With any notion of the pair entering a coupling gone, both sides decided instead to stay out of it and simply give them any space they required to be themselves and to continue the growth they had displayed up to then.
Then one day, Kyubi's old habit of growing out patches of fur flared up and left Illerion curious. "Hey, I know we haven't been as close lately, but it's only so we can take a breather and define the boundaries of our relationship right, we're still friends aren't we?"
"Of course we are, I don't ever see us ever not being friends, even if we go a thousand years without speaking because of the time difference between realms."
"So tell me what's stressing you out so much that your fur has grown all patchy." Kyubi gasped having not realised, not that she was surprised. Over the centuries, her natures had synced up, but she still displayed the occassional outbreak except her eyes no longer had her fox pupils and Kitsune pupils side-by-side.
