Chapter 9- Werewolf Meets Girl
Tanetris closed the door, still facing the building, lost in thought. There was something about that AC girl. He was quite certain that all was not as it appeared with her. He could hear her heartbeat quicken and see a slight blush in her cheeks when she looked closely at his face. Of course, if he went by shoujo manga's guidance, it would mean not only she, but also most likely one of her two friends had fallen in love with him, and he would invariably fall in love with the third, causing a hopeless love-polygon...
And that's why I only read shoujo manga in small doses, he thought.
Tanetris shook the thought away. There was time enough for figuring it out later, there was still something he had left to do. Glancing up at the sky, the werewolf judged that there was still a good hour or two before sunset. That should give me plenty of time, he said to himself as he turned around, barring any compli.... Oh shit.
Tanetris froze, for standing on the steps to the building was the six-tailed kitsune, a foxy grin plastered across her face. If there was one thing a MegaTokian knew, it was that a kitsune taking a personal interest in you could turn out one of two ways: very very good, or very very bad, and the more tails the kitsune had, the worse the bad could be...
"Soooo....what's howlin' wolfie?"
The werewolf gulped silently, "Hi, I'm Tanetris.. And you are?"
"Karu," the kitsune smiled with perfect harmless innocence.
"It's nice to meet you, Karu. Been enjoying the show?"
A short giggle escaped from Karu, "Oh, you're quite the entertaining one, Mr. Tanetris. From life-or-death battle to a high-speed chase, and even romance! Something for everyone! I think you may just be my new special project."
Tanetris gulped a little louder this time. Karu slid closer to him, five of her tails wrapping around him as softly as a lovers' embrace, though it could quickly change to as deadly as a boa constrictor, and her sixth tail came up under his chin.
"Now, now," she said silkily. "There's no need to be scared of lil' ol' me. You know what they say, a kitsune taking a personal interest in you can be very bad, or oh so very good. Don't you want it to be good, Tannie?"
"Y-y-y-yes, of course..," he stuttered briefly. He hated the nickname Tannie, but decided this wasn't the time to bring it up.
The grin spread back across the kitsune's face, her tails withdrew, and she did a backflip down the steps before saying, "Excellent! Now then, Tannie, where is this great adventure taking us next?"
After a moment's hesitation, Tanetris regained some of his composure. After all, a six-tailed kitsune may be powerful, but so was a werewolf, particularly one who was blessed by and who carried a sword enfused with the spirit of Almighty Pirogoeth.
"We're going to my house to pick up a few things, then we're going to find that other werewolf. You hungry?" he asked as he started off across the street. The grin never budged from her face.
*******
*sniff* *sniff* Smells good. "Uuuhh..."
There are definitely worse things than waking to the smell of fresh tea. But this was a little worse because of him still recovering from the several slashes the girl gave him.
Ite! That smarts. Hey, if there's tea, that would mean that the girl's awake. Yup, those are definitely the sounds of someone rummaging in the kitchen.
"Good Morning!" Spacy said, waving an arm above the couch. The kitchen part was located behind it, so he couldn't see anything yet.
"Good morning," came the girl's voice.
A very pretty voice, when she's not shouting and being pissed at me.
"Is it okay to peek? The view of the TV ain't particularly interesting." Spacy said again.
"As if I would be more interesting, but you can look. Want a cup of tea?" said the girl.
Hmm, that sounded a bit forced. Not really a social person it seems. Oh well, let's take a look at who prolly is going to bash my head in no time at all.
Wow, even more stunning from up close. But there's something off.
"You look a bit wasted, especially with my blood on you. You're welcome to use the shower to freshen up. Don't worry, it's clean. And there's probably some clothes that would fit you more than me in the drawers of my closet."
"I've been through some of your closet already, I'm sorry for that. But I'm not sure I want to wear the stuff you're talking about. I ain't sure I want to know what happened with it. Here's your tea."
That was cause for a sweatdrop on Spacy's face.
Heh, she already checked that. Clever girl. Must have noticed some of my partner's stuff too then. That must've made me look like a hentai. Oh well, don't want to get into that.
"Eh, it's probably not what you think, but I ain't getting into that now. Don't worry about the clothes, you can use them safely. Thanks for the tea."
"You're welcome. So, how come you're living by yourself. And I don't mean alone, but outside the community. This place is in the middle of nowhere, judging from the view."
"Don't like the crowds. Cuts in on my relaxing time."
"Is that why you're not even enlisted at the Board of Werewolves? You do know that not supposed to happen? I mean, last thing they want is a lone wolf."
"Just didn't want to join them, less relaxing time. They were pestering me for a long time after that, but then they got scared."
"Scared?..."
"I'll keep that my business for now. Gomen."
"That's okay. I'll go for that shower now. You'll probably need one too, since you're actually the source of the blood."
And with that, she walked off, back into Spacy's room, since that's where the shower was attached too.
Hmm, that went pretty smoothly, apart from the last bit. She ain't very social, that much is certain. And I'm still not sure what she is. Definitely a supernatural cat of some sort, but not any of the ones that are noticeable.
Oh, well. I don't think she's going to be sharing secrets this soon. Especially since I blew of that last answer. That should've made her suspicious. Heck, I still don't even know her name.
With that conclusion, Spacy walked over to the kitchen and went to the mirror.
(He had several hanging in his house, his partner tended to like them. And anything to calm her when she's visiting.)
Well, looking back at Spacy through the mirror was a face of course. Blond hair just a little longer than short, blue eyes and what Spacy thought a fairly attractive face.
(Just a little secret, he mostly didn't mind the mirrors too.)
The slashes at his face were almost completely healed now, just leaving some minor scars. Those would be gone in a day's time. Hmmm, but the girl was right, his face and hair was still blood-covered and so were his clothes. Even his necklace endured some. He would have to clean up the crystals on that.
After that Spacy walked back to his room. The shower was well running, so it would be safe, as long as he avoided going into the bathroom. But there was something odd.
Hmm, strange. What's that sound. It's faint, but I can definitely hear it over the shower's noise. Huh, talking? Ah, must be the girl talking to herself. Nothing to worry about, or worth confronting her with. She'll prolly just be embarrassed. Bet you it's a better way of thinking stuff over than having internal monologues like me. At least you can hear yourself thinking.
Spacy realized he was going to have to deal with a lot of past and coming events now. He was dragged into this thing. His Lady still wanted him to check out what's happening. Spacy would see later if the girl knew anything about what's happening, but if she'd be unwilling to talk, then that would have to do. At least he was in her company.
Walking back to the room, he sat on the couch and turned on the TV.
"Now let's get back to our reporter that is live at the docks where yesterday a huge fight broke out. Witnesses state that the source of the commotion could be traced back to the Board of Werewolves..."
Just like any normal day in MegaTokyo. Boring.
*******
After the door was shut, AC quickly grabbed all the remaining pocky and hid it where Na-chan wouldn't be able to find it. That way the sugar would eventually wear off and things would be at least relatively normal.
She didn't return to the computer right away, though, instead she paused to think things over.
Okay, she thought, we're pretty much stuck here. We have a place to stay for now, but we're probably going to run out of money soon. So, that means we'll probably have to go find some sort of job. No point in talking to Na-chan until she's off her sugar/Shinji high, same goes for T-ko and her Gundam wing. So that just leaves me for now...
She thought it over for a few minutes, then came up with an idea.
With all this fighting and competition going on, there's got to be someone who'd pay for some Author Omnipotence tricks. All I need to do is make it known to the right people...
She got on the computer and started looking around for a good target.
Hey, there's that kitsune again. Looks like she's with a werewolf... Hey! That's Tanetris!
She didn't want to cause any more trouble for Tanetris, since he'd been so nice, but the kitsune could certainly provide some fun.
"A challenge, then..." she said aloud to herself. After typing, editing, and retyping, she finally had a good plan. She proofread it for the umpteenth time, then hit "enter". This had better not miss...
Outside, a sudden gust of wind knocked over a wooden sign, which crashed into a fruit stand, sending it rolling down the street. It picked up speed, heading straight for the kitsune.
CRASH!
The impact sent fruit flying in all directions. Across the street the scattered fruit and pieces of fruit created a clever message for anyone who cared to look:
"Plot manipulation by Author Omnipotence- see AC."
"Now that ought to get someone's attention..".
*******
Neko frowned to herself as the warm water dripped down and splashed onto the floor. He had avoided her last question. So he too was hiding something.
"So then I'm not going to trust him just yet. He'll have to prove himself."
"Also…remind myself to get him some cologne or something, anything. The smell is driving me crazy X_x"
After a while she turned the showerhead off, and stepped out to grab a fluffy pink towel.
"He is a strange one isn't he?"
She glanced up to see a giant wall to wall mirror hanging in front of her.
"Of course it figures. A werewolf that's after looks."
Dark eyes, too big for her face stared back at her with their glowing intensity. Suddenly she was very annoyed at her own reflection.
She changed back into her cat form, and with one swipe knocked the mirror onto the floor. The broken shards flew up in a shower of shattered rain. The lights reflected off of it, as tiny broken pieces of rainbow danced upon the white walls.
Neko her dark hair dripping droplets of water on the floor stepped into the werewolf's closet. She grabbed a stripped green shirt, and a pair of black pants ignoring the other assorted knick-knacks in the closet.
"This is way too big. I need a belt =_= the pants are going to fall down"
Stalking out to the living room, back in her bad mood due to the mirror and the clothes she stood behind the couch fixing her eyes on the TV.
"The police are now investigating more deeply of the fights mentioned before. The Board of Werewolves has agreed to cooperate even though their PR spokeswolf states 'The board has no comments right now.' And today's lucky numbers are…."
She growled to herself. The board was going to kill her. It seemed that security and everything was much stricter now. She had already gotten de-promoted. Neko didn't want to think of what else they could do to her.
It was only if they found out she was the one behind it. Nobody would have really noticed that much. Unless this shipment had been really important the forms would have been lost in a sea of other forms. The shipment had been important though, and the forms weren't with her. They were in the folders on the dock…with the guards.
The guy was watching the TV with a glazed look in his eyes, like he wasn't actually paying much attention to the content. It's not like she was going to have a choice now. She would have to tell him.
She swung herself around, and plopped right next to him.
"We have a slight problem…"
(Hmmm…I hope the wolf will help me, and if he doesn't they I'm a dead cat. Oh well I thought today would be a lot more exciting.)
Tanetris closed the door, still facing the building, lost in thought. There was something about that AC girl. He was quite certain that all was not as it appeared with her. He could hear her heartbeat quicken and see a slight blush in her cheeks when she looked closely at his face. Of course, if he went by shoujo manga's guidance, it would mean not only she, but also most likely one of her two friends had fallen in love with him, and he would invariably fall in love with the third, causing a hopeless love-polygon...
And that's why I only read shoujo manga in small doses, he thought.
Tanetris shook the thought away. There was time enough for figuring it out later, there was still something he had left to do. Glancing up at the sky, the werewolf judged that there was still a good hour or two before sunset. That should give me plenty of time, he said to himself as he turned around, barring any compli.... Oh shit.
Tanetris froze, for standing on the steps to the building was the six-tailed kitsune, a foxy grin plastered across her face. If there was one thing a MegaTokian knew, it was that a kitsune taking a personal interest in you could turn out one of two ways: very very good, or very very bad, and the more tails the kitsune had, the worse the bad could be...
"Soooo....what's howlin' wolfie?"
The werewolf gulped silently, "Hi, I'm Tanetris.. And you are?"
"Karu," the kitsune smiled with perfect harmless innocence.
"It's nice to meet you, Karu. Been enjoying the show?"
A short giggle escaped from Karu, "Oh, you're quite the entertaining one, Mr. Tanetris. From life-or-death battle to a high-speed chase, and even romance! Something for everyone! I think you may just be my new special project."
Tanetris gulped a little louder this time. Karu slid closer to him, five of her tails wrapping around him as softly as a lovers' embrace, though it could quickly change to as deadly as a boa constrictor, and her sixth tail came up under his chin.
"Now, now," she said silkily. "There's no need to be scared of lil' ol' me. You know what they say, a kitsune taking a personal interest in you can be very bad, or oh so very good. Don't you want it to be good, Tannie?"
"Y-y-y-yes, of course..," he stuttered briefly. He hated the nickname Tannie, but decided this wasn't the time to bring it up.
The grin spread back across the kitsune's face, her tails withdrew, and she did a backflip down the steps before saying, "Excellent! Now then, Tannie, where is this great adventure taking us next?"
After a moment's hesitation, Tanetris regained some of his composure. After all, a six-tailed kitsune may be powerful, but so was a werewolf, particularly one who was blessed by and who carried a sword enfused with the spirit of Almighty Pirogoeth.
"We're going to my house to pick up a few things, then we're going to find that other werewolf. You hungry?" he asked as he started off across the street. The grin never budged from her face.
There are definitely worse things than waking to the smell of fresh tea. But this was a little worse because of him still recovering from the several slashes the girl gave him.
Ite! That smarts. Hey, if there's tea, that would mean that the girl's awake. Yup, those are definitely the sounds of someone rummaging in the kitchen.
"Good Morning!" Spacy said, waving an arm above the couch. The kitchen part was located behind it, so he couldn't see anything yet.
"Good morning," came the girl's voice.
A very pretty voice, when she's not shouting and being pissed at me.
"Is it okay to peek? The view of the TV ain't particularly interesting." Spacy said again.
"As if I would be more interesting, but you can look. Want a cup of tea?" said the girl.
Hmm, that sounded a bit forced. Not really a social person it seems. Oh well, let's take a look at who prolly is going to bash my head in no time at all.
Wow, even more stunning from up close. But there's something off.
"You look a bit wasted, especially with my blood on you. You're welcome to use the shower to freshen up. Don't worry, it's clean. And there's probably some clothes that would fit you more than me in the drawers of my closet."
"I've been through some of your closet already, I'm sorry for that. But I'm not sure I want to wear the stuff you're talking about. I ain't sure I want to know what happened with it. Here's your tea."
That was cause for a sweatdrop on Spacy's face.
Heh, she already checked that. Clever girl. Must have noticed some of my partner's stuff too then. That must've made me look like a hentai. Oh well, don't want to get into that.
"Eh, it's probably not what you think, but I ain't getting into that now. Don't worry about the clothes, you can use them safely. Thanks for the tea."
"You're welcome. So, how come you're living by yourself. And I don't mean alone, but outside the community. This place is in the middle of nowhere, judging from the view."
"Don't like the crowds. Cuts in on my relaxing time."
"Is that why you're not even enlisted at the Board of Werewolves? You do know that not supposed to happen? I mean, last thing they want is a lone wolf."
"Just didn't want to join them, less relaxing time. They were pestering me for a long time after that, but then they got scared."
"Scared?..."
"I'll keep that my business for now. Gomen."
"That's okay. I'll go for that shower now. You'll probably need one too, since you're actually the source of the blood."
And with that, she walked off, back into Spacy's room, since that's where the shower was attached too.
Hmm, that went pretty smoothly, apart from the last bit. She ain't very social, that much is certain. And I'm still not sure what she is. Definitely a supernatural cat of some sort, but not any of the ones that are noticeable.
Oh, well. I don't think she's going to be sharing secrets this soon. Especially since I blew of that last answer. That should've made her suspicious. Heck, I still don't even know her name.
With that conclusion, Spacy walked over to the kitchen and went to the mirror.
(He had several hanging in his house, his partner tended to like them. And anything to calm her when she's visiting.)
Well, looking back at Spacy through the mirror was a face of course. Blond hair just a little longer than short, blue eyes and what Spacy thought a fairly attractive face.
(Just a little secret, he mostly didn't mind the mirrors too.)
The slashes at his face were almost completely healed now, just leaving some minor scars. Those would be gone in a day's time. Hmmm, but the girl was right, his face and hair was still blood-covered and so were his clothes. Even his necklace endured some. He would have to clean up the crystals on that.
After that Spacy walked back to his room. The shower was well running, so it would be safe, as long as he avoided going into the bathroom. But there was something odd.
Hmm, strange. What's that sound. It's faint, but I can definitely hear it over the shower's noise. Huh, talking? Ah, must be the girl talking to herself. Nothing to worry about, or worth confronting her with. She'll prolly just be embarrassed. Bet you it's a better way of thinking stuff over than having internal monologues like me. At least you can hear yourself thinking.
Spacy realized he was going to have to deal with a lot of past and coming events now. He was dragged into this thing. His Lady still wanted him to check out what's happening. Spacy would see later if the girl knew anything about what's happening, but if she'd be unwilling to talk, then that would have to do. At least he was in her company.
Walking back to the room, he sat on the couch and turned on the TV.
"Now let's get back to our reporter that is live at the docks where yesterday a huge fight broke out. Witnesses state that the source of the commotion could be traced back to the Board of Werewolves..."
Just like any normal day in MegaTokyo. Boring.
She didn't return to the computer right away, though, instead she paused to think things over.
Okay, she thought, we're pretty much stuck here. We have a place to stay for now, but we're probably going to run out of money soon. So, that means we'll probably have to go find some sort of job. No point in talking to Na-chan until she's off her sugar/Shinji high, same goes for T-ko and her Gundam wing. So that just leaves me for now...
She thought it over for a few minutes, then came up with an idea.
With all this fighting and competition going on, there's got to be someone who'd pay for some Author Omnipotence tricks. All I need to do is make it known to the right people...
She got on the computer and started looking around for a good target.
Hey, there's that kitsune again. Looks like she's with a werewolf... Hey! That's Tanetris!
She didn't want to cause any more trouble for Tanetris, since he'd been so nice, but the kitsune could certainly provide some fun.
"A challenge, then..." she said aloud to herself. After typing, editing, and retyping, she finally had a good plan. She proofread it for the umpteenth time, then hit "enter". This had better not miss...
Outside, a sudden gust of wind knocked over a wooden sign, which crashed into a fruit stand, sending it rolling down the street. It picked up speed, heading straight for the kitsune.
CRASH!
The impact sent fruit flying in all directions. Across the street the scattered fruit and pieces of fruit created a clever message for anyone who cared to look:
"Plot manipulation by Author Omnipotence- see AC."
"Now that ought to get someone's attention..".
"So then I'm not going to trust him just yet. He'll have to prove himself."
"Also…remind myself to get him some cologne or something, anything. The smell is driving me crazy X_x"
After a while she turned the showerhead off, and stepped out to grab a fluffy pink towel.
"He is a strange one isn't he?"
She glanced up to see a giant wall to wall mirror hanging in front of her.
"Of course it figures. A werewolf that's after looks."
Dark eyes, too big for her face stared back at her with their glowing intensity. Suddenly she was very annoyed at her own reflection.
She changed back into her cat form, and with one swipe knocked the mirror onto the floor. The broken shards flew up in a shower of shattered rain. The lights reflected off of it, as tiny broken pieces of rainbow danced upon the white walls.
Neko her dark hair dripping droplets of water on the floor stepped into the werewolf's closet. She grabbed a stripped green shirt, and a pair of black pants ignoring the other assorted knick-knacks in the closet.
"This is way too big. I need a belt =_= the pants are going to fall down"
Stalking out to the living room, back in her bad mood due to the mirror and the clothes she stood behind the couch fixing her eyes on the TV.
"The police are now investigating more deeply of the fights mentioned before. The Board of Werewolves has agreed to cooperate even though their PR spokeswolf states 'The board has no comments right now.' And today's lucky numbers are…."
She growled to herself. The board was going to kill her. It seemed that security and everything was much stricter now. She had already gotten de-promoted. Neko didn't want to think of what else they could do to her.
It was only if they found out she was the one behind it. Nobody would have really noticed that much. Unless this shipment had been really important the forms would have been lost in a sea of other forms. The shipment had been important though, and the forms weren't with her. They were in the folders on the dock…with the guards.
The guy was watching the TV with a glazed look in his eyes, like he wasn't actually paying much attention to the content. It's not like she was going to have a choice now. She would have to tell him.
She swung herself around, and plopped right next to him.
"We have a slight problem…"
(Hmmm…I hope the wolf will help me, and if he doesn't they I'm a dead cat. Oh well I thought today would be a lot more exciting.)