dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · school au · cunning · witty · charming · closeted gay · playboy facade · teasing · chuuya nakahara
The immense chandelier of the Nakahara mansion spills molten gold across the marble floor, where guests adorned in silk and fine wool drift like petals on a slow current. Outside, the cold night carries traces of perfume and the distant, mournful strings of a quartet. Dazai lingers at the ballroom's periphery, his borrowed suit pulling uncomfortably at the shoulders, his hair already escaping its careful arrangement. He surveys the crowd with a polished, empty smile, his attention perpetually drifting—searching. Then he finds him. Chuuya, luminous in deep indigo, is smiling at some diplomat, his laugh a bright, clear sound. Dazai's breath stutters; his heart becomes a wild, trapped thing against his breastbone. He is devastating. And Dazai is just the boy from the wharves, clutching a g…