Authors note: ok, this is my first fanfic that i've actually put on here and also my 1st first person story. It's about Ninetails before she went evil, and Gekigami, but not in this chapter. this chapter is about Zuzi, my OC, and ninetails is in it later. (it doesn't say what gender Niney is, but in this she's a girl) so, review please.

disclaimer: i don't own okami, obviously. i just own zuzi, and any other oc's

i'll shut up now so you can read this:

Chapter One

I suppose I was doomed from the start.

The very start, the first time I tasted blood of my own kind. Or maybe even before that, when I was born.

I was a black furred male kistune, normal enough for the pack of us that lived near the city. I had nine tails, like all of us, and great clumps of spiky fur around my neck. I almost looked like a completely normal kitsune. But one thing was different. Since I can remember, since the first time I saw my reflection, my eyes have been a bright gleaming red, red as blood. Eyes of a demon. I was marked, marked out to walk a path of blood, as soon as I came into existence.

But I wasn't a demon, not then. Among the kitsunes, I was somewhat of an outsider, just another hunter.

"Zuzi." A voice snapped from above me, jolting me out of my thoughts.

I hated that name. If they were going to shorten my proper name, then they could at least give me something that sounded a bit better.

"My name is Zuzanzio." I growled, slowly getting to my feet and staring at the face of my leader. He was a brown furred kitsune, again not unusual, and his murky brown eyes stared back at my own. His name was Maza, and he was the most useless excuse for a kitsune I have ever met.

And also my brother.

I guess that's why I hated him so much. He was from a different litter, older than me, but we were the same flesh and blood, and yet he was so much more successful than me. What was it that he had that I didn't? Ever since we were tiny cubs and he had caught his first prey, I had been insanely jealous of him, and vowed to be more powerful than him, one day.

But not today. Or so I thought.

"Zuzi." Maza repeated. "I shall call you what I want. Now, you know the lone kitsune in Taka Pass?"

I grunted yes. I had never seen this fox, but stories said that she had been one of our tribe, long ago, chased out for...something. no one really knew, but I had heard rumours that it was something to do with Maza. The others chose not to remember. They never spoke her name, but it was said that she was a gorgeous cream furred fox, with lovely amber eyes. I could remember thinking that I would like to meet this kitsune, but we were forbidden to see her.

"Well." Maza continued. "she is beginning to hunt deeper into our territory, and is becoming a threat. She must be eliminated."

Eliminated? I was surprised at his cold voice. I had told him many times before how we should destroy our enemies, wipe them off the face of the earth, but he never listened to me. I was just his little brother, with plenty of ambition but no way to fulfil it. But maybe now he was listening to me.

"So you want me to kill her?" I asked thoughtfully. The thought had initially repulsed me, it was no better than murder. But if she was an enemy, and if it would get me more respect...then I was definitely prepared to do it.

Maza gasped at my suggestion, appalled at the very idea. "No, no way! Just...chase her off or something."

I rolled my eyes inwardly. As I had thought, he was being a coward again, too scared to kill. That was the problem with him. he was too scared, too feeble, too weak. Urgh. How I hated the weak, even then, before I had any idea how weak people could be. I hated those who were too scared to walk the true path of blood and darkness, and hid in the light.

"So, what, you just want me to chase her off or something?" I sighed.

"Yes, Zuzi. And you better get a move on. I want her gone and you back by next moonrise. Is that ok with you?" He didn't wait for an answer, but stalked off to his cave.

That gave me nearly a day. It was about midnight now. Plenty of time to go to Taka and back, with a kill along the way. Sure, Maza had said to chase her off, but what he didn't know...

I grinned, and stretched before padding towards the cave mouth. There were tow parts of the cave. One was Maza's personal chamber, where he slept and planned. It was permanently filled with white smoke, and in the centre was a deep black pool. There were stories saying that it could be used to see anything in Nippon, but Maza couldn't use it. I growled quietly to myself in puzzlement. How Maza had ever gotten to be leader, I had no idea.

The other part of the cave was much larger, where the rest of us all slept. It was filled with a purple smog, which made it difficult to see in the night. I slowly made my way to the cave mouth, managing to avoid the others, crushing a bone beneath my foot. We were nocturnal, so most of us were out hunting, but as I neared the opening I stepped on a paw. The head snapped up immediately and I groaned. It was Kao, a dark brown kitsune and the same age as Maza. He was the lone fox's brother, but never mentioned her.

"Watch it!" he snapped.

"Sorry." I muttered. He grunted and mumbled something to himself, turning his head away. I caught something about "Look where you're going", and laughed silently.

I ducked out of the entrance, breathing in great lungfuls of fresh night air. The stars glittered above me, like eyes staring into my fur. I shivered slightly under their cold gaze. It was said that some of the constellations were actually gods, but us kitsunes didn't really believe that sort of thing, and I thought that the demons were far more interesting.

My ears twitched to catch a sound behind me. Kao joined me, looking out to the sea of Ryoshima Coast.

"It sure is crowded in there." he joked. I blinked in surprise. He wasn't usually this friendly. Maza's probably put him up to this, I thought darkly, to make sure I do my job properly.

"So, what are you hunting tonight?" he asked, trying to make conversation.

"Your sister." The words were out of my mouth before I remembered that he never mentioned her, hated us talking about her. His eyes widened, and he whipped round to face me, claws slashing out and slicing my sensitive nose. I yelped slightly, and rubbed it with my paw in a vain attempt to stop the pain. But I didn't flinch away, and I stared him in the face.

"Hey, what was that for?" I protested, although I knew that I had gone too far. The wound stung like hell, but I wasn't going to admit that.

He snarled, all the usual dislike back in his voice. "Why? Why do you want to find her?"

"Maza's orders. I have to chase her off." I replied confidently, knowing that that would stump him.

It did. Kao backed away, his fur lying flat, calming slightly. "Oh. Well, don't think it'll be easy. She has... powers. Strange, unnatural powers. Not like us. That's why we chased her out."

Powers, hey? I felt a grin threatening to spread over my face. this might be more exciting than I thought.

"Oh well." I dismissed his warning. "I'll be careful." I said casually, walking confidently past him. he snorted doubtfully, and walked in the other direction.

I walked slowly, lost in thought. Powers...I had always wanted power, to be leader of the kitsunes. But if Kao was right, and if she did have powers beyond our own, other gifts...then maybe...Yes, maybe there was something more beyond being leader, something more...Before, my ambition had been to be leader, and control all the kitsunes of Western Nippon. But now...I imagined myself controlling the whole of Nippon, not just the kitsunes, but the humans too, perhaps even the gods, if they existed... I let myself get caught up in this vision, not noticing where I was going.

I realised that I had came to the bridge to Taka Pass. I began sprinting over it, scattering a flock of grey and white geese and the foolish human guards. I laughed at their terror, and roared, just to see them tremble even more. The look on their faces made me laugh louder, but then I stopped at the sound of a much louder roar. It was deeper and more threatening than mine, making the trees shake slightly. The humans cried out and huddled closer together, and I must confess, even I felt a shiver of fear, and my legs shook slightly, my fur beginning to bristle.

"It's-it's-Oro-" I heard one human stammer fearfully. But I was no longer interested in them. I had bigger prey to catch. This roar seemed to be calling me.

I began running again, into Taka Pass. I saw the animals run away from me in any direction they could, a herd of deer sprinting past me. I turned and lazily ran after them, not even close to my full speed. I easily caught the fawn trailing at the back, ripping its throat out in one bite and severing the spine, blood spraying into the air and onto my face. it was dead instantly, before it even had the chance to bleat in terror. I lifted it into the air in triumph, then slammed it back on the ground. I began gorging myself on the body, drinking the blood. I was full of blood-lust, and when I had devoured all the meat I licked my teeth clean, then stripped the bones of anything edible that was left. I ate a few of the bones too, and buried the rest. Perhaps I would return for them, after completing my mission.

I kicked some dirt over my store of food, then yawned. It was nearly dawn, cool grey light replacing the pitch black dark. My time was running out, but I suddenly realised how tired I was. I slept a lot, back then, and was incredibly lazy. I found a sheltered spot beside a stream, among thick bushes. I had no intention of hiding. What could possibly harm me, a great nine tailed kitsune?

Well, I guess I was foolish and ignorant back then. Not now.

I yawned again, and paced round in a circle, before flopping down on my side. I blinked drowsily, and gave a burp that tasted of deer blood, before staring at the stars until I sank into the dark black clouds of sleep.

END OF CHAPTER

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Solca