Wrote this chapter listening to the main theme of Morenatsu. It had an adorable happy Shun the video, I would be crazy not to listen to it. Shun-kun is adorable!
Disclaimer: I don't even want to own either Bleach or Soul Eater, my mind is on Morenatsu right now... I WANT SHUN AND KOUYA!
Roy glared at the ninetailed fox from across the stump which had the seal. A small board appeared on the stump, the board itself looked like it was a Checkers board. Black and red checkered print. Soon, pieces started to appear, pinecones. Shotze's pieces were decorated with feathers while Roy's remained without any.
"So we're playing Checkers, great..." The young redheaded fox sighed, he wasn't one for any board games, hell not even Monopoly. From what he heard, that game ruins friendships. He knew this wouldn't end with a victory.
"Not regular Checkers. Badger Checkers." Roy raised an eyebrow and placed an elbow on the stump to prop up his face with his open palm. "It is played like Checkers only with added benefits of rule changes."
"I can already tell that this won't end well..." He sighed as he tried to remember the rules to Checkers. It was a somewhat simple game. Single pieces could only move forward in diagonals towards the opponent, aside from capturing the foe's pieces when making a jump. When a single piece reaches the furthest end of the board opposite to the, the single becomes a king and allowed to travel backwards as well as forwards. Winner is the person that captures all the opponent's pieces or blocks in the last piece. "Based on how flashy decorated your pieces are, you get to move first?"
"You are correct pup." With one of his tails, Shotze moved his piece and waited for Roy's move. The Gun Blade didn't think out his plan and moved a piece.
"Why not think of your plan?"
"I'm not stupid." Roy looked at him, eyes flashing a dull yellow. "You're a part of my soul, therefore you have knowledge about me, I don't doubt that you can even read my thoughts at any given moment." The golden furred fox grinned.
"Very great, now I know you have a brain to use."
"Cut the bullshit, you already knew that." Roy spat back, hating the snarky fox in front of him. "Since you can't count on mindreading to help you, this game is based on luck now, for the both of us."
"That, and the ability to bend and flow with the rules to go in our favor." The weapon sent more daggers at the Kyuubi Kitsune.
"You mean cheat." He responded as Shotze made another move. Roy responded with a quick action, never letting his gaze falter from the kitsune in front of him.
"I prefer the term-"
"Surviving." This time Roy held a grin, having already knew what Shotze would reply with. The two continued in their game. Eventually Roy discovered the true difference between Checkers and Badger Checkers. The rule changes applied to how much a piece could jump and capture the opponent's pieces. And like he predicted, it was hard to tell when Shotze made the rule change. It wasn't announced, it was only revealed when he made the move and the kitsune corrected him. So Roy was left to navigating in a tunnel with no light source.
Though he did noticed a pattern. Each time he changed the rules, he would stare off into the distance. And just as he switched them back, the golden fox would yawn out of boredom. The weapon smiled as he thought about how to take advantage of this. He began to think of the pieces he would use as decoys and which to take advantage of the rule change. 'My trap is set.'
As he continued on with his thought out plan, taking notice of Shotze's obvious habits, he grinned wider as the golden fox was actually falling for it.
"You can't fool me pup, you fell into MY trap, I knew you would catch on to my horrible poker face." Roy chuckled, putting unease in the golden fox.
"Yeah, I figured that. Good thing I let all my decoys get annihilated." He gestured to the board, a few pieces that were decoys were still left. "And I did think out my whole plan." He made his move and jumped multiple pieces that Shotze had, in the process creating a king and moving back on the board and leaving only one left in the kitsune's whole army. A lone pinecone with feathers stranded in enemy territory. "Oh wait, my bad. Don't get mad, you know I'm just a liar in the end."
Both foxes grinned at each other and had the glow of crimson red in their eyes.
"Congratulations pup, you managed to earn your Deceiving Eyes." Roy stood up and placed both hands in his pockets. "Any given moment you want, you can put up an illusion of how people see you.
"Cool." He said smiling even wider. "Now tell me about my past, that's what I really wanted, but thanks for this spell thing."
"Aw yes of course. The family you want to know about are still alive to this day. They are not however, Kitsunes like you, they only carry the bloodline. And it seems you were unlucky enough to inherit the blood."
"So it's safe to assume I was abandoned for how I look?" Roy seemed to be grinning despite the topic.
"I see you're using that ability already... But only the parents left you alone, from what I see, you had siblings that still cared deeply for you." The Gun Blade let his new gift fade away to reveal the concern look on his face.
"I actually have brothers and sisters?"
"Two older brothers, I can't seem to recall any names, or any other info, just bits and pieces. It seems our time is up yet again, pup. I look forward to our next game."
Maka took a step back as the Gun Blade resumed his human form.
"Get the info we needed?" She asked, stretching her arms. The fox looked over at Soul and revealed his own crimson eyes for a split second before returning back to their original honey gold.
"He already explained the reason I'm a kitsune, the blood did flow through my family, but he said I was unlucky enough to inherit most of the blood. I also got this cool Deceiving Eyes power thing." He grinned from ear to ear. Making the professor a bit nervous.
"Why are you smiling like that?"
"Oh sorry, just testing it out again, I can change the way people see me. So I figured I look happy to all of you." He let the smile fade to the serious expression he truly had.
"The way people perceive you... Try changing your appearance drastically." The fox nodded and attempted a human form. Even going as far to change his clothes.
Soul stared in a bit of shock when the fox no longer held any sign of the kitsune appearance. His auburn red changed to pure black, the ears gone as well as the tail. His eyes darkened a few shade to be that of a light coffee brown. His clothing consisted of a black dress shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, a Shinigami Skull adorning the right shoulder. Gray stitching on the shoulders intentionally giving it a border. His pants were dark blue jeans and when he turned around to show that the tail was gone, a set of white demonic wings were on the back of the shirt.
"How do I look?"
"Pretty cool, I like it." Soul walked up to the disguised fox and gave him a high five"
"This could actually help you when you want to see us, just put on a disguise like that and head over here anytime you want." Maka explained, the boy nodded and made his leave, still keeping the illusion of looking human. 'Wonder if this works on mirrors...'
Taking a detour, the fox entered a bathroom and smiled at his own reflection. Even mirrors were tricked by his eyes. He loved the thought of looking human to others, that way he could avoid some stares from others, but he had to keep it a secret from everyone. He realized something and made his way back into Maka's classroom.
"I forgot to mention, have you noticed anything strange about Professor Ciela?" Soul began to think, whereas Maka nodded.
"Yes I have, I don't really trust her that well."
"Well, she might be connected to witches." Soul nearly fell over, the Death Scythe sighed, almost losing his cool. Maka kept a stoic and serious face as Roy explained what happened on the failed witch hunt.
"I'll be keeping my eye on her now, not the first time a witch has worked at the DWMA, it's Medusa all over again." The ash blonde woman sat back at her desk.
"But there's no Kishin for her to awaken here anymore, what would she want to do here?" The albino added.
"I have no idea yet, but doesn't she have a husband that works here too?" The fox stood off to the side, wondering about all the coincidences.
"Yeah, Zero Ciela. He's the school's doctor." The Death Scythe replied. "we should look into both their backgrounds."
"Yeah, I'm sorry Roy, but we need to get to the bottom of this." The boy nodded and made his way out. This time fully returning home.
He almost forgot to put down the illusion the second he got at the doorstep of his home. He opened the door and made his way upstairs, so far no one was home. He wondered where they were at. Especially Gizmo and Drake. Last he remembered, they stayed home and fell asleep on the couch together. Now the couch was empty.
He shrugged it aside and was thankful for the lovely AC that cooled him down. He spread his whole body and the two beds and began to drift to sleep.
Yay, another chapter done. And now a word to my love.
I find it cute when you overreact... And no, I haven't played the elder scrolls series... Gomen. And now to answer your questions.
The second you start fumbling your words and stutter is the moment I would toss away any speech I had planned and just plant a kiss on you. Yes the lips, and then just pull back and watch you blush and the blood drip down your nose.
This "situation", as I mentioned before, some bad things are meant to happen for a reason... and I see that it was a way to realize what we really meant to each other. I realize that sounds corny and so will me being patient as a thousand monks for your return.
As for the collab, I have an open mind, some fans have been requesting a Left 4 Dead oneshot to become a series, or maybe a Pokémon one... It was what started our conversation. If not, maybe help you go back to the story you were working on, and help you with ideas.
Well, I don't have any questions right now. So... Aishiteru.