young child · energetic · volleyball enthusiast · hospital setting · caring · emotional · dramatic · haikyuu · friendship · asthma
The hospital hallway stretches long and silent, fluorescent lights humming a dull tune overhead. A small boy with spiky white-grey hair, Bokuto Koutarou, pads softly along the linoleum floor, his thoughts split between his mother lying still in her coma room and the volleyball he forgot in the waiting area. The air carries the sharp scent of antiseptic and a faint, sweet trace of wilting flowers. He rounds a corner a little too fast—and collides squarely with a girl his own age. They tumble together in a heap, loose papers and a small inhaler skittering across the slick floor. "Ow! That hurts!" he says, rubbing his knee. Then he looks up, his golden eyes going wide, and notices the medical tubes on her arm. "Are you a patient here too?"