The Fourth Time Klepto Met Felicity…

…they never got the chance.

Disclaimer(s): The Void Kitsune was the moderator for this roleplay and therefore owns Inari Academy, which you can not use. She is also the sole owner of Felicity and says you can not use her.

I only own Klepto, Hiyori, and Fenrir, who are my babies, and you may not use them without my say-so.

(A/N) Our first three attempts having failed, The Void Kitsune and I tried yet again to get Klepto and Felicity together in 2013 when I joined The Void Kitsune's Inari Academy roleplay and it died too shortly after that.

Similar to The Windmere School for Gifted Students, Inari Academy is a boarding school that follows the same principles regarding human students as Windmere did except, instead of all kinds of monsters, Inari Academy is specifically for kitsunes. If you know the kitsune lore, you'll get the reference.

At the very start of the roleplay, when all the students are showing up for the new school year at Inari Academy, the kitsune students report directly to the school dorms while the human students check in at the Sleep Inn the day before the first day of classes. Sleep Inn is the hotel that the human students stayed at until it was time for them to head to Inari Academy for the school year because the school still needed to orient the kitsune students on how to handle the human population in the school. At the hotel, there was a pool, workout room, diner, a small spa, and an arcade, but unfortunately no one really got to enjoy any of it because the roleplay did not survive that first night at the Inn.

Felicity was a kitsune student in this roleplay, and I brought Klepto and Hiyori in as human students. And because I kind of fell in love with the idea, Fenrir was a domesticated wolf pup; relatively small in size (a little bigger than the average lap dog), tame, and fiercely protective of Hiyori if not slightly lazy and indifferent to his surroundings at times.

Just so you know: This chapter is formatted similarly to the roleplay format, more like the way I formatted the Windmere excerpt. I copied what you are about to read straight from the roleplay without editing it at all for posterity's sake. Again, it really didn't need editing this time around. All the writing belongs to me. Since my characters were the only ones to check in and I'm pretty sure Felicity didn't, I only needed to use my roleplay posts here.

The most I got to do in this roleplay before it crashed was check my characters into Sleep Inn and get them to their rooms. And I don't think Felicity made an entrance at all even though her bio, dorm assignment, and class schedule had been set up. But if she did make an entrance and I missed it, she would have been at the school the entire time my characters were at the Inn. So, there was never a chance that she and Klepto would fulfill their destiny.

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Sleep Inn

Klepto looked around briefly at the interior of the Sleep Inn, keeping his suitcase close to him. His only real possessions were in there and he didn't want anyone getting any ideas that it could be easily stolen. He squared his shoulders and went over to the front desk to get his room key, avoiding eye contact with anyone who might try to speak with him. He just wanted to go upstairs to his room and relax for the night. The only good thing about going to this new school was that he didn't have to put up with his parents at home anymore. He quietly accepted the key the employee handed him and gripped it tightly in his fist, shuffling off to his room.

Hiyori sighed as she wandered into the hotel, clutching her waterproof shoulder bag to her side and silently taking in her surroundings. Nice place. She hadn't exactly seen nicer, so she didn't really have anything to compare it to. Fenrir made a noise like a grunt to get her attention and she looked down at him. He stared innocently back at her and before she had time to register what he was trying to communicate to her, she'd already walked into someone. She quickly looked up to see a tall dark-haired boy awkwardly stepping away from her.

"Sorry," he mumbled quickly without looking at her like it was his fault she was such a space case.

"Uh... No. My bad," she muttered oddly in return.

He simply nodded and turned to head up the stairs to the hotel rooms. He was carrying a lone suitcase. Must be a student, she thought.

Hiyori quickly turned back to look at Fenrir, who she swore was smirking at her, and shook her head before approaching the front desk. Once she'd been handed her room key, she uttered a polite thank you to the employee and skedaddled to find her room. She was kind of curious to see the accommodations.

"Come along, wolf," she grumbled to the grey pup padding along beside her, silently thanking this place and her new school for being pet friendly.

Klepto found his room after a moment of searching and quickly unlocked it. As he got inside, he didn't take the time to take in the scenery. He really didn't care. It was nice. Just like the rest of the place. But it wasn't like he was going to be here for long anyway, so why get attached? He locked the door behind him and set his suitcase down on the bed. Great. He didn't see the point of making any public appearances now that he was here. Besides, he didn't want to risk running into that girl and her... dog... again. The way her dog looked at him made him uncomfortable for a reason he couldn't explain. So, he opened his luggage and resigned himself to sketching for the rest of the night. Or at least until he fell asleep.

Hiyori disappeared up the stairs as quickly as she could. The way she saw it, she had two options: she could stay in her room for the rest of the night or take advantage of this opportunity and explore the hotel for a while. "What do you think?" She looked down at Fenrir, whose responding look was anything but helpful. "Fine. Exploring, it is, then." She was too curious to let this time go to waste. Plus, she was bored.

When she found her room, she pushed the door open almost as soon as the key was back out of the lock and Fenrir padded into the room before her. His eyes scanned the place and Hiyori watched his nose sniffing as he paced back and forth investigating. She stood there in the doorway watching him impatiently until he came back to her. The way he held his head up and his chin out implied he'd made sure the room was safe. Hiyori sighed and reached down to pat him on the head before closing the door behind her. Fenrir jumped up on the bed as she knelt down next to it and observed her questioningly.

"I know I should probably settle in first, but I'd rather get a look at the place before I make myself comfortable," she reasoned with him and he huffed tiredly. She tucked her bag under the bed - she hadn't brought more than the bare necessities and some changes of clothes - and snapped her head back up to look into Fenrir's guarded black eyes. "Well, you can stay here if you want," she told him and he hopped onto the floor, determined to follow her in case she tried to lock him in, "That's what I thought." Hiyori stood once she was satisfied with the security of her belongings and returned to the door with Fenrir at her heels. After she'd locked the door behind them, she thoughtfully attached her room key to the centerpiece of her choker along with the other charms dangling there to ensure that she wouldn't lose it and the two set off downstairs to the lobby.

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(A/N 2) And that's it. I think I made the last post in the roleplay, so that's literally where it ended.

In case you're wondering why Hiyori and Fenrir happen to be right up in the middle of these Matchmaker Missions, it's because I tend not to like joining a roleplay with only one character in my roster. I prefer at least two in case there's no one else around for my characters to interact with, otherwise I can have them interact with each other so I'm at least doing something in the meantime.

Usually when I roleplay with Klepto, I have Lexy join the roleplay with him – that's what I did for the TDI roleplay, the first roleplay I used those characters in actually, technically the roleplay I created them for. But when I joined the first monster-human roleplay (Windmere), I didn't want to make Klepto anything but a human and I didn't want to roleplay two human characters by including Lexy, so I plucked out Hiyori and Fenrir because they were perfect for that kind of scenario. And when I moved on to the Inari roleplay, even though I made Hiyori a human (and Fenrir an ordinary domestic wolf pup), I figured I would keep up the tradition of roleplaying her (and Fenrir) with Klepto in the monster-human roleplays. In all human roleplays, though, I'd probably go back to using Lexy with Klepto. But it all depends. Both Hiyori and Lexy love to meddle in people's love lives.

Anyway, so this was the last roleplay in which The Void Kitsune and I attempted to reunite Klepto and Felicity…

…but we've decided to give it one more shot. This time, no group roleplay. Just a one-on-one between us two because we know we'll keep it going. No crazy or complicated school or camp settings. A sweet and simple plot, a chance meeting, and a friendship that grows into something more. It is destiny.

If all goes well, you'll get to read that, too. But hopefully not here. XD Because this is where the failures seem to end up.