Hello everyone! I'm back again. This fanfic's a long one. I'm thinking of at least fifteen chapters. Then again, you never know. Read and enjoy!

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Naoko and Kurama stood opposites each other. Both of them were in a fighting stance, motionless. This was a lesson in patience, and the person who was impatient would lose the fight immediately. Hesitation was also a factor as well. Kurama wore a really short sleeveless T-shirt (you know, the one that bares the guy's midriff :p) and a pair of track bottoms. Naoko was clad in leotards and a thin sleeveless tee over it. She was also wearing sweatbands. They were barely breathing.

Suddenly though, they heard a noise. Kurama's fox ears picked it up before Naoko's but the difference was not important. It sounded like rustling winds and broken twigs. However, it was too late for Naoko to stop her attack.

She charged straight at the kitsune, feinting upwards before swiping his legs. He jumped up, not looking at her at all, but Naoko was on autopilot. She couldn't have stopped even if she wanted to.

She thrust out with her legs, but he caught them and spun her. She fell, growled, and jumped back up. Now though, the noise was insistent and dangerous. Naoko stopped as her hand had been about to slice at Kurama.

"Males or females?" he asked her, not really wanting to know.

"Females… Very eager ones too by the sounds of it. Very…" her eyes widened, and she grabbed the kitsune and made for the trees. Or he grabbed her. Either way, they were dashing out of the way and into the safety of the treetops.

"I tell you, I saw him here!" an overexcited girl said.

A large swarm of females came into the clearing. All of them were schoolgirls, and Kurama saw, were from the area near his school, workplace and home. Darn fangirls! He thought to himself.

It was at that moment both their handphones rang.

"This is Minami's handphone! He wouldn't have left his things here like that! And I wonder whose this is," she held out Naoko's handphone.

Naoko and Kurama had to wait two hours before they dared to climb down.