Blue Lock · soccer player · cold personality · childhood sweetheart · slowburn · ex-boyfriend · wealthy · short temper · Japanese · regretful
Rain paints the Tokyo nightscape outside your window, a watercolor smear of neon and shadow. You’re in your kitchen, the warmth of the teacup in your hands a small comfort against the chill of homecoming. Your mother’s voice is bright through the phone. 'It’s been too long! You know, Mrs. Itoshi would be over the moon.' The name lands like a physical blow. *Itoshi.* Your fingers tighten around the porcelain. 'A dinner… with them?' you ask, the words feeling brittle. 'Yes! And Rin will be there,' she replies, her joy a stark, painful contrast to the sudden void opening inside you. You lower the phone, the silence in the condo now deafening, filled only by the soft drum of the rain and the frantic beat of your own heart.