Hello and welcome to the fifth chapter of Fox Demon. I was asked why Kyuubi wanted Sakura up so early. Actually he was kind of ordering her to sleep in the next day. Sakura was usually up before dawn and working. Many of you asked if he is falling for Sakura. No he is not at least not yet. Right now it is a small amount of admiration. As I said last time, I am going to my second semester of college soon and will be slowing down my writing. In order to try and keep updates regular, I am going to keep writing chapters and post them once a week instead of posting them immediately after I finish it. Once school starts I will try to update once every two weeks but I do not know if that will be possible. I will try to write two chapters a week so that when school starts you all will have something to read instead of it taking me a month or so to update. Sorry for the long author note and enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 5: The Nobles' Arrival
I am awoken at nine by Obaa-san shaking me. I growl in annoyance and tiredness. The spar with Kyuubi and the healing afterwards wore me out. Today is an important day and yet I am out of energy almost. Just my luck, I hate my life sometimes. Damn you, Kyuubi for getting angry over something so small and dragging me off for a spar the night before our guests arrive. Obaa just chuckles in amusement. One of her tails flicks mthe ear Kyuubi had bitten on the night before. A hiss escapes from my mouth. My ear is still sore from his dirty move of biting it. I have always hated it when people played dirty with me in a fight but when it is a life or death situation I understand completely.
"Kitsune come on. Breakfast has already been done and the other nobles shall be arriving in a few hours," Obaa-san says walking over to my curtains over the balcony doors and pulling them open to allow light to pass into the room.
A groan escapes from my muzzle as I press a paw over my eyes to lessen the amount of light getting to them. My eyes slowly adjust to the sunlight. Today is a bright day. It is weird the difference between today and just three days ago. Three days ago the sky was nothing but dark storm clouds threatening rain but no rain was falling. Today it is so bright and sunny. It is nice to be able to watch the land heal and becomes stronger with the return of its lord. I pick myself up and off of my bed once my eyes have fully adjusted.
'Fine remind the gardeners ti be working on the second garden," I order shaking myself out trying to get rid of some of the left over muscle pains.
"Yes ma'am. May I ask what you are going to do today," she asks me as we leave my room and head to the bathing room.
"As the head servant of Master Kyuubi, I am demanded to be with him when he greets his guests, at every meal, and all of the meetings," I reply with a deep sigh.
Kami above this is just like working for Tsunade but worse. He may not drink much sake but he is more dangerous than he in the sense that he is stronger. Also I know little of his abilities other than those he used in the fight we had last night. With Tsunade I only had to help file paper work and attend most of the meetings but it is so much more with Kyuubi.
Obaa stays with me while I take a bath for the day. I hive her more orders to pass down to the other servants to make things flow more smoothly. All of the maids are to be in the main hall awaiting my command to take the noble families to their rooms. We walk to the servant dining hall and I grab my breakfast. When I finish, I head up to Kyuubi's study with his breakfast so that I can receive my orders and go with him to greet the nobles.
I open his study door and step in before bowing low as I close the door behind me. I slowly come up as Kyuubi ignores me as he looks at himself in his mirror. I can see his body shaking just slightly in irritation.
"Kitsune you are to stay with me through every meeting. I expect you to keep track of everything. These idiots will most likely try something in order to take my place or they may even have their daughters try to seduce and then kill me. Some will just try to seduce me to gain power," he hisses annoyed.
These nobles really do drive him up a metaphorical wall. He should not worry about the wooing but the trheat of them using a female to kill him after attracting him. It has been twenty-three years and in all that time they have been unmonitored meaning they could have done anything including training their children to kill Kyuubi.
"As you wish master," I reply bowing my head.
"You will read each of their minds for any sense of betrayal and will tell me so later today," he growls out still agitated about the nobles being in his castle for a while.
I can tell he so very much wishes to kick them out and tell them to never return. Much like the elders and ninja clan heads were a thorn in Tsunade's side, these nobles are a thorn in his side as well. I would throw these conniving bastards out if it was up to me but it would only make things worse for him.
A servant knocks on the door before entering and bowing. She straightens out and glances at me not even daring to look at her angry lord I nod for her to give her report and then leave.
"The first nobles are at the gates now my lord," she reports before bowing and leaving the room as swiftly as she had arrived.
Kyuubi grumbles for a moment before shaking his head as if to clear it. He walks from the room and I follow a couple of steps behind him and three feet to his right. The few maids not in the main hall are close behind us. They all seem calm but I can sense that they are nervous from my years of experience sensing peoples feeling as a ninja. We arrive at the main hall and come to a stop near the middle of the room while maids are in a circle around the room. Two guards open the doors and the first noble family steps through the doors and into the room.
"Announcing the arrival of the Rosiji Family," one of the guards says.
"Ah, Talorn you and your family are welcome in Kitsune no Kyuden. The first meeting will take place tomorrow after lunch. Dinner will be served later today around seven," Kyuubi states nodding to the lord and his familt being polite.
The rest of the time until about an hour before dinner passes in much the same way. Each family steps forward and I read their minds. During this I find many traitors. Females plotting on taking his mates position even if they had to kill for it. Fathers and mothers were plotting to out their own children their along those same lines some were thinking of putting their children to kill Kyuubi so that they may control the Fox lands. These people were insane with their amount of plotting especially if it is to take his throne. Almost none of them have eight tails and therefore are much weaker than him. To a kitsune the more tails you have the more powerful you are.
Once all of them have been taken to their rooms, Kyuubi begins to walk back to his study, and I follow close behind him knowing he will want my answer about the traitors. We got to his office and the door slams shut behind me from his anger. He seems to hate such formalities and false kindness and attention. I could tell it annoyed him to no end to have to act so calm and nice in front of them but he knew it had to be done.
He plops down on the cushion behind his desk. I almost gasp in shock when I see the look of almost human like exhaustion. I have never seen and never thought I would see that look on his face. It makes him almost seem human maybe being in a human for twenty-three years has changed him to be a little more human. I would be happy for that. Oh no, never mind. Please Kyuubi, do not start acting like Naruto. I would hate to have to slap you for being stupid. Although I did see a bit of Naruto's fighting style last night in our spar so maybe Naruto did rub off him some(A/N: Or maybe Kyuubi rubbed off on Naruto. Interesting thought isn't it.).
"Who has betrayed me," Kyuubi demands in a very serious tone.
A sigh escapes from my mouth. It will be a long night and I bet no one will eat dinner for fear of being killed or for being too sick to even think of eating. I start listing off the names of the betrayers who have plotted his death.
Alright that is all for this chapter. I have spent most of the day brewing over this chapter. So much detail and character description has gone into this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it. I have one question for you all. Should he kill all the traitors or should he have Kitsune do it? I am leaning towards Kitsune but I leave it to you all. Please review.