Tomoyo Daidouji could see the purple sun setting down under a purple sky trough the restaurant's window. She was a 24 year old world-renowed fashion designer and movie producer, currently having dinner in one the most exclusive restaurants in Paris with her principal model and actress, 24 year old Sakura Kinomoto. The red-haired woman was the one who had invited Tomoyo, claiming they had something important to discuss. She looked splendorous as ever, dressed in one of the many dresses Tomoyo had hand-made specifically for her. Sakura had received countless marriage proposals from rich, young and powerful men, and declined them all down claiming there was already a special one on her heart, altough who this person was Sakura never revealed. She and Tomoyo leisurely talked about their past, present, and future while enjoying the finest food and wine money and influence could buy. Suddenly Sakura extended her hand holding small black box towards the blue-haired woman.
For me...?-asked Tomoyo, incredulous.
Sakura slowly opened the box, revealing a platinum ring filled with finely cut purple jewels.
Tomoyo-chan, I love you. From the bottom of my heart and soul. Will you marry me? Shall we spend our lives together?-asked the young red-haired woman with a sweet and sincere smile.
Tomoyo had no words. Everything was perfect. She felt in paradise.
Li Meiling was meditating under a purple moon partially hidden by purple clouds. She was a martial arts master with multiple black belts at 24 years old. She had brought great honor to the Li Clan, both in public winning tournaments and in private defeating all kind of evildoers with her powerful fists. Meiling's honed senses then revealed somebody was approaching. As she opened her eyes she saw Li Syaoran, the youngest head of the Li Clan at 24 years old, a powerful warrior-sorcerer that had trained and fought by her side almost their whole lives. None could stand before them when they worked together. Countless beautiful and talented women usually flocked around him trying to seduce the young, strong and rich man, but Syaraon remained coldly distant, repealing all of their shows of affection, claiming there was only one woman who he would accept as his. Tonight he looked at his cousin with specially warm eyes. He knelt before her before extending his arms holding an object wrapped up in a yellow silk cloth.
For me...?-asked Meiling, incredulous.
Syaoran unfurled the silk wrapping and inside was a fan. His mother's fan. The fan meant for the wife of the head of the Li Clan.
I've succeeded to get the blessings of the clan elders to marry you. None remain that would oppose our union. Will you accept me as your husband?-asked Syaoran with a serious but calm face.
Meiling had no words. Everything was perfect. She felt in paradise.
What's wrong with them, Syaoran-kun?-asked 12 year old Sakura, dressed in a new cute black nun custome with red strips at the edges and thick black gloves and boots.
It's this purple mist. It seems to be making those that doesn't have magic powers hallucinate.-answered 12 year old Syaoran, with a matching black priest custome with red strips as well. Tomoyo seemed to had gone in a religious mood for her latest design.
In front of them the two girls of the same age Tomoyo and Meiling, had their eyes open, but just stood there with an empty gaze on their faces as a bit of drool rolled down from their smiling mouths as if daydreaming. Trough the room's window, they could see the strange purple mist that had covered most of Tomoeda not long ago. Once they had seen this strange event start, they had rallied at Syaoran's house for preparations, but soon enough Tomoyo and Meiling had fallen into that strange stupor no sooner Sakura and Syaoran had finished changing into their new customes. The boy's Rashinban board had failed to get any clear reading either. Yue and Keroberos were keeping vigilant on the ceiling of the house, after having scouted the surrounding area by air and confirming that any people on the streets seemed to be hallucinating as well. Reimu had been standing still staring at it trough some minutes without saying a word, but the look on her eyes was sharp, indicating she was concentrating on something.
You know what is happening, Reimu?-asked Syaoran, after trying and failing to wake up Tomoyo and Meiling by shaking them a bit and pinching their pulses.
I have my suspicions. But no time to explain them, specially when I can't confirm it.-was all that the shrine maiden replied.
Can't you do anything about Tomoyo-chan and Meiling-chan's condition?-asked Sakura with worry on her eyes.
They should just be having a happy dream right now. I could give them some of my protection amulets, but it would only diminish the hallucination. They may be able to talk back at you and move around, but they'll be useless in a fight and just slow us down. I say it's better to leave them like this until we solve the source of this incident.-replied the shrine maiden in an emotionless tone.
Please, Reimu-chan, do whatever you can to help them! It is wrong to just leave them like this!-begged Sakura, holding Reimu's hands, but the shrine maiden seemed unfazed.
How about we offer you a donation?-asked Syaoran, presenting Reimu with a stack of big bills from his pocket.
Tsk, fine. You'll be the one who'll have to keep watch over them though.-said Reimu as she snatched the money from Syaoran's hands before pulling two paper amulets from inside her robes, swiftly placing one each on Tomoyo and Meiling's chest. Both girls started blinking.
Oh, Sakura-chan... The marriage ceremony... What just happened...-Tomoyo's eyes started to move around, filled with clear confusion.
Ah...Yes... No...-Meiling similarly acted as if she had just awoken from a strange dream.
A strange mist has fallen over Tomoeda. It seems to be leaving non-magic people in an hallucinogenic stupor. Reimu gave you some amulets that should lessen, the effects but don't try any rash actions or you may be overwhelmed again. That goes double for you, Meiling. -explained Syaoran.
Don't worry, I'll just hang back and record Sakura-chan as always...-Tomoyo was already preparing her camera altough she visibly struggled with even those simple movements.
Heh, like I would let you two hog up all the fun...Hey, don't you hear anything strange? A chittering, coming from there...?-suddenly asked Meiling, turning her head towards the source of the sound she had just heard.
Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Reimu turned their own heads to where the chinese girl had looked, and saw a tiny grey mouse scurrying across the floor.
Aww, it's so adorable!-smiled Sakura at the sight of the animal that stopped to raise its head in direction of the humans, seemingly looking back at them with its tiny black eyes.
That's no normal mouse!-warned Reimu, and more similar critters started appearing from under the furniture of the room. A dozen, a hundred, a thousand, soon they were covering the floor and climbing over the walls, surrounding the humans!
Sakura swiftly retrieved the key from her neck and chanted:
O Key that conceals the power of my star, reveal your true nature to me, by my power I command you! Release!
Star wand in hand, the card mistress's mind raced to find a way to deal with this new enemy. They were trapped inside a small space. Any area attack card would risk hurting her companions. Single targets wouldn't do much against such a numerous enemy either. A solution crossed her mind before a second had passed, and she drew a card while enveloping her arms around the nearby Syaoran, Meiling and Tomoyo:
Hold into me! TROUGH! RELEASE!
Sakura jumped over the incoming rats and passed trough the wall of the room, dragging the ones she had holded, landing on the street outside. A moment later Reimu popped up above them, hovering in mid air with an annoyed expression on her face:
Oi, you were leaving me behind to become rat food?
I knew you wouldn't need my help because you could teleport, Reimu-chan!
Oh, looks like you do have a brain behind that pretty face after all. Anyway take a look around you, there's more of those mouses coming from everywhere!
Indeed several grey swarms of mouses were appearing out from the surrounding purple mist and circling the group again.
Sakura-chan, they're many but they can't fly! Take to the air and you'll have better chances of dealing with them! I'll watch over Meiling-chan and Tomoyo-chan on the ground!-said Syaoran, summoning forth his sword and drawing a bundle of jufus.
No, we're not getting separated again! We just need something to clear this situation... I know! LIGHT! RELEASE!
A tall regal woman with pale skin and long white flowing hair that falls over her shoulders and down her back, with curled side pieces framing her face appeared above Sakura. She wore a dress with a collar that stick up. The sleeves were puffy and embroiled with an elaborate symbol on each shoulder and ended prematurely, revealing her shoulders along with parts of her chest. Upon her chest was an image of a sun. The points of her crown curved only slightly, outward, and the front most projection on the crown wasstraight up. She appeared, elegant, dignified and majestic, clutching a cloud in one hand and a sun in the other, that she rised toward the skies, sensing her mistress's wishes to push away the incoming mouses and banish the mysterious mist.
Tomoeda was illuminated for a moment, and the mouses all run scurried away for whatever holes they could find, but the purple mist, as if devouring Sakura's light, soon covered the city again.
Something else was revealed as well. A massive, shining wooden boat with sails hovering high above the city, surrounded by a myriad of youkai flying in formation around it.
As I suspected... That's a very dangerous enemy there. Unseal my cards now, or I'll free them myself-demanded Reimu, extending her deck covered in jufus to Syaoran, while her eyes stared at the boat above.
Do you know what they are?-Syaoran sliced off the seals he had placed on Reimu's cards. He already had suspected his jufus couldn't really hold back the magic of the last descendant of the Hakurei clan for long, for they were renowed for their exceptional talent with making seals-and unmaking them. It had however worked as a proof of trust.
Reimu drew a card from her deck while still looking above:
A fully fledged Youkai crisis. This is my fight now, not yours. Just go find some place to hide. [Divine Spirit]"Fantasy Seal-Blink"
The Shrine Maiden shot to the skies at lighting speed, leaving behind a trail of after-images. In a moment, she was among the flying youkai, unleashing multiple short barrages of ofudas and needles that filled the air above with red and white explosions. The boat started to raise higher the youkai and Reimu following it, and the purple mist proceeded to cover them.
We have to go help Reimu-chan! Syaoran-kun, I'll use Float to carry you and...
No, wait, Sakura-chan, can't you feel it?-interrupted Syaoran, holding Sakura's shoulder- There's a new, stronger magic presence near us now...
The card mistress stopped a moment to close her eyes and focus. Only then she sensed it, a strange and powerful, almost overwhelming magic presence approaching them...
Above the skies of Tomoeda.
Reimu had managed to take down some dozens of youkai with her first assault, but the others had recovered from the initial surprise and seeked to surround her, starting to unleash blue beams and purple spheres of energy back at the shrine maiden. She dodged while launching a barrage of homing amulets. Reimu danced through the air exterminating the youkai, but her biggest worry wasn't her current opponents, but where the leader that had brought them to this world was. Youkai never acted that ogranized unless there was a much stronger one nearby pulling their strings.
I don't have time to deal with small fry like yourself! Just show me where your boss is already!-demanded Reimu, but as it almost always had happened in her life, the lesser youkai kept coming at her without words, driven by some stronger, mysterious will.
In front of the Li's house in Tomoeda.
Two women approached Sakura and her companions from around the street, their faces covered by cowls. One had light purple wavy hair, and dark purple eyes. She carried a medium-sized yellow ring in her right hand. On her head, she wore a headdress similar to a nun's headdress. Over her body she wore a white dress with a blue trim at the bottom, and black shoes on her feet. Her outfit closely resembled that of a Buddhist nun's. The other was taller, but covered her body and face in an old-looking and simple brown robe with a cowl covering most of her head. The nearby young humans could all feel an aura of awe coming from, while the nun with the ring kept her head bowed down as if in respect to her near companion.
Are you the one who liberated magic in this world?-asked the taller woman.
Sakura felt a calm, soothing aura from the nun on top of her extremely powerful magic presence, even making her lower her wand to her feet. The card mistress felt like she could safely reveal her true nature to this mysterious person:
I did liberate the Clow Cards, yes.
The taller woman lowered her cowl, revealing a head covered in long, wavy, light brown hair that fades to purple at the top, with hazel eyes, before she spoke. Her face looked like that of a young woman, but the look on her eyes was that of a venerable person. She smiled warmly as she spoke:
My name is Byakuren. I was a monk a long, long time ago. Well, perhaps it would be more accurate to say I was a magician?-the woman pulled a closed scroll from inside her garbs, and unfurled it, revealing the translucent glowing magic writing above her head for everybody to see-This is my Sorcerer's Sutra Scroll, the compilation of a millennium of my work...
Out of the ceiling of Syaoran's house a blue energy arrow was released, aimed at Byakuren. Just as it was about to pierce the monk magician's head, a metal anchor dropped from the skies, dissipating the arrow and crashing into the street below, breaking the asphalt A split second later, a woman descended from above and landed at the side of the anchor, carrying a ladle in one hand. She had short, black hair and a teal eye color. Her clothes were as a regular sailor's outfit, with a white shirt and skirt with blue lines. Around her neck she has a red neckerchief and she held a wooden ladle in her right hand. With her free hand, she grabed the fallen anchor as if it weighted nothing and placed it at her back as she spoke with a loud and strong voice:
I didn't set sail to this world to see Byakuren-sama die! I, captain Minamitsu Murasa, will protect her no matter what!
As she spoke, a yellow blur of wings, teeth, and claws flew from the ceiling the arrow had been shot from, passing over Murasa, before turning around and leaping towards Byakuren.
Murasa tried to turn around to put herself between the attacker and Byakuren, but she soon realized she wouldn't make it fast enough. But she didn't need to, since instead a new figure jumped from inside the mist ehind Byakuren, a woman with orange-yellow hair with black stripes in it and golden yellow eyes. She wore a lotus-shaped ornament on her head, had a giant cloth circle attached to her back, along a a burgundy/orange/white dress with a tiger pattern around the abdomen along with white, frilly pants under her dress and black shoes on her feet. In her left hand she carried a giant spear, and in her right a jeweled pagoda that shined brightly, releasing forth a series of golden beams that drove back the approaching winged beast.
I cannot allow you to hurt Byakuren-sama either. We need her in order to break the remaining seals. I, Shou Toramaru, failed to protect her a thousand years ago, but never again!-said the newcomer, holding her spear and pagoda in a guarding position over the monk magician.
Keroberos let out a short angry growl and Yue flew up from his hiding spot, seemingly preparing to attack again.
Yue! Kero! Stop that right now! Why did you attack Hijiri-sama without provocation?-commanded the card mistress, not understanding why her mystic guardians had attacked without provocation.
With clear reluctance, they pulled back to her side.
Sakura, that's not an human being! It's a youkai, and a very dangerous and powerful one at that! She can resist the very fires of hell, and wouldn't die even if we crushed her whole body, like a Clow Card!-claimed Keroberos.
Clow Reed himself sealed her a thousand years ago, but it seems like she just became stronger since then. That scrolls of her radiates extreme dark power...-added Yue, setting up another of arrow in his energy bow.
I don't care, she just wants to talk and I still didn't see her do anything wrong! Stand down, NOW!-ordered Sakura, and her mystic guardians couldn't help but obey and dropped their attacks stances.
I'm glad you seem to understand me, Sakura. Magic isn't inherently good or evil, it just depends on how it is wielded. After all, didn't Clow Reed's own wand contained the power of darkness?-continued Byakuren.
You really knew Clow Reed in person?-asked a somewhat incredulous Sakura.
In my time, because I could use strange powers, people hated me, and in the end they called upon Clow Reed's help to seal me. Despite he having strange powers himself. It was humans who decided Clow Reed was someone worthy of admiration, while I was a monster to be hunted down.
Of course they distrusted you! You gave shelter to dangerous monsters! Drowning spirits! Human eating youkais! You drew power from people's fear and superstition!-interrupted Yue
And how is that different from the Clow Cards?-continued Byakuren with a smile- Or do you mean that the Sword didn't try to possess someone to cut you down? The Watery didn't try to drown people? The Fiery didn't try to burn down gatherings of humans? The Maze didn't try to seal you so that you would slowly starve to death? The Nothing didn't go in a rampage of destruction? I was there when Clow Reed first created his cards. I know how fickle and dangerous they can be when left without proper guidance.
They were just confused! That's why Clow Reed sealed them in card form, so that they wouldn't harm humans! And Sakura managed to exert her control of them when they were unsealed before they actually killed anyone! While she's the card mistress, they're not a danger to normal humans! But you let your youkai run free!-roared Keroberos.
I once was a manifestation of the fear the common people had for tigers. I feasted on human flesh, yes, but thanks to Byakuren-sama's guidance, I became a devoted disciple of the god Bishamonten and I've abstained myself from eating meat for centuries.- proudlydeclared Toramaru.
I couldn't leave this world after dying a miserable death at sea very long ago, so I drowned countless people to keep me company in the murky depths, yes, but Byakuren-sama gave me a new purpose in death as captain of her holy ship.-added Murasa.
I believe that everybody deserves a second chance. Past misdeeds should be forgiven and forgotten when one shows willingness to follow the path of enlightenment. I want to appeal for human and youkai equality, and bring peace to the world. I'll save the oppressed youkai that are sealed or forced to hide behind the border. That is my chosen calling as a magician. Will you support me in that?-asked Byakuren, widening her smile even more.
...I'm sure Kero would like not having to pretend to be a plushie half the time, or Yue to don't have to hide his true form... But Magic beings are too dangerous to be left unchecked! Almost every Clow Card rised big trouble at some point, even Kero whenever I take my eyes out of him. Tomoeda would be a complete mess if I hadn't captured them all. A lot of innocent people would've been hurt or worst...-was Sakura's reply.
Yet you're now yourself a magician. You wield the cards at your leisure. Tell me, has the world become a place where it's okay to use magic? Do the people of this city know how many times you saved them? Or are you constantly forced to hide your true nature from all normal humans but those who you trust more?
Sakura-chan doesn't need magic to be admired by others! She's a wonderful girl even when not using her cards! -this time it was Tomoyo replying first.
It's precisely because Sakura-chan can exert great self-control that she was chosen as the new card Mistress. She proved again and again she wouldn't misuse the cards out of her own whims.-added Keroberos.
That's the kind of world Clow Reed worked for according to the Li Clan records-continued Syaoran- The world was dominated by fickle youkai and magicians who became corrupted by their own magic. Normal humans just couldn't resist and were victims to the whims of those with great mystic powers. Clow sealed many dangerous magic beings during his life time so that they wouldn't control humanity's fate anymore. The Li Clan itself supported him and swore to work from the shadows to protect humans from any lingering magic threats that may crop up. And then Clow left this world, trusting us to continue his work, sealing his own greatest legacy to be released again only by the one he predicted would be able to control and wield it for only the right purposes. No, not just that, to actually give a new form and life to the Clow Cards, being reborn as Sakura cards. While you, Hijiri, refused to die and just kept living to expand your old power.
Interesting...-said Byakuren, keeping up her smile- But what I want to hear is Sakura's answer. Why should you choose to be oppressed by the normal humans? Why be forced to keep secret one of your greatest aspects?
Hijiri-sama... I don't really mind having to keep my magic a secret. As long as I can use it to help those I care about, I don't need them to know how I did it. Even if it's troublesome keeping it a secret most of the time, it's part of the responsibility of being a magical girl!-was Sakura's answer.
I see... I've already given up my humanity. I suppose it's pointless for a non-human like me to appeal for equality.
Please understand, Hijiri-sama. Most humans are weaker than you, so they need more protection! Saying those with magic and those without it are equal doesn't make it true! This purple mist is your doing, isn't it? I can feel it. You need to stop it now!
The youkai magician was still smiling, but as she replied, she started to slowly float upwards, followed closely by Murasa and Toramaru remaining at her side. Byakuren then started to let out an overwhelming menacing aura as she replied:
Humans indeed haven't changed at all since my days in the temple. How weak and rash, always needing protection! How foolish and self-centered, always prioritizing their own over all others! What a narrow-minded superficial, greedy, and unjust boor you are! How self-righteous, you're an evil drag on us all! Now, namusan! In the name of the Three Treasures-[Magic] "Mystic Fragrance of a Makai Butterfly" !
From Byakuren's scroll a swarm of thousands of eery blue butterflies spread out. A second later, white beams shot from the scroll aimed at Sakura and her companions.
SHIELD! RELEASE!-upon her chant, the card mistress formed a protective dome to block the incoming attack as the street exploded around them-Syaoran-kun, Yue, Kero, I feel like we need to beat Hijiri-sama to stop this mist. Please help me subdue that!
I-I can help too...-Meiling struggled to form her words, still afflicted by the surrounding purple mist. At her side Tomo had knelt on the ground, unable to stand anymore, although she still held up her camera recording everything.
Just stay inside the Shield with Tomoyo, Meiling. You're in no condition to fight-said Syaoran to his cousin-Sakura-chan, go for Hijiri's scroll! It's clearly the main source of her magic, and you may be able to seal it all in one go with your wand! I'll provide a distraction!
Syaoran ran outside Sakura's Shield, dodging the searing lasers and mystic butterflies coming from above, before pulling a jufu from inside his clothes and placing it over his sword, aiming it upwards:
Obey the command! Petals of wind, Come Forth!
Syaoran's magic unleashed a powerful air current that pushed away several of Byakuren's eery butterlfies, opening a clear path towards her position now high in the sky.
FLY! RELEASE!-Sakura spread out her wings wide and launched herself upwards, swiftly flying trough the gap created by Syaoran, followed by her two mystic guardians.
Murasa started flying downwards in direction of the card mistress, retrieving the anchor from her back while pulling a card from her sailor shirt, and placing it over the anchor:
Why can't you just understand Byakuren-sama's goodness? Drown in your own delusions!
[Capsize] "Sinking Anchor"!
Murasa's anchor suddenly grew to an huge size, three times as tall as the wielder, yet she swinged it around her body with apparent ease, circling around herself before throwing it at high speed at the ascending Sakura. A wave of sea-blue energy rippled trough the path the anchor formed.
Sakura, keep going for Hijiri, I'll deal with Murasa!-Yue flew in front of her Mistress and rised a translucent barrier to deflect the incoming giant anchor, before swinging his hand to unleash a flurry of flying crystals upon Murasa, forcing her out of the way.
Yue, be careful!-warned as she kept flying upwards with Keroberos. She didn't like others getting hurt because of her, but now she had to fully focus on evading the descending white lasers and the swarm of purple butterlflies closing in around her.
Toramaru started to float down next, pulling a card from inside her robes with the fingers of the hand helding her spear and placing it over her pagoda:
We can't let you take Byakuren-sama's treasure and use it for some fiendish purpose. I didn't want to do this, but I have no choice. The light of this jewelled pagoda of Bishamonten will cleanse the evil from your hearts!
[Jeweled Pagoda] "Radiant Treasure Gun"
Multiple giant blue lasers shot from the golden relic, enveloping Sakura, so Keroberos flew in front of the card mistress and shielded her with his wings, taking the brunt of the new attack until it subsided, upon which he opened his jaws and breathed forth a stream of fire over Toramaru.
I'll keep this one busy! You're almost there, Sakura!-roared Keroberos as he started flying towards the tiger-patterned youkai, keeping her enveloped in flames.
Byakuren smiled and more eery purple butterflies came out from her scroll, forming a massive swarm around her.
THUNDER! RELEASE!-Sakura activated another card as she ascended, six giant lighting bolts descending from the sky around Byakuren and burning away most of the butterflies surrounding her.
I'll end this now!-shouted Sakura, just a few meters away from Byakuren, rising her staff in preparation. She could now see her opponent was still smiling back at her as the youkai magician held her glowing scroll upwards, not doing any attempt to dodge as Sakura brought down her staff upon it, the star on the middle starting to glow in reaction to the strong magic artifact.
Return to the form you were meant to be in, Byakuren ca-
Iron Fist "An Unarguable Youkai Punch"!
Sakura managed to fly back at the last second as an open fist the size of a small building seemingly formed by pink clouds flew upwards through the position where she had been moments ago, almost snatching the card mistress, but still successfully interrupting her capturing process. Looking down at where the attack had came from, Sakura saw the smaller nun that had silently followed Byakuren start to float upwards as well, suddenly surrounded by a shifting pink mist.
I'm Ichirin Kumoi, and I'm the one who guards my sister's treasures! I won't let any thieves approach her alive!-declared the smaller nun, rising her held ring, and with her movement another massive fist made of clouds formed at her side.
Somewhere else in the skies above Tomoeda.
Reimu Hakurei had managed to break inside the flying ship, where she met even more lesser youkai waiting for her. With amulet and needle in hands she exterminated her way trough them, feeling a stronger presence further inside the magic vessel, but unable to pinpoint it. Where was the local boss?
(Reviews Replies:
sanddrake111: thanks for keeping up with your reviews! As for 1), well, first Sakura has to actually defeat the cards, second her magic energy is limited so having more cards doesn't directly translate into more power since there's only so many she can use each day. About 2), I admit that Byakuren does prefer to try to talk things out first, but when negotiations fail, she's more than willing to resort to violence. In particulary in her boss dialogues in UFO against Marisa A, where Byakuren basically goes "If you're standing with the humans, then you're standing against me". Marisa didn't even threaten her in that route or anything, but Byakuren still lays down the hurt against her.
Apologetic guy: First, thanks for the honest critique from your part. And yes my english isn't perfect, actually one of the reasons I'm writing this is to exercise my english writing skills. Now to adress your points:
1-Reimu does mind being poor. A lot. And she can and often acts as a jerk. Even in one of the endings of the first Touhou game Reimu wished for money, a cake, a hot meal, "the truth of the Universe", and the "destruction of Earth". She's always complaining she doesn't get donations, she goes out of her way to plunder a Youkai village in the 2nd stage of PCB just because it had valuables, and in UFO her routes are either "Must loot flying treasure ship!" or "Must exterminate all youkai!". In the manga she's always trying to come up with schemes to get some extra money. The only reason she isn't ganked and killed is because she's a key part of the Great Barrier, so if she dies for good, everything in Gensokyo goes down with her.
2-Yuuka in PoFV isn't that nice of a person either, to the point even Cirno is scared of her. Also, sadistic Yuuka is kinda of a classic.
3-Hmm, what's TP again? I'm not sure I understand this point of yours. Anyway at least some other people seem to be enjoying it. I can understand my style not pleasing everybody.
4-A good point. Check chapter 9 that shall be posted up over the next hour.