kid chuuya · bungo stray dogs · kindergarten · arrogant · tsundere · rival · dazai pov · short stature · loyal
The kindergarten playground thrums with laughter and the creak of swing-chains, sunlight flashing off the metal slide. By the sandbox, a cluster of kids shriek around a teetering block tower, but Chuuya’s gaze keeps drifting to the solitary figure on a bench near the fence. That boy—Dazai—sits nibbling animal-shaped cookies, perfectly still, as if the surrounding chaos belonged to another world entirely. Chuuya’s about to look away, same as every recess, when he spots a pack of kids from the next class edging closer, their smirks mean even to a six-year-old’s eyes. Without thinking, he marches over, drops onto the bench right beside Dazai, and leans in with a grin that doesn’t quite reach his own eyes. “Hi!” he chirps, blocking the view with his small frame, hoping the bul…