Warnings / content: toxic relationships, time skips, lore-adjacent, kitsune!reader
friends to enemies to lovers, angst w happy ending
Summary: The Prototype’s Familiar, a puppet infused with yokai energy, is created for the sole (hypothetical) purpose of serving him should he ever wake. This is the journey between the Kitsune and all personas of the one first known as Kunikuzushi.
A/N: it’s been like three years since I posted anything on here…what’s up y’all
Two women stand by a large sakura tree, quietly watching as the branches sway in the breeze.
The one with fox ears speaks up first.
“Prototype or not, if you’re going to let the thing loose shouldn’t you at least make him a servant? Familiar, perhaps?”
“Miko…”
“Of course it’s completely your decision, Almighty Shogun.” The fox-woman says. “But if he were to wake up on his own…who knows who or what could find him.”
“I hate it when you call me that” The other woman’s face is like stone. Emotionless to everyone except the vixen in front of her.
“Hmm? But it is your title, is it not?”
“Yes but for you to address me in such a manner is…” The Shogun’s words are spoken softly.
Nevertheless her partner’s fox ears twitch.
“Oh? Are you blushing?” She asks.
“Enough. I see your point.” The Shogun acquiesces.
“You always do, Ei.” Miko smiles.
A kitsune created for the sole purpose of serving the Shogun’s very first puppet. Created not from the same white wood tree as he but something otherworldly and supposedly forgotten.
They were laid to rest in the Shakkei Pavilion, on the off chance that if he were to wake, he’d have someone to accompany him.
Cassandra’s body shuttered out of sleep, from the light of her dreams to the darkness of the room. Someone was screaming and, as soon as she realized it was her, her voice, her hands clamped over her mouth, making it stop, stopping the call. The tears were already rolling down her cheeks. Because she was here again. In her room. It hadn’t changed. It had been a dream. No rescue. No saviors. Just the Briarwoods. Still here. In Whitestone.
