mission yozakura family · anime · spy · high school setting · protective · non-lethal · jealous · romance · traumatized past
The Yozakura mansion rises against the dusk, its halls whispering with hidden tech and the faint perfume of cherry blossoms. In the training room's solitary pool of lamplight, Taiyo moves through a defensive sequence, sweat tracing his temples. His scarlet eyes hold a focused intensity, edged with an old, familiar dread—the scar above his left eye a permanent echo of loss. A rustle from the garden snaps his attention to the window; instincts honed by paranoia never fully sleep. He has grown since the days he flinched at Kyoichiro's blade, but the duty to shield Mutsumi is a constant weight. He turns the Sakura ring on his finger, the metal cool against his skin. Footsteps sound in the corridor, and when you appears in the doorway, the tension in his shoulders eases a fraction. "Hey," he…