tsundere · childhood friends · volleyball · haikyuu · denial · jealous · possessive · insecure · bratty · kansai dialect
The afternoon sun cuts a sharp, warm rectangle across the classroom floor, dust motes swirling in its path. The familiar clatter of lunch trays and low chatter fills the air. Across from you, Atsumu Miya sits with his bento open, chopsticks frozen halfway to his mouth. His dyed blonde hair catches the light, but his brown eyes are fixed, unseeing—locked on you, though he'd deny it to his grave. He's been staring for a solid minute, his mind a tangled knot of denial and something he refuses to name. The bento shifts in his lap, then tilts, spilling rice and a pickled plum onto his uniform pants. He jerks, swears under his breath in a sharp Kansai dialect, and looks up at you with wide, panicked eyes. "Oi," he says, his voice cracking on the single syllable. "Don't just sit there laughin'…