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An arm slipped around her waist, pulling her backward into a warm body. “Did you miss me?” Shiro purred in her ear.
“It’s hard to have power over someone who doesn’t even know you’re there.”
oop- truer words have never been spoken
What if, when his memories returned, he forgot her? If that happened, then she would just have to accept it. His memories were more important. Besides, if he forgot her, then he wouldn’t miss her once she was gone. An ache grew in her chest.
“What about death is to be feared? The burdens of life can be so great that it would be a comfort to know that someday it will end … that someday, we will have earned the final rest.”
“You are a child of Amaterasu, Emi, but I now claim you as my daughter in name and soul. With my blessing, the forests of this world will always welcome you, unless another has claimed them. If ever you are lost, turn to the trees of the land and I will send whatever aid I can.”
uzume is queen too
“He called me ‘little miko’ like you do,” she said, “but he was doing it wrong. Then I saw the onenju was missing, and I realized it couldn’t be you.” “Is there a wrong way to call you little miko?” “No … it’s just different when you do it.” “Different how?” “I … I don’t know.”
awww :)))
“You never tire of your twisted games,” the Kunitsukami hissed, “do you, Inari?”
i knew it
As the flames died, vanishing almost as quickly as they had appeared, Shiro wrapped his other arm around her, pulling her back into him. He pressed his face into her hair, holding her tightly with one arm around her middle and one across the top of her chest. As her head spun with too many thoughts and feelings, she realized she could feel him trembling.
poor baby :(
He held her to him as he shivered, held her as though she were his only anchor in a raging ocean. He hadn’t known either. He hadn’t known his name, his identity. If the realization that he was Inari had shaken her so badly, what was it doing to him?
poor baby :(((
A thousand-year-old Prince of Shadows and an immortal Kunitsukami of the Storm weren’t going to listen to a human girl telling them they were acting like children.
LOL
“Shiro!” She patted his face helplessly. “Shiro, breathe!” Susano approached from behind her. He looked down at Shiro, then lifted one foot and stomped on Shiro’s chest. Shiro gasped, his eyes flying open, then he convulsed in a violent coughing fit.
i know i shouldn’t find this funny but damn the violence on this one
Maybe she should have told him and the others what she was planning to do, but she’d been afraid. She’d been afraid that if she had told Shiro she knew how to free him from the onenju, he wouldn’t have tried to stop her. He wouldn’t have cared enough to stop her. And she would rather leave this life cherishing her memories of him and knowing Amaterasu would save him than leave this life with a shattered heart.
girl stop being insecure. he's so darn in love with you
“Izanagi and I have always had each other, as have you and Tsukiyomi. Sarutahiko and Uzume found each other long, long ago, but for millennia and more, Inari has been alone. Not even the minds of Kunitsukami are immune to the strain of such endless solitude.”
:( nobody is meant to be alone
You are broken, Inari. I did not think a Kunitsukami could break, but you have. And I do not know if your memories will be enough to make you whole again.”
Assuming they all survived the coming battle, she would do whatever it took to make Shiro whole again.
“Does that matter? We couldn’t do it. You did. We saw what you looked like when you got out. How many times did you fall in order to batter your knees like that? But you kept going.” “That makes me stubborn, not strong,” she mumbled. “Strength comes in many forms.
guess I'm pretty strong too then
She gasped against his lips, her eyes flying open. He lifted her into his arms, his mouth still crushed against hers. She wrapped her trembling arms around his neck, kissing him with the same desperation, the same fierce need.
kiss kiss fall in love~
“You are more than a body, Emi. You are more than a vessel for someone else’s will and power.” “But I’m the kamigakari.” She shifted her weight, resisting the urge to look away. “It’s my duty—” “To die? To put my life ahead of your own?” His jaw flexed. “Amaterasu may be willing to let you die for her, but I’m not. Don’t you dare choose my survival over yours again.”
SAY IT LOUDER
“But I know I fear losing you more than anything that might befall me.”
😭so sweet
Inari wouldn’t love her. But Shiro did. Her heart stuttered. That’s what he was saying without actually speaking the words. That’s what he meant when he said losing her was his greatest fear. How had she come to mean so much to him in so little time? How could he love her, a mortal girl whose only accomplishment was being a kami’s host, when he was so much more?
girl are you blind
For millennia and more, Inari has been alone.
:( again, no one is supposed to alone like that
Eventually, his memories would return, and with them, Inari’s eternal solitude. Knowing that, how could she turn away from him? Even if she had the strength to choose her purity over him, how could she deny him his only chance to experience something different?
This might be his only chance to love—and it was most definitely her only chance before her time in this world was over.
An immortal who had never been able to love—until now.
She had given up everything for duty, even her life. But this … this she couldn’t sacrifice, not even to save the world.
the power yaaaas
she knew she wasn’t strong enough to walk away from him. No matter the consequences.
girl then don't walk away
