...I think I made the first chapter a little more serious than I intended it to be...darn. V_V'

Okay, so I overexaggerated a little. Probably a little more than necessary. (Damn, Omega was right: This became crackier than I intended)

Oh well. Can't change that now. And I guess it's okay to write these kinds of stories sometimes. Just for experimenting...(lie)

Either way, don't be fooled by the first chapter: This is a story not intended to be taken seriously. So even if it seems like I want it that way, I don't.

And I'm still looking for ideas for chapter 3 of The Kappa And The Wolf. As soon as I've got an idea, I'll write it.

So, with that out of the way, here's chapter 2.

DISCLAIMER: Touhou Project and most of the characters that appear in this story belong to Team Shanghai Alice/ZUN.

Hakame Sekoreta and his Spell Cards belong to me.

Chapter 2: Encounter With the Eagle

About 30 minutes had passed since Reisen snapped and left Eientei, but it felt like ages for the Moon Rabbit. She sat in a small cave that she had found while walking through the bamboo forest. She was not as mad anymore, but she was still in a really bad mood. She sighed as she scratched her cheek.

"And so, things have come down to this..." She mumbled. "Uuuh, how stupid of me to lose my cool like that. I was in hiding there, after all. Now what do I do?"

She thought about how upset everyone at Eientei was at the moment after her burst of anger. The rabbits, Tewi, the princess, Eirin...

Suddenly, she felt regretful. (A little perk she had due to her normally obedient nature)

"Aaah! What have I done?" She wailed, rubbing her head with her knuckles. "Master, forgive meeee...!"

She did that for about 5 minutes.

Then, her feeling of regret disappeared. She stopped moving and thought about the situation.

"Wait a minute...Why should I regret this? It's Master's and Tewi's fault that this happened. It had to happen sooner or later..."

She clenched her fist and a little smirk formed on her lips.

"I said I wouldn't be coming back, and I am going to keep what I said!" She said to herself. "I will not let them punish me for this! They only have themselves to blame! Besides, this means a lot of free time for me. I haven't had that in a while now."

The rabbit felt a little triumphant. Almost happy, in fact. But she also felt very tired. Being angry takes a lot of energy, especially since she hadn't been that furious in years.

"I'm going to take a short nap. Then, I'll figure out what to do with my new free time!" She mumbled and yawned.

Deciding that, she leaned her back towards the cliff's wall and immideatly fell asleep.

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(Meanwhile, back at Eientei...)

"I see..." Kaguya said thoughtfully and looked at her friend with concern. "You were punishing Reisen for dropping important medicine, and she suddenly burst into a rage..."

She had let Eirin explain the situation over a cup of tea and some snacks.

"I have never, ever seen her like that before." The genious mumbled while biting her index finger. "Maybe it was a side effect from the medicine I gave her..."

"Eirin, maybe you should consider trying you medicines on something else." Kaguya suggested while munching on a rice cracker. "Well, you probably will have to now, since Reisen ran away."

"Don't worry, princess." Eirin said and shrugged. "I sent Inaba after her. They are both rabbits, so they should be able to understand each other in situations like this. Trust me, she will come back. And when she does..."

A smile spread on her face, if an insecure one.

"...I will punish her for her insolence~"

"But Eirin, it's the punishments that made her run away in the first place..."

The princess interrupted herself when she heard the door open.

"Oh! Are they back?" She commented.

"Took them long enough." Eirin sighed as she slowly stood up and walked towards the hallway.

While she had said that he would punish Reisen for this, she still didn't feel very good about the situation. She wasn't scared or anything, but something just felt wrong.

Of course, she wouldn't let Kaguya know that. Making the princess worry was unnecessary. (Not that she probably would, but you never know...)

She took her time, walking towards the door. What she found made her frown in surprise.

In front of the door, Tewi stood. Her fists were clenched, she was shaking slightly and she looked down on her own feet.

"...Inaba?" Eirin called out to her.

She walked up to the Earth Rabbit and slowly put her hand on her shoulder.

"How are you...? Look at me!"

She put her hand on both sides of Tewi's head and lifted it.

The look Tewi gave her surprised her even more.

Her eyes were wide open and her face was pretty pale. She was nervous, if not frightened, that was for sure.

After a moment of silence, Tewi opened her mouth.

"...I found Reisen..." She said slowly. "...I think she really won't come back, Master..."

Eirin let go of Tewi's head and watched her walk down the hall.

She was really concerned now.

"This is not good! If she even made Inaba that upset..." She mumbled.

As she closed the door, she thought:

"Hmmm...Trying to get her to come back now wouldn't work. I'll go look for her later. Maybe she's calmed down by then."

She walked back towards the room where Kaguya was.

"...Maybe I'll go a bit easier on her when she gets back..."

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(Okay, back to Reisen now.)

"Heya, big sister rabbit!"

Reisen suddenly woke up. Her nap was interrupted by a cheerful voice. Unfortunately, this made her a bit grumpy.

"Ugh! Who's disturbing me while I'm napping? Whoever it is will..." She thought while opening her eyes.

When she looked up, she found herself looking into a pair of dark blue eyes, sparkling with curiosity.

The eyes belonged to a young boy with short brown-blonde hair. He had a scar over his right eye and two smaller scars on his left cheek. He peeked down at her from above the opening to the cave.

"Who are you? What are you doing in this cave?" He continued, still sounding cheerful.

Apparently, he didn't notice that Reisen really wasn't in the mood for meeting anyone at the moment.

"Back at you." She mumbled with an annoyed tone in her voice. "Who are you, and what are you doing in this bamboo forest?"

The boy, seeming a bit nervous after hearing Reisen's toned of voice, smiled and said:

"Ah- I've got some free time, and I saw this bamboo forest and went in to explore it. But, I got lost..."

Reisen sighed. Another lost brat! A lot of stupid humans sometimes went into the forest and got themselves lost. Frankly, she didn't feel like helping the kid. Besides, that was the immortal's "job", not hers.

"Idiot! Don't you know that this place is dangerous? If you go to far in-Wha?"

She interrupted her sentence in surprise as the boy slid down from the cave opening, turned in the air and landed on his feet.

It would've looked nice if his balance wasn't off. After landing, he immediatly fell forwards and smacked his face into the cave floor.

"Augh!" He yelped. "That hurt!"

He sat up and rubbed his nose while frowning in pain. This made Reisen get a better look at him.

He wore a white shirt with elbow- length sleeves and a blue buttoned vest with fur around the neck. He had brown shoes and green shorts that were folded and buttoned on the front side of his legs. (If the folds were unbuttoned, his shorts would be wider) On his back, he had eagle wings and, unlike most bird youkai, a tail in the same color as his hair. He also seemed to be carrying a sword in a belt.

Reisen stared at the bird youkai in silence. There was a detail that bugged her.

"...You have wings. Why didn't you just fly out of the forest?" She asked.

The eagle stopped rubbing his nose and looked up at her.

"Simple. I didn't think about it."

Reisen facepalmed. At least he was honest, but seriously...!

"Even so...", he continued, "if I had thought about it, this forest makes me dizzy. Flying gets wobbly."

"Ah- Yeah. Right. Nearly forgot about that. This place has that effect on people. The bamboo grows in a way that makes it easy to lose your way. And your balance."

Reisen got up and stretched.

"So," she continued, "you still haven't answered my first question. Who are you? I haven't seen you before."

The boy got up, as well, and brushed off his clothes.

"Well, that might be because I'm not usually down here on the surface." He replied. "My name is Hakame Sekoreta. Nice to meet you, sister rabbit!"

"Too bad I can't say the same about you..." Reisen thought. She just wished that he would go away. She just wanted to be alone until she was in a better mood.

Like earlier, Hakame didn't really sense that. Having not read the mood, he idly tried to converse with the Moon Rabbit, who didn't really give him much of an answer to anything. Also, his willingness to chat somewhat annoyed her. She fingered on a Spell Card in her pocket.

"...He said something about not being on the surface too much." She thought. "And he's not very old. Maybe he hasn't been introduced to danmaku yet? If so, perhaps I could scare him off..."

She considered her decision for a second.

"...I could try. It's not like he'll get hurt or anything. Hopefully, he'll get scared and go away. I'll just use my easiest Spell."

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"...Sister Rabbit? You've been awfully quiet..." The eagle said. "What's wro-"

" Wave Sign [Mind Shaker]"

"Woah!"

The barriage of bullets that Reisen fired surprised Hakame, to say the least. He leapt backwards out of the cave, up in the air, just barely grazing a few bullets, both fake and illusionary. Reisen noticed that his flying was indeed wobbly, and he seemed pretty unsteady. Perhaps the illusions had put him out of balance.

But instead of her desired reaction, he smiled.

"Wow! You know danmaku?" He exclaimed. "And you shoot them out of your fingers! That's so cool!"

He stuck a hand in his pocket and pulled out two wooden dice.

"I take that as a challenge! I'm new to this, but I'll try my best. Hopefully, I won't dissappoint!"

"Damn it..." Reisen mumbled.

This was not the outcome she had wanted. She just wanted to be left alone, and now she was about to engage in a danmaku battle!

"Ugh! I'll just use a harder Spell Card. If he's a novice, he won't be able to avoid it!"

"Alright, since you've shot first, I'll shoot now!" Hakame said and threw the dice into the air.

He caught them, looked at them and made his move.

"So that's it! Cloud Sign [Earth Cape]"

A few small, grey clouds emerged from his hands and spread out from him as he started spreading small grey and blue bullets. As he pulled the sword out of his belt (Which had an odd saw-like pattern on the edge) and swung it above his head, the clouds started shooting bigger danmaku that spread out amongst the smaller ones until they dissolved into danmaku, as well.

Unfortunately (?), since he was inexperienced in danmaku, the danmaku pattern was ridiculously easy to dodge. With a few hops and jumps, Reisen had dodged them all.

"Hm! Irregular, but predictable. Could use some practice." She sighed and shrugged. "I mean, loads of it. You've got miles to go, kid."

She was about to declare her second Spell Card when she noticed a change of expression in Hakame's face. He looked angry and frustrated.

"Grrr! Don't make fun of me!" He yelled as he threw the dice again. "Let's try that again!"

"Evening Veil [Silk Snake]"

Suddenly, a thick mist spread out from him and surrounded Reisen. When she was in the mist, grey danmaku started firing at her from different places in the mist. Of course, the pattern was still easy and she dodged it without any bigger problems, but since it came out from the thick mist, it was a bit harder to determine from which direction they were going to come from.

Suddenly, she heard something behind her and turned around. She was met by Hakame, who charged at her with his sword raised.

Of course, all she had to do was take a step aside. As expected, the eagle missed her.

"Hey!" He growled as he turned around. "No fair!"

"No fair?" Reisen replied. "I wouldn't exactly call hiding in the mist "fair" either."

"Oh, now you're going to-" Hakame started, but he never finished his sentence.

The reason?

"Visionary Wave [Mind Blowing]"

"Gyaaaah!"

ZAP!

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The mist cleared up, revealing a defeated young youkai lying on the ground. Being so close to Reisen, he hadn't managed to dodge her danmaku. Reisen shook her head as she looked at him. She was very unimpressed.

"I only had to use two Spell Cards." She sighed. "You really need to work on your danmaku. And your dodging."

"Ugyuuu~ Drat~" Hakame mumbled, clenching his fists.

"While I'm on the training subject, you should work on your sword handling, too." Reisen continued. "It's dangerous to flail it around like that."

"I know that." The eagle winced. "I'm just a knight apprentice~"

Then, his mood seemed to change again. (Children are so unpredictable...)

He got up, brushed off his vest and looked at Reisen. His eyes were gleaming.

"...That was amazing, though!" He said with wonder in his voice. "You're really good at this, sister rabbit! Ah-"

He noticed that Reisen was walking away and flew after her.

"Hey, where are you going?" He asked.

"That is not a concern of yours." Reisen stated.

"Can I come with you?"

"No."

"Why not?"

Reisen turned to face the eagle. She was tired of him bothering her.

"What is it that you don't understand!" She growled. "I want to be left alone! You disturbed me in the cave, so I tried to scare you off, okay? I have no business with nosy brats like you! I beat you in the danmaku game! Now scram!"

A moment of silence fell between the two youkai. Hakame's eyes were widened in surprise. Reisen glared at him. If she had wanted, she could've made him insane, but she had a feeling that he only would've been more of a bother if she did.

Her glaring changed to a look of surprise when she heard that the boy started sobbing. His eyes started watering.

"Ugyuu~"

"Ah- No! Don't cry! Please don't cry!" Reisen stuttered, flailing her arms. She couldn't stand crying children. She looked around in distress for a while.

"...Hey, kid! You were lost, right? I- I'll guide you out of the forest, okay? So stop crying, okay?"

Hakame looked up at her. His eyes were still shiny from trying to prevent the tears.

"...Really?"

"Yes, yes! I'll help you out. So please don't cry."

Hakame wiped his face, nodded and flew after her.

Reisen took a small breath of relief.

"Good thing he stopped. Though I have a feeling that I'll regret helping him..." She thought as she continued walking through the forest.

So, that was chapter 2. I hope it wasn't boring!

So, Hakame is about 25 years old (Mind you, he's young for a youkai), and he can manipulate clouds and mist, obviously. The reason I gave him dice instead of Spell Cards is because I think that children can be unpredictable, just like a dice can be unpredictable. So I thought if would be funny if he just randomized his spells. (Though he never gets two of the same spell in a row)

I also tried to make him as less of a Mary Sue as possible. I hope it worked.

And no, he's not a crybaby. It's just a spontaneous reaction that happens if an adult yells at him specifically.

(I just noticed that his last name sounds like Securitas. Fitting, since he's a knight apprentice. XD And I know that his name sounds similar to Hatate, but that's a coincidence. I made him before Double Spoiler was released)

See you next chapter!