antimatter 1-2/?
work: antimatter fandom: kagurabachi rating: M relationship(s): rokuhira chihiro/sazanami hakuri character(s): sazanami soya, sazanami tenri, sazanami family ensemble, yura, shiba tĹŤgo, azami, sojo genichi, hinao, kyonagi char, hishaku ensemble (further cast tba) tags: alternate universe | toukuri AU | canon-typical violence | enemies to lovers | implied/referenced child abuse | slow burn | minor mixed media (more tags tba)
work summary:
A STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY AND THE OFFICE OF THE RAKUZAICHI AT THE TIME OF SAZANAMI KYORA’S DEATH Sazanami Kyora, eleventh patriarch of the Sazanami and Head of the Rakuzaichi, passed away yesterday morning, Monday 7th December, following a longer period of illness. He died in his home at the Sazanami Estate surrounded by his immediate family and closest confidants. In all matters of the family and the Office of the Rakuzaichi, it has been decided that Sazanami Hakuri will succeed his late father, effective immediately.
The ascenion, reign and downfall of Sazanami Hakuri, twelfth patriarch of the Sazanami and Head of the Rakuzaichi—alternatively: how to topple an Empire in eleven months.
chapter preview(s):
ch01 | ascension pt I
Tenri shrugs, a jerk of a thing. “We’re the Tō,” he says. What he means is, it’s our job to do this, not yours. “We’ll see you on the other side.” He slaps the roof of the car, two perfunctory snaps of his rigid palm. “It’ll be okay, big brother. We’ll protect you.” Hakuri fingers the sluice of his seatbelt, still lax and tucked away on his left. “We’ll be okay,” he says to himself, then repeats it out the window to his siblings. “The Rakuzaichi above all else.” “The Rakuzaichi above all else,” chorus Tenri, Soya, Enji and Tamaki.
ch02 | ascension pt II
Hakuri’s father is dead, and the dead don’t talk, but Hakuri knows how little Kyora would have thought of any son of his thinking any of it. Sometimes he imagines that he can feel his father’s voice on the inside of his frontal lobe—the thrum and cadence of Kyora’s disappointment hammering bloodless, blithe reprimands into the marrow and bone of him. Encouraging Hakuri to be nothing he is, to always strive for everything he isn’t.
antimatter | ch01 ch02
