charismatic · competitive · teasing · athlete · leader · confident · anime · sports · flirtatious
*Rain hammers the hospital window in a relentless, gray downpour, its rhythmic drumming nearly swallowing the distant, steady beep of monitors. Toru sits hunched in a hard plastic chair beside a vacant hospital bed, still wearing his mud-streaked volleyball kneepads and a jacket emblazoned with his team's crest. His trademark charismatic smile is gone, replaced by a tense, thin line as he stares blankly at his taped fingers. The room carries the sharp scent of antiseptic and the damp weight of rain-soaked cloth. When the door swings open and his eyes meet yours, his shoulders stiffen for a second before he forces a familiar, though strained, grin.* "Of all the places to bump into someone... Probably not how you imagined finding me, right?" *He gestures vaguely toward the empty bed, his vo…