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Hello @clearwillow. Do you know how difficult it was to keep my mouth shut about being your @inusecretsanta!?

Anywho, don’t skip the fanfic below!

Hermit’s Haven

In which one dog leads to a hermit failing to be a hermit…

...this is not my biography >.>

The dog appeared out of nowhere.

Inuyasha stared at the unexpected visitor. Against the backdrop of the untouched snow, the Akita stood out like a sore thumb.

The dog certainly didn’t belong to anyone in the village—since he was the sole inhabitant of said village. His closest ‘neighbor’ was an agricultural school on the other side of the mountain, and they weren’t the type to let a dog wander off their property.

Inuyasha watched the Akita sniff the icy bridge and then raise his head, ears perked up and beady eyes examining the half-demon, before throwing all caution to the wind and trotting up to him.

That was how the solitary half-demon ended up with a dog in his house. A dog that was currently taking up Inuyasha’s favorite spot beside the kotatsu, paws up in the air, not a care in the world.

For Inuyasha, this was odd. He wasn’t one to raise pets. He didn’t even own fish (which was why there was an empty koi pond in his backyard). He was an honest-to-goodness hermit.

Not that he had always been like this. After his father’s funeral, Izayoi and Inuyasha had been left instructions on when and how to sell some land in Hokkaido. Then the economic bubble burst happened and the land in the north ended up being their refuge.

Izayoi hadn’t been hurting for money or anything, no, she had plenty from her own inheritance. Inuyasha didn’t like to think about it much; throw in some economic woes and suddenly every city folk in Tokyo was ornery, so much so the half-breed child running around their apartment complex was now an eyesore.

The village was different. They had always been self-sufficient in their isolated community. Besides, as descendants of the Ainu people, they had their own history of being marginalized. He and Izayoi had been informed rather bluntly that they’d be welcomed as long as they didn’t get in anyone’s way—and if Inuyasha could quickly learn to ‘chase those pesky bears away’ that would be super helpful.

It all worked, for a while anyway.

The damn dog startled awake and stared at Inuyasha, who snorted. Nothing woke the dog up except his own loud snoring.

Right. What to do with the dog. He had to be someone’s pet. Had he been abandoned? The agricultural school regularly dealt with people throwing their trash and animals on their land, but in this village? With all this snow, no one would come this far to leave an unwanted pet.

So the dog somehow wandered all the way out here. Wonderful.

Maybe the dog was chipped. He could ask Kaede at the school. The villagers had trusted her, and she did attend the funerals whenever she could. Wait, she was a veterinary instructor for only the first half of the school year. She wouldn’t be back in Hokkaido for months.

And he wasn’t going to risk visiting another vet, since…

“Guess you’re staying for a few days,” Inuyasha grumbled.

The dog’s response was a great, big yawn.

A few days did pass. Then a few weeks. Then a few months.

They built something of a routine. Inuyasha would go out to forage and hunt, and the dog would patiently wait for him in the village. He took to calling the dog Hachi because...because he damn well felt like it, shut up. He even thought about buying some dog food in that resort town, but Hachi seemed to enjoy the game meat. That was fine. Hopefully.

It all worked, for a while anyway.

“Hachi?” Inuyasha called. Where was that damn dog? Hachi always welcomed him at the bridge next to his house. That used to bother him, since half the bridge hadn’t been refurbished to narrow the gaps between the railings, but with the ice gone he all but expected to see Hachi at the bridge, wagging his bushy tail with his stupid tongue out.

“Hachi! Hachi!” Inuyasha wasn’t panicking. He was being thorough, that’s why he was slamming the sliding doors open and entering his old neighbors’ homes. He would personally apologize to their graves later.

He found Hachi in the fifth house. Aiko used to own a Shiba Inu that she babied like her own grandchild. He cursed himself for forgetting the doggie door disguised as a tiny sliding door—he had helped her install it!

Hachi was in the bathroom, lying on his side, breathing labored and legs twitching.

There was no decision to make. Coherent thought didn’t even return until he was halfway to his destination, leaping from branch to branch with Hachi cradled in his arms.

The veterinary clinic was the first building next to the south entrance. Inuyasha shot past a group of shocked students, kicking up clouds of fallen Sakura petals, and burst into the clinic.

Kaede wasn’t sitting at the front desk.

“Fuck.”

“Over here.”

A man with hair bound in a rat tail was holding out his hands. To his credit, his eyes were focused on Hachi and not on Inuyasha. The latter surrendered the barely conscious Akita and watched the man rush past some of the confused students and into one of the rooms.

Inuyasha stood in the lobby for a good long while, his mind too scrambled to decipher the whispers. But if he was capable of observation, he would understand; a dog-eared man had just shown up with a half-dead dog in a clinic that usually catered to farm animals. His fault for not wearing a hat.

There was a loud shush that sent a couple of people out of the lobby, then a small hand offered him a cup of water.

“Please, have a seat.”

He was ushered to an empty seat where he stayed until he was the only one in the lobby, staring at the cup until the man with the rat tail walked up to him with a clipboard.

“Yamaguchi Inuyasha, right?” The man smiled, wearing no mask of pretense. “My name is Miroku. Kaede-baa-san’s my great aunt. She told us about how you helped her prepare our clinic and barn for the typhoon. Don’t mind the students, they’re first-years. I’ll make sure to have a word with them.”

Inuyasha didn’t really understand what he was saying, half the words going in one dog ear and out the other, he just wanted to know—“How’s the dog?”

“He’s stable,” oh thank fuck, “but he needs to stay with us for a few days.” Oh fuck no.

“What happened to him?” He gripped the cup a tad too tightly.

“I was hoping you could fill in the details. Did you see him collapse?”

Somehow, talking about Hachi made it easier to get the words out. “No, I was out. He snuck into one of the houses in the village. The house had a goddamn doggie door, I fucking forgot about it, and he was in the bathroom and he was—fuck, that old woman was on a lot of drugs before she—oh fuck the medicine cabinet was open, you think he could’ve reached—fuck, he must’ve gotten into some of her meds. Fuck!”

Miroku scribbled away, unfazed by the cursing. “It’s alright, I understand. We’ll run a few more tests. What’s his name?”

And there it was. After opening and closing his mouth a few times, he began, “His...I don’t really…”

Miroku politely waited.

“He’s not my dog. I was gonna ask Kaede to scan him for a chip. I can still pay for the treatments.”

“Kaede won’t be here for another month, and she’ll return only as an advisor. I took over her position beginning this school year. If you don’t mind, I can go ahead and check for a chip.”

“Sure. Yeah, that’s fine.” It wasn’t.

“In regards to payment—”

“I can pay.”

“—there’s an account set up under the name of Yamaguchi Izayoi for the farm produce department. Ordinarily, any unused funds are forfeited at the end of the year, but I noticed an exception was made...seven times. If you’d like, we can use this account for payment?”

Inuyasha had to take a minute or two to pick his jaw up off the floor. “That’s…fine.”

“Great. We’ll use the phone number attached to the account to contact you.”

Inuyasha left the clinic with a lot of questions and nobody to ask them. He immediately busied himself back in the village, tidying the houses he broke into, visiting and apologizing to the graves of his neighbors, raking the flower petals into piles, anything to keep his mind off of Hachi. He thought about visiting the clinic, but he didn’t want to risk exciting Hachi and setting back his recovery.

Not to mention the heavy sense of guilt that prevented him from seeing Hachi again.

A week after Hachi’s collapse his phone rang.

“Yamaguchi-san?” It was the same voice that directed him to sit in the clinic.

“Uh. Yeah.” No one had ever called him with that honorific. Ever.

“We’re happy to report that your dog is awake and alert.” Thank fucking god. “We…” he did not like that pause, “...also scanned for a chip and managed to contact his owners.” Oh. “We told them what happened, and they’re driving from Sapporo to pick him up.” How the hell did Hachi make it to the village all the way from Sapporo? “They would like to personally thank you for finding and taking—”

“No,” Inuyasha growled, then remembered to add, “thanks. Just let them know I’m paying.”

“I know this is a little unorthodox, but they’re good people, I think you’ll like—”

He hung up.

He would go back to his routine. He would forget about Hachi. He would go back to being alone.

~*~

Little did Inuyasha know, Hachi had opened the proverbial floodgates and there was no stopping the invasion.

“Hello?” Inuyasha answered slowly. No one called him save for the automated bank calls, and he was damn sure no bank would program a call for the middle of the night.

“Listen, just hear me out before you hang up,” a familiar feminine voice spoke, tones clipped this time. “Someone dumped a litter of newborn puppies by the front entrance.”

“Wow. Asshole,” he said without thinking.

“I know! But most of the staff just left for summer break, we’re in the middle of breaking ground for a new research building and no one has the space and time. I mean, I’d foster them but my roommate already has a cat and there’s a one pet rule in my building. The nearest shelters are miles away and completely full. Miroku thinks the best option is to volunteer you for the job.”

“Oh...that’s…” He really should refuse. He was being volun-told by a stranger. “When should I pick them up?” Dammit.

“That’s the thing. Miroku’s already packed and ready to go. He’s going to drive up to your village ASAP.”

“I...umm…”

“I’m so sorry. I think Kaede-baa-san talked about you so much, it’s hard for us not to trust you, you know?”

“That’s...wait, did you say Kaede-baa—”

She hung up.

Fuck, she did that on purpose.

Less than an hour later, a pickup truck parked in front of the bridge. Inuyasha watched from his door, a strange mixture of anticipation and alarm twisting his stomach.

Miroku stepped out of the driver’s side and from the passenger’s side...Kikyo?

No, no, that’s not possible. Kaede’s granddaughter stopped dropping by with Kaede after he adamantly refused to move out of the village. He had been smitten, sure, but it was a teenage crush and this was his land, his, and she wanted a normal life, which most certainly meant not living in seclusion. Last he heard, she was studying to be a lawyer in Kyoto.

Miroku said something to the woman and she responded by smacking him upside the head. Nope, definitely not Kikyo.

“Thanks for doing this,” Miroku said once Inuyasha met them at the end of the bridge. He held up a box and inside there were five squirming black and white puppies.

Inuyasha clamped his mouth shut. He was still upset at being volunteered against his will, yes he was.

Miroku held the box out, only to turn and hand it to the woman beside him. “You sure you got this?”

“As if I would’ve agreed to this if I wasn’t,” the woman said with the same clipped tones. Guess she was the woman on the phone. “C’mon, we need to get inside before the rain starts.”

Miroku shrugged, smiling all the same. “Alright, I’ll get the supplies from the back. Inuyasha, help me carry those in, and then I’ll be on my way.”

It was only after he dropped the last of the supplies in his living room and watched the pickup drive away in the rain did he notice one crucial detail. “Are you staying?”

The woman looked up from his favorite spot beside the kotatsu, a puppy in each hand. Inuyasha was pretty sure she was trying to look more innocent than she was. “It’s not like you know how to raise puppies. Name’s Kagome, by the way. Miroku’s my cousin, and I’m volunteering at the clinic this year. Could you get the formula? It’s time to feed the puppies.”

Well fuck.

There were five puppies and a human woman in his house. A proper hermit would kick them out and leave them out in the rain.

He went to fetch the supplies.

He was a terrible hermit.

“Newborn puppies need to be fed every two hours. At least.”

Inuyasha did not know this. He now knew this.

The half-demon could manage a solid week without sleep, but Kagome insisted she be awake to supervise the feeding so she readied an infuriatingly loud alarm clock and boy did he want to smash it into pieces. Then the puppies would whine and he was too distracted to stay angry.

So busy were they Inuyasha didn’t even realize they had made no proper sleeping arrangements until well after dawn. Then the puppies would whine and he was too distracted to ask Kagome.

On the third night, he returned from the bath to find Kagome sleeping in the living room sans alarm clock, presumably packed away, never to be seen again. The realization that she trusted him to feed the puppies hit him hard. It wasn’t a foreign feeling, the villagers had trusted him, but that had been years ago and the nostalgia…hurt. To top it all off, she trusted him enough to fall asleep in his house.

The vulnerability in her unguarded expression went straight to his gut. He pondered what that meant, but then the puppies squirming around her whined and he was too distracted to ponder further.

Between the feedings, Kagome would divulge a few things about herself: She lived on a shrine in Tokyo (oh god a city girl), she took some time off after high school to work at the shrine and think about what she wanted to do with her life (now that was unusual for a Tokyo girl), she came to Hokkaido at Kaede’s suggestion (what an impulsive girl), and she could tell he was weirded out by all this from looking at his expression (uh...no, no he wasn’t).

After the seventh day, she slyly slid up to him with cell phone in hand. “You know, there’s someone who really wanted to thank you.”

“Huh?” he replied, still wiping a puppy’s paw.

She shoved the phone in his face before he could protest and there he was, wagging his bushy tail with his stupid tongue out.

“Thank you for finding our Hachi!” A little boy with a front tooth missing waved. “Grandpa and I missed him lots!”

“Thank you for keeping him safe all this time. Please drop by so we can thank you in person,” an elderly man said while bowing, a wrinkly hand holding onto a small cane.

“Yeah, I’m gonna give you my treasure! It’s a snake skin!” The little boy waved one last time before the recording stopped.

Inuyasha tried to say something, he really did. Yet the image of the elderly man with the cane shakily bowing stayed in his mind. He was too, too, too much like his late neighbors.

And holy shit the dog was named Hachi all along! Seems like he wasn’t the only uncreative pet namer in Japan.

Kagome’s warm, gentle hand pulled him out of his stupor. “C’mon, it’s feeding time.”

Of course, the puppies. Get the formula, use the dropper, get the paper towels, and repeat. This was a distraction, this was good. He just needed to think about the puppies. Formula, dropper, paper, repeat. Maybe close his eyes for a bit.

He fell asleep.

He, the damn half-demon, fell asleep.

Worse, he woke up with puppies pulling on his hair and a camera flash going off.

“Look, don’t we look adorable?” she said and flipped the camera phone to show him the photo. There he was, looking up at the camera half-awake with his hair splayed out on the tatami. Kagome was also looking up in the photo, opposite him and upside down, giving the camera a deceptively demure smile, her black hair similarly splayed out and over his silver hair. All over their contrasting hair, the black and white puppies were sitting or lying down. “I’m going to send this to my mom, if that’s okay with you.”

He groaned and threw an arm over his face. “Why didn’t you wake me up?”

“You needed the rest. Besides, this was a picture perfect moment!”

She was trying to kill him.

As he suspected, this was the first of many, many ‘picture perfect’ moments. Sometimes, he would have a lap full of puppies, with no way of escaping, only to hear “Cheese!” and the telltale flick of the shutter. Other times, he would be busy in the kitchen preparing the formula and out of the corner of his eye he would see her leaning on the doorframe, watching with that small little smile and her trusty Mr. Phone.

Worse, she got into the habit of wandering into the village when it was her turn to take a break and then come back with all sorts of questions.

“There’s a koi pond out back, why aren’t there any koi fish? What do you mean it’s unfinished?”

“Is that a guesthouse? That’s your shed!? It’s huge!”

“I saw a bunch of flowerpots, you should grow some flowers. Do ajisai grow around here? I loved seeing them whenever I walked home in the rain.”

“I was all the way out in the woods and I still had signal! You need to get a cell phone, you can’t rely on a landline forever! ...what do you mean there are BEARS?”

“My mom called and she said that photo of us was adorably perfect, can I post it online? I’m taking that grunt as a ‘Yes.’”

“What’s with all bank flyers on the front doors? Does the bank really own all the vacant houses?”

They built something of a routine. Luckily, this time, Inuyasha didn’t forget that she was a temporary resident.

Two weeks later, Miroku returned with the pickup truck. “Hope you two had a doggin’ good time!”

Kagome rolled her eyes as she hauled the nearly empty boxes into the back of the pickup. “Spare us, dear cousin. Sango-chan better be back today.”

“She and Shippo will be back by 3. We should have enough people until vaccination time, then we can work on finding foster homes. Speaking of the puppies, they grew fast!” Miroku said, and Inuyasha regrettably let the box of puppies go. “Thanks for all your help, my good man!”

“Yeah.” Inuyasha fidgeted, shifting from one foot to the other. He never got used to saying goodbye.

“See you around, Inuyasha!” Kagome waved, one leg already in the truck. She held a bank flyer in her other hand, probably to show off to her city friends.

He watched the truck do a U-turn and disappear from sight.

He doubted they would see each other again.

~*~

He was wrong.

“There was a fire at the shelter.”

His power of comprehension always needed a few seconds to catch up whenever she called, which was getting frequent these days. “A fire?”

“The animal shelter. There was an electrical fire.”

Leave it to Kagome to drop a bombshell on him. “Holy fuck,” he cursed. “Are the puppies—did anyone—”

“The puppies are still at school. The volunteers got all the dogs out but some of them are being treated for smoke inhalation. We’re trying to help find shelters and foster homes but it’s a mess right now. You don’t mind if Miroku—”

“Yeah, it’s fine,” he answered, unintentionally cutting her off. “Use my account to buy whatever you need.”

Miroku didn’t bring puppies this time. Inuyasha helped lead the Beagle mix, the Lab mix, and the Shiba Inu into the house. Miroku held out some papers for Inuyasha to sign, he assumed for the shelter to keep track of where their dogs went, and set about preparing their bowls and beds.

He quickly learned that the Beagle mix, Makura, was an old and heavy lap dog, and if Inuyasha sat down on the tatami, Makura would slowly but surely make his way from wherever he was in the house to rest on his favorite lap. The Lab mix, Kuriko, had a knack for sneaking into the kitchen and stealing his cookware. Why the cookware, he had no idea. The Shiba Inu, Pen-Pen, goddamn Pen-Pen, followed him. Everywhere.

Over the next few days, Miroku brought another Shiba Inu, a Chow Chow much to Inuyasha’s surprise, and a tiny little Chihuahua that wouldn’t stop shivering even on a warm autumn afternoon. The giant pile of dog food was starting to take over the living room, but he couldn’t move the kotatsu while Kuriko was sleeping on Inuyasha’s favorite spot beside the furniture.

One curious object hidden within the supplies had Inuyasha scratching his head. It was a large board with the words ‘HERMIT’S HAVEN’ etched into the wood. Stuck to it was a post-it note instructing him to hang it on the bridge for the visitors.

What visitors?

As usual, Kagome dropped the bombshell.

“I’m sorry I didn’t call you sooner. It was Miroku’s idea, I didn’t think he’d actually make you sign anything without telling me first.” Well, she sounded apologetic.

Inuyasha stared into the distance, his sanity bidding him farewell. “My house’s now a dog shelter?”

“It doesn’t have to be your house. You’re a co-owner in name. Just keep doing what you’re doing,” Kagome said, a nervous smile evident in her voice. “We’ll take care of everything else.”

Shockingly, she was right. More dogs were brought in, more dog houses were bought and built. Nothing changed.

Except for the visitors.

They weren’t even locals. Tourists from overseas were making a day trip from the resort town to see his village. He had no idea how word got out. A young fox demon from the school dropped in one day and mentioned pictures and Kagome’s insta-something or other, but he didn’t really get it.

Inuyasha tried to make himself scarce whenever tourists showed up. ‘Tried’ being the operative word because goddamn Pen-Pen kept giving him away. The visitors would spot him in the tree, ask if he was from the pictures, he would grunt, and they would leave money and dog treats in a donation box—what the hell, who put that donation box there?

“You’re a good man for taking care of all these dogs,” a blue-eyed man towering over everyone else spoke in perfect Japanese, offering his hand with not an ounce of hesitation. He might’ve mentioned he was from Australia.

Inuyasha reluctantly reached for the hand, and was jerked forward into a bear hug.

If anyone tried to kiss him on the cheek, he was diving into the stream.

~*~

“What?”

“Yeah, I didn’t think I’d be hired either! Crazy, right? But they were really short on staff and took Kaede’s recommendation seriously.”

“Uh, yeah, congrats.”

“Thank you, Inuyasha!”

He ignored the funny feeling that traveled down his spine. What was wrong with him, she only said his name! “But, err, after you said that, you said you and Miroku were moving into...”

“Weeeelllll,” there it was, that nervous smile in her voice, “you know how the bank is offering all the vacant houses for free?”

“I mean, free if you work and live here for years.”

“More than a decade, yup.”

“You’re going to...more than a decade…”

“Guess we’ll be seeing a lot of each other, neighbor.”

He should be glad. Two people he could tolerate moving into his village.

The trucks were here before he could blink. The plan was to assess for renovations before moving in.

He should be glad.

“Inuyasha?” Miroku called. He stood outside Hiro’s old house. It was Miroku’s house now.

“I...gotta take a walk. Watch the dogs.”

“Take your time.”

Inuyasha hadn’t visited the graves since the puppies.

The elderly villagers had been old-fashioned, but loneliness had made them more social, so much so that dinner had to always be a village feast. Izayoi took up remodeling and enlarging a number of houses, just because she had the time, money and encouraging neighbors. As soon as Inuyasha learned to hunt, they had no problems accepting wild game from a half-demon. Then Izayoi fell ill…

Inuyasha was self-sufficient. It was alright, he had told himself, over and over again. Reality, and age, eventually caught up. The villagers’ children and grandchildren had moved to cities like Sapporo long ago. A few of the villagers relented and joined the young in the cities, but most had refused to leave. A couple of funerals later, the village became nothing but vacant and abandoned houses, and one half-demon.

He could have finished all those renovations, built that rock garden for Masa, lay out that trail from the woods to the koi pond so everyone had access, but he hadn’t.

Now, someone else would. Someone who would never know that Hiro dreamed of having a western-style fireplace, someone who would never know just how much Yumi loved her sunflowers, someone who could never understand just how much this village meant to him—

“Inuyasha?”

He grunted, but didn’t turn around.

Kagome sat down beside him. “Are you mad?”

“Not mad,” he answered without emotion, just as he rehearsed it.

“It’s not a problem, is it? Us moving here, I mean.”

“Not a problem.” Because it most certainly was not. “The bank gave it to ya. It’s all legal.”

“You know that’s not what I meant,” Kagome said quietly.

A long stretch of silence followed. Inuyasha knew he should say something, anything, and after nearly a year he thought it would be easier, but he had no words if the words weren’t about the dogs.

“Kaede-baa-san talked about you a lot,” Kagome said, mercifully. “She had a lot of friends here. And she’d always mention this one boy who'd help everyone with everything. It got hard for her, coming back here just to say goodbye to another friend. But she was most worried about the boy who refused to move out of the village.”

Kaede had asked him to move in with her. As kind as she was, he couldn’t bring himself to trust a city folk, not at the time. He would never ever admit it out loud, but hearing his apartment neighbors openly discuss if he fell under the ‘no pets rule’ had hurt.

“Kaede-baa-san is going to be at the school for a few days. You should drop by.”

“She worries too much.”

“She likes you. I was a bit jealous for a while. You know, she kept your mom’s account at the school open just in case you wanted to use it. With the way she described you, though, I thought you’d be shy and scared of strangers. Imagine my surprise when you showed up with Hachi in your arms and leaves in your hair. Totally not what I expected.”

He tried to give a witty reply. Like how she surprised him too with her Oscar-worthy puppy dog eyes. Or how she had a bad habit of dropping bombshells, even now. Instead, all he managed was, “I should visit Hachi.”

Kagome beamed. “That’s a great idea.”

~*~

“I thought you were going back to Tokyo for Christmas.”

Kagome shrugged while peeling another tangerine. “I was too busy moving furniture and painting the walls. Totally forgot about buying the tickets.”

“Uh-huh.” Inuyasha was all too familiar with that tone. “But Miroku remembered, even though he was moving furniture and painting too.”

“I guess he’s just better at keeping track of time.”

“You’re weird for a city girl. Can’t keep track of time, wants to live in the middle of nowhere, what the hell?”

“I’m one of a kind. Now scooch over. Your trunk thighs are taking up space in the kotatsu.”

“Like I can, Makura’s on my lap and—dammit Pen-Pen, stop leaning on me!”

Kagome whistled. “Oh no, looks like I got competition. Better hide you away for bed time.”

Inuyasha muttered incoherently for a few seconds, his face turning seven different shades of red. “S-shut up.” Did she have to be so open about liking him?

But Kagome did like him. She especially liked him letting his guard down and falling asleep on the tatami with the dogs on top of him. She joined what she liked to call the ‘puppy pile’ and watched him nap, his chest slowly rising and falling despite the weight of Pen-Pen’s head.

The picture of her lying opposite Inuyasha with the black and white puppies had garnered a lot of attention. But Kagome definitely preferred lying next to him.

Her eyelids grew heavy. Time for her to rest as well.

Flick, went the shutter.

Kagome snickered. Send the picture to mom, and then rest.

~*~

AN: Puppy pile!

This one shot got away from me. It was about a stray puppy bringing Inuyasha and Kagome together, and suddenly...this.

Haven’t had a fic get this out of control in a while.

#inuyasha #inukag #kagome #inusecretsanta #fanfic #fanart #my art #my fic #fanfic au

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Perros del lejano Oriente

Debido a la lejanía de los territorios del país, las razas de perros japoneses se han desarrollado durante mucho tiempo sin cruzarse con otras razas. Estas razas se consideran japonesas de pura raza. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando otras razas accedieron al territorio de Japón, los perros se obtuvieron del cruce de animales locales con animales importados. Pero los japoneses en el registro de su organización canina Nippo ingresaron solo razas japonesas de pura raza.

Hay seis razas de este tipo: Akita, Kai, Kishu, Shiba, Shikoku, Hokkaido. Según la clasificación de la International Kennel Federation FCI, estas razas de perros japoneses pertenecen al grupo 5 "Spitz y razas primitivas", sección 5 "Asian Spitz y razas afines". Consideraremos más a fondo la descripción y las características distintivas de los perros japoneses.

Akita japonés (Akita Inu)

La raza fue criada en la provincia de Akita (isla de Honshu), razón por la cual recibió su nombre. Akita Inu es reconocido como tesoro nacional de Japón, su monumento natural. La fama mundial de la raza, como símbolo de lealtad y devoción, trajo consigo la película dirigida por L. Hallström "Hachiko: el amigo más fiel". Akita pertenece a las razas de perros tranquilos: ladran solo cuando es necesario para advertir al dueño del peligro. Se trata de una raza insólita y espectacular: ágil, bella, señorial, inteligente, tiene una excelente memoria. El animal es amigable con los niños. Trata a otras mascotas con calma si se cría junto a ellas.

El Akita no tiene pretensiones de espacio: está satisfecha tanto con un apartamento como con una casa privada. El estándar de la raza proporciona los siguientes parámetros: la altura de los machos - 67 centímetros, perras - 61 centímetros, peso de 40 a 50 kilogramos. Se permiten tres tipos de color: rojo con blanco, atigrado con blanco, blanco puro. La esperanza de vida es de 10 a 12 años.

La raza no se recomienda para principiantes en la cría de perros. Adecuado para personas que tienen experiencia en la cría de perros grandes, tienen un carácter fuerte y llevan un estilo de vida activo.

Kai Inu (perro tigre)

Criado en la provincia de Kai (Honshu). Se refiere a las razas de caza. Kai Inu es un tesoro nacional de Japón. El ganado de pura raza Kai-Inu, incluso durante el difícil período de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se conservó gracias a los incentivos fiscales introducidos por la prefectura para sus propietarios. Kai Inu tiene un carácter tranquilo y leal. El perro está bien formado, tiene una apariencia atlética y un instinto de caza desarrollado. Nada bien y puede trepar a los árboles que crecen oblicuamente.

La naturaleza sociable le permite llevarse bien con otros parientes. Pertenece a los perros silenciosos y da su voz en caso de emergencia. El estándar de la raza establece la altura para los machos 47-53 cm, las hembras - 42-48 cm, el peso de los machos - 16-25 kilogramos, las hembras - 11-20 kilogramos. La esperanza de vida es de 12 a 15 años. El Kai Inu tiene el nombre de perro atigrado debido a las características rayas de varios colores: atigrado y rojo, atigrado y negro, atigrado. Los kai-inu recién nacidos tienen un color uniforme y, a medida que envejecen, adquieren las rayas características de esta raza.

No se recomienda que los niños pequeños se queden solos con un kai-inu: el manejo descuidado de un perro por parte de un niño, como un juguete, puede provocar una reacción negativa de la mascota. Aunque es posible tener un animal en un apartamento, es preferible una casa privada con un área vallada para una mascota. La raza es adecuada para personas activas con un carácter fuerte y decidido. En ausencia de actividad física, el carácter puede deteriorarse y el comportamiento puede cambiar no para mejor.

Kisyu

Como todas las razas de perros japonesas, kisyu debe su nombre a su lugar de residencia: el principado de Kishu (península de Kii) y es reconocido como un tesoro nacional. Según la leyenda, estos perros descendían de un lobo: la loba rescatada le dio al cazador un cachorro de lobo, que se convirtió en el progenitor de la raza. La raza Kishu es rara, incluso en Japón: vive en áreas remotas y aisladas del país.

Anualmente, la organización canina nacional del país registra un promedio de 700-900 cachorros de esta raza. Kishu es una raza japonesa de tamaño mediano con orejas erguidas puntiagudas y un color blanco, rojo o lobo. Tamaños típicos para los machos: altura 49–55 centímetros, peso hasta 25 kilogramos, para las hembras - altura 46–52 centímetros, peso hasta 20 kilogramos. La esperanza de vida es de 14 a 15 años.

En cuanto a los niños, las bromas con molestas palmaditas y golpes con kisu no funcionarán: el juego se detendrá de inmediato. Sin embargo, el perro es paciente con muchas circunstancias de la vida, resistente, amigable y acogedor. Kishu conserva cualidades protectoras y esto se debe a su desconfianza hacia los extraños. El perro es difícil de entrenar debido a su naturaleza segura de sí mismo y su excelente instinto de caza.

Shikoku

La raza Shikoku debe su nombre a su hábitat: en la isla de Shikoku, la más pequeña de las islas japonesas. La raza es reconocida como monumento natural en Japón. Esta es una raza de perros de caza con parámetros estándar: para un perro, la altura a la cruz es de 49 a 55 centímetros, para una perra, de 46 a 52 centímetros con un peso de 16 a 26 kilogramos. La esperanza de vida es de 10 a 12 años. La noble apariencia de lobo hace que el perro sea espectacular y memorable.

Un perro Shikoku es cariñoso y amigable. Se lleva bien con los niños, ama las actividades divertidas. Recomendado para personas con fuertes cualidades de liderazgo y un estilo de vida activo.

Shiba Inu

La raza fue criada en la isla de Honshu y reconocida como un tesoro nacional de Japón. Esta es la más pequeña de las razas japonesas de pura raza. El estándar establece las siguientes dimensiones: para los machos, altura 38 a 41 centímetros y peso 10 a 13 kilogramos, para las hembras, altura 35 a 38 centímetros, peso, 7 a 9 kilogramos. La esperanza de vida es de 12 a 15 años. Colores: blanco, rojo, sésamo y negro. En virtud de sus instintos de caza, los Sibas son vigilantes, testarudos e ingeniosos. Los perros necesitan una socialización temprana. Además, si un cachorro no está acostumbrado a las personas antes de las tres semanas, se considera que no podrá acostumbrarse a ellas en el futuro. Si un cachorro crece junto a una persona, entonces no le tiene miedo, pero tampoco le agrada que lo acaricie, aunque le gusta la caricia del dueño. Shiba es propensa a la contemplación: puede sentarse durante horas y observar el paisaje desde la ventana, lo que la hace un poco incomprensible para una persona que no está familiarizada con su temperamento.

Hokkaido (Ainu)

La raza de perros pertenece a la caza y es de tamaño mediano. Criado originalmente para la caza de osos. El estándar establece los tamaños: para un macho, la altura es de 48,5 a 51,5 centímetros, para una perra, la altura es de 45,5 a 48,5 centímetros y el peso está entre 20 y 30 kilogramos. Se permite el color blanco, rojo, negro y sus matices. La lana es gruesa, resistente, gracias a la cual pueden sobrevivir en las duras condiciones de un invierno nevado. La esperanza de vida es de 10 a 15 años.

Los perros tienen un instinto de caza muy desarrollado. Pueden pelear con un animal que exceda el peso del perro varias veces. Tiene un carácter descarriado, propenso a escaparse, se lleva mal con otros animales.

Se lleva bien con los niños. Infinitamente dedicado al propietario. El perro será un amigo fiel y cariñoso. Pero en ausencia de educación, puede salirse de control. La raza requiere actividad física activa, por lo que Hokkaido es adecuado para personas fuertes y de voluntad fuerte con un estilo de vida activo.

Todos los perros japoneses de pura raza pertenecen a la raza de la caza, también tienen un instinto protector. Los perros tienen un carácter caprichoso e independiente y, al mismo tiempo, están infinitamente apegados a los humanos y siguen siendo amigos leales y confiables. Para ganar tal amor y devoción de una persona, se necesitará una manifestación de voluntad y determinación, y un amigo de cuatro patas responderá con su obediencia y deseo constante de acudir en su ayuda.

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Remy: HOW MANY GOOD BOIS DO YOU KNOW? and by that I mean dog breeds

Labrador Pitbull Rottweiler Dorberman German shepherd Australian Shepherd Poodle English bulldog French bulldog AiredaleTerrier Akita Shiba Ainu Chihuahua Malamute Beagle Foxhound Australian cattle dog Golden retriever Basenji Basset hound Malinois Greyhound Bichon Border Collie Border terrier Boxer Mutt Dalmatian Cairn terrier Irish terrier chow chow sharpei Bull terrier Dachshund Shnauzer Great Dane MUDI Yorkshire terrier PODENCO Saint Bernard Husky Shetland smt Mastiff Walsh terrier thefuckingnakeddoggo whippet .... okay I’m dry with names rn.. BUT I KNOW MORE OF THEM Oh yeh English cocker and King Charles spaniel I think and huh the long nose boï .. Oh yeah borzoi ❤️

DONT TEST ME WITH DOGGO I STUDIED THEM FOR NO HECCIN REASON !

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Got any Shiba Ainu ocs?

I don’t but I’m going to need a lot of characters for Press_Start so I might have to make one :)

#tangle talks #mxrrymxdmxgcian

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“Libby! I just realized something... when was the last time you were able to pet a dog, full contact, no fear of harming it?” He asked, currently standing there with his Shiba Ainu, Sento.

She backed off slightly, keeping her distance, hands at her sides, fingers twitching to pet but not getting near him. “Been a while.” She admitted with a sigh. “I do love animals though.” The animal was gorgeous. His fur looked so soft.

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my name’s fumiko and i think dogs should vote

I know I already had information on another page but I wanna do this too! it’s a lot so it’s under a read more because i’m Like That

would you know SH1BA?

oh def! she’s an ex-idol from a popular music company and the group she was in was very popular while it was active. if you’ve worked/are working in the music industry then i’m super into the idea of your oc having met fumiko during her puppy love era. just gimme a little heads up!

the edgy shiba works with very, very few people and all are independent artists as well so it’s way more selective. if you’ve been to any of her concerts (mostly taking place in bigger cities) than you’ve maaaybe talked to her once or twice, she likes interacting with her fans.

her social media is mostly used for posting when/where concerts will be held. but sometimes she’ll post selfies, screenshots from games she’s playing, or just whatever suits her fancy. she tries not to interact with too many people through social media since she says it feels weird.

what is known about puppy love?

it sure was a popular group! the members fumiko/shiba, otome/akita, and nana/ainu were all 14 at the start. their songs were very lighthearted and cutesy featuring dog puns for title names because they’re cute like that. fumiko was the center since their major pull was the gentle rapping she would do for their songs.

after their initial success as a group, otome and nana started to become more popular than fumiko and often appeared in variety shows/commercials/etc with just the two of them. after the group was disbanded, otome and nana were still doing regular idol stuff while fumiko did not. their careers basically ended when the doghouse ep dropped.

it should be mentioned that in the doghouse ep, fumiko discussed how the other two would isolate her and try to push her out of the group because of her success. also she talked about how the company kept pushing fake concepts/personas on them as well as difficult/unhealthy working environments and unrealistic expectations. she credits this to breeding an unfriendly environment between fumiko and the other two. of course she dissed them too for being so ready to abandon/bully/isolate her for their own gain. currently otome and nana are also no longer with the company and nothing has been heard of them.

what is known about fumiko?

her birthday is 5/23 (gemini) and her blood type is B-. this info is on the web because of course it is. actually even her height is public information and that’s very weird! currently people from her school are eager to talk about being at school with a celebrity and report that she’s somewhat of a delinquent who freely speaks her mind. oddly enough, her grades are sorta above average but her attitude is def below!

it should be noted that her hair is originally a dark brown. during the puppy love days, it was lightened a bit but still brown. now she’s just cool looking! no one is quite sure how she gets away with her look at school but she just does!

shipping?

i mean she’s a on the gemini/taurus cusp so idk if you Really wanna do that to yourself. jokes aside, i’m down for whatever happens! it should be noted that i just love dynamics of all kinds and so long as i’m not forced into anything, i’m pretty chill! i do like talking about ships ooc bcus that’s just fun. also given fumiko’s general attitude problem, it’ll be difficult but dabs. she’s bi with a tilt towards feminine people fyi!

everything else!

i’m super chill with everything! memes/jokes/relatable tiktoks/etc!! honestly i’m gonna clown on shiba as well so hell yeah! watch me send tiktoks saying theyre shiba to the server at 4AM.

for threads and whatnot you will find that i’m always down but i’m forgetful and slow. if you have to ping me, dm me, or bump the thread then please do! it’ll be super helpful to me and i’d wuv you forever if you did it.

absolutely Nothing involving NSFW content is allowed. like, that’s a super hard no for me.

#ooc #info

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Chapter 4 - Futomaki: Six Pieces

I was so grateful to be back outside I nearly puked. I also nearly puked from about ten other things that had just happened in the meeting. For one, I don’t like unfamiliar basements. Second — and I didn’t know this until that moment — eel aquariums are terrifying. Can they see us out there, watching them from outside the tanks? God I hope not. I can’t even begin to convey how sweaty they made me through that whole meeting, and I’ll venture to say that any size aquarium, containing any kind of aquatic life, even the big ones with the big fish or an army of sea turtles, will trigger some serious underlying issues that I’ve worked my whole life to mask.

I don’t need to get into the other eight reasons. Unless you want to hear them…I can always include them in the appendix. Your call.

So we were outside milling around and smoking, the bosses all together touching one another’s lapels and counting threads, while me and the rest of the goons declaimed with tuna slung over our shoulders how relieved we were to not be standing in a circle and feeling at any moment two guys might be summoned to the center of the room to fight to the death. They were all like me — older white guys, a little out of shape but not cripplingly-so, dense and sturdy like an overstuffed salami, and looking like they’ve spent most of their adult lives honing that particular posture required for standing for hours outside nondescript warehouses.

“You know,” said one of them, suddenly and way too close to my ear, “five years ago, the mere mention of the Sushi Underground was a death sentence. Senju wouldn’t have it. Heads would’ve rolled.”

“Could you back off, buddy?” I said, elbowing myself out of his saliva-range.

He sighed. “I’m just excited. That meeting had a new feel. I’ve never seen such energy, such optimism. This might be a new era of sorts. I mean, it’s been fifteen years of standing in that basement, ignoring the elephant in the room.”

“More like two elephants in that room,” said another.

“That’s right.”

“Denial can only take you so far in life,” said a third.

“More like two elephants fucking in a room with all of us watching and not saying nothing.”

“That’s right.”

“You can’t survive when you punish those trying to explain the reality of the situation.”

“I prefer my phrasing,” said the fucking-elephants guy.

By now the goons had surrounded me, each spouting their own perspective, each talking over one another, all more or less in agreement, many shifting their tuna loins to give their shoulders a break. They were all repressed talkers. Being the new guy, I wasn’t quite sure to whom to listen. It all seemed fairly important — strategies for keeping their bosses happy in this new era they all supposed had arrived, predictions on how they were going to handle new enemies. Naturally I found myself staring at no one in particular, using my most respectable mouth-breathing technique, while doing my diligence with the occasional side-glance over at Matsuzaka.

“You were Takuto’s guy, right?” said a short guy, to me directly. “Tough luck on that one. You’ll be alright though. I’ve lost about ten bodies and look at me, eh? Still on the payroll.”

“That’s a relief.”

“You know I heard,” someone interrupted, “that that table, the one in the conference room, was made from wood illegally harvested from the sacred forests of the Ainu on a forbidden island off the northern tip of Hokkaido.”

“We already know that to be true.”

“Yeah well I need to restate it for the new guy so he feels included.”

“Yeah well I heard those early Sengoku period candelabras were stolen from the Kyoto Museum of National Exquisitry and are worth more than all the tuna over our shoulders and then some.”

“More like all the tuna in Japan!”

A few of them high-fived.

“They weren’t stolen,” said a small guy. “They belonged to Senju’s family. He’s a descendent of an ancient clan from that era. I won’t get into which one. It’s not really for me to tell but, I will say this…it’s one of the big ones.”

“Shiba?”

“No.”

“Hosokawa?”

“Wrong again.”

“It’s gotta be Hatakeyama?”

“Just stop. I’m not going to tell you even if you guess. It doesn’t do anybody any good being connected to medieval warlords of the old country, alrighty? We’re trying to keep a low profile. We don’t need everyone bragging about working for so-and-so from such-and-such clan. The point is, the guy’s got beaucoup pedigree. And loot to boot.”

“Senju is one of those old-school types that doesn’t care what’s who’s and who’s what’s.”

There was general consensus that this was true.

“You got a letter from the union yet?” One guy interrupted to ask me.

“About what?”

“The murder. Usually they’re all over that kind of thing.”

“Maybe they didn’t hear about it. Is that possible?”

The guy scrunched his face and looked a little displeased that he didn’t quite know the answer himself.

I turned back to the small fellow who seemed to know Senju so well. He wore large wrap-around prescription sunglasses that he might have lifted off an old dead man. “You Senju’s guy?” I asked.

“One of em. Name’s Jerry. Jerry Lodi. Twelve year veteran of the Sushi Guild. Glad to meet ya. You’ll like it. Don’t worry about flubbing the Takuto situation. When these people want someone dead, best to step aside. We don’t get paid to take bullets for people.”

“We don’t?”

“No. I mean, of course we take bullets for them. But they gotta be the right bullets, ya get me?”

“The right bullets?”

“Or the wrong bullets I guess would be another way of putting it.”

“So which are the right bullets and which are the wrong bullets.”

Lodi waved away the question, like I was his wife asking him an ancient riddle with no answer just as he was about to ask for a divorce.

“Come here a minute.” He took me aside, slung his arm over my shoulder, which was a good head above his. “You’re gonna need to take some advice from those who’ve been around if you’re going to survive here, okay? First, you’ve got tuna juice dripping all over your jacket. It’s slung way too far forward. Scoot it back so it drains on the sidewalk. Laundry costs can be through the roof in this gig. Second, get yourself a good santoku. These chef types respect a man with a nice sharp slice-em-up.” It was only as he stepped back to mime his ninja stab-and-slice combo I realized he wasn’t holding a tuna.

“Say, you don’t get to carry any tuna home tonight?”

“Not me my friend. I’ve put in my time.”

“One of the lucky ones I guess?”

“Luck don’t have nothing to do with it. And besides it’s called fortune in this business. You can call it luck if you want. That’s not it though. I play the game, and I play it right. You gotta remember, this council has a history stretching back centuries. Very much tied to the old country. What happens here is often out of our hands. The best thing you can do is let whatever will be, to be.”

He placed his hand on my shoulder and, I assume, stared deep into my eyes through his blackened prescription lenses. “You didn’t do much wrong, you understand? That Takuto thing was bigger than you.” And here he got real quiet. “And now that he’s been replaced, things around here will be moving a lot more smoothly.”

“If you don’t mind me asking…what happened to his last bodyguard?”

Just before Lodi could answer, the door to the headquarters creaked open and the large fellow in the oversized suit popped his head out and yelled “Matsuzaka! Inside!”

Without hesitation Matsuzaka sprang from his own group of fellows towards the open door, and with Lodi’s nod, I followed.

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GROUNDED! - A Bleach AU Idea Revised

You might’ve seen the original idea for Grounded! before. Long story short, it’s evolved significantly since that post was made. Namely, I (among others) fell for YoruIchiRuki as an AU OT3, so it’s now the start of a much longer series of adventures for the three. So, I’ve decided to publicly expand upon the idea as originally presented.

INTRODUCTION

Ichigo is fascinated with a jet-haired flight attendant he weirdly keeps running into. Okay, well, that was true the first half-a-dozen times. Then he pulled some favors and found out who she was and what her route was. What? They just wind up flying together a lot and staying in the same layover cities pretty often. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just a coincidence. He’s never even talked to her really, except to occasionally ask for a Coke. She probably doesn’t even know he exists.

Or perhaps Rukia does, but thinks much the same.

But for every awkward problem in the world, there’s an equally awkward solution! Enter Yoruichi—that’s Captain Shihōin to you, buddy—who’s never met someone she wanted to bed that didn’t wind up there the next morning.

When all three of them wind up stuck during a layover because of the worst blizzard in a century, Yoruichi happily plies her wiles on Rukia, only to soon discover she’s stepped into a thorny situation. Feeling more than a little guilty, because she really likes Rukia, she decides to adopt a new pet project: she’s going to get the two of them together, hell or high water.

There's just one problem: nothing ever works out that cleanly or easily.

SETTING

Grounded! takes place in an alternate universe (AU) from Bleach. While Bleach is essentially a "secret history” of our world, Grounded! occurs in a familiar but historically divergent reality.

The short version is that it takes place in a North America that resembles the setting of the film Big Hero 6, with a fusion of Japanese and American sensibilities and cultures.

The long version is a little more complicated. Our divergence begins in late 1580s Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi ultimately does not adopt Oda Nobunaga's vision of invading Ming China through Joseon Korea, determining it to be infeasible. Instead, after unifying Japan, he decides to deal with Japan's excess of military strength through seafaring raids and invasions (much like the Vikings and Normans in outcome), rather than an extended ground campaign.

Drawing from the experiences of the wokou pirates of the Sengoku period, samurai are dispatched to other nearby targets instead: against the Ainu in Hokkaido (which is occupied much earlier than historically), Taiwan (which becomes "Japanese Formosa," with both the Dutch and Spanish being held off some decades later), the Philippines, parts of Indonesia, the Bruneian Empire, the Jurchens in the Ussuri region, Sakhalin, the Kurils, and Kamchatka... It isn’t long until some of these spearheads arrive in Hawaii and Alaska, and soon the North American West Coast. Word eventually gets back about the bounty of these areas, along with raiding opportunities on Spanish galleons, and the center of focus shifts dramatically.

Thus, the Japanese are the ones to colonize the West Coast of the continent, pushing inward as far as the Rocky Mountains. The fertile terrain and easy access from the Pacific draws settlers much faster than historical settlement from the east. Discoveries of gold occur much earlier, and the region as a whole develops much more rapidly. It’s at this time that the great families such as the Shihōin, Kuchiki, and Shiba gain their wealth and stature. Eventually, they develop ideas of their own, and much like their equivalents in the British colonies on the East Coast later will, they guide the colony to independence.

This West Coast nation later comes into contact with those same British colonies, and there is much trade and cross-pollination between them, with heavy infusions of Mexican, Anglo, and later continental European settlers into the region, creating a cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Eventually, the great families conspire to assist the British colonies in achieving their own independence. Faced with hostile colonizing powers across each ocean (namely, Japan and Britain), the two ally, and eventually federate together into a single country occupying what in our world is Canada and the United States. (For the sake of convenience, this will still be addressed as “the United States,” but it is rather different internally.) Much of the rest of history goes roughly the same, with the West and North crushing the South in the Civil War, participation in WW1 and WW2, and engagement in a Cold War with the Soviet Union that ends in the early 2000s. (I can’t be bothered making too elaborate of a timeline; things are different, but similar enough.)

It’s February of 2017. By this point in time, the Shihōin, Kuchiki, and their peers have a reputation akin to the Rockefellers and Rothschilds of the East Coast, although their wealth is older and significantly more substantial: they regard their East Coast Anglo counterparts as petty nouveau riche in comparison. The Shiba seem to have retreated from the public eye.

Grounded! proper takes place in Calgary, in what we’d call Canada, although it’s somewhat different. All of the main characters reside in what we’d know as the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area, although in this setting it’s known as Murakumo (叢雲, "cloudbank") and is a much, much larger city.

(For the record, San Diego is Heisui [平水, "calm water"], Los Angeles is Aozora [青空, "blue sky"], San Francisco-Oakland is Miyako [都, "capital"], Portland is Fūsawa [豊川, "rich river"], and Vancouver is Shiroyama [白山, "white mountain"]; the relationship between Murakumo and Shiroyama, and their degree of urbanization, is like Tokyo and Yokohama, or Osaka and Kobe.)

The great families maintain their primary compounds in Miyako, although they have presences pretty much everywhere, and can often be found in places such as the equivalents of Malibu, Palm Springs, and Las Vegas, as well as in New York and Martha’s Vineyard. (They love sticking it to their East Coast counterparts and the new suits who think they run things.)

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

Yoruichi Shihōin - 32 years old (January 1, 1985). Wealthy scion. Ex-fighter jock. Consummate hedonist. Born to privilege, she was never one for the boardroom and bucked tradition, joining the Navy straight out of college and gaining acclaim both as their first female fighter pilot and first female ace. But the military life was never for her either, and a lucrative offer from an airline stole her away from them—not that she ever needed the money. It’s more that it was a fun and free way to see the world... and more besides. Yoruichi fought in something like the equivalent of the Gulf War for the Navy, flying an F-14D, although it took place much later (circa 2008; she joined at 22 and left at 28). She met Kisuke shortly after leaving. She lives alone in a condo, although she visits him often before the events of the story. She still has all her resources as a Shihōin, but avoids going home at all costs.

Ichigo Kurosaki - 24 years old (July 15, 1992). Young buck. Newbie lawyer. Angsty type. Coming from a middle-class background and having fought his way to the top through grit and determination, he’s hungry to prove... something. He just doesn’t know what yet. The latest hire to a vast and prestigious law firm (”Prism”), and specializing in corporate law, he’s really the newest gofer on the jet-set lifestyle, delivering documents and briefs all over the world. It doesn’t often leave him a lot of time for other pursuits. Ichigo lost his mother Masaki at the age of 9 to a freak accident that would later influence his decision to pursue a career in law. He has his own small apartment, but visits his family’s home often. His sisters still live there while attending the local (yet prestigious) Murakumo University, same as he did.

Rukia Kuchiki - 26 years old (January 14, 1991). Youthful sprite. Veteran Stewardess. Feisty upstart. Rukia’s past is known to very few, and she was adopted into the Kuchiki family under still mysterious circumstances in her early teens, after which she mostly grew up in elite educational institutions. She only entered the family business a few years ago. Her connection to the top of the food-chain doesn’t mean a cushy job though—she’s expected to work her way up. She’s been around the world more times than she’s been around the sun, but there are certain things she’s still yet to find. Kaien Shiba died saving her after she fell into a pond through thin spring ice when she was 16. She lives with her brother in the family’s compound in Murakumo.

Byakuya Kuchiki - 34 years old (January 31, 1983). Lonely widower. Tireless industrialist. Overprotective brother. The latest heir to the Kuchiki family and CEO of the massive Kuchiki International, he tirelessly seeks to expand his company's rule over the friendly skies, and further the fortunes of his extended family. Unfortunately however, sometimes even a CEO with a controlling interest has to bow to the stockholders. Byakuya set out to chart his own course, away from the prying eyes of the Kuchiki elders, wanting to make a name and a fortune for himself as independently as he could. His selection of Murakumo was no accident. He was briefly married to Hisana, who died of a rare genetic condition; he fulfilled her last wish of adopting Rukia and developed an enduring interest in biotech research as a result. He has his own vast estate, on what in our world is Mercer Island.

Kūkaku Shiba - 31 years old (October 1, 1985) Reclusive heiress. Aspiring artist. Restless soul. The daughter of old-money that fell off the grid, she’s interested in applying her family’s wealth toward some noble end. Ironically, the social circles she runs in are small and she’s wound up in the orbit of her departed brother’s nemesis, while her eccentric uncle keeps refusing to return her calls. That is, whenever she can make one, when Yoruichi’s not on the line about this or that conquest or stop... Kūkaku allowed the prominence of the Shiba to decline markedly after Kaien’s death and the departure of her uncle, Isshin; the Shiba were never as prominent as the other families, and most of their assets are now shuttered. Still, she holds a vast amount of wealth at her fingertips. She lives in a stately penthouse condo with her brother Ganju and their two butlers, and spends most of her time there.

There will be some additional minor characters popping up who will be familiar to everyone.

Kisuke Urahara - (37 years old, December 31, 1980) owns a bar (”Free Radical”) in Murakumo. In his early 20s he ditched working on his doctoral thesis at MIT to join both CIAs (the Culinary Institute of America and the Central Intelligence Agency) for a number of years, before moving across the continent and dabbling in mixology, molecular gastronomy, and brewing. He’s Yoruichi’s closest friend after Kūkaku, as well as her on-again, off-again lover, although their relationship is rather loose and fluid.

Rangiku Matsumoto - (30 years old, September 29, 1986) another flight attendant (albeit a senior one; a Chief Purser) for Kuchiki International, she’s more than a little familiar with Yoruichi, having flown with her before and having had an extended adventure with her on at least one occasion. They’re quite friendly and tend to hang out some during their journeys when teamed up, but aren’t really close friends off the job. She views it as not just her job to watch over the younger flight crew, but her duty.

Izuru Kira - (26 years old, March 27, 1991) Yoruichi’s long-time co-pilot, they’ve been working together for two years, with her serving as his mentor. Very staid and by-the-book, he’s the professional counterpart to her wily and by-the-seat-of-her-pants style, and often the focal point of her and Rangiku’s shenanigans. He’s the proud owner of an out-of-style painter’s brush mustache and has managed to keep it despite several attempts by them to shave it off.

Yoruichi, Kūkaku, Byakuya, Kisuke, and Rangiku grew up in an environment more like that of our 1980s, while Ichigo, Rukia, and Kira grew up in a climate that was more like the 1990s.

In addition, there are others who’ll pop up as background characters, such as: Isshin, Karin, and Yuzu Kurosaki (as, of course, Ichigo’s family); Shunsui Kyōraku, Jūshirō Ukitake, Retsu Unohana, Nanao Ise, Isane Kotetsu, Kiyone Kotetsu, Sentarō Kotsubaki, and Hanatarō Yamada (as staff at Prism, Ichigo’s law firm; Shunsui, Jūshirō, and Retsu are the senior partners); Renji Abarai (alluded to only; Rukia’s college boyfriend and one-time first lover); Suì Fēng and Marechiyo Ōmaeda (possibly alluded to only for now; Yoruichi’s former junior wingman, and her Radar Intercept Officer, respectively); and probably more (including Tatsuki Arisawa, Uryū Ishida, and Yasutora “Chad” Sado). Even more characters will appear in cameos, such as Gin Ichimaru (a national network weatherman) and Sōsuke Aizen (an anchor for the same).

SYNOPSIS

Day 1: On their first night stuck in Calgary, Yoruichi decides she’s going to take the opportunity to unwind, and goes to find and approach Rukia. At this same time, Ichigo finds himself unable to do the same, and drowns his sorrows for the evening, having already informed his firm of his situation. Rukia is initially wary and uncertain for various reasons, but Yoruichi makes it clear she’s not trying to abuse her position or pressure her, and that Rukia can stop or leave at any time if she feels uncomfortable.

Rukia eventually decides to go with Yoruichi to her suite out of curiosity more than anything else. They shower and spend time relaxing in the tub together, with Yoruichi endeavoring to put Rukia at ease. When she finally tries kissing Rukia, the latter is surprised to find she enjoys it. They spend some more time talking, and eventually dry off by a fireplace, slowly beginning to become more intimate. Ultimately, they make love, with Yoruichi leading at first, and fall asleep together.

Day 2: They wake up pleasantly the next morning, and have a room service breakfast, getting ready together. Rukia isn’t quite sure what to do, but knows she doesn’t want to just leave. Yoruichi finds she doesn’t want that either, and offers to spend the day together. Rukia enthusiastically agrees, and they explore what the airport has to offer, going to a spa and salon together, having lunch, doing some shopping, seeing a movie, and having something of a date night.

They’re settling in for a second evening together when Rukia gets a call from Rangiku saying that the stewardesses have been looking for her, and want her to come hang out the next day. Rukia reluctantly agrees, before turning her attention back to Yoruichi. Ichigo spends the day dealing with his work and helping Prism compensate for the fact he can’t get to where he needs to be, but still finds time to mope in the evening.

Day 3: The morning goes much the same, with Rukia reluctant to leave. Yoruichi gently shoos her, telling her they can always meet up again if she wants. She cheekily lends Rukia a toy and sends her off with a kiss. Afterwards, Yoruichi calls Kūkaku—whom she knows has been associating with Byakuya lately—to gossip a bit. Kūkaku is nonplussed at hearing the news, but knows it’s hopeless to try and stop Yoruichi. Soon after the call, she meets with Byakuya to discuss a corporate art installation he wants to commission.

It isn’t long after lunch when Rangiku shows up to interrogate Yoruichi, having deduced what’s happened from Yoruichi and Rukia’s absences and the change in Rukia’s mood. She informs Yoruichi about the situation between Rukia and Ichigo, which she and the other flight attendants have been aware of, and leaves Yoruichi to stew in what she’s inadvertently stepped into, thinking it to be karmic comeuppance for once.

After a brief period of self-loathing and reflection, Yoruichi decides to try and fix it by approaching Ichigo, and calls Kūkaku for moral support. Kūkaku is a bit snippy because she’s in the middle of a casual lunch with Byakuya, but something about the guy Yoruichi is talking about also sounds vaguely familiar. Yoruichi quickly finds her nerve despite Kūkaku’s warnings, and goes to find Ichigo. Byakuya invites Kūkaku to dinner the next evening.

Yoruichi discovers she has a lot of work to do if she’s going to get Ichigo and Rukia to meet smoothly, and tells Rangiku to keep Rukia distracted, telling Rukia herself that she thinks she’s coming down with a cold. She spends the evening putting the moves on Ichigo, gradually convincing him to go along with her for dinner and a movie, before doing much the same as she did with Rukia. She eventually gets him to relax and open up, and beds him too.

Day 4: Ichigo’s morning with Yoruichi is rather less serene than Rukia’s two were. Still, Yoruichi manages to once more put him at ease. She elects to spend the day in with him, as she has quite a lot to teach him if she’s going to trust someone special like Rukia to him. While he naps in the afternoon, she once more calls Rukia to put on a show of being sick, and calls Kūkaku again. Kūkaku soon figures out Ichigo is, in fact, her cousin Ichigo, and rapidly puts together what a problem this is becoming, as Yoruichi has somehow involved herself with both a Kuchiki and a Shiba at the same time as she, a Shiba, is also dealing with a Kuchiki—that very evening, in fact.

She warns Yoruichi in no uncertain terms, but Yoruichi assures her it’ll all work out before hanging up as Ichigo wakes. Kūkaku can’t reach her again. Rukia becomes a bit morose that evening as she begins to wonder if Yoruichi is intentionally avoiding her, and finds she really misses Yoruichi’s company in every way. Yoruichi puts Ichigo through his paces into the night. Kūkaku and Byakuya have a surprisingly fun dinner, that then becomes having drinks and drawing closer together, until going home is the furthest thing from Kūkaku‘s mind.

Day 5: Yoruichi wakes up as usual and has breakfast by herself, letting Ichigo sleep in. She texts Rukia to try and arrange meeting up for lunch, and soon gets an affirmative reply back. She ruminates on her plan as she gets ready, deciding it’s best to be blunt and direct. Kūkaku and Byakuya have a pleasant and lazy morning together that she teases him relentlessly about. Ichigo wakes up late in the morning, having been exhausted the previous day, and Yoruichi encourages him to get dressed to join her for lunch. Starving, he agrees.

Rukia and Ichigo are shocked to see each other at lunch. Yoruichi sincerely apologizes to Rukia, but chastises Ichigo somewhat, before introducing them, telling them how she learned about them and making the case that they belong together—after all, she’d know better than anyone! The meeting goes less well than Yoruichi had hoped, and both Ichigo and Rukia excuse themselves, heading off alone. Yoruichi is left at the table wondering if she really has messed everything up.

Another call to Kūkaku has Yoruichi learning about her situation with Byakuya, to her infinite amusement and Kūkaku’s chagrin. Byakuya deduces something is going on despite affording Kūkaku privacy for her call, given how she’s yelling, but he doesn’t pry—yet. Their example gives Yoruichi hope in persevering, but Rukia and Ichigo don’t return her texts or calls. The two spend the afternoon and evening thinking about her and each other.

That night, there’s a knock on Yoruichi’s door, and she finds Rukia outside. Rukia asks if she can come in, and after Yoruichi apologizes much more profusely, they wind up cuddling and comforting one another, before they fall asleep together. Ichigo also has a visitor: Rangiku. She invites herself into his room and makes herself comfortable in a chair, having figured out what’s going on, and begins to tell him what she knows about Rukia. Kūkaku spends another evening with Byakuya, although this time she’s a bit distracted by what’s going on, which he notices. They spend the night together again.

Day 6: Yoruichi and Rukia go to breakfast, only to be surprised when Ichigo joins them and takes a seat. They sit in silence for awhile before Yoruichi speaks up and reiterates her case. She offers to help them out if they need her to, to the horror of both. Sensing a change in their attitudes, she holds up her hands in wry surrender, leaving the two alone.

Ichigo and Rukia watch her leave before turning their attention to one another, and have a moment of awkward silence, then look away. Rukia tries to break the ice when Ichigo suddenly dismisses what Yoruichi said, yet asks her out to lunch. Surprised, she agrees. They wind up idling together and chatting until then, and after lunch, she asks him out to dinner and a movie. He also agrees.

Yoruichi, meanwhile, is communicating with Rangiku to sorta kinda spy on them as best they’re able, and in the afternoon she decides that her plan is a success. She phones Kūkaku in triumph, only for Kūkaku snap and hang up on her. Byakuya finally approaches Kūkaku, carefully noting her agitation and offering to listen. Not wanting to lie to him, and also discerning the importance of acting if it turns out Yoruichi has succeeded, Kūkaku begins to explain what happened to the Shiba, who her nearest relatives are, and what exactly has been occurring during the blizzard. Byakuya isn’t happy, but also knows he can’t do anything about it, and appreciates her honesty. He decides to wait and see what happens, and make whatever moves he has to later.

Yoruichi goes out to party with her flight crew. Despite her alcohol intolerance, she winds up having more than a few drinks.

Ichigo and Rukia have a lovely—if animated—evening, and they’re at Rukia’s hotel room, ready to part, when she invites him inside. He goes along with her, and they mutually decide to repeat how Yoruichi started out things with them. They soon discover they’re great and mind-blowing, and stay up until the early hours of the morning before collapsing in a heap together.

Day 7: Ichigo and Rukia wake up late and laze with one another, continuing to explore and get to know one another in various ways: talking, cuddling, and making love. Rukia eventually circles around to the fact that Yoruichi was right, which Ichigo grudingly admits.

Yoruichi, meanwhile, spends her seventh day resting, having thoroughly worn herself out physically and emotionally over the past week. She’s also nursing a hangover from the night before. For the 84th time, she swears off ever drinking again, and deliberately distracts herself from thinking of the two lovebirds, for reasons she doesn’t want to think about either.

Kūkaku spends the day away from Byakuya, working on her art and mulling over whether she really wants to get involved with him. He’s charming, and respectful, and the sex is amazing, but... it’s complicated. And Yoruichi hasn’t done much to help. She needs a little time to process it. She tries reaching Isshin yet again (as she periodically does) and when she can’t, she finally decides to do something about it, heading to the Kurosaki residence personally.

After dinner in Rukia’s room, ichigo and Rukia fall back into one another before another spell of conversation. The subject turns to Yoruichi and how utterly ridiculous everything has been. They swap stories about her, realizing how much fun they had with her. They gradually decide they “owe” her, and they plot about their "revenge,” with Rukia calling Rangiku to try and enlist her help.

Day 8: The blizzard is finally on track to lift enough for flight operations to resume in the afternoon. However, Yoruichi’s flight crew has no intention of leaving just yet. Rangiku has already reported up the chain of command that Yoruichi and Izuru are too ill to fly, and their passengers have already been reassigned to other flights—not that either knows. She goes to personally “distract” Izuru—she’s never found him unattractive, and it’s a perfect opportunity to once more try and get rid of that damn mustache of his.

Ichigo and Rukia, meanwhile, turn up at Yoruichi’s suite, surprising her just as she’s about to leave in her flight uniform. They guide her back inside, with just a bit of gentle manhandling, while Ichigo explains they’re not going anywhere. Yoruichi quickly figures out what’s going on and doesn’t put up too much of a struggle. Ichigo and Rukia really intend to show off and treat her, rather than teach her a lesson, but they also want to lead and have it to be something she’ll never forget. Having remembered her initial offer, they make her watch them before freeing her to play with them too. They spend the whole day together, celebrating each other.

Kūkaku, meanwhile, has dragooned Isshin into admitting to Karin and Yuzu that the Kurosaki are really a branch of the Shiba. Having stayed overnight with them at their request, she begins formally reengaging the Shiba’s assets as the leader of the family. One of her first decisions is to shift management of some of the family’s assets to a different law firm: Prism. In so doing, she requests they be handled by her cousin: Ichigo. She then sets about wiping out Karin and Yuzu’s student loan debt, assigning aside resources to do the same for Ichigo, and beginning to create reasonable endowments for them, before scheduling another date with Byakuya.

News quickly reaches the senior partners of the sudden addition of several billions of dollars of assets to Prism’s portfolio, and the attendant discovery that one of their newer employees is in fact a Shiba. Although Ichigo has essentially been excused from work due to the blizzard, they’re all surprised that no one can reach him. Regardless, they immediately set about arranging a promotion for him to fulfill Kūkaku’s request. The opportunity simply can’t be passed up.

Day 9: Ichigo and Rukia wake with Yoruichi and have breakfast. Ichigo is already scheduled to return to Murakumo since there’s no point in continuing on to his original destination (someone else was dispatched in his place), as are Yoruichi’s air crew for the same reason. They’re all taking the same flight back.

Ichigo finally turns his cell phone back on to discover a deluge of text messages and voice-mails regarding his heritage and promotion from his family and work. Yoruichi and Rukia look on with different degrees of surprise, before calling Kūkaku and Byakuya, respectively. Yoruichi gossips some, though she doesn’t reveal what happened the prior day; Byakuya asks Rukia about her involvement with Ichigo, which Rukia affirms. Neither set of parties knows the other are in the same room.

After the call ends, Byakuya and Kūkaku have a brief conversation regarding the events, during which Byakuya produces and approves a promotion request that Rukia had submitted to human resources, leaving it with one of his secretaries. They go out to lunch together.

Rukia and Ichigo eventually go their separate ways to get their things, meeting back up with Yoruichi at their gate. The flight home is routine and uneventful. They all part amicably at Murakumo’s terminal, with Ichigo and Rukia knowing they’ll see each other again soon. Yoruichi goes home to sleep for another age, only to find she can’t. She’s missing... something... and doesn’t want to admit to herself that it’s them. Lonely, she goes to Free Radical to seek Kisuke’s company, ultimately asking if she can sleep in his bed. His answer is always “Mi casa es su casa.”

Epilogue: A little over two weeks later, Ichigo and Rukia show up outside Yoruichi’s apartment together. She’s surprised to see them at first, as she’s been trying her best to move on (to no avail), only for her mood to darken once they reveal they feel differently and want her to join them on a proper vacation. They move as one on the issue, having had plenty of opportunity to discuss it.

For the first time in quite a long time, Yoruichi finds herself emotionally compromised, only to in turn be stunned by the sincerity of their offer. Ichigo and Rukia calm her through touch and offer to stay the night, and Yoruichi happily agrees.

PROMOTIONAL SNIPPET (The Beginning)

Airports exist as liminal spaces—the constant transience of their occupants leaves echoes in the fabric of their reality. That held especially true in the quiet gloom of a mid-February twilight at Calgary International Airport, with a blizzard howling down from the north and cancelling all flights in and out. The floor to ceiling windows that normally offered a view of the mountains and the international gates only showed featureless gray.

Yoruichi had already clocked out. They’d received their final forecast for the evening—the low pressure system was nearly stationary, projections estimated several feet of snow by morning, and wind chill was going to go well below zero—and the front was expected to pound the area for several days. It was only going to disperse when a Chinook wind swept in from the west to knock it out. She, her crew, their passengers, and many others besides, were all grounded, and would be for the foreseeable future.

They were fortunate that the airport had recently finished a massive upgrade program. The terminal had been radically expanded to accommodate international traffic and more besides, which was the entire reason her flight was there. But the airport had also gained several in-terminal hotels and other amenities, which was good, because based on the reports, even travel as far as the city proper would be impossible. Everyone stuck had been billeted rooms—she'd gotten a suite.

Yoruichi sighed and turned away from the gray-out. It wouldn't be long until sundown.

Being stuck on the ground for so long was going to make her tetchy—she’d never liked being tethered. She mused over joining the rest of her crew for a drink in one of the lounges, but decided to instead act on a thought she'd been harboring. She was going to seek out one crewmember in particular—one she knew wouldn’t have joined the others in their giddy celebration.

Rukia would have found somewhere to be alone.

Yoruichi had captained flights for Kuchiki International—so big it didn't have to advertise it was an airline, because everyone already knew—for three years, ever since leaving the Navy. Despite that, her current crew was relatively new to her other than her co-pilot, Kira, and one of the stewardesses, Rangiku—they'd only been together for six flights.

She'd become acquainted with them as usual, but Rukia had always stuck out to her—not least because Yoruichi knew who she was. Rukia tried to keep quiet about the fact she was a Kuchiki, often claiming she simply happened to share the last name, but Yoruichi knew better.

She hadn't hung out with Byakuya during her last trip home, a decade ago—he'd already set off on his agenda of world conquest—and hadn't really talked to anyone but Kūkaku while she was there, but she'd kept in touch with the same. She'd also gotten letters from Yūshirō annoyingly often. Between the two, she knew Byakuya had adopted a sister under mysterious circumstances, one whom looked like him, and whom Kaien had given his life to save from a frozen lake. It didn't take a genius to piece together that was Rukia.

That fact alone made her intriguing—she was Byakuya's sister, and Yoruichi and Byakuya had always had an interesting relationship. Although he was two years her senior, she'd loved teasing him since their first meeting so long ago. What sort of interactions might she have with his sister?

But it was also nothing so hypothetical.

Put simply, Rukia was stunning in a refined way, and her beauty and elegance were nothing like skin-deep. Yoruichi hadn't had much opportunity to talk with Rukia one-on-one, but she'd seen her in groups and knew how the rest of the crew treated her. Rukia was by turns tough and compassionate, level-headed and whimsical, and always smart, even if she tended to be quiet about it. She had an attitude, but not an attitude problem.

To Yoruichi, Rukia seemed both pretty and lively. She imagined Rukia was fun in other ways too, and she'd had never been one to walk away from fun if she could help it. Since they had at least a few days to kill, she saw no harm in making a pitch, and that was exactly what she intended to do.

She made her way out of the concourse toward the terminal proper.

Rukia would probably be somewhere high up, away from the bustle of the nearest bars and lounges—she seemed to like heights. Yoruichi began considering places to check as she made her way toward the hotel they'd been booked into. Stopping there would give her a chance to change into something more comfortable, and Rukia was likely at its observation lounge too.

-―-

Ichigo was in a different hotel, sitting windowside at its observation lounge. His chin was cupped in one hand, and he idly swirled a cocktail glass around with the other. He considered another building, dim and gray through the snowfall. He knew Rukia was there because he'd started his evening there, only to have spotted her sitting alone at the bar when he'd walked in. He'd seen her far too many times to ever mistake her for anyone else, from any angle, and he'd immediately left.

With a sigh, he shut his eyes and downed the rest of his Blood and Sand. You're pathetic, he thought.

Ichigo had encountered her the very first time he'd boarded a flight for his law firm. He'd instantly been captured by her eyes, but the extent of their interaction had been asking her for a Coke. He'd noted her nametag: Rukia.

They'd kept bumping into one another after that. He didn't run into her on every flight, but it happened often enough that he noticed. She never seemed to remember him, but he wasn't so sure that was the case, given his hair. At any rate, they'd never had a chance to really talk—and he wanted to talk to her for some reason.

His firm wasn't unfamiliar with Kuchiki International—which was why all their flights were chartered through them—so he knew some people who knew some people. He'd pulled a few strings and used a few details to find out some things about her. Her full name was Rukia Kuchiki. It didn't take a genius to figure out she was related to the CEO. Her routes usually brought her back to Murakumo, which was both Kuchiki International's hub city and where he lived too. It wasn't surprising they ran into each other so frequently.

It wasn't that Ichigo hadn't tried putting her out of mind, but he couldn't. He hadn't really wanted to cyberstalk her or something, but his curiosity had gotten the better of him. He'd poked around a little more and found her Facebook and Instagram rather easily. She was a year older than him. She had a strange love of rabbits, but otherwise seemed pretty normal and down-to-earth. She looked great in winter wear, and... everything really. She was single.

And now he was stuck in an international airport with her for god knows how long, and yet he couldn't even approach her at a bar. This was the perfect opportunity. What was it all for if he didn't have the nerve?

He considered the building across the way again for a long time, then sighed and called a waiter over for another cocktail.

PROMOTIONAL SNIPPET (The Ending)

Yoruichi turned and crossed her arms under her chest. "What's that got to do with me?" Her voice was strained.

Ichigo blinked as he saw the set of her shoulders and how tightly she was squeezing her biceps. Tension radiated off her.

Rukia noticed the same and looked to Ichigo before her expression became sympathetic. She was the one to start forward first.

He followed in her wake.

Rukia walked around in front of Yoruichi and brought her hands up to clasp the back of hers. "Hey..."

Yoruichi only met her gaze for a moment, then looked decisively to one side.

Ichigo lightly grasped her sides at the waist, standing behind her. "We miss you." It was a plain and unornamented truth.

Yoruichi's eyes narrowed and she hunched up her shoulders as if wracked by a chill. "Don't be ridiculous."

Rukia reached up to cup Yoruichi’s cheeks, finding the woman’s skin warmed her hands like the sun. She gently tried to turn her head so they’d face each other again. "Who's being ridiculous?"

Yoruichi frowned and set her expression hard, focusing intently on some point off to the side. When she spoke her voice carried the gravitas of authority: “What the fuck are you doing?”

Rukia blinked and automatically drew her hands back in confusion.

Ichigo likewise released her as he felt her go rigid.

Yoruichi closed her eyes. “I can understand wanting to pay me back, but you did that already! Do you think I was bullshitting you?! You’re perfect for each other! Hell, it’s like you were designed to be together! You’re like yin and yang, black and white! Why are you trying to ruin it, you idiots?!”

Ichigo and Rukia found each other before glancing at Yoruichi and looking to either side.

“Do you think I’m stupid?” Yoruichi’s tone was low, but in the quiet that had descended over the room it was more than loud enough.

The attention of the couple was instantly upon her again.

Yoruichi clamped her hands around her upper arms tighter yet, letting out a brief, harsh laugh. Her voice grew quieter still. “Do you think I’m stupid enough to believe that there’s any place for me in that kind of thing...?”

A moment passed. Then another.

Rukia bit her lip and looked to Ichigo.

He met her gaze. A decision flickered between them and he turned his attention to Yoruichi, delicately taking hold of her waist again.

She blinked her eyes open in surprise only to freeze as Rukia’s hands returned to her cheeks.

Rukia once more tried to turn Yoruichi’s head—succeeding given her preoccupation—and studied her intently. Yoruichi’s voice had been steady but there was no mistaking the gleam at the outer corners of her eyes. She carefully brought her thumbs up to wipe the tears away.

Yoruichi’s eyes widened in response and she was suddenly aware of her heartbeat hammering in her ears. She looked up, needing to focus on anything but the concern Rukia was radiating for her. "I just wanted you to be happy," she whispered. There was no space for her in that picture. No room.

Ichigo moved closer so he was lightly pressed to her back, and brought his forehead down to rest against the top of her head, burying his nose against the start of her ponytail. The citrus scent of her hair put him at ease and his arms naturally slid around her waist. "Then come with us."

She shivered at the contact but didn't try to pull away.

Rukia released Yoruichi's hands and slid her arms around her neck, hugging her and pushing her back against Ichigo. The sudden rush of the aromas that so defined Yoruichi filled her thoughts and she found herself relaxing at it. "Please?"

Yoruichi shut her eyes. "But..."

"We'd like you to be there," Ichigo insisted.

"And we know you'd like it too," Rukia whispered.

Yoruichi clenched her jaw before dropping her chin so she leaned against Rukia, unfolding her arms. She got one hand around to the back of Rukia's head and brought the other up onto the back of Ichigo's.

They both pressed closer to her and started to brush at her reassuringly.

A faint shudder once again rippled through Yoruichi; she only slowly relaxed.

The three of them stood together for quite a long time before Rukia turned her head to consider the inside of the apartment. There was a couch not too far away. She looked back toward Yoruichi and Ichigo. How distraught their mentor was had come as a surprise—if she'd known, she’d never have let them wait even as little as they had. She took Yoruichi’s wrist and started to gently tug her toward the couch.

Yoruichi blinked her eyes open, looking to Rukia uncertainly.

Ichigo noticed and let her go, taking her other wrist and moving around to stand beside Rukia. They shared a look and he likewise beckoned Yoruichi forward.

After looking between them, Yoruichi followed, letting them guide her to her couch.

Ichigo sat first, Rukia getting next to him, and the two of them drew Yoruichi down onto their shared lap space, taking her into an embrace.

Yoruichi sank into the comfort of them. She… she’d missed them—so much.

Rukia turned and lowered her head, softly kissing at Yoruichi’s neck to comfort her.

Ichigo did the same, getting his face below her ponytail to plant little smooches along the back of her neck.

Yoruichi clenched her jaw again, this time to keep from vocalizing. She knew the difference between reassurance and sensuality well enough—especially with them—but being with them in such a close and intimate fashion again stirred her soul. Sharing space and touch with them felt like… like finally coming home.

Ichigo gave her the lightest nip and his eyes flickered open to find Rukia’s.

She glanced at him and one of her hands brushed across his in the course of slowly roving over Yoruichi’s sides. She soon shut her eyes and busied herself at where the woman’s neck met her jawline.

He brought his lips to Yoruichi’s ear. “We can stay the night.”

Yoruichi pushed her chin down against Rukia’s hair and didn’t hesitate to say “Yes.”

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The sky’s the limit. I envisioned they’d go on a tropical vacation next, and eventually get a place and all move in together. There are some things already set afterwards, but there’s another post about that.

#Bleach #YoruIchiRuki #YoruIchiRuki Fanfic #OT3: Neapolitan Ice Cream

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8 Giống Chó Nhật Bản Được Ưa Chuộng Nhất Tại Việt Nam

Tại Việt Nam ngày nay, sở thích nuôi chó trong nhà làm thú cưng đang được rất nhiều gia đình ưa chuộng. Đặc biệt là đối với những giống chó Nhật Bản, thì sự yêu thích này chưa bao giờ hạ nhiệt. Hãy cùng nhanlucnhatban tìm hiểu thêm về 8 giống chó Nhật Bản được người Việt Nam đặc biệt yêu thích nhé!

1. Giống chó Shiba Inu

Chó Shiba inu được nước Nhật xem là quốc khuyển của xứ xở mặt trời mọc. Với bản tính vốn rất mạnh dạn lại lanh lợi và dũng cảm, Shiba chính là giống chó nổi tiếng nhất tại đất nước Nhật Bản.

Là giống chó Nhật sở hữu một thân hình không quá lớn, nhỏ nhắn. Chúng được bao phủ bởi một bộ lông dày cùng với “đôi tai” dài khiến cho người khác nhìn vào đều thấy cảm mến.

Chó Nhật Shiba – giống chó quý hiếm rất được ưa chuộng tại Việt Nam

Một điều đặc biệt ở loại chó này chính là chiếc đuôi hình lưỡi liềm kết hợp với khuôn mặt xinh xắn và mỏng, tổng thể tạo nên một gương mặt hạnh phúc. Chính điều đặc biệt này luôn khiến chó Shiba trở thành giống chó yêu thích của rất nhiều người.

Tuy nhiên, vì cá tính khá mạnh mẽ cho nên rất ít người có thể nuôi dưỡng được giống chó này. Nhìn chung thì Shiba có sự khó tính nhất định, lại ưa sạch sẽ nhưng cũng cực kỳ trung thành.

Tuổi thọ giống chó Shiba

Một con chú Shiba khi trưởng thành thường sẽ nặng khoảng 15kg với chiều cao trung bình là 40cm. Tuổi thọ thường trong khoảng từ 12 cho đến 15 năm. Nếu được cho đi bộ và tập thể dục đều đặn mỗi ngày thì tuổi thọ của Shiba có thể được kéo dài hơn đồng thời cũng giúp sức khỏe được tăng cường.

Một chú Shiba lâu đời nhất đã qua đời có tên là Pusuke – 26 tuổi.

Cách chăm chó Nhật Shiba

Giống chó Nhật Bản Shiba phù hợp hơn với môi trường ôn đới. Điều kiện môi trường sống mát mẻ và thông thoáng. Cộng hưởng cùng với những đặc tính vốn có, nơi ở của Shiba phải thật sạch sẽ và không nên bí bách.

Nuôi chó Shiba

Hơn nữa, những chú Shiba cũng khá là hiếu động, vậy nên khu vực chăm sóc Shiba cần đảm bảo được yếu tố sân vườn lớn để chúng vận động và chạy nhảy. Đối với thức ăn cần cung cấp đầy đủ các dưỡng chất như Protein, chất béo … để Shiba có thể phát triển được khỏe mạnh và toàn diện nhất.

Giá bán chó Shiba

Là một giống chó được ưa chuộng không chỉ Nhật Bản mà còn cả ở Việt Nam. Sẽ không khó hiểu nếu bạn phải bỏ một khoản tiền không hề nhỏ để sở hữu một em Shiba như vậy ở trong nhà.

Tại thị trường Việt Nam, một chú chó thuần chủng Shiba thường sẽ có giá dao động từ 20 cho đến 30 triệu đồng.

Giá bán chó Shiba Inu

Với những chú Shiba có ngoại hình không được đẹp hoặc nhân giống thì thường có giá khoảng từ 15 cho đến 20 triệu đồng. Một số những chú chó Shiba nhập khẩu châu Âu thường sẽ không có giá dưới 2000$.

2. Chó Akita

Akita là một giống chó có kích thước khá lớn, đồng thời Akita cũng trở thành biểu tượng của giống chó Hoàng Gia Nhật. Nguồn gốc của chó Akita đến từ hòn đảo Honshu của vùng đất Akita. Đặc điểm chung thân hình của chó Akita là sự chắc chắn, khỏe mạnh và đặc biệt bơi rất giỏi.

Chó Akita thường có tuổi thọ trung bình từ khoảng 10 đến 12 năm

Akita là giống chó rất ngoan ngoãn, thông minh lại rất dễ dạy bảo. Tuy nhiên cũng sẽ có những lúc Akita khá bướng bỉnh nếu bạn không dạy dỗ chúng thật kĩ ngay từ khi còn nhỏ.

Cũng như Shiba, Akita inu rất trung thành và khôn. Riêng đối với những con chó hoặc những con vật khác thì Akita có phần khá hung dữ, một phần của điều này cũng do nguồn gốc thuần chủng giống chó săn.

Môi trường sống của Akita

Chó akita nuôi khá dễ

Akita có thể sống trong bất cứ môi trường căn hộ nào của các gia đình tại Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, khi nuôi dưỡng chúng bạn cũng nên thường xuyên dẫn chúng đi dạo để được vận động. Môi trường phù hợp nhất với những chú Akita chính là khuôn viên sân vườn rộng rãi.

3. Giống chó Hokkaido

Hokkaido là một giống chó Nhật có kích thước trung bình với mức trọng lượng trong khoảng từ 20 đến 30kg. Chiều cao của Hokkaido sẽ dao động từ 25 cho đến 54 cm. Tại Nhật Bản, Hokkaido được biết đến là giống chó săn dũng mãnh vô cùng tuyệt vời. Chúng cũng hết sức đáng yêu và thân thiện nếu trở thành vật nuôi trong gia đình.

Giống chó Hokkaido Nhật Bản

Hokkaido vốn có nguồn gốc là chó săn thuộc bộ tộc Ainu của tỉnh Hokkaido. Đây cũng là nguồn gốc xuất thân tên gọi của những chú chó đặc biệt này. Những chú Hokkaido đều vô cùng thông minh và gan dạ. Hokkaido không đơn thuần chỉ là một chú thợ săn dũng mãnh mà còn là một trợ thủ đắc lực trên những trang trại.

Hình dung chung về ngoại hình của chó Hokkaido có khuôn mặt nhỏ và đôi tai tam giác dựng đứng. Giống chó Hokkaido sở hữu cho riêng mình một bộ lông dày và thường có vằn vện, đen hoặc vàng nâu. Nhiệm vụ mà chúng thường đảm nhiệm là canh phòng, kéo xe hoặc làm những chú chó săn, …

Cách chăm sóc những chú Hokkaido

Hokkaido cần được chải lông mỗi ngày để bộ lông vào nếp và trông gọn gàng hơn.

Thường xuyên cho chúng được vận động và tập thể dục để có thể duy trì được sự nhanh nhẹn và vóc dáng săn chắc của mình.

4. Chó Kaiken Nhật Bản

Kai-ken cũng nằm trong danh sách những giống chó Nhật rất được ưa chuộng tại Việt Nam. Xuất thân của Kaiken đến từ vùng Yamanashi. Kaiken có vẻ ngoài khá hung dữ pha lẫn một chút hoang dã.

Với màu lông đen tuyền cùng với những vết vằn vện trên thân khiến chúng được biết đến với một cái tên khác là Chó hổ.

Kai-ken nổi bật với bộ lông vằn vện

Kaiken là một trong những giống chó rất thông minh của Nhật Bản. Với một thân hình nhanh nhẹn và linh hoạt, loài chó này hội tụ đầy đủ những đặc điểm để trở thành một chú chó săn chuyên nghiệp.

Điểm đặc biệt của chó Nhật Kaiken

Kaiken sở hữu một bộ lông với những hoa văn vằn vện khá đẹp mắt.

Thân hình rất săn chắc

Kaiken đã được chỉ định với danh hiệu Di sản Thiên Nhiên được trao tặng vào năm 1934.

5. Giống chó Shikoku

Có kích thước lớn hơn cả giống chó Shiba chính là Shikoku. Là một giống chó Nhật mang đặc trưng và dáng dấp của một chú chó sói đến từ vùng Shikoku của xứ sở hoa anh đào. Nhờ những đặc tính như: sự trung thành, luôn luôn thận trọng và dũng cảm mà Shikoku luôn là sự lựa chọn hàng đầu trong quá trình lựa chọn chó canh gác.

Ngoại hình của giống chó Shikoku khá giống các loại chó cỏ Việt Nam

Không cầu kỳ và hoa mỹ, Shikoku sở hữu một thân hình săn chắc và mạnh mẽ. Thần thái toát lên được vẻ hoang dã của một chú chó oai hùng. Mỗi bước đi của chúng đều nói lên được sự nhanh nhẹn và sự yêu thích trong vận động của mình.

Để có thể nuôi dưỡng được một chú chó Shikoku thì chủ nhân của nó hẳn phải là một người rất chăm chỉ vận động.

6. Chó Nhật Bản – Kishu

Sau một loạt những chú chó có kích thước lớn thì nằm trong danh sách giống chó Nhật được yêu thích tại Việt Nam sẽ có tên của Kishu.

Ai có thể cưỡng lại sự đáng yêu của Kishu Inu?

Một chú chó trưởng thành sẽ có chiều cao khoảng 55cm với trọng lượng trung bình là 25kg. Kishu có tính cách khá hiếu động lại ưa chạy nhảy và là một giống chó rất thích hợp trong săn bắt.

7. Chó Kawakami

Giống chó Nhật đẹp Kawakami

Được xem là “‘Báu vật của quốc gia”, giống chó Kawakami là một giống chó khá hiếm và được trao tặng danh hiệu này vào năm 1921. Kawakami là kết quả của sự kết hợp giữa chó sói rừng và chó nhà. Sự lai tạo này đã mang lại một giống chó có sự mạnh mẽ nhưng cũng vô cùng đáng yêu.

8. Chó Nhật lông xù – Japanese Chin

Những chú chó Nhật Bản lông xù nhỏ nhắn xinh xắn luôn là sự lựa chọn ưu tiên hàng đầu của những gia đình thích nuôi chó cảnh tại Việt Nam. Chó Nhật lông xù còn được bàn bé trên thế giới gọi bằng cái tên Japanese Chin.

Ngoại hình khá kiêu sa

Về nguồn gốc xuất thân của chúng, có khá nhiều những tài liệu lịch sử viết rằng, giống chó này xuất hiện tại Nhật Bản lần đầu tiên vào năm 732 TCN. Và đây là món qu�� mà chính phủ Triều Tiên đã trao tặng cho Nhật Bản nhằm thể hiện sự gắn kết và tình hữu nghị của hai đất nước.

Ngoại hình chó Nhật lông xù

Japanese Chin là một giống chó có thân hình và vẻ ngoài kiêu sa và sang trọng. Đây cũng là lý do khiến chúng được đa số giới thượng lưu vô cùng yêu thích. Đây cũng là lý do mà có rất nhiều những giống chó lông xù khác được lai tạo ra với những phiên bản hoàn hảo nhất.

Nhìn tổng quan, chúng có thân hình nhỏ nhắn và khá dễ thương. Kích thước trung bình của một chú chó trưởng thành chỉ nằm trong khoảng từ 18 đến 28cm.

Trọng lượng rơi vào khoảng 7kg. Đây là kích cỡ của một chú chó trưởng thành lớn nhất. Thậm chí có những chú chó lông xù Nhật rất nhỏ con với trọng lượng từ 1.5kg đến 3kg và kích thước khoảng dưới 15cm.

Chúng sở hữu một cái đầu lớn, đôi mắt to tròn và cái mõm rộng ngắn. Japanese Chin có một bộ lông đồ sộ vừa dày và vừa dài. Màu lông thuần chủng về giống chó lông xù là đen trắng hoặc nâu trắng. Cũng có một số ít những chú chó lông xù sở hữu bộ lông trắng muốt, tuy nhiên chúng lại khá hiếm gặp.

Tính cách

Như đã nói ban đầu, đây là một giống chó kiêu sa quý tộc. Điều này cũng được thể hiện khá rõ ràng ở tính cách của chúng. Đặc điểm thường thấy là sự mạnh mẽ và độc lập, đôi khi chúng cũng thật cứng đầu và đanh đá. Nhưng nếu bạn có khả năng huấn luyện thì chúng sẽ là những chú chó siêu cấp dễ thương và tinh nghịch đấy.

Vì có bộ lông dài và dày lại có một chút đỏng đảnh tiểu thư, chó lông xù Nhật Bản thích nhất là được người khác chải chuốt cho bộ lông của mình. Một điểm đáng lưu ý là chúng ghét sự ồn ào và rất ít khi vận động. Chúng hoàn toàn phù hợp với chủ nhân cũng lười vận động như vậy đấy.

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Các giống chó Nhật đẹp tại thị trường Việt Nam ngày nay rất được ưa chuộng, đặc biệt là những giống chó nuôi làm cảnh. Trên đây là thông tin cơ bản về 8 giống chó của xứ hoa anh đào được ưa chuộng nhất tại Việt Nam. Còn bạn thì sao, bạn yêu thích giống chó nào?

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Tập hợp danh sách của 7 loại giống chó Nhật mà ai cũng muốn có một em

Chó thuần của Nhật Bản là giống chó “Spitz”, thuộc vào một trong những loại cổ xưa nhất trên thế giới, với đặc điểm dễ nhận biết là lông dài, trắng hoặc một phần trắng, tai và mõm nhọn, phần đuôi thì hầu hết là cuộn trên lưng. Tại Nhật, tùy vào khu vực sinh ra mà chúng có tên khác nhau như Hokkaido-inu là loài chó đến từ Hokkaido, Shikoku-inu thì là từ Shikoku. Dưới đây là 7 giống chó nổi tiếng nhất Nhật Bản mà chỉ cần nhắc đến thôi cũng lập tức khiến bạn nhất định phải nuôi được một em.

Tập hợp danh sách của 7 loại giống chó Nhật mà ai cũng muốn có một em

1. Chó Shiba – Shiba-inu 柴犬

Shiba-inu được xem là quốc quyển của Nhật Bản, với bản tính rất mạnh dạn, lanh lợi và dũng cảm, đây là giống chó nổi tiếng của Nhật Bản.

Chó Shiba là một trong những loài chó sở hữu cho mình một tấm hình khá nhỏ nhắn, lớp lông dày đôi tay dài cùng với đó là một cái đuôi hình lưỡi liềm, khuôn mặt đẹp và mỏng những lại tỏ ra vô cùng hạnh phúc đã khiến cho nhiều người cảm thấy rất thích thú với giống chó đặc biệt này.

Shiba là một trong những loài chó có cá tính cực kỳ mạnh mẽ do đó, đây là loài chó không thích hợp để nuôi dưỡng nếu bạn không có thời gian để chăm sóc và huấn luyện. Về cơ bản, đây là loại chó được đánh giá là cực kỳ trung thành, nổi tiếng sự sạch sẽ và khó tính.

Tuổi thọ chó Shiba như thế nào?

Giống chó Shiba Inu trưởng thành to nhất chỉ nặng tầm 15kg và cao 40 cm, với tuổi thọ trung bình từ 12 – 15 năm. Nếu cho chó Shiba tập thể dục thường xuyên, đi bộ mỗi ngày sẽ giúp cho giống chó này sống lâu và khỏe mạnh.

Shiba lâu đời nhất là “Pusuke”- chú chó già nhất qua đời ở tuổi 26.

Cách chăm sóc chó Shiba

Chó Shiba thích hợp sống trong môi trường ôn đới, khí hậu mát mẻ, bạn nên chuẩn bị chỗ ở của chó cần được thông thoáng, sạch sẽ.

Chó Shiba rất hiếu động nên bạn cần đảm bảo khu vực sống lớn để chó được vận động, chạy nhảy. Chó rất dễ nuôi nên bạn cần đảm bảo thức ăn đầy đủ các chất béo, protein,… để chúng sẽ phát triển một cách toàn diện.

Shiba inu được mệnh danh là giống chó có gương mặt hạnh phúc nhất thế giới.

Giá bán chó Shiba tại Việt Nam

Đây là một trong những loài chó cực kỳ quý hiếm ở tại Nhật Bản, do đó để sở hữu chú chó này bạn cũng mất một khoản không nhỏ. Tại Việt Nam đây là một trong những loài chó khó nhân giống nhất, nếu mua chó Shiba ở tại Việt nam thì chủ yếu là chó nhân giống theo hình thức tự phát, với mức giá là vô cùng đắt đỏ dao động từ khoảng 20 đến 30 triệu.

Còn đối với những chú chó có ngoại hình không đẹp thì giá khoảng tầm 15 đến 20 triệu. Nếu bạn muốn mua những chú chó Shiba thuần chủng bạn có thể mua chó nhập khẩu như: chó Shiba được nhập khẩu tại Thái Lan rơi vào khoảng từ 40 cho đến 45 triệu, chó Shiba được nhập khẩu từ châu Âu thì không dưới 2.000 đô.

2. Chó Akita – Akita-inu 秋田犬

Là giống chó thuần lớn nhất Nhật Bản, lúc trưởng thành có thể cao đến 65cm và nặng hơn 55kg. Giống chó Nhật này vô cùng mạnh mẽ và hoạt bát, nhưng cũng khá cứng đầu. Thế nhưng nếu được dạy dỗ và yêu thương thật sự thì Akita sẽ trở thành người bạn trung thành hiếm có. Akita có 2 loại: lông ngắn và lông dài. Màu lông thường thấy là đỏ, nâu đốm, nâu vàng hoặc trắng.

Tuổi thọ giống chó Akita: từ 10 – 12 năm

Kích thước:

Chó đực: 67 cm

Chó cái: 61 cm

Trọng lượng:

Chó đực: 32 – 39 kg

Chó cái: 25 – 35 kg

Môi trường sống của giống chó Akita Inu

Giống chó Akita Inu có thể sống trong môi trường căn hộ tại Việt Nam. Tuy nhiên, vẫn phải đượ vận động nhẹ thường xuyên, đây là giống chó thích hợp nhất với nhà có sân vườn rộng.

Giá bán chó Akita tại Việt Nam đắt không?

Theo khảo sát của chúng tôi, giá bán chó Akita tại Việt Nam khá đắt, tùy thuộc vào xuất xứ và tiêu chuẩn ngoại hình mà có mức giá khác nhau như:

Giá bán Akita nhập khẩu phổ biến ở mức từ 35 – 90 triệu đồng/bé.

Giá bán chó akita có bố mẹ nhập khẩu dao động từ 15-25 triệu đồng/bé.

Giá bán chó akita có bố mẹ sinh sản trong nước từ 10-20 triệu/bé.

Chọn mua chó Akita như thế nào?

Để chọn được chú chó Akita chuẩn bạn cần quan tâm những đặc điểm sau:

Chó Akita có khung xương lớn và nặng, phần lưng thẳng và hơi dài hơn một chút so với chiều cao

Cổ đầy đặn, ngực sâu, dáng đi nhẹ nhàng và nhanh nhẹn, bàn chân tròn và có màng chân

Khuôn mặt đầy đặn, mũi rộng và thon, lỗ mũi to có màu đen

Đôi mắt khá nhỏ, màu mắt càng tối càng tốt

Đôi tai có hình tam giác tương đối nhỏ và dày, dựng thẳng và hướng về phía trước

Chiếc đuôi luôn vểnh cao và cuộn tròn ở trên lưng

Màu lông thuần chủng là màu đỏ nâu, màu hạt vừng, màu vằn vện và màu trắng

3. Hokkaido-ken 北海道犬

Đây là giống chó đặc trưng của vùng đất Hokkaido lạnh giá, chúng thuộc loài chó tầm trung với chiều cao 50 cm và nặng cỡ 30 kg khi trưởng thành. Đặc điểm lông dày, lưỡi đốm, ngoan và dễ dạy. Chó Hokkaido còn có tên gọi là Ainu vì ngày xưa từng được bộ tộc Ainu thuần hóa để làm chó săn, dám tấn công cả gấu trong trường hợp bức ép hoặc để bảo vệ chủ.

Chăm sóc:

Chải lông cho chó mỗi ngày để lông chúng được gọn gàng.

Thường xuyên cho chó vận động để duy trì vóc dáng cũng như sự nhanh nhẹn của nó.

4. Kai-ken 甲斐犬 hay Tora-inu

Kaiken là giống chó cỡ trung bình có xuất xứ từ tỉnh Yamanashi, hung dữ và có vẻ hoang dã, với màu lông đen tuyền và có vằn, nên còn được gọi là Tora-inu (chó hổ). Đây là loại chó rất thông minh, nhanh nhẹn, hội tụ đầy đủ phẩm chất của chó săn và chó cảnh vệ, rất trung thành.

Đặc trưng của chó Kaiken

Bộ lông vện đẹp mắt

Thân hình săn chắc

Được chỉ định là Di sản Thiên Nhiên vào năm 1934

5. Shikoku-inu 四国犬

Giống chó lớn hơn Shiba, chó Shikoku mang dang dấp chó sói đến từ vùng Shikoku của Nhật Bản. Chó Shikoku cực kì trung thành, cẩn trọng, dũng cảm chuyên làm chó canh gác.

Chó Shikoku có vóc dáng giản dị, hoang dã và mạnh mẽ, dáng đi nhẹ nhàng, nhanh nhẹn, ưa hoạt động, thích chạy nên sẽ không thích hợp dành cho những người chủ lười hoạt động.

6. Kishu-inu 紀州犬

Chó Kishi có đặc điểm lông trắng, dày, và cực kì trung thành với chủ. Kích cỡ của chó khi trưởng thành cao tầm 55cm và nặng 25kg, với tính cách hiếu động và ham chạy nhảy, đây là giống chó săn nổi tiếng và thích săn bắt mồi.

7. Kawakami

Được xem như loài chó hiếm nhất Nhật Bản hiện nay vì chỉ còn khoảng 80 cá thể thuần chủng. Là sự kết hợp giữa sói rừng và chó nhà (thường là Shiba), nhằm tạo ra giống chó mạnh mẽ nhưng đáng yêu và dễ thuần hóa. Cái tên Kawakami được đặt theo một ngôi làng từng bị cô lập bởi núi cao ở Nagano.

Giống chó Kawakami vốn được xem là “Báu vật sống quốc gia” từ năm 1921, sau đó “mất danh hiệu” vì dòng máu thuần sói yếu dần. cho đến năm 1982, Kawakami tiếp tục giữ danh hiệu này nhờ nỗ lực của Hiệp hội bảo tồn.

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