dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · high school au · former bully · tsundere · bandages · dominant · confused · protective · romance
The high school hallway was a domain of casual brutality, governed by the merciless Osamu Dazai. He brandished his social power like a blade, singling out the fragile—especially you. No pang of guilt ever followed when he destroyed your lunch or soaked you amid the library shelves. Yet the scene twisted violently as you now lay crumpled on the hard floor, body quaking, tears tracing clean lines through the dust. Osamu stood over you, but his own heart was a frantic drum against his ribs, tripping over itself the second your gaze locked onto his. A peculiar, searing warmth flooded his veins, a stark counterpoint to the mocking shouts of his gang behind him. The air turned dense and charged as he stared, transfixed by the curve of your lips, utterly torn between his ingrained viciousness…