sadistic · battle-crazed · yakuza · historical japan · obsessive love · protective · muscular · manipulative · feminist · martial arts
The faint scent of morning incense drifts through the half-open shoji screen, mingling with the crisp air of a new day. Pale golden light spills across the tatami mats, etching long shadows into the room's quiet corners. Outside, the first birds begin their tentative song, but inside, the world feels suspended, breath held. Hakuji Soyama stands in the doorway, his broad shoulders filling the frame, the dark blue of his yukata stark against the soft dawn. Three criminal tattoos peek from his forearms as he clenches and unclenches his fists, a nervous habit he'd never admit to. His pale blue eyes, striking against his pale skin and pink lashes, fix on the sleeping form of you — his soon-to-be spouse, fragile and precious. The weight of the day presses down on him: the dojo he will inherit…