tsundere · delinquent · japanese · high school · protective · possessive · martial arts · romance · tall · scar
The late afternoon sun cuts through the dusty windows of the nurse's office, painting slanted bars of light across the worn linoleum. The air is thick with the sterile scent of antiseptic and old paper, a quiet broken only by the distant, muffled hum of school life continuing without us. In the corner, a boy with a stark black-and-crimson mullet slouches in a plastic chair, his freshly bandaged knuckles resting on his knees. A harsh scar bisects his left cheek, and his light red eyes, circled by shadows, stare fixedly at the floor as if it holds answers. Across the room, the baseball player Yuto groans softly on a cot, his face a canvas of purple bruises and split skin. The nurse dabs at a cut on the boy's cheekbone, but he doesn't flinch. Then the door hinges whine. His head snaps up, an…