A young girl around the age of 15 walked into her house. She had shoulder lenth pink hair. It was a strange shade, like a cross between neon and baby pink. She had bright beaming eyes the same or atleast a simlilar colour to her hair. She was wearing a black hooded top that was cut short to show off her flat stomach and pierced belly button and the top barely concealed her breasts. It had long sleeves that were pink and black striped and covered her hands. She also wore black mini shorts or hot pants but the weird thing was there was a long cat tail petruding from the shorts and on her head a pair of cat like ears. This is because she was a neko girl, and her body had been fused with the Dna of an Iriomote wildcat. She walked into her house wich was a small bungolow in the middle of a large field surrounded by a forest. She stepped inside happily, and was immediately approached by a girl slightly older than her,smiling warmly.
"Hello Ichigo-chan" Spoke the girl. She was taller than Ichigo and had long green hair down to her waist, tied back in 2 pigtails. She had dark green eyes and wore large round glasses. Her knee-lenth skirt swayed around her legs as she fiddled nervously with the sleeves of her cardigan, wich was a light brown colour over a cream shirt and red tie.
"Hiya Retasu" Ichigo replied grinning and waving her tail happily from side to side behind her so the small silver bell on the large black ribbon that decorated her tail tinkled softly. The two girls looked around as the door opened and in came another girl. This girl was different to the first two, she was darker and more kept to herself. She had long purple hair, longer than Retasu's and it was drenched, water dripping of it as fell to the sides of her. She was wearing a baggy white shirt that was clearly at least two sixes too big for her but the shirt was wet from the rain and clung to her skin showing of her black bra. Her black skinny jeans had also shrunk slightly from the rain. Like Ichigo this girl had animal like ears and a tail, but this was not of a cat this was of a fox, the reason for this was assumed to be the same as Ichigo's but had not been questioned. She stepped inside and shook the rain water off of her tail
"Wuah~ i'm soaking! Hi-Hi minna!" She spoke out, bearing her two large fangs. Before the girls had a chance to greet eachover some debri fell from the roof and an orange blur came crashing down as they all jumped back. An older boy about 17 jumped up, out of the debri breathlessly.
"ICHIGO!?" He cried out brushing some dirt of his orange jumpsuit then adgusting his head band. His head band was silver and had the symbol of his village on and it covered his large forehead. He had large spikey blonde hair althought it was more Yellow than blonde.
"Have you seen Sasuke?" He panted, rage filling his eyes.
"Hi Naruto" Said Kitsune, the purple haired girl who was still trying to dry herself off.
"What has Sasuke done now?" She asked, rolling her eyes. A boy wearing a blue jacket and long black shorts entered the from another room without anybody noticing. He flicked his long black fringe out of his eyes and looked at everyone.
"What the hell did i do?" He spoke almost tonelessly. Kitsune smiled and greeted Sasuke whilst shaking her tail so the bell she had, wich was similar to Ichigo tinkled softly.
"Konnichiwa Sasuke, How are you? As you can see i am soaking wet, and it's a long story, in fact i don't think it was rain, no it wasn't... oh well i'll tell you about that later." Not alot Kitsune said made much sense and she often spoke in riddles. She sighed, looking down at herself.
"Is there any dry clothes here i fell out of a tree, 'cause i fell alseep in it and fell in a river, i just said it was off rain so i didnt looks like an idiot." Ichigo giggled at this and pointed towards a doorway.
"Go through there and look in my closet. I'm sure there will be some clothes in your size."
"It isn't funny, i nearly drowned. I hardly expected to fall in a river" Kitsune glared at Ichigo then smiled slightly, and left through the doorway Ichigo had been pointing at. Ichigo looked around at the front door to her cottage and noticed the boys leaving, arguing about something and sighed. Retasu was sitting quitely at the table in the corner of the room, watching was going on.
"So how was your day Ichigo-san?" She spoke quitly, as she was a shy girl always scared of being a bother. Ichigo turned to look at Retasu and grinned.
"I had a great day, thanks. I took a nice long kitty nap and only woke up a while ago so i'm feeling nice and refreshed." She then turned and looked out the window as the rain pattered against it. Kitsune then came back into the room wearing pretty much the same as before, but all dried of.
"That's much better" She said in an almost releived way. Ichigo smiled and replied.
"You know it's raining quite a bit, you could have just stuck with your 'it was raining' story"
"I know, but it was kind of funny..." Kitsune giggled.
"I know i shouldn't like the rain..." Ichigo started.
"But i do" She turned and grinned at the two girls. Retasu looked up and smiled sweetly.
"So that's why your so happy today" Ichigo grinned and nods in reply.
"I'm going out in the rain, we all need to be happy today so... anybody wish to join me?" Kitsune pulled out a beautifull, feminime white umbrella and smiled.
"I will, but i'm not getting wet for a while..."
"I'll join you Ichigo-chan" Retasu said quitely. Ichigo giggled and opened the front door then ran outside to the middle of the field.
The field was huge and surrounded by a dark forest of tree's tall enough to touch the clouds. It was the kind of place that could only be found by those who know where it is. There were a few smaller trees dotted about the field and one huge willow tree overlooking a river than ran right the way through the field. Nobody knew where the river began and ended, nobody questioned it, it was just there. Ichigo giggled and started spinning around getting drenched by the heavy rain. She looked up at the sky that was covered in a sea of black clouds. Her ears leant back from the weight of the water and it dripped off her hair and ran down her back. Kitsune stepped outside holding the umbrella above her head. She slipped her hand into her pocked and sighed. The familiar soft tinkling sound of a bell came from her pocket as she fumbled around. Retasu then followed outside and spoke as to be noticed.
"Rain is... lovely, i think"
Kitsune sighs again and looks directly at Ichigo.
"Ichigo... can i talk to you a second?" Ichigo shakes herself and beads of water flies of her then she walks over to Kitsune.
"What is it Kit?" Kitsuneclosed her eyes and pulled the tinkling item out of her pocket and held it out to Ichigo. It was a small silver bell on a black ribbon exactly the same as the one on Ichigo's tail.
"This was left for me outside my door at the hotel i stayed at last night. The staff dont know who left it and neither do i. The acctual person who it was from didnt leave it they had a friend leave it but are not allowed to tell me who... and i dont know what to do" Ichigo looks at the ribbon then grabs her tail and looks at the ribbon on that. After a few seconds she looks back at Kitsune's ribbon in a confused way.
"That's the same as my ribbon... Did you see the 'friend' that left it? Maybe that is a clue to who it is from... And does this ribbon have any significance to you? That may also be a clue."
"No i didn't see who left it... i was asleep. And apart from having a similar ribbon on my tail it has no significance to me..." Kitsune sighed and looked down"
"Hmm... well i guesse it's a mystery" Ichigo smiled and turned away from Kitsune
"...I wouldn't let it get to you" She started walking back to the middle of the field, still taking on water from the pouring rain. Kitsune watches Ichigo and then looks down at the bell and sighs.
"Who would give this too me..." Ichigo slips on the wet grass and falls landing on her back with a thump. Water splashes around her from the impact covering her in muddy water.
"Wuah~ Owww that hurt" She exclaimed. She looked down at the ground next to her and noticed a set of footprints leading away from her house and into the woods. She touched the footprints and felt that they were fresh
"The footprints are too big to be any of us... most likely male and they're still fresh so it couldn't have been the guys that left earlier, besides they went the other way..." She said quietly to herself. Kitsune walks over to Ichigo and looks down at the footprints.
"Wh-what? Footprints? Who could have left them?" She asked. Ichigo explained what she had said to herself and continued...
"These footprints are leading away so someone left without us noticing..." She went on whilst messing with a piece of mood from the footprints inbetween her two middle fingers.
"And there are no footprints leading up to the house so that means he'd came before it started raining. It's been raining all day... That means he was here from atleast this morning" She said worriedly. Kitsune looked towards her sharing the same expression.
"Who do you think could have left these Ichigo-san?"
"I don't know..." Ichigo said as she stood up and inspected where the footprints came from.
"That's weird they start at my frontdoor..." Ichigo looked at the door and noticed something shiny reflecting of it. She started walking towards the door, following the footsteps carefully stepping just outside them. Ichigo approached the door and noticed a letter stuck to it with a pin wich was causing the reflection. She tore the letter of the door and held it infront of her, reading it out loud.
"I'm sorry for the trouble this will cause... i had nowhere else to turn" She focused on the letter for a while looking confused then looked around suspiciously. On the far left of the bungalow she noticed one of her flowerbeds had been unearthed. She walked over too it slowly and knelt down besides it. Kitsune ran over to Ichigo and pointed to the note.
"What's that Ichigo-chan?" Ichigo passed the note to Kitsune expressionlessly and started to dig through the wet soil with her suddenly screamed and jumps back, and where she had been digging a human hand was visable, sticking up out of the flowerbed. Kitsune finished reading the note and looked over at the flowerbed hen screamed.
"Wh-what the h-hell...? Now this has creeped me out... ME!" She leant her ears back and the hairs on her tail stood on end. Ichigo started shaking and carried on digging and moving the soil around to reveal the face. She looked away and screamed in sorrow.
"L... It's L... He... He's... Dead..." She weeped. Kitsune fell to her knees, shaking and started to cry.
"L... I don't understand... How can it be L...?" Ichigo inspects the body, shaking violently.
"It looks like he died... from head trauma... He has wounds all over him" She touched the wounds on his left arm gently, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Th-These wounds are from a Demon wind shuriken... wich means he was killed by... a ninja..."
"B-But who would want to kill L?" Kitsune asked, standing up. Ichigo shaked her head in dismay.
"Well from the way he died we have five suspects." She stood up and looked around seriously.
"Sasuke... Gaara... Kakashi... Naruto... and... Me..."
Kitsune's eyes glow crimson red with rage.
"I am going to kill whoever did this to L... We can rule you out Ichigo as the evidence so far says it's a male" She growled angrily. Sasuke stands in the shadows and looks directly at L's fresh corpse. Kitsune looks over at Sasuke, suspiciously
"I can see you even when your hidden in the shadows."
"We all know it wasn't me..." Ichigo stated
"And Kakashi is still out from the battle last night so that rules him out... That just leaves Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke... Where were you early this morning Sasuke?" Ichigo quizzed, glaring at him. Sasuke tilted his head and spoke tonelessly as normal.
"Why would i kill one of my closest friends, and for no reason?"
"I know... i just had to be sure" Kitsune replied, looking down as Sasuke approached the crime scene.
"It couldn't have been Gaara..." Ichigo spoke softly. She had feelings for Gaara and everyone knew this so they payed little attention to what she said.
"He doesn't use shuriken... he would have used sand burial... So if it wasn't Me, Kakashi, Sasuke or Gaara... IT WAS NARUTO!" She exclaimed Kitsune looked up and shook her head in disbeleif.
"I refuse to beleive it was Naruto" Ichigo looked down at the floor and spoke sadly.
"Him and L were fighting last night... and it would explain why he fell through my roof... he was trying to escape... And he said that Sasuke had done something... Maybe he was trying to pin in on Sasuke..."
"I didn't kill him... it was Ichigo!" Naruto spoke as he walked out from behind a tree. He glared at Ichigo and began to chuckle to himself.
"She tried to blame it on me... Nah... It is true we were fighting and that i fell through the roof fleeing from him... But i did NOT kill him!" He emphasized, staring directly at Ichigo. He started laughing and scratched the back of his head, almost nervously.
"We were fighting and he ran into a tree... He died of brain trauma..." Naruto said, looking away in shame at his dark sense of humour. Kitsune grabs Naruto's collar and pinned him against the tree. There was rage and frustration showing in her eyes, that were still crimson red.
"This is far from funny Naruto... I may seem nice but i am not someone you want to anger and guesse what... You just have" She spoke with a sort of eerie calm. The look in Naruto's eyes change as a rage is released within him.
"Let me go... or face the conciquences" He spoke similar to Kitsune at this point and his body began to change. Three marks on each of his cheeks grew like whiskers and teeth enlargened into fangs. He begins to grow claws and is surrounded by a red energy known as Chakra. Chakra is a persons life force that can be focused through training and unleashed using hand sighns into formidable attacks. However chakra cannot be seen so when it is visible to the human eye it is a testement to the strenth of it. This particular chakra was not Naruto's however, but that of the nine tailed fox. A demon that sealed inside Naruto to save his village when he was born. When Naruto is angered he can unleash a glimpse of this demon's power as was visable right now. Unfortunately for him though he wasn't the only one with a demon inside him.
Dar'ichi.
Dar'ichi was born a demon centuries before the current day and not alot about her origin is known. Except for the fact that her village feared her because of her extraordinary powers and so when she turned 15 they burnt her alive in an attempt to release the demon from her body. But she was the demon so when she was released from her body she latched onto the most similar person in her village and resided in her heart untill she bore a daughter. At this point she was passed through to the offsprings heart and this continued through generations untill the present day. It is not known how she did this or why but when the girl's heart she lived in grew cold and started to hate the world she fed on that untill she was strong enough to take over her body. This girl's name was Ichigo...
Ichigo looked at Naruto, her eyes filled with rage and hate.
"Your friend dies... so you just... BURIED HIM?" She screamed at him as her eyes started to glow a blood red colour. The strands of her pink hair slowly bled into the same colour of her eyes. Her outfit suddenly turned to stone and after a few seconds cracked and broke away revealing a new black outfit. She was now wearing a Japanese lolita style black corseted mini dress decorated with red crucifixes, and matching hold-ups. Sasuke stared at Ichigo, still standing in the shadows and mumbles
"Just leave the fool alone... avenge him later..." Ichigo looked directly at Sasuke her red hair flicking in the opposite direction as she turned her head swiftly.
"L's death must be avenged!" She spoke almost demonicly, in a more sinscere way that normal. Kitsune turned to look at Ichigo and noticed this transformation. Her voice suddenly showed a hint of fear.
"Ichigo... DON'T LET DAR'ICHI OUT!"
"Too late my dear" Dar'ichi turned to look at Kitsune, a frightening look in her eye
"Ichigo has already retreated to the dephs of our heart" Naruto witnessing this, jumps back a fair way and prepares to fight, his transformation growing stronger and more violent. Screams of pain errupt from him and shatter the sky. Dar'ichi looked at Naruto and smirked.
"Such blood lust... Let me clench my thirst with this fool" Naruto, upon hearing this flies towards Dar'ichi, the emitted chakra tearing up the ground around him, sending tree's and other bits of debri flying in opposite directions. Within the blink of an eye Dar'ichi dissapears right in front of Naruto and appears merely inches above him. She swings her arms out to each side and a burst of dark energy pulsates from her body hitting Naruto, sending him hurdling away at high speed. He digs his claws into the ground, tearing it up but slowly bringing himself to a stop. Engulfing himself in his own chakra, Naruto then sends a massive blast of it towards Dar'ichi at a speed to high for her to dodge. She held her hands out infront of her and the energy bends around her as if she was protected by some sort of forcefield. She laughed and smirked at him, with an evil sparkle in her eye as if she was enjoying herself.
Meanwhile back by the cottage L stands up and brushes the dirt off of himself, yawning then stretches and enters the cottage. He flicks a speck of dirt off his white long sleeved t-shirt then fumbled around in the pockets of his jeans, pulling out a packet of sugar. Flicking back his long, spiky, black hair he tips the sugar packet back and swallows it all. He looks back at the door sharply and listens to the noises going on outside. He hears a loud crash and felt the earth shake a little. He walked over to the doorway, thinking.
"I wonder what's going on outside?"
Dar'ichi floats to about 10ft in the air and holds out her hands to the sides. In a second she is surrounded by a forcefield of accupuncture needles all facing outwards. She began to laugh as the needles fired at Naruto, more appearing by the second and shooting towards him from 360 degrees. Naruto didn't even get a chance to see the needles when he was hit by them. He was stabbed by so many needle's that his body practically exploded, making blood fly off in all directions hitting and soaking everyone. Dar'ichi was splashed all up her body in blood and she wiped some of her face with her middle finger and sucked it off, then licked her lips with a look of satisfaction.
L steps outside of the cottage and looks around, immdediately getting splattered by the blood that splashed from Naruto's demolished body. Kitsune apon beng drenched in blood jolted her head to the side and noticed L standing there, alive.
"L... L is that you... how... how did...?" L looked at Kitsune and smiled nervously.
"Oh sorry about the whole dead thing... I ran into a tree and suffered a barin trauma and went into a death like state"
L
L was not an ordinary human as he had already lived once about a generation ago. He was killed at the age of 17, however he was revived in this generation by the gods as a weapon against evil. Not alot else was known about his new existence except that he can now no longer age or die.
"When i encounter a deadly experience my body enters a death state for a few hours but i regain concoiusness after a while due to my immortality... I call it death napping." L looked up at the blood drenched Dar'Ichi and frowned.
"So she has finally emerged..." He pulls 3 kunai knives out of his pocket and hurtles them full force at Dar'Ichi. Without even looking at the direction of L she caught the kunai knives and throws them back at him. Dar'Ichi turned to look at everyone standing below and laughs, then raises her arms. In a split second all the surrounding trees burst into flames, emitting an intense heat.
"I cannot be defeated" She smirked. Kitsune stopped, sensing a presence and wonders off into the woods without anyone noticing. L smiled at Dar'Ichi and exclaimed
"It is time" His eyes flashed blue and he made a stance, ready to launch himself at Dar'ichi when... Ichigo comes running out from the woods and reaches out towards L
"Minna... STOP" She screamed
"It's just an illusion... She still isn't strong enough to escape my body but she has been using my genjutsu on you all and even me." Dar'Ichi looks down and glares at the distraught Ichigo and laughs, the fire spreading through the woods rapidly. A scream errupts from the woods like the fire and birds fly up to the sky in the path of the smoke.
"Impossible..." Kitsune exclaimed looking up at her brother. Senri, her elder brother had been thought dead after Kitsune's entire village burnt to the ground when they were children but here he was standing infront of her.
"Long time no see... little sister" Senri spoke calmly. He was the spitting image of Kitsune but with short hair, he was even wearing the same clothes as her.
"Brother...."
"Don't be fooled. It's Just a genjutsu, Ichigo isn't really here" L shouted, whilst making hand sighns at a speed so fast they can't be seen clearly.
"Forbidden secret technique... Ninja arts... Reaper death sea..." L was interrupted as Ichigo grabbed L around his waist and clung to him, proving she was no illusion.
"Please L... don't... It's what she wants you to do..." She spoke stared at Senri in disbeleif.
"I am dissapointed in you Kitsune-san" He spoke and she snapped out of her daze and a look of confidence spread across her face.
"I have to go..." She smiled at Senri then ran out of the woods and glanced up at Dar'ichi, followed by her brother.
"Dar'Ichi... i will fight you."
"No Kitsune please.. don't... it's what she wants" Ichigo spoke with fear in her voice.
"Ichigo...? But what should we do? I don't understand" Kitsune held her head in her hands in confusion.
"She is still inside me... I don't know how she is doing this" Ichigo looked around with tears in her eyes. Dar'Ichi smirked at the commotion.
"Don't be pathetic Ichigo. Join me! Release me and we can have all and everything." Kitsune looked into Ichigo's eyes and spoke reassuringly.
"Ichigo i cannot let this happen, i beleive i can stop her." L then looked at Ichigo and quizzed.
"How did she reflect the shuriken? And how did Naruto die from those needles? And how are the trees..." The flames burning up the trees and the smoke petruding from it suddenly dissapears revealing that the trees have taken on no damage at all. Ichigo starts weeping and places her hand on L shoulder, looking down.
"You can feel that i am real, I don't know how she is doing this. I'm so sorry everyone... I just don't know" She fell to her knees and sat hopelessly in the grass. L looked up at Dar'Ichi and smirked.
"If your not real then this won't hurt" He launches a kunai knife at Dar'Ichi and she purpously doesn't move allowing the knife to hit her and pass through her body without leaving a single mark and then she laughs.
"You fools know nothing" Kitsune at hearing this closes her eyes and telepathicly talks to L.
"L i think i can stop her. I don't wether it is just a legend, a myth, but it is said that any demon can be destroyed by sacrificing a pure blood vampire... like me" Kitsune along with having body parts and traits of a fox was also a pure blood vampire. All she ate or drank was blood but she had turned good a few years ago and now lives on blood tablets that she mixes with water to make a blood substitute.
"It's not true, a myth as you said" Dar'Ichi appeared behind Kitsune and launched a very real samurai sword at her.
"To prove it i will kill you."
"KITSUNE...!" Ichigo screamed and Dar'Ichi disspears as the sword makes impact slicing right through her back and out through her chest, blood spurting out. Blood starts to drip down Kitsune's chest, drenching her shirt and she drops the umbrella she had been holding the entire time. Dar'Ichi appears behind Ichigo and holds another samurai sword to her throat.
"Don't make a move..." She wispered to Ichigo. Kitsune slowly looked down at the sword sticking out of her chest.
"I did say it may be a myth, i am not sure. But a sword cannot kill a vampire." She took ahold of the sword and slowly pulled it out of her chest, blood leaking out at a tremendous rate. She throws the sword to the ground and places her right hand in the back pocket of her jeans.
"But this can" She pulled out a silver gun with a large barrel, decorated with a metalic red rose desighn, known as a bloody rose gun. She places the gun against the temple of her eye and gripped the trigger with her middle finger.
"Make one move Dar'Ichi and i will prove that the myth is a reality and get rid of us both. No more Kitsune, no more Dar'Ichi" Dar'Ichi holds the sword tighter against Ichigo's throat as she wells up in tears, her face painted with fear.
"Go ahead..! The myth is a fake created to defeat enemies of that type... the ultimate sacrifice. I don't care if you die by my hand or your own, you mean nothing to me" Dar'Ichi smirked.
"I beleive the myth is real, and once i die so will you, and Ichigo and everybody else will be free of you forever. I don't care if i die, it will make up for all those people i murdered."
Kitsune
When Kitsune was 6 years of age. Her thirst for blood evolved and she couldn't control it. She went on a massochistic rampage and killed all of her family, and wiped out her entire village, then left it to burn to the ground, to live a life of solitude. At least she thought she had killed everyone...
Dar'Ichi smirked with an evil glisten in her eyes.
"Go on then if you beleive it is real. Blow your pretty brains out!"
"Kitsune don't, it may not be real and it would be a death in vain." L yelled and Kitsune turned to look at him with tears in her eyes. These were not tears of sadness of fear but of frustration.
"I know it is real... my brother told me, and when i do this i t will destroy two evil creatures." She tightened her grip on the trigger.
"I'm sorry everyone...." Dar'Ichi laughs
"Do it kill yourself, and kill your precious Ichigo." Kitsune at this looked startled for a moment then shook her head.
"No it will kill you and Ichigo will be free...." She said, trying to convince herself.
"No because i won't die and then i will slice her pretty little head off" Dar'Ichi laughs as Ichigo starts to cry and shake in fear. Senri walks up to Kitsune and puts his hand on her shoulder re-assuringly. He then moves his face close to hers and whispered in her ear.
"Do it, kill yourself, kill Dar'Ichi!" Kitsune gasps and looks at Senri.
"Brother do you... want me to die?"
"But it will kill Dar'ichi, and free Ichigo. You'll die and she will be able to live. You want her to be free from this demon don't you" Senri replies with a look of dissapointment.
"I will do it, i just needed to know if you hated me... I will save Ichigo, i will free everyone from Dar'Ichi and i will pay for the sins i commited. I'm sorry everyone... so sorry..." Kitsune pulled the trigger and a bullet flies through her head bursting out the other side, sending blood and pieces of flesh flying. She falls to the ground and lies lifeless in a puddle of her own blood, her eyes still open.
