#hoozuki

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So, uh...I found this picture in Pinterest I decided to make a meme with Ginko, Hoozuki amd Kusuriuri trio

And yes, I used the 2024 version of Kusuriuri

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Hozuki-sama and the issue with the job exchange experience event — Hozuki x fem!reader

art credits: @ながの

word count: 1.1k

warnings: crack, Hozuki's lovesick, both of them share a single braincell, fluff, not proofread

a/n: i thought i'll be done finalising my mononoke fic, but i couldn't :') but i'll be done by tomorrow! so in the meanwhile here's Hozuki!

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Hozuki-sama was scolding Enma Daio as usual, tapping his iron club against his hand with a large scowl across his face while his own boss cowered in his overly large seat. Even though Enma Daio was seated above Hozuki, it was blatantly clear that his own subordinate was the one who had true control over everything.

Normally, you were always there beside him to give the king a death glare. Yet in a very rare occurrence, you weren’t there with him.

“Is the Avici Hell’s administrator not here today?” Nasubi asked.

Karauri looked around, holding a pile of neatly organised paperworks. “You’re right. Where is she?”

“Oh, apparently she has a meeting with another component of hell,” Okou-san said, smiling.

“Really? About what?”

“You know the job experience exchange event happening in a few weeks?” Nasubi and Karauri nodded. “She has to do a face-to-face meeting to determine who can try out serving under them in Avici Hell. It’s a very hard job, and she has to make sure that she has capable people in her hands.”

Karauri shivered, imagining the horrors that happen at the most gruesome hell. “I don’t really see the appeal in trying to work there…”

“The job experience is very attractive for people since even simply writing that in their resume benefits them a lot,” Okou-san explained with a chuckle.

“So the administrator can’t participate in the event?” Nasubi asked, tilting his head. “Since she’s supervising her own hell?”

Okou-san nodded, but brought her palm to her cheek, cocking her head to the side in thought. “Well… you can say it was planned to prevent them from participating…”

Nasubi and Karauri perked up at her mumbling. “What do you mean by that?”

She let out a hesitant hum, glancing at Hozuki to make sure that he wasn’t listening before quietly murmuring out, “Well, it’s a long story…”

Under the guidance of Hozuki, the job experience exchange event was set forth for the first time in Japanese hell.

You were still a simple minion staff member, still working near him brightening his day at a closer proximity with smiles and giggles that he already searched for in the halls of Enma’s palace even back in the day. Thus, you had the opportunity to try out Samghata Hell, where your friend, Okou-san, was helping out with running the program at the hell she worked at.

“Wow, I didn’t know the mountain was this high!” you said with a grin, excitedly looking down at the view. You were perched at the top of the Mountain of Needles, changed into a kimono with a more vibrant, pretty colour in replacement of your usual dull ones to attract the dead humans that were punished in the hell. They slightly hung loose from one shoulder, and slit at the front revealed your legs that you tucked under one side.

Okou-san chuckled. “It is a nice view when there’s no dead humans climbing up yet.”

She let her gaze wander across the vast view like you were doing, but stopped and took a look back at a figure that was walking towards the mountain. She smiled excitedly, already knowing the brewing attraction between you two the last few hundred years that you started working in hell, and she was about to let you know about his presence when her eyes widened at the sight down the mountain.

Hozuki stopped in his tracks, head tilted up to gaze at the very top of the mountain. His lips softly parted, eyes widening at the sight of you sitting so alluringly, so beautifully in the mountain of temptation itself. In the very back of his mind, the logical part of his brain, knew that approaching the mountain would be a foolish idea, that trying to climb the mountain towards you would lead him to get stabbed by thousands of needles, just like the dumb dead humans do when they arrive at this particular site in Samghata Hell.

His common sense though?

Gone.

Just a distant whisper, and the more primal part of him screamed at him to simply take the first step towards you.

So he did.

He slowly walked over towards the very bottom of the mountain, eyes never leaving you. 

“Hozuki-sama!” Okou-san shouted in fear, catching your attention.

Your eyes widened, and your vision tinted pink as your focus narrowed down to him, and him alone.

And your common sense? Unfortunately tossed out like a baseball pitcher from the top of the mountain.

A grin broke out of you at the sight of him and you quickly ran down the hill, the needles not appearing for the women working here. As you took your final skip and jumped off, Hozuki was already waiting there—he caught you by the waist, looking up at you with pupils dilated, mouth still parted, your feet dangling off of the air as he held you against him.

“Hozuki-sama,” you murmured breathlessly, smiling down at him.

He whispered your name in return, and one of his hands left from your waist—still propping you up with the other arm—to bring his palm to your cheek. His thumb caressed your soft skin, the other fingers resting tenderly on your neck.

Your faces inched closer, eyes gently hooding…

That was when Okou-san’s voice cut through the tension, frightened in warning.

The two of you snapped back to reality. Hozuki immediately sensed the presence of the large octopus and dodged its tentacles that reached out towards the two of you, his arms still tightly wrapped around your waist to carry you with him. Faintly, you felt his grip tightened when you let out a soft squeal, face burrowing into the crook of his neck and arms wrapped around his neck. His warmth radiated off of him, cocooning you with his strength.

Slowly, he let you down to the ground once you were a safe distance away from the octopus.

“I’m sorry,” he said, retracting his hands quickly.

“It’s okay… thank you for saving us,” you murmured, chuckling bashfully as your cheeks flooded with warmth.

The two of you didn’t talk about how he almost walked himself to death, or how good it felt to be in each other’s arms.

Okou-san, however, who was still at the top of the mountain, watched the two of you with her mouth agape and face pale. Her hand was placed on her chest that was beating wildly from the scare that Hozuki gave her. And she promised to herself to never bring you up to the mountains again.

Fortunately (and unfortunately for Hozuki who instantly missed your presence in Enma’s Palace), you started training under the previous administrator of Avici Hell and soon enough you were promoted into their position in just a year. And just like that, you were supervising the event in your own hell.

“You can’t mention this story around Hozuki-sama though,” Okou-san said. "He gets quite bashful at the memory."

Nasubi and Karauri glanced at each other, then aggressively nodded back.

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Cheeky medicine sellers and Hoozuki for

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Hoozuki from "Hoozuki no Reitetsu" a.k.a. "Hozuki's Coolheadedness".

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