The Story of a British Born Kitsune (Nina Vulpes' Story)

On the 23rd of January 1994 a red fox cub was born to a loving fox mother in a fox den, except these foxes weren't ordinary foxes, they were in fact Kitsunes who had chosen to remain in their fox form and live out their lives as foxes rather than humans.

The fox den was located somewhere inside a forest somewhere in South Yorkshire, yet because the Kitsunes were all originally from Japan, she didn't pick up the Yorkshire accent.

As Nina grew up her mother Kiko taught her everything about hunting as well as teaching her some things about Japan as her mother had moved to England shortly after she had tricked and slept with a man back in Japan, having moved to England in hope of a better life for her child.

Nina enjoyed a happy life in the fox den, although there were the odd few instances of having to run away from farmers and fox hunts. Her and a group of other Kitsunes would sometimes go into the nearby town when wild food was scarce, here she was taught to not be picky about food as well as being taught how to eat leftovers from bins/trash cans.

The time came, after her fourteenth birthday, when she started to think about her life and where it would lead, unlike her mother she did not want to remain a fox all her life and so, having heard about Jump City on the TVs in the town she decided that she would travel to America and see what life she could lead.

She spent her first two years in Jump City as a fox, observing human activity and seeing how humans interacted since she didn't get a lot of experience with humans while living in the fox den, she also used the things that she had been taught such as how to eat from bins/trash cans, it turned out that the people of Jump City threw away very delicious left overs.

When she was seventeen she felt that she had learned enough about human activity to integrate with them, struggling at first to find a job, she was soon hired by the owner of Comics 4 Fans which is a store that sells comic books, manga, anime as well as Japanese snacks and drinks, the owner merely thinking she was an avid cosplayer until she told him what she really was, she also gave herself a second name as she thought that's what normal humans had, choosing the name Vulpes from the Latin word for red fox (which is Vulpes Vulpes).

During her time on the streets she also befriended Ayumu Ishimaru and Annie, helping them through hunting and scavenging food for them.

Nina is now co-owner of Comics 4 Fans and lives in the upstairs area of the store which use to be used for just a storage & staff area, she has also converted another store room on the downstairs floor into a game room where employees can spend their breaks playing video games, surfing the internet and relaxing.

When Wolf made an appearance at the store he made Nina interested in Hive and so as well as living and working at the comic book store she now is also a Hive member and visits Hive to attend her classes.