Chapter 5

As Chikorai sat staring at the ceiling, a noise captured his attention. A tad confused, he looked in the direction where the noise was coming from. At the cell wall to his left he could hear the sound of one of a stone being pushed through to his side, along with the sound of voices. One appeared to be a woman, the other a man, each arguing back and forth in hushed tones. I was that man, or um, doggon. (please pity me.) My 'companion' (ugh) was a kitsune, a love goddess named Aijin Akuma. (You'll see why we ended up in this awful place in moment; but first, lets get down our introductions.)

"I want to talk to the prisoner first! Please!", said Aijin.

"No! You think after all the trouble you've gotten me in that I'd let you have the privilege of talking to a fellow cell mate?!"

"Uh.well. So! I'm cuter!"

"Looks can be deceiving.", I muttered.

Intrigued by our conversation, or should I say argument, Chikorai crawled toward the moving stone, and stopped short, just as the heavy block fell with a thud into his cell.

Remaining quiet, he stared curiously at the two pair of eyes both gleaming through the square hole. One pair of eyes was blue, slanted, and obviously masculine, (my eyes) where as the other's was golden, enticing, and feline shaped, Chikorai therefore assuming them to be the woman's.

He leaned forward towards us and squinted his eyes as he tried to make out our shape. It was on the tip of my tongue to introduce myself, and supply a bit of an explanation for all this, but much to my (and in my opinion Chikorai's misfortune) Aijin, being the small creature she is, was small enough to dive through the hole and tackle the poor man.

His eyes widened in surprise as the wretched- er.I mean, playful kitsune pounced upon him, nearly knocking him to the ground.

Chikorai looked up to behold what exactly had just knocked the wind out of him. Through the darkness he could distinguish these things: her form was small, only about four feet tall, and her hair was medium length, and hung down in jagged forms of light and dark blue. She had beautiful, golden, feline like eyes (as I have said.although.again I say, looks can be deceiving.) Her ears were of an odd sort; they were animal like, and lined with smooth brown fur, they jetted out to the sides, and had white, fluffy tuffs of fur poking out from their center. And as if everything else about her wasn't strange enough, she had two blue, fox like tails.

She smiled playfully, "Hi! I'm Aijin, I haven't seen a human guy in a really, really long time, and I was wondering if perhaps you'd be interested in- "

"Aijin!", I yelled, "Get back over here! Do you have any idea what would happen if a guard were to jus come waltzing in?!"

She glanced at her nails and looked up at me happily. "Why, they'd cut off your head."

"They'd cut off yours too.", I growled.

"Oh, yeah. Ha, ha, my bad!"

Chikorai, still confounded by this sudden change of events, gently pushed Aijin onto the cell floor and glanced at her bashfully, as he noted the heart necklace, and rather revealing black vest she wore; but, he thought, perhaps those baggy black pants could compensate for it.

"Um..", he started, not sure at what to say to us. "Why are you.."

I poked my furry brown head out of the hole, "Here?", I finished. "That's quite simple actually.you see. we sort of over heard your conversation with Mr. Big stuff a minute ago and decided that, well, since we both appear to be on death row that we could help each other out.of this place that is."

Chikorai's face lit up as if by magic, "Wow! Really? Ya'll would be willing to help me out of here?"

Aijin placed an arm around his shoulder and smiled at him gleefully, "Of course we would! After all.I just happen to be a kitsune, a love goddess, kind of one of those cupid gigs yanno. When I overheard about you and this Dixie whoever, I just knew I had to help ya out!"

I barked at her angrily.. "Liar! I had to force you into doing this!"

A sweat drop formed on the side of her head, as she searched for a way to recover herself. "Um.So, Chikorai how about them falcons?!"

"Falcons.? What? Huh?"

"Don't listen to her, she's just trying to confuse you to get herself out of trouble!", I replied, all the more angry with that bothersome kitsune.

Chikorai shook his head, "Ugh, never mind. moving on to a different subject."

I cocked an eyebrow at him. "Such as?"

"Well.for one, you know why I'm here, but I have no idea why you are. So, what ya in for?"

Chikorai became all the more frustrated as Aijin and I bickered back and forth about the touchy subject.

"You shouldn't have stole the money!", I scolded.

"Well, you shouldn't have told me the other guy cheated!"

"Oh! So its my fault now? Well, excuse for not assuming that by telling you my competitor cheated, that you would beat him up and steal the prize money!"

Chikorai looked between the two of us, anger building inside him. "WILL YOU TWO JUS PLEASE SHUT UP!?!?!"

Silence choked Aijin and I.

"Now," he started, "One at a time.um what's ur name, doggon?"

"Iyogi Kai."

"Great, well Iyogi, you go first.", he smiled.

I could sense Aijin's contempt that Chikorai had chosen me to go first, but never the less, I did.

"Well, you see, it all started with my entering a Crawgon fighting tournament. The prize money being offered was a grand total of 9,999,999,999 $. I, being the top notch fighter that I am, decided to enter the tournament. Well, I fought a total of nine rounds and won each of them, the tenth round was to be the finals. The name of my opponent was Ganko.their King. He was a great fighter and I give him the credit for it, however, he also was a very sly fighter, and tried to cheat his way out beating me.and succeeded. Our fight was nearly at its end, and both of us had exhausted our abilities. Somehow I found the strength to deliver a kick to his head that I am certain would have knocked him out, but just as my paw was about to knock the snot out of his puny mind, he lifted up a frying pan..directly in front of my paw.causing the bones in it to shatter. I fell to the ground in pain and shock, for I knew that weapons were not allowed in such matches, and a frying pan.could be considered a weapon if used in the right way. How no one else saw him use the pan I do not know, but they counted me out, and Ganko went home 9,999,999,999$ richer. Then, as if having my paw broken, and being cheated out of money and a tournament wasn't enough, when my 'friend' Aijin heard of my plight, she decided to 'right the wrong'. From what I've been told she went to the suite which she had heard Ganko was staying at and found his room. She knocked on the door, and she, being the.supposedly.beautiful kitsune that she is, was let into his room without question. And she-", I paused, "Um this is terribly embarrassing are you sure you want to hear the rest of this?"

He sighed, "Iyogi, sir, I'm seventeen, I'm sure whatever it is you have to say isn't anything a girl like her wouldn't do."

Aijin's eyes narrowed and stared burningly into his. "A girl like what.? What exactly are you suggesting that I did.?"

Chikorai panicked, as he looked around shiftily. Getting in trouble with angry women is VERY dangerous.especially when you're dealing with Aijin Akuma. "Um, well.L-look at you! The enticing eyes, the nice body, the sexy voice, the skimpy clothes, the whole love goddess thing! What was I supposed to think?"

Even I must admit that Chikorai's statement was about the dumbest thing he could have chosen to say. He should have saw this coming.

Aijin leaped in front of Chikorai and started to choke him and shake him back and forth mercilessly. "You pervert! Just because I was trying to hit on you when I knew your girlfriend is in danger of marrying a sleazebag and ruling over an entire country, and just because I look like all that in bag of potato chips DOES NOT mean I'm that kind of girl, understand?!"

Chikorai's face was covered in total fear (it was obvious to me that he had never faced the wrath of a woman before), and he answered her in a very high pitch voice, ".You were hitting on me?"

The statement made her a tad angrier, she began to shake him again, then stopped. He looked up at her dizzily. "You see this heart necklace?", she said, holding it where he could see it. Chikorai nodded. "With this necklace I have the power to make people fall in love, its what I do, this piece of junk is the source of my power. Well, I decided to get back at Mr. Ganko for cheating Iyogi out of his money, so I used my powers to make the kingy blingy fall in love with the same frying pan he used on Iyogi! After one of his private guards found him taking the frying pan out to eat at a nice restaurant they hired a sorcerer named Dajare to undo the spell. Ganko remembered who had done what and now Iyogi and I are in prison! So, next time do me a favor and think before you start accusing me of junk I ain't even done. And besides that, its forbidden for kitsune's to fall in love, I'd get kicked outta heaven for that!"

"Y-yes, ma'am, I understand. I apologize."

"Good.", she smiled sweetly.

Chikorai was slightly confused, as she released her grip from him and walked to the edge of the cell, suddenly all bubbly and happy again.

He looked at Iyogi, while rubbing his now sore throat. "Um.she'd get kicked out of heaven for falling in love.yet she doesn't for getting put into prison for stealing money?"

"And don't forget inanimate object cupidism against the King.", she added.

"Well.that gets quite complicated.uh, lets just say her friends up there think this whole thing is pretty funny."

Chikorai was bewildered. "But you're on death row!"

I frowned in disgust, "Yes.they have an ironic sense of humor." (Blasted kitsunes.)