Japan

There was no light. No sound. It was all black.

Kouta tried to open her eyes. She couldn't. Or, at least, that's what she thought. She moved forward, carefully, slowly. She gently hit something. Then, she realized this wasn't death. The house she was in, happy and bright just a few moments ago, was now pitch dark and she was moving around in it. Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness though, and Kouta looked down. What she hit...was the newly deceased body of the friend she had been visiting. The girl did not scream, didn't flinch. She simply had a moment of silence and stepped over the body, leaving it behind. Now it was time to figure out what had happened. She flicked her ears slightly, ashes flaking off of them. Kouta made her way over to the door, but it was blocked from the outside. There was only a window she had to break to get out.

"Oh well." Picking up the nearest heavy object (a book, to be precise), she threw it at the window, smashing it open. Hopefully, the book didn't hit anyone on the street. Carefully, Kouta broke the rest of the glass out, and climbed over the ledge, seeing what had actually happened.

Rocks were everywhere. Fires. Cooling lava. Mt. Fuji had erupted.

She could not stay here. With her ears, she was easy to spot. And that could mean trouble. Swiftly, she looked around. It was completely vacant. But, there was something on the ground that caught her eye. A blue-green stone with an electric yellow blue in the middle. She didn't know why, but Kouta could not stop herself from picking the stone up. It sent an electrical shock through her, but Kouta refused to let go. When nothing else happened, the girl simply put it in her pocket and set off to face the unknowns of the recently devastated Japan.

It seemed as if Kouta was standing in the same spot for hours. She watched what went on at the beach, and as three new people came besides the two men she had seen before hand. There seemed to be a slight altercation and two of them left again, a boy and a girl. Silently, she followed them. They had stopped in an alley, and Kouta hid behind the building. They discussed on where to go next, and after a few minutes, they got up and started going to a place the boy had seen. Again, Kouta followed them. They both seemed to be...different. Maybe they would accept her with open arms...and open minds.

She felt a familiar warmth in her pocket. It pulsed as she kept hidden within the dark shadows of the buildings, following the two still. They had broken into a house by now, and Kouta waited. Once they were inside and the girl heard no more noise, she peeked in the window. Both were asleep on the couch. Sighing, she sat down, out of sight, and waited for one of them to wake the other. Which surprisingly happened very quickly. When they woke up and started to cook, Kouta knocked at the door, opening it quietly and slowly poking her head in.

"E-excuse m-m-me..." she said softly, trying not to scare them. "I saw you two at the beach and I followed you...My name is Kouta." She braced for yelling, screaming, and throwing of things to get her out. Her ears drooped slightly at the thought of being out on her own again.

Kouta came more into view. "Halloween? What are you talking about? You think I'm dressed up? I assure you, I'm perfectly real..." She moved her ears back up and swished her tail to wrap around her legs. She shut the door behind her, blushing slightly as she thought she was intruding. The stone pulsed faster, just as her heart was. She got so nervous around humans...Brushing some red hair out of her face, she quietly approached the pair. "I'm sorry that I just barged in, but I can't stay out there alone. It's too dangerous..." Her voice was quiet and meek. "So...I guess it's sudden, but I'd like to stick with you two for a while, if that's okay..." Kouta glanced down at her feet.

"I'm not that much trouble, if that's what you're thinking about. I just have a bounty over my head..." Kouta closed her eyes, still expecting them to throw her out. Who wants a hybrid animal type thing to be with them? Especially when they always have someone hunting them?

(I'm going to explode. That is adorable. Oh my God.)

Kouta was not expecting Rin to jump on her. She almost lost her balance, but managed to stay up. "Ahh...Hi..." Rin was joking to Dan, asking him if they could "keep" her. But that was okay on her part, if she were human she would have said the same thing. Kouta blushed as Rin said she always thought foxes were cute. "Thanks...I suppose?" She glanced over at Dan, and she thought she saw a flash of confusion in his eyes, but it quickly went away. Rin backed off a bit, and Kouta smiled back at her.

Dan was being sarcastic as he said he didn't trust her, but it didn't stop from Kouta's face from falling slightly. It hurt her slightly. "You seem...confused, slightly. Do you need me to...explain...my genetics?" It wasn't like her to directly ask a question to someone like that, but Dan was a different story. A lot of people didn't know about her race, so she was used to it...but....

Once Dan said he didn't need the information, Kouta closed her mouth. "Hmmm...well, there's no point in telling you facts you don't need." She smiled slightly. The duo was busy with making food, and Kouta was in an awkward position, not know what to do. She wanted to help Rin, she was adequate at making food, but that didn't require three people. And she had barged in on them.She was surprised how well it all went. Going over to the TV, she touched the side of it. The house wasn't old, but it wasn't new either, and the wiring of the building wasn't the greatest. But a moment after she touched the TV, it turned on.

"Uhh...did you guys already try to turn the TV on?" She kept her hand on it, feeling a slight tingle in her fingertips.