help you on how to fly?" Firu looked at Rumia in surprise "really?" Rumia nodded "yeah i mean it would be bad if you didn't know on how to fly and use your youkai magic plus i help you out building a new donation box" she said which Firu smile and nodded "yeah sure thank you Rumia-chan!" Rumia smiled back and nodded.
Cirno smile a bit and sighed, she looked up in the sky and wondered that teaching Firu to use his Youkai magic won't take long, after all none of them want to get punished by Reimu again if they were late.
*meanwhile in Konoha*
"are you certain Jiraiya?" Sarutobi asked his old student who seem to be determined with something.
"damn straight old man, i may no longer have any love for this village but i'm going to ensure to find out more of those artifacts. We can't let them fall in the hands of Orochimaru or anyone in fact!" he said as he was ready to leave.
the Hokage two trusted advisor who stood next to Sarutobi tried to reason with him "but Jiraiya you just can't go alone in this!" a old woman named Koharu said while another old man named Homura nodded "yes i agree it would be foolish just to try to find those demonic crystals without any means to protect your mind from them" he said.
Jiraiya turned around and glared at the advisors "oh excuse me if i disagree with your damn action of approving the Uchiha massacre few weeks ago!" the advisor eyed widen "h-how do you know about it!?" Sarutobi sighed as he rubbed his forehead duo to stress of Naruto's death.
"you two seriously underestimate Jiraiya information gathering, beside i'm more curious how you manage to obtain the information Jiraiya?" Sarutobi asked while the super pervert snorted "a good ninja never share secret with anyone sensei" he said which Sarutobi chuckled "i see, i taught you well enough Jiraiya. Very well then you may go" Jiraiya nodded and left the office.
"Sarutobi you can't be serious!?" Koharu and Homura were not amuse and didn't approve their Hokage for allowing the sannin go, even Jiraiya is one of the powerful Shinobi in the elemental nations he's still a human and anything that is related to a demonic artifact can harm not only human bodies but their minds as well... not like there was anything to harm with his perverted way anyway.
"yes i am and beside right now our main objective is to bring order to the village, i want to know what the hell the civilian council been doing since the past 7 years and what else have they done to the village, right now i must speak with the Daimyo about the situation about both of the situation here and the threat of those demon crystals" Sarutobi spoke to his advisor as both nodded, understanding that the safety to their village is their top priority plus their Jinchuuriki is dead thanks to the village idiots.
right now they can only pray that nothing bad will come...
"I DID IT!" Firu shouted in joy as he flew around and did a few tricks in the air followed by Cirno and Rumia.
Rumia giggle as she saw Firu show off while Cirno joined in to show off as well until both collided each other.
"ow..." both Firu and Cirno groaned as they lied on the ground from crashing into each other in the air, Rumia descend down from the sky and look at the downed Fairy and fox which looked funny in their position "so how did it go?" she asked while Firu groaned and gently pushed Cirno off from him "best thing ever, now i don't have to worry about walking everywhere plus now i have two energy source i can use!"
Rumia smiled and nodded while helped Cirno up "yeah but still i think you need to see meiling with that chakra stuff you have, maybe she can help you with that" Cirno said while dusted off some grass from her dress.
Firu think that might be a good idea but remembers that he snuck in the mansion and stole the food from them "yeah i don't know about that one, i mean i did steal from them" he said which made the girl realize that "oh yeah but still they don't know it was you anyway" Rumia said.
Cirno notice something to her left and see's "hey guys look! we are here!" Firu and Rumia looked at where Cirno pointed and saw a strange house with so many junk lying around it. there was also a large sign that said Kourindou.
"this is the place?" Firu asked with little bit disappointment, after all he expected this Rinnosuke guy home to be more... grander and fancy looking but this? this place look like some sort of a junkyard than a shop hell this place seem to be in more better condition than the shrine itself.
Rumia giggled at Firu expression as if she expected it "this is the place~" she said while Cirno snickered at Firu disappointed look at the shop "what? did you expect some sort of a fancy looking castle or something?" Cirno teased Firu who only glared at her that made her giggle.
Firu sighed "great but still shall we go in?" he asked, the girl nodded as all three of them went to the door and knocked.
"come in!" a male voice spoke from the inside of the shop, Firu opened the door and saw more junk inside the shop and saw someone behind the counter.
it was a man with Golden eyes, short silver hair, wears a pair of glasses, his clothes are black and blue, the man was dressed in quite strange clothes in Firu's opinion.
the man eyed them for a bit before spoke out "well this is surprise, i didn't expect you two girls but you there, who might you be my young friend?" the man asked in friendly tone that Firu relaxed a bit, he was bit tense when he had no idea what the man himself would be (and NO i will never make any sick joke or even insert MANnosuke in this story you MANnosuke fans!) but seeing how friendly he was Firu began to introduce himself.
"my name is Firu and i'm a fire fox Youkai, are you Rinnosuke?" the man nodded "indeed i am Firu, now how can i help you three?"
Firu scratched back of his head "well how do i put this um..." glancing toward his friends they nodded "well i guess we can tell you the whole story" Cirno said and for a while all three of them well mostly Firu and Cirno what happen and how they were sent to his shop to get the material to build a new donation box, Rumia only joined in because it looked fun and wanted to Know Firu more.
Rinnosuke sighed as he isn't surprised "well i can't say that i'm surprise but did Reimu even give you two money to buy the material for the donation box?" he asked only to get confused look from Cirno and Firu "money?" both asked which Rinnosuke sighed more "that's Reimu alright, sending someone and expecting me to give them free and bring them back to Reimu as always" he thought.
"hey what's money and what do we need it for?" Firu asked as he wondered what money is.
Rinnosuke seeing it didn't hurt to explain them what money is "well money is the currency that is needed to pay stuff like food, clothes and such, But neither of you don't have any money and i doubt you don't have any Rumia right?" Rumia shook her head as a no as she herself didn't have any.
Firu didn't like this money situation now "then how should we build the donation box if we don't have anymoney or the materials?" he asked.
Rinnosuke suddenly got an idea but he might want to ask them first "say how about this i will give them to you if you two do me a favor and we will be even" Firu and Cirno looked at him in surprise "a favor?" Firu asked while Rinnosuke nodded "yes a favor, i help you by giving you two the material and you help me when i need help with something, so what do you say?" both the ice fairy and the fiery fox thought it over.
true should they come back and tell Reimu that they couldn't afford the material they would just get puninshed anyway, but if they did a favor for Rinnosuke he will give them the material and do the favor later.
it's a win, win situation now.
"sure we accept!" both answered at the same time while Rinnosuke only chuckled "good now wait here while i get the material and a special wood for the donation box" with that he went in the back of his shop and gathered the stuff needed to build the donation box.
he came back with a bag full with stuff and placed it in front of Firu "there that should do it, now promise me that once your done come back and do the favor for me alright?" he asked while Firu only nodded "sure that's a promise and i'm not some stupid jerk that breaks a promise!" Rinnosuke smiled a bit, he couldn't detect any lies in Firu voice and beside he get a funny feeling that he will see him more often in his shop anyway.
with that both the girls and Firu himself left the shop after saying their goodbye to the shopkeeper.
Rinnosuke watched from the entrance of the shop at the kids flying away with the bag, he turn around and went back into the shop and closed the door behind him, after all he was about to close the shop for today anyway seeing as there were not many visitors today as usual.
"beside the special wood i gave them should keep Reimu's donation box from further being destroyed, from what i heard from Marisa someone actually fell down and crashed into it and broke it and then come Firu breaking it though not like i could blame him for believing the shrine looked abandon considering how Reimu handle her duties nowadays"
as he sat down on his favorite chair he picked up his book and went back reading "plus the wooden planks are from a special tree that could be used for a magical experiment though Marisa seem not to be interested when i showed them to her but it is good enough to give them away, they did took some space in the shop anyway-" his thoughts was interrupted when the door suddenly broke down and someone walked in causally.
a blond haired girl in witch clothes and was holding a broom walked in with a big smile on her face "hey Kourin how's it going? Ze~" Rinnosuke sighed heavily as he saw who walked in.
"Marisa can you for once stop kicking the door down would you?" Rinnosuke asked cleary annoyed but Marisa just giggled "heh~ but anyway Kouring remember those wooden planks you showed me right?" she asked and Rinnosuke blinked few times "yes i do but why are you asking for them?" he asked and get a feeling that Marisa needs them for a screw up she made.
Marisa just chuckled "well a special guest of my got shrunked and when i was looking for a cure those old wooden planks was needed for the cure" Rinnosuke just face palmed at what she just said, he gave away the old Great Oak planks to Firu and the others and now she decided to come and ask for them?
"sorry to say this Marisa but i gave them away to Cirno and the others" Rinnosuke said to the blond girl.
Marisa eye widen in surprise "huh? wait are you serious!?" Rinnosuke just shrugged "i am, Cirno along Rumia and a fox youkai named Firu wasn't here long ago and i gave them the wooden planks for-" he was interrupted when Marisa suddenly ran up to him and start to shake him "Kourin tell me how long ago did they leave your shop?" she demanded while Rinnosuke getting dissy with all the shaking "they left not long ago, but listen before you do any rash you-" he never finish talking as Marisa bolted toward the door and flew away on her broom.
Rinnosuke sighed as he get a feeling that Marisa will do something stupid to the kids plus who was this special guest of her anyway?.
*elsewhere*
"geez this thing is heavy!" Firu cried out as both he and Cirno held the bag while Rumia flew next to them.
"hey Rumia a little help here?" Cirno called out while Rumia just giggled while held her arms out "nah you two seem to handle it well anyway~" Firu could hear Cirno mutter something about lazy youkai.
Firu couldn't help but wonder about those two.
both of them don't exactly have to be here and help him with his problems, he was the one who caused most of the problems and yet they seem to willing to help him.
Firu couldn't help but ask "hey can i ask you two something?" both the girls turned their attention to Firu "why are you helping me out anyway? i mean sure Cirno-chan you accidently helped me break a piece of the donation box but you could have just left me to fix this problem on my own and you too as well Rumia-chan so why?"
both the girls look at him in confusion and Cirno just plainly stated "because your our new friend and friends help each other out so of course we help you out stupid" Rumia nodded too while Firu just stared at them in shock, they were really willing to jump in and help him out?
Firu smiled a bit "thanks i appreciate it you two" he said and Cirno just grinned and Rumia smiled.
Firu can't help but feel a great bond of friendship with these two, friendship that he can depend on and never be alone again and plus he can't help but feel excited to meet new people and befriend them as well.
but suddenly...
*WOOOSH*
"WHOA!" Firu and Cirno gasped in surprised as something fast flew past them and grabbed the bag, made both of them do few front flips in the air until they stopped with swirls in their eyes "Cirno! Firu-kun!" Rumia called them out when she saw something familiar flew past them and took the bag.
"alright thanks for the bag ze~" a voice called out which both Rumia and Cirno instantly recognize the voice while Firu didn't.
"w-who are you!" Firu called out as he felt better in the head and saw a strange blond girl sitting on a broom while holding the bag over her shoulders, say the girl herself just grinned at him "heh who might you be?" she asked but Firu didn't feel like tell her his name, after all you don't just go and take something from him or his friends either.
"Marisa!" Cirno growled out while stared daggers at the black and white witch.
"marisa?" Firu mutter not recognizing the name.
"hey what the big idea you stupid witch!?" Rumia shouted while flew next to Firu and Cirno ready to fight her if needed but both of them knows that it will end in a fight anyway, Marisa just grinned "hey don't be mad i'm just borrowing this bag until i die ze~" she said while Firu just raised an eyebrow at what she said.
"doesn't matter you will give us that bag back to us!" Cirno shouted hoping that the witch would listen for once but this is Marisa we're talking about.
"not a chance i need the stuff inside the bag anyway!" Marisa suddenly took out a small device of some sort. Firu notice that Cirno and Rumia tense up when they saw the small device, he wonder what it used for and how exactly could it make the girls tense up just by the sight of it.
"so if you guys want the bag so much then-" suddenly she aimed the device at them while grinned when the device start to glow a bit "you have to fight for it!"
needless to say this is one of the fight that Firu couldn't win even the combine forces of Cirno and Rumia and he learned it the hard way when challenging a witch to get your stuff back...
*meanwhile at Scarlet devil mansion*
"so are you telling me that it wasn't those three mischievous fairies was the one who stole the food?" a small blue haired child with red eyes and black bat wings on her back said while sitting on a throne in a large dark room.
in front of her was the silver haired maid who bowed down to her mistress "yes from what i found out from them a red haired Youkai fox is the real culprit, they told me how they saw him running with a large bag with food over his shoulders" she said and waited patiently for her Mistress who seem to be in deep thought.
Remilia scarlet, the mistress of the SDM and a vampire born from a noble vampire family lineage. She had her eyes closed at what Sakuya told her, a Red haired Youkai fox had barge in and stole the food that belong to her and yet what made her frustrated about it that no one even saw him at all.
who ever this fox youkai is he must be pretty good at stealth and brave enough to actually sneak in to her mansion and steal from her.
but what make her angry is that the youkai fox is likely the same kin of that damned Gap hags Shikigami, the old hag have been on her nerves ever since she decided to prank her few weeks ago and it doesn't help with the damned blond witch along the strange creature who keep telling her that he isn't a Youkai but of something else that she didn't even bother to remember had visit her a week ago and caused some troubles.
right now Remilia wasn't in any mood right now to take any shit today and yet a stupid fox decided to rob her.
he will pay dearly for this...
"Sakuya" the maid who's name is Sakuya now stood up and listen what her mistress is about to say "i want you go out and find out where that foolish Youkai is and i want it dealt with!" Remilia ordered.
Sakuya nodded "you want me to bring this one back here to the mansion for a proper punishment then?" she asked but Remilia just shook her head.
"no i want you to dispose of him! i don't want another kitsune like that old hag have and someone take him in as a shikigami! make his death slow as possible Sakuya and show the other Youkai as an example for not screwing with me!" Remilia ordered as Sakuya just nodded "as you wish mistress" with that she walked away.
whoa now i wonder how Firu is going to get out from this situation and how should he explain to Reimu that Marisa came and took the stuff to fix her donation box and what would her reaction to it would be?
we will see in the next chapter folks!
Kitsune out~