"Thank you Hitomi... you have no idea how much that means to me." He never once turned to look at her while he spoke, but the affectionate nature of his voice conveyed the way that he felt just the same. He wasn't exactly sure if his tutor's idea of a better day would end up coming to pass, but all he could do was hope. Ryou only turned around for a moment to peek over his shoulder when someone knocked at the door. The prince almost made a move to answer it himself, yet Hitomi quickly took care of things. Turning to look back out the window he listened closely to the conversation that was going on between his tutor and the servant, and found himself curious at the fact that a messenger had come to speak to Hitomi directly. What made it unusual in Ryou's eyes was that it was a message for Hitomi that was important enough to interrupt his time with her. For a moment he began to wonder if maybe he should try to find out just who it was from and what this message was about... Ryou's cat like curiosity was certainly starting to get the best of him at that moment. He waited until Hitomi had sorted the matter out for herself and turned to speak to him before looking over his shoulder curiously as he spoke, "Do not worry yourself over such matters... I am more interested in exactly who and what this all about?"<br/><br/>Playfully laughing the young man looked over at his tutor as he waited for her to answer, "Unless it is something personal I do hope you don't plan on keeping me in the dark about it. It has been a very long time since a servant dared to interrupt your time with me in order to bring you a message." Turning back to look out the window the prince smiled softly at the idea of what Hitomi might actually do to the poor servant girl, not that Ryou relished the idea of anyone needlessly getting in trouble over him, "Just make sure that whatever you do Hitomi, that you don't kill the messenger." He couldn't help, but laugh at his own joke as he watched the full moon slowly make it's way into the sky. Before Hitomi left the prince turned around and walked over to the women, and gave her a gentle hug before stepping back, "I think that could be easily arranged, though I would prefer if maybe we could turn it into a quite breakfast in the garden. The sounds of the birds waking up in the morning has always been something that brought me peace." He waited for her response before returning his spot by the window, it was indeed one of the better views in palace if someone wanted to watch the moon rise into the night sky.<br/><br/>It wasn't the moon though that held Ryou's attention on this night, but instead the sight of a fox scampering across the garden's. Not just any fox at that, but a solid white creature whose fur seemed to glisten in the moon light. The sight of which the prince found to be slightly ironic given the fact that they where supposed to be a sign of good fortune. After everything that had happened over the past few days he wished that maybe the sight of this creature had arrived a lot sooner, and maybe his brother would still be alive. Kurosawa began to wonder for a moment who exactly had let it into the palace grounds, or exactly what hole in the wall it had crawled through, not that he was complaining. It was a sight that he found to be a pleasant one, up until the moment that the creature disappeared into the bushes, and for just a second out of the prince's mind. Then all at once, what had been a sight which had brought peace to the young man was one of alarm, when he noticed that the fox wasn't the only creature walking through the garden that night. It was only second's after he noticed the paper lantern that he saw who exactly it was that was carrying it... Hitomi. He tried to call out to her, but realized that she was out of ear shot, and doing so might only spook the wild animal he hoped she would avoid.<br/><br/>The prince didn't hesitate to crawl right out the window and onto the walkway that surrounded the large gardens, not caring if anyone saw him at that moment. Ryou only cared about making sure that Hitomi was alright, and he also had to figure out the strange reason that she would have for wondering around the shrubs of the garden in the middle of the night. Following the trail that his tutor had taken the prince did everything that he could in order to move as slowly as possible, knowing that even he himself could end up making the situation worse if he was not careful and the creature attacked him. Kurosawa knew that he could take care of himself, and hoped that Hitomi wouldn't try anything that might end up getting her hurt if he had to defend himself. He called out to her in a very soft whispered as he began to go around the shrubs that the woman had disappeared into, "Hitomi... Hitomi where did you go. Please be careful there is a wild fox out here somewhere... Hitomi...?" He wasn't exactly sure what he would find, but he did hope that he would find that his tutor was ok.