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It was after school and Mitsu was trying to focus on her homework like a good ghoul should. She had seated herself in the courtyard on the ground hoping it would help clear her mind but that didn't seem to help. Really her thoughts kept wandering back to training and what she needed to improve on. Which was everything in her mind. Sure she had discovered a strength but she really didn't know how to use it properly. All she had managed to do was break things...things she needed.

Sighing she looked over her essay she was supposed to write, only a sentence in. A poorly made sentence at that. If only it could write itself, then she could train like she needed to do. She even had her gym clothes with her in her school bag ready to hop to it as soon as she was done. If only her mind could work for more than a few seconds at a time.

Ears falling back she redoubled her efforts in concentrating, crimson eyes boring into the paper as her pencil hovered over it. Something....something.....she had nothing.

Mitsu was focused hard on her paper, maybe if she stared long enough the words would form. At first she hadn't processed the deep voice speaking to her, not until she heard the name whitewolf. It made her look up for the source, her ears perking high on her head as she turned to the large dark skinned boil.

"Me?" Confused she pointed toward herself, large crimson eyes staring at him through her mess of bangs. Though if she looked around it was obvious. There weren't a lot of other white wolves on campus let alone anyone else nearby. Though now that she thought about it yes she had seen him before in the hub during their field trip. It was to hard misplace a boil with that many biceps, triceps, and countless other ceps Mitsu didn't know the names for.

"Y..yes, I was on the field trip." Mitsu nodded, smiling sheepishly as she set her supplies aside for the moment and stood dusting her skirt off in the process. Wow he was....tall. Really tall. How had Mitsu missed that before? Maybe because everyone was tall to her with a small hand full of exceptions.

"My name is Mitsu." She said softly as she approached. He only managed to get taller still as she drew closer but that didn't keep her from offering a hand in greeting. "Its nice to meet you." For her size her grip was surprisingly strong, perhaps a little too strong.

Mitsu's shy smile broadened at the greeting, noting how the boil's hand completely swallowed hers as he gripped it to shake. "Herryk." She nodded, repeating the name as she always did to help her put it to memory.

Their meeting was friendly and light. The boil had appeared rather intimidating with his size but he seemed really nice. And then that moment was ruined as Herryk brought up one of the many things from the trip that Mitsu would have rather forgotten.

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She was not pleased to remember the pretty blonde lady, who was apparently Hel's sister, with her big boobs and confident look all pressed close to Shun in frilly pink panties making kissy faces. True in Mitsu's mind it seemed worse than it actually had been. Freya might as well have made out with Shun with tongue it wouldn't have made the ghoul fume about it any less.

Doing her best to not be rude, Mitsu forced a smile back on her face. It wasn't like Herryk had made out with Shun after all. "H-His name is Shun. He's my boilfriend." She added trying to keep the possessive tone out of her sentence.

"And Freya? Is Herryk with Freya? You seemed close." When she wasn't making kissy faces with her reaper. There was a hint of hope in her voice though, while she knew Shun loved her and was protective of her that didn't keep her from seeing the ghoul as a threat. A big threat. There was no way Mitsu could compete with someone like that.

The way he said it, Herryk had spared no possessiveness from his tone. It was actually a little romantic to Mitsu but perhaps that was the wolfish side of her brain speaking. It also eased her mind a little. Freya had Herryk so she could leave Shun alone.

The look she had was quick to fade, her expression suddenly shy and bashful when Herryk said she was pretty. Pretty wasn't a word she heard often. Cute maybe, she had heard that often but she couldn't help but associate that word with a pet. Pets were cute. Shun was the first to say something else. Beautiful. He had called her beautiful and it had warmed her deeply and now Herryk had told her she was pretty.

While she didn't have feelings for Herryk it didn't keep the light hue of pink from blooming across her cheeks. "T..thank you." She whispered shyly, her tail swishing behind her in a light wag. What he had said before had been forgotten apparently though Mitsu was easy to distract.

The smile she had widened a bit, her eyes creasing as it touched them. It wasn't until he asked what she had been working on that she turned to look at the papers and pencil she had abandoned on the ground. "O..oh."

Kneeling she picked up the paper she had written a single sentence on looking at it with a hint of frustration. "I was working on my homework. I'm supposed to write an essay about how I did scaring someone with what we were given in acting class." She had been rather successful, she thought it would be easy but her mind just wasn't in it.

"I can't really focus on it though." She admitted looking back up at the boil. "I keep thinking about other things. Like how I need to train and get stronger." Really that was all that was on her mind. She was failing in protecting the ones she cared for and she needed to get stronger so that she could change that.

"What was Herryk up to?" She asked curiously. Had he just been on a stroll?

The prospect that he had too many foxfires made Mitsu's eyes light up like a jack-o-lantern on Halloween. Mitsu was fairly certain no one could have too many of the fluffy little pups and given a choice between homework or helping him solve his walking problem, Mitsu was definitely going to choose helping Herryk.

"I would love to help!" She chirped excitedly. "I..If I can." She added hesitantly. Quick to turn to her bag on the ground Mitsu packed her things away before lifting it up and onto her shoulders and then faced Herryk. He was sweet to offer to help her sort out her battle problems. Maybe he would have some good advice to try.

"That would be wonderful." Mitsu nodded. "Maybe a different perspective will help me sort some things out." Mitsu was ready to go but she did not take the lead. While she knew of a few pet stores in town to look for leashes and things she had no idea which store Herryk had in mind, not to mention...her sense of direction was always off. If she took the lead they would end up in completely the wrong place. Realizing that was half the battle despite how she had tried to work on it. She had spent many a night lost wandering in town rather aimlessly until she either broke down and called for help or by chance made it back to school.

"How many foxfires do you have, Herryk?" Mitsu asked curiously figuring they could try to brainstorm on the way to the store and hopefully have a plan in place and know what they needed.

Mitsu listened intently as Herryk recounted how his collection had begun. It was interesting to see how one had turned into three and then a couple more were added and suddenly thirty five. The boil had left again and while he was away his foxfires had multiplied again like dust bunnies and now he had fifty. FIFTY. Mitsu almost looked starry eyed thinking about it. She could imagine it, she thought. It mainly looked like a poofy fuzzy cloud with fifty sets of eyes.

"Ah, you do have many!" Mitsu seemed more in awe of the fact than anything else. She really liked the little creatures but didn't have one of her own. She still only had Milo and Ziggy but Ziggy was terrible with most other living creatures and her throw rug. She also had a rapalicious in her closet but she didn't count that. Mainly she threw food in for the creature too scared to bring it out.

Now Mitsu could see Herryk's problem though. Fifty fluffs, while small, were hard to manage at once. "Hmm, how to walk them all at once." Mitsu tapped her chin in thought. "I've heard in the colder climates they have things called dog sled teams. They have all the dogs grouped together to help pull a cart or sled. I wonder if something like that would work." It was one possibility though Mitsu was sure there were others.

"Mort?" That name seemed familiar. She was certain she had heard it on the field trip but she really couldn't place a face with the name. "I'm sure Lanna will be happy. Do you have other close friends that might watch over one of the babies for you? They might like the one on one attention." Finding good homes for some of the little poofs, as Herryk called them, was also another option, though it seemed like the big guy was rather attached to them all. If it was a close friend though he would still get to see them and know that they were being taken care of. That thought made her wonder how Meela was doing. She hadn't heard back from Derykion about her and regretted not getting his phone number in exchange. She kind of missed playing with the ghost dog.

Before long they had arrived at their destination and the werewolf thanked Herryk as he held the door open for her and walked inside. Looking around Mitsu finally spotted where the leashes and collars were and headed over looking at the harnesses that they had available. "Fifty is still a lot of harnesses to buy but you could probably have a couple of lead pups and feed a line through the harnesses like you said." Mitsu didn't even want to know how long it would take Herryk to put the harnesses on and take them off again.

"Maybe someone could come over to help walk them too? I could help from time to time." She offered. The lycan had just met Herryk but she would like to think they could be friends. Not to mention she wanted to see his tiny pack of fluffs.