Hello, my name is Arashi Kazama and I am going to tell you the story of how I became what I am today. For I have not always had to bear both the gift and burden of the 8 tailed demon fox, I was once a regular boy who on the brink of death had the world changed forever. This is the story of the boy and the Demon.
I wasn’t what you would call rich but neither poor. I lived with my mother and father in a humble abode that was surrounded by a plethora of land. I was just a boy of eight years old and I was known to be adventurous and very ambitious. Sometimes I would be grounded because I would leave my parents side just to check out something that engaged my curiosity. One day my curiosity got the better or me and I found myself completely lost, and my parents no where to be found. I walked around to find my parents but the more I did so the more lost I found myself to be and the more bewildered I became of my surroundings. To add insult to injury, it had started to rain. It was like I was being punished for something that I may have done in the past, and someone was getting their revenge by tormenting me. I went on from what seemed like second, to minutes, to eventually actually ending up as 4 hours. Cold and suffering from starvation, I trudged continuously until stumbled upon a cave. “This should provide adequate shelter for the night” I said, hoping that all this would be over and I would be back at my house eating some of mom’s warm homemade cookies with a tall glass of cold milk. I decided to venture further into the cave to see if I could find some sort of sustenance. I suddenly started to hear a feint whisper of what seemed to be maybe four or five individuals. As I drew closer the voices grew louder and more comprehensible. Soon, I peeked into a crevasse in the wall and saw over fifty men all standing around one man. The one man seemed to be the leader of the bunch. I heard them discussing about attacking the nearest village and using it as their base. “That’s my village” I uncontrollably blurted out. All of a sudden, there was a stop in conversation between the man and the bunch of men, and a sudden silence filled the cave. I decided it was time to slyly get away to avoid confrontation. I took a step and “SNAP” went the twig thank seemed to find its way under my foot. The man then decided to send two scouts to investigate the situation. I was trapped, there was no way I could out run the two men, and even if I managed to do so, it would only lead to an unknown environment in which I would surly die. I lay there silent, hoping that the two men would bypass me but my luck was not so fortunate. The men found me and took me to the man that everyone seems to follow. “Well what do we have hear” said the man. He was a tall man with black hair and a rugged beard. I found myself surrounded by assassin ninja. The dark haired man decided that I would be a perfect candidate to be a test subject for his new jutsu. The dark haired man suddenly started to flutter his hands forming strange hand seals. All of a sudden I see a great white energy, the light forces me to shut my eyes, then the energy passes through me ripping the life energy from me. I find my self on the brink of death staring at the man who is about to murder me. “Darn, still not perfected” the man said, for you see the intent of the jutsu was to completely annihilate the victim, but instead it left me with a fraction of life left, All of a sudden The mans hands start to move in that strange pattern again. Surly I will be killed this time. The man starts to recite the Jutsu’s name; “Ninpou Ka……” suddenly the man is interrupted by a dark shaded figure. All of a sudden the groups of men flee hastily out of the cave screaming “Beasts”. But I stay there one the floor wounded, about to meet death himself. I black out. My vision returns for a quick second and I see a group of foxes carrying me to a dark places. I blackout. I see a whole shrine, and a tall figure of a fox looking down over the whole area. I black out. I wake up one more time to see a gigantic fox looking right into my soul. The fox then seems to speak to me. He then told me “Death plucks the ear of man and says live- I am coming. For it is not your time to die, but the time of another. Go forth with the gift of renewed life and the strength of the 8 tails. I woke, given new life and the strength that thousands desire. The head fox then started talking. I don’t know how it came to be but I understood him. I asked him who they were, how and why this was happening but all they told me was that there were spirits sent by the ancient gods millennia ago to protect this valley from tyranny and evil, and that I have been chosen to be the vessel of the gods, the link between man and spirit that will exonerate the world from evil and treachery. I have been entrusted with the demon fox spirit, the greatest power that can be obtained by a single human being but I must also beware, for there is a yin and yang to such a power as this. For if I am to abuse this power in anyway and sway to a path of darkness, I will become evil and can destroy the world as we know it, but if I stay virtuous and true to the path of light, I will be good and will have the potential to save the world. The fox then told me to go forth and spread the power or virtue and benevolence to that world, and that now from this day forward I will no longer be known as Arashi Kazama, but as the Hachibi Demon Fox……
I wasn’t what you would call rich but neither poor. I lived with my mother and father in a humble abode that was surrounded by a plethora of land. I was just a boy of eight years old and I was known to be adventurous and very ambitious. Sometimes I would be grounded because I would leave my parents side just to check out something that engaged my curiosity. One day my curiosity got the better or me and I found myself completely lost, and my parents no where to be found. I walked around to find my parents but the more I did so the more lost I found myself to be and the more bewildered I became of my surroundings. To add insult to injury, it had started to rain. It was like I was being punished for something that I may have done in the past, and someone was getting their revenge by tormenting me. I went on from what seemed like second, to minutes, to eventually actually ending up as 4 hours. Cold and suffering from starvation, I trudged continuously until stumbled upon a cave. “This should provide adequate shelter for the night” I said, hoping that all this would be over and I would be back at my house eating some of mom’s warm homemade cookies with a tall glass of cold milk. I decided to venture further into the cave to see if I could find some sort of sustenance. I suddenly started to hear a feint whisper of what seemed to be maybe four or five individuals. As I drew closer the voices grew louder and more comprehensible. Soon, I peeked into a crevasse in the wall and saw over fifty men all standing around one man. The one man seemed to be the leader of the bunch. I heard them discussing about attacking the nearest village and using it as their base. “That’s my village” I uncontrollably blurted out. All of a sudden, there was a stop in conversation between the man and the bunch of men, and a sudden silence filled the cave. I decided it was time to slyly get away to avoid confrontation. I took a step and “SNAP” went the twig thank seemed to find its way under my foot. The man then decided to send two scouts to investigate the situation. I was trapped, there was no way I could out run the two men, and even if I managed to do so, it would only lead to an unknown environment in which I would surly die. I lay there silent, hoping that the two men would bypass me but my luck was not so fortunate. The men found me and took me to the man that everyone seems to follow. “Well what do we have hear” said the man. He was a tall man with black hair and a rugged beard. I found myself surrounded by assassin ninja. The dark haired man decided that I would be a perfect candidate to be a test subject for his new jutsu. The dark haired man suddenly started to flutter his hands forming strange hand seals. All of a sudden I see a great white energy, the light forces me to shut my eyes, then the energy passes through me ripping the life energy from me. I find my self on the brink of death staring at the man who is about to murder me. “Darn, still not perfected” the man said, for you see the intent of the jutsu was to completely annihilate the victim, but instead it left me with a fraction of life left, All of a sudden The mans hands start to move in that strange pattern again. Surly I will be killed this time. The man starts to recite the Jutsu’s name; “Ninpou Ka……” suddenly the man is interrupted by a dark shaded figure. All of a sudden the groups of men flee hastily out of the cave screaming “Beasts”. But I stay there one the floor wounded, about to meet death himself. I black out. My vision returns for a quick second and I see a group of foxes carrying me to a dark places. I blackout. I see a whole shrine, and a tall figure of a fox looking down over the whole area. I black out. I wake up one more time to see a gigantic fox looking right into my soul. The fox then seems to speak to me. He then told me “Death plucks the ear of man and says live- I am coming. For it is not your time to die, but the time of another. Go forth with the gift of renewed life and the strength of the 8 tails. I woke, given new life and the strength that thousands desire. The head fox then started talking. I don’t know how it came to be but I understood him. I asked him who they were, how and why this was happening but all they told me was that there were spirits sent by the ancient gods millennia ago to protect this valley from tyranny and evil, and that I have been chosen to be the vessel of the gods, the link between man and spirit that will exonerate the world from evil and treachery. I have been entrusted with the demon fox spirit, the greatest power that can be obtained by a single human being but I must also beware, for there is a yin and yang to such a power as this. For if I am to abuse this power in anyway and sway to a path of darkness, I will become evil and can destroy the world as we know it, but if I stay virtuous and true to the path of light, I will be good and will have the potential to save the world. The fox then told me to go forth and spread the power or virtue and benevolence to that world, and that now from this day forward I will no longer be known as Arashi Kazama, but as the Hachibi Demon Fox……
