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.
A/N: Well, I just finished Bioshock:Infinite last night, and... well, it's one of the finest stories I've ever played.
Y/N: And here's where you spoil things?
A/N: What?! No, never! That would be cruel! The less you know about the game the better it is!
Y/N: Indeed...
A/N: In other news, I just realized something. In other stories, I tend to be detailed when I don't need to, and skip needed details.
Y/N: I had always wondered if you ever noticed that...
A/N: Ohh shush. You don't see what I see! To you, we're in a small neon blue room, no larger than a breadbox, chatting! The room, not us. To me, I'm in my bedroom, typing away at a keyboard, while pretending I'm talking to you!
Y/N: ...Neon blue? That sounds like an irritating thing to have your readers imagine.
A/N: That it is. We share in the fact we both enjoy annoying others, if you have yet to notice.
Y/N: How would I not notice such a thing...? You even manage to annoy me at times, so annoying you are.
I winced a bit as light began streaming in through the open window, having me ask myself a very important question. "Ugh... Who... who opened the window...?" I looked about for any signs of someone fooling around, but found nobody to blame as I opened a gap over the hole with solar-pain streaming through, thus blocking it from my sight. Elsewhere, someone cursed my name for opening the gap full of sun in their eyes, while I was simply busying myself with rubbing the sleep from my eyes and letting out an unladylike yawn.
After bending back to stretch my old bones a bit, which let out satisfying pop after satisfying pop, I decided to get some early morning reading in. With that in mind, I reached for the book I had forgotten to put beside my bed, cursing myself for also forgetting to place the bookmark back in. I need to be more careful when I'm sleepy, lest I do something stupid... When finally I flipped to the right page, I began to read the next entry of note, which for a change was the next one in order.
My training in barriers is going alright, but I simply don't understand how I would do one of that scale... At the same time, I have begun to train Ran in the art of boundry manipulation, starting with the simple gaps that Yukari first taught me. Rough ones, which one hardly saves any time by using. To help her reach my proficiency in them, I even gave her the ribbons that Yukari gave to me as training wheels. Sure, I no longer need ribbons, but a gap simply looks off without such an accoutrement.
Although she liked them, she said that she would rather figure it out on her own. A smart one she may be, but it sounds rather impossible to do it properly without them. All she asked was that I show her a gap of mine from time to time, so that she may try and immitate me. If it was that easy, I would have perfected my gaps long before I did. Heck, I believe that had I never made use of that ribbon pair, I'd have never gotten it right enough to be able to form a proper gap without one, not that I even knew I could untill I gave away my ribbon so freely. Really, what was I thinking? If I couldn't open a simple gap, what hope would I have in saving Sanae?
Chuckling a bit at the memories kicked up like dust in a long unused room, I flipped the page and began to read the next entry in line.
I can't believe it. No matter how little I believed in her, no matter how many times I told her she couldn't do it, or that it was impossible, she still managed to pull it off in about a decade. They still aren't stable gaps, but they still are gaps that can be made use of. She's a genius when it comes to math, for her age. She's nowhere near my level, and perhaps never will be able to catch up, but she managed to do something I thought was impossible, so maybe I'm being a bit quick to judge her. Perhaps she will become as wise, and intelligent as me some day. Perhaps even as strong, should she gain the proper access to certain boundries. As I am merely a user of these boundries, granted access to them by one of the owners. Time and space from the maid, and mind from Satori. It helped that I knew her child, I'm sure. But still.
Growing tired of my ramblings of the future of little Ran, I began to skip ahead a bit, flipping through countless pages speaking about how Ran was progressing, as well as a few other things here and there. Eventually I stopped on a special occasion with a fond smile on my lips.
Today is Ran's 2000th birthday. For a kitsune, she ages awefully slowly, doesn't she? Only now is she growing a third tail. Isn't that one too many zero's between the ages? Well, I suppose I can't complain. She'll stay cuter for longer. Such a small girl she was when first she became a youkai. A little tiny girl... I would wish that she would always stay so small, but that would be rude to Ran. As she had been complaining about her ears being far too sensitive, I made a pair of bloomers, sealed the ends of the legs, and placed seals on it. Reimu taught me how to seal youkai when Yukari was sick, you see.
Why am I talking to this book once again? Ohh well. Anyways, I figured that seals on the inside of the bloomers hat should seal her hearing a bit, making her able to be spoken to in more than a whisper. I wonder if such sensitive ears are normal of beast youkai? Turns out I was quite right, and I recieved a kiss on the cheek for my hard work. Ran's kisses are few and far between, but when she does give them I can't help but smile for weeks to come. They just make me so happy!
Smiling at the memories of back when Ran used to give me those nice little kisses, I placed the mark back in the book. With it in, I tried to close it, but found the little tassel hanging from it to be in the way, which made me have to remove it from between the pages, and finally closed the book with a clap of paper on paper. Now done wrestling with the book, I placed it to the side, and dropped myself into a border of dressed and undressed, heading through a second one leading to the shower that was already running. Ran knows me so well~
With my reading for the morning done, I began to enjoy a nice, long shower.