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
Anyway, please enjoy the story and leave a comment! Peace! :D
This chapter also centers on Reimu and Marisa. And a bit of Leo in the end.
This is also rather a simple and short one since I'm a bit busy with life stuff. :3 I need to go to my mom's village for harvesting the yearly crops and also do some research on villages. :D
Still, anything catches your eye, please tell me. I'll keep them in notes.
Enjoy the story! Yey!
Chapter 8 - PICTURE PERFECT
3rd POV ======= As Reimu and Marisa flew towards the Tengu Village, they then saw Aya in the distance. Marisa then called out for Aya. Aya heard Marisa's voice and turns around to see them. "Ah. Reimu, Marisa. What a surprise!" She gave a friendly smile to them as she holds her camera in her hand. "Anyway, what is it? Do you want me to interview you?" Aya chuckles lightly.
Reimu then asks Aya about the Magic Forest that was partially on fire. She asks if Aya saw anything interesting before the forest fire. Aya nodded, telling there are certain events happened before the parts of the forest engulfed in flames. She shows her camera at them. "Everything is in here." Reimu's eyes widen. "We need to check what happened, now." Aya looks at Reimu and nodded. "Well, okay. If you say so." She clicks on the camera's photo gallery and slides through the photos she took. As the slide goes on, something caught Reimu's eye in one of the photos.
REIMU'S POV =========== I quickly snatch the camera off of Aya's hands. "H-hey! That's mine!" Aya pleaded and tries to get it back from me. I told her to wait for a second as I look at the photo closely. In the photo were two guys running away from something. One of them dresses just like Leo. That could be Leo and the other outsider!
I shrugged and began sliding to next picture. The next one was a good shot. It shows a danmaku battle in progress. Explosions and destruction everywhere. This might be the cause of the fire but who was having a danmaku battle at the same place where two outsiders are at?
I slide to the next picture and this one really caught my attention. I saw Leo shooting danmaku bullets at what seems to be a youkai. The youkai has blood covering her whole facial area so I suspect that this was a Kushi-Sake-Onna yokai they were fighting with. But, how did Leo manage to shoot the danmaku bullets? This raises more questions than answers. I asks Aya when did she capture this photo. Aya's answer really surprises me. "It was this evening." Aya looks at the sky where the sun began to set.
If Leo did fought back, where are they now? I began sliding through the photos again. As I slide through the photos of the battle, I stopped right at the last photo. I saw someone else in the photo besides the other outsider and Leo's body. That's Reisen. Finally, a lead to Leo's whereabouts.I gave the camera back to Aya and thanked her.
"We need to go to the Eientei. He was taken there." Marisa lets out a sighed of relieved. I told Marisa don't get too relaxed first as the battle that happened could kill him. In the photo, it's hard to know whether Leo is alive or dead. As we were about to say farewell to Aya, Aya then asks if she could follow us. "In fact, this could be the news headlight!" She was excited about it. Saying no wouldn't stop her anyway as she will go to the Eientei to investigate by herself so I nodded and let her follow us.
"Alright. Lets go then." We began flying off towards the direction of the Eientei.
3rd POV ======= Meanwhile in the Eientei, Leo tries to get up but his body was weak and the stinging sensation in his torso began to happen again. Leo just hissed in pain and sighed. He gave a thought of limping but he knew that wouldn't work too. He laid there all alone, thinking whether if he and Kenta were safe from that woman.
Then, the door slides open and a young woman with huge rabbit ears walks in. "Ah? You're awake. We were worried that you're might be in a coma." The woman smiled at him. He just sighs and looks up the ceiling. "How long was I out...? And, uh... Where am I?" Leo turns to her, waiting for an answer for each question. "You were out for almost four hours. And you're in the treatment room of the Eientei right now."
"Ei...Eien-what now?" Leo looks at her with a confused look on his face and tries to get up again but failed. He then asks the woman about Kenta. "Oh, him? He's at the guest room with Eirin-sama. Oh, speaking of Eirin-sama, I should go tell her that you're up. Hang on, alright?" The woman left. Leo sighs and tries to get up again. This time he suceeded on getting up, only that he couldn't stand up straight. He knew walking would be painful so he just stood there silently, holding the stinging pain in his whole body. He then looks down and saw his clothings were different than usual. He is now in a plain-coloured obi. He remembers that his clothes were burnt off in the battle.
"I wonder if I could..." Leo tries to take a step forward but couldn't, making him fall right besides the futon with a thump. He lies there and sighed. He turns to the other way to see his glasses sitting alone. Leo tries to reach it but couldn't so he started crawling towards it. Even crawling took a bit amount of energy although he doesn't have any. He couldn't crawl to his glasses as the pain began to come back again. He lies there, with a pale look on his face.
He lies there without moving. His mind was empty. There was nothing to do anyway so he just lied there without doing anything. He slowly closes his eyes, trying to calm himself and fell asleep again. Though this time, there were no nightmares to disturb his sleep. He smiles in his sleep and slept peacefully.
As Reisen walks in with her master, they saw him lying there unmoved. "I swear he just woke up earlier." Reisen scratches the back of her head in confusion.