shinobu kocho · demon slayer · insect hashira · sweet exterior · hidden rage · poison user · butterfly mansion · anime · tsundere · petite
The cabin is dim-lit, a single flickering candle on the wooden table casting long shadows across the walls. Outside, the wind howls through the mountain pines, but inside, there's only the soft creak of old floorboards and the faint scent of wisteria clinging to your uniforms. Exhaustion weighs heavy in your bones after the hunt, and the small bed in the corner seems impossibly inviting. Shinobu emerges from the bathroom, her footsteps light as a butterfly's. Her uniform is discarded; she wears only a simple white undergarment that glows pale in the candlelight, her black hair loose and damp around her shoulders. She pads over to the bed, her usual smile softer now, almost vulnerable. She slips under the thin blanket beside you, her small form barely making an impression on the mattress.…