The price to trick a nine tailed fox
Disclaimer: I don't own one of this characters in this story, sadly but true, I only made up some characters to fill some spots.
This is only a fan fiction to amuse myself and who read this story.
Pairings: Jill/ Ten Chan, minor Leon/ Count D and Tetsu/ Chris( older Chris! I am not a pervert!)
Warnings: My bad grammar and spelling, I am native German so please bear with my English and certain scenes in the following story. Bad eating habits of certain species, cursing, death of characters, bloody scenes or scenarios with sexual content not suited for under age minors!
Genre: humor, horror, adventure, romance
Beta reader, Savemesatan San, Thank you for your work until now
Description: The time can hide many things, good and bad ones.
I wondered what could have happen if Jill had known the shop from before. This came out of my musings.
Special Note: This was meant as a one shot at first but the story had a mind of its own soon and so I decided to make out of it my last story for the next while. I wanted to write one about this two anyway, so here it is. Please let me know what you think, would interest me to know. I will add new chapters to the accident as soon my other beta send them back, please be patient with us.
Suryallee
Prologue
The dark memories that lay hidden beneath the surface of time…
Jillsandres!
Will you come now? We have not all day to wait for you to come out to go in the town to buy our groceries!
A mid-forty looking woman told to the empty house entry behind her in a rather angry voice.
Seconds later, a small looking honey blond little girl with a rather large cat hanging securely in her arms emerged from the dirty looking doors and stood obeying demurely next to the tall, slightly drunken women next to the family car.
A red car with lots of damages in the right side, her mother tended to scratch along the sidelines when she drove after she drunk too much…
Jillsandre looked not older as four or five but was in reality 8 already.
Under her small dress the girl wearied, allot of bruises, her father had been angry again.
Two rather rough arms from her older stepsisters yanked the small girl inside the vehicle and the strange family was off.
Since her 4 birthday, Jillsandre now lived with her fathers' sister's family…he was shot in a drug raid.
Her stepsisters where allot older than her and she did not like it to be here.
However, Jillsandre had no choice in the matter, the child carriers had sent her to live here and now, this was her family. If she liked it to stay here or not. The little girl did her best to not cause troubles all the time, did her homework, cleaned the kitchen, even was very shy and quite all the time; it helped her with them to accept her a little more. Her new family only wanted the checks that came every month, as long the girl was wise enough to stay out of their ways, they tolerated her mostly.
That day, Jillsandre's family wanted to buy a new pet.
Her father and her mother had seen a pet they wanted to have badly in a little shop in New York's Chinatown the day before.
The little girl was confused; they already hated her cat, Sinai, so why did they suddenly all want to buy another then? She stayed silent and said nothing, she was only happy that she could hold her cat with her. It was part of her contract from the carrier and so they let the pet stay.
Silently wondering what a kind of a pet her step family had decided on to buy, the little girl stepped out of the car and waited demurely until her stepmother told her to come with them inside.
The shop was dark and strange; it smelled funny, the girl thought.
Its owner was a strange looking Chinese man with clothes she never saw before someone wear! It looked almost like a dress of some sort. Little Jillsandre was a curios one, and so looked more closely at the many cages in the darkness around them. The animals inside of them looked rather lazy back at the little child. Some curious like her, some bored, and some let her even pet them through the cages, nuzzling her tiny hand all the time.
When her mother suddenly yelled after her, Jillsandre could have sworn that some of them looked at her with pity in their inhuman eyes…as if they knew how mean her family mostly was to her…
The corridors they passed, to reach the room their new pet was in, where long and darkly lit by lamps. Jillsandre stumbled more then once on a suddenly appearing stair or otherwise. She heard the pet shop owner telling her family about their new pet, when they suddenly reached the room. The motives on the wide doors showed strange looking animals with many tails that seem to play in the clouds of the sky, little Jillsandre could have looked at them forever. They looked so happy, mischievous, and clever at the same time.
The human girl did not realized that her family had already entered the room to look around inside and hurriedly followed them…only to get the shock of her little life!
Where hid all the animals that where supposed to live inside of the room? Jillsandre saw only some strange people who had tails and ears like animals but look otherwise entirely human. Confused the little girl saw her family members look at the strange people with strange gleaming eyes…what did they suddenly have. She did not like the black haired male that seems to snuggle into her mother's side and purred against her petting hand on his head; in her opinion, this one had greedy eyes that scared Jillsandre somehow.
She liked the somewhat bored looking silver haired on the other side of the room much more!
He seem to regard the entire event in the middle of the room with strange fathom red eyes and was the only one in the room without a tail. Only his strange pointy ears gave him as a member of this strange looking group of people away. A very long braid reached next to his on a couch longing body, the floor below it. In her child eyes, he looked beautiful and somewhat captivating all together. Curious, Jillsandre stepped a little closer to the young looking man, holding her cat near so that she nearly vanished behind it the whole time. Suddenly the red eyes fixed her, slowly sneaking up on him figure and let the little girl froze mid-step.
She hidi now even more behind the fur of her beloved pet cat from his bored looks at her.
Blinking at her for some seconds the tall youth snarled suddenly at her parents and said something in a foreign sounding language to the tall shopkeeper, who glanced at her shortly with his strange golden eyes and nodded. The black haired one looked somewhat curios at her for a moment and smiled at the white hair, talking for seconds in the same strange language with the silver hair.
His white haired one turned around to the little girl once more…only to find her more near to his prone body as she was before his gaze left her body! The little girl had used his distraction cleverly to sneak up more near to him! There she stood now, still hiding behind the large old cat that regarded the tall youth with wise and wary eyes all the time.
Jillsandre could not help it; this strange young man made her curious in some way. She peeked around her cat and looked at the tall youth more closely, in her mind wondering if his hair would feel as soft as it looked.
When his eyes suddenly fixed her again with a somewhat surprised stare, she giggled hidden behind her cat and grinned from behind her cats fur at him mischievously. That brought to her a soft laugh from of him, and a friendly grin right after. He seem not to mind her the little sneaking up act the slightest. To her, he looked rather amused at her little act. Her eyes took in the long, more claws ike nails on the long fingered hands. Feeling bolt, the little girl sat down right next to the strange youth on the couch and reached hesitantly out to touch his feathery white hair with her hand for a second and then she removed her hand fast, again. Suddenly feeling spooked for some strange, unknown reason; Her large blue eyes hid even more behind her huge cat.
To her surprise, he did not seem to mind her the curiosity, it was more as he was used to the strange curiosity of others with his white hair. He even smirked at her friendly and then looked at the tiny appearing girl with strangely clouded almost sad eyes for a second. To Jillsandres' delight, the stranger let her stroke once more along the long braid that fascinated her so much; she had never seen a male with such long hair before in her life! She was never aware the strange conversation above her little head; Going on between the shopkeeper, the black haired male she did not like, and the red eyed man whose white hair she petted all the while. Nor did she see her cat narrow her slit eyes at them all and trying to make her move away from the stranger, who suddenly fixed her cat with eyes that looked much older than they should. Her cat gave up on making her move, but glared instead at the silver haired one that did not seem to mind her to do so, and said something in his language to her cat; The cat let out a single huff at him.
Almost like a girl, she thought, absorbed in the rather silky feeling of the long strands, He looks almost like a girl with that long hair…
The suddenly loudly voice of her step mother brought her out of the wonderful silent world she had slipped into, it was time to go. Her eyes looked apologetically at the red eyed male as she stood up fast to obey her mother. To her surprise, the stranger also stood and then suddenly bends down to stroke her lightly over the cheek, as if he understood her completely. Soft eyes seem to smile at the blue that looked up at him in silent question.The the little girl suddenly gave him a bright, toothy smile that seem to light the dim room in sunlight, with its radiant happiness.with out warning, she suddenly darted forward and gave the silver male a peck on the nose.
She giggled and hid shyly behind her huge cat again, only to run quickly after her parents leaving the strange rooms.
She paid no further to the tall figure in the room mind for now, in Jillsadres' little head was only one thought running around; to not make her parents angry enough again to hit her again later. Therefore, she forced her little legs to carry her as fast they could back to her family.
She didn't knew that in the room the strange male looked, somewhat bewildered, after her fast vanishing form for seconds…perplex frozen to the spot from the suddenly radiant smile and kiss he had received from the silent girl.
Head shaking, the youth looking creature suddenly turned around with an amused smirk and laid back down on the couch to long on it, never aware that he touched his nose all the time in silent wonderment, only wondering why he suddenly felt so strangely sad…
The black haired male came home with them.
Jillsandre did not like the looks he gave her family or herself all the time! His eyes glanced at them like a hunters eyes to prey all the time, and the silent girl did not like the looks the slightest. His dark eyes where somewhat unnerving and made her shift nervously in her seat every time he looked at her. Her cat seem to agree with her in that, she hissed softly, constantly at the stranger and even hit one time after him when he dared to try to touch the little girl.
A smirk was his only answer to that and soon he occupied himself with her family members.
Jillsandre could not understand it; had they not gone there to buy a pet?
In addition, why did her stepmother let the man lay his head in her lap all the time? Why did her stepfather not say something as he always did it when another man came near to her stepmother?
In her little brain, she could not get this all together, but as soon as they reached their home, the male jumped out of the car and went exploring around the rather unclean looking house. His nose twitched in disgust at the sight but when he turned around to her family again, all he wore was a smile.
She took that as her clue to vanish in her little room. The next days, Jillsandre watched her family slowly change. It began all with it that she came home from school the next day to find out that her mother had cleaned the house!
Slowly, her family changed their behavior too, no longer her parents where drinking as much as they did before. Her father found a job and her mother even cleaned the laundry…Jillsandre slowly believed that all would go better now.
Still, her stomach feeling told her all the time to stay away from the strange man with the name, Ayoshi. That, all the other people seem to see a large black haired fox and not the man, even though she saw him all the time. Silently wondering about it all the time, Jillsandre slowly realized, that she was, along with her family, were the only ones who saw him as a human being!
This all made it harder for the girl to go along with the strange man.
She stayed mostly out of his way; much to his irritation… after that, the man called Ayoshi began to follow her little frame often around the house. Jillsandre always hid behind her cat when he was near her and never spoke a word with him. True, he was as beautiful as the silver one had it been, but some how, Ayoshi frightened the girl and in a way she did not understand really.
Jillsandre began to close her doors in the night.
Her sisters on the other hand, basked seemingly in his presence all the time, gave him what ever he asked for with his deep smooth voice and petted him all the time. The strange incense that came with him burned even all night long in the family household, and the male was given an own room. Even her stepfather acted, around the black haired male, like a teenager all the time!
She could not understand her family anymore!
Sometimes, the girl had began to wish that they had taken the other one home with them instead of this Ayoshi. She was sure she could have been a friend with him…and something told her that he was allot of nicer as this one.
Then one day, she saw something that she would never forget in her live.
She remembered that with Ayoshi it also came a contract to her family. In it stand three rules about their pet.
The first one had been to always burn that incense stuff.
The next was to give him always-fresh food, mostly raw meat, and fresh water and to give him his own room.
The last was something; little Jillsandre did not understand and was a little clueless about;
What had the Chinese man meant when he told her family to let Ayoshi never sleep inside of their beds at night with him? More so, why should they especially not let him sleep in their beds in nights with a full moon?
She could not understand this third rule until the night she awoke from her slumber and went downstairs to get herself a glass of water from the kitchen. On her way, she came across her parent's rooms. To her utter surprise, the door was open and she could look inside. Her stepmother had shortly before found a new job too and was now working mostly at night. Inside the room of her parents she heard a familiar squeaking of their mattress, was her step mom not out working tonight? If so, why was her stepfather then moaning like he always did it when he and her stepmother wanted to be alone in here.
The mirror of their wardrobe showed the little, 8 years old girl a rather disturbing sight accidentally.
Her father lay under the black haired male who seems to trust into his backside, both naked and he was moaning like mad!
Blushing furiously, the little girl hurried to run away from the scenery and hid herself under her blanket for the rest of the night.
Madly blushing all the time and an angry hissing cat next to her.
The next day she found her father, strangely ill looking at the breakfast table and his normally tan skin looked white as a wall.
A few days later her mother came out of her bedroom also white as a wall, Ayoshi looked pleased at the now to him even more affectionate pair; all the time licking his chops and gazing at them with burning eyes.
Now, Jillsandre was scared of him.
It took only a few more days for the creature to get her 17 years old step sister number one and then after not even a day, her other 18 years old sister too to sleep with him…from that day on, all other members in her household seems to have gone crazy.
After her oldest stepsister had begun to sleep with the male in her rooms, the ink on the paper of the contract that always lay on her father's desk went from black to red.
Jillsandre could not understand how this could happen but it was so.
From now on, her cat never left her side when she was at home, especially not when Ayoshi was fooling around with one of the others if it was day or night.
He often stood in the entrance to her room and watched her. Always, when he did that, she slammed her door right into his dirty grinning face. Jillsandre took the key from the key ring that belonged to her room and begun to lock her rooms at night.
Then one day, when she came home, a doctor brought her father to the hospital in an ambulance car.
The doctors could only tell her mother later that his heart gave up and a few days later they went to his funeral all together.
The night before he went to the hospital, it had been a full moon night.
The little girl could only helplessly stare at the impassionate looks her family gave the dead man in the grave and then watch with utter horror her family back home, went on with their former activities! As much she cried, tried to talk with them all or else, they did never listen, they only kept snapping at her and told her to leave their beloved pet alone. Jillsandre began slowly to hate the black haired male that destroyed her former family slowly but steadily.
For the little girl, the live in this madhouse grew steadily increasingly dangerous with the following months. Ayoshi followed her now nearly ever around in the house, never listen when the others called him to their rooms or her cat hissed at him.
He tried more then once to talk to her, but she gave him never an answer nor showed that she even heard him. Jillsandre never looked at him directly; always she used the thick fur of her cat to peek through at him.
All nights she locked her room door and kept him out. Her little brain did not want to know what he would do if she let him in.
Her remianing family members grew weaker and weaker with the time. One day her teacher asked her what was going on at home of her family, concerned about the little girl.
Just before she could tell her, her cat hissed from the window at her warningly, and the little one told, her instead of the truth, that she did not know that either.
Jillsandre was not sure why she did so, but somehow it seemed the right thing to do.
Later, at home, Ayoshi hissed for the first time he was there, at her cat, in a rather nasty way.
From that day on, he began to try to coax her with presents and smiles to talk with him. He even went so far to sleep at her door way at night, nerveless; Jillsandre did not let him inside the room nor talked with him.
His tried to get her to talk with him, even if it was only one word; he grew more and more frantic with each passing day now. Her family members tried to get her to talk to him too, first with words and then later with hitting her all the time. They stopped with the abuse only because her teacher told them that she would tell the child care workers about it.
Ayoshi seem to grew more angry and dangerous with each passing day she kept it up to ignore him, something told her in her belly that she did better never listen to his questions and false words of friendly things. That it was better to never let him inside her room with her at night, just as the contract had told them all to do so in the first place.
So, with the time, she was the only one left who just treated him as the contract stated to follow.
Then came the night that would stay horridly in her little mind for the rest of her entire live…the night, the rest of all of her existing little world around her vanished forever out of Jillsandres life.
The afternoon before all begun harmless, with Ayoshi trying again like mad to get her to acknowledge his presence.
Snarling he went in the direction of downstairs after his ineffective attempts and grasped her eldest sister on his way downstairs in his fury. Only to vanish with the giggling, much too tired and ill looking girl, into her room with a smirk in her direction some minutes later.
"Fine," he told her, "stay silent. In the end, it does not matter little one. I have already what I wanted, and tonight is pay time! " His voice grew suddenly strangely affectionate when he addressed the shivering girl with her cat again, that looked horrified at the tall man that shoved her sister roughly inside of the her room. His black eyes seem to glow red for a second and then settle back to their normal black color, they held a strange look inside of them when he glanced at her tiny frame standing solemly in her doorway.
It was almost as if he tried to sort out what to think of the honey blond haired girl.
Then he gave her an honest smile that scared Jillsandre even more than all his smirks had done it ever all the time before, and crouched down right in front of her tiny body. She stepped backwards when his long nailed hand reached up to touch her face, always the girl avoided being touched by the black haired male at all costs. His black tail swished angrily behind his frame for seconds then he grinned at the tiny girl and her cat.
" You know, it doesn't matters in the end. They broke the contract, all four of them did it, and you are the only one who did not. Then again, you are still a child, even given a rather stubborn and cute one!" Here she saw him smirk when she shoved her nose away from him in the air. Before she could stop him or avoid him this time, his long fingered hand found its way in her curls and scratched lightly along her scalp when he let it slide through her long hair. " It doesn't matters now, they practically signed you over to me in their foolish haze to get their darkest fantasies fulfilled… do you know what? You will get used to my touch soon and even like me with the time, little one. Because I have decided to take you back with me, you are a waste to them anyway." Suddenly her cat hit her paw with her sharp talons right over his hand. He hissed and removed it quickly out of her reach, and then he stood and turned around.
With a last grin in Jillsandres direction and a snarl at her cat, he left the horrified girl alone for now and closed her sister's door behind him.
In the hallway, Jillsandre shivered violently at the meaning of his cryptically stated words and clutched her cat closer to her. Said cat was hissing and snarling like mad at the closed door and looked rather livid in her fury.
Even for an old cat like her, Sinai made a rather good picture of an angered pet!
Hurriedly Jillsandre ran inside her room and closed the doors with her key behind her, then she jumped inside her bed and hided under her covers.
Her lithe body shock in shivers of her childish fears and tears ran freely down her checks.
When the sun vanished behind the horizon, her cat suddenly moved out of her embrace and to her utter surprise, shifted into the form of a rather elderly woman that hissed at the door to her room inhumanly. The old woman reminded the startled girl strangely at her pet and little Jillsandre peeked out of her little nest on her bed out of the blanked she had wrapped around her body, at the elderly woman that looked rather angry in her opinion.
" Stupid Kitsune! First, he coaxes the entire family into his little dance of dead and then he has the nerve to try to lure my little sweetheart into his clutches! Jillsandre has not broken the contract; he should know better as to try to do such a thing! Its not allowed! "
Then the old woman turned around to Jillsandres still shivering form, " Don't worry little sweetheart," her gaze was affectionate and kind, Jillsandre trusted this strange woman/ cat from the start, " I will not let this stupid lunatic hurt you. Listen Jillsandre, I am far too old to fight the seven tailed fox and even in my younger days I could have never fought against him and won. He is just too strong, especially after he ate all this energy from your family. With a little bad luck, it will gain him even another cursed tail! Curse it! Why could they not have chosen one of the other ones in the room or the cursed nine tailed fox even? No, their desires must be dark ones…as always. We have to hurry to get out of here, before he finishes his killing frenzy and comes after you my sweetheart!"
Her strange inhuman eyes closed with a sight at nothing in order, then she cradled Jillsandre in her arms and left the house through the window of the girl's room.
Said girl stayed silent the whole time in her arms, snuggling deeply into the hold of the cat woman that held her so securely and wondering about her cat's words…what n.i.n.e. Tail? All the way to a location unknown to the girl, the cat woman cooed at the frightened girl and held her tight to her own body. She stopped first when they both reached the back of the big garden where an old tree stood.
Jillsandre always had thought he looked somewhat holy to her.
Soon she found herself back, perched in the branches, and tucked behind the old cat in a small hole in the tree.
From her family home screams began soon to breach the night's silence, she could even make out which belonged to which of the women in the house. After some minutes the lights in the neighborhood began to burn through the night and soon after the last voice had died out, the shivering girl could hear a growling creature approach the tree the two hid in.
His black hairs looked as if they were floating through unseen water around him. His clothes had changed from his normal rather lazy stile of a black shirt and tight pants to a strange dress like cloth she never saw before in her life.
He was snarling at the cat maliciously that guarded the entrance to her little cave in the tree behind her back. Both hissed at each other with malice in their inhuman snarls, hisses, and growls then he suddenly leaped upwards and his sharp talons sliced through her cat's troat.
For seconds, all Jillsandre could do was to stare wide eyed at the falling figure of the cat that she had known since she was a baby.
Then, she screamed…and did not stop to scream until a gunshot thundered loudly through the night.
She watched the bullet hit the black haired stranger right in his back, but surprisingly he did not drop down dead.
"Jim! Watch out! That damned thing is still able to move!"
The man that screamed this at another who held a gun was maybe in his mid thirties and aimed his own gun at the black haired man under her tree.
"I see that too, you moron! What in the name of the seven hells is that Thing! It looks like a gigantic fox with too many tails. We cannot let him get closer to the little girl in the tree! Fire!!"
The other man who had spoken was maybe in his late twenties. He began to aim at Ayoshi with his gun again.
"What the hell…shoot it down already!"
He watched with his companion together the fox suddenly leap up height in the air and so escape their shots at him in bewilderment.
For seconds that seem to be hours, Jillsandres and Ayoshis eyes locked and the girl put all her hate and pain inside her blue eyes in those moments.
In the black eyes of the creature that she knew under the name, Ayoshi laid only a strange sadness, much anger, and a strange glint. Then, he vanished with an angry howl in the night's air…just as if he was never there in the first place.
Cracking sounds of branches moaning in protest under the weight of a person crawling its way up to her spot, announced the man that slowly made his way to her spot.
When the man called Jim finally reached her place, his eyes greet a sad sight. He saw a little girl of maybe 5 or 7 years, holding tightly and softly sobbing at the body of a dead old cat. The girl badly shocked and crying silently into the bloody pelt of the dead old tabby with the open sliced throat. To him it looked as if the creature had tried to take a hit meant for the little girl. He shook his head on the saddening scene and sent a silent prayer for the brave old cat to the heavens. Vowing in his mind to let her cat bury in a peaceful place when this all was over.
All the time the girl whispered one single sentence repeatedly…
"I hate you Ayoshi and one day I will kill you!"
Two weeks later, the case of Jillsandre Majavy and her family was closed from the police station; nobody ever found again a trace of the strange beast that her step parents had bought in the little pet shop in Chinatown.
Its owner told them a strange story about their contract and the evidence of hints on their living place told the police officer fast that he had not joked!
Jim could never prove him anything to have to do with the incident and angrily he left without stopping to let the shop owner know what happened with Jillsandre…somehow, this strange man creeper his insides out and he did not want to let him know more about the little girls whereabouts as necessary.
One week later, officer Jim Peterson and his wife Melany Peterson, both twenty eight of age, adopted a little eight years old girl and gave her the new name with the adoption; Jill Peterson.
One month late, little Jill met a grumpy, almost the entire time cursing boy at a family party that her new parents held to introduce her to her new family members. The name of the clumsy boy was Leon Orcot and soon the two began to befriend each other…
Deep in the dark halls of a certain pet shop in Chinatown, a black fox nursed his shot wounds under the watchful gaze of another fox that seem to have, just like him, too many tails.
Angry that he had not gotten his way this time and the price he had wanted.
The other, that appeared to be a silver fox with nine tails watched him curse and nurse his wounds the entire time with a strange glint in his red eyes.
In his mind still seeing all the time the bright smile of the little girl with the honey blond curls and hearing her giggles, he began silently to wonder about it, how long it would take his rival to find out that it had been him who had directed the two officers to the tall tree in that night…
End of part one.