Kyuubi
Thoughts
Chapter 1- Waking up
My ears quiver at the sound of humans approaching. I blearily force my eyes to open. The humans sound to be quite a way off.
Suddenly, I realize what time it is.
Oh no! Dusk already! I shouldn't have dozed off. Mum is going to kill me!
I wasn't supposed to leave the den at all, but it gets so boring just lying there, especially when everyone else is asleep. As the only girl, my many brothers can really annoy me, but at least they can be interesting. I can't wait till we all get to the age where we don't need to sleep at all. For demons, only young kits, pregnant mothers and vixens that have recently given birth feel the need to sleep.
I run, sprinting towards my home. The surroundings seem quiet, except the rejoicing humans now in the distance. I wonder then, why they are so happy, but I never follow the thought up.
As I approach the den, I slow down. The smell of blood taints the air. It seems to be coming from the den.
Does that mean Father is home early with some fresh kill? I am unfamiliar with this particular blood; it smells different from cattle blood, chicken blood or even human. Perhaps a new meat for us to try? I can also smell snake, which is strange. Snakes are generally too poisonous for us kits to stomach…
I enter the den edging around the blood stains. Whatever we're eating tonight, it's big.
I turn the final corner and stop. My mother and all of my siblings are lying dead on the ground.
Perhaps they're just tricking me. They must be! This has to be my punishment for leaving the den! They can't actually be dead… Can they?
I try to deny the truth, but I know that never again will my brothers run around chasing each other and play-fighting. Never again will my brothers roll around in bracken, bathing in the sun. Never again will my mother scold us. Never again will I be as blissfully happy as I was in those first few months of my life.
But my father isn't here. Maybe I am not yet an orphan.
Of course I am not an orphan. My father is the great Kyuubi no Kitsune. No mere mortal could kill him. He's probably already left to go and make them pay for what they've done. And then he'll come back and find me and he'll make everything ok again.
So I sit and wait outside of the den. My father will be able to find some way of bringing them all back to life, but until then, I'd rather not be close to my dead family.
I wait
And I wait
But my father doesn't appear.
When it grows light I realize he isn't coming back. Numb inside I return into my den and sleep among the corpses. I am all alone in the world.
I have no one and it's all those humans fault!
I will make them pay.
I will grow strong and make them pay.