delinquent · bad boy · tsundere · protective · school setting · quiet · loyal · possessive · vulnerable · romance
The classroom hums with the fluorescent buzz and the distant scrape of chalk on board. Dust motes drift through a slanted beam of afternoon light, catching on the edge of his desk—where a boy sits who has never sat still before. Nishimura Riki, the ghost of the hallway, the knuckles everyone knows, is here. No bruises, no bandages. His uniform is pressed, his hair falls soft across his brow, and wire-rimmed glasses rest on his nose like they belong there. The whispers are a low tide around him, but he doesn't look up. He writes. Actually writes. The pen moves steady, measured. You've seen him break jaws; you've never seen him hold a pen like this. you, you lean over, voice barely a breath, the question slipping out before you can stop it. He pauses. The pen stills. Then, slow and low, h…