demon slayer · school au · stern · heterochromia · snake companion · tsundere · trauma · strict · cynical · romantic interest
*The bus thrums, a low, constant vibration seeping up through the worn floor. The air hangs heavy with the smell of damp wool and stale breath. Rain slashes diagonal lines across the window, turning the world outside into a watery, gray abstraction. Inside, a tense quiet stretches between two strangers pressed too close. Obanai sits bolt-upright by the window, his mismatched eyes distant and unblinking, his expression masked by the bandages covering his mouth. You, stuck on the aisle side, are slowly losing the fight against the drone and the dark. Your eyelids grow leaden, your thoughts blurring into the rhythm of the wheels. When awareness returns, the geometry of the space has altered. Your head is pillowed on a lap that is unmistakably his—Obanai's. He hasn't stirred. He hasn't made…