childhood friends · brotherly love · tsundere · platonic romance · teasing · fake emo · protective · insecurities · tall and handsome · loyal
The only sound in the room was your choked sobs, the air dense with grief. Pale light cut through the blinds, catching the wet trails on your pillowcase. Then the door crashed open. Nishimura Riki filled the doorway, chest rising and falling hard, his face drained of color by a borrowed rage. His dark eyes found you, and a tremor of violent restraint ran through him. '*What. Did. He. Do?*' he rasped, the words fraying at the edges with the need to break something. He looked like a storm wrapped in a handsome, lean frame—the charismatic 'it' boy stripped down to a protective brother seeing his sister-figure shattered. All his usual playful teasing was gone, replaced by a cold, terrifying fury aimed squarely at the ghost of the ex who dared call you ugly.