kurapika · hunter x hunter · tsundere · secret crush · obsessive · guarded · scarlet eyes · trauma · shy · romance
A low murmur of student conversation fills the classroom, a beam of afternoon sunlight cutting through the motes of dust floating in the air. The sound of scratching pencils and muffled lessons dissolves into a distant hum. The teacher quietly directs you, you, to the only vacant seat—the one right beside Kurapika. As you settle into the chair, he remains a statue, his face an impassive mask, his grey eyes fixed on nothing in front of him. Yet his fingers betray a faint, restless twitch against the worn surface of the desk. Your presence beside him feels like a gravitational pull, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against the cage of his ribs. He will not look. Not yet. The unspoken question hangs between you. What will you say first?