KZD: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or anything Naruto related.
Speech: "Normal"
"Normal/Human thinking."
"Demon talking."
"Demon thinking."
From within the dark shadows of a room, a pair of heterochromatic eyes pierced through the blackness. One a darker shade then the other. Its body unseen, the creature sat high above on a rafter as it peered down at the human below along with strange tiki-like dolls and masks. All of then scowling angrily at the dark skinned man below them. He had his hat pulled down into his hat as he sat on his knees in a pleading like position as he looked up at the scowling faces above with nervousness in his violet eyes.
"So you wish for the power of shadows human?" A twisted feminine voice echoed from within the darkness. "Why do you look to a demon for help?"
The man stood up from his kneeling position and gave a light bow to the hidden monster before putting his skull and cross bone printed hat back on.
"You've must have been around long enough to realize that power isn't what use to be." His voice was very slick but the demon could easily hear the menacing undertone to it. "Might no longer controls the world. Money does." He earned a nasty cat like hiss in response. The ghostly flames that dimly lighted the room flared from the sudden anger of its master.
"If you think I'm a demon of greed then look elsewhere! My domain lies with death not wealth." The man cringed from the demons outburst and recoiled not knowing what it could possibly do to him.
"I sorry if I have offended you. But there must be something you must want, like myself. Something you can't obtain by normal means without causing an alarm." The beast growled from its post as its piercing gaze looked down at the man below it, ready to pounce and consume the man at anytime it pleased. The low rumbles of its growling soon ceased and it spoke.
"Souls. My diet mostly consist of me feeding of the souls of the living because of my power. To fill the empty hole inside of me, for in a sense I am dead myself. The reapers servant." The man smiled up at the demons answer.
"And I can get you that. There are plenty of wayward souls occupying good ole New Orleans. But to do that I need power. Power that you can provide."
"Foolish mortal, asking a demon for help with a bribe. Do you even now the cost is for help from someone like me?" The voice purred and a Cheshire like grin appeared just below the duel colored eyes.
"Well if everything goes to plan, I doubt the consequences will make much of difference in my life if at all." The room became eerily silent and all that could be heard was the mans breathing.
Suddenly the masks started to glow and mouths move as they surrounded the purpled eyed man. Their twisted, evil faces sprouted teeth and they began to chant as they swirled around him with a dark energy.
"You and your offer interest human. Very well, for your confidence in approaching me I shall grant you this gift." The masks chanted and a black substance escape from there jagged mouth and poured on to the floor below near the mans feet.
It swirled and mixed in with his shadow and started to grow. On the wall, a flat black creature crackled as it stood around the same height of the man and took a similar form to him. It bowed to its new master.
"Behold the power darkness. The power to manipulate shadows." The voice purred as it watch the man become acquainted to his own shadow. The mask quite there chanting and returned back to the darkness with the pair of watching eyes. The shadow gave a cruel smile to its master and stole his hat making it levitate around the mans head before he grabbed it back and forceful put it back on.
"Careful for it has a mind of its own. What ever cast a shadow, it can control and manipulate. Just stay away from bright light's. I really shouldn't have to explain that no do I?" The voice growled.
The man gave a wide smile and slammed his cane down. The shadow stooped its shenanigans before standing erect before shrinking and disappearing below the mans feet.
"Thank you for your cooperation my friend. I can assure you that you won't be disappointed."
"I better not be or else." It hissed violently and a heavy weight was felt around the room that made the man flinch but he regain his composure quickly.
"Don't worry my dear. It's only a matter of time before you can enjoy all the wayward souls, your black little heart desires." He turned to leave and made it to the door. Just before he left the haunting words of the demon echoed out.
"I'll be watching Facilier."
Aqua waved her hand in front of her wave in a failed attempt to cool down. Normally she was one for the warm weather like from her old home on The Land of Departure. But the humidity level made it even hard to breath on this world. Not to mention live.
She looked over to the blond walking beside her in mild frustration. He looked completely fine and unaffected my the sudden heat. No a single bead of sweat on his forehead. She let out a breath. It must be because he's a fire elemental so heat mustn't bother him in anyway.
She swirled her head to the sound to some upbeat music jazz music that seemed to be echoing through out the rambunctious town. People moved around quickly setting up decorations of some sort while having fun and small parties near the different bands playing music.
The sound of humming of humming caused he to raise an eye to the demon standing next to her. His eyes were shunt as his head bobbed slightly to the beat of the music. A smile tugged at her lips and she let out a giggle. He peered down at her with one crimson orb at the sound.
"What's so funny?"
"Turns out music really does sooth the savage beast." He immediately stooped his actions and let out a small growl. He reached up and scratch the back of his head.
"It could go either way. Just be happy that the sound keeps my anger under instead of the other way around."
"What ever you say Kyuu. You just like the sound." She waved him off and went off in a different direction to try and find any information on the town. Kyuubi shrugged his shoulders and followed with a light skip in his step as he listened to the beat of the town.
A man that was reading a newspaper finished his skimming before tossing it carelessly aside into a near by garbage bin as the fox passed by. He caught it easily before it could land in the trash and read the head lines.
"Lets see here…The Times- Pieayme, February 1926. Prince arrives today, blah, blah, blah." He started to unknowingly walk into the busy street.
"Most eligible bachelor visit's the Crescent City of New Orleans, well that explains where we are. Mardi Gras king Big Daddy LaBuff invites prince to stay with him. Wait a minute…Mardi Gras?!"
His eyes widen in excite meant as he read over the expectations for the event that would start in a couple of days. A fanged filled grin spread across his face as it lighted up like a child's on Christmas day. The paper combusted into flames and fell to the ground in ashes.
"Vixen!" He narrowly avoid getting hit by a trolley cart as he ran over Aqua who was looking through some shops on the other side of the street buying what looked to be a water bottle.
Kyuubi jumped right in front of her as she was about to take a drink and startled her.
"Oh what the-why did you do that for?" Some of the water had spattered out as she was startled by the demons sudden actions.
"Hey at least you're cooled down now. Can we stay her for a couple days?" Aqua eyeballed the suspiciously jolly fox. Never in all the time have they been traveling has he ever been this happy other then when he is fighting out his aggression.
"Why?"
"There's going to really big party in just a couple of days that only happens once a year on this kind of world." She narrowed her eyes at the demon. They had no time to be fooling around. They had to find any sign of the other Bijuu and that was something that couldn't be put of for some quick entertainment.
"No." The blue haired women said flatly causing the blond demon to grit his teeth together into a forced, if not some how angry, smile.
"Come now don't be like that. Is that how you repay me for saving your life twice. By denying me fun."
"You're getting my soul by the end of our journey. Isn't that enough?"
"But your soul is only one thing. Plus our little agreement states that we must take care of each others needs. And I have the need to party. Or do you want to break our blood contract. Remember if you do not only do I take you strait to Hell with me, I keep Ven's body."
He couldn't do that….Could he? Aqua looked at the demon as he gave her a cocky smirk. His grin only seem to get bigger as he grabbed the collar around his neck and brought his face closer to hers much to he discomfort.
"This collar is going to look so good around that pretty little neck of yours Vixen." He whispered with a slight growl, imitating a purr. Her face became beat red as she pushed the fox away from her and looked away.
"Fine, we'll stay for a bit. But after the party we're gone. Got it." She said sternly finally regaining her composure. Kyuubi nodded his head in agreement. Aqua let out a sigh. She could swear that she could see his non-existent tails wagging a mile a minute along with, a pair of devil horns growing out of his head.
"If we're going to stay here will have to find a place to stay."
"Got that covered. There's some prince visiting this place and is staying with the guy who is the king of Mardi Gras." Aqua raised a brow at the fox not exactly get where he his getting at.
"So?"
"Simple. I find the prince, become buddy, buddy with him. Then get him to invite me-"
"Us."
"-Us to stay with him as his friends." Aqua rolled her eyes at the demon.
"This is ridiculous. What in the world made you think of that? Plus you're not the most friendliest person in all worlds. Chances are that the prince will only talk to you if your royalty or have tons of money."
"Ahh, Demon King. Hello? I am royalty last time I checked. Besides I'm a fox. Acting is in my nature." He boasted about himself.
He had way to much pride in himself, Aqua thought. There was no way this would work with out the fox out shining the expected prince and possibly making a fool of himself. Though that could be fairly funny to watch the fox learn a lesson in humility. She smiled.
"Alright I'll play along. But what if that doesn't work?"
"Simple, you'll be working the loose ends." Oh she new this was coming. Just not entirely sure when. "Try and track down this Big Daddy LaBuff and persuade him that your visiting royalty and need a place to stay. For Kami's sake you lived in a castle for a good portion of your life, you might as well be a princess or a noble. Hell, look at the way we dress. We look Richer then most of the populace here."
They looked out at the street as Kyuubi extended his hand as if he was giving a presentation. Most of the citizens looked to be in the working class either wearing plain clothing or overalls. Those in suits were just males trying to impress some girls with just the way they look.
"I see what you mean. If that's the case, we'll cover more ground by separating."
"Fine then. You find the fat guy with a lot of cash and I'll try to find the prissy looking prince." The two nodded and Kyuubi turned to explore. He stopped momentarily before calling out To Aqua before she became out of earshot.
"Try to loosen up a little. We're here to have some fun and your to tense for my tastes." He walked off into a crowed of swarming people. When Aqua turned her head to face him he completely disappeared. She shook her head with a sigh and mumbled.
"The reason I'm so tense is because you make me nervous."
The sun stood directly above New Orleans beating down on the town folks. With the hot weather, people started to go on their lunch breaks to try and cool down and find a way to beat the heat until nightfall.
Aqua did her best to stay in the shaded areas near stores with some sort of manner in blocking off the sun. Her stomach let out a low grumble making her wonder when exactly was the last time she ever ate anything. After all between the time in the Dark Realm and now, she's probably starving and didn't completely now it. She guess time was starting to catch up to her.
The keyblade master walked up to a small café and entered and was greeted by a chime of a bell. Inside it looked fairly busy. There were plenty of well dressed people sitting all round in the near full restaurant, and it appeared that there was only one waitress serving them all but with an upbeat attitude doing quick work of her job.
"Come on in and take a seat anywhere you like and I'll be there in a moment." The waitress called as she handed out the pile of file that she carried in both arms, and were those pancakes on her head, to their respected customer. Aqua had to admit thought that the waitress made the job look easy despite the heavy burden.
The blunette didn't have to wait long for a menu when she took a seat next to a window. Scanning through her choices, she felt the majority were fairly fatting and sugar filled except for a few items.
"Ready to take your order?"
"Yes," Talk about fast service, "I'll just have a turkey sandwich and some water please."
"Coming right up." The waitress said with a smile and left the table. As she left the door bell chimed signaling someone coming in.
"Hello Mr. LaBuff."
"Hello Tiana." A jolly large red haired man entered and greeted the waitress before taking a seat at his usual spot. Aqua's head snapped up from looking out the window at the sound of the man's name. So this was Big Daddy Labuff.
"Congratulations on being voted the king of the Mardi Gras parade."
"Caught me completely by surprise. For the fifth year in a row. Ha!" He let out a joyful laugh at his success. With all of the cheer in the room it was hard to notice the looming darkness that seemed to come from the far opposite coroner of the room.
"Now, how about I celebrate with-"
"Benyas. Just had a fresh batch just waiting for you."
"Well keep them coming till I pass out."
Aqua tapped her foot pondering exactly how to approaches the large rich man. It would seem kind of awkward just to go up to him and ask for a place to stay or just to try and talk to him at all with out just reason.
Suddenly the door burst open and the keyblade master cringed at the sound of a loud voice, regretting that she took the window seat next to the door.
A squealing blond adorned in pink clothing came barging in calling for Tiana gushing over the news of the visiting prince. Aqua rubbed her temples in minor annoyance trying to tune the girl out. And she thought Kyuubi could be loud. She gave a small thanks when her water arrived and took a swing of it.
She tried to focus on her plans as she tried to tune out the obviously tone deft blond but it still seemed to get through. She turned her head to peek at them an had to stifle a laughter when LaBuff shoved a benya into his daughters mouth to stop her from talking a mile a minute.
After that, Tiana stated to talk about how to get through a man's heart was threw his stomach, and the blond seemed to take it completely literally asking her to cater at a masquerade ball her father was hosting. She grabbed her fathers wallet full of munny and pratically shoved it in front of the working waitress.
"Will this cover it?"
"This should cover it just fine Lottie. This is it. I'm finally getting my restaurant!" The pink branded blond let out a cheer as Tiana jumped for joy. Aqua twitched her head at the sound of ding near the from where the chef had draped an egg on the order bell, his mouth agape at the scene.
The dark skinned waitress stuffed her newly earned cash into her apron and moved to get the food orders for the waiting customers. The LaBuffs have finally settled down and were talking about tonight's events and preparations. This was her chance.
Aqua sucked in a deep breath deciding the best method was to just wing it. Even her and the fox couldn't find a place to stay, it wasn't like it would be the end of the world.
As she got up a shadow sneaked passed her legs and darted to over the where Tiana was handing out orders and silverware. The shadow curled around the women's leg and tugged rough fully. Tiana lost her balance and fell forward releasing the knives she had in hand out of surprise and fright. The silverware turned weapons, were flung right at LaBuff's head.
"Mr. LaBuff look out!" Tiana called. When the man looked up he face was barely half an inch away from being impaled by the eight-inch long knife. On the other end at the handle Aqua held the weapon, just stopping it in the nick of time.
"What on the world?!"
"That was close." Aqua said with a smile, though her eyes were searching for what could have caused the near accident. Being trained in reflexes defiantly had its strong points. She place the offending knife safely on the table.
"Oh my goodness, . I'm so sorry. It was an accident I swear." Tiana said with a panic voice. The large man retrieved a handkerchief from his suit chest pocket and wiped off some of the sweat accumulating on his forehead.
"That's quiet alright, Tiana. Accidents happen. But I should really be thinking this young lady here. With out her I wouldn't be able to enjoy your benyas. What's you name? Can't say I seen you around New Orleans before."
"My name's Aqua."
"Well thank you for the save Aqua, sincerely. Is there anything that you need I can retune in repaying you for saving my life."
"Oh yes there has to be something! I nearly had a heart attack seeing that awful knife coming straight for daddy." Aqua inwardly smiled, happy that she wouldn't have to lie about a false life just to get a place to stay for a few nights.
"Actually there is something. Me and a friend of mind just arrived here and found out about the Mardi Gras party being held. Unfortunately we don't have a place to stay…"
"That's non-sense! There is plenty of room in my mansion you and your friend can stay there till the party is over. Heck the both and your friend are welcomed to the masquerade ball I'm throwing tonight."
"Thank you for your hospitality Mr. LaBuff."
"I should be thanking you my dear." The large man said with a joyous smile. His daughter suddenly stood up from her seat and grabbed her father by the arm and yanked him up and towards the door.
"Come on Big Daddy! My prince is finally here and I'm sure as heck ain't letting him go." The bubbly blond pushed her poor father out the wooden door that closed shut automatically behind them.
Aqua opened her mouth to stay something as they left but at the speed they were going at they were long gone.
"Jeeze, they moved so fast I didn't have time to asked where they lived."
"Don't take them leaving as rude, Charlotte's always been like then since we've been kids." Aqua turned to see Tiana cleaning up the mess that her stumble had caused.
"Are you alright?"
"I'll be just fine. It just that something like this never happened before. The last time I ever tripped is when I first stated working in the café." Tiana let out a sigh. She was just happy that she at least she had the money to finally accomplish her dream, so possibly loosing her job wasn't her biggest concern at the moment.
"You said you needed directions to Mr. Labuff's house right." Aqua nodded her head. "I'll do you one better. Come back here in about three hours and I can show you there myself. I'm going have to start making the food early to keep all the people at the masquerade ball happy."
"Thank you. That'll give me enough time to find my friend and bring him back here. Wherever he is." For all Aqua knew, the fox probably skipped town and she wouldn't put it pass him either. She could just imagine the demon celebrating in some disgusting manor of his, celebrating his temporary freedom from her practically baby sitting him.
"Hello, Ms. Aqua? Are you there?"
"Hmm?"
"You spaced out there for a moment. Looked kinda angry there to."
"Just thinking about my…friend, if you can call him that. He can be really irritating and a handful at times. He's probably causing some sort of trouble right now if not getting in to it."
"Is that so?" The dark skinned gave Aqua a suspicious look. The eyes widen as she felt her heat start to rise to her face.
"I swear its not like that."
"Of coarse it isn't. Any ways, you should get a move on in trying to find him."
"You're right. I'll be back soon."
"See you then. Oh wait!" Tiana went over to the pick up table and put something into a brown paper back and handed it over to Aqua. "You're order." The keyblade master was about to pull out the munny to pay for it, the waitress stopped her. "No need to pay, it's on the house."
Smiling gratefully, Aqua turned to leave opening the door with the chine of the bell. As she left a man watching the scenario dropped the newspaper the he was reading and smile cruelly at his shadow as a plan started to formulate in his head. He got up leaving the paper on the table on walked out of the small restaurant.
Aqua walked down the a couple different streets, taking in the sights while enjoying her food. She found a way into a park like area and found a bench under a tree to rest at. The bluenett was about to finish the contents of her lunch when she heard a distanced mewing sound nest to her.
Right next to sat a slim black cat with glowing yellow eyes with what looked like a blue flame markings on its small frame. The women nearly jumped out of her seat thinking the cat was a stray heartless with its eerie golden eyes piercing through her own, but calmed down when it didn't.
The skinny looking animal walked up to Aqua and butted its head against her forearm asking for attention. It let out a low purr as it brunched its fur against her. Aqua raised her free hand to scratch the cats head.
"Well aren't you the friendly one." The cat let out a happy meow as it had its head scratched. "You're kind of on the skinny, do you want the rest of this?" She offered the remaining half of her meal.
The animals eyes lit up as it jumped and snatched the food right out of her hands and landed on the other side of the bench. Ravenously digging into the free food. From this angle Aqua could really see how famished the assumed stray really was. The poor thing looked like it was on deaths door steep. It's bones and rib cage could bee seen despite it's black fur doing a good job of hiding it at first glance.
Suddenly she felt something vibrate in her shorts pocket. She pulled out the book that Master Yen Sid handed to her, tapping the center of it causing the encyclopedia to grow larger. It appeared in its full domineering size in a puff of smoke. The book opened itself with a sudden gust of wind. When the page stopped turning a picture of demonic looking skull, tiki looking thing with a summary underneath it.
"Still can't read it." The text was in some ancient language. Aqua let out a hum when she noticed there were smears of blood on the page. Biting off the skin of her thumb, small beads of blood stated to form and the female pressed it down on the page.
Almost immediately the text started to rearrange itself until it finally settling. The spelling different and readable.
"Lets see here." She did a small cure spell the cease the bleeding. "Voodoo, a type of black magic that normally requires a living sacrifice. This type of magic is known for those who want to use it to extract revenge on others or to steal and devour their soul. Associated with death, those who can make pacts with the Reapers associates can increases there magic tenfold. The most notarizes of them all being the personal pet of the Reaper the cat of death, or better known as-"
She flipped the page and gasped at what she saw. A giant cat like creature took up the entire area its body completely made out of black and blue flames with its mouth agape ready to devour its pray. Its paw outstretch with its claws flashed out. But the most disturbing part of it was the two tails that it had.
"-Nibi no Nekomata. The two tailed cat and one of the legendary Bijuu. The origin of Voodoo magic can be traced back to it as it is a symbol of death, constantly having to feed on souls to satisfy its constant hunger. Notably, the Nibi likes to hunt down its pray in a smaller version of itself. Those who come in contact with it are known to die within a few days of the unfortunate meeting. I got a bad feeling about this." Aqua whispered the last part to herself.
Taking a closer look at the picture of the demon cat she noticed that its fur is distinctly similar to that of the stray cat she had befriended. Wait a minute. Aqua twisted her head back and forth and stood from the bench. The little animal was gone with out a trace.
"Crap. I need to get Kyuubi and get the hell out of here." Normally Aqua wouldn't be fazed by such a problem of the stigma the book had laid out. But with all the demonic activity around her lately she wasn't going to take any chances. Especially with possible instant death now lingering in her mind.
The keyblade master use to like cats. There lazy and aloof nature always intrigued her. Now she wouldn't look at one the same way again. Closing the book she put a mini spell on it to shrink its size once more and pocket the old tome before walking off in a fast pace to find the fox.
Just around the street coroner the cat reappeared and headed down an alleyway. Its single tail moved a mile a minute until it settled and split in half to create to separate ones. It walked up to a dark skinned man clothed in purple and blacks with a skull stitched hat on and jumped on top of his shoulder.
"So you want to feast on that pretty little soul?" The cat yodeled in response and licked its teeth. The man chuckled. "I'll see what I can do. But for now we have bigger fish to fry." He said and walked off to where a large crowed was starting to gather by the docks.
Kyuubi jumped from building to building, relishing in his new found freedom. He seriously needed a brake from the Vixen. She was always to serious for his taste and this was the perfect opportunity to finally let loose.
He let out a bellowing laugh as people from there homes screamed things like hooligan as he practically danced upon their roof tops. Seeing them become frustrated in antics did his heart good. Causing chaos and mayhem in any form was his job, no matter how minor. They should all be grateful he didn't mean any sort of business, as long as no one got in his way of coarse.
Stooping on top of one of the tall buildings, the blond demon crouched to all fours near the edge looking almost like a miss placed gargoyle. He watched as many of the towns people started to flood near the docks where what looked to be a cruise ship just made land. Many cameras flashed off and people started talking loudly over one another all trying to get to one person. And Kyuubi has a good idea who.
He spotted who he is looking for running through the crowed of paparazzi following a band of jazz players heading off into the main streets of the town, with what looked to be a portly man following behind with large suite cases in each hand. He was doing a horrible job of keeping up though. The demon smiled. Some one this energetic wouldn't be to hard to split from others. He jumped off the roof and casually followed behind the playing jazz band.
A different crowed of show goers started to form a circle around one of the many bands and Kyuubi shoved his way pass them to get near the front. What he saw only made him want to join in the fun. The so called prince was happily playing with what looked to be a ukulele while dancing with a local child.
Kyuubi felt something push him from behind roughly and gave a sharp growl as he looked down to find the perpetrator. It was the fat man caring his luggage through the crowd.
"Sire! I have been looking for you everywhere."
"Oh ho, what a coincidence Lawrence. I have been avoiding you everywhere." The man known as Lawrence gave an angered look to his prince before it turned into worry.
"We're going to be late for the masquerade."
"Listen Lawrence, listen." The carefree prince interjected before being silent for a few seconds before letting out a happy sigh.
"Jazz, jazz music. It was born here. It's beautiful, no?" He said as he leaned over hiss poor servant to flirt with a couple of women in front of him.
"No." Lawrence said flatly. Before being gabbed by the arm as the prince tossed the ukulele, it being caught by the boy he was dancing with earlier.
"C'mon, dance with me fat man!" Kyuubi let out a laugh see in the poor man being dragged into an unwanted dance with his ruler and was practically tossed into the air.
"We're suppose to be a LaBuff estate by now."
"Yes, yes, yes. But first I buy every one a drink!" Everyone shouted into a cheer and Kyuubi found himself doing the same thing. It was time to let loose. Time to party. And with Aqua not being around him it was time to finally break this body in.
He could see that Lawrence had got the prince to stoop dancing and stated to argue with him but the fox couldn't hear from the laughter of fun from the crowd. Though he could see the prince give a disgusted look as the servant pointed to a man that was shoveling horse dung. He seemed to agree before pulling the man back into a strut much to his displeasure.
This was Kyuubi's chance. He jumped right into the dancing circle and grabbed Lawrence by the arms and peered down at him with a malicious grin.
"May I intervene?" The prince gave a whole hearted laugh to the new face.
"Go right ahead my friend." He discharged Lawrence over to the blond, who seemed to shrink down in size at the sight demonic mans looks.
"Sire, please sire I don't-" Before he could say any more the demon man twirled Lawrence. If not a little to vigorously making the portly man dizzy. He let go of him, letting the smaller man stumble as he spin around dazed and confused. Back steeping once he tripped and fell straight into a tuba head first, and straight into a wall.
Kyuubi continued to grin despite his mistake. The prince on the other hand found nothing wrong in the situation and laughed at the servants misfortune while jogging over to him.
"Perfect, your finally getting into the music. Get my joke? Cause your head its, its in a tuba." Kyuubi walked over to them as Lawrence struggled to free himself.
"Get me out!"
"Alright, hold on."
"Let me help." Kyuubi said as he came to the other side grabbing hold of the instrument. The prince nodded and counted.
"One. Two. Three." On three they pulled on the Lawrence came stumbling out free from the tuba. He rubbed his sore head as he glared daggers at the blond that caused him to end up in there in the first place.
"You Hooligan! Watch what your doing!" He shouted at the fox who shrugged his petty words off.
"Sorry about that little man. Sometime I just don't know my own strength." He said with a small chuckle in his voice. He thought of it as minor revenge as well for when the man shoved him to get to his boss. Before the older man could try and ridicule the blond more the prince interjected.
"That was some fancy foot work you had back there."
"Well with the beautiful music around, I find it hard to control myself." Kyuubi stood up straight before bowing.
"Excuse my rudeness. My name is King Kyuubi of-" He scanned his mind for places he could use, "Konohagakure no Sato." Of all the places In the universe he could say besides Hell, it just had to be that one. Kyuubi was mentally kicking himself for it but didn't let it show.
"That's quiet a fancy name for a country."
"Never heard of it." Lawrence said gruffly folding his arms. On top of his stomach.
"Actually that is the name of the village, the country itself is called the Land of Fire. And as of you never hearing about it, where still in development as we are a small country."
"If that's true then you should be there and not here. Aren't you a little young to be a king." This old man was starting to get on the demons nerves.
"My father died when I was young. Besides all I do is paperwork and that's just boring. So I left someone to deal with it and came here with one of my servants to have a little fun. Now how about you good sir?"
"I'm Prince Naveen of Maldonia. I to am also here to enjoy the Mardi Gras celebration."
"Sire must I remind you. Were here so that you can find you a rich spouse."
"Rich spouse?" Naveen let out a breath of defeat, not exactly to happy about his true reason in visiting New Orleans.
"Mother and Father caught me off because I was squandering so much of there riches back home."
"What a shame. Hey how about getting a couple of drinks, that should ease the burden. It's on me." Kyuubi offered. Of coarse he would have to pickpocket some one first.
"Thank you for the offer Lord Kyuubi, but Prince Naveen must be heading off to the LaBuff's estate to court their daughter." Lawrence said as he tried to push the prince along to get him moving.
"Lawrence what are you doing?" He whispered as he looked at his servant with confusion.
"King or not, I don't trust that man. Look at his eyes for God's sake. I feel like he might pounce on one of us at any moment and try to kill us." The older man whispered harshly into his prince's ear.
"You're being silly." Before Naveen can talk to Kyuubi once more, a large shadow loomed over the three. The size only caused by one person obscured by the sun. The man bowed removing his hat.
"Gentlemen, a tip of the hat from Dr. Facilier. How ya'll doing?" He moved his hat to the inner crook of his arm and brought out a card and presented it to Naveen who read it out loud.
"Dark readings, charms, potions, dreams made real." He said in amazement.
There was something about this man that put Kyuubi off. His scent was filled with the pungent smell of darkness. And for some odd reason he also smelt cat on the man.
Kyuubi looked down towards the mans feet where the smell is mostly concentrated but only found his shadow. But something seemed off about it. He moved his red orbs to the sun's position before looking back at the shadow finding what was wrong with it. This mans shadow was facing towards the trajectory of the sun and not the opposite. He didn't trust this human.
"Hey Naveen, I'll see you around during Mardi Gras. I have to go check on my servant." The demon said finding a way to excuse himself.
"Alright, see you then. Hey maybe I'll see you at LaBuff's masquerade tonight. Then we can have our drinks."
"Maybe." The demon said before stalking of but not to far. Walked into an ally making sure no one saw him before he started to climb up the walls to travel the roofs once more.
He kept a close eye on the three as they ventured into an alleyway. What ever this Dr. Facilier was saying to Naveen, the naïve prince was completely falling for it while Lawrence tried to steer him away from it. The dark skin man noticed this and pointed an accusing finger at the servant before leading them to a purple wooden door embedded into the wall with a sign above it. Dr. Facilier's Voodoo Emporium. The door mysteriously opened and the witch doctor showed them in before kicking it shut when they were all in.
"Damnit." What was he to do now? Kyuubi jumped from the roof and landed just a few feet from the door. He could sense a lot of darkness coming from just beyond the door. Almost as if were about to burst open from the pressure from it. There is also one more thing that bothered the kitsune.
"What the hell is up with this cat smell." It was a lot stronger then before and seemed to be intertwined with the smell of darkness.
Voodoo, black magic, darkness, and cats. All of this seemed familiar to the demon. A little to familiar to his comfort.
A trash can tipped over startling him. Kyuubi summoned Wayward Wind and brought it to his chest. Something was watching him.
"Come out!" He shouted. His senses are on high alert, his muscles twitching to any sound or soft breeze. A loud hiss caused him to turn around and guard but it wasn't enough.
Kyuubi gasped as he was slammed and pushed up against a wall by a large black and blue flaming paw. He cracked open an eye to see his captor and peered into angry golden ones. Albeit one a darker shade then the other."
"Hello Kyuu-chan." It hissed.
"Don't call me that Nibi." Kyuubi sneered back despite his predicament. The two tailed cat glared at the fox as it applied pressure on to his chest making sure he stayed put.
"It's been quite some time hasn't it Kyuubi. The last time we met we it was in the mind of your former host. Though I still hate you for what you did in the past. To me and Gobi." The two tailed cat purred. Kyuubi was starting to find it harder to breath has his captor continued to pin down on him. He was nothing more then a trapped mouse.
"Come on. It's been hundreds of years and your still pissed about that. I wasn't myself." He earned an angered hiss from his poor choice of words.
"Because of you I owe my life to Death himself and you forced Gobi into a tree! Just because you couldn't control you emotions when old man Rikudo died!"
Nibi let go of Kyuubi and feel to the floor. He had little time to react when Nibi used her other paw to swat him the other side of the boxed area they were in. He hit his head against the wall and dropped the keyblade, dissolving before it could it the ground.
"You're a lot weaker then I remember my dear Kyuubi." The demon cat purred in pleasure seeing the fox wither. "But from the look of things I'm guessing that's not by choice."
"Well you're smaller then I remember." He choked out as the monster feline now stood over him.
"Yes but that is by choice. Kinda hard to be in full form in a tiny space like this. And I rather keep a low profile in this place." The cat moved its entire body so that it loomed over the foxes, its predatory eyes glowing as a smirk curled around its mouth. "Time for your punishment."
Shadows started to form around the cat and traveled to Kyuubi's body. They crawled and attached themselves on to his skin slowly devouring his body.
"Killing you would to be to simple and unfair since I didn't die back in the day. No, instead I'll play with you for a while. In the biggest game of cat and mouse." The blackness stated to cover his face as it tied him to the ground so he couldn't move.
"And don't think for a second that the little mate you chose out for yourself is excluded from this my dear. For everyone in this town is a participant in my fun and soon all their souls shall be mine. Including hers."
Kyuubi wanted to roar in frustration and release his might against the damnable cat but couldn't. The shadows soon consumed his face and all he could see was darkness.
KZD: WOW where have I been. This chapter is a month late and ended yp being longer then I intended for it to be. I have no excuses other then laziness and personal family issues finally hitting the fan at my place. So please bear with me. I'll try my best to update when ever I can. As always R&R