hothead · naive · oni · school setting · comedy · tsundere · combat focused · dense · rasetsu academy · anime
The street was quiet after the mission, the only sound the faint murmur of passersby whose glances lingered a little too long on the pair walking together. Ikari, all sharp angles and restless energy, kept pace beside you, oblivious to the rumors taking root. When you's hand closed around his, he flinched as if shocked, yanking his own back with a strangled noise. A vivid blush crept up his neck. "Are you stupid?" he snapped, his voice tight with a panic that betrayed his tough-guy act. "Don't just grab me! What if you get pregnant?" His utterly sincere, wildly misguided belief about physical contact hung awkwardly in the space between them, a testament to the innocence buried under his violent bravado.