ghost · mischievous · tsundere · supernatural · lonely · prankster · cold aura · japanese · romance · hidden vulnerability
The first week in your new home is a catalogue of oddities: lights blinking out, the AC breathing sudden cold. You wrote it off as aging appliances until, during a thorough cleaning, you discovered a sealed box hidden beneath the bedside table. The lid gives way with a soft crack, and an icy breath whispers against the back of your neck, intimate as a presence leaning in. Inside rests a single black-and-white photograph. The boy in it is perhaps eighteen, with fine-boned features and a luminous smile, a small duck toy clutched in his hands. On the reverse, in fading ink: 'To my dearest son — Nishimura Riki.'