Hello everyone. Well I counted everything up and well most of you wanted Kyuubi to kill one or a few of them and then Kitsune kill the rest. Anyways I am going to make this note short so I hope you all like the chapter. Also warning violence, extreme violence is in this chapter.
Chapter 6: Death
I walk the hallway towards the dining hall a few steps behind Kyuubi. He has anger flowing off of him like rivers. I sort of feel sorry for the people he is going to kill for their attempts on his life but I cannot feel pity for them too much because they deserve it for betraying their lord. They betraying him is just like what it would be if I betrayed Kohona. It is just wrong but these foxes just want power and money. The doors of the dining hall open allowing Kyuubi walks in. Many of the fox demons in the room freeze in place as they feel Kyuubi's angry aura. These idiots will be paying for their betrayal with their lives. I hope he takes them out to the court yard instead of killing them in here we just got this room cleaned for this event we do not need more cleaning to do after this. Kyuubi takes his seat and I stand beside him waiting for his orders. I know that he is going to at least command me to block all exits.
Some of the nobles in the room are shaking in fear but the ones shaking have nothing to fear because they are not the traitors. I look at Kyuubi as I wonder how he is going to handle this situation. In his study, he had demanded who was traitorous and their plans but did not tell me what he was going to do about it. All I know is that he is going to seek some form of revenge and retribution against the offenders. He looks up and glares at the foxes sitting at the table.
"I will give each of you one chance to admit your transgressions against me. Some of you have been debating and trying to commit treason," Kyuubi growls out in an angered tone.
He looks in each of the foxes faces even those who have not committed any treason to make it seem like he does not know exactly who has committed treason against him. A few of the offenders step away from the table and approach Kyuubi and bow to him.
"I am sorry my lord for my treasons against you," the four foxes say in a jumbled mess.
"Kitsune," he says in a semi demanding tone.
"Sincerity," I reply in a calm and unemotional voice that makes the nobles in front of us shiver in fear.
"Very well you four will pay twice your usual tributes to me for the next ten years," Kyuubi commands in a fake trusting tone.
I know for sure that he will never truly trust them again. The four nobles retreat back to their seats and sigh in relief at being forgiven for their transgressions. Three more nobles approach and bow to Kyuubi to show servitude to him.
"My lord I apologize for my breaking of your trust," they state.
A sense of falseness rings from one of them. I probe their minds and find the liar. I look at Kyuubi and wait for his question.
"Kitsune," he demands again.
"Middle false, others truth," I reply smoothly and still unemotionally just as my training has made me during missions.
Kyuubi nods and steps forward before using one of his tails to wrap around the traitor's neck and snapping it in less than a second. All the nobles gasp and some of the ladies scream or faint. Wow, they really are like wall flowers. Another set of five nobles, two of which are female, come forward and ask for forgiveness. They speak truth and Kyuubi tells them to pay him twice their usual tribute for twenty years. The group opens their mouths to protest but he growls at them and they scuttle off to their sitting spots at the table.
The other traitors stay in their seats and a few have looks of guilt across their faces but many just look like nothing has happened. Kyuubi is getting angrier by the second and I can tell he is about to go off and I mean go off bad. Betrayal is bad enough but to betray and not even admit it that is worse.
"Let us go outside and continue this," he commands pointing out to the old garden which is not finished.
Thank you, kami above. He is using an area where we are going to have to work anyways so it will not hurt too much to clean it. All of the nobles follow him out into the garden and I am close behind them. Once everyone is in Kyuubi looks at me and then looks at the air above us. He does not want them to escape so wants me to make sure none do. I move through the hand signs for the barrier jutsu in my head. Since I have become a fox demon, I have found out that I can still do jutsu even without my hands I just have to think through all the hand signs properly. One mistake and things go horribly wrong though. Thank goodness for my almost perfect memory.
"Among you there are more traitors who have not repented and therefore will be killed. I will not allow traitors to survive for long in my court without repercussions," he says staring at the nobles unemotionally.
"How do you know which of us are traitors," demands a female six tail fox who is a traitor.
My servant can get into your minds and see all that you have done and hear all of your thoughts and plans. Kitsune," he commands once again nodding towards the offenders.
I nod my head in response and leap forward to take out the fifteen traitors left. I am able to kill the first three with ease before the other catch on. Four of them come at me but I quick step out of the way making them collide. I am able to slit the throats of two more as they watch in amazement at the collision of the four foxes. Five down ten more to go. The innocents run towards the corners avoiding those sentenced to death.
Three foxes come at me and each of them has seven tails. One uses their tails to grab me and try to pin me to the ground. I use my back claws to scratch the fox's tails all the way to the bone. I create two shadow clones and send them to kill more of the others as I take on these three. One of the other two facing me tries to grab my neck with their teeth but I grab them by their neck and shake the fox tearing their throat to pieces with my teeth. The fox collapses to the ground as the fox which has me in their tails lets me go from the pain of me shredding their tails. A yelp escapes from the one which was trying to sneak up on me from behind as I kick back with my hind legs hitting them square in the chest with my claws. The fox jerks back and causes deep scratches to appear up and down their chest. I grab the fox by their neck with one of my tails and snap their neck as snake my claws across the neck of the one who has grabbed me with their tails. To other people this battle would have only lasted only ten seconds but to us fighting it, it seems like an hour or so.
I look around me searching for my next opponent. My clones are fighting four foxes a piece. I approach one fox from behind and jump onto her back digging my claws into her. She yelps loudly from the surprise of my attack. I grab the back of her neck in my teeth, and she tries to buck me off of her. I keep my grip on her neck and wrench her neck to the side snapping it without a pause. She collapses beneath me and I see that she was the fox who had wanted to know how Kyuubi knew who the traitors were. I climb off of her body and go for my next target. There are only three more left.
I look for my next target and find him. I move towards him. When I am twenty feet away, I lunge for the only seven tailed in the battle. He turns and sees me coming for him and charges at me. We meet in the middle and crash together. The resounding crack causes many screams to come from the watching nobles. I grab the noble with one of my tails but he bites it making me let go. He scratches me across the chest and I grab him by the back of the neck. He yelps lowly and hits me on my back with two of his tails. I collapse slightly under the weight of it. Damn it. Pain is coming back at me from yesterday's battle with Kyuubi. I hit the earth with one of my tails and the earth shakes causing the fox to be caught off balance and gives me the chance to catch him in the throat with my teeth. He continues to scratch me to try and make me let go but he slowly suffocates to death. He collapses to the ground and I can no longer hear his heartbeat. I let go a few seconds after I no longer hear his heart.
I sit up and look around me for another opponent. My clones have disappeared and all of the traitors are lying on the ground dead. I look over at Kyuubi and wait for the next orders he is going to give me. He nods his head in approval of my methods. My jaw drops in surprise but I hurry to close it not wanting to get caught.
"You all are to leave my castle by tomorrow at noon," Kyuubi demands. "Dinner will not be served tonight and I will retire for the night to my room. Obaa have dinner taken to my room for me."
Kyuubi walks away into the castle, and I walk behind him. Obaa looks at me and I nod telling her to have dinner for me in my room as well. As we walk through the hall, Kyuubi seems to be getting in a better mood.
"I want those bodies gone soon and I expect the nobles gone by noon. You can relax for the night," he demands as he stops in front of his door.
"As you wish master," I say with a bow.
The door closes behind Kyuubi, and I hurry to the bathing room. I want to get this blood off of my fur before it makes my fur the color of blood or pink like it was when I was human. I lie in the water and relax. I just hope Obaa has that food in my room by the time I get there because I am very hungry and I want to be able to sleep soon.
Well that is the end of the chapter. For those of you wondering what happened after that. Sakura fell asleep relaxing in the water. Please leave a comment. I do not mind suggestions I actually enjoy them so go ahead. I like to see where the readers think it is going or want it to go. Until next time, good bye.