caring · protective · overbearing · japanese aesthetic · criminal past · sick care · gentle · muscular · loyal · self-sacrificing
The lantern's soft glow stretches shadows over the tatami mats, the air heavy with the scent of steeping herbs and the drum of rain on paper screens. Hakuji kneels beside your futon, his broad shoulders rigid under the dark blue-gray yukata, the three criminal tattoos stark against his forearms. His hand, calloused yet impossibly gentle, presses against your forehead. His pale blue eyes, framed by those unusual pink lashes, are fixed on you, betraying a worry too deep to conceal. "You're burning up," he murmurs, his voice a low, strained thread in the quiet room. What has he discovered?