The Accident

The Accident
None Beta version until now^^;
Disclaimer; I own nothing, sorely not even the wonderful characters, or the story of PSOH itself! They all belong to someone else.
Rating; R
Pairings; Totetsu/ Leon
Warnings;
Yaoi, (if you don’t like that, leave here please!), Bad eating habits of certain species,
blood, violence, mental health and sanity, sexual situations not suited for minor aged people!
Beta; Ratromp san
Summary;
Ever wondered too why Tetchan never seems to bite Leon in the neck?
Well, this is my little opinion of why^^ Lets say, he made a fatal error this time.
Special note, Please Read!
I am native German! Therefore, naturally I am not so good with my English as a native person. Please beware of grammar and spelling errors and such.
I have now a beta for this story and Ratromp san will work as fast a beta can, so please be patient and wait until I have the chapters back and will change them then.
I will do that as soon I have them as I did it already with my other one-shot, The Mask and the Heart, here.
Short note the one above, my other beta is on vacation momentary,
Suryallee

A special note to Tao Tie
I did some research about Tet-Chan’s origins for myself and this is what I found out within a few days long search, I am always open for corrections if I got something wrong. Please let me know then, also I would love to know more about this species if someone knows links to existing stories or such, you would make me happy to give them to me^^
Alternatively known as: TAO-TIE, T'AO-T'IEH, THAO-THIEH, known as Totetsu ( or Toutetsu) in Japanese,
Pronunciation as: Taow Tee-yeh
Looks: like a sheep or goat like creature, sometimes reminds to a dragon. With sharp fangs and claws, and horns like a ram on the head.

This ancient Chinese beast is a mystical beast that is often to see as a face ( Mask ) on some vessels or ornamented sacrifice relicts of the ancient china. Mostly made of bronze.
Some of these old figurines are very old, just use Google or better Wikipedia for more information about this, they show you then pictures of them also.
Known as The Gluttons due to their habit of treating mortals as tasty morsels.
History
It is seen on these things at first in the Shang Zhou dynasty, a dynasty that ruled mostly the north of the ancient china. Its origins has many stories in itself, the most believable is, That these beasts got out of the nasty habit from ancient times, to Kill and then Eat your surviving enemies after a war to prevent them from making more troubles and to gain their strengths.
That makes our all Beloved Tetsu Chan to a very old man ^_ - if you know what I mean! A few thousands years + old man/ beast to be precise! They are also inside a story about the nine children of a dragon king, the fifth is called Taotie and its told he loves to eat well.
I took this out of a text I found in the net but do not remember which one currently, I think it was on Wikipedia^^; By a man called , Li Zehou: "Some scholars consider that the meaning of taotie is not ‘eating people’ but making a mysterious communication between people and Heaven (gods)."
In some of the texts I found it is told that they often seem to work as a kind of meddler between the gods and the rest of the spiritual world…like a deity or a Kami what is in common thinking not always a goddess but something really near to that. Its hard to explain but it’s a goddess and not one….makes that sense to someone here?
Any way, taotie are mostly known as fierce beasts that have a tremendous appetite and also they are known to be two faced. They are in the list of the mystical animals or sacred beasts and seem to have a great strength. Their fangs are described as long and so are their claws, the ancient Chinese people had a big fear to meet one in that times as it seems, so they tried to Bann them on that vessels and striped them of the rest of their body, only the face as a mask staid in the end. That is why the common believe was that Taotie could not kill but hurt. Practically bite and swallow but you would just come out on the other side of the jaws without to gotten harmed or killed…if you could avoid the sharp fangs of course!
Some say, they got punished from the gods like this, for eating mankind.
They are known for eating children or people in general if they could get a hold on them.
I hope that helped those who asked me if I got my knowledge out of my imagination or through research^^ I did actually read allot, I was curios so to speak.
Oh, before I forget, Taotie have in some stories an own Human like body, and in others they can practically take ones over to hide inside of the body and to use it…like a ghost.
In the story of POSH, I do believe the authoress choose to use the ladder. Why? Simple, she let Tet Chan eat the heard of the human called Wong. Or better, look like he eat his own heard, so I think it’s the latter version from I heard of, she used.

I would like to thank you all also for the nice comments and all the wonderful responses to my story I got so far. I hope I can live up to your hopes and that you still enjoy the story^^
Sury

This chapter is dedicated to my lovely beta’s.

Chapter 5
Disturbing news at midnight

The silence was this thick around the car; you could cut it with a knife!
After Tenchan ended his very long story about all what Leon had missed in the shop, what Kami where supposed to be and why Humans could normally not see that animals had a kind of humanoid form too, it fell down around them all and staid there for a long while.
He even went so far and told the two cops that Tetsu had a human form and that they both had meet the very same before…. needless to say that he had to restrain Leon soon after the words leaved his mouth…and to try to avoid to getting bitten by an enraged Tao Tie!
And that at the same time!
Leon, because he wanted to shoot * Wong* again and this time for good, and Tetsu, well Tetsu wanted just to kill him for telling the human who he once had been.
After the ruckus had finally died down Jill’s calm comment to this all was “ great, just great!”

The fox had a hard time to explain all three others after this why he told them that all in the first place… he did it because of the situation.
Ten wanted the two humans to believe him and Tetsu. His instinct told him, that otherwise they would never begin anew to trust them…more importantly, Leon would never let the Tao Tie near to him again if he did not gave it up to fool around and lye.

It was important for them all that the lies where out in the open, well the most of them.
To keep to many secrets further would make it too hard for his friend to find a way to get what he wanted and that could mean more then only a bad thing for both already!
The progress of the mating and the following binding of their souls had grown too deep already to try to stop it now. Ten could feel it. The binding had begun to work the magic of its own; both had no other choice from now on.
Suddenly Leon got up and out of the car before the fox had time to react this time.
Within seconds his long legs made it to the still in beast form staying Tetsu and he had drawn out his gun and pointed it at the beast.

With horror Ten took this all in, he only hoped that he was right with his musings now.
With a certain sadness the Kitsune saw the cop first begin to shudder, then to slightly shake and finally, Leon dropped the gun and lowered slowly to his haunches down.
Still shaking the cop realized that he could not bring himself to shoot at the beast!
Why was his body betraying him and did as his brain commanded the fingers? He wanted to pull the trigger1 in his mind Leon could still see the death once pregnant women and hear the medicals tell them of the destiny of their babies…. so why could he not pull the dammed trigger!?!
He had seen Tetsu dead in the golden eyes and knew that the beast know what he intended to do…. had it put some spell over him?
No, his brain told him, no it had not. His body just refused to shoot the animal that was it.

The man heard a swishing sound coming from the beast before him and the doors of the car open and close, but that all did not matter to Leon now.
He still tried to figure out why he could not bring himself to even hit after Tet-Chan now.
His brain refused to understand this or to even make any sense out of this all.
To his utter horror his body even seemed to betray him in more as only this!
Did Leon imagine things now, or did his body really miss the touch and closeness of the mystical beast now???
Shaking even more now, the human tried to block out the feeling that the other was closer now to him as before. This all was too much! Leon groaned deeply in his throat and tried to withstand the urge to let himself sing against the, what ever Tao Tie meant and to cry like a baby at its shoulder.

He had reached his breaking point for now.

Jill watched this all calmly out of a distance.
She also remembered the crazy cook and his doings. Not her most favorite memory ever. The women knew why Leon wanted to shoot the beast that did now to her appear like a teen or young adult, with unusual unruly messy red hair and golden eyes of a cat.
What confused her the most where the set of ram horns that seem to spread out of the head on either side of the skull. They almost looked in the moonlight as if they where shining from the inside, in a beautiful shade of pearl white.
The face of the red head was almost blank, no emotion shown, his movements almost hesitant and calm. It was like the goat boy or what ever he was, tried not to spook the emotionally broken down Leon more as necessary.

Calmly she took her own gun out and pointed it at the beast gone human.
“ You know, maybe he cant shoot you, but I can! Tell me one single point why I shouldn’t do that and kill you now.”
But Tetsu refused to even give her a look, he just took the gun of Leon between his clawed hands and hold it awkwardly between his long fingers. He seemed not even to see it really as if he was deeply musing about something.
Just when Jill was about to pull the trigger a hit under the gun let the shoot fly in the sky instead to hit with the bulled the Toutetsu.
Her glare was deadly when her blue eyes meet the much calmer of the fox after this.

“ You can’t shoot him”
That was all what Ten told the fuming female calmly. He knew why both wanted to see Tetsu dead, humans where this way, he could not even blame them for it.
In their eyes, Tetsu had done something unthinkable.
His look took an almost sad note when he looked right into the blue flames that where momentary Jill’s eyes.
“ If you shoot Tetsu, you will kill Leon in the very same minute with it. The two are somehow connected with each other. Kill one of them and you will kill the other too. Easy as it sounds, both live or both die, you cant shoot him!”

Her unbelieving look at him was almost comical.
Only Ten Chan knew all too well that it wasn’t so. After some stunning seconds, she put the gun away again.
“Tell me why!”

He sighted and did shake his silvery head in refusal of this rather demand from her.
“I cant tell you that, it is up to them to do or better said to Tetsu, but I hardly daub it that he will do that momentary. Anyway, it would not change a thing and so its simply as it is for now. All I can tell is that the two are somehow bound to each other now. They cant hurt the other, nor can they go away further from the other as one mile, radius. If they try that, they would first feel sick and weak, then feel ill and in the end … die.”

Jill closed her eyes at the strange news.
Her brain told her that the strange man beside her had to lye. But her instincts told her at the same time that Ten was right and what he said was the simplest and most confusing true she ever heard in her live.
A short check on her friend told the female cop soon that Leon had heard it also and tried to make sense out of the cryptically words of the Kitsune beside her.
The Tao Tie just sat as next as he dared it at the moment to be, to Leon and refused to look at something other then the dirt below his feet.

“Did he stoop with that?”

Surprised and showing that on his face when he looked at her the fox nodded vehemently before he gave Jill the answer in voice.
“Yes, he did stoop to do that the very day Leon and the others caught him. It…it was a kind of madness that his kind can get when they are alone for too long. You have to understand, his main diet is human flesh. Nothing can change that! He is a natural hunting beast that eats humans to stay alive. Like, like myself too…in some kind of way.

(Her face told him clearly to better explain that immediately before she would use her gun again…this time on him!) Well, my kind eats souls, in a way. It’s rather hard to explain a human but the main focus leys on the pesky fact that he and I are mystical beasts. We need different nutrition as a normal animal and in my case this is the energy that lays in a soul. I do eat meat even hunt like a fox would do but that doesn’t change it that I have to get energy from time to time too, to survive.

Tell me now something, Miss Jill!
Are you better then Tetsu and I? Your kind eats animals all the time, your kind raise them to kill them later for foot. And that mostly in an even nastier way as we kill! Your kind eats young ones of animals too, so tell me; why are you feeling better in this because you’re human, and we both are monsters in your sight of things!”
His reddish eyes took an angry shine at his last words.

Ten never looked away from the blue eyes of the female. He could see her confusion after the ending questions had left his mouth and feel her confusion coming off of her now.
At first, Jill seemed to want to snap at him for asking her this, but she closed her mouth again after a second and surprised the fox with closing her eyes as if she was in deep thought in trying to give him a good answer.

His sharp hearing told him that his outbreak had gotten Leon out of his depressive and shocked state too. He could feel the eyes of the cop practically bore themselves in his back. But somehow, as glad he was that the cop was now out of this and seemingly Tetsu too, his instincts told him to not look away from the female; she was more dangerous as Leon to him.
He got his answer from an other direction as he thought he would.

“We are not.
If you ask it this way, Ten, were not better…. We are even worse!”
Leons voice sounded tired, Ten felt pity coming up inside of him for the human now. He felt rather bad for having dragged the cop into this kind of discussion without to think about it twice.
“But, we are also not animals and you are also not just some of D´s normal pets, for us, that what he did was more then wrong. Jill and I are cops because we believe in what we do. Not like the most others who believe in justice or want to prove how much better humans they are…. we just live for what we stand for, makes that a sense to you two?”

He got a nod from both creatures as an answer, and saw Jill come over to him and then sitting down right beside him next to the car.
After some seconds, Ten followed suit and also sat down in the strange cycle of them four. What a picture they all must give to others who saw them here!
The fox tried not to chuckle at that thought. When his eyes meet that of the others he saw in them the very same question hover and the same edge of amusement too.
Finally it was Jill who broke out into laughs at first. After her the others did also laugh, slowly the deadly tension began to fade a little and they began to try to sort out where every one stand now.

“ A wonderful quartet of peo…err… beings? Are we! I bet, d would love to spy on us in the moment.” She shocks her honey brown tresses and did quiet down again, in her frontal view Tetsu still held Leons gun but at now he was looking out into the nightly landscape around them. The Toutetsu seem to be in his own thoughts and that deeply so. Her cousin tried to look in the other direction and did also seem to think deeply about or over some things. To her, she and Ten now where the only beings in this place that seem to think without any inwardly troubles added to the ones that where there anyway.
Her eyes meet the side profile of the Kitsune in question and she decided that the being had to give her some more answers as he already did it to convince her that both where harmless enough to travel further with.

The most surprising thing for her was that she believed the fox every word!
Somehow, she mused this must have come from the shocking way he told them all the truths and did not try to fool them around the disturbing facts. Jill was thankfully for that; even it was hard for her to accept it. But in one way, the fox was right, they were not better in his kind of view; her kind ate animals after all too. What made it all so hard for her and Leon to understand or even to accept was that they ate humans as their kind did it to animals all the time too.
Jill asked herself if she could ever look at a steak again without to think twice that she was eating a creature that she could have talked to!
A shudder told her that she probably not could do that.

What a disturbing thought, she thought to herself, it seems I have only the option to become a vegetarian now, Argh!

The female was not aware of it that she still stared unfocused at Ten all the time…but the fox was it.
He was curios what she might think at the moment but did not dare it to try to disturb her. It seemed she was thinking about something very important and his instinct told him not to interrupt this.

Leon seems to slowly come back to earth now.
His mind told him that the fox left something important to him out of the hock but he could not put a finger on what it could be.
His brain told him that he did not really wanted to know…why was a miracle to him but the fact that he could not even let Tetsu stand here now and was practically forced to stay near to the animated animal or what ever he was, from now on, disturbed him not as much as it did it before. Surprisingly Tens outbreak had something positive on it.
Leon knew that the fox was true in a way, they all could nothing for it to be what they where.

It wasn’t very reassuring for him, after all, the beast gone human…. without to look too closely at the horns…. had eaten and still ate humans!
He had already acknowledged the Tao Tie as the male out of his strange dream. And nearly jumped out of his skin in the process!
“ Hey, Tetsu…. (He waited until the other gave a sign off that he had heard him) What did you have do search in to my Dreams!”

An unbelieving look from the animal told Leon that he did seriously not know what he meant with that statement.
Leon blushed a little and mumbled something akin to, not important; and tried to avoid the now slightly confused and questioning look from, the red head.
Jill and ten watched the little drama with amusement and interest in their eyes.

Tetsu was more then curios now, first this strange question and then …Leon did blush?
What the heck did the man mean with this all now! And why did he blu…
Wait a second! Tesus eyes narrowed slightly and his eyes put Leons frame into his main focus.
“What dream?”
His dreamer in question began to fidget nervously and even more to avoid his questioning look all out of the sudden.
Bingo! The beast though, I was right. Now, what have he dreamed of that it was important enough for my stupid to let it slips?
His look got something akin to a predator at the though and he leaned even more into Leons space to get a better look of the still growing blush of the cops face. A nasty smirk began slowly to tuck at his lips, what ever the man had dreamed of, Tetsu wanted to know it!
Now!

Leon saw the face of the beast come more and more near to his after he heard him speak for the first time…the voice sounded as husky as he remembered it from the dream. Now really blushing like mad, the poor man tried his hardest to come fast up with a good answer that would distract the other enough to forget this dammed slip of his!!!
Suddenly he remembered that Ten had mentioned in his longer explanation of why they where here that Tetsu told him he knew of Leons dream before….
That could work, Leon thought and promptly leaned back into the space of the animated beast with a nasty grin…or what normally would have looked like…. if he would have not blushed this madly!

“ Why did you know of my dreams before I told them to Jill in the truck stop? How comes that you knew them already, Ten told us you told him that you did, so where did you know that from?”

Dammed!
For seconds this was the only thing the Tao Tie could think of…. Tetsu still swore that Leon meant another dream as that one! And he would do anything to get the idiot to tell him exactly what he dreamed of I the end…but for now Leons brain had found a way out of the trap…shit!
His brain tried to find a way to explain them that he had felt and saw the dream without to tell them why he could do so in the first place. Not an easy task, even for Tetsu but then he came up with a good answer.
“ I don’t know why exactly, but I had he same dream at the same time. It woke me up from my rest in the shop and it was that why I followed you here.
I know what kind of beast that was in your dream, A Tao Tie like myself. But much older and as it seems an outcast to top it all…. now I have a question;
How it comes that you where in china before, understood the language and all and could not remember it until now?”
The last, Tetsu spoke completely in mandarin. It was a test. And just like the beast thought it, Jill looked at him questioning and ten curios at the same time.
Leon, well the man just looked angry and about to yell at him but then he quieted down and answered Tetsu in a almost shy fashion that he did not exactly know that either.
But what made Tetsu jump up suddenly and look unbelieving at the human was that Leon had answered him in perfect mandarin!

Ten was it finally who told Leon that he had used mandarin to answer Tetsu. Tetsu was meanwhile pacing up and down in frond of the others tried in his mind to put a puzzle together.

A puzzle called Leon Orcot´s memories.
He knew so far and now had prove of it even, that Leon had been before in china. He spoke Chinese, and even mandarin! That could only mean, the boy had learned it as a baby already, because Leon spoke without any accent. A wonder if you knew how hard that was to manage, even for some Chinese natives themselves!

His mate to be got in the focus of one of his kind before…and most surprisingly, Leon escaped in one piece the encounter with the other Tao Tie.
As it seemed he could still not remember his former live what must had to do with his adopted father interrogation, Tetsu was sure.
Cursing under his breath at the long dead father of Leon and Chris, and slightly wondering who then was the father of Chris now, the beast put all together as much as he could do that for now.

The picture found not Tetsu´s likening, no, not at all!

“ They betrayed your parents and tried to sacrifice you instead of one of them own. Why did I do not think of that before?
These people, your parents must have tried to help, with what ever they needed help for, they tried to give you to a Tao Tie to avoid its wrath! How low can even a human sink! This is sick!

This Huolong guy, do you remember anything other connecting to that name?”
Tetsu kneeled down right in front of the startled Leon. He hoped that the man would remember something, anything to make out of a shadowed face a person. Somehow Tetsu suddenly doubt it that Amanda Orcot would give them any answers that Leon would help in any way.

And the disturbing fact, that he could feel it even through the dream memory from Leon, that the other Tao Tie was an outcast to their clans, alerted Tetsu that this outcast could still be after Leon!
His Leon and his alone!
His teeth grind dangerously against each other now, the Tao Tie wanted nothing other as to kill something or better someone now.

Ten watched this all with raising sorrow, if Tetsu thought that this other of his kind could pose any danger to Leon even now after soo much time, then this could get out of hand in a matter of seconds only!
The female beside him seem to feel this too, Ten upgraded his current meaning of her from sly to smart in this moment.
It seemed to him that she was certainly someone you better did not mess with. What was a good thing for them all currently seen!

Leon shrugged his shoulders at Tetsu´s unsuspected question and told the Toutetsu with a tired voice that he already mattered his brain to find his memory on his own. It had not worked, sorely not even the slightest and much to Leons own worry he told them all that he thought the very same about his sisters reaction as Tetsu mused it to be.

Jill fumed at this in a silent agreement with them all, she knew first hand how stubborn her eldest cousin was and found this all not amusing in any kind of way!
She began also to think about a way to get Leons knowledge back without to lay too much on Amanda.
Suddenly she remembered that Leon’s parents had a man called Adkonelly at hand and often gone to him to let him help with their law problems. Her memory told her the full name, Andrew Adkonelly. He must be now in his 60´s or even older, she silently mused. If she remembered correctly the things, then the man was still alive and lived not so fare from their current position.

“ Leon, let us go to this Adkonelly guy before. You remember the man who always did your parents law stuff? He was the same man who give your fathers testament out….”
She saw the surprised look from the others and smirked at them.

“Why do you think, that this man could help him to regain his memories?”
The fox tilted his head curiously at the female beside him, what did she know that he and Tetsu and seemingly Leon did not?
He saw the sly smirk grew to dangerous levels slowly, in his mind the fox decided that he began to like this sly female more and more with each passing minute. Chuckling to himself he put his tilted head a little deeper to gain the leverage to look her better inside the downwards showing blue eyes with his curios own red ones.
“ As it seems, you do believe that he knows something that your cousin would not tell Leon out of her own…am I correct?”

She just grinned at the foxy look the creature gave her and nodded then slowly,
“To be honest, yes, I think he does. He was the only one I ever could remember off who did this kind of work for his mom and his dad. I practically grew up with the Orcot´s, after my family split in several parts duo their discrepancies with each other and after my mom began to drink and my father began to deal with drugs, my family brought me to the Orcot´s and so I ended up in Leons family as a kind of fifth child.

You could often see them both go together to him or mom just alone and sort something out with him. They always leaved us at home then, but on occasions they could not do otherwise and brought us with them there. He was even back then an elderly man and must now be in his 60´s or even seventies.
But he should know more about this all as anyone else. After all, he did all the law related works for my family all the time.”
She told this them all and mostly to Leon but her eyes seemed to be glued to the red ones of the Kitsune meanwhile she spoke.
Jill could not tell why but somehow Tens strange inhuman gaze had the ability to captivate hers in the moment.

Suddenly it blurted out of her.
“Is ut true?”

He gave her a confused and questioning gaze, “Huh?” She took all her courage together and asked him the very question that had run amok in her head since she saw the fox suddenly turn into a humanoid form.
“ I mean, that Kitsune do need thousand years to gain their last of the nine tails?”
Now it was Jill who tilted her head to the side to look out of this perspective at the fox.

To Tetsu the two looked like idiots now, to Leon; this kind of way their strange conversation took, was dangerously close to flirting. He put his face more near to the two to get a better look and so did Tetsu after some seconds it too…. what was going on between these two that he had missed!

Ten was fully aware of them both but did not let it show; Leon could might be dense sometimes and Tetsu a little ignorable at the things that happened around him and did not involve him further, but no one of the two could be stopped after they got in that what ever was going on could be important.

Only, that the fox did not really know in the moment what could be so important to get the attraction of this two!
Shrugging it off for now, the fox in human disguise began to show his sharp teeth in a friendly laugher and nodded finally at the female.
“Yes, that is fact, even I would love to know how a human female know that…. and where you got the knowledge about Tao Tie. I did not know before that they are called so in china I heard it from you at first. We, we need nearly this time span to gain enough power to grow them out. Each tail stands for a century so to speak and for a power stadium of my kind.

The most just never live this long enough to gain more then 3 or 5 tails.
It really interest me now is to know where you know all of this!”
He gave Jill a questioning look and removed his face from the strange cycle of now all four.

Somehow, Ten could not find out what to think about this female, Jill was sly and smart, had a good and fine sense for details and as it seemed a good memory too.
She knew more as she gave off and used it if needed and that fast, it took some time to distract her but you had to be careful to get that permanent. This female human reminded him more and more at the females of his own kind as a normal human, how wonderfully confusing!

Tetsu, who saw the blinking in the eyes of the fox and fast identified it as beginning interest just, hoped for the female detective that she knew what she was doing here! He knew first hand how dangerous the interest of a nine-tailed fox or better told, Ten –Chan’s interest could be. The Japanese beast could be a pest! Even more so when he was determined enough to go after something he wanted.
Silently, the Tao Tie wished Jill all the luck she could get because she would need it!

Leon rescued her unknowingly from Ten – Chan’s curiosity this time, much to the foxes annoying.
He told them all that they should really leave the road and find them all a motel to stay for the rest of the night.
She agreed to this fast and stood in a fluid motion to open the doors to the car again for them all.

Ten pouted, he was not happy…no not really!
Again she had escaped from it to tell him where she knew all of this…. his glare meet the confused look of Leon who did really not know what he did this time again to receive it from Ten.

Meanwhile Tetsu watched this all out of a save distance and tried his best to suppress the madly chuckles that dared to escape his throat at every second the longer he watched the comical picture longer!
Finally the Totetsu rescued his future mate with gabbing Leon by his pants and showing him in the car.

Ten now visibly pouted at the Tao Tie instead.
Finally the fox gave it up for now; everybody seems to ignore him currently anyway, and got himself back inside of the vehicle.
Man, he hated road trips!

Jill could just laugh silently at the childish behavior of the Kitsune.
This was a lot better as any TV show could be!

Suddenly the thought crossed her sharp mind that they all had somehow shift around a very dangerous cliff without to realize it fully…for seconds she just stared out of the car in the nothing. Strange how live could work. One minute she wanted to kill and the very next she befriended a pair of mystical beasts from that one was over a millennium old!

A short side-glance told her that Leon distracted the fox enough for the moment for her to look at him for some seconds, a real Kitsune. Who had ever thought she would meet one day such a being?
Or a real Tao Tie to even tops the first?
Live indeed was a strange place to be in sometimes!

With that she started the engine again and the crazy party of for totally strange beings was off again, but this time not to a certain destination, this time they all just wanted to find a clean rest place!


Meanwhile in the dim light of the pet shop, D sat in his favorite chair and tried to sort out why he felt so displeasingly worried suddenly.

Nor, Ten or Tet –Chan had come back to the shop until now.
Slowly the Kami began to worry about the two favorite pets of him. After all, it took even a Kami as him much to get those inside his pet shop!
And then the disturbing fact that his favorite human pet, Leon had not already shown up too!

D liked the entire situation not really much and looked slightly peeved at the mockingly silent phone. It had not ring for one time only tonight…suddenly he got up from his seat and practically stalked over to the phone.
Ten minutes later, D was worried beyond words now…and angry as hell too!
Not to mention that he was confused also like nothing else…a dangerous combination to bless a Kami with.

Not even a minute later, you could find him humming a long forgotten tune in the backrooms of his shop. Tending to some very special animals that loved to do him a favor.
After all, someone had shoot at His Human Pet! And whoever this had been, the police had no clue of who it was. No problem for him, his pets would find the culprits sooner or later…more sooner than later…and then this person would learn that it was never good to cross the path of a Kami called D!

Angrily he took in that Leon had not come to him already and even seems to have vanished out of tow…!
His pets where also no longer in Los Angeles! D suddenly realized two things at once, First, they all had to be together, why in the world ever that could be!
And secondly, it had to do with the strange behavior of Tetsu in the last days too!

So, what did he miss this important that he was now on such a loss here?

Now no longer humming to himself but rather trying to go through his lately memories about the detective and his favorite pet, the Kami slowly realized that he indeed missed something really important all the time!

Shocked D sat down in a chair and for minutes the Kami did nothing other as to space practically out. Then his lips began slowly to form out a full-blown smile, and as longer the time went on, the smile turned slowly into a happy grin.
Maybe if Tetsu was carefully enough and did not something too stupid, what D did not thought he would; maybe he could behold his most favorites human and even his other favorite human with him for eternity!

But why did Tet-Chan not tell him this all before?
D had no clue to answer this question of his own but it seemed not really important for now. All what the Kami wanted was now in reach for him…. if only the Tao Tie was careful enough to get it for him, that was.

Even his own people would say nothing against them then to be in the shops confines and to stay with him here. If their animals choose to mate a human then this did brought the their chosen humans automatically into their Kami caretakers ownership too. Tetsu brought him practically with this his two humans in his reach to get a livelong hold onto them!

And even if Leon did explode in anger after he found out, he would be bound to D too as long his not human mate was alive.
Since the betrayal of the human kind on their Kami caretakers thousands of years ago, his kind lost at the same time their hold on them with that too.
It was one of the points why Humans where not aloud on their ships any longer, that and that his kind wanted to kill them all.

Sometimes someone of the Kami found a so-called Human Pet it wanted to behold and rescue even from his or her races fate written by the hands of themselves. This was a rare occasion and happened not very often to them. If it did, they had not many ways to ensure that they could rescue them so to speak.

They could not force their animals to do such a thing as to mate human and it could also not do any animal this, it had to be one of the mystical ones, that with the power to ensure that they were soul bound to them. Nothing other worked enough to gain enough power over a human soul to bind it back again in the old contracts.

If only his toutetsu was carefully enough!
Silently, the Kami known as D wished his mystical friend all the luck he could get. With this stubborn human, Tetsu would need even more as that, D was sure. But his favorite human detective in the opposite with this stubborn and short tempered beast also, sighting to no one in especial D wished he would have known this all much sooner. How could he have missed something this important!

Now fully angry with himself, D stood after some more minutes to distract himself from this all for now.

After all, there where still some humans outside his pet shop who had dared to hurt Leon!
This stupid, wonderfully alive and always soo distracting detective could be so careless sometimes…well at least about this D could soon stop to worry much more, Tetsu would make sure that Leon would be more careful in the future.
Humming again, D couldn’t await it to meet these …culprits (?)…To show them the wonders of his little pet shop in china town!!!!

A very sinister smile graced now the red lips of a certain Kami known as D…


In a small motel, in the middle of nowhere and just about to finish his debate with a certain Tao Tie, about his want to have TETSU not in the same room with him, Leon suddenly felt the urge to sneeze!

Much to everyone others surprise, because he had not shown any signs of it to get sick.
Ten –Chan’s calm replay was so the following;
“ Somebody’s thinking bad about you, hum?”

Jill looked surprised at the beast in human form.
“What do you mean?”

Tetsu snorted at her lack of knowledge this time and growled out annoyed;
“ Isn’t it oblivious? It is a common believe that if you sneeze suddenly without to be sick, that someone is bad talking behind your back! Mostly it is the person that comes at first in your mind then.”

Ten nodded at this, Jill still looked skeptical and Leon…Leon just made a face that you could only describe with, Angry!
“D!!!”

In a pet shop in LA´s chinatown at the same time…
“Hatschi!”