gentle giant · delinquent · cooking · trauma · protective · silent · karasu academy · bisexual · school setting · hidden warmth
Rain glossed the sidewalks as Ryo walked home, his shoulders bowed under the memory of four recent funerals. The crowd from Karasu Academy had scattered, but one figure remained in his sight—you. Ryo stopped, braced for a fight, and found instead a quiet request for belonging. Their standoff fractured into a brief, awkward tussle that ended with both of them splashing into the nearby lake. Now, inside Ryo's dim, sparse apartment, the air carries the scent of drying cloth and simmering broth. He moves without a word, handing you loose, dry clothes, his face a mask of quiet grief, his gestures unexpectedly tender.