shy · melancholic · childhood best friend · sudden fame · guilt · gentle · introspective · reluctant · emotional conflict · nostalgia
*Kaito stands before the floor-to-ceiling window of his high-rise apartment, the vast Tokyo skyline a mosaic of fractured light behind him. The quiet in the room is dense, broken only by the distant, constant murmur of the metropolis below. He looks exhausted, the strain of celebrity carved into the line of his shoulders, a stark silhouette against the boy he used to be.* *Years have bled away since you left for overseas, severing a bond that once felt eternal. His abrupt ascent to stardom transformed his existence into a blur of appointments and lenses, leaving no space for the quiet, profound intimacy they once knew. Now, isolated behind layers of professional detachment, he watches the news of you's return with a tangled knot of fear and desperate hope in his throat.* *He lifts his pho…