I hope you all are really enjoying this fanfic because I'm putting my heart and soul in this. I'm so graceful to have so many fans of the paring actually liking it, and I'm crying tears of joy...*sniff*

Characters (C) Nintendo/Intelligent System

Takumi was running around the gardens in his beast form since he hasn't been in it in a few days. It was been three days and it was confusing for him. Why did he kissed Leo, his only human friend, on the cheek? To be a bit of a surprise for him? He hears someone calling out for him. He knee down to revert back to his humanoid form so no one saw him.

"Hey Takumi!" Leo called out wearing his armor. "Seems your interested of finding the Fujin Yumi, a mystical bow that have unimaginable powers?"

"How did you know?!" Takumi started to sweat when he saw his friend's eyes looking at him like a cat.

"A little maid told me...anyway, are you?"

"Yes. I am. Maybe it's in the woods near by. A faded light was shining out from it. We should head back to the fields to see it again."

"Seems fair. I'll make you be the leader."

The two ran off to the fields from yesterday to find any clues to the bow. Takumi notice a small glimmer in the forest.

"Hey, found something!"

"Let's go!"

The two ran inside to see the once healthy trees was now decaying and rotting to the core. Leo took his tome out to see if anyone beside his friend was near by. The other male looked around until his fox ears under the hood took in a loud noise in the distance.

Orobo?! Why is she here?!

"Is someone here?" Leo asked to his friend.

"I can't hear anything."

"Well...let's split..."

Takumi ran to the east to see a dark blue fox growling at him like an wild animal. It was one of his retainers, Orobo, looking at him as if he's with Leo's kind.

"Lord Takumi?" Orobo reverted to her human form. "It's really you!"

"Shhh...quiet...I don't want attention to Leo."

"What's a Leo? A friend of yours?"

"Yea...a human friend."

"A human!?" Orobo went to her beast form. "I'll kill him for taking you away from me!"

Leo hear his friend in danger. Taking his quick thinking, he ordered his horse to go to the noises. The fox creature pounced on Leo, almost tearing his black armor plates off his body to eat his heart. Getting his sword, he used it to stab the creature on the back with his tome starting to cast his magic at it.

Takumi arrived at the scene no later to see his retainer killed in cold blood by his friend. He was scared to see a death of a Kitsune. Death to his own kind. He saw Leo walking up to him to hug him tight.

"I thought...I thought that creature got you...but...it's over...it can't get us anymore." Leo was sobbing in his tears.

Takumi couldn't speak. He was staring at death. If he shows Leo his tail and ears, there would be a chance that the man will kill him for his fur. If he could find the weapon, then there might be a chance to fight against anyone.

"The bow isn't far. I could feel it's energy."

Takumi ran off with Leo right behind him. Back to the dead creature, a dark brown fox creature came out to see it's friend dead.

"No...who killed you, Orobo?" The spirit asked, hearing nothing. "No...I need to inform Ryoma at once."

It ran off, unaware of a lone archer hiding in the bushes.

"Well...it seems that this Takumi fella here isn't human..." He stepped out of the shadows, seeing the creature with some runic markings on it's dead body. "So Lord Leo killed this one. It's sad that he's blinded by the love he's holding to that creature. Ah well...might as well kill it while it's asleep to make Lord Leo see it in the light."

Another man with blond hair came out as well. His yellow robes covered his body except for some fish nets on his chest. He noticed the dead Kitsune. He looked around to see his friend gone.

"Ack!" The man ran off to the trail. "Don't leave Odin Dark behind!"

Takumi and Leo arrived in an abandon ruins to see a statue of a powerful archer with the divine bow in it's hands. The dark knight looked around the area to notice any traps. The younger male looked to see the bow acting on it's own. It flies to the Kitsune's hands to let him and the item be one.

"It came to you." Leo looked at the golden bow's shining green bow string made out of light. "Seems you'll be an excellent user to the bow. Like how my tome and I are one, you need to have your bow be with you at all times."

The two were then surrounded by a group of bandits. Takumi took aim to see a large greenish arrow appearing out of nowhere and strike down one of them, killing him with one arrow. Leo grabbed his friend and rode off the battlefield on his horse.

"Leo, why are you running?"

"I don't want you killed. It seems whoever called those bandits was the same group that almost killed me. I was saved...by an unknown creature. But I own my life to that creature. If it was a Kitsune, then I wouldn't kill it."

Takumi shutter inside. "What if the Kitsune is a female?"

Leo chuckled a bit. "Then I'll propose to her. It seems logical."

"Marrying a beast like a Kitsune is bad luck...they are nothing but tricksters. She'll try to cut your throat! I'm sorry but you should stick on marrying one of your own kind."

"You seem logical with the creatures. Very well...though I might be a trickster myself when the time comes."

The two returned back to the house before nightfall. Takumi looked at Leo again with the moon's light falling on the fair skin, blond hair and black armor. It seems so odd for the Kitsune but the man was simply beautiful.

"I'm going to bed...see you in the morning, Leo."

Leo was sadden by this. "Can I sleep with you?"

"Sleep...with...me?"

"Yes, you seem lonely without a bed buddy. Plus you do look extremely tired."

Takumi allowed his friend enter his room to see Leo already in his PJs with him wearing just a plain shirt and sleep pants, the tail hiding in one of the pants legs. He had six hair pins to close his fox ears so it was close for his hair to be release from the ribbons.

"I wonder why you wear a hood, but your simply beautiful."

Takumi blushed. "Really? Thank you, Leo."

Leo smiled and laid down on the couch in the living room area. Takumi removed the pins to massage his ears. He placed them on the end table to sleep in the bed.

But his slumber didn't last long as a shady character breaks in the villa. The single eye character saw the Kitsune defenseless. Putting something in a white cloth, he tickles Takumi's nose. He woke up to not noticed the white cloth covering his nose and passed out.

Leo woke up to hear the thud over the distance to see his friend passed out and taken away.

"Takumi!" Leo cried out as he chased the man carrying his friend. "Hey, numbskull, wake up!"

Leo saw the horse called to the man to see him plopping Takumi on the animal. The man hopped on the animal as well and rode off. Leo was disappointed at himself. He returned to the villa to see pins on the end table of the bed. It was silver like Takumi's hair. He couldn't get the odd feeling that his best friend could be a Kitsune. He just feel asleep with the Fujin Yumi by his side as if his best friend was near by.