Well, I wasn't really born a beast. I was human until I was 19. Before I was born, my mother was very beautiful. Her golden blonde hair and serene blue eyes would make any guy fall in love. And there was my dad. He was the strangest man I ever seen when I was about 4. He was always drinking and eating things like frogs legs and stuff. His black charcoal eyes and orange hair scared the heck out of me. Because of his drinking habits, he gave me the name Shukaku.
Also, he might had been responsible with my obsession with Tanuki. I was in love with tanukis, tanukis, tanukis. I would read the first part of Villa Incognito over and over again. Every night, I would ask my mom to read me tales of kistunes and tanukis. I still have a raccoon teddybear on my bed that I used to play with.
One day, my life changed forever. In the Sand village, I was going to the 2nd Kazekage's office. My mom was ANBU at the time. As I was walking on the road, I saw my father chasing a tanuki, a female to be more presise, with his broken sake bottle.
"And don't you ever come back, you pest!" Father yelled at the creature. I was confused. What has happened to father. Suddenly, the tanuki grabbed my leg and squeezed it tightly. I didn't know what was going on.
"Chuuuu!" The tanuki exclaimed with pleasure. I still didn't understand that. I tried walking away, but she held on to my leg until I went to Janji's Ramen shop. I ordered a miso ramen for myself and some naruto for the tanuki.
"What's your name fella?" I asked to the tanuki. She pointed to my ramen as if she was telling me something.
"Miso?" I wondered. Tanuki shook her head and said aaaaaaahhhhhh.
"So it's Misa. That's a nice name," I commented, "What about your family?" Wromg question. Misa stared into the distance, tears about to break out and she screamed. It might had broken mirrors from a 5 mile radius. I skipped the question.
"I always wanted a tanuki..." I said to Misa. She was happy and she hugged me again. The green haired chef called Janji spoke up.
"Well, I know many tanuki languages from my home, the Stone village." Janji said. I couldn't tell that he was from the Stone. His black skin made me think of Africa.
"Misa said that 5 years ago, her father was the leader of a tanuki clan not far from here. He wanted to take over the world. But in order to do that, he would have to act and live like humans do. He then broke up Misa's mom and married a human named Shikiki, your mother. 2 years later, Misa was born and was about to get killed. Luckily, she made a deal, claiming that she knew the human form of her father to bring him back..."
I didn't know what was worse; having an evil tanuki for a father or knowing what would happen next.
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Shikiki was washing dishes when I came home. She was very glad that I was safe. This wasn't the first time I had kept a secret. My mom had the ability to control sand that had passed down to me and other ancestors. When I was finally into my bedroom to go to sleep, I stayed awake thinking about my life. Misa shooke me, telling me what's wrong.
"My mom controls sand, My dad is a villian, my step-sister is a tanuki, What ELSE could go wrong!?!" I yelled in the darkness. I cried and cried every night hoping that nothing goes wrong. But it did.
One night, I finally went to sleep. Misa stayed up. She went into my parents and saw sand encasing mom's body and a tanuki next to her. If Misa didn't scream, my parents would've lived a little longer. But she was so sad that she didn't have my father that she cried. I assume you would know what happens next. My parents woke up seeing each other. Father, freaked out from the sand and mom scared that she saw a wild animal. They fought and father beat her up to a bloody pulp.
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I woke up the next morning to Misa hiding under the bed. I went downstairs to get breakfast. Mom made me tanuki soup. No, it didn't had real tanuki in it. She always calls it that because it's my favorite soup. As I was about to eat, Misa flung a noodle at mom. Mom was mad and spilled orange juice on Misa's fur. The following food fight made me hungry and I ate everything that was thrown.
"Fools!" Mom said to me, "You didn't reconize me. I, Hiroki no Tanuki, made your mother into a soup. YOU, beast, ate her. Now that I have both of you weaklings conered, there is no way put!"
Misa was hiding behind me. I couldn't blame her. She was 3. I was so angry at myself and my father that the sand covered me, as if my mom was still there to protect me.
"Clone justu!" Hiroki yelled and made a sign. 100 Hirokis surrounded us. That's when I lost my temper. I inhaled a lot of air. I felt like there were mouths on my whole body sucking the oxygen inside.
"Wind Style: Sand Storm Devastation!" I exhaled. My mouths blew away the clones and Hiroki changed back into a tanuki, dead. I fainted. The only thing Misa can do was to take me into the Sand village hospital. After that, I didn't like any parent who treats their children badly....
To be continued...
