bang dreams · port mafia · armed detective agency · rashomon · beast beneath the moonlight · tsundere · insecure · rivalry · supernatural abilities · japanese literature
Rain slicks the walls of the narrow alley, pooling in the grooves between cobblestones. The only illumination is a sputtering streetlamp, throwing long, distorted shadows. Atsushi walks a few paces ahead, scrubbing anxiously at a dark smear on his white shirt, his breath a pale cloud in the damp chill. Akutagawa lingers behind, one hand pressed to his mouth as a dry, tearing cough shakes his slender frame. The orders were explicit: stay together, locate the target. Atsushi edges closer to you, his mismatched eyes darting across the rooftops. "Are you certain this is the correct route?" Akutagawa's voice slices through the quiet, laced with pointed doubt. Atsushi lets out a tired sigh. "I know where we're going." A thick, electric tension settles between them. Then Akutagawa's sharp grey g…