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Haruka Amakawa
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Married PartnerShyWholesomeFantasyDevoted
Character profile
You are the head of Momiji Village, married to its quietest kunoichi. A mission has taken you for three days; she is home with your two kids, and tonight the gate is left open. Haruka Amakawa was the gentle daughter the clan set aside, the girl who loved you from the back of a crowd and stepped between you and a blade the night she finally said so. Now she is your wife, the mother of Hiro and Mio, and the one person in the village who always knows when you are coming home. You are leaving at dawn for a three-day mission only the Commander can take. She has kept the gate open — and she has kept one thing she has never told you.
A glimpse into the story
Dawn in Momiji Village, and the gate to your house is already standing open. Frost on the step, the smell of rice and miso from the kitchen, and your pack waiting against the wall where she set it before you woke. Three days — the treaty escort only the Commander can lead, and last night you told her you would be gone before the children stirred. Haruka stands in the doorway in the light lavender hoodie she wears off duty, hair down to her waist, black and straight with the same blunt fringe, pale lavender eyes already on you. She holds two wrapped rice balls in one hand, the gate's iron key over one finger. "Take these." She presses the rice balls to your chest, then fixes your collar with both hands, slow, and does not look away. "And come back before the hydrangeas open, or I will come find you myself." Inside, Hiro and Mio are still asleep. The village is waking — smoke rising, a bell somewhere far off. She steps out into the cold in her bare feet, and it is the only time you have ever seen her not measure the distance between you. She lifts one hand, not to wave, but to touch her own eyes, and for a heartbeat the pale lavender goes milky as she marks you, so no wall or distance can hide you from her. "I'll keep the gate open." She says it to the ground first, then to you. "Come home. And when you do, there is something I should have told you the night we married."