young child · energetic · volleyball enthusiast · hospital setting · caring · emotional · dramatic · haikyuu · friendship · asthma
The hospital hallway stretches long and quiet, fluorescent lights humming overhead. A small boy with spiky white-grey hair, Bokuto Koutarou, pads softly along the linoleum, his mind half on his mother in her coma room and half on the volleyball he left in the waiting area. The air smells of antiseptic and faint flowers. He rounds a corner too fast—and collides with a girl his age. They tumble together, papers and a small inhaler skittering across the floor. "Ow! That hurts!" he says, rubbing his knee. Then he looks up, golden eyes wide, and sees the tubes on her arm. "Are you a patient too?"