Hanzo's Tale: A Tale Of Aneko

This is the tale about Hanzo {a weary traveler} and a kitsune {A fox demon} named Aneko. The story begins in what is now known as modern-day Tokyo. At this point in time it was a small fishing town called Edo {which, in turn, would probably look like this.}

As Hanzo walks into the town he hears tales of a forest not paying attention he didn’t catch the name of it. He continued to walk until he reaches the merchant, then the merchant spots him “Why hello weary traveler! What can I help you with?”

“Well you can start by handing me some arrows,” Hanzo replied. With this being said the Merchant responded with “Well sutorenjā do you have five yen?” {yen is the currency of Japan}. Hanzo sighs then shakes his head, “I’m sorry yūjin but I don’t” then

There was no response. After this had occurred Hanzo decided to go and look for this child, although he planned to stay near the entrance so he wouldn’t get lost. But at last the inevitable happened, he ended up walking for hours so by the time he realized he was it had turned to night. Hanzo decided to sit down and eat the snack he packed. As he was eating Hanzo felt like he was being watched, this was supported by the cracking of twigs, snap! Hanzo got startled by the noise and reached for his bow once he had his bow secured and an arrow is drawn he asked: “who’s there?” a sweet voice replied “Oh sorry to startle you!” a woman, probably in her twenties. Hanzo calms down and lets the tension in his bow go before putting the arrow back. He asks “why are you out here at this time? Who are you?” the woman snickers “I’m Aneko! I live in this forest!”. Hanzo finds this strange since no one should live here, this is when Aneko spoke again “You look lonely, are you lonely?” Hanzo asked “Why do you need to know? Well if you need to know I’m hunting a kitsune.” Aneko smirked then said, “Oh really?” Hanzo realizes that something isn't right, they reason he notices this is because of Aneko’s body language, with this he gets a feeling of discomfort and reaches for his bow. Not watching Aneko pull something from her pocket; it was a fox mask but not just any fox mask it was a kitsune mask. When he turns back around he gets startled by this, he starts to nock his daikyu but Aneko has disappeared. He thinks to himself where did she go? He hears twigs snap behind him, he turns around quickly and draws the bow to its full extent. “You must be the kitsune, am I correct?” Hanzo inquires. With a slight devilish tone, Aneko responds with “Oh, so you finally figured