A/N: I don't own anything. But thanks to my reviewers for giving me ideas and motivation to write. Heck I might even do a drawing of Kitsune and Oga and Berubo and post it as the cover. But back to the story. By the way, this is part one of a looooooooooong episode(?)

Current Arc: Fangs of Hatred

Chapter 9: A Second Zebul Spell, "Parents" and Power Vessels Part One.

"Oga! Hurry up!" Kitsune called from Oga's front gate as she tapped her foot impatiently, arms folded across her chest. Beside her, Furuichi was munching on a Yakisoba bun, looking up at the sky. Kitsune noticed Furuichi aimlessly looking up and elbowed him sharply, causing the silver-haired boy to yelp in pain and drop his breakfast, which Kitsune scooped up before it landed on the floor and polished the half-eaten sandwich.

"Aarrrgghh! My sandwich!" Furuichi cried, both hands tearing at his hands as he watched Kitsune finish off his Yakisoba bun in two bites. Right on cue, Oga arrived with a confused look on his face. "Why are you guys making such a ruckus this early in the morning..." He paused for a moment to yawn loudly before the trio continued to make their way to school.

"Oh yeah, Kitsune. Did you meet that nice lady with her kid wearing a bear hat? I saw her the other day at the park, and I thought she could take care of Berubo..." Oga commented lazily, ruffling his hair.

Kitsune nodded in response. "Yeah, Aoi-san. She looked kinda young to be a mother, though. She's actually kinda pretty..."

"STOP!"

The two of them looked at Furuichi, who had held out a hand and head turned the other direction.

"Oga... I don't understand. You already have Hilda-san, Kitsune-chan, and now you want a young mother?! Are you insane?!"

"Huh?" Oga was staring at his best friend in confusion.

Kitsune share the same look as Oga. "You can be so weird sometimes, Furuichi."

"I'm not! Jesus, you guys don't understand the pain of being a poor, lonely me! Goddammit!" He gritted his teeth in pain, tears flowing down his face.

"Let's leave," Mumbled Oga. Kitsune nodded as they crept away slowly, leaving Furuichi to grieve over his unluckiness until he realized that they weren't there.

"Hey! Wait up!"

"O-Oi! Look at that!"

"Could it be...?"

"Shit! She's back so soon?"

A towering figure with long black hair walked into the school compound, a dangerous air surrounding her with every step she took. She wore a long white coat with the collar flipped up and a pair of white pants. Her hand gripped onto a wooden sword tightly, and behind her were two more girls, one who had short, purple hair and the other wearing a similar white coat and red hair.

The red-haired girl's eyes scanned the school grounds, ocassionally landing on a few people among the crowd, but she sighed deeply and mumbled something in the black-haired girl's ear, who frowned and nodded before walking on, the other two trailing behind.

"Aoi nee-san, what are we going to do once we find those two who beat up Kanzaki and Himekawa?" The redhead asked, quickening her steps to catch up with the black-haired girl called Aoi. She stopped in her tracks and turned around to face her friend, eyes blazing with coldness and anger.

"I'll deal with them myself, and no one is to interfere," Aoi whispered dangerously, causing the other two girls and those around the trio to sweatdrop and retreat a step back.

"So, do you have anyone in mind?"

"Huh? Oh, you mean as Berubo's parents?" Oga closed his eyes to think for a moment while Kitsune stared at him questioningly. Furuichi was still upset over his Yakisoba bread from earlier that morning.

"Hm... I have a few choices in mind. I guess one of the TKKH would do, but definnitely not that Yogurty guy or that idiot with weird hair. That woman at the park's fine, but I dunno if she even knows Berubo isn't human..."

"Not Hilda?" Asked Kitsune, stuffing a thick wad of paper in Furuichi's mouth to silence him.

Oga shook his head quickly. "She's a demon maid. All she does is threaten me, destroy stuff and abandon me at crucial times with Berubo! She isn't fit to be a mother."

"Wait, I'm sure that means I'm out right? Not that I want to take care of Berubo..."

"Nope. In fact, you're at the top of my list."

Kitsune and Furuichi nearly fell backwards in shock. The crimson-eyed girl quickly regained her balance and shook Oga by the shirt collar, causing Berubo to fly around wildly while holding onto the brunette's hair for life.

"Are you nuts?" She hissed at him. "Why would I want to become a parent and live at your place and take care of Berubo and have to see you everyday because of this?! Huh?" Kitsune shook him even harder, and Oga was trying to struggle against her grip, no words coming out of his opening and closing mouth. Berubo, however, seemed to be enjoying the wild 'ride' he was having, and was hitting Oga's head with one enthusistically-waving hand, which clearly didn't help lessen the pain Oga was enduring.

"You... see!" Oga gasped in the midst of her continuous shaking. "He... likes you! You're his favorite! And-GAH!" Kitsune slammed Oga against a wall, overdoing it as debris and fallen rocks piled around him.

"Very funny. Next you'll tell me that I have the same stupid tattoo crawling up my face and that one of my eye pupils are turning black, too," Kitsune snapped, cracking her knuckles.

Oga groaned in pain and he looked up at the raven-haired girl. "But you do have a tattoo crawling up your face. See?" He handed Kitsune a broken shard of glass to look at her reflection. Kitsune snatched it from his hands and brought it up to eye-level.

Sure enough, a red, glowing tattoo the color of her eyes was crawling up her face, and it had spread from her neck to the right side of her face. But what terrified her wasn't the length of the tattoo. Or that it looked like Oga's tattoo.

One of her eye pupils was turning from crimson to a dark crimson, then maroon, and finally black.

Pitch black.

Her cry of terror echoed through the neighborhood.