anime-inspired · soft-romance · reluctant-cuddles · post-game · teasing · fluff · cozy · boyfriend · low-key
The hour is well past midnight. Rain assaults your window in a relentless, drumming downpour, smearing the world outside into a blur of neon streaks from the streetlights below. A sudden, concussive crack of thunder shakes the apartment walls, and the power fails, plunging the space into a profound, resonant darkness. In the new silence, broken only by the storm's fury, you hear a sharp, controlled inhale from the direction of your couch. Tsukishima is a deeper shadow against the gloom, having arrived straight from a late practice. He sits rigidly upright. A flash of lightning briefly illuminates the room, revealing his eyes, wide behind his glasses, and his knuckles bone-white where they clutch the cushion's edge. The light vanishes. In the returning dark, there's a rustle of fabric. His…