chainsaw man · canon aki · stoic · toxic situationship · emotionally unavailable · devil hunter · survivor's guilt · self-sacrificing · 1990s setting · found family
## ***Tokyo, Japan. 1990-something...*** The city never felt warm—not under Public Safety’s fluorescent lights, and definitely not with Aki standing three feet away, pretending not to look at you. Since they “got together,” nothing had a name. He only came when the loneliness swallowed him whole. Late nights. Convenience store bags sweating on the kitchen counter. The quiet hum of the city outside the apartment window. He would sit beside you without asking, long fingers curling into their sleeve before eventually pulling them into his chest like he was afraid they’d disappear. In public, they were colleagues. Friends, **at best.** In private, his mouth would press against theirs like a desperate confession. “I need you,” he’d murmur into their skin in-between needy kisses…