This takes place centuries ago
Matatabi was the Nekomata empire's Prince being son of the emperor was hard but every day he would sneak out of the kingdom to see what the world was like especially he would spy on humans whenever he could the species always fascinated him one day he was in his human form spying on a couple of human children when "what are you doing here?," a feminine voice asked he jumped only to see a human girl she had beautiful blue eyes, brown hair, and lovely cream skin she stared into his red eyes "look I'm sorry I'll just leave" "no!" Matatabi was surprised by that answer "well, to tell the truth is I've never seen anyone with red eyes before and you look very interesting" the nekomata blushed "you don't need to be all embarrassed about it" "how am I embarrassed when you're the one who is turning red?"
Matatabi blushed harder "Moniqua where are you!," a male voice called "oh no, it's my father hide," Moniqua said and she pushed Matatabi into the bushes "Moniqua there you are I was so worried that a dreadful yokai took you away," an old man said the nekomata's cat ears popped up hearing this 'do all humans fear yokai?' Moniqua was taken back to her village.
"Father can I ask you a question?" "yes" "are all yokai evil?," she asked "now Moniqua you know what I taught you of course all yokai are evil remember yokai only deceive people and lie to them only to kill them there is no point even having a conversation with those killings machines" Moniqua wasn't sure the man she met was even human but she couldn't tell her father what happened.
The next day Moniqua went to the same spot where she met the mysterious red eyed man "I know you're here," she said Matatabi crawled out the bushes "hello human or do you want me to call you by your name?," he asked "call me by my name Moniqua" Matatabi thought of the name 'Moniqua' the brown haired girl grabbed his hands "let's go somewhere private because if my father sees you he might try to kill you" "alright."
"This should be a good place I usually come her whenever I want to get away from everyone else," Moniqua said the place she spoke was a beautiful garden that seemed to be hidden anyone who didn't look hard enough would definitely miss it "now yokai I want to know why didn't you kill me the minute you saw me or hurt me in anyway?," the girl asked Matatabi felt a little offended by the question "listen yokai aren't savage beast who just kill...well, not all of them I mean they could be either good or bad like humans I guess... I don't really know anything about human beings because I've locked up in my palace" Moniqua's eyes widen "yo-you're of royal blood?!," she yelled "shh don't shout someone might hear you" "oh I'm sorry."
Moniqua bowed respectively "what are you doing?," Matatabi asked "isn't it appropriate to bow down to royalty?" Matatabi didn't like this "please don't bow and call me Matatabi" Moniqua stood up "oh alright" the girl smiled causing the nekomata to blush "um can you do me favor Matatabi?," she asked "yes" "I want to become friends with you but in return I want you to teach me how to get along with yokai you are the only one I've ever met so far and I want to meet more yokai and feel comfortable around tThhem" "you've got a deal!"
The two talked and laughed enjoying one another's company when the sun began to set the friends made plans to meet up again their meetings became more of a hobby to each other one month has past since then. Moniqua was walking to the secret hide out when something came out the bushes a rabbit with golden fur to her surprise the rodent had a horn on it's head the creature hopped closer to her the didn't realize it was a threat until the moment she tried to pet it.
The girl was frozen in fear seeing it get bigger and nastier she turned to run but the beast jumped on top of her the monster let out a dreadful roar and she let out a scream before the rabbit monster could sink it's teeth into her a black cat with two tails tackled the bunny. Moniqua watched as the two monsters fought the the rabbit shoved it's horn into the nekomata's right hind leg causing it to let out a screech of pain then the cat bit down on the neck a cracking sound was heard the fight over the rabbit was killed.
Moniqua sat there scared out her mind as the nekomata walked up to her "are you alright Moniqua?," the nekomata asked "wait Matatabi?" The nekomata shrunk down to a normal house cat size before falling on his side "Matatabi!," Moniqua said "Matatabi, Matatabi!," Moniqua's shouting became very distant the nekomata couldn't stay awake much longer "Matatabi!"
Matatabi began regaining consciousness looking at his surroundings he saw little lights and in those lights were tiny people with wings "hey lady the nekomata is awake!," a tiny girl said "Matatabi you're awake, how are you feeling?," Moniqua asked "tired" the tiny began giggling "what's so funny and what are you creatures anyway?," Matatabi asked "we're fairies," a tiny winged man said "I heard about before fairies but I never imagined meeting them," the brown haired girl said Matatabi smiled as he watched Moniqua's face glow with joy "thank you Matatabi if you hadn't to my rescue I would have been killed" the nekomata blushed "of course I had to help you Moniqua we're friends after all."
Matatabi and Moniqua have been visiting each other every day for five months because of this Moniqua's father became very suspicious of her actions. "Moniqua come here I have a surprise for you," her father said the girl followed a crowd of people especially young ladies were surrounding a very handsome man "see that young man?," he asked "yes father what about him?," Moniqua asked "he's going to be your future husband his father and I are good friends and we've agreed to marry you two after the both of you were born" Moniqua couldn't believe it her father was marrying her off to some man she doesn't know "ah, you must be my fiancé my name is Aloys of the eastern village," the young man said looking at Moniqua with a hungry gaze.
"Chief Alain we meet again," Aloys said to Moniqua's father "I haven't seen you two years my you've gotten stronger" "why thank I can't wait to marry your daughter" hearing this made Moniqua grit her teeth she didn't love Aloys no she loved someone else while her father wasn't looking Moniqua ran to the forest and to the secret place where Matatabi would meet her "Moniqua you came for a second I thought you weren't coming to day...what's wrong Moniqua?," he asked the girl threw her self at the nekomata crying "please Moniqua tell me what is wrong?!"
"Matatabi I love you" the nekomata's eyes widen "I love you Matatabi but if you don't share the same feelings I understand" "I do" "Matatabi" "I love you Moniqua even if we're different species and I know you're engaged to someone you don't love at all" Moniqua's eyes kept leaking tears the two kissed each other. The day before the wedding Moniqua disappeared from the village Aloys was enraged and so was Alain the two had sent many search parties to find the girl but no one could ever find her.
Eleven months later
In a mountain somewhere there is a town hidden from the outside world and in that town you might be surprised by the citizens they look like people but the weird thing is they have lion ears and tail along eagle wings and in this town a human was giving birth to her child "you can do it Moniqua" "AAAAAHHHH" it was a boy he had the same red and black hair as Matatabi and Moniqua's face.
Five years later
Matatabi ran as tengu chased him holding Alaire ,his son, tightly he ran into a cave putting the boy down "I think we lost them" "daddy why were those birds chasing us and where is mommy?," Alaire asked Matatabi smiled warmly at the five year old boy "do you trust daddy Alaire?," he asked Alaire nodded "can you be strong even if momma and I aren't here?" Once again the boy nodded with this he gave his son a crystal ball with strange symbols in it "please forgive me Alaire all I want is to keep you safe even if you don't understand what's going on" the boy became confused as Matatabi muttered some strange words the ball began glowing "Alaire remember I love you" " I love you too daddy" a bright light came from the ball and Alaire was gone.