Chapter one
The awakening of the sleeping fox
My story began long ago… I cannot remember myself the exact time. But what does time mean when you're immortal? When you have assisted the blooming of the beautiful cherry trees more than ten thousand times. When everything changes except you.
Words like friendship, love, death are nothing but words to me. How I wish to know their meaning, to know more than this empty hole in my chest. I've been alone all my meaningless life, I've experienced solitude, sadness, anger… and hate.
I wished so many times to be a regular, normal human instead of the vessel of a demon fox. Even though I'm hundred per cent human, I would always be gazed as if I was hundred per cent demon. And after a while… I believed myself to be one. And eventually, after so many years believing so, I became one.
But that was long ago, in a cold night of winter when everything I thought it was changed. That time I was only a sixteen orphan, naïve and carefree, without knowing the true. When I finally learned it the hard way, I let myself to be controlled by the nine-tail fox completely. After that outburst I faded deep into the darkness, and after that I faded into a long, long slumber.
"WHAT THE HELL! Can't a guy sleep nowadays without being interrupted?!", I yelled on the top of my lungs.
I looked around in the dark hole I found myself hiding. I couldn't see anything, and suddenly I realized that it was hard for me to breathe (Being immortal doesn't mean you can breathe without air. I am still a human!). Totally forgetting about my anger of being rudely awake, I dig myself out of there. Frustrated, almost dying, I desperately reached the outside, only to hit my head into something extremely hard. I yelped in pain, at least I was breathing. It was still dark as the ebony night so I reached for the thing I had hit previously and analyzed it. It felt like cold and decayed wood. Oh, that's right! I fell asleep under a small temple in the mountains. I wonder what the commotion is about. Don't people respect sacred grounds anymore?
I recalled there was a small door that leads to one of the rooms of the temple. Anxious I started to look for the exit. Regardless of the demon inside me being a fox (a angered and blood lusted fox may I add), I was still afraid of the dark. I sneezed due to the ten thick layers of dust. Dirt covered my body, and yet I didn't bring myself to clean it, I was more worried about being wandering in the dark temple. I could tell it was abandoned a long time ago, but I couldn't guess. For me it felt like three days, but being immortal messed up with my inner clock. I lingered in the dark getting more and more scared and yet I was smiling like an idiot (I smile when I'm nervous). Suddenly my foot tripped and I fell forward. The good news was I found the exit. The bad news is… I totally wrecked the temples' door. I wasn't known by my gracefulness; fortunately for me the Kyubi's power was very useful for times like these. I could say, the best of being a demon's vessel is the ability to never get sick and heal amazingly fast, beside the immortality, which had a good and a bad side itself. I brushed my blonde hair easing the pain of my newly bump in my head. (And that makes two!).
I looked up to gaze the sky, which I found myself to be missing a lot. Then I had the biggest surprise in my life. I could not believe my eyes, when I saw that the trees, flowers, animals, tranquility and every green had been turned into a strange, loud, big and grey looking city.