For two more days you were held and used like a toy. She had you more and more compliant by the hour. On the forth day while you were sitting in the kitchen in the middle of the day, you were surprised to see her fly through the door.
She slams the door behind her. She runs towards you, and you stand to greet her. You wait for her to say something before asking what's going on. She runs forward to you.
"Turn around" she demands.
You turn. She binds your hands and feet. Blindfolds you. Then slings you over her shoulder. You hear a loud crash from the direction of the door.
"Halt! Surrender now jurogumo!" you hear you someone yell.
You feel Gessica turn to face them. You are now facing away. You feel something sharp cut a small part of your calf. Before you are dropped to the floor.
"Hold... You..." you hear the pursuers voice trail off as she seems to be approaching at a walk.
You feel your blindfold yanked off. It's a stunning blonde with short hair.
"I wasn't expecting a woman... I'm Clarissa of... Crusaders Against... Monsters... Enslaving..." she keeps trailing off.
She is staring at the blood on your leg. You see her lips part slightly. There is a set of unsettling fangs.
"Thank you for saving me." you say trying to distract her obvious desire for blood.
"Happy to be of service." she says tipping her hat.
"Let me help you up... and... I'm sorry" she cuts the binding on your feet.
She lifts your leg, moving the cut on your leg towards her mouth. You are too afraid of angering her to pull your leg away. So far she seems nice so you decide to chance saying something.
"Please, let me go" you say meekly.
She looks up at your face her eyes faintly glowing red.
"Surely, a little reward is in order" she replies before leisurely licking your leg.
Your immediate reaction is to kick, but her firm grip holds your leg in place. This causes your upper body to move. You fall to your side. You feel her tongue stab into the wound, and her fangs press lightly on your skin. Besides the slight pain this gesture mostly tickles.
"Stop, please stop" you protest while chuckling.
She pushes away your leg. You feel the cool of her drool exposed to the air, and the slight burn of your wound simultaneously. She unbinds your hands while apologizing profusely. You can't really fault this poor dhampir for not staying away from blood, besides it's Gessica's fault and it was her who did this to make for her escape.
She helps you out of Gessica's home, and takes you back to yours. Before leaving, she suggests to you a dojo that teaches self-defense against monsters. It is one you could make the commute to daily.
You decide at this point you need it. You follow her instructions leading you into a section of your home town you've never been to, the mixed side. On your way to the dojo you pass several monsters in the street. You reach the place and hurriedly knock on the door.
"Coming" you hear someone inside yell.
After a very short wait the door opens. To your surprise it's a kikimora.
"Is this the place for self-defense..." you start awkwardly.
"Against monsters? Yes." she finishes and answers.
You realize this must be something that happens for her a lot.
"Sorry, I..." you try to apologize.
"Man, they would eat you alive" she says before sniffing.
She quickly covers her mouth with her hand.
"Oh, I didn't realize. I apologize." she clearly knew about the other monsters with that statement.
"Come in." she gestures you inside.
"You're a little early." she continues guiding you through a courtyard to a large open room.
"The changing rooms on either side of the class room, women's is over there." she says handing you a gi, trousers, and a belt, then gesturing to the left.
You are halfway to the changing room when she yells over to you. "Don't mind the cat."
You push past the curtain. It's a small room with cubby holes on both sides and a single high window. In the window is a cat lounging. It's a black cat with a single white patch over its left eye. You stop about midway into the room. The cat meows at you. You take one step closer to the door, before proceeding to change.
Ignoring the second meow while you don your gi. You look back at the cat before leaving the changing room. It is no longer laying, but instead is now sitting watching you. You exit and make your way to the middle of what must be the class room.
The kikimora is nowhere to be seen. You look around and don't see anyone else. How early could you be? While looking around you notice the cat poking out of the changing room curtain. You slowly walk back towards it presenting your hand. At least playing with the cat is something to do.
As soon as you get close, it darts away behind the curtain. You turn around and head back to the middle of the room. Not long after a pair of guys show up carrying bags.
They wave as they pass straight to the men's changing room. They come out changed and walk over.
"Hi, you must be new. I'm Zac, and this is Elle." he shakes your hand followed by his friend.
"Hello" says Elle.
"Nice to meet you" your reply.
Zac continues "I never expected to see a girl in theses classes. Someone you like get caught by a youkai?".
You look at Elle quizzically.
"Sorry, he likes to ask questions and has little filter."
"What? Is it so wrong to want to know?" Zac berates him.
A few more people show up trickling in one at a time. They seem to gather in a corner. Either avoiding you or avoiding Zac. Finally a man in a Grey gi, with a black belt comes in from the outside and everyone else seems to line up.
You do your best to follow. You are between Elle and another guy. The man at the front clears his throat then starts.
"As I'm sure you've all noticed, we have a new student. Please don't treat her any different because she's a girl. Young lady if we could get your name?"
"Autumn" you reply hastily.
"I am Aji Saka, I'm sure you've met Zac."
Zac waves from the end position to your right.
"And probably Elle."
He nods.
"So lets start with you Saieed."
The man to your left introduces himself "Hello, I'm Saieed."
Next man "Hi, I'm Edward"
"I'm Kim"
"And I'm Kane"
"Now that introductions are out of the way, partner up and practice shoulder manipulation." says Aji Saka before walking over to you.
As the others disperse he says to you in a much lower voice "My wife told me you have an unfortunate amount of experience in monster assaults. The first month of training will be on the house."
Switching back to a normal volume he continues. "Since you have no experience with this drill let me tell you how it works."
He grabs your right wrist with his left hand.
"Now grab my right wrist with your right hand".
As you do so, he grabs your left wrist with his right hand.
"Now grab my right fore-arm with your left hand. Your arms and his now crisscrossed together.
"This is to imitate you trying to keep the monsters hands away. Now we practice using our shoulders to control our opponents movements. Most monsters are much stronger than us but still able to be grappled if you focus less on force and more on controlling movement."
He starts using his shoulder to push you around, not that he needs the benefit of form to do that. He stops.
"Alright, now try to get me to move."
Your efforts are unremarkably much less effective than his.
"Master, Sachiko is back" interrupts Edward.
Aji Saka turns towards the women's changing room. You see the cat peeking out and nothing else.
Aji Saka says "She's not hurting you. She can watch if she wants."
You realize this innocent cat you were around must be a nekomata to deserve this much attention.
"Is she..." you consider his position, as a kikimora's husband.
"A nekomata, yup" chime's in Kane.
"Is that a problem?" asks Aji Saka to the room.
"No, master" they all reply almost in unison.
You just shake your head.
The class continues and you learn three drills by the end of the day. You walk cautiously to the women's changing room. Sachiko darts inside when you are half way there. Once you enter she is back in the window. You make sure to have your back to her when you change this time. While making the occasional glance over your shoulder at her.
You leave and nearly sprint to the human's only side of town. After the first four days Sachiko doesn't go all the way to the window when you go to change out of the gi. By the seventh day you have pet her before you leave. On the thirteenth day you notice her follow you home.
You quickly close the door behind your self. You hear her meowing outside for a few minutes. You know the temptation you feel to let her in is magical and not to be trusted.
Her following you home is off and on for the next few days. On the twentieth day you don't see her at all.
Until you walk in the door to your home afterwards. After you take a couple steps in from the door.
"Meeeeee ow" you hear from behind you.
You turn to see a Girl about your height with black, short hair with a white streak near her left eye. There is no doubt this is Sachiko.
"Sachiko, what do you want?" you ask trying to sound unintimidated.
"Oh, you know. I just wanted to hangout. Thought you might be willing to pet me some more." she says looking around stepping toward you.
"You shouldn't be in the human only side" you reply stepping backwards in step.
"You know, your house actually falls outside the human's only zone. Funny right?"
Your back reaches the wall.
"I'm not afraid to fight you Sachiko." you say dropping into a stance.
"Is that an invitation?" she stops a little more than arm's reach from you.
