Akiko drifted around the market, apparently scanning the items on the various stalls with interest but actually straining her senses as best she could without attracting unwanted attention, trying to find the other kitsune she was now sure was in the area. As she was keeping most of her attention on the other people in the area, she soon spotted a small boy running back and forth amongst the crowd. There was a flash of light from the object he carried and she realised it was a mirror. He was rather oddly running to various people among the crowd and thrusting the mirror at them; one irritated young man swatted an arm at him and the boy ducked away with a nimbleness that suggested he was used to this sort of reaction. 

For a moment the mirror unnerved her - anyone looking into the glass would see her true fox form rather than the human form she was wearing now. Her hand went up to her head; anyone looking would think she was a vain woman concerned that her hairstyle hadn't been disarrayed, but in truth she was reassuring herself the reed she'd tucked in place behind one ear earlier was still there. Reassured, she glanced again at the boy. Maybe he was showing the mirror to random people by coincidence, but it seemed more likely he'd be instructed to do it - by another kitsune or by a genuinely holy priest who could see through her illusions?

For a moment she considering retreating, but then she looked at the stalls again and an idea came to mind. She pressed her lips together to avoid a genuinely vulpine grin and settled her expression of a demure young lady enjoying a visit to the market on her face. She drifted over to a  stall piled with fruits and gave the stallholder a dazzling smile. "Hello; could I have a couple of your peaches please?" She allowed the most delicate of blushes to colour her cheeks. "It may seem greedy, but they look so delicious I can't resist."

He melted under her kitsune charm and made a great show of selecting the largest and ripest peaches on his stall. She treated him to another smile and tucked one peach away for later. Keeping track of the boy with the mirror out of the corner of her eye, she took a bite of the first peach, licking the juice from her lips before dropping the pulpy remains of the other half on the ground, using another small illusion to cover both the move and the gooey remains on the ground. 

She half turned away as she saw the boy head towards her, trotting up eagerly with his mirror extended. His foot came down on the remains of the peach and a hilarious look of surprise crossed his face as his foot skidded out from underneath him and he executed a perfect pratfall smack onto his back, the mirror tumbling out of his grasp. Even better, one of his flailing limbs caught the fruit stall and sent the poor stallholder's other peaches splattering on the ground.

"Oh!" Akiko gave a gasp of dismayed surprise, though in truth her shoulders were shaking with silent laughter as she 'accidentally' brought her foot down hard on the wretched mirror, hearing the glass crack into a hundred fragments and subtly nudged it so it was buried under the ruined peaches. In the chaos of the stallholder howling curses at the unfortunate boy who was trying to brush the remains of peaches off himself and flee and the other people who were either laughing or merely staring in confusion it was a simple matter to melt away unnoticed.

She retreated to one of the quiet side streets, little more than an alleyway, and slowly ate the second peach, allowing a small smile to play around her mouth as she waited. She was sure now that it had to be the other kitsune who had sent the boy - it was the sort of trick they delighted in playing. She wondered if he or she would make themselves known now; the game was a draw, both sides could withdraw with honour and approach openly.