Blossom of Bodhisattva (Touhou)

[Byakuren and Reimu have gotten into a fistfight]

Thanks to @Armoury for the beta!

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You knew about the fight before you landed, and it wasn't due to any great prescience on your part. Your enlightenment granted you many gifts, you could always tell when someone was lying. You generally knew peoples names and a shard of their history, though that was proving less true in Gensokyo. And, lastly, you did not need to eat, sleep, drink, or do anything other beings needed to do to exist from day to day. That was, of course, to say nothing of your abilities that many would classify as superhuman, but you had little reason to use them.

But fortelling things that had yet to pass? That was not one of your gifts, yet… you knew about the fight that occurred in the Hakurei Shrine long before you arrived there. The chief reason for that was that it was still occurring. The second, tangential but still important reason - was that fights in Gensokyo lit up the sky, even in daylight, much in the same way festival fireworks would. Samyaza remained still in your arms, giggling, drooling, but otherwise harmless. The Cirno that resided on your head however, was squirming, pulling slightly at your hair in an effort to make you get to the fight faster.


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And as you, Sariel, Shinki, Cirno, and Koakuma ne Samyaza all landed on the Hakurei Shrine. The first thing you bore witness to was… Reimu Hakurei. Flying back across the shrine to crash into one of the statues. Her donation box had collided with her head, and it shatters into forty seven wooden pieces and sixteen coins. Reimu grunts, shaking her head as she pushes back against the statue, blood running down her face.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Byakuren says, a mocking tone to her voice. "I thought your donation box would be fuller, oh shrine maiden of charity!"

They weren't the only ones here you note immediately, but everyone here is someone you would expect. The Buddhists, Ichirin, Shou, Mamizou and Nue were all at one corner of the shrine, most looking genuinely horrified and scared. Except for Nue… who simply looked… worried. Kyouko meanwhile, was sitting next to Aunn, the two vaguely-dog youkai clutching each other on the porch, their tails still and unmoving behind them.

"I've never seen Byakuren make that face," Cirno mutters. "Are you stoppin' this fight too?"

You say nothing for several moments, watching as fists clash in the center of the courtyard. "No. Violence for violence's sake is to walk away from the path, but the pain they shall inflict each other shall be a lesson. And, in any case."

"... I would consider neither of them Buddhists."

"Light Spirit - Divine Spirit Orbs!" Reimu shouts, and brilliant cyan balls of light erupt from her gohei, slamming directly into your sister, and send her flying back through the front doors of the shrine with a loud crash. Kyouko and Aunn hightail it from where they had been sitting just a moment ago, Aunn physically picking up Kyouko to carry her away as Byakuren erupts from the shrine, the remains of the doors blowing out to either side.

"Sealed Sign - Hanuman's Dance!" a sword of brilliant yellow light appears in your sister's hand, and she crosses the distance between the shrine and the shrine maiden within moments. Reimu raises her gohei, twisting her body as the blade glances off to slam into the ground with enough force to send a geyser of earth twenty feet into the air.

Byakuren has enough time to look up before Reimu slams an elbow into her face, your sister's head snaps back, a shower of blood erupting from her nose. Then your sister screams, dropping the magical blade as it dissipates into nothing, and she grabs Reimu by the head and bodily throws her across the shrine.

Reimu twists in the air, her magic slowing her tumble, and with a shout of her own she charges into battle once more.

You cease paying attention, instead, you make your way across the grounds, your group following along as shouted curses and bursting magic fills the air. You pick the nearest 'student', stopping just before Nazrin. "Explain what has happened here."

The mouse looks at you, at the fight where currently Reimu was beating Byakuren up the side of the head repeatedly with what appeared to be an orb, then back to you. "Er… well, Byakuren was… really grumpy this morning, and only got more grumpy."

"And then Reimu insulted her, and Byakuren… punched her in the back of the head." Ichirin finishes.

"My sister… ambushed the Hakurei Shrine maiden?"

Shou growls, but says nothing, but even that is enough to tell you what Nazrin said was true.

"They've been at this for the past thirty minutes," Ichirin says. "Not a word between them besides that donation box bit.."

You turn your head to watch as your sister digs a trench into the ground with her fist, stopping her momentum where Reimu had apparently hit her with some mighty blow. Then she stood, saying nothing, glaring at Reimu, panting. It was a brief lull in the fight, soon to begin once more, before she… turned her head towards the group, and by extension you. The glare drops, as does the fist she has raised. Her eyes don't move from you, staring. Then… she walks off into the woods besides the shrine, still saying nothing.

Reimu stares after her, Gohei still raised at the ready. She then turns her gaze to match where Byakuren had been watching only moment before, and her eyes narrow. In the span of a second, she was in front of you, the shrine maiden was a far cry from when you had last seen her. She was covered in soot, cuts, bruises and welts. And her dress was red from more than just dye. "You're fixing this." Reimu growls, pushing a finger against your chest.

"Of course." You reply. "It is our error to recompense."

The finger lowers, the glare doesn't. "I don't know what's wrong with her, but she isn't starting an incident in my shrine. Now, if you'll excuse me." Reimu stomps back into her shrine, she moves to slam the door, realizes it no longer exists, and simply grabs the two hanging halves and draws them together.

"I've… never seen Miss Byakuren that angry." Kyouko says quietly. "What… made her so angry?"

"Myself in all likelihood," you reply. "My existence vexes her."

"Boss," Cirno asks, sliding down to your shoulder. "What'd ya mean when ya said Byakuren wasn't a Buddhist? Ain't she?"

No small amount of heads turn to look at you, you, yourself, slowly look towards the forest where your sister had gone. She wasn't, not truly, she had abandoned that. But she was not the first, and she was still your sister. But…

You could honestly say this was a problem you weren't aware of the immediate solution for. Your sister's actions were inexcusable, now, and then. But… you could understand her lack of control regarding her emotions at least. The Buddhists were still all staring at you, watching, waiting. Staring was perhaps the incorrect term however. Kyouko looked frightened, Shou looked furious, Ichirin looked nervous and… Nue bore no expression at all. With Byakuren gone, you were their guide, and with that in mind you-

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[] [Follow your Sister]

[] [Allow her to vent]

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AN : Redshirt was down for the count so I took over this one, it's shorter, but it had to be. Also unlike AFiP, there isn't much focus on the combat in this story.