Ice ran through Kita's veins at the sound of the deep voice behind him. “I don't have a fiance!” He yelled loudly, his trembling voice echoed through the alley.

“Even better!” Akai's voice yelled back, the sound softened by distance.

“Yes, you do.” Fate said quietly from directly behind Kita.

The fox sucked in a shuddering breath and shook his head. He stuffed the rosebud into his messenger bag and whirled to face his terrifying nemesis. He felt like his bones would shake right out of his body. Kita grabbed his shirt over his heart and told himself to be calm over and over again.

Fate looked down at Kita and the fox couldn't read the expression on his face. The god stepped closer and Kita backed away, matching step by step until his back and tails were mashed against the side of a brick building.

“Why did you show no fear of the bakeneko, but you shake yourself to pieces when you see me?” Fate asked as he placed his hands on the wall to either side of Kita.

“Th-they are only cats, not all powerful gods. They can't help their curiosity, it's in their natures. Yo-you on the other hand, I don't know your nature, or why you've shown an interest in me. I don't know the game you play, but you're powerful enough to hurt me and they were not.” at the end, Kita's voice was barely a whisper and he had to force himself to say the words, stuttering the entire time.

Fate took a deep breath and let it out. He slapped a palm against the wall and Kita jumped. The god shook his head and looked... disappointed? “I'm not all powerful and I'm the last person who would hurt you, fox.” Kita simply stood there looking at the god. “It seems like I'll just have to spend time with you, until you realize that I'm no threat.”

Kita blinked then looked at Fate with dawning horror. “Spen-spend time with me?” his voice rose high with his shock.

The god pulled away from the wall and nodded as if the decision was final. Fate held out his hand and the strap to a large carry all landed in his palm. He shouldered the bag and looked at Kita expectantly.

“What?” Kita really was having trouble deciphering things. His brain was stuck running in panicked circles. He was beginning to feel like HE was the one who was only in his thirties and not over nine-hundred.

“Take us to your place. I figure you'll be more comfortable there than at mine.” He gestured towards the way the cats had gone.

“You have a place in this city?” Though why Kita focused in on that little tidbit and not on the whole Fate wants to spend time with him  part, the fox couldn't even tell himself.

Fate tilted his head back and forth, “Sort of. My place goes where I do, so it's here and it isn't.”

It was such a god like answer, that Kita didn't even question it. “Why can't you go to your place and I'll go to mine.”

Fate shrugged, “because last time I did that, you moved across the country. So, this time I'm moving in with you.”