Hilo people. Here's the first chapter to this story. I thank The White Tragic Wolf Sayana B for letting me use the blood fox idea. As you can see I'm only using the name and the other ideas about the demon is mainly mine. She also helped me with some of the ideas too. I hope you enjoy this.
"There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses." -- Randy K. Milholland
What is it?
"Father is going to kill me!" Koenma yelled. He was running around in circles yelling at the top of his lungs in his toddler form, making his ogre assistant cringe. His big brown eyes were glazed with tears which were pouring out. "He is going to kill me this time!" He yelled again.
"You know, you keep saying that," Yusuke said, "but you still end up giving us missions." Yusuke had a smirk on his face, amused that his boss was in panic. He stood with his arms crossed over his chest with his legs slightly apart. He was wearing his usual green uniform and his hair was slicked back like usual. He started laughing when Koenma tripped and fell flat on his face amidst his running.
Koenma got up in a hurry and faced Yusuke. "This isn't funny Urameshi! This is serious!"
"Then hurry up and tell us what happened already!" Yusuke yelled back.
Hiei and I were just standing aside, watching the scene. "Idiots," I heard Hiei mumble.
"OK, OK," Koenma said. He took a breath before telling us. A screen rolled down behind him that showed a map of a district in Japan with a red "x" on it. "Less than one hour ago, a portal had opened up from the demon realm to the human realm, here," he pointed to the "x", "and something got in!"
"Isn't that impossible?" I asked. "Aren't there laws to prevent that from happening?"
"Yes!" Koenma yelled. "But somehow, something got around it! The portal was only open for a few moments so we couldn't figure out where from the demon realm and what got in! It could be anything!"
"Alright!" Yusuke yelled excitedly. He obviously wanted to fight whatever it was. "Let's go then!"
We hurried to the thick forests on the very edge of town near the bottom of a cliff. Unfortunately, Keiko, Botan, and Yukina didn't want to be left behind. When we were teleported near the location, none of us could sense any energy source and that worried the teenage Koenma very much. He started pacing quickly again while the rest of us, Hiei, Yusuke, Kuwabara and I, looked around for any clues.
Amidst Koenma's pacing, he stopped suddenly and yelled, "There it is!" He pointed toward the bushes.
Yusuke launched toward the bush and looked around. "Where is it?"
I walked toward Yusuke. I just barely felt the weak demonic energy. I looked down on the ground and saw a tiny black ball of fur right next to Yusuke's feet. "Yusuke step back a couple of feet," I said in a calm and stern tone; who knows what it was or what it could do. Yusuke looked down, saw it, and complied. I slowly crouched down and stared at it. It was breathing, but it was hardly noticeable because of it's dark fur. Everyone crowded around me, looking at whatever it was. I carefully stroked it without it waking up. The fur was so soft and it was warm, but when I took my hand off there was some sort of residue on my hand. I flipped my hand over and saw that there was blood. This little demon probably only came here to hide and recuperate, I thought. I was going to gently pick it up and put it in the special cage that Koenma brought, but somebody just had to break the tense silence.
It wasn't Koenma warning me to be careful or telling me not to do it at all either.
"Aw, it's so cute!" It was Kuwabara.
The tiny ball of fur whipped around, bit my hand, and ran off to another bush. I held on to the wound with my other hand and gave Kuwabara a glare, as did everyone else (except Yukina). We were lucky it only ran to another bush since it was probably too hurt to run any farther. Well, at least, I thought we were lucky. When we move the bush's branches, there was as small, narrow, burrow.
"Aw, man!" Yusuke yelled. "You just had to yell, didn't you?!"
"It was the truth!" Kuwabara retorted. Yusuke punched him right in the jaw. Yukina cringed from the violence and Hiei glared at the two delinquents.
"Would everyone be quiet?" I asked. "It won't come out with all of this racket going on." Yusuke and Kuwabara, who had his fist raised, ready to throw a punch at Yusuke, calmed down to save it for another time. I looked at the entrance of the burrow, devising a plan to get whatever it was out without harming it any farther.
"Well, let's just get it out then," Kuwabara said. He pushed me out of the way and shoved his arm down in the burrow. His triumphant smile quickly turned to one of in pain. "OW!" He yanked his arm out of the burrow along with whatever demon it was.
The demon landed on Yusuke's face and it quickly jumped away before an angry Yusuke could grab it. We quickly surrounded it so it wouldn't have anywhere to run. It was a tiny black long-haired fox with its big ears and its five tails tipped with dark red. The fur around its bright silver eyes faded into white. It was barely standing on its own and blood was dripping onto the ground beneath it. It whimpered and it was wheezing.
"What was the big deal in biting me you little--!"
The tiny kit got startled and turned to face Kuwabara. It started gagging and then it spat dark red liquid on Kuwabara's chest. It then ran between his legs when he was distracted, but, fortunately, Keiko had her sweater ready and grabbed it. It struggled even though it was doing more harm to itself. I helped Keiko and we put it in Koenma's cage. It tested the spirit energy walls by pressing on it with its paws.
We all surrounded the cage, looking at it. It was scared of us. Its ears were pressed to the sides of it's head, its eyes were wide with worry, it kept its head low and its tails were tucked between its legs. It looked pathetic and weak. "Aw." The girls had sympathy for the thing even if it was a demon.
"That's right! We caught you! You shouldn't mess with the great--!" Kuwabara yelled before he was interrupted by Hiei.
"Hey, baka. Your shirt is smoking," he said in his usual monotone voice.
Kuwabara looked at his shirt, as did all of us, and it really was smoking with a low hissing noise. Kuwabara panicked and took off his blue uniform shirt and threw it on the ground to leave him in a white sleeveless shirt. After a few minutes the hissing stopped and the smoke ceased. Kuwabara carefully picked up his uniform by the shoulders. It revealed a large hole where the dark red liquid was and it also dissolve the back of the uniform.
"It spat out acid?" I asked.
"I know what it is!" Koenma yelled. He looked back at the kit in the cage, who had curled up back into a tiny ball, with wide brown eyes. "I thought that they were extinct! I can't believe I found one! Maybe Father won't be so mad at me if I--."
"Well?" Yusuke asked, interrupting Koenma. "What the hell is it?"
"It's a blood fox!"
"Ow! Ow!" Kuwabara yelled. We all looked at Kuwabara and saw the he was hitting his chest. When he quieted down and stopped hitting his chest, the front of his shirt had disintegrated and there was a small burn on his chest and hands.
"That's their acidic blood!" Koenma yelled. "They spit up their blood through an organ in their chest which adds another component from their body to make it acidic and then they spit it out onto their enemy! They usually aim for the eyes so it can dissolve them from their skulls!"
Kuwabara turned blue from hearing that.
We quickly teleported back to Koenma's office where the cage brought to the healing room so it could recover. We discussed what we should do about it an quickly came to a conclusion. It stays with Koenma until it's fully recovered and then it gets returned to the demon realm. Koenma didn't see the need to keep it any longer than it had to. As for how it got here, he thought that there might have been an accidental tear from the demon realm to the human realm and it took advantage of it.
With that settled we all went home. Of course, it wouldn't be the last that we would hear about the blood fox.
Hilo again. How did you all like it. I tried to keep the characters in character as much as I could. For example, I knew Kuwabara was stupid and could get riled up easily, but I wasn't sure if he would attack a cute little kit that was wounded. I probably should have left that to Yusuke. Oh well.
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." -- Marilyn Monroe
