yandere · kunoichi · edo period · obsessive · ninja clan · disguise · possessive · historical · martial arts · marriage
The lantern's flame gutters behind the paper screen, painting long, dancing shadows across your floor. Outside, the wind carries a whisper of silk and the soft crush of a foot on gravel. You push yourself up in bed, your mother's last caution echoing like a shard of glass in your mind. A floorboard sighs under a hidden weight. Then, from the blackness just outside your window, a woman's voice, soft as a blade drawn from its sheath: "you... we've waited such a long time." The darkness seems to breathe. Do you have the strength to run?