Touhou RP: Dreams become reality~

It was a particularly cold afternoon in Hakurei Shrine. Winter was afoot and a certain miko opted to spend the day indoors. Eventually she ended up under the kotatsu, a blanket resting on her shoulders to keep her even warmer. It was a very comfortable set up, maybe a little too comfortable. Soon, the miko found herself drifting off, resting her head on the table. It wouldn't hurt to spend just a few seconds napping. Yeah... a nap sounded real nice...

A few moments later, a small pile of yen appeared next to Reimu. It was a complete mystery how it got there and it wasn't the first time something like this had happened. All around Gensokyo, people were noticing things from their dreams suddenly appearing next to them as they slept. Though no one knew what was causing it, there was a general consensus that this was most definitely an incident.

"So... now what?" Human Woman asked the girl dressed in lots of pink. Said girl in pink smiled brightly, affection radiating from her very being.

"Now, I work my magic~" Ai replied, giving her forefinger a light lick, then pressed her other forefinger to the first finger mentioned, pulling a small, red thread from it.

Still smiling, Ai turned to Human Man, the thread - invisible to both humans - held lightly in her hand. "Hand, please~"
Looking confused, Human Man held out a hand, whereupon Ai immediately wrapped the string around his pinky finger.
Carefully extending the thread from her finger, before tugging it out completely, Ai turned to Human Woman and repeated the process.

Both humans, trying to see what it was Ai tied them with, suddenly adopted blank expression, quickly replaced with deep affection and true love.

Pleased, Ai watched with a wide smile as both humans embraced and declared the love they held for each other. After Human Man had heard of her new-found business and requested help, Ai got them both together and brightened their future. She was nice like that.

A few minutes later, Ai left the house, a small basket of food held in one arm, a large loaf of bread in the other. Yeah, this was certainly trade - True love for a little meal.
And since this was such a huge success, Ai was now on the look out for anyone else looking for their significant other. Soon, everyone in this village would find their true love~

Much like the rest of her home, Marisa's bedroom wasn't dirty, but it was messy. To be fair, it wasn't as messy as it possibly could be, it was more neat then the rest of the house, but there were still scattered books, her broom, her hat resting on her nightstand. Marisa herself lay sprawled out on her bed, nightclothes disheveled and partially off her body, one leg hanging off the bed, and only half of her even remotely covered by the blankets.

Her dreams were filled with perversity and theft. Specifically, a combination of the two. Being perverse and stealing were some of Marisa's defining traits. However, the rays of sunlight soon enough caused her to stir. The witch sat up, and yawned...

Before finding herself surrounded by the undergarments of Hakurei Reimu and Alice Margatroid.

"... Eh...?"

Well, her dream had been about that kind of theft, but it hadn't really been happening...

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Kaguya, meanwhile, was sound asleep. As such, she was completely unaware of the fact that she had been lifted off the ground be some unseen force, and was currently hurtling through the air towards the location of the fire-oriented immortal, Fujiwara no Mokou.

Mokou... Mokou was an even deeper sleeper and had yet to notice that her dreams had lead to her being launched on a ballistic trajectory across the bamboo forest, rushing head-on to meet Kaguya. Whilst the moon princess at least appeared to be in a semi-controlled flight, the younger immortal was effectively a human cannonball.

The collision would be nasty.

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Elsewhere, in the Forest of Magic, Alice Margatroid was just stirring from some exceedingly confusing dreams, that amongst other things, had her being declared Master of Puppets. Probably a side effect of falling asleep listening to that... See-Dee Player that the half-youkai had been selling.

Yawning, the naked girl finally turned the thing off and concentrated on getting back to sleep. It was still too early; Winter was a time for staying bundled up in bed for as long as possible and not going out to do senseless things like fight, or gather plants (wrong season, after all), or investigate why a kitten was licking her face...

Wait, a kitten?

It wasn't long, of course, before Kaguya's eyes opened, just barely. It was bright out, and it felt like she was moving... what was going on? Wait, was that Mokou?

The immortals collided.

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Perplexed, Marisa looked around at the collection of undergarments she had gained, somehow, while sleeping. They were Reimu and Alice's, alright, she was familiar with the look of them since she routinely stole underwear from them, and... a lot of it. Was this all of their underwear? It looked like it. Well, as happy as she normally would've been to pull this off... how did she get it all so quickly? Funny, Marisa had been dreaming about panty theft...

Mokou, blissfully unaware of her onrushing demise, only noticed that something was wrong when she woke up with her neck feeling like it had been stabbed--had she somehow broken it in her sleep?--and with her head resting on something soft and warm. A quiet gurgling noise informed her that, somehow, she'd ended up using a stomach as a pillow.

That just left one question: whose stomach?

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Unlike most, Alice couldn't immediately draw a parallel between the contents of her dreams and the inexplicable visitor to her bedroom. Her dreams, after all, had concerned random foreign gibberish from songs and Marisa. Lots of Marisa, naked, with occasional bits of Reimu or somebody else getting into things.

In short, nothing that would directly lead to a kitten.

Kaguya had wound up flat on her back, and only awakened shortly before Mokou. Little did she know that her spine had snapped from being struck in the stomach by a high-speed immortal. Fortunately, it had healed by now and it wasn't as if she still felt much of it. No, she was more perplexed to find the white-haired immortal lying on her stomach. That was a bit unusual, really.

"Mokou...?" she asked.

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Marisa tried to figure out just how she managed to steal all this when she was asleep. Sleep-stealing? She never did anything like that... whatever, it was a pretty big haul and she wasn't too eager to complain about suddenly getting what she had been dreaming about. Though, that was a weird coincidence... Well, time to find a good place to put all these and get dressed!

Marisa leaped out of bed. In the time it took her to get to her drawers, her already disheveled bedclothes slid halfway off. She already knew what she'd be wearing, of course. Whenever it was clean, her signature outfit was her clothes for the day. She set it aside, reading for when she got herself cleaned up.

A few moments of thought indicated that she probably should see what had caused the content of her dreams to appear in reality. It was probably an incident, even.

After awhile, the discomfort of her sleeping position caused Reimu to slowly wake up. Sitting up, she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, then stretched, "Nnnn...."

She had yet to notice the pile of yen around her. She was still quite sleepy, and things were very slow to register to her at the moment. And so she stood, walking into the other room.

....

Seconds passed and Reimu darted back into the room, simply staring at the considerable amount of yen on her floor. If her jaw was capable of hitting the floor, it would be doing so at this very moment. Where had all this money come from?

...and where could she get more?

"Kaguya, what the hell is your stomach doing by my head?" Mokou snapped, leaping to her feet and spinning around to point accusingly. This revealed two things. Firstly, her shirt was ruined; secondly, she didn't have anything on underneath this shirt. Either the immortal had yet to realise these little facts or she considered Kaguya's seeing her body something of an inevitability.

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A few minutes later and still blushing, Alice continued to use Shanghai to play with the kitten and set to dressing herself... only to discover that, for whatever reason, all of her underwear was gone. Not one pair, not two pairs: all of it. Admittedly, she'd opted to not bother on some occasions before--like Marisa's coming around and her only having a minute or two to dress--but this was strange.

It was probably Marisa; the 'ordinary witch' had stolen such things before. She was some kind of sneaky witch-thief, really...

Leaving the kitten locked in her kitchen, Alice went off to visit.

Kaguya blinked several times, then reached up and rubbed her eyes. Why was Mokou here? It was nice, waking up to her and not being lit on fire. She wasn't in the mood to be lit on fire. But still, Mokou was fun and stuff! Moreso when she wasn't killing Kaguya, but still. "I'm confused..."

The moon princess looked around, slowly registering her surroundings. Her bedclothes were soft and floppy and apparently made for someone several times larger then her.

However, she was more perplexed by suddenly being outside.

"Um... why are we outside...?"

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Marisa carefully set her clothes aside, and went about rapidly bathing. After all, even if an incident had lead to something awesome like stealing panties with no chance of being stopped in the act, she had to solve it, as an incident resolver. Plus, beating Reimu to the punch would be a nice bonus. As such, she did her best to wash as quickly as possible.

Finally giving up on figuring out how to get more yen to appear, Reimu decided she might as well change and head to Marisa's. This was more than likely an incident, and no matter whatever rivalry the witch thought they had, Reimu knew that she may need Marisa's help on solving this. Though... it might not hurt to have Marisa solve this one on her own...

All thoughts on the matter halted as soon as she looked into her underwear drawer. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. All her undergarments were gone without a trace.

"Marisa..." Reimu muttered through gritted teeth, twitching slightly in annoyance. Now she was definitely going to see the witch, and give her a few thwacks on the head with her gohei. She glanced at her drawer again... okay, maybe a more than few.

Changing into some fresh clothes and reluctantly going commando, Reimu made her way to Marisa house. The witch better have a good explanation as to why she emptied her undergarment drawer.

Perhaps looking for potential love birds by air wasn't the best choice ever. Made it slightly harder to tell if someone had love-struck expression and all that. But Ai could totally sense love from trillions of miles away, so she just had to home in on that feeling!

Not that anyone seemed to be radiating the emotion in question, sadly enough. Where was the love? Was Gensokyo filled with... indifference? Nah, impossible. Love conquers all. Especially hate. Oh, how she hated hate!

Shaking the dark thoughts from her head, Ai caught movement in the corner of her eye. A girl in red and white was flying towards the forest. A moment's thought identified her as the shrine maiden.

Hm... she lives alone, right? All isolated and stuff. She'll be starved for love! Ai decided with an eager grin. Someone like Hakurei deserved a significant other! Loneliness was terrible, after all!

Mind set on getting Reimu a boy/girl/unknown/whatever the hell she wanted-friend, Ai shot off after the shrine maiden.

"I was sleeping outside," Mokou answered, glaring at Kaguya. She didn't seem to have noticed that she had moved halfway across the forest, yet, however and was convinced that the moon princess must have decided to interrupt her sleep and pleasant dreams. There'd been so much softness in them. "I don't know what you're doing out here."

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Alice arrived at Marisa's house in short order, far ahead of Reimu due to living practically next door, and chose to repay like with like. Instead of knocking, the magician put her dexterity to use and broke in, the other witch's lock proving far too easy to undo for someone of her skill. It wasn't as if Marisa was the only person in Gensokyo to 'borrow' books... though she was certainly the most prolific.

Inside, there was no sign of Marisa or the underwear... mostly because the place was an absolute mess. Hadn't she lost a national treasure in here or something? Searching would take forever...

And then Alice found a door, hidden between two stacks of books. Maybe through here?

She opened it, right as Reimu arrived.

"Ummm..."

Kaguya looked around. What was she doing here? She'd fallen asleep in the mass of pillows and blankets that occupied a good portion of her bedroom, and now she was in the woods. For... some reason. Why was she here? She didn't remember going here...

"Ummm... I don't know either."

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"... Ari-chan...?"

Well, that was kind of random. Granted, she kind of expected Alice to show up at some point(and Reimu as well) but she'd expected to be out of the bath already. At the moment... she was still in the bath. She blinked a few times, slightly surprised. This really was kind of unexpected.

"Uh... Hi, Ari-chan!" she greeted the yokai magician, despite the fact that she was currently bathing and that Alice had just walked in on her, "I kinda wasn't expecting you!"

The bathroom was probably the least messy room in Marisa's entire house. There was really just a towel on the floor and that was it for the clutter.

Arriving not too long after Alice, Reimu floated down to Marisa's doorstep. It seemed Marisa had left her door wide open. Such a careless witch. The miko stepped inside, being careful not to trip over any of the stacks of books Marisa kept lying around. She always wondered how the blonde managed to survive in such an unkempt house. As admittedly lazy Reimu was, she at least kept her shrine relatively clean.

She could hear Marisa's voice coming from somewhere in the house, though she couldn't make out what she was saying exactly.

"Oi, Marisa, I know you're the one who took my underwe-" She stopped suddenly, spotting Alice, in the doorway of Marisa's bathroom, where a very naked Marisa was bathing. She blinked twice, "At least it's nice to know you keep one room clean...."

"Don't... know... wait, you're dressed like you sleep. What are you doing out here in night clothes?" Mokou wondered, lowering her arm uncertainly. This sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen, was it?

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Alice, for her part, immediately averted her eyes. She wasn't a pervert! At least... not in public, where anyone could see her, and she didn't want to be teased by Marisa for looking or even looking like she was looking. The end result was that the puppetmaster ended up looking straight at Reimu's chin. Why did they both have to be taller than her?

"She took your underwear too?"

Ai flew as quickly as she could after the shrine maiden, but the trees had managed to make tracking her down slightly harder. However, since love was involved, it was inevitable she'd catch her walking into an isolated looking house. Hm...

Despite being uninvited, Ai boldly approached the house and entered, marvelling the state of the place for a few moments. How could anyone live in this place? Was this a collector's home or something? No, wait... didn't that thieving witch live here?

Interesting choice in partner... Ai thought. Well, love could bloom anywhere, and it wasn't the strangest couple she'd ever seen... Oh, right, she had a job to do!

"Hello~" Ai called out to the shrine maiden and the witch. Navigating her way through the items, she eventually found Reimu, along with a blonde girl who decidedly wasn't the witch that lived here. What they were talking about was certainly... interesting.

"Underwear theft?" Ai asked the two as she approached, as if she were an old acquaintance. "Was it the thief? Is she expressing her love through perverted acts?"
The youkai of love hopped up and down, trying to get a better look through the doorway. "Did she stole underwear from both of you? Ah, is it a love triangle?! Please tell me it's a love triangle!"

"I don't know!" Kaguya replied, flopping her arms weakly. "I was at home, and then stuff happened, and I had dreams, and then I was here when I woke up!"

She had no idea why this had happened. It didn't make the tiniest scrap of sense to her.

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"Is everyone just checking out my bathroom today?" Marisa remarked, cocking her head to one side and sitting up a bit more. This was a weird amount of visitors, this quickly. Surely it'd take them a little longer to get here after finding out their underwear was gone. And who was this other girl who just showed up? Well, whatever... Marisa grinned.

"Anyway, why're all of you here so suddenly?" she asked.

"I am here because I noticed our esteemed shrine maiden flying by and thought 'hey, I think she needs a man, woman, or other gender partner in her life!' and followed her here." Ai answered honestly, now getting the idea to try hovering over the other two girl's shoulders. She didn't seem too surprised to see a bathing girl. then again, it was a bathroom.

"I'm assuming you're all very close friends, and love isn't restricted to two people, so I guess I should go ahead and enrich your lives?" Ai suggested, her fingertips touching each other. "You can't ever go wrong with love, after all~"

"You know why I'm here, Marisa," Reimu didn't seem that embarrassed to see a naked Marisa, possibly because they practically grew up together and this wasn't the first time she had seen the witch naked. Granted, they had been much, much younger at that time. When Alice spoke to her, she looked down at the shorter girl, "Oh, so that kleptomaniac pervert stole yours too?"

She turned her attention back to Marisa, narrowing her eyes slightly. Such an annoying friend to have. Reimu really didn't seem to notice the uninvited guest. Or more like, she didn't really care who trespassed into Marisa's home. Well, that was until she started babbling about this love nonsense and her needing a "life partner". "I knew I should have closed and locked the door after I came in..."

"And... wait a second, this isn't where I went to sleep. I was by a pond when I fell asleep!" Mokou replied, irritated. Not only had she woken up by Kaguya, she'd lost her breakfast! Admittedly, it was only a handful of berries, but she'd spent hours looking for that. Now the hunger pains were only going to get worse...

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"Great, there's a pervert youkai," Alice said, sighing and shaking her head. Anyway, more important matters were afoot: she had to reclaim her underwear! Not, at this point, for practical means, but more because it would be suspicious if she didn't. Besides, the destitute miko would probably steal it all if given half a chance.

"We're here for our underwear, Marisa."

There was several moments of complete silence.

Then, Kaguya began flailing her arms, looking panicked. "What happened? Neither of use went to sleep here, why are we here now? It's all weird and not comfortable and there's no pillows or bunnies or anything or stuff and other things and waaaah!"

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"Your underwear?" Marisa asked, cocking her head to one side as if she genuinely had no idea what was being talked about. "So you're not here for the great view?"

Of course, Marisa was referencing herself in this regard. And... really, why not lie about this? It's not like there wasn't any reason to do so... "Anyway, I dunno what you're talking about. Why do you think I stole your underwear?"

It was a pointless lie... but hey, why not?

"Pervert youkai?" Ai repeated. With a laugh, she shook her head and explained, "No, no, I'm a love youkai! I bring together destined life partners! Whether or not you act perverted is entirely your business~"

Ai removed her fingertips from each, a red thread emerging from one of her forefingers. With an eager smile, she looked between Reimu and Alice.
"So, is it just one of you who love her?" Ai asked, referring to the bathing witch behind her. "Or is this a three-way? Looks like a triangle of pure love to me~ Either way, I'll just need your hands, please..."

"Be quiet! I can't think!" Mokou snapped, her hand bursting into flame as she spun to face the girl. There was an interesting dramatic billow... and then what was left of her shirt gave up the ghost and got carried away by the wind. Bloody fires, starting when she wasn't looking...

"Err..."

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Youmu was puzzled. She'd been dreaming of being somewhere slightly warmer than most of Hakugyokuro's chilly rooms and now she was... but the feeling of being used as a pillow (ghost half) and inexplicably hugged (human body) was bothering her. It was certainly comfortable but... why was she being hugged? And whose hand was that on her thigh!?

Thwack. Thwackthwack.

Reimu had given the witch a solid smack on the head with her gohei, as well as smacking the perverted love youkai twice. The miko was reaching the end of her patience, the annoying love freak only helping in making her grumpier. "No one in their right mind would believe that lie Marisa," Reimu spoke in a stern tone that definitely meant she wasn't in the mood for messing around, "And you, pervert youkai, keep your nose out of my business."

Kaguya opened her mouth.

And then closed it again.

And stared rather concertedly. "Mokou... I... um..."

The trickle of blood from the moon princess's nose was rather hard to miss.

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Snoozing quietly in fairly expansive purple bedclothes, Yuyuko was completely unaware of just what she was doing. Her dream was very pleasant, at least... that said, she was hugging Youmu to herself very closely. Well, it was certainly comfortable, and nice, even though she didn't quite realize why on account of being asleep.

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Marisa didn't have much of a chance to prepare for the gohei descending on her head. It hit fairly hard, and Marisa let out a cry of pain and covered her head. That hurt pretty badly! Rubbing her head, she sat up, a bit more. Well... it wasn't like she wasn't used to it, really.

"I really didn't steal them," she said, folding her arms. It was the truth, she certainly didn't actually go out and get them, "I woke up and my room was filled with your underwear. Which was pretty awesome, but also pretty weird."

"Ow ow!" Ai cringed at the hits, rubbing her head to soothe the pain, she said with a small wince, "It's love youkai, Miss Hakurei. And, um, I can understand if you express your feelings through violence - everybody has different tastes - but I should recommend not hitting everybody like that. It could create misunderstandings."

Once the pain died died down a little, Ai had the red thread gripped in her hand again, the other end still hanging from her finger. She turned to the magician youkai who's first mistaken her as a pervert youkai. "Well, what about you, Miss? Would you like to be a part of this love~?"

"Fuckin' pervert..." Mokou hissed, wrapping her arm around her not-really-there breasts (breasts needed fat after all and if there was one thing the white-haired immortal lacked, it was unnecessary padding) and frowning at Kaguya, "Where the hell am I going to get clothes out here!?"

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"Well, I woke up with a kitten beside me, so I guess it's not altogether unreasonable," Alice asked, flexing her fingers and looping scarcely visible wires around the annoying youkai. Whilst they were most suitable for controlling her dolls, immobilising perverts with weird ideas was also a good idea.

The wires might be digging in a bit when she pulled tight. Which the blonde did very quickly.

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"O-Ojou-sama? What am I doing in your bed?" Youmu asked, blinking once or twice to make sure that her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. This was definitely Yuyuko's bed, there was too much purple by her face for it to be anyone other than her mistress she was sleeping with... and the ghost's hand was so soft against her thigh.

It was a good thing that Yuyuko was asleep, Youmu's blush couldn't have been much redder.

"I'm not sure if I like the sound of you being able to steal my underwear in your sleep now..." Reimu stated, crossing her arms over her chest, decidedly ignoring the troublesome love youkai, "Well, that brings me to the other reason I'm here. I woke up this morning to find a pile of yen next to me. If the same thing has happened to the both of you, we can assume that this is an incident."

"Um... um..." Kaguya looked around, attempting to come up with a good idea as to where Mokou could get clothing. It wasn't exactly easy to try and work this out, really. After all, they were in the middle of the forest, not a place that tended to have an abundance of clothes. "We could go back to Eientei! Or... um... go to that village! The village is farther, though..."

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"I like the sound of it, Rei-chan," Marisa said with a grin. She did like being able to steal the underwear with no risk of being caught. Alice's and Reimu's? Absolutely perfect! And a great deal of it, too. All of it. But it was pretty clearly an incident. "Yen and kittens? Well, I know why you got yen, Rei-chan, but kittens, Ari-chan? You wanted to pet some kittens?"

It wasn't entirely taunting, the mental image was kind of cute, but it was still funny to think that someone like Alice wanted to pet kittens. "Anyway, if it's an incident..."

Marisa stretched, then stood up all at once, pumping her fist in the air.

"Let's go!"

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"Mmmmnnnn..." Yuyuko adjusted her positioning a little, in her sleep, then slowly opened her eyes. "Ice creaaaam...."

Her eyes opened fully, and she came to realize that her half-ghost gardener was in her arms. She blinked once, before immediately snapping to attention. "Youmu-chan!"

Youmu would probably be glad that Yuyuko's hand had moved from her thigh. However, now both of Yuyuko's arms were now wrapped around the half-ghost in a tight hug. "Youmu-chan! I was dreaming about you and stuff happened and now you're right here and you're all soft and cute and stuff and good morning!"