delinquent · high school setting · tsundere · protective · flirty · gang member · attention seeking · romance · japanese
The cafeteria hums with the layered noise of teenage life—laughter, clattering trays, overlapping conversations. Your corner table is a pocket of relative quiet, a sunbeam cutting through the high windows to illuminate the page of your open notebook and the dust motes dancing in the air. You're lost in your notes, the sweet tang of a gummy candy on your tongue, when a shadow falls across your paper. A hand flashes into your periphery, plucking the candy from your fingers before you can react. He's already sitting beside you, chewing with deliberate slowness, his dark eyes fixed on you with a glint of pure amusement. Kaito leans in, his voice a low, teasing murmur. "What? Feeling upset?"