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/Oh Christ not Kanako!!/ "K-Kanako n-nice to see you again sis." Keitaro said trying to be diplomatic. She was wearing a witch's hat but otherwise was in the Yokai academy school uniform.
"Momma and Pop told me you were here so I decided to spend my summer vacation with you!" Kanako said squeezing him tighter.
/Has she been taking lessons from my fanclub?!? This fucking hurts!/ Keitaro thought in agony as he tried to pull apart Kanako's arms but since she was also demonic there was little he could do.
"Oh yea! I brought some friends over! They said that they remember you from school and really wanted to see you again." Kanako gushed and Keitaro's blood ran cold.
"KEI-KITTEN!!!" A few girls shouted out rushing towards Keitaro and Kanako and he had had it. Forcibly transforming into the largest form he still could he pushed against Kanako's arms as a brown spike tailed tiger with mini whirlwinds on each of his paws. The spike on his tail was a wicked barbed spear. This was his most powerful form so far but it stood out like a sore thumb no matter where he went. Nicking Kanako ever so slightly with his tail-blade he pushed off and charged the yokai girls giving out a huge roar empowered by wind which knocked them back and he jumped clear over them making a break for outside. He cleared the doors by jumping clean over the shocked Haruka.
"Sorry 'Ruka!" He shouted as he soared over her and then he coiled his legs in midair and pounced forwards aiming for the general area of England because in his eyes he'd rather piss of Alucard and all of Hellsing then please his fans. He soared upwards and away. He only used this form so he was taken aback when he shot like a bullet over Tokyo.
"BIG BROTHER!!" Kanako shouted and Keitaro turned his head ever so slightly and saw her on a broomstick and freaking keeping up!! /What the hell?!?! When the fuck did she learn to fly!?!?/ Keitaro mentally screamed being unable to talk as his lungs were being filled and emptied at a rapid pace with the air gushing in through his nose and pouring out of his mouth like it did for predators that were built for speed. He started to come down and he pounced forwards in midair again putting on a new burst of speed and Kanako tried the same.
"AHHHHHHH!!" Kanako screamed as a thermal knocked her clear off her broom and she fell but teleported herself safely to the ground.
/Crap... she's annoying and traumatising. But family is family./ Keitaro thought as he left streaks of blue fire in midair and he jumped down a mere brown blur until she teleported herself to safety and Keitaro again skidded to a halt. "Phew, Haruka would've rolled me in catnip and thrown me to the fans if she got hurt." Keitaro said then shuddered. "A fate worse then death." Keitaro said to himself nodding sagely.
"Well look at this a hanyo witch. Hard to believe that a filthy monster can masquerade as one of god's children." A woman's voice said and Keitaro looked down to see Kanako backed up to a wall with a nun holding a gun on her. "Tell Satan that the Iscariot is coming for his head." She said moments before Keitaro slashed down onto her in a blur of movement, in that flash of a second the gun was cut in half and a demonic tiger was between her and the Hanyo.
Keitaro was PISSED, this woman was everything he hated in the world personified. She was a destroyer, a hypocrite, a psychopath, a hunter, and someone who threatened a person he held dear. Kanako was his least favourite family member but being an Urashima put her high on the list of people to die for. The whirlwinds around his feet alone where giving off so much wind that the allyway was being blasted by it, yet Kanako felt nothing more then a light breeze.
She watched in awe as her older but little brother who now had burning eyes and a lengthened and even more viscous tail blade held the freaking sword of a tip to the woman's throat. "Now give me a reason not to kill you for threatening my sister." He commanded and the nun just glared at him. Keitaro's head snapped towards Kanako. "Look sis I want you out of here no questions asked. Run to safety but go the roundabout way, someone may try to track us. Burning Mirage." Keitaro said then exhaled a breath of fire at her until she was nothing more then a shimmer. "Now Go!" He ordered and she took off.
A glint of silver appeared in Keitaro's peripheral vision when he had turned back to the nun and he jumped backwards and avoided what looked like at first silver lightning but was then revealed to be a few silver knives, knives nearly identical to. "Anderson." Keitaro said his blood turning to ice in his veins.
"Nay, I am but a squire. Sir Anderson is a Paladin the highest rank of knight amongst the holy warriors of god." The man said stepping out of the shadows. He was dressed as a priest but was carrying a pair of silver swords/butcher knifes as he strode menacingly forwards. "It be highly unusual for a Demon to care for another, but she was family so that could be understood." He said and the Nun pulled out another gun.
"Christ how many guns are you packing lady?" Keitaro asked and she snarled at him.
"How dare a monster such as you take the Lord's name in vain?" she demanded spit flying with her temper.
"Hunh... I thought Christ was a title not a name..." Keitaro said and had to jump to the side to avoid a silver bullet. /Good, get nice and angry so you can't hold that thing straight... Why aren't I scared? Maybe I just don't have time to be scared so the ability to be is automatically being... FUCK!! Think later!/ Keitaro thought just before a bullet ricochet got him in the flank. He roared in pain and breathed a blast of blue fire at the woman catching her off guard as the man avoided the blast, he kept spewing out the flames until he was short of breath then panting he walked up to the twisted, blackened and mostly melted corpse. "Oh god, I killed her. I-I killed her... I've never killed before..." he said with the scent of her demise entering his nostrils and his battle mind fled on the spot no where near mature enough yet to deal with killing an enemy.
Bereft of his block from the fear Keitaro felt like he was dunked in ice water and wanted nothing more then shrink to the size of a large rat, find a hole in the ground, crawl in and cry. "Foul Beast! How Dare You?!?!" The man screamed out.
"I-I didn't mean too, she hit me and I lost control... Oh god what have I done!?" Keitaro asked stuttering as he laid his rapidly shrinking head on the ground and covered it with his paws. "What have I done? I'm a protector! I save people I don't kill!" Keitaro sobbed out no longer able to pay attention to the Iscariot slayer as he grimly approached the now cat sized demon which was shrinking down to a kitten. He raised his blade to strike a killing blow... and was blasted backwards with a spiral of dark energy and slammed into a far wall his ribcage crushed.
"Big brother!" Kanako exclaimed as she rushed up to him. She knelt down beside him and gently picked up the sobbing kitten. /Even with all his power he's still a gentle soul... poor kitty brother./ Kanako thought as she rushed away from the scene holding the kitten who was now desperate for comfort. She was secretly thrilled that he was cuddling up to her willingly but it was hollow because of his distress. "There, there brother. I know it hurts but it had to happen." Kanako said soothingly.
"B-but K-Kanako I took everything she ever had and everything she will... she's gone... and it's all my fault..." Keitaro said mournfully and Kanako hugged him gently. She walked to a nearby park knowing full well that slayers travelled in packs, she sat down on a bench and just let her older but smaller brother cry it out in her lap.
Flashback
Kanako was a little girl barely five and was crying in the forest lost and scared. It was raining heavily and nearly dark. She couldn't remember where she was from or how she got there and was badly bleeding out both the spider shaped scar on her back and a gash on the side of her head. "Are you okay?" a voice said and Kanako looked up and saw a boy pushing eight with cat ears and tail. "What happened?" he asked gently as he walked up to her the rain seeming to part before hitting him.
"What are you?" she asked surprised at his gently glowing eyes as he approached.
"I'm a demon, like you." He said holding his hand out. "Come on its too wet and too cold out here." he said and she took his hand and the first steps into a new and better life.
Flashback ends
Kanako smiled at that memory, it was the first of many things that caused the Neko to worm his way into her otherwise black heart. He had taught her many things, but above all else he had taught her how to love her family and open her heart purifying it as he went. She felt a small injury on his side and she channelled her magic to repair the wound. She then remembered when he had done the same for her.
Flashback
Kanako was crying on the stairwell up to Hina Inn and clutching at her ankle where a bad encounter with a dog had left her bloody there before she impaled the creature with her hair. "Kanako? What happened?" Keitaro asked coming down from above. "I smell blood." He said and she looked up at him. They were the same size most of the time now but he was in the form of a small tiger with a bladed tail this time.
"A nasty dog got me." She mumbled and Keitaro slunk downwards to gaze at the injury. He licked the wound with his sandpaper like tongue and Kanako gasped as the pain just ended on the spot. He had even cleaned most of the blood. "Thank you big brother!" Kanako exclaimed happily hugging him around the neck and giving him a good scratch causing him to purr.
"Come on you shouldn't walk on that for a bit." Keitaro said and Kanako nodded blushing as she climbed onto his back and he carried her up the stairs at a gentle pace his fur warm and soft beneath her.
Flashback Ends
/He's always been there for me when I really needed him. Time to repay my many debts. / Kanako thought and she gently arose with Keitaro comfortable but still distressed in one of her skirt pockets. /Still, he's been like this since that terrible trip. He may have learned a lot but he changed. He was a bold and fearless protector who tempered his power with kindness and caution. When he came back he was an easily terrified shell of his former self. He had seen the dark side of life and it caught him completely off guard. He was more powerful but he'd jump at shadows believing that something more powerful then him was there./ Kanako thought as she felt the bundle in her pocket slowly relax.
"Feeling better?" Kanako asked as she pulled the little bundle of fur and fuzz out of her pocket and he nodded.
"Yea the shock's passed over now. It doesn't make it any easier to swallow but I can accept I had to do it." Keitaro said. "I just wish there was another way to deal with these people, sending them to nut-farms or outright killing them can't be the only options. We shouldn't have to hide when we haven't done anything wrong!" Keitaro said and Kanako nodded.
"You know big brother you have started to heal a bit. When you left for the family home you were afraid to be in your natural form even in private. It's been barely a month and a half and you've already retaken your battle form. I hope you get back to the way you used to be. You weren't afraid of anyone then." She said as they walked through the park. "Not to mention you are really powerful now and about to become even stronger. There isn't much that can really beat you and that nun only got a lucky and glancing shot." Kanako said and Keitaro mulled it over. "What Auntie Haruka and Granny Hina are trying to do is a little slow because no one will just come out and say what you need. You need your courage back big brother." Kanako said to his face and Keitaro's eyes widened. "Problem is at this rate you may be afraid forever."
"What do I have to do?" Keitaro mumbled to himself and Kanako smiled.
"Face your fears. Show the world you're not afraid and it just might become a fact." Kanako said dramatically and Keitaro looked up at her.
"Have you been practicing that line?" Keitaro asked and Kanako laughed a little.
"A little but seriously big brother! I'm worried, you've lost your courage something that made you... well you." Kanako said and Keitaro sighed.
"I know it's just... before I didn't know what was out there, the people stronger then I was were either friends or so far away I'd never see them. I've seen how strong things are now... I don't stand a snowballs chance in hell. I can't protect anyone right." Keitaro said in a depressed tone.
"Keitaro did any of the powerful ones attack you or me for being a demon in public before?" Kanako asked.
"No it was always an idiot of a slayer here or there."
"So why would they attack you now?"
"Well they..." he said then blinked owlishly. "I'm an idiot." He said coming to a realization. He transformed into his four tailed tiger form. "I'm thinking sushi." He said and Kanako giggled. /Being brave got me everywhere, when I was scared I got nowhere. Kanako's right... they all are. Time to face the fire./
"You have to eat more then fish Big Brother! You may be a cat but it's unhealthy!" Kanako said to him her entire posture betraying her relief.
"What!? It's not just fish you know! It's seaweed, rice, spices and skill!" Keitaro protested and this caused Kanako to blink owlishly this time.
"What do you mean its skill?" Kanako asked and he gave her a sideways look.
"Have you never seen someone make sushi before? It's hard to get it just right! People will go into apprenticeships just to learn to do it right! Hell if that doesn't make it a skilful food then what does?" Keitaro asked and Kanako just started laughing.
Nearby.
"Hold it!" Haruka said as she grabbed Kitsune's shoulder to stop her from running forwards which incidentally stopped the entire group.
"What? Look he's in demon form in public! Something has to be wrong!" Naru protested and Haruka shook her head.
"No, something right. Looks like it took his little sister to yank him outa that shell." Haruka said.
"What are you talkin' about there? We all know how he reacted to her." Kitsune said and Haruka shook her head.
"She's reminded him just who he used to be, the first person in the world to redeem an Onigumu demon. Kanako... is a direct descendent of the singularly most despicable and monstrous demon in the history of the world. Yet knowing this, when he found her alone, bleeding, lost and without memories the first thing he did was bring her home and wrap up her cuts send her right to bed and then was ready for her to wake up the next morning with a tray of food." Haruka said smiling at the memory.
"He wormed his way into her heart by defending her from multiple slayers that knew what he was and tried to just kill her. After that he opened her up to us, then the world. Everything she has today, every moment of happiness, her family, her home, her friends, her life. All goes right back to the choice he made that evening twelve years ago. She reminded him of that, how he saved her, from the world, from herself, from her ancestor's vile shadow... she's living proof that the smallest choice can mean the world." Haruka explained her smile warming further when Keitaro transformed into the cat-kid form in plain sight and jumped onto her shoulders and sat down. "Looks like he's been around Su too much..." she said with a sigh.
"Most vile... She's a descendent of Naraku!?!? She comes from the bringer of Miasma? The slaughterer of millions?! The man singularly responsible for the segregations between demons and humans!?" Motoko asked shocked and Haruka nodded. "And he befriended her?!?! Is he insane!?" She asked half awed half afraid. It had taken some digging but it turned out that she could trace her ancestry to a wolf demon by the name of Koga who had fought against him.
"Come on girls, they haven't seen each other in years. The siblings need some bonding time." Haruka said and the Hina girls reluctantly followed Haruka back. But not before having to knock out his fangirls and drag them back to the inn.
Polls!
I bet none of you were expecting that with Kanako, or Keitaro.
Every Girl available: 13
Every Girl but Kanako: 1
Motoko: 12
Kitsune: 18
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
Crap we got a lot of over enthusiastic Harem lovers. Lovely.