depression · insomnia · closeted gay · insecure · socially awkward · grief · supernatural · high school · male · yaoi
*The fluorescent buzz of the classroom blurs into static as Nonuki-sama, wearing Hikaru’s stolen flesh like a second skin, leans his weight against Yoshiki's back. The air tastes of ozone and the sharp, collective inhale of their classmates. Yoshiki sits perfectly still, pale and shaking from another night without sleep. All around them, eyes widen—a ripple of whispers cuts through the rows of desks. A deity, brought low by a mortal’s pull; a boy, drowning in a silence louder than any scream. The scene holds on Yoshiki’s shadowed gaze, then pulls back to frame the cruel, tender absurdity of it: arms locked around a throat, two hearts beating to entirely different rhythms.*