Promise

Miss you...

Whenever I was born my mother wanted me to be a full human. Guess, nobody told her that once a kitsune marries a human and plans to have children that they will have more traits as a kitsune than their human parent. So once, she saw that I wasn't a normal kid, she would blame my father everyday.

"It's all YOUR FAULT! She's a MONSTER!" She kept screaming at him every day and night.

"Iris, go to your room, okay?" he will always tell me with a mask of a smile. A smile that he always tries to hide his heart shattering to pieces whenever he hears his wife, the mother of her two-year-old daughter calls her a "monster".

But I always went to my room and cried. "Why doesn't mommy love me as much as daddy does? Am I not her little princess?" I kept wondering that same question for most of my childhood.

Whenever I made the smallest mistake she would lock me down in the basement where there was a closet with holes for me to breathe in. And she would shove me there forcefully and make me stay there till my father came back home.

"I'm home!" I heard my father say as he came in exhausted from his night shift from the hospital.

"Welcome home, honey!" my mother will say with a mask of the "loving wife" as she kissed his cheek.

She would smile till he asked the question that made her drop her mask away from her face. "Where's Iris? I want to hug our princess. "

She would be silent for a few seconds as she let go of his arm that she once was wrapped around and led him where I was.

"In the basement. There you will find your princess. " she said as she walked away from there.

The color of his face was bleached from the terrifying knowledge that the mother of his daughter would go to that extreme. He ran to the basement and unlocked the door. He only saw the fragile glass shaped of his daughter curled up having a panic attack as she was sobbing for a savior to take her out from the darkroom.

"D-D-Daddy! S-She...I-I...I-I'm sorry! I-I will be a good daughter! I-I promise! B-But please don-don't lock me there again...P-Please." he heard his frightened daughter cry out to him as he pulled her closer to him and hugged her tightly.

Once I was calmed he took me to my room and tugged me in.

".....Why would you do that?" he asked my mother as he glared at my mother's emotionless eyes.

"I don't know what you're talking about." she ignored his question.

"YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! Now answer me...." he said as his eyes started to glow brighter every second.

"I just punished her for staining her white dress," she said coldly.

"JUST BECAUSE OF THAT?! THAT'S HARSH FOR A CHILD!" he exclaimed as he started to shift his teeth, his hair turned the deepest part of the ocean's color, and his nine-tails, as well as his fluffy ears, popped out.

"She's fine. She'll deal with it whenever she's eighteen since she can move out. I would have cared less. And remember darling~, I could report you anytime I please with the government. And they would take you and your pathetic daughter just to make experiments out of y'all." she told him, smirking.

His kitsune features formed back to his fragile human self. "...Just don't hurt her. I'm begging you just please, don't give her scars nor lock her there again." he said as he kneels in front of her.

She smirked and said, "Fine since you seem very pathetic right now."

After that day, she stopped shoving me there, but the horror didn't stop there. One day, whenever I came back from middle school, as I put my stuff down in my room and went downstairs I heard my mother calling for me. "Iris~! Darling~! Can you come here for a second?"