What does a kitsune love more than fooling humans? Food. Kitsunes love food, and usually are not picky about what kind of food they eat at all… but they're not all the same.

An, for example? She absolutely hates most of the food served to her, but will heartily eat a select few foods that a certain chef makes for her.

Who that chef is? Akito.

He doesn't know how he got here. At one point while out looking for mushrooms, he found An instead, eating the mushrooms.

— “…you know those have to be cooked, right?”

— “Cooked?”

And that's how Akito begrudgingly took the picky fox girl in, watching her cute tail sway from side to side as she gapes at the sight of his massive kitchen.

He knew he wasn't escaping her anytime soon from then, but was he really complaining? Nah.

An's fast asleep on her makeshift bed in the hallway. It's the middle of the night.

Akito's barely holding it together, trying to finish this one dish some snobby rich women ordered for today to feel fancy- and he forgot to do it.

And he hears soft footsteps patting down the hall. God.