I'm a what ?! - BABYMETAL Fanfic

3. Why me ?

"Granny, I'm home." Once I arrived in front of my house I realised the two baby animals that I brought home are in fact foxes. I was happy for a moment thinking that I just found two puppies that I'm going to have as pets but keeping foxes... Grandma wouldn't allow me. Foxes or not, wild or tamed, I still want to keep them for some odd reasons. They kept following me so it means they're drawn to me, right ?

"Are they here ? I sent Ohmura-san to guide them to you. Did you find them safe and well ?" Grandma asked upon hearing me enter the living room.

"They ? Ohmura-san ?"

"Moa, the one you're holding and Yui, the one beside you. And Ohmura-san is ---"

"Me ! The one and only, Takayoshi Ohmura ! Hahahaha !" The same figure that I saw yesterday appeared in the living room, along with one sitting down at the table beside grandma, a bald one that just entered through the closed door and one that keeps staring at the fox in my arms. All of them wear the similar white and dirty bedsheets as clothing and all of them levitate, even the one sitting down.

"Grandma ! Can you see the ghosts too ? Why are they here ? What do they want from me ?" I'm creeped out by them, especially by this Ohmura-san that I know for sure have been following me even before meeting him. This explains the eerie feeling, the noises, the whispers and the banging on my window.

"Sit down, Suzuka dear. I have some things to tell you that I should have told you a long time ago." I did as granny told me and sat down at the table on a pillow, followed by the four ghosts in the room who did the same.

"You're a vixen, Suzuka."

"No I'm not. I don't look like those two." I said pointing at the two foxes who were playing and tugging each other's tails. I can see the bald ghost and the one sitting beside him eyeing the two 'vixens' from time to time.

"Just let me finish what I have to say. You're a vixen, and I'm a vixen too. It runs in our blood. We need to accept the way we are and be thankful for our guardians who are protecting us from the Demon Fox." I just looked at the her, not knowing what to say. Me, a vixen ?

"Ohmura-san is your guardian, while Fujioka-san is mine." I figured it out that the ghost sitting beside her is this Fujioka-san that she's talking about.

"What about the other two ?" I asked looking at them before looking back at grandma, waiting for answers.

"We came with Yui and Moa. I'm Boh, Yui's guardian and Leda is Moa's." The bald ghost said while the other one only nodded his head.

"Let me tell you a story." Grandma took out a large book, almost like it appeared from thin air and placed it on the table in front of us.

"The legend begins like this... 'There once walked on this land two kings who lived in peace and harmony, or that's what people thought. The older king was known to be polite and kind to everybody, even to his inferiors. He respected every and each living creature and respect he got in return. The younger king on the other hand, didn't care about the land and his people's needs. He was always jealous on the amount of love that his older brother received so out of anger and frustration, he tortured all the female servants from the castle. He starved them, humiliated them, he even killed some of them just for his pure pleasure. He locked them in a chamber and left them there to slowly die one by one. The older king, after finding out what his brother did, he asked the Gods for help and they gifted him with power, the power to transform himself and others into foxes.

'Go, run my vixens! Be free and live happily from now on!' He transformed the servants into half fox half human creatures and free them from the hands of his evil brother. He also created from water, fire, air and earth the guardians, one for each vixen to protect them against everything that may harm them.