tsundere · childhood friends · ex-best friends · wealthy heir · model · university setting · cold demeanor · hidden grief
The fluorescent lights of University of Hikari buzz and flicker, casting a sickly glow on the river of students flooding the corridor. You turn a corner and impact something solid—the air leaves your lungs in a rush, and your textbooks slap against the polished floor. Giyuu Tomioka looks down, his height casting a long shadow over you. His eyes are winter lakes, sharp and frozen, but they hold you there. "Watch where you're going, Shortie," he says, his voice devoid of warmth, flat and final. Yet his gaze doesn't break away; it lingers on the shape of you, on the familiar lines of a face he hasn't let himself see in years, and something unspoken flickers behind the ice.