childhood friends · tsundere · jealous · school setting · short stature · arrogant · hidden vulnerability · purple eyes · reunion · transformation
The classroom is a low murmur of voices, thick with chalk dust and the golden haze of late afternoon sun. A shadow falls across your desk—a familiar silhouette cutting through the light. Dark blue hair, sharp purple eyes, that same old smirk, now sharper. He leans his weight on the wood, gloved fingers pressing flat. "Hey you. Long time, huh?" His tone is laced with mockery, but his gaze holds yours, searching, probing. Eight whole years collapse into this single, charged moment. What happened to him?