Kiribaku Oneshots

Concept 7 - The Kitsune

For those who don't know what the kitsune are, they are the nine-tailed fox demons of Japan. Natural born tricksters that can shift from a full human form, to a single-tailed fox form, and to a mixed form in which their human form is adorned with their ears, fangs, claws, markings, and their beautiful nine tails. They love to play tricks on humans and demons alike and are not to be trifled with, and like dragons, they're keepers of quite the glittering hordes.

Bakugou is a kitsune, and he's well known among spirits, demons, and gods.

He mooches off of one village close to his home forest, which is known to inhabit many other spirits and demons. Everyone in the village adores him and brings him gifts. Men and women alike fawn over him and do "favors" for him to gain his affection, and he enjoys watching them fight each other for his attention, and he loves tricking them into a false sense of security. Making them think they'll be the one to gain his affection, bed him, whatever. And when he's not disguised, he's off in the markets causing chaos in his fox form. Stealing food and little shiny trinkets to add to his collection while the shop owners chase him, try to catch him or kill him, but he's too fast, too clever for them, and always gets away without the slightest scratch of a paw, and nobody suspects a thing when he comes to the market the next day, all prettied up in his human form and being adored. And when he isn't doing either of those things, he's proudly strutting through the woods, half shifted and bragging to the other spirits about how well he's tricked the stupid mortals, how rich and well kept he's become. Sometimes he's "generous," trading the gifts he doesn't want to the other spirits for favors or food or an entirely different trinket. And he defends his hoard safely inside what the villagers believe is his lovely little house on the outskirts of town. When really, he bribed another spirit to pretty up the outside of the abandoned thing years ago. He doesn't live there, despite how well kept he pretends to keep his gardens. No. It's simply his own little treasure trove where the villagers think he lives. His real home is his comfy little den in the forest behind the house, the backyard of which is hidden by a tall panel fence that nobody can climb, giving him the perfect space to shift and trot into the forest where he can't be seen.

It's a splendid life, until he gets bored with fooling the same people every day. The competition for his affection is still entertaining, but not as much as before, and just before he decides to pack up and head to the next town, a stranger moves in. A handsome stranger with fiery red hair that the townspeople welcome wholeheartedly, and for good reason. He's kind, and strong, and makes the most beautiful sculptures that he sells in the market. When he has none to sell, he works for the farmers. He does the heavy work and is good with animals and children, and he quickly becomes the town favorite, and makes friends with the other people his age quickly. Bakugou sees this stranger as a new little pawn to control, and at first thinks that this man will fall easily to him...but he is surprised, and frustrated when his charms don't work on him like they do for the others. He asks for favors and this stranger, who he now knows as 'Kirishima', just...does them. He does it without question, but he has no obvious motive. He just does it. And he never advances him like the others do. He'll smile and wave, maybe shout a quick greeting, then get back to work. He doesn't offer him anything, and he doesn't /fawn/ over him. Bakugou thinks there's something wrong with him, but doesn't realize until later that the difference between Kirishima and the others is that they do things for him because they want him. They're greedy for him, if you will. While Kirishima doesn't seem to "want" him. He treats him well like the others, but he treats him like a person instead of like a god. He does things for him out of the kindness of his heart.

And Bakugou is frustrated about it. Why isn't Kirishima like the others? He's human. He's /mortal/. So why don't his charms seem to work on him?! Why doesn't he want him?! It's confusing, and Bakugou isn't used to confusion. He's used to having the same results every time. He performs his little geisha dance and reels in his unsuspecting victims, then drains them of everything until he's bored, repeat cycle. But Kirishima is out of the loop. So now Bakugou tries to get him /in/ the loop. /He/ pursues /Kirishima/. He doesn't completely reverse the roles, but it's enough to throw the town for a loop. Kirishima got Bakugou's attention? And he's not taking advantage of it? How crazy is this guy?!

Meanwhile, Kirishima is a humble sculpter who just moved to town and wants to make a good impression on people! He likes being nice! He likes helping people out! And frankly, he's quite oblivious. So he's completely blind to the charms and advances made to him by the "famous" Bakugou. He gets why he's famous. He's pretty. But he looks deeper than that. He wants to actually know the guy before he has an opinion of him. And the poor fool doesn't realize that he's become the kirsune's first and only actual friend, or that he's made him fall in love with him.

The tables turn when Bakugou realizes his feelings, and it becomes his goal to be a part of Kirishima's heart. He doesn't care about any other shiny object that the other villagers offer him. He wants /Kirishima./

He trades a lot of his treasures to get a spirit to help him clean up the inside of his house so that Kirishima can come over for tea. The village becomes even more jealous, and start asking Kirishima what the inside of the house looks like, since nobody else had ever been in there.

Bakugou starts bringing him gifts. Courting gifts. Treasures he's found and collected over the centuries that now remind him of Kirishima. He starts spending more time in the house to the point where he's used numerous blankets and pillows to make himself a nest to sleep in. The other spirits wonder why he starts spending so much time in the village.

And slowly but surely, Kirishima starts falling for him too once he knows what kind of person he really is. He wants to be the best. He's willing to work hard for his goals. He's determined and strong, and he can admire that. He sort of changes Bakugou, in a way. Bakugou has spent so long without someone that actually cared for him that he forgot what it felt like. Didn't think he needed it. So when he finally found it...when he found Kirishima, he started remembering himself. He became more aware of his own feelings as well as others. He saw humans as more than just stupid mortals. And he started to care for someone again. And he didn't want to let that go. Eventually he and Kirishima confessed to each other, and he told Kirishima his secrets, and he stayed even though he knew that Bakugou would outlive him. Even though he knew they wouldn't get to grow old together or make a family. He didn't care, because he loved him.

But the greedy villagers are jealous and angry that Kirishima, the new stranger, was the one to win Bakugou's heart, so they seek to kill him, and they succeed. Someone hits him with a fatal blow, and as he falls to the ground, gushing blood as his heart starts to slow, Bakugou reveals himself. He goes into half shifted form, furious and raging as he scares the mob off with an empty curse and bared fangs. As soon as they're running, he drops to his knees and cradles Kirishima in his arms, begging him to keep breathing, begging him to keep his eyes open, begging him not to leave him, but Kirishima can barely hang on. They both know he's going to die...but in a last string of hope, Bakugou picks him up and runs as fast as he can to the forest and brings him to a shrine to the great forest spirits and gods of the realm, kneeling down and begging them to keep him alive, to bring him back, do SOMETHING so that he doesn't leave him. He bargains and cries and pleads with all his might...until Kirishima breathes his last breath.

And then the forest is silent aside from his sobs...but the gods have mercy on him. Seeing how he had changed this mischievous spirit and taught him to love, they had compassion on them. They revive him in exchange for Bakugou's immortality. He still looks as young as ever, but he is human now. Mortal. And Kirishima is alive.

They move to a new town, using Bakugou's hoard to start a life together, and they grow old happily together. And Bakugou doesn't regret a second of it.

Should I do a one shot where the lovely kitsune seduces his handsome sculptor?😏