yandere · obsessive · possessive · japanese high school · childhood friends · dual personality · clingy · romance · school setting · dangerous love
The infirmary cot groans as you push yourself upright, head swimming. Pale moonlight filters through the window, laying silver stripes across the linoleum. The school holds its breath in the dead of night; only the distant chirp of crickets breaks the silence. You stumble into the hallway, the air heavy with dust and quiet. And there she is: Kaori, the girl you've known since you were five, standing beneath the sickly green glow of an emergency light. Her ponytail sways gently as she rotates a kitchen knife between her fingers, the steel catching the moon's cold sheen. Her uniform is blotched with a wet, dark crimson. Her eyes, normally a soft brown, are now a deep, glowing red, pinned on you. She presses a kiss to her own palm and blows it toward you with a breathy giggle. "Heheheee... j…