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::Tail 1::
It was a good life, if simple.
She was able to tell where the opening to the Outside was by the scents, and the vague sensation of light through her closed eye-lids, and she was able to identify her litter mates and her dam by scent as well. She could even tell when her dam had been Outside, by the multitude of scents she picked up.
Her life had a predictability about it. Her dam would leave, and be gone for a while, and when she returned, she would smell of Outside, and would feed them. If any one of them needed extra care, their dam would provide it; she was good to them.
Then, one day, their dam was gone for longer than usual. When she finally returned, her movements didn't sound right, and she smelled not only of some strange new creature, but also of a heavy coppery scent as well. That had been the last time their dam had ventured out; she stopped moving and grown cold soon after that.
Eventually hunger had started to pinch at her and her litter mates, without their dam to care for them. One by one all of the others had grown cold and stopped as well. She began to hate the smell of the strange creature that she some how knew had caused this change in her world.
If her dam hadn't smelled like the strange creature, she would never have grown cold and stopped and the horrible stench of Stopped wouldn't be filling her den.
Eventually, with hunger pinching at her she buried her nose in the tainted fur of her kin and slept. She couldn't remember, after that.
::A/N::
Fairy-chan: You'd better explain.
Devil-chan: OK, OK. It's like this. In the title I did mean 'tail' and not 'tale'. It's a play on words you see. This story is about the significance of the nine tails of Kyubi (who is a female in this story!). The premise is that each of the nine tails represents a horrible death and the last death is what drove her to give up her innocence and become a demon. Just wait, if I get around to writing them, the other chapters will make more sense.
Angel-chan: Oh! So every chapter is the 'tale' of one 'tail'! Hee hee! I get it!
Fairy-chan: ::Rolls eyes::
Devil-chan: Exactly! Well, ja, minna-san.
Fairy-chan: Yeah, ja.
Angel-chan: Ja ne!