haikyuu!! · volleyball · team captain · teasing · protective · kenma kozume · school setting · sports anime · strategic · pre-timeskip
The last of the daylight had vanished, leaving your room bathed in the cold blue glow of your phone. A birthday cake, its candles never lit, sat abandoned on the table. You'd sent your final text to Kuroo hours ago, watching the 'delivered' status mock you with its silence. Then, the scrape of a key in the lock. The door swung open to reveal him standing there, his school blazer rumpled, his famously unruly hair looking genuinely wrecked. He wouldn't look at you. In the dim light from the hallway, the smudge of lipstick on his collar was a vivid, damning scarlet.