Reborn as a Kitsune

It's been hard, harder than normal. Working two jobs with little rest can really put a number on someone's body for sure. Right now, I think I'm getting a fever, but there is just no time to rest. I am behind on rent right now and if I don't pay up soon I might get kicked out of my apartment. I hardly have money to eat, let alone pay off bills. I feel like crying. Maybe out there someone is having a hard time like me? I don't know, but it feels like I am slowly killing myself from all this over time. This feeling really takes a lot of energy out of me also. Is that wrong? To want to be happy for once, to relax for one day? Maybe I am asking too much. Maybe in my last life, maybe I did something really bad and this was my punishment. With a heavy sigh and one last swipe of the desk and it's clean. All that needs to be done is take out the trash. " Good work as always. " A man said. This guy working in this building walked by me. I don't know his name, but he is always the only one that seems nice and always tells me that I did good work, but at the end of the day, is he just being nice? or making small talk? Who knows? " Thanks " I gently said with a small nod to him. I am not really much of a talker. When I clean, I have headphones on to keep me going all day. Helps make the time go faster I guess. Anyways, I headed out of the building and the first thing that hit me was the cold night air. Winter is coming early and is already getting dark, which is bad for walking home as it gets a bit dangerous at night. " Better take that short cut today. " I muttered to myself, throwing the trash in the bin. I felt a bit dizzy, but I knew when I got home right away that I would just go right to bed and fall asleep. Maybe a good rest could help with this fever that's slowly coming. Making my way to the park just across the road, as it's the only short way to get back home right now. I don't want to get jumped on right now. Walking in the park was nice, less sound, only a bit of car sounds going pass on the road and the lovely stars are out tonight. It's a lucky day to see stars out with all this light pollution from this city. I stopped just to look out into the little stars. The way they shine out there in space makes me wonder what it would be like to live out there in space. My mind just went on it's own, thinking about all the different things that would or maybe could happen one day, like aliens coming to earth. First thing that popped into my head was the alien saying " Kill all humans " from a game that was called that. It made me giggle a little bit thinking about it, but then I remembered the game that I was playing right now. It was a cheap otome game called Kitsune love. It was on sale and being very lonely at the time made me buy it, maybe hoping that this game would give me something of a fantasy, like imagining myself dating this dream guy or something like that. Anything to keep my mind off how lonely I am and with no life what's so ever. I sighed a little but then shivered, reminding myself that I was still outside in the cold. I began walking, heading home. Pulling my coat as close to me as I could to keep myself warm, but with it being so thin it is a bit hard to do that, yet it does not hurt to try, right? Everything was quiet as I walked a little bit too quiet if you ask me. The feeling of dread came over me, like something or someone was right behind me. Slowly, I turned my head to see what was behind me and I wished I hadn't. I wished I had just run for my life when feeling that dread. There was a man with a tall, strong build. It seems that he works out a lot, but right now it's hard to tell with all the black clothes he was wearing along with a hoodie, so I could not see his face. " Don't run.... Just don't. Give me all you have now! " He said, not too loud but not too quiet, so no one other than me could hear. I was just standing there in fear. " Give him something!! " My brain shouted at me but my mouth felt like it was glued shut. " I don't have all day! Give me what you got! " He became a little bit more angry, maybe not liking that I was taking too long to give him what I 'DONT' have. " I... I don't. " My mind and mouth are still not working. Everything in my mind was just screaming to run, just run fast, but somehow I knew if I did, that would be the end of me. Even if my life sucks balls right now, I still want to live! " Don't want to give it to me huh?! " He became more angry now as he pulled out a knife pointing it at me. Oh no. He missed understand me. Come on hurry up and say something and not do something stupid! I opened my mouth to say something, however before I could say anything, the man came up to me so fast that I didn't have time to think. All I felt was nothing at first, but then I felt something wet in my stomach area. Looking down, it was hard to see because it was dark but the small little street lamp, you could make out the outline of the blood starting to stain my clothes. Soon the pain came, the pure pain of being stabbed in the stomach with a knife. " Should have given me what you got lady. " He muttered as he stood back a little, watching. I could not take my eyes off the blade that was inside me now. I could feel my energy seeping out of me, taking all my energy just standing until now. I don't know what but I fell back, hitting that hard concrete path that I took. When people say that your life flashes before your eyes, that's a lie, because all I can see is the night sky above me, the little shiny stars all over that same night sky. Guess I didn't really have a good life. My family didn't want me, left me on the streets at first until someone found me and took me to an orphanage. Could not make any friends and no other family wanted someone like me. Growing up and turning into a teenager, I got kicked out again because I was now classed as an adult, as I was back on the streets until I found a job, a small apartment to call home and now this. Did I really do something wrong in another life? Did I do something so bad that I could not have one little bit of happiness? So many questions yet no one could answer. " Nothing!? Really?! " The man muttered angrily. It makes me start laughing. " Jokes... on... you.... Killed me....f..for nothing huh? " I gently whispered but still loud for the guy to hear me. " Have... nothing to..." I took a breath, my breathing starting to burn with each taking. " my name.... " I could feel tears running down my cheek knowing that my life sucked... big time. " s**t! " The guy shouted in anger, maybe thinking that he is going to go to jail now or something, I don't really care now. This life is going out. I can feel it. More and more warm blood started to go cold like the night air. " At least I don't have to go to work tomorrow." I thought to myself as I waited for my death. Something random did come to mind. The white fox comes to visit me almost all the time. It was a strange fox as it didn't want any cat food or dog food, which I tried giving to it. I looked up what they eat and gave it chicken one day. Love it. Ate that right away. I wonder if anyone is going to look after the poor thing now that I'm going to die. Like some kind of magic, the white fox I have been thinking about came into view. Seems like the guy did a runner and left me to die here, I just don't have any energy to look around now. " It's you...... Sorry I can't...feed you anymore. " My voice is slowly getting quieter and quieter by the second. It's almost time. My eyes are getting heavy. Looking at the white fox, I smiled at it, feeling like it was here for me, maybe to say good bye. More tears started coming as I no longer fought to keep my eyes closed. With one last breath, I had gone into the abyss that awaits me. " It's not your time to go "A male voice whispered to me, like it was all around me. " Not time to go, but I'm dead now. " I thought to myself, but then started thinking, why don't I feel cold? Why do I feel warmth? The male I heard laughed a little. " Wait did he.... did he just hear my thoughts? " Again I could not feel anything at all, just this nice warm feeling around me like someone gently holding me. " You poor thing. You really had a hard life, didn't you? " His voice was so smooth and very calm to hear. "You can say that again. I still don't understand why, I mean... did I do something wrong? " I asked, but more like a thought, as I don't really feel like I have a body or anything. It's hard to put into words what I am feeling right now. " No little one, you didn't do anything wrong. It was my sister that did wrong to you. She loved the chaos that brings into your life and I was powerless to stop her as I didn't know what she had done until it was too late. " I could hear his voice become sad. Really upset at what had happened to me. " You are not the only one that she has messed with little one, It is hard sometimes to keep up at what she has done. " Again his voice was sad because he must really feel bad about what happened. " I-it's ok... I mean, now I know why it happened. I don't blame you. " I thought gently as I felt like he needed someone that could tell him that everything was OK. I heard him laugh lightly. " Thank you, your very sweet to say that. After all this hardship, I am going to make things right by starting to give you a new life. " Even if I couldn't see, I could still feel and it felt as if I was moving but in someone's hands. Slowly I felt water? It felt like water. " Do not fear little one. You are going to be reborn into a new world that my sister can't get to. I ... I do hope you enjoy your life there. I also make sure you could understand anyone in that world, along with some powers. Don't want you getting killed too soon now, can we?" He laughed a little. Was that meant to be a joke? because it was not funny at all, but I kind of kept that to myself. " I erm.. hope so too. " Not going to lie, I was scared. This water felt really strange as it made me feel, I don't know, heavy? In a way. " I hope you have a happy life little one. You are free to live the way you want. " His voice was slowly fading away, as I felt like I was moving far away from his person. " WAIT!? What is your name!? " I shouted in my head, but I heard nothing. I guess I was too far away to hear or him to hear. Oh well. This darkness is getting a bit boring and lonely now. It feels like I am being here forever, no idea what time or even if days have gone by, but this heaviness I keep having is still here. Out of no where, I began to start hearing what sounded like birds chirping and the light breeze of the wind. Before knowing what was happening, I took my first breath and it felt like I was holding for a very long time. With that breath, my eyes opened to the brightness all around me. I closed my eyes, it took me for a second for it to hit me that I have eyes? I have a body? Once more, my eyes opened slowly this time, making sure to let a little less light in, little by little. This time around, the area around me was green, trees and the grass that I was sitting on, no darkness, no feeling cold, well, maybe a little bit, but I am alive! That guy really did gave me a new life, a new start on a happy one this time. I could not help myself but to cry, not out of sadness but with joy. A window popped up like the one you see in video games. " Welcome to your new life! " I said to myself. I froze. I sounded... young, like really young, like a young kid. Looking down at my hands, I can see they are small. " Well, better than being a baby I guess and.... " Shiver just thinking about what babies need to do for milk..... if you know what I mean. Then the text changed. " This would is full of magic so here is a guide to help you along the way." The window disappeared and a smaller window came up with some info on it. Huh? " Name..... Neria Hunt. Neria.. That's a nice na... wait.... Why do I feel like I know that name? Wait, wait, wait..... Age 10!? Ok, now I know why I am so young. Race? Kitsune? If I remember, that's like a fox spirit, right? Ok... " Reading on about magic, also known as mana, Hp for health, but what caught my eye was the words specialization and elite specialization. The specialization seems to be buffs? I see regent, that seems really nice. Then there is a will-o-wisp guide? What's that? I will find that out later. Then there is the elite stuff. Damn, this guy really didn't want me to die. The word immortal was shown, like is this too OP? Surely this is too OP. Then last is ice crystals. Ice huh? Power to control ice, it seems, nice. Don't have to worry about hot summers. I closed the window and just took in a deep breath. I smiled to myself. Looking up into the nice blue sky. " This is going to be so much FUN!" I said to myself happily.