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Having lost track of time in the windowless room, even before falling asleep, Yasei now was utterly out of the loop. Not even really remembering what happened a few hours ago, he nestled up in his warm, soft bed, still keeping his eyes shut, as he sleepily combed through the thick, furry pelt on his mattress. NO...! A pelt... on his bed...? Did he turn into some kind of big game hunter overnight? Baffled finally opening his eyes slowly, he met the eyes of Asami, still laying below him, like a big, furry sleeping back.

"Morning sweetie...", The young man greeted his canine companion, with a hearty yawn, blinking sleepily, before stating sleepily, "You know what... I had the weirdest kind of dream..."

Before her master could continue, to explain his 'dream' Asami just lifted one paw, so her master could see it... the bandage on her paw.

"Huh... you hurt yourself...?", He asked confused, still sleep-drugged... before looking at his own bandaged hand.

Looking from his hand to Asami's paw, back to his own hand, he finally realized: "OH... not a dream.. again?"

"Uh-huh..."

"So, we... you know... did it?"

"Uh-huh..."

"Hm... well... at least it was one hell of a ride, huh?"

"Uh-huh...!", Asami repeated her answer pattern again, this time emphasized with a husky moan.

"OH...? Revealing a hidden side of your's aren't we?"

"Well... as you said... you spoiled me for all other canines, felines, and whatnot to come...", The lion-dog responded in a quiet moan, leaning in for a kiss.

Quickly sorting his mind, his first thought was... he wasn't even quite sure how he felt about the canine... yet, as he thought back on his 'dream'...why refusing passion that raw... that pure? YES... rethinking how he felt about her could wait just a little longer... as he at least was sure that he'd never want to let her go... just as little as he would want to deny the undeniably gorgeous canine a wish like that!

Like that eagerly responding to the canine kiss, he buried his hands deep in the soft fur of his feral lover, feeling his bare member stroking across her belly, the broad lips of her animal pussy grinding against his leg. Playfully wrestling her tongue, the broad canine organ easily dominating his smaller human one, the young man eagerly returned the lion-dog bitch's affection. Finally having to break away from her kiss, with a low pant, a small string of saliva still connected them both for a second, before dissipating.

"Come on puppy-dog... you got your's yesterday, so let's try and go a little smaller, shall we?"

Looking at her master confused for a second, it took her a few seconds, to discern the telepathic message he had sent her, as she too, still was not quite used to this kind of connection yet.

"Oh... sure my master, as you wish...", The canine responded, Yasei rolling off of her body, sitting on the floor expectantly now, while Asami's body was engulfed in flames once more, before she once more stood in front of him, in her smaller dog form.

"Well hello pretty... wanna play?", Her master asked, with a short laugh, spreading his feet apart a little further, as to give the canine better access to his sanctuary.

"Well... don't mind if I do...", The she-hound responded, with a sultry smile, liking her chaps with relish.

For a second a bit worried, as he saw the pointy teeth of the canine, Yasei could barely resist backing away of his furry companion... yet, as she gave his member a quick sniff, before giving it a long lick, the young man lost his reservations instantaneous! The long and soft, warm tongue on his manhood, little less but a heavenly feeling. Shudders running down his spine, as the female cleaned his member of the remaining residues of last night... or this morning... bah... he did not care, too much bliss did the big, soft tongue stroking his cock bring.

Moaning in pleasure, Yasei took Asami's head between his hands, gently ruffling the fur on her canine cheeks, taking care as not to disturb the canine in her work. Seemingly finding a weird fascination in watching his hardening cock twitch eagerly, whenever she licked her masters glans, the canine, kept licking the sensitive tip slowly... teasingly, over and over again, until she decided her human as ready enough... letting his throbbing cock glide into her mouth slowly, just as the young man's telepathic message had instructed.

Gasping out in pleasant surprise, Yasei couldn't resist but gently, but surely pulling Asami's head closer, gradually burying more and more of his member in her wet muzzle. Just barely able to fit her master's cock in her snout comfortably, the red-furred bitch slowly started to move on the long member, the slowly rising temperature in her wet maw just too well showing the young man her lust. Giving a quiet murmur, the young man grabbed the canine female's head, lovingly massaging her... fondling the fur around her ears and head, planning to let her wait just a few moments longer.

Gripping the female's fur harder, in a throaty gasp, as she started to move on the member in her maw with more vigor, teasing it with her tongue, just like she would have done to his tongue, when french kissing him, the young man slowly started to regret his decision, as the pleasure Asami was giving, slowly grew too much to handle, without 'something to do' of his own.

"COME HERE PRETTY...!", Yasei finally announced, in a gasping breath, grabbing the female's hips and spinning her around, her damp pussy now mere inches away of his face, "Much better!"

Giving a short gag, as her master suddenly buried himself deep in her maw, before spinning her around, the female gave a willing moan, as she could feel the breath of the human, on her hot pussy lips. Soon feeling the comparably cold hands of her master, spread her vulva, before starting to work her clitoris with his tongue, the canine gave a muffled moan, before finally starting to work the throbbing shaft in her mouth in earnest yet again. Coiling her long tongue around the human member, she started to move her head on the erect piece of man flesh, gasping quietly, as Yasei started massaging the sensitive nub of her clitoris, going on to eat her out in earnest.

In a quick thought, musing a canine tongue may be able to reach even deeper in her, she quickly dismissed the thoughts, as the young human did plenty good and a real canine would never be smart enough to eat her out properly. Feeling the human tongue of her master literally tickling her inner flesh, she began turning her head ever so slightly, whenever she let the lengthy penis glide out of her maw, before swallowing it deeply yet again, making sure every tiniest inch of his cock, was properly caressed by her soft tongue.

Willingly buckling up against the treatment of her young master, it took her not to long, until she had him as far as bucking forward in her wet maw, trembling oh so slightly, not far off of cumming deep in her eager mouth. Swallowing Yasei's penis as deep as possible now, before slowly raising again, teasingly caressing the tip of his cock, before burying it deep in her hungry maw yet again, all the while starting to lovingly massage the heavy balls of her human, with the soft paw pads of her good paw, whilst using the other one to keep his thighs spread apart nicely.

Enjoying the sweet taste of Asami's lust way more as he would have ever anticipated, the young man finally gave a silent curse, burying two of his finger deep in the canine's hot depths, tardily massaging the nub of flesh, just behind her vulva with his thump, his other hand much needed to steady him, as he finally came hard in the canine females maw, under her skillful, silky soft tongue.

Gasping at the sudden penetration of Yasei's fingers, Asami just tried to bury his dick as deep in her throat as possible, as not to waste a single drop of his potent seed. Hastily gulping down on the human's juices flooding her throat like that, she finally couldn't help but gag... most of her master's member, slipping free of her maw, spurting last white jets of cum on her tongue.

Panting slightly she turned her face to her master, tongue lolled out, remnants of Yasei's seed dripping down the tip of her tongue and her maw, asking with a silent, teasing laugh: "Well... still want to kiss me now?"

Burying his fingers to the knuckles, turning them slowly, caressing the soft canine flesh with his fingertips, he answered, with a devilish smile: "Sure... why not... might be a bit weird, but whatever!"

Pulling the canine closer with his hand, the female now nearly bent like a twisted J, he started moving his fingers in and out of her damp depths, drawing the canine closer in a deep kiss, Asami tasting herself on Yasei's tongue, just as much as he inevitably got a good taste of his own seed, on her canine one. Moaning in her master's mouth aloud, as he drove yet another finger in her needy depth, starting to work her clitoris with his thumb once more, eagerly lapping on the human's tongue, savoring the taste of their mixed juices.

Quite limited in her movement, due to her almost bending herself like a pretzel, the female could do little more to encourage her human, but raising her rump willingly, tail raised high, as she

rode the ecstasy of her impending orgasm.

Pressing her snout closely to her master's mouth, groaning in his mouth lustfully, her tongue flailing around lazily, almost completely retreated in her mouth... she suddenly bit down hard, on both, her own and Yasei's tongue, in the heights of her orgasm.

"OUCH...!", Both shouted at the sting of pain, quickly breaking the kiss starring at each other in shock.

"Don't look at me like that!", The young men scolded her, sticking his tongue out of his mouth to his nose, so she could see the bite marks on its lower side. Unavoidably incomprehensible he proclaimed: "I don haf poiny seess...!"

"Sowwy...", She apologized, her lisp not resulting from some sort of baby talk, but cause she still had her bruised tongue hanging out of her mouth.

"U don wan u pu oinmen on thea tu, du u?", The canine immediately asked in terror, but Yasei just rolled his eyes at her suggestion.

There may sure have been some kind of ointment for wounds like that, but he did not have anything like that at home, PLUS... more importantly: Asami had more important things to worry about, didn't she?

Driving his finger deep into her hot depth, Yasei watched in a strange kind of fascination, how Asami's puffy vulva, kept on clinging to his fingers greedily, as he slowly pulled them out, her damp, canine flesh being pulled along with his fingers quite a bit until they finally popped free.

"That now was the third time you bit me... almost feel like is becoming a habit... BUT... I think we both know how you can easily compensate me for chewing on me like that?", The young man finally explained, in a near to wicked smile, stroking his yet again, slowly hardening cock for emphasis,

"Well... I can try...", The canine said shyly, playing her trump card... looking at the human with big puppy eyes, looking at him all shy and timid.

Letting himself sink back like he had been shot, her master just responded theatrical: "OKAY... now I definitely have to get myself checked for diabetes... after the check on my hands is done, that is...!"

"AH... no-no-no-no-no-no... please! Don't get diabetes, because of me...!", The canine shouted panicked, hastily jumping on Yasei, licking his face frantically... as if she could cure him somehow like that.

After a while snorting, half cause of him drowning in canine tongue, half in laughter, he softly pushed the female's head away from him, so she now stood nose to nose with him, paws still on his shoulders, finally explaining: "No worries... no worries... my sweet little puppy-dog. It's just a figure of speech, as I told you... you're so sweet, I sometimes think I'll get diabetes... but not literally! Just a figure of speech! You don't have to worry at all."

Giving her a reassuring smile, he gave her a quick peck on her nose, placing her foot next to his thighs, so her hips now were properly placed above his own. Grabbing his erect member, the young man rubbed its tip, over Asami's damp folds, proposing with a knowing smile: "You know... I teased you... you bit me... I think it would only be fair, for us both to get a treat right about know, huh... puppy-dog?"

A slight shiver ran down Asami's spine, as Yasei's cock tip, brushed over her folds, even though being slightly sulky, she finally agreed with an eager smile: "If you think it's fair..."

"Sure my little puppy-dog, just be a really good girl... and sit...!", Her master explained, one hand on her hips already, to steady her, one just above the base of her tail. With the hand on her butt, he slightly scratched, the area right between her anus and vulva, he saw Asami reacting especially eager at while eating her out just earlier.

Unconsciously already pulling her vulva up a bit... it did not yield too much of an effect, as she was not in heat, yet it was enough to ease his dick sliding in her eager pussy, at least a bit. Finally feeling her master buried deep within her, looking up at Yasei, panting happily... she yet was not quite sure how to continue, just grinding her wet folds, against the young man's balls.

"We can just remain like that for a while if you like, or we... can continue on... your choice!", Yasei stated, massaging the stretched ring of pussy flesh, laying firmly around his hard member.

"Mmm.. this's nice...", The female responded appreciative, continuing to slowly grind her vulva on Yasei's balls, before leaning in on the young man for a gentle kiss.

Only softly licking on her young master's lips, he tenderly caressed her chaps, gently nibbling on them with his lips, once in a while catching the canine's tongue, giving her a tender, human kiss... vaguely feeling the short, yet soft fur, surrounding her chaps, under his own lips.

Enjoying this slower pace just as much, he started tenderly petting Asami's body, clearly feeling her relax below his massaging fingers. Every once in a while, pushing up against the female's body he buried his dick just a tiny bit deeper in her hot flesh, with slow and tiny thrusts. Pulling the canine closer, after all, he pulled the female close to his body with his one arm, while lifting her body up from the ground a bit so he could hump her a bit more properly.

Steadying himself with his legs, he finally started to fuck Asami in longer thrusts, his tongue soon finding her way in the female's mouth. Still a bit afraid of biting her tongue again, the canine still kept her tongue in her mouth, Yasei thus, this time getting to explore her mouth, tenderly stroking the warm, wet flesh... only too well feeling each and every, pointy teeth, below his probing tongue.

Exploring this new kind of kiss, the canine, after all, started to return the kiss more eagerly, rolling her long tongue around her master's human one, fondling and teasing it, just like he did, when she invaded his distinctly smaller mouth, with her giant canine tongue. Not wanting to break the kiss just yet, Yasei started to gently rub Asami's back again, massaging the canines spine, while continuing exploring his female's mouth further, using this chance she had given him to the fullest.

Breaking her kiss in a silent gasp, he gave the red-furred bitch a quick smile, before wrapping his arms around her, letting himself sink down to the floor once more, this time around in a clearly reversed position. In a feral moan, he buried his nose in her warm, fluffy neck tuft, relishing the smell, which slowly became so familiar to him.

Hugging the bitch close to his chest, feeling her soft fur... her warm body close to him like that, he finally started to take the canine in earnest, hammering her canine pussy in an eager, feral manner. Her hot, damp walls, hugging around his intruding member eagerly, felt as heavenly as he remembered, the silken flesh brushing over his dick with each and every powerful thrust, driving him further and further, to sheer ecstasy.

Asami, firstly only gasping aloud, at Yasei's sudden vigor, meanwhile had caught her mind far enough, too respond to her master's example in an equal manner, thrusting back her hips in an eager fashion, soon meeting every thrust of the human with one of her own. Panting shallowly, the canine enjoyed the feeling of her master's member, stretching her just nicely, each and every thrust reaching deep in her heated body. Mimicking Yasei, she pushed her snout up to his neck, inhaling his scent deeply, she felt like knowing since forever... feeling her peak coming closer and closer, with every savage thrust of her human mate.

His balls hitting Asami's puffy lips in a smacking sound, before seconds later, his body knocking at the floor in a hollow bump, Yasei continued driving his member home deep in his canine lover... over and over again, resulting in a weird kind of crescendo, resounding in the small room. Not too much later he felt his orgasm approach rapidly... yet, the hot inner walls of the canine, hugging his member even fiercer yet, had him rather sure, the red-furred bitch was close herself too. Humping away at her in quick, hard thrusts, he practically started to a final spurt... feeling the canine cum in a deep gasp, little before he buried himself deep in his furry bitch, coming deep inside of her... feeling his warm cum, shoot deep in the innermost sanctum of her hot body.

Panting happily and quite spent, Yasei's grip around the canine's back loosened, his arms thinking down to the floor. The young man like that, now barely ruffling the canines fur absent-minded, he basked in his afterglow, still buried deep inside Asami's hot body. Little more was he able to do... especially as the canine finally collapsed on top of the young man, with a satisfied huff.

"This... is how a blanket works...", The canine suddenly stated in a quiet laugh, the young man clearly feeling her chest rising and falling, in exhausted gasps.

"Yeah... sure...!", Yasei agreed with a mild smile, placing his hands on Asami's back, scratching her neck lovingly.

The irregular pair simply enjoying one another's presence for a while longer, it was Yasei who finally gave a low sigh, declaring "Okay... I still can't quite talk love or not... yet... one thing's for sure... you, puppy dog, are mine and mine alone!"

Nestling her face against her master's happily, Asami answered with a sultry smile: "Oh... puppy can work with that...!"

Giving a quiet snort, the young man pushed the red-furred bitch playfully, asking in an unbelieving laugh: "Yes... and since when are you such a temptress?"

"Since you ruined me for all canines...-"

"- ... NOPE. That's old...! You'll have to try something new if you want to impress me..."

"Damn it!"

Ruffling the fur on Asami's head lovingly, before declaring after a quick look to the... closed door, with a heavy smile: "Well... sorry sweetie, guess cuddle time is over... I'm not even quite sure what time of day it is! . . . and JAY... we left the lights on all the time, during our little

nap."

"Should... should I have turned it off?", Asami asked hastily, fearing she had made a terrible mistake, "I... I considered... but you were lying on top of me and... it felt so good... and you seemed so happy... and content."

Giving a low sigh, the young man set up again, the canine scrambling down of her master hastily, who just explained calmly: "Nah... it's quite okay... a bit annoying, as it increases my electricity billing unnecessarily, but worse could happen..."

"Like...?"

"DIABETES...!", Yasei proclaimed, suddenly closing in on Asami, emphasizing the last S with a low hiss.

Jumping back, with a quiet squeal, the canine backed like a foot off of her master, taping his head with a paw, almost like a cat hitting a sudden attacker... but she did just tap him, making him muse in surprise: "HUH... so there indeed is a tiny bit of a cat in you...? Anyways... sorry for teasing again, but... yeah... diabetes, or any lasting ailment... being scammed of all the money one has... having you kidnapped or worse... all more dire than an overpriced bill."

Her heart still pounding a bit faster, cause of the young mans sudden 'attack'... Asami suddenly started listening attentively, asking with furrowed brows: "Wait a second... what was that? That last one...?"

"All more dire than an overpriced bill?"

"NO... earlier!"

"About being scammed of one's money?"

"NO... the other one...!"

"Other lasting ailments...?"

"YASEI...!!!", Asami gasped out in frustration, "You know full well what I meant!"

"OH... about you being kidnapped?"

"NO.. ehr... I mean yes... YES!"

"Okay... what about it? You surprised?", Yasei asked his surprise not entirely fake.

"Well... YEAH! All your 'not sure about love or not' yet you state losing me, as just as bad as terminal illness and losing all you ever had and worked your whole life for to acquire!", The canine explained astonished, looking at her master wide-eyed, as he seemed to state it as obvious, that he would hate to have to lose her.

"Well... DUH...! I may have said I would not talk love or something yet... but I'm your handler... your my puppy-dog... losing you... well...", The young man paused thinking, "WELL... to say the least, you at least mean enough to me already, for me being willing to break the face of whoever would even think about hurting you, or even taking you away from me!"

The bitch's eyes got a bit wider, even yet... before suddenly stating: "But... that sounds really painful... plus, wouldn't you go to jail or something like that, for breaking one's face?"

Yasei just shrugged his shoulder unimpressed, stating coldly: "For the first: that would be the intention... YES! And for the second... I DON'T CARE. Whoever wants to hurt my sweetie gets it back ten times over!"

Jaw agape now, Asami finally asked skeptically: "So... would you do the same for this Yuma guy?"

"For Yu? NAH... he can take care of himself. considering him I would even rather help the assailant, so the poor guy had at least a little chance of success."

"So you want to say I couldn't take care of myself?", The canine stated enraged, Yasei quickly settling her down with an appeasing motion.

"No... no-no-no! I'm more than certain you could bite anybody's balls, no matter who assaults you and devour them in a few quick bites, if necessary... but Yu in comparison... well... would he be in the same position - being able to do what I just described I mean - he probably would do just that, whereas you... you're so sweet and kind... I guess you would rather gnaw your paws off to get free, before attacking someone.", He explained, the bitch listening attentive, "So... no 'unable to take care of oneself' or anything, it's just as I said, your my sweet little puppy dog, you would deserve none of this... whereas I think Yuma capable of challenging any assailant to do so, just to knock em out in one quick swing!"

Her eyes suddenly going all wide again, Asami asked awe-struck: "Your friend is that strong!"

"Sure is...", Yasei explained with a quiet laugh, sitting down on the floor comfortably now, as this seemed to become a longer conversation, "On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, he leaves work at 4 a.m., to attend his training in boxing, just to go to his kick-box lessons a few hours later, only to finish his day training at home. Whereas I guess I'd have to explain: He has one of those giant training stations, as you see in all those gyms and dumbbells surely at least as heavy as you are right now!"

"HEY...!"

"What... did not say you're fat... your perfect as are, so no whining, yes?"

The canine averted her gaze abashed, no longer interested in complaining, so the young man finished up with a quiet laughter: "Long story short: whoever wants to hurt my puppy-dog gets it... and as to not appear as some sort of monster: YES... of course I would help Yu, if he really needed it."

Looking at the canine questioningly, waiting if she had anything to add on this, she just averted his eyes slightly, whereas he gave a little sigh, before turning more serious again, asking curiously: "So... I would not complain, we more or less had the time of our lives after all, but... it was not just that, right? You want to get some good rutting once again?", Seeing Asami's face turn to a mix of outrage and anger, he added, hastily apologizing like a million times, "SORRY... I did not mean it like that... I should have never said it like that... but... well has it really worked?"

The red-furred bitch giving a little, angry huff, she declared: "Close your eyes... try to think of nothing..." - "You mean like meditation?" - "... OH... yeah... sure, like meditating."

Giving Asami a quick, curious look, he complied... closing his eyes in a deep breath, emptying his spirit, awaiting whatever the canine had planned now. Stepping a bit closer again, the bitch closed her eyes herself too, gently touching her head to her master's. For a second feeling the soft fur on his head, Yasei saw a sudden flash of light, even thru his closed eyelids, the deep red light having him imagine the whole room on fire for a second, until he finally heard Asami's voice again, stating: `Okay... you can open your eyes again!´

Slowly opening his eyes again, he blinked irritated, even feeling panic welling up inside of him, as he asked clearly spooked: "Asami... where are you... what happened?"

Hearing a burst of quiet laughter, he once again heard Asami's voice explaining: `DOOFUS... just focus...!´

Looking the room all over once again, he gave in to the canine's demand in a defeated sigh... focusing his attention on... whatever could be different to before.

"OH... GOD DAMN IT!", The young man suddenly shouted out in frustration... frustration about himself!

He indeed had heard Asami's voice... but not literally... only in his mind! As the young man had focused as instructed, he had felt the presence of his furry companion all over... all around him and... dare he say it, even deep in his soul... especially in his mind and soul.

`Check the mirror!´, The bitch suggested, apparently now somehow part of his very mind.

"Okay...?", He stated, slightly confused complying with her words yet again.

"So... what am I - WHAT THE HECK!?", Yasei interrupted himself, staring at his mirror image in utter shock.

His eyes... his irides had taken on a bright orange, literally shining like two little suns... or flames caught in his very eyes. Looking over his body he could see his every hair standing on edge with the energy coursing through him. Warily examining the rest of his body he checked for any other... more serious changes, almost expecting to have grown a tail or something... yet, the only changes he could find were the two glowing mini-suns, he called his irides now and his strangely standing on edge hairs, whereas that effect was more apparent on his bodily hair.

"So... we can go Super-Saiyan now?", The young man finally asked jokingly... surprised as Asami didn't even have to ask what a Saiyan was supposed to be.

`If you want to call it like that... YES... we sure can!´, She explained, Yasei meanwhile reached the conclusion, she had to either be able to snoop his mind for what a Saiyan was or suddenly knew everything he did.

"Hm... it's interesting... like that you could really accompany me even for work... but...", He stopped, stepping closer to the mirror, inspecting his eyes up close now. To his utter shock, he found the few veins visible in his eyes to look like they were glowing... seeming like his blood had turned into lava or something. Raising his hands closer to his face, he found the artery and veins in his arms to slightly glowing too... like his blood indeed had turned into magma or some bio-luminescent fluid. Concluding his analysis with a final, last look over his body, he continued where he had left off, in a quiet sigh: "... that is if we can turn off my eyes playing sun and my veins glowing like some cheap glow sticks!"

Hearing a quiet sigh in his head, Asami explained sheepishly: Well... I'm afraid we can't...´ - "Brilliant..." -Well... but with a bit of training we should be able to!´

"Now that's more like it!"

Suddenly realizing his left arm moving, all of his own, he warily started following the slow movement... how it pointed out its index finger, raising it to his head... slowly moving closer to his nose. In an annoyed sigh, grabbing his own hand, with his right, his index finger caught between his other index and middle finger, Yasei asked in a dry tone: "What was that supposed to be?"

`Nothing...´, Asami replied innocently, the young man quite sure, would she have stood right in front of him, she would have done her very best, to avoid looking into his eyes.

"WHAT... was that supposed to be?", He repeated dryly once again, a clear bit of fret in his voice.

`Just... wanted to boop your nose...?´

"You wanted to boop my nose... with my own hand?"

`Uh-huh...´

"And

why... but... NO! Let me guess: because you could?"

`Uh-huh...´, The canine answered sheepishly, earning a deep sigh of her master.

Spinning on his heels, Yasei turned around, grabbing his old sunglasses out of his drawer, clearly feeling Asami's confusion as he put on his tracksuit. Finally opening the glasses in a snappy move, putting them on casually, he finally explained: `You said we'd need training with this, so let's do just that... plus, you may now scold me whenever I talk to you... I mean, literally, talk... only telepathic conversation allowed from now on... at least as long as we are in training. Have to get used to talking to you like that... you know... to prevent people thinking me a weirdo...!´

He could clearly feel Asami's embarrassment, being reminded of this words of her.

`Okay... but... how are you planning on training?´, The canine asked instead, unmistakeably in the tone, she loved to use, when looking at him, with this questioningly tilted head of her's.

"Well... I told you..." - `WRONG!´, Asami immediately interrupted her master, as ordered by himself, having him start the sentence again, this time 'the right way'.

`I told you... about having near to mastery of Tai Chi, right?´

`Uh-huh...?´

`Well... Tai Chi is all about aware and controlled motions... so... as you seem to be able to control my body just as much as me myself, I thought it would be best to at first train to control synchronizing this shared authority, so we can first learn to perfectly switch said authority. So we could, should one of us notice a danger, or something alike, react immediately, without having to elaborate first... about who is allowed to do what and especially who is planning to do what.´

`What in all worlds... you some kind of secret genius?´

"Nah...", Yasei stopped himself in realization, continuing in his thoughts, after a short hem, `Nah... I'm just quite into anime and martial arts. Some anime think up the most interesting concepts of strengthening the body using his own innermost chakra - like in Naruto - or a lot of other different means of strengthening your body by spiritual means. Martial arts... I guess I don't have to explain them, do I? As most of them are in one way or the other centered around utter control over his own mind and body.´

`Huh... you blow my mind...´

`Seriously?´

`No... but you just proved to me that you're, in fact, indeed a nerd!´

"THAT'S IT! No dinner for you!"

`Wrong...´, Asami just responded meekly, while her master ascended the last few steps to the roof of the apartment building.

Arriving on top of the flat roof, they stood in front of a giant elevated area, occupying the center of the big roof. It was just about four feet above the ground, yet there was a little staircase, with but two steps, so one could comfortably get on the elevated floor.

NO... jump!, Asami suddenly suggested, as her master wanted to go over the stairs like he was used to doing.

Cooperating with a little sigh, he prepared himself to jump the little elevation... yet as he propelled himself off of the ground, he suddenly found himself six feet in the air! Roughly landing on the top of the little platform, having to break his fall not only with his legs but also with his hands, as not to face plant on the rough gravel, covering the roof... he suddenly realized something rather astonishing. First, of course, him jumping freaking six feet in the air like it was nothing... but more importantly: his hands did no longer hurt anymore.

In a suspicion he removed the bandage on his hand, finding the cut completely healed, without even the hint of a scar. `So... am I right in assuming...´

`Uh-huh... when becoming one like that, all our wounds heal way quicker... as long as it's nothing more but cracked bones or cut skin, that is.´

"Huh... neat...", Yasei murmured to himself, ignoring Asami's scandalized 'WRONG', this time around.

`Well... then let's begin shall we?´

Hearing the canine's usual 'uh-huh' clearly in his mind he started with some of the easier figures, explaining them in detail and how to move their body, to form it. After a while able to feel how his canine partner peaked in his memories when not quite understanding what he meant... he did not quite care, as long as she followed their little exercise properly.

Finishing his explanation like that he allowed Asami to take control... finding his body moving, yet having no control over it at all... feeling like seeing the world through someone else's eyes, with no influence at anything!

Letting his mind wander, thinking himself as having not an ounce of influence on his own body, he oh to soon found himself in a deep dark void... taking naught but a second to ask himself: how in all worlds did Asami deal with this?! Yet... musing like that he reminded how the canine had told him earlier to not think about anything. Now finding himself in a situation where there was literally nothing... inspired by that thought he finally had an idea. Instead of letting himself be drowned in the apparent nothingness, he focused himself on what he still was able to perceive, essentially trying to do the exact opposite of what he had done earlier.

He was sure his body was more, but an empty husk... more but a container of his mind and soul! No longer numb to all the sensations he did indeed receive, he was nearly overcome by all the sensations and expressions he did receive after all.

Focusing his mind on the closest thing he could perceive... he could clearly feel Asami's mind! The young man could feel her warmth... her loving heart... her mind and memories... her very soul. Letting himself concentrate on this impressions, he could feel the female's heart, right next to his... and even though this was more a figure of speech, it was quite befitting in her current state.

As Yasei, now no longer was denying her union, he could clearly feel Asami at his side, even if just in spirit... he could feel all her being, feeling safer than ever before... protected and incited by the sheer knowledge of having his loyal companion on his side, no matter what.

Like that, being freed of the banishment he put himself into, the young man let his senses wander even further. He could only really see whatever Asami was willingly looking at right now... yet he just as well perceived all his surroundings. Feeling the loose gravel under his shoes... the wind sweeping over the rooftop, the main reason he liked coming up here to do his Tai Chi training... focusing further he could feel the slowly setting sun... Yasei could even perceive the clouds moving... he could even feel the presence of all the people living on the floor below.

He had deemed himself blind and helpless... yet his senses were sharper than ever... feeling like all of his perception was enhanced a hundred times... not to mention about Asami's loving presence... would they get to grips with this power... they could be near on invincible!

Letting his focus return on his body as a whole, he suddenly gave a loud gasp, back in control of his own body again.

`HEY... I almost got it...!´, The female complained, what Yasei ignored without too much of a bad conscience, as what he had seen glimpses of seconds ago, surely was not 'getting' anything.

Looking down at his hands, feeling like they didn't even belong to him for a few seconds, he took a deep breath, before explaining: `Okay... I think I got this... start over again. I'll watch you closely in the meantime, seeing if I can find anything that could help make this go a bit more smoothly.´

Agreeing with a slightly confused OK, Asami took control again, doing just as he had already told and shown her, yet... there definitely was something off. Thinking about it the way he had to think before... did not yield any results! As far as Yasei could tell Asami somehow was perfectly fine with his body, the reality she found herself in just now... the canine did feel none of the anxieties or anything else, that may have brought him into his void of nothingness earlier.

Musing about anything else he may find in his repertoire... not with all the will in the world, he was able to find anything helpful... except...? In a low, inner sigh - unintended irritating Asami in her training for a second - the young man tried making use of his programming skills, after all. Starting at the routes of the 'process' he searched all the way through the path of 'commands', for any abnormalities or errors in the chain of commands to Asami's movement of his body.

Finally realizing at least one flaw, he took back control, scolding Asami aloud: "Don't force me...!"

`Beg your pardon?´

Giving a low sigh he explained, going back to his own side training: `You know there's something like muscle memory? Searching for what might be the flaw in our training I more or less found proof that it is truer as anyone may expect. You know... my body... is me too, isn't it? So... going after that, you should be easily able to reproduce anything I can too. You don't need to try to adapt the movement patterns you know of from your body, you just have to do as mine tells you. Like I had to learn the hard way a few minutes ago: body and mind are indeed one... and should you try to force your mind on it... no results! Hm... more or less like, tell it what to do and it will oblige... just a whole lot more complicated.´

`Ehr... okay... I'll try...?´

With this new plan in mind, they restarted there training, switching places after every completed set of figures, for once so that Yasei could give tips or repeat sequences of movement and on the other hand, for them to get more used to a shared hegemony like that.

After quite a while of this new training plan, they indeed yielded at least some kind of results... Asami now for starters did no longer need to 'force herself' upon her master's body, even though he might like just that... but in

a different kind of context, while Yasei further explored the possibilities of the enhanced, spatial awareness, this fusion of their's could grant them.

Not letting down on their training - at least Yasei did not let them - they continued there session until sundown, before finally jumping down of their platform again. Not really being exhausted in a sense of muscle pains, after one of his Tai Chi sessions, like one would be after a gym session, Yasei was not too surprised, at feeling rather okay after training... yet he was still a bit confused, as he did not feel exhausted at all.

Labeling that as clearly not a problem he let go of the thought - at least for now - planning to address this issue a bit later.

Finally, back in their own apartment, Yasei let himself sink down on his couch once more, declaring in a low sigh: "SO... how do we undo this now?"

`Ehr... well... it kinda is a 'picturing' thing. You just have to picture it, focus all your mind on it... and if both parts of the pact, are willing to part... well, it'll work!´, Asami explained, sounding slightly unsure herself.. her master at least only just too well able to imagine her usual sheepish smile.

"Really? So what about the thing in the bathroom? 'Close your eyes and don't think nothing' ... what was that all about?"

`Well... firstly, it was supposed to be a surprise... and secondly... well, we blocked out your sight, plus you completely emptied your mind... so like that we were able to ditch the picturing on your part...´, The canine explained innocently, but before she could say any more, her master just gave a low sigh.

"Well... okay... then let's try, I guess?"

Asami agreed eagerly, as she herself was not to keen on wasting to much more time on discussing this particular issue any further.

Following the canines 'instructions', by a T they tried there best to envision his human and her spiritual body parting... yet to no avail.

They tried countless different ideas they came up with, even working out a rather sound idea, proposing them both envisioning themselves parting, but Yasei hat to focus on his own body and Yasei on hers... yet still, to no avail.

Trying whatever they could come up with, at some point coming to a point, where they were blaming one another, to not wanting to cancel there merge... till finally settling at a point, where they were sure one of em, or both of em, were to some point guilty of 'not wanting to break the union'.

Like that adjourning this problem, as they, after all, had two more days of no work - depending on however the police decided maybe more - they decided to indeed tackle this topic tomorrow, after a good nights rest.

Having concluded that, Yasei decided - even if he wasn't really hungry - for it to be dinner time.

Amassing what he could find in his fridge and little storage, he cooked up some fried noodles, with some veggies, finally stating in thought: `Hm... I only had breakfast... no lunch... and quite some exertion and training to top it all off... yet: no hunger... not too much of tiredness... that to do with our merge too?´

`Don't speak with your mouth full...!´, Asami stated in a scolding tone, yet Yasei giving little more but a dismissive shrug.

`Not speaking... thinking... now: answers please...!´

Giving a low sigh, the canine just guessed halfheartedly: `Because of the fusion? Your body gets stronger, so you probably have more stamina too?´

`Huh... would this be a videogame, we would be cheating really bad with this...!´

`You're into video games too?´

`Nah... fraid not... not anymore at least. Had to decide fun or cool sword fighting skills, which would be helpful in my carrier too, so... I guess you know how this decision making went?´

`Hm... fair enough... nerd.´

"Oh... I so wish you would sit right in front of me now so I could flick your snout!"

Just hearing a quiet squeal in his mind, for a respond, Yasei just stated with a quiet huff: "Thought that much...! ... even though a bit of a cuddle wouldn't be too bad either? Why the hell are you so cuddly? It's addicting!"

Hearing a quiet laugh echo in his head, he finally finished with his meal, cleaning all his dishes, pan et cetera... before yet again throwing himself on his couch, in a heavy sigh. This time flat out just laying stretched out on it, like some lazy couch potato, he finally asked: `So... next would be getting a... catalyst? But... NO... wait! More interesting first: could that Yoru guy utilize a merge like ours, too?´

`Ehr... well... if he really only sacrificed his eye... well, his powers would be exceptional... yet he still could never use power like our's!´, Asami started out unsure, yet ended in a rather confident, even proud tone.

`Hm... nice! So... what's up with this catalyst-things?´

I told you I was a fire elemental? Well... to being able to sustain form in this world, each of us was given a magical power, an element you may say. YET...´, The canine made an apparently dramatic pause before continuing,We can't utilize this powers without a proper bond with our chosen handler and a catalyst, as a vessel for this powers, to channel them.´

"Huh... so... had our 'buddy' acquired such a vessel for his demon-cat's powers... he could use all kind of crazy magic against us?"

Well... not quite, it's only one kind of Element so it would be fixed to a certain array of magic, but... Uh-huh... kinda. Whereas...´, Asami came to a sudden abashed halt, before continuing shyly,I'm sorry... but I can't say what kind powers they may have... all summoned Yokai only are aware of there own magical element... but I know Katsuo is some kind of earth-elemental...?´

Giving a quiet giggle, Yasei - crossing his arms behind his head now - explained soothingly: `No sweat... if you said you don't know their magic, they can't know our's either, so... leveled playing field, no reason to be all shy and ashamed again. ... but, just for the records, Katsuo was... your brother you said?´

`Uh-huh... but you don't need to worry about him, he may be proud and sometimes a bit stubborn... but he's one of the good guys, he would never harm us for no good reason, so... I guess his handler wouldn't either?´

`Good... so, I guess we have enough time to worry about that if it actually comes to it. So... more importantly, what is it with this catalysts?´

Well... it's a weapon to channel the magic of a Yokai...´ - "Yeah... as you said before...?" -... and for an item to qualify for a vessel, it needs to be old... old and in as perfect a condition as possible.´

Yasei looked at Asami wide-eyed... or more like at the ceiling, as he asked, not quite understanding that reasoning: `Why does it need to be old? wouldn't anything, practically newly made, out of more advanced, modern materials, be just as good... if maybe not even better? Not to mention: how old? Like at least 25 years, like with your handlers, or even older?´

The canine gave quite a pause, before finally having an idea, for a proper explanation, as to not disappoint her master, with a lukewarm 'magic is mysterious' response. Going on her tone, the young man was all too well able to imagine, how she would now sit before him, her tail wagging excitedly: `You know Tsukumogami? You could more or less call them artifact-ghosts... they are supposed to be discarded items, which after being thrown away and neglected entirely, come to life a hundred years after there abandonment.´

`Okay... interesting story... but what about it?´

`Well... my guess would be this may be kind of a half-truth, like with myths and such. As only items of a quarter of a millennium or older qualify as a vessel... I guess they indeed may develop some kind of soul, which allows channeling magic using them as catalysts.´

`Huh... all good and well, but... why the 'has to be in perfect condition' condition?´

On that, Asami surprisingly just gave an indignant snort, asking almost sarcastically: `Well... are you able to perform your best if your body is all sick and worn down?´

"OW... off course... that indeed makes sense... clever girl...!", Yasei agreed eagerly, almost a proud tone in his voice, before continuing thoughtfully, "SO... what are we supposed to do? Buy some centuries old saber at some auction, or how are we supposed to go about that?"

Hm... well... whatever kind of item you want to use as a catalyst... our only choices would probably really be buying it at some sort of auction, or something alike or... well...´ - "Or what...?" -Well... finding a suitable item and... EHR...´ - "... and what?" - `Well... steal it.´

Stunned by this kind of development it took the young man a whole few minutes until he finally stated in disbelieve: "STEALING!? Thievery... larceny... burglary... that kind of stealing?"

`Well... yeah... kinda...?´

"... and here we go with the kinda again...", Yasei mumbled to himself, before stating in a heavy sigh, "OKAY... but only after we truly and utterly ran down each and every other non-illegal option!"

`Of course! I wouldn't want to take away somebody else's property either, but... if we want to survive this, we do need some kind of catalyst.´

The young man surprisingly found it rather hard to swallow at this prospect, finally stating in a bit of a shaky voice and a touch of sarcasm: "Jay... what great of an outlook that is... do or die... hurray...?"

After their little strategic meeting, quickly checking the time, Yasei concluded them having wasted about three and a half hour screwing and napping and just now with there strategics and Tai Chi training another six hours.

Even if he hadn't been merged with Asami, not at the least tired, especially after there little afternoon nap, they decided to start their research early. Yasei fired up his computer, placed on a big table in his living room, to search for every tiniest possibility to legally get some hundred of years old artifacts.

His PC thereby had two

big, linked monitors and enough capacities as to be easily able to handle any programming work, he might ever want to do, when being forced to take his work home once again. All this performance couldn't help them much though, as it could not change a thing about the hits they got in there searches.

Wasting about two more hours like that, searching each and every possible site for pending auctions and what not. SURE... they found plenty of auctions, which offered items fitting the 'proper vessel' conditions... BUT... well... after checking all of them, he had to deduce quite sobered... he definitely could never afford a 260 years old saber, which's starting bid was placed at 30 000 000 yen!*

In a fit of desperation, checking all the sites he had already checked once again... finally even searching sites like eBay, amprice and all possible auction sites he could only think of, he had to finally announce, after midnight had already passed: "Oh girl... the things you make me do..."

Now searching the web for rich collectors of ancient weapons and things alike, he had found some interesting targets... searching some reports on auctions on ancient weapons, he could add even more targets to there grid. Within naught more but a minute discarding anybody far out of reach anyways, the hard work started. He kinda didn't want to rob people who had indeed earned their wealth fairly and were not too bad personality vise either... so all that, they narrowed down there targets to three people, they could reach in more or less one or two really long train rides.

"So... there really is no other way than? No way we can... like... craft a catalyst ourselves?"

`Well... you got any about a thousand years old steal, fabric and a few more old as the hills stuff, we'd need to craft a weapon... and the skills to manufacture something like a sword... or a saber?´

"What? Why suddenly a thousand years old... and isn't any ore way more than a thousand years old?!"

`Excavated for a thousand years, as I don't think something enclosed deep bellow earth would form much of a soul...´

"Huh... well... guess I really have to go to the dark side than, huh?", Yasei finally gave in, opening the short profiles he had compiled - a picture and a few reasons why he would target them and what he would target - on the monitors, leaving the final decision to Asami.

Well... you know... as we apparently have to do this anyways...´, Her master could clearly feel Asami's eagerness come to a slow, but certain halt... until she suddenly called out, pointing his finger at the picture of an old, mean looking blond dude,HIM! He has a collection of a few really ancient katana swords - and you love this samurai stuff, as far as I remember - PLUS he had multiple charges for illegal big game hunting, which were dropped out of nowhere, so... let's mug him and mug him good!!!´

Giving a vain sigh, he like that stood up from his office stair, stating: "Well... dark side it is...!"

To Asami's confusion going in his bedroom, starting to search the literal depths of his wardrobe, he finally produced forth a little box, he had hidden in the farthest depths of the piece of furniture. It was about the size of a jewelry box, containing a single piece of computer hardware, almost looking like an old modem, with a corresponding connection cable... not to mention the box was as dusty as they come.

`How cliche...´, The female stated the first thought coming to his mind, after finding the apparently long unused box all dusty.

"What... that literally is my darkest past... I had hidden it back there, as I was too scared to get rid of it, fearing to be caught red-handed, of possessing something like that!", He retorted annoyed, explaining with a quiet sigh, "In college, when learning how to program... well I was not to bad and... at one point one thing let to the other and suddenly I found myself in a cell of hacktivists!"

`Say what?´

"It was nothing too wild... we just wanted to do the people some good... but... after graduating I broke my ties with them... yet, for me never even thinking about rutting out any of them, they more or less owe me a favor, so..."

`FIRST: how cliche, yet again. Secondly: hmm... apparently magic indeed is incomprehensible, yet near to flawless... way more as I would have ever imagined.´

"WHAT?"

Well... sending the only person who would take me in, accept me in every just possible way...´ - "You mean the sex, don't you?" -... sure do... and to top it off, by sheer chance, has the means to rob a multi-million dollar tycoon, to become my partner!´

"Oh... well... Yeah, but it is only a once in a lifetime chance, as I don't think they'll help me out ever again, after calling in that last favor of mine.", The young man explained, plugging in the device at his PC's USB-port, installing the programs saved on the device, proclaiming in a desperate groan, "OH GREAT... now I get to delete everything relating to our search, on where to get an ancient saber and once again wipe my hard drive for like a hundred times, to make sure there will never ever be anybody, able to find any remains of this programs on my system."

`So... what's that thing supposed to do anyway?´

"Conceal my ID... redirect my connection, as to having my login appear on multiple different countries at the same time, should they ever look for it... and a bit more safety measures like that.", Yasei explained absent-minded, while starting deleting all possible history, on his computer, after noting down the information he would need, whereas he added, "I was, by the way, the one who made all that security measures and built that little box... never really was that much into the hacking business itself."

Baffled by all that information, even as she could easily have searched his mind for enlightening, Asami finally decided to just leave the young man to do... well, whatever it was, he did. While he worked quietly, explaining how this still had kind of the function of a router, as it allowed him to enter a... more shallow depth of the dark web, were hacker and such liked to meet, it took him mere seconds until he had found the guy he searched for.

"Good thing I agreed to do this with just a 'code word'...", Yasei stated in a relieved sigh quite a while later, still in discussion with one of his former buddies.

`Oh... I don't think I like this... isn't the dark web, like... evil?´

"Nah... not this, this is harmless in comparison... this is more like... the hacker version of Facebook. To get to where you mean - were all the beheading of cows with chainsaws, selling people and crazy murder games happen - you'd need like, WAY MORE effort, as just that tiny toy here."

`If you say so...´, Asami responded, still really unconvinced of all this.

"Well... great... now the fat is in the fire... now its really do or die...!", Her master finally explained, in a clearly sarcastic, all but happy manner, "This old buddy of mine said he knows somebody, knowing someone, who knows somebody, who can get him a program, able to make mincemeat of any kind of security this Leroy guy may have! ... with a little bonus, deleting everything on the device I installed it on after the program is done with the security."

`But... wouldn't that like... kill your computer?´

"Nah...", Yasei answered, patting the device he had just plugged in to his PC, "We just lode it on this fella, make it all nice and clean, so there isn't even the tiniest print or what not of me on it and leave it with him, kinda two birds with one stone... I get rid of it and don't have to sacrifice my important hardware."

For quite a while after this revelation, Asami was silent... for a whole few minutes, before she finally stated evilly: `OH... OH... we can burn it with fire... just to be sure...!´

"Ehr... sure... why not?", The young man responded, slightly confused about the sudden pyromaniac-ish tendencies while finalizing his preparations.

"So... now would be really lovely if we could separate again... or at least learn it until Sunday..."

`Why's that?´

"I surely won't do this on a weekday... it may be less crowded on a weekday, but . . . huh... that actually wouldn't be too bad an idea. If we'll do it, we might as well go out with a bang!"

`What...? What's the plan now?´

"Yeah... YEAH... this should work...!"

`WHAT? What's supposed to work...?´, Asami asked literally pleading.

"NAH... no worries: we do this properly, everything should be just peachy!"

`YASEI...?´

Leaving his canine companion more or less in the dark like that, they spent the weekend with training and errands... and an unexpected visit by the police, questioning all workers who were not present for questioning the other day. Except for that little surprise visit... the weekend was more or less uneventful, whereas the police were surprised about Yasei wearing sunglasses, as it still was more or less winter. They luckily did not bother with it any longer though, as he was not on their list of subjects, apparently happy with his explanation, of him having had a... little accident and he was merely trying to cover a black eye like that.

Spending quite some effort in there Tai Chi training as well, they slowly but surely got more at grips, with the possibilities of this state and thus closer to her goal of being able to switch control fluidly, without getting in too big of a fuss about it. Testing out how far they could control the energies running through his body... especially if and how they could control them, they had by the end of Saturday, at least managed to take control over that glowing eyes of his, whereas the 'glowing blood' problem seemed to be beyond there control. As this subtle change wasn't too obvious, giving this problem some thought they decided, it surely would not catch anybody's eyes... as long as said 'body', would not try to kiss him... whereas Asami had already promised she would bite anybody's tongue off, who would try to even get close to her master, like that!

All the while just as much preparing for there great cue, Yasei cleaned up their 'door opener' as planned, just as much as searching through his clothes. Picking the oldest one, or at least ones he wouldn't mind immediately burning afterward... meticulously cleaning every part of all of em, for hairs, flakes of shed skin and whatever else he could think of, probably cleaning it twice as thoroughly as any dry cleaner would, in the process. Like that earning more than a dozen of 'aren't you overdoing this' questions of Asami, Yasei still wasn't really sure if it was enough to make absolutely sure, he wouldn't leave any kind of traces, be it now fingerprints, footprints or DNA... even after all this meticulous preparation of his.

Regarding that, he even bribed some guy to get him some cheap, leather biker gloves and a bandana - one of the kind you could completely cover your face with - at the excuse of him 'being banned' of entering the shop, in exchange for a pack of cigarettes and some booze... and the money for the overall purchase of course. During the same shopping trip they picked out a nice collar and leash for Asami and a few different toys and pillows, she apparently desperately needed at any cost. Some grocery shopping and replenishing of bandages et cetera later, Yasei declared this task as finished too.

Getting most of this done on Saturday, they spent most of Sunday on more training and more tries on how to get here merge undone... especially since Yuma called in on Sunday, asking if he'd like to meet, to introduce his 'new girlfriend' to him, which Yasei obviously had to decline.

Strangely enough, Yasei did not quite really miss Asami, considering physical contact and vise versa... as no matter what, they always both knew and clearly felt each other, right at one another's side. Once Yasei even mused Asami willingly blocking the break-up of her fusion, in an attempt to trick her master into falling in love with her... but even before the canine could answer furiously, he had already thrown that aside, as he did indeed believe without thinking, she would never come up with as dirty a plan like that.

Working through there plans for a last time, about which Yasei had finally enlightened the canine on Saturday, right before going to bad... once again sifting through everything they had learned, every progress they had made, using up their last evening hours on Sunday, they finally understood, what they more or less had thought about the entire time of their weekends training anyway...

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT...!´, They both scolded each other simultaneously, the shouts echoing in their shared mind, before in just as much unity, declaring at the same time,No... I'm sorry... it was all my fault...!´

Like that getting stuck in an outright fight, about who was more sorry, because it was way more his fault... whereas Yasei finally had to realize: Asami was way more tenacious in fights like that...!

Okay... okay... never mind!´, The young man finally stated soothingly,We more or less knew the entire time, that we were both at fault... NO... no backtalk! Anyhow... what you think? Those two days... in more or less perfect sync... I think we both should know pretty well, nobody can take that from us... no matter what happens, so...?´

Giving a low sigh, quietly resounding in their shared mind, the canine agreed after all: `Well... I guess I'm ready whenever you are...?´

Finding himself not as sure as he initially thought, Yasei finally gave a low sigh, nodding his agreement.

Drawing on their first idea, they both pictured there separation... Yasei emphasizing his body... Asami her own. Augmenting this, with her newest conclusion, they focused on letting go of all connections they had in there merged state... separating their thoughts... their minds... their hearts. Clearly feeling the energy - he became so accustomed to - leaving his body, it practically flowed out of every pore of his body, gathering in front of him in a big, flickering flame... that finally slowly took Asami's form once more.

"See... told you we could...", The young man began talking but was immediately knocked over by the canine, eagerly licking the face of her master.

`I had missed you so much...´, The female exclaimed, showering the young man in affection, who could do little more but trying not to drown in dog tongue... cause if it was possible, he was sure Asami would manage to do so, in one of her affectionate outbursts.

"Hey... hey... easy girl... easy...!", Yasei finally managed to utter, "I missed you cuddly beast to... but we were never apart... were we...?"

"But still...", Asami proclaimed persistent, as her master lay her arms around her, gently petting her soft fur.

"Aw... come on... don't cry...", The young man finally, stated in a quiet laugh, lying if he wouldn't be touched by the depth of her affection.

Gently stroking down her face with one hand, he stroked over her wet doggy eyes... before suddenly grabbing around her snout with his hand!

Hey... stop it... that's not funny!, The canine scolded him, trying to wiggle her maw out of his grip.

In this attempt finally crawling down from him, Yasei hastily got on his feet, before letting go of her snout again, ruffling the female's fur, gently grabbing both sides of her head.

"Come on sweetie... wouldn't be a little late night walk be way more fun, as crying about finally being able to tackle me again?"

"I wasn't crying... not because of that...!"

"I know... I know...", Yasei stated in a quiet laugh, kneeling down to Asami again, hugging her close, as she immediately placed her paws on his feet, snuggling her head up to his, in this unspoken invitation.

Hugging the red-furred bitch close, he affectionately petted down her back, in long strokes, happily taking in the smoky-sweet scent of the female. After a bit finally bringing a bit of distance between them, so they were now nose to nose, her feet still on his thighs, the young man repeated with an inviting smile: "Come on... let's go for a walk... finally breaking in that collar we got you."

Soothed the canine's ears stood up high in anticipation... before her expression suddenly turned rather skeptical, her master adding with a slight roll of his eyes: "... and you can, of course, take our stick along!"

Immediately jumping off of his legs excitedly, tail wagging happily, she eagerly ran down the little hallway, disappearing in their bedroom, where she knew her master had stored her toys and accessories. Following her a bit slower, Asami already returned from his room, leash and collar in her maw. After actually quite a discussion they had settled on a braided dog collar in black - Yasei's choice - and - surprisingly - pink!

"Never thought you as the kind of gal, who'd like pink... I more thought you a... well red kind of type...", The young man like that repeated, what already had crossed his mind when buying it.

"No... I like pink, thank you very much...!", The red-furred bitch declared in an exaggerated, sophisticated kind of tone, before adding with an ineffectual smile, "PLUS... I long enough had a red collar around my neck, as to last me for a whole lifetime!"

"HUH... well... guess I can't argue with that...? ... but wait... you at least had your brother's company, hadn't you?"

"Well... kinda. He was freed like two years ago, so..."

Hearing about Katsuo being free for two years, a few people at his workplace immediately popped in his mind... a lot of people he knew in school too, but... he never had met that Yoru guy... so... the brother of his girl, surely wouldn't be paired up with somebody he already knew for years, or met like a decade ago... would he?

Scratching this thought after a while though, he just shrugged his head, before kneeling down, to help Asami putting her collar on.

"There you go... I still would have picked the diamond one though..." - "You know they weren't real, do you?" - "Yeah... I know... but it still looked pretty fancy and you would have surely looked great in it!"

Looking her master over again, the female responded: "Okay... but you have to wear more red than...!"

"Ehr...", The young man looked himself over... he rather preferred black and white and a bit blue considering Jeans, but... continuing hastily he stated, "Never mind... let's continue this discussion another time... as soon as we are sure we won't go to jail, that is!"

Giving Yasei a skeptical look, the canine hesitantly agreed: "Okay... sure... even though, as many precautions and precautions on said precautions you have met, I'm sure not even a hoard of bloodhounds could find you!"

"Yeah... let's hope so...", He agreed in a hesitant nod, before finally announcing, with another more enthusiastic nod towards the door, "... but that's all for tomorrow, this afternoon we wanna try to have a bit of fun again, yeah?"

"Uh-huh...!", The red-furred bitch agreed eagerly, tail wagging happily, as she followed her master out of his apartment.

While their quick walk to the park, the female still as eager as always, Yasei had to remind Asami nearly every two steps, she now no longer could keep dancing around him, like a crazy puppy. Well... sure... physically she could... but practically... practically it was much easier to walk if you did not have to check every few steps, if a certain, red-furred bitch had tied your legs together, with her leash again.

After his fifth time nearly going down, Yasei finally had it, scolding the canine sternly, finally earning some peace. The female now walked next to him obediently... even though she now dragged her steps sadly, tail low and ears down.

Giving a heavy sigh, her master... well he did not apologize, after all he was right, yet he indeed reminded her encouragingly: "Come on... don't go all glum on me like that, you have to behave when walking with me somewhere... but at the park you can run and play as much as you want... as long as you're good, return as soon as I call you and especially as long as you are not harassing any people... just as I told you, when we were shopping for your leash!"

"Nnn... oay...!", Asami replied, their stick still firmly gripped between her teeth, tail wagging gently... whereas the canine, even though she now perfectly behaved, now started walking a whole lot closer to her master, her fur sweeping over his leg, with every step of his.

In a quiet sigh, Yasei made peace with this outcome, cause even if he now had to watch his every step, as not to accidentally step on the females paws... it still was kinda nice, having her so close at his side.

Arriving at the park Asami looked at her master wide-eyed, yet just earning a stern look of her master, as she was just tiptoeing agitated.

"No...! SIT!", The young man ordered strictly, a quick shudder going through Asami's body, before she eagerly complied, stepping right in front of him, sitting down on the ground, tail curled around her paws neatly, their stick still gripped between her jaws.

Not giving more reaction but a slight nod, he removed her leash, looking at her for quite a while, before finally giving a quick nod, in the direction of a bench nearby. Following obediently, the female waited for her master to pass her, before following on his heels. Sitting down at the bench, looking intently at the red-furred bitch... he finally gave a silent laugh, before patting her lovingly.

"Now that's my good girl... come on... gimme!", Yasei finally explained, taking the stick, Asami obediently handed him.

"Go, girl... get it!", He finally proclaimed, standing up again, before throwing their stick away, with all he had, before slowly following the female, eagerly hunting after the thrown piece of wood.

Returning with the stick in her jaws, tail wagging happily, he could quietly hear her voice in his thoughts, as she asked: `Did I good?´

Slightly confused for a second, the young man looked at her puzzled, finally arriving at the guess his scolding earlier, still had her fear she was not good... did not behave properly.

"Of course you did...", Yasei confirmed, caressing the canine's face lovingly, before again, taking the stick and throwing it away once more.

Hunting after the stick, it took Asami mere seconds before she had caught up to here prey... before suddenly stopping dead still. Maw half open, having been just about to pick up her stick, she gazed into the forest intently. Suddenly her tail shot upwards excitedly, before quickly picking up their stick, disappearing in the direction of the little forest.

"Great... now what?", The young man mumbled to himself, slowly following Asami, curious what the furball was up to this time.

Suddenly returning as he just arrived at the forest's edge, she suddenly returned, possibly after venturing to the deepest part of the forest and back, telling him eagerly: "Come... I found something R E A L L Y good...!"

The fact how she had drawn out that 'really', plus the fact how she had left their stick, wherever she had found said 'really good', had him irritated for a sec... until his eyes fell to her tail.

Looking at her rather deliberately raised tail, it only took him... less than a heartbeat, until his eyes fell upon her puffy pussy. The canine led the way, yet carefully staid in sight, apparently even making sure he always had a good look at her pussy and... enticingly swinging hips! After a while, surely rather close to the center of the forest Asami suddenly stopped dead in track, few steps away of an old tree stump.

A bit disappointed at this sight, his excitement, after watching those hypnotizing hips for what felt like an eternity, he now stated dryly: "You wanted to show me the old stump of a tree?"

"Oh... you have to use your imagination a bit, big boy...", The female told him circling around him, all the time her tail sweeping over his body seductively... before she, having him circled once, jumped on the stump, just to step off of it on the other side... with only her front legs?

"Come on big guy... your female is waiting to be mated, like the needy bitch she is...!"

For a few seconds utterly stunned at... well, this idea, coming from Asami of all... her suddenly even further improved dirty talk and... and the whole idea at that!

"What... here? Like that? Out in the open?"

"I'm all your's master... and nobody is gonna find us here, especially at this time of the night!"

Swallowing heavily Yasei quickly scanned his surroundings, deciding he may - as his member already pushed against his pants eagerly anyways, cause of Asami's display earlier - just as well go along with it... giving a little sigh, before finally stepping up to the female.

"So... I hope you won't regret this puppy-dog...!", He finally declared, getting his game back together... grabbing her tail intently.

Gasping aloud Asami raised her rump even higher... her body shivering in anticipation announcing needily: "Please.... take me...!"

"As you wish, puppy-dog...!", Her master complied, pulling his pants down and moving his boxers out of the way, freeing his throbbing cock.

Her tail grabbed in his right hand, he started rubbing his erect member over her damp vulva, petting her rear with his free hand declaring: "Yet... suddenly running away like that... bad puppies like that need to be punished... don't you think?"

Wanting to respond, Asami instead gave a sudden gasp, as he slapped her butt... or more like her thigh, as she was a dog after all. All the while, instead of really being scared or anything, she rather was excited... as her master, now once again caressed her tenderly and the pain slowly faded in a strange warmth, she instead indeed wanted more...!

"No... please... I just wanted to...!", The canine entered the game too, stopping mid-sentence, in another gasp, as her master slapped her left thigh yet again, before now caressing the place he hid, by tenderly scratching it with his fingertips.

"Oh... no - no - no - no - no...! No backtalk puppy... good puppies don't talk back...!", Yasei scolded her, a clearly wolfish tone in his words... before he suddenly slapped her thigh once again.

The feeling of him slapping her the last time not yet quite being gone, this one felt even more intense, having the canine give a little moan, as she could yet again feel the pain fade in this strangely alluring warmth... before suddenly once again being spanked, this time a bit harder than before.

"OW... you like that? Seems like we have to continue this? As naughty little puppies have to learn... their place after all!", The young man declared, spanking the red-furred bitch yet again.

Gasping aloud once more, the canine flinched as her master yet again, let his hand come down upon her left thigh... but just taped her? As her master continued like that for a while, just slightly patting her rear, she once again faced her head forward... before suddenly feeling her master slap her other hip, with an even stronger slap as before. Starting to pant heavily, her tongue rolling out, she looked back at her master once more... tears in her eyes, yet just to clearly panting in lust.

Giving her right cheek yet another much weaker slap, he once again returned to the other thigh, once again letting his hand come down at her but. Gasping out once more, she stared at her master begging, yet still panting in lust, wanting more...! Her master suddenly slowly pushing his thumb in her butt, drawing out a low hiss of her, as she drew a shallow breath, she just seconds later, eagerly pushed her rear back against her master.

"Oh... does puppy know her place now...?", Yasei asked in a husky voice, the female giving a low howl, raising her rear again, her wet pussy just begging for being filled, "Well... fair enough...!"

Having said that, he aligned himself with her properly, slowly pushing his throbbing member in her hot pussy... following the anatomy of her inner walls upwards a bit, before thrusting forward again, burying his member deep in her twitching sex, in one quick thrust. The bitch gasping aloud, on the sudden, rough penetration, Yasei quickly switched hands, gripping her tail with the left now, before slapping her right cheek once more, with his right now.

Giving another low moan on the sudden pain, as her master now grabbed her thigh, starting to move inside her in long, relishing thrusts, Asami gave an eager moan, needily pushing against her master's thrusts. After a while letting go of her tail, spanking her left thigh once more, with his left hand, before now grabbing her hips right and proper, the canine gave another needy moan, before suddenly gasping out aloud once more, as her master started to hump her in long powerful strokes.

Pulling her against each and every of his thrust, Yasei could clearly feel the hot walls of Asami's canine sex tightening around his cock eagerly, the bitch herself breathing heavily, her body shaken with every powerful thrust. The tight silken walls surrounding his member... the hot, stretched ring of flesh, of her vulva slapping against his balls in every thrust. Like that watching the stretchy flesh of her pussy being dragged along every time he pulled out, Yasei himself started panting weakly too, not too soon... the erotic of the scene only arousing him even more.

"Come on my sweet, little puppy dog... let me hear that voice of yours...!", The young man ordered on a whim, before slapping her right cheek once more.

The bitch giving a low howl at the dull pain, her master yet again gave her another, this time stronger slap, earning another, now way heartier howl. Happy with that, he grabbed the female's hips once more, his hands grabbing her securely, before continuing to fuck her, lifting her feet off of the trunk and pulling her closer, to be able to penetrate her even deeper.

The female gave yet another shallow howl, at the deep penetration, her master's hard cock reaching deep into her needy depth, scratching an itch she never even knew she even had! Panting heavily... tongue lolled out of her mouth self-indulgent, her body rocked with every deep thrust of her master. Her panting slowly getting faster and more sporadic, it took Asami only a few more seconds until she finally came in a loud howl, doing even a wolf honor... before her master himself too, could no longer resist the hot, silken walls of his female, cumming deep inside of her.

Unwillingly letting go of the canine, having Asami slowly slip of his cock, his cock like that squirting his last, spurts of seed all over her anus and lower back. Stroking his dick slowly, spreading the last shots of his cum on the canine's back too, he lovingly scratched the canines still slightly raised rear.

"Such a good girl...", Yasei finally announced, still tenderly caressing the canine, before stating in another wolfish grin, "You know... a good puppy deserves a treat... you want a treat?"

As her master started to gently massage her firm anal ring, using his seed as a lubricant, to slip his finger in her tight butt more easily, the canine, gave another surprised gasp... before responding in an eager whine, weekly humping against the intruding finger.

Having driven his thump in her to the hilt, he slowly pulled it out, collecting some of his cum on his pointer and middle finger, slowly working his two digits past her anal ring, gently massaging the tight muscles of her anus, while slowly burying his fingers deeper and deeper in her rear entrance. Asami trying her best to not work against the unnatural intrusion, panted heavily all the while, as her master's digits slowly dove deeper and deeper in her body.

His member slowly hardening again, Yasei started slowly turning and spreading his finger inside of the canines tight rear, before finally slowly pulling out his fingers, leaving the canine panting heavily, as he asked her, lightly pushing the tip of his member against her tight rear: "Well puppy-dog... do you want your treat... does puppy want a treat?"

Giving a quiet whine, Asami once again steadied herself on her hind legs, once more presenting her rear willingly for her master.

"That's my girl...", Yasei praised the female, tenderly petting her thigh as he slowly pushed his member in the tightest hole the canine had to offer.

Hissing in pain quietly, Asami still kept her rear raised, slowly letting the long dick disappear deep inside of her tight butt. Hearing her master gasp in... a bit of another kind of pain, as her ass gripped his member tighter as anything he had ever felt, the female started to wiggle her hips slowly, gritting her teeth, slowly pushing the human member deeper inside her anus.

Finally hilting himself deep in Asami's ass, he gently started massaging her wet vulva, letting his finger wander around the puffy canine lips, one finger diving into her pussy, quickly finding and caressing the nub of her clitoris.

Gasping aloud, slowly starting to move on Yasei's penis, the canine raised her rump high, her whole body shaking, on the mixture of lust and pain.

As Asami seemed to get used to his member, up her ass, he started working her clitoris in more earnest, laying his hand around her pussy, so the little nub of flesh was caught between his massaging finger and his palm, as he started to hump the canine's butt with more vigor.

The hot walls of the bitch's ass, squeezing tightly around his member, the young man nearly felt as if he was gonna cum right away, barely holding on to his wits, fucking the tight butt of his female, while intently massaging the sensitive flesh of her clit... having the canine pant in agony and arousal just the same.

After a while, finally more or less used to the member up her rear, Asami finally felt the pain wane, leafing but a feeling of a faint kind of pressure, thus encouraging the canine to more eagerly respond to her master's thrusts, while feeling waves of lust coursing through her body, as he worked the sensitive bump of flesh of her clit.

The young man after a while stopping to move in Asami, leaving this work to the female, he instead grabbed around her hips, now placing both his hands on her pussy, massaging the tender flesh of her pussy, while letting two of his fingers dive deep into her wet tunnel, softly massaging her soft, inner folds. Now just occasionally petting the bump of her clit, as to not overuse that kind of stimulation, Yasei gently pushed herself towards Asami, working in sync with every slow push of the canine, just sporadically, lightly responding to her motions like that, as he kept working her pussy, feeling the canine's body shudder in lust, all over his member, as he clearly felt his peek approach too.

Like that starting to work the canines pussy more eagerly, the bitch herself started to hump her master more eagerly too... until she felt him come deep inside of her as, before suddenly gripping her closer, working her clit in earnest vigor, having her cum in a hearty moan, not much later.

Both panting heavily, it was Asami which finally stated, tongue still hanging out of her mouth: "Jusss hobe... novowy isss gonga stat... a hunn fo we wig wap wuff wow...!"

"Yeah... no clue what you just said... but I guess I just say, yes?", Yasei responded in a quiet laugh, slapping the canines thigh once more, "So... I'd say no more midnight fun... as I am beaten! ... plus, even if the police still has my workplace shut down... better get this over with as quickly and swiftly as possible!"

"Agwee...!", The canine agreed, still huffing slowly... still impaled on her master's manhood.

After dismounting and cleaning the canine's rear up as best as they could - mostly Asami being the one doing the cleaning - Yasei and his furry partner, finally left the park again, returning to their apartment once more... whereas the female, of course, did not dare to forget taking their stick along!

Walking through the silent night like that, his loyal partner and companion close at his side, it felt almost surreal to the young man... tomorrow really being the day they planned to rob a rich influential asshole, of an antique sword, probably worth way over 50 000 000 yen! It almost made him want to blow off the whole deal... yet... he couldn't! He trusted in Asami, being rather sure by now, the canine surely would never exaggerate on something like saying 'their lives would depend on it', no matter what it was.

In a slow sigh making peace with the thought of tomorrow apparently being the most important, just as much as the most dangerous day of his whole life!

`You pondering yourself because of the plan again?´, Asami finally asked worriedly, nudging his hand with her snout reassuringly.

`Yeah... kinda... I know, we have almost everything thought through, yet... I don't know... playing with you in the park... walking home like that... everything quiet and peaceful... it makes all of this feel like a bad joke!´

We got this Yasei...!´, The female stated insistently,Your plan is as good as any... would you have more precautions as you already have, you yourself wouldn't even know of your plan!´

Giving a little laugh at this idea, the young man lovingly petted the neck of his furry companion, agreeing with a low sigh: `Yeah... I guess... plus, we have you! All you need to do is take your real form and literally nobody will see you coming!´

`Uh-huh... I'm the perfect reconnaissance drone!´, Asami proclaimed happily, tail wagging excitedly, knowing she would like that have more than just a little influence on the mission she had burdened her master with.

Finally, at home, at last, Yasei first got rid of his boots, before getting rid of his tracksuit to, so the female would not again complain about him sleeping in full clothes. Like that, brushing his teeth and getting ready for bed, he gave their equipment a last final check.

"Well... I'm gonna miss you... but I guess it can't be helped...", The young man finally stated, gently patting his old sports bag, he was using to hide all the stuff in they would need, "... but I guess it's just proper punishment, having to sacrifice an old friend like that, for a mission as crucial like this to succeed."

"Seriously... you saying your gym bag goodbye?"

"WHAT... I liked the fella!", Yasei responded outraged, giving Asami a merciless stare.

"Just saying...", The female just stated meekly, avoiding her eyes sulkily.

"Yeah... I know, but... well, maybe we can start my promise by getting a new, mostly red sports bag, after being done with all this?"

"UH... sounds nice...!", Asami responded excitedly, more or less immediately pacified, before stating, lying on the bed for quite a while now, "But would you kindly, finally come to bed now...?"

Giving a low snort in amusement, the young man asked musingly: "What are you... my wife?"

"Wouldn't refuse that position...!"

"Huh... well... that was unexpected. But anyhow... you're in luck, as I'm slowly considering this option...!", Yasei responded, leaving the red-furred bitch in utter disbelieve, jaw agape wide.

Making himself comfortable on his bed, he gave his partner a gentle peck on her nose, stating in a quiet laugh: "Good night sweetie... and don't ponder that pretty head of your's too much, while I'm asleep!"

Monday.

31st of January 2019.

They had grabbed their equipment as early as possible, to catch the very first train in the morning, to reach their first destination as early as possible.

Their first stop was in a town over 25 miles away from their hometown and still 40 miles away from their destination.

After that hastily switching in there first change of clothes, in one of the train station's toilets, making use of their fusion, to eliminate Asami's presences as a factor to recognize him, they switched to there next train, taking them to a town 5 miles away of there target.

Having arrived there they went to their final destination by bus, were Yasei changed in his second change of clothes, undoing their fusion and burning the first two sets of clothes, in an old, empty dumpster... just for good measure.

Like that finally arriving at their first goal, they booked in at the hotel, near the mansion of this Leroy guy, they had chosen in advance.

"KAY... that's that...", Yasei announced in a heavy huff, checking the room's clock, seeing it was not later than 6 a.m., conforming with a satisfied huff, "Nice..."

`I'm just surprised you were up and going as early as 4 o'clock in the morning.´

`Well... if I have to I can easily function this early, even with only a mere three hours of sleep!´

Good to know... so... I'll go lion-dog and survey that Leroy guy's mansion, yeah?

`Yes... just tell me as soon as he is gone and check the perimeter, while I catch up to you. Meanwhile I'll... do some 'sightseeing'.´

`Uh-huh... if you're roaming the streets anyways... will you bring me a present too?´

`Afraid I can't do that... I'll just get some trivialities, I can eat or discard immediately, as not to raise any suspicion.´

`I'd like an hot-dog than!´, Asami proclaimed eagerly, tail wagging excitedly.

Agreeing in a quick roll of his eyes, Yasei uttered: `Okay... sure, but now go!´

Opening the window, pretending to get some fresh air, the canine turned into her giant lion-dog form, jumping right out of the window, onto the next roof, following the route they had planned in advance, thus the only thing anyone but Yasei himself could perceive, was a silent clatter in the wind, while the giant canine swiftly made her way to her target.

Putting on his gloves, setting the alarm on the burner phone he got just for this very purpose, Yasei lay down on the floor, as to not leave any hair or skin scales on the bed, taking a quick nap, as the sightseeing was more of a Plan B, should Leroy not leave his mansion until it was light outside.

He is out of the house... QUICK... come...!, Yasei unexpectedly, yet more or less exactly how they hoped it to happen, heard Asamis jittery voice resound in his mind, a mere hour later.

`Okay... then let's go...´, The young man thought to himself, the statement more of a confirmation for his partner, that he now left the building.

Changing in his third change of clothes, the one including the bandana face mask and the gloves, he threw his bag out of the window, in a back alley right behind the hotel, before fleeing the hotel using the fire ladder. He had paid the rent in advance, so the hotel personnel surely would not care for him leaving, as they already had their money.

Taking but a mere minute to arrive at the giant mansion, Asami guided him to the back entrance, her mission had been to discover. Searching the nearby vicinity he soon found what he had searched for: an old service panel for phone line maintenance. Using that, to directly connect his device to the internet connection of the whole city, he waited until the lights of the device first turned red, and then died down flickering.

`Okay... the virus is online, searching for this Leroy fellas security system and knocking it down for good. Go and look for a camera on the grounds... as soon as the red light turns off, we have a go!´

Closing the terminal up properly, Yasei pulled his mask up over his nose, putting his hands in his pockets, pretending like he was just passing by... and really cold, as he slowly started circling the block near their target-mansion.

After he really had the time to get this hot-dog, Asami had craved he finally got his second go from the lion-dog.

`I have checked all the cameras I could find on the fly, just to be sure... and there all dead... checked a door as I heard a strange click... and it was open too! If we hurry we can make it!´

Well that's going better than expected...´, The young man thought to himself, once again validated in his claim, never to secure his front door with an electronic lock... or more precisely, to never secure it with only an electronic lock,Good... in this case you can hurry on in and search for his collection... I'm on my way... GO!´

Minutes later meeting at the back entrance again, Yasei presented the canine the hot-dog he got her, just as he promised... the female excitedly gulping it down in one quick bite. Shaking his head in a quiet laugh, he patted the canines strong flank, before proceeding to the next part of her plan, as the young man declared it was a start, with a quick nod to the gigantic mansion.

In an eager nod, the canine guided her master to the door she had discovered, before disappearing inside of the mansion, going for a last check of their route, just to be sure. Seconds later Yasei himself finding himself inside of the ginormous mansion too - as gigantic simply did not cut it for this - Asami returned from her search, a while later, proclaiming: `I got it... so... merge again?´

Yasei nodded in agreement, touching Asami's snout with his hand before they once more merged their human and spiritual entity in one body.

The female guided them to the collection room she had found in her lion-dog form, while Yasei kept a look out for any people in the house, using the superior spacial awareness, their fusion granted them.

Easily dodging the few unknowing maids, running along the long corridors, doing there work... it was only as they already had entered the door in Leroy's collection room, Yasei suddenly shouted out in their mind: `NO... stop! Somebody is in there!´

On the far side of the room, a tiny white cat on her lap, sat a young, blond woman, probably not much older as Yasei himself, petting the little kitten, not much bigger as her own hand, while looking impatiently at Yasei.

"Come on... be a gentleman and introduce your partner too.", The Women demanded, apparently rather accustomed to giving orders.

"Beg your pardon?"

"Your partner... call it! I know you are a handler... just like me!"

"What... but how...?"

"DO AS SHE SAYS!", The little kitten in her lap demanded... in a more but only a little unexpected voice!

The little, fragile looking feline's voice, sounded more like something you would expect of a dragon, as high as a house!

"Ehr... yes sir...!", Yasei hastily complied, breaking the merge with Asami, the canine glaring daggers at the little feline, as soon as her big, lion-dog body had materialized.

"Oh please... we have known about your arrival the second you had made your plans! So now be a good boy... AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF, LIKE A MAN!"

"OF COURSE...! Sorry sir... my name is Yasei... it's an honor meeting the both of you!", The young man responded immediately, jet again taking utterly by surprise, before hastily exclaiming, "... and this is Asami... my partner... a Komainu... a lion-dog!"

"... and he is a Hakutaku! A beast able to foresee disasters! As he had been summoned by the reckoning spell and going by his words, his powers have been vastly enhanced, now giving him the power to even see the future!", Asami explained in a deep, hostile growl... still giving the little, white kitty a devastating death glare.

"Come on Asami... calm down... it's just a little kitty...?"

"Only a little kitten?",The young women asked, with a regal laugh, "My partner Masaru is so much more, but a little kitty-cat, quite contrary to your little puppy dog..."

Raising to her feat the feline jumped to the floor... within seconds growing in a gigantic, white monster... taller by a head, as even Asami was.

His upper body was the one of a lion, while his lower body was the one of an ox, his body ending in a massive lions-tail. Whereas... a lion and an ox did not quite do him justice, as his body was ripped, like a mix of a lion and an ox on steroids! His face meanwhile looked like a mixture of a lion and a gorilla, giving it a slightly human shape.

Its body did still carry the pure white of the kitten, yet his face, claws and hoofs, and his tail tip were pitch black... just like the long, blade-like horns, growing from his shoulders and his head... two horns on each shoulder and two on his head. Yet... what disturbed the young man the most, were his eyes... as he had a total of nine of em! He had two eyes, like any other mammal... one more on his forehead... and three more on each side of his body! One vertically aligned on each of his upper legs... and a horizontally placed one on the left and right side of his thorax.

"Wow... sorry we intruded...", Yasei hastily declared, at this sight, "Thank you for your time, we... will just see ourselves out!"

Yasei... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?´, Asami scolded her partner outraged,We can take him on... we have trained for moments just like that after all!´

`I know... but we can't risk getting caught, so... we sadly have to bite the bullet and retreat, hopping to not get caught after all.´

"ER-HUM...", The young woman, finally interrupted them, clearing her throat, "Who said you'd have to go?"

"Yes... sure... we... wait what?"

"YEAH... wait what?", The lion-dog repeated her master's word, oh to obviously sharing his utter confusion.

"My name is Katherine Leroy... at your service...", The blond handler introduced herself, in a polite bow.

"Yeah... ehr... a pleasure to meet you.", Yasei hastily replied, bowing before the young woman himself to... even if very clumsily, in comparison to her dignified bow.

"I take it you'd like to take one of fathers collectibles, to use as a catalyst?"

The pair nodded dumbfounded... yet still keeping their eyes on the giant lion-ox-steroids beast!

"Well, in this case, go on... take your pick, I'll even open the cabinets for you, as for you to leave as little proof as possible!"

"Ehr... thank you... but...?"

"Why...? Well... all my father is ever talking about is his rage-boner for money... and everything that is worth a lot's of money... or can get him a lot of money."

"KATHERINE...!", Her partner Masaru shouted out scandalized, "Your language...!"

Just dismissing the words of her partner, with a dismissive gesture, she ended her explanation: "He literally can't think about anything else, so... as you seem to be a nice enough person, you can have whatever you want!"

"But... why?"

"Why... well as you might be able to guess: SURPRISE....! I'm not one of those things! Neither money... nor worth a lot of money... nor making him money! SO... just take what ever you like, as long as it hits that son of a bitch where it hurts, I'm totally fine with it!"

"Katherine...!", Masaru once again complained, this time even Asami joining in, giving an outraged: "HEY!"

Quickly looking the canine over, Katherine finally gave a quick bow, excusing herself politely: "Oh... I beg your pardon. I did not mean to insult you... Asami, I was just stating, what has become my sad reality, so... go an, have your pick! ... and you might want to hurry, as father is gonna return in about an hour and there is still one thing remaining you have to take care of."

"Oh god... please don't...", The Hakutaku mumbled to himself, putting a paw on his face, like face-palming himself.

Looking from Katherine to her partner and back, before looking at Asami, just to finally shoot quick glares at the blond handler and her Yokai partner in a frenzied manner, Yasei finally gave a heavy sigh, before stating: "Okay... I'll take you up on that!"

Once more merging with Asami, quickly checking the swords, firstly for the looks, as he wanted to pick one which's blade would not immediately be recognized, because of some engravings, or something like that... just as much as... checking their feeling, as he had learned he could check the aura of certain objects and to a certain extent even humans.

Finally stopping right in front of an old katana sword, with a rather beautiful hamon, in a savage shredded look, he finally stated: "Well... if you'd really give me anything, I'd like that one!"

"UH... one of father's favorites... good choice... this will piss him off nicely...!", The female handler explained - earning another scolding 'KATHERINE...' from her partner - opening the showcase, in one swift, graceful movement.

Grabbing the sword, sheeting it in his sheath, she held it over to Yasei stating happily: "HERE YOU GO!"

Looking at it dumbfounded for a second, the young man finally shook of his sudden rigidity, before pulling out the sheath he himself had brought... a plain cover, like one, would normally use for fishing rots.

"Well... we knew you'd be well prepared... but this?"

"As we kinda seem to be accomplices in crime: I already changed three times and have yet another, last change of clothes prepared....!"

"Well... that is... quite rigorous...?"

"Well... Asami told me we'd definitely need that weapon, so..."

Giving a quiet laugh Katherine even helped to put the katana in the fishing rot cover... before suddenly leaning it against the wall, explaining in a devilish smile: "... but now you have to fulfill one last duty....!"

"Oh god... here we go...!", Masaru mumbled to himself, Yasei looking at the Yokai irritated, before looking back at Katherine.

"Hit me!", She suddenly stated, waving Yasei closer in a provoking gesture.

"What?"

"HIT. ME. How should anybody believe this being a robbery, if I don't even have a scratch on me?"

"But... I can't...!", Yasei just stated confounded, the Hakutaku just mumbling to himself: "Just do it... so we can finally get this over with...!"

Exchanging glances with literal everybody in the room, even his own reflection, he finally stroke out, slapping the young female, with the back of his hand.

Giving a low shout in pain, the female immediately looked back at the young man, stating: "NO... really hit me...how else is it supposed to look believable?"

"But... I can't hit a... -"

"- ... COME ON! Are you a man, or a mouse...!", Katherine snapped at Yasei, stepping closer in an aggressive manner, the man reflexively striking her down with a right hook.

"Going down to the ground forcefully, the blonde swiped some blood off of her lips, stating in an almost excited manner: "Now bind me... it has to look real, after all!"

"WHAT?"

Just ripping off an arm of her long-sleeved dress, she handed it to Yasei stating: "JUST DO IT!"

Following the command obviously irritated, he tied her arms behind her backs, with the piece of cloth... as she suddenly commanded: "Now grab my hair and yank it! Don't you dare pull any hair... just pull it, so it is properly mussed!"

"What... NO!"

"DO IT YOU PUSSY!"

Complying grudgingly, he grabbed her hair and roughly ruffled it up, as to make her look like she had been in a real fight.

Taking initiative now, the young man ripped off a big piece of her skirt, curling it into a ball and stuffing it in her mouth, to finally shut her up!

"SO... happy now? Maybe I'll even truss up your feat with your shoelaces?"

Earning a literal moan, of the blond woman which seemed to actually almost enjoy herself, he complied with a heavy sigh, opening up her shoe laces, tying her left shoe to her right leg and vice versa, her feet still in them... finally asking exhausted: "You happy now?"

Responding in another low moan, Katherine nodded her head eagerly, now almost wiggling on the ground, like a worm.

Before finally leaving, asking the now kinda humanized beast of here: "So... she's enjoying this?"

"More than you would care for...!", The giant beast responded, nodding his head smitten in frustration.

"Well... ehr... We'll leave than?"

"Yeah just get lost...!", Masaru stated, adding more firmly, "GET OUT!"

"Yes, sir...!" Yasei responded sheepishly, before hastily leaving the giant mansion, the wrapped sword in hands.

Just barely regaining their focus, as to once again hastily doge everybody crossing their paths, the finally made it out and off, of the mansion and its property.

Finally reaching the deserted back alley, Yasei had chosen to hide his remaining stuff in, they parted once again, before the young man changed in his last pair of clothes.

Little later throwing everything he had with him - except the clothes on his body and the wrapped katana - in another old dumpster, soaking it in the remaining gasoline, he had brought explicitly for this reason, he lit this container on fire too, before leaving the area, anxiously focusing on trying to be discrete.

`You know... we could have avoided all of this... with this strange Katherine character!´, Asami finally scolded her master halfheartedly.

`She was sitting there... without moving even a muscle, except her hands maybe... I am used to sniffing out moving targets... not ones that pretend to be statues!´, The young man responded, with a light shrug, before nodding his head towards the exit of the one-way street.

Leaving like that, doing there best as not to stick out, they soon vanished in the streets of the city, nothing more but a guy with a fishing rot and his dog.

On this very day, not only did the hometown of Leroy Jean-Killian suffer two unexplained dumpster fires... its richest inhabitant, Leroy Jean-Killian, get rubbed in broad daylight... but even more important: an anonymous hacker, who had gained direct access to Leroy Jean-Killian's security mainframe, had released almost a terabyte of data, proofing oh to clearly, how said Jean-Killian, indeed was guilty of illegal big game hunt, bribery and even crimes in smuggle and drug dealing.

"Huh... well... seams like this someone, who somebody, my former buddy had known, knew had a bone to pick with this Leroy whatnot guy?", Yasei finally stated, the two of them having arrived at home but an hour ago.

They had ended there 'little mission' not much more as four hours ago, yet this cyber attack on Katherine's dad already was all over the web, the fact of the single stolen katana, not even a side note.

"Uh-huh... or more like, seams like you have been used to do somebody else's dirty work!", Asami dared to presume.

"Well... as long as it helped us out effectively, I don't care....!", Her master just responded in a dismissive shrug, as he continued to dismantle the century-old katana, "More importantly: too bad we have to discard everything this one here adds up to... except the blade."

"Well... it's probably all just counterfeit anyway... except the blade!"

"Well... Good point...!", The young man agreed, really feeling a bit more at ease with this thought, whereas... there was no going back anyways!

He had dismantled the complete sword already... placed an order for a katana of about the same proportions and... well, he would be a foul to use it as his artifact, in the exact same looks it head as he stole it... so the most obvious plan was to simply replace everything but the blade.

Anyway... he had gained the catalyst Asami had said they needed so desperately, so... as long as they did not get found out somehow, their little mission impossible would have been an utter success, as soon as they got rid dismantled parts of the ancient katana!

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IT'S FINALLY DONE !!! X3 after last Saturday may Laptop decided to have a little crash, almost half of the text I had already written of part II was dead and gone BUT NOW... everything is finally back together! It may not be how I originally had written the 'dead part'... yet I'm more than happy with how it turned out, as the content is still the same, and it did turn out quite alright, I'd daresay :3

the next part will be a little special: a short story about Katherine and Masaru, highlighting a bit of both of there personalities... life... and of course what kind of pact they had chosen to forge there bond as handler and Yokai

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