Chapter Summary: He never really noticed the significance before. But names do hold a lot of meanings...

Warning: Should I warn for slightly spicy stuff?

Ref: Timeline - somewhere post Chapter 10 of Lonesome Kitsune, though there probably be other throwbacks to the main series as well as the TanuKitsune series. Maybe?


"Tycoon..."

Come to think... it's been a very long time since he heard Ace refer to him by his Kamen Rider designation. While technically right now neither of them was no longer Kamen Riders, those designations had grown to be a part of them that it felt weird to not have those 'names' be part of their identities.

And at some point, those designations had grown to be like a sort of nickname to them.

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Anyway...

It just occurred to him that Ace had been calling him by his real name lately. Has he ever done it before when they used to still take part in the DesiGra? He couldn't really remember that well nowadays.

Tycoon. That's what Ace usually called him. Even though he mostly called Ace as Ace, and not Geats like Michinaga always do. And Ace does that with almost everyone in the DesiGra. With the exception of his sister, though that's only because Ace had known his sister prior to her entry into the DesiRoyale.

Even then, afterwards, Ace started referring to his sister as Hakubi later.

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So was there anything significant that he wasn't aware of that made Ace start to use his real name more often nowadays?

Unless... the reason why Ace did that was because—

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But that's the thing, right? The reason why Ace usually refers to other players in the DesiGra as their title, even when he knew those people's real names—

Wasn't it to prevent himself from getting too close to the other players? I mean, if I didn't know that Ginpen was actually Taira-san, I probably wouldn't think too much about what happened to them later. Maybe. Would he still not care about some other strangers who also played in the DesiGra if he never know they existed? Like seriously, people do DIE while taking part in the DesiGra. Would he be fine going about his way trying to reach his goal while also ignoring all those other strangers he probably would not see again at the end of the game? Could he try to do what Ace had done all these times and distance himself from the other DesiGra players in order to not allow himself to become hurt in the process?

That's a very hard question he didn't know how to answer.

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Anyway Ace... for that guy to start to call him by his real name, did that mean that Ace considered him to be someone close to his heart? Like how Ace had been referring to Tsumuri-san as his 'older sister', even when she may not really be 'older' than him (well, if you consider all of the accumulated lives that Ace had lived. Since if just counting his current self, Ace probably be slightly younger than him.)

So what is he to Ace... what kind of a relationship does he have with Ace right now? A former comrades-in-arms? A friend? A close confidant? Or...?

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"What were you thinking so deeply about?"

Keiwa turned to face Ace as he smiled mysteriously. "Why? Are you curious to know about it?"

Ace immediately jumped on his bed beside him.

"Tell me, Keiwa! Tell me, tell me, tell me!"

He grinned. "Oh? Is there any reward for me if I tell you what it was I'm thinking about?"

The albino fox in front of him nodded its head as Keiwa could see Ace's tail wagging merrily.

He smiled again. "I'm just wondering... you've been calling me by my real name a lot more often lately. Care to tell me why?"

Immediately the hyperactive tail stopped moving so fluidly and instead started jumping up and down at an irregular beat; as if troubled by something. The fox turned its face away from him, and if not because he was aware of the few marking on Ace's face...he'd thought that Ace could've blushed in embarrassment. Ace turned its face back to him.

"If [I] tell you... do I get any rewards?"

Keiwa chuckled. "Maybe..." he said teasingly as Ace leaned his head closer towards Keiwa's face.

"Are you sure about that? Like really, really sure?"

"Unn," said Keiwa, before nodding his head.

Ace licked Keiwa's lips experimentally as Keiwa barely reacted to it unlike before. Instead, Keiwa wordlessly closed his eyes as if inviting him to kiss Keiwa again. Ace licked Keiwa again as Keiwa's lips parted slowly. And that encouraged Ace to become bolder and even bolder to kiss Keiwa more deeply...

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Was he still awake? Or was he now in a dream? But regardless, Keiwa didn't want to open his eyes lest the illusion was broken.

Because somehow... as time passes, the fox's snout and tongue and rough teeth had started to change and morph into a pair of soft lips and human tongue and rows of straight teeth. As his back was pressed against the wall behind him, the pair of fox's paws pressing against his chest turned into a pair of slender hands that started to unbutton his shirt and ease him slowly onto the bed.

He could feel someone littering soft kisses down the length of his neck from his ears to the base and then his clavicle. Keiwa blindly reached out to wrap his arms around Ace's neck as he felt soft fur in between his fingers—then bare skin and slender neck and short hair...

And then someone placed a kiss over his heart and Keiwa felt his whole existence unravelling. In response, Keiwa let out a loud moan before calling out for Ace and having his lips reclaimed again by the person.

"I love you... Keiwa. So very much!" whispered Ace in between kisses.

"Me too..." Keiwa gasped, as he also repeated the same three words in adoration. They kept at it a bit more as Keiwa slowly felt himself falling into the land of dreams.

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The next moment when Keiwa woke up again, he was lying on his bed with fox!Ace sleeping beside him... fully clothed. He chuckled softly as Keiwa wondered if what transpired earlier really happened or if it was just a hallucination. But regardless, he did receive his answer from Ace as Keiwa drifted back to sleep.

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Unbeknownst to anyone, Ace suddenly grew out another tail...


A/N2: I'm usually not good at writing spicy stuff but I dunno for this pair... (I mean I used to write some for certain anime fandom and one of them is so spicy that you'll not gonna find it anymore cos I deleted them) So hmmm...