The Forbidden Love of Yukari Yakumo

Chapter 1: The Story Begins

Mayohiga, the outskirts of Gensokyo, late evening

Yukari Yakumo walked through the streets of Mayohiga at late night, gazing at the fireflies in amazement as they flew through the town like a synchronised light show composed of liquid tears.

The peace and quiet allowed her to think, think about someone whom she had long since admired... a young youkai man named Dawitsu. He lived far away from Mayohiga, but despite her inherent ability to open a gap that led to wherever she wished, Yukari sighed as she felt the cold, gaseous void which existed between the two.

She opened a hole in reality, and looked into the eye-filled nexus, and as the other side opened up, she saw the man of her dreams, sitting in his house next to a beautiful, short-haired girl with hair the same colour as a diminished phosphoric flame, wearing a lacy black corset with black thigh-highs to match...

From within the gap, the black-haired, perfectly toned man put his arm around the young woman, and his perfectly formed, square jaw moved as he whispered into her ear, "You are the only woman for me..."

Twirling her golden hair, Yukari couldn't help but swoon even though the dreamboat's words were not aimed at her... the mauve-haired woman in Gothic clothes smiled a contented grin as she closed in to kiss the man, but Dawitsu crooned in a voice like wet heaven, "Not tonight, sweetheart."

Yukari smiled from her vantage point, and an unbelievably compelling urge filled her body. All she wanted to do was enter the gap, and walk up to Dawitsu, and tell him how she felt, and that, for her, it was more than just a passionate night underneath the stars...

The small, dark-clothed woman scowled in disappointment, and folded her arms, "Okay, then. But I'll be in my best nightgown just in case..."

Winking seductively, the Gothic Lolita walked towards the door of a grey cuboid of transportation, and entered it, leaving the gap's sight. Dawitsu stopped, looked around, then seemingly looked straight at Yukari.

Yukari blushed, assuming the black-haired beauty had noticed the gap. The hunk confirmed it by kissing his hand, and blowing the ethereal essence of love, lust and adoration towards the Border Youkai in a manner so passionate that it made Yukari melt a little.

In a small voice, he mouthed, "Some day..."

Yukari giggled to herself, and took her mob cap off, revealing long, flowing blonde hair the same colour as the morning sun, that provided the ideal amount of contrast to her pale ivory skin. Waving her hair, she mouthed, "I love you..."

The Dawitsu Mansion, the next morning...

The next morning was as warm and as bright as a clouded summer's day in the spring, and Mateyuu Dawitsu woke up, lying next to the partner he had promised himself to. He got out of his bed, at which point he revealed his perfect, bronzed body. His muscles were as taut and as great as a mountain, and his arms were at the perfect thickness to suit his slender, yet strong body. His waist was noticeably thinner, and his legs were far from the chicken legs of mere mortals. After standing in his underwear for five minutes, he decided to put on his electric blue cloak, and his perfectly ironed shirt and trousers. He exited the room, and left without eating breakfast, as he had a duty tending to his special cultivated area in the forest of magic, and knew that he had to tend to plants as delicate and as fragile as his soul...

Mateyuu Dawitsu arrived at his field he had grown... it was full of sunflowers. Looking up at the clear, blue sky, his fine, raven hair billowed in the summer breeze as dewdrops covered his face. He was feeling particularly hot, so he took off his cobalt cloak and his snow-white shirt to reveal his rock-hard, sculptured-by-gods abs. It was at this point that Yukari, incidentally walking through the sunflower field, noticed the man, waving his locks in slow motion.

Yukari sighed, knowing that no matter what, she would never be the Youkai that would complete the wonderful young man's heart. Nervously, she approached him from behind, and after trying to stealthily grab his taut, tanned pecs, Dawitsu turned around and noticed her. In a small voice, she said, "Um... your belt was loose. Sorry about that."

Dawitsu smiled, knowing in his heart that even though he liked her just as much as she liked him, that the two would never be allowed together. In a voice like velvet, he crooned,"It's alright when you're as beautiful as you are... say, there's something in your eye..."

The two levelled with each other's face, and looked into each other's eyes, slowly closing in until their lips touched. Yukari closed her eyes as she felt the soft, perfect tongue of Dawitsu's touch her own, and the two held each other tightly. After they stopped kissing, Dawitsu gently pushed Yukari to the floor, so that she landed in the soft bed of the yellow plants that populated the area like a thousand well-wishers of their Forbidden Love...

Climbing on top of her, Dawitsu whispered, "Yukari... I... I love you more than anyone I have ever met..."

Yukari, despite seeing the way he behaved around his lover, couldn't help but notice that the Youkai was looking right into her regal purple eyes with his warm, wooden-brown eyes... and forgave him.

"Do you mean that? More than Yutaka?" Yukari asked, shedding a small tear.

Dawitsu's perfect face transformed into a smile as caring as a mother bear for it's offspring, "...she... I loved her once, but the moment I cast eyes on you... I knew it was meant to be..."

Her back against the floor, Yukari gasped underneath the hunk, until the alluring young man pressed his chest against hers, and kissed her for the second time. However, the ever cruel and conspiratorial fate worked its will against the ill-crossed lovers, and the sound of a voice called out to the pair, "Mistress? Is that you?"

Dawitsu and Yukari both got up from the floor, red as a cherry freshly picked from the fifty-acre fields of the Netherworld. The Border Youkai gazed yonder at the source of the voice, and saw her Shikigami, Ran Yakumo.

The Fox bowed, and walked towards the pair. Looking at the two's blushing faces, the fox youkai asked her mistress, "Yukari-sama, what were you doing on the floor? It seemed that your friend was down there as well..."

Dawitsu turned away from the pair, and like an enigma, simply mused, "It is none of your concerns, Ran. We were sowing seeds together, if you must know..."

Yukari swooned at the double-entendre, hoping that soon he would be able to sow his wonderful, genetically superior seeds in her fertile interior. Ran didn't pick up on his second meaning, and nodded, "Ah. So, do you want me to sow some seeds with him now that I'm here? I don't want you to work too hard..."

Yukari knew that she hadn't noticed the true meaning of the man's words, but still felt a pang of jealousy flare through her like a rut of pure capsaicin, "No, Ran. Leave him alone, I'll help him if I want to..."

Dawitsu smoothly added, "She's been helping me in a way you couldn't have..."

Yukari refrained from ravishing the dreamboat where he stood, and simply disappeared into a gap, and said, "Are you coming, Ran?"

Ran sighed, "But I've only just got here, Mistress... please can I stay here?"

Dawitsu put his shirt back on, and offered the kitsune, "How about she stays here? You're okay with that, aren't you, Yukari?"

Reappearing, Yukari stopped to gaze into Dawitsu's eyes... they glistened a pristine white as the sun hit them, and they were filled with an honesty and integrity that told her that he could be trusted with her Shikigami...

"Yes, I am." Yukari finally told the man, and proceeded to enter her purple void of eyes, leaving the Kitsune alone with her man.

Ran turned craftily to the Youkai, and said, "So, Mister Dawitsu, can you show me how to plant a seed like you and Yukari were doing?"

Dawitsu picked a ripe seed from the nearest Sunflower plant, and knelt so that he was on all fours. Ran stared at his wonderfully toned posterior as he proceeded to use a trowel to carefully place the potential life into the ground, and smiled as he asked, "Do you think you can do that?"

The kitsune smiled devilishly, and mused, "Why yes, good sir... I think I understand... so, like this?"

Ran proceeded to pick a seed, and dig up a hole in a similar manner to a dog, before placing the seed into the ground, and covering it back up. Dawitsu nodded, "Ah, good... now, I'm going to water this area, so just stand out the way as I do that..."

Ran followed the Youkai as he retrieved his watering can, and after he filled it from the nearest river, Ran gently nudged the can, causing the contents to become deeply ingrained and absorbed into the fibres of Dawitsu's perfectly blanched shirt, and Ran shrugged her shoulders, muttering, "Clumsy me..." before a gap appeared, and seized the Kitsune before disappearing again.

Within the purple, eye-filled space, Yukari wore a face that seemed like a two-way cross between Jealousy, Hatred, and Envy. She waited until the residual sound-waves from the area disappeared, and proceeded to protect her man in the only way she knew, "DO NOT FLIRT WITH HIM!"

Ran looked at her mistress, her eyes glittering with defiance and disrespect, "What is it to you? I'm only having a bit of fun... why, is there something you're not telling me?"

Yukari blushed, and noticed that she could have, in her protectiveness of her Love, have revealed her terrible secret to her Shikigami, and, with her incredibly sharp mind, formulated a fabrication of brilliant proportions.

"...no, I just don't want my Shikigami to give it all away up front. You know, don't give yourself away, because he probably likes a challenge... all the best men do..." Yukari inhaled, then exhaled in a deeply indulged and lovestruck manner...

"...if you say so. Say, Mistress, for a second I thought you were in love with him." Ran stated the truth in a fortunately hypothetical manner, and Yukari sighed with relief akin to several bricks being lifted off of her head, shoulders, and arms...

Yukari turned a shade of Crimson associated with the red sunset that Sheep Youkai doze contentedly to, and adamantly denied the hypothesis, "...of course not. Anyway, he's with that Yutaka woman, isn't he? There's no way I would date him while she's around... I guess that... she'd have to be out of the way..."

Ran shook her head as she realised her hypothesis was correct after all, and asked, "So, where are we going, exactly? This place frightens me."

"...away from him! Now, I expect you to know better next time!" Yukari scolded, but at the same time, couldn't help but mentally admit that there was a reason why her Shikigami was acting the way she was...

There was no way one could blame the fox for wanting the tanned, ebony-haired, wedge-shaped, toned beauty of a man... that seemingly the world was after...

Author's Notes: Momiji says that what all the authors do nowadays is write a set of Author's notes at the of each chapter, so I guess that's what I'm doing. I... guess I really enjoyed writing this chapter. In fact, this chapter contained the excerpt that was so good that it made the real Dawitsu throw up! Yeah, I got to see his vomit, for real! Ha, I bet Hebiko hasn't seen his vomit! She must be so jealous!

Oh, right, the writing process... well, um, you know the Mushrooms from the Forest of Magic. Well, there's a certain dark-brown variety that for some reason no-one picks but me, and when I eat them, I feel really good and start writing truly inspired works just like this one! So if you want to be just like me, then all you need to do is buy some of Tokage's 'Magic Mushrooms' from my house and then start writing! Of course, you also need to be blessed with my incredible natural ability and good looks, but it's a start to success, nonetheless!

Typist's Notes: Hello there, it is I, Momiji Inubashiri. You may know me as the colleague of the one-time rival tengu reporters, Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou. I also have a publishing business, and the commission from this particular publication should be worth... the pain I'm currently going through. I honestly prefer Hebiko's story... but hey, I'm a publisher, not a reader, what do I know? Oh, I also managed to leak some copies of this chapter to the people involved in this story, because it's only fair they get to see it first, right?

They certainly had some... interesting things to say about the piece. I shall put these thoughts into a section called... reviews. Let's try this out, shall we?

Reviews for Chapter One:

Mateyuu Dawitsu: W-w-w-w-what is this? Oh... oh God... OH GOD! Hey, I can hear you typing, you know! Uh, well... um, I'm... flattered that I've been written so... well... but um... is there any need for the gratuitous nudity? I... sorta feel naked reading this... oh, and by the way, there is NO way I'd turn down Yutaka, eh heh heh... OW! Oh, sorry, I forgot you were standing right there...

Yukari Yakumo: Why am I written as if I'm a teenage human? Why am I in love with that moron? Why am I giving my ex-shikigami false love lessons? Why am I longingly staring like a depressed Emo Youkai? To summarise... WHY?

Yutaka Hadekawa: Um... I... I don't wear black Lolita outfits... uh... anyway, that's not the point, I'm not straight! I never thought I'd have to flaunt my homosexuality, I always thought it'd be a thing that, if anything, I'd have to hide... but... my goodness, this woman doesn't know me at all. She didn't even obtain our permission... and even if I was straight, I certainly wouldn't be desperate for sex...

Unnamed, Disguised Reviewer with oddly long hair and a false moustache: I for one think it's appalling that people such as this are allowed to write at all. I believe that writing should be an elite sport, only for the talented and the intelligent, and I... shut up, I'm not that other writer! I'm Leopold Giovanni the second of... uh... the outside world.

Sakuya Izayoi: AHAHAHAHAHAHA... OH HOHOHOHOHO... THIS IS THE FUNNIEST BOOK I HAVE EVER... w-wait, what? This is... serious?

Marisa Kirisame: Well, I'm not gonna say it isn't possible... judging by the way that ol' Yukari looks at that Mimicker guy, I can only imagine she has either a lot of hate for him or a lot of lust... heh, it'd be funny if this was true though, I'd love to see how those two would act as a couple... you know what, I might borrow this book from someone who buys it when the full thing's typed up...

Actual Author's Notes: Okay, just so you're aware, these chapters will be FAR shorter than what I usually do, I want this to evoke the novel-writing style of short, but plentiful chapters. You know, a story format so widespread that it ranges from Roald Dahl to Lemony Snicket...

Also, if there were some sections you wanted to throw up at, think of how unclean I felt writing it, heh heh heh...