Kogitsune by Xia Xia Lake

Author:Xia Xia Lake [Lake, Xia Xia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: myths, kitsune, bl, shounen ai, shounen, noh play
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Humans. Such disappointing creatures. Father had known and he had warned me.

I swarmed the glen from above, a dozen eyes blazing with golden fire. I landed near the shrine and I shifted into my human form. I wore the funeral kimono. I reached inside the hollow. My hands touched the wooden sandals Kokaji had left behind and I yanked them out. I burned with fury.

The golden threads vibrated within me and I sucked their power like a dying beast. It consumed me, that power, erupting from my hands, my soles, my eyes, my mouth until there was nothing left but the kitsune. I was wildfire. The sandals burned green in my hands like an incense stick.

It took a kitsune a hundred years to earn another tail. I was supposed to learn slowly and come into my own at leisure, but the departure of the last fleck of ash purged my being and I roared, the wildfire scourging from within.

I gained a tail that day, faster than any kitsune before me, but lost everything else that was important to me.

I woke up in a burnt field devoid of trees and vegetation, black soot clinging to my fur. I was larger, more powerful. Holier. I had two tails where there had been only one. And in return the glen was gone, sacrificed for a tail.

Father glowered down at me, his disapproval shining in his eyes. “You have lost control, and if not for Biko-san you would have burned down the entire mountain. What do you have to say for yourself?”

My head was heavy and my body powerless. I lay limp at his feet, nose in the soot. The charred statue of the Inari shrine was all that had remained.

“Is Biko-san… alive?” My throat was parched, I barely spoke.

“He is slumbering. He was a spirit of the earth, the essence living in the grass and in the flowers. He was the one the flowers turned to for kindness. Until the green returns, he will be asleep.”

“I see.” My eyelids dropped. “I am sorry.” I plummeted in a void of despair. All I ever gave to Biko-san were my apologies.

“Sleep. I will shield you,” my father said. He added, bitterness in his voice, “The second tail is the hardest to gain. It grows from heartbreak. You are too young for this lesson, my son, but you are now a true kitsune. There is a miracle in every curse as there is beauty in what is broken. Mend the pieces, seal them with gold and embrace a new self once you wake.”

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