The following monday Kurt and Eva had met up to grab lunch together.
“Say Eva,” Kurt began as they turned the last corner on their way to a well recommended ramen shop, “does Karasuza have a phone by now?”
“Yes, she got a cheap used one last time she came to hang out.” Eva answered before licking her lips, the smell of the broth already teasing her nose.
“Mind giving me her number?”
“Why? You want to cheat on your Girlfriend?” The kitsune teased him, and actually let out a chuckle as he turned red over it.
“I just wanted to be able to chat to her sometimes. For research and stuff you know.” Kurt began to explain. “After all, she’s quite used to living in a much more rural part of Japan.”
“Don’t worry, it was just a little joke.” Eva said with a shake of her head. Pulling out her phone, she quickly sent him her contact information. “Here you go.”
“Thanks, now let's see what’s smelling so good.” Kurt said as he opened the door to the ramen shop for her.
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Karasuza was sitting on a rather unassuming powerline, panting as much as her little raven body allowed. She’d been so excited that Kurt had asked for her help, she’d taken of in a rush the moment he’d hung up the phone.
‘Should have asked Eva to go get me at one of the shrines around dad’s place’ She quietly thought to herself as her breathing slowly calmed down. Giving a tiny silent birdy sigh her thoughts wander on ‘Then again, Kurt did ask me not to let Eva know about this for the lil Tanuki’s sake.’
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Lost in thought like that, she had completely missed Touya leaving the 7/11 he’d gone to, and just barely caught him turning into a side street to walk home.
Quickly taking off she began to follow after him, keeping an eye out for her actual targets.
It took a while, they were about halfway to the Tanuki’s home, but the hoodlums Kurt had mentioned finally made their appearance. They started with just calling things out after him she was too far away to hear. But once they caught up to him they began to shove him around.
They went at this for a few minutes, before one grabbed the bag of groceries Touya had been carrying. They tossed it between themselves for another handful of minutes, before they finally seemed to get bored and one of them hurled it at Touya’s face.
As much as she wanted to go and comfort her friend, Kurt had asked her to keep an eye on the assholes for the rest of the day. And she was not going to disappoint him.
So instead she followed after the trio discreetly. Not that any of them seemed to be interested in any of the birds flying around this cold late november day. They did spend most of their day harassing teens in a similar fashion to Touya, but the moment someone looking tougher or older than them turned up, they quickly hid away.
The last incident she actually watched was them stopping and harassing a little girl. Probably barely into elementary school. When the idiot holding the bag they took from her got the idea to toss towards the nearby river, Karasuza needed to do something, doing what the werewolf asked for quickly dropping down in her list of priorities.
Diving as fast as she could manage, she quickly caught up with the bag. With a quick beat of her wings and drawing a bit on the magic inherited from her father, she managed to tackle the bag hard enough it landed on the banks instead of in the water. Turning into her human form, she picked the bag up and began to make her way up to the street. Once she got there, she only saw the girl, crying her eyes out.
“Hey there, is that yours? I caught it before it dropped into the river.”
“Tha-tha” the girl began trying to say through her sobbing, before taking an unsteady breath. “Thank you Miss.” she then managed to say as she accepted the bag back, giving Karasuza a cute little bow.
“No worries, now hurry home.” Karasuza said, which the girl agreed to with a nod before hurrying off.
‘I don’t care what Kurt wants to do, these Assholes are going down.’