Little Reimu rubbed her eyes and yawned. Mister sun hasn't come out completely yet, but it was getting brighter and brighter every minute. She tried to pick herself up, but found something heavy next to her, gripping her tightly and preventing her from moving. A faint sweet smell of grass filled the room, and Reimu heard a gentle hissing coming from next to her.
"Yupii....Yupii..."
The bed of green hair and the peaceful breathing from the yukkuri next to Reimu made her feel... relaxed. A feeling that she hasn't felt in a very very long time! It's like having a little sister once again, snuggled up nice and tight and-
squeeeeeeeeze.
"Yugu..."
"Yufufu, silly Reimu.... Yuka didn't.... permission.... to leave..."
"Yu..?"
Yuka smacked her lips as she mumbled in her sleep, and then she squeezed herself tighter around Reimu. Reimu gasped as all the air was squeezed out of her body.
"Can't.... breath...."
"... yufufu...."
squeeeeeeeeeze.
"Yuuugiiiiiiii!!! Stupid Yuka wake up before Reimu Reimu takes the big easyyyy!!"
smack smack smack.
"YUUU!?! W... what's happppennnningggg!!?"
"Stupid Yuka was squeezing Reimu too hard!"
"Yu... yuyu? Y... Yuka would never squeeze stupid Reimu!"
"Yunnnyaaa!!! Who's Yuka calling stupiiiiid!"
"Yuyuyu!! Slave-friend shouldn't talk without permission!!"
"Reimu is not a slavveeee! Eat Reimu's beautiful braid-braiiiddd!!!"
"Mister hair attackkkk---!!!"
And the two welcomed the beautiful morning.
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Yuka pouted as she bounced into the early morning sun. She was having such a wonderful dream, and
that silly stupid Reimu woke her up! The
bed of fluffy-fluffy was gone in an instant, but Reimu was still there... so it's not a total loss, she
supposes. Anything is better than being alone in mister uneasy box!
So Yuka took a deep breath and waited as Reimu limped out of the easy place.
"Yuuuennnnnn, it hurrrrrttt...."
"Puff! Don't pick fights with Yuka, Yuka is the strongest!"
"Yuuuuennnnnn, no fair...."
"Puff!"
Yuka puffed up, but walked over to Reimu to lick-lick her on the many sore spots Yuka left on her. Reimu winced as the soft tongue touched her tender bruises, but let Yuka do what she wanted to anyway.
"I... It's not like Yuka wants to do this ok! Understand easy!"
Reimu just shrugged. In a few moments, the pain has subsided and Yuka beamed happily.
"Yufufu, good as new! Yuka is super-easy-doctor!"
"Yu..."
So Yuka cleared her throat, and looked directly at the "mister sun." She started to talk loudly but her voice quickly shrank, and what she said ended up being a mouse of a whisper that could only be heard by Reimu.
"....Take it easy, miss or mister...."
"Yu?"
"Y... Yuka said hers!!! Reimu greet miss or mister human properly!"
"Yuyu? What is Yuka talking about?"
"Yu? Doesn't Reimu know?"
"Yuyuyuyu? Know what?"
Yuka frowned, and bounced up to Reimu, looking at her carefully as if examining a strange piece of meat.
"Doesn't Reimu know? We are mister pets!! So it's only proper to greet miss and mister humans!"
"Yuyu? What's a mister pet....?"
"Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?"
Yuka stared at Reimu like a strange animal, then her eyes lit up.
"Is Reimu... possibly a wild yukkuri?"
"Yu? Yuyuyuyu? Yuyuyuyuyuyu???"
"H... Has Reimu ever been inside a mister box before...?"
"Yu? R... Reimu grew up with mommy and daddy!!! Daddy was the strongest yukkuri!! Reimu had lots of little sisters, and Reimu would hunt with daddy sometimes!!!"
"Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuu???"
"W... Why is Yuka staring at Reimmmuuuu?!?!?"
"YUUUOOHHhHHHH~!! A wild yukkuriiiiii~! Yuka has never seen one beforeeee!! C... Can Yuka rub-rub!?!?"
Yuka rubbed up against Reimu eagerly, and Reimu looked up into the sky, confused beyond belief.
"Yuka is already doing rub-rub...."
"Yufufufu~!!!"
[Reimu.....]
[Reimu thinks Reimu found a weird yukkuri....]
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She looked at the two yukkuris diligently working to expand their nest, and nodded to herself happily. The two yukkuris seem to be getting along very well, judging from the fact that Yuka is all over Reimu like the white on rice.
Absolutely nothing like their cannibalistic family, she mused.
"So I guess the pedigree of the yukkuri does make a difference..."
She yawned as she watched the two yukkuri continue digging the tunnel, then get into some sort of argument and began slapping each other with their braids and hair. She shrugged and pulled out her laptop, typing away.
Which yukkuri should she get? The display at the yukkuri pet store really caught her eye... a whole host of predators and other types of yukkuris helping each other and creating a sustainable ecosystem is nothing short of incredible to her. Here she could barely keep Reimu from killing herself.
"Maybe I should get a few more to see what happens?"
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She stood before a couple of large yukkuriums, each neatly separated into little living habitats for the various types of yukkuris. It was deathly quiet in here, despite all the microphones installed on the yukkuriums.
"Um..."
"Don't worry, these are nice. At the very least a silver level. House Yukkuris are sort of hard to breed consistently, but the levels are fairly consistent. The mics are turned off, you can just flick the switch if you want to talk to them."
"Oh, ok..."
She walked over to the first yukkurium, a commune of Patchoulis. One of them seemed to notice miss looking in their direction, and eagerly bounced forward. For some reason, the rest of the Patchoulis rushed in to try to pull her back.
"Hm? What are they doing?"
Flick.
"Mukyuuuu!! Shitty old woman can bring Patchouli's mister grimoire right here!! A lot is fine, hurry up old hag!!"
The other Patchoulis gasped and looked at that one with their jaws dropped, and they backed up rapidly as the store worker walked up to the tank, a plastic smile on her face and a pair of even more plastic tongs in her hand.
"Ah, sorry about that. Don't worry most of them are not like this one. We'll refund your money if you end up with a DIPSHIT like this one."
Grab!
"MUKYUUUUU!! LED PADCHOOLI GOOOO!! Mukyuu mukyuu mukyuuu----"
"Ah... please browse around. I'll drop this off in the ABUSER'S section."
"Um hum..."
She shook her head as she watched the girl carry away the screaming Patchouli. The rest of the Patchoulis immediately crowded around the front of the tank, waving their braids and some of them feebly trying to hop up and down. The sea of little purple haired yukkuris brought a little smile to her face.
"Mukyuu-"
"Mukyu-"
"Mukyuyu---"
"Haaa.... so cute."
She tapped the glass gently, and the Patchoulis tried to match her taps with their braids on the opposite side of the glass.
"Mukyuu-"
"Take it easy miss~!"
"Buy Patchouli~! Patchouli will teach miss the fireball spell~!"
"...."
She looked at the yukkuris and smiled, but began to turn away. But a little cough brought her attention back.
"Achem."
"Hm?"
".... Patchouli will teach miss how to.... FIND A BOYFRIEND."
"WILL YOU REALLY!?"
She slammed her face and palms against the tank immediately, her bloodshot eyes zeroing in on the little Patchouli with laser like precision, her heavy hot breath fogging up the front of the display tank. The tank of Patchoulis immediately scattered at the loud sound, some tripping over one another in an attempt to get away.
"... Please don't hit or lean against the display."
Miss spun around to see the girl smiling at her professionally,
but the little smirk on the edge of her mouth couldn't be clearer.
"I wasn't...."
"...."
"I... I have a ...."
"...."
"... so you know, I don't need...."
"..."
Miss blushed furiously and coughed, quickly walking over to the other displays and away from the grinning girl.
This tank was filled with ... nothing. There were a lot of branches and sticks, leading her to believe there were supposed to be flying types in here. But there are nothing.
"Hm?"
"Oh, those are Ayas. They are typically hiding so you won't be able to see them."
"Hm..."
She shrugged and moved on to other displays. There were the typical Reimu-Marisa types, some happy looking Yuka types, a bunch of aquatics like Murasa and Nitoris, as well as water-tolerant types like Kogasa and aquatic Marisas living in harmony. A few other tanks had flier types like Remilia and Flandre, as well as a refrigerated one filled with little Cirnos and Letties. There was another little tank filled with a bunch of Chen and Ran types, but they seemed to be more interested in each other than the human looking at them from the outside.
"Hm...."
"Can't decide? We usually recommend building up a solid foundation before going forward with more exotic types. For that it's usually recommended to go with some Yuka to produce food, and base types like Marisa and Reimu."
"Hm. I already have a Reimu and a Yuka."
"Just two?"
"Uh... yeah..."
"Hm... You should have a few more famlies.... "
"I'm not too sure if I'm ready to handle a big farm like that. I had an... accident, and lost most of my farm so I only had one left."
"I see."
She wandered over to the Aya yukkurium, and looked through the glass a bit. An Aya type poked her head out from the hollowed out branch, and buzzed out before her.
"...."
"...."
The two stared at each other for a little while. The Aya looked condescending, and the constant smirk on her face was slightly annoying to say the least. She frowned and started to turn away, eager to look at some of the other tanks.
"..."
"Hm? Did you say something?"
"....oooh, beautiful beautiful."
"I WILL TAKE THIS ONE."
".... eh? A... Are you sure?"
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Little Reimu yawned and scratched herself, reaching around to rub herself against Yuka's warm soft cheeks. But all she found was a bed of fluffy warm grass that still had Yuka's scent on it.
"...Yuyu?"
She rubbed her eyes and stretched. The barrier was still in place, but it looked a little different from last night. The sticks were arranged neater than what Reimu did, and not much of mister sun was shining through uneasy mister cracks. It was strange looking, and certainly not Reimu's handy work....
Reimu seethed for a second with jealousy at the thought of someone constructing a better barrier than her! How dare she take away Reimu's easy ultimate mister barrier and replace it with this... this.... super easy better good ultimate mister barrier!! Is this a challenge!?!?
So Reimu bounced out towards the barrier and started to push outwards. To her surprise, the barrier wouldn't budge when she pushed.
"Yu?"
She rattled the sticks and pushed harder this time, but it still didn't budge.
"YUYUYU!?!?"
She was trapped!! The princess has been trapped by the evil yukkuris!! They must be jealous of how easy she is!! But fear not, the princess is not helpless, and she is much stronger than she looks!
"Super-power Reimu strikkkkeeeeee~!!!"
Reimu dashed forward at full power, slamming through the barrier noisily.
"Yupu-"
"Yu?"
Reimu slammed square into Yuka's face, who apparently heard Reimu's screams and cries and came to unlock mister barrier. Yuka flew backwards from the powerful strike, and served as a cushion for little Reimu's fall as well.
"Yugyaaaaa!!! S.. Stupid Yuka!!! Why is stupid Yuka outside!?!"
"......."
"Yugiiiii!! Uneasy stupid Yuka go die easyyyy!!! Puffffff!!! Reimu's face-face hurts nowwww!!!"
"...."
Reimu puffed up and prepared to fight off Yuka's super hair-hair-attack, but for some reason she was strangely quiet.
"Yu? Yuka? R... Reimu is sorry..."
Little Reimu bounced over to Yuka and nudged her slightly, but Yuka just slightly rolled over, her eyes closed and drool leaking out from the side of her mouth.
"YUNYAAA?!?! Y... YUKAAAA!!!!"
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Yuka quietly rubbed her bruised face while Reimu rubbed up against her apologetically. They sat together in the expanded little nest, the fruit of their hard work for the past week or so.
"Yuuuu, Reimu is sorryyyy!! Yuka stop being mad!!"
"....."
"Reimu is sorry for hitting Yuka with the ultimate attack!! Sorry for being so strong!"
Smack!
"Yugu.... YUNYAAA!!! IT HURRTTT!"
"Puff!!!"
"Yuuu, but Reimu was trapped by stupid mister barrier..."
"Yuka's mister barrier isn't stupid!!!"
"Yugu...."
"Yuka thought Yuka would let Reimu sleep-sleep more, so Yuka fixed the stupid broken crappy mister barrier to be a good mister barrier that wouldn't let mister sun through!"
"Yugu..."
"But Reimu is too stupid to open mister barrier properly!! Puffffff!!"
"Yu...YUNYAAAA!! I... It's not Reimu's fault Yuka didn't make mister barrier properly so that it was easy to opennnn!!!"
"PUFFFFF!!! Stupid Reimmuuuu!!"
"Pufff!!! Dumb Yukaaaaa!!"
smack smack smack smack smack--
"Wafu?"
"Yu?"
"Yuyu?"
A pair of white ears poked through the entrance of the nest, sending Reimu scurrying behind Yuka. The ears wiggled, but the bright sun outside made it hard to make out the thing's features. Yuka puffed up timidly, and called out to the wiggling ears.
"Who's there!?"
"Wafu!? Take it easy!!! Can Momiji rub-rub too!?"
And Momiji immediately bounced down through the opening, rubbing up against Yuka passionately and dragging her tongue across Yuka's cheeks. Reimu turned a shade of white as she watched Momiji furiously rub against Yuka, who was too stunned to do anything.
"YUUUUGGIIIIII!!! DON'T TOUCH REIMU'S YUKKKAAAAAAA~!!!!"
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"....."
Aya circled the little nest hole anxiously.
".... troubling troubling..."
Her little friend dove straight into the nest hole without thinking twice. What if there were uneasy things waiting inside to eat her? But this is miss's easy place, so the yukkuris in here should be good pets that would--
"Wafuuuuuu~!!"
Momiji scrambled out of the nest hole hurriedly, a screaming little ball of red and black chasing after her.
"Wafuuuuu! Don't get ittttt~!!!! Whyyyyy~!!!"
"YUGGIIIIII!!! DIE EASSYYYYYY!!!"
"ooohhh...."
Aya blasted down from the sky to land before Reimu, who applied her emergency breaks to avoid slamming herself into Aya. Momiji darted around Aya's unintentionally condescending face , shaking with a confused look written all over her.
"Ohh..."
"Y... Yu?? Another new yukkuri!! Doesn't matter, get out of Reimu's waaayyy!!!"
Reimu blasted forward, but Aya simply wasn't there by the time Reimu got there. Reimu looked around in bewilderment, and puffed up at the Aya, who looked a bit shocked at the gesture.
"PUFFF!! Don't harass Reimu!!! Reimu needs to kill this stupid white yukkuriii!!"
"M.. Momiji is Momiji, nice to meet-"
"Quiettttt!!!"
Reimu attempted to body slam Momiji, but Aya darted before Reimu once again to protect Momiji. This time Reimu succeeded in hitting Aya, who rolled through the sky with a dazed look on her face before landing on her head off in the distance.
"Waffuuu!! Ayaaa!!"
"Pufff!!! Those who touch Reimu's Yuka should die easyyyy!"
"WHO IS REIMU'S!?!?"
SMACK!!
"Yunnyaaa!!! HURRTTTT!"
"Puffff!!!! D... don't go around shouting that!!! Yuka doesn't belong to anybody!!! Puff!!!"
"But Yuka belongs to Reimuuuu!!!"
"Y.... Yuuu!!! Don't say that!!! S... Stupid!!!"
Despite her statement, Yuka looked a little happy for some reason.
"Yuunnnn, but Momiji...."
"Yuuuu.....Achem...."
Yuka looked at Momiji, blushed then looked away. Momiji merely cocked her head to the side, confused. Reimu fumed.
"YUNYAAAA!!! WHY IS YUKA BLUSHHINNGGGGG!!"
"Y...Yuuuu!!! Yuka is not blushinggg!!!"
"PUFFFF!!!! Don't lick-lick Reimu's mister easy slave without permission!!!"
"...."
Yuka's eyes narrowed, and she slowly turned towards Reimu.
".... What did Reimu say?"
".... Yuka is Reimu's easy mister slave!"
".... Reimu seems to have forgotten..."
"Yu?"
"Reimu is Yuka's slave-friend!!!! Yuka will make Reimu understand once again!!!"
"Yunyaaaa!!! Waiiiiitt!!!! Pugu-"
While Yuka and Reimu tumbled through the ground shouting and slapping at each other, Momiji bounced through the yukkurium to rub up against Aya.
"... Is Aya ok?"
"ooooh.... hurt hurt..."
Aya was still seeing stars, but she bounced to her feet to a gloriously smiling Momiji.
"Wafu!"
"...."
Aya grabbed hold of a side of Momiji's cheek with her mouth.
"Wafu?"
"...."
Pulllllllllll.
"W...WAFFFUUUUUUUUUU!!! WWWHYYYYY!!!"
"Understand the pain Momiji put Aya through!!!! Punishment punishment!!!"
"WAFFUUUU!! DON'T GET ITTTTT~!!!!"
The two pairs of yukkuris fought until sundown.
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She yawned, and watched the four yukkuris eventually settle down and go off to their corners. Momiji and Aya went off to the side of the yukkurium, now with a big piece of hollowed out plastic log. Yuka and Reimu went back into their little nest hole... seems like they were rather unwilling to share their easy nest with two completely strange new yukkuris.
Still, she didn't realize Momijis and Aya types got along very well. If the girl didn't tell her she would've never guessed a flying type would be close to the wolf-shaped Momiji. But for now, at least they're not fighting each other... just themselves. The little hotheaded Reimu was still causing trouble even after her family is gone, but at least the Yuka seems to be slowly putting her in place.
"Ah... it's nice to have the proper yukkuris to start a farm."
She smiled, thoughts of the little house-yu family she had captured and disposed of already way beyond her conscious thoughts.
<TBC>