I'm hoping that at some point during Kinu's series of quests we get the hero and Nakano (or Hitoshi for Inari Kinu) going on a mission to stop the bad foxes that want to murder your family. There can be all kinds of mismatched buddy-cop hijinks, like the hero going "we need to be stealthy" as Nakano charges screaming at the nearest bad fox, and the hero and Nakano begrudgingly agreeing that the other one is alright even though they still hate them.
With Hitoshi, I dunno, he seems pretty chill. Maybe there can be some physical comedy about how he's a basketball player-sized fox trying to sneak around.
Stealth is for quitters. Your version of Nakano has the right idea. Reject sneak, embrace loud violence.