Five years pass very fast you know, especially when you have a mother like mine. Her name is Kizaku Himekawa, Kizaku is the surname, by the way, Japan you see. My name is Kizaku Foov and I am a cute little girl .... just kidding, since I am a Kitsune I am neither male nor female, I just keep my female form more often since it's easier to get food with it, and the same for my mother, in fact, she's my father but since she prefers her female form she wants me to call her mom. My mother has four tail, you might say 'and so what ?' well simple, a Kitsune's magic power is measured by their tail and rare are those who have more than three at her age, she's three hundred years old by the way.

She's very beautiful, long raven black hair and black eyes, always wearing a silver kimono with a katana hanging at her waist and like all true Kitsune, she's a real prankster. I swear, for my third birthday she gave me a cake that exploded at my face, and me? Well, I didn't know how to react so I just stood there without moving or blinking while she was laughing her ass off.

And what about me? Well, I am a cute little girl with waist-long silver hair and a fluffy silver tail like my mother, except her's is black, who tend to like training. To tell the truth I started to do Karate form as soon as I was able to walk so I raised my level by two but I've got something even more incredible, I am two tailed, normally at my age you only have one and you'll obtain your second one only twenty years after your first anniversary but since I was aware since my first year, I was able to practice magic in secret. Of course, I hide it because it would be dangerous to be seen as a genius of the genius.

By the way, if you are wondering where we are I'll answer you, we are in a Kitsune village in Japan in the forest surrounding Mt Fuji. And right now I am doing my everyday routine, five laps around the village followed three hundred sword swing, and a thousand punch in the dummie's face, of course it is special made. Well, that training isn't that hard but since I am a child it takes me half a day to do it and at night I train my magic.

|nine hundred and ninety-eight, nine hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand AAaaaand finished ....... pfuuuuaaaa ~~ where's my milk? I need it to have bigger b.... I mean sturdier bones.|(Foov)

I drink my bottle in one gulp, throw it in the air and point my palms towards it.

|Dancing fire of my ancestors come and gather around my palm, burn bright and may your soul become a shining star in the vast ocean that is the sky {Fire spear}|(Foov)

A cone-shaped flame appears in my hand and charges at the bottle, making it explode on contact.

|Wooo !! Foov-chan got it straight in the target !!|(Voice)

|Foov-chan is amazing ~~|(Voice 2)

|Of course she is, she's my bride after all ... FOOV PUT THAT FIREBALL DOWN !! Don't ... you won't dare throw that thing at me AWAWAWAWAWAWAWA hot hot hot hot hot !!|(Voice 3)

Those three are what you can call friends, the first one is a Kitsune who likes to stay in his boys form, he is wearing a long-sleeved yukata like everyone in the village it's green with pink cherry blossom, like all Kitsune he has a rather androgynous face even though he is only six years old, like a Japanese he has black eyes and hair, his name is Mashitsuko Yu. Next to him is a Kitsune with light brown hair and green eyes, she is Yukine Sakura the blacksmith daughter, she's wearing a brown yukata with white cloud pattern and she is four years old. The third one I set on fire is the village chief son, Mushisawa Io, blond hair and golden yukata with white outlines, he is seven years old and is a freaking idiot who wants to marry me since I crushed a spider that was scaring him two years ago ... I was only three years old goddamnit !!

|You lot, I already told you not to come when I train so why are you here ?|(Foov)

|Well to see my one and only belo..... Sakura-chan wanted to give you the training weapon you ordered from her father.|(Io)

|I see.|(Foov)

I said as I made the fireball I had prepared fade away, Io is nice but I am still more than fifty years old in my head and getting advance's from a little boy doesn't turn me on. Anyway, if some of you wonder why I am always in my feminine form most of the time well, the answer is rather easy .... getting sweets is much easier when you're a little girl than when you're a little boy. Anyway, Sukura hands me a rectangular shaped box wrapped in a green tissue.

|Thanks.|(Foov)

I unwrap it and here they are. BWAHAHAHAHAHA My prized training battle caws, with these my martial art training will be complete.

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|Foov-chan is making a perverted face.|(Yu)

|Hmmm, oh sorry, thank you Sakura, your father did something amazing as usual.|(Foov)

|muuuhhh Thank you Foov-chan.|(Sakura)

|So bold ~~ Foov-chan doesn't use honorific.|(Yu)

... Japan and its social rules, being from a country where such things aren't that important except in professional life I have a hard time adjusting to it. Anyway, I equip the claws and swing my fist around a few times, as expected from Sakura's dad the craftsmanship is amazing even though they are only made out of wood.

|Well thank your father for me and see you tomorrow, gotta help with housecleaning duties.|(Foov)

I morph into my fox form, a one-meter tall white fox with red stripes under its eyes and golden eyes, and walk away. Once I arrive to my house I morph into my human form and open the door, the house is a traditional Japanese house, I take out my shoes and leaves them at the entrance before greeting my mother who is knitting ... something, don't ask me what I don't know. Well maybe it's another sweater, last one was so horrible that I didn't want wear it.

|I'm home.|(Foov)

|Welcome home Foov.|(Himekawa)

I walk to her and give her a deep hug, so mother-daughter time are always enjoyable even if the mother is as flat as a board. She punch me on top of the head and looks pissed.

|Did you just think something really rude about your cherished mother, didn't you Foov ?|(Himekawa)

|S-s-sorry I won't do it again.|(Foov)

|Sigh, Mifelda, what have I done to have such a black-hearted daughter ?|(Himekawa)

She said as she wiped a fake tear from her eye .... Japan .... I sat on the floor next to her and crossed my legs.

|Anyway, I assume you want to learn a little bit more before moving on to the cleaning ?|(Himekawa)

|Yup, about magic and the world.|(Foov)

She pat my head and smile, and now se's going to enter teaching mod where she'll use words a normal five years old child shouldn't be able to understand though since I did studied Japanese in the past and I've been speaking Japanese for the past three years I understand it pretty well now.

|Okay then, let's start with the basics. The races and monsters.

We have two distinc type of being, the first being the races or the sapiens species with a heart and not a magical core so Humans, being the more numerous race, the Beastmen almost like Humans but with animals ears and tail like Kitsune but without the power of magic. The elves, are very good with nature magic and able to talk with nature spirits, the fae, the race of your second mother Mifelda who are just so cuuuuute ~~. The Dragon-kin who are well ... the descendant of the Dragons and finaly the angel-kin who are just disgusting birds. Dwarves who are unabale to use magic but excel at smithing and enchanting.

Then we have monsters

They can be sapiens or not, sentient or not. We Kitsune are monsters since we have a magical core and not a heart, though you are quite special since as a hybrid you have a crystallised heart. The races tends to be hostile to monsters but in some places some monsters are worshipped, like us in Japan where we are believed to come from the Fox god. Monsters tends to be better than the races at magic and close-quarter combat but less imaginative so we tends to rely on the races imagination for weapons and spells creation.|(Himekawa)

She stop talking to make sure I am still listening and I nod to her to show that I am. She smile a bit and go back to her lesson.

|Then we have Magic, or the power of the soul gifted to us by the gods. We can manifest it with the help of mana or magic energy, a type of energy that is present everywhere even in space. Magic is divided in thousand of elements that are ruled by the seven great elements. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light and Darkness, when you combine some of those great elements together you'll obtain a sub-element.

For exemple we Kitsune have by birth the Light, the Fire and the Darkness elements and since you are half fae you also have the Wind element, when you combine Fire and Light elements you'll obtain Holy fire magic then if you combine Darkness and fire you obtain Cursed fire magic and by combining Holy fire magic and Cursed fire magic you obtain our Fox fire magic. Then by combining our Fox fire magic with Light and Darkness again you'll obtain our Shapeshifting magic.

I know it doesn't make sense that Fire become an apparance change but I didn't created magic so I am not at fault.

To us Kitsune using magic is as easy as breathing but to the Humans it isn't that easy, it is said that only one on a thousand people will be able to use it. Then again there are method to awaken magic ability, like surviving a life or death situation.|(Himekawa)

I nod to her again, I have already used most of the magic she mentioned. To tell the truth most of the skills suddenly popped in my skills list two years ago so you can guess that when I saw 'Cursed fire magic' I panicked a bit. My mother stop knitting and pat my head, I smile and stand up, ready to make dinner, I won't let her go near the kitchen EVER AGAIN.

|Do you need help?|(Himekawa)

|No thanks, you can continue your knitting|(Foov)

Maybe I should teach her proper way to cook and not just grill it with fire or add all you want to eat in one meal, ughh next time, yeah next time. 

I hope those brats don't disturb my training tomorrow, I have a long way to go before I can even compare with the mother.