Hello there readers. This is NerDeath here with another chapter of 'Phantasmagoria in Konoha'. I saw you enjoyed yourself in the last chapter which really makes me happy.
I had fun writing that chapter and here I present you another one. Hope you enjoy it.
Stage 7
Welcome to Konoha
Yakumo house, Gensokyo, One week later
Naru was sitting in the garden, under a tree, drinking tea. She was thinking about Kurama. After the contract had been made she could feel the emotions of Kurama and Kurama could feel her emotions. But it wasn't something deep. It was merely to help them understand how both of them were feeling at the moment. If someone tried to hide something, the other person would sense it.
Naru looked at the horizon. She could almost see the whole of Gensokyo. She saw the Scarlet Devil Mansion, the Misty Lake and the Human Village. Even Reimu's shrine could be seen but it was really small, almost the size of an ant from this place. She was slightly bored. But Yukari didn't allow Naru to be bored.
Soon after the contract had been made, Yukari had decided to help Naru in mental training. Yukari had decided that although her magic skills were satisfying, her tactics and planning were low level. So Yukari had decided to change that. Making quizzes, playing shogi, mostly everything that required thinking, Yukari had forced her to do it. And Naru understood why.
Rushing at the enemy was never a good idea, unless you had a plan behind it. Yukari was training her to think quickly and precisely. Yukari had warned her that on the battlefield and almost every combat, one plan was not enough. Even a few plans could be not enough. Yukari knew this. That was why she was training Naru in the way of tactics and planning.
Sighing, Naru took another sip of her tea. The tree moved with the wind, making a few leaves fall from the branches and dance in the air. Suddenly a shadow fell on her. She looked from the corner of her eye and saw Kurama standing there with a smile. Naru smiled as well.
"How are you feeling, Kurama?" she asked. Kurama sighed with a smile and shrugged her shoulders.
"Honestly, I thought this would be bigger change, but it isn't. It's actually a little sad, that nothing has changed at all. I just… wish something would happen," Kurama said and sat next to Naru. She giggled and looked at her tea with thoughtful eyes.
"Soon enough, we will have a lot of things to do. Being in Konoha will be... different I assume," Naru said and took another sip. Kurama looked at her.
"How do you feel? About that… you know you will… take someone's life? I know I won't feel any different; I've already killed hundreds of them," Kurama said, with slight sadness in her voice. Naru raised her eyebrows and looked at Kurama.
"I guess nothing as well. Being a youkai, it's natural to kill humans in order to eat them. We need to kill them to survive. I think nothing will change. In the end, the stronger kill and eat the weaker," Naru said. Kurama looked at Naru but didn't do anything. Naru took a sip and looked at Kurama with a slightly annoyed expression.
"By the way. Why do you have such big boobs?! I want a piece of them!" Naru said. Kurama was surprised by this statement. She didn't know what to do. She was too confused. Naru started poking Kurama's breasts with an annoyed expression. Kurama moaned slightly.
"Naru…-sama, please… stop this!" she said. Naru was annoyed but stopped. Kurama took a few deep breaths to calm down.
"I'm sure yours will grow as well. You're only nine years old," she said with a slight blush.
"I know! But..." Naru mumbled something under her nose while looking at her breasts which were A, bordering B cup. She sighed and stood up. Kurama looked at her.
"I'm going to Mom's library. I want to read some books. Want to come as well?" Naru asked Kurama. She smiled and took empty tea cup.
"Ï will join you soon but first I will prepare tea for both of us," she smiled and left. Naru shrugged and used a gap to walk into the library.
With Yukari
Yukari was reading newspapers which Chen had brought from Mayoiga. Aya didn't know where Yukari's house was so she always gave Chen one. Speaking of Chen, she was again in Mayoiga trying to convince the cats which were living there that she was the boss. Ran walked in with a towel in her hand.
"Yukari-sama, what should I prepare for today's dinner?" she asked.
Yukari looked at Ran, then started thinking. She smiled.
"Something tasty~" she said. Ran sweat dropped.
"You're not helping Yukari-sama," she said. Ran looked around and asked, "By the way, where is Naru-sama?"
Yukari thought a little.
"She is in the library reading. Kurama should be around somewhere," Yukari said, looking at the newspaper. Ran nodded and walked away, thinking about what to prepare for dinner. (A/N: by the way, I totally forget about Hiashi. But he was eaten two years ago, Yukari thought it was another human like many more, she forget she kidnap him. So yep, he is dead.)
The newspaper didn't have anything interesting on it, but Yukari was reading it just to kill time. She was still observing Konoha, but it's seemed like they had forgotten about her. Well, except Hokage. She knew that a few people wouldn't be happy to see her or Naru there, but that was not a problem. A few danmaku bullets and everything would be solved. Then Yukari started thinking.
Danmaku in Gensokyo worked as a projectile which would make an opponent feel tired and make him or her – mostly her – feel pain. But in one exception, this wasn't the way it worked.
Fights between Mokou and Kaguya were always bloody. Literally. They were always fighting without spell card rules, a fighting that turned nonlethal projectiles into dangerous bullets which could annihilate the body of opponents and a large portion of the surrounding area. Which created a question. Was danmaku lethal in Konoha and even in the whole of the Element Nation? Yukari needed to check this. She put down the newspaper and grabbed her things.
She opened a gap and left for the Element Nation.
Land of Fire, somewhere in the forest
Yukari emerged from the gap and looked around. The area was covered in dense forest, the perfect place for hiding. She was searching for one thing. A guinea pig. And she was right next to one place where she could find one.
She walked a few meters calmly with her parasol open and without expression. Soon she was surrounded by bandits. She looked at them. They weren't wearing anything special, some old armor and clothes; nothing which danmaku couldn't pierce. They smiled perversely. Yukari sighed. Such disgusting creatures. They weren't even worth being called humans – just some trash – and Yukari was going to throw these trashes where they belonged.
One of the bandits moved to Yukari with a stupid smile.
"Well, pretty lady. It's unwise to be walking alone in such a dangerous places like this. Something bad could happen to a beautiful lady like you," the bandit said while licking his lips. Yukari was disgusted, she felt like throwing up. But she didn't show it. Instead she smiled.
"Ohhhh. And what could happen? Enlighten me then," Yukari said with a small smile. The bandit smiled wider and moved closer to Yukari. He moved his hand closer to Yukari to touch her boobs while saying.
"Well… For exam-!" He didn't finish as he saw his arm cut clean. He saw Yukari's expression change to a serious one. Soon, blood started leaking from his wound. He fell onto his knees, crying from pain. Nobody moved. They hadn't seen what had just happened. They had only seen some blurred movement.
Yukari moved her free arm horizontally with straight fingers, like her hand was a sword. She looked with disgust at the bandit before her.
"Don't you even touch me you meat bag. I won't be touched by such a low life form such as you," she said and snapped her fingers. Suddenly gaps opened around her. The bandits panicked and were ready to run, but from the gaps, ropes emerged, grabbing every bandit. None escaped. Everyone was captured.
Yukari looked at them with disgust and prepared to fire danmaku. She decided to look at how the shape and power mattered here. The first two bandits were placed in front of her. She created two kunais. She fired the first one, which had been created with her full force. The kunai cut through the bandit like hot knife through butter. Then she fired the second one at the second bandit.
Here, the kunai hit the bandit in the chest but didn't cut through him. But still it was deep. Only the ring at the end could be seen. Yukari frowned. The second one had been created with minimal energy so that even Cirno's bullet were stronger. And to deal such damage. She looked at the others and experimented with different shapes of bullets.
When she was done, she looked at place. What was left from the bodies were only limbs and a large pool of blood. The scene looked like it was from some kind of horror. She came to the conclusion that even bullets with minimal force could be lethal. Also, shape mattered. Bullets like kunais or bullets with sharp ends cut easily through the body and probably even armor. Bullets in the shape of spheres exploded. The strength of the explosion was measured by its size and how much power was in the bullet.
If big bubbles had a lot of energy it could easily destroy a tree and maybe even building. And humans as well. Bubbles with a low amount of energy created smaller explosion but enough to tear off limbs if it struck, for example, in the knee.
Yukari had to tell this to Naru, so she could be careful while using danmaku here. She opened a gap and left the scene.
Yukari's house, library
Naru was sitting on the chair with a book in hand. Next to her was a small table with a candle, the only source of light. Naru was reading a book about Gensokyo's bestiary, and the best source was the Gensokyo Chronicle. Every species and every person was written down here. What was interesting Naru right now were oni. She found two specific people: Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma. Those two were examples of oni.
She wanted to meet Suika. Going by the book Suika was either in Heaven, on the Youkai Mountain or in the Hakurei Shrine. In her free time, Naru would find her. That was her plan. Other than that, she was reading about their powers and abilities. While Yuugi and Suika were almost equal in raw power, Suika was much stronger in danmaku. Also her ability was powerful as well.
But she also found out that Suika preferred to drink rather than to fight. Which could save Naru from a lot of trouble, because Naru got the feeling that she would lose miserably. Naru sighed and looked around. The room was dark and filled with bookshelves with various books made through time.
Suddenly the doors opened, making the room a little lighter. Naru saw Kurama entering with two cups of tea. Kurama put the tea on table and sat next to Naru on the second chair which Naru had prepared earlier.
"Found something interesting, Naru-sama?" Kurama asked. She smiled. Naru nodded and gave her the book with the page on Suika.
"Found an interesting oni living on the surface. I think she would be great company to talk but I think I wouldn't stand drinking with her," Naru chuckled. Kurama chuckled as well.
"True. I heard from Ran that Suika is a very (?) heavy drinker. Only other oni and a few youkais could compete with her," Kurama said. Naru nodded in acknowledgment. In the end, Yukari wouldn't allow her drink right now. She guessed she would be able to do so, when she passed the ninja exam.
Naru knew about Konoha's system. Yukari had explained everything that she didn't know to her. Which brought a small frown to Naru's face; Naru couldn't use chakra. Even if she knew, theoretically, how to do it, she couldn't. Her body was different. She didn't have chakra in her body. Her body was used to magic and magic alone.
But Naru didn't care. Instead of chakra she had got something much better. Naru stopped thinking about Konoha. She still had two years before she could attempt to the Academy. (A/N: I remember now that students start it when they are about six or seven. I have decided that Naru will start attempting it in the last year. Why, Naru will explain later:))
Naru looked forward into the darkness, thinking. She was wondering how things were in Konoha. Not that she really cared, but the curiosity was there. Kurama looked at Naru.
"You look bored. How about match of shogi?" she said. Naru looked at her and, with small smile, nodded.
Both of them were playing in the library drinking tea. In the middle of the game, Yukari emerged from a gap.
"I see you're having a good time~" she said. Both Naru and Kurama looked at her, slightly surprised. She chuckled but soon became serious. Naru felt the atmosphere change.
"Naru I want to warm you about something. I just visited the Element Nation to see how danmaku would work. And it's deadly; even when I was making bullets with minimal power it was still lethal. The sharp ones were cutting armor and flesh with ease and small balls were exploding with enough strength to rip off limbs. Maybe your danmaku won't be so powerful but still, be careful. You don't want to kill someone by accident, do you~?" Yukari said with a smile at the end.
Naru sweat dropped but nodded. This was important knowledge. It would probably be useful when she was doing training with other teammates. If they would like to train with her or vice versa. But that probably won't happen. Yukari left both Naru and Kurama. They looked at each other.
"So...where we stopped?" Kurama asked. She looked at game board. Naru also looked.
"We stopped when I was killing your general," she said with a smirk. Kurama opened her mouth with shock. She started arguing with Naru, which lead to a laugh from both of them in the end.
Later that day, Yukari was teaching Naru about the Element Nation as a whole, about various environments, especially of different Hidden Villages and many more. Kurama was also teaching Naru how to protect herself against illusions but Yukari said that both Naru and herself were immune to illusions because of their ability to manipulate boundaries.
Yukari also said to Naru that if someone asked how she opened gaps, she must say it's her blood limit or Kekkei Genkai. It would save her a lot of trouble. Meanwhile, Naru also taught Kurama danmaku. She was surprised when Kurama was learning really fast, like it was her second nature. Kurama was surprised as well. Ran taught her her spell cards. Ran explained that if they are both Kitsune, it would be alright for them to have the same spell cards. Kurama was grateful for this and accepted Ran's help.
And so two years of preparing, learning, dueling and mostly visiting different people, passed quickly.
Two years later, Yakumo house, garden
Naru, Yukari, Kurama, Ran and Chen were standing in the garden, talking. Today was the day when Naru would leave Gensokyo (?) and go back to Konoha. Surprisingly it had been her own decision. Naru had promised that afterwards she would become the leader of the village and she would open a gap so that both Gensokyo and Konoha could live together.
Naru had become much stronger in the past two years. She could reach Yukari's chin without standing on her toes. She still was wearing her clothes which hadn't changed at all. Kurama's outfit hadn't changed either. She still was wearing that yukata which was barely covering her breasts. Naru's breasts were also bigger. She finally had fine, healthy C-cup breasts. Naru was glad about that. She had feared she would be as flat as hell.
Yukari was hugging Naru.
"Remember to behave yourself up there. I don't want you to stain the honor of Yakumo. Also beat the shit out of everyone who are assholes to you. You have my permission to eat them~" she said. Yukari smiled. Naru chuckled nervously. Kurama and Ran sweat dropped at this. Chen was sitting in Ran's tails, playing with them. Like always.
Then a gap opened, revealing the residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Naru was surprised when she saw them. Flandre immediately flew straight into Naru when she saw her.
"Guah!" Naru yelped when Flandre collided with her stomach. Both of them flew a few meters away. Yukari was looking at the scene with a dreamy smile.
"They are so young~ Ufufufuf~ Flandre~ don't break Naru~!" Yukari said. Remilia sweat dropped, as well as the rest of them. That woman was unbelievable. Remilia sighed.
"So it's today huh? It will be a little lonely for Flandre. Marisa hardly ever comes to us, except when she is stealing Patche's books," Remilia said.
"That's true. Imouto-sama is really attached to Naru-san. She is one of the few people who I can stand," Sakuya said. Remilia looked at Sakuya and couldn't help but remember her vision which appeared in her head two years ago. Through this time, her fate hadn't change. It didn't help that Sakuya had been helping Naru through these two years as well.
Flandre and Naru were back to their feet and were talking with everyone. Remilia talked with Naru.
"Naru come with me for a second. There is something I want to ask you in private," she said. Remilia gestured. She took the parasol from Sakuya and walked away, with Naru behind her. When they were alone, Remilia turned to Naru, with a serious face.
"Naru, what are your feelings forwards Sakuya?" Naru was surprised about this question. She hadn't expected to hear that. Naru looked at Remilia. She hadn't seen such a serious face, ever. This was the first time that Remilia had been so serious in her presence.
"Why...Why do you ask...me such question?" Naru was nervous. She didn't know what was going on. Why had Remilia asked her such question? Remilia looked at Naru.
"Two years ago, I saw how the fate of Sakuya changed. I could easily change it, but seeing her face, her smile, which was a true smile of happiness, I didn't do it. And what's more, you are involved in it. Because of you, her fate changed!" Remilia shouted with anger at the end. Naru took a few steps back. Naru could tell that Remilia was angry.
"Remilia-san, please calm down." Naru tried to calm her down but Remilia ignored it.
"Naru Yakumo answer to my question! What are your feelings to Sakuya! And don't even LIE!" Remilia threatened. In her hand her weapon, Gungnir, appeared. Naru was shocked. She saw how Remilia's aura was flying around in vicious flame. Naru stopped and finally responded.
"I… I respect her!" she shouted. Remilia raised her eyebrows and calmed down a little but still Gungnir was in her hand.
"I respect her. Sakuya is an amazing person. I was amazed at her style, her good appearance, her loyalty. She helped me when she explained the life of a youkai to me. That's why I respect her. But I don't know if I've got deeper feelings for her! I don't know. If I had to comment on thesefeelings for her, it would be friendship!" Naru shouted. She was covered in sweat because of the aura and felt like she would break from shock.
Remilia looked at Naru and sighed. Her weapon, her aura vanished. Everything was back to normal. Naru looked at Remilia who was smiling at her.
"I see. That's good. Sakuya you can show yourself now," Remilia said with smile. Naru didn't know what Remilia was talking about, when she saw Sakuya walking from behind the house. Her eyes widened when she saw her here.
"What is it, Ojou-sama?" Sakuya asked. Naru didn't know if she had heard the conversation between herself and Remilia.
"You heard everything right?" the vampire said. Sakuya just nodded. Remilia shrugged with a smile.
"I see. And what is your opinion, Sakuya?" she said. Remilai looked at Sakuya. She took a deep breath.
"I'm happy that Naru thinks of me as a friend. Not many people or youkais treat me as a friend. I'm conflicted. If someone would ask me what I want, I would without question, without second thoughts, respond: to serve Ojou-sama. But right now, it's strange. I'm feeling a strange feeling inside me. This feeling has been building for the past few years. I don't know when it began. It's making me doubt what I want. I can't say what I want. On the one side, I still want to serve Ojou-sama. But on the other hand, I want something else. But I can't name it," Sakuya said, clenching her hand.
Naru eyes widened. Remilia was smiling sadly. Remilia flew on Sakuya and gave her a warm hug.
"I know what you want, Sakuya. I know about your feelings. I can name it. I can show you were it will lead. But it's your decision. I won't force you to do anything. You're my precious Sakuya. One of the few people which are close to my heart. What I want is the best for you. So tell me. Tell me your desire which is at the bottom of your heart and I will gladly fulfil it. So Sakuya, what do you want?" Remilia asked, with warmth and care in her voice.
Sakuya couldn't help but start crying. She hugged Remilia back and was crying her tears out. Naru was standing there speechless. Everyone else there knew what was going on but they knew to not interfere. Remilai had talked about it with Yukari a few weeks ago.
After twenty minutes of crying, Sakuya wiped out the tears and smiled. She was happy but also sad.
"Don't cry Sakuya. I'm not angry at you. Whatever road you choose I will always there to help you. So don't cry… It's not... for you… to cry..." Remilia said, holding back her own tears. Sakuya finally calmed down and looked at Naru. She didn't know what to say to Sakuya.
"Naru-san, for now on I will be in your care," Sakuya bowed and smiled. Naru didn't know what to say. She was surprised.
"Come on Naru, answer her," Remilia said with a smirk. Naru scratched her head nervously and looked back at Sakuya.
"Well… I didn't expect that. But..." Naru took a deep breath and smiled. "Please take care of me," she said. Sakuya nodded happily. Remilia looked at this with a sad smile but didn't say anything. Soon a gap opened next to her and Yukari emerged slightly. She looked at the scene and then at Remilia.
"Are you really fine with this? We're talking about Sakuya of course. Won't you miss her?" Yukari asked, concerned about Remilia. She smiled.
"I will be fine. I rely too much on her. It's time for her to be truly happy. It's the best thing which a master can give to his servant," Remilia walked away, leaving Yukari alone. She saw this and smiled with closed eyes.
"It's like you, Remi," Yukari said and vanished into the gap.
After that, Remilia told everyone what had happen. Everyone was surprised, especially Flandre and Kurama. Flandre and Patchouli asked Remilia whether she was sure about that. She only pointed at Sakuya, who was smiling with true happiness. Then they understood why Remilia had decided to do so.
After saying goodbyes and hugging with everyone, Yukari opened the gap and Naru, Kurama and Sakuya left for Konoha. Remilia was watching Sakuya disappear with a small tear in her eye.
"I hope you will find happiness," Remilia said to herself and left soon after with the rest, via a gap. After that only Yukari, Ran and Chen were left in the garden.
"Ran prepare things. We're going to Konoha," Yukari said. Ran looked shocked and surprised.
"Yu-yukari-sama? What are you planning?" Ran asked. Chen was looking at Ran and Yukari, surprised as well.
"Gensokyo is fine and we need some vacations, some LONG vacations so for a few years, we will move to Konoha~" Yukari said with a big grin. Ran and Chen had their eyes and mouths wide open. Yukari just chuckled and walked away, leaving the two shocked shikigami behind.
Konoha, midday
A gap opened near the main gate to Konoha. From it, Naru, Kurama and Sakuya emerged. They looked around at the forest and the gate. Nobody had noticed them so they were fine. They walked to the gate, when a shinobi stopped them.
"Stop, state your business in Konoha," he demanded. Kurama looked annoyed and Sakuya was looking on expressionlessly. Naru gave Kurama an invisible sign to calm down. She then looked at the shinobi.
"We would like to join the village. Is this possible?" Naru asked. The shinobi looked at them and nodded. After filling the papers, he showed them the way to Hokage's tower. They thanked him and they moved on. A lot of people were looking at them with curiosity but mostly at Kurama and her *cough*assets*cough*. (A/N: She can hide her tails and fox ears)
Naru could see that mostly men were looking at them with perverted eyes. Women were jealous but they ignored them. After they reached Hokage's tower, they were allowed to visit him.
"Enter," a voice said. They walked in and Hokage looked at them. He measured them with calculative eyes but he looked completely calm. He wasn't called Hokage for nothing.
"So, how can I help you?" he asked, when they were standing before them.
"We would like to join the village and your shinobi force. Well me mostly. Sakuya, Kurama what about you two?" Naru asked them. Sakuya and Kurama shook their head in negative. They didn't need to be in the shinobi force. Naru smiled.
"Well, then two of us," Naru said. Hokage nodded.
"I see. Well, I don't have anything against it but you will be need to attend the Academy. You will be assigned with those who are in their final year. Your teacher will be Umino Iruka. Also, here are the keys to your new home, because I can guess you're new here. You will start classes in one week. I think that' all. Just fill these document and you're free to go," Hokage gave them papers to fill. After that's done they left and went to their new house.
It was a small mansion, like those who you could find in clan campus, but it was old and slightly destroyed by time. The three girl were looking at this rather nervously.
"Well… when we renovate it, this house should be quite comfortable..." Naru said slightly confused, nervous and with slightly smile. Sakuya and Kurama sighed. Naru cracked and her head was covered in dark clouds.
"I'm good for nothing...right" Naru mumbled to herself. Kurama and Sakuya chuckled nervously with sweatdrop. Well they could disagree but… seeing Naru in this state was slightly...funny. After that they got to work.
In the meantime, Yukari, Ran and Chen appeared. Naru was shocked and asked them what the reason was for their visit. When Yukari explained, Naru could only frown and shake her head and mumbled that this was so like her mom. With their help they turned the old house into a very rich building. A few people who passed by asked themselves if some kind new clan was living there.
In academy, day of enrolling
Iruka walked into the class. Like always, it was in a total mess. He tried to calm down the class but without effect. A vein popped on his forehead and, making one hand sign, his head became bigger.
"SHUT UP, YOU BRATS!" he shouted. This turned the class into a silent room. Even a graveyard was louder.
"Everyone, we have one new student in our class. Girls, please enter," he motioned to the doors. The doors opened revealing one girl. She had a pale orange dress and hat, parasol in hand and a fan. She had long blond hair with orange ribbons on them and golden eyes.
"Welcome everyone. My name is Naru Yakumo. It's nice to meet you all," Naru smiled. The rest didn't know this but the most powerful girl had just entered the classroom. Iruka looked at her.
"I think this is going to be a weird last year," he thought. He sighed. He didn't know how right he was.
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