Chapter 1: Prologue
Hello my name is Akira Souma. I am the Fox in the Zodiac that nobody knows about. I am the one nobody talks about, but the reason is that the only one that knows about the Fox is the head of the family. The Head of the family now is Akito. I hate him with a passion for all the hurt he has caused the other Zodiacs. Unlike them, I am really trapped in this hell, which is my life. I live my life over and over through out the generations. I have seen all the horror that is the Zodiac's life with different Head families. It's always worse as the one before and every time I could never helps them escape their hell. But this generation is the one I have an opportunity to help them escape Akito without being confined like all the others were in the previous generation.
I hear footsteps outside the door. I get up from the corner I was sitting in. I hear somebody open the door. Their stands my worst enemy, my jailor Akito.
"Hello Akira. How are you today?' he asks with this smirk on his face. I know he doesn't care about my well being.
"How do you think I am, Akito?" I tell him. Unlike most of the Zodiac I don't see Akito as a god, instead I see him as the devil himself. I have never respected any head family that hurts the Zodiac so he is no different.
"HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, AKIRA?" he yells at me. Then moves to the other corner and retrieves the whip that he threw there just the other day.
He moves toward me and whips me in the back and I fall downward trying to protect by body. I fail in protecting my body, so I let him whip me until his anger is gone and he is satisfied. I hate being his prisoner but there is no other way for the others to have a normal life without me doing this for them. But they will never find out about this because I know they would feel guilty about it and blame themselves for my mistreatment.
I never got to meet any of the Zodiacs when they come to see Akito. I was always in the background when they came to see Akito. I remember the hate in the words he always threw at them. The insults he told every one of them without caring about the pain it would cause. The words that inflicted pain into their hearts and made them feel unworthy of love and caring. I hated to just sit their without them noticing me and let Akito put them down constantly. Even though I wanted to, it was a deal; she would never meet them or tell them who she was.
I will always remember how this all started; it was so many years ago. Something that Akito doesn't know is that I did meet the entire Zodiac's. It was an accident and they all thought I was just a servant. I was only 16 years old well at least I looked that age. The thing with the Fox Zodiac they don't age like regular people or the other Zodiac's. I was here when the other entire Zodiac's were born. I met all of them when they were only kids. I meet them and some or mostly all of them got attached to me. So for Akito not to know I met them. I separated myself from all of them so they could forget me. I hated doing that but I had to or I will be causing them more trouble than I wanted to. So I put distance between me and them every time I met one of them. It was always difficult to do that, but to not cause more trouble I never told them my real name. But it had to be like that, forever.
Akito stands up and leaves without getting me any help for my wounds. But I will not die with the wounds he inflicted on me. I have medicine under my bed to put on the wounds in my back, so they would not be infected. I put some in my back and lie down on my bed, until sleeps takes over.