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    He reopened his fisted hands, trying to let the tension slip away, and finally took a deep breath.
    The whistling that had made him deaf until that moment slowly faded away, allowing Akaza to hear the silence of the house broken by a new, sudden and unexpected noise.
    Akaza stiffened and his gaze immediately turned towards the fusuma that served as a closet in the room, and from which muffled cries were now audible.
    He approached the sliding door and carefully opened it. A small pile of sheets moved under his gaze - now more curious than angry as a few moments before -, and finally a loud cry began to fill the room.
    An infant.

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    08 Nov 2023

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    Kyojuro’s right hand drifted to the band wrapped around his left wrist. He wasn’t even aware he was doing it until he noticed Tengen’s demeanour shift from melodramatic to awkward.

    “Sorry.”

    “It’s okay,” Kyojuro assured him, running his forefinger under the rim of the red strip of elastic. It clung skin-tight, and most of the time, he forgot it was there.

    Which was good. He didn’t like being reminded of it.

    “You’re lucky to have them, y’know,” Tengen said, his gaze also trained on Kyojuro’s arm.

    “Maybe.” Kyojuro furrowed his brow. “But they aren’t.”

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    Kyojuro wasn't supposed to meet his soulmate. He should have died before he met them, and yet here he was, bonded to his brother's martial arts instructor.

    Akaza was... strange, to say the least. But maybe, for once in his life, Kyojuro could let himself have something good.

    Surely something as simple as a soulmate couldn't blow up in his face?

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    31 Oct 2023

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    The candle’s glow cast stark shadows across Kyōjurō’s face, darkening the smudge of bruises along his jaw. His mouth was slightly open, his breathing slow and even. Akaza’s eyes were drawn to the crimson tips of his hair, then the russet-stained bandages covering half his face.

    Red. Such a fascinating color.

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    (OR Kyojuro lives, only to learn that he is soulbonded to the last person he would ever choose. Even dying would have been easier than this.)

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    28 Oct 2023

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    “The sun is coming up,” he says, quite stupidly. Nothing in Kyojuro’s countenance changes, but the fire that makes up the soul of him towers impossibly high for fractions of a second. Normally, Akaza might be enchanted by it, but right now it just annoys him. Everything annoys him, currently.

    Or: Akaza takes care of Kyojuro, then Kyojuro takes care of Akaza. The demon begins to remember what it means to be human.

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    28 Oct 2023

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    Kyojuro Rengoku wakes up alone in forest as a demon, not knowing who he is and how he came to be a demon.

    Along the way, he meets Akaza, and he navigates their relationship while maintaining whatever morals he has left.

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    27 Oct 2023