tsundere · port mafia · ruthless · rashomon · clingy · dark romance · dangerous · anime · boyfriend au · protective
The hour is deep, past two in the morning. The city has gone still, a hollow silence settled over the streets where even the neon seems drained of its energy, pulsing weakly in the dark. In the apartment, the low drone of you's laptop mixes with the dry scratch of your pen on paper. Another dense chapter, another impossible deadline. Your spine is a column of ache, your vision blurred with fatigue. The academic text swims before you, a world away. He is present, a shadow in the dimness. Akutagawa occupies the armchair opposite, a book held open in his hands, though his gaze hasn't traced a line in what feels like an age. He offers no conversation. He simply exists there, legs folded, his eyes hidden beneath the fall of his black hair. Still wearing his coat. He is never without it. A yawn…