Homage to Hitsunen

by Animangod

Short-stories and one-shots all focused in the AU town of Hitsunen. Kurogane and the Li Brothers work for Tomoyo Daidouji and Yuuko Ichihara of Piffle Princess. Fai runs the Cat's Eye Cafe, with Subaru and Sakura being his two most loyal workers. Kurogane and Fai are housemates. Stories range between Family-appropriate to Close-the-children's-eyes-and-ears.

10. A Promise to Panini

As Fai's phone rang, he answered it, before his eyes lit up.

"Panini~~," Fai trawled over the phone, with a tone of hopefulness, "It's…is it really you?"

Hearing the voice again, Fai smiled brightly, "Oh it is you… Panini, it's been forever and a day you know… You never call and…" Fai stopped, his face falling to more serious, more melancholic, "Oh, …that." An accusation. "No, it's …it's not like that. Oh please no, I've…I've been doing just as you needed me to do. But…" Fai flinched.

"Please listen, things… things can be different, I mean…there's…"

"No I can, I really can, but it's…I don't think it is necessary."

"I have not!" retorted Fai, defensively. "If you would just…"

"But Panini~~! There's this girl here…If you just meet her, you'll understand. You'll understand just how things are."

"Panini, no… you can't just…"

"Impossible! If you do that, then…"

"I won't. Panini, I won't do that."

"Yes, yes I am; if you had time for these trivialities I make sure to endorse, then you too would know just what can be done. There is common purpose."

"No I don't side with them, I just…things are different. Unlike someone else I know, such deeds will affect me daily. I can't go around pretending…"

Fai scrunched up his face at the next words, winced as if he was in pain and pinching the bridge of his nose. "Even I am not that good. Such is beyond what I can do, and be there's another…he would not allow such. His vision is superior to a hawk."

Fai let out a sigh, "Panini, just, please…if nothing else I want to see you again. And if she is unable to convince you what I have seen, then you may make use of me as you see fit."

"Goodbye, Panini."

Fai hung up the phone, hanging his head low. He meticulously set his phone down on his bed, before he slammed a fist hard into one of his walls, "Dammit!"

He could feel himself on the verge of tears, so he hit the wall again, denting the wall and hurting his hand in the process before he slumped defeatedly onto his bed, clasping his hands together and leaning on the backs of his hands, looking down but not really seeing what was there, his mind a thousand and one mile away.

"What am I sposed to do now?"