Kitsune Maruda

Kitsune Maruda was originally conceived as a distaff counterpart to Fox Mulder.

## Appearance

Kitsune is a rather ordinary looking girl except for the cameras and tape recorder she always carries around with her.

## Personality

A conspiracy theorist, Kitsune is constantly assuming a sinister motive. Nonetheless, she has brilliant deductive skills its just that her obsession with obtaining evidence of alien life prevents her from realizing the fantastic elements right beside her. For example she is shown to be aware of the history of the Sailor Senshi and the Sukeban Deka. In her eyes she is rightly suspicious of people and companies, and even her fellow students and teachers are not above investigation.

## History

Kitsune Maruda is half Japanese on her fathers side and half American on her mothers side. As such she has spent a good part of her life in America and is fluent in both Japanese and English. Her parents are currently no longer together, but remain amiable to each other. She was transferred to Furinkan due to her conspiracy theorist antics getting out of hand. Specifically she was freaking out most the student population with theories about the lunch lady doing secret government experiments on the students by spiking the food.

Kitsune is introduced giving Makoto the run down on her fellow students since she missed the first day. Before leaving she gave Makoto a warning not to trust anyone. She was apart of the crowd watching the fight between Ukyo and Kasumi, though much to her frustration it didn’t involve aliens, which is why she latched onto Ryoga who had wondered into the middle of the fight. She believed that his family’s poor sense of direction, durability and strength were the result of an alien experiment. She even gave him a list of people who could test her theory.

Kitsune was interrupted from trying to convince Gosunkugi that Frost was a Chinese Vampire by Makoto who pointed out that Frost had been out during the day. This did nothing dissuade Kitsune that pointed out that they are many ways around that problem. She even showed her the latest issue of the Lone Gunman which had an article detailing signs of vampirism. Makoto was more interested in the article on the Sailor Senshi.

Kitsune didn’t buy into the Silver Millennium or Crystal Tokyo, but instead believed that the Senshi were a secret government group created to hunt down aliens on Earth. When Saki Asamiya transferred to Furinkan High School was quick to introduce herself as she want to know if her hair was natural, suspecting that she was related to Shampoo. She also revealed that her fellow students that Shampoo was engaged to Kanade. Seeing that Kitsune seemed to be in the know of things around there Saki decided to sit down and talk with her. Kitsune glad to have an avid listener, led Saki and Sampei off.

When Kasumi’s students were assigned dorm rooms due to Yotogi’s antics Kitsune was happy that she was assigned Saki as a roommate, as she suspected she was either an informant or being groomed for a high ranking position in the Yakusa. She also didn’t waste any time trying to interrogate Ranko on what she knew about Kasumi, but was just as quickly stopped by Akane before she could. While eavesdropping Saki’s conversation with Sakura Kitsune overheard her asking about Shadowloo so confronted her wanting to know what was going on.

After trying to once again convince her that she wasn’t Yakuza to no avail Saki asked Kitsune if she had any theories. Kitsune went into detail about how the Illuminati are currently in control of Shadowloo, even showing Saki her great board of conspiracy. Saki quickly regretted her actions when Kitsune started talking about the Girl Scouts. A frustrated Kitsune tried to get Saki to believe her, however since she had no other leads Saki had Sampai look into Hotel La Bac which Kitsune believed they might be keeping Kasumi.

Kitsune was disappointed that Sampai wasn’t able to find anything. However the fact that everything was in order made Saki suspicious, even more so when told that there weren’t any interested buyers. With that Saki, Sampai, and a triumphant Kitsune went to take a closer look. While Kitsune was ready to rush in, but Saki wasn’t willing to break in, both because it was illegal as well as the fact that Shadow and Shadow Lady had taken out the best fighters in the district. So after interviews the various business around the hotel to see if anyone saw anything suspicious. Kitsune opted to stay claiming that she needed to get some things she left behind. This prompted Saki to warn her not to go into that hotel.

She was on the rooftop of a building near the La Bac, various cameras and binoculars setup around her when Saki called her. She lied that she was at the dorms, but Saki didn’t believe a word of it and asked her if she had seen a black van. Looking over her document Kitsune confirmed that she did. Saki told her to stay there and keep a look out with out telling her why. She also warned her not to go in there or she’d break her legs.

She was soon joined by nearly the entire class who were called by Sampai to meet there. When Saki and Chun Li arrived she explained that she believed that Kasumi, Usagi, and Shampoo were in there. Ranma was initially skeptical, especially when Kitsune started talking about the Illuminati, before Saki shut her up; but she asked them to just trust her. She went on to tell them the place was most likely booby trapped in addition to Shadow and Shadow Lady being in there, but was caught off guard when Ranma asked her if she had a plan.

Luckily Kitsune somehow got the buildings blueprints allowing them to map out a route. It turns out that the building protected by an anti magic field that also effected chi, while Saki had keys that block the effect they would still need to take out the power source.  The group divided into two; while most would spread out above to search Genma Akane, Shin, Claigin, Frost, Mint, Lime and Kodachi would search the floors below and take out the power.

After everyone was recued and taken to the hospital Kitsune called her uncle to inform him, how to get past the security system of an Illuminati strong hold. She was telling her worried uncle that she hadn’t gone in the building herself, by the time Saki arrived back at the dorm having finally finished her debriefing. Kitsune followed her to her room to interrogate her on which branch of the police she worked for, but Saki just evaded her by saying that after everything that had happened, she wasn’t sure if she still had a job. This caused Kitsune to accuse her of working with the Illinati and took her joke that the whole battle was a scheme to save on demolition fees at face value much to Saki’s annoyance. Embarrassed at being briefly fooled Kitsune had left her alone to get some sleep.

After learning about Frost’s graduation ceremony planned on sneaking in to the San Cheng Huang to see it. She recruited Hikaru Gosunkugi to document things. Saki found out what she planned doing and insisted on coming to keep her out of trouble. The group were immediately discovered. Kitsune tried to claim she was an attending mage named Mirdle Silverfire, but she was the only one who actually put on a costume. Kasumi assured her that none of this was necessary and she could have just asked. With renewed energy she marched inside.

She was happy to see Kogane who she also invited as it met they could get some real answers. She however was more worried by how freaked out Gosunkugi was at her presence. Kitsune slapped him and told him to pull it together. Wondering how she knew about Kogane she told him how Makoto had asked her to find out details about her past. After Saki and Sampai rejoined the group Kitsune revealed the reason they were there. It wasn’t to find evidence of magic, but something much bigger and more important. "Elvis impersonators are actually Bigfoot."

While Kitsune stood up straight and nodded self assuredly everyone else stopped cold at this revelation. She had Sampai check if any recent Elvis music had been played on the Karaoke machines, Saki take cover, and Kogane and Gosunkugi, prowl the area. With that she rushed off to interview people.

Later Kitsune was with Sampai when he learned of his marriage interview so followed him when he went to ask Saki to sabotage it. This allowed her to learn about Saki’s relationship with Guan Li, her past as well as the fact that she was an undercover detective. This revelation caused her to do a little happy dance when she agreed when Saki agreed to give her the full details.

The school day was coming to a close and with it Kitsune was at her locker, switching out her supplies in preparation for heading home when suddenly Saki appeared demanding to know if she knew. A confused Kitsune was forced to calm Saki down so that she could explain what was going on. Saki ended up going with Sampai, Kitsune congratulated her on getting a chance to see her sister, but Saki didn’t see it as a good thing. She never wanted her sister to meet the delinquent she had become.

After another moment of confusion Kitsune burst out laughing. Seeing Saki glaring at her she explained that she was worried over nothing. It obvious that Saki didn’t go in the meeting with some new tattoos and smoking a cigarette, and trying to pretend to be some super cultured noble woman was equally as ludicrous. It was best for her sister to see the real her right away and not get into some web of delusions. Hanging her head Saki admitted that Kitsune was right, but there was still the matter of their parents.

That Kitsune really couldn’t answer while she felt that it was best to get out in the open right away, it was ultimately up to Saki to decide. Kitsune started to wonder why the organization she worked for didn’t know about her sister. Saki realized that Kitsune was right it was too convenient for them not to know. Excusing herself she told Kitsune that she needed to go talk to a certain someone, before marching off.

Kitsune was amongst the students talking to Remi Mizuchi when she was transferred to Furinkan High School. Unlike the others, though she was the only one who saw through Remi’s façade of niceness. However Kitsune wasn’t prepared for just how psychotic Remi was when Saki pulled her aside and told her about their past. After being told how she had been mysteriously set free from prison Kitsune wondered if it was payback for the whole hotel La Bac thing. She wondered if they should warn the other students, but Saki was against it. Legally Remi was in the clear so if they started bad mouthing her it could get them in hot water.

Changing the subject Saki told her about an attack that it sent shock waves through practically everything which nobody had any information about. Kitsune theorized that it must have been on the magical side of things as they are far more cagey than even the most underground of organized crime types, and even the Illuminati. Kitsune asked Saki wanted her to investigate, but she shut that thought down quick not wanting her to put herself in danger.

## Abilities

While Kitsune has been trained in basic self defense, by her own admission she wouldn’t last 5 seconds against your average Nerima citizen let alone the super powered martial artist at her school. On the other hand, she's proven to be a highly talented detective, either in spite of her paranoia or even perhaps because of it. She’s also really good at talking her way out of trouble.