And we are back with the second chapter of the story, for this chapter we will look at the index side of things to see how Kamijou got himself into his current predicament. Much of it will be ice breaker interaction between the main couple to be. Before we begin I want to say thank you for the reviews, and as I said before constructive criticism is always welcome.
With that in mind as usual Index and Fate belong to Kamachi and Nasu respectively. Lets begin!
Chapter 2:Misfortune and Fox Girl?
Academy City, a walled off self sustaining sovereign city state located within the Tokyo Metropolitan Employment Area, the most advanced city in the world thirty years ahead of the rest, true to its name it contains every learning facility from kindergarten to universities and the like along side various laboratories divided into twenty three districts.
The population totals to 2.3 million people with 80% being students, aside from technological superiority the crown jewel of the city is its Power Curriculum Program, which utilizes mind manipulation and various drugs to grant youths special psychic powers, becoming what is known as an esper.
Espers are categorized by a level system ranging 0 to 5 with 5 being the strongest and only seven of them exist.
60% of espers are level 0 meaning no power, but even they emit what is known as a personal reality, charged by AIM diffusion field or An Involuntary Movement.
Touma Kamijou was a spiky haired ordinary high school student who was one of these level 0's, in fact he is the level 0 since he doesn't emit anything meaning no research material, the city would give him the lowest stipend which barely lets him get by.
It was evening and Touma was walking out of a convenience store with three grocery bags, two containing ingredients and the third one for his most important source of protein, eggs.
"Man I just barely made that sale, for all the rotten luck at least I got what I needed." He groaned.
One thing significant about Touma was his curse of constant bad luck, bad things always seem to happen to him a lot, earlier today he accidentally dropped his cash card into a sewer and had to register a new one, they yelled at him for being stupid, was hit by a stray rubber ball to the back of his head landing face first into the pavement, upon getting up he saw the panties of a random girl who by chance was standing by where he fell, to which she freaked out and kicked him in the dick, and in a rare moment of buying an ice cream sundae a bird flew by and shit on it, a typical day.
As he rounded a corner he was faced with the sight of three punk looking guys harassing what appeared to be a college age girl.
"Listen bitch, we had a deal, you entertain me and the guys and we stop messing up your things, you complied before, what's different now?"
"I'm sick and tired of you and your lackeys tormenting me Tonomaru I will not stand for your sick delusions!!"
The girl then spat in the face of the guy called Tonomaru, likely the leader.
"Pin her down fellas!!"
Before these thugs could close in and do anything they heard a voice.
"Hey stop!!"
All three including the girl looked over to where the voice came from and saw Touma standing there groceries in hand.
"Who the hell are you punk?"
"A bystander who can't stand the idea of bastards like you exerting some kind of power over others."
"You don't look so tough kid."
His hands lit on fire and in a swift motion sent a torrent of flames against Touma who immediately brought his right hand up.
SHATTER!!!
Like an illusion the fire disappears upon contact with the hand.
"What the, what level are you!!" Tonomaru demanded an answer.
"I'm just a level zero."
"Are you, fucking with me PISS ANT!!"
"Crap why did my opponent have to be a pyro kinetic esper with a fiery temper!"
"I'm a level 4 pyro kinetic dip shit." Tonomaru growled as flames erupted around his body.
Kamijou took a step back not noticing a random soft ball roll up behind him which he stepped on and fell backwards, doing so he accidentally released the bag containing eggs and it flew landing directly onto the lead thug, who was now covered in cracked eggs.
"My... my protein."
"FORGET THE SLUT BOYS, LETS KILL THE BASTARD!!!"
"Rotten luck!!"
And with that the chase was on, Touma quickly told the girl to book it and call Anti Skill before running of himself.
"I'm not gonna let you get away!!"
Tonomaru kept hurling fire at Touma who dodged and blocked every attempt.
Nightfall set and Touma found himself in a park and proceeded to call out.
"Help!!"
It was natural to call for assistance but since it was curfew very few people were out save for patrols.
He took a moment to catch his breath and started lamenting about his day and his own misfortune, he took too long though as he was now surrounded by Tonomaru and his gang.
"Alright asshole give up! The boys and I have you surrounded."
Touma held on tightly to his last two grocery bags and pleaded.
"Please can't we talk this out, this Kamijou only wants to go home with his groceries intact!!"
"You should have thought of that before you decided to cut into our business mr. wannabe hero, now we're gonna see you mangled to near death!!"
Tonomaru once again activated his ability while his lackeys pulled out various clubs and knives.
Touma put his hands up over his face fearing the worst, until he heard thudding noises, taking a peek he saw all the gang members were on the ground knocked out.
"Huh?"
He then looked forward and immediately felt his breath leave him, standing before him was arguably the most gorgeous girl he ever laid eyes on, she had a curvaceous figure clad in a blue kimono with a black sash, her bright bubblegum pink locks tied by a purple ribbon, thigh high blue stockings and old school sandals, and gold eyes that gave off almost a ethereal glow, but what struck him the most was the extra appendages she sported, fox ears and a tail.
Tamamo gave her new master a once over and while he may seem plain at first glance, upon further inspection he was actually very cute.
A small grin formed on her face as she began to speak.
"Congratulations, you now have a dependable vulpine wife from beyond the imperial tomb!!"
No words were spoken on Touma's end due to his daze and now she felt embarrassed.
"Um, you seem apprehensive, are you my master?"
Touma finally snapped out of it upon hearing the word master.
"Hold on, what do you mean master, and did you just say wife!!?"
"I mean you, you summoned me right?"
"Woah woah do you mean like a magic summon? Magic is not real."
"It is and I can feel it connecting us, also if you didn't know about it I wouldn't be here." She states matter of factually.
Touma took a moment to think, then a light bulb went off.
"I think I have an idea of what's going on."
"Oh wonderful that saves a lot of-"
"You're a cosplayer and you want a partner that will role play with you I see, it only makes sense."
"EEEEEHHHHHH!!!"
"I'm not a cosplayer I'm a genuine miko fox, look do my ears and tail look fake to you!"
"I guess I'm Sun Wukong then if that's the case." Touma sniped.
Her tail proceeded to swish around and her ears twitched, Touma had to admit they were very realistic.
"Those could be mechanical for all I know."
"GAH!!" Tamamo started to feel a heavy blow to her foxy pride.
"Look I'm sorry, you seem nice but I just can't bring myself to believe what you say you are, and lets say that it's true then why would you be here in Academy City of all places?"
"Academy City?"
"You don't know?"
Tamamo shook her head, which only brought confusion to Touma as he tried to think about the situation.
The sound of sirens blared in the distance and it was drawing closer.
"Damnit Anti Skill is on the way, I need to go, do you have a place to stay?"
"No not at all."
"Rotten luck, ok you can come with me to my place but we have to do something about your appearance, you stick out too much.
Hearing that Tamamo brought up her left arm and started to glow as she changed mystic codes, she now wore a white and pink striped coat with a hoody that had ears on it, a really short black skirt with thin red frills on its edges, thigh high black stockings and black ribbon laced shoes, additionally she casted a veil over her fox features to hide them and her hair was down over her shoulders with nine purple ribbons.
Touma was shocked by the sudden transformation, suddenly his eyes went from hers to the open part of her jacket which revealed ample cleavage and a pink bra.
Tamamo smirked as she saw his red faced gaping look.
"I believe it is time get going right?"
Snapping out of his funk he nodded and made sure he still had his remaining groceries before the duo ran off.
Upon reaching his dorm they made their way to the seventh floor balcony where his room was.
"We'll come on in, it's not much but make yourself at home."
"Thank you master."
'There she goes again with the master stuff'
"You know I never got your name yet." He said.
Sitting down she let the veil hiding her fox features go, making Touma continually question everything.
"It's Tamamo."
"Tamamo?"
"Just Tamamo will do my beloved master, what about you?"
"Uh...I'm Touma Kamijou." It felt odd yet nice to be called a beloved especially by a beautiful girl.
"He who purifies God and slays Demons, that's quite a name Touma, sounds like a hero."
"I'm the farthest thing from a hero I'll tell you that."
He proceeded to sigh.
"Ok, after what I've seen from you so far even though I'm still doubtful, I'm willing to hear you out, but let's start with this, where did you come from?"
Tamamo went on to explain the moon lit world to Kamijou, of heroic spirits, the grail wars, magus and the throne of heroes, even pointing out that she herself through recounting various memories that she was a true heroic spirit once, she also pointed out the command spells on his left hand and explained those, needless to say he was pissed off comparing it to slavery, and vowed not to use them after hearing about cases of masters ordering their servants to commit suicide.
All this info began to overload the poor Kamijou as he could barley comprehend it all, but the past tense stuck out.
"You were a heroic spirit, what happened?"
"It's strange, when I was brought here I had been brought back to life as if touched by heavens feel itself."
"You said we were connected right, as far as I know I have no power at all."
"There is mana in you along side another form of energy and lots of it, if you want I can do an examination to see."
She reached for his right arm before Touma could worn her.
Shatter!!!
Tamamo's spring casual mystic code was completely shredded leaving her bare as the day she was a newborn pup.
Touma's jaw hung open from the sight as Tamamo quickly registered what happened.
"Master it hasn't been long since we met and yet you already want me?" She said blushing and acting bashful.
3...
2...
1...
And Touma passed out via nosebleed.
"Mikon!! Master are you ok? Master!! Touma wake uuupp!!"
It took twenty minutes for him to compose himself after he woke up and Tama as he now nicknamed her, was wearing a set of his pajamas which actually hugged her just right but she left two top buttons undone much to Touma wanting her to fully button up, she said it was comfortable this way.
"Well I'm going to get dinner started." Tamamo said as she made her way to the kitchen and grabbed an apron.
"Hold up let me cook your my guest."
"A good wife must always make a good first impression." She proclaimed as she looked over his groceries and what was available in the fridge before deciding what she wanted to make.
The smell of food was intoxicating as it made Touma's stomach rumble, he was actually curious as to what she would be make.
At last she finished and brought the food to the table before presenting it to her master.
It was Indian Tandoori and their was some fried rice on the side and a salmon plate as well, the two said their thanks and Tamamo took her chopsticks to pick up a piece of the Tandoori and present it to Touma.
"Open wide, aah."
Touma could not believe it, a beautiful girl was actually trying to feed him!! So he did what was told and upon sampling the dish felt he was in heaven itself.
Tamamo's tail swished as a happy sign knowing she just claimed victory tonight. The two ate together in blissful silence afterwards and then cleaned the dishes together.
"I'll prepare a futon for myself while you take the bed Tama."
He then felt a gaze on him as he looked back to see her sitting and leaning back on the bed with an expectant look in her eyes.
Touma quickly knew what she wanted.
"Um, I don't think it's wise to be in the same bed together you know." He nervously stated.
"I'm not sleeping until I'm cuddled up to my beloved, and I won't take no for an answer."
She then patted the bed signaling him to go to her, though hesitant he managed to slide in and let her cling to him, it honestly felt nice.
"Good night master." She lovingly whispered to him and watched as he drifted off to slumber, Tamamo then placed a hand on his chest, yes she did want to sleep beside him but she also wanted to take the chance to get a thorough look at him.
What she would find astounded her to no end, the mana and other energy in his body was infinite, even stranger was much of it was being bottled up into his right arm and sealed, had to be a powerful one too because this density is enough to break reality if unleashed.
RRRROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!!
She flinched back after hearing what seemed to be primal roar, a very ancient one at that.
She continued to look at Touma as multiple thoughts crossed her mind and then fell asleep cuddling closer to him with a content smile on her face.
Touma felt like he was dreaming, one moment he was asleep the next he was hit with a extremely bright light, closing his eyes and shielding them with his arms he heard a booming voice of a woman.
"Well now, what do we have here?"
As the light started to die down he got a better view, needless to say he was completely floored by what he saw.
"Can't seem to find words, are you really that awestruck, surely you recognize me don't you, MASTER, hahahahhahaha!!!!"
AN: And that is that for the second chapter. Bet you can guess who our favorite spiky hero is about to meet also Tamamo made firstcontact with the thing inside him and wowmore will come of that in later chapters and kicks into the expanded lore. The next chapter will be mostly Tamamo oriented as she goes out of her way to try and boost Touma's financial situation and get more acclaimed to her new surroundings, she will also run into the Railgang as they prepare for a certain photo shoot.
With that I will answer one of the questions I saw.
ElDragonZangetsu25: no would imagine not, the way I see Aiwass is he may be some extra dimensional being who has been around along time, I doubt Gaia would have any effect on him.
Till the next chapter: Swimsuit Mayhem
Bye!!