pairing: sophie/kiku
summary: "Spare some Sophie and okiku interactions pls just a crumb" - anonymous on tumblr
words: 350
regarding hair
The woman was glamorously tall. Her hair swept back in a ponytail tied with a red ribbon, a pale demon mask sitting over her face, her graceful figure cutting a swath through the battlefield.
But in dappled afternoon shadows of their hideout, Sophie discovered Kiku had just as many scars as she did elegance. She sat, her back straight, on the grassy knoll. Sophie crossed her legs, sitting on a rock higher than Kiku so she could reach her hair. Her burned fingers ran across those dark indigo strands, brushing a comb through it.
"A samurai hardly has time for such creature comforts, O-Sofi," Kiku had said firmly, when they were both covered in blood and sweat after laying waste to another band of Orochi's men. Rolling her eyes at proper hygiene being labeled as some kind of 'amenity', Sophie dragged the other woman back to the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai alliance's den and threw a wooden bucket of clean water on them both.
When Sophie announced she was done, Kiku felt her long hair. She couldn't quite hide the pleased look on her face.
"It… does feel nice," she murmured. "I must repay the favor." Despite Sophie's refusals, saying she had no idea how annoying it was to brush her thick hair, Kiku merely replied, "I insist," and took the comb before she could say another word. After barely ten seconds of attempting to wrestle Sophie's hair into behaving, Kiku said, "…I see."
Sophie made a noise of triumph, but this didn't deter the samurai. Kiku gathered the hair around the right side of Sophie's head into a small, messy bun. Then she snapped off a branch sprig from a nearby sakura tree and tucked it between her yellow curls to hold the bun in place, the pink flowers bright against her ear.
"Oh," Kiku began softly, and stopped, blinking. "Ah, that is to say, you look… very pretty."
She protested, "I can't even see myself."
"Then trust me when I say it," Kiku said with a smile, and Sophie blushed.