Kitsune Chaos

Part 3

Koji hid the ball in another location and set about waiting for them to settle in a bit and forget about him.

If there was one thing kitsunes were OCD over it was their territory, and these humans had trespassed on his long enough.

He decided he’d go to sleep a while before making sure his starball had remained untouched.

He awoke to the sound of the incredibly loud, newly installed doorbell.

He could sense them, the strange men with strange equipment. And they were headed right towards him.

He decided to stay in fox form, but he’d make looking for him as difficult as possible. As he was streaking out the room, he materialised a bucket of cold baked beans to appear on the top of the half-closed door.

Once he reached the top of the stairs he hid in the shadows, turning invisible for safety precautions, and created an illusion of a £50 note on the floor. He also manifested a pillowcase of garlic cheese to swing into the nearest human.

The pillowcase whacked one of the strange men and the other, startled by the sudden appearance of laundry, saw the money and tried to pick it up. His hand went right through it; it still went through it when Koji made the illusion levitate.

All day he did this, wherever the humans went he followed; even when one of the strangers went to the toilet Koji ‘put’ cling film over it.

By the end of the day, the strange men said there was nothing they could do about a ghost and fled. The human family stayed the night and when the mother took a shower the next morning, Koji put flour in her hair dryer, enjoying the cloud that exploded from it when she turned it on.

By the third day they’d had enough. They packed what was left and drove away in their SUV. Koji saw the young girl look back; he shifted into human form and waved at her as she stared, his grin revealing sharp fox teeth.

“Dad,” he heard her say as they reached the end of the hill the house was on, “we’ve forgotten our stuff.”

Koji just levitated their boxes to the car and let them fall either side. It was worth the family jumping out of their skins at the loud crash.