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Shou's Birthday Surprise! (part 3)

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"Shou's Birthday Surprise!" A Future Reunion side story.
Part 3

I’m surprised no one (or at least, not many people?) has made a fanwork in which one of the Tsukino girls actually get turned into a rabbit via magic. I thought it was a joke too good to miss…so I made this. ^^;

Now for some background info, Inari is one of many deities, or “kami” in Japanese, in the Shinto pantheon, and is traditionally associated with rice and foxes (foxes hunt the mice that eat the rice), but is also worshiped as a deity who helps bring success. When I was in Japan last year my friends and I went to the Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto, and that visit inspired this story. As for why a fox guardian like Akanoha can “grant” Chibi-Usa’s wish, in Shintoism foxes are messengers of Inari, and sometimes Inari themselves are represented as a fox (Inari also doesn’t seem to have a fixed gender, and has been depicted as male or female, as well as in animal forms), so I presume they also have some power to grant wishes to worshipers if it's within their power. Foxes are known for being tricksters in East Asian folklore, and they are adept at disguising themselves as humans. As for why Chibs uses “Oinari” in her prayer, that’s because in Japanese the “O” prefix before a name/title denotes respect for someone, so it’s a very polite way of addressing a deity.

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Don't you just hate it when the do the old switcheroo? XD Nice job.