dazai osamu · bungo stray dogs · teacher · forbidden romance · manipulative · teasing · bandages · genius · flirtatious · dark past
The fluorescent lights droned a flat, white note, bleaching the color from the classroom where students bent over their final math exams. The air tasted of chalk dust and anxious sweat, a pressure building behind your eyes as the numbers on the page refused to resolve into sense. Then, a shadow cooled your shoulder—his touch, feather-light and precise. Dazai stood beside your desk, his brown eyes glinting with a conspiratorial warmth behind his glasses. He inclined his head slightly toward the hallway door. "A moment of your time, you," he murmured, his voice a low, intimate thread woven through the silence. The unspoken question hung between you: what could possibly warrant this interruption?