Eternity's Sonata Chapter 1
Stealing Prohibited
Chapter 1: Hide and Seek Catastrophe
_Dear Diary,
Kitsu invited me over today! It's weird. I hadn't seen his friends for a couple of days, though they're almost always with him, and today they showed up again. So that makes me a little nervous about going over there...I'm going to grab my camera and take it over there...
I love taking pictures!
I wonder...maybe if I get lucky I'll get a pic of Kitsu without his shirt...-drool- He's gorgeous...
Gotta run!
-Echo Sonata aged 16. 11:58 Dawnâ€"Date: C-21 Year X-1_
"By Inari, Echo, it's about time you got here. We've been waiting," Kitsu greeted me at the front door. I could see the other two foxes inside already.
"Sorry, Mom needed my help with some things," I walked in, at the gesture of Kitsu, and waved to the other two. The white one waved energetically, whereas the black one merely nodded in acknowledgement.
"Guys, this is Echo," Kitsu saved me from the introduction. The white fox jumped at the chance to hug me.
"I'm Tincotsu Sai, call me Sai," he released me.
"Kuinretsu Rikku. Kuik if you wish. Kuiy will find your ass to the pavement," I think that's all I needed to know.
"What should we call you?" Kitsu had circled to my front side and was looking me over.
"Call me?" I looked back.
"Well yeah, you need a name..."
"Echo Sonata,"
"We know that silly," Sai had circled around, standing beside Kitsu. Kuik stayed where he was.
"Ecsata," Sai suggested.
"Sounds like a drug," Kuik replied.
"Sech?"
"Far too close to something else..."
Sai stepped a little close to my face.
"WHOA! His eyes are red!"
I stepped back quickly.
"They do that, it's a condition," I lied quickly to cover up the awkwardness, hoping they'd believe it.
"Don't worry, Kuik's are like that too," Kitsu grinned.
"Yeah, it's so bad-ass," Sai nodded.
"Ex. We call him Ex," Kuik spoke suddenly, startling my already nervous mind.
"Ex? I like it," Kitsu agreed.
"So you're Ex now," Sai smiled.
"That means it's Hide and Seek time," Kitsu grinned.
"What? Kitsu, what do you mean?" I was so confused now...
"It's Kitt,"
It took a minute for me to put together that this meant I was considered a friend. Yet this Hide and Seek sounded like a challenge.
"Here, drink this," Kitt tossed me a coke, I drank it as instructed. Immediately I found my mind slipping.
"What the fuck?"
"Don't worry, it's just sleeping meds. When you wake up we will be scattered about the woods. Find all four of us and you'll win. You have ‘til nightfall and you'll wake up in thirty minutes. Got it?"
It's not like I had time to respond.
I woke up half an hour later, as I was told I would. There were a few miles of woods around our street. That's where the four of them were hiding. I didn't know who the fourth was but I ventured a guess that it was the wolf Kitt had mentioned.
I headed for the woods, immediately sniffing around for their scents. I found Sai's first. He would be easy to track. He'd left a clear trail.
I followed it for a mile or so before it stopped. I sniffed around and found his clothes.
This discovery brought me to several realizations at once. In this order (somewhat):
I'd been tricked.
He's cleverer than I suspected.
He had left his clothes, boxers included, lying in the middle of miles worth of woods.
He was naked and I was a homo.
Shit. Now I had to avoid nightfall and hormones.
I didn't like Hide and Seek as much as I used to.
So, now knowing these things I set anew on my path, memorizing Sai's scent more thoroughly. I managed to find a trail of his scent once more and braced myself against what I might see.
As I ran I began to wonder if this meant they knew I was gay already, or if it was just coincidence. How far would this trial go?
I found myself in a clearing. Sai's scent reeked here and I soon saw him lying lazily across a tree branch. I was wrong about my assumption. He was in cargo shorts. Shirtless though. I snapped a picture before I announced my discovery of him. He nearly fell out of the tree.
"Wow Ex! You found me! You'll never find the others though," He giggled and wagged his tail.
"Oh?" I stepped closer to him. This was too easy. At this rate I'd be done far before nightfall...There must be a trick.
"So, if you want to keep searching aimlessly go ahead," he grinned.
"And if I want to find them?"
"Fight me. You win; I'll give you a hint. You lose and it's game over,"
I nodded. I wasn't going to go down easily, and Sai didn't size up as a very formidable opponent.
We took our stances and began. Sai charged me from the start and I had to sidestep, he moved a little slower than someone of his size should. I struck his back with a well-timed kick and sent him to the ground, now much happier with my mother's choice to put me in martial arts.
He grinned and got back to his feet and we continued trading blows. I seemed to have the upper hand until he began to undo his pants.
"What are you doing?" I dropped my stance slightly.
"Taking off my weights," He grinned and pulled a weight bag out of one of the many pockets on his shorts.
Great. He looks like he's going commando too. I'm so screwed...
He removed the shorts. My worst fear wasn't realized. He was in a thong, not that it was much better.
He charged again, I shook off thoughts about the nearly naked teen in front of me and dodged, although not as quickly this time.
"What's the matter Ex?"
He made the mistake of trying to kick my shoulder. I grabbed his calf, slid the underside of his leg onto my shoulder, and hurled him. I got on top of him as he hit the ground and pinned him there.
He grinned and we both knew I had won.
He handed me a slip of paper, which I figured out was a map. He also handed me a card.
"Better hurry," he giggled again.
I headed in the direction of the mark "4" from the mark of "Sai". "4" was the closest.
I found myself deep in the woods.
"Great, I'm where..." I looked at the map again but I whooshing noise caught my attention. I jumped back and avoided getting jumped on by a gray wolf with three white paws. He stood up and shook my hand. I snapped a picture of him as he turned around.
"You're Ex?"
"Yes I am, who are you?"
"I live down the street from you, name's Maki Kurogetsu. Maki's fine. Either way, I have to get home so here," he handed me a card. He took off before I could say anything so I headed for "3" on my map. The day was about two-thirds of the way over. I began to run faster and soon found myself near a waterfall. I saw Kuik sitting on the edge of the pond.
He looked up at me.
"You want to give it, but it must be kept. You cannot share it for if you give it it's gone, though you can have more than one, and it can be your heaviest burden to bear" He grinned.
So he's giving me a riddle?
I grinned to myself and thought for a moment.
This is easy, I have plenty of them.
"It's a secret," I grinned. He stood and walked over to me, getting an inch from my face. He bared his teeth and let out a growl, a clear sign that he didn't like me very much, but he gave me his card nonetheless. I snapped a picture of him as he left.
I headed for the last remaining mark on the map, "1".
Kitsu...
I took off running for the mark, it was a few miles from the place I was. The sun was getting lower in the sky with every passing moment and by the time I reached the rock formation marked on the map as "1" it was beginning to darken outside. I collapsed, breathing heavily, in the middle of the formation. I threw off my shirt in the heat and lay there for a minute with my eyes closed, catching my breath. I felt someone's hands run along my body and shot up, there was quite a problem with this though...
Kitsu's lips were in the way of mine.
That's how I ended up making out with Kitsu for the first time.
AND as if that wasn't bad enough, when my lips stopped my tongue continued. Right into his quite surprised mouth. I heard a small clicking noise.
We separated quickly and he acted as if nothing happened.
"You got all three cards?"
"Yeah," I handed them to him.
"Hey Ex?"
"Yeah?" Here it comes...
"Are you gay?"
"Yeah I am," I braced myself for the impending downpour.
"What's it like?" He sat next to me, throwing off his shirt as well. I felt my heart rate rise slightly.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, to be honest, I'm bi but I'm a little scared to be gay, so what's it like?"
"It's hard to explain...Just like guys most, you know? I don't really feel anything for girls besides friendship,"
He sat there and listened and we talked for a good twenty minutes before he stood and said we should go home. I snapped a pic of him on the way back.
We walked home together, I realized why they had told me that I would need to eat a big breakfast. My stomach growled violently.
He went to his house and I to mine, I devoured what Mom had left for me to eat and ran to my room.
_Dear Diary,
I had a weird day...
But I'm part of Kitsu's group now! Though Kuinretsu Rikku, or Kuik (the black fox), doesn't seem to like me much and Tincotsu Sai, or Sai (the white fox), is a little strange. I also met the wolf Kitsu mentioned! His name is Maki and he's gray with three white paws...
I got pictures of everyone! I'll have to put them in the scrapbook...
Crap, Mom's calling me!
-Echo Sonata aged 16 10:02 Nightâ€"Date: C-21 Year X-1_
I clicked on the camera and cycled through the shots. My eyes widened as I saw the picture of my make-out session with Kitsu.
What an odd day...
Chapter 1: End