Grell was out in London reaping souls when his almost tripped over a blur of red. What was that?

He reached out and snatched her up. A little red fox!

"Well you are a delightful red color! I'm keeping you!"

Grell couldn't remember when he'd had such fun!

A kitsuneā€”a real one!

From Will's account, they were extinct!

Oh, did he have news for the other Shinigami!

Grell paused, looking down at the fox. She was nestled in a den of pillows. Her very intelligent eyes looked up at him tiredly.

"Well there's no way I'll be giving you up to the others when you look at me like that, is there?" Grell scolded.

She tilted her head at him.

"Don't be that way." Grell snapped. "I know you understand me. You're quite a lady yourself. Probably better looking than me even."

A fox laugh erupted from her; Grell liked that much better than the growling and snarling she gave him when he tried to pet her.

But she was so soft and cute! Why couldn't he pet her? Suddenly he understood Sebastian's fascination with cats.

"Are you going to eat?" Grell asked her.

He put several plates in front of her. All of good food; but she turned up her nose at everything.

Then he started to eat some of the new Funtom candy called Konpeito.

"NYAAH!" She lunged and stole the bag from his hand and marched back to her den with it, proudly eating all of it.

"Well then." Grell chuckled. "Even you prefer the Phantomhive boy to me."

In apology, the fox licked his face and allowed him to pet her exactly three times.

Xxx

I looked up at the Reaper. He was beautiful. But not prettier than me.

I am a kitsune, a fairy fox. I can transform between fox and human forms at will.

I liked the reaper. He was red, and gave me such delicious candy. And his scythe was shiny. Several times I nommed on it.

I wasn't worried about the scythe cutting me. Weapons of Reapers can't harm me.

Often the Reaper pulled me off his scythe, worried that it would harm me, but I just ran back to it and cuddled it.

"You're hopeless." Grell laughed.

I fox laughed and curled up on his lap.