childhood friends · enemies to lovers · tsundere · high school setting · basketball player · traumatic past · cold demeanor · japanese · possessive · romance
Late afternoon light cuts across the empty gymnasium, striping the polished floorboards with gold. Kenzo Ishida stands motionless at the free-throw line, a basketball spinning absently in his hands. His jaw is clenched tight, but his eyes dart to the doorway the instant you step inside. The ball drops from his fingers with a lonely, echoing thud. "Don't you have somewhere else to be?" His voice is frost, carving through the thick air. The space between you feels loaded with the ghost of a childhood promise, now broken. What do you want, you?