Hey this is turning out to be pretty popular but still this isn't my story, I just modded the living hell of an original one so I can't take the credit. If you send me cash I'll send half of it back and keep the rest to teach you a lesson.

/.../ are thoughts

"..." is speech

Story

Niles was a demon slayer through and through, his family had been saved from a terrible Oni when a great white angel drove it back. From that day his family hunted monsters in order to protect what is good and right and swore to never take a the life of a human. No matter how misguided or how much they consorted with evil. These thoughts ran through his mind as he was about to slay a younger demon that had used its fell magic to charm a group of young women. They were swept from his mind as hurricane force winds blasted him from his solid footing and swept him into a nearby boulder. Winds generated not from a demon but a human girl. He felt his arm snap as consciousness left his body and inside the echoes of his mind a single word rang out /Why?/

An hour later

"Nya! He's waking up! Motoko! Tsuroko! He's getting up!" a young child called out and Niles opened his eyes and they slowly focused in on a tiny cat type demon regarding him with fear. He heard some footsteps and two very similar young women, one a few years older then the other arrived holding katanas. The child took a few steps back when he glared at it and struggled with the rope as a sharp pain pierced his right arm. He then remembered it was broken.

"Why are you siding with that monster? It's a demon! He'll kill you in your sleep!" Niles shouted struggling against his shattered bone and yelping in pain. The demon child sighed and forced a glass of blood to his lips, Niles struggled but the kid grabbed his nose and forced a small amount of the liquid done his throat. Immediately a warm sensation flowed through his body and he couldn't help but calm down as his bones knitted themselves back together and the pain subsided. "What witchcraft is this? I'd rather die then have your fell magic heal me!" He announced and Keitaro backhanded him.

"You idiot, that was to show you that you are wrong. That I am not a soulless cold hearted monster and am indeed capable of mercy and kindness. I'm trying to convince you that I am one of the last beings deserving a smiting. You know I'm tired of sending perfectly sane slayers to the loony bin even if they deserve it, so I'm trying to convince you to smarten the hell up before I call the cops on you." Keitaro said seriously putting the healing water back on the table and backing off to glare at him from the couch opposite.

"That does not answer my question as to why you have bewitched these young women or how you came to dwell in a well respected dorm." He snarled at Keitaro who sighed and scratched behind one ear a purr almost escaping, the rest of the Hina girls and Haruka were coming into the room and heard most of the exchange.

"I can answer that." Haruka said as she sat down beside Keitaro grinning. He looked at her for a moment before curling up and falling asleep muttering something about having heard it before. Everyone else took a seat nearby and Haruka went into her story.

"It was nineteen years and eight months ago, in the tall grass by the abandoned Annex that I was playing until I heard a moan of agony from a creature that sounded half animal half human. I followed the sound and I found a large brown tiger with five tails and glowing white eyes moaning with an unnaturally large stomach. It looked at me and moaned "Help me", it was then that I noticed a nasty gash in its side. I was shocked at first but then I guided the suffering beast to the Inn here so that mom could help it. She saw me from a mile off and rushed out to meet me, when she arrived she immediately took charge of the situation and guided her to the hotsprings, her water broke just before she entered the building and we had to halfway carry her in order to get her into the water while the contractions got worse. I'll skip the more feminine details but half an hour later Keitaro was born. However he looked very different from the way he is now." She said and she shook Keitaro awake.

"Eh, story over?" he asked sleepily sitting up.

"Can you take your beast form?" Haruka asked as he rubbed his eyes.

"Yea sure... Wait. What?" he asked his eyes going wide and looking incredulously at Haruka.

"Take your beast form Keitaro." She told him her tone still gentle but there was a hint of steel in it that caused Keitaro to back off a little then nod. He focused for a moment and both seamlessly and soundlessly his form shifted to that of a small brown tiger with four tails waving behind it and glowing white eyes. It was a very young looking thing with very fine fur devoid of markings. It lied down next to Haruka and she put her hand on its head. "I helped raise the young shapeshifter since that day, although he keeps calling me his aunt he's actually my little brother, legally anyways. He only calls me that thanks to the size difference, and that my big brother's been his caretaker for the past six years." Haruka explained scratching Keitaro behind the ears causing him to purr again.

"You've just proven my point, look at him he's a monster! How can you possibly hold any love for such a creature?" Niles demanded outraged at the audacity of this demon.

"How could anyone stand a short sighted fool such as you?" Keitaro asked his voice half a growl half an echo of his normal voice, but stronger. He was glaring at the slayer who swallowed in fear but met the demon's eyes. He slunk off the couch and prowled off, "I'm gonna go take a nap and calm down, and remember slayer, I gave you mercy your life belongs to me now." Keitaro muttered as he walked off and vanished from sight.

"So what do you plan to do now? Kill me? Torture I'll bet that monster has more then a good enough grip on you for that." Niles spat at them and they turned to him in disgust.

"Naru could you do the honours please?" Haruka asked rubbing her forehead and Naru promptly grabbed him around the collar and hurled him from the inn and into the sky. "I don't know what Keitaro's playing at letting him go that easily, normally we'd call the local hospital and have any slayer that came after him locked up as a loony." Haruka said sounding a little curious then a loud, abrasive snore grated on everyone's ears. "My God I can't believe I forgot about that! The little pain snores like a chainsaw in his beast form!" Haruka said covering her ears and running with the rest of the Hina population and Tsuroko towards the loud and very painful sound.

"How can something so small make so much noise!?" Naru demanded as they got close to the source and Haruka rushed in and woke him up, a few moments later he shifted to his humanoid form and fell asleep again. She came back to them blushing a little at Keitaro's incredible snoring. "Hey Haruka... What happened to Keitaro's mother, and where was his father in all this?" Naru asked and she was shocked to see some tears in Haruka's eyes.

"We never met Keitaro's father, his mother died of blood loss. She had only been holding on to get her unborn child to safety after that she let her magic go and she named him with her last breath. She gave him a human name so he could live with us I don't know where she came from but she was buried under the large Sakura tree in the back. It was just a sapling at the time, and in less then a year was the size it is now." Haruka said blinking back a couple of tears. "She told me to look after him, as she went through her last contraction. I could feel that she had incredible power but was using every drop on the child. Her family and whatever hurt her never came for him..." Haruka said her voice trailing off as her eyes unfocused for a moment then refocused. "Excuse me." She said as she left the group.

"Wow..." Naru said slowly and Kitsune nodded in agreement.

"It's still strange for me to hear of noble demons, but it appears Keitaro comes from a truly noble family." Motoko said slowly and Tsuroko smiled at her.

/I thought it was bad to have my mom and dad fight. He's never met his dad and lives by his mom's grave./ Shinobu thought tears of sympathy in her eyes.

"I wonder what cat boys dream about?" Su asked inanely oblivious to the emotion turmoil around her. It did however snap Kitsune out of her reverie.

/Hmm that little punk doesn't like catnip around I wonder why.../ She thought as she wandered away her kitsune ancestry becoming apparent with the prank she was planning.

An hour of silence and relative peace later.

Keitaro woke up in human form and in the basket again. /I'm really gonna have to talk to Aunt Haruka about this./ he thought as he took off his cutup and torn clothes and changed into an identical but well repaired outfit and began to wander the inn. Until he caught a sniff of something and his entire body shook. /Oh dear god no!/ he thought but was powerless to stop as he bolted up the wall and latched onto the ceiling above Su's room his nose rubbing in a small spot of catnip. He automatically started purring loudly while just rubbing his nose in that one spot filling his head with the minty smell.

He didn't know how long he was up there but he heard someone collapse nearby him and felt something fly around him but he couldn't even open his eyes as long as the catnip was there. After a while later a hand came out of nowhere and rubbed out the catnip spot and Keitaro fell to the floor and landed on something soft and warm. Inwardly he was thanking Haruka for helping him but outwardly he was still under the effects of the catnip. Haruka walked off muttering inaudibly and Keitaro snapped out of his catnip reverie as someone scratched him behind the ears. His eyes shot open and he caught a half unfocused gaze of a girl with long brown hair. /That catnip must have been something else I swear I just saw a turtle fly around behind her... Hey there it is again!/ he thought.

"Ara, ara, who are you cutie?" she asked in a dazed tone then she bent down and kissed him on the lips while still scratching him behind the ears. /Whoa! Wait a minute what's going on?! A flying turtle? Catnip? My first kiss? What's going on?!/ he thought desperately unable to do anything but purr as she scratched him. "Nice to meet you kitty, my name is Mutsumi who are you?" she asked still scratching him.

"Purrrrrrrrr, purrrrrrr, purrrrrrr." Was the only response Keitaro could give her.

"Ah, Pearl! What a lovely name." Mutsumi said still half dazed. /Pearl!? What is this woman on?/ he thought angrily squirming in her grasp and she let him go.

"My name is Keitaro, can you not scratch me like that?" Keitaro said as he stood back up.

"Ah! Sorry about that Kei-cute." She mumbled in a half dazed state and Keitaro shook his head. /Kei-cute!? That's gotta be one of the worst nicknames I've ever had. What is with this woman?/ he thought desperately confused until he caught a whiff of something. He grabbed onto the turtle that was in orbit of the woman and hung on as he got a sniff of it all the while being pulled along by the turtle and practically flying himself.

"Hey Mutsumi did you know this turtle is a demon?" He asked her seriously and she waved it off.

"Ara, ara how did you figure that out? Tama is my guard turtle, she's very gentle and strong... You want to taste my melons?" she asked and Keitaro lost his group on the flying reptile and landed on the floor with a bump and staring at her. /Man this woman is running the bases!/

"What? You do realize I'm a kid right?" Keitaro asked his mind racing to try to figure out what the hell was going on.

"Oh that's alright my little brothers and sisters always love my melons!" She said and this nearly blew Keitaro's mind. /Holy shit! Incest! That explains the airheaded nature./ he thought then she pulled a watermelon out of nowhere. /Oh god I'm so perverted./ he thought in shame and he nodded his head. "Alright follow me to the kitchen Kei-cute." She said and Keitaro shamefaced followed her. She cut up the watermelon into generous slices and chatted to Keitaro for the upside of two hours about absolutely nothing while the turtle was mewing while in orbit.

"Tama!" Su said suddenly bounding into the room with what looked like a rocket launcher over her shoulder. "Today I'll beat you!" she announced happily and launched a missile that burst into a net and would have ensnared Tama if she hadn't swerved out of the way in the nick of time. Su laughed and bounded off swearing to make Tama her lunch one day while Keitaro's jaw was flapping in the breeze.

"Is that normal?" he asked and Mutsumi waved it off and took another bite of watermelon. /She's still eating them? I swear this is the sixth watermelon we've gone through... Where is she keeping them!? And where is all this food going into?!/ he mentally demanded looking her up and down. He couldn't smell or sense a lick of demon in her outside of the small turtle demon that always hung around her. "So... how long have you been around demons?" Keitaro asked and she simply smiled at him.

"Ara, ara, all my life. Every member of my family has a turtle demon guardian. Most hide as tattoos but Tama likes to fly free Kei-cute." She replied and Keitaro blushed again at his new nickname.

"So you live here right?" Keitaro asked swinging his legs a little and wondering how the hell he didn't ask that earlier and she nodded with a mouth full of watermelon. "Well so do I, I've taken over Granny Hina's room for now." Keitaro said as Haruka walked in.

"Well I see things have gone over nicely with Mutsumi. Keitaro I'd like to talk to you about your trying to get into Todai..." Haruka said slowly sitting down beside him.

"Ah! You're trying to get into Todai too? That's wonderful Kei-cute!" Mutsumi said and Haruka raised an eyebrow and slowly glanced at Keitaro after hearing this nickname, he shrugged helplessly. "Anyways, Seta told me that there has been a lot of slayer activity in the area. Apparently they've started a base of operations in Tokyo U. I want you to give going to Todai a break for a bit until they move on. Until then you can't even take the glasses guy form you used before. It's been identified. Also I think Tsuroko wants a favour from you too." Haruka said and Keitaro nodded.

"Alright Auntie I understand." He said and she glared at him.

"When you stop calling me that? It makes me feel like an old woman." Haruka said as Mutsumi giggled a bit.

"When it doesn't sound right, then you go back to big sis. Sis." Keitaro said impishly and Haruka couldn't help but grin.

"Alright you goofy imp go chase a bird or something." Haruka said standing up and ruffling Keitaro's hair. He jumped up onto the back of the couch.

"Thanks for the watermelon Mutsumi." Keitaro said before dashing off and she waved good bye absently. A few moments later his target was in sight. He often had a trickster/troublemaker streak in him that manifested when someone suggested something. He was on a railing and slowly crawling up to Shippu, the yellow crane was completely unaware of Keitaro's presence as he crawled forwards, his fire magic was creating a shivering mirage that he wasn't there at all. He jumped forwards and just about had the bird by the tail feathers when his own tail was grabbed and yanked back by Tsuroko. "There goes a roast dinner." He muttered as Shippu flapped out of reach.

"Nice try wise guy, I plan to return to the God's Cry School in a couple days for a demonstration and I'd like you to join me." Tsuroko said as she set Keitaro down on the railing and he watched her closely.

"So you basically want me to give an elemental magic demonstration?" Keitaro asked cutting right to the point. Tsuroko nodded and Keitaro sighed. "Fine, but only because your expecting." He said slyly.

"What do you mean?" Tsuroko asked confused by the sudden comment.

"I can smell it, I've been around pregnant woman before and they give off an unmistakeable scent. There's a bit of it on you, I thought it was from someone you met but it would have rubbed of by now. Mrs. Mom." Keitaro said grinning like the cat that ate the canary, which he almost was.

Polls!

Well this is looking very one sided, probably because I didn't update fast enough to flesh everyone out. There will be more catnip chaos later, this chapter was just showing you what it does to him. He has a grip an Oni Lord would be envious of and is completely taken over by his cat side with catnip around. I'd like to ask though, did I make any of them out of character? And if anyone is wondering Haruka doesn't smoke because of Keitaro's sensitive nose.

Every Girl available: 2

Motoko: 3

Kitsune: 10

Shinobu: 3

Su: 1

Mutsumi: 2

Naru: 2

My Choice: 3

Original Character: 0

Kanako: 0