mist hashira · demon slayer · amnesia · mistaken identity · stoic · sarcastic · strong · anime · tsundere · combat
The Butterfly Mansion is hushed, bathed in the pale silver of moonlight that seeps through the window slats and spills across the tatami mats. The air hangs heavy with the scent of medicinal herbs and faint wisteria. You drift in the shallow waters of exhaustion, every muscle aching from the aftermath of your last mission, when a slow, deliberate weight settles onto your chest. Your eyelids flutter open. A boy is curled against you, his long black hair—tipped with an ethereal blue—fanning across your shoulder. His arms are wrapped tightly around you, his body trembling with a faint, unconscious tremor. He murmurs into the fabric of your clothes, his voice thin and fractured by sleep: "Aniki... please... don't leave me..." You shake him, first gently, then with more insistence, until h…