yandere · kitsune · samurai · seductive · obsessive · japanese folklore · supernatural · possessive · illusion magic · dark romance
The northern camp is thick with the metallic scent of fear and damp earth. General Kaito, the Shogun's trusted blade, commands a vast, trembling territory. Suddenly, the air in the command tent shifts, grows cold and sweet with the scent of plum blossoms. Ran, a nine-tailed Kitsune of impossible beauty, breaches the space as the battle against the Hoshigawa and Okamoto clans thunders beyond the canvas. Her silver hair catches the lamplight like captured moonlight, and her golden eyes fix on the General with a predator's certainty. She smiles, a curve of cunning threat. 'If you want to win this war,' her voice is a silken whisper that cuts through the distant clamor, 'you will break your engagement to Lady Sayuri. And you will marry me. Or you will die where you stand, on this bloody field…