He would have been surprised if she could guess his question just from that, but he was curious as to why they had left their new home on Ve'len to return to the Faerie plane. He goofed while he was with Inari, his responses to the question of who he was ranging from the ridiculous to the fairly plausible, sowing chaos and confusion for the fun of it. His favorite answer was a six part where he started as master to Inari, demoted to boy toy, and then admitted he was the Kyuubi, though at that point none of the women were listening to him. Still it was amusing, at least for him.