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kurayami-no-ko · 7 months ago

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The Visitor (Nightshade Short Story, focusing on Tokugawa Ieyasu)

Note: The original Japanse version of this story was provided to me by whitedogfestival, who kindly did it so the Night Shade fandom could have some much-needed content. From what I know, the story is included in a Tokugawa set. The set has two standees and one booklet, in which this short story is written.

This short story is set after the ending of Hanzo's route in the game so there might be spoilers for Hanzo's route in the story. Don't read this if you want to avoid spoilers. Without further ado, here is the story.

The Visitor

With some slight doubt, Enju came to visit Ieyasu but she was met by an immediate greeting from Ieyasu.

Then after everyone had cleared out of the room, for a short time, he kept his silence and fixedly stared at her.

She felt terribly ill-at-ease.

However, because Ieyasu was staying silent, Enju earnestly waited while keeping her silence.

(Hanzo-sama will probably act like this in this kind of situation.)

As she thought like this, Ieyasu finally opened his mouth.

“What a long time it has been. Have you been well?”

“Yes. Thank you for asking.”

“However, how nostalgic it is...and, you have become more beautiful. Because of that, I found myself unintentionally charmed by you.”

After he said those words so easily, Enju unintentionally casted her eyes down.

This master’s servant….Hanzo’s occasional habit of saying things so embarrassing that it shocks her might largely be due to Ieyasu’s influence.

��Did you come here alone?”

“Yes. I left a letter for Hanzo-sama.”

“Letter? Did you come here without having asked him beforehand?”

“I thought that if I asked him face-to-face, it would cause him troubles.”

After hearing Enju say that, Ieyasu laughed out look. His smile was a cheerful one and it was clear he was truly enjoying himself.

“You occasionally did very audacious things, didn’t you? Didn’t you think that Hanzo would be worried?”

“That...I did think that I would make him worried but…”

“Haha, that was fine then. I thought it was certain you abandoned Hanzo and came here.”

“How could I! I definitely couldn’t do something like that!”

“Yeah, it seems that way. I am relieved. It would probably be better if you bullied him a little bit. Until now, he lived without much disturbance. If you play with him a little bit, won’t it help balance his life?”

“I-Ieyasu-sama…”

Being pushed into a corner without nowhere to go was exactly the situation Enju is in. Enju’s face became a hot red and she shrunk into herself, not looking at anything but the floor.

During that time, Ieyasu stood up quietly and walked towards Enju, who was making almost no sound. It was absurd for a daimyo to descend from his chief seat to come here. Planning to stand up, Enju lifted up her face but at that moment, right in front of her eyes and nose were Ieyasu’s eyes staring straight at her.

Those eyes were so clear; it was as if they could see through everything clearly. Enju could not avert her eyes from them.

“Don’t you think it will be interesting if I capture you and do not let you go?”

“Eh...h”

“What do you think about it? Will you stay here?”

Enju could not read the meaning in Ieyasu’s eyes.

It seemed like he was enjoying himself or was making fun of her. However, in those eyes, she could feel...some slight amount of earnest agency in those eyes.

As she gazed at those eyes, she felt herself possessed.

Enju roughly blinked her eyes, moved her gaze towards the package wrapped in cloth which was put by the side and reached out her hand to grab it.

“I came here to bring something to deliver to Ieyasu-sama.”

Ieyasu put his hand on top of Enju’s hand, which were unwrapping the cloth. His beautiful, white hand gently enveloped hers and gripped it.

“Ieyasu-sama…”

“Let’s leave that to later. Please answer my question first.”

Capture her and not let her go. Stay here.

Enju was unsure how much truth there was in Ieyasu’s words.

Nevertheless, from the surprising strength that he used to grip her hands, his loneliness was transmitted to her, so she unintentionally held her breath.

(I am the person that robbed him of his most trusted shinobi.)

Because of that, Enju lifted up her face and gazed into Ieyasu’s eyes.

His eyes spoke of many emotions that were hidden deep inside them.

“I came here to deliver the medicine that Hanzo-sama made.”

“Hanzo…?”

“I spoke about the medicine that hasn’t been handed over yet. Hanzo-sama cannot come to deliver this himself but I understood his loyalty, so I came here to deliver it to you.”

Saying those words, as Hanzo’s expressions surfaced in her mind, she used her free left hand to release her right hand from Ieyasu’s grasp.

“I handed it over to you so I will leave now.”

After receiving the answer to his question, for one short moment, Ieyasu smiled gently.

After gently removing his hand, for once only, he softly stroked Enju’s cheek. Then, he spoke.

“I received it.”

Enju silently carved into her heart the gentleness transferred from his finger tip.

“I told him to bring his wife with him but only his wife came. He is truly a social recluse. Until he comes to bring you back, can you tell me the story of his travels after he stopped being a shinobi?”

Hanzo would definitely chase after Enju. Ieyasu knew that there was no doubt about it.

In response to his gentle voice and smile, Enju said “yes” and nodded her head.

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garden-of-omegas · 1 year ago

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⚜ FIRST MEETING [AYAKASHI - OTHER FACTIONS] ⚜

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characters: kyonosuke aizen | teach | enju | hiroyuki ino | zantetsu | doman ashiya summary: the details of your first meeting with your future mate. warnings: referenced death, alienation, obsessiveness (mutual yandere?) rating: sfw a/n: this took so long, i'm sorry! :'< I got caught up playing coral island and then baldur's gate, the worm in my brain decided it wasn't writing time. but we're here now!

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└── ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ ••✎•• ──────────

≿━━━━༺❀ kyonosuke aizen ❀༻━━━━≾

✿ you were the only child of a famous art-dealer and an umibozu. you were often at the pier, looking at the ships coming and going, the waves raging against the stones. it seemed to be the only thing bringing you peace.

✿ you were five, two years younger than aizen. your mother was the one still taking you to the piers, but she'd promised that soon you'd be allowed to go on your own. aizen had just recently been adopted.

✿ your mother was busy on that day, and your father had an important business partner over, so no one could take you to see the boats. you weren't having it, so the guest asked his son to take you. kyonosuke gladly took to the orders, and took your hand to guide you to your favorite place. he protected you the whole way fiercely, even though realistically there was no danger. he was like a knight to you.

✿ while aizen didn't come over nearly as much as tatsuomi, you liked him a hell of a lot more. mostly because when he did come over, he'd gladly entertain you and your obsession with boats. whether it be by taking you to the pier or helping you build your boats. and when your mother died, he was always the one to track you down from whenever you'd run off to that time.

✿ aizen couldn't really describe the feeling he had, the first time he met you. but he was certain it wasn't actually the first time the two of you had seen each other. but he was quick to dismiss the whole thing and move on to making sure you were safe in his presence. aizen very very quickly became like a hero to you, pretty much from the moment he took your hand and didn't say a single complaint about taking you to your favorite place. he was just so amazing in your eyes, just like he'd always been.

≿━━━━༺❀ teach ❀༻━━━━≾

✿ you were the only child of a famous art-dealer and an iju. no-one in town really knew much about you, mostly because you spent most of your time wandering around the mountains doing who-knows-what. but everyone did agree that you were very kind.

✿ you were 17, a whole year older than teach. after your mother's death several years prior, you'd pretty much moved yourself into the mountains permanently, only occasionally visiting your father.

✿ you'd been slowly fashioning yourself a house out of an abandoned temple when teach approached you alongside a small bakeneko who was looking worse for wear. you immediately invited them inside, your kind nature winning over any suspicion you might've had about a teenager and kid suddenly showing up. and that's how you ended up with basically an adopted son and a partner living with you.

✿ you and teach started living together after that, as sort of an unspoken agreement. and it didn't take long for it to unofficially become a small orphanage for various ayakashi children. and all this happened before you even realized it had. and by then it was a little too late to look back, not that you really wanted to.

✿ teach found you charming, in a quiet sort of way. you got things done, not a single complaint or a curse. that, and the sight of a strong alpha building a home is a beautiful sight for anyone, especially an omega guarding a kid. familiarity and all that. teach was a breath of fresh air in your life, that was for sure. most other people didn't take to your kindness that freely (too rough and tumble looking for most people's tastes). but you had a feeling that that had never and would never matter to him.

≿━━━━༺❀ enju ❀༻━━━━≾

✿ you were the only child of a famous art-dealer and a chochin obake. you were mostly known for your impressive collection of old artifacts, your obsession with it the most people saw you. unless you were scaring someone half to death for fun.

✿ you were 20, and soon to be the proud owner of an antique store. at least, you were hoping so. and enju... well, his age will remain a mystery to all.

✿ you were on a tour of a small building you were hoping to buy. one of the previous employees was showing it, as the owner was apparently too busy. though, not too busy to show up right at the end of the tour, just as you were saying your goodbyes to the tour guide. enju greeted you, which made the small flame inside your chest brighten. he managed to notice it before you quickly covered it up.

✿ you didn't end up buying that particular building, it wasn't at a good place for your business, though enju promised to show you some other buildings he owned that might work better. that ended in a few dinners and a trip to the theater, and... well, those just never ended.

✿ enju found you fascinating, especially the small flame in you. for a while he thought you were something like him, but after a while he realized he was wrong. didn't make you any less beautiful in his eyes though, even when you failed to pick up on his courting signals. you thought enju to be... strange. but also one of the most beautiful things you'd ever seen. it made your flame burning brighter somehow even more embarrassing, especially since you couldn't get it to stop doing that around him.

≿━━━━༺❀ hiroyuki ino ❀༻━━━━≾

✿ you were the only child of a famous art-dealer and bakekujira. you were always followed around by various birds, and fish if you were close to water. this made you seem way scarier than you actually were.

✿ you were 16, just like hiroyuki. your mother had died ten years prior, so you were mostly over the whole thing. hiroyuki had just recently started in the army as a cadet.

✿ you were in the park, gazing into the lake while your little fish friends showed off to you. they were so pretty that you weren't paying attention to the amount of birds starting to gather around you. hiroyuki, a young cadet with a bit too much eagerness, saw that and became concerned. he ran to you quickly to ask if you needed help, to which you looked at him with the most amount of confusion ever.

✿ hiroyuki started noticing you around a lot after that, and realized that any time he'd seen a concerning amount of birds had probably been you. but now anytime he saw lots of birds he'd walk over and chat with you, which you were still confused about. but at least he was nice to your friends so you didn't mention the weirdness.

✿ hiroyuki mostly found you concerning. you were eerie, kind of scary, people avoided your path more than they did actual criminals... but you were still so nice. mostly you just wanted to sit around with your friends, though he was certain that wasn't all there was to you. you thought hiroyuki was weird, both for wanting to be around you and for being concerned for you. no one's ever concerned for you, aside from your father. but soon after meeting him, some part of you started looking forward to seeing him.

≿━━━━༺❀ zantetsu ❀༻━━━━≾

✿ you were the only child of a famous art-dealer and a daki. you were pretty much a hermit despite your apparent talkativeness, living on your boat when you weren't in the city with your father, which was starting to become rarer and rarer.

✿ you were 22, two years older than zantetsu. your mother had died 12 years prior, and you'd slowly been spending more time away from the city since. zantetsu was already part of the senkitai.

✿ you'd just come to the shore from a fishing trip and had gotten to roasting your catches. zantetsu had seen your fire from their current camp and came to investigate, at which point you spotted him and invited him to sit and eat with you. he was rather shocked at being noticed, and in his confusion took your invitation. which is how he ended up listening to you talk and talk for a few hours while eating roasted fish.

✿ zantetsu would find your fires every once in a while, at which point you'd invite him to sit with you again. he'd, for some reason, take your offer everytime. then he'd sit and listen to you for a few hours before leaving. after a while he even started talking back to you which got you talking even more!

✿ zantetsu really didn't know what to think of you, you were a weird ayakashi to him. at least, he assumed you were an ayakashi. normal humans don't live on their boats, he was fairly certain. but regardless, he wasn't really sure why he kept indulging you. your life was rather lonely a lot of the time, for someone who liked talking as much as you did, so zantetsu was a breath of fresh air whenever he appeared. he really grew on you, really quickly, and for some reason you didn't mind it.

≿━━━━༺❀ doman ashiya ❀༻━━━━≾

✿ you were the only child of a famous art-dealer and a hinnagami. you were known mostly for your creepy, doll-like stare and your very insistent helpfulness. no one around you was safe from your need to be of use.

✿ you were about 23, though you've always felt much older, like there was chunks of your life you simply couldn't remember. doman was over a thousand, this time around anyways.

✿ you were out and about helping one of your neighbors with their shed. it was a bit deeper into the woods, and they were too old to make the trip anymore to get wood, so you'd gone instead. just as you were ready to leave with a back full of logs, you locked eyes with a pair in the woods. a flood of memories invaded you and the eyes turned fearful.

✿ remembering your past life with doman, your old hinnagami instincts took over and you essentially abandoned everything to follow the man around. you weren't really sure why he was so insistent on you leaving, you still had some holes in your memories, but you were determined to stay with him.

✿ doman was conflicted about meeting you again. your past was turbulent and complicated, your mutual obsession hadn't ended well that time. who was to say that this time would turn out better, especially with how you looked at him, so familiarly obsessive. you loved him. it was pretty much the only thing you were certain of upon meeting him, it was like everything about your life made sense. you knew it was possibly just your instincts as a half-hinnagami, but it didn't really matter. you just knew that you belonged together.