"Hey Reimu?" The dark-haired girl's head lifted at the sound of her best friend's voice. The two were sitting together at the front of the Hakurei shrine, watching the clouds pass overhead as they drank tea together, and every once in a while they would spot a fairy flutter past, looking as carefree as a child at play.

"Yes Marisa?" Reimu finally replied, turning to face her blonde-haired friend, who she was surprised to see looked rather serious for once, though she couldn't fathom a reason why. As far as she knew Marisa had not gotten into a fight with Alice recently, and had been keeping away from the scarlet devil mansion for the week because Patchoulli knowledge, the last member of the magical trio, was deep into research of some type of new project for the lady of the mansion.

Marisa turned away from her friend again, and her bright yellow eyes went skyward, up to the blue skies that expanded outward over the land of fantasy, a sight that everyone could share in this world, even if they didn't always agree with one another.

The pair waited in calm silence for Marisa to finally get her thoughts straight, Reimu taking another sip of her tea in the meantime, before the ordinary magician jumped to her feet and turned to her best friend, extending out a finger to point at the shrine maiden dramatically.

"Do you believe in reincarnation?" The blonde witch finally asked, the question hovering over the shrine grounds as an awkward silence descended upon the pair.

Reimu gave her friend an incredulous look for several moments, at a loss for words over the dramatic way Marisa had asked such a simple question, before beginning to chuckle at the sheer extravagancy her friend of many years went to sometimes.

"Reincarnation Marisa?" Reimu repeated in amusement, "You are asking the Hakurei shrine maiden, the guardian of a land of myths and fantasies, if she believes in reincarnation?"

"Are you saying you don't?" Marisa replied, returning to her seat beside the dark-haired girl, and grabbing up her tea cup, taking a long swig of it while waiting for the other girl's reply.

"Marisa, we've been to the afterlife before, we fought the judge of the dead," Reimu pointed out in a monotone, "Of course I believe in reincarnation! Shiki even told us that our deeds determine how long we spend in hell before we are reincarnated."

"Ah y-yeah, I remember her saying that," Marisa replied unconvincingly, rubbing the back of her neck as a reflex from her embarrassment, "I was just checking to see if you had."

"Of course Marisa, of course," Reimu answered, though the corners of her lips tugged upwards in amusement at her friend's attempts to save face.

Silence fell upon the pair once more, as Marisa began to swing her feet over the side of the porch, and Reimu watched the clouds pass overhead, along with a small blue dot she thought might be the mischievous ice fairy, probably off to go play with her friends in the forest, she mused.

"So, do you think that if we're reincarnated, we'll be able to find each other again?" Marisa finally asked to break the silence. Reimu's head turned back to her friend, and she finally allowed the smile to slide onto her face as she began to lean towards her somewhat oblivious friend.

Marisa was understandably surprised, "Hey Reimu, what are you doing? it was just a simple quest," The blonde witch was cut off as the shrine maiden's lips pressed against her own softly, stealing the words from her mind as it was wiped blank by the chaste kiss.

Reimu pulled away a moment later, still with a small smile on her lips, and her eyes shining in amusement at the dopey look her friend had on her face from such a simple kiss, the most basic, and yet most complex magic of all. Love.

finding her eyes once again being pulled towards the sky, Reimu finally answered her friend's question from earlier as she saw Cirno being chased across the sky by three mischievous fairies, who were launching Danmaku haphazardly at her as she fled.

"I don't think there is anything in the world that could keep us from finding each other again Marisa," The shrine maiden answered honestly.