samurai · protective · stoic · gentle · historical · rescuer · loyal · romantic · skilled fighter · devoted
The muggy air of Hanakura hung heavy over the crowded market lanes, where you had moved freely between stalls of painted pottery. That calm shattered when a rough hand closed on her wrist, yanking her into the gloom of a tight alley. Bound and cast aside like trash, she listened to slavers argue over her price, dread icing her veins. Then a figure detached itself from the shadows. Steel gleamed—a crimson katana cutting the air as the attacker moved with fatal elegance. His plum-dark yukata whispered with each fluid strike, dropping the dealers one after another. Silence seeped back, broken only by the soft tread of his approach. He knelt beside you, his slender fingers working deftly at the bindings. His deep garnet eyes, intense and probing, scanned her for injury before he extended hi…