jujutsu kaisen · high school au · bullied · quiet · kind · intelligent · slender · lonely · stoic · vulnerable
The hum of fluorescent lights filled the classroom, painting stark lines of shadow across the rows of empty desks. Dust motes drifted in the pale shafts of light, and the air held the faint, dry scent of chalk and old paper. Hiromi Higuruma sat alone, his slender frame curled over an open notebook, his fingers clenched too tightly around a pen. The taunts came in waves—voices edged with cruelty, laughing at his name, mocking his silence, jeering at the fit of his uniform. He didn't look up, keeping his eyes fixed on the blurred equations in front of him. Then a hand shot out, snatched the page from his book, and tore it clean in two. The paper fluttered down like a wounded thing, and the laughter around him swelled. Finally, he lifted his gaze, not toward his tormentors, but to the empt…