touhou random stories

exception

(may as well get the exception out of the way and that is for lost word, more specifically the teams I have as go-to's, those will generally be fully connected instead of can be seen as different universes that just so happen to both have Aluita. gonna start with the main team/team 1 and with the two members that came in later)

Sanae hums softly as she rests her head on the oak wood of the table between her and a version of someone she feels both very close to and like strangers "wanna chat a bit" trying and failing miserably to not pout when she heard 'in a bit' from the girl across from her, they were supposed to be doing some team building exercise where two members were left to their own accord together in order of when they join the team which left her with the witch of scarlet dreams. she does feel happy that she gets this chance to become closer to the other girl, but she also feels extremely awkward and pouty as the witch seemed more intent on one-upping Reimu than putting some effort in becoming at least friends "man, at this rate, I'm not going to set my harem plans into action" resting her head on the table and closing her eyes, Sanae didn't notice that she said her thoughts out loud until after hearing something dropped and the 'harem what now?' from S-Marisa. gulping as her throat feels dry now and everything is going to be even more awkward. she raised her head and slowly opens her eyes to see two widen in shock staring back at her "uhh...how the day been going?" wincing mentally while also mentally going 'smooth Sanae, you're totally the one with the best plans for this' she just hoped her partner in red and green is fairing better than she is when it comes to getting team 1 becoming a team in love "it's been...fine?" the two quietly staring at each other before the greenie had to turn her gaze away and awkwardly cough into her fist, fearing that the silence will be unbearable for the two, she chose to speak up "so what's your version of me is li-" "never met her" the statement making Sanae pause in confusion, tilting her head and unknowingly making the other girl think of her acting like a puppy "I've lived in the scarlet tower after everything that happened before I could meet my version of you. remember? joining this team is my first time being out of there" Sanae really wanted to comment on not wanting to assume that things were exactly the same and make a joke about how she must've needed to face herself to strengthen her resolve to staying on the team since she was recruited before they resolved the incident in the real gensokyo, but she saw an opportunity that'll either make her plan zoom straight into a later stage sooner than expected or crash and burn worse than it already had. she decided to take it since they were copies that don't affect their counterparts in the real world that existed in a world within the journal that only the wielder can enter. licking her lips and trying to act like the people in the adult stories and manga she reads behind her guardians backs, she walks over to the other side of the table while trying to put what she hoped was a hypnotic sway to her hips "want to see what you could be missing out on?" only resuming her speech when she was next to the scarlet witch to both give herself some time to think of what to say and to see if there were any replies or acts to try to get away. she received neither from the fidgeting girl "to see a side of me that only team 1 gets to see?" leaning over to caress the older girl on the cheek "to be held and loved each day among some more affections in the shadows of night" she tried very hard and just barely managed to not get lost in thought over how smoothly she managed to say every word despite feeling her face getting warmer and warmer with the blood rushing to it to supply for the darkening blush or why she can't be this smooth and sweet talking whenever she wants to be instead of putting her foot in her mouth so often. she instead put her focus on the one next to her "no" the response came as no surprise, though Sanae retracted her hand and keep a smile on "sorry if I was too forward. can I get a reason why you don't want to try dating all of team one? you'll at least get me and one other member of team 1 if the other three don't agree" waiting a while to get a reply, but feeling a bit worried at seeing that she didn't get any replies and that the other girl in the room is looking away from her. she leans forward and noticed a tear or two slipping down the face of the scarlet witch "oh...it's about your version of Reimu isn't it?" this Sanae didn't know a lot about what happened to the Reimu of S-Marisa's world, she only knew that the shrine maiden was either full on dead or got sealed away and that it heavily hurted the girl next to her "I...don't know if I deserved you all as friends, I nea-" Sanae placed her hand on the mouth of the other girl, she doesn't need to hear any more to now get a full idea of what was going on, she already seened some of the worst of how the loss of the shrine maiden in red left the scarlet witch in emotionally wise and she dread to ever learn if there was a physical scaring it left. the no response came from the self-doubt that the other girl has and tries to hide from the rest of the team, that's better than she thought since she can make this work in helping ease into working on getting rid of those thoughts. she just needs to not mess this up which should be easy. right...right? she shakes her head as her thoughts turn to 'ugh, I need to work on my own self-doubts if I want to help my friends to the fullest' as she wasn't as confident in all forms of social interactions, comforting someone that isn't her parent-figures of Kanako and Suwako who she missed since neither had been summoned into this world of copies that the journal wielder can summon as phantoms...well this specific one at least...wait, she needs to actually try comforting the scarlet witch instead of getting lost in thought "it doesn't matter of who deserves who" finding herself repeating what the two deities she lives with would say to her when she was younger "all that matters is that they care about you for who you are, not for who you can be. the decision becomes rather you return the feeling or not" seeing the other girl biting her lower lip and trying to move away had caused Sanae to internally panic and reached out to linked their hands together, waiting for the other girl to look at her to give a gentle smile "at least give it a try. let's push all doubts of if we're worth being together or not out of our minds. okay? I don't mind if I need to wait in silence to hear your voice a lot, so long as we're together as a couple" giving a gentle tug when she saw S-Marisa looking towards the door, she knew the older girl only really speaks up when around the Reimu or Marisa that were the copies of the two from this gensokyo which leads to her being rather quiet to the rest of the journals inhabitants "please. I want to be with you and the others" a sigh was the only warning she could get before she started to feel both really hot and really flustered as the older girl sat on her lap, arms and legs wrapping around her in a hug "alright, but you better not regret taking on so much heat with this decision, shrine maiden" the teasing tone didn't match the fear and uncertainty which filled S-Marisa's eyes, but it's a start and Sanae knows that she has to work on making it good for them both despite her biggest self-doubts being the same as the woman sitting on her lap when it comes to friends and romance "trust me, I won't regret this evan if my face feels lite it's burning more than summor can bring" she knows she said something wrong or maybe more than one word was wrong in her flustered stupor, but she found that her words for attempting to clarify how she actually meant to say it had died in her throat to a chuckle and the soft feeling of lips meeting her own. this is something she could get used to despite the small voice in the back of her head telling her that she could've done something better or made the other girl less uncomfortable, but she ignored it and the 'man, I'm really weak to really pretty woman' that the back of her mind told herself in favor of relishing the moment