Kitsune

* Black Kitsune
* White Kitsune
* Red Kitsune
* Golden Kitsune

**Kitsunes** are a type of fox Yokai and are one of the supernatural creatures that currently inhabits the world.

## Description

Kitsunes are one of the strongest Yokai species in japan. They are a species of multi-tailed demonic foxes who possess supernatural abilities. Kitsunes' powers depend on their type and the number of tails they possessed.

## Creation

Like every other yokai, Kitsunes' are born from the collective negative emotions and thoughts from humans. They can also be born like humans and other races. However, it's unknown if they can turn other creatures to kitsunes like vampires and werewolves do.

## Abilities

Kitsunes are very powerful species among the yokai. Their power depends on their type and the number of tails they possess.

* **Superhuman Strength:** Kitsunes are far more powerful than humans and other yokai.
* **Super Speed and Reflex:** Kitsunes' speed and reflexes are greatly enhanced, as seen when Inari was able to rival Scathach's speed for some time.
* **Enhanced Agility:** Kitsunes can react quickly to attacks and dodge certain projectiles like arrows and thrown spears.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Like most of the supernatural races, kitsunes possess an enhanced stamina.
* **Superhuman Endurance:** Kitsunes can take a great deal of physical damage without flinching. Haruna was able to transfer all her army's wounds to her and endure it.
* **Superhuman Durability(Nigh-Invulnerability):** Yokai in general can't be harmed by anything not supernatural and that's specially so for high races like Kitsunes.
* **Flight:** Kitsunes can fly.
* **Acute senses:** Kitsunes have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, smell, and taste that far exceed those of a human's. Like vampires, they can hear across great distances despite of obstacles even if the voice is very low. They can also differentiate voices from the ambient noises.
	+ **Super Hearing:** Kitsunes have two pairs of ears -one human and one fox- which gives them better hearing than any other supernatural specie. Kitsunes can control their hearing and can even shut down their fox ears so their enemies won't take advantage of it.
* **Regeneration:** Kitsunes exhibit an accelerated healing factor. Their regeneration is weaker than Vampires' but stronger than Werewolves'. A Kitsune however can't regenerate severed limbs easily. Haruna was able to heal several wounds in a few seconds
* **Claws:** As foxes, Kitsunes possess fox like claws.
* **Youki Manipulation & Generation:** Like the rest of yokai, kitsunes are able to manipulate the surrounding youki as they see fit and because they are one of the three great yokai races, kitsunes are able to generate youkai, the amount of generated youkai depend on the number of tails a kitsune possess.
* **Will-O'-The-Wisp Manipulation:** Kitsunes have the ability to manipulate the will-o'-wisp energy. This ability can be used to generate light, fire and lightning.
* **Animal Instinct:** All the yokai who are based on animals like Kitsune, Ryuji, Nekomata and Kappa have an animal like instinct.
	+ **Danger Intuition:** Kitsunes can sense danger before it happens.
* **Immortality:** Like other Yokai, Kitsunes are a species with an infintie lifespan, an example of this is Otsuki Yoichi who is still alive despite his participation in the battle of Yashima centuries ago. Kitsunes can live forever as long as they are not killed, they are also immune to illness.
* **Metamorphosis:** Kitsunes evolve and grow more powerful with age. They also acquire new abilities the longer they live.
* **Fox Transformation:** Kitsunes can assume their fox form. In their fox form, kitsunes' abilities are greatly enhanced.
* **Disguise Mastery:** Kitsunes have a great mastery in disguise. They can hide all their species characteristics and appear like humans.
	+ **Limited-Shapeshifting:** Kitsunes have a limited ability to shapeshift. They can assume a complete human form, a half-kitsune half-human form, a complete fox form and their original kitsune form. This ability allows them to blind among humans and hide them from being detected by humans and supernatural beings.
* **Perception Manipulation:** Kitsunes can miss with others senses making them feel, see, smell, taste, and hear whatever they want them to perceive.
	+ **Illusion Manipulation:** Kitsunes are one of the species that can naturally cast and manipulate illusions.
* **Splitting:** Kitsunes can split into several clones depending on the number of tails they possess.
* **Elemental Manipulation:** Kitsunes have the potential to learn elemntal manipulation depending on the number of tails they possess. A nine-tailed kitsune can learn to manipulate nine different elements.

### Special Abilities

* **Elemental Control:** When a kitsune gain their 10th tail and achieve godhood, they can control the basic elements.
* **Divine Power:** When a kitsune gain their 10th tail and achieve godhood, they gain a divinity and naturally divine powers.
* **Teleportation:** An exclusive ability to Black Kitsunes.

### Learnable Abilities

Because of the limitation of Youki, Yokais under the rule of Otsuki Haruna decided to find and learn a new form of force to replace it.

* **Senjutsu Manipulation:** Senjutsu is the neutral form of the natural energy (not to be confused with Werewolves' energy of nature). Yokais can learn how to generate and manipulate this energy. The amount of energy a yokai can use depend of his/her stamina and proficiency. Later on it was revealed that Senjutsu is the energy of World Trees. The Senjutsu Yokai learn is no other than Yggdrasil's.
* **Ki Manipulation:** Ki is the internal energy in all living beings, it's also called life energy or vitality. Living beings bodies' produce this energy naturally. Yokais can learn how to manipulate this energy but they must be careful since abusing it will result in their death.

## Weaknesses

* **Head Destruction:** Destroying a kitsune's head will result in instant and permanent death as long as the kitsune didn't gain their 10th tail.
* **Physical Trauma:** Intense physical trauma can slow down or possibly kill a kitsune.
* **Faith Energy:** As creatures who are of negative nature, Kitsunes can be harmed or posssibly killed by faith energy.
	+ **Special Hunter Weapons:** Hunters use specialized weapons that channel their ability of 'Faith' and imbue it into their attacks. A significant blow from Hunter's weapon can deal fatal injuries to a yokai, often impeding their supernatural regeneration, and can, at worst, cause death.
* **Holy Energy:** Holy energy can harm and kill Kitsunes.
* **Territory:** Kitsunes can't produce as much youki outside Japan as they can inside which weaken them significantly.
* **Decapitation:** Most yokai will die if their heads are removed.
* **Heart Extraction or Destruction:** If the yokai possess a heart, destroying it or extracting it will result in their instant and permanent death.

## Known Types

* Golden kitsune, symbolize the natural elements
* White Kitsune, symbolize purity
* Red Kitsune, symbolize Blood, War and Lust
* Black Kitsune, symbolize Death and Darkness , but they can also be considered a bad omen.

## Trivia

* Kitsunes are monogamous. They can only choose one mate in their lifetime.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 361
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 359
3. ↑ Chapter 338
4. ↑ Chapter 603
5. ↑ Chapter 408
6. ↑ Chapter 385
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 587
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter 601
9. ↑ Chapter 600
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 564
11. ↑ Chapter 607
12. ↑ Chapter 363
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Chapter 365