Again I own Jack squat of Love Hina, the closest things to stock I own are a couple of government savings bonds.
"Speech"
/Thoughts/
Powers (not that he can use many overt ones as a kitten)
And to catch a lot of the humour in this chapter you have to remember that Keitaro has no gender so anything sexual is only embarrassing not exciting.
Story!
Keitaro woke up slowly still trapped as a kitten. /Hmm, I'm not on a futon or in the basket... it's warm and very, very soft... two big pillows on either side. Smells a bit like saké... and it has a pulse... the fox must have put me here./ he thought as his thoughts slowly arranged themselves. /Wait! Where the hell am I!?/ he thought in a panic as he tried to stand up but something held him down.
"Hmm? Mornin already?" Kitsune said as Keitaro's struggles woke her up. "Ah morning sugar! Sleep tight?" She asked as she threw off the blankets and Keitaro realized with dawning horror just where he was. "The foxy pillows are pretty soft aren't they?" she asked jiggling her chest a little with Keitaro along for the ride stuck between the two.
"Why!?" Keitaro demanded half traumatized, it was bringing back so many horrible memories. Granted he wasn't waking up in a snake woman's chest or a zombie's or being smothered to death but the association was painful.
"Oh? What's the problem hun? It's soft and warm what more could you want from a bed?" Kitsune asked and Keitaro sputtered.
"It's indecent!" He said indignantly and she laughed.
"Liar you don't think it's that indecent something bad just happened in the past, come on tell the fox of your problems." Kitsune said as she stood up and opened a nearby window letting the sunlight pour in and Keitaro sighed.
"The other girls... the Yokai girls did this too... problem is, is that they don't stay in human form when they sleep and it takes a while for them to wake up. I would wake up on someone who was rotted and maggot ridden or covered in scales. Sometimes half frozen or burnt because of what they are, but the worst ones would stay human and roll over crushing me. I nearly died time and again because of them. I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!" He said his voice getting more and more shrill and panic ridden as he spoke until it was nearly a scream.
"Whoa! Whoa now little guy! You're safe, you slept for half a day and a whole night in there and nothing bad happened right? Haruka told us about this, we're going to make sure you learn to love this stuff again." Kitsune said gently rubbing his head and getting the reflective purr. "Besides we've had an agreement, in which each one of us has a bow for you and we have to take care of you for that day. I gotcha today sugar and I hope you like black and lacy." Kitsune said and Keitaro was confused.
"Black and lacy? Are you going to make me ride around in here all day?" He asked shuddering at the thought Kitsune laughed.
"Well that's certainly an option cutie but I was referring to the bow." Kitsune said slyly as she tugged gently on the new bow around Keitaro's neck. He twisted to look at it and sure enough it was black and lacy as well as very poofy. "So what do you think?"
"It's very feminine and if I were in human form it would be risqué as well." Keitaro said the second bit mostly to himself but Kitsune caught it.
"Really? Maybe I should wear one too? A new rule so that whoever's kitty sitting has to wear a matching bow themselves, maybe that'll make you feel better?" Kitsune offered and Keitaro thought about it.
"Only if you want someone to think you have a sick fetish." Keitaro deadpanned after a moment causing Kitsune to break out into laughter.
"Alright thanks for helping me choose my outfit then! Oh by the way Haruka said that Shinobu doesn't owe you a thing because you didn't spend the day with her like this." Kitsune said and Keitaro growled.
"That's it I'm out." Keitaro said and he made to jump out of Kitsune's cleavage when she caught him halfway down.
"Great idea let's hit the town!" Kitsune cheered and Keitaro groaned. /This is gonna be a long day./ he thought looking at the expression on her face. His worst fears were quickly confirmed as Kitsune put on a tight tank top that kept him and a great deal of her cleavage in the open air and a pair of short-shorts with sandals, but to top it all off Kitsune was wearing a black lacy bow around her neck to match Keitaro's.
"You're trying to get me back for threatening you yesterday aren't you?" Keitaro deadpanned as she walked down the stairs and she gave him a flirty wink that would make a normal guy hot under the collar but put a shiver through his soul.
"You know it sugar, now I doubt I could pass you off as a magical cat so keep quiet. I've got a contract for a modeling job and I'm supposed to bring in a matching prop." She said slyly and Keitaro stared at her for a full minute.
"How long have you been planning this!?" Keitaro demanded shocked to his core as they crossed a street.
"A couple of weeks cutie pie. Your big sister let us in on this in advance and said that if we could get you into a kitten and a bow around your neck that we could do this." Kitsune said slyly and Keitaro stared again.
"Whyyyyy?" he asked mortified that his Haruka would do this to him. Kitsune walked directly into a dark alley and glared at him.
"Because you need to get over what happened hun. I may have been acting otherwise but I've been in on this from the start ya know! Didn't you think that I'd not notice that I had this beautiful body without working for it? You're mom Granny Hina could sense the fox in me! She took me in 'cause of it! The whole family agrees from your mom to your sister to everyone at the Inn that you need to get over you're fear of your own forms. It's just not healthy or smart to live in a disguise twenty four seven it'll mess with your head! Hiding from yourself will just end up hurting you." Kitsune said sounding mature and Keitaro's eyes were wide.
"Who are you and where the hell's the fox?" Keitaro demanded and Kitsune giggled. "Alright jokes aside has everyone seriously been trying to screw me over?"
"Hey babe if you drop the bra and top you'd probably find it's easier to talk to your boobs that way." A greasy looking man with a revolver shoved into his pants said and Keitaro just glared at him his eyes glowing.
"Piss off human, we're trying to talk here!" Keitaro shouted at him and the man took a staggered step backwards.
"Wha-wha- what the fuck? A talking cat?!" The guy said his eyes losing focus.
"Yea a talking cat now fuck off!" Keitaro shouted at him his mouth glowing with blue fire and the man went running screaming about demon possessed kittens controlling women through their boobs. "Well... shit. There goes the neighbourhood." Keitaro deadpanned and Kitsune giggled. "Now what?" He asked crossly.
"Well sugar it looks like our project has already started to work. Just last week you'd have pissed yourself before pulling a stunt like that, and it was so cute to see the widdle kitten acting as my bodyguard." Kitsune teased and Keitaro growled. "Aww you're just too cute." She said petting him and he had to fight hard to keep pouting. He sulked in silence as Kitsune entered the modeling agency and introduced Kei-cute her kitten prop.
Soon Kitsune was in a blue and white two piece bathing suit with Keitaro lying on her hips and holding a small fish sideways in his mouth as Kitsune posed to pick at sushi. The next shot Keitaro was drinking out of a Saké saucer with Kitsune sipping at her own, she was now in a cosplay shrine maiden outfit and the saucer Keitaro was drinking out of was balanced on her left knee as she sat cross legged with a straw broom balanced between her neck and right shoulder. Finally she was a bridesmaid in black with Keitaro nuzzling her neck and he now had a dark purple bow on his tail as well. He gave a mew to Kitsune when he could no longer help himself.
"Can you ask him if I'll get paid too? He'd probably freak if I talked to him." Keitaro asked talking into her ear and snickering a little.
"Nice to know you're in the spirit of things hun." She remarked and he mewed again to her to get her to lean over so he could whisper again.
"That's because I'm full and that milk was damn good, now the question is am I going to get a cut?" Keitaro asked giving her a sideways look.
"Hang on I'll ask. Hey sugar Kei-cute wants to know what his cut is." Kitsune asked the modeller and he glanced at the kitten.
"Well fox he's one hell of a prop and might certainly help with the appeal..." the man said glancing at Keitaro who watched back and cracked a grin before getting a devious idea. /yep I've been around the fox here too long./
"Pweeese?" Keitaro asked barely opening his mouth to fake ventriloquism and the man laughed.
"Alright, alright Kitsune cute trick. I'll add another zero to your check." He said chuckling as he scribbled on a piece of paper and handed the modified check to Kitsune. "I'll be seeing you soon." He said and Kitsune walked out with more then a bit of a spring in her step.
"Woohoo! We're hitten the bars today!" Kitsune cheered and almost got Keitaro caught up in the excitement almost.
"Are you sure that's wise? Bars are crowded and you do have a demon for company." Keitaro said and she looked at him with a quivering lower lip.
"Oh you just don't like me..." she started her eyes big and soulful with an expression that would make the coldest cruellest man weak in the knees. Unfortunately...
"That's not going to work." Keitaro interrupted with a deadpanned expression and she just chuckled.
"Let me guess the puppy look doesn't work on cats?" Kitsune asked and Keitaro scoffed.
"No it's just that if you truly master it, it doesn't work on you anymore... that and I know you." Keitaro said flatly and Kitsune giggled for a bit until Keitaro got caught up and chuckled as well.
"You know I just remembered we haven't had breakfast yet." Kitsune said and Keitaro was immediately on guard when she used the 'cute girl thinking pose' and smiled.
"Hey sugar I'll pay for everything and let you take human form if you swear on you're demon honour to change back into a kitten when we get back to the Inn." Kitsune offered and Keitaro considered it. /Hmm... maybe I could break even for all the times she tried to tease me. Just deserts and all that./ he thought as he jumped off her and transformed with a blast of smoke into the same form he had taken when he had been with Motoko. "I thought ya'll need a leaf to do that." Kitsune said and Keitaro shook his head.
"No this just puts a stricter time limit on it. I have five hours now instead of the regular twenty. The leaf is a focus point, I just pour my energy into it and it releases it into my body at a controlled rate. Kitsunes, Tanuki and the like naturally have better control at this, but almost every demon species can transform. Unfortunately the guardian breeds just don't have the energy to throw around before adulthood, for some reason we have this mental limiter that makes it so we can only put so much energy into transformations and it resets every dawn." Keitaro said to her and she nodded it mostly made sense.
"Well hello there beautiful care to drop the gaijin dead wait and ride with local style?" A suave but stupid young man asked driving at walking speed near them in a shiny red sports car.
"Sorry but she doesn't like flakes. Maybe you'd have better luck at a daycare? I hear the girls there jump at guys like you." Keitaro said grinning maliciously as a hand snaked around Kitsune's waist and held her close.
Kentaro pulled his car over and casually stepped out before walking right up to Keitaro and glaring upwards at him due to being half a foot shorter. "Can I help you?" Keitaro asked unfazed, he couldn't sense a lick of magic in this guy and his Ki reserves were just below normal hardly slayer material.
"Care to repeat yourself?" Kentaro asked and Keitaro smirked then to Kitsune's amusement he actually did. /Wow looks like the kitten has some claws. This auta be good./ Kitsune thought
"Sorry but she doesn't like flakes. Maybe you'd have better luck at a daycare? I hear girls there jump at guys like you." Keitaro said how he did it with a straight face was beyond Kitsune as she broke out laughing. Kentaro reared back a fist only to be kneed in the gut and shoved into his car like a ragdoll. "Look man, a pretty package is absu-fucking-lutely useless without substance behind it. Grow a real pair instead of paper maché substitutes and then try. Who knows you might even be able to get a girl to stick around without paying her. C'mon Kitsune let's leave this pansy with his oversized dildo behind." Keitaro said leading her away and when they got away they both broke down laughing.
"Kami! Keitaro what possessed you to do all that!?" Kitsune asked when she got the air back in her lungs.
"I couldn't help it! I must have been hanging around you for too long! Anyways, where to?" Keitaro asked and gulped a little when Kitsune grinned maliciously. /Oh shit./ Keitaro thought.
Timeskip three hours.
Keitaro was right to be nervous, as at that moment three hours earlier an impromptu contest between him and Kitsune began. Neither really knew what the goal was but they were determined to out due the other leading to some entertaining results.
Inwardly Keitaro was blushing brightly, outwardly he was matching every one of Kitsune's gyrating moves with one of his own in the dance club. /This isn't dancing this is sex with clothes on!/ he thought in a panic but outwardly was a little lecherous as he spun Kitsune around and sucked on her neck a little as she moaned in appreciation. /Time to outfox the fox./ he thought grinning madly as his troublemaking side was fully in the driver's seat. "Why don't we blow this joint and dance with less things between us?" he asked as he held her tightly and suggestively fingering her clothes to say what was 'between' them.
Kitsune's eyes widened and she shoved him back "Okay! Okay you win! Jesus I never thought you would go that far!" She exclaimed blushing brightly, Keitaro grinning impishly at her.
"Good thing too I don't have much time left. Now let's blow this joint and head to the Inn." Keitaro said suggestively and although she knew exactly what he meant she still blushed.
"Nice catch man!" A guy said in passing and Keitaro flashed a grin. He escorted her with his arm around her all the way to the Hina inn.
"I gots ta admit Keitaro you know how to act. I'd swear you actually wanted to... you know." Kitsune said as they got to the stairs of the Hina Inn. He held her gently by the chin and had her look up at him his eyes sparkling with mischief.
"And who says I don't? A transformation like this is complete right down to the genetic sequence... I could even get you pregnant." Keitaro said with a purr and Kitsune was by now bright red and starting to get dizzy. "I'd bet you'd make a good mother." He whispered in her ear while nibbling the earlobe a little, this proved to be too much for the fox girl and she promptly fainted. "Heh, heh, heh never challenge a demon little girl, you'll only lose." Keitaro said chuckling to himself as he carried her up to the Inn bridal style. He laid her down on the couch and started walking to the kitchen to wrestle up some fish when he stopped and sniffed the air.
/Onigumo, cats, and black magic.../ "oh dear god." He said breathlessly just before he was slammed to the ground and his transformation was dispelled by a flying tackle hug.
"Big Brother!" Kanako shouted in joy squeezing the everloving daylights out of her sibling.
"K-K-Kanako!? Aren't you supposed to be at Yokai!?" Keitaro demanded seeing his life flash before his eyes due to his half-spider demon witch of a sibling.
POLLS!!
Every Girl available: 7
Every Girl but Kanako: 1
Motoko: 11
Kitsune: 17
Shinobu: 3
Su: 1
Mutsumi: 2
Naru: 3
My Choice: 3
Original Character: 0
Kanako: 1
Reset: 1
Female Keitaro: 1
Male Keitaro: Everyone else
Yea everyone seems to want the Fox so I think I can make that work. This chapter wasn't really romantic in my view so much as endless teasing and flirting to make the other uncomfortable. So we finally find the main source of Keitaro's problems. Remember suggestions are welcome but be constructive and creative.