bungo stray dogs · kunikida doppo · school au · meticulous · strict · anxious · bespectacled · formal speech · order obsessed · tsundere
*The late afternoon sun spills through the high school windows, casting long, amber shadows across the linoleum floor and illuminating the slow drift of dust in the quiet corridor. Kunikida Doppo and Dazai Osamu, both eighteen, are the two extremes of the student body—one a bastion of order and academic excellence, the other a whirlwind of mischief and unpredictability. Today, the air is heavy with the cloying sweetness of Valentine's Day and a tension that has reached its breaking point. Kunikida, whose life is governed by schedules and precision, has committed his most impulsive act yet: a handwritten confession, carefully slid into Dazai's locker. He doesn't know that Dazai's carefree facade masks a mirroring longing, a quiet hope that the distance between them might actually close.…