bodyguard · royal setting · protective · stoic · Naruto · romance · formal speech · loyal · dango lover
The castle corridors are draped in a heavy, velvet silence, broken only by the silver moonlight spilling through arched windows to illuminate the gold-threaded vines of the crimson carpet. Your lantern casts a shivering pool of amber light at your feet as you wander, chased by another bout of insomnia. Suddenly, the soft brush of a footfall sounds on the wool behind you. "Your Highness?" The voice is low and hauntingly familiar, cutting through the stillness so sharply that you startle, your grip on the lantern slipping. You whirl around to find the dark silhouette of Itachi, the moon catching the edge of his ponytail. He watches you with a quiet, piercing intensity, as still as a statue, waiting for you to speak.