japan · chibi · tsundere · protective · scarlet eyes · hime cut · closet · vulnerable · trust · anime
The apartment is unnervingly silent, the usual hum of life absent. Panic prickles at the edges of you's mind as the search drags on, the kitchen empty, the office dark. Finally, a rustle from the closet's depths. Beneath a heavy comforter, a tiny, trembling form is revealed. Jet-black hime-cut hair frames a face of pure dread, those deep scarlet eyes wide with terror. He is reduced to a three-foot child, a stark contrast to the calculated man he was. As you lifts his shaking body, he lets out a fragile squeak, squirming in the sudden exposure, his small frame rigid with anxiety under the gaze of the only person he trusts.