Blood Is In My Mouth

For a fox to be well maintained and prepared for survival they must have a healthy diet. For the most part, foxes are able to eat fruit but it isn't enough to sustain them. Instead they must also consume meats. Rodents. Rabbits. Birds.

Tails was very aware of his needs and he really wish he had been ignorant to this information. The kit despised most aspects about himself but his animalistic nature was the one he despised the most (except for his tails).

He hated how sharp his teeth were, how his claws tended to show up during battles, and how he needed to eat meat. In short, tails hated being a fox.

Especially right now.

The kit had found himself in the kitchen. Staring at a rabbit which manage to sneak it's way inside the house. The rabbit seemed to be tempting him to eat it and tails found himself really tempted. On one hand tails didn't want to kill the small animal, but on the other he was starving. The Wachowskis had been mostly feeding the kids fruits and veggies. Tails didn't want to appear demanding so the thought of asking for meat never crossed his mind.

As his stomach growled, so did his hunger for some rabbits meat. The tiny animal was jumping around unaware of the predator looking down upon it. Tails contemplated some more of his decision to actually kill it or to get Mrs. Wachowskis to let it out.

His mind was thinking of what to do, but his body was already acting on what he wanted. He quietly walked forward. His teeth were preparing to strike. His claws had begun to show.

He pounced.

There was a loud crack. Blood was seeping from his mouth. The taste was amazing to tails(he wished it didn't).

"Tails?"

The fox cracked his next to the source of the voice. His eyes had widen as he realized he had been caught. In the doorway, his hero was standing there with fear and worried written all over his face. Tails instantly dropped the rabbit from his mouth and quickly stood himself up. In the process though, he had knocked over some pots that were laying on the floor courtesy to them not cleaning up before bed.

The noise must have startled the rest of the family as tails had heard footsteps coming closer towards the kitchen.

"I-I can explain!" The kit frankly spoke and waved his arms in the air to demonstrate that he was no harm. This backfired on him as sonic began to take steps backwards bumping into Tom. "Wow there buddy. Watch were you point your quills! Anyways what happened here?" Tom inspected the kitchen until his eyes landed on the young fox. Just as he took notice of him, so did Maddie and Knuckles.

Standing in the kitchen was Tails with blood covering his muzzle and teeth. Laying on his feet was a dead rabbit clearly shown to have his necked snapped.

"What did you do?" Those were the only words that came out of Toms mouth. This made tails ears flatten on his head.

Maddie decided it was time for her to take over the situation. "Hey hey, it's okay sweetie! We aren't mad, we just want to know what happened here." Whilst she spoke, she took small steps towards her blood covered son.

The words were stuck in tails throat and as he looked towards his newly found family. He took notice of their faces, Tom and Maddie's face were filled with worried. Though Sonic's and Knuckles faces were unreadable for the fox.

Tails couldn't handle having them see him like this, so he did the one thing he could do. He ran. He ran out the back door and as he reached the outside, tails began to move his tails. He lifted off the air and quickly made his way towards the forest. The kit didn't take notice of his family behind him, and he couldn't bring himself to even care. Tails just wanted to be far away from them.