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The Last of the Wine [Dec. 16th, 2017|07:50 pm]
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Hideki, bless his little heart, snapped like a twig. He threw open the door with a plaintive, “But they were hurting him, Mom!” just as Kaori launched into her rehearsed, “He followed us home, can we keep him?”

Kikyou squirmed next to her siblings, wringing her tail with both hands. “We were going to tell you, honest!”

Genma, who was still being squeezed slowly breathless, managed a wheezing sound, but not much articulate.

“Let the human breathe,” the mother said. Hideki’s head whipped around, and his eyes went wide with anxious regret when he saw Genma’s purple face. His scrotum vanished away at once, leaving Genma to pant on his hands and knees while the mother gave Kikyou’s arm a little tug and propelled her eldest to stand in the line of shame with her siblings.

“Now, what do you have to say for yourselves?”

The three children, given license to defend themselves, launched an all out assault in a cacophony of competing voices.

“—kept on hitting him and hitting him—”

“— and they just watched and didn’t even do anything—

“—and then I dropped a statue on him!”

But Kikyou was the loudest and talked the longest, finishing off with, “We just did what you and Dad did for that other human and her kits.”

Mother tanuki held up her hands for silence, which had a surprisingly immediate effect. Her tail was bristling, and her canines flashed. To Kikyou, she said, “We’ll discuss your eavesdropping ways later.” Kikyou’s ears, already low, drooped further, and she clutched her tail like a shield in front of her.

“Now,” the mother went on, “one at a time, explain. Why did you take this human?”

Kikyou began, hesitantly at first, but gaining courage as she went along. The three of them had been playing near the border, and Bunpei the border guard was asleep, so they just thought they’d better take a peek and make sure there wasn’t something they needed to wake him up about…

Skepticism lived in Mother tanuki’s eyes, but she didn’t interrupt.

So they just looked and that’s when they saw Genma being beaten! And they’d thought about waking up Bunpei, but he’d had a lot of sake and there wasn’t really time, so they knew it was up to them…

Hideki even jumped in, to his mother’s evident surprise, explaining that the other humans there weren’t even trying to help. They just stood there watching Genma being half-killed. He sounded thoroughly horrified as he recounted the fight, glancing anxiously back at Genma like he wasn’t convinced Genma was really out of danger even now.

Kaori followed up with her proud tale of how they tricked the other humans and pinned the red moon demon with a leaf-statue, and snatched Genma from his certain fate. “And then,” she told her mom, “Hideki carried me and Genma-san, and I took care of him and his face that fell off, and made sure he didn’t bump his head again. And we were going to come straight back, but Bunpei was awake, and we didn’t want to get him in trouble, so we snuck in through the Turtle World. They didn’t notice us at all! And then the Lizard World.” Her ears twitched at the memory, and her voice took on a more ominous tone. “Tokage-san was shouty and mean like always, but Hideki hid us really good and he didn’t find us. And then we came home and Kikyou-neesan fixed Genma-san.”