03: Good luck catching him

[failtsuninari]

[A ten year old Tenjou gets extremely close up to the camera and then backs away. He doesn't have his trademark piercings yet and his hair is much shorter. He cracks a grin.]

Wow. Human technology really improved! Still this place isn't really Kuukan after all. That'd explain why my tutors aren't chasing me around. Cool. I can live with that. My old man's too busy probably to notice me gone as always.

I'm Ken'ichi by the way. Also does anyone know where to get some good kitsune udon? I'm starving.

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[strategic_guile]

...kitsune udon... I don't think we have those things here. If we do, it's definitely not the same.

[And damn you look kinda familiar.]

[failtsuninari]

What?! H-how do you not have kitsune udon? That's a basic dish though!

So what do you have to eat here? I've been exploring this place his whole day. I'm starving.

[His stomach growled in agreement.]

[strategic_guile]

We're no in Japan or any other Asian country. They probably don't exist in the same way, either.

Chicken. Lots of varieties of chicken. [Or what passed as chicken] There's a place that has decent food for a good price. [insert descriptions and location here]

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[pioncoiffe]

... It's made with fox meat?

[That's messed up.]

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[failtsuninari]

What?! NO!!

Kitsune udon is the one with fried tofu. They call it kitsune because they say foxes love fried tofu.

[failtsuninari]

Okay chicken sounds good except I left that apartment place without bringing any money. Dang.

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[pioncoiffe]

Why would a fox like fried tofu? Aren't they carnivores?

[strategic_guile]

[Sighs, but it's cut off as he realizes.] Ahh! Tenjou. That's who you are.

I guess I can feed you lunch. You'll just owe me one.

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[failtsuninari]

I don't know. Most of the foxes I've met don't eat it all the time. Some old story going way back, even before my old man and he's been Inari for forever.

[failtsuninari]

Who's Tenjou?

Sure I guess.

[strategic_guile]

...you're Tenjou.

In the future. [Sigh.]

Just meet me at the place and figure out what you want to order.

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[pioncoiffe]

[Okay he understood maybe half of that. Just. What.]

You've met foxes? What's an Inari?

[failtsuninari]

Huh. Tenjou. I kinda like it. I better go by that or people are gonna get confused.

Sure thing. Gotta warn you though. I have a huge appetite.

[He cracks a smile because hey food is food.]

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[failtsuninari]

Foxes and fox spirits actually. It's kinda weird, I know.

Inari's the Shinto god of rice and other things. Foxes are traditionally the associated animal to him.

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[pioncoiffe]

... So your dad's a god.

[strategic_guile]

I didn't say I was going to fill you to bursting. [Snorting laugh. He knows better than to promise everything he can eat to a teenage boy.]

[TIME SKIP: and Blaine is outside the place looking in to find the boy from the video. Upon finding him he greets him.]

Tenjou.

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[failtsuninari]

That's right. Is it that weird?

[failtsuninari]

Fine, fine. It beats starving any day.

[Tenjou looks up at the guy who called his name.]

Hey. I didn't make you wait, did I?

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[pioncoiffe]

By some people's standards. You could have said that to start.

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[failtsuninari]

My bad. Guess I'm used to people knowing who Inari is.

[strategic_guile]

No, you're good. Let's go. [Leading the way.]

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[pioncoiffe]

Not everyone is Japanese, you know.