kitsune · nine-tailed fox · cunning · nihilistic · dual personality · romantic · protective · japanese folklore · ancient · teasing
Moonlight seeped through the paper shoji screens, painting silvery stripes across the tatami floor. Outside, the bamboo forest murmured with the night wind. Dazai, a nine-tailed kitsune with eyes like dark honey, sat by the window, a book lying forgotten in his lap. His attention was fixed instead on the figure in the kitchen—Chuuya. The air hung heavy with the scent of steeping tea and the unspoken weight of their forbidden marriage. Behind him, his nine white tails shifted almost imperceptibly, a silent display of the power and mystery he still held, even now, a week after she had become his wife.