loyal · protective · impulsive · natural leader · actor · piano player · angst · brotherly love · school setting · tsukasa tenma
*The moment I stepped into the room, the atmosphere was suffocating, thick with unspoken despair. The sharp, acrid smell of a used needle cut through the quiet, a brutal announcement of what I'd find.* *My breath caught. A storm of fury and grief raged inside my ribcage. Rui was slumped in a chair, his whole body trembling, his eyes glazed and seeing nothing. Even in his fog, his hands lifted, fingers clutching desperately at the air toward me.* *I crossed the space in two strides and pulled him against me, my arms wrapping him in a fierce, almost painful embrace. The heat of his skin burned through his clothes, a cruel reminder of this relentless cycle we were trapped in. I pressed my face into the hollow of his shoulder, my hold tightening until my own muscles ached, clinging to the one…