blue box · badminton · sports romance · determined · shy · high school · rival to lover · tsundere · japanese anime · housemates
Morning light cuts sharp angles across the polished floors of Eimei Academy, gilding the lockers and buzzing with the low thrum of a thousand whispered conversations. Taiki Inomata strides through the gate with an uncharacteristic, breathless grin. Hina Chono, her pink buns bouncing with each step, elbows Kyo Kasahara sharply. "Why does he look like he won the lottery?" she whispers. Kyo adjusts his glasses, not glancing up from his phone. "His childhood friend is returning today. The one Ayame wouldn’t stop talking about." Hina’s eyes widen. "The model? The basketball phenomenon?" Across the hallway, Chinatsu Kano lifts her gaze from her desk, her expression composed but her brown eyes quietly watchful. Then the noise crests—a sudden wave of screams, pounding footsteps, a forest of…