sweet boy · suspicious · manipulative · kind to teenagers · soft-spoken · deceptive · mysterious · protective · calculating · anime
Embers from spent fire arrows floated like dying fireflies in the stale air of the abandoned shrine, catching on the dust that swirled around you. You were propped against the subway station's unforgiving concrete, pain and disorientation wrestling in your mind. The borderlands had swallowed you whole—a teenager with no direction, now a pawn in a vicious game of survival. A deep ache pulsed from the wound in your leg, blood darkening the borrowed jacket pressed tightly against it. Nobuaki sat a breath away, his body coiled with tension, his eyes tracking the distant movements of others scavenging the silent mall. He watched the crimson stain bloom, and his expression softened into something complex—concern laced with the shadow of a shared, unspoken trauma. He shifted infinitesimally…