Holding on to Reimu’s shoulders, you look at her, and then at the ceiling. Then, for no real discernable reason, you begin to laugh. Even though you tried to hold your laughter, you really couldn’t stop yourself. Reimu’s eyes soon began twitching.
“What’s so funny?” You could see Reimu squinting, with a gaze that you swore could kill anything.
After managing to suppress as much of your laughter you can, you then point up to the hole in the ceiling, letting out another stifled laugh.
“That hole in the ceiling?”
“Yes, that hole in the ceiling, you jackass. Are you going to fix it?”
“Fix it?” You laugh again. “Hasn’t that hole always been there?”
Joke Sign [Canned Laughter] -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5uY7T35hUs&feature=related You then look back Reimu, seeing her eye twitch even more. You couldn’t tell if she was angry or not, or really trying to hold back a laughter. You always took Reimu as one who tried to keep a cold face on just to be imposing, not that it was actually who she was. However, she then put her arms on your shoulder.
“Um… Reimu, what seems to be the matter?”
Instead of answering, Reimu then gave you a hard push, making you fall on the floor. Landing on your back, you let out a short scream, feeling that you might have broken something during the fall. Before you could even start to get up, you saw Reimu pointing her stick at your face, an extremely angry look on her face.
“You know, I’ve just about had it with you! You’re a worse freeloader than that Oni! Not only do you wreck my shrine up but you wreck up other places as well!” You had a bad feeling that pissing off Reimu any further may cause her to reach her breaking point and make her flat out attack out.
You raise your hands in defense, a little scared now. “But it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault!” You then point at Yuugi. “Miss Hoshiguma was the reason why there’s a hole in your ceiling!”
“Hey, don’t make Reimu get mad at me! She already beat me once; I don’t want her beating me again, especially when she’s so mad!” Though it was hard to tell, you could detect a slight slimmer of fear in Yuugi’s voice. If the thought of having to fight an angry Reimu caused this one Oni to be a bit afraid, and you recall from Suika Oni being strong, then you DEFINITELY don’t want to have an angry Reimu beating on you.
“Oh no, you’re not getting out of this one, jackass! You’re going to fix that hole and you’re going to fix it, or I swear to the great gods of the Hakurei shrine that I will beat you up so badly, you won’t be able to walk for a month!” You chuckle nervously, hoping that Reimu wasn’t being serious, but one look at Reimu’s eyes told you that she was VERY serious with her threat.
“Please, Reimu… Miss Hakurei… please, calm down!” You slowly take hold of Reimu’s stick and gently push it aside. If she didn’t have it pointed at you all the time, you would feel a lot better. Standing up, you keep a hold on Reimu’s stick, just keeping it out of your face so that she wouldn’t be so inclined to jab it into one of your eyes. “Miss Hakurei, please, come on, can’t we just… talk this out? We are civilized people of a civilized age! I apologize for any grievances I have given you but can’t we just talk this out?”
You look at Reimu, looking at her eyes, hoping that she was thinking about talking instead of violence.
“No.”
Well… damn, that just ruins everything.
Reimu quickly began pointing her stick at your face again; forcing you to walk back a bit before you ended up with your back to a wall. Chuckling nervously again, you look at Reimu, seeing her seething with rage.
“Well? Are you going to fix that hole?”
“Uh… Yes!”
You saw Reimu lower her stick, looking completely dumbfounded.
“Wait… you will? You’re not going to run off on some stupid quest for revenge?” You nod. “You won’t go off and break up some homes at the human village?” You nod again. “You’re… not going to get lost?”
“YES, MISS HAKUREI, I WILL FIX THE HOLE IN THE CEILING!”
“Good! Now that wasn’t so hard!” You see Reimu start to smile.
“Tomorrow.”
Reimu’s smile then vanished. “… what?”
You repeat yourself. “Tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow.”
“What about tomorrow?”
“I’ll fix the hole!”
“Tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow!”
“What about fixing the shrine?”
“Tomorrow, Miss Hakurei, tomorrow.”
“Why not now?”
“I’m tired.”
“You’re… tired?” Reimu then began screaming. “GET OUT! GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!”
Before you could complain, Reimu began pushing out again, pushing you out of the shrine and causing you to trip, making you fall in the middle of the crowd of reveling fairies. Seeing you hit the ground, everyone stopped moving and began looking at you. Even Suika set her gourd down to see what was happening.
“Miss Hakurei, please be reasonable, I’ll fix up the hole and the shrine and anything else you want, please, I’ll do it!” You rise to your knees and plead with Reimu to let you stay.
“This is always your problem! You promise to do something but you always come up with some excuse to not do it!”
“But really, I’m tired! Why won’t you let me sleep? I swear, I’ll do it tomorrow morning!”
“No! Now leave! If you stick around any longer, I’ll kick your ass!”
“Hey!” Suika stood up, looking a bit mad. “Don’t be so mean to George. He’s been through a lot and you’re running him ragged! Come on, calm down and have a drink with us!”
“Calm down, calm down?! This jackass has been causing me more problems than he’s worth! He’s wrecked my shrine, he went and made a mess at the human village, and now he’s made a hole in the ceiling!”
You protest again. “But that’s not my fault!”
“Shut-up!” Reimu’s harsh words really stung deeply. “Now this guy better pack his bags now or I’m kicking his ass until sunrise!”
“But he’s tired! Aren’t you being too mean tonight, Reimu?” You really couldn’t say anything, just sitting down there, watching Suika and Reimu argue.
“Mean? I have every right to be mean to this jackass! And you, don’t talk like you do anything helpful at this shrine as well! You’re nothing more than a freeloading Oni! I might as well kick you out of the shrine as well! All you do is turn my shrine into a freaking party zone nearly every night when I try to get some sleep, wasting up all my food and drinks!”
You then saw Yuugi walk up to Reimu, placing her hand on Reimu’s shoulder. “Hey, don’t insult Suika like that, she’s a helpful Oni.”
“What the hell are you doing here, Yuugi? I didn’t invite you here, now scram!” Reimu then being shooing Yuugi away.
“Fine, Reimu, but I swear, you’re really too uptight. You really should do something about all that pent up stress.” Yuugi then flew over to you. “What? You think I’d forget our competition?”
Standing up, you shrug. “Well I guess I have to leave now. Guess I’ll let Reimu cool down for a bit before I come back, huh?” You then turn towards the steps.
“And don’t forget to take your fairies with you. This isn’t a playground for them!”
“Alright, Miss Hakurei! Good lord, you’re intolerable…” You then whistle to Ms. Diana. “Ms. Diana, come on, let’s go!”
“I’ll be right there, Mister Hale!” Diana soon closed up her book and flew towards you, the rest of the fairies following behind her.
Suika as well stood up and ran after you. “Well if you’re making George leave, then I’ll leave too, Reimu! It’s no fun when you’re mad!”
“Well fine, leave! Good riddance!”
Making your way down the steps of the Hakurei Shrine, you finally find yourself on a stone path leading through the forest, with Ms. Diana, her fairy posse, Suika, and Yuugi.
Suika then walked up next to you. “Sorry to hear that you got kicked out of the shrine, Mister.”
You scratch your head and then shrug. “Eh, what’s done is done… but you didn’t have to leave Reimu for me, Suika. I didn’t want you to leave your home.”
“My home? Heh, I just hang out there a lot, that’s all. It’s not like I’m leaving too much behind anyway.”
Yuugi then walked up next to Suika. “So Suika, does this mean you’ll be coming back to the ancient city?” Letting Suika chat with Yuugi, you move next to Ms. Diana.
“Well then, Ms. Diana, looks like we’re going to be without a base of operations for a bit. I hope you don’t mind.”
“Hmm? I don’t mind, Mister Hale, I’ve lived before without a permanent place to stay, but shouldn’t you be worried about yourself? You do look pretty tired too, Mister Hale, maybe we should find you a place to sleep.”
Ms. Diana was right. It was late at night and you really were starting to get tired. Yawning, you begin looking around; maybe if there was some sort of clearing you could sleep in. Then again, if you sleep in a clearing, you might encounter some… less than savory people. However, there weren’t really many options with where you could go now, what with the human village still distrusting you. If anything, you really were in quite a bind.
“Well, isn’t this just great? Every day just keeps getting better and better…”
[X] Sleep in a clearing, risking the chance of encountering something bad.
[X] Ask one of your companions where you could go, while getting increasingly tired.
- [X] Which companion? [Suika, Yuugi, Ms. Diana]
Without lodgings, without thought, without a course, without options, this is where life starts to make the turn.
Or something philosophical like that.
I don't know if I'm making Reimu too much of a bitch...