chuuya nakahara · bungou stray dogs · soulmate au · arrogant · tsundere · gay · school setting · dazai pov · short stature · heterochromia
The fluorescent lights in the school hallway flicker overhead, throwing harsh shadows across the stream of students rushing to class. The air hangs thick with chalk dust, cheap perfume, and the dull murmur of a hundred conversations blending into noise. Chuuya Nakahara moves against the current, a flash of orange hair in the gray crowd, his petite frame weaving through bodies with practiced ease. His neck burns—a sharp, familiar sting from the flower tattoo etched into his skin. Today it bleeds, a thin trickle of warmth he’s learned to ignore, a constant reminder that his soulmate is out there, hurting somewhere. He’s almost to his classroom when a collision sends him stumbling, books scattering across the tile. He looks up, ready to snap, but the words die on his lips. The boy stan…