CH.1 Scarlet Devil Deal.

Incidents come in many forms. Some are small and are resolved quickly and easily. Others sometimes need the powers at be to stop it and then there are those that cascade out of control that nothing and nobody can stop it.

A clear spring evening reflects upon a wide and deep lake that borders a ridge where a large mansion of red and brown brick build sits apon as if to watch over it. The vintage european style mansion resonates with the surrounding peace of the area at this time as the sounds of birds and waves bushing up along the cliff. A small figure in a blueish green dress with blue hair in pigtails that sits under a green hat steps out of the water noiselessly on to a dirt and sandy beach. Pulling the huge blue backpack on to her shoulders easily the young girl starts walking up the dirt path that heads up to mansion. As she gets nearer the blue haired girl hears a slight sound of snoring coming from the gate to the mansion. The girl grins as she steps up to a red haired women dressed in a green oriental fighting dress and a matching colored hat with a golden star set in it's center.

"Meling-sana, you are going to get in trouble by sleeping on the job again" the blue haired girl says in a joking way as the women opens one eye to see whom it is.

"Ah! Nitori-chan! Here for the monthly drop off?" The red haired women named Meiling says with a grin as the smaller girl named Nitori puffs her cheeks out in a pout.

"Don't call me Nitori-chan." Nitori says through her pout and crosses her arms.

"I'm just joking! Just jokin." Meiling says as she pats Nitori's shoulder.

"Maybe I should just go then, leaving you without your mistress her product and tell her you are to blame."

"No!" Meiling yells as she quickly gets on her arms and legs and bows to her repeatedly. "Please don't tell Mistress Remilia, Nitori-sama! I beg of you."

Nitori grins a little as Meiling continues to bow a few more times before she stops her. "OK ok, Meiling, I won't do that." She reinsures Meiling as she helps her up from the ground. "Now, lead me to Scarlet-sama please?"

"But of course, follow me." Meiling says as she brushes herself off and leads Nitori into the mansion. The two of them walk down the elegantly decorated candle lit hallways, dodging fairy and hobgoblin maids alike as they head toward to find Remilia. After ten minuets of walking the duo arrive at the door to the main drawing room and Meiling knocks on it before speaking. "Mistress, Nitori-sama is here to see you."

"Bring her in" an elegant voice that the two of them knew to be Remilia Scarlet, the Mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

The door opens slightly as Meiling goes to open it and cashes her to push it open all the way, revealing a brightly lit room with bookcases filled with books of different colors and sizes in them. A circle top window closed shut with heavy blood colored drapes that shutout all the setting un's light rests between a gap in the bookcases. Right under the window sits a large mahogany table where a young woman in a light pink dress with red accents with purple hair covered by a matching pink hat and bat like wing sits with a tea cup in hand facing them as they enter. The door closes behind them revealing a young human maid in dark blue traditional maid attire with silver hair and purple grayish eyes. In one hand she holds a small ornate silver stopwatch and the other a pair of silver knifes dangling between her fingers just to be at the ready.

"Thank you Meiling, that will be all. Please return to your post." The Missress of the Mansion says to desmiss her gate guard.

"Yes my lady, thank you." Meiling quickly replies before retreating out of the room which the silver haired maid opens for her and closes it as she heads away.

"Welcome back to the Scarlet Devil Mansion Nitori-sama. I hope your trip here was a pleasant one." Remilia welcomes Nitori as she puts her tea cup onto a small plate. "Would you like some tea?"

"Yes please, thank you Remilia-sama. My trip was good, thank you for asking." Nitori says with a small bow.

"Sakuya. A cup of tea for our guest." Remilia commands the maid by the door.

"With a slice of cucumber if you don't mind me imposing here." Nitori quickly says before Sakuya the maid goes to open the door.

"Not a problem. Miss Kappa." The maid replies as she heads out the door and out of sight. A second later she returns with a tea cup on a silver platter in one hand with a slice of cucumber on it's edge like a slice of lemon would be and a small plate with a half of an uncut cucumber with more slices places elegantly for the eye to enjoy.

"Here you are miss. I brought you the rest of the cucumber for your enjoyment." Sakuya says as she sits the tea cup onto an awaiting tea saucer and sits the plate down in front of Nitori before retreating to Remilia's side.

"Thank you Sakuya-san! You always spoil me." Nitori says with stars in her eyes as she stares at the plate in wonder. She quickly takes the cucumber slice and squeeze it like a lemon into her tea.

Remilia smiles as the kappa eats the now squeezed cucumber slice with gusto before speaking again. "Now to business I suppose. You have our supply of your special sunscreen you have made for us?" she asks Nitori as the kappa girl takes a drink of tea.

"Of course." Nitori replies as she sets down her drink and opens her backpack which she had sat beside her when she took her seat. She pulls out a few tubes with her picture on it doing a vicotry pose with the writing ultimate sunscreen Vampire edition written in large maleness text with it's English text written below. "I been trying to make it last longer by changing the ingredients but it either it makes it unusable or it explodes" she says with a nervous giggle. "if I could make it so it didn't expire in a month's time I wouldn't have to come every month. Ah! But it's not like I don't like coming here it's just that-"

Remilia giggles a bit which makes Nitori stop. "It's fine, I understand." She waves her hand to emphasis it to be forgotten. "The usual price I assume?"

"Ahh w-we can make it a bit cheaper this time." Nitori replies slightly nervously then takes a couple bites of the cucumber. "I want to thank you, Remilia-sama. You are one of my few customers outside of youkai mountain and I only have few customers there. Thank you very much." She says with a bow.

"You are very much welcome, Nitori. Your products are of the best quality and to be honest you are the only kappa that I trust to make this." Remilia complements Nitori as she pats the table next to the sunscreen.

"Thank you once again. For that, I would like you to try an new invention I recently made." Nitori says with a big smile as she goes to open her bag up. "if you don't mind me setting up here of course. I'll just need to borrow a chair."

Remilia looks at her thoughtfully for a moment. "Sure, why not. This sounds interesting." She agrees which makes Nitori smile.

Nitori smiles as she leaps up and picks up the chair she was using and sits in back down in the middle of the room. "This invention is called a Life in one day machine." The little kappa says as she starts pulling out the device from her oversized backpack.

"The Life in one day machine?" Remilia inquiriers curiosity.

"Yes! What it does is it links your mind and soul to a newborn in the outside world and let's you live a full life there while only taking 24 hours or so on this side." Nitori explains.

"Your soul? Is that safe?"

"Of course. It's been tested several times on me and my fellow kappas. I made sure that everything is protected so no damage comes to the user." The kappa girl says with reinsurance as she fits the pieces together.

"Really? And you are sure it goes to the outside world?" Remilia asks with interest.

"Yes. Everything was really futuristic when I first tried it and we even had Yukari confirm it, though she wasn't too thrilled about it." Nitori confirms.

"And why does she not approve of it?"

"Something about a risk to revealing us to the outside world but I put in a safety measure since then to make sure when we are in another body that we can't remember our normal life till we come back."

"Very thoughtful, isn't it Sakuya." Remilia asks her maid.

"Yes it is. But I wonder if it safe to the mind. From what it sounds like you live there live from beginning to end. That can't be healthy to experience death." Sakuya says skeptically as she watches Nitori strap a box to the back of the chair that has a huge wired supported helmet that looks to cover the whole head except the nose and mouth.

"Yes, the first version did have that problem but I have fixed that in version 2. This one is version 5.2. It really is safe, I assure you." Nitori replies with great confidence as she attaches a power supply to the device.

"If you say so." Sakuya says quietly.

"Think of it like an vacation for your body while you are in it. Let's your body truly relax as you enjoy your new life." She smiles as a hum of power runs through the device. "It is ready now."

"So it is. Sakuya. Sit in that chair" Remilia commands Sakuya.

"Wha-what?" Sakuya says in a confused surprise.

"I feel you should have a small vacation side you not only valiantly fought the shrine maiden and the thieving witch but also helped bring back spring so we could nicely watch the trees bloom in time." Remilia says as she puts a hand on Sakuya's shoulder.

"I- guess that would be nice but I do worry about the mansion. What if-" Sakuya begins to say before Remilia puts a finger to her lips to stop her.

"The mansion will be fine for one day. I'll have Meiling Cook us something simple with your instructions and I'll ask Patchouli if I can borrow Koakuma for any major messes that may happen. OK?" Remilia reinsures as she leads Sakuya to the chair. " I'll be in here with you reading just in case."

"Yes milady. If you so wish." Sakuya says as she sits down into the chair carefully as Nitori moves the helmet out of the way for her.

"Now, just relax. I'll be here to monitor everything from this end." Nitori says as she puts the helmet onto Sakuya's head, plunging Sakuya into complete silent darkness.

Thak you for checking out my new story. I got this idea from another story here named Son of Time by Kithrin. Please goes check it out as it was Kithrin who gave me permission to use the same concept for the story. Also thanks to my beta reader Aurelia whom isn't on this site but has been a big help in the pre work of this story. Also to those who know my other story The Phoenix of Alchemy I will be working on after I get a bit done on this story. I got a tablet so I can write all I want now. Please read and review!