KitsuneTails:

Kat toppled to a sitting position on the bed, reaching up to cover her ears with her hands, flattening them on the top of her head. Her heart was racing, scaring them back to her normal state, her body shaking. He was right...Raider had said all those things...but they never talked about him loving other people in the past. Which she was okay with. "No....no, no, no. Shut...shut up..." Her teeth cut into her lower lip, drawing blood from biting so hard. "Don't tell me this...he wouldn't...let me die...he's...he's supposed to care..." She squeezed her hands over her ears, tears falling down her cheeks.
Jason loomed over her, a sadistic smile baring more teeth than any human smile had the right to show, "Oh yes Katsuya, Arunuxal will let you die, what should he care for some half human bastard just a step above what lies on his dinner plate?" His hands forced hers down and squeezed her wrists painfully as he leaned so close she was forced backwards to keep from touching him. "Hmmm I would have asked him how you taste, but I think I'll find out for myself, after all having slept with the demon, you're little more than a common whore..." His grin parted for a brief moment as his tongue skimmed over his bottom lip, "And a stupid one at that, letting him get away without paying you tsk tsk..."
Her eyes widened with slight surprise, her fear written all over her face as she struggled in the iron grip of his fists. "No! Get off of me! I'd rather die than let you touch me!" Her body trembled, her heart racing as she forced herself up into sitting position again, her forehead pressed to his, her teeth bared. "I'm not a whore..."
He released one wrist to grip her throat, his thumb placed with deceiving gentleness against her rapid pulse as he pushed her back onto the bed and forced her legs apart with a rough knee that pressed painfully against her. "You'll die anyway Kat," He purred, dipping his head and kissing her violently.
She muffled against his lips, whimpering and crying lightly, her body trembling at his violence. "Mmfff..." She pushed at his throat. No, no, no...someone...anyone...help... Her other hand grabbed at his leg, digging her nails into his skin. "Mmmff...g-get..off..."
He pulled away, stroking his thumb over her throat and muttering a sullen, "ow..." Then his hand tightened, cutting off her air as he watched her coldly, releasing her other wrist to tear away her jacket and rip her shirt in half. Leaving the discarded scraps of cloth he reached into his pocket and pulled a a long serrated dagger from a hidden sheath to press against the soft flesh of her belly. "So smooth... we'll have to mark you up the way he left Selene..." He said the name mournfully as he pressed the sharp edge hard enough to draw a thin line of red.
She winced at the sharp pain in her stomach, gasping and sputtering to catch some air from her enclosed throat. "What...makes you think...you're sister...would want you doing this...?" She croaked between large gasps of breath, her legs shaking at the pressure against her body from his knee, only pulling more tears from her eyes as they bore into his.
He hesitated for the merest second then cut another line in her skin, "What makes me think that? Nothing, absolutely nothing!" His next cut went deeper and he grinned again, "I have lost half of myself, for a long time I thought to kill myself, if only to sooth this void... But then, Selene would never rest in piece..."He laughed, "My sister.. she was the most beautiful, the most clever... I would have died to protect her, but He stole her from me! Stole her and left her an empty shell, her beauty ravaged, her eyes dull..." His eyes widened and he released Kat's throat with a crazed and gasping chuckle, "You tempt me demon whore... No I can't kill you yet, haha no you will burn Katsuya..." He flipped the knife around and pinned her arm to the side delicately slipping the blade between her radius and ulnar bones in the lower arm, "I will take you apart piece by piece!" He ripped the blade from her arm and slashed a long deep wound from the top of her sternum to her belly button. Then raising the kife, he licked her blood from the blade and left her on the bed cackling as he yelled, "What now Arunuxal! Come darken my door and we shall see who bests who!" Slamming the door behind him the loud click of the lock closing was barely heard beneath his ranting.
Kat literally screamed at the burning pain in her stomach. It jolted through her body, overwhelmed her thoughts. She could feel the sliced skin screaming angrily with pain, bleeding harshly as she lay frozen with fear, pain, and nausea on the bed. Her nose burned with the smell of blood, making her even more nauseous, making her close to passing out. She shakily brought a hand to her sliced chest, bringing it back to her face only to see nothing but the bright red color leaking through her fingers. Her throat blocked, forcing herself not to get sick as she pushed herself onto her side, gasping with pain. "Ohh...make it stop...make it stop...I haven't done anything...to you..."
Meanwhile, her father had returned home, wondering why the young daughter of his told him it was too late when it was only late afternoon. He pulled open the door, only to find that she was not home. "...Katsuya...?" He looked around blankly. "...Shit...never thought she'd stay out without telling me..."
"Izu!" Raider skidded to a halt outside Kat's house and looking at the man frantically, "Oh god, please, please tell me you know where she is..." He demanded, joining him at the door and peering into the house briefly before cursing. "He's got her, he's got her!" He hissed to himself, his hands gripping his disheveled hair as he whirled away from the door. "Oh dear god..."
Izu turned to the man standing in the door, his face falling at the wreck Raider was in. "Who has her? Where is my daughter?!" He grabbed Raider's shoulder.
Kat coughed, forcing herself not to get sick, forcing her right arm to the side, bleeding as well as her stomach as she used her left to push her onto her back once again. Her chest heaved up and down, stinging with every breath. "Ohh..." Her eyes closed, her eyes staring at the closed door, her bare skin running cold. She feared him walking into the room once again.
Katsuya... Her eyes shot open and she looked around. Fiyero... The voice disappeared after muttering that one word. She blinked.
"Fi...yero..." She hissed in pain.
Over 500 miles away, a fox's ear twitched, it's large head raising up to the sky. Sonya...? The thought rang out in an echo, a mature adult's ring. Jumping up, the fox darted into the woods.
Raider dropped his hands, allowing himself to be dragged sideways by Izu'd grip, "He's got her... Jason's got her..." He closed his eyes and then reopened his left, the white turned black and the blue turned gold, "Where does he have her...?" Through his changed eye he only saw darkness and the dimly lit outline of Izu's body. The glow of his mark pulsed gently above the house as he looked up at it and then scanned around, "Where..." He growled in a softer more dangerous tone before starting at the small glow that came into existance just as pain shot through his skull and he closed his eye again, "Shit..." He fell into a crouch and held his head until the pulsing pain subsided and opened his eyes to look up with normal, albeit bloodshot eyes at Izu, "She's there... down the road... jesus." He added in a sharp groan, clutching at his skull as though fearing it would break apart. "Ge-get a car... need... take...my place... can't... walk..."
izu looked at Raider in confusion. "What...do you want me to do? Take you back to your house?" The frantic man grabbed Raiders arm and picked him up, starting for his car. "Who's Jason and why does he have my daughter?!" Anyone could tell he was anxious. Kat groaned again, pushing herself off the bed and using her one arm to pull herself along the floor, avoiding harsh movements, listening at the locked door for Jason. "Raider...im afraid..."
"He wants... to kill me... She is... important." He whispered, "He'll... he'll kill her, then he'll... kill me...Was stupid... should've... stayed and... and protected her." He kept his eyes tightly shut, trying feverishly not to think of the blood rushing through the man supporting him. Need to get home and get blood... used too much energy... can't attack him I can't attack him oh god Kat forgive me!
The only thing to be heard on the other side of the door was the faint ticking of a clock that lay down the hall and the settling of bashed and mistreated furnature.
Izu made no attempt to make him say anymore for fear of hearing what he did not want to. He placed Raider in the car and jumped in himself. "Alright, wheres your house?" He asked, his memory failing on him as he drove down the street almost too fast. The girl sat on the floor, her eyes wandering the blood that surrounded her body. She was afraid of bleeding to death...afraid of losing. Her chest ached, her breastbone had just safely been avoided by a mere centimeter. "Where...did he go?" She mumbled.
clover street... Third house on the left." His head wasn't aching so much now but his stomach gave a loud grumble as he curled up in his seat with his back to Izu, his enlongated fangs sunk painfully in the flesh of his forearm to distract him.
A soft knock followed the turning of the lock and a redheaded man stuck his head around the edge of the door as it opened, "ah... you're still awake." the rest of his gaunt self came around the door with a tray of food and a first aid box. "I ain't gonna hurt you so calm down, I ain't with that psycho. He caught me too okay?" He said quickly, wincing as he saw the amount of damage done to her, "here, let me fix you up..." He knelt a little bit away from her and held out his hand as though she were wild animal he was afraid of spooking.
Izu didnt pay much attention to Raider. He was more distracted by the thought of what could be happening to his daughter. Hitting the gas, he drove quickly down the said street. "Why are you asking me to take you home when we should be looking for Katsuya?!" He suddenly realized. Kat backed away from the door, her chest still aching as she eyed the boy. No, she didnt trust him. But what else was there to do? "Caught you? I dont see why...you should just leave. He probably wouldnt like you in here..."
Raider pulled his mouth free to answer in an animalistic growl, "Because I don't have the strength to resist accidently killing her if I go in there." ROlling his neck uncomfortably he looked at Izu, "And if you don't quit asking me questions I may end up killing you too. Stop here." He added as they neared his house, "Keep the car warm." He rolled down the window and leapt through, dashing into the house, paying no mind to the blood leaking from his arm.
The boy sighed, "He sent me in here to make sure you don't bleed to death." He set down the tray and sat with his back against the door, "Personally I don't care if you let me patch you up or not, he'll kill the both of us eventually once he's dealt with this other guy he seems so fascinated with." He shivered and nudged the tray, "But if you're going to be this way can I have half of your snadwich? He forgot to feed me and I wasn't able to sneek into the kitchen, you have him in a right fluster."
Izu stared after the man, his eyes more worried than surprised. "What is he?" He asked himself, shaking his head, deciding not to argue with himself about it at the moment. Kat watched him with weary eyes slowly pushing the plate towards him. "Take it all. Im not exactly hungry...and id much rather bleed to death than have to die later after possibly being raped..." She had her hand pressed to her wound, letting most of her demon energy work in slowing the bleeding. "Why are you here? How old are you?"
Raider dashed into his house and into the kitchen, snagging a couple of sealed cans and, after a moment of hesitation, an ugly looking black dagger. Switching the one already in his hidden sheath for it before he darted back out of his house and into Izu's car "Back to your street, at the end out the line near the edge of the woods." He said shortly, sinking his fangs into the bottom of a can and shotgunning the thick liquid within before Izu could catch sight or smell of it.
"My name is Charlie," He said through a mouthful of food, green eyes bright with hunger, "Ah'm, *snarf* Ah'm 16." He swallowed, "Got caught for his own amusment I guess. Guy's in a fantasy world, says I'm the snake and I'll lead him to the demon. What is this? A game of D&D? He said you're a fox, and while I guess you are pretty, I wouldn't call you a fox." He shrugged and went back to eatting, "An' ah on't think he'll rape you, he's too infatuated with this , er demon guy." He paused and watched her worriedly, "Are you sure you don't want any? I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
Izu snarled something to himself before turning back out of the driveway. He had noticed the cans but didnt bother to say or look at him, leaving his attention on the road. Kat shook her head. "Im sure. Yes he is stupid with obsession over Raider..." She laid her head on the edge of the bed. "He was so crazy as to kidnap a 16-year-old boy? What an ass...i guess earlier he was just trying to scare me then. I dont think I have been so scared before. Its like hes partially blaming me for what happened..."
Raider eyed him as he finished his last can and crushed it, "You're awefully not curious." He remarked, leaning forward and turning his gaze out the windshield.
Charlie made a noncommital noise and began digging through the first aid box. Pulling a spray can of antiseptic and leaning towards her, spraying the cooling liquid over her wounds which he noticed with some curiousity had stopped bleeding, "I don't care what you think I'm not letting you die while I'm in the same room okay?" he told her before she could complain.
Izu shook his head, looking out the window as he drove. "Im trying to focus more on what the hell to do when we get there...and less on who and what you are. I cant even remember ever seeing you. My head is mixed up." Kat sighed and looked at him. She wasnt actually insecure about being half naked in front of him. "Charlie...Im sorry that you have to be mixed up in Raiders mess. You shouldnt be here. Oh..." She frowned and closed her eyes letting her fox ears and tail pop out. "And I am a fox." She smiled
"Hmm, maybe Kitty did her job too well. We've met before, unfortunately we've never met on very nice terms. What we do when we do when we get there?" He mused, "That's easy, we kill the son of a bitch that took Kat and get her home."
He started back and then looked at the sandwiches that still sat on the plate, "Holy crap, that son of a bitch drugged my peanut butter!" He said looking back at her and leaning forward again, touching her ears, "Shit are you for real?"
Izu looked at Raider. "Alright you know something...why dont you tell me why this guy is after you and why he took Katsuya. Tell me something at least." He stared out the windsheild of his car.
Kat chuckled and her ears twitched happily at his touch. "Unfortunately. Luckily my night as a full fox passed two days ago or right now I would be standing at a mere one foot." She closed her eyes. "I was so sure I was the only freak in the world...but Im not. Im really glad that you arent afraid of me.""First let me ask you something. If you were faced with a mass murderer, would you hesitate to kill him? And if it was a woman, who'd done you no harm?" He said softly, "He took Kat because of me, because I let a human tempt me yet again and I'm not about to lose her. He's after me because... Because I killed his twin sister and failed to kill him afterward."
"Afraid?" Charlie said, "Why would I be? This is anime heaven to me, well aside from the psycho in the other room and all." he ammended, smiling sheepishly as he sat back. "Maybe I get to be a hero this time around eh?" he added nervously.
Izu blinked and screeched the car to a stop as he put the car in park. "What the hell are you talking about? So you aren't human, I got that. But you're a murderer as well?!" He gave an aggravated growl and quickly turned the car back on, zooming down the road now. "You're so lucky I can't kill you myself...I need you to get my daughter back if anything."
Kat giggled. "Cute...really. But if you want to be the hero, don't do it in a dumb way. I tell Raider that all the time." She replied, leaning back against the bed. "As far as I know, you are pretty much a hero just for walking in here before I went insane." Lowering her eyes to her wounds again, she sighed.
"I have priciple! I only kill those that deserve it! And I think using your escapades luring and killing helpless drunkards as pillowtalk is deserving." He muttered, glancing at Izu "I wouldn't harm a hair on your daughter's head nor yours." He added in a huff.
"Do they still hurt?" he asked, frowning in concern as he examined the cuts, "He cut me up one time, he must put something on his blade because it hurts far longer than it should..."
WHAM! Charlie jumped like a startled rabbit and took her hand, "Come on, we have to hide!" he said, pulling her up.
"Fine...whatever..." He grumbled, gripping the steering wheel as he fought to remember what had happened before he lost his memory.
Kat's eyes widened and she tried to pull off of him. "Hide?! We'll only get in more trouble if we do that, Charlie!" She exclaimed, gripping his hand in hers, her ears flattening on her head.
As they approached the house, Raider hissed , watching a large shadow cross the lit front window. "Pull over, pull over!" He ordered, halfway out of the window already. The metal of the car's roof squealed in protest as he slid fluidly onto it, crouching low.
"Not if he can't find us!" Charlie gasped, straining to hear outside the door, "Shit! Get on the other side of the bed! Move move!" He hissed, letting her go and bracing himself against the door, "Now!"
Izu brought the car to a stop as Raider crawled out of the car through the window. Straining to see, he leaned over to the passenger side now, looking onto the roof of his car. "What do you want me to do?" [br]Kat obeyed the boy, crawling over to the side of the bed, still holding her injured arm which she hadnt gotten to since she had spent so much time trying to fix her stomach wound. "Charlie, what are you doing? Get away from the door!" She whispered loudly.
"Wait for Kat to come out and get her the hell out of here." He responded, leaping from the car to the roof of Jason's house.
The thump of his landing echoed in the old house just as Charlie grinned back at Kat, "I'm going to be a hero."
Jason threw open the door, taking in Charlie's definate glare as the boy whipped around to face him. A grin split his face and he turned his gaze on Kat, "Looks like your demons here." He whispered, pointing up at the roof as Raider began tearing his way through it. "Oh my and it seems he's going to make me lose my deposit."
Kat's eyes rose to look at the roof and she quickly jumped up, grabbing Charlie by his shoulder sleeve, almost as if she was hiding behind him but really wasnt. Her eyes narrowed at Jason. "You wont kill him." At this point her thoughts of Raider were very confused and very slim. She didn't know how she would take seeing him.
"Perhaps." Jason admitted, grinning savagely as the sounds of shredding wood and sheetrock became louder, "Perhaps this sad little tale ends with a murderer on the loose." Charlie, who had been tensing to jump at Jason, took Kat's hand, backing both of them up ever so slightly. The sounds from the roof reached a peak and stopped, plaster dust drifting from the ceiling calmly before a chilling growl thundered above, "Jasssson...." Jason's eyes narrowed and his fists clenched, "Get down here you son of a bitch...." He whispered breathlessly.
As if hearing him, one swift punch broke throught the remainder of the roof between them and Raider fell through, barely landing on the floor between the three before he tumbled Jason back through the door with an incoherent snarl.
Kat gripped Charlie's shoulder. "We need to get out of...here." She coughed, her eyes falling to her hand to see red. Her consciousness was growing short. After being distracted by what had been going on, she stopped paying attention to the wound in her sternum and stomach and it had started to slightly bleed again. She could taste the blood in her mouth. "Charlie...you have to get away from me." She pushed herself off of him and leaned against the wall, touching her bare chest. "Have to stop...bleeding..."
The sounds of breaking furniture rose as the fighters tumbled into the front room. Charlie glanced at Kat and followed her back, "Shit, hold on..." He said, darting back to the first aid kit and returning with bandages, "Christ... what did he do this with-" He stopped short as a body hit the wall, it's owner giving a sharp cry before struggle up and across the door. Amber eyes glanced in and disappeared as black ones tackled them away. Charlie winced and knelt beside Kat, stripping his t-shirt off and folding it into a pad that he pressed against her wound. "Hang in there Kat, it's going to be fine..."
Kat whimpered slightly. "He must have used the same stuff he used on you." She coughed, warm liquid trickling down the side of her chin. "Ah...maybe worse..." She touched his cheek and tried to stand. "Look...I know this sounds ridiculous...but as far as I know...Jason has every right to be mad at Raider...Jason is enraged...but he needs to be stopped. We cant let Raider kill him..." Outside, Izu gripped the steering wheel. "Dammit...I need to go in there." He pulled open the car door. "Kat..."
Charlie looked undecided, "It's not like I don't agree with you..." He shook his head, "You're right." He finished binding her wound and wiped away the blood from her mouth, "But how do you suggest we stop them? I'm not getting between those two."
A sound like an enraged snake met their ears and broke off with a gasp and a thump. A wicked chuckle broke the following silence, "Die you bastard!" The voice was so twisted it couldn't be told which one it was until Raider's ragged cry broke into it.
"...Kat!..."
Kat gasped, pushing herself off me the floor, pushing Charlie gently to the side without a thought and burst into the next room. "Jason, dont!" She flung herself in front of the fallen Raider and the still standing, though injured Jason. "This isnt right. None of this is right! What good does killing come from?! Do either of you even know the sides of your own stories?!" Her lips trembled.
Raider savagely wrenched at the iron stake pinning him the the floor, but stuck through his chest as it was he was having little luck. Jason glared at Kat, "You would protect this murderer, this demon?" He spat, his gaze switching to Raider as the vampire bared his teeth, wheezing,"I may... have killed hundreds... more than... you and that... bitch queen... but at least... it was in need... rather than enjoyment!" Jason's lip curled, "Call her that again bastard!" Raider grinned as another yank on the stake pulled it free with a sickening sucking sound, "Bitch queen, murderous whore, Satan's slut!" Jason shoved Kat aside and tackled Raider with a vicious punch to the face. Raider twisted and sank his fangs into Jason's shoulder, pinning him to the floor as blood fell in fat splatters from the shrinking hole in his chest.
Kat stumbled to her feet, uncertain as to whose side she should be taking. Even if Raider thought they deserved to die because they killed others, he had no reason to...rape her... Gritting her teeth, she took a step only to be grabbed at the shoulder. She turned. "Dad...go help Charlie. He needs to get out of here." She had to stop this. Rather than argue with her, Izu nodded and ran into the next room. Her eyes caught Jason's gun on the floor and she grabbed it, shooting it blindly into Raider's shoulder.
Startled, Jason leapt away as Raider swore and gripped his shoulder, instinctively baring his teeth until he realize just who had shot him. "Katsuya...?" He whispered, shocked at the betrayal.
Jason laughed, "Ahh so, the truth finally presents itself!"
Raider looked between them, "Truth? What did you tell her?!" He gasped and arched his neck as he pulled the bullet out.
"I told her what you did to my sister, how you tore her up, how you raped her before you killed her..." He growled back.
"What??" He said, looking at Kat, "Kat I... Yeah I killed her, but..." It clicked and he slumped, "You gotta believe me Kat I would never... I wouldn't, I didn't rape her!" He said, looking at her pleadingly "I haven't taken a woman against her will since I left my coven!" He glared at Jason, "Your sister invited me to her bed, whispered to me about what she'd done and what she was going to do, thinking her drug would immobilize me so she could kill me too!"
Kat growled, shifting the gun to Jason. "Shut the fuck up, you bastard. I will shoot you too...Im not on anyone's side here." Shaking her head, she listened to the story that was coming from the man she loved so much. Her eyes blurred as the gun shook in her hand. "This is bullshit. What does revenge solve for anyone? Jason, maybe your sister deserved death...but it was wrong of Raider. I understand that pain. I have been so stupid up to now." She lowered the gun. "Jason...Kill me." The gun hit the ground.
Jason looked about as shocked as Raider did but grinned and sketched a mock bow, scooping up the gun as he did, "As you wish." Raider struggled to his feet and staggered in front of her, spreading his arms. Jason frowned at him, "You're not denying her the right to die are you?" He said slowly, the cold barrel rising to rest between his eyes.
Raider jerked his head in a diagonal motion, neither denying or agreeing. "If you take her, then... take me as well." He said, "I'd rather she not... die but given the circumstances it's my sin to bear and if she should die I shouldn't escape death myself." He said softly. He turned his head ever so sightly to see Kat, "I'm sorry."
Kat nearly felt like crumbling under her own weight. She was so confused. This was a man she had shared herself with, though he had so many other women in the past. The man that made her feel like she was special. But the words of Jason earlier in spite of all that wouldn't leave her mind. 'Everything he said was a lie.' "Raider..." She waited for Jason to pull the trigger. But in a matter of seconds, he was seen in armlock and the gun rested in the hand of an amber-eyed stranger. "That would be enough..."
Raider's shoulders sagged and he gripped the injured one as it throbbed from being held up. He didn't know whether to be thankful or upset that he wasn't dead. In the end he'd wish he was anyways, he figured, with what Kat had found out and how she had. He kept his eyes on Jason as the man twisted in the stranger's hands, cursing wildly.
The stranger pinned Jason to the floor, sitting on his back and wrenching his arms behind him. His face was clearly visible now.
He had the same red-brown hair and the same dark amber eyes with a little bit of a stubble across his chin. He looked around his late 20s or so, possibly because of the power he had. He was a bit older than seen. There was a tear in his right fox ear, twitching almost as if nervous. His large tail swung behind him.
He was definitely a shifter...and a powerful one at that. But why did he look like...
"...Who are you?" He asked the question first, staring at Kat who had come from behind Raider in investigation. "You aren't Sonya..." His nose twitched slightly.
Kat blinked, her hand gripping over the wound that was covered by Charlie's shirt. "...Sonya is my mother's name...Mine is Katsuya..." She replied, her eyes widening slightly. "...Fiyero...?"
The male's eyes widened as well, his mind flashing back to the last words he had heard from Sonya.
"Whatever you do, make sure you return to your daughter, no matter what happens to me or to anyone else. I will not let them kill my baby, Fiyero...you must trust me. Leave now, my love, I cannot bear to see them hurt you. Her name...is Katsuya."
He shook his head. How could he believe how fast the girl had grown? Had he really been gone for that long? "...Katsuya..." He said the name like it was sacred.
Kat realized who she was looking at right at this moment. Her real father. "...You..." Her mind whirled and she fell backwards, only to be caught by Izu who had just came back into the room, Charlie standing beside him.
Izu gave a distressed sigh. "She's fine...she fainted. Raider, how are you?"
He dismissed the question with a sharp gesture, straightening as he looked Fiyero a hand reaching out absently as he said, "Kitty... Come to me." With a small pop Kitty appeaered in the room taking the scene in in a glance and shaking her head.
"I told you to let me handle this Raider..." She said disapprovingly as she cast an eye over Fiyero as well, sketching the fellow shifter a short bow.
Raider lowered his eyes, "Just.... make him forget... make him forget everything. And... cut out a portion from my share, make up whatever you wish..." He said softly turning to walk out the door. He stopped, gritting his teeth for a moment, then walked over to Izu and Kat, kissing the unconscious girl on the forehead and touching her face, "If she asks for me... Tell her I'm sorry... I never meant for this..." He choked and turned, "The boy upstairs... His parents are in San Fransisco." He added, shutting the door behind him.
Kitty sighed, "Always so dramatic that boy!" She glanced at Jason and then at Kat, "Can't say I blame him this time..." She knelt next to Fiyero and Jason, touching the struggling man just above his eyes and sending him into unconciousness. Keeping that contact she looked at Fiyero with more curiousity, "So, what's a shifter like you doing here eh? You come for the girl?"
Fiyero's ears twitched and he sighed a bit deeply. It didn't take the stepfather long to realize who Fiyero was. I mean, he looked exactly like the girl in his arms.
"Not orginally...I heard my name being called. I thought it was her mother. But it looks like she got all her looks from me. Her comparison to Sonya is all in her face." He smiled a bit. "No, I don't think I can take her anyway. I'm not sure he'll let me." He made a joke, pointing at Izu who only gripped the girl tighter.
"She's grown up. Does anyone know where her mother is?" He asked, turning to kitty, possibly believing she would know.
"Off-hand? No." She said, taking her hand from the unconscious man. "Could I find her? You bet those tattered ears of yours I can. My husband and I run a paranormal private investigative squad. We'll find her if you'd like." SHe winked at Fiyero and gestured at Jason, you can let him go, I'm going to send him off to someplace he can renew his life and make different memories. Maybe he'll turn out better this time."
Fiyero blinked. He was uncertain as to how she could do such things. Kitty was such a strange one. He stood from the unconcious Jason and stuffed his hands in his pockets as he wandered over to the unconcious girl and her step-father. "If I may, sir." Izu hesitated before passin her up. Fiyero looked at her, running his hand over her cheek. "She looks....so much like me." He smiled almost weakly. Turning his head up to kitty, he asked, "Who was the young lad who just left?"
Kitty waved a hand over Jason and he disappeared with a *pop!* as she straightened. "I wouldn't accuse him of being young persay..." she said before shaking her head, "That was Raider Ura. A vampire I've held a loose friendship with since I ran into him in Germany about.... three hundred years ago was it? Anyway, he's been developing a pretty close relationship with your daughter there, well until all this happened..." She shook her head, "Impulsive bastard, I told him I'd handle this mess and what does he do? He allows Kat to hear his sordid past from the lips of the most determined and hateful son of a bitch I've ever had the displeasure of meeting. To lay it plainly, that boy and his twin were serial killers and being a self-confessed murderer, Raider thought it would be poetic justice to eliminate them himself..."
Fiyero twitched his nose. "Close, huh?" He looked down at the sleeping girl. "I guess she's like her mother. Falling for the one's who seem to be the worst ones to fall for." The girl twitched in his arms and her eyes fluttered open.
"Ah...what happened?" She mumbled, then gaped at the face of...herself? Fiyero chuckled.
"Dear, you were only out for a few minutes..." He touched her cheek. She looked around.
"Where's Raider?" She tried to lift herself up. Fiyero held her.
"He went out..." She looked back at Kitty.
"Kitty? Is he...mad?"
Kitty had her eyes closed, "No. I don't think he could be mad at anyone he fancies. But in anycase, he apologized, you don't have to worry about seeing him for a few days, he's gone off to think." She reach up and pulled a delicate whitegold chain from around her neck and looked down at the crystal emblem that dangled from it. It was a tiny wing and the crystal glowed faintly gold.
"But if you wish to call him. Which... he didn't say I couldn't suggest..." A sly little curve shaped her mouth and she draped the chain over Kat's neck, "You know how we pull each other from thin air? This is how."
Kat looked down at the necklace and smiled at Kitty. "Thank you Kitty..." She sighed, turning her attention back to Fiyero. "You are my...father?" He nodded to her. "Yes dear...I am. You look so much like me...its like Im looking at myself. As a girl, that is." He chuckled. "Ah maybe you know...where is your mother?" She cringed. He didn't know? Lowering her eyes, she replied. "She's been dead for a long time." She mumbled. There was a silence before Fiyero stood up and walked outside. Kat frowned.
Kitty touched Kat's shoulder and smiled reassuringly before following Fiyero out the door, "Fiyero... fiyero wait..." She called softly to him glancing worriedly back at the house.
The older Kitsune ignored her, finally stopping his walk outside the house, his hand brought up to rub the top of his head. "...How could I not have known she died...?" He asked, almost quietly. "What the hell is my problem?" His shoulders were trembling as he let out nervous, shaky laughs. "I'm such an idiot." Sliding his hand down over his mouth, he almost gasped when he'd realized his eyes were drowned in tears. Never before had he ever cried. Quickly, he wiped at his eyes and sighed, his shoulders slumping. "Ugh....Kitty, I never got to explain to her. Never got to tell her why I hadn't returned sooner..."
Kitty frowned "Then tell Kat, make your ammends to her." She looked back towards the house her ears swivelling briefly, "The dead are the dead, they cannot have ill will towards you. THe living however, are quite capable of that."
Fiyero sighed and nodded his head to her. "You're right..." He muttered, stuffing his hands in his pockets. "But, right now...we need to get out of here...get her back home." He turned after a few minutes to walk back into the house, seeing the girl still sitting on the ground with the red-head now beside her. "Kat, let's get you home." He saw the look on her face as she raised her head. "We'll...talk later." He muttered, turning to Charlie. "Do I need to get you home, son?"
Charlie's eyes brightened and he nodded, "Home.... Yeah, that'd be great..." He glanced at Kat and gave her a wry grin, "So much for being the hero eh? " He looked a little self conscious as he added, "Jeez I just hope my parents remember me I've been gone so long..."
Fiyero raised his eyebrow. "So long? How long did that man have you, lad?" He asked, reaching out to pat him softly on the head as he gave him a small grin.
At the same time, Kat managed to rise to her feet, groaning a bit as her chest still hurt. She smiled at Kitty who stood beside her. "Okay...I think I need to get something or I just might bleed to death..." She joked with a wince.
Kitty shook her head, "Ugh... you could've mentioned the wound earlier!" She said, startled as she bent over the girl and gently pinched the skin back together, the cut sealing up beneath her fingers until only a faint thin scar remained.
Charlie glanced up at him, "Er... I dunno, four years or so? Maybe less or more... I'm... not really good at keeping time."
Fiyero tsked before holding his hand out. "Go ahead and take my hand, lad. We'll be home before you can blink..." He grinned widely, turning to Kitty. "Take care of her while I'm gone. I'll explain things then..."
Kat nodded her head at him and then to Charlie. "Charlie...thank you...come here sometime, would ya?" She chuckled, waving her hand. Fiyero felt the boy take his hand and disappeared with a puff of smoke.
Kat watched the now empty space, her eyes shifting to Izu who was standing to the side. "...Sorry...daddy..." She smiled weakly at him and he gave her a small smile back.
"Let's get home..." He started towrds the door, ruffling her hair as he stood beside her. Kat turned to Kitty.
"...How long you think I should leave him alone...? If he's planning on trying to disappear, he better think twice. This wasn't his fault..." She muttered.
She shrugged, tucking her hands in her pockets, "However long you feel he deserves." She gave a tiny smile, "He's kind of a glutton for self punishment so he's probably off somewhere starving himself up in a tree and telling himself it's meditating. I'd give him a couple days to get off his emotional high horse before you give him a call."
Shaking her head she yawned, "Hey I don't mean to imose but could I crash at your place? The twins have been giving me no time to sleep today and I'm fair bushed." Her grin returned, "I don't even need a bed just a blanket on the floor even."
She beckoned them out of the house and rubbed at her eyes tiredly.
Kat chuckled a bit and nodded her head. "I'm pretty sure my dad wouldn't mind." Izu gave a shrug from behind, obviously tired of what had just happened.
Once they'd gotten to the house, Kat brought a blanket from her bedroom, handing it to the kitsune with a smile. "Sleep on the couch at least. It's better than the floor. I'd rather you have a bed, it's not like I would mind you sleeping in mine with me." She frowned. "But whatever."
Unfortunately, she'd wanted to call Raider now...but she had to hold back. He was in need of the time to himself. As she said goodnight to Kitty, she wandered up to her room, climbing into her bed. Her eyes caught the small scar between her breasts. Only another to add to the many already on her body. Her eyes slowly closed as she drifted off into sleep.
Kitty was sprawled in a furry heap under the blanket on the couch, her tail peeking out from one end and her nose sticking out from the end hanging over the side. About the size of a large dog she took up half the space on the cushions, contentedly snoozing away.


Raider shifted his weight back and looked toward her door, "Perhaps, but your father..." His brow furrowed and he tipped his forehead to touch hers, "I think hims distrusting of me, after I told him what I am..."
She rolled her eyes a bit. "Don't worry about him, okay? Kitty changed him and if he's going to start being overprotective, then he'll have to do it later." She frowned a little. "He doesn't even know you're here, okay? And trust me, he's a heavy sleeper." She giggled a bit.
His lips drew back in an odd little smile and he shook his head, "Mm so, does that mean I'm doing a good job if we wake him?" He chuckled, "Just kidding, just kidding!" He brushed his lips over hers and straightened, drawing in a breath and looking down at her.

He grinned, "Mmm I think I might..." He said as he folded his legs back, effectively trapping her calves, before rolling himself forward. Pinned her down with his superior weight, he braced his chin on his palm and his elbow on the floor next to her shoulder. "But first, you wear much too much." He gave her a lazy glance that followed the curve of her neck and down the length of her body. "As do I."
She frowned a bit in response. If this was what he meant by slow, he was planning on torturing her. That didn't sound too fun for her at all. She growled lightly, seeing as her arms were still free, she reached up to the buttons of her blouse. "I guess we'll have to fix that then, hm?" She asked, slipping the first one open in a frightfully teasing manner. If he was going to play, then she was going to get all of what she could in before him.
His eyes sharpened and he growled in response, bracing his weight back on his knees. Her blood still singing on his tongue he dipped his head to kiss her soundly and gripped her hand in his free one, parting the kiss to bare his teeth and cut through the next button. As of wait for her to protest the marring of her garment, he paused again, releasing her hand to cup her hip.
She raised an eyebrow, sticking out her lower lip. "Don't ruin my favorite sleep clothes or i will have to punish you." She murred, resuming the removal of her shirt after his hand moved away. She popped the last button and looked up with a smug grin, still holding the garment closed with both hands. "You know...I usually don't wear undergarments when I sleep." Her voice came out in a seductive purr, her right leg reaching up to hitch on his waist, seeing as the other was pinned under his.
His brow furrowed at her hands and he met her gaze heatedly, one hand fist absently over his heart and ripped away his shirt as easily as tissue paper."Salus!" He grated, his voice harsh though the hand he drew over hers was gentle. "Katsuya..."He tightened his grip fractionally, his shoulders tensing as his hip bumped against the inside of her thigh.
She had expected his frustrated reply and actually enjoyed it. Her eyes dropped from his gaze to his toned body. Even with the scars he had, he was beautiful. It only gave them something else in common. She released her hands from the cloth that was covering her bare skin, lifting herself up only so far to let the fabric slide from her shoulders, exposing her upper half to him. Her eyes met his face again. She could feel his gaze on her, though she felt a little self-consious about her newest scar. Ignoring it, she reached up to slide her hand from between his, letting it reach up to cup the back of his neck. She smiled lightly. "It's only fair for me to pick on you too...my impatient luster." She cooed.
His eyes paled slightly at the sight of the scar but darkened again at her words."Pick on me if you must, but prepare for retaliation." He nuzzled between her breasts, the slightly raised skin of the scar brushing his cheek as he turned to flick his tongue across her nipple. "My control is not as it used to be." He rumbled darkly.
She purred softly at his light touches. She'd expected him to talk so big. She knew that he meant things when he said them. It was just....Raider. A shiver ran up her spine as his tongue brushed over her sensitive skin and she let her head fall back as she tightened her hand in his hair. "I didn't ask you to keep control. I like it when you're...how you say...crazed." She smirked at him, running her tongue over her bottom lip. This taunting, she realized, was almost like she was asking to be tortured. But it only seemed to make her want to do it more.