Again I claim nothing and hope to make nothing. This is just practice for me for my own original work.

"..." Are spoken words

/.../ Are thoughts

Story

Keitaro woke up late the next day and groaned. /Did she have to use a sleeping point technique on me? She could have just asked me to stop instead./ he thought to himself as he threw the blankets off of him and his right eye twitched when he realized that he was in an overlarge basket. "Alright Aunt Haruka knows better then to pull a stunt like this, and when I figure out who did this I'm going to play Tic-Tac-Toe with their face." He muttered darkly and he walked over to his suitcase that he had left at the entrance that was now in the room he had slept in. After a few moments and changing into a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt he got his bearings. /Granny Hina's room, so she really is gone... I wish she would have told me./ he thought feeling rejected. He heard a slight flapping sound and looked up, an old poster was covering a hole in the ceiling, curious to the bone he jumped on a wall and used his power to walk on all fours along the ceiling and he peeled off the poster and pushed on the bottom of a board that was covering it. He pushed against it a couple of times and then brought his face close to stare at it to look for nails when it was pulled away and him and Naru's faces were so close that for a single moment they almost kissed. Keitaro gave off a shriek of shock and lost his grip on his spell falling to the floor and landing flat on his back with a thump he quickly righted himself and bolted out of view before she could say anything.

"Well that broke me out of studying. I thought that brat was just a dream or something. Still how the hell can he possibly be genderless!?" Naru demanded putting aside her books and study notes in a huff. Keitaro just put her on edge for some reason, he just defied logic everything he was every way he acted was proof that the things she had to know and memorize were wrong. That he was near his twenties and less four foot eight without a glandular problem didn't make sense. /And that tail!/ she thought to herself becoming more confused. /how the hell does he do it? It has to be an elaborate hoax demons just aren't real! For that matter how does Motoko manage to fake having ki powers? They're probably in cahoots just to one up me!/ She thought bitterly refusing point blank to think outside the box as usual. Her mental track was too grounded in books and a false concept of normal reality that had no room for demons.

Keitaro had gotten into one of the blossoming trees and mentally replayed the incident with Naru when a shiver went down his soul. Trusting his instincts he jumped out of the tree just in time for a missile with three yellow eyes on it to go screaming by. /HOLY CRAP!/ he mentally screamed and ran as fast as he could on all fours with the roar of a jet engine behind him, after a half minute of insane minute with the nameless terror gaining on him Keitaro swung his tail out to the right and it caught in the drainpipe on the corner of the Inn and he swung to the right and swallowed a scream of pain as he felt himself pull a few tail muscles. He planted his right hand into the ground and this caused him to spin until he was skidding backwards as he caught sight of what was chasing him blast off into the blue and blow up. "A giant, flying, robot turtle, what the hell?" he thought out loud at a complete loss to say anything else.

The wind shifted and he caught a strange smell in the breeze. /Saké?/ he thought as he prowled up to the source and poked his head though the bushes to find Kitsune in a light blue tank top that revealed her belly button and a tight pair of jeans napping next to an empty bottle. She burped in her sleep and Keitaro recoiled from the powerful smell. /Eaugh I hate drunks they always stink, even when clean./ he thought then considered the woman's position. /If I leave her here some random creep could do something to her, but her breath is so nasty... Goddamned conscious./ he thought as he made up his mind and picked her up with her torso slung over his shoulders and her feet dragging behind them, by the time he got her to the lobby and dumped her on the couch he was green in the face and swaying on his feet. /I think I'm gonna barf./ he thought as he staggered to a nearby bathroom just to find it locked.

Thinking quickly he half ran to the hotsprings and scooped up a double handful of the steamy mineral water to calm his stomach, after a couple more he sat down with his feet dangling inside the pool his face back to its normal colour. /Wow home really has changed since I've been here last, now I'm living with a slayer, a psycho, a drunk and two more that I don't know. But where the hell did that robo turtle come from, or that missile? One of the last two's gotta be some kinda mad scientist or something. Probably that Shinobu girl, Su's probably too hyper to put anything together probably an ADHD person.../ he thought until he was interrupted by some unfamiliar footsteps coming closer.

"U-um mister cat demon... Keitaro? Lunch is ready." Shinobu said quietly, if he wasn't a neko demon he would have missed what she said entirely.

"W-well uh, thanks... so do you normally sit at a table here and eat together or just leave piles of food out to be picked at?" he asked nervously in case she sicked a robot on him.

"We uh, well we sit together, oh but you don't have to if you don't want to." She said nervously hoping that she didn't scare him.

"N-no I'm going to be living h-here so I should get used to being with everyone." Keitaro said swallowing his fear and then following the slightly taller girl through the building to the dinning room. When he stepped into the dinning room his knees nearly gave out when he saw Motoko and Naru glaring at him with Su busy stuffing her face and Shinobu running up to her embarrassed and trying to convince her to slow down. /Oh god why did these kind of people have to move in here? Why not animal rights activists or childcare workers? The younger two seem nice but Su looks like someone who'd blab about me being a demon and drag all sorts of slayers and monks here, and Shinobu... seems way to sweet... like that nun that one time, they act nice then up comes the gun with blessed bullets and I'm running for the hills with silver in my tail and ass./ he thought remembering the pain as the wounds refused to push the blessed metal out and Kanako had to pull out the shards with tweezers, pliers, and chopsticks before he could start to heal. Luckily for him his regeneration powers made sure that no scars were left, but it did nothing to heal the emotional scars and deep sense of shame and humiliation. He was so wrapped up in the past that he didn't notice Kitsune coming up from behind him until her hand was firmly between his ears and rubbing vigorously, he was clinging to the wall, dazed and purring a bare second later.

"Ah she's just too cute!" Kitsune said as she scooped up an indignant but still purring Keitaro /She?! Ach well I don't have anything so why the hell not? I just wish she would stop rubbing me.../ and sat down at the table with him on her lap still being scratched and completely limp. He jerked himself to the side with his last remaining ounce of willpower and was able to jump away from Kitsune before she could get him between the ears again.

"Alright that has to stop! It's time to lay down some rules!" Keitaro said now more angry then scared. "Rule one: Anyone who offers me anything in a saucer or that ever came with a label suggesting cat food in any language is getting a face full of fire, it's just not funny." He snarled and Shinobu quickly put a saucer under the napkin at her spot. "Two: If any of you try any catnip stunts I can guarantee you will regret it big time." His said his voice laden with menace and Kitsune slowly pushed the bag into her pocket. "Three: Don't attack me for any reason, although most of the time I will run, one out of every three times I'll attack quickly and savagely, I have no control over that and I don't want to hurt anyone." Naru rolled her eyes at this "Four: Treat me with respect, I've graduated highschool already and as a demon managed to survive living right next to a shrine. I am neither stupid nor weak don't expect either." He said and Motoko didn't believe a word of it. "And finally..."

"You're going to stop the stupid demands and just eat." Haruka said walking into the room and Keitaro paled, his anger draining and his fear returning he walked up to one of the two empty spots on the table and Haruka sat down beside him. "So did you have a good nights sleep?" she asked him smirking.

"So it was you that put me in that basket! Come on Aunty you know I hate it when people do things like that!" Keitaro said indignantly and there was more then a few chuckles from around the table, Keitaro heard them and shrunk down in embarrassment.

"Well all animals should know their place at least." Motoko muttered to low for anyone but Keitaro to hear, his tail went straight as an arrow and his ears tilted back as he started growling.

"That's it, you psycho swordswoman out front now." He said his pupils glowing red and a strange wind ruffling his clothing and hair. He stepped off the chair and stiffly marched to the front of the in the grinning swordswoman following him with everyone else following her.

A half minute later they were facing each other eyes burning with anger (in Keitaro's case literally) and ready to start. Motoko at the unspoken signal gave out a massive Ki blast that tore up the ground as it flew towards him. Keitaro back flipped ten feet in the air and drew in all his power into his claws and cut the air around him creating vacuum blades that raced towards Motoko, she dodged all of them but one which she cut in two cutting the ground at either side of her. "Is that all?" she demanded then noticed he was missing completely.

"Not by a long shot." He muttered in her ear from behind her as he put his claws around her throat and used his tail to tie up her legs. "yield" he ordered and she fell over backwards forcing him to jump off to avoid being slammed into the ground.

"You there demon! Prepare to be purified by God's Holy Light!" A man shouted charging at Keitaro whose eyes shrunk to the size of needles and he took off in a blur. The man was in a blue trench coat and carrying shinning long sword. Thinking fast Keitaro grabbed a leaf from a bush he passed and dashed around the corner to quickly transform into the adult with glasses which he whipped off and quickly started wiping on his shirt. "Excuse me sir did you see a child with cat ears and tail run this way?" the man asked and Keitaro nodded and pointed to the abandoned annex. "Thank you, God Bless!" he said and ran off to the old decrepit building.

"No problem chummmmmmp!" Keitaro said with the P only loud enough for him to hear. Haruka and the Hina girls rounded the corner a moment later and found him there smirking. He wasn't afraid as is, he was only nervous around people when in the shape of a demon.

"Nice going you threw him completely off your scent." Haruka said and Keitaro grinned.

"Alright what is going on!? Why are you so much more powerful today? Yesterday your magic attack was barely strong enough to throw me from the water but today that could have killed me, explain!" she demanded and Keitaro's grin widened.

"Easy, my best element is wind, followed by fire, earth then water. Yesterday you experienced my weakest attack today was my strongest." He said offhandedly making Motoko wonder what else he was hiding. She walked off confused and angry and quickly wrote a letter to her sister Tsuroko telling her that a demon had moved in and although it hadn't done anything yet she was sure it would in time and asking for advice.

"Hey Keitaro I thought demon slayers scarred you but you just made a total moron of that one, what gives?" Kitsune asked and Keitaro smirked at her.

"That's an easy one, that dude is a total newbie, a loser, a wannabe, that sword of his wasn't even silver he's no threat." Keitaro said grinning not realizing that his fangs were still showing.

"He must have been seeing as you forgot to reshape your teeth." Haruka said grinning and Keitaro's hand shot up to his mouth as he felt the fangs.

"Man I am lucky." He murmured as his mouth gave out a blast of smoke revealing normal looking teeth behind the disappearing haze. "By the way... This morning I narrowly dodged a missile and was nearly run down by a jet powered metal turtle. Anyone want to say anything about that?" he asked glancing around at all of them. Su turned to him as if she just realized something or was surprised, Kitsune and Haruka giggled and Naru rolled her eyes as Shinobu gasped.

"AH you found my Mecha-Tama! I lost track of it last week!" Su said and Keitaro stopped to stare at her.

"Okay one: how the hell do you loose track of a ten foot, armour plated, jet powered turtle and two: where did you get the parts for it!?" he demanded /and how did you sit still long enough to put it together?!/ he wondered completely off balance in front of the hyperactive girl.

"Nyahaha! My parents sent me the parts and he was as big as the real one when I made him! He musta eaten a lot to get so big. Where did he go?" Su asked bright eyed and cheery as Keitaro raised an eyebrow.

"About half a kilometre that way before it blew up in the sky for some reason." Keitaro said pointing where the Mecha had blown up earlier and Su bounded off laughing half skipping half flying as she went. "... is she alright in the head?" Keitaro asked nervously.

"Don't let her constant sugar rush fool you sugar, the stuff she builds..." Kitsune said then shivered at the memories. "Well let's just say the turtle you ran into was the tame stuff. Luckily most of her ideas just blow up in her face and nothing bad happens." Kitsune said when she stopped shivering.

"I don't think I even want to know." Keitaro said seriously frowning slightly /If that turtle was the tame stuff then I might not have a home much longer... No. She must have been up to this for a while now and there's no apparent damage... Maybe fox-lady's just exaggerating./ Keitaro said and the wind shifted again carrying Kitsune's scent to him but this time it was without saké. /What the?/ "Kitsune do you have a demon in your ancestry?" he asked coming to a stop and staring at the woman.

"I... what?" she asked confused.

"This is the first time I've had a real whiff of you without pheromones or saké getting in the way but, I think you have some kitsune demon in you as well, maybe about as much as I do." Keitaro said slowly pacing around her. "Yes, I'm sure of it, it's just a drop but you are demonic." He said looking at her in a new light.

"But how? I mean I don't feel demonic and have never had any powers." Kitsune said slowly in shock.

"No I don't think you're that kind of hybrid. I think and I stress think, that your abilities are passive. Tell me do you have an exercise program to keep that figure?" Keitaro asked and everyone but Haruka in hearing range blushed but Keitaro didn't notice until Naru cracked her knuckles and he started to sweat.

"Calm down Naru, Kitsune just answer the question. Haruka said and Kitsune nodded.

"I thought so, that's where your demonic power comes out, I'm surprised I didn't notice it earlier but you are the spitting image of the classical kitsune demon disguise. Many a man's fallen to the charms of your form, believing themselves to have eaten a fine meal and laid upon a soft futon only to awaken covered in leaves with mud in their mouths and on their lips, so no powers for you, but you won't have to work to keep your shape, maybe a longer life too. Damn you musta rolled a lucky seven when it came to life." He said muttering the last bit and causing Kitsune to giggle.

"Well thanks sugar, I wonder what your adult form'll be like? I'd bet my demon booty you'll be a hunk!" she said stepping by him and bumping him with a swing of her hips. She hummed loudly until she was out of sight and Keitaro sighed. /Great the first demon who's not afraid of me blowing their cover and she wants to pound ass! Why couldn't she be sweet and shy like that vampire girl off of that manga? Hell I'd even take depressing like that ice demon, but a flirtatious part kitsune named Kitsune? Yeash./ he thought to himself and his stomach gave off a rumble and he remembered he didn't even get the chance to eat yet. Shoving his hands in his pockets he walked off towards the dinning room looking for lunch but finding only scraps left over from Su's black hole of a stomach. Sighing to himself he rifled through a few drawers and pulled out a couple tins of sardines which he downed quickly and finished up by munching a large apple.

Polls!

Alright it's pretty much unanimous that people want Keitaro male so far but hey if you want a female one I can always make an Omake. If you ask real nice of course.

Su-1

Motoko-2

Kitsune-4

Mutsumi-1

Shinobu-1

Naru-0

Everyone-1

Just remember people, he's mostly cat so when he gets a defining gender he can enter heat.