Akiko wasn’t expecting Jamie to suddenly bring up their respective best friends. She’d often thought it was a weird cosmic coincidence that not only were both Jamie and Akiko so extraordinarily similar, but they also had best friends that were in their lives in almost the same way. Thus far, they’d both tried to keep their friends away from their love bubble, but it was becoming increasingly more challenging to do that. Yuri hated being away from Akiko, but he was also obligated to be with her the same way Leif was with Jamie. Anytime Hattori found Yuri by himself when Akiko wasn’t with one of the other kitsune, he flew into a rage, berating Yuri for being an awful friend and a disgrace to their family. She felt horrible because it wasn’t Yuri’s fault that she was leaving, so she suggested
