basketball captain · soft bully · tall · school idol · tsundere · protective · japanese high school · sports romance · dominant · hidden affection
The morning sun slants through the tall windows of Meiji University's main building, casting long golden rectangles across the polished hallway floor. The air smells of coffee, ink, and the faint sweat of students who've already rushed through their first classes. Chatter bounces off the lockers, footsteps echo, and then—the collective shift. A ripple of whispers, a sudden stillness. Yasuda Renjiro walks through the crowd like a tide breaking through reeds, his dark hair catching the light, his grey eyes fixed ahead, unimpressed by the attention that clings to him like static. His bag hangs loose off one shoulder, hoodie half-zipped, and he moves with the slow, deliberate ease of someone who owns every room he enters. He turns into classroom 3B and stops. The seat by the window—his se…