Tomoe's POV:
The halfling suddenly collapsed as she looked at her tail with panicked eyes. Mikage rushed forward and she fell gently into his strong and comforting arms.
"Poor little Nanami, this shouldn't happen to someone who's so cute and innocent" He smiled down on her, she was unconscious. Her cheeks were pale incomparisent to once rosy colour.
"What are you planning Mikage?" I growled, he usually doesn't get involved with halflings.
"Tomoe, you're so suspicious" He laughed. But suddenly his face went stern. Before I could stop him, his lips were already on hers.
"MIKAGE !" I hissed. But it was too late. The eternal contract of a familiar had been created. All from a single kiss. Now this girl's my co-worker.
Nanami's POV: The next day.
Wow what a dream! Jeez I need to get to the bus station. I flashed open my eyes, only to see an unfamiliar world. The walls were dirty, the space was empty. Where am I? That was a dream right? I got up to see two colourful and round faces. Crap! I jumped back, the two faces started giggling.
"Good Morning Lady Nanami" The one being with its eyes closed cheered.
"I'm Kotetsu and this is Onikiri" The other one sang.
"Master Mikage is expecting you in the kitchen for breakfast" Onikiri said grabbing my hand.
"Wait I need to..." I looked down expecting to find pajamas but I instead found myself in a traditional kimono. My tail dangling out from underneath. I held back a scream. This is going to take some getting used to. I was suddenly shoved into a nearby room. The room was littered by an old stove and sink. In the middle the two men from yesterday sat down drinking tea.
"Ahhh Nanami, won't you join us?" The man with glasses smiled, taking another sip of his tea. I complied at sat on the mat opposite the other guy.
"Ummm would you mind telling me wha..." I began as the guy with fox features slammed his hand onto the table. Making a large bang.
"You're a Bakeneko hybrid, a demon with powers that we are not sure off. And even so this idiot has made you his familiar" He hissed, his violet eyes piercing mine.
"Tomoe!"
"What's that?" I asked timidly.
"You're the protector of me and this shrine, Nanami. I'm the land god, Mikage" He smiled at me. He then looked at Tomoe. "This is Tomoe, he's also my familiar. He's a fox demon with no manners"
"But... What's a Bakeneko?" I stuttered.
"A shapeshifting cat demon. You powers should reveal themselves soon. It seems that cat demon you saw yesterday gave you all his powers" Mikage sipped his tea again. "We'll just have wait for them to manifest"
"Okay wait" I stood up, now I was angry. "This is ridiculous, there is no way I going into slavery for a 'god" I shouted.
"Sit, Nanami" Mikage breathed. Suddenly my body felt numb and my body betrayed my argument and sat down.
"What?" I hissed. I tried to get up but I couldn't move. It seemed as if my was completely under his control.
"It my divine power Namami, as I familiar you must do what I command" His face was now stern as if he felt sorry for my situation.
"Tomoe, today you'll show her the ropes, I'm going into town" Mikage said turning to Tomoe, whose face was still angry and offensive.
"Come on Halfling, this way" He growled as he headed outside. I followed reluctantly, Onikiri and Kotetsu followed behind me.
I was set to work immediately. I was commanded to weed the garden and fix the hole in the roof later on.
Weeding the garden wasn't as hard as I'd thought it be. Although I felt much stronger than I was as a human. I looked over to the other end of the yard, a massive boulder lay in the middle. Has nobody been able to move it. Interesting. I slowly walked over keeping an eye out for my senior familiar. When I reached the stone my once confident feelings had vanished and has been replaced with uncertainty. To hell with it. The boulder seemed to weigh the same as a brick. Before I knew it I was lifting it high above my head. No way.
"Halfling, what did I just tell you to do?" A dark, familiar voice hissed. I quickly dropped the stone and turned to find my own prison warden.
"So what, am I stuck here forever and not allowed to have fun?" I screamed back.
"Lifting up a rock, how fun!" He waved a purple fan in his face sarcastically "Not very impressive"
"You think you could do better" I laughed.
Before I could say anything else the huge boulder suddenly shattered into thousands of pieces. Crap.
"Now get back to weeding, Halfling" He laughed heading back inside the shrine.
"Don't call me that!" I shouted after him.