The Fox and the Cat (Ch. 4)
Chapter 4- Dreams of Revenge and Love
Blair jerked out of sleep.
(That was a weird dream...) She scratched her head. (Bruce isn't a
kitsune... Right?)
She got out of bed to find that nobody was home. She found a note on
the table.
"At school. Don't break anything or let Soul in the
house." -Maka
(Why would she not want-...) She instantly remembered what happened
last night. (Oh...)
At Shibusen
Bruce rubbed his head, still sore from the "Maka Chop" he recieved
this morning.
Flashback
Maka opened the door happy as could be. "Hey Bruce! I made you some
extra breakfast-" Then she noticed what was in front of her. She had
assumed the obvious.
Blair had slept with him.
She silently nudged over Blair, who oddly didn't seem to wake up and
dragged a fully clothed Bruce out of the room. After she got into the
hallway, she leaned Bruce against the wall. "Hey. Bruce." Bruce opened
his eyes half-way. "Huh? Why am I-" He suddenly put his hands to his
head and breathed what seemed a sigh of relief.
"You're worrying about your hair right now when you should be worried
about where I found you?" Maka spat with a fiery aura surrounding her.
"Maka Chop!" she pulled out of of her school textbook and crashed it
down on Bruce's skull.
He woke up out of his unconsious state with Maka telling him it's time
to go.
"C'mon silly, hurry up!" she yelled from outside.
End Flashback
(Where did she find-) He remembered what happened last night with
Blair. (Oh yeah... I hope she doesn't remember...)
As the final bell rung, and Maka had to stay for reasons unknown to
him, he walked home by himself.
"What's on your mind Bruce?" Azami asked as she slid out of her weapon
form.
"Nothing..." Bruce whispered.
"Bull!" She slapped him upside the head. "Now tell me what's wrong!"
Bruce explained the events of last night.
"So she may know?" Azami asked slightly puzzled.
"It's not something I want to hide but... People will think I'm a
freak." Bruce said. "Like back then..."
Flashback
Azami was only 8 at the time. She didn't get what her mother said when
she told her to ignore the new father and son that had come into the
village.
"Don't even look in their direction. They're monsters."
Azami had accidently bumped into the boy, who was the same age as her.
"Hey. You." she said bluntly in an attempt to get his attention.
"Hm? What do you want?" he asked. The look on his face seemed that he
was suprised to be getting attention.
"Are you a monster?" she asked innocently.
The boy said nothing as he got closer to her. Barely a few inches from
her face, he let his ears and tail slide out. "I am a kitsune, a child
of the fox. A mistake. A freak. A monster." The boy put extra emphesis
on monster.
"And monsters are supposed to be hated by people like you." the boy
whispered as he walked off.
Azami couldn't help but follow. The boy acted like he'd been hated all
his life. And she couldn't help but to care for him.
She peeked around the corner as the boy sat on the bench in the park.
The bushes rustled. He turns around to see nothing. She moves closer
as the boy reveals his fox ears and tail. Suddenly, a group of boys
jump out of the bushes. The boy jumps off the bench and takes a step
back.
"This is our park!" one boy yelled.
"Monster don't belong here!" another boy yells.
"Hey!" Azami runs in front of the boy. "Back off!"
"And what are you going to do about it, spoiled little princess?" a
boy asks.
"Grrr!" She hated it when people did that. Calling her that because
her dad was mayor.
"I'll show you what I'll do!" Azami yelled. She switched to her weapon
form and landed in the boy's arms.
A quiver appears on the boy's back. "Shoot me." she whispers in his
mind as a arrow loads itself on the string. It had a small red bag at
the tip.
The boy took the arrow and fired.
An explosion of purple gas enveloved the boys. They ran out of the
smoke crying.
"A powder combonation that irritates the eyes." Azami said as she left
her weapon form. "We can be friends, right?"
"I guess." the boy shrugs as his ears and tail hide themselves.
Azami donks him upside the head. "Idiot."
"Azami!" A large man runs up to the two.
"Dad? What's up?" She asks.
"It's the boy's father." He said. "He's dead." He whispers in her ear.
"Oh my god. What was your name?" "Bruce." "Bruce... Come on." She
holds out her hand and Bruce takes it.
"Dad!" Bruce runs to his father's dead body. "There was a note
attached to the pitchfork that killed him. It said something you
should hear." "What?"
"Death to this man and this boy."
End flashback.
"I still don't know who killed him." Bruce whispered, a tear falling
down his face.
"Hey. You got us." Azami said. "Yeah." Akubi added.
"You're right." Bruce said as he arrived at the door to his new
apartment. He takes the key and unlocks the door.
"And I will find them." He opens the door.
"And will regret picking on a kitsune." He slams the door shut.
The sound echoes down the hall.
(A.N. Wow... Writing this is getting funner by the second!)
Rate and review! Ty! -Foxboy466