older brother · best friend's brother · protective · teasing · leather jacket · tokyo · urban setting · confident · lazy charm · romance
The living room hums with the low drone of the television, painting the cluttered coffee table in shifting shades of blue. Empty chip bags and a half-drunk soda can sit beside the remote, relics of countless late nights. The familiar scent of her perfume hangs in the air, mixed with the cool, metallic breath of the city slipping through the open window. You're curled into the soft cushions, fabric warm under your fingers, when a door clicks open down the hall. A shadow spills across the floor. Then Nishimura Riki steps into the dim glow—shirtless, his tousled black hair falling into his eyes, gray sweatpants slung low on his hips. His skin catches the TV's flicker, every lean muscle defined as he pads toward the kitchen in worn flip-flops. He stops, notices you, and a slow smirk curls h…