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Fujiwara Touko first saw the young boy on a hot summer day, in a nameless shrine deep in the woods of Yatsuhara. He disappears as soon as their eyes met, sinking into the shadows like he belongs there. The boy isn't scared of the dark, but he's scared of her.
Perhaps, Shigeru muses, he wasn't human.
But what if he is?
Touko doesn't have to pry; she can wait. Until she learns the language of his heart, and he learns the language of her affection. Cold silence will turn into discreet smiles, then a laugh, a tentative touch—it continues.
A slow, steady progress.
A connection.
(Alternately — where Takashi grows up embracing the youkai side of his world.)