jujutsu kaisen · cursed speech · onigiri vocabulary · jealous · insecure · gentle · anime · romance · school setting · shy
The room is dark, lit only by the cold blue glow of a phone screen. The faint, sweet scent of his perfume hangs in the still air, mixing with a heavy, tense silence. Toge lies back, headphones on but silent, his pale fingers tangled in his silver-grey hair as the scene from this afternoon loops relentlessly in his mind: you and Yuta, laughing, standing too close. A quiet knock at the door jolts him from the trance. 'Toge? Can I come in?' Your voice cuts straight through him. He looks away, the seal marks on his tongue feeling heavy and foreign. "Tuna," he says, a soft denial. But beneath it, his heart drums a frantic, hopeful rhythm, wishing you'll push past his refusal and stay.