Kon'nichiwa minna! Welcome to the next chapter of Kitsune no Akuryo. I haven't updated in so long, but here we go. I have another chapter ready and waiting to be uploaded. I hope you enjoy! Kitsune has tried and failed to gain control of the Nine Tailed Fox, but the worst realization is yet to come as Kitsune's predicament becomes a matter of life and death.
Kitsune's P.O.V.
The posts rumbled to the ground revealing a concentrated Kinoe. As I soon as I noticed him looking at me, I looked away. I had failed. I hadn't been able to be in control, let alone control the Kyūbi's chakra. I couldn't do it. I was a monster, at least as bad as the creature inside me. I wasn't good enough.
"Hey, are you alright?"
I shrugged his hand away and got up. I went back to the cabin, hoping that Kinoe knew that I wanted to be alone. As I walked, I realized that walking away from Kinoe was my worst move yet. Now it was just me and the fox, and the angry chakra bubbling beneath me. I shoved passed the doors hearing the deep chuckle vibrate within my chakra network. I huffed and made it passed my bedroom door. I slid it shut and slumped against it. I couldn't even make it to my own bed; I was so pathetic. I couldn't do anything, not anything right, nothing at all.
Should I end it all? Would that make the pain go away? I looked at my claws, knowing that if I clenched one over my heart and pulled away, I would be free. I put the claw to my chest testing the waters, pressing through the clothes. What did it matter? I couldn't even stop myself from hurting my only friend. Why couldn't I just do that? Why couldn't I just control myself for him!? I clenched over my chest, the sharp nails grazing the skin, as I bent over my knees. I felt my eyes brimming as I screamed and the tears already flowing as my voice became hoarse. They stung against my cheeks, like small burns. I couldn't even be alone now. The Kyūbi's presence was still eminent.
"We can't have you crying now would we?" came the irritatingly calm voice.
"What do you want from me!?" I screamed as the tears filled with hot angry chakra continued to burn my etched whiskers.
"I want you to release all that anger in a blaze of destruction," the voice spoke, "Once that's done, I want you gone so that I can be free from the prison of your body."
I was in my mindscape now. I had concentrated too much on the fox's voice. I could see it now as it spoke, "But if I can't have you dead, I want you to destroy everything."
The foxy grin was spread on his face as he spelled my doom. That's all I was to him, I realized. Neither of us benefited from each other, but if we split, I had to know, "So if you go away, I go away too? If you leave me, I'll—"
I didn't really want to think about the possibility now that it was being snatched from me, but the Kyūbi was only too happy to oblige, "You will die. If I had my way, it would be slow and painful, but humans are always too quick about these things. They take all the joy out of destroying things."
"Why?" I asked.
The fox chuckled, "You think I would know why you filthy humans like to be so efficiently quick about—"
"No," I yelled, "why are you so keen on enjoying it?"
"What do you take me for, mortal!? I am the Nine-Tailed Fox, gaki!"
"But you're not a demon," I yelled back and breathed out, realization dawning on me, "You're not the Demon Fox. That's, that's my name."
I took a step back falling over my own two feet and crumbling to the watery ground as I whispered the horrid reality, "I'm the demon."
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