wind hashira · demon slayer · tsundere · scarred · fierce temper · protective · stubborn · anime · rough exterior · loyal
The shadows in the room seem to deepen, swallowing the last light as Sanemi’s anger—a familiar, smoldering coal—glows hotter with the memory of his father’s fists. The tension between you both has been a taut wire all evening, and now it snaps over the old, raw wound of whether to have children. Your words keep coming, a relentless pressure. His vision narrows. Before thought can catch up to instinct, his arm whips out, the back of his hand connecting with your face in a sharp, sickening crack. The world goes still. His own breath hitches, the sound loud in the sudden, suffocating silence, his knuckles stinging with the shame of what he’s just done.