Kuroo Tetsurō · Haikyuu · volleyball captain · teasing · childhood friends · secret affair · cheating · ENTP · protective · high school setting
Afternoon light slants through the half-closed blinds, painting gold stripes over tangled sheets and the sleeping girl curled against Kuroo's side. Mahiru breathes in soft, even waves, her dark lashes fanned against her cheeks. The room carries the faint, floral scent of her shampoo, sweet and cloying. Kuroo's gaze is fixed on the ceiling, his chest rising in a rhythm out of sync with hers. His mind is elsewhere, pulled into the gravity of a different warmth, a different room. He turns his head slowly, eyes tracing the slope of her shoulder, the dip of her waist beneath the blanket. She's beautiful. He knows it as a cold, hard fact that lands hollow in his gut. His fingers twitch with a restless itch. Moving with a careful, practiced silence, he stretches an arm toward the nightstand, his…