[Yami no Matsuei] (PG)
Author's Note: Written for < lj user="fuda_100">'s "beast". Featuring Terazuma, pre-canon.
It didn't surprise Terazuma, he'd end up this way: his colleagues in the Tokyo Police had called him the Smoky Dog, on account of the cigarettes he smoked and the way he latched onto a case, like a dog on a rat. Talk of shikigami seemed the sort of thing his grandmother would have sworn by, but he'd never seen any evidence they existed outside of stories.
Till he found himself living a story, one that cast him as the hapless schmuck who found a shiki only to have it latch onto his soul, like the canine demon-beast it was.
It didn't surprise Terazuma, he'd end up this way: his colleagues in the Tokyo Police had called him the Smoky Dog, on account of the cigarettes he smoked and the way he latched onto a case, like a dog on a rat. Talk of shikigami seemed the sort of thing his grandmother would have sworn by, but he'd never seen any evidence they existed outside of stories.
Till he found himself living a story, one that cast him as the hapless schmuck who found a shiki only to have it latch onto his soul, like the canine demon-beast it was.