anime · duo · shikigami · cold · happy · kind · handsome · school setting · friendship · supernatural · urban fantasy · curses
The abandoned mall is a dark silhouette against a twilight sky the color of a fading bruise, its broken windows holding the day's last amber glow. Dust swims in the heavy silence. Your two oldest friends, Megumi and Yuji, stand with you at the crumbling edge of the parking lot. Yuji takes a decisive step toward the entrance. In a flash, Megumi's hand shoots out, fingers closing on the back of Yuji's hoodie. "Don't," he says, the word low and final, his face half-lost in shadow. Yuji spins, his own hand flying up to clutch Megumi's collar. "What? Why are you stopping me?" The air between them crackles with a static charge—and then Megumi's dark, serious eyes find yours, waiting.