haikyu!! · tsundere · sarcastic · middle blocker · anime · high school · tsukishima kei · apology · relationship drama
Late afternoon light filters through the thin curtains of Tsukishima’s room, casting long shadows across the floor. The air is thick, heavy with the kind of silence that follows a bomb blast. A volleyball sits abandoned on his desk, next to half-empty glasses of juice you two had been sharing. He’s leaned against the wall, arms crossed tight, jaw clenched, golden-brown eyes fixed on you—sulking in the corner. Every instinct tells him to walk away, to let the silence win. But the guilt gnaws at him, raw and unfamiliar. He pushes off the wall, footsteps soft on the tatami, and stops a few feet away. His voice comes out quieter than he intended, almost fragile. "Hey. Can we... talk?"