Chapter 4-Summers warm glow

Xero looked at the youkai before him, her eyes had a cold gaze to them almost as if they where hiding something behind them "I've heard so much about you darling, please let me introduce myself. I am yukari yumako, the youkai of gaps, if anything you could say I am a benefactor of gensokyo" she smiled "well pleased to meet you miss yumako" xero replied with a smile through he was still nervous around this strange youkai

Xeero then remembered she was the girl from his dreams "I remember you from my dreams...it was like i was fated to meet you." xero said as he wondered "of course we have a connection...after all I was the one that brought you here through my gaps from the outside world" yukari smiled and and then all the pieces started to fall into place "I should be angry with you but instead I am thankful because being here has sh own me so much wonder amd if i stayed in the outside world my life could have been boring...sure I might have gotten some job or a family but there has to be so much more out there ya know? Something better than all of that and coming to gensokyo has helped me discover that" xero smiled.

Yukari was pleased with his anwer "i hope you do have fun in gensokyo darling, do take care." she smiled and went into a purple gap and vanished.

Xero was a little annoyed "I thought she was going to get us tea" he sighed

Walking through the village that afternoon Xero saw a white haiored girl in green carrying a katana sword and it looked like she was training, she also had some white ball following her around which xero through looked really weird "Hello there, I'm Xero kita...I hope I'm not bothering you." Xero smiled and the girl shook her head "Not at all, I'm youmu kanpatu I am a half ghost girl in service to mistress Yuyuko it is a pleasure to meet you, I here you are the talk of the town." She replied.

Xero admired her as she was training "Would you care to practicse with me?" youma asked him "I'd love to and I used to own a katana back home that I bought online so i messed around a little but I'm no pro or anything" xero remarked and yomau threw him a boku stick and they practised different sword technics but she was really good and xero could not keep up "you need to watch your footing xero" she said and he nodded and they continued

they trained for the next five hours as xero was learning more and more about sword play but when it finally got dark they stopped for a rest and had a drink together "that was great, now I want to get a blade forged besides it would be good for protection through i am rleady good with magic." xero smiled and so did youmu "Well i better get back to mistress, maybe I will introduce the two of you next time you pass through" she said and took her leave.

When xero passed by the human villain he noticed fujuwara was there with his friend kaine "Good to see you again xero i heard the tengu aya was looking for you so she could do that interview, want to come? We can talk you over to the youkai mountian" kaine smiled and xero nodded "Sure sounds like fun and i've always wanted to be in the papers or the news" he laughed and they all got on a carriage and took it to the youkai mountian.

"maybe tomorrow we could do some more training then afterwards the three of us can go for drinks, how does that sound?" Fujuwara smiled "I'd love that, sounds like a date" kaine giggled as we watched the scenery pass us by from outside the carriage "i'm glad i met you guys, its been good to make such wonderful friends here" xero smiled.

After an hour of travelling the trio had finally arrived where aya and another tengu with white hair where waiting for them "good to see you xero, this story may make the front page of the burururudu newspaper" aya smiled as she started taking pictures of me "lets go inside the shack and i will start the interview." aya said and they followed her inside

"So tell me about the outside world, where do you come from?" Aya asked "a place called england in the uk, I come from a city there called london and i went to college for a while...it wasn't bad Ihad good friends in the outside world like my mate Billy but life was kind of dull i guess" he replied as aya nodded and was taking down notes.

"what kind of things are you into?" Aya smiled "i liked football and computer games, also a huge music and anime fan." xero replied as he thought about it, some of these things he could never get to enjoy again due to how unddevolped gensokyo was but he hoped by working with the goddess kanako they could push for some innovations in the near future.

"your really interneesting please tell me more " aya said as the interview continued through the night.

Later that evening everyone went home as kaine went to her house in the human village and put her dinner on as she was eating a bowl of rice "that was a fun night...Xero is really cute" she blushed and then she noticed there was a black and red spider in her dinner as she pinged it away "ew" she sighed and took a bite but then felt numb as she dropped the bowl and noticed 100s of poison spiders where bursting out of the rice until spiders began pouring out of the bowl en mass and then kaine was choking as she started to cough up poison spiders "W...what the fuck?!" She screamed as she felt her insides burning in pain as poison spiders began to eat her from within and blanket her body and then.

A shadowy youkai appeared "your the last pest standing in my way of taking control of the human village...its a pity you could not join your own kind so now you will die" the voice said and kaine knew who the voice belonged too as she rolled up on the floor in pain "y...y...u" she gasped as the spiders finally covered her and killed her "its a very nasty spell i had meidine melocony make for me darling, a sign of what happens to those that oppose the new world order." The figure said and then vanished.

The next morning Xero got up for his walk as patchouli joined him that day as they went to do some shopping in the human village but saw guards removing a sketeleton with horns "What has happened?" Xero asked and the head guard looked at him with sadness "Its the teacher...kaine..she was eaten alive by something...what kind of sick bastard would even..." The guard said in horror as many where upset because the human village had lost one of its most loved people.

Xero could not summon up words as he fell to his knees and started crying and then his cries turned to screams "i'll kill the fucking bastard that harmed her!" He said and swore revenge.

But first there was a murder mystery and someone had to sholve it and xero knew he was going to need help to crack the case.