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Kitsune-tsuki

At about age ten, Kurama becomes disillusioned with fairy tales.

This is the ways the story goes:

Once upon a time.

A fox creeps into the village. Maybe it is a moral of karmic justice—perhaps the people were evil and deserved to be ruined. Maybe it is the trickster fox, his motives selfish and sly and demonically cruel, set apart from those of humans. Maybe the fox never meant any harm at all.

But whatever the reason, in this tale the fox creeps into the village and takes their youngest son.

It gets worse still, regardless of the intentions, because the man dies. His wife is left with no one to protect her, no one to bring honor to the family name, no one but a fox-possessed infant.

And when they are at their lowest despair at the ruthless, cunning fox, the hero arrives.

Perhaps he combats the fox in a battle of wits and deceit. Perhaps he offers a fair bargain. Perhaps he simply possesses the power to drive the fox out of the boy and out of the life of the village.

And in the end the fox slinks away, uncaught, and they all live happily ever after.

Except that this is a merger, a fusion, not a possession. The fox cannot leave even if he wishes to. And no hero is coming to save him.

At about age ten, Minamino Shuuichi loses all hope in fairy tales and turns his attention to the way reality has shifted while he has been dreaming.


Owari

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