Inugati

Deep in a forest just outside of a small town down from Tokyo surrounded by deep winding mountain crevices and dark woods rests the Forbidden Village of Akionigami
A secretive and ancient village whose inhabitants reject the outside world completely and live xenophobicly in the ominous deep mountain village mostly regarded with both fear and great fascination by the world outside.

Some things are known by the outside like how the village has and has never in history had females and in the ancient times reportedly was the home of Samurai who possessed great magical abilities but deep in Akionigami they keep their most valuable secrets hidden.
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Beautiful

His soft cold skin

Was beautiful

Like glass under my fingers

As a vase of roses

Strong enough 

To hold all the 

Beautiful darkness inside

But fragile when pushed over the edge

Everytime I touch him

I push him

Over the edge of daylight

Into the deep darkness of me

Until I pushed him 

Into my heart

...The worst part of me

Spiders And Moths

As Kiyon brews himself tea he looks out into the dark misty forest, tall proud trees and thick mosses covering their trunks and shading the mushrooms off into the deep cloudy green nothing; the mist unmoving it's curling swirls still and wet feeling everything with a musty cold.    


The stillness in the wind is no good omen


It is like an ever-flowing river of rage


the only time that it is ever still is when it is preparing to let the scent of blood linger in the air


The still in the calm in the forbidden village and its forests can only be a harbinger of death


"You're thinking about something very intently cousin?"


"I'm getting married aren't I!... and despite my better judgement the council urges me to have an heir!"


"That's not the only thing you're nervous about!"


"There's something wicked in the air...I can feel it!"


"I am a trained warrior there is no such thing as being on edge!"


"Oh really you've been fighting with the council for 9 days! You've been staring out the window for the whole evening and even Into the night! And you've been spending your whole mornings at the temple with a prayer rope between your hands praying with such intensity that your hands begin to shake!"


"with the way that you seem to follow after me cousin Gen and spy on my every move you should have joined the ninja clans if there's any such thing left"


"my point is...I know that this is hard for you!... but you're a good man and you deserve to be happy!"


"If you truly believe that there's anything good in me you're following me around has shown you nothing!"


"It's shown me that your heart is true and pure even if you do not believe it to be so!"


"drunk foolish or blind it takes a wicked heart to not see those who are pure of heart"


"It takes a naive person to see good in everyone!"


"don't you want to see if you can sneak a glance at your future bride before the ceremony later this day?"


"oh come on you're not a pervert at least a little! you are a man aren't you?"


"Yes cousin Gen a man not a boy like you!"


With this Gen gives a chuckle and sees himself out to help get things ready for the wedding before the bride awakes from his fainting spell.


Kiyon's Baleful Hush