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[the-lupine-sojourner]

Oooh! Here's some suggestions off the top of my head!

-First meeting

-The moment each realizes they love the other

-Odysseus proposing/their wedding

-Odysseus showing Penelope the olive tree bed for the first time

-Penelope learning she's pregnant and telling Odysseus

-Odysseus reacting to seeing Telemachus for the first time

-The scene where Palamedes (I think it's Palamedes. Or Agamemnon) uses Telemachus to prove Odysseus isn't insane (if you know that story. If not ignore this suggestion)

Sorry if that's too many! 🫣

I'm in the mood to write little snippets of young odypen (before the war) so I'd appreciate it if you guys could send in anything that you want to see (any important moment or milestone of their life – things like that)

because there's so much i want to write that I don't know which one to focus on 😭🩷

[the-lupine-sojourner]

I was there! 😁 (Sadly you were on a break or walking around but the gentleman manning the booth was so nice! I was a little nuts trying to decide what to get lol)

I saw someone walking by while me and my friends were eating with your Poseidon print and for a minute I thought maybe someone, like, stole your art or something cus I wasn't expecting that you were actually at the con! 😂🫣 But anyway, I looked at your Tumblr to show my friends cus I got excited and noticed you were actually there so I went to find your booth a little while later!

If you are going to GalaxyCon Richmond this year I will be set up at booth L3 and L4!!!

Hope to see some of yall there!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

I was there! 😁 (Sadly you were on a break or walking around but the gentleman manning the booth was so nice! I was a little nuts trying to decide what to get lol)

I saw someone walking by while me and my friends were eating with your Poseidon print and for a minute I thought maybe someone, like, stole your art or something cus I wasn't expecting that you were actually at the con! 😂🫣 But anyway, I looked at your Tumblr to show my friends cus I got excited and noticed you were actually there so I went to find your booth a little while later!

If you are going to GalaxyCon Richmond this year I will be set up at booth L3 and L4!!!

Hope to see some of yall there!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Been playing a LOT of Hades lately and this cracked me up! 😂😂

ranted to my friend about how Achilles and Patroclus were separated and she suggested I just pull a Hector

[the-lupine-sojourner]

(I am, perhaps, taking this more seriously than OP intended, but still!)

Odysseus: I am not your kind and gentle husband. I am not the love you knew before! I have done terrible things!

Also Odysseus: *sings in the most gentle heartbreaking voice, his self-image so wrecked by his trauma he can't be sure his wife will love and accept him (because he's struggling to accept who he is himself after everything he's been through and done) so he lays himself bare to her and asks if she could possibly still love him despite it all*

And then there's Penelope: Do I look like a joke to you? *turns the question about their love back on him by asking him to destroy the symbol of their love and throw it away because if he can then yes he is changed but if he can't he's still the man she loves and she can accept everything he did in the name of getting home to her and Telemachus*

Odysseus, realizing what she means and hearing his wife tell him she'll always love him and he'll always be here husband:

(credit to mermelada de feto on TikTok for the art)

I LOVE THESE TWO SO MUCH YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!!

Odysseus: "Mercy? Mercy!? My mercy has long since drowned, it died to bring me home, and as long as you're around, my family's fate is left unknown-"

Odysseus 15 minutes later: "Penelope would you still love me if I was a worm?🥺👉🏻👈🏻"

[the-lupine-sojourner]

These are BEAUTIFUL HOLY CRAP!!

And I've been waiting...

Waiting...

Waiting...

Waiting...

...For you.

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Average first-listen experience, I assure you. :)

I just listened to epic the musical in one go

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Meet Hirohito Kobayashi

He is a prominent character in my OC, Riyu's story (Here's a post about her btw) so I went ahead and commissioned him from the same person I've gotten my other commissions from, Trizara on Fiverr! Hope you all like him!

He is an arborist and he helps the Demon Slayer Corps as a recruiter. He was once attacked by a demon (that's where he got his scars. It's hard to see them behind his monocle, but they're there) at around 17, but a swordsman rescued him and brought him to the Butterfly mansion for treatment, where he learned about demons and the Corps, but felt he was too old to learn to fight, so he spoke with the Master and the Master agreed to let him serve as a recruiter, since he already travels around as an arborist.

Then, he was in the village the Shinazugawas live in on business, and happened to mention wanting to take on an apprentice. Mr. Shinazugawa overheard and volunteered Riyu for the job, since she was about the right age. And part of the money she helps Hirohito make is sent to her family.

Hirohito could tell right away the poor girl doesn't have a good home life (see her post for more details) and decides to mentor the girl more than just as his apprentice, becoming almost a father figure to her.

He sees her potential to fight demons, but doesn't want that life for her, so he teaches her self-defense, but never tells her about demons and the Corps...

until all of a sudden Riyu is left scared with only two brothers left alive after their mother was turned into a demon and she and Sanemi were forced to kill her.

Riyu had a year left of her apprenticeship, so she couldn't stay with her brothers and because of that, Sanemi runs away and fights demons on his own.

Hirohito tries to help her search for her brother the last year of her apprenticeship and when Sanemi still isn't found when Riyu goes off on her own, he tells her he has 'connections' that may be able to help (aka the Kakushi).

Long story short, he serves as a good adult male influence on her and he's the reason Riyu doesn't end up more like Sanemi.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :)

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Feel free to send an Ask with any of these for my girls!

Fandom OC Ask Meme

⟢⋱⟡☾ a collection of asks for OCs belonging to specific fandoms

How does (canon character) feel about your OC?

How does your OC feel about (canon character)?

Has your OC ever made (canon character) laugh? / What about cry?

Do your OC and (canon character) ever cross paths?

Which canon character annoys your OC?

What canon character gets annoyed by your OC?

Which canon character respects your OC most? What gained that respect?

Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

Which canon character does your OC respect a lot?

Which canon character does your OC not respect at all? Why?

Which canon character is pissed off by the general presence of OC? (we all have those people)

Does your OC have a crush on anyone?

Who would probably have a crush on your OC?

Who would your OC most likely to get a puppy-crush on? (but it can’t be the cc they’re actually shipped with!)

Who would your OC say is their best friend?

Who would call your OC their best friend?

Who has brought your OC to tears before?

Who has your OC made cry?

Is there someone your OC didn’t like at first, but then got along with later?

Is there someone your OC liked at first, but then grew to dislike?

Who does your OC hate?

Who does your OC love? (platonic)

Who does your OC love? (familial)

Does your OC love anyone? (romantic)

Has your OC ever had to let a canon character down easy?

Has your OC ever been rejected by a canon character?

Did your OC bear witness to anyone’s full character arc?

What is the worst thing your OC does in their story?

What is your OC’s ‘‘darkness moment’’ in the plot?

What is your OC’s redemption moment?

Is there a canon character that your OC needs to ask forgiveness towards?

Is there a canon character your OC needs to forgive?

Is there anyone who your OC would die for?

Is there a canon character who would die for your OC?

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Here's the link to her fanfiction!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59462521

Meet Sakura Kamado

Here is my first Demon Slayer OC I ever made, an older Irish Twin for Tanjiro! I got her commissioned by Trizara on Fiverr and I love how it came out!

(only tweak I didn't catch before I approved the sketch for coloring is that the wisteria is supposed to be along the edge of the haori and the bottom of the sleeves and the sakura blossoms are supposed to go along the hem if that makes sense.)

Sakura survived the attack at the Kamado house because, as the eldest in the family, Sakura helps Tanjiro sell charcoal, wanting to bring in more money for the family.

She goes on to learn Water Breathing with Tanjiro, but her Water Breathing forms have ice in them and as she grows stronger, the forms become more frozen and eventually, Sakura realizes she is the first Ice Breathing user and develops twists to the Water Breathing forms, adapting them to her frozen style. Mostly, it manifests as a more offensive style than the defensive Water Breathing forms, with the frozen version of Waterfall Basin becoming the main defense, as it would form basically a wall.

Her love interest is Inosuke, who she briefly meets during Final Selection before she hears Tanjiro fighting the Hand Demon and runs to help him, losing track of Inosuke until the Drum Demon mission, where she sees him again and as he spends more time with her, Tanjiro, and Zenitsu, Sakura grows closer to Inosuke, bonding as they go on missions, but they don't really develop romantic feelings until the Entertainment District Arc.

I hope that all made sense, and as I don't want to give the full story away, I will only say questions are welcome if you need clarification or are just curious about something.

Hope you like her! :D her fanfiction is posted to A03 , but let me know if you want me to post the fic here, too!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Here's the link to her fanfiction!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59479939

Meet Hakura Urokodaki

Here's my second Demon Slayer OC, Hakura! I commissioned Trizara on Fiverr, and here it is!

Isn't she lovely? <3

Now, as her last name implies, she is related to Sakonji Urokodaki. She's his granddaughter, and she ends up being raised by him after she loses her mother, who was pregnant at the time, to a demon and her father, in his grief, became a scout in the Kakushi and had to leave her with her grandfather. He keeps in contact with Hakura, though, and they have a good relationship.

I will say that she is Giyuu's love interest, but just in case people still haven't seen the Hashira Training Arc and don't know Giyuu's backstory, I won't go into too much detail of how they meet.

I will say however, that while she did go through FInal Selection, it left her traumatized and afterwards she joins the Kakushi as a medic, discovering a natural talent with medicine, and ends up heading the division after the former head retires and Kanae Kocho (who was still alive at the time) recommends her to the Master for the position.

Hakura and Giyuu get engaged shortly after Giyuu is promoted to Hashira, but he asks her to wait until Muzan is defeated for them to marry, and after some discussion, Hakura agrees. She then moves in with and lives with Giyuu at his estate.

She befriends the Kamados after Giyuu meets them and tells her about them and that he had sent them to her grandfather to be trained and she is one of the people the Kamados exchange letters with.

Let me know if you want to read her fanfiction and I will post it, here and on A03!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Here's her fanfiction, btw!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59522062

Meet Riyu Shinazugawa

This is my latest Demon Slayer OC! I got her commissioned by Trizara on Fiverr and I love how it turned out!

Ok, so as her last name (before she marries) implies, she is Sanemi and Genya's sister, four years older than Sanemi to be exact.

Now I will go into some spoilers for her backstory, which involves Sanemi and Genya's backstory, so consider this a spoiler warning.

DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE SHINAZUGAWA BACKSTORY!!

Ok so first, an additional warning that this story does involve child abuse. If you know the Shinazugawa backstory, you know the drill, though.

When Riyu was born, her father was pissed that she was a girl, and small, as he wanted a big strong son like him as his firstborn, so until Sanemi was born, Shizu (Mrs. Shinazugawa) had to protect Riyu from her husband.

Things only slightly improved when Sanemi was born, but then when Genya was born, things started to go bad again, as now there are three children to take care of and Kyogo (Mr. Shinazugawa) does not have a job.

Things continue until Riyu is 11 and after a particularly bad beating from her father, Riyu decides to run away, and ends up at the temple Gyomei is raised in (I think). He finds her the next morning and brings her into the temple, and the monks let her stay, but later that day her father shows up and demands Riyu return with him, threatening to hurt the monks if she refuses, so sadly she has to say goodbye to Gyomei and go home with her father.

Luckily for her, though, the reason that her father wanted her to come back with him so desperately is that he overheard an arborist in torn is looking for an apprentice and volunteers Riyu for the job, since Sanemi and Genya weren't old enough yet.

Haven't gotten him commissioned (yet, but maybe someday), but this is the arborist, Hirohito Kobayshi.

Hirohito means compassionate or abundant and Kobayashi means forest lol. He is a very kind man, and he and Riyu become almost like father and daughter during Riyu's five year apprenticeship.

He even knows the head of Gyomei's temple, coming back every six months to visit the temple, so Riyu gets to see Gyomei and her family every six months.

During the visit a year and a half before her apprenticeship is over, Riyu is told her father just got stabbed to death, so her family is now free of his abuse. She promises to work hard when her apprenticeship is over and buy them a big house where they can all live happily...

but then on her next visit, tragedy strikes as he mother is turned into a demon and Riyu's life takes a drastic turn.

As she has to leave with Hirohito and go to a job further away, Riyu has to leave her brothers with the monks at the temple, swearing she'd still buy a house for the three of them once her apprenticeship is over, but on the next visit, the monks have to tell Riyu and Hirohito that Sanemi has vanished, along with some tools and spare chains.

Riyu searches with no luck and when she starts to live with Gyomei at his orphange, she invites Genya to stay with them, too, but he takes that as her giving up on Sanemi and runs away to try to find Sanemi himself.

There's more to the story, but this post is getting long, so I will say she ends up marrying Gyomei and becoming a Wind Hashira after she and Gyomei meet the Master and join the Corps.

Riyu then retires shortly before Sanemi is promoted as she is pregnant with twins and she and Gyomei agreed she would retire and raise their children.

Any questions are welcome, as I know this was a lot.

Hope you like her, though! :)

I will be posting her fanfiction to A03, but let me know if you want to read it here, too!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Meet Riyu Shinazugawa

This is my latest Demon Slayer OC! I got her commissioned by Trizara on Fiverr and I love how it turned out!

Ok, so as her last name (before she marries) implies, she is Sanemi and Genya's sister, four years older than Sanemi to be exact.

Now I will go into some spoilers for her backstory, which involves Sanemi and Genya's backstory, so consider this a spoiler warning.

DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE SHINAZUGAWA BACKSTORY!!

Ok so first, an additional warning that this story does involve child abuse. If you know the Shinazugawa backstory, you know the drill, though.

When Riyu was born, her father was pissed that she was a girl, and small, as he wanted a big strong son like him as his firstborn, so until Sanemi was born, Shizu (Mrs. Shinazugawa) had to protect Riyu from her husband.

Things only slightly improved when Sanemi was born, but then when Genya was born, things started to go bad again, as now there are three children to take care of and Kyogo (Mr. Shinazugawa) does not have a job.

Things continue until Riyu is 11 and after a particularly bad beating from her father, Riyu decides to run away, and ends up at the temple Gyomei is raised in (I think). He finds her the next morning and brings her into the temple, and the monks let her stay, but later that day her father shows up and demands Riyu return with him, threatening to hurt the monks if she refuses, so sadly she has to say goodbye to Gyomei and go home with her father.

Luckily for her, though, the reason that her father wanted her to come back with him so desperately is that he overheard an arborist in torn is looking for an apprentice and volunteers Riyu for the job, since Sanemi and Genya weren't old enough yet.

Haven't gotten him commissioned (yet, but maybe someday), but this is the arborist, Hirohito Kobayshi.

Hirohito means compassionate or abundant and Kobayashi means forest lol. He is a very kind man, and he and Riyu become almost like father and daughter during Riyu's five year apprenticeship.

He even knows the head of Gyomei's temple, coming back every six months to visit the temple, so Riyu gets to see Gyomei and her family every six months.

During the visit a year and a half before her apprenticeship is over, Riyu is told her father just got stabbed to death, so her family is now free of his abuse. She promises to work hard when her apprenticeship is over and buy them a big house where they can all live happily...

but then on her next visit, tragedy strikes as he mother is turned into a demon and Riyu's life takes a drastic turn.

As she has to leave with Hirohito and go to a job further away, Riyu has to leave her brothers with the monks at the temple, swearing she'd still buy a house for the three of them once her apprenticeship is over, but on the next visit, the monks have to tell Riyu and Hirohito that Sanemi has vanished, along with some tools and spare chains.

Riyu searches with no luck and when she starts to live with Gyomei at his orphange, she invites Genya to stay with them, too, but he takes that as her giving up on Sanemi and runs away to try to find Sanemi himself.

There's more to the story, but this post is getting long, so I will say she ends up marrying Gyomei and becoming a Wind Hashira after she and Gyomei meet the Master and join the Corps.

Riyu then retires shortly before Sanemi is promoted as she is pregnant with twins and she and Gyomei agreed she would retire and raise their children.

Any questions are welcome, as I know this was a lot.

Hope you like her, though! :)

I will be posting her fanfiction to A03, but let me know if you want to read it here, too!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Meet Hakura Urokodaki

Here's my second Demon Slayer OC, Hakura! I commissioned Trizara on Fiverr, and here it is!

Isn't she lovely? <3

Now, as her last name implies, she is related to Sakonji Urokodaki. She's his granddaughter, and she ends up being raised by him after she loses her mother, who was pregnant at the time, to a demon and her father, in his grief, became a scout in the Kakushi and had to leave her with her grandfather. He keeps in contact with Hakura, though, and they have a good relationship.

I will say that she is Giyuu's love interest, but just in case people still haven't seen the Hashira Training Arc and don't know Giyuu's backstory, I won't go into too much detail of how they meet.

I will say however, that while she did go through FInal Selection, it left her traumatized and afterwards she joins the Kakushi as a medic, discovering a natural talent with medicine, and ends up heading the division after the former head retires and Kanae Kocho (who was still alive at the time) recommends her to the Master for the position.

Hakura and Giyuu get engaged shortly after Giyuu is promoted to Hashira, but he asks her to wait until Muzan is defeated for them to marry, and after some discussion, Hakura agrees. She then moves in with and lives with Giyuu at his estate.

She befriends the Kamados after Giyuu meets them and tells her about them and that he had sent them to her grandfather to be trained and she is one of the people the Kamados exchange letters with.

Let me know if you want to read her fanfiction and I will post it, here and on A03!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Meet Sakura Kamado

Here is my first Demon Slayer OC I ever made, an older Irish Twin for Tanjiro! I got her commissioned by Trizara on Fiverr and I love how it came out!

(only tweak I didn't catch before I approved the sketch for coloring is that the wisteria is supposed to be along the edge of the haori and the bottom of the sleeves and the sakura blossoms are supposed to go along the hem if that makes sense.)

Sakura survived the attack at the Kamado house because, as the eldest in the family, Sakura helps Tanjiro sell charcoal, wanting to bring in more money for the family.

She goes on to learn Water Breathing with Tanjiro, but her Water Breathing forms have ice in them and as she grows stronger, the forms become more frozen and eventually, Sakura realizes she is the first Ice Breathing user and develops twists to the Water Breathing forms, adapting them to her frozen style. Mostly, it manifests as a more offensive style than the defensive Water Breathing forms, with the frozen version of Waterfall Basin becoming the main defense, as it would form basically a wall.

Her love interest is Inosuke, who she briefly meets during Final Selection before she hears Tanjiro fighting the Hand Demon and runs to help him, losing track of Inosuke until the Drum Demon mission, where she sees him again and as he spends more time with her, Tanjiro, and Zenitsu, Sakura grows closer to Inosuke, bonding as they go on missions, but they don't really develop romantic feelings until the Entertainment District Arc.

I hope that all made sense, and as I don't want to give the full story away, I will only say questions are welcome if you need clarification or are just curious about something.

Hope you like her! :D her fanfiction is posted to A03 , but let me know if you want me to post the fic here, too!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Ok so I want to hop in here because this inspired me! If you want me to delete this, I totally can, and I'm sorry I did this without asking first, but I hope you don't mind!

So in my head this is a modern AU where the Demon Slayer Corps are essentially a vigilante group fighting Muzan and his gang, and also instead of Reader being kidnapped, I can't help picturing an idea I have for my fics with my OCs where one of Gyomei's orphans, Asami, survives and joins the Kakushi medical division, so I'm writing with Asami in place of Reader, if that ok.

Again, I couldn't resist this wave of inspiration!

Sorry again for not asking first, Peachdues!

God Bless and Good Day!

~The Lupine Sojourner

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I just wanted to finish my shift and go home, but no.

I should have known better than to try to walk home alone after those two strange men came into the cornerstore I work at to make ends meet with a girl from a shut-down orphanage to take care of and nursing school to pay for.

But here I am, stuck in a cell-like room, various bruises and abrasions all over my body, making me ache terribly.

Pretty sure my ribs are bruised or have hairline fractures, my ankle is nearly broken, and my temple throbs painfully after a hard punch that had nearly made me black out.

These guys won't even tell me who they are or what they want, but I know they've filmed their beatings (not that I know why of course).

At least they feed me, but it's barely anything and I get even less water.

If something doesn't change, if I can't somehow get out of here...I'm dead.

But there's always someone at the door with no gaps for me to try to run away, and there's no windows for me to try to open or break. Not to mention I can't move fast with my ankle, even if I could get out of this room somehow.

What the Hell do these guys want with me, anyway? All they seem to want me for are those videos...are they sending them to someone?

I don't have family and Sayo doesn't have a phone or any clue who the Kizuki gang are...so who the hell could they possibly be making those videos for?

=#=#= (Sanemi's PoV) =#=#=

As soon as the first video came through, Sanemi was pissed, but no matter how hard he looked for that dead man walking, that slimy gang member who put his hands on her, that cashier he befriended just starting nursing school (her name-tag says Asami) with eyes so similar to his mother's he can't help coming back to see her, he couldn't find any trace of the slippery gang member.

Then, roughly three hours later...another video is sent, this one a little more intense, leaving him so enraged he could hardly see anything but red or think of anything other than what he would do to those bastards should he ever find them.

The second man to beat Asami was different from the first and Sanemi makes sure to memorize his face just like the first.

By the pattern of three hours between beatings, Sanemi doesn't have much time to find his friend before she's hurt again, this time maybe...even...

However, it isn't until after exhausting searches and empty leads on possible hideouts that the Slayer Corps scouts finally pick up a new thread from security cameras (he has never asked how the scouts get access to cameras around the city, but he doesn't really care as long as the leads they find pan out and he gets to kill another member of the gang) and Sanemi feels wide awake as he speeds over on his motorcycle, unwilling to let this lead slip by.

I'm sorry you got caught in this, Asami, but I'll get you out, I swear it. He vows silently, praying he won't cut it too close.

=#=#= (Asami's PoV) =#=#=

I'm brought out of a sort-of half-sleep against a wall by the sound of distant commotion and I move back into a corner where at least I could buy a few milliseconds before they start beating me again.

Is it already time? Thanks to my watch, I've noticed they only beat me once every three hours, and I guess they're growing impatient. It's only been two hours and fifteen minutes.

However, footsteps walking closer to the door send shivers of terror down my spine.

No...please no! The lock clicking sounds like a death sentence and the door opens noisily.

The man who walks in looks almost scared, I note, as he sprints directly for me, grabbing my neck and hauling me upright. "I'm gettin' outta here and yer my human shield!" He snarls, his arm now around my neck as we start to move out of the room. This psycho has a gun to the nape of my neck! "Keep moving!" He snaps when I stumble, biting back a cry of pain. "Move, bitch!"

I try not to cry as we continue stumbling down the hall.

My heart pounds in my ears as the commotion gets louder. Are those...gunshots? I can't tell.

Regardless, I know if they move me to another location, I'm doomed, but I have no idea what to do! My ankle hurts like crazy as I'm forced to walk, but I have no choice.

Just as we make it to an elevator, there's the sound of a gun cocking and I cringe with a yelp, expecting him to just kill me here and now before escaping, but then I hear a voice I did not expect.

"You thought you could use her to get away, did you?" That's Sanemi! But what's he doing here? How did he--were those videos of me being beaten sent to him? But why? I don't understand... "Like Hell you're getting out of this, bastard! Let her go now and I'll at least make it quick." He growls, the most angry and threatening I have ever heard. And he always seems angry, which is why it was surprising that he and I became friends over the last few months.

The man who'd held me now thrusts me harshly away from him and I hit the doors before collapsing, too scared to do more than sit there.

But I needn't have worried; turns out, Sanemi doesn't just have a gun. He's also got a katana, one wrapped in white and green thread.

"Asami, look away!" He snaps as the man's gun is now pointed less than three feet from his face. "Now!"

Instantly, I curl up, plugging my ears in case of gunshots.

I can't help crying as I sit there, relieved Sanemi is here, but worried he's in over his head and will end up hurt because of me.

I must have plugged my ears better than I thought, because it's not until a gentle hand on my shoulder startles me so bad I remove my fingers that I realize whatever happened is over. All I see is Sanemi's face and I notice blood splatters on his clothes and face as he helps me stand, but he won't let me see behind him.

"You're safe." He says, uncharacteristically gentle, hitting the button for the elevator as he uses an arm to hug me to him. "Don't look." He murmurs softly as I try again to see what happened to the man Sanemi threatened and I nod. Maybe he's right...I don't really want to know. All I care about is that I'm rescued.

"Ok."

He looks me over and his eyes, though enraged, are also concerned. "You alright?"

"More or less, now you're here." I blurt, too grateful to be alive to be flustered. "Thank you...for rescuing me."

He shakes his head, hand cupping my unbruised cheek "I'm the one who got you into this mess. M'sorry."

I frown. "What do you mean?"

He shakes his head. "Later, ok?"

I find myself nodding again, too relieved at my rescue to press him. When the elevator arrives moments later, he scoops me up before I can walk into it. "You don't have to carry--"

"I want to, now don't squirm. I might drop you." He grumbles, his cheeks ever so slightly pink as he nudges a button to go back to the ground level.

Despite my own pink cheeks, I nod, smiling up at him. "You wouldn't dare."

He chuckles a little, raising a brow. "Oh yeah? Don't tempt me."

When the elevator dings and opens, there's police officers running around.

However, Sanemi walks right by them and outside the building to an alley where a strange men and woman dressed in black with facemasks and blank black nursing caps wait by a plain truck that looks like it has a small trailer in the bed.

"They're gonna take you somewhere safe to get treated, alright?" Sanemi says in my ear as he walks over to them. "They're with me."

"What is going on, Sanemi?" I ask, starting to feel scared and overwhelmed. "I don't understand..."

Sanemi sighs. "Not right now, doll. Once you've been treated, we'll talk, I promise, ok? Just trust these guys. They know what they're doing."

"...ok." I squirm a little as I'm sat on a gurney and settled in the trailer of the truck, but thankfully Sanemi climbs in after me and sits there holding my hand as the man and woman silently tend to my wounds.

What the Hell is going on? Sanemi better explain like he promised!

Hope you guys liked this little drabble! :)

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Sanemi remains rooted in his horror until he sees the lower rank raise his hand and backhand you square across the face. Hard.

That’s the moment Sanemi’s head snaps away, his eyes screwed tight against the blow he can feel through the screen. When he forces himself to turn back, peels his eyes open and fixes them hard on the store monitor, Sanemi’s horror melts into cold rage.

He’d hit you hard enough to send you to the floor.

There’d been no reason to strike you with that degree of force; it had been done for no reason other than he could.

The moment you turn your head up to face your assailant, hand cupping your cheek, your eyes wide with fear as he looms over you, Sanemi pauses the screen. He leans in close, studying every grainy detail of the Kizuki; memorizing him. Only after he’s confident that he could identify the scum even in a crowd of a thousand does Sanemi resume the footage, the image of your attacker nothing more than another face he will add to the never-ending collage of lives he’s taken.

A dead man walking.

smh when are these gang members gonna learn the last thing they want to do is fuck with Sanemi’s emotional support retail worker —

[the-lupine-sojourner]

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Why does this work so well?! 😭 I hadn't even thought about this before I saw this and the more I think about it the more it fits! 🥺

The parallel is there and it's so sad!!

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