Novice89 - Quick note. I'm not sure when my other stories will be updated, but hang on. Meanwhile here's something small I made up in my spare time. By the way, his is another Kit/Kei. I got the idea from another story. Anyways, Keitaro has the post Seta glass. Enjoy!

Chapter 1 - Meeting the Fox

Keitaro Urashima walked along the business district, a frown on his face. He had just gotten back from the Tokyo U campus, where he found out that he had failed the entrance exam for the second year in a row. He sighed as he walked past men and women in business suits talking on their cellphones.

Not much could go wrong in his world at this point, he had failed once again, his parents were kicking him out and his supply of money was almost nonexistent. Again he sighed and decided that he would think clearly tomorrow and drown his problems in sake for the time being.

He walked down the end of an alley and went into a small underground tavern he had come to discover after failing his first entrance exam. It was a small, quaint room, filled with sights and sounds. It never made you want to puke your guts out or anything. The liquor was good, as was the bartender. Choosing a seat at the bar, he ordered some sake, regular sake.

"So you failed again?" the bartender, who had come to know Keitaro very well, asked. As if on que, Keitaro sank lower into his chair, feeling even more crushed. The bartender realizing his mistake was quick to rectify, "Here have something, anything on the house."

"C'mon, Kitsune, I've paid for the last twenty drinks, twenty." A red haired girls complained to her friend, a girl with short blonde hair.
"C'mon, why are you so hooked on money. You have to just kick back and enjoy."
"That's what you've been saying to me the last two hours. We should just go now." Ranted the girl, but Kitsune was staring at the young man who had just enter the bar a couple of minutes ago, looking very depressed. She thought he looked familiar for a while. She sat there staring at him for a while, wondering where she had seen him, while her friend, Naru Narusegawa continued rambling on and on about something.

Keitaro sipped the bittersweet liquid and relaxed a bit, letting the buzz kick in slightly. He had no intentions of getting completely smashed, but a nice buzz to lift his spirits would definitely be appreciated. Suddenly the hairs on his neck stood on end, a sign that someone was watching him, as he took another sip. He turned around and saw Kitsune, 'the fox', watching, no staring at him, Keitaro Urashima, second year ronin and loser. He was dumbfouned, but under his slightly intoxicated state, he was able to stay cool. When he was about to see if he had anything in his teeth, he decided to have a little fun. When was an opportunity like this ever presented to him of all people? Never.

Gathering his nerves, and sake he went over the small table at the end of the room, where the girls was sitting. Kitsune, knowing that she had been caught, started to blush like crazy. As Keitaro made his way over, he grabbed a glass of sake from the bartender, who of course was keenly watching Keitaros game of cat and mouse.

Naru, completely oblivious to everything other than herself, continued talking and was thus surprised when a male voice reached her ears. "May I join you." Came the sly, almost coy, voice of Keitaro Urashima. In his intoxicated state, he could care less what happened, it was almost a given at this point that he was immortal so he thought; 'The hell with it.'

Naru sighed obviously thinking that another male worshipper had come to ask her out on a date, and started her rejection speech. "Look, I'm sorry, but I'm not ready for tha." Keitaro turned and looked at Naru, almost at once recognizing her form cram school. He raised an eyebrow at Naru, who had now stopped to think about where she'd seen him before. He sat down, interpreting Kitsune's snagging the sake from him as a yes. "What do you think you're doing?" Naru sounded slightly annoyed.

"Just stopping by to say hi, Naru." He said without even thinking about anything. "How do you know my name. You better not be some goon Kentaro Sakata sent to stalk me or some old pervert trying to get some." Keitaro had to work hard to keep the snide retort from escaping his mouth. Of course, what Naru had forgotten was that she had bags under her eyes, she wore grey sweat clothes, her coke bottle glass and her hair was up.

Keitaro chuckled a bit, enjoying the humor of the situation. "No, you go to my cram school. I'm in your math class." "Oh yeah. Hey get away from me, you got a twenty seven from tteh bottom, I don't want your stupidity, it's probably contagious." Naru half screamed. Keitaro winced. That had hurt deep. Taking a gulp from his bottle, he turned to Kitsune, who had now finished the bottle he had brought. Raising an eyebrow, he asked, "awful thirsty aren't we?" Kitsune blushed slightly and was about to respond when Naru interjected.

"I SAID GET AWAY FROM ME. YOUR STUPIDITY IS CONTAGIOUS! LEAVE!" Naru screamed before sending Keitaro off with a mighty punch. Half the customers shook their heads in pity, while the others sweatdropped. While Naru calmed down, the bartender approached her. "Miss, now I don't want to pursue this incident, but you're going to have to pay his bill, seeing as he should be waking up in Osaka by now." Naru growled at her own stupidity and reach for her wallet.