/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Nice youkai!

"wow you're really awake"

Huh? Where are you? It's bright in the room, and the futon is soft. Sunlight is filtering in.

"You really almost died you know, and Kogasa would have too, if I hadn't been passing by and heard all the noise she was making"

Kogasa! The previous evens rush back. You sit up. You look at your body and find yourself wrapped in bandages. You're arm is still gone. It hurts, but you ignore it.

"What happened to--"

The girl bids you to be quiet and makes you lay back down. She had brown hair, with two bunches held together on each side by red cloth tubes. A big red bow adorns the top of her head.

"I'm Reimu, the miko of Hakurei shrine."

You were awestruck. So this is her.

"I owe that cute umbrella for always fashioning my needles for me" She held up the long, glinting needles. "she's not normally the type to get in fights, so I couldn't ignore it. When I saw she was fighting Rumia I thought she was pretty stupid. She definitely would have lost, but Rumia's no match for me. I didn't expect to find that she had been defending a human"

"She has been here everyday checking up on you. She usually avoids others, but she has been helping out at the temple as thanks for caring for you. Oh yeah, you're at Myouren temple by the way. I'll go get her and tell her that you're awake."

Reimu stood up to go, but stopped.

"Oh and one more thing." She thrust a box at you. It said "Donations."

"You can leave a donation to Hakurei shrine here, as thanks for saving you" She gave you a big smile.

You only looked at her confused. Once she realized you didn't plan on making a donation she coughed and excused herself.

After awhile she came back, and a blue shape flies through the doorway and leaps on top of you. It was goes Kogasa and she smiled at you, but then looked away.

"Geeze you really scared me"

She played with her skirt for a minute.

"hold on, I have something for you!"

Kogasa left the room and when she came back she was holding something wrapped in cloth.

"I took your measurements while you were asleep."

Unwrapping the cloth, you see that it is a metal arm. Kogasa fixes it to your arm.

"I put magnets in the hand so you can still hold metal things in it."

"You should have put a cannon in it" You laugh wryly "but really, it's amazing."

"You know" She says "I really did feel like I was useless before, but now I realize that it's not about what you can do so long as you have someone that believes in you"

She looks at you, awaiting a response. You can tell that she's blushing and not trying to hide it. She really is cute... "s-stupid youkai! don't go saying pointless things!"

"mean!!" she hits you in the head with her umbrella

"Ow!" you rub your head. "But really, thank you for risking your life for me. I'm glad I met you Kogasa..." Hesitating for a moment you say it "I love you"

She pauses for a second, startled, but then hugs you, burying her head in your chest. "I love you too!!" she says, sobbing.

I took you several more weeks to be fully healed from the fight with Rumia, but in that time you grew much closer to Kogasa, helping out at the temple together. When you went home, you made many trips to her home. And thought most of her scare attempts fall flat, you always play along. Eventually she came with you to the human village. At first the were suspicious, but once they saw her talent as a blacksmith, they at least warmed up to her for trading. Through your combined efforts many saw that she was harmless. People even tolerate her scaring pranks. You think it makes her happy to find acceptance among humans She even tried her hand at baby sitting, but wasn't very good at it. As for you, through hard work and with help from Kogasa's blacksmithing you found acceptance in the village.

They say that when it rains, you might see a man walking the streets of the human village with a blue haired, heterochromatic youkai, covered by a peculiar purple umbrella.