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And then she heard Kaguya turn, which only made it more heartbreaking. They had actually been about to get away with it! The sneeze was so loud in the enclosed space and the oppressive silence that it left Marisa's ears ringing. "Ugh." She muttered, rubbing at her nose with her sleeve. At least it had been a dry sneeze. Well, no point in trying to conceal herself now. She slipped out of her hiding spot and stood, then crossed her arms and stalked out into the centre of the room. Kaguya Houraisan didn't seem entirely surprised to see her. "Greetings, Your Royal Bitchiness." Marisa drawled, hoping that Tenshi would stay hidden. "Seems we just keep running into each other like this, huh?"

"My, whatever could that mean? The last time I saw you, you were lying on my pathway and bleeding rather severely. Greetings, dear thief. Back for another attempt at my treasure?" Kaguya's voice was smug, and there was more than a hint of knowing amusement behind it. She reached out to some sort of pad on the wall, and the room lit up with soft light coming from a source she couldn’t identify. If that was Lunarian technology, then Marisa wanted a look at it. “You seem to have a talent for sneaking in.”

"You knew I was here." Marisa stated bluntly. There was no way she hadn't. No reason at all for her to just happen to check this particular room.

"I might have had an idea, yes." Kaguya's smile got even more knowing, and Marisa's temper got even worse. "Did you not wonder why you were having trouble navigating the halls?" Marisa's eyes widened a fraction. Of course. She hadn't been in Eientei on their last attempt, so they'd been able to get around just fine. "Now, why don't you tell your friend to come out, and we can talk properly?" So, they'd been screwed from the start.

"Tenshi." Marisa finally said. She'd made her mind up. The ex-celestial stood and grumbled in annoyance.

"You couldn't keep it secret any longer? You took a beating to keep my name out of it last time!" Tenshi asked Marisa with a frown. "Okay, whatever. Yes, hello, Immortal." Kaguya waved politely.

Marisa grabbed Tenshi's shirt collar and pulled her down. "You need to keep going. No sign of Reimu yet and we don't want to leave him alone with Eirin any longer than we have to." She looked the taller girl in the eye. "Don't worry about me. I've got some payback to deal out." A smirk came over Tenshi's face and she nodded.

"Good luck." She whispered.

"Don't need it." Marisa said back, cracking her knuckles. "Just get to him, fast."

"Excuse me, thieves?" Kaguya had taken on some sort of annoying high tone. "I'll need to punish you for whatever you stole. Or whatever you’re about to steal." She stepped a little closer, leaving the door open behind her. "Or maybe just because I’m bored. I think another brawl would be fun, don't you?"

"Oh, I would so love to wipe that smirk off your face..." Tenshi muttered under her breath. Then, she dropped slightly lower and sprinted forward, a wide punch aimed at Kaguya's head. The Hourai Immortal placed her hand out to catch it, only for Tenshi to feint at the last second and bring her knee up into Kaguya's stomach, forcing the other girl to double over. Tenshi wasted no time in transferring the momentum into a spin and sprinting straight through the open door behind her. Kaguya turned with a frown, holding her stomach, and looking ready to follow, when Marisa laid a hand on her shoulder.

"You know, I spent a good while laid up in bed from what you did to me." She yanked back, spinning Kaguya around and slamming her fist into the smug Immortal's face. A satisfying crack rang out in the silence and the girl stumbled backwards, blood pouring from her nose. "But knowing that I'd get to do that to you the next time we met made it all worth it." Marisa pulled her hat from her head and tossed it behind her, then slightly bent her knees and raised her fists. "You're not going after her. You're facing me, you stuck-up psycho!"

Kaguya giggled, something slightly mad and creepy. "Is that right, Miss Thief...?" She turned back to look at Marisa, cracking her nose back into position. The blood flow instantly ceased, and Marisa's eyes widened slightly when she saw that it didn't look at all broken. "Are you going to put up a fight this time? It was dreadfully boring, last time." Her eyes didn't look so dull anymore. There was something in them. Lunacy. She raised her arms, assuming some sort of stance that Marisa didn't know.

>>10143623
KaguTen confirmed for canon.

>>9934644
Foreplay.

>>9582948
Just a reminder that there will never be a doujinshi featuring these two as main characters together.