Disclaimer: Touhou belongs to Zun, and the only things that belong to myself would be Usagi the Mimic, and Moegi the Japanese Beetle. Everything else belongs to their rightful owner.

Y/N: You do realize that you should remove the "Semi-hiatus" sticker at this point, right?

A/N: I will when I'm sure I have passed by the hard part. Plus, the story is going to really start fast forwarding soon. As in we shall be reaching the first incident soon, and the end of the first year.

Y/N: Ohh?

A/N: Well, I can't really avoid the incident; it is of little import, but it is an incident regardless of this. Of course, as there really is little that needs doing, little shall be done, and it will quickly end.

Y/N: Ahh, the-

A/N: Shush! No spoilers beyond hits!

Y/N: Fine, fine... I suppose we had best get on with the show, hmm?

A/N: ...Why do you enjoy annoying me, so?

Y/N: Because you always react~

A/N: Ugh...

Early morning, Bamboo Forest of the Lost, Keine's PoV:

My head is pounding... As I reached up to rub the left side of my head, my fingers collided with something hard. Ehh? What's this?

"Oi, show some modesty, youkai!" I winced at how loud the words were, and not entirely due to my headache; it was as if she were shouting directly into my skull!

Looking to her with blurred sight, I swallowed the food in my mouth. After blinking a few times to try and clear my vision, I began to rup at my eyes, while wincing a bit at the volume. "Could you please not shout so loudly...? I can't even understand you..."

Letting out a sigh, the woman across from me, who thus far I was unable to focus on, instead tried a soft voice. "Is this good? You youkai are a strange bunch. Always making strange demands, when you aren't trying to eat me."

I blinked twice at the remark. "Eat you? ...'You' youkai? As in I'm a part of... them..." As I spoke, it was as if a mental block were removed, and memories came flooding back to me. At the revelation, I muttered, "...That's right, I guess I am a youkai now..."

Keeping her voice quiet, the red and white blur demanded, "Hey, speak up; if I'm to be quiet for you, you're gonna have to be louder for me! ...Also, you do realize you're naked, right...?"

At the mention of my state, I crouched down, and covered myself with my three limbs. ...Wait, what's this fluffy thing? I reached out to gently stroke the thing, and found it to be silky, and ohh so sensitive. I couldn't help but softly moan at the touch, before putting my hands over my mouth in embarassment.

"Will you please stop that, you perverted cow...?" The red and white human-shaped blob sounded disgusted by my accidental actions.

I furrowed my brow, and glared at the gradually focusing woman. "Why I've never...! It's rude to call a woman a cow! Just because I have big breasts, and weigh a tad more due to this, that ma-?"

"No, I mean literally. You were just a gigantic cow, remember...?" ...Ohh.

I forgot all about that. "...Oops..." After a bit of an awkward silence between us, I finally found my sight to have fully returned. I wonder why it was so damaged to begin with...? Ohh, so that's why she's red and white... "...So you're a shrine maiden?"

"Nothing gets by you, does it? Yes, I'm a shrine maiden." Jeez, bite my head off why don't you...

I gave the younger girl a bit of a glare, and replied, "I have a good excuse, I'll have you know!"

Laughing to herself in mock interest, the annoying miko retorted, "Than tell me it."

I let out an irritated sigh at her disbelief, and began to tell her, at length, why I thought I couldn't see her correctly. Eventually she said it was likely due to the charm on my horn, which I proceeded to try and touch, yet simply couldn't.

Early morning, Mountain Shrine, Mima's PoV:

I felt the annoying sting of the sun on my eyelids, and began to try and flip over. It had been a long time since I had woken up outside of Rumia's bubble, not to mention that I'm inside of the bubble for a fair bit of the day, and so I eventually started to build a bit of light sensitivity. Thankfully it wasn't as bad as Rumia's, so it's not like it was forcing me to switch my hours, but I could imagine that with time it might. The obvious positive was that I could easier see in the dark, to the point that I only rarely needed that candle anymore.

As I tried to ignore the sun, I soon noticed the pitch blackness return, and a bit of the stench of blood. Before, I might have called it off-putting, but now... Now it just makes me a bit hungry. I let out a groggy little yawn, and asked, "What's up, Sunshine...? Woke up without you today..."

As she spoke, I began to sit up, and stretch my muscles a bit. "Ahh, well, I had to go hunting as a distraction."

"Distraction...? Why'd you need a distraction...?" I hadn't quite realized the quarry she had hunted, but I was slowly getting around to it.

I felt the somewhat chilly blob cuddle up against me, so as to regain some of her lost body heat. "Well, last night was a full moon, and..."

As I rubbed the last of the sleep from my eyes, I asked, "And?"

"Well, I get a bit... ravenous on the full moon. The moon makes me too restless to sleep, too... " Ahh, I see...

"So you had to hunt, lest you eat me." The way her jiggly body flinched against me told me all I needed to know, and so I let out a sigh. "You know, you don't have to sugar-coat it; I already would have run from you, if I had any intention to."

"Really?" All around me the blob I'd call a friend began to purr, and I shivered in response to the vibations. "That... That makes me happy, Mima... ...Also, I brought some back for you!"

I rose a brow in curiosity towards what it might be, before asking, "What is it?"

Not even pausing to think of some way to make it sound better, she matter-of-factly stated, "The thigh of a rapist."

"Is that so? Well, atleast it wasn't a good person..." I let out a sigh at how blunt she had been about it. Well, atleast I can give her points for honesty...

"That is so! I even removed the dead skin and hair for you~" Thank goodness... I'd rather not get a mouthful of hair! That'd just be terrible.

With everything said and done, Rumia began to quickly slide across the floor, and take me to a darker portion of the shrine. Namely the kitchen. Once there, I quickly relented to her desire to see me take a bite from it, which I failed at. Unlike her, my teeth aren't nearly sharp enough to slice through flesh like it were butter, or strong enough to simply rip it off. After a short time, she relented, and allowed me to use a knife to help me out.

It was suprisingly good, fresh. I can see why she whines a bit about the stuff we get not being nearly as fresh, or complaining about how it tastes a bit off, now.