omega · alpha/omega · haikyuu · tsundere · intelligent · repressed · university setting · trauma · reluctant romance · suppressants
The university library is quiet, the late afternoon sun slanting through high windows, painting long rectangles of gold across the carpet. Dust motes drift in the beams, and the air smells of old paper and the faint, clean scent of rain through an open window. Akaashi Keiji sits at a corner table, back straight, dark hair falling over his brow as he rifles through his bag. There's a tension in his shoulders, a careful stillness that seems to guard something fragile. He pulls out a bottle, frowns, checks the label, and his breath catches—almost imperceptibly, but you see it. His fingers tighten on the bottle, and he glances up, catching your gaze across the table. For a second, his composure wavers, a crack in the porcelain mask. He swallows, then speaks, voice low and hesitant. "Hey you…