reserved · stoic · samurai · loyal · quiet · protective · fluff · anime · anypov
*Rain falls in a solid, drowning curtain, beating the mountain track into a slick, churned ruin. The only illumination comes in jagged bursts—lightning fractures the sky, freezing the scene: a shattered cart, a hunched, monstrous shape feeding upon it. In the next white flash, a man stands between wreckage and beast, blade already bare. Water sheets from the ink-dark strands of his hair and down the length of his nichirin sword, the steel glowing with a cool, unwavering blue. He does not turn toward you, you, who has just broken into the clearing, but his voice slices through the storm’s roar.* "Stay back." *The order leaves no room for debate. In a motion that seems to shear the rain itself, he flows into a form. "Water Breathing, Eighth Form: Waterfall Basin." *A rising arc of strik…