Teen Titans – Side Stories and After – Snippets; Foxes Upon Foxes and Magical Girls Galore

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Tokyo Drift – Side B

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"Are you an ok driver?" Shoji didn't like this plan. A wild child like Kaede could put dents in his record of excellence.

~ It's what I do on all my Fridays. Mainly to avoid the hag. ~

"Yumi won't be ok with –

~ You wanna get mugged on the streets, fur – ball? ~

"I don't know why you are…or how you even became this, street smart!" Shoji sighed. "Fine...But don't whip out the blackmail so soon." He warned. "Yumi's a great caretaker and she can catch your scent and my own by reading the air currents. Especially, once the heat's died down by tonight."

~ No rain. I already checked. ~

Shoji chewed the inside of his cheek. "I'm in the bar district in a parking garage only a few blocks from…. Noodle – Haven. You can't beat the smell of somen out the door!" He chuckled. "Ate cold soba and it, was too good to leave for the rats out back."

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They pulled up to the lot with a rumble. How his ally had a license was not just downright objectionable, Kaede was also into drifting. As in…

Like in the movies.

Shoji pulled up with the fox in black sports vehicle that, as a fox, she must have made to be her " illusionary ride" meant to fool her opponents.

" Anata no kuruma ni notte iru oji wa daredesuka, kare mo ikimasu ka?" A stringy looking bouncer with a muscle tee and a Mohawk of all things come up beside the vehicle, yet Kaede looked to be unaffected by his appearance. " Kare wa genkidesu, watashitachi ga nani o suru ka o miru koto ni shimashita. Kare wa taishita koto wa shimasenga, issho ni ikimasu. Watashi wa kare no ryōkin o shiharaimasu." She told the metal head, who waved them in and backed off. Kaede had her school girl clothes still on as if her rebel nature had never left the yard.

" We're in, oji san." She grinned back to her backseat accomplice. " But, still don't talk. Act completely uninterested because Mondo and Koi – boy will tear you apart."

" WHAT?"

" Ohh! We have to get ready to drive, pup? Watch me. I'm gonna win this."

This, being…

Shoji gawked and saw what he'd come to steal; his car wa s tye damned prize as it sat on a platform, there as eye candy.

" Kaede!" He hissed and gripped her shoulder to turn the fox back around. "They swiped my suv???" He sputtered. "You are going to –

"We're riding for it." She let her pretty car purr as they rolled on towards the starting line beneath an illuminated overpass. "Or else YOU ARE gonna WALK!" She flashed her teeth at the cat, who for the record, was used to being verbally told what to do by everyone.

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Kaede could be very spiteful. It was in a kitsune's, not a fox's nature to trick in mythology. If she was going to bring down this street competition with her magic, they had another thing coming.

" Yo yo! It's my gyaru – shojou queen up in here!!"

" Koi boy." Kaede seethed to Shoji. " Let me talk him down."

" Konbanwaaa!!" She waved with the personality of someone going after-

Oh boy…

She jumped out of the vehicle, to…. embrace???

He was there with chains on his belt, baggy black pangs in a street style gang fashion and dark hair slicked back with a more rebellious gaze into her ditzy (false) two own. "I'm happy you won't be outta the race, babe." He put a hand just above her –

Shoji was mortified!! Was she taking this persona way too far??? She wasn't a human but if the…yummy was going to put him in the pound for letting her charge go out with thugs and pimps!

"You know I never lose a match, or a chance to beat you to the finish." She flirted back, eye staring over at Shoji while Kb's were shut not to see the cat bobbing his head and shaking in the back seat. Nervously, he reverted to his adorable form as Verra while making them only see Shoji sitting in the back seat of Kaede's vehicle.

"Ready?" She broke the kiss slowly off.

"Winner gets next pick for our date?"

"I never lose though." She giggled to his request.

"We'll see. Got new bunch of followers." Kb told the fox guardian.

"They can't keep up with me." She put a hand to his chest and pushed off, dreamily taking in his awe.

"Let's see if my big fish can't do the same."

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She shut the door and drove back up to the line, not until the got to said location…. did she get a big shocker looking in at her front seat.

~ Ah, so you didn't eat that guy's literal heart out. What gives?~

"AH! AHO! SHOJI!" She nearly tore at the steering wheel's cover. "What are you doing in my car?? No dogs allowed. We c-

~ They only see your uncle, stop flipping out. Jeesh…~ The hybrid Verra scratched his ear with his hind leg, hoping the race would begin so he had a chance to get his car back. ~ I'm here to spot you. Unlike Shoji's snobbish personality, Veravakumu was a wild thing. He's aware of how drifting when on in the nineties on that one case –

" Oji San? This is MY car and my event." She snipped at the cute fox thingy in her side seat. "Koi boy is my HUMAN boyfriend, which means I get to ride or we get kicked out for being sneaky…"

~ SAY it….…it'll like feel soo much better. ~ Verra egged as Kaede snarled at his face. "Foxes!" She barked "Fine! You're such a jerk faded two timer! I know Yumi had a thing for –

~ Just, win back his car, and we can all go home. ~ The kit huffed out, not liking being ccaled a player anymore, since he really did care about Ayane.

Yumi had Kayu. The half wit kid was just trying to tan his fur.

"Whatever, con - man pup…" She sneered and drove in to get her spot before it was taken.

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Kb was I a suped-up piece of work, with decals and flames. No wonder he was only her human, boyfriend. Not the real one.

" Alright!" A ref came out and began yelling out the rules as if this were Too Fast and Feral.

"The first competitor that crosses, gets this steal; a car worth enough to get you through college! Only rules? No dying. Are all of you ready to drag it out????"

Kaede rolled her eyes as Kb blew her a kiss. "When we get back to our world, I want to curse that guy with boils." She huffed.

" No deaths and no rules, you have the end of that lot to the freeway and then back here to make the gold. Everyone ready??? Start!!"

The sound of revving engines hit it crescendo as Kaede did what She wanted in this dirt clod of a lane. She flew, KB right behind with six or seven others at their backs. Verra clung to his seat as the claws stayed out, widows up while they came up to a bunch of dumpsters –

~ Swerve! Swerve! ~

" I know how to drive! Quiet!" She snapped and got ready to steer clear of the first obstacle. A bursting explosion from behind after, and one unlucky participant…

Had just lost their Donky Kong to the mistress.

This would be a rather edgy night as the next ramp has Verra yapping off to pick up speed, but she was already well aware of where to go.

"Full throttle!!" She whooped as they came down across the bridge, time slowing while Kawde s ultimate rush was electric, while it only got worse for V from there. "The track is weaning them off like flies! Isn't this great???"

Verra shook his head pathetically fast. ~ No! No, it's not! They just got sent to biker hell!! And you helped with it!! ~

"You are such a kill joy…hang on !!" The flew as KB landed way too close. She snapped her fingers and spikes showed up on the woman's set of wheels, on the tires.

~ Kaede??...This is incredibly devious of –

"Hell yeah, it is!" She rammed at her funky bf's wheel and laughed as she did it. The dark side of a full moon, Kaede was all Kitsune, no damsel in distress.

"You want your car back? Follow my rules of the road!"

Three down, and Kaede was headed for the biggest loop.

The freeway, as Verra shrieked.

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"I got back his effing car, zakenna ! What do you want from me?? Bring back the dead, now? I ain't a damned civil servant –

" Quit barking at me!! I'm the one in charge and Shoji will also be in trouble for sitting back and letting you murder those poor people!"

"YUMI-!"

" Iie! Up to your room NOW and stay there until I decide on a better course of action. March!" Directed the other spirit, hotly with a finger pointing to the steps.

Yumi was furious as ice crystals danced about the room. Frosty flakes landed on Shoji's shoulders as he didn't dare brush them away. That was why they called it the cold shoulder, after all. (Pun!)

Kaede was grounded for more than a month and would be doing community service for a while to hopefully be let off the hook as a minor. "She had people there who recognized her…"

"Koi boy." Shoji gulped. "She used him to get into the group."

"She's too wild, you realize?" Shot the eternal with a glare at her hopeless ally on the sofa. "She took on that personality and now it's changed her to be…more…."

"Human?" Shoji asked. "Like she, maybe wants?"

"She cannot change who she is. In this world, she is young and aware of Ami - chan's future, enough to forsake her own."

"She wants to become a "real boy." Sighed the CEO, as he sat up. "What can we do but not let her understand how much that race really was the wrong way to go about everything, that a car I ended up having stolen would end –

"You did not know about it before going?" The eternal blinked from behind the coffee table. Shoji. Shrugged. "Not at all! She screwed with me by saying I was two timing with you and Ayane."

"Is she serious about becoming a guardian ally ??" Yumi stomped her foot. "I must have a talk with her…perhaps it is only a phase."

"She is a moon child, so my money is on her emotional journey." Shoji pondered that comment a bit longer. "Well, I got my car back….to the shop, for a lot of damages…" He stood up to get his coat. "Maybe she needs another outlet." He tapped a finger to his chin and proposed to the fox's real caregiver. "I heard that rock climbing is all the rage, even a gritty sport like that could be goood for some pretty decent stakes. A gym membership, maybe?"

To redirect that lethal potential?" Yumi waved off the thought with a chuckle. "Just hand that child a flamethrower, and she'd never cross me again."

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Kaede was a Kitsune in another time and the yin to the yang that was young Haru. Heck, so could fight off an apocalypse with her nine tails, but it was still a rush to see her change masks from time to time, as Shoji headed to his cab and the driver started up the ignition with one push.

He'd drifted, years ago when I was all the kids had been talking about.

"Yumi may just be the bigger killjoy." Snickered the fox as his ride took on down the street and out into the big city where he had to be by tomorrow.

Tokyo; some things stayed the same forever, even the fashion as Shoji recalled his last case with the nefarious Lady Red Veronica Bethel chasing him down, head to the wheel as it all went to grey in time.

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