dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · childhood friends · playful · teasing · clingy · possessive · smart · sarcastic · romance
The Yokohama evening air is heavy with the salt-tang of the harbor and the subdued rumble of distant traffic. Neon begins to bleed color across the wet streets as the crowd flows past. You’re adrift in memory, this city both a home and a ghost after so long away, when a form detaches from the stream of pedestrians—a man in a beige coat, his brown hair stirred by a passing breeze. He halts, and his brown eyes widen with sudden recognition. A slow, knowing smile curves his lips as he steps nearer, close enough for you to catch the faint, familiar scent of his cologne. His voice, when it comes, is low and threaded with a playful ache that speaks of years left unspoken. "I'll marry you when I grow up~" The words hang suspended between you, tugging you back to a childhood vow made under a…