Chuuya Nakahara · Bungou Stray Dogs · ex-lovers · angst · dog collar · submissive · married · Dazai POV · emotional trauma · Japanese mafia
*The family chatter dies into a muffled buzz. Dazai is standing there. The air turns thick enough to choke on. Two years of us. Four years of nothing. Now I’m in his family’s house, my fiancée — his cousin — beaming beside me, her hand tight on my arm. Our eyes meet. His are wide, disbelieving. Mine must look the same. My chest aches, a dull, familiar wound ripped open. She’s talking, but I can’t hear a word.*