How Many Tails Is Too Many?

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It was early in the morning at the Silver Moon Inn, the sun had barely risen above the horizon most of the sky still blackened. Nothing moved this early, not even the mages most of the time, except for when one particular mage within the Guild one if it's Aces, who was a bit unique, had to live her life a bit differently than others. This wizard was incapable of sleeping through the night, every creaking floorboard and rattling branch woke her, both because of her hearing, and because she was so scared of the world she slept with a light on. Living each and every day wasn't so much the struggle because she died the second she saw her house burned down with her mother still inside, but existing was its own hell, yet every single day she had to get up to this hell and find some way to navigate it as if there was something else to be bought. While she had reason's to be happy like her guildmates? She also had reasons to be unable to drag herself out of bed and sometimes those outnumbered her will to fight. However, if the wind user was one in this world, it was someone who fought until they had no ability left to fight, until the very last breath, she had proven that several times, even though she didn't breathe anymore due to her bond with the wind. Another side effect of not breathing was the fact it made it slightly harder to tell when she was awake, normally one noticed their heart beating and breath leaving than entering lungs, but she didn't experience quite the same thing anymore. Sometimes, she wondered if her heart was beating because she exhibited a low soft thump due to her history and the fragile state of her physical body. Anyway's that was how her morning started, wondering if she was still physically alive than remembering she always had to be because otherwise there was no revenge to be wrought.

The witches small form rolled out of her bed, the pink blanket falling to a puddle on the floor as she yawned slightly, stretching in mid-air as her tail lashed once. Jiyu swiftly pulled a small pair of underwear and a bra onto her form before floating out of her room, she couldn't wear much else and not all mornings were all about her anyway's. "Maka?" the female levitated to the room across the hall from hers, knocking gently on the door as if the creature on the other side had sensitive ears as well, which considering a Kitsune was on the other side, the kid better. "Jiyu!" dressed in little fox pajama's the human disguised kitsune was quick to bust out of her room and rush to hug her levitating caretaker around the waist. "Shh Koto, you'll wake up others." Jiyu preferred not to be bothered by the other mages of the guild right before she headed out on missions! Yet, she couldn't be upset with Makoto for maybe accidentally waking up a person or two, the kitsune was barely on her second tail, still a toddler of the species! Luckily though Makoto was good at disguise magic or shapeshifting as she managed to disguise her two tails as extremely long pigtails, granted one's that sometimes moved like they weren't hair, but it was still easier than explaining to the mass majority that she had decided to take in a Kitsune she had been sent to take care of as a weaker mage. When the two first met? Makoto was recently orphaned and lashing out as passerby's very violently, so the wind user took the small fox in as oppose to killing her, because she knew how much it hurt to lose like that.

"Come on my aspiring mage, it's breakfast time." Plus if she had put the Kitsune in an orphanage? The special dietary need's species that were not human possessed could have present an issue, she was best off with another canine. Makoto gripped the wind user's small clawed hand with her smaller claws appendage, walking down the hallway beside the levitating Kazehime in the silly little fox sleeper she had gotten her hands on. "Sit here alright, I'll go get something from the kitchen." something uncooked, but considering the wind user's fear of flames? It was understandable that she never cooked, nor even attempted to, lighting a single match in the same room resulted in the female passing out most times, and the thought of fire made her body ache painfully as she remembered the feeling of that cursed heat against her skin burning away her flesh. Once she had fetched enough food, most of it being raw meat for the two of them? The canine levitated back into the cafe and set down their meal on the booth she'd told Maka to sit in, floating to appear as if she was sitting across from the child fox. Thus the two of them began a relatively silent but warm breakfast together which was a tradition between the two of them whenever Jiyu was actually at home. Often times? The wind user was not around thus causing the child to eat with the rest of the guild and study magic while she awaited the powerful mage to return home. Of course one day Makoto knew she would be able to go with again when she developed enough magical ability to be safe on Jiyu's missions again or enough people went with where someone could always watch her.

Of course, the silence eventually would be broken, it was almost impossible to remain the only two in the Silver Moon especially as the morning ticked on and the opening time came closer. Still, if anyone else showed up at the moment? They would be someone else sleeping at the inn, as it was not the time for the Cafe to open yet for another few hours. Sometimes, the people sleeping at the Inn were interesting, so hopefully whatever happened next to pull them away from breakfast would be a good show.

Morning; the worst part of the entire day. Why was it the worst? The list to that was a long one! Waking up was the worst part of the entire thing! Nine tails, blankets, pillows, who in their right mind would want to get up and out of that much warmth? Not to mention having to put on, or put on an illusion to appear to have put on clothing! Why would she want to wear something, or look like she was wearing something? Then there was the fact that she really did not need to sleep. She was a celestial spirit, a spirit! Sleep was something for pleasure, at it was one of her top ten. It was nowhere near number one on the list, but that was something everyone knew about her already! Alas, all good things had to end and the woman would eventually moan angrily a few times before the light peaking into her room finally made her decide to get out of bed and get over the waking up routine. Magic would give her the illusion of clothing as she brushed her beautiful white tails and black hair. Amber eyes would close slightly as she smiled and looked upon the end result before she gathered all of her belongings with her. The Silver Moon Inn may be in her hometown, but she needed to get back to her current home; Lamia Scale. They were likely wondering where she had been as of late, the woman not taking any jobs or the like, and had not even bothered to contact them. For all she knew they thought she was dead, or maybe they just expected someone with the body of a Kitsune to do whatever they pleased. That would not be too surprising. After all, she really did whatever pleasured herself most of the time. Once satisfied with her appearance the woman would leave her room and begin to head towards the restaurant part of the inn.

It would not take her long to get there, she had memorized the place with how often she stayed here, and upon arriving she would have her eye caught by two females in the room. The first was a cute little girl that was clearly of the same race that Aiyana's current body was. Little was literal in all ways. She was small, and she was very young. She had only two tails, which placed her somewhere in the two hundred area, and it was a surprise to not see her parents with her. The other girl, which was the one that seemed to be taking care of the kitsune pup, was a tig ol' bittied girl that was pretty short when even compared to Aiyana. Eyes would look her up and down, literally as she was floating in the air, as she checked out the nice features of the scantily clad woman. Footsteps would bring the tail-waving woman to the two as she sat down next to them, making sure she was not sneaking up on them so they were not surprised by her sudden presence. She was in the Silver Moon Inn, sneaking up on people could end up with some nasty mage bar fights. "Fancy seeing a Kisune and a canine at the same table, Mind if I join the two of you?" The woman would smile politely, cheerful face matching the cheerful ears and tails of her shown race to prove she was sincere. It looked like it was going to be a good day, even more so if she could score a round or two with the floating hottie.

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While Jiyu didn't like waking up every single day? The worst part of the 'day' for her was actually when it ended, shadows would fall casting night over the world and darkness would close in. Jiyu was deathly afraid of the dark it entirely paralyzed her expect in the presence, the hold of someone she trusted enough to overcome it. People who even knew about the extent of her fear directly, barely existed and thus she was pretty much left with no one to comfort her at night, nothing to make the terror of falling into darkness again any easier. At one time, for three years, darkness had been all she knew and falling asleep into the shadow's every night was nearly impossible, the only way she did fall asleep was when her light lacrima was beyond all the way up or when her body passed out unable to sustain itself any longer without slumber. It wasn't a fun way to end the day, unable to end it because she was so terrified she'd never see light again.

If she hadn't experienced such trauma with men and didn't have an increasingly strong dog's loyalty holding her back? Jiyu would have thrown herself into the warmth of another body since bottles weren't an option. At least in that case? She would fall asleep with someone's warmth, the slow steady kind instead of the sort that had been used to burn her flesh in the past, of course, that part wasn't evident as her goddess abilities rid her of the scars. Jiyu actually had an incredibly fluffy blanket she used to keep things warmer since she disliked the cold and couldn't stand fire to keep herself warm during the night or any other time. Kazehime enjoyed sleeping, but it was something she so rarely got to do fully through the night. Anyway's she really couldn't think of that sort of thing right now, she was rather preoccupied at the moment.

The first person to come down beside for herself and Makoto was a face that looked somewhat familiar, but not in the normal sense which was her having done a job with them or being part of the guild, no this was a little more informal than that. Jiyu did let herself look at this other mage for a few moment's trying to remember where she had seen her before, but the wind user quickly passed her off as another one of the residents of the town or frequent users of the Silver Moon. Without thinking much further, Kazehime turned her attention back to Makoto, wiping a bit of food off the Kitsunes face as the young girl was still quite the sloppy eater unable to keep it all in her own mouth since she was still adjusting to her fangs. "Careful Maka, you have to get better at that and use your fork." of course that last thing was extremely hypocritical considering Jiyu didn't even use her hands, she just ate with her mouth like some wild animal. At least she was trying to teach the child better though.

"Seems to me I don't have a choice anyway." she chuckled the statement, clearly not annoyed but simply pointing out the fact the other female had already sat down. briefly? Jiyu became momentarily angry that the girl was taller than her, but it passed and she became more interested in the fact this other female was a Kitsune like Makoto. While the wind user tried her best to raise the pup? Kazehime didn't know everything about Kitsunes and didn't personally know anyone who did either, so some thing's about Makoto became very challenging. Maybe if she became friendly with this Kitsune she could get some help from time to time when something troubling happened with her young charge. "We're actually a regular sight though, she's been in my care for a little now." the female smiled slightly, wiping her own slightly bloodied mouth with a napkin before almost dropping it at her charges comment. "Hunter shot mommy." the small kitsune looked sad again and Jiyu reached a hand over to her head, placing her palm on it briefly, the small child smiling over to her. "Jiyu cares me now." she giggled slightly when she spoke, picking up her fork and stabbing a piece of meat on her plate with it, causing Jiyu to smile in turn. "Do you want me to stick around for a bit again Maka? I can delay my next mission set if you need." sometimes she did worry her busy mage work could be hurting Makoto but this time like every time "Maka will practice!" she grinned jumping up in her seat and glowing like a little moonbeam, which was slightly weird since Kitsunes were normally fire element, but not entirely unheard of.

With that small exchange out of the way? Jiyu once again glanced at the sheer number of tails the other girl had, they now had twelve tails in the room, that was a lot of tails. Of course, many Black Rose member's had tails, but none had the amount this semi-stranger did. "Sorry I didn't properly introduce us, I'm Jiyu Kazehime one of the Aces for Black Rose." she let herself turn slightly so that the other girl could clearly see the black rose mark painted across her flat stomach, the stem vanishing into her panty waistline. "And this is Makoto kazehime, she's under my care." she purposefully left out the part about how Makoto had come to be under her charge, the part about tormenting anyone who entered the forest around Rose garden after her mother had died. "So you're likely hungry right? I can't cook but I can let you have kitchen access. Trust me you want nothing cooked by me it's like dying if it's not cold." she wasn't going to admit her fire fear to someone she had just met when it was avoidable so she claimed to be a bad cook, which was not entirely true nor entirely lie, back when she could cook the wind user had simply been average.

It was strange how this girl reacted to her. For once in Aiyana's history as a magic user, another mage did not recognize her right off the bat. The girl responded with a chuckled defeat in response to her question about sitting there before she told the woman that she was a regular sight here in town. Their versions of regular sight were likely vastly different. Aiyana had grown up in the town, between there and the old port town that Black Rose was in, and had never seen the girl until today. She must have come here recently or joined Black Rose after they had moved back into Fiore and Rose Garden. Before the Celestial Spirit could respond to the words, however, the pup spoke up about her mother being killed by a hunter. Eyes watered slightly, the nine-tailed fox feeling pity for the girl as she understood being an orphan as well, but did not react to it as she knew that a Kitsune would quickly change in their emotional state at any age; something that was proven nearly immediately when this canine girl spoke about holding off on doing another mission.

After that, the introductions would finally begin. It was surprising how many people would not introduce themselves at the start of a conversation, the first name being dropped being 'Jiyu' as the Kitsune child spoke it when talking about what had happened to her. It appeared the barely dressed woman was an Ace of Black Rose! And the child was Makoto Kazehime, the two both being introduced by Jiyu and making it obvious she had fully adopted the orphaned Kitsune due to the similar last name. "Well! It's a pleasure to meet you cuties! I am Aiyana Shuer, of Lamia Scale. It's nice to meet someone that does not immediately recognize me for the exploits as a mage, or anything else for that matter. Let's me start off being myself!" The woman's cheerful voice was backed up by the scuttling of tails as they moved about energetically behind her. The tails brushed against the chairs behind her, silently scooting one of them across the floor as she did so.

The loli with the nice 'personality' would offer her access to the kitchen shortly after introductions, something that was not even necessary for the shapeshifting Celestial Spirit.
As such, she had no reason for food and drink to ever enter her mouth. The only time she did was to eat and drink for pleasure, the nutritional value of any edibles was lost when used on her as she had no actual physical body for it to sustain. A blessing for sure, as it meant she would never gain any weight unless for some god awful reason she wished to be fat. "I appreciate the offer, but I already ate a little bit ago. Brought food to my room last night so I could eat while getting ready." It was a lie, of course, but it was better than trying to explain what really was going on as a Celestial Spirit was generally not able to remain in the world unless someone had summoned them. As a human forced into a spirit body she was a loophole to the system, though not many summoned her often or even had her key. She was picky with it, and rightly so with how many mages went against her code of ethics. That was for another time though, Aiyana had other things on her mind now.

"You mentioned going on another mission? I was going to head back to my guild to find one, but if you want to team up for one I would be glad to accompany you." The woman would yawn lightly and stretch afterward, the lazy feelings in her body escaping a bit as her mind told the body that it was likely going to be getting excercise soon. Not that the body was even physical, being a magic based entity. Her mind was still the same, which meant that it believed she was just as physical of a being as she was in her old body.

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Jiyu didn't instantly recognize the other female for anything she had done in the past, that much was true. Even though she had made somewhat of a name for herself by socializing and partaking in as many varied missions as she did? Kazehime rather purposefully tried to avoid getting to know people when she wasn't in repeated direct exposure to them. While nothing was wrong with connection, bonds formed between people, having too many of these stretched her thin and served as a distraction to what she really wanted to accomplish in the world. Little did the wind user know, Aiyana was someone who could actually be a very useful acquaintance in accomplishing her goal of becoming one of the Wizard Saints since the Kitsune already little to the canines knowledge, sat among them. Still, even if she knew, Jiyu wasn't the type to make friends for such petty reasons, actually, she was not the kind to really let anyone closer than arm's length even though everyone could swear they were her best friend.

Apparently? They were all orphan's or partial orphans. While if one looked at Jiyu legally upon finding out her real name, she did have two registered guardians, but she lost her family the second her mother died, at least that's how it had always felt. Thus she was very sympathetic to her young charge, and if she knew anything about Ayiana she would likely become sympathetic towards her as well, right after she finished feeding on whatever negative emotion was left over from it. Bad Jiyu! Eating the emotions of other's was not a nice thing to do, though she'd been getting the urge more frequently, considering she had been experimenting with her goddess abilities recently. Kazehime made a mental note to stop screwing with those unless she needed them, eating the suffering of other's was an awfully lonely existence.

"I would say the same but the last time I was in the spotlight was a while ago when I was a Rising Star, these days I sometimes try to stay away from such 'spectacles' as I have her to concern myself over." the female floated over behind Makoto as the Kitsune stood up from eating, pulling the girls hood down and slowly combing through slightly tangled hair with her sharp claws careful not to slice any of the strands. "Go upstairs and get ready for your day." the small fox quickly raced off without any argument and Jiyu smiled slightly over it, levitating slightly lower now that she didn't need to reach Koto's head. Why was this other Kitsune so fucking tall? It was still a bit irking. "Sorry I didn't recognize you for whatever I should know you for, but as you said, lets you be yourself, which is a plus around someone like me." someone who couldn't control any of their impulses anyways and acted like a pyscho running off into the night sometimes.

Opposite colored optics focused in on the tails again, normally she wouldn't notice them due to distance, but since they moved so much she had to take note since like all canids her eyesight was motion based for hunting. "Nine of them right? Means your a full mature Kitsune." which also likely meant the woman before her was deceptively older than she appeared, but what did inhumans care about of age outside of childhood. "That could be fun, Bring Maka with us and watch travelers gawk at all the tails." her own wagged briefly as she chuckled, elfin ears twitching sharply as she glanced to see if Makoto was coming back down yet, for some reason she didn't want to leave the child on her own today.

Aiyana would listen in to the conversation between Jiyu and Maka as well as listening to everything that was being told to her from the scantily clad pupper woman that would probably be a nice lay if she could get in those panties. The woman felt insulted as the chatting went on, the dog girl calling her 'mature' after mentioning how many tails she had. It took a moment for her to realize the real meaning, but it was technically wrong if she agreed with it. "Yeah, I am pretty proud of my tails. I'd say it takes a lot of grooming, but being a Celestial Spirit makes that something I only have to do if I really want to relax and do so. Or if I have had a long night of fun and I get it all fussed up!" After that, Jiyu would talk about how them going on a mission and bringing Makoto would be a whole lot of tails for people to look at. Aiyana would giggle at the idea, quite the playful one indeed, before responding in kind. "Sounds like a plan! Why don't you go and pick us out something to do and we can make our way there?" Aiyana would wiggle all of her tails slightly as she thought about all the fun they could have on a small job for them. "Oh! And make sure it is an S rank job. Something big, or important to do. Can't show off our tails if we don't do something major at the same time!" Now she was just trying to get the group to show off, and surely it would work out great!

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Getting into Jiyu's panties was actually an impossible misnomer most of the time, as due to the possessive nature of her element. Most of the time what someone saw her in actually happened to be some sort of under garment. Even the shorts she wore today? Actually were boxer style woman's underwear, the fabric was base colored pink with small blue hearts painted across it, clearly not actual shorts for they were far too thing and 'velvety' to be such. Most of the time when someone wanted to get into someone's panties the statement held power because to get a hand down there one had to be able to get past other items of clothing that normally existed in their way. When it came to Jiyu, the only thing she happened to be wearing was undergarments that hugged her form very well.

"I bet you have lots of fun nights, don't you?" the words were said with a chuckle, one hand covering a sly smile that had come to her pale pink lips, the general light heart melodic tone the statement was given with, was a clear sign that it was not an insult. After speaking though, internally her brain was torn up, as the deepest part of her wanted to push the taunt further, make the hidden thinly veiled comment even more glaringly clear. However, she wasn't the loose cannon she had once been, at one time she actually would have eagerly let the kitsune sleep with her in exchange for food, drink and a warm bed for the night. The canine was far from a virgin, considering her body had been one of her best tools for survival before she joined black rose, but having so much done to her against her will in those years of captivity afterwards, had left lasting marks beneath her skin.

Jiyu smiled slightly, realizing the nine tailed female was likely one she would be able to get along with easily, just playful not perverted. It was nice to encounter someone playful like this. "This one looks kinda good, and it involves even more tails, another Kitsune seems to have gone nuts, and it's a bit of a good travel to get there." the location of a job being a decent decent from them? Meant more time for dozens of people to gawk at all the tails, thought Jiyu also suspected that certain people would also be gawking at the collective bodies, because anyone could clearly see neither of them were unattractive woman, actually they could both easily be considered insanely hot. Luckily, these days she was growing alright with being gawked at again, so long as no men tried to touch her, actually she rather nearly enjoyed the attention once more when she realized it.

"So sound good to you?~" the female came over to Aiyana with the job flyer, the explanation of what they would be required to do. "If it is I just need a few to get Maka changed out of her pajama's, grab my weapon and put on my equipment though It's not much different from what I'm wearing." actually even though it covered a bit more skin in perspective, the clothing was tighter and more form fitting, sexier than what she was currently wearing, it almost looked as if a costume of some sort. With that she took the smaller kitsunes hand, aiming to lead Maka back up stairs, knowing the child would not argue with it, thus there was no risk of breaking a bone or such by doing so. "You can come up with us if you want, considering it would be rather rude to leave you down here alone~" totally no reason bringing Aiyana upstairs could be dangerous.

Damn right she had a lot of fun nights! She had enough to be considered the queen of fun nights! At the rate she was going she would be the newest goddess of pleasure, and she already had a Wizard Saint title to go along with it! Aiyana would just put on a sly smile and giggle at Jiyu's words, wishing she could pull moves on her right now. It would really be nice to get with her, she seemed like she would know how to have a good time in the long run! The canine female would float her cute ass to the job board and pick one out. It seemed to be about a Kitsune having gone nuts, oh boy...that brought up some old memories she had not wanted to remember. The very body she was currently in was not her original. The original had been a short, cute, long-haired girl that had worn a kitty hat and booty shorts when she went anywhere. The original was the trickster celestial spirit that had been cast out of the celestial realm to die, due to letting their contracted summoner die in a bad joke, and had gone on a rampage of terror and trickery that would have made Loki proud if he had seen it. At the very end Aiyana and one of her friends at the time, known to her only as Mei, had managed to defeat the celestial spirit. It came with a cost, the trickster getting the last laugh by swapping bodies before dying so that Aiyana was forced to watch her own body disappear from existence forever. It had been quite the sad moment, and she had placed it far back into her mind, but now it had resurfaced for a moment and luckily not made her pretty face frown. The happy smile would remain, eyes looking lustily around as the job was explained to her.

"Yeah, that sounds great! Another Kitsune should be easy to deal with when there's already two of us and then you!" Tails would move happily in all directions as she basically fanned her scent across the place with all nine of her fluffy limbs. After that the dog girl would say that she needed to get her stuff before they began their journey, and then invite her to come upstairs as well! Oh man! This was one of her chances! Tails would fan a bit more as she made a slightly excited noise, dirty sounding to anyone thinking loud, before speaking up in agreement. "I would love to join you up there for the time being! Give us some more time to get to know each other before me move on!" The words would sound dirty, even to her this time, but her mind was in a rut and she did not really want to leave it just yet.

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Gosh, once upon a time before she was tormented, tortured, abused and misused beyond her captivity before death turned her into an Inugami, she would have not given a second thought into jumping into the sack with the wizard saint standing in front of her. The scent was thick in the room, both of them were likely very aware her highly sensitive nose could detect the aroma of someone so willing and ready. However, that was not who she was anymore, it had been an incredibly fun time in the past, she did miss being that girl. Yet, she could not just become the person she used to be again, especially with the people she had looking up to her these days. Once upon a time she had nothing to lose by letting loose and giving into the instincts contained into her body, acting like the world was her game and everyone in it was just a pawn for a purpose. Now, the story was different, and she had what seemed like a good deal to lose if she lost control of herself.

So she pretended like she couldn't smell it, suppressed her brain, pushing unwanted images of the hella good time that could be had if she let control out of her hands and took the kitsune into them. It would be so easy to make the nine tailed wanton beast her bitch for a night, Aiyana wouldn't fight, the scent screamed that, but Jiyu just couldn't. Even if the momentarily dialing of her eyes detailed a predator that had honed in on something, luckily by placing her hand over her eyes she managed to make that cease, looking very much as if she did not notice the scent floating through the room at all. What her brain naturally went to, and what she could actually do, they just didn't line up and likely never would again. She went so many years being a loose bitch who grew adjusted to having to give up dignity or pride, her own body, to get by and learned to enjoy it. Now, it was so hard to adjust to not jumping onto someone willing even though she gained little these days for such an act, with the men who stared it was easier to resist because of her fear towards him, but Aiyana was female. Also, it didn't hurt that there was not a friendship established she could hurt by spending the time, but she did know someone it would hurt.

Jiyu laughed slightly, leading Makoto up the stairs, the young kitsune looking between the adults. "Maka Can Dress Self." the little kitsune nodded the hood of her sleeper coming off with the comment, rushing to go into her room and close the door behind herself. Maka was just as capable of detecting the scent as both the other girls were, and clearly she misread what was going to happen, believed she needed to give adults their adult time. Why did it feel like she was the one who explained that to Makoto even though she could not remember doing it? She had not dated anyone while caring for the Kitsune, so why did it feel like she had explained the concept to the young kitsune out of necessity. Why was her head so hazy?

"This one is mine, sorry that you'll have to sit on the bed while I get ready, I am not typically one for company and was a drifter before joining here." So she liked taking up as little space as possible, honestly she would be happy with a couch to crash on, all her belongings could fit in a backpack still expect her main weapon which was a bow. Jiyu went into the room and opened the top drawer, it was disturbingly near empty, three outfits laid out in it, one of them looking to be a maids outfit, the second clearly being her battle equipment, than the third one seemed actually like it had once been a child's dress she had since paired with other clothing because she out grew it as a dress, lastly a pair of thin jeans with numerous tears laid apart from the three outfits, nothing else was contained within. The room itself did not even look lived in, only three things out of place from a normal over night room, a leather bound book on the dresser, a fluffy blanket on the bed, and her weapon equipment leaning against the dresser. It was clear, even if she claimed to belong to the guild, she had not actually settled down as someone normally would. "So anything exact you wanted to know about me?" she had already removed the battle equipment from her drawer, removing the top she was wearing so she could start to slide the halter top on, the armor piece falling out caught only by her element which forced it to levitate within the wind user's reach.

The nine tailed fox would be led around until they ended upstairs and Maka ran away after declaring she could dress herself. "Aw, is that not cute! Can't believe such a little pumpkin is with you! You must be so proud of her." Tails would swish in happiness again as the dog featured woman led her to her own room and explaining it was hers while also apologizing for it not being guest ready. "Oh no! Take your time, please! We have all day to do this job and I have no issue with being patient while you get ready to go!" The woman would gladly seat herself upon the bed, tails raised up behind her as her naked body set down upon the bed even as her illusionary clothing did its work to make it seem like she was wearing clothing as she lowered herself to the bed. Tails would continue moving and wiggling, quickly fanning herself into the entire room as she slowly made herself more comfortable on the bed even to the point of laying a head upon a pillow while watching Jiyu in the process of getting ready for the mission they were about to depart on.

Moments later the scantily clad dog would ask her if there was anything Aiyana Shuer wanted to know about her, which was a large list of questions from the nine tailed fox that would take much too long to go through. "Well, there's a lot I would love to know about you. How about you surprise me?" The playful words would be made as she rolled a bit on the bed to be on her back so she could smile playfully while scattering her tails to each side of her to remain comfortable. Soon they could do this job and Aiyana could go back to the leisurely things in life; sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Jiyu let herself think for a moment when Aiyana mentioned how she must be proud of Makoto and the canine guessed she was proud. Until recently there would have been no question. Not long ago? She had realized how ridiculous she had been in the years she spent as a mage. These days Jiyu didn't know who she was, much less how she felt about someone. "Very." the comment was brief with a nostalgic smile. "Considering when I found her she had already killed several humans in her grief over being orphaned." the wind user shook her head, picking up one of the few objects on her dresser. Within the clawed hand was a photo of Makoto and herself, though the kitsune was clearly younger and her humanoid form was slightly different because she had no settled on it yet. "Obviously we're the only two apart from maybe Izayuki who knows she's killed anyone, I don't even think she remember's, she was insane before I brought her back over the threshold." she had risked her own life to bring the two hundred year old toddler back over the edge of insanity, considering she had no way to protect herself against fire and she had been much weaker back then. "It started out as a mission to take care of her, but when I figured out she was traumatized from seeing a hunter kill her mother, I couldn't do it." it was one thing she had in common with her adoptive daughter, they had both lost their mothers so young and had to live in a world were almost no one seemed to care.

At the moment Jiyu was just talking to keep herself busy because she could detect the fox's scent all over her room. If Aiyana could see the face of the Inugami at that moment? Dilated pupils and a slightly flushed face would give away that she was affected by the scent fanning. Of course, her heartbeat likely did that already for her. "Come on at least give me a category!" the canine laughed out the comment as her slender fingers worked on securing her top which was apparently quite difficult for her in spite of how simple her armor looked. "The only thing I consider important to mention off the bat to those I'll be working with is that my body is incredibly weak, so I'm extremely prone to bleeding multiple times during a job even if it doesn't seem like anything hit me directly. So if you ever feel the need to or for some reason have to grab me, please be gentle or you will break something." luckily none of these incidents left scars due to being an Inugami.

The woman would start off with quite about the little kitsune that she had under her care. It was a sad story, to be sure, but she really did not want to hear such sad stories right off the bat. That was things meant for private talks among people that knew each other. Aiyana was a stranger to this girl, and she didn't think this was really something meant for two strangers to discuss. Sex, drugs, other things like those could be done spur of the moment. The life and story of another that she had just met? That was something for down the road! The celestial spirit would listen, either way, playing the happy houseguest as she continued to stay comfortable on the bed as she lay there sprawled out. After a bit, the other girl would laugh before telling the nine tailed fox to at least give her a category to work with so she could talk about herself. After that, she would bring up that she was on the weak side physically, to the point of easy injury and everything.

"Oh, well that's kind of a bummer! Being that frail must suck most of the time! Don't worry though, I can be real gentle when it's needed. As for a category, do you have any relationship? You know what I mean, not a familial or 'just friends' one. I myself am currently single and generally mingling when I get the chance." The words would be followed with her spreading a bit more on the bed, her tails spread out around her as she waved them around. The bed was hers at this point, or would at least smell like her for weeks for slayers and those with sensitive noses, and the woman was going to keep it that way for as long as they were in this room.

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Most of what she told other people, while it could seem excessive of revealing, actually unveiled very little. Jiyu was going off her rails, it would happen eventually, but until it did and likely even after, she was actually always careful to be overly expressive to make sure no one had reason to question if she was hiding anything. Kazehime didn't need people looking into her past, if they believed they would just tell them anything important, tell them her whole lives story or such, then they wouldn't look. It had worked, for nearly a decade, it had worked.

"It is exceptionally annoying." she picked up another piece of armor plating, beginning the process of using her hands clumsily to secure it. Once it was all on and in place? her armor looked exceptionally simple, but until that point, it was actually shockingly complicated, at least for someone who had much the same internal anatomy as a canine only able to stand on her hind legs. "That's good, I can't tell you how many times I've ended up working with someone and needing to spend time healing a broken bone afterward." she knew that working together was not what Aiyana meant, the room was drowned in the other girls scent, it was so hard fighting old habits, but she was a better person now. "Single and willfully absent from the scene." she was running out of distractions, hand reaching up to her own nose to pinch down on the bridge of it with a sigh. "not that I didn't mingle excessively in the past." the last thing she needed was a wildcard like this hearing 'I don't sleep around ever' and than find out she used to sleep with almost anyone for the right cost, be it funds she needed or a warm bed and meal. "But it's not who I am anymore." she closed her eyes for a second before glancing back at the kitsune, tail lifted slightly, her dangerously narrow pupils and the flush under her optics proof enough of how she fought instinct in preference of whoever she was trying to be.

She needed to get some air back into this room, she was going to lose her mind if she had to keep inhaling only the scent of that damned kitsune. With that in mind, she walked over and used a stick she had laid near the window to pry it open like a lever, she didn't have the physical strength to open it without the aid. "Sorry, I hope you don't mind the window being open, my nose is killing me, I'm ready beside for restringing my weapon and Makato shouldn't take much longer." with that comment she placed the stick down and picked up the bow off her dresser, opening to a drawer that seemed to simply be many different strings for it laid neatly. "I always carry a few spare, but I prefer not to have it break on me during a shot." with that she took a step back from her bow and let the wind cut the current string, beginning to select a new one.

The female was starting to get comfortable in her current position, hoping that the other girl would give up on the job they were going to do so she could have fun, or even take a nap if she was turned down. Alas, that would not happen as the other girl would open a window while going over her poor physical status as well as her reasoning for turning her down as well. "Ah well, no hard feelings. There's a whole world of people and one saying no doesn't hurt my feelings." Jiyu would mention needing to do a few more things before they left, which was a bit frustrating now that they had been here this long already. Aiyana could be ready to leave within minutes of getting to a dressing room and they had had a full conversation and she still needed to restring her weapon? Blah!

"Well, I'm already all set to go. I got all of my stuff set up in another realm and can just summon those when needed to. So once you're set there we can nab little missie and then we can go!" The female would sit up, tails all wrapping up into one bundle of fluff so that she took up less room and so the open window would air out the place so that her scent was not as strong. It would still be there for weeks, a constant reminder that she had been there, and that was not a problem for her in the slightest. Now it was just waiting on Jiyu a little longer and they could get on to dealing with the job they had taken on. Then they could do some bonding at work!

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Running right into danger without prepping properly or anything like that? Such an idea only entered the Ace's head because she may have picked up on due to listening to Aiyana as the other woman spoke. Honestly, the blue haired girl missed doing that sort of thing. "I should look into storing things that way, I mean I'm a wind user and have access to another realm. Never even considered just storing things." little did she know that this conversation and idea would become rather important to her much later down the road. Right now, she didn't have much to store even if she could figure out how to do something like that, or find someone to teach her that. "It would certainly lessen the hassle." and increase the amount of time she could work, and with Makoto getting better at her magic studies, she was finding less and less reason to return to the guild hall often, except for supply necessity.

This was actually a rather nice interaction for her so far, considering the respect shown towards rejection. "I'm ready now." Jiyu announced this as she secured her bow to some sort of strap on the back of her crop top. Looking at the wind mage? It was actually almost comical, the bow was almost tall as she was. Having spoken her comment, the canine was quickly out the door, meeting up with Makoto in the hallway, the little girl clearly having just gotten done getting ready. "Maka packed many things!" clearly, the two-tailed kitsune was excited about this trip, a red school girl backpack on her pack, overflowing with seemingly anything she thought would be useful for missions. It had been so easy to forget she had not taken the young girl on a mission in a long while, not after her missions started becoming high ranked and exceptionally dangerous.

"So want to take to the air to get to the place? I know it's capable of holding three, though I don't recall how I learned that." as she spoke the wind user pulled a feather off her necklace, tossing it as she passed through the front door, the object expanding to a much larger size, hovering in the air. "Or we can go any other way you have in mind, I just don't want to walk." she smirked with the comment, leaning against the wall right outside the door, waiting for Aiyana to speak up about the preferred travel method.

Jiyu seemed to like Aiyana's idea for storing her equipment and weapons the way she had mentioned she did. It was nice to know that the ways she did some things were not lost on others minds. Many thought of only her physical responses and actions and somehow forgot that she was actually pretty intelligent as well. Looks really could be deceiving, after all, and the celestial spirit was one of the beings that made that phrase ring completely true.

A short while later, which added up to a long time later with how long she had been waiting on the bed now, the female canine would finally tell her that she was ready to get going. "Ah! Now we can get moving along! This bed is comfy, but I've done all I can on it already so it was starting to get boring." The vixen would get up on her feet, thus removing her body from the bed, and follow Jiyu and her massive bow out of the room to meet up with Makoto looking as cute as ever. It was clear she was completely ready for this, having packed nearly everything she could into a little red backpack that made it look like she was ready to go to school. "All, well look at our little adventurer! Hope you're ready for safe travels and fun happenstance little girl! We'll play eye spy while we head out, okay?" Aiyana would be talking at the same time as Jiyu was, but would still be able to understand what was being asked of her as well. Bundle of tails flicking with anticipation for the journey, Aiyana would turn to her with a smile on her face before speaking up. "Normally I would just teleport there, but I just made a promise to lil Maka here so we can take to the air to get there. Lead the way!" The nine-tailed fox was ready to solve the problem that this job was taking them on, that and play a little game with Makoto once they got in the air. It was going to be so much fun!

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Looks indeed. If someone judged the pair solely on their looks? The only thing that existed between them was a pretty face, neither of them seemed to possess anything extortionary apart from their animal traits. Yet, either could easily prove anyone who developed that ideal wrong. Clearly, Jiyu was not as intelligent as the Kitsune she had even dropped out of school young, but in terms of craftmanship and creativity she could almost be a genius. If only she could utilize fire once more, her ability to craft was entirely annihilated by her fear of flames. Thus the canine often was only to show how good she was with missions, from tracking to proving she held much more magical strength than it appeared. Thus, the pair was one that impeccably could prove to others that judging any book by its cover was an incredibly large mistake.

"All you can, in this instance." making an assumption off the Kitsunes behavior so far, the wind mage made the guess that she wouldn't mind some playful banter even if she now knew that she wouldn't be getting laid here. After her comment, the canine laughed with one hand covering her mouth so show the well meant, playful nature of the comment. "And the comfy part is the blanket, isn't it almost just the fluffiest thing ever?" she had gotten it when nightmares of her abduction and following time held prisoner had acted as ghosts to her dreams so strongly she had been unable to sleep. The extra comfort provided by the blanket? Had been enough to help her over that, and now it was just an extra soft surface to place atop her bed since she often didn't bother rolling up under the covers anymore, hating to be separated from her element even though they were one now. "How easily do you get bored? How are we going to have to play a game while traveling?" it was an acceptable question, some people had insanely short attention spans and would not be alright with simply looking at the land go by.

Aiyana quickly though indirectly solved the question she had posed before, causing the wind mage to smile. Her missions had not been this lively in a long time, it was already rather pleasant. "Oh come on, unfair advantage! I have a dogs eyesight!" she wanted in on whatever they played, but eye spy was incredibly hard for her. "Get glasses!" Did they even make glasses to fix simply having a different kind of sight? Jiyu had really never looked into it before, she'd have to look into it after this. "I don't know if they make glasses to fix being a dog sweetie, but I promise I'll look into it when we get home." they likely didn't, plus she didn't entirely mind her canine vision, it was fantastic for hunting less easily distracted than human gaze, far easier to focus on what she was targeting once it was in her vision. Plus if she had been able to see 'right' the woman knew she would never have become such an excellent archer.

Upon the agreement to lead the way? Jiyu smiled doing a mock curtsey towards the Kitsune with her fangs showing in a tiny grin, as she tossed a feather from her necklace and it enlarged. "Right this way." she motioned with her hands to the top of the six foot long feather, another one still dangling around her neck. However, she would leave the one on her neck, all three of them should be able to fix on one especially since Maka was still so small.