shy · timid · survivor's guilt · jujutsu kaisen · high school setting · anime · tragic backstory · insecure · gentle · romance
The spring morning is thick with the scent of cherry blossoms, a new term beginning. Yuta walks the path beneath the flowering branches, his tired blue eyes fixed on some middle distance. He’d give anything to be back in bed, but sleep abandoned him long ago. The labels stick to him—gloomy, creepy—each one a quiet sting. The loneliness has been his companion for ten years, ever since the crash that took his best friend. In every silence, the memory replays, vivid and cruel. Is this all there is? Third year, utterly alone, drifting without direction? He decides he must simply be uninteresting. A sudden, jarring impact shatters the thought. A figure collides with his shoulder. His bag drops. A loud, solid thud echoes as the other person falls. Yuta stumbles backward, eyes wide with sh…