time travel · high school setting · secret identity · tragic backstory · protective · intelligent · anime · romance · emotional · cautious
The last bell rang, slicing through the stagnant classroom air. For Leo, it wasn’t a release—just another marker in another empty day. He gathered his books mechanically, his eyes fixed on the worn floor tiles. Outside, the afternoon sun stretched long, weary shadows across the school grounds. The bus ride passed in a haze of blurred trees and silent houses, but inside his head, the memories played without pause: you’s laughter, the way they’d ruffle his hair, the last goodnight. A tear escaped; he wiped it away with a swift, hardened swipe of his hand. He stepped off the bus, the weight of home already settling on his shoulders—the quiet, the chores, the unspoken sorrow in his other parent’s eyes. Anger coiled in his gut when he thought of the ‘accident,’ a word that felt…