Chapter 3 "Far, far, far away from home"


All characters belong to their respective owners, the original Urusei Yatsura belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

In this chapter I decided to go with a third person narrator, I will probably continue with the first person narrations in future chapters

Enjoy


"That bastard!" An older bespectacled man in his 40s yelled. "He's a delinquent, a social pariah who rebels against the pre-established rules that enables a society to live peacefully! A renegade who would willingly invite chaos and destruction in order to destabilize the fragile balance of school-life! In brevity, I tell you my fellow colleagues: HE"S A MENACE!" the man yelled while addressing his colleagues, all eating by a lonely ramen stand on the streets of Tomobiki.

This man's given name was Satoshi, but to the students in Tomobiki High, his colleagues and nearly all of his acquaintances he was known as Megane, a nickname given to him due to his memorable glases. He is a social studies and Japanese history teacher, still single and quite disliked by all his students. But one of his students has earned his complete hatred, and only because he evoked a memory of a person who had earned all of his hatred in the past and robbed him of the little happiness his life had. 3 other teachers were accompanying him from Tomobiki High, who were also his friends since they were in high school. They were known as well by their nicknames: Perm, Kakugari, and Chibi.

Perm, who had always been the voice of reason in their small circle of friends and had become a modern Japanese teacher, was the one who spoke next. "Megane, aren't you over-reacting? It was only a harmless little prank."

"H-harmless! I was stuck in the bathroom for 5 HOURS Perm! And I know it was him! Only a complete monster, a demon, would commit such an unforgivable attack to my person!" The bespectacled teacher countered.

"Lay off the kid, Megane" Kakugari, the biggest and considered the muscle of the group, had become Tomobiki High's P.E. teacher. "You know that ever since he showed up, the school's gang problems disappeared. He may be a delinquent, but he's our delinquent. He's the only one who can protect the school and scare off all the other gangs from the other schools. Remember when that gang from the Taian Vo-tech tried to challenge Kitsune? The nurse thought they were run over by a steam roller, not beaten up by one, lone kid. HAHAHAHAHA" Kakugari heartily laughed as he downed a swig of beer. "Hell, if I could get him to join any of the martial arts clubs, we'd be unstoppable."

"You should be ashamed of yourself! You're actually ENCOURAGING his deviant behaviour? No, his kind must not be allowed to exist, they should be eradicated like the cockroaches that they are!"

"But Megane…" Last came the shortest of the group, aptly nicknamed Chibi, who was often seen with his best friend Kakugari. These days he was the school's science teacher. "…You're almost acting like we were talking about Ataru-GULP!" Too late did he realize his error, as he covered his mouth. Dead silence reigned in the small ramen cart, Kakugari and Perm looking expectantly to their side, awaiting for the reaction from Megane, even the cart's owner seemed nervous.

"How dare you…" He started low, his glasses shinning with an eerie, almost demonic glow, behind the lenses a look of pure hatred shone. "How dare you utter the name of HE-WHO-SHALL-NOT-BE-NAMED! T-That bastard! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM FOR WHAT HE DID!"

"Umm…" Megane stopped mid-rant and slowly turned to face the new speaker. It was the ramen cook. "I hope you don't mind me asking but, what did this guy do to you?"

"Hehehe…" Lowly Megane started chuckling, then it slowly escalated in intensity ". *Inhale* HA! " Megane all but spat at the cook's face, visibly scared. Then Megane sat down and regained a semblance of composure. "Over 20 years ago, that was when I saw her for the first time on television. A girl, with beautiful green hair, sparkling blue eyes, a beautiful body and a pure and innocent personality…however she had fallen in love with the most FOUL, DEBASED, EVIL, WICKED, PERVERTED MORON in the face of the Universe!" Megane started foaming at the mouth, but quickly changed back to normal. "*AHEM* As I was saying, this…" Megane cringed at envisioning the person he was speaking of "individual… For years had ignored the girl's advances and love, instead he chose to chase other girls, all the while avoiding the one who loved him unconditionally. However their…" Megane cringed once more " love stood test after test, and finally the worst thing that could ever happened occurred…" Megane took a deep breath and with all the sorrow, anger and hatred in his soul he yelled: "THAT BASTARD ATARU FINALLY MARRIED LUM-SAN! To think that even now she's being tortured by that foul cancer of our town, that inhuman cockroach, to be forced to bear HIS children, it makes want to…makes me want to…" Megane then turned and ran into the street, climbing a lamp post and ripping off his shirt and yelling into the night sky. "LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

The ramen cook could only stare at the absurdity of it all, he then turned to the other teachers who were quietly eating their meals.

"He…he's kind of obsessed, isn't he"

"A little, just a little." The trio answered simultaneously, not really taking much interest in his colleague's anxiety attack and continued eating.

"Ummm….excuse me…" A new, childlike voice broke the silence.

The teachers and the cook all turned to the new speaker only to find a small diminutive white fox wearing a red bib around it's neck wave to the older men.

"Hi" The little fox merely said. Upon seeing him in closer inspection, the three teachers recognized the little animal.

"Guys, isn't this…"

"Yeah, it's gotta be…"

"…Kitsune"

The little fox smiled. "Yeah, it's me!" The pure hearted fox. A tiny, wild fox who they have also meet in their younger years, though he was far more acquainted with Shinobu, the former Stormtroopers had taken a shine to his kind heart. Though the Stormtroopers had aged, the little kitsune remained mostly unchanged by the march of time, they only noticed the change in his fur color from light brown to snow white.

"…Though these days I have a name…" The little fox embarrassedly scratched the back of his head.

"Hey, that's right." Perm realized. "We never really bothered to ask your name all that time ago. Oh man, we're really sorry!"

"Huh?" The little fox tilted his head cutely. "Oh, back then I didn't have a name. So it's ok. But now that I'm a Myobu, I was given a name by Inari-sama."

"Ah. Congratulations Kitsune!" Kakugari cheered, embarrassing the little fox. "Oh wait, I guess we shouldn't call you Kitsune anymore, especially since someone else got that name." Kakugari mentioned to no one in particular.

"What's your name, then?" Chibi finally asked. The little fox puffed out his chest and answered. "You can call me Hikaru."

"That's a good name." Chibi said, while the other teachers merely nodded and agreed. The ramen cook decided not to think too hard about the talking fox that just arrived and how his customers were just taking this in stride, after what he just saw, it would be the best for the sake of his sanity.

"Say, what brings you here, Hikaru?" Perm asked, it was rare to see the little fox in Tomobiki, specially since he lived far away from town. As soon as Perm asked this, the little fox's mood suddenly dropped, remembering why he had come to this town. "Umm….you know how I said, I became a Myobu…?"

"A fox who's sworn to Inari's service?" Megane (who had finally gotten his frustrations out of his system) stated "A noble duty for one such as you."

The little fox merely nodded, still quite sad. "Well, me and my sempais, we had the task to look over a family under the direct protection of Inari-sama…and…" The little fox sniffled "I…I messed up…" he started crying quietly, not unlike a little boy who had broken a window and was ashamed of his actions. This started to have an effect on the other teachers as they took pity on the little fox.

"Hey hey, come on, don't cry." Kakugari patted the little fox's head in a fatherly manner. "Tell us what happened."

"Yeah, we'll help in what we can!" Perm cheered.

"You can count on us!" Chibi seconded his colleagues outburst.

"True, after all, we are all friends are we not?" Megane finished, taking a proud pose, while his colleagues all clapped.

"*sniff* *sniff* Thank you very much, everyone! *sniff*" Once the little fox settled down, he started his tale.

"Umm…Eighteen years ago, I finally became a Myobu, and Inari-sama had asked me to help look after a family blessed with her providence along with 8 other kitsune, the Aoki family in Fushimi, Kyoto."

"Aoki?" The Teachers repeated, suddenly quite uneasy. Megane's left eye was twitching.

"We were to help the family and help raise their children, acting like brothers and sisters or aunts and uncles depending on the case. But a couple of years ago, their first born, had abandoned Fushimi after a martial arts competition…"

"Wait…" Kakugari interrupted "…Don't tell me the kid lost, did he?"

"No, actually…he won. It was a worldwide competition with fighters from all around the world, and he was declared the strongest fighter in the whole world, we were all really proud of him…but then, he announced that since he was the strongest…that he had no reason to be a martial artist anymore…umm, in other words…"

"He retired…" Perm finished for the little fox "Umm…how old would this fellow be nowadays?"

The little fox sat on the floor and thought for a moment, doing the math mentally. Finally after a short while, he stood back up and answered.

"I think he'd be 16 years-old"

"And after he won that competition…then what happened?" Chibi asked eager to hear the rest of the story

"Well…His father said that he was at an age where he should pick his fiancée and marry, but he didn't want to marry yet, so they got into a fight. And one night he ran away…" The little fox sniffled a bit "Ever since…we've been looking for him all over Japan…all of us…" He quietly cried

"All nine of you?" Megane questioned, this seemed too grand a task for a mere 9 foxes in his opinion.

"Oh no, there are nine Myobu protecting the Aoki household, but there are over a thousand foxes under the service of the Aoki family"

The number was indeed staggering, and the tale was extremely surreal, which was actually common for Tomobiki, the epicenter of all things weird. However there was one question in the Teachers' minds.

"Hikaru…" Megane started, with a serious look in his face "Would you mind telling me the name of the boy you are looking for?"

"Ok" The little fox nodded "His name is Kenichi Aoki, but we call him-"


"-Ken! Master Ken! Please wake up!" Nu was yelling at the top of his speakers.

"Ow~! Anybody got the number of the meteor that just hit me?" The boy said dazed. He was currently upside down in a corner inside a crashed UFO, a small cat-like spherical, floating computer was trying to get his attention.

"Master Ken…" The gravity defying, feline themed computer assistant started "We have finally arrived."

"Ugh…where? Earth?" The young man picked himself up, a little shaken from the sudden, wild ride he had to endure.

"No, far from it actually." Nu hovered over to the escape hatch of the cruiser and with a digital command he unlocked it. "This is planet Oniboshi, Emi's home planet."

Ken crawled out of the wrecked spaceship to look at the view of the alien planet, rather shocked to learn that he was now marooned in a planet not even known to Earth! How the hell was he going to get back home? Ken's expression quickly changed when he considered this last bit of info: He was as far as humanly possible from home, far from any fox who would try to drag him home, far from his father and the forced omiai he would have to endure, far from the responsibilities of Earth, and in a planet potentially full of alien women who would fall for his exotic charms. Nu was checking the data of the Oni satellites in order to pinpoint his position with his built in GPS.

"Lord Moroboshi's home is a few clicks from this place to the west. We should hurry-"

"What's the rush?"

"P-pardon?" Nu looked nervously at the questionable human who was currently his companion and regretfully…his boss.

"It's a whole new world, new opportunities, new chances! I've never been to an alien planet before."

"Umm…Master Ken, technically, YOU are the alien here"

"Shut it!" Ken barked the order, Nu had little choice but to obey. "Now direct me to the nearest bar!"

"What! But Master Ken, my scanners indicate you are a minor! You shouldn't drink!"

"Yeah, when the barkeep asks you what my age is, the correct answer is 'old enough', capice?" Ken's eyes narrowed as he gave this new order.

"I really think we should-"

"CAPICE?" Ken all but growled, giving a decidedly feral scowl to the slightly frightened AI.

"I…understand" Nu surrendered, remembering his mistress's orders, to follow ALL of Ken's commands. Right now he was considering that may have been a mistake, one he could do nothing about since he was bound by his programming to follow all of Emi's commands to the letter. ALL OF THEM.

"Now take me to a bar Garfield"

"My name is Nu."

Ken merely stared at Nu, after a while he gave a defeated sigh. "Right this way, Master Ken…" And with that the duo made their way to the closest city to where they crash landed, the Oni capital.

To be continued