The Touhou characters and settings are respectively belongs to ZUN! He's an awesome guy. Long live ZUN!
Leo, my character belongs to me.
I try to make this fanfic compelling and good enough for the readers to read it and also I'm trying to keep the Touhou characters originality by using their canon personalities to make this story more... Original I guess. Heh. :) ANd yes, I know this is a self-insert fic but at least give me a little chance, okay? :D
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I realized that the story seems to be deeper than I thought. And also who would know my first fic could be so... Error filled. XD As usual, constructive critism are always welcome wether in notes or public!
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So yey! Enjoy the series and the upcoming chapters!
For today though , I'll just upload this chapter as I need to do research on Youkai types. :3
Chapter 5 - RETRACING STEPS
LEO'S POV ========= I slowly got up on my feet and walked out. The morning scenery is beautiful from the shrine's porch. I could hear birds chirping and the breeze blowing through my hair really made me feel somewhat... Relaxed. I don't know why but the nature of this place really gets me. 'Oh you're up?' I turned around and saw Reimu just woke up from her deep slumber. 'Yeah. I'm up...' I smiled warmly to her. 'So... I'll be going now.' I know that was rude of me but I can't stay here. I need answers. Reimu looked at me seriously. 'You shouldn't rush things. Just take it easy.' I just kept myself silent. Am I really rushing things? Ah, I couldn't think straight anymore.
Then I heard someone calling for Reimu. We both walked out of the shrine and look up. It was Marisa, slowly descending to the ground from her flight. 'So, how's it going?' Marisa looked at me and her expression changed from happy to a bit worried. 'You look pale, buddy. You alright there?' Pale? Oh, right. I'm still tired even though I've slept the whole night. I guess I was emotionally and physically tired. I told her that I'll be fine and that's all. Marisa nods slightly. Reimu asked why Marisa came here for and Marisa's answer was simple. 'To have a little talk actually.' Marisa looked at me and told me to leave them both first for a private chat. Well, I got nothing to do so why not. In fact, this could be my chance to retrace my steps and search for my answers somewhere out there. I nodded and quickly walked down the steps, leaving them and the village behind. 'Right. Here we go.'
REIMU'S POV =========== 'What do you want to talk about? To be quite honest, you seemed more serious than usual.' Marisa just look up to the sky. 'That kid. Leo, right? I have a feeling that something doesn't want him to leave.' I nodded in agreement. Usually, the gappies could escape by just passing the border but he couldn't at all. Maybe there is a third party who is behind this, but who? Questions just keep popping out one by one. I told Marisa that we should start investigating about this and search for clues. Who knows that this event could turn out for the worse. Marisa nodded and suggested that we should start by finding the source of that mist that he told us about. I told her where should we search for the source since we didn't even know where to start. She just smirks and whispers into my ear about our first location. The Scarlet Devil Mansion. I knew it. Marisa's target must be Patchouli's library. I just sighed and nodded. Marisa was happy and told me that we could find our answers there. I hope the answer for all of this is there too. We both flew off to the sky and head to the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
We arrived at the front gate of the mansion. Meiling was doing her duties as usual, guarding the gates. 'Good morning Meiling.' She turns to us and nods. ' Ah, Reimu. Marisa. Do you have an appointment with our Ojou-sama? Or are you here to steal books from the library again...?' She gave a deep glare to Marisa as she said that. 'Actually, we're here for help.' Meiling looked at us, surprised. 'Help? For what?' I just kept myself quiet but Marisa backed me up by saying that it's an emergency. Meiling sighed and let us in but gave us a warning that we shouldn't make a ruckus in there. We both nodded and walks into the mansion.
3rd POV ======= Patchouli was reading a grimoire on magic in complete silence but then Koakuma walks in and approaches her. Patchouli-sama, the shrine maiden and Marisa are here to visit. Patchouli was surprised. Those two together coming here? Usually it was Marisa alone. 'Let them in.' Koakuma nods and lets them enter the library.
Reimu and Marisa walks in and greeted Patchouli warmly. 'What brings you two here on this hour?' Patchouli closes the grimoire she was reading and Reimu told Patchouli about Leo and the events that happened last night. This really strucks Patchouli's attention. 'I see. He is mostly not like our normal everyday gappy then. What seems to interest me is that mist...'
Reimu and Marisa agreed. The mist he talked about earlier seems to be the main key for this incident. But who made that mist and brought him here? Reimu and Marisa asks her if she has any books that could give them a clue on this incident. Patchouli looks around and tries to find one. 'This might take time. Would you two help me search for it?' Reimu and Marisa nods and helps her with the search.
LEO'S POV ========= As I continue walking, I stumbled across the path where that blue haired fairy, Cirno mistakenly said I should go right instead of left. I look towards the path in front of me which is the path to the right. A path to the unknown. I sighed and tries to calm myself. I walk towards the path and was greeted by a new location. The forest seems to be different than I remembered. It seems more bigger and somehow lively than before. I continued walking for a few minutes before taking a short stop near a tree. As I stopped, I saw someone walking towards my direction. It was a guy. His body was plump and he was reading what seems to be a book. I called out for him and waved my arm for his attention. He saw me and looked quite surprised. He ran towards me and gave me a huge smile to me.
'Another guy from the outside world?! Awesome! Looks like I wasn't alone!' I was surprised. He was from the outside world too? It looks like he is. A tee-shirt, jean shorts and a bag. 'It's nice to see ya! So, Yukari gapped you too?' I was surprised to see that an outsider like him knew this Yukari person so I asked him who's Yukari. 'Eh? Who's Yukari? Dude, you should know Yukari since you got gapped here too, right?' I sighed and told him I wasn't gapped by this Yukari lady. That really surprises him. I continue telling him on how I got here and he seems to be interested in it. 'Dude! You sounded like you've survived a world's worst case scenerio! Anyhow, it's good to see ya breathin'. I was getting bored, walking around and meeting only girls throughout my so-called adventure. Heh.' I can see that this guy is a bit nosy, but I'll let it slide since he's the only person from the outside world that I met. 'Anyway, my name's Kenta Hijime! What's yours?' I introduced myself to him casually and gave a friendly smile. 'Nice to meet ya, Leo, buddy.' He gave me a smirk and shakes my hand.
After a few moments talking to him, I asks him why did he got gapped into this place. He gave me a broad smile and started explaining the reasons. 'Well, I always wanted to get gapped here to this fantasy land! My life on the outside world is boring as hell so I at least need to run from the boring hell I'm in to this lovely women-only place. Heheheh.' His nose began to bleed a bit but I ignore that. He'll notice it by himself soon. 'In fact, I have a power that was locked away by my ancestors so after I get my powers, I'll protect ya buddy, so don't worry about it!' He seems more like a cocky bastard than nosy but I still let it slide. I've met a lot of people in the outside world so I understand everyone's personality and characteristics. 'Anyway, where are you heading?' To be honest, that's a good question. Where am I going? But I intended on changing the topic so I asked him what book is he reading earlier. 'Oh this? It's a guide around Gensokyo! Yukari gave it to me.' A guide huh? I could use one of those right now. I asks him if I could take a look at it and skim through the pages. 'Yeah sure, buddy!' He gave it to me and I took a quick scan through the book. I saw a map in the book and immediately scan it. I hope I could remember the way to everything. After that scan, I gave the book back to Kenta. I remembered that I'm walking towards the Myouren Temple path so I should go there for the heck of it. Maybe there'll be something like a clue there. Right. I told him that we're heading to the Myouren Temple. He seems excited and told me to follow behind his back. 'I know the way! Lets go and I'll protect you, buddy!' I sighed and just roll with it.
As we walked through the forest, I saw someone in the distance again. It's a woman wearing what seems to be a white bland kimono and closing her facial features with her fan. She must be really pretty for being that sassy. Kenta saw her and ran towards her. 'Well hello lady, you seemed beautiful today, heheh.' I sighed. 'Men...'
The woman giggles. 'I am beautiful, aren't I?' Kenta nods repeatedly while I just stood behind him, feeling bored watching people hitting on each other. The woman than plays around with her obsidian black hair and glares at us, trying to hypnotize us with her beauty. Well, it worked on Kenta but for me, I guess I wasn't that interested on her. She then uncovers her face to us. What we saw really caught us off guard as we saw the beauty of horror.