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Some random doodles because he’s so hard to draw
Language barrier
Pairing: Rengoku x gn! y/n
Context: fluff, modern au, Kyojuro is bilingual
A/n: Hello, this is my first time writing something so I hope you’ll like it <3
Thank you @meowzfordayz @neiptune for being the first readers. I’m also tagging @thebomb-thebird-andtheburntbitch because the 3 of you are my biggest inspo and why I wrote this🌸
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Kyojuro yawned and rubbed his eyes. The book he was holding on to threatened to fall from his hands as he realised it was getting late. The clock showed that it was almost midnight, and he took it as his cue to finally go to sleep. As he was about to turn off the lights, he noticed the figure in bed beside him suddenly stir, and he couldn’t help but crack a smile.
He looked over, but much to his surprise the love of his life was not asleep yet. He quirked a brow in amusement.
You laid silently with one hand on your stomach and the other hovering in the air. Your eyes were closed, but your index finger was moving, slicing into nothing. It looked as if you were drawing something as your finger stroked the air, or perhaps conducting an orchestra. You stopped mid-stroke and muttered under your breath, a curse perhaps. Kyojuro only watched for a solid minute before he shifted and laid closer to you.
“My love? What are you doing? I thought you were asleep.”
“Something bothered me, and I can’t seem to get a grasp on it.”
“Oh?” He kept quiet, urging you to continue as he watched your index finger move up and down in one swift motion. Judging from your tone of voice, you hadn’t been asleep at all.
Your head turned towards him, eyes fluttering open to meet a pair of his bright coloured irises. “I can’t seem to memorise the ‘ha’ column.”
Kyojuro’s smile widened, and his heart feels full. You had been trying to learn his native language for a week now. Although he had told you he did not mind the fact that you don’t speak Japanese, your insistence on learning his mother tongue made his heart soar.
You practiced with him every day, memorising the stroke orders of most common kanji characters and tried to have small conversations with him. He is a wonderful teacher. Despite your lack of knowledge and poor memorisation skills, he was patient and loving and kind through it all. Tonight, when you tried to recap your lessons for today, a column of hiragana characters became scrambled. It had nagged on you and kept you awake.
“Well, that should be easy enough!” His volume rose a bit in excitement. Moving his hand, he interlocked it with yours, the back of your hand facing the both of you.
With the other free hand, his index finger stroked the back of your hand gently.
It formed the character “ は“
“How do you pronounce that?” He questioned, smiling at you.
“ ‘Ha-‘ right?”
“Correct!”
He scribbled on your hand again. This time forming the character “へ“
“he”
“Good job!”
His touch was gentle and comforting, making your eyes droop from relaxation. You decide to close them and let your sense of touch guide you.
This time his scribbling formed the character “ふ”
“fu?” You answered much quieter
“Yes, great job my love.” His volume dropped, sensing the tiredness in your pitch. “What about this?” He wrote down the character “れ“
Your brows furrowed and your eyes opened half-lidded at him.
“That’s not in the ‘ha’ column.”
He chuckled, happy that you remembered what he taught you. “But do you know what it is?”
“It’s ‘re’ like the start of your family name.” You heard a prideful gasp came out of him.
“Wonderful, that’s amazing you remembered.” You could feel him squeezing your hand a bit, warm and gentle, making you feel sleepy once again. You feel like drifting off but kept yourself awake enough as he wrote down the next one. You bit your lip. You know it’s in the ‘ha’ column but you don’t know how it sounded.
“Can you do that again?”
“Of course.”
His index finger traced the back of your hand again, this time much slower and gentler, as If he’s trying to coax you back into relaxing.
“I don’t…know that one.”
“That one is pronounced ho”
“…right..”
The character “ほ” popped up in your mind, and you kept quiet trying to combat the drowsiness and memorise the stroke order you felt.
He went silent for a while. His lack of commentary stirred you awake.
“Kyojuro?”
“Ahh..I thought you went to sleep?” You laughed. “No, not yet, but you writing on my hand is making me sleepy.” He only responded with a thoughtful “hmm”
“Alright, let’s test your kanji.” You sighed, not prepared for the sudden quiz.
“Oh no…I’m going to suck at this.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll use the ones you’ve been learning so far.”
“Alright then...”
His finger moved in skilful motions, stroking right, down, right, right, with precision. He was going slow so you could catch up and make sense of the stroke order. It was difficult but with some concentration you made out that he had written the kanji “描く“ on the back of your hand.
“Ega- ku, -to paint something.”
“Yoku dekita!”
You laughed at his response.
He scribbled another kanji down, and you immediately recognised it because you’ve been practising on how to write it almost every day.
“Well now you’re just trying to write your own name.” You quipped, with a small smirk.
“I’m not even done yet, and I am both impressed and flattered you remembered!” You chuckled lightly at him, and it sounded like music to his ears.
His name was not that complicated, but he continued anyway, caressing your skin gently just to reinforce your brain into remembering the stroke order. He went slowly, his touch causing you to drift off more and more with every stroke. By the time he had finished the “郎” from ” 杏寿郎” you had already gone to sleep.
Seeing that you were finally dead to the world, he pulled on your hand and kissed it gently. Your silent reply was all he needed to confirm that his mission was successful. Pulling back, he decided to write down one final kanji before retiring for the night. He wrote more of a sentence really, and his eyes widened in excitement when he realised he hadn’t taught you this yet.
“ずっと大好きだよ。”
Smiling, he turned off the lights, wrapped his arms around you and went to sleep.
I had a conversation with my sister who is a doctor about Kyojuro’s eye, and that conversation inspired this.
Also that fourth page is a reference to Veil by Kotteri <3
“It’s not you, it’s everything at once”
(Best bf award goes to him tbh)
Clingy <3
Based on @thebomb-thebird-andtheburntbitch ‘s fic! Please give it a read if you haven’t!
Based on @muvaginger ‘s fic which is short and sweet :) please give it a read!
Happy Birthday!❤️ (Izzy’s version <3)
A redraw from an old piece I did to see if I improved, unfortunately my bestfriend said she likes the old one better <\3
Timeskip Kyojuro my beloved Teehee
I think Kyojuro will chomp at least 50% of it if you offer him something
Some more modern day shenanigan doodles <3
The modern au is growing on me❣️
You do know I’d die for you right?
I would prefer you do not.
Cause I knew you
Stepping on the last train
Marked me like a blood stain
This is another redraw of an old piece! I don’t think i did a better job for this one though T^T
he's more owl like but i think it counts <3
Night owl vs early bird
My Message to you Rengoku x Reader
this will be my first ever posted work so please remember to be kind, this was attempted angst
♡♡♡♡♡
A wound with no mark
Yet everyday infection will spread
Np poultice or medication
The only know cure is something you should dread
I knew it was always a possibility however I believed your strength and your will to be able to trump your enemy, you kissed me goodbye like always, a hand over the baby bump with a promise on your lips, a promise you couldn’t keep. How I wish to join you, dark ideas filling my mind. Yet as I carry and grow the last piece I’ll ever have of you the thought leaves me and my body on this earth, for I know you’d never forgive that transgression.
What dark fell vision is this
Descending from above yet dark as the most shadowy pits of hell
It chills the soul yet my body is not marred
While this may be with its body let us hope the body is not with it
I see the truth, and as such cannot be unscarred
Day after day I feel tormented by the idea of you in your last moments, as you drew your last breath, the last words anyone here will ever be blessed to receive. The idea that you have joined the fallen brethren before you at least, a blessed child now joins the fallen, how truly tormenting.
A star falls from the sky
It seems a fitting end
To extinguish it’s own light
So eternal darkness will descend
Your light gone and never to return, no other can ever compare. The growing piece of you in me forever void of your warmth, never to know the love of their own father. The radiance of the purest man I’d ever known stripped from this world by a filthy shadow from hell. The light of my world forever gone and now I live in the shadow of your memory.