Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun.
A/N: Any time Miko is ignored, just assume that she's eating her own cooking, or drinking tea calmly, while accomplishing nothing, or being forced to learn things by that book. Also, said cooking is rather crispy, even if it's just rice. Also, I'm pretty sure you will grow to hate Miko sooner or later, with what I have planned for her...
M/N: Why would they hate me? I'm good! I'm simply cleansing this world of evil, and keeping my fellow man safe from being eaten!
A/N: ...Right.
Sunrise, Shaded Shrine, Mima's PoV:
"...Two?" I couldn't help but ask myself the obvious question, when I discovered there to be two steaks of human flesh in the oddly cold wooden box we had woken beside.
"Two wha- Ahh! Hmm, well, I suppose we could share, yes?" Rumia had a grin on her face that stretched from ear to ear, and easily gave away that she wanted me to enjoy the food she brought herself up on. Could it be that Yukari is trying to force my hand in cannibalism...? ...Why don't I feel as much of an urge to resist as before? Odd...
"That... is so..." I couldn't help but feel strange, as I'd only ever consumed a tiny chunk of human flesh; it was a unique taste, but not a bad one in the least.
"And here I was expecting you to not want to~! Though, it's not like I can blame you..." Rumia's mouth was watering at this point, while she eyed the particularly quality human flesh.
"Well, I suppose I'll get started on that meal..." I gave a sigh, before I began to carry the wooden box to the kitchen.
"I'll be waiting~!" Rumia sounded particularly happy about the meal, even if she seemed to be trying to hold her joy in.
Once I had made it to the kitchen, I found everything needed to cook up some rice and to cut the meat into easier to handle chunks, as I would have trouble gnawing my way through a slab of meat. Seems Yukari's been here, not that I mind. Theres now a few new things, which would be needed to cook rice. ...Such as rice.
Better get started! I'd rather not keep Sunshine waiting after all!
Rumia's PoV:
It felt like I had been waiting for hours, but the wait finally paid off when I heard the foodsteps of Mima, and smelled rice and blood. My mouth began to water in anticipation of the meal.
Mima began to set the table with a pair of bowls, and filled them with a bit of fluffy white rice, followed by a good number of raw meat cubes. Mima had no way to easily cook the meat, so she didn't, as it's not like she particularly minded raw meat. She also figured I preffer such things raw, which I do.
"Now, Sunshine... I have something to teach you, before we begin to eat." Why now...?
"But I'm hungry..." I gave her my best pair of pleading eyes, which she deftly deflected.
"It's important." She handed me a pair of odd sticks.
"Ehh? What are these?" I inspected them from numerous angles, before Mima spoke up.
"Those would be chopsticks, which one uses to eat." Isn't that what hands are for...? "And I'm going to teach you how to eat in a more... refined way." Refined?
"Is that so~? What's 'refined' mean?" I had never heard the word, so I hadn't a clue.
"Hmm... I suppose you could call it... A way that nobody will complain if you act like; we humans have many odd customs, and this would be one." Ohh, so it's for the best... Well, I guess that's fine, if it means nobody will complain about the way I eat...
Mima spent the next ten minutes teaching me the way one holds the chopsticks, and how to pick things up with them.
"Good! You seem to have the basics down! With that strength of yours, I'm sure it'll be quite easy for you to get used to eating with them, too." Mima gave me a warm smile, and we began to eat the food that was before us. The rice had cooled a bit, but it was still tasty.
After taking my first bite of meat, I made sure to very, very slowly chew it, so that I could watch Mima become an even more Youkai-like human, by way of eating part of a sizeable slab of thigh meat, and judging by the low levels of fat on the meat, I'd say it once belonged to a man. Men have such a good flavor... I wonder why that i- Ohh...! She's got a chunk of meat!
I began to stare quite intently at Mima, as I loved the idea of her having that in common with me. Before, she had only tried a small taste test of human flesh; this time, she would be enjoying a meal of it!
"...Can you please stop staring at me so much...? It's making me a bit... uncomfortable..." Mima chuckled a bit awkwardly, as she had noticed me watching her the whole time, my eyes not once blinking, ever since she had picked up a cube of meat.
"Ahh, is that so~?" I too joined her for her bit of awkward chuckling, as I hadn't realized that I was staring as much as I had been.
"That is so~!" Mima grinned wide, and had begun to laugh far more naturally, breaking away the tension that had once hung in the air.
As I swallowed the bit of meat I had speant a good few minutes chewing into ribbons, Mima finally brought the chunk of human flesh to her lips, and put it in her mouth. Good! Now I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself to leave her alone! I doubt there's any humans out there as interesting as my Mima! ...My Mima? ...What's that supposed to mean...?
After finishing chewing the small chunk of meat, Mima sighed in relief that I had finally stopped staring at her, as I had begun to tear into my meal in earnest with the happiest of smiles upon my lips. I was a natural with chopsticks, as I already had the odd angle of strength required to get propper pressure with them.
The rest of our meal went by without incident, save for my constant happy little grin which grew ever so slightly with ever bite she took.
However, I was beginning to develop a feeling of love for the human, but had yet to figure it out. I had never been in love before, even if I typically lay with many a Youkai every spring, as I simply can't contain my desire at that time of year, so I didn't know that my feelings towards Mima were those of something other than lust. That reminds me... it won't be long untill spring.