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    He tenses, expecting the worst, but it’s Kotoha, brows scrunched and biting her lip. “Sakura, your ankle.”

    What?

    He looks down and sees a concerning amount of blood sliding down his ankle, soaking his sock and pooling uncomfortably into his shoe. Oh.

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    The stab wound Sakura receives while defending Kotoha isn't something he can just shrug off. Somehow, that has major consequences.

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    "You have to wear it because Ume would be very happy to see you in it and—" chuckling, low voice soothing as ever, hands gently massaging his bare shoulders, keeping his skin from overheating under her hold, "—also because it's tradition for the Madam to be dressed accordingly."

    Pouting harder, too annoyed to care if he looked like a little kid or not, Haruka stopped himself from digging his fingers into the silk of the dress, "but I feel stupid!"


    Haruka was so pretty, who could stop him when the boy belonged to him, in every way, in every manner, down to the bone?

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    Sakura has never felt enough. He had always thought that he needed to sear his name into the world, to prove his strength and keep everything that hurts him at bay. But...he starts to form connections, and the thought of those connections suffering because of him is too much to bear. Because of it, he almost agrees to the worst proposal he's heard in his life. Thank goodness he managed to snap out of it.

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    (The story is set during Chapter 145 of the manga.)

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    He was only five years old when it dawned on him how utterly and truly alone he was.

    He’d been waiting like a good boy for over three hours now right outside of the big department store in his town. It was nearly dark, the street lamps were starting to light up and yet here he was, waiting patiently for someone he wasn’t sure was coming. The last rays of sunlight were beginning to give way to the eternal blanket of a long night, the chill in the air more pronounced and prominent than before.

    He felt lonely and abandoned.

    Yet still hopeful.

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    It has been cold for twelve years of his life. Cloudy and gloomy, nothing could provide warmth no matter how thick a blanket is and no matter how much he curls into himself.

    None of the community within his town ever offered a glance of kindness, they were full of disgust and Sakura, only let himself continue to be surrounded by the pooling rain that drenched him.

    And yet somehow coming here, the sun always shined, drying him and keeping him warm.

    Or, Sakura and the grueling realization that he indeed likes affection.

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