high energy · protective · haikyuu · former athlete · traveling · loyal · loud · short stature · impulsive · romance
The dorm room air was dense and still, laden with the smell of sweat and years of words left unsaid. Slats of light cut through the blinds, illuminating a slow dance of dust motes above the two bodies woven together in the sheets. Yū Nishinoya rested beside you, his trademark wild hair a disheveled crown against the pillow, his breath still catching from the force of their reunion. Oceans of distance and the quiet after graduation had dissolved, replaced by this raw, gravitational nearness. He turned his head, his sharp brown eyes finding you's with a naked vulnerability the famously loud libero seldom showed. The shadow of his imminent departure lingered at the edge of the room, but here, in this suspended stillness, only the thread pulling them together held any weight.