Saturday Night Carnival Interlude - Marcia -

Toshi looked around, apprehensively. Oh the calamity! The shame! The travesty! It was all he could do to prevent himself from writhing at the seething wrongness of it all. Yes, the once-great delinquent and street-punk Toshi "that-guy-with-the-gaijin-name-and-the-car-breaking-punches" Dunson was here, having been reduced from the great and impressive and much feared demon of the streets to a person who goes to family carnivals and worse, oh so much worse. He'd snuck in by jumping the fence- he had to do something at least remotely badly behaved even if his reputation would be irreparably damaged either way. Having said that, most other delinquents were part time troublemakers, full time idiots so he could probably just feed them any old cock-and-bull story.

It was then that Kanaboshi and Kasei appeared upon his wrists. Yes, the two Hogo-sha, looking for all the world like the world's most incredibly realistic animatronic hand-puppets had rendered him completely handless as they sat, snake-like atop the joint where his hands were supposed to be. He regarded them with disdain as their wide eyes were round. He'd decided that for the sake of the carnival, he could pretend that they were just a kitschy toy as opposed to actual people and he would simply be the world's best ventriloquist or some bullshit like that.

"Toshi! Toshi! The teacups the teacups can we pleeeease go on the teacups, pleeeeease?" Kanaboshi asked, the little green haired girl bobbing up and down excitedly, dragging Toshi's arm with his. He looked over at the teacups and scowled at her, before rapidly turning his head and rounding on Kasei, who was brown haired and had an exquisite little face.

"Wh- wh- what? N- no- no don't ask me!" she said, her lower lip trembling at the severe look he was casting her. He drew himself up to his full height and declared in a Thespian voice:

"I hereby declare us the next patrons of these here teacups!" he said, before marching into the queue which seemed somewhat to part before him as he was brandishing two strangely realistic looking hand puppets and looked vaguely important. They sidled along, the two girls waving happily a the people around, and Toshi's face still drawn into a pained look.

He joined the queue behind a pretty petite pink-haired girl. She was maybe a head shorter than Toshi but his throat clenched up when he saw her. Despite how much of a legend he had been in the corridors of Karakura high and how whispers still crept through the halls of Touhou university of a strange blonde-haired punk who lay down the law and protected female students from the evils of perverts, Toshi was still awful at talking to girls.

"Hey miss, do you mind if we ride the teacups with you?" Kanaboshi asked her, sparing Toshi from the inevitable embarrassment of stuttering and mumbling. Perhaps she would find it strange to see a person with incredibly realistic hand-puppets approaching her and asking in the voice of the puppet if he could ride the teacups with her.

Toshi's lower lip wobbled slightly, and he had to try incredibly hard to cringe as he saw this girl's look of horror. "God dammit Kanaboshi you've blown it now." he said to her, psychically within his own head. She apologised to him wordlessly, still beaming at the pink-haired girl who Kana thought was really cute. Lana forced her face into a smile, which turned Kanaboshi's cheery face into a large grin. She simpered and purred when Lana said she was cute. Kasei, the pretty brownhaired hogo-sha upon Toshi's other hand came to look dolefully at Lana so Toshi was stood with his two arms extended awkwardly before one another.

"Thanks miss!~ <3" Kanaboshi said, extending her hand to shake Lana's though it was so small that she could probably only manage a single finger. "My name is Kanaboshi- it's the same as the planet! And this is Kasei-" at this, Kanaboshi would have ceased her shaking, had the offer of such been taken up, and drag Kasei into the centre of Lana's field of vision. She waved shakily, her beautiful pale skin becoming even paler.

"Do- dou-" she winced at her own embarrassment. "Douzou Yoroshiku!" she exclaimed, eyes shut in fear as she bowed, her face filling with red, and tears glistering in the corner of her eyes. Toshi rolled his eyes at the little hogo-sha. Kasei used to be so damned confident! She'd simply retreated inside herself now and was only a few steps away from a gibbering wreck. He looked past the two hogo-sha at the girl, and smiled wanly at her, with the air of a father slyly laughing at the exploits of his young daughters to another adult who could also find them amusing. Kanaboshi had patted Kasei on the back but she'd turned around by now, and was clinging tightly to Toshi's chest.

"And this is Toshi!" the green haired hand-being said. "What's your name miss- oh look the line's moving we can go on!" she chirruped happily.