"Rise-san? Whats wrong?" asked Naoto as she approached a very depressed Rise.

"Oh, hey Naoto-kun..." Rise glanced up at her with a look of annoyance as three third years passed them, sniggering at them. "Just them. That's all."

"Are they bothering you?" Her concerned expression made the idol nod uneasily.

"Just a bit... Don't worry though! I'm sure it'll all blow over soon!" The detective wasn't fooled by her friend's fake smile. She knew her well enough to know when she was faking.

"Okay. Well if you don't want to sort it out then all you can do is wait." That was true, but not effective. She'd only said that so she wouldn't feel like she was pressuring her friend into anything.

"Yeah... Well know point in moping about it! Come on lets go!" Naoto nodded as the two of them left the Yasogami High school.

Yip!

Naoto glanced at the entrance to the Tatsuhime shrine, where a small creature stood staring at her. It yipped again jerking its head back in a gesture to follow as she gazed at it curiously. Is a fox really telling her to follow it into the shrine? Why on earth would it do that? Her thoughts whirled with questions as she hesitantly followed the battle scared fox into the shrine.

Yip! Yip!

The fox bounded towards her with an ema in its mouth.

"What am I supposed to do? And aren't you the fox that helped us before?" It nodded calmly before dropping the ema at her feet and nudging it with its nose. Picking it up, she read the wish, not entirely sure what else she could do with it.

'Please make the bullies stop! The football team won't leave me alone!'

"Is this...? Rise-san's wish?" the fox yipped to confirm her suspicions. "So why are you giving this to me?" It stared at her in an annoyed sort of way as if to say 'think about it!' "What?" It suddenly occurred to her what it meant. "Oh... You want me to grant this wish?" She smiled as the fox yipped again in agitated confirmation.

"Erm... Okay. I'll do my best with it..."

Why am I doing this? Damn fox... Naoto's agitated thoughts whirled through her mind as she approached the football team calmly. The plan was to talk them into submission if asking didn't work... However she knew neither of them would work... If I end up dead that fox is going to have some damn terrifying nightmares...

"Hey kid! What you doin' here? Don't tell me you wanna join the team!?" The team captain yelled at her as she arrived.

"No. That's not why I'm here." She spoke calmly, in a way she had practiced for years.

"Good. Then why you here kid?" Her patience was quickly diminishing as the captain repeated the word, kid.

"I came to ask you about Rise-san. I hear you've been hassling her. I would like to know why." Naoto looked up into his eyes expressionlessly as he smirked at her.

"Oh yeah that Rissette kid! A reason? Its fun!" Her stare turned into a glare as she responded;

"Fun? So you find it fun to hurt others like that?" Her voice remained calm and even as if in an interrogation.

"Yeah! You got a problem with that princey?"

"As a matter of fact I do. If you haven't noticed, Rise-san is my friend and I don't like to see her upset." She would have told them to use her name instead of the name princey, but then she would have just encouraged them to use it again. Where did that name even come from anyway?

"Ah shuddup princess! I doubt she'd like someone like you anyway! You don't even know the meaning of the word fun!" What?

"Princess?" The rest of the team were now watching as their captain grinned menacingly at her.

"You're a girl idiot!"

"Yes. I fail to see what this as to do with Rise-san." They stared at her in annoyance as her expression remained the same. Completely unshaken by their comments.

"Rise is a self absorbed, slut! What do you say to that?!" He was clearly running out of ideas to aggravate her.

"Please keep your opinions to yourself. Not everyone wishes to hear them." Their own methods of agitation were easily turned against them as the detective's expression remained unchanged.

"Just hit him already! He's asking for it!" Though she didn't show it the thought of a fight between her and the football teams captain made her more nervous then if she was in the TV world, fighting Izanami her self! She couldn't summon a persona or use her gun – without being arrested – here. The captain however smirked at his teammate's suggestion.

"Great idea! Well see you in hell princess!" At that his fist flew through the air towards her! The attack was nothing compared to a shadows making far too easy to evade his fist. "What the hell?"

"I'm sorry. Were you trying to hit me or the sky?" Taunting him probably wasn't her best idea as he quickly threw another fist in her direction! Of course Naoto easily avoided it, further aggravating her attacker.

"Gah! Just stay still you little pipsqueak!" Once again his fist met the nothing but air as she evaded him with the same unchanged expression.

"I can assure you I would if it wasn't so easy to avoid you." He glared at her one last time before turning to his team.

"Guys get him to stay still so I can pummel him!" On command the rest of the team stepped forwards to face her. Damn it! That fox is gonna get a bullet to the face after this! However the eleven football players were just as slow and uncoordinated as their captain, making them just as easy to avoid as they came at her one by one. Never together. Always separately.

"Damn it! Why can't I hit you?!" Stupid question...

"Right guys! Lets all go for him at once! He can't dodge all of us at once!" In an instant she was surrounded by them. It was becoming more and more difficult to keep her expression unchanged as they all charged at her at once! Naoto ducked down as they all threw their fists at the same place, causing them to end up punching each other instead! A few of them toppled over at the impact but a few of them just launched another attack at the young detective!

"STAY STILL!" One of them cried as his fist slammed into the goal post instead of her face. They were too predictable! Too slow! Another attack flew past her as she swiftly side stepped. Counter attack? No. Then she'd be doing something wrong and so far she didn't need to. They were hurting themselves enough without her adding to it!

"Are you done?" Asked Naoto as they all gasped for breath a few minutes later. Her expression remained unchanged after every attack and every annoyed comment aimed at her.

"Dude, just stay still!" This was getting ridiculous now. How long would it take before they would realise that they couldn't hit her if they were so predictable? Moving away again she finally offered a threat to them.

"If you don't stop attacking me then I'll just have to start actually fighting you. And at this rate I doubt that would end well."

"Oh yeah? We'll just see about that!" The captain's fist was once again launched at the young detective who evaded him, grabbed his arm and sent him tumbling into the ground with ease! "What the hell?!" Once again his agitation only grew as her expression remained unchanged.

"DUDE! STAY STILL!" Stupid demands... The team goal keeper leapt forward for another blow to the face! Naoto swooped down low and knocked his legs and from under him!

"ARGG!" The screech came too late as something collided with the back of her knees causing them to buckle at the impact! As she collided with the ground another team member dashed forwards to kick her as she struggled on the ground! Grabbing his foot mid-kick she slammed it into her previous attackers head, loosening his grip enough for her to escape his grasp!

Before she could even stand properly a fist connected with her chin sending her tumbling back to ground! This was getting ridiculous!

"I've had just about enough of you, princey!" She scrambled to her feet, just in time to avoid and counter another blow! Her lip was now bleeding from the earlier impact and her arm stung from the collision with the solid earth. She'd managed to keep a hold of her hat, but that was only a small consolation...

The fight dragged on for a ridiculous amount of time as they fought 1 VS 11, on the school football pitch. Eventually very few footballers were actually still standing along with Naoto. All of which panted heavily and none of them remained unscathed. Naoto – surprisingly – had the least amount of injuries, considering how severely she was outnumbered.

To her surprise one of the three remaining footballers dashed forwards, aiming a fist at her face! Again...

"I've had enough of this!" Her patience was all but gone as she drew her gun and pointed the muzzle at his face. "Either cease your bullying or I'll have the choice of arresting or shooting you!" what else could she do? She'd only just realised that they'd broken the law in more then one way! When she had countered their attacks she say it was to arrest them or in self-defence. Either way, she wouldn't get into too much trouble...

The teen stopped in his tracks at the sight of the gun and instantly raised his hands in surrender with wide eyes. The others however just stared in disbelief at her.

"What? I'm an active detective! I'm permitted to legally carry a gun for defensive purposes!" That damn fox better write its will... Wait, what? How far was her mind gone from the damage inflicted? Writing foxes indeed... "Now, leave my friends and me alone from now on or face the consequences!" finally they all agreed to apologise to everyone they had pestered tomorrow, starting with Rise. They had also promised not to tell anyone about this event.

"Now that that's over with, I believe you should all be leaving since this club ended about twenty minutes ago." At that they all ran towards the changing rooms, looking back nervously as Naoto walked casually behind them, twirling the gun on her fingers calmly. The second they were out of sight she sighed in relief before rubbing her hands and concealing her gun under her uniform once more.

"Naoto-kun!" Damn it! Naoto quickly dragged her tired limbs into a sprint towards the shrine at the sound of Rise's voice. "Hey! Wait for me!" She pretended to not have heard her as she forced herself to run faster. Yes, hiding behind the shrine building in the hopes of losing her was pretty stupid, but it might work! It had to! Or she would have failed the fox in gaining more attention for the shrine! The fox appeared to be waiting for her with a bundle of healing leaves as she dived behind the building! It laid them down in front of her, nuzzling them towards her to tell her to use them quickly.

"Thank you." She mumbled as they healed her in mere moments before Rise arrived. "Hello Rise-san. What brings you here?" Her voice sounded oblivious to the fact that she'd just ran halfway through the shopping district to avoid showing her previously battle sacred face, as well as the fact that she was supposed to meet her at the Marukyu tofu shop a few minutes ago.

"Chasing you of course! Why were you running from me anyway?" Her agitated expression forced a pang of quilt to stab her in the chest.

"I don't know what you mean Rise-san. I've been here for a while now. My Grampa just left a moment ago and I was just about to leave to meet up with you." She hated lying to her friend but it was all she could do at the moment.

"But... I just..." Rise stared around confused before her eyes widened as she grabbed Naoto's hand to inspect it. Damn it! Her hands were stained with blood from when she had desperately wiped the blood from her lip! How was she going to explain this?! "Naoto-kun! You're bleeding!"

"What? No, I'm not." With that she snatched her hand away from her friend and rubbed the blood of to prove she wasn't. Rise stared at her sceptically.

"But you are! Or were at least! Tell me what happened!" She hadn't the patience anymore for this...

"I'm not bleeding! I haven't been either!" Rise's eyes widened as she snapped at the idol a little harsher then she had expected.

"Naoto-kun... I'm sorry. I just thought that..." Why did it have to be Rise that saw her? Why couldn't it have been someone else that wouldn't make her feel bad for loosing her temper? She sighed in exhaustion to calm her nerves enough to speak without raising her voice.

"I'm sorry Rise-san... My patience has been on the verge of disappearing all day." Lying again wasn't helping her calm down at all... She had lost all patience and rationality with the relentless football team that just loved to make things difficult... The only things those strange leaves couldn't do, was give her the energy to deal with anything but another fight.

"Well, maybe we should meet up some other time... You know, a time when your not gonna bite my head of. You look pretty spent to!"

"Yes. Let's meet again at a different time. I'm sorry about this Rise-san." Guilt... The only thing passing through her mind was guilt... If that fox hadn't given me those leaves to help me out of this I would have shot him...

"Oh, it's okay Naoto-kun! We all have our days! Well C'Ya later!" With that she turned to leave.

"Bye!" Once Naoto was sure she'd gone she turned back around to call the fox.

Yip!

It leapt out from behind the shrine's main building with four ema's in its jaws.

"Three?" Her expression turned nervous as she thought of what the stupid fox wanted now... However, upon closer inspection she noticed that they all said the same thing but in different ways. One of which was Rise's. Each one spoke about the bullies and how cruel they were always being.

"Don't worry... I granted the wish. How else do you think I got those injuries? Thank you for that, by the way." The fox yipped again in excitement as it bounded around Naoto's feet. She couldn't help but smile at it as it did so. It bounded away again before returning once again with another ema in its jaw. Sighing she read the request.

Author's Note!

I was just sat in an English exam and suddenly I had the idea to put Naoto threw a wish granting experience! What a way to come up with something like this! I mean I was literally in the middle of writing an answer! I wasn't even thinking about this! LOL :D :D :D Anyway... I thought that since I pair Naoto and Souji (Without any romance at all) that she should take his place as wish granter for the shrine! I actually want to give the fox a name and the name I'm thinking of giving him is Kitsune. I don't know why but he always struck me as a he... Please let me know what you think! Any suggestions on what other stories I should do please let me know! As always please Read & Review! I love hearing about what else I can do to make my writing better! :D :D :D :D

PS

This is not what happens when you try to stop bullies! Go to a teacher or something instead! I don't want to be blamed for any fights! The fight is only there because I thought it would be more interesting to read and write! :D